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THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL
Cannabis Articles Dating From 1855 to 1905
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INDEX:
(in order of date)
1.
Cannabis indica in rheumatic affections.
By Dr. Herr. - - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL
JOURNAL – 1855
2.
Cannabis
indica. - - THE ECLECTIC
MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1858
3.
Cannabis indica.
4.
Editorial abstracts and clippings.
- - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1861
5.
Cannabis Indica in Painful
Affection of the Urinary apparatus - - THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – Nov. 1865
6.
Cannabis Indica in Delirium
Tremens - - - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL
– Aug. 1868
7.
Cannabis
Indicus in Catarrahus Senilis. By Dr. J. Waring-Curran-
- THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1869
8.
Cannabis Indica in headache: By Sydney Ringer, M. D. - - THE ECLECTIC
MEDICAL JOURNAL – Jan. 1870
9.
“The characteristics of the new
remedies”, (copyright 1873) by Edwin M. Hale, M.D.
10.
Cannabis Indica in Menorrhagia.- - THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1883
11.
Cannabis Indica By Dr. W. Strange
- - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1884
12.
Cannabis Indica as a
Narcotic.- - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL –
1886
13.
Cannabis Indica.- - THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1890
14.
Cannabis indica. - ECLECTIC MEDICAL
JOURNAL June 1905
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CANNABIS
INDICA IN RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS.
BY
DR. HERR. - - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL
– 1855, pg. 430
The tincture of cannabis
indica (Indian hemp) has been administered in rheumatic affections, more
especially in the chronic form. The greater number of patients treated on this
plan by the writer, had been for a long time suffering with violent and severe
pains in the extremities, without febrile reaction, or at least this state was
appreciable in but a few cases and at night only. The various remedies had been employed with but momentary
relief, and the sufferings were reproduced with renewed severity when
atmospheric changes occurred. Cannibis indica, in tincture, was now
administered, and the suffering relieved and cured in a short time, after
promoting pretty free diaphoresis.
Its beneficial influence was
strongly marked in one case more particularly: the patient had been attacked
with rheumatism some six weeks before his admittance into the hospital.
There was tumefaction o the left hand, and radiocarpal articulation; the
feet were for a long time in a state approaching that of paralysis; the pains
felt in different parts of the body were intolerable, more especially at night,
inasmuch as the patient could not sleep. But after taking the first two doses of
the tincture eight drops three times daily, the patient slept quietly the first
night; and by persevering in the administration of the remedy, the tumefaction
and pain gradually subsided, and the appetite returned; and in two weeks the
patient had so far recovered that but a trifling degree of debility was all that
recalled to his mind the excruciating sufferings he had borne a short time
before.---Genesk Courant.
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CANNABIS
INDICA. - - - THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1858,
pg. 264
The attention of the
profession has been called l to this article during the last few years by
various publications in the medical journals; and more recently by Dr. John
Bell, of Derby, N. H., who published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
vol. 1vi, No. xi, an interesting history of its effect upon himself.
The true Cannibis Indica is
imported from India; that grown in England, from trial, is proved to possess
little, if any, of the narcotic properties of Indian Hemp. It is also cultivated
largely in parts of Europe and Asia. From the Indian variety exclusively is the best medicine
obtained—the heat of climate of Hindostan favoring the perfect development of
the plant.
In Hindostan, Persia, and
indeed among all nations professing the Mohammedan faith, it has long been used
as one of the many substitutes for the alcoholic liquors interdicted by the
author of that religion. Alone, it
is the ready agent of a pleasing intoxication.
The dried tops, (Gungah) are often mixed with opium and tobacco and
smoked. They prepare a mixture of
powdered gungah, various condiments and milk, which they drink as a certain
intoxicating beverage. Other
compounds are also prepared, adapted to the intoxicating delirium desired.
Its effect upon the natives
of the East who familiarly use it instead of intoxicating spirits, is sometimes
a heavy, lazy state of agreeable reverie from which the individual may be easily
aroused to discharge any simple duty; sometimes a cheerful, active state of
inebriation, causing him to dance, sing, laugh, provoking the venereal appetite,
and increasing the desire for food; sometimes a quarrelsome drunkenness, leading
to acts of violence. Sleep usually
supervenes in three hours. This passes off with no other symptom than slight vertigo;
but the frequent use of it is said to brutalize the intellect.
Its physiological effects
are stated by Dr. Pereira as follows:
It operates as a phrentc, in
moderate doses, producing exhilaration, inebriation, with phantasms and more or
less confusion of intellect, followed by sleep; in large doses, causing stupor:
hence it may be called an exhilerant; inebriant, phantasmatic, hypnotic or
soporific, and stupefacient or narcotic. It acts as an ancesthetic.
It relieves pain, and is therefore employed as an anodyne. Mr. Donovan
found that under its influence, his sense of touch and. feeling became gradually
obtuse, until at length he lost all feeling, unless he pinched himself severely.
Dr. Christison states he
felt a pleasant numbness of his limbs after its use.
It relieves spasms, and therefore is employed as an
anti-spasmodic. In large doses it
produces a cataleptic condition, in which the muscles are moderately contracted,
but flexible and pliant, and the limbs retain any position or attitude in which
they may be placed. It does not appear to affect the secretions much.
It neither excites nausea nor lessens the appetite.
It neither causes dryness, of the tongue nor constipation of the bowels It does not appear to check or otherwise affect the bronchial
secretions.
Medical Uses.—It is
chiefly employed for its hypnotic,. Anodyne, and ant spasmodic properties; also
for its mental influence as a phrenic and nervinc. Compared with opium, it is
less certain that agent, but has, however several ad- CANNABIS INDICA.
(pg265)
vantages—it does not
constipate the bowels—lessen the appetite—create nausea— produce dryness
of the tongue—check pulmonary secretions, or produce headache.
.As a hypnotic, it has been
used with advantage with spirit drinkers, and has produced sleep when large
doses of morphia had failed. In hysterical patients, and also in cases of
chorea, it has been employed to produce sleep, when the use of opium was
objectionable. Dr. Clendenning speaks favorably of its soporific influence in
pulmonary affections and low fever. It has the great advantage over opium of
neither repressing the secretions nor lessening the appetite for food.
As an anodyne, it is used in
acute and sub-acute rheumatism; in gout and in neuralgia.
As an anti-spasmodic, it has
been employed in tetanus, hydrophobia, malignant cholera, chorea, and infantile
convulsions, with marked relief in many instances.
As a phrenic, or medicinal
agent, affecting the mental functions, it has been employed with much success.
Dr. Clendenfling speaks favorably of its use .as a nervme stimulant in removing
languor and anxiety, and raising the pulse and spirits, and many cases are
mentioned of its beneficial effect in mental depression, as well as marked cases
of insanity. (See Dr. Wright’s Letter.)
Dr. Corrigan believes that the action of Cannabis is
primarily on the motor nerves; its influence, he inclines to think, being
transmitted along these to the sensorium and nerves of sensation.
Its advantages as a sedative—he affirms that even in over doses it does
not produce the dry tongue or the derangement of the digestive orgins which is
apt to follow the use of opium. He
administered it with great success in chorea.
Dr. O’Shaughnessy used it
with various successes in acute and chronic rheumatism. In a case of
hydrophobia, the soothing influence of the remedy was very great. In cholera, he considered its agency to be very promising,
and deserving the attention of the profession since which, very many physicians
have fully confirmed its value in that disease. Dr. Ley prescribed it with
advantage in various spasmodic diseases:
chorea, sciatica,
&c.—has confidence in its power to produce relaxation of the muscles,
heavy sleep, and during its action abatement of pain. Dr. Lynch used it in cases
of neuralgia, epidemic neuralgia of the head, but especially of the jaw. Dr.
Moran used it with advantage in mania. Dr. Connelly used it in recurrent mania;
generally with good effect.
Dr. Churchill speaks
favorably of its checking uterine hemorrhagic discharges, from his own
experience, as well as from that of others; and also its unqualified benefit in
menorrhagia.
The effect produced by
Indian hemp in its different forms, varies like that of opium, both in kind and
degree, with the race of men who use it, and with the individual to whom it is
administered. The evidence in its favor is such, though it may fall far short of
the character given it by many who value it highly, as to make it a valuable
addition to our medicinal agents, and deserving of a thorough trial.
The preparations of Indian
hemp are solid extract, one ounce bottles, solid extract, one half and one grain
pills, and fluid extract.
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Same
magazine - different article:
With much pleasure I report
an interesting trial of the Cannabis Indica in a case of insanity.
The patient, a lady, became deeply interested in a religious excitement
in her neighborhood, which continued for several weeks, when the protracted
state of high mental excitement resulted insanity, and she was sent to an insane
asylum. After treatment for four months, she returned to her family
with little, if any, improvement. Her
case was considered almost hopeless, and her permanent residence in the asylum
decided upon. I determined to bleed
her, and did So three times; three days intervening each bleeding. I also
inserted a seton; this she pulled out: a little improvement was perceptible.
At this state of the case, ordi- CANNABIS
INDICA.
(pg266)
nary treatment failing, it
occurred to me to try your Cannabis indica, and I commenced by giving
one-and-one-half grains three times a day, when mental composure was soon
perceptible. I then increased the
dose to three grains three times a day, and continued this treatment until she
had taken, in all, two-and-one-halfdrachms, and was sufficiently restored to
resume her household duties. I
directed the continuance of the remedy in smaller doses thereby keeping the
system under its inluence. I believe her now to be fully recovered, and feel
that it is a case that should be known to the profession, as there is scarcely a
medical practitioner who does not meet with similar circumstances in his ride.
In this article he will find a remedy, in my judgment, for a majority of
cases.— Journal of Materia Medica.
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2nd
article - same magazine:
CANNABIS INDICA.—An
obstinate case of insanity, which was supposed to have its origin in metastasis
of chronic peritonitis, was recently cured in Memphis, by the use of Tilden’s
extract of Cannabis Indica, or Indian hemp. It was given in doses of four grains
three times a day, for ten successive days, with scarcely any perceptible
effect, except a progressive improvement in mental composure and liability to
sleep. Upon a return to the same condition, large doses caused a kind of
intoxication, and the quantity was reduced to two grains only at night; but this
had not to be continued long, as an entire restoration soon followed. After
several months of uninterrupted insanity, the patient, a man twenty-two years of
age, appears to have wholly recovered.—Memphis Medical Recorder.
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EDITORIAL ABSTRACTS AND CLIPPINGS.
- - THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1861, pg. 174
Cannabis Indica as a
Hypnotic. — Dr. Fronmuller, after a large number of experiments, draws the
following resume of the value of this drug:
Of all anesthetics ever
proposed, Indian Hemp is the one which produces a narcotism most closely
resembling the natural sleep, without causing any extraordinary excitement of
the vessels, or any particular suspension of the secretions, or without fear of
a dangerous reaction, and consecutive paralysis.
It acts neither as
violently nor as surely as opium. It can be given in all acute inflammatory
diseases, as well as typhoid affections. It is well adapted as an alternate with
opium, in case this ceases to act. Its best mode of’ administration consists
in pills of the alcoholic extract and powdered seed.
The smallest dose, susceptible of producing sleep, is eight grains, in
pills of one grain. This dose,
however, must be rapidly augmented. The action on the skin, the kidneys and sexual organs,
attributed to Indian Hemp, is without any practical importance. — Prayer
Vierteljahrschrift, 1860. — Journal of Materia Medica.
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- - THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1865, pg. 48
Cannabis Indica.—.Many
persons have used the extract at cannabis without obtaining any good result,
which may be attributed sometimes to a poor article, at others to not selecting
the cases properly. There can be no
doubt but that it exerts a marked influence upon the system, and this influence
is sometimes desirable. Thus it may be beneficially employed in acute delirium, in
delirium tremens, and in cases of irritation and spasm of the intestines.
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ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – Nov. 1865, pg. 527
Cannabis Indica in
Painful Affection of the Urinary apparatus..—In
a former number, I called attention to this article, as an excellent remedy in
the treatment of gonorrhoea, either alone, or associated with the staphysagria.
I have also employed it in chronic cystitis, with painful micturition,
and that irritable state of the bladder and urethra occasionally associated with
uterine disease, and value the remedy highly in these cases.
I use the essential tincture in doses of from two to five drops.
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- - THE
ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – Aug. 1868, pg. 365
Cannabis Indica in
Delirium Tremens. - Dr. Beddoe,
of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, thus speaks of his method of treating this
disease: ‘‘I usually begin with
a grain of good extract, or 20 mini ms of the tincture; wait for four or six
hour’s, and then, if the patient be awake, give a double dose.
If this is also prove fruitless, six hours later, I give 8 or even 4
grains; then allow six or eight hours to pass, and, it necessary, try a larger
dose. Longer intervals are need for
extract than for tincture.” In one ease Dr. Beddoe proceeded as far as 2 drachms (=6
grains), before the patient succumbed to the hypnotic influence.
He slept several hours and awoke almost well.
This plan he thinks far better than the ordinary one of giving moderate
doses every two or three hours, whereby a second a second or third dose is given
before one can tell whether the first would not take effect.
He has always given as much soup, milk, or other digestible food as the
patient’s appetite and stomach could receive, and has never give alcoholic
stimulants, except when the quality of the pulse distinctly indicates
them.—Ranking’s Abstract.
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ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – Jan. 1870, pg. 35
Cannabis
Indica in headache: By SYDNEY RINGER, M. D.
The author has on many occasions seen headaches,
presenting few or many of the following symptoms, very greatly relieved by
Cannabis Indica. There is dull throbbing pain situated over one brow, most
generally the right, which may be felt also around the eve, and even in the
eyeball itself, when the sight is obscured, and there may be sonic lachrymation.
These attacks may come on once or twice a day, and last a variable time,
from a few minutes to several hours, or they may be repeated every few minutes.
There is often at the same time a dull aching and continuous pain in the
same part of the head. The paroxysms of pain leave the skin very sore, and even
so exquisitely tender that the patient can not lay the head on the pillow from
the pain it causes. These pains of
the characters above described, may, after a time, spread over the whole head,
and even attack the muscles of the back of the neck, which becomes so tender and
painful that movement of the neck is quite impossible.
The whole head is then exquisitely tender.
Most generally these attacks are worse in the day time, but occasionally
so at night. They are certainly not
due to hysteria, as they not uncommonly occur in strong and vigorous men, and
they are not due to syphilis, as in many of the cases observed by the author,
there was no history of such a disease. These
headaches very generally speedily yield to Tr. Cannabis lndica in three drop
doses given every four hours. It is
important not to exceed this dose, or the good results may be lost.
Such treatment removes the throbbing
pain, but may leave the dull, continuous pain unaltered.
The especial indication for this treatment is dull throbbing pain of the
head, and when this is situated over the brow or around the eye the medicine may
be expected to afford relief.—Hom. Observer.
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ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1869, pg.
137
Cannabis
Indicus in Catarrahus Senilis. BY Dr. J. WARING-CURRAN,
Dublin.
In those eases of senile catarrh where the mucus
accumulates in the bronchiae, where the constant dry barking cough affords no
relief to the pent-up mucus, and only harasses and distresses the patient, there
is no better remedy than cannabis indicus.
Case 1. R. S., aged 57 years, of delicate appearance,
with narrow shoulders and contracted chest, has suffered from repeated attacks
of chronic bronchitis, of which she states the present is the worst attack of
all. Has been ill four days.
The usual domestic nostrums, paregoric, linseed tea, and Spanish juice,
et hoc genus omne, have lost, their virtue, and failed to afford relief.
The skin over the anterior part of the chest is well
blistered, owing to the repeated applications of mustard poultices.
The secretions are normal, and the bowels have received attention.
The patient has been unable to lie on her back since the commencement of
her illness, depending on the constant and distressing nature of the dyspncea.
On stethoscope examination all sorts of sounds are
audible, on both inspiration and expiration; sibilant rales are most distinct at
the base and ronchi at the superior part of the thorax.
There is a constant, dry, protracted congh, which “can not get
round,” to use her own words, “the obstruction.”
The pulse is 120, the skin moist, the lips livid, and
the face blanched, and indicative of suffering.
R Tr. cannabis indicis 3ij.; pulv. tragacanth co. 3j.;
ether chloric 3iss.; aquae anisi ad 3j. Fiat
mist., et capitat 3j. 2ndis horis.
The following day, I learned, before three doses of the
mixture was taken, the “cough became loose, and the expectoration easy and
most profuse. ” She expectorated freely for several days, and rapidly
recruited on a liberal regimen, and bark and ammoia mixture.
Case 2. A.
B., aged 69, subject to frequent bronchitic attacks, has been ill for a week;
expectorates but little, and with considerable difficulty; is very feeble, and
has been taking ammonia and senega with little alleviation.
Ordered the tincture cannabis in mixture, which produced the desired
effect of liberating the mucus, and affording relief to the cough.
Speedy recovery.
Case 3. R.
P., 70 years of age, has been
previously under treatment for catarrh; now presents all the unequivocal
symptoms of chronic catarrh. Has
recovered sooner under the effects of cannabis than from any of her previous
attacks; has grown fond of her medicine, which produces free expectoration,
after the administration of each dose.
Case 4. J. P., aged 60, speedily and satisfactorily
recovered from a severe and protracted attack of catarrhus senilis after the
exhibition of cannabis indicus.---Med. Press and Circular.
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The following is taken from the book
“The
characteristics of the new remedies”, (copyright 1873) by Edwin M. Hale,
M.D.
CANNABIS INDICA.
(page 98)
(Indian Hemp,
Haschisch.)
ANALOGUES :—Aconite,
Arnica, Belladonna, Berberis, Bryonia, Camphor, Cannabis sat., cantharides.
Clematis, Copaiva, Digitalis, Dalcarnara, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Nux
vomica, Opium, Petroleum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Spigelia, Stannum, Stramonium,
Terebinthina, Thueya, Uva ursi, Veratrum.
OFFICINAL PREPARATIONS :—Tincture and dilutions.
MIND.
Moaning and crying.
Great anguish and despair.
Great apprehension of
approaching death.
Horror of darkness.
Incoherent talking.
Stammering and stuttering.
Exaltation of spirits,
with great gaiety and disposition to laugh at the merest trifle.
Full of fun and mischief,
and laughs immoderately.
Exaltation of spirits,
with excessive loquacity.
Uncontrollable laughter,
till the face becomes purple, and the back and loins ache.
Laughs indiscriminately at
every word said to him.
He begins a sentence, but
cannot finish it, because he forgets what he intended to write or speak.
Imagines he is gradually
swelling, his body becoming larger and larger.
Very absent minded.
Imagines some one calls
him.
Inability to recall any
thought or event, on account of the number of different thoughts crowding on his
brain.
He fancies he hears
numberless bells ringing most sweetly.
Imagines he hears music,
shuts his eyes, and is lost for some time in the most delicious thoughts and
dreams.
(Page 99)
While listening to the
piano he loses consciousness, and is seemingly raised gently through the air to
a great height, when the strains of music become perfectly celestial; on
regaining consciousness his head is bent forward, his neck is stiff, and there
is a loud ringing in his ears.
His mind is filled with
ridiculous speculative ideas.
Constantly theorizing.
His head feels very heavy,
he loses consciousness, and falls.
On regaining
consciousness, violent shocks pass through his brain.
In the daytime, dreams,
returning periodically, or dreamy attacks.
He could not read, partly
on account of dreamy spells, and partly because he had not full power of vision.
Fixed ideas.
He forgot his last words
and ideas, and spoke in a low tone, with a thick voice, as if tired.
Every few moments lie
would lose himself and then wake up, as it were to those around him.
He was in constant fear he
would become insane.
Unpleasant shuddering
through all the limbs, with a painful feeling of weight in the occiput, and a
tetanic intermittent contraction of the muscles of the nape of the neck.
Hallucinations and
illusions following excesses in wine, and venery, and also arising from or
during religious excesses, seem to me to demand this drug with the dietetic use
of Phosphate of Lime.—(Gray.)
It has proved of great
service against illusions of a spectral character, not accompanied by terror;
such as arise in some forms of nervous fever and in mania puerperalis.
In this class of hallucinations my dose has not been less than 1/1000th
of a grain of the extract (Gunje) rubbed in sugar.—{Gray.)
HEAD.
Vertigo.
Vertigo on rising, with a
stunning pain in the back part of his head, and he falls.
Fullness in the forehead;
as if it would burst.
Burning pain in both
temples.
Heavy insurmountable
pressure on the brain, forcing him to stoop.
Severe stitch in the right
temple, gradually changing to a pressing pain.
Aching in both temples,
most severe in right.
Throbbing, aching pain in
forehead.
(page 100)
Dull, drawing pain in the
forehead, especially over the, eyes. Dull, heavy, throbbing pain through the
head, with a sensasation like a heavy blow on the back of the head and neck.
Dull, sticking pain in the
right temple.
Frequent involuntary
shaking of his head.
Jerking in the right side
of the forehead towards the interior and back part of the head.
Pain in the whole right
side of the head.
In my practice it has
proved a valuable remedy in subacute inflammation of the brain, in delirium
tremens, and in a few cases of epilepsy. It
has been eminently serviceable in hypochondriac affections of females,
especially those somewhat advanced in life. It exercises a peculiar control over
this class of maladies, and has sometimes effected speedy cures of cases which
were bordering upon actual insanity. Some years since I made a few experiments upon Guinea pigs
and rabbits with a tincture of Cannabis indica, arid in most instances it caused
an injection of the blood vessels of the entire brain; but its chief influence
appeared to be exerted upon the tubercular quadrigemina and the parts in
immediate vicinity. Indeed, the
appearances it produced were very similar to those which have been observed from
Opium, Belladonna, Alcohol, and from the ethers.—(Marcy.)
A lady, aged about forty
years, had been confined to her bed for seven months, with a morbid
sensitiveness and a great prostration of the entire nervous system.
Her allopathic physician had treated her with Iron, Cinchona, Opium, and
the other usual remedies of his school, without any benefit, until she had been
in her bed almost constantly for the period above indicated.
At this time she was placed under my care in the following condition: no
apparent organic derangement in any part of her body.
The organs all performed their functions with considerable regularity,
but sluggishly. On attempting to
make the slightest effort, in rising up in bed, or in making any exertion, she
experienced a great sense of prostration, and a death-like sinking and weakness
at the pit of her stomach, and to some extent in her chest.
Pulse seventy-six and regular, but weak.
Respiration and temperature of the skin natural.
We put her under the use of Cannabis indica, and after six days she was
able to sit up for fifteen minutes without any serious inconvenience.
The remedy was persisted in, and her improvement continued until at the
expiration of six weeks she was able to sit up the entire day; to walk for half
an hour at a time, and to ride out for an hour or two, with benefit. All her
unpleasant symptoms in the chest and stomach have disappeared, and she is now
quite well with the exception of a slight debility.—(Marcy.)
EYES.
Injection of the vessels
of the conjunctiva in both eyes.
The vessels of the
conjunctiva of both eyes are injected in a triangular patch extending from the
internal canthus to the cornea ; worse in the right.
Twinkling, trembling, and
glimmering before the eyes.
Jerking in the external
corners of the eye and eyelids.
Fixed gaze.
While reading the letters
run together.
EARS.
Noise in the ears like
boiling water.
Periodical singing in his
ears, that always ceased as soon as he came to himself, and renewed itself
whenever a a dreamy spell came on.
Aching in both ears.
Throbbing and fullness in
both ears, and ringing and buzzing in the ears.
Sensitiveness to noise.
FACE.
He looks drowsy and
stupid.
Wearied, exhausted
appearance.
Coldness of the face,
nose, and hands after dinner.
Profuse sticky sweat
standing out in drops on his forehead.
MOUTH.
Dryness of the mouth and
lips,’ the lips are glued together.
White, thick, frothy and
sticky saliva.
THROAT.
The throat is parched,
accompanied by intense thirst for cold water.
APPETITE
AND TASTE.
Increased appetite; every
article of food is extremely palateable.
Ravenous hunger, which is
not decreased by eating enormously; he ceases eating only from fear of injuring
himself.
Pastry and fat food, which
previously he never ate without suffering from rancid risings and headache, are
now digested readily.
GASTRIC
SYMPTOMS.
While eating his stomach
felt so swelled and his chest so (Page 102) oppressed as if he would suffocate,
that he was forced to loosen his clothes.
STOMACH.
Pain in the cardiac
orifice.
STOOL
AND ANUS.
Costiveness.
Sensation in the anus as
if he was sitting on a ball; as if the anus and a part of the urethra were
filled up by a hard round body.
URINARY
ORGANS.
Aching in both kidneys,
keeping him awake at night.
Sharp stitches in both kidneys.
Burning in the kidneys.
Pain in the kidneys when laughing.
Profuse colorless urine.
Urinating frequently, but in small quantities.
Urine dribbles out after the stream ceases.
He has to force out the last few drops with his hand.
He has to wait some time before the urine flows.
Urging to urinate, but he cannot pass a drop.
Frequent urination, with burning pain in the evening.
Burning and scalding before, during, and after urination.
Urging to urinate, with much straining.
The urging continues after urination.
Pain and burning during
urination.
Stinging pain before
during, and after urination.
Uneasiness, with burning
sensation in the penis and urethra, accompanied by frequent calls to urinate.
Intense burning at the
orifice of the urethra during urination, and continuing afterwards.
Sharp prickings like
needles in the urethra, so severe as to send a thrill to the cheeks and head.
Feelings in the urethra as
if there were a gonorrhoeal discharge.
On squeezing the glans
penis a white glairy mucus Oozes Out.
It has also been useful in
debility of the bladder with a paraphlegic state of the lower limbs, used in
alternation with Nux vomica of the same strength and continued many
weeks.—(Gray.)
GENITAL
ORGANS.
Malc.—Itching of the
glans penis.
Itching and burning of the
scrotum.
Satyriasis; violent
erections; priapisrn ; chordee.
Excessive venereal
appetite, with frequent erections during the day.
Erections while riding,
walking, and also while sitting still
not caused by amorous
thoughts.
(page 103)
Female.—
Menorrhagia, dysmenorrhcea,
and inefficient or absent labor pains.
Profuse menstruation and
metrorrhagia.—(Hirschel.)
Metrorrhagia of parturient
women.—(Hirschel.)
LARYNX
AND TRACHEA.
Rough cough scratching the
breast immediately under the sternum.
CHEST.
Oppression of the chest,
with deep, labored breathing.
He feels as if suffocated,
and has to be fanned.
Anguish, accompanied by
great oppression; ameliorated in the open air.
Pressing pain in the
heart, with dyspnoea the whole night.
Anguish at the heart.
Painful sticking, as with
the prongs of a fork, in the heart.
Pain in the heart, with
palpitation when lying on the left side.
Stitches in the heart;
accompanied by great oppression; the latter relieved by deep breathing.
It requires great effort
to take a deep inspiration.
Palpitation of the heart,
awakening him from sleep.
BACK.
Pain across the shoulders
and spine; forcing him to stoop, and preventing him from walking erect.
UPPER
EXTREMITIES.
Agreeable the thrilling
through the arms and hands.
The hands feel monstrously
large.
Coldness of the right
hand, with stiffness and numbness of the right thumb.
LOWER
EXTREMITIES.
\Veariness in both limbs,
almost amounting to paralysis; worse in the left.
Agreeable thrilling in
both limbs, from the knees down, with a sensation as if a bird’s claws were
clasping the knees. The right limb
feels paralyzed when walking.
The right limb suddenly
gives way and falls.
He is unable to walk up
stairs, on account of an almost entire paralysis of the limbs, with stiffness
and tired aching in both knees.
Entire paralysis of thee
lower extremities.
Numb feeling of the sole
of the left foot, then of the foot, increasing to a numbness of the whole limb.
On attempting to walk he experienced intensely violent pains, as if he
trod on a number of spikes, which penetrated the soles of his feet and ran
upward through his limbs to his hips, worse in the right limb, and accompanied
(page 104) by drawing pains in both calves; these pains forced him to limp and
cry out in agony.
Shooting pains in the
joints of the toes of the left foot, worse in the great toe.
Aching and stitching pain
in the ball of the left big toe.
Pricking and aching in the
joints of the big toe of the left foot.
One case of complete
paraplegia was permanently cured by the Cannabis indica and Nux vomica, some
three years since, in my practice.—{Gray.)
FEVER.
False below the natural
standard, as low as 46.
General chilliness; loss
of animal heat.
Dr. L. Warner has
successfully prescribed the Cannabis in many cases of ship fever (Typhus
petechialis).
SLEEP.
Excessive sleepiness; day
sleepiness.
Starting of the limbs
while sleeping, which awoke him, when he feared he would have a fit.
Grating and grinding of
the teeth while sleeping.
Talking during sleep.
He wakes before midnight,
in a state of semi-consciousness; with inability to move; palpitation of the
heart, slow, deep, labored and intermittent breathing, and a feeling as if he
were dying.
He wakes before midnight
overcome with dreadful sensations; imagines he is going to be choked; cries and
moans for some time, when all the objects in the room appear double their
respective sizes, and he falls asleep again.
Nightmare are every night
as soon as he falls asleep.
Sound sleep, with
melancholy dreams.
Dreams of danger and of
perils encountered.
Dreams of dead bodies;
vexatious dreams; prophetic dreams.
Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal emissions.
GENERALITIES.
Agreeable thrilling
through tile body and extremities.
Great desire to lie down in daytime.
Thoroughly exhausted from a s/tort walk.
He feels so weak he could scarcely speak, and soon fell in a deep sleep.
Paralysis of the lower
right arm.
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Cannabis
Indica in Menorrhagia.
Mr. J. Brown, of’ Bacup, says (British Med. Journal)
Indian hemp has been vaunted as an anodyne and hypnotic, having the good
qualities of opium without its evils. Also
in dysmenorrhoea and insomnia it has proved of much benefit.
The drug has almost invariably produced some marked physiological effect,
even in small doses. Text-books give the dose as ten minims and upward, but five
minims is the largest dose that should be given at first.
If bought from a good house, the drug is not inert or unreliable.
A drug having such marked physiological action ought to have a specific
use as a therapeutic agent. Indian
hemp has such specific use in menorrhagia—there is no medicine which has given
such good results; for this reason it ought to take the first place as a remedy
in menorrhagia, then bromide of potassium and other drugs.
The modus operandi I can not explain, unless it be that
it diverts a larger proportion of blood to the brain, and lessens the muscular
force of the heart. A few doses are
sufficient; the following is the prescription:
R Tincture Cannabis Indica m. xxx., pulv. tragac. comp.
3j., spiritus chlorof’. 3j., aquam ad 3ij.; one ounce every three hours.
Dr. Robert Batho. of Castletown, Isle of Man, writes in
the same journal: “Considerable experience of its employment in menorrhagia,
more especially in India, has convinced me that it is, in that country at all
events, one of’ the most reliable means at our disposal.
I feel inclined to go further, and state that it is par excellence the
remedy for that condition, which, unfortunately, is very frequent in India.
I have ordered it not once, but repeatedly, in such cases, and always
with satisfactory results. The form
used has been the tincture, and the dose ten to twenty minims, repeated once or
twice in the twenty-four hours. It
is so certain in its power of controlling menorrhagia that it is a valuable aid
to diagnosis in cases where it is uncertain whether an early abortion may or may
not have occurred. Over the
hemorrhage attending the latter condition it appears to exercise but little
force. I can recall one case in my
practice in India where my patient had lost profusely at each period for years
until the tincture was ordered; subsequently, by commencing its use, as a matter
of routine, at the commencement of each flow, the amount was reduced to the
ordinary limits, with corresponding benefit to the general health. Neither in
this nor in any other instance in which I have prescribed the drug, were any
disagreeable physiological effects observed.”
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ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1884, pg.135
Cannabis
Indica By
Dr. W. STRANGE
Medicinally, I have cause to he thankful to Cannabis
Indica. A relative of my own took
it regularly for six months, with bromide of potassium, every night, with the
effect of removing acute bodily torture and mental anguish completely for the
night. Dr. Clouston, some years ago, recommended large doses of cannabis with
bromide of potassium in mania. Although
I have had no personal experience of in acute mania, in cases of melancholia,
and, indeed, in all eases of mental depression with sleeplessness, I have found
a valuable and almost certain ally in this drug. Half a drachm to a drachm of bromide, with a grain or two of
the extract, or from twenty to thirty drops of its tincture, seldom fails in the
object we have in view. It dulls
the feelings of anxiety, relieves the depression, and gives restfulness, if not
sleep. Hyoscyamus may be usefully
combined if there be any visceral pain or disturbance.
A woman, in acute melancholia, said to me, “Doctor, I
must kill my children. Send me to
an asylum.” I answered, “Will
you promise not to kill then until I have tried the effect of one medicine upon
you?” She thought she could
promise. A drachm of bromide of
potassium, with half a drachm of’ tincture of cannabis, two or three times a
day, in a fortnight caused so much improvement, and even cheerfulness, that she
declared she could now see the window open without the almost irresistible
desire to throw her children down on to the pavement, which had possession of
her whole mind before. My usual
dose is a grain of the extract, or from twenty to thirty minims of its
tincture.—Brit. Med. Journal.
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ECLECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL – 1886, pg.85
Cannabis
Indica as a Narcotic.
H. Lewis Jones, M. B., Cantab., writes the following
note to the London Practitioner:
This drug has proved of great use in a number of cases
where I have desired to produce sleep, especially where sleeplessness was
accompanied by delirium.
In the delirium of typhoid fever and erysipelas, and in
delirium tremens, it is most valuable, a few doses being sufficient to give
refreshing - museum does not have
the next page of the article.
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Cannabis
Indica.
The editor of the Medical Register thus records his
personal experience with this remedy: “In the treatment of the cough of
phthisis, either alone in tablets of one-twentieth of a grain, or in combination
with chloroform, it has proven an acceptable and valuable medicine.
Dysmenorrhcea, marked by painful menstruation, is favorably influenced by small
and frequently repeated doses of cannabis.
Such cases occur in young girls and in married women even without
displacement, and every month the suffering increases, until they are finally
compelled to consult a physician. To
relieve pain and make the patient comfortable a few drops of cannabis will be
quite sufficient. Five drops of the
fluid extract having been placed in a dry glass or tea-cup, pour upon them four
or five ounces of cold water, and direct the patient to take of this solution a
teaspoonful every ten minutes for the first hour, then at intervals of an hour
during the remainder of the day or evening.
Perhaps, at the expiration of the first hour, the pain will have been
materially assuaged, and in the course of a few hours the patient will be as
well as ever. These attacks frequently appear just at the beginning of the
menstrual molimen, and when the patient is put under the influence of cannabis,
the congestion causing the pain subsides, and the flow begins.
Within the past three years, at least fifty such cases have come under
observation, and a failure has been the exception.
Chloroform (ten or twelve drops on sugar, repeated in an hour) also
answers the purpose quite as well, and may be used when convenient.
“Supra-orbital neuralgia has also been treated with
this drug with very flattering results in the majority of instances.
Prepare the remedy as in the cases just stated—the same amount, the
same dose, and the same period for administration— and the physician need not
be surprised if the pain subsides in the course of half an hour. The same method
of treatment has been found available in the case of flatulence accompanied by
pain; and where the tongue is foul and coated, a plan suggests itself of
combining with the cannabis a few drops of nux omica tincture.
Sometimes the first dose is sufficient to make the patient quite
comfortable.”
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The
part used in the preparation of medical preparations is the large flowering top
of the female plant. The plant is a
native of Persia and northern India: though naturalized in North America and
Brazil. It is commonly known as
Indian hemp. Its active principle
probably lies in the resin “cannabin.”
So varied have been the results obtained from the medicinal use of this
remedy. It is imperative that a
good, reliable preparation be employed. Personally
we have employed Specific Medicine Cannabis.
The
physiological action of this remedy is varied, as has been the remedial results
reported. Hale says: “It stands
alone as a remedy that seems to possess the power of acting upon the soul.
It seems to give us some idea of the vast capabilities of emotion,
comprehension, and capability for happiness, but which lie latent while the body
encloses it.’’ Its action is
primarily upon the intellectual centres. In
poisonous doses, it is conceded by all, it produces exhilaration, laughter,
merriment and hallucinations of a pleasurable character.
In still larger doses it produces sleep and slows the respirations. Hare claims, there is no deaths on record resulting from the
use of this drug. Its therapeutic
uses are varied. In other words, it
has a wide range of usefulness. It
possesses sedative, narcotic, anodyne and antispasmodic properties.
Its anodyne and narcotic properties are certainly limited.
and are best exhibited when administered in combination with other
remedies of the same class, as in the various anodyne preparations in use, such
as chlorodyne.
We
have found it to be a splendid addition to cough mixtures en arising either from
a tickling or irritation in the throat, or when of a nervous origin.
therefore it is of value in whooping cough, bronchial and laryngeal
cough. There is a cough that is met
with in pregnant women, that is of a reflex or nervous origin, in which it seems
almost a specific.
As
an anodyne. it is a splendid remedy in migraine, especially so when combined
with geisemium. In painful
conditions of the bladder, such as spasm due to cystitis.
we find it of considerable value, as we also do in other painful
affections of the genito-urinary organs.
In genorrhcea it allays the burning pain.
Here we usually combine it with gelsemium.
In gastralgia it is also of service.
As was said before it is an ingredient of chlorodyne, so frequently used
in this and similar conditions. Chronic
rheumatism and sciatica are other painful conditions in which we esteem it of
value, especially so in the latter condition.
As an antispasmodic, it is of value in delirium tremens, paralysis
agitans, chorea, tetanus and epilepsy. It
is only in the latter disease we have personal knowledge of this property of the
drug. I this condition we have used
it for many years with success. Combined
with bromides, it increases their efficaey, delays the appearance of bromism and
permits of a longer continuance of their administration.
It
is also recommended in uterine subinvolntion, dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia.
In these conditions we have no personal knowledge of its therapeutic
value. Its specific indications are irritation of the urinary
organs, with frequent desire to urinate, and a burning sensation in the urethra
marked nervous depression with irritability, spasm or pain, accompanied with
neurotic excitement.
Dose
Specific Cannabis, one to ten drops.
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