Abies nigra

Lecture XXX — Coniferae — Abies nigra, Sabina, Terebinthina, Pix liquida and Thuja occidentalis; Euphorbiaceae — Croton tiglium, etc.

CONIFERS AND EUPHORBIACEiSE.

CONIFERS.

Abies Nigra.—Stomach.

Sabina Juniperus.—Abortion.

Pinus Sylvestris.—Infantile atrophy.

( Kidneys, bladder, etc.

I Mucous membranes.

Terebinthina. -j Uterus.

J Typhoid states.

(^ Renal dropsy.

-Compare Arsenicum, Cantharis, Copaiva, Camphor, Phosphorus. Pix IyiQUiDA.—Lung; Eruptions.

Compare Anisum stellatum.

Nervous system.

Sycosis.

Thuja. \ Syphilis.

Variola.

Marasmus.

Compare Pulsatilla, Kali bichromicum, Spigelia, Mercurius, Nitric acid, Natrum sulph., Euphrasia, Staphisagria.

The large order of Conifers or cone-bearing plants is the subject for our study to-day. From this order we obtain the different varieties of pine, hemlock, and spruce from which the various preparations of turpentine have been obtained. The principal remedies of this group you will see in the schedule on the board. They are Abies nigra, or black spruce; Sabina juniperus, one form of the juniper, from which the oil of savin, a well-known remedy for the production of abortion, has been taken; Pinus sylvestris, a variety of the pine; Terebinthina, or turpentine, obtained from many of the pines; Pix liquida, or pitch; and Thuja occidentalis, the arbor vitae or tree of life.

Abies Nigra.

This remedy is not an important one, but I cannot forbear mentioning one of its symptoms—one, too, that has been frequently confirmed. I refer to the symptom occurring in dyspepsia, which the patient describes as a feeling as though he had swallowed some indigestible substance which had stuck at the cardiac orifice of the stomach. This is the main symptom and the keynote of the drug. There are also present the low-spiritedness, the hypochondriasis, and the constipation incident to dyspepsia.