Glonoinum

Lecture XLI — Tabacum, Dulcamara, Capsicum and Glonoin

Glonoin.

Still other effects of this congestion are found in the eye. The eyes feel as if too large and protrude as though bursting out of the head. Glo?win is indicated in eye diseases arising from exposure to very bright light, as in the case of one obliged to work at a desk beneath a hot, bright light, as a bright Argand burner. If you should examine such an eye with the ophthalmoscope, you will find the bloodvessels of the retina distended or, in extreme cases, apoplexy of the retina. Again the effects of the increased blood pressure under Glonoin may be noticed in the symptoms of the mouth. For instance, there is difficulty in conversation from diminished power of the tongue, this due to pressure on the cerebral centres. Wine aggravates all these symptoms. Sometimes the congestion is so great as to make the patient frantic ; he tries to escape, to jump out of the window. Another effect of the cerebral congestion is convulsions. Glonoin is an admirable remedy for the convulsions coming on during labor, puerperal convulsions. The face is bright red and puffed, the pulse full and hard and the urine albuminous. The patient froths at the mouth ; she is unconscious. The hands are clenched, the thumbs being in the palms of the hands. At other times the hands are stretched out as under Secale, and the patient is unconscious. I think that Glonoin is one of the best remedies we have for the congestive form of puerperal convulsions, that form which is announced by rush of blood to the head, especially if there is albuminuria. It is also invaluable in congestion to the head from suppressed menses.

The mental symptoms traceable to this congestion are syncope or sudden fainting, the face being pale or often livid, black spots before the eyes, sudden onset of unconsciousness, well-known streets seem strange to the patient. This last s} 7mptom is one decidedly dangerous.

It may be the forerunner of an actual attack. A person who is subject to apoplectic congestion is suddenly seized in the streets with one of these attacks and does not know where he is. Glonoi?iis the remedy for him.

Another remedy for this loss of location is Petroleum. Glonoin is also useful for the bad effects of fear. I mentioned that briefly when speaking of Opium. There is horrible apprehension and also sometimes the fear of being poisoned. 1ms last symptom places it alongside of Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Rhus fox.

, Bromide of Potassium and Baptisia.

Another use of Glonoin is its application to trauma. It has been found an excellent remedy for pains and other abnormal sensations, following some time after local injuries. Long after the reception of an injury, the part pains or feels sore, or an old scar breaks out again; then Glonoin seems to relieve.

Natrum sulphuricum should be compared, especially after head injuries.

It is necessary for you to remember the distinctions between Belladonna and Glonoin, because they meet in the congestions and inflammations of the brain in children and old persons. They divide the honors in these diseases, because each has a number of confirmed cures. We have the cri encephalique in Glonoin which is not so marked under Belladonna y so it would seem that the Glonoin case is more severe than that of Belladonna. The symptoms which would help you to differentiate the two drugs are these: First, Glonoin; the head symptoms are worse by bending the head backward; worse in damp weather; worse from the application of cold water, which may even cause spasms; better from uncovering; better in the open air; sometimes the patient is obliged to get up and walk about despite the soreness that jarring causes. A very marked symptom which anticipates puerperal convulsions, and which is an early symptom in congestion of the brain from suppressed menses, and a prominent symptom in the bad effects of the heat of the sun, is a feeling as if the head were enormously large. The head seems as if it were expanding. Although that symptom is found under Belladonna, it is not so characteristic of that drug as of Glonoin.

Now Belladonna has relief from bending backward, from sitting up with the head quiet Belladonna usually has relief from covering the head, while Glonoin has relief from uncovering, although the latter symptom is of less importance than the others.

The best antidote to Glonoiji, that I know of, is Aconite.