1866. _Text-Book of Mat. Med._ Lippe, p. 545. 1878. _Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica._ Allen, vol. 9, p. 155. 1884. _American Medicinal Plants._ Millspaugh, vol. 1, p. 169. POTHOS FOETIDA SYMPTOMATOLOGY. Translated from the _Correspondenzblatt_ by T. C. Fanning, M. D., Tarrytown, N. Y.[M] [M] Literalness rather than elegance has been sought in the translating. Because the odor is quite like Mephitis it is considered a so-called anti-spasmodic. _Abstract of symptoms from Hering, Humphreys, and Lingen._ So absent-minded and thoughtless that he enters the sick rooms without knocking; pays no attention to those speaking to him. Irritable, inclined to contradict; violent. Headache of brief duration, in single spots, now here, now there, with confusion. Pressure in both temples, harder on one side than on the other alternately, with violent pulsation of the temporal arteries. Drawing in the forehead in two lines from the frontal eminences to the glabella, where there is a strong outward drawing as if by a magnet. Red swelling, like a saddle, across the bridge of the nose, painful to the touch, especially on the left side near the forehead, while the cartilaginous portion is cold and bloodless; with red spots on the cheek, on the left little pimples; swelling of the cervical and sub-maxillary glands. Unpleasant numb sensation in the tongue; cannot project it against the teeth; papillæ elevated; tongue redder, with sore pain at point and edge. Burning sensation from the fauces down through the chest. With the desire to smoke, tobacco tastes badly. Pain in the scrobiculus cordis as if something broke loose, on stepping hard. _Inflation and tension in the abdomen_; bellyache here and there in single spots; on walking, feeling as if the bowels shook, without pain. Stool earlier (in the morning), frequent, softer. Urging to urinate; very dark urine. Painful, voluptuous tickling in the whole of the glans penis. Violent sneezing, causing pain in the roof of the mouth, the fauces and oesophagus all the way to the stomach, followed by long-continued pains at the cardiac orifice. Pain in chest and _mediastinum posticum_, less in the _anticum_, with pain under the shoulders, which seems to be in connection with burning in the oesophagus. Pressing pain on the sternum. Sudden feeling of anxiety, with difficult (or oppressed) respiration and sweat, followed by stool and the subsidence of these and other pains. Inclination to take deep inspirations with hollow feeling in the chest, later with contraction in the fauces and chest. The difficulty of breathing is better in the open air. Pain in the crest of the right tibia. Rheumatic troubles increased. Sleepy early in the evening. All troubles disappear in the open air.