Proceeding after the manner which I have described, it is no wonder that Homœopathists make out such a wide range of symptoms for each remedy. The symptoms said to be produced by nux vomica, with all their various conditions, amounted some time ago to about twelve hundred. How many the recent researches of Homœopathists have added to them I know not. Even chamomile, a simple mild tonic, as it is universally considered by our good mothers, has three full pages of symptoms ascribed to it, beginning in this formidable way—“Rheumatic drawing, tearing pain, with a disabling numbness in the parts affected, most aggravated at night, frequently with continued thirst, heat and redness of _one_ cheek, and hot perspiration on the head in the hair—vehement pains, almost insupportable, leading to desperation, aggravated by every movement. Pains mitigated by warm cataplasms—beating pains as from occult suppuration—cracking in the joints, particularly in the lower extremities.” The _mental_ effects of chamomile are thus given. “Hypochondriac paroxysms of anxiety, as if the heart would break—restlessness, with anxious groaning and tossing about—irritable readiness to weep, with whining and howling, frequently on account of _old_ or imaginary offences—aversion to music, &c.” If one who knew nothing about chamomile should read over the three pages of the effects attributed to it, he would be justified in supposing it to be a fit agent for inquisitorial torture, instead of being the innocent thing which all nurses and old women think it to be. The effects of sodii chloretum (common salt) occupy four and a half pages. Its _mental_ effects are thus described. “Melancholic sadness, with searching for many unpleasant things, much weeping, and increased by consolation—sorrowfulness about futurity—anxiousness, also during a thunderstorm, chiefly at night—indolence, aversion to talk, joylessness, and disinclination to labor—hasty impatience and irritability—easily frightened—hate of _former_ offenders—fretfulness and disposition to angry violence—inclination to laugh—alternation of fretfulness and hilarity—great weakness of memory and forgetfulness—thoughtlessness and mental dissipation—misusing words in speaking and writing—inability to reflect, and fatigue from mental exertion—awkwardness.”