The plant is an indigenous perennial found in swampy localities, in some parts of the United States, and has been, and is still, used in domestic practice for those conditions for which Dr. Phares commends it.
PREPARATION.--The insect is triturated with sugar of milk in the usual way.
(In the case of a man bitten in the arm by a centipede, reported in _Nashville Journal of Medicine_, 1870, among the striking symptoms was no perspiration in the arm for three months. Dr. Sherman, of California (_Med. Advance_), reports the following symptoms as prominent in a woman bitten by a centipede:)
_Head._--Vertigo, with blindness, worse in the morning.
_Stomach._--Nausea and vomiting; unable to retain either food or liquid.
_Back._--Terrible pains in back and loins, spasmodic and irregular, at times extending down the limbs. Pains returned every few days for three weeks, commencing in the head and going out at the toes. "Resembled labor pains as nearly as anything I ever saw."
PREPARATION.--The whole fresh plant is macerated in twice its weight of alcohol.
(The following proving of _Scutellaria lat._, from _University Bulletin_, 1897, was made, under the auspices of Dr. Geo. Royal, by nine provers:)
No symptom has been recorded unless experienced by two provers. When experienced by two provers, and not often repeated, the symptom is recorded in common type. When often repeated in two provings is found in italics. When often repeated in three provings, or found in four or more, the symptoms appear in black type.
MIND.--=Inability to study or fix the attention on one's work.= _Confusion of mind._ _Apathy._ Irritability.
HEAD.--=A full or throbbing sensation in head.= =A dull heavy headache mostly in the forehead and temples.= Sharp shooting pain in the head. Pain in the occiput. Headache relieved in the open air. Headache relieved by eating. Headache aggravated by motion.
EYES.--_Aching in the eyeballs._ Eyeballs painful to touch. Eyeballs feel too large.
THROAT.--Sensation of lump in throat which could not be swallowed.
STOMACH.--=Nausea.= =Sour eructions.= _Poor appetite._ Vomiting of sour ingesta, hiccoughs, pain and distress in stomach.
ABDOMEN.--=Gas in bowels.= _Colicky pain in abdomen._ _Fullness or distension of abdomen._ _Uneasiness in abdomen._ Pain in the abdomen.