A. Sensation of burning and biting in the skin, and later dryness. In poisonous doses the face, ana even the whole body, red, dry, and hot, 6, 6

If administered for several days in succession, it sometimes gives rise to a reddish efflorescence, 10, 1: 960.

Scarlatina-like eruption, 2, 50; 7, 610.

In persons of light complexion, more espeeially in women, a full dose of atropia is frequently followed by a diffuse redness of the skin, not unlike the rash of scarlatina, but wanting in the punctate character of this specific eruption, 4, 282. (Injection of atropine.) Skin at first pale and dry like parchment, and later, erythema, 17, 1005.

* Traite de la maladie scrofuleuse, etc., tradult par Bousquet. Paris, 1821, p. 195.

C. Arrests too profuse sweating, and checks the secretion of foulsmelling sweat from the feet, 5, 456-8. (Atropia) Hyperidrosis. Royet.*

Urticaria, Smith, 158, Dec. '79, 331.

Acne, 204.

Erythema, 4, 287; 13, G9.

Erysipelas, 2, 59; 4, 285; 13, 13; 17, 1000, (H.G.P.)

Scarlet fever, 13, 69.

Diffuse inflammatory affections of the skin, 2, 59.

Prophylactic against scarlet fever. Hahnemann;+ Hufeland;++ 13, 70; 26, 165.

On a review of the whole subject, we feel bound to express the conviction that the virtues of belladonna, as protection against scarlatina, are so far proven that it becomes the duty of practitioners to invoke their aid whenever the disease breaks out in a locality where there are persons liable to the contagion, 10, 1; 924.

Pruritus ani, 210.

D. Zoster, Dauvergne, 117, '69, 76; 170.

Erysipelas (H.G.P.); (atropioe oleas) Shoemaker, 196, '79. Sensitive scars, 208.

Remarks

The officinal preparations of belladonna are: Tinctara Belladonnoe Extractum Belladonnoe; Extractum Belldonnoe Alcoholi-cum; Extraction Belladonnas Radicis Fluidum; Unguentum Belladonnoe; Emplastrum Belladonnas; Suppositoria Belladonnas; Atropia; Atropioe Sulphas.