Ecthyma. Erysipelas. Sore throat.

The application of the juice and leaves sets up intense and painful inflammation, erysipelatous, phlegmonous, pustular, with intense burning pain. In one of the cases observed, a boy applied the juice of the stein to an inflamed gum. In another, a boy applied the leaves as a poultice to a black eye. Burnett produced a sore throat in himself by chewing the herb; and he cured with the 3x a case of simple sore throat with swelling and painful swallowing.

After a week, phlegmonous erysipelas under l. eye, spreading downwards and forwards.─Five or six pustules are on forehead, one on each ala nasi, one on root of nose, one on l. elbow, burning pain in all.─Lower half of nose red, swollen, inflamed, shiny.─Lips parched, slightly swollen, covered with a crop of small pustules; another large pustule appears on upper lip midway between mouth and nose.

Mouth so much inflamed the doctor thought it due to mercurial remedies.─In several days pain intolerable, compelling cries and indescribable agitation, patient unable to sleep or drink.

Sore throat; throat swollen with painful swallowing.

More pustules developed l. side of neck, becoming hard boils, and slowly going away without breaking.