MATERIA MEDICA PURA.
B y
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN.
TRANSLATED AND EDITED
BY
CHARLES JULIUS HEMPEL, M. D.
VOL. IV.

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THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

Two principles are constantly contending with one another for supremacy in religion, science, and law; they have
always been designated by the terms analysis and synthesis;
and they will never be reconciled to one another, until they
shall have each established an absolute control, and shall nevertheless respect one another as indispensable to the integrity
of each. These two principles have likewise divided the
science of the medical art from time immemorial. One synthesis has replaced another, until Hahnemann appeared and
crushed every known formula in the theory and practice of
medicine with his overwhelming reason. He established the
doctrine " similia similibus curentur," and taught and demonstrated the value of symptoms.
He arranged the pathogenetic symptoms of drugs.into a
system, which, it must be confessed, requires the most determined energy and perseverance to study and to master. The
symptoms, as we find them arranged in the Materia Medica,
seem to exhibit an incoherent skeleton of the medicinal virtues
of our drugs. And yet it may be asserted a priori that all the
symptoms which a drug is capable of producing in the animal
organization, must be physiologically connected with one
another by an invisible but nevertheless real bond. Considers
ing the nervous system as a musical instrument and the nerves
as the strings thereof, the symptoms would be like so many
vibrations which the drug realizes upon that instrument.



TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

What now remains to be done is to show the physiological
unity of the symptoms of a drug, and thus to establish its unitary character, and its primary, secondary, tertiary, or its essential and accidental attributes, in a manner which shall reduce
the selection of a therapeutic agent to something like a mathematical certainty. The great object of our symptoms, and
that which will ultimately redeem them and cause them to
triumph, is to use them as the groundwork of a new system of
physiological medicine, which shall be free from foolish speculations and shall be based upon experience. The great object for us
to know is, what tissues, organs, nervous trunks are primarily affected by our drugs, and how? what secondarily, and how? etc.;
and in what order are they affected? what is the nature of the
pain? what the successive stages through which the pain may
pass? what are the exact equivalent expressions for those successive degrees of the same pain? how is one symptom related
to another or influenced by another? How, for instance, is a
buzzing in the ear related to nausea, or a darting in the temples to uneasiness and looseness in the bowels? If we discover
a certain symptom in one part of the system, in what other
parts of the system ought we to look for affiliated symptoms,
and what symptoms may we expect to find? These and
similar questions the physiological homoeopathist ought to
solve, and will solve if he understand his duty, and acquire that
vast amount of anatomical and physiological science which is
absolutely necessary to the accomplishment of that end.
CHARLES JULIUS HEMPEL.
NEW-YORK, August, 1846.



PREFACE.
How is it possible that small hommeopathic doses should
have such great power?
THIS question is not only asked by the ordinary allceopathic physicians, who vie with one another in prescribing large
doses, but also by the beginners in homoeopathy.
It is very foolish in itself to doubt the efficacy of small
doses, inasmuch as every practitioner can have an opportunity
of witnessing their effect.
But although the effect of small doses cannot be denied,
yet the deriders of homoeopathy are in the habit of ridiculing
the minuteness of our doses by contrasting them with illusory
similes.
" If a drop of such a highly attenuated drug were capable
of producing any effect upon the system," they object, " in that
case every drop of the water of the lake of Geneva, into which
a drop of medicine has fallen, ought to be more highly medicinal than homceopathic preparations, inasmuch as these contain
proportionately much less medicine than the aforesaid drop
would."
I reply: In preparing homceopathic medicines, we do not
simply add a small portion of medicine to an excessive quantity of an unmedicinal substance, mixing it but slightly, as must
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cogitated merely for the sake of derision; on the contrary, we
add but a small portion of unmedicinal substance to a drop or
a grain of medicine, and by means of the processes of shaking
and trituration, we not only succeed in impregnating gradually andf most intimately every particle of the unmedicinal
substance with the power of the medicine, but also in developing that power to an almost boundless extent. The fact
that the inmost power of a medicinal agent can be infinitely
developed by trituration and succussion, had never been known
heretofore.
We have not the means of effecting an intimate mixture of
the medicinal substance with every drop of water in a lake.
That mixture could not even be effected with a hogshead of
water., A hundred weight of flour, if taken all at once, could not
be mixed with a grain of medicine as intimately as if you took
a hundred grains at a time, mixing them with the grain of
medicine, and continuing to add another hundred grains of
flour to one grain of every successive mixture until the whole
shall have been taken.
As I have said above, the peculiar mode which I have
adopted for the preparation of homoeopathic.medicines, effects
not only an intimate union of the medicine with the nonmedicinal substances with which it is shaken or triturated,
but it effects such an infinite development of the inherent
virtues of the drug, that the processes of trituration and succussion which I have introduced in our art, ought to be
looked upon as one of the greatest discoveries of the present
age,
Certain phenomena have led us to suppose that the physical virtues of some of those substances of Nature which we
call matter, can be developed by trituration; but no one has
ever suspected to what an extent the dynamic power of
drugs can be excited by trituration and subsequent succussion.
Even the development of the physical virtues of material
substances by trituration is astonishing.
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inanimate, whereas astonishingly great powers can be developed from its inmost depths by trituration.'
The uninformed see indeed the sparks of fire which
start in all directions when we strike a steel against a
flint; but how many are they who have ever thought of
what is really going on in that process? Almost every
body strikes thoughtlessly the steel against the flint, but very
few see the wonder, the great phenomenon which is really
taking place.
Those sparks are incandescent particles of steel, which,
when allowed to fall upon paper, cool, and then appear as
little globules of steel, which are frequently perceptible to the
naked eye; or, at any rate, may be detected by means of the
microscope.
What? Is it possible that the friction of steel against flint
should produce heat enough to cause steel to melt? Does it
not require three thousand degrees of Farenheit's thermometer
to melt steel? Whence comes this enormous heat? It does
not come out of the air! For the same phenomenon takes
place under the bell-jar of an air-pump. There remains
nothing but friction to account for the phenomenon.
Can the common man, who thoughtlessly draws his steel
out of his pocket to light a piece of tinder, imagine that this
cold steel contains an inexhaustible provision of caloric in a
latent condition, which is developed, or, as it were, called
into existence by friction? No, he does not believe it, and it
is nevertheless true.
It is only by friction that this inexhaustible provision of
caloric can be elicited from the metals. Count Rumford, in
the fourth volume of his writings, teaches us to heat rooms
merely by quickly rubbing metallic plates against one another,
without employing any fuel.
Caloric, odor," etc., are not the only things which are deSee my treatise in the "Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen,"
1825, No. 194.
Horn ivory bone, limestone impregnated with petroleum, etc.,
have no odor in their natural form; but when filed or rubbed they begin to smell, and even to stink intolerably, on which account the latter
has been named lapis foetidus, although it has no smell in its original form.



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veloped by friction, but the dynamic virtues of drugs are developed likewise.
I believe I have been the first to discover the great fact
that the power of liquid medicinal substances can be developed by succussion, and that of dry medicinal substances by
trituration, to such an extent that substances, which in their
natural crude form did not seem to have any power, acquire
an astonishing medicinal power by being triturated.
Gold, silver, platina, vegetable charcoal, have no influence
on the human organism in their natural form. Even the most
sensitive individual may take several grains of crude gold, silver
or charcoal, without experiencing medicinal symptoms. But
after triturating one grain of gold with ninety-nine grains of
sugar of milk, and continuing this trituration up to the twelfth
potency, the remedial virtues of gold become roused to such an
extent, that a man who was suffering with horrible melancholy, and who was impelled by intolerable anguish to take
his life, needs but to smell for a few moments of such a preparation of gold, in order to recover his cheerfulness and love
of life.
It is self-evident, that in proportion as the power of medicinal substances is developed by trituration, they ought to be
administered in smaller doses.
S. HAHNEMANN.



MATERIA MEDICA PURA.
OPIUM.
The dried milky juice from the green, half-ripe heads of the papaver
somniferum, especially the large-headed white poppy, the papaver
officinale.
A number of chemists have endeavored recently to analyze opium into morphine, narcotine, meconic acid, extractive matter, caoutchouc, opium-balm, fat oil, glutinous matter,
resin, gum, volatile matter.  Most of them, however, disagree both in regard to the mode which they adopt in separating opium into its constituent ingredients, and in regard to
their chemical nature and relative power. Considering this
difference of opinion, the probability is that not much can be
expected from those alkaloids in the treatment of disease.
Homoeopathy uses the drug as nature gives it, and prepares
it for medicinal purposes in such a manner as will make every
constituent element of the original drug to enter into the prepared drug in the original proportions. The object of Homceopathy being to save, not to destroy life, we have no occasion,
in our art, for morphine, or indeed for any of those dangdtous
artificial preparations.
We therefore either use the alcoholic solution of opium, or
we triturate one grain of opium with ninety grains of sugar of
milk, and prepare the potencies in the usual manner, using
one or two pellets of the 30th potency at a dose, which is quite
sufficient.
It is much more difficult to observe the effects of opium
than those of'any other drug.
The primary effect of small doses, which affect the organism
passively, appears to be to irritate for a time the voluntary,
and to diminish the irritability of the involuntary muscles,
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to exalt the fancy and courage, and to blunt and stupify the
external senses, the sentient sphere, and the consciousness.
The contrary of this takes place when the organism reacts
want of irritability and activity of the voluntary, and morbidly
exalted irritability of the involuntary muscles, absence of ideas
and dullness of the fancy, timidity and excessive susceptibility
of the sentient sphere.
The primary symptoms of large doses are not only dangerous, but they frequently succeed one another with a sort of
tumultuous hurry, are frequently intermingled with secondary
effects, or suddenly change to the latter. In some persons single
symptoms are more striking than in others.
We know of no medicine which is more capable of suppressing the lamentations of the patient more easily than
opium. It is in this delusive power of opium that originates
the great abuse which has been made of it.
If the use of opium were generally followed by as good
effects as it frequently is, there would be no drug which would
do as much good as opium. But the contrary is generally
the case.
The power and speed with which it acts, make great caution and a careful knowledge of the circumstances where it
ought to be administered, an indispensable condition of its
being administered with benefit. This is not possible except
when it acts homceopathically to the symptoms.
In some rare cases where physicians dared to act contrary
to the rule " contraria contrariis curentur," or when they made a
mistake or acted numinis affiatu, by the inspiration of a god,
wonderful cures have been effected by opium. Generally, however, opium has been used as a palliative, and no palliative is
more capable of disguising morbid symptoms or smoothing
them over, no palliative produces a more dangerous reaction
and does more positive injury after its palliating effect has
passed off, than opium.
Opium has been used as the principal remedy against all
sorts of cough, diarrhoea, vomiting, sleeplessness, melancholy,
spasms, nervous complaints, especially against all sorts of pains.
But very few of those ailments are primary effects of opium;
most of them are the opposite of those primary effects; this
shows how little permanent good must have been accomplished by opium in the treatment of those affections, as is
indeed abundantly confirmed by experience.
Opium has sometimes removed slight and recent cases of
diarrhoea, vomiting, sleeplessness, trembling, etc., in a perfectly
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cold, a recent trembling occasioned by fright,' a diarrhoea
which has been suddenly occasioned by fear, by a cold or other
slight causes; retching, which has come on in consequence of
a moral emotion, loathing, etc., may yield to opium, and sometimes does yield suddenly, because all that opium requires to
do in these affections, is, to suppress them for a short while, in
order to enable the organism to remove in the meanwhile all
disposition to those affections, and to effect its restoration to
health by means of its own inherent recuperative power. (See
Organon of the Healing Art, ~ 63. Note.)
The power which opium possesses, to palliate the above
named trivial affections, should not lead one to suppose that
opium really possesses the power to cure such affections permanently, under all circumstances; those affections cannot be
cured by opium if they are fragmentary symptoms of a more
comprehensive affection to which opium is not homoopathic,
or after they have lasted for some time.
It is for this reason that opium has been employed in every
country to the detriment of patients affected with old cough,
chronic diarrhcea, chronic sleeplessness, chronic vomiting, habitual spasms, fits of anxiety and trembling. These ailments
have never, in a single instance, been cured by opium, if they
were either fragmentary symptoms of an affection to which
opium was a mere antipathic, or after they had been in the
organism for a certain length of time.
In using opium in the above mentioned affections, as a palliative remedy, a delusive alleviation is at first experienced;
the influence of opium disappearing in a couple of hours, the
dose of opium has to be increased in order to secure the continuance of its palliating influence, until, finally, it is increased to
such an extent that opium-symptoms are produced in the system, which are frequently much more troublesome and dangerous than the original disease. What a pernicious although
universal abuse of a drug which God has destined for the cure
of totally different affections!2
The greatest abuse which has been made of opium is as
1 Smelling of a pellet of the 30th potency of opium, removes the
effects of recent frights, were they ever so violent, almost instantaneously, but only when the smelling is resorted to immediately after the fright;
if used too late, the opium does mischief.
2 Opium is a specific for certain kinds of the most obstinate constipations, and for acute fevers characterized by a sopor bordering upon
stupor and by absence of without any complaint, snoring with the mouth
open, half jerking of the limbs, burning heat of the perspiring body, and.
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an anodyne against pains of any kind, no matter how old and
inveterate they might have been.' The fact that opium should
be used as an anodyne against all sorts of pain, appears of
itself foolish to common sense. Physicians ought to consider
that pains vary according to the nature of the disease, locality,
time, the circumstances in which they originate, are excited
again, increased or diminished, etc., and that this variety of
pains requires a corresponding variety of remedies, inasmuch
as every drug, being itselfa finite substance, can only have a
finite sphere of action. Opium is no true anodyne, does not
cure pain. Among the primary symptoms of opium        there is
not one symptom of pain. Every other drug excites a particular kind of pain in the organism and is therefore capable of
curing a similar pain, especially when all the other symptoms
correspond. Opium is the only drug which is incapable of curing
a single pain, for this reason, that it does not produce any kind
of pain as a primary symptom, but on the contrary insensibility,
which is necessarily followed by an increase of sensibility as
a secondary effect and a corresponding increase of pain.
All the pains which have been palliated by opium, return
as soon as the stupefying effect of opium has passed off, and
return at least with all their former violence.2 Generally the
pains return with greater violence, and their farther suppres' Although I have condemned the practice of administering opium
as an anodyne as late as twenty years ago (see the first edition of the
Organon, 1810); although I have shown that practice to be a sinful
transgression of the just rights of the patient, nevertheless the practice
has continued as before without any intermission. The perpetrators of
that practice have indignantly rejected my exhortations; my exhortations,
intruding upon their thoughtless routine, have roused their anger just
as the impenitent sinner, whose conscience is struck by the sermon of
the minister, growls at the latter instead of being dissatisfied with himself. But what does a man like me, who feels bound in his soul to teach
important truths, and who has truth and nature on his side, care what.those incorrigible spouters may say?
He who feels strong enough to discover errors and to enlarge the
boundaries of science, is obliged to do so, and the public ought to listen
-to him, although a whole school, who thinks its authority so well founded that it does not think it worth while to appeal to nature, or who feels
bound, at any rate to suppress the memory of the discoverer, should be,offended by the new doctrine.-Fr. Casimir MAedicus.
2 Willis, in his Pharmacia Rationalis, says, p. 298: " Opiates generally alleviate the most horrid pains and produce insensibility for a.certain time; but as soon as that time is passed, the pains return immediately and soon become as violent as before;" and page 295: " When.the opium ceases to act, the colic returns, and does not abate till the
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sion requires increasingly large doses of opium, which, finally,
establishes its own peculiar effects in the organism. This suppression of pain by means of opium is mere quackery, deception of both the patient and his friends, and is frequently attended with dangerous and even fatal consequences, which
are represented as a new disease by those who administer the
poisonous drug.'
Chronic maladies are the touch-stone of true treatment, because they do not disappear of themselves; slight ailments
which come on of a sudden, pass off with or without medicines, by the recuperative power of the organism; but if remedies do act as curatives in acute affections, these ought to
disappear much more speedily than when no medicine is
given.
If opium seems to appease pain in acute diseases, it is because these diseases either became speedily fatal, or else disappear of themselves in a few days, together with the pain.
Opium cures pain indirectly when it is homneopathic to the
general affection, in which case the pain disappears together
with the disease. Every case of dysentery, for instance, depends upon a retention of feces in the upper.part of the intestinal canal; it is evident that some cases of dysentery which
are accompanied with heat and stupor, may be cured by opium,
for the simple reason that certain primary effects of opium correspond to those symptoms hornmopathically, and of course
cover the accompanying pains which were occasioned by the
spasmodic retention of the fbeces.
The pain in lead-colic cannot be removed by opium until
the constipation which had been occasioned by the lead, has
been conquered by small doses of opium; the pain disappears
indirectly, but does not yield to the stupefying power of opium.
Opium can never cure pain directly, without doing injury; on
the contrary, it is a principal remedy in those affections where
a condition of stupor has made the patient insensible to pain,
for instance, in decubitus, etc.
Painful diseases, both acute and chronic, can only be cured
by a remedy which is capable of producing in its primary action upon the organism a pain similar to the one which it is
intended to cure; when that remedy is administered, both the
disease and the pain disappear at the same time.
Opium being given as an antipathic remedy to pains, it was
Alloeopathic physicians frequently occasion inflammations of the
brain and bowels by attempting to suppress violent headache and colic
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a matter of course that it should produce dangerous drugsymptoms, such as stupefaction, constipation, and the like.
Instead of looking upon these symptoms as necessary effects
of improper doses of opium, they were looked upon as accidental inconveniences which might be corrected by certain artificial contrivances, so called corrigentia, the effect of which
was supposed to be that opium would alleviate pain without
producing delirium and costiveness; that it would arrest vomiting and diarrhoea without stupefying, and that it would
convert sleeplessness into sound sleep without exciting heat,
and without leaving any headache, trembling, weakness, chilliness or low-spiritedness.
To counteract the coldness which was experienced as a secondary effect of opium, heating spices were added, and its constipating virtue was supposed to be counteracted by cathartics
and salts. By dissolving it several times in water, by filtering
and inspissating it, its crude, pretendedly useless and hurtful
resin was supposed to be separated from it, and the pretendedly
poisonous narcotic essence was supposed to be expelled by submitting the opium to digestive processes for months; it was
even thought that it might be refined and moderated by roasting, and that it might in this manner be converted into a precious and faultless panacea against all sorts of complaints,
pains, sleeplessness, diarrhoea, etc.
This was, however, an illusion; all that could be accomplished by such expedients was, to diminish the power of
opium without changing its nature. Larger doses were now
required to attain the same object, and whenever those larger
doses were administered, they acted as the original opium;
the new preparation had the same stupefying effect, produced the
same kind of costiveness, etc., and it became evident that opium
has no useless or bad quality, but that its peculiar effects must
become troublesome, prejudicial, and even dangerous, if the
drug is employed antipathically, no matter whether in its
original form or after having been weakened by a multitude of
expensive contrivances.
Opium, especially when administered in large doses, has a
peculiar effect upon those who are not accustomed to it, or who
are very excitable; it produces a momentary reaction of a peculiar kind, which is short, occurs but seldom, and ought not
to be confounded with the real primary and principal effect of
opium. These rare, momentary, incipient reactions correspond
almost entirely to the secondary effects of the organism when
primarily acted upon by opium; they are a sort of reflex of
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guish, trembling, mucous diarrhoea, momentary vomiting or
short cough, and occasionally one or the other kinds of pain.
In cases of poisoning by opium, the genuine primary effects
of opium are not seen; but the incipient reactions just mentioned at once terminate in death. I have seen such cases, and
Willis relates some in his Pharm. Rat., sect. VII, cap. I.,
p. 292.
The oriental opium-eaters are constantly in a state of the
secondary effects of opium, after the effects of opium have subsided; their mental powers are very much weakened by the
frequent use of that drug; chilly, pale, bloated, trembling, lowspirited, weak, stupid, and with an evident feeling of internal
discomfort and anxiety does the opium-eater stagger to the
opium shop in the morning to swallow his number of opiumpills, in order to accelerate the course and restore the warmth
of the blood, to raise his sunken spirits, to animate his cold and
barren imagination with a few ideas, and to rouse for a time
the activity of his paralytic muscles.
The symptoms which will be found enumerated hereafter
are, most of them, secondary effects of the organism. Would
that those physicians who continue to administer large doses
of opium as an antipathic remedy, reflected on those horrid
secondary effects. I should say that they ought to suffice to
arouse the humane feelings of those men, to enlighten their consciences about the wrong they commit, and to prompt them to
use opium for the benefit, not for the ruin of their patients.
Dangerous doses of the tincture of opium are antidoted by
the tincture of ipecacuanha, camphor, and especially by strong
coffee, which is to be given by the mouth and rectum, and is
to be accompanied by friction of the body. But when icy-coldness of the body, insensibility and want of irritability of the
muscular fibre have already set in, a warm bath is to be added
to the above means.
When large doses of opium, which had been administered
for the purpose of alleviating pain and arresting diarrhoea, had
produced paralysis of the limbs, it can scarcely ever be expected
that such paralysis should be cured, no more than paralysis
caused by violent electric shocks can ever be relieved.
Some of the primary effects of opium last only a couple of
hours, others, especially when produced by larger doses, last
longer, unless they should cause immediate death.
Opium is one of those drugs the primary effects of which
seldom correspond homceopat!hically to the symptoms of disease; but, when they do, a few pellets of the 30th potency are
sufficient at a dose.
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OPIUM.
HEAD: Vertigo, when stooping. (a. 20 h.) Vertigo and
stupefaction of the head. Violent vertigo obliges him to sit
down.-5. Vertigo, as if every thing were turning with him in
a circle. He feels giddy, anxious; his senses are confused.
Vertigo and confusion of the mind. He staggered to and fro
like one intoxicated. Intoxication.-10. A sort of intoxication
which prevented her from keeping herself on her legs. Small
doses of opium produce cheerfulness of mind, larger doses produce intoxication.  Cloudiness of the head (immediately).
Gloomy feeling of thle head, with a feeling of dry heat in the
eyes, and a disposition of the eyes to close, without, however,
feeling drowsy, with sensation as if he had been awake the
night before. The head feels heavy and as if intoxicated (for
12 hours).-15. Obtuse feeling of the head. Sensation in the
head as if smoke were ascending into the brain. Stupefaction.
Dullness of the understanding, as if he had a board before his
head, accompanied with vertigo, which obliges him to lie down,
followed by trembling of the body which lasts for some time.
Violent stupefaction and intoxication (from smelling much
opium).-20. Dull stupefaction, with faint eyes and extreme debility. Stupefaction and insensibility; his answers, however,
are appropriate. Sensation in the head as one experiences after
waking from sleep consequent upon a violent intoxication
with wine. Dullness of mind, short, anxious respiration, with
heaving of the chest; the eyes are full of water and half closed.
Ideas crowd upon him; he feels cheerful.--25. He feels more
disposed to serious, important affairs. He is without sleep the
whole night, but more disposed to elevated contemplations.
After taking opium, the evening previous, he lost all inclination to sleep; his imagination and memory became astonishingly strong, so that he was almost forced, as it were, to pass
the night in the deepest meditations; at daybreak he slumbered for a few hours, after which he was unable to recollect
what he had been thinking during the night.' Slow thought,
' The mental and moral symptoms of opium are less easily distinguished from one another than in any other drug; in opium they are
generally united.
When opium is used palliatively for the purpose of suppressing pain,
spasms, or a mental or moral condition contrary to that which opium
is capable of producing (as in 619, 25, 612, 613, 611, 605, 614), or for
the purpose of suppressing the natural night-sleep, it generally occasions in the place of those symptoms a sort of mental or moral ecstasy,
which is a suddenly passing primary effect. This ecstasy is very much
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stupidity, absence of sense.  Taciturn.-30. Weakness of
mind. Disappearance of the mental faculties. Dullness of
sense. Dullness of mind. Dullness of all the senses and mental faculties.-35. Indifference to pain or pleasure. Stupefaction, indifference. The head feels dull; he has no clear notion
of any thing; when reading, he is unable to conceive the meaning of what he is reading. Dullness of sense. (a. 8, 12 h.) He
does not recognize his nearest relatives, the most familiar objects.-40. His senses are dull, he is insensible, he is scarcely
conscious of his existence; his answers, however, were pretty
appropriate. He is not conscious of himself. Stupefaction and
loss of rationality. Dullness of physical sensations, which
sometimes disappear altogether. She was unconscious of what
took place around her; she seemed to be insensible; the joints
were flexible, and all the muscles were in a state of relaxation.
-45. Cloudiness and weakness of the mind; he deceives himself, as if his eyes were four times as large as they are, and as
if his body had gigantic proportions. Sensation as if he were
flying or hovering through the air, and as if every thing were
turning with him. He sees and hears, but he has no taste,
smell or tact; however, he feels the coldness of his own body.
(a. 1- h.) Stupidity. Stupidity, indifference to external objects.-50. Stupidity and imbecility. Opium-eaters are drowsy
and almost stupid. Opium-eaters are alivays indolent and intoxicated. Want of memory. Loss of memory.-55. Weakness of memory (when using opium frequently). Loss of
memory (for several weeks). Long-lasting loss of memory.'
Wavering ideas.-60. He is insensible to shame and refined
feelings. The power of volition was overcome by the least
cause. Opium-eaters are said to be inconstant; they frequently promise what they afterwards refuse to fulfil, (every body is
on his guard against them; does not want to have any thing
to do with them). Rush of blood to the brain. (The vessels
of the brain were distended with blood.)-65. Pulsations of the
arteries of the head. He hears the arterial blood rise to the
brain. Painful headache, in the occiput. Headache on one
side of the forehead, with pressure from within outward, increased by external pressure. Headache, as if there were pressure in the forehead from within outward.-70. Tearing and
1 Note to symptoms 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58. When
these conditions have become continuous, and have been made permanent by eating opium for a long time, they denote a certain paralysis of
the organs of the mind, which it is probably impossible to cure. (From
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beating in the forehead, sour eructations, sour vomiting; she
had to lie down, after which she began to perspire. Single
twitchings in the temporal muscles. Sort of pressure in the
forehead, which seemed to extend as far as the eyes and nose.
Sensation of tightness in the head. Headache.--75. Violent
headache. Pain in the head as if all the contents were torn,
with sensation as if every part in the body were turning wrong
side up, with a feeling of angriness and uncomfortableness.
Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the head for several days;
theocciput feels like lead, the head falling backward constantly;
it was impossible to keep it erect.-80. He is unable to keep
his head erect; it totters to and fro.
FACE: Sunken, pale countenance.    Pale countenance.
Frequent alternation of redness and paleness of the countenance. Pale countenance and nausea, with sensation of drowsiness and diminution of all the secretions, frequently even of
exhalation.-85. Pale face and forehead, and glassy eyes. Claycolored countenance.  Clay-colored, pale countenance, faint
eyes filled with tears; he slumbers with his eyes half open, does
not heed any thing, gives vague answers, passes his stool involuntarily, sinks into his knees, and falls, and has a short,
anxious respiration. Bluish, clay-colored face. He looks in
his face as if he had not slept enough, or as if he had been
revelling the whole night, with sunken, winking eyes.-90.
All the muscles of his face look relaxed, which gives the face
a stupid expression; the lower lip feels inclined to hang down
relaxed, the nostrils are wide open, and it is only with great
difficulty that he can raise the upper eyelid. Red spots on either
cheek. Bloated countenance. Bloated countenance, hot and
dry skin, white tongue, hoarseness, oppressed breathing, spitting of blood. Dark-red countenance.-95. The face is entirely red. Red, bloated, swollen countenance. The face is
cherry-brown. The veins of the face are distended. The face
is red and puffed, and the veins of the head are distended.100. The face and eyes are red. The face is uncommonly
red, and the lips are swollen. The face is not only red, but
looks inflamed. The face is entirely red, and the eyes look
wild, red, and protrude from their sockets.-105. Disfigured
countenance, taciturnity, staring eyes. Spasms of the facial
muscles. Spasmodic movements of the facial muscles. (a. 7
days.)  Convulsive trembling of the facial muscles, lips and
tongue.
EYES: Glistening, sparkling eyes.-110.   Staring and
glistening eyes. Glassy, protruded, immoveable eyes, which do
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immoveable to the light. Dilated pupils (the first hour). The
pupils dilate easily.-115. Contracted pupils. The eye is
only half closed, and the pupils are dilated without possessing
any irritability. Open eyes with the pupils turned upward.
Sensation in the eyes as if they were too large for their cavities. He stares at those who are present with watery eyes,
but he does not know what is taking place, and he is unable to
recognize those persons.-120. Scintillations before the eyes.
Dimsightedness, as if he were looking through a gauze. His
eyes see black; he is giddy. Although he has his full understanding, yet he complains that his eyes are obscured, and that
he is getting blind. (a. 4 h.) Swelling of the lower eyelids.125. The eyelids hang down as if paralyzed. The eyelids are
trembling, they cover the globe only half.
EARS: Dull roaring in the ears, after dinner (in four hours).
Humming in the ears (very soon). Ringing in the ears.
MOUTH AND TEETH:-130. The lower lip is painful
when touching it with the upper teeth or with the fingers.
Distortion of the mouth.  Locked jaw. Violent pains in the
lower jaw (after 7 days). Force had to be used in opening
her mouth, and pouring a few tablespoonfuls of soup down her
throat.-135. Pain of the upper jaw. (a. 8 h.) Toothache.
Vacillation of the teeth. Fine, corrosive pain in the nerves of
the tooth. (a. 8 h.) Hanging down of the lower jaw.-140.
Paralysis of the tongue. Speech becomes feeble when he begins to talk; he has to make an effort in talking loud. He is
unable to talk, although his mouth is open.  He stutters.
White tongue.-145. Black tongue. Ptyalism. Profuse Ptyalism. Ptyalism as if occasioned by mercury.-150. Suppresses the secretions from the salivary glands, the Schneiderian
membrane and glands of the larynx. Inspissates the saliva,
the nasal mucus, the mucus of the trachea, and makes the
tongue dry. Dryness of the tongue, palate and fauces, without
inclination to drink. Feeling of dryness of the anterior part of
the tongue, without thirst, early in the morning. Dryness in
the mouth, without any desire for drink, with chilliness over
the abdomen.-155. Dryness over the whole mouth, with little
thirst. Dryness in the back part of the throat. Dryness in
the throat and on the tongue. The mouth is so dry that he is
scarcely able to utter a word. Violent thirst, especially a desire for small beer.--160. Causes little ulcers in the mouth
and on the top of the tongue.' Occasions ulcers in the palate
and on the tongue. When chewed, it burns the mouth and
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tongue, and inflames the throat. Excites an intolerable, biting
burning on the tongue, as of pepper.'-165. The veins of the
neck are distended, and the arteries pulsate violently. Difficult
deglutition. Inability to swallow. Bitter mouth. Flat, almost
no taste.-170. Sour taste. Bitter taste in the mouth, next
morning. Loss of appetite. Takes away the appetite immediately (when taken in a somewhat large quantity).-175.
Want of appetite either for solid or liquid food. He has an
aversion to all things. Aversion to food, for a long while.
Excessive aversion to food, with extreme debility. Extreme
aversion to meat, with impure tongue.-180. He asks for food,
but as soon as he has swallowed a morsel he does not care any
for the remainder. Increase of appetite. Canine hunger in
frequent paroxysms, sometimes accompanied with a flat taste in
the mouth. (a. 3 and several hours.) Canine hunger, with
puffiness and oppression of the stomach after a meal.-185.
Excessive hunger with great debility. Canine hunger with
aversion to food.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Nausea. Inclination to vomit. Frequent nausea and vomiting.-190. Violent retching. Vomiting. (after a few minutes.) Inclination to vomit, during exercise. Vomiting after a meal.-195.  Disposition to vomit;
hematemesis. Pain in the stomach and convulsive motions,
during which she vomits. Continual vomiting. Green vomiting.-200. The stomach is insensible to emetics. Eructations.
(a. 5. h.)
STOMACH: Repletion of the stomach. Oppression of the
stomach. Continued hiccough, with short intermissions.-205.
Violent pressure at the stomach (immediately). Weakness of
the stomach. Oppression of the stomach as if a stone were
lying in it. (a. 2 h.) Violent pressure in the region of the
stomach, immediately after dinner, diminishing during a walk.
Painful distention of the stomach.-210. Troublesome pressure across the stomach, after dinner, as if he had eaten too
much, or as if the food had been too hard; this pressure is relieved by walking in the open air. Violent pain in the stomach.
Sudden pressure at the stomach and compression of the diaphragm. Constrictive pain in the stomach, intolerable and
giving one a deadly anguish.2 Weakens the stomach.-215.
Retards digestion and diminishes the appetite. Slow digestion.
Disturbs digestion, occasions a feeling of heaviness, and compression in the stomach, and an indescribable trouble in the pit
of the stomach. Painful distention of the pit of the stomach.
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ABDOMEN: Distention of the abdomen, especially in the
umbilical region.-220. Sensation of distention of the abdomen and especially the stomach. Accumulation of flatulence
in the stomach and intestines. Distended abdomen. The
abdomen is distended and painful. Pain in the abdomen, as if
one had taken a cathartic. (a., h.)-225. Colic, as from a
cold. Simple pain in the abdomen, as if bruised. (a. 2 h.)
Oppression of the abdomen, and a pressing puffliness of the
abdomen, as if it would burst; the pressure decreased by moving the body, but it returned when sitting down. (a. 2 h.) Constant formation of flatulence. Frequent emission of flatulence.
-230. Sensation as if the abdomen were oppressed by a
weight in the umbilical region, with anxiety; a feeling of flying
internal heat and stupefaction of the head. (a. 1 h.) Beating
in the abdomen. Aching and tensive pain in the abdomen.
(a. 24 h.) Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, also between the inspirations. (a. 3 h.) Colic, before and after stool.
-235. Oppression and heaviness in the abdomen, as of a stone.
Drawing colic. Pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines were
cut to pieces.
STOOL: Sluggishness of the peristaltic motion, retention
of stool.  Paralysis of the intestines.-240.  Costiveness.
Retention of stool and urine.-245. Constipation for ten days,
terminating in death. Hard stool, preceded by pinching pain
in the abdomen, and flatulence. Sensation, when making an
effort at stool, as if the passage into the rectum were closed.
Hard stool for six days, he has to make an effort every time
he goes to stool. Costiveness for 6, 8 weeks, with loss of appetite; no stool was passed except by an injection; even in this
case nothing but small, hard balls were passed.-250. Costiveness for several months. Opium sometimes causes diarrhoea
(secondary effect). Papescent stool (immediately or in - hour).
-255. Fetid stool. (a. 20 h.) Increase of stool. Watery
diarrhoea.' Discharge of a black substance by the rectum.
(a. 24 h.) Liquid, frothy stools, with itching, burning in the
region of the anus, and a violent tenesmus.-260.  Fetid
diarrhoea. Violent, painful movement of the fetus, frequently
intermitting for hours, but afterwards returning with so much
more violence. The uterus had become soft. Excessive, laborlike pains in the uterus, obliging her to bend double, with
anxious, but almost ineffectual desire for stool. (a. - h.) Excessive pain in the rectum, with distensive pressure (between
4 and 6 hours).
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URINARY ORGANS: Lemon-colored urise, with a good
deal of sediment. Dark-colored urine. Dark urine and dry
tongue. The urine is dark-red, and deposits a sediment. Hematuria.-270. Scanty, but red urine, without clouds. The
urine has a brick-colored sediment. When making an effort to
urinate, he feels as if the passage into the urethra were closed.
Spontaneous interruption of the stream when urinating. He is
not able to emit urine, except after great efforts.-275. He
emits but little urine of a very dark-red color, with cutting
pains during micturition. Suppression of urine. Retention of
urine.-280. Retention of urine with dry mouth, and increased
thirst. Weakens the contractile power of the urinary bladder.
Opium sometimes suppresses, sometimes excites the urine.
Excites the urine.
GENITAL ORGANS: Erections during sleep, and impotence
after waking. Excessive erection. Excitation of the sexual
instinct, erection, emission, and lascivious dreams.-290. Excitation of the sexual desire, erection for 24 hours, lascivious
dreams, emission. Emission (1 night). Nightly amorous
visions, emissions. Excessive excitation of the sexual desire.
-295. In some the sexual desire is excited, in others diminished. Slow, sexual desire. Opium is supposed to diminish
the sexual powers. Excites the sexual desire. Impotence.300. Impotence. Diminution of the sexual desire. Increased
menstrual discharge. (a. 2 h.) Opium left the menstrual
functions undisturbed, even in a case where it had been used
for thirty years every day, in doses of four grains and more,
causing very painful, spasmodic paroxysms.
CORYZA AND RESPIRATORY ORGANS: Obstruction of the
nose, like dry coryza, in the warm room, after walking in the
open air.-305. Hoarseness. Hoarseness, with dry mouth and
white tongue. Excessive hoarseness. Hoarseness as if occasioned by mucus in the trachea. When swallowing liquids she
coughed.-310. The cough is worse after a meal. Hollow,
dry cough (immediately after taking the drug); it passes off
again very speedily. Paroxysms of a violent dry cough; followed by yawning and a sudden loud cry. (a. 36 h.) His face
becomes suddenly blue, and he wants to cough, but the breathing is arrested; after this he falls into a deep sleep, his body
being covered with a cold sweat. (a. 30 h.) Cough during deglutition.-315. He coughs up a frothy mucus.
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anxious respiration. Accelerated, difficult respiration. The
breathing is shorter and shorter. Slow respiration. Difficult,
oppressed respiration, especially at night.-325. At times single, deep inspirations; at times the breathing is suppressed for
minutes. The inspirations are long and sighing. Short,
snoring breathing, which is from time to time arrested for half
a minute. Short attacks of anxiety, with short, oppressed
breathing and trembling of the arms and hands.-330. Difficult respiration and anxiety. Anxiety, with contraction and
tightness of the chest. Constriction of the chest, as if it were
stiff; difficult respiration. Asthma, as if he would be attacked
with pleurisy, accompanied with tension in the region of the
scapula. Spasmodic asthma.-335. Oppressed and difficult
respiration, and anxiety about the heart. Diminished breathing; asthma. Difficult, impeded respiration. Deep, snoring
breathing. Difficult, deep breathing.-340. Panting, loud
breathing. Excessively difficult and anxious breathing, with
open mouth. The breathing was at times snoring and loud,
at times difficult and feeble. Loud, painful, raling respiration.
-345. Moaning, slow respiration. (a 4 h.) Moaning, suppressed breathing. The breathing is imperceptible; some.
times accompanied with a little noise.-350. Irregular, suffocative breathing. Oppressed, difficult and irregular breathing.
The breathing stops for a few minutes, after which it returns
with a sigh. The breathing was arrested; for five minutes he
was like one dead; after this the inspirations became short and
sudden, as if hiccough were about to set in. The breathing
was interrupted by progressively increasing intervals, until
death set in.-355. Excessive aching pain in the right side
of the chest, also between the acts of inspiration, with stitches
in that side during an inspiration (a. 1 h.) Drawing tearing
pain in the side of the chest. Contractive (clawing) pain in
the sternum and back, which is felt during motion. He feels
hot in the chest. Burning in the heart, as of glowing coal;
she thinks she will die with it.-360. Pain in the hypochondria, especially the right. Tension in the infra-costal region;
it is very painful to the touch. (a. 4 h.) Tensive pain below
the short ribs, along the attachment of the diaphragm, during
an inspiration.
UPPER LIMBS: Single twitchings in the arms.-365. Convulsive motion to and fro in one or the other arm. Paroxysmal trembling in the left arm. (a. 3 h.) Tingling sensation in
the fingers, increasing when seizing any thing. Itching of the
arms and shoulders. Trembling of the hands.-370. The
arm is paralyzed. (a. 48 h.) Disagreeable creeping in hands
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LOWER EXTREMITIES: The lower limb is almost insensible. Violent itching of the lower limbs, in the evening. Weakness of the lower limbs.-375. Sensation as if the blood-vessels were alternately traversed by sudden torrents of fire and
by icy cold water. Drawing-tearing pain in the back. He
strikes his foot convulsively up and down, with a sudden, loud
cry. Numbness of the foot. The foot feels stiff, and is so sensitive that he can neither tread upon it, nor use it in walking.
380.-  Swelling of the foot. Heaviness of the feet after a meal.
(a. 2 h.)
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Horrid pains, penetrating the marrow of the bones. Emaciation of the whole body. Dropsical
condition of the body.-385. He cannot bear the open air, and
feels as if he would catch cold. Pale, bluish color of the skin.
The skin of the body, especially that of the genital organs is
blue. Blue spots on the body, here and there. The whole
body is red.-390. Burning pain and sometimes itching of the
skin. Burning and itching of the skin, and rising of the epidermis in pustules.' Stinging itching in the skin here and
there. Itching, especially of the upper parts of the body, commencing at the chest and extending over the face, especially
the nose. Troublesome itching.-395. Redness and itching of
the skin. Itching of the whole body; after scratching, red
blotches make their appearance, itching a good deal, but soon
disappearing again. Cutaneous eruptions, and sometimes itching. Sweat is frequently followed by cutaneous eruptions and
a smarting itching in the skin.-400. Small red itching spots
on the skin here and there. Itching and creeping in all the
limbs. (a. 5 h.) Sensibility is diminished first, afterwards irritability. The limbs are numb and insensible. The limbs are
numb and insensible, the whole body being cold. (a. 2 h.)
FITs, SPASMs:-405. Cold, stiff body. Tetanus. Incipient
opisthotonus. Sort of opisthotonic spasm of the nape of the
neck. (a. 1 h.) The back is stiff and straight (a sort of tetanus, between the first and second hour).-410. The trunk is
curved in the form of an arch, owing to the violent tremor in
the limbs, which causes a sensation in the nerves as if they
would be pulled to pieces.. Rigor of the whole body. (a. 1 h.)
Tetanus and epileptic convulsions.2 Convulsions.3 Spasmodic
motions, accompanied by cries.-415. Convulsive movements.
Epilepsy. Epileptic fits, with violent delirium. Foam at the
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mouth. Uneasiness in the sound limbs, which cannot remain
quiet a moment.-420. Tremor of the whole body, as if he
had become frightened, accompanied with single jerks in the
body and twitchings in the limbs, the flexor muscles whereof
are the only muscles in a state of activity, the outer parts of
the body being cold. Convulsive trembling of the limbs. Spasmodic trembling of the limbs. Tremulous motion in all the
limbs, causing every nerve to be pulled upon. Staggering.425. He is unable to walk without staggering. Agreeable
weariness, as if occasioned by intoxication. Slow, vacillating
gait. Invincible weariness. Indolence.-430. Great inclination to lean against every thing, to stretch the feet carelessly,
and to support the head upon one arm. He feels strong. Debility. (a. 8, 12 h.) Laxness, indolence.-435. Debilitated;
every thing is disagreeable to him; he is drowsy, dizzy, stupefied, sad, and he loses his memory.' Opium suppresses the
mobility of the voluntary muscles, diminishes the sensibility,
and therefore causes sleep. In strong persons opium diminishes the power of the voluntary muscles, makes the head feel
heavy, and causes great debility.2  Grows soon old.-440.
Opium causes a sensible diminution of strength, and takes
away the tone and the mobility of the solids. Relaxation of
the limbs and debility. The mobility of the muscles decreases.
Heaviness of the limbs. (a. 14 h.) Debility.3-445. Opium
frequently causes apoplexy.4 Is unable to do any thing, feels
faint and weak. He is scarcely able to stir his feet, or to make
a step forward, even when obliged by force.-450. Debility,
and inability to move. He became excessively debilitated.
Difficulty of moving the muscles.   Increased inability of
moving the limbs. Laxness of the muscles, occasioning a sort
of paralysis.-455. Laxness of all the muscles. Paralysis.5
The limbs were immoveable, and remained in the position in
which they were placed. Great debility and sinking of the
vital forces." Uncomfortableness, both of the body and mind.
SAfter the primary effect has passed off.
2 This diminution of the power, and even paralysis of the voluntary
muscles is a secondary effect of opium; the primary effect of opium is
to excite the power of the voluntary muscles: if the primary effect is
interrupted by stupefaction and stupor, one or the other limb continues to
jerk nevertheless.
3 From the daily use of opium.
4 From large doses.
5 From taking too frequent and too strong doses of opium.
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(a. 8, 12 h.)--460. Fainting fits. Fainting fit every quarter of
an hour; he closes his eyes, hangs his head, with weak
breathing, without consciousness, the pulse remaining unaltered; this is followed by a few spasmodic concussions of the
body, a few minutes after which the paroxysm terminates in a
sigh; afterwards anxiety.' Hemorrhage from a vein which
had been opened a little while ago (until the person died). Her
strength feeling increased, she attempted to rise from her bed, but
she fainted immediately, and felt giddy; after lying down her
consciousness and strength returned. Inclination to lie down.
SLEEP:-Yawning for many hours, with pain in the articulations of the jaws, as if they would break. Drowsiness.
Great inclination to sleep. Falls asleep suddenly. Coma vigil.-470. Unintelligible talk during the sopor. A  sort of
sopor, the eyelids being half open, the eyeballs being turned
upwards below the upper eyelid, the mouth being more or less
open, and the breathing being snoring. Drowsiness, sopor,
stupor. Sopor. Produces a morbid slumber in place of a
sound sleep.-475. Continuous sopor in the night, with increase of thirst, clean tongue with dark-red edges, and dry,
parched lips. The opium-sleep passed over into an unusual
stupor. The stupor was so intense that it was impossible to
get an answer out of him.-480. Sound sleep, with raling
breathing, as after an apoplectic fit. (a. 6 h.) Almost constant
slumbering, the eyelids being half closed, accompanied with
constant grasping at flocks, and moving of the hands over the
bed-cover. Stupor, without consciousness, and raling in the
chest. Sleep with consciousness. He hears every thing that
is said, but is unable to wake himself; he wakes after the
lapse of two hours. By shaking the patient and talking to
her, it was possible to wake her. When awake she complained
and wished to die soon.-485. Sopor and insensibility, with
natural warmth, and a natural pulse and respiration.  Unconquerable sleep, during which he feels pain, however, and opens
his eyes when pinched. Irresistible sleep (immediately after
taking two and more grains), which was however disturbed
with dreams, and at the termination of which he felt nauseated
instead of refreshed. Unrefreshing sleep with general sweat.
Weariness after a sleep produced by opium.-490. He feels
faint-hearted when waking.   Inclination to vomit when
waking. On waking from his opium-sleep he feels faint,
his head feels heavy and the throat feels dry. Erection
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during sleep, and impotence after waking. Stuttering on
waking from  his opium-sleep.-495. Difficulty of moving
the tongue, after waking. The head feels gloomy after waking. He starts in his sleep; on waking he is like one drunk
and half crazy. Intoxication and vertigo after the sleep. He
feels still more exhausted after waking, owing to restless
dreams in the night.-500. A man who had not had any
dreams for a long time past, dreamed after taking opium.
The whole night he was haunted by a multitude of visions.
and fancies. Opium-sleep is always disturbed with dreams
and gesticulations. Merry dreams.--505. His dreams are
at times pleasant, at times sad, at times anxious and terrible.
The opium-sleep is disturbed with dreams which are at times
pleasant, at times frightful; it either degenerates into sopor or
into an apoplectic death, with convulsions. Deep, sound
sleep, with rattling breathing, as if she had had an apoplectic fit. Snoring.-510. Snoring during an expiration, while
asleep. 1Moaning while asleep. (a. 2 h.) Lamenting cries
during sleep. Restless sleep, full of moaning and groaning.
Anxious sleep, full of dreams. (a. 7 h.)-515. Anxious sleep,
disturbed with the saddest dreams; he seems to be in constant
delirium while he is in his sopor. Suffocative fit during
sleep (night-mare). Sleep full of terrible fancies and fearful
dreams.--520. Sleep full of fright; when closing his eyes, he
feels as if he had lost his understanding. Vivid, vexatious
dreams, he does not succeed in any thing. Frightful dreams.
Sweet, pleasant slumber, from which he is suddenly waked
by frightful jerks in his limbs.-625. Restless, sleepless
nights. He is very drowsy; nevertheless he is unable to fall
asleep; the pulse being slow. The soporific power of opium
is very much diminished by great pain or great grief. Sleepless
nights with delirium.-530. Sleeplessness, full of imperfect
images, and full of fancies which were altogether distinct from
the surrounding objects, as in crazy persons. Between the
waking and the sleeping states he had dreams and fancies
about dragons, skeletons, and horrid  ghosts and masks.
Restless nights, sopor alternating with waking, delirium, hot
skin, stupor; he is lying coiled up in one heap. Sleep and
redness of face.
FEVER:-The pulse sank from one hundred and eight to
seventy-two beats; accompanied with chilliness and shuddering, diminished cheerfulness, great debility, and increase of
appetite.-535. Diminishes the beats of the pulse and the inspirations. The pulse decreases by fourteen beats (the first
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thirty beats.' The pulse diminishes one half.2. The heart
beats four times more slowly.3 Great, slow pulse, the respiration being slow, heavy and snoring.-540. Great, slow pulse,
with slow, heavy and snoring breathing. Slow pulse. The
pulse is stronger. The pulse is at first slow and full, afterwards weak. Slow pulse, with moaning, slow breathing, red,
puffed face, and profuse sweat, with convulsions.4-545. Full,
equal, slow pulse, with deep, snoring breathing. Faint, sup-.pressed, slow, small pulse. He complains of feeling chilly.
Inclination to shudder. Diminution of animal heat.-550.
Chilliness in the back, with suppressed, scarcely perceptible
pulse. Cold extremities. Thirst during the chilliness. Fever: first chilliness, afterwards flushes of heat in the face (with
white tongue and sweat before midnight).-555. Fever: first
chills, afterwards heat with sleep, during which he sweats a
good deal. (Fever: he falls asleep during the chilly stage;
no thirst during the chilliness; thirst during the hot stage, ac.
companied with a profuse, general sweat. Chilliness as soon
as she gets into bed in the evening; as soon as she falls asleep
she begins to perspire, especially about the head. (Fever:
trembling chilliness with thirst, afterwards increased heat of
the whole body, with inclination to uncover herself, with
strong, full pulse, dryness of the fauces without thirst, and
vividness of ideas and memory.) (a. 1 h.) Coldness of the extremities.-560. Coldness with stupefaction. Diminution of
animal heat, followed by increase of exhalation from the skin.
Strong, quick pulse, which finally becomes weak and intermittent (a. 8 hours, shortly before death).5 Quick and unusually weak pulse, with quick, oppressed, anxious respiration
(after several hours). Quick pulse with   headache.-565.
Quick, violent, rather hard pulse, with [a dark-red countenance. Congestion of blood to the brain. Violent, quick,
hard pulse, with heavy, impeded respiration. Accelerated circulation, with sensation of heat.-570. The blood-vessels are
distended with blood. Increased heat. Alternation of moderate warmth and coldness. Great redness of the face with
burning heat of the body, for eight hours; afterwards convulsive beating with the right arm and foot, with loud cries,
heavy breathing and coldness of the face and hands, which are
SFrom rubbing in eight grains of opium, after fifty minutes.
2 Alston saw this through the microscope in the foot of a frog, to
which he had given some drops of the tincture of opium.
3 In a frog, to which opium had been given.
4 From opium mixed with the spirits of hartshorn.
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covered with drops of sweat (shortly before taking the drug).575. Burning heat in the face, and a sensation of heat, especially in the eyes, without thirst, for six evenings in succession. Heat with thirst. Increases the heat of the whole body,
and occasions dryness of the mouth, and thirst. The skin is
sometimes dry and hot, sometimes a slight sweat breaks out.
Heat of the body, with great anxiety.-580. Intolerable heat
with great anxiety. Acute fever, with delirium making its appearance after a short sleep, and lasting twelve hours; after
the fever he becane very weak, and was attacked with fits of
nausea, the pulse being weak; in three hours the delirium recurred, lasting forty-eight hours, with a strong, full pulse;
after this he fell into a sleep of eight hours. Restlessness, oppression, confusion of ideas and scintillations, during which a
burning, disagreeable heat ascends to the head, and afterwards
spreads over the whole body. Drops of sweat about the head,
afterwards over the whole body, and sleep. Increased exhalation from the skin.-585. Sweat all over. Early in the
morning during sleep, a sweat breaks out over the whole
body, and he shows a disposition to uncover himself. (a. 12,
36 h.) Cold sweat on the forehead. Sweat, especially on the
upper parts of the body, the lower parts being hot and dry.590. Profuse sweat. Strong sweat (for twelve hours). General sweat. (a. 8 h.) Violent sweat, during a pretty quiet
sleep.-595. Profuse sweat, causing an itching in the skin,
and bringing out an eruption, all the senses, taste, sight, smell,
becoming in the mean while insensible. Sweat and eruption
of a red rash, with itching. General sweat over the hot body
with great thirst, full, strong pulse, vivid eyes and bright
mind.
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Contentment. Alternation of sullen
mood, without care, and of cheerfulness.-600. Taciturnity
(after the smallest dose). Calm indifference to the things of
this earth, owing to the ecstatic excitement of the fancy. Constant contentment, as if they were in heaven. He remained
the whole night without pain, in great contentment.' Extremely delightful feeling, with contentment of mind and forgetfulness of all his ailments.-605. She was unable to obtain
peace and happiness except by taking opium. He had no
sleep, but he became quiet and contented, as if he were in heaven.2  Sweet, delightful fancies, than which nothing can be
In the evening he had taken a grain of opium for a most troublesome pain.
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more pleasant, especially after having been tortured by pain.
He feels as if in heaven, vivid, delightful fancies hovering before his mind, which keep off sleep.-610. The cheerfulness
produced by opium is like a dream without sleep. A female
who was in the habit of indulging sad thoughts, was relieved
of her sadness for some time in a most wonderful degree.'
Opium causes forgetfilness of the sufferings of the soul, and
produces a feeling of bliss in their stead.-615. The opiumeaters, who are generally sad and stupid, become cheerful;
they revel, sing amorous songs, laugh, and indulge all sorts of
comic manners; this pleasant exaltation of the mind lasts
about an hour, at the termination of which they become angry and raving, and finally relapse into a state of sadness, and
then fall asleep.  Cheerfulness, contentment, disposition to
work, fearlessness, courage.-620. Boldness, magnanimity; he
feels as if he would carry out any thing in spite of obstacles,
with a feeling of bliss; this sensation only lasts a few minutes,
after which his head feels gloomy (after a quarter of an hour).
Boldness in danger. Opium gives those who dread a surgical
operation courage and boldness. Criminals (in India) lose the
fear of death, and march boldly to the gallows.2-625, Audacious, daring. Opium makes one wild and cruel, like a ferocious beast.3 Rage, frenzy, and mania. Frenzy and distortion
of the mouth (from applying opium upon the temples).-630.
Mental derangement. Delirium. The patient is haunted with
visions. Fearfulness and tendency to start. Want of courage.
-635. Fear. (a. 8, 12 h.) Frightful visions. During her delirium she saw ghosts, devils, and masks around her bed, which
tormented her very much.4  He said a great many incoherent
things, and pointed to persons with masks, whom he pretended
he saw approaching to him; now he broke out into a loud
laughter, now he started on account of imaginary fencing-masters, who might stab him; he became angry when one tried to
SThe opium acting as a palliative, she was obliged to increase the
dose as she continued the use of the drug, until she took an ounce and
a half after the lapse of one week.
2 The last nine symptoms are palliative effects of opium in persons
who were desponding.
3 In persons who are weak and without courage, opium produces
boldness, anger, and rage, palliatively. This palliative effect gives the
Turks an almost irresistible power and desire for battle, as long as that
effect lasts, but in a few hours it passes off, and the soldiers become
stupid and cowardly, and are more easily beaten than any other army.
4 This happened whenever her ailments, palpitation of the heart,
vomiting, hiccough, cardialgia, colic, tremor, and convulsive movements,
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persuade him that he was indulging foolish fancies; nevertheless he blamed himself in his delirium for indulging them.' In
his delirium he talks about all sorts of things with open eyes,
and afterwards he only remembers his talk as a dream.-640.
She was hot, anxious, and intoxicated, talked all sorts of things,
retracted what she had said, at times she started, at times she
seized the hand of those around her with great anger.2 He acts
absurdly. His cheerfulness and mental bliss increase until they
become irrational.' Violent mania, with redness of countenance,
glistening eyes, and increased animation of the body. He rolls
about the floor like a maniac, threatening and burning with
anger; he does not recognize his friends, his head and face are
swollen, the lips are reddish-blue and swollen, and the eyes
are inflamed and protruded.-645. Ecstasy, followed by sadness and despondency. Hopeless and peevish mood. (a. 8, 12
h.) Lamentations and howling (first hours). She is put out
with a pain until she cries.-650. Distrust. Sullen mood.
Melancholy. Anxiety. Excessive anguish.-655. Anguish
about the heart and restlessness. (a. 2 h-4)
FROM THE EXTERNAL APPLICATION OF OPIUM.
Burning pain and irritation of the skin. Blisters on the
skin. Great heat and pain of the skin, it draws a blister, corrodes the skin, and occasions mortification. Corrodes the skin,
causing the hair to fall off, and occasioning itching.-660.
When applied directly to the nerve it increases its sensibility
and pain. When applied to the muscles, opium very soon destroys their irritability.
PULSATILLA.
(ANEMONE PRATENSIS.)
(Express the juice from the green, recent and whole plant, and mix
it with equal parts of alcohol.)
THIS powerful plant produces a number of symptoms in
the healthy human organism analogous to the diseases to
SFrom opium which was given for a sort of dysentery.
2 From opium, administered for an excessive pain, which threatened to bring on convulsions.
3 From a large dose of opium.
4 This symptom was palliated by opium, which she had to take in
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which the human system is liable. It may be numbered
among the polychrests.
It may be employed both in acute and chronic diseases, inasmuch as its action lasts from ten to twelve days.
My remarks on the peculiarity of its symptoms will be
found annexed to the respective symptoms.
The following symptoms have been obtained from moderately large doses, and may therefore be considered primary
symptoms.
This medicine acts best when not only its physical symptoms are homceopathic to the disease, but when the action
which Pulsatilla is capable of exercising upon the mind and
temperament, is analogous to the patient's temperament, or the
state of his mind.
The disposition which corresponds best to the nature of
Pulsatilla, is a timid disposition, with disposition to weep, and
to experience silent grief and chagrin, a mild and yielding disposition, especially when the patient had been good-humored
and bland in his good days, or disposed to levity and kindlymeant malice. Slow and phlegmatic temperaments correspond to
Pulsatilla, but least of all men of quick decision and movements,
although they may appear ever so good-natured.
Absence of thirst and occasional chilliness are additional
indications.
In females it is especially suitable when the menses delay
a few days; also when the patient lies in his bed a long time
in the evening before he drops to sleep; and when the patient
is worse in the evening. It is useful against the bad effects
of eating pork.
Chamomilla antidotes the sleeplessness, debility and diminution of sense produced by Pulsatilla; Coffea the timid anxiety. Ignatia and Nux are likewise antidotes. Coffea cruda
is the best antidote to the fever, the weeping mood and the
pains of Pulsatilla.
In robust chronic patients, it is seldom necessary to administer a whole drop; in acute maladies, and when the patients
are very nervous and irritable, the smallest part of a drop of
the sixteenth potency is sufficient.
PULSATILLA.
HEAD:-Vertigo. Vertigo as if intoxicated.' Vertigo as
if the blood were mounting to the head; rapping sensation in
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the head, with sensation of repeated and short diggings-up.
Giddy wavering as if intoxicated, with internal heat in the
head, and paleness of the face, which has a natural warmth,
especially in the evening.-5. Fits of vertigo, intoxication,
heat. After a meal he feels as if intoxicated.  Vertigo, especially when sitting. Vertigo, early in the morning when
rising; he is obliged to lie down again. Vertigo when walking in the open air,' going off by sitting down.--10. Turning
sensation and stupid feeling in the head, only when sitting,
and as if drowsy. Vertigo; he imagines he is not able to
stand firmly (in the first hours). Vertigo; he imagines he is
not able to lay hold of a thing (in the first hours). Sort of
vertigo, when turning the eyes upward, as if he should fall, or
as if he were dancing.2 Vertigo when stooping, as if he would
fall, as if intoxicated; afterwards disposition to vomit. (a. 6
h.)-15. Vertigo when stooping, scarcely permitting her to
rise again. When stooping his head felt heavy, as if he were
unable to raise it again. Vertigo when walking and stooping,
as if the head were too heavy, with a somewhat turning sensation, which was likewise felt when lying down. Sensation
in the head, when stooping, as if he would fall forward.
When walking he staggers as if he were giddy, without however being so, in the evening (after three days).3-20. Gloomy
sensation in the head and vertigo, excited by motion. Is unable to carry the head straight, is obliged to lie down, and is
nevertheless unable to remain in the bed.4  Headache when
lying down for the siesta, which is felt in that side of the brain
upon which one does not rest. (a. 18 h.)5 Is unable to raise
the head, or to carry it straight. Heaviness of the head.6 -25. Heaviness in the head; he is unable to bear the glare of
a light.7 The head feels gloomy, and the forehead feels as if
beaten in two. Headache as if the forehead and temples
would burst, early in the morning when in bed. Headache
One of the alternate symptoms of Pulsatilla, occuring after its opposite, and less frequently; in this case the symptoms are diminished
in the open air, or disappear entirely, and reappear when sitting, or
when in a state of rest, as is partially the case in 10.
2 Compare 56.
3 Compare 732.
4 A sort of third-alternate symptom, a sort of mediate symptom between those symptoms which appear in the sitting position, and those
which appear during motion.
5 Compare 51.
6 Compare 85, 649, 922.
7 Compare sensitiveness of the eyes to the light, with 86, 87, 88, 90;
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when moving the eyes, deep in the orbits, as if the forehead
would fall out, and as if the frontal bone were too thin, with a
gloomy feeling in the head, in the evening. (a. 48 h.)'-30.
Hemicrania, as if the brain would burst, and as if the eyes
would fall out of their sockets. The head feels stupid, the
eyes in the head ache. The head feels stupid and heavy.
The head feels rather stupid, and the head aches, as if the
forehead felt bruised. The head feels rather stupid, as if his
memory were wanting. (a. 2 h.)-35. The head feels desolate and hollow; his head felt like a lantern. The head felt
dreary and painful, as if he had been intoxicated the day before.2 Headache, as if he had been intoxicated and had sat
up the night before. (a. 12 h.) The head feels gloomy; he
loses his ideas. If he has seized an idea, he cannot turn his
mind away from it.-40. Headache, making his head feel
obscured, on entering a warm room.3 Creeping headache in
the forehead. (a. 1 h.)4 Bubbling sensation in the head, at
night; he heard pulsations in the head distinctly. Headache, resembling pulsations in the brain. (a. 6 h.) Beating
headache, about midnight.-45. Beating headache in the
forehead, when stooping and when exerting the mind, disappearing when walking, in the evening. Beating headache,
diminished by external pressure. (a. h.)5.Jching pain in
the head when stooping. Aching pain in the whole forehead,
only when walking. Aching pain in the occiput; with frequent heat and constant exhalation of the body. -50. Tearing headache in the left side of the occiput, early in the morning. (a. 60 h.) After lying down to sleep, he experiences a
tearing headache in that side of the head upon which he does
not rest.6 Drawing headache in the occiput over the nape of
the neck early in the morning. (a. 60 h.)7 Headache when
waking, and a little while after; the brain feels oppressed and
dull, or as if torn, as it does after taking brandy. (a. 6, 12 h.)
Lachrymation of one eye, with drawing headache.-55.
Pain on the hairy scalp when pushing the hair backwards,
a kind of drawing pain. Tensive and drawing headache in
the forehead, over the orbits, increased by raising the eyes.8
I Compare 29, 30 with 185, 638, 710, 816.
2 Compare 847, 956.
3 Compare 509.
4 Compare 85, 649.
5 This diminution of the pains on external pressure, takes place with
other Pulsatilla-pains. See 761, 762.
6 Compare 22.
7 Compare 54, 55.
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Headache: the brain feels tight, with a boring pain in the
vertex. Pinching headache over the eyes, which becomes
worse when looking at a thing intently. Boring headache
from within outward, with dull stitches.-60. Single, sharp
shocks or jerks in the right hemisphere of the brain. (a. 1 h.)
Jerking tearing in both temples, as if they would be torn asunder. Headache: Stitches extending from the occiput through
the ears. Stitches in the occiput, worse when lying down,
passing off when raising the head. Stitches darting through
the whole brain, after dinner, and continuing until bed-time,
mingled with shuddering and fainting fits. (a. 16 h.)-65.
Stitching in one side of the head. Stitches in the temples.
Stitches'through the forehead, from within, in the evening. Cutting headache. Headache in the evening, as if caused by dry
coryza; afterwards dry heat in the bed and excessive drowsiness, with delirious talking and almost waking dreams.'-20.
Headache as if one had eaten too much, or as if one had spoiled
one's stomach by overloading it with fat meat.2 Humming
in the head. Headache from time to time, as if a keenly painful wind rushed through the brain. (a. 40 h.)3  Sensation in
the brain, when walking, as of the snapping of an electric
spark, synchronous with the pulse.
EYES: Contraction of the pupils, followed by dilatation.
Puffiness of the eyes, and sensation in the eyes as if they
squinted. He sees objects double (after several hours). Obscuration of sight, with inclination to vomit and paleness of
sight.  Obscuration of sight with vertigo, after rising from a
chair and commencing to walk. (a. 24 h.)-80. Obscuration
of sight, as if a mist were before the eyes, when rising from a
chair and commencing to walk. (a. 24 h.) Obscuration of
sight, early in the morning when rising from bed. Short-lasting obscuration of sight. He sees better at a distance.5 Obscuration of sight recurring several days.-85. Vanishing of
sight and hearing, with drawing headache and a sensation of
heaviness and creeping in the brain; this is followed by chilliness.6 (Scintillations before the eyes.) She sees fiery circles
before the eyes, which become more and more enlarged towards noon (ceasing towards evening). He sees a star-shaped
shine around the flame of a candle. When shaking the head,
Compare 907, 914, 989.
2 Compare 286-291.
S Compare 132.
4 Compare 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85 with 977, (18.)
6 Curative effect, after a large dose.
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he experiences a sticking in the left eye, and a tear drops from
it.-90. One or the other eye experiences sticking pains,
almost without any inflammation of the white; he cannot bear
the sight of a candle-light and can open his eyelids only a little.
(a. 8 h.) Headache which affected the right eye; a pressure
was experienced in that eye, and a tear came out of it. The
headache affected the eyes, they hurt him, in the evening. An
(inflamed) red spot in the white of the eye near the cornea.
(a. 30 h.) The margin of the lower eyelid is inflamed and
swollen; in the morning a tear drops out of the eye.-95. A
stye on the eyelid, and inflammation of the sclerotica now in
one, now in the other corner, with a drawing tensive pain in the
corners when moving the facial muscles, and with ulceration
of the nostrils.: Dryness of the eyelids. (a. 12 h.) Dryness
of the upper eyelids, especially when he is sleepy. (a. 1L h.)
Dryness of the right eye, and sensation as if the eye were obscured by a mucus adhering to it and which can be wiped off,
in the evening. (a. 24 h.)2 Dryness of the eyes, and a sensation in the eye, early in the morning, as if a foreign body were
pressing in it (after many hours).-100. Aching pain in the left
eye. Aching pain in the internal canthus. Aching-burning
pain in the eyes, especially morning and evening. Aching
pain in the eyes, as if they were hot. Painful pressure in the
eye, with a sensation as of rubbing, as of a little hair had got
into the eye.-105. Pressure in the eye, when reading, as if
sand had got into the eye; this pressure ceased when he ceased
to read, and recommenced again when he recommenced his
reading.  Itching in the inner canthi in the evening after
sunset. (a. 28 h.) Itching in the inner canthus as if an ulcer
were healing; after rubbing the eye, he feels a fine stinging
painful pressure in the eye. Burning and itching in the eyes,
which obliges him to scratch and rub. Itching stinging in the
eyes, obliging him to scratch. (a. 24 h.)-110. Itching in the
eyes. Itching of the eyeball in the outer canthus, in the evening; early in the morning the eyelids are agglutinated. (a. 8 h.)
Agglutination of the inner canthus early in the morning.3
Agglutination of the eyelids in the morning. Itching (gnawing) and burning in the eyelids, in the evening.--115. Biting
pain in the inner canthus as if it were sore. (a. 8 h.) LachryCompare 157, 158, 520, 521.
2 Also in the morning after waking, and after the siesta, Pulsatilla
occasions a dimsightedness as if something were hanging over the cornea which can be wiped away, but which does not disappear except of
itself; this symptom is more marked on one than on the other eye.
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mation in the open cold air.1 The eyes became dim in the
open air, and they run. The eyes become filled with water in
the wind. (a. 10 h.) Bleareyedness.-120. Twitching of the
eyelids. (Pimple on the head.) Biting, itching of the hairy
scalp.2 (a. 9 h.) Small little tumors on the hairy scalp,
painful like ulcers.
FACE: Twitching in the muscles of the cheeks.-125.
Shuddering on one side of the face.3 Pale face. Tightness
in the face and fingers (especially when taking hold of any
thing), as if the parts would swell. The skin of the lips and
face is sensitive to the touch, as if sore.
EARS: Rush of blood to the organs of hearing. (a. 8 h.)130. Murmuring in the ear synchronous with the pulse.'
Frequent grumbling in the ear. Noise in the ear as if caused
by the wind or by the rushing of water, after four o'clock in the
afternoon. (a. 10 h.) Tremulous sounding in the ears, as when
one strikes against an iron bar. (a. 3 h.) Ringing in the ears
(from the 4th to the 8th hour).--135. Chirping in the ears as
of crickets, early in the morning when in bed. (a. 50 h.) Hardness of hearing as if the ears were stopped up. (a. 3 h.)5 Hardness of hearing as if the ears were stopped up, with trembling
and sweat on the back, returning every other hour. (a. 3 h.)
Itching deep in the ear. (a. 24 h.) Itching in the right ear,
afternoon and evening. (a. 30 h.)-140. Itching, pricking in
the internal ear. (a. 6 h.) Single, tearing jerks through the
ears. (a. 12 h.) Jerking in the ears. Jerking in the external
ear, afterwards heat of this ear. Violent pain in the ear, as if
something would press out.-145. Heat, redness and swelling
of the outer ear. (a. a few hours.) Heat and sweat of the external ear. When blowing the nose the air rushes into the ear,
occasioning a sensation in the ear as if it were distended by
that air; accompanied with stitches which dart towards the
eye. Pus flows from the left ear. (a. 12 h.) A small painful
gland becomes elevated- between the antehelix and the articulation of the lower jaw.-150. A large, red blotch in the region
of the zygoma. A red, hard elevation on the right cheek in
front of the ear, causing a burning and contractive pain. (a. 5
SCompare 116, 117, 118. This watering of the eyes is an alternate
symptom of 96-99.
2 Compare 122, 123 with (15.)
3 The appearance of the symptoms on one side of the body only is
peculiar to Pulsatilla. Compare 822, 837, 972, 973, 976, 994, 995, 996.
Rhus tox., Belladonna, Cocculus, have somewhat of the same peculiarity.
4 Compare 130, 131, 132 with 71.
5 Compare 136, 137 with (28.)



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d.) Scurfy eruption on the antehelix with a burning smarting
pain, emitting water, accompanied with a glandular swelling
lower down in the neck, painful to the touch. Cracking in the
ear when moving the head or the body. (a. 4, 16 h.) Sticking
pain in the parotid gland.
NOSE: Abscess in the region of the root of the nose, near
the canthus of the eye, as if fistula lachrymalis would form.'
(Pain in the root of the nose, when stooping, as if an ulcer would
form.) Sensation in the left nostril, as if an ulcer would form.
(a. 8 h.) Ulceration of the external wing of the nose, emitting
a watery humor. (a. 6 h.) Darting pain in the nose.-160.
Smell in the nose, early in the morning, as of old coryza.' Illusion of smell; he imagined he was smelling coffee and tobacco; even in the open air. Bleeding from the nose. Haemorrhage from the nose with dry coryza.-165. Blows blood
out of the nose early in the morning. (a. 48 h.)
EXTERNAL MOUTH AND TEETH: The epidermis peels
off near the outer border of the lips, until the raw flesh becomes
visible. (a. 10 h.) The epideimis of the lips becomes cracked.
(a. 2 h.) Twitching in the lower lip, for two days. The lower lip is swollen and cracks in the middle, with a tensive pain.
-170. Itching in the region of the skin, especially in the evening. (Drawing tearing pains in the lower jaw.3) Contractive (astringent) pain in the jaws, as if occasioned by an acid,
accompanied with shuddering and cold sweat in the face.
(Sticking beating toothache, at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, aggravated by cold water.) The toothache comes on again
every time he eats.-175. The toothache commenced at two
o'clock in the night, and did not allow him to lay his head on
a cold place of the bed: a sort of sticking-digging first in the
teeth of the lower, then of the upper jaw, from one root into the
other, coming on again at noon. Stinging toothache relieved
by eating. Stinging gnawing toothache in the gums, especially
towards evening, aggravated by the warmth of the bed, relieved by exposing the tooth to the cold, open air, and removed by
sleep in the evening. (a. 6 h.) Sticking pain in the posterior
molar tooth, aggravated by opening the mouth, from two to
six in the afternoon. Toothache comes on as soon as he takes
Compare 112, 115.    2 Compare (31) (74.)
3 The so-called tearing pains of Pulsatilla, are generally a shortlasting, drawing tension, which always terminates in a darting analogous to tearing, somewhat as if a nerve were put upon the stretch, and
then let loose again suddenly, causing a painful jerk. Hence the terms
" single, tearing jerks, 141;" " drawing-jerking, 180," etc.
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any thing warm in the mouth.-180. Drawing-jerking toothache, aggravated by drinking any thing cold. Jerking in the
molares, with a slight swelling of the gums. (Jerking toothache, especially early in the morning, relieved by cold water,
after having been warmed in the mouth, not increased by
chewing, but excited by picking the teeth.) Jerking toothache,
from six in the afternoon until eleven at night, preceded by heat
in the head with thirst; the toothache is followed by sweat,
Tearing toothache.'-185. Pain in the teeth, as if they were
pushed forward.2 The tooth is painful when chewing or biting.3
The toothache increases in the wind.' The teeth vacillate
early in the morning. The gums are painful, as if they were
sore.-190. The internal side of the gums is painful, as if
corroded. (a. S h.) Sensation of swelling, on the posterior side
of the gums, which, however, did not exist; he experienced a
burning sensation in that region whenever he inserted any
thing warm or cold into his mouth.
INTERNAL MOUTH, PHARYNX AND (ESOPHAGUS: The
tongue feels broader than usual. The tongue is lined with a
tenacious mucus as with a kind of fur.5 White tongue, with
bad taste in the mouth, early in the morning.--195. Painful
vesicle on one side of the tip of the tongue. (a. 6 d.) Sensation
in the middle of the tongue, as if it were burnt and insensible,
even when the tongue is moist, in the night and early in the
morning. (a. 6 h.)7 Sore throat: stitches in the back part of
the throat, between the acts of deglutition; none during deglutition. Stinging sore throat. Sore throat; cutting pain in the
throat. (a. 8 h.)-200. Sore throat: pain in the side of the palate,
when touching it, or when talking, as if there were a painful
pimple, with dilatation of the pupils, early in the morning.
Painless sensation, as if the epiglottis were covered with tenacious mucus, or were swollen. Sore throat: sensation, when
swallowing, as if the back part of the throat were narrower than
usual, or closed by swelling.-205. Sore throat: sensation as
if the pharynx were swollen, now lower down, now higher up.
(a. 6 h.) Sore throat: pain when swallowing, as if the submaxillary glands were protruding into the throat, and as if the
Compare 171.  2 Compare 638.  3 Alternate effect of 182.
The increase, or the appearance of the symptoms, in the cool,
open air, is a rarer alternate effect than the appearance of the symptoms
in warmth, especially the warm air in the room, for instance 509.
5 Compare 219.
6 Compare 217, 220, 221, 228-232.
7 Compare 218.



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protruding part were sore and raw. (a. 8 h.) Sore throat: when
swallowing the palate feels sore, as if raw. The back part of
the throat is painful as if it were raw, accompanied with a
drawing pain in the cervical muscles. Sore throat: rawness
and sore feeling in the throat, between the acts of deglutition,
and as if the throat were too dry, early in the morning. (a. 2
h.)'- 210. Sore throat: scraping and raw sensation in the
throat, as after violent vomiting; he does not feel any thing
when swallowing; early in the morning the throat was dry.
Scraping and dry sensation in the throat. Raw, scraping sensation in the throat, with dryness in the mouth. Sore throat:
when swallowing he feels as if the throat were swollen, and as
if the trachea were rough. Dry throat, after midnight.-215.
Dryness in the throat, early in the morning. (a. 6, 20 h.) Intolerable feeling of dryness in the throat, extending as far as
the tip of the tongue (without any dryness being visible), with
thirst; he is, however, unable to drink much, on account of a
desire to vomit, which is excited by the drink. Early in the
morning the mouth and throat feel dry, and are lined with an
insipid flat-tasting mucus, with a fetid smell from the mouth,
which he does not perceive himself. (a. 12 h.) Dryness of the
tongue early in the morning. Early in the morning, when
waking from sleep, his palate, lips and tongue feel dry, the
dryness afterwards changing to a very tenacious mucus.2
TASTE AND APPETITE: Slimy taste in the mouth, and
inclination to vomit, early in the morning. (Slimy, saltishbitter taste in the mouth, early in the morning, not without appetite.) The throat is lined with a tenacious mucus, early in
the morning.3 The inner mouth is lined with a fetid mucus,
early in the morning, when waking from sleep. Fetid smell
from the mouth early in the morning.4-225. Putrid smell from
the mouth, early in the morning. Putrid smell from   the
mouth in the night. Bad smell from the mouth in the evening,
after lying down. (a. 96 h.) Taste as of putrid herbs in the back
part of the throat. Taste as of putrid meat in the mouth, with
inclination to vomit. (a. 2 h.)-230. Eructations after dinner,
tasting of putrid meat; this taste remains afterwards in the
mouth, with inclination to vomit. (a. 14 h.)5 Taste as of putrid
meat in the mouth, especially early in the morning, when
hawking up. Taste as of pus in the mouth, occasionally, especially in the morning. Nauseating taste in the mouth, as one
experiences before breakfast when rising early. (a. 12 h.) EmAlternate effect of 206, 207.  2 Compare 190.  3 Compare 193, 217.
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pyreumatic (pungent) taste in the mouth.-235. Earthy
taste in the mouth, with inclination to vomit (also after one
hour). Flat taste in the mouth, as if one had eaten earthy
things. (a. 10 h.) The saliva in the mouth constantly tastes
sweetish. Beer has a nauseating sweetish taste. (a. 2 h.) Bitter beer has a nauseating sweetish taste.-240. Nauseating
taste from smoking tobacco. The tobacco has no taste when
smoking, but does not cause any loathing, towards evening. (a.
20, 50 h.) Bitter taste in the mouth, in the evening (at six
o'clock).' Bitter taste in the mouth early in the morning (a. 24
h.), going off after a meal. He has a constantly bitter, bilious
taste in the mouth, especially after a meal.-245. Rumbling
and movements in the abdomen, accompanied with pinching
pain in the abdomen; this was followed by the ascension of
humid qualms in the throat. Bitter taste, with desire for lemon
juice. Every kind of nourishment tastes bitter to him: afterwards he feels chilly, and a cold sweat breaks out. Bitter
taste in the mouth, in the evening, after drinking beer. (a. 8
h.) Aversion to milk, early in the morning, although it tasted
well to him.-250. Milk has no taste in the morning. The
food she takes has an excessive salt taste to her (except brown
bread); several hours after eating, a scraping, salt taste continues to ascend in her throat. (a 4, 28 h.) Bitter taste in the
mouth after taking coffee. Wine has a bitter taste. (a. 8 h.)
Aversion to butter; it has a bitter taste to him.2-255. Bread
and meat have a bitter taste. Brown bread tastes bitter, not the
other food. Bread has a bitter taste while chewing it; the bitter taste disappears as soon as the bread is swallowed. Bitter
taste in the mouth, a quarter of an hour after eating, the appetite being good.-260. The taste in the mouth is somewhat
bitter, especially early in the morning, and some time after a
meal; the food, however, had a good taste. Bitter taste after
vomiting.3 Gulping up of a bitter fluid. Bitter eructations at
night. Bilious eructations in the evening. (a. 2 h.)-265.
Beer has a bitter taste in the morning; it leaves a sour taste
afterwards. (a. 12 h.)5  Bread has a sourish taste; she finds it
SRarely (and at most only in the evening and morning) does Pulsatilla occasion a continuously bitter taste in the mouth; the bitter taste
which Pulsatilla occasions most frequently, is either occasioned while
drinking, or while eating and chewing, especially brown bread, or it
makes its appearance after the beverage or food has been swallowed;
this kind of bitter taste is an alternate symptom.
2Compare 254, 256, 271, with (41.)
3 Compare 316.
4 The bitter and sour eructations are alternate symptoms, although
both of them are primary effects.
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too dry. Sourish taste in the mouth after a meal. (a. 3 h.)
Gulping up of a sour fluid, after drinking coffee. Sour eructations early in the morning.-270. Loss of appetite, the taste
being otherwise pure and natural. Aversion to meat and stale
bread. Diminished taste of every kind of food. (a. 4, 8, 16 h.)
Meat has no taste. Fresh meat has a putrid taste.-275. He
has some appetite, but bread, butter, and beer, have little or no
taste (stewed prunes are the only things which have a good
taste to him). (a. 12 h.) (He does not care about any warm
food. He only cares about butter, bread, and fruit.) Want of
appetite, on account of the food being tasteless, and the stomach
being replete. Absence of thirst. Increased appetite in the
evening. (a. 5 h.)
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS:-280. While taking her dinner she
is oppressed by sleep, and she is obliged to sleep. Early in the
morning when rising, a sort of gnawing sensation in the stomach as one experiences after having suffered hunger, going off
after eating. (a. 12 h.) Gnawing sensation in the stomach,
like canine hunger. (a. 8 h.) Canine hunger (immediately,
but passing off soon). Desires food, but does not know which;
does not relish any thing of what he eats.1-285. Is hungry,
but has no desire for any particular kind of food. Sensation
as if the stomach were spoiled.2 Symptoms of deranged stomach. Tension in the feet from having eaten a little too much
at breakfast. (a. 48 h.) Frequent eructations tasting of the
ingesta.a-290. After eating cake he has eructations tasting
like old rancid tallow. Sentsation in the stomach as if one had
eaten too much; the food rises back again into the stomach, as
if vomiting would set in. Imperfect eructations. Eructations
tasting of the ingesta, after eating, followed by inclination to
vomit. (a. 4 h.) Nausea with inclination to voihit, ascending
into the mouth.-295. Nausea with inclination to vomit rising
into the throat. Nausea with inclination to vomit, early in the
morning, with accumulation of mucus in the mouth, which is
soon succeeded by sour taste in the mouth. (a. 13 h.) Sensation in the pharynx as if a worm were creeping up. Nausea
and qualmishness early in the morning after eating milk.
Nausea with inclination to vomit, which ascends in oesophagus
and pharynx with a very disagreeable sensation.-300. Bread
and meat occasion an inclination to vomit. Intolerable nausea
with inclination to vomit, without any vomiting. (a. 1 h.) InSCompare (42.)
2 Compare 70, 229, 230, 231.
3 Eructations tasting and smelling of the ingesta [see also (44)], are
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clination to vomit with chilliness. Nausea with inclination
to vomit, only in the throat, but not when swallowing. Nausea with inclination to vomit, when on the point of taking food.
-305. She feels nauseated while eating, occasioning an aversion to food. Smoking tobacco causes an inclination to vomit in
persons who are used to tobacco. Aversion to smoking as if one
had smoked enough. (a. 5 h.) Excessive aversion to smoking.
Nausea with inclination to vomit when slumbering or sleeping,
although he has an appetite even for brown bread. (a. 20 h.)'
-310. Nausea as if brought on by heat of the body. Nausea and loathing as if one had taken oil. Nausea towards
evening, after a walk in the open air, with salt or sour vomiting.
(a. 36 h.) Sensation of nausea and inclination to vomit in
the epigastric region, especially after a meal. (a. 1 h.) Inclination to vomit, with grunting and rumbling in the epigastric region.-315. Vomiting of the food which had been taken
a long time ago. Vomiting of food in the evening; afterwards
bitter taste in the mouth and dullnses of teeth. Nightly vomiting, with stitching-drawing pains in the back in the direction
of the scapulae.2 (Vomiting of a small quantity of food before
midnight, almost without any nausea.) Short vomiting of bile.
-320. Burning in the oesophagus after vomiting. Loss of
appetite after vomiting.3 Gulping up of a watery fluid (without nausea or vomiting) which she has to spit up. (a. 3 h.)
Immediately before this she experienced a sensation in the pit
of the stomach as if something had been torn loose; a pressure is
experienced in the same region during the eructation. Ptyalism.
Ptyalism for twenty-four hours, with inclination to vomit.-325.
Frequent discharge of watery saliva from the mouth.4 Flow
of watery saliva, like waterbrash. Jerks from the stomach
towards the throat, and tensive pain in the throat, with anxiety
and a feeling of internal heat, disappearing after a meal. (a. 6
h.) Hiccough when smoking. (Hiccough, in the night while
sleeping).-330. Inclination to hiccough after drinking. Aching-drawing pain in the pit of the stomach, early in the
morning, passing into the side of the chest as a sticking pain,
and lastly into the back as a tearing. (a. 24 h.) Tension in
the region and pit of the stomach as high as the breasts. Pulsation in the pit of the stomach.5 Beating in the stomach,
which is felt when laying the hand upon that organ.
SCompare 512.
SCompare 309, 508.-Similar irritations in the night are 408. 415,
and other nightly symptoms 545, 546, 547, 563, 610, 673, 687, 702, (46.)
3 Alternate symptom of 309.
4325, 326, and 322, are analogous symptoms. Comp. 508.
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STOMACH:-335. Pain in the pit of the stomach during an
inspiration. Aching, afterwards darting pain in the pit of the
stomach. Violent pressure in the pit of the stomach, early in
the morning, mingled with inclination to vomit. Achingclawing or strangulating pain in the pit of the stomach, arresting the breathing, in the afternoon. Attacks of contractive or
choking pain in the oesophagus, as if one had swallowed a large
piece of fresh bread. (a. 10 h.)-340. Disagreeable feeling of
oppressive tension in the abdomen, as if the abdomen were full,
hard, as if neither stool nor flatulence would pass; the stool,
however, being passed slowly without being hard, and the flatulence coming off with difficulty and in short flatus. Darting
and pricking in the infra-costal region, as if there were an
ulcer extending to the small of the back. Contractive and
clawing sensation in the epigastric and the hypochondriac
region, as if the flatulence became incarcerated in that region
(especially after a meal); the sensation afterwards passes into
the chest and arrests the breathing. (a. 16 h.) Drawing-tensive
pain in the hypochondria.  Tension in the region of the
stomach, in the forenoon, going off by motion. (a. 26 h.)-345.
Stitches in the pit of the stomach1 when missing a step on the
uneven pavement, etc. Feeling of anxiety in the region of the
stomach. Pain in the stomach an hour after eating. Sensation of weight in the stomach as if a stone were lying there,
early in the morning when waking.2  Pressure in the stomach
and flattlent colic, immediately after supper, followed by nausea and inclination to vomit. (a. 24 h.)
ABDOMEN:-350. Pinching-sticking pains in the epigastric region, with flatulent colic, in the morning. (a. 24 h.)
Pinching pains in the epigastrium. Colic, only when walking.
Dull pain and feeling of a tensive distention in the epigastrium,
when sitting. Sensation in the abdominal integuments as if
swollen, with a tensive pain, without emitting any flatulence.
-.355. Hard distention of the abdomen, with a painful sensation of rigidity in the abdomen, and sensation as if the
abdomen would burst (accompanied with swelling of the dorsa
of the feet). Flatulent colic early in the morning as soon as
he wakes; grunting and painful shifting of flatulence in the
epigastric region. Continuous, dull stitch in the side of the
abdomen, as if occasioned by an incarcerated flatus. Flatulent colic directly after supper; painful rumbling of flatulence, especially in the epigastric region. (a. 4, 24, 48 h.)
' Comp. 350, 651.
2 Comp. 336, 337.
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Cutting colic over the umbilicus, as if colic would come on.360. Hard circular prominence around the umbilicus, painful
when walking. (a. 24 h.) Titillating itching in and above the
umbilicus, painful after scratching. Colicky shifting of flatulence in the abdomen, in the evening after lying down. Shifting of flatulence from one part of the intestines to the other,
with loud rumbling, and with a more or less pinching sensation,
especially in the evening when in bed. Rumbling in the abdomen, as of flatulence.-365. Loud rumbling in the abdomen,
with frequent purging, and griping and pinching in the abdomen. Repletion after a meal, and colic with rumbling from time
to time. Sensation in the abdomen, after supper, as if it were
full of flatulence. (a. 2 h.) Sensation in the abdomen as if it
were empty (riddled).-370.  Sensation as if fasting, and
pinching and shifting of flatulence in the abdomen as if fermentation were going on. Colic after drinking. (a. 3 h.) Colic
after drinking, in the evening. (a. 6 h.) Bloatedness after every
kind of food. Cutting colic as if occasioned by flatulence,
before supper. (a. 36 h.)'-375. Cutting colic in daytime, and
especially in the evening, every other day. (a. 4, 5, 6 d.) Colic,
cutting deep in the abdomen, relieved by stooping forward,
causing a sensation as if he would vomit, towards five o'clock in
the afternoon, three days in succession at the same hour; going
off at nine o'clock in the evening while lying in the bed bent
double; he fell asleep. (a. 24 h.) Cutting in the abdomen
after having taken some exercise. The wind is passed with
cutting colic, in the morning. (a. 8 hours, and a. 20.)  Fetid
flatulence after a meal.-380. Colic in the hypogastrium which
is more pinching than cutting, accompanied with loose stool.
Pinching colic, uniformly affecting the whole abdomen. (a.,
h.) Griping colic deep in the hypogastrium, on the left side;
she had to tie her abdomen up.2 (Pinching colic early in the
morning, amid chilliness and heat.) Pinching colic (a. 4 h.),
and severe stitches darting from the abdomen into the penis;
frequent and thin stool, with violent desire for beer.-385.
Colic as if diarrhoea would set in; however nothing is passed
except a good natural evacuation. (a. 48, 72 h.) Aching,
pressing pain in the abdomen. (a. 1, 42 h.)3 Colic in the
night: pressure in the abdomen here and there after midnight,
as if flatulence had been incarcerated, with a feeling of heat
over the whole body, without any thirst; the emission of flatulence afforded no relief. Colic after stool. Drawing in the
back during stool; between the stools the drawing was scarcely
374-378 to compare with 359, 417, 648, and partly with 649.
2 Compare 365, (47.)
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ever experienced.-390. Colicky pain in the abdomen after
stool, as if occasioned by flatulence. (a. 5 h.) Pressure in the
rectum after stool. Pain in the abdominal walls as if bruised
when gaping. (a. 2 h.) Chilliness in the abdomen (extending
as far as the lower part of the back). Pain in the abdominal
muscles when sitting and coughing. (a. 3 d.)-395. Painful
sensitiveness of the abdomen, when touching it (after several
h.). Painful sensitiveness of the abdominal walls after a loose
stool, accompanied with violent thirst; the abdomen could not
be touched without suffering pain.
STOOL: Obstinate constipation. Daily stool, but hard (with
pain in the hemorrhoidal tumors). Painful evacuation with
painful pressing and pain in the back.'-400. Difficult stool
early in the morning, and again two loose stools in the day.
Frequent desire for stool, with livid complexion and faint feeling. Frequent urging for stool as if diarrhoea would set in
occasionally. No tenesmus either in the rectum or anus, but
a constant desire in the more remote intestines, without any
stool being passed. Frequent loose stool mixed with mucus
(also after 2 h.).-405. Frequent passages of mere mucus
(also after 48 h.), every evacuation being preceded by colic.
Evacuations consisting of nothing but loose mucus mixed
with blood. (a. 12 h.) Discharges of faeces mixed with blood,
early in the morning. (a. 72 h.) Diarrhoea, once or twice in
the night, green as bile; every discharge being preceded by
rumbling. (a. 4 d.)2  Passes green mucus. (a. 2 d.)-410.
Diarrhea, first green, then slimy. Slight chilliness after stool,
especially in the lower part of the back (and a pressure in the
pit of the stomach). White stool (for four days, after three days,
also after 8, 24 hours). Stool like hacked eggs, preceded and
succeeded by cutting, especially in the morning.-411. Watery
diarrhoea in the night. (The faces are thin and as if pressed
flat.) Diarrhea with cutting in the abdomen.3 Loose, acrid stool
in the morning.4 Acrid stools.-429. Blind hemorrhoids with
itching in the evening. (a. 10 h.) Blind hamorrhoids with
itching of the anus. (Flowing hemorrhoids) discharge of blood
from the anus.5 (a. 8 d.) Continuous, dull stitch in the rectum,
as if occasioned by an incarcerated flatulence. (a. 1 h.)
1 This and the six following symptoms (compare 504), are the most
usual and principal kinds of evacuation occasioned by Pulsatilla.
2 Compare 415. These kinds of nightly diarrhoea are characteristic
of Pulsatilla, and there is scarcely a drug which occasions them as often.
3 Compare 359.
4 Compare 451.
s Secondary effect. Compare (56,) (57,) (58.)



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Haemorrhoidal tumors with single itching stitches in the anus.
-425. Burning in the rectum during stool. Blind hmmorrhoids
until nine o'clock in the evening, with sore pain in the anus,
both in rest and motion, increased somewhat during motion.
(a. 24 h.) Sore pain in the anus, immediately after an evacuation. (a. 4, 5 d.) Blind haemorrhoids with sore pain. (a. 1 h.)
Smarting in the anus and the hmmorrhoidal tumors. (a. 3 h.)
-430.   Painful, protruding blind hmmorrhoids.  (Tearing
with pressure, when standing, extending as far as the anus.)
Blind hamorrhoidal tumors preceded by pain in the small of
the back. early in the morning. Soreness and excoriating pain
in the fold between the buttocks, externally. (a. 1 h.)
URINARY ORGANS: Pain in the vesical region when touching it.- 435. Constrictive pain in the abdomen extending as
far as the bladder, with pressure as of a stone. Frequent desire to urinate. Enuresis nocturna. Involuntary micturition;
the urine comes off' involuntarily when sitting and walking.
Continuous, dull stitch in the neck of the bladder, as if occasioned by incarcerated flatulence. (a. 1 h.)-440. Sharp
(almost cutting) pressure on the neck of the bladder when
walking in the open air, as if caused by flatulence, but without
any desire to urinate. Continual pressure in the region of the
bladder, without any desire to urinate, in the evening and night.
Pressure upon the bladder as if occasioned by flatulence, towards morning. Tenesmus of the bladder. Frequent, almost
ineffectual urging for micturition, with cutting pain during
micturition (cutting water).-445. Pressing, before micturition.
Pressing upon the bladder. Pressure upon the bladder only
when lying upon the back; this obliges him to pass urine.
Copions micturition.1 Passes some urine involuntarily when
coughing, or when emitting flatulence. (a. 48 h.)-450. Colorless urine. (a 1{ h.) Passes acrid mucus from the rectum
while emitting a watery urine, and accompanied with a feeling
of weakness in the loins.2 The urine is red from time to time.
Brown-red urine. Dark-red urine without sediment.-455.
Brown urine. Urine with a ring of violet-colored mucus on
top, and a sandy sediment. (Jelly-like sediment.) Urine with
violet-red sediment. Urine with red sediment.-460. Urine
with brick-colored sediment. Severe stitches darting from the
abdomen into the penis. Burning in the anterior part of the
urethra after emitting brown urine. Burning in the region of
Secondary or curative effect, succeeding a tenesmus of the bladder,
436, 443, 444, 445, 446. The symptoms 437, 438, seem to be primary
alternate symptoms of the above mentioned tenesmus.
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the neck of the bladder in the evening, before retiring, as if he
would urinate. Burning in the orifice of the urethra, during
and after micturition, the urine depositing a brick-dust sediment.-465. Contraction of the urethra, the stream becoming
very thin. (a. 1 h.) Drawing pain in the urethra between the
acts of micturition. Creeping pain with pressure in the orifice
of the urethra, after micturition. Pressure and creeping in the
glans after micturition.
GENITAL ORGANS:--(Swelling of an inguinal gland consequent to the disappearance of a venereal chancre.)-470.
Stinging itching in the prepuce when sitting and lying down,
but not when walking (in the evening). Stinging-itching sensation under the prepuce. (a.- h.) Itching-smarting pain
in the outer and inner prepuce. (a. 6 h.) Biting-itching under the prepuce near the glans. (Fine stinging near the genital organs.)-475. Itching of the scrotum, early in the morning, in and out of bed. Swelling of the right side of the
scrotum. Swelling of the scrotum. (a. 48 h.) The scrotum
hangs down very low. (a. 1 h.)-480. Tearing pain in the
testes. (a. 24.) The right testicle is drawn up and swollen,
the spermatic cord is swollen, with tensive pain, whilst the
left testicle is hanging down low. (a. 1-t h.) Drawing and
drawing-tensive pains from the abdomen through the spermatic cord into the testicles, which hang down low. (a. 6 h.)
Long-lasting erection in the morning after waking, not
without sexual desire. (a. 6 h.) In the morning after waking, the sexual desire is excited. (a. 24 h.)-485. Emission
in the night. Two emissions in one night, without dreams,
and next day an intolerable heaviness and laziness in the
limbs. (a. 12 h.)' Itching irritation in the region of the vesiculam seminales, early in the morning in bed, exciting a desire
for an emission, almost without erection, and without any
amorous thoughts. (a. 12, 36 h.) Erections day and night.
(Frequent erections, with discharge of the prostatic juice.) (a.
36 h.)2-490. Discharge from the urethra of the color and consistence of semen, with burning pain, especially immediately
after micturition.3 Discharge from the urethra, with drops of
blood. (a. 4 h.) Cutting pain in the os tince. (a. 6 h.)
Drawing-pressing pain towards the uterus, with inclination to
vomit every morning. Drawing-tensive pain in the abdomen,
resembling labor-pains. (a. 4, 5 h.)-495. Contractive pains
on the left side of the uterus, resembling labor-pains, obliging
Alternate symptom of 915.
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her to bend forward. Leucorrhoea with burning pain.'
Acrid, thin leucorrhoea. Milky, painless leucorrhcea. Milky
leucorrhoea, with swelling of the pudendum.-500. Painless
leucorrhcea, slimy, thick, of a milky color, especially perceptible when lying  down. Painless, cream-like leucorrhcea.
The menses are preceded by chilliness, stretching and yawning. Sensation of heaviness in the abdomen, as of a stone,
when the menses are about to appear. (a. 1 h.) Pain in the
abdomen and small of the back, during the menses, as if a
stone were pressing down, the lower limbs being disposed to go
to sleep when sitting down, with an empty, unsuccessful urging for stool.2-505. (Spasmodic and almost burning pains in
the abdomen, during the menses.) The menstrual blood is
thick and black, and appears only a few times in the day.3
(The menses only flow in the daytime, when she is walking;
in the night they do not flow at all, or but little.) During the
menses she had. an attack of sickness in the night; water
came from the stomach, like waterbrash.4 Obscuration of
sight during the menses; she feels worse when entering the
warm room.5-510. The menses delay, with coldness of the
body, chilliness and trembling of the feet.6 Suppression of the
menses.7  Suppression of the menses with nausea and inclination to vomit without any vomiting, with good appetite." Cardialgia during the menses. Pain in the side for a few days
during the menses.9-515. Stitches in the chest during the
menses, when taking an inspiration. Stitch in the side previous to and during the menses, the stitch being excited by moving the arm, by taking an inspiration and by loud talking; the
arm feels paralyzed while the stitch is felt. The menses appear too early by seven days.10 Appearance of the menses
which had been delayed. (a. 1, h.)
COLD AND CORYZA:-Dry coryza.-520. Obstruction of
the nose, ulcerated nostrils."  Dry coryza, with ulcerated nos1496, 497 are alternate effects of 500 and 501.
2 Compare 399.
3 The difficult, retarded, or even suppressed flow of the menses
seems to be the primary effect of Pulsatilla; the too early appearance of
the menses seems to be a rare alternate effect (517).
4 Compare 309, 317, 318, and 322, 325, 326.
5 Compare 40.
6 Compare 747, 851, 852.
7 In several females advanced in age, especially in those whose
menses usually made their appearance at the time of the full moon.
8 Compare 309.
9Disappearing upon the breaking out of sweat.
0 See note to 506.           " Compare 95.

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trils.1 Green, fetid discharge from the nose. Obstruction of
the nose as in catarrh, in the evening when retiring; in the
morning a thick, yellow, opaque mucus is blown out of the
nose, as in old coryza. Continual tickling in the nose.-525.
Sneezing. (a. 4, 12 h.) Sneezing in the evening when
asleep. Sneezing early in the morning when in bed. Coryza
for two hours in succession (immediately and after two
hours). Coryza with loss of smell and taste.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA:--530. Scraping sensation in the
region of the epiglottis, as is generally the case in hoarseness.
(a. 1 h.) Early in the morning after rising, his chest is affected with cough and expectoration. (a. 24 h.) Hoarseness,
without being able to speak a loud word. Cough (after four
hours). Scraping and dryness in the throat, causing two or
three turns of cough.-535. Cough is excited by a scraping
sensation in the chest (trachea). The cough is excited by a
feeling of dryness in the trachea. Tickling in the trachea, extending from the pit of the stomach to the epiglottis, exciting
cough. When the child coughs, it seems to shake all over. Sensation, when coughing, as if the stomach turned inside out, and
as if he should vomit; the cough makes tears come out of his
eyes.-540. Coughs immediately after having taken a mouthful of food. (Cough excited by a contractive sensation in the
larynx, especially after eating, with vomiting and bleeding at
the nose.) Sensation in the throat, while coughing, as if it
were irritated by the vapor of sulphur. Tickling in the region of the thyroid cartilage, occasioning a short cough. An
inspiration occasions a desire to cough. (a. 2 h.)-545.
Night-cough hindering sleep and causing exhaustion. Nightcough occasioning dryness of the throat. Dry night-cough,
going of when sitting up in the bed, returning when lying
down again. (a. 8, 32 h.)2 Continuous cough in the eveping
after lying down. Cough, with pain in the chest.-550. The
child vomits after coughing. Violent cough, with difficult expectoration of a small quantity of tenacious, mucus. Hard
cough toward evening. Hcmoptysis. Cough with expectoration of black lumps of coagulated blood, until evening. (a. 1
h.)-555. Dry cough for half a day, followed by a continuous
secretion of mucus in the anterior portion of the trachea for
several days, which can be thrown off by voluntary cotigh.
Cough with expectoration. (a. 2 h.) Cough with expectoration of yellow mucus. (The expectoration during the morningcough has a disgusting salt taste.) Cough with a bitter exSCompare (29.)          2 Compare 574.
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pectoration. The mucus which is thrown off in coughing has
a biting-pungent taste, almost like the taste of tobacco-juice in
a pipe (after some hours). Night-cough occasioning stitches in
the side. Pain in the side while coughing and when rising.
-565. Painful weariness in the region of the short ribs, on
both sides, occasioned by slight cough, such as generally sets
in after a long fit of concussive cough. (a. 30 h.)  Dry cough
with difficult expectoration (after several hours).' Stitches in
the shoulder from coughing. While coughing he had a few
darts into the lower right arm. Stitches in the back while
coughing.
CHEST:-570. His cheit is affected and feels sore.2
Shortness of breath immediaWly after a meal, for a few hours.
(a. 72 h.) Want of breath when the air is drawn in through
the nose, but not when drawn in through the mouth. (a. i h.)
(Asthma when smoking his usual tobacco.)   Asthma and vertigo accompanied by weakness in the head, when lying in the
recumbent posture; all this disappears when sitting up.3-575.
Sensation in the trachea as if it were pressed in from without
and  constricted, so that he was deprived of air a whole
minute, in the evening when standing, without any cough.
Asthma in the eveningfollowed by slumber, after which he
566, 551, 552. These 'and the preceding symptoms of dry cough
are alternate symptoms of those with expectoration (556-562); however the latter seem to have the precedence, so that diseases to which Pulsatilla is homoeopathic, are more easily cured when accompanied with
much expectoration, than when accompanied with dry cough. In 555,
the alternate symptom with much expectoration, came after the dry
cough, which occurs but rarely.
2 Compare 531. In the catarrhal condition which is expressed in
this sympto:'in a popular manner, the internal tracheal glands seem
to be swollei and inflamed, and unable to secrete the necessary quantity of mucus. Hence the feeling of dryness, roughness, painfulness,
and the deceptive sensation as if an excessively tenacious mucus obstructed the trachea, and would not come off.
3 Compare 547. The symptoms which Pulsat. excites in the recumbent posture, when sitting, when rising from a seat, when standing or
walking, form as many primary alternate symptoms of different value.
1ie symptoms excited in the recumbent posture, are generally calmed
by sitting up, the reverse oacurs seldom; the symptoms excited in the
sitting posture, are frequently relieved or removed by motion, the reverse occurring but seldom. The act of rising causes so many more
and so much more vehement symptoms the longer one had been seated;
the symptoms which are felt after sitting down, are likewise so much
more vehement the longer and more violent had been the previous exercise. Those alternate eff~ts which occur most frequently and which
are most characteristic, have likewise the greatest curative effects,
when homweopathic to the disease.
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wakes with a suffocative fit, short cough or vomiturition, a
headache in the forehead with tearing through the eyes, creeping
on the tongue, cold feet, cold sweat in the face, and a good deal
of rising from the stomach. Asthmatic sensation in the lower
part of the chest, as if it were too full and too high, in the
morning.' Spasmodic sensation through the chest. Continual
spasmodic tightness under the chest.-580. When lying on
the left side she complains of anxiety, and quick palpitation of
the heart, and want of breath. Spasmodically contractive
sensation on the right side of the chest, with erethism of the
blood and internal warmth. (a. 26 h.) Jerking sensation in
the muscles of the chest, especiaJy early in the morning after
waking. Spasmodic pain acrosothe chest. Painful stiffness
of the muscles of the chest early in the morning after rising,
when taking a deep inspiration and when moving the chest.
(a. 12 h.)-585. Cramp-pain first in the right, afterwards in
the left side, lastly in the chest. Drawing-tensive pain in one
or the other side of the chest, increased when taking an inspiration. Stitching in the middle of the pectoral muscle when
raising the arm, towards evening and during the whole night
until early in the morning. (a. 4 h.) Sticking pain in the
chest when moving the body. Sticking in the side, only
when lying down.2-590. Dull stitches in the region of the
heart, and continual pressure, with anxiety, impeding respiration, relieved by walking. Stinging pain in the left side after
lying down, in the evening. (a. - h.) Tearing and somewhat sticking pain in the side of the chest.3 (a. 1 h.) (The
ribs ache when grasping them.) Compressive cutting, almost
like stitching, in the region of one of the lower left ribs, when
lying on the right side, going off when stretching one's self, or
when lying on the painful side.-595. Cutting pain in the
chest here and there. (a. 6 h.) Anxious feeling in the chest,
the pulse being quicker. (a. 1 h.) Impeded respiration in the
morning, owing to anxiety in the chest. Congestion of the
blood to the chest and heart, at night, with anxious dreams,
for instance about being immured, and starting with an anxious cry. Pain in the middle of the chest, the sternum, as of
an internal ulcer, with headache in the forehead, before midnight. (a. 4 h.)4-600. A small painful spot in the region of
Compare 338, 342.
2 Compare 331, 574.
3 Compare note to 171.
4 Pains here and there as of an internal ulcer, are especially peculiar to Puls. Compare 123, 157, 619, 620, 690, 700, 703, 761; also sore
pain which is felt when seizing a part. Compare 128, 653.
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the sternum as if the expired air were striking against it.
Drawing-tensive pain in the sternum. (Pressing and gnawing
in the region of the sternum, extending as far as the region of
the stomach.) Corrosive itching in the upper part of the sternum, not going off by scratching, in the evening. (a. 36 h.)'
Swelling of the breasts, with tensive pain, as if puffed up with
milk, while nursing.-605. Itching of the right nipple, not
going off by scratching. (a. 24 h.)
NECK AND BACK:-Cracking in the scapulae, when making the least motion, early in the morning. (a. 64 h.) Clawing pain in the right scapula, when sitting. Sticking pain between the scapule duriggrinotion, arresting the breathing.2
Sticking pain between the Mhpula, eve ri n in rest.3-610.
Stitches in the scapula, at night. Pain f  the scapula, as
if too heavy. Drawing-stinging pains in the nape of the neck,
between the scapula and in the back.4 Pimples extending from
the scapula to the middle of the back; itching continually,
especially in the evening when undressing. Sticking pain
in the nape of the neck.-615. Drawing-tensive pain in the
nape of the neck. Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck,
with weariness of the feet. (a. 84 h.) Sort of rheumatism in
the nape of the neck in the afternoon; he had great difficulty
in moving about. Pain in the nape of the neck as if the neck
had been twisted over night. Swelling in the nape of the
neck, extending as far as the carotids, and painful only when
touched; but the pain is then very intense, as if there were ulceration.-620. Swelling on the right side of the neck, with
sensation, when moving or touching the neck, as if the parts
were torn or tense,5 or as if there were an internal ulcer; this
pain is not felt when swallowing. (a. 4 h.) Itching-pimple
on the side of the neck, the itching cannot be relieved by
scratching. (a. 21 h.) Painless cracking in the first cervical
vertebra, when moving the head. (a. 1 h.) Biting-itching on
the side of the neck, after shaving, not going off by scratching,
or rubbing, but becoming painful. (a. 5 h.)6 Itching of the
neck and cheeks in the daytime; scratching occasions pimples.--625. Pimples on the neck below the chin, which are
painful to the touch. Pain of the cervical glands. Boring
Compare 603, 605 with 621, 623.
2 It is peculiar to Pulsatilla to cause asthma by exciting the parts not
belonging to the respiratory apparatus.
S Alternate symptom of the one preceding.
4 Compare 317.
5 Compare 327, 615.
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pain in the submaxillary glands, even when the parts are not
moved. (a. 4 h.) Drawing-tensive pain in the submaxillary
glands.' The back is painful, and stiff as a board. Pain between the shoulders as if one had been stooping a long while
and then rises again; going off by walking. Tearing pain in
the back.2 Sticking pain in the back and across the chest.
Stinging pain in the back. (a. 2 h.) Painful pressure in the
back from below upward.--635. Itching in the back and over
the loins. Aching pain in the fourth vertebra, especially after
walking." Aching pain in the small of the back (sacrum), as
if weary, in the evening. Painful pressure in the small of
the back from within outward, i*the evening.4 Stiffness and
pain in the smaJLaf the backWhen lying down, as if there
were subcutaneoisl ceration, or as if the parts were held by a
tight band which refuses to yield.-640. Pain in the small of
the back when raising the upper part of the body and bending
it backward, going off by stooping forward. (a. 12 h.) Pain in
the small of the back resembling labor pain, as if a band were
drawn through the small of the back, drawing the parts together; this arrests her breathing, especially early in the
morning. Pain in the small of the back as if dislocated, during motion. Pain in the small of the back when stooping forward, going off when raising the trunk and bending backward. (a. 24 h.) Pain as if bruised in the small of the back
and knees, when lying still in the bed, going off when rising
and walking about.-645. Pain in the small of the back after
sitting; he is scarcely able to rise or stoop. Pain in the small
of the back as if having stooped too long; the pain is mostly
felt when standing or sitting, relieved by bending the body
backward and by walking; accompanied with weariness in
the feet which obliges one to sit down.5 Sticking pain in the
small of the back and the abdomen, with cutting pains in the
abdomen which arrest the breathing. Sticking in the small
of the back; afterwards the pain extends into the abdomen,
where it becomes cutting and sticking, and arrests the breathing; followed by a creeping,6 heaviness and a drawing sensation in the head, accompanied with vanishing of sight and
hearing; afterwards chilliness, as if he had cold water poured
Compare 327, 615, 620.
2Compare 630-633 with 317, 331.
8 See note to 574.
4 Compare 29, 30, 185, 710.
5 This symptom, and 639, 643 are similar, and alternate symptoms
of 640, 645, the former seeming to be the principal.
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over him.-650. Drawing-tensive pain in the loins.' Drawing pain from the loins to the pit of the stomach, where the
pain becomes sticking during an inspiration. Sticking in the
loins when stooping forward, early in the morning when in
bed. (a. 10 h.) Excoriating pain in the lumbar region and
the wrist, as if the parts were sore on the outside.
UPPER LIMBS: Pain in the shoulder, when attempting to
raise the arm.-655. (Some stitches in the axilla when sitting.)
Continuous tearing pain in the shoulder-joint, obliging one %to
bend the arm; it comes on in the morning when waking, and
either disappears of itself after half an hour, or disappears
when resting upon the painfil arm.2 Sticking rheumatic pain,
in the shoulder-joint in the morning, when moving the arm, or
when bending the head to one side. (a. 18 h.) Sticking pain
in the shoulder-joint, when moving the arm fast. A few stitches in the deltoid muscle of the right upper arm. (a. 1 h.)-660.
Darting pain in the shoulder-joint. (a. 4 h.) Bubbling sensation in the shoulder-joint. A bubbling, a sort of tremulous
sensation on the top of the right shoulder in the afternoon. (a.
3 d.) Sensation of excessive weight in the shoulder-joint, and
as if paralyzed when one attempts to raise the arm. Pain in
the shoulder-joint, resembling a clawing and heaviness. (a. 60
h.)-665. Pain as if sprained in the shoulder-joint, when bending the arm backward. Drawing pains, coming on in shortlasting, recurring paroxysms, extending from the shoulder to
the wrist-joint. Burning through the arm in the night, beginning in the shoulder. Burning pain in the arm, in the evening,
with a feeling of dryness in the fingers. (a. 48 h.)3 Sensation
of numbness in, and heaviness of the arm when raising it,
when holding any thing with it, or doing any kind of work.670. The upper arm feels painful to the touch. The arm is
painful when in rest, as if the humerus were beaten in two in
the middle; this pain extends into t e thumb, and makes it
useless. Tearing in the muscles of the upper arm, immediately. Drawing pain in the arm, even in rest, the whole night,
from the shoulder to the fingers; these became insensible,
without however becoming cold or pale. (When holding any
thing in the hand, the arm feels as if it went to sleep.)-675.
A sort of artificial ischias.
2 See note to 171 and to 816, 817.
3 The symptoms of Puls. alternate in respect to the time of day
when they appear and disappear. They principally appear in the evening, and next to that period, in the hours after midnight. (See note to
317, relative to the nightly symptoms.) Very few symptoms appear in
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Pain, as if bruised in the elbow-joint, when moving the arm,
the pupils being dilated, early in the morning. (a. 8 h.) Pain
of the elbow-joint when stretching the arm. Pain of the elbowjoint, when moving it. (a. 18 h.) Corrosive itching of the tip
of the elbow-joint, like itching and rubbing with wool. (a. 2 h.)
Small, not inflamed, tumors, above the elbow-joint, under the
skin, painful when touching them.-680. Heaviness of the
arms, with tearing pain in the elbow-joint, when attempting to
twbnd it, only in daytime. Tensive pain of the tendons of the
elbow-joint when moving the arm. Drawing-tearing pain in
the bones of the lower arm, in repeated paroxysms, both in daytime and in the evening.' The veins of the lower arm are distended.2 Sensation of coldness in the arms, as if they would
go to sleep. (a. 72 h.)-685. Jerking-tearing pain in the arms.
(a. 3 h.)3 Darting sensation in the forearm, in the direction of
the wrist-joint, especially early in the morning after waking.
Tearing-drawing pain in the arm, especially in the fingers at
night. Drawing-tensive pain in the interior of the arm, extending as far as the wrist. Itching in the lower arm, especially
in the dorsum of the hand, and between the fingers, obliging
one to scratch, but without occasioning the formation of pimples.-690. Rigidity in the right wrist-joint, even when not
moving the hand. Painful stiffness in the wrist-joint, when
moving it, and as if the hand were sprained or strained.
Sweaty hands, early in the morning after rising. Pain, as if
sprained or strained in the carpal bones, afterwards in the arm,
in.the evening, more perceptible during motion than in rest. (a.
4 d.) Drawing pain in the thumb, with a sensation of stiffness
during motion.-695. Pain in the second joint of the thumb,
when moving it, as if sprained or strained. Stiffness in the
second joint of the thumb or knee, as if these joints were dislocated, and as if they would crack. (a. 2 h.) Tension in the
posterior joints of the fingers, early in the morning. Tearing
pain in the extensor tendons of the fingers. (a. 10 h.)4 Pimples
between the fingers containing water, with a fine stinging pain,
as if a splinter had been stuck in, when feeling them or when
moving the fingers. (a, 4. d.)-700. Pain of the index-finger
on the side of the nail, as if a panaritiurn would form. The
fingers go to sleep early in the morning. (a. 36 h.) The fingers go to sleep in the night. (a. 30 h.)
SCompare note to 171.
2 See note to 973 and (87.)
3 Symptoms 685 to 688 are to be understood in the manner which
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LOWER LIMBS: Simple pain in the glutei muscles, as if
bruised, or as if there were subcutaneous ulceration, after sitting.
Pain in the hip-joint, when bending the back, at noon.-705.
Pressure in the left hip, and at the same time in the head, in
the forenoon, going off during motion. (a. 26 h.) Pain in the
hip-joint, as if dislocated. (a. 3 d.) Visible, painless twitching
of a few fasciculi of muscles of the thigh, in the evening, whei
in bed. Jerking, almost sore pain, from the hip-joint down to
the knee, early in the morning, when lying in the bed, disappearing when walking. Stitching in the anterior side of the
left thigh, down to the knee, and extending from the right calf
to the heel; not during motion.-710. Violent pain in the
muscles of the thigh and upper arm, as if they should be burst
open from within. (a. 2 h.) Drawing pain, at night, in the muscles of the thigh, obliging him to move them; he cannot find
any ease in any position; feels sleepless, tosses about in his
bed to and fro, even after the pain has disappeared, and coldness all over. Sudden, transitory paralytic weakness in the
thigh, when walking.' [Pain in the right thigh, resembling
stiffness; when grasping it (or when touching it) the part aches,
a sort of pricking being felt in it.]2 Drawing and tension in the
thighs and legs, in the evening.-715. Pain in the thighs, as
if bruised, not in the flesh, but in the bones; also when pressing
upon the part, the pain feels as if in the bones; she was unable
to bend the knees or to kneel down; sensation as if the bones
would break. Bruised pain in the muscles and bones of thle.
thighs. (a. 18 h.) (Tension about the thighs, when walking
and stooping.) Paralytic pain in the knees and heel, as after
a long journey, at the commencement of a walk, after having
been silting on a chair. (Painful stiffness in. the right knee,
when walking, when stretching the limb.)-720. Excessive
weariness of the legs, with trembling of the knees.3 Tearing
pains in the knees, like jerks. (a. 3 i h.) Tearing pain, extending from the knee to the hip, only when sitting, not when walking. Tearing and drawing pain in the knee. Tension in the
bend of the knee (immediately).-725. Tearing pain in the
knee with swelling. (Pimples in the bend of the knee.) Painless swelling of the knee. (Coldness in the knee at night, when
covered with the bed-cover.) A small place on one side of
the knee is painful as if bruised.-730. (At night she was
unable to move the affected thigh and leg; she had to let them
Or rather when commencing to walk after having been seated a
long while. See note to 574, compare with 718, 747.
Compare 699.
3 Compare 747, 748.
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lie as they did, on account of a bruised pain which she felt in the
knee and below it; there was no pain to the touch.) Cracking in the knees. Unsteadiness and weakness of the knees;
when walking his knees give way suddenly. The legs go to
sleep when rising from a seat.' Paralytic pain of the legs when
rising from a seat, going off when continuing to walk.-735.
Pain as if bruised in the outer region of the tibia. Simple pain of
the legs. Pain in the leg when letting it hang down. Drawing pain in the leg, in the evening. In the night he is obliged
to bend his left lower limb, and to leave it so, otherwise it does
not feel easy.-740. Acute drawing in the legs as far as the
knees, in the evening, with more chilliness than in daytime,
without any subsequent heat.2 Drawing pain in the legs from
the feet to the knees, as after a long journey on foot; the pain
abates in the morning, and finally disappears entirely. Sensation in the feet, as if he had performed a long journey on foot.
Sensation of coldness in the leg, although it feels naturally
warm. Heaviness and drawing pain in the feet, less in the
arms.-745. Heaviness of the legs, especially in the forenoon.
Heaviness of the legs in daytime. Towards evening the
feet are insensible, but weary; they trembled when walking.
(a. 48 h.) Trembling in the lower limbs, early in the morning.3
Tremulous sensation in the legs and knees, in the evening, after
lying down. (a. 3 d.)-750. Weariness of the feet. (a. 50 h.)
Weariness of the knees (not of the feet), when rising from a
seat. Weak feet, so that he is scarcely able to stand. Buzzing
and moaning sensation in the feet, when standing, disappearing
when walking. (Bleeding of the varices of the leg.)-755. The
tibia is painful when touched. Pain as if bruised in the outer
region of the tibia, especially when moving the foot upward.
Pain on the tibia, as when beating it with a stick, from afternoon
till evening. Pimples on the leg, from which a watery fluid
oozes out; they are affected with a burning pain. Drawing on
the inner side of the calves when sitting down, after a long walk.
(a. 36 h.)--760. Visible twitching in one part of the right calf,
early in the morning, when in bed, not without some disagreeable sensation. The flesh on the legs is painful as if there were
subcutaneous ulceration, especially in the evening, after lying
down; this pain is relieved by compressing the parts with the
hands. (a. 3 d.) Pain in the bones of the leg, as when presCompare 504.
2 Most of the pains of Pulsatilla are accompanied with chills, or at
least chilliness. Compare 765, 921.
3 Compare 748, 749, with 720, 807, 808, 845, 851, 852.
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sure is made upon an ulcerated spot, after having walked for
some time, especially in the afternoon, relieved by pressing
upon the part, or by sitting down, but especially by the night's
rest. Drawing-tensive pain in the calves. Tensive pain of the
calves.-765. Cramp of the leg, in the evening, after lying
down, with chilliness. (a. - h.)' When walking, he feels a pain
in the calves like cramp. When walking, he feels a sudden
pain in the tarsal joint as if sprained. Tearing in the tarsal
joint when moving the foot, early in the morning, with dilatation of the pupils.2 Tearing pains in the region of the malleolus internus, aggravated by walking. (a. 4 h.)-770. Tearing
pain across the dorsum of the foot, extending as far as the heel,
morning and evening. Swelling of the dorsum of the foot.
(Swelling of the dorsum of the foot, with painful rigidity.)
Swelling of the feet above the malleoli, not below. Evening
swelling of one foot.-775. Swelling of the foot. Hot feet. Hot
swelling of the feet, extending as far as the calves. Constant
burning and heat of the foot when in rest, increased by walking. Red, hot swelling of the feet, with a tensive, burning pain,.
increasing to a stitching pain when standing.-780. Red, hot
swelling of the feet, with itching creeping, as if frozen.3 Profuse sweat of the feet every morning in bed (secondary effect?'
after healing a swelling of the foot). Excessive sensitiveness
and tingling in thle foot, when first setting the foot upon the
floor in the morning, as if too full of blood. Tingling-stinging,
pain in the bottom of the feet when standing, as if pithy, or as
if gone to sleep. Numb pain in the ball of the big toe.-785.
Numb pain in the bottom of the feet and the ball of the big toe,4'
as after a high leap, and as if pithy, immediately upon treading, after having been seated a long while; this pain gradually
disappears by walking. (a. 1 h.) The bottom of the feet is
painful, as if bruised. Tearing pain in the bottom of the feet,
above the knee, and in the back.5 Tearing pain in the bottom
of the feet and above the knee. Single stitches in the bottom
of the feet and the tip of the toes, when at rest.-790. When
treading the soles feel ecchymosed, or as if ulcerated. Burning
pain in the soles. Pain in the hollow of the foot when treading, as if something had grown out, or as if there were an internal ulcer, with stitches, extending thence into the calves.
L See note to 740.
2 768,769, 770. See note to 171.
3 Compare 803.
4 Pain of the periosteum upon external pressure, accompanied with,
painlessness of the skin and muscles.
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Boring pain in the heel, towards evening. (a. 58 h.) Early in
the morning, when in bed, he experiences a stinging in the heel,
which passes off after rising-795. Burning-pricking pain in
the ball of the heel,' with itching, as in frozen limbs. (a. 4 h.)
Boring-sticking pain in the heel. (a. 3 h.) Cutting pain in the
heel, in the evening, after having become warm in the bed.
Somewhat red and elevated spot on the dorsum of the foot,
painful to the touch, causing a prickling or somewhat sticking
pain, as if an ulcer would form at that place.2 Tearing jerks
or shocks (ictus in Latin) in the big toe. (a. 8 h.)-800. Pricking in the toes, especially the big toe. (a. 1 h.) Pain of the toes,
as if the shoe had pinched him. Pain in the big toe, which
increases in the evening, and disappears as soon as he lies
down to sleep. (a. 30 h.) Itching tingling in the toes, as in
frozen limbs, in the evening.3 In the evening, after having
become warm in his bed, lie experiences in the ball of the little
and second toe a burning-pricking pain, accompanied with
itching, gradually becoming excessive, as in frozen limbs. (a. 3
b.)-805. Before midnight he experiences a painful, intolerable itching, and itching stinging of the feet and toes, which feel
as if inflamed; this itching seems to go through the whole body,
and is especially felt close to the root of the nails; it is an itching resembling that of frozen toes, but leaves no painful pithiness when walking, as is the case when the feet are really
frozen. (Cold hands and feet when sitting.)
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Tremor in the left arm and left
foot, with tearing pain. (a. 1 h.)4  Trembling in all the limbs,
with tearing pain. (a. 3 h.) In the evening, when in bed, he
experienced an undefinable sensation in the feet which seemed
to come from the head.-810. The forearms, hands and legs
Igo to sleep when lying still, with tingling; this becomes less
when moving them. (a. 2 h.) The limbs upon which one had
been lying when asleep, have gone to sleep when waking,
with tingling. The symptoms are less in the open air. (a. f
h.)5 He has a desire for fresh air, and yet colic and inclination
to vomit augment in the open air. (a. 10 h.) Dreads the open
air. (a. 6 to 8 h.)-815. After his walk after dinner he felt so
-exhausted that he could not help sleeping; the more he endeavored to resist sleep the more drowsy he felt. In the morning
The pricking pains of Puls. are generally burning-pricking.
2 To be understood as in note to 599.
3 Compare 780.
4 Comp. 807, 808 with 747, and note to 171.
6 812, 813, 814. Three alternate symptoms of Pulsatilla, the first of
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and in the night he is most comfortable in the recumbent posture and with his feet drawn up; on the contrary, when lying
on one or the other side he feels several spasmodic symptoms;
for instance, haemorrhoidal pain in the anus, headache as if
the skull would fly to pieces, pains in the joints, asthma, anxiety. (a. 38 h.)' The pains diminish and disappear in the recumbent posture; but they increase or break out again when
lying on the side, either right or left. (a. 24 h.) Drawingtearing pain now in one, now in the other limb, with chilliness
and coldtess.2  Drawing-tearing pains here and there in the
whole body, in short-lasting paroxysms returning at short
intervals.--820. Drawing-stinging pain in the limbs, especially
in the joints, which are painful as if bruised when touching
them. Jerking-drawing pain in the muscles, as if pulled at by
a cord, not in the joint.3 Jerking pain in the left side. (a. 4 h.)
Biting itching of the skin here and there. Itching of the dorsum of the foot and between the breasts, early in the morning
when in bed.-825. Itching-stinging sensation in the skin,
resembling flea-bites. (Burning itching over the whole body,
before midnight, when getting warm in the bed, becoming more
violent by scratching; this prevents his night-sleep; not much
in daytime, and only after having become heated by a walk,
or when rubbing the skin; no eruption is visible.) Boils here
and there. (Red, hot spots on the body, increasing in height
until they become blotches as if occasioned by nettles, of a
corrosive-itching pain.)  The ulcer inclines to bleed.-830.
Severely sticking-biting pain in the ulcer, with itching all
around. Burning biting in the region of the scurf (belonging
to the ulcer), early in the morning when in bed (accompanied
with a dry cough). (a. 20 h.) Burning as of hot coal, early in
the morning, on the side of and directly over the ulcer of the
foot, for two minutes. Tickling itching below the ulcer of the
foot. Excessive itching around the ulcer as if it would heal.
-835. Stitches are experienced in the ulcer which concuss the
whole body, whilst the parts around the ulcer are merelyaffected with stinging pains which afterwards change to a,
burning. Stitches in the recent wounds, in the evening. In.
the ulcer of one foot stitches are experienced shooting from
below upwards; in the ulcer of the other foot he feels a burn816, 817. This is the most ordinary condition. But it sometimes
alternates with another state, where the pain which had come on in the
recumbent posture disappears by either lying on the affected part (see
656), or on the side generally; see 447.
2 818, 819 are to be understood as in note to 171.
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ing. (a. 24 h.) A biting is experienced in the ulcer of the foot
shortly before bandaging it, morning and evening. The redness around the ulcer becomes hard and shining.-840. The
old burn (which is healed at present) is painful to the touch.
Increase of pain in the ulcer, when one is just on the point of
eating. Troublesome beating of the arteries through the whole
body; it is especially felt when touching them.' Drawing
pains in the limbs and the whole of the body, with anxious
trembling. Tremulous anxiety, increasing when sitting or lying
down, diminishing during motion.-845. Sensation of tremulous anxiety in the limbs. Excessively disagreeable sensation
in the whole body, driving him to despair, depriving him of
rest and sleep. Sensation in the body as if he had been up
late in the night, with a feeling in his head as if he had been
drunk the day previous. (a. 12 h.) Early in the morning,
when in bed, his limbs, especially the joints, are affected with
a simple pain, obliging him to stretch the limbs, with heat of
the body, without thirst. (a. 12, 30 h.) While sitting, in daytime, he inclines greatly to stretch his feet. (a. 24 h.)-850.
Uncomfortable feeling early in the morning after rising, going
off during motion. (a. 22 h.) Tremor of the hands and feet
during motion. (a. 28 h.)2 Tremulous weakness. Weakness
and relaxation of the limbs, without feeling weary, early in
the morning after rising. (a. 24 h.) Weariness of the legs, not
when walking, but only while rising from a seat.-855. Feeling of immobility and stiffness in the body. Heaviness of the
whole body. (a. 8 h.)3 He feels lazy, and wants to sit and lie
down constantly. His limbs feel bruised. The limbs feel
weary and lame.-860. Excessive weariness from a short
walk, for many days.4 The whole body feels debilitated; he
has to lie down. (a. 3 h.) Painful sensation of paralysis in the
region of the ligaments.6 The longer he lies in his bed in the
morning the weaker he grows, and the longer he wants to
lie in his bed, or the more desirous he becomes of sleeping a
little longer.
SLEEP: He lies on his back while sleeping, the hands laid
on his abdomen crosswise, the feet being drawn up.6-865.
I Comp. 43, 44, 45, 46, 333.
2 Comp. 851, 852 with 720, 747, 748, 749, 807, 808, 845, 999.
9 The weariness and weakness excited by Puls. in the body are
generally felt as a heaviness.
4 Comp. 814.
1 This symptom is likewise and principally felt in the evening about
dark, accompanied with a painful sensation in the joints as is felt at the
commencement of a fever and ague paroxysm, with chilliness.
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Snoring inspirations when taking an evening-nap in the sitting
posture. He sleeps on his back with his arms stretched over
his head. Constant sleepiness, full of dreams. He feels overwhelmed with sleep in the evening without being weary. (a.
4 d.) He feels so debilitated that he is unable to walk a few
minutes; after such a short walk he is obliged to sleep for
hours, and so on during the day.-870. He feels sleepy at an
unusual hour, either late in the morning or early in the evening.  Irresistible sleepiness in the afternoon.  (Drowsiness
while eating his dinner.) Unusually long sleep with his eyelids closed; at the commencement the sleep is a mere slumber
full of fancies and dreams. Slumber full of dreams about incoherent objects; the dreamer thinking at the same time of
names which are not the true names of those objects, but which
are mistaken for such; hence the incoherent, loud talking in
the sleep.-875. Light sleep; afterwards he feels as if he had
not slept at all.  Stupefied, stupid, restless sleep; he tosses
about. He turns to and fro in his sleep. Nightly, restless
sleep; he feels so hot that he is obliged to throw off the bedcover, the palms of the hands being warm, but without sweat.
The first three nights he was only able to sleep in the sitting
posture, or with his head bent sideways or forward; he did
not fall asleep before midinight.-880. Is unable to fall asleep
in the evening, on account of feeling hot and anxious. (a. 4 h.)
Wakes from feeling too hot. Sleeplessness, as if the blood
were too much agitated. Anxiety at night, as if too hot.
Feeling of heat in the night without thirst. (a. 36 h.)-885.
He easily wakes before midnight. He falls asleep late in the
evening, and afterwards wakes very early without being able
to fall asleep again. After lying down, in the evening, he
sleeps for an hour and a half without any dreams; but after
this he wakes and remains awake until morning, and has to
turn from side to side all the time. Wakes frequently at night,
and remains awake, whereas he feels sleepy in the daytime.
She frequently wakes before midnight and dreams a good deal,
sleeping quickly only from two o'clock in the morning; next
morning she feels so weary the whole forenoon that she would
have liked to sleep half the day.--90. Sleeplessness; he
wakes every three hours. Sleeplessness with a crowd of ideas
on his mind.  Before midnight his sleep is prevented by a
fixed idea; for instance, by thinking constantly of a melody,
his memory and imagination being immoderately active on
account of the will-faculty being overpowered by his drowsiness. In the evening, after going to bed, he is attacked with
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and a rush of blood to the head, obliging him to leave the bed.
(a. 5 h.) Vivid dreams and fancies after midnight, which exert his reflective faculty all the time until he wakes, the object of his thoughts being almost always the same. (a. 48 h.)
-895. Vivid dreams about things which had been discussed
or which had taken place the day previous. She sat up in her
slumber, stared at every body, and exclaimed: Drive that man
away. Frightful dreams; he has to rise in his bed. (a. 5 h.)
He wakes frequently from a frightful dream; for instance, as if
he were falling.  Dreams about murder.-900.  Frightful
dreams; he starts in his sleep. He starts in affright while
sleeping. Dreams full of fright and disgust. While slumbering he starts and experiences a jerk in his arm.-905. When
waking the sound of the words seems to him too strong, it
reverberates in his ears like a roar. (a. 2 h.) He wakes at night
as if frightened and stupefied; he knows not where he is, and
he is not fully conscious of himself. (a. 5, 12 h.) Confused
dreams in the night. He dreams about disputes. (a. 24 h.) He
exclaims and starts in his sleep, being frightened about a black
dog, a cat; he wants to have the bees chased away, and so
forth.-910. Anguish when waking in the night, as if he had
committed a crime. He has intimidating dreams; for instance,
as if he. should be beaten or meet with an accident; he sighs
and cries aloud in his sleep; on waking, the dream was yet so
vivid that he had to take deep breath, with a sigh. He talks
in his sleep (also after 40 h.). After midnight he talks in a
state of half waking about imaginary thiings which he pretends
had been hovering before his eyes. Slight, general sweat after
midnight, while in a state of stupefying slumber, accompanied
with vivid dreams.'-915. Lascivious dreams evening and
morning, almost without any sexual excitement. (a. 8 h.)
While sleeping, the child drew the mouth to and fro, opened the
eyes, distorted them, and then closed them again, accompanied
with twitching of the fingers. Jerking of one or the other
limb, when on the point of going to sleep. Jerking of single
limbs or of the whole body when sleeping. Spasmodic shaking
and jerking of the head and the whole body when on the point
of falling asleep (in the siesta), twice in succession. (a. 36 h.)
FEVER:- Yawning. Chilliness accompanying the evening-pains.2 Chilliness of the body in the afternoon, followed
by heaviness and heat in the head. Shuddering. Repeated
shuddering.-925. Shuddering, as if sweat would break out.
Chilliness, and a chilly feeling internally; constant sensation as

I Compare 989.

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if one should freeze, even in the warm room, morning and evening. Cold hands and feet; they felt dead. Chilliness early
in the morning when rising. In the afternoon the upper part of
the body felt warm, the lower part of the body felt chilly internally, without any coldness being perceptible to the hand.-930.
Chilliness in the evening all over; he felt cold without shuddering. Chilliness towards evening, only of the thighs, which
felt cold to the hand, whereas legs and feet remained warm.
Chilliness the whole evening before going to bed, even while
walking. Chilliness towards evening, without any cause.
Chilliness in the evening, without goose-flesh.-935. Shuddering over the back, the whole day, without any thirst.
Shuddering in the back, extending as far as the hypochondria,
and mostly on the anterior parts of the arms and thighs, with
coldness of the limbs and a sensation as if they would go to
sleep, at four o'clock in the afternoon. (a. 10 h.) Creeping
shuddering over the arms, with heat of the cheeks and a feeling as if the air in the room were too hot. Quickly-passing
chilliness after dinner. (a. 6 h.) Chilliness after dinner, in
the epigastric region, and over the upper arms. (a. 5 h.)-940.
Chilliness in the evening after lying down; a short attack of
heat after lying down. Feeling of chilliness with trembling,
returning in a few minutes, followed by little heat, without
sweat. Chilliness in the room in the evening. Chilliness in
the warm room toward evening, or sensation as if he were
cold, mingled with a feeling of heat. Chilliness the whole
day, and three flushes of heat in the face.-945. Chilliness,
with occasional flushes of warmth (a., h.); afterwards increased warmth in the face and the rest of the body.' Chilliness without thirst; thirst during the hot stage. Desire for
water during the heat. Desire for water in the evening.
Thirst for beer; nevertheless it has a disagreeable taste. (a.
10 h.)-950. Violent thirst after the disappearance of the heat,
especially for beer, with white tongue. Thirst, especially in
the morning, and for beer (a. a few hours). Desire for spirituous drinks. He wants something strong and stimulating.
In the evening, after lying down in his bed, he is attacked
The Pulsat. fever and ague is generally characterized by the thirst
occurring only during the hot stage, rarely after the hot stage, or before
the chilly stage. There is no thirst when there is merely a feeling of
heat without any heat being perceptible to the hand. An alternate
symptom of this mere feeling of heat is a feeling of heat mingled with a
feeling of cold. There are a few more alternate symptoms belonging
to this latter symptom; but they are rare, and therefore little available
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with heat immediately, without any thirst or sweat; the sweat
broke out between two and five o'clock in the morning, accompanied with thirst, and increasing after every drink he took.955. He was attacked with chilliness in the evening; this
was followed for a few hours with heat which was rather external than internal, with weariness and debility; in the night
the heat was only felt internally, and became entirely dry until
five o'clock in the morning, without any sweat; this was followed by a dreary feeling in the head, and in a few hours
by a bloody expectoration from the chest, which became
leather-colored afterwards. Fever: repeated shuddering in the
afternoon; in the evening a general, burning heat set in, with a
violent thirst; starting in affright, which prevented sleep; pains
resembling severe, maddening labor-pains, with painfulness
of the whole body which made her unable to turn in her bed,
and watery diarrhoea. He feels hot, and nevertheless wants to
be covered; he licks his lips, but does not drink; he moans
and groans. Fever: great chilliness and external coldness in
the evening, without shuddering or thirst; in the morning he
has a feeling of heat as if sweat would break out (which does
not break out however), without thirst and without any external heat, but with hot hands, and unwillingness to be uncovered. (a. 26 h.)' Fever: violent chilliness, followed by a
mixed sensation of internal heat and shuddering; afterwards
a general, burning, heat with very quick pulse and hurried
breathing, as if suffering mortal anguish.-960. Fever: shaking and chilliness, followed by general heat and sweat, with
drawing-jerking pains in the bones of the extremities. Fever:
chilliness, with hot ears and hands, every afternoon at one
o'clock. Fever: thirst at two o'clock in the afternoon; at four,
chilliness without thirst, with coldness of the face and hands,
with anxiety and oppression of the chest; after this he lies
down and feels a drawing-pain in the back extending up to
the occiput, and thence to the temples and vertex; after the
lapse of three hours his body feels hot without thirst; the skin
is burning, with large drops of sweat in the face, sleepiness
without any real sleep and great restlessness; next morning
the whole body was covered with sweat. (a. 70 h.) Internal
heat with moderate thirst in the afternoon. Heat in the night,
and chilliness (shuddering) when turning in the bed.-965.
Burning on the chest and between the scapulae, at six o'clock
in the afternoon, accompanied with chilliness of the thighs and
legs, without thirst. Heat, followed by shuddering. First
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heat, afterwards violent chilliness. Dry heat of the whole
body, in the night and early in the morning. (Thirst about
midnight, without feeling any more than ordinary warmth.)970. Dry heat of the body, in the evening, with distended
veins and burning hands, that desire cool places. One
hand feels hot, the other cold. On one side of the body
the hand and foot are cold and red, on the other they
are hot, in the evening and night.' Hands and feet are hot.
(a. 4 h.) Sudden heat and redness of the cheeks, with warm
sweat on the forehead, especially in the evening; the heat in
the face is accompanied and succeeded by shuddering in the
back and over the arms, without goose-flesh, and by a boring
headache, from within outward, with dull stitches; mingled
with paroxysms of anguish.-975. Redness of the right cheek,
with violent burning in the cheek, especially when in the
open air; accompanied with heat of the right hand, shuddering of the whole body, cloudiness of the head resembling intoxication, and ill humor, with inclination to take every thing
in bad part. (a. _ h.) Sudden heat with a good deal of sweat
in the face, trembling of the limbs and obscuration of sight, as
if one would faint.2 Flushes of heat. (a. 12 h.) Heat of the
whole face in the evening. Sudden redness of the face, with
shuddering of the feet and anxious trembling.-980. Heat in
the afternoon, for one hour, in the whole body. Heat of the
whole body except the hands, which are rather cool, with aching-pain over the orbits and an anxious moaning. Anxious
heat over the whole body, the hands however being more
burning than the rest of the body, with tearing pain in the
occiput. Sensation as if a very hot air blew upon him, which
gives him headache.3 He cannot bear any external warmth;
his veins are distended.-985. Heat, early in the morning,
when in bed, with sensation as if sweat had broken out.
Disposition to sweat in the daytime. (a. 14, 30 h.) Disposition to sweat early in the morning. Sweat, the whole night,
accompanied with stupefied slumber full of talk, and with desire for beer.4 Sweat during the morning-sleep, going off after
waking.-990. Slight, general sweat. (Cramp (?) in the
This redness, even of the cold parts [comp. 1005 and (86) ], shows
that Puls. has the power to cause distention and swelling ot the veins
even when there is no heat; in some instances which are not mentioned
here, Puls. has even produced varices; comp. 420, 421, 424, 426, 683
and 985.
2 Compare 78-82, 84, 85.
3 Compare 984 with 997, 1000, 1001, (105.)
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hands and muscles of the arm during his night-sweat.) Copious morning-sweat. (a. 48 h.) Sweat on the right side of the
face. Sweat only on the right side of the body.--995. Sweat
only on the left side of the body. (a. 40 h.) Anxiety, as if he
were in a hot air.' Anxious heat as if hot water were poured
over him, with cold forehead. Trembling of the whole body,
with cold sweat. (a. 3 h.) Palpitation of the heart and
great anguish, obliging him to cast of his clothes.-1000.
She feels too hot with her clothes on, and too chilly with her
clothes off. (a. 2 h.)2  Palpitation of the heart, without anguish, lasting whole minutes. Palpitation of the heart after
dinner. (a. 5 h.) Palpitation of the heart from  talking.
Anxiety in the afternoon, with trembling of the hands, which
are marked with red spots, but not hot.
MORAL SYMPTOMS: The child moans and groans when it
wants to be carried or to have an evacuation. Towards evening lie began to tremble; he was assailed with a fear of ghosts,
for four evenings in succession; in the daytime he was likewise attacked with anguish, trembling, and a feeling of a flush
of heat over the whole body, although hands and face were
pale and cold. Morning-dream with anxiety; after waking
the anguish continued, accompanied with apprehensions and
discouragement, on account of an unfounded but disheartening
vision of the fancy (the same which he saw in his dream). (a.
6 h.) Anxiety; he has no rest (for one hour). Anguish; thinks
he will be ruined. (a. 1 h.)-1010. Anguish in the region of
the heart, even unto a desire for suicide, with a sensation in
the pit of the stomach as if he would vomit. Anxiety, as if
he would have an apoplectic fit, in the evening after lying
down, with chilliness, noise in the ears like music, with jerkings in the fingers of the right hand. (a. h.) Tremulous anguish, as if death were near. (a. 1 h.) Solicitude about his
health. He is full of care about his domestic affairs, early in
the morning.-1015. He is unable to think of his affairs, without feeling some grief, early in the morning. (a. 8 h.) Uneasiness of mind, as if one did not do one's duty. (a. 18 h.) Excessive irresoluteness. He flees from work, is irresolute, beside
himself, with panting breathing. He wants to do this or that
kind of work, and when he is offered it to do he refuses. (a. 10
h.)--1020. The child wants now this, now that, even when
good-humored. Is envious, greedy, would like to have every
SCompare (105.)
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thing to himself. Aversion to labor, ill-humor. (a. 1 h.) Peevishness, which increases to tears when he is interrupted in his
business (in the afternoon). (a. 36 h.) Sullen mood (after several hours).-1025. Cries a good deal, and feels greatly dissatisfied, early in the morning after waking. Ill-humor and malcontent the whole day, without any cause. (a. 24 h.) An unpleasant news makes him sad and desponding. (a. 20 h.)
Gloomy, ill-humored, chilly. Finds fault with every thing
that people say. (a. - h.)-1030. Hypochondriac peevishness;
finds fault with every thing that is said. T'he child makes
its limbs stiff from ill-humor. Excessively peevish in the evening, toward sunset; he does not like to answer any questions.
He is disgusted with every thing.'-1035. Her head feels so
still, and the world around her seems to her so empty, that she
imagines she is alone in the world; she did not wish to speak
to any body; as if every body were a stranger to her. The
things around him are not indifferent to him, but he does not
wish to heed them. (a. 1 h.) His head is full of ideas, but they
change. Hurriedness. Want of attention, is precipitate in his
actions, does something different from what he intended. (a. 2
h.)-1040. Has great trouble in finding the proper expressions
while talking. He omits single letters when writing. Intellectual labor fatigues him most. In the evening he is more
disposed to employ his mind than at other times of the day.2
After a walk through the room he is out of humor and has no
appetite. (a. 48 h.)-1045. Does not take any pleasure in any
thing, but on the other hand is not displeased with any thing.
Exceedingly whimsical, and put out with every thing, even
with himself.
OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.
HEAD: Violent vertigo, as if intoxicated; vertigo as one feels
after turning for a long while in a circle, accompanied with
nausea. Vertigo (immediately), still worse the next day. Reeling sensation, as if he would fall to one side.-5. Reeling, as
if he had taken brandy. Stitching headache. Sticking and
tearing in the head, especially in the temples. Constrictive
headache in the temples. Whizzing in the head, with roaring
in the ears, which is still more violent than the whizzing; in
the evening he had to lie down before his usual time.-10.
Tensive headache over the whole brain. Aching pain in the
forehead above the orbits, affecting the head. Dull headache,
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especially in the forehead. (a. -L h.) The headache, which
discontinues and recommences again at an indefinite period, is
especially violent in the open air. Beating headache in the
occiput, the beating takes place at regular intervals.-15. Large
pustule on the hairy scalp, in the region of the occiput, with
fine tearing pains.
EYES AND FACE: Dimsighted, as if his eyes were covered
with a mist. Objects appear very pale. Obscuration of sight.'
Dilatation of the pupils.-20. Pain in the eye, as if it were
scraped with a knife. Excessively tearing, boring, cutting
pains in the eye. Swelling and redness of the eyelids. Bleareyedness. The face feels warm both to himself and others.25. Sweat of the face and of the hairy scalp.
EARS AND NOSE: Fine ringing in the right ear, afterwards
in the left, with a pleasant titillating sensation in the region of
the tympanum. Whizzing in the ears (a. 7, 8 h.), lasting two
days, and terminating in a sudden concussion, which went
from the head across the chest, like an electric shock, with a
sensation before the eyes as when a soap-bubble is bursting.
Sensation in the ear as if it were obstructed, and a whizzing in
the ear resembling a strong, distant noise. (a. 12 h.) Purulent
discharge from the right nostril.2-30. Feeling of pressure
in the root of the nose. Fetid smell before the nose, as of old
coryza.
TEETH AND MOUTH: Beating in the gums synchronous
with the pulse; more violent near the warm stove. The saliva
flows together in the mouth as when one drinks vinegar. Ptyalism.-35. Troublesome deglutition, as if the muscles of the
pharynx were paralyzed. Tearing sensation below the larynx,
a sort of ripping up. Tearing in the upper surface of the
tongue, followed by heat in the same.
TASTE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Bitter and bilious
taste in the mouth after eating or smoking. Bitter taste in the
mouth early in the morning before breakfast, remaining while
he smokes his pipe.-40. Bitter taste also of the food. Aversion to bread and butter. Appetite, but he cannot say what he
would like to eat. Loud eructations. Continued eructations
after a meal, tasting of the ingesta.-45. Disposition to vomit.
Violent vomiting of a green, slimy-watery substance, having a
sour smell, and burning in the oesophagus and pharynx like
fire, after supper and after having gone to bed; this vomiting
occurred three evenings in succession.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Griping pain in the pit of the

1 From the vapor.

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stomach, when waking or sleeping. Tearing pain in the abdomen.-50. Sticking pains in the abdomen. Rumbling and
grunting in the abdomen.
STOOL: Diarrhcea which does not weaken.      Diarrhoea
without colic. Slimy diarrhoea five mornings in succession,
after rising.-55.  Involuntary diarrhoea, during sleep, five
nights in succession; also in the daytime he has three or four
diarrhceic stools. (a. 40 h.) Profuse bleeding from the anus.
(a. 7 d.) Profuse bleeding from the anus during stool. Haemorrhoidal flux for three days. Several small blotches in the
loins of the size of peas, containing pus and affected with a
burning-pricking pain.
URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS: He passes six ounces
of blood through the urethra without any pain. Increased
secretion of urine. Enuresis. Almost constant flow of urine.
Tenesmus of the bladder.-65. Troublesome burning of the
urine. Pain in the urethra after urinating, as if the finger-nail
were being pressed hard into the urethra. Constrictive pain
behind the glans. Agreeable tickling of the glans, followed by
discharge of a colorless mucus looking like prostatic juice. Discharge of a fetid fluid from the urethra (gonorrhea?).-70.
Nocturnal emissions. Increased, profuse menses. Burningpricking pain in the vagina and in the labia.
CATARRH AND CHEST: Tickling in the nose as of fine
snuff, causing a sneezing. Fetid mucus in the nose, as of old
coryza.-75.   Oppression of the chest, with cough without
expectoration.  One spasmodic inspiration and expiration,
passing over into a short-lasting suffocative sensation, as if one
lost the breath and had to die. Constriction across the chest.
(Asthma.)' (Ulcerated, corroded lungs, hectic fever, expectoration of blood and pus.)2
BACK AND EXTREMITIES: Beating-tickling sensation in
the back. Sticking pain in the upper arm. Stitches in the
arm, here and there. Nightly itching in the arm. Vesicles
on the arm, which afterwards become filled with pus and then
scale off.-85. Suddenly passing burning pains from the toes
to the groin. Stitches in the tibia from below upward, with
burning pains in the outer parts and an erysipelatous redness.3
The swelling of the foot and the varices increase. Violent
From the Pulsatilla silvestris, which is related to the anemone
pratensis.
2 From a syrup made of the purple-colored flowers used by a female
in the case of her husband and two children for fever, cough, roughness
of the throat, acute catarrh, and for pleurisy.
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sticking pains in the tarsal joint, in the evening. (a. 10 h.) The
foot felt so lame that she had to drag it.-90. Burning pain
in the dorsum of the foot.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS, SLEEP AND FEVER: Great heaviness and great chilliness of the arms and legs. Inclination to
stretch one's self. He was unable to fall asleep in the evening.
Sleeplessness with excessive restlessness.-95. He was unable
to sleep before two o'clock in the morning. Restless sleep,
with tossing about in the bed, as if too warm. Intolerable dry
heat in the night, in bed. Intolerable itching, in the evening
in bed.-100. She frequently jumped out of her bed, because
she felt more comfortable out of the bed. Coldness, paleness
and sweat of the whole body, for two hours. (a. 2 h.) Chilliness, as when one enters the cold air coming out of a warm
room. Shuddering, almost without chilliness, the hair standing on end, with anguish and oppression.' Slight chills in the
afternoon.-105. Feeling of warmth, as in a room which is
too hot. (a. 3 h.) Her clothes felt too tight; she felt disposed
to take them off. Violent heat all over, in the evening, with
disposition to be covered, and a violent desire for beer. Chilliness, followed by heat of the head and the hands, which was
perceptible both to himself and others, with a slow, full pulse.
(a. 12 h.) Redness and burning heat in the face (immediately),
followed by paleness of the face.-110. Slight morning-sweat.
Profuse, fetid night-sweat. Night-sweat, a fortnight in succession.
MORAL SYMPTOMS: The symptoms appear with particular
violence every other evening. Peevish, weeping mood, out of
humor.-115. He is very still. He feels gloomy and melancholy. (a. 4 h.) Extremely out of humor and desponding.
RHEUM (RHUBARB).
(Prepare the tincture by taking a portion of the best powdered root
and mixing one grain of it with twenty drops of alcohol, shaking the
mixture several times a day for five or six days, keeping it in a room which
has the usual temperature, and then pouring the solution off.)
FOR the last thousand years since this root had been made
known by the Arabians, it has been used in the most absurd
manner for the purpose of sweeping out the intestinal canal or
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of arresting certain kinds of diarrhoea, but even the latter rarely
with any success.
This abuse of the rhubarb ought to be attributed to the fact
that the homceopathic law of cure has never been systematically
followed in the treatment of disease.
The following symptoms show that rheum must be very
useful in many of the ordinary diseases of children.
One drop of the ninth potency is quite sufficient at a dose.
RHEUM.
HEAD: Beating headache. Hammering sensation in the
head, which seemed to ascend from the abdomen. (a. 6 h.)
Headache extending as far as the occiput, afterwards the pain
becomes tearing. Dull, tight, dizzy sort of a headache, extending over the whole of the brain, and being worse on the
top of the head and in the temples.-5. Stupefying headache,
as if the parts in the head were turned out of their places, more
during motion than when stooping. Heaviness in the head,
with an oppressive heat ascending into the head. Sensation
when stooping as if the brain moved. Obscuration of the head,
with bloated eyes; afterwards headache over one of the orbits,
with dilated pupils. (a. 1 to 4 h.)
[Vertigo. Vertigo when standing, as if he would fall to one
side. Cloudiness in the sinciput, with a moving sensation in
that part of the head. The head feels quite stupid, as after an
intoxication.-5. Creeping in the temporal region. Drawing
pain deep in the head behind the frontal eminences. Clawing
headache, coming and going like the pulse, now in the left,
now in the right temporal bone and on top of the head. (a. 15
h.) Sensation of heaviness in the head and intermittent tearing in the same (while walking). (a. 1 h.) Aching pain across
the whole sinciput.-10. Aching pain in the right side of the
head, especially on top of the head and in the temples. (a. h h.)
Dull, beating headache in the sinciput, especially when standing. Slight stitches above the temples. The frontal muscles
incline to contract into wrinkles.]
FACE AND EYES: Aching and burning sensation in the
margin of the upper eyelid.-10. Contraction of the pupils,
accompanied with an internal restlessness (for 16 hours). The
eyes feel weak; they become painful when looking at a thing
for a long time; with a pressure in the eyes as if they were
weary. Itching rash on the forehead and arm.
[Tensive sensation in the skin of the face.-15. Corrosive
pain in the left eye before going to sleep, as if dirt, dust or an
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insect had got in, with lachrymation. Lachrymation in the
open air. Beating pain in the eyes. Pressure upon the eyelids
even when they are closed. Drawing in the eyelids.-20. The
pupils are more or less contracted.]
NOSE AND EARS: Roaring in the right ear, with sensation
in that ear as if the tympanum were relaxed, with dull hearing
(as if the hearing were on the point of becoming obstructed);
the roaring and the relaxation of the tympanum abated (the
hearing became restored) whenever he swallowed with a certain force, only momentarily, for the symptoms returned immediately. Snapping as of electric sparks and clucking in the
ear and in the muscles of the side of the neck, which could be
felt with the hand.
[A sort of straining with some itching in the left ear which
obliges him to insert the finger into the ear. Pressure in the
meatus auditorius as if it were pressed upon with a finger.
Sometimes a beating is felt in the ears, especially when stooping while writing. Warmth around the nose.-25. Drawing,
as it were stupefying pain along the root of the nose, causing
a creeping in the tip of the nose.]
JAWS AND TEETH:-15. Drawing, expanding sensation
in the right lower jaw extending as far as the right temple.
Digging-up pain in the hollow teeth, which feel as if they had
risen and vacillated. (a. 12 to 24 h.)
[Pressure as with a finger in the region where the head
and nape of the neck unite. Pain in the left molar teeth,
which is accompanied with a sensation of coldness and occasions a confluence of the saliva in the mouth. Pain in the
left upper foreteeth, which is accompanied with a sensation of
coldness.]
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Aliments, even
sweet, taste bitter, but not when merely put into the mouth.
(a. 10 h.) Want of appetite. Hunger, but no appetite.-20.
He feels qualmish and inclines to vomit. Coffee is repugnant
to him unless it is very sweet.
MOUTH, PHARYNX, (SOPHAGUS, STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Dryness of the mouth, which feels dry to him, without
any desire for drink. Repletion in the stomach as if he had
eaten too much; this is sometimes followed by drowsiness.
(a. 8 to 12 h.) Contractive sensation in the stomach, accompanied with nausea. (a. -L h.)-25. Cutting colic shortly (- hour)
after dinner; he has to bend double when sitting, in order to
find relief; it is worst when standing. Expanding, clucking
(bubbling) sensation in the abdominal muscles, as if he could hear
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sion of wind is preceded by pinching colic. (a. 24 h.) Pinching in the abdomen,' he feels a strong urging for stool in the
large intestine; but he is unable to accomplish any thing; the
rectum is inactive. (a. 24 h.)-30. Flatulence in the abdomen, which seems to rise towards the chest and to cause a
pressure and tension here and there.
[Contraction of the pharynx.2-30. The sensibility of the
tongue and the sense of taste disappear for a whole day.8
Sour taste in the mouth. Great appetite, but the food, although one relishes it in the beginning, soon becomes repugnant. Desire for various things, accompanied with aversion
to certain other things (for instance greasy, fat things); however, he cannot eat much of the things he likes, because they
become repugnant immediately. He does not relish his food,
and it soon becomes repugnant to him, although he has a
good deal of appetite.-35. Pressure in the stomach as if it
were filled a good deal with food. (a. - h.) The abdomen is
distended after a meal. Urging for stool after a meal. Nausea in the region of the stomach. Feeling as if one would
vomit. (a. h.)-40. Nausea, colic. Sensation of nausea
in the abdomen. (a. 10 minutes.) Pressure in the region of
the spleen. Dull stitching on the left side of the pit of the
stomach. Stitch in the pit of the stomach.-45. Violent
beating, and painless clucking in the pit of the stomach at regular intervals. (a. l1 h.) Distention of the abdomen. Pressure
in the intestines when taking an inspiration, as if they were
full of fluid. Rumbling in the abdomen. Dull, strangulating
cutting transversely across the abdomen.-50. Single painful
cuttings in the abdomen without stool. Pressure in the umbilical region (immediately). Pressure in the umbilical region, as if the intestines would be pressed out. Cutting in
the umbilical region. (The cutting in the abdomen is increased by the eating of a few plums.)-55. Colic, bloatedness of the abdomen. Flatulence. Cutting drawing in the
left loin below the short ribs, and anteriorly in the left side
of the hypogastrium directly above the os pubis; diggingup sensation in the intestines. (Sharp) cutting in the left
' The primary effect of rhubarb appears to be a colicky, sometimes
ineffectual urging the stools being bad fiecal matter. The evacuations
occasioned by rhubarb consisting of faeces, the drug cannot be employed
in dysentery (although the colicky pains are alike), for this additional
reason, that there is no correspondence between the other symptoms of
rhubarb and those of dysentery.
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loin. Tension in the left side of the hypogastrium, directly
over the os pubis, after a meal. (a. 3 h.)-60. Pressure in
the region of the os pubis, as if a strong pressure were made
with the tip of the thumb. Twitching in the abdominal muscles. (a. 20 h.)  Violent cutting in the region of the lumbar
vertebra, as if it occurred in the substance of the vertebrce,
increased by an evacuation.]
STOOL: Stool, the first part of which is hard, the second
liquid. Diarrhoeic stools, consisting in faeces and mucus. Discharges of grayish mucus by the rectum. Painful pressure in
the abdominal ring when walking, as if hernia would protrude.
--35. Fine, frequent, itching stitches in the right inguinal
gland.
[Papescent, sour-smelling stool; one shudders while the
evacuation is taking place, and after the evacuation a renewed urging and pinching in the bowels (constriction) set in.
(a. 6 h.) Frequent urging for stool, which results in a loose,
papescent, fetid evacuation, with colic, and with tenesmus
immediately after the evacuation-in spite of his efforts
nothing comes off, although he feels an urging-another
evacuation taking place a little while after; after rising
from stool, the urging, which had subsided gradually, becomes more and more violent, the pain in the abdomen which
accompanied the evacuation increases likewise.-65. Cutting
in the abdomen and emission of flatulence, early in the morning when uncovering one's self. (a. 14 h.) Increased urging
for stool when moving about. A sort of tenesmus of the rectum. (a. 5 h.) Painful sensation in the region of the anus,
as is felt after a diarrhoea of long duration. Stool mixed with
mucus.-70. Stool first loose, then hard; preceded and accompanied by violent cutting. (a. 24 h.) ]
URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS: Burning urine. (a.
20 h.) (Frequent emission of a large quantity of urine.)
[Weakness of the bladder; he had to press hard when
urinating, otherwise the urine would not have been voided entirely. Pressure upon the bladder. Burning in the kidneys
and bladder. Red-yellow  urine, as in jaundice and acute
fevers.-75. The urine is light-yellow, with a greenish
tinge.]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS: Dull, quick stitches under the
last rib, during an expiration. Dull, quick stitches under the
last rib, during an inspiration and expiration (continuing for a
long while).-40. Single stitches in the chest. (a. 6 h.) Oppression of the chest. Crackling rising as of little vesicles,
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continuous, and perceptible to his own ears. Simple aching
of both nipples, which seems to come from flatulence in the abdomen. Long stitch in both nipples.
[Compression of the chest. Asthma; when taking a deep
inspiration the chest does not yield sufficiently; as if a weight
were oppressing the chest directly under the throat. Painful
pressure across the sternum, occasioning a sensation as if the
thoracic cavity were narrower than before; sometimes single
stitches are felt instead of the pressure. Burning pain on the
left side of the sternum.-80. Dry cough in the evening. (a.
5 h.) Cough with expectoration of mucus for five minutes.
(a. 13 h.) The milk of nurses becomes yellow and bitter.]
BACK AND EXTREMITIES: Stiffness of the small of the
back and hips; he is unable to walk straight. Single stitches
in the arms. Jerking sensation in the right elbow. Jerking in
the arms and hands early in the morning, also in the rest of
the body, two days in succession. Bubbling sensation in the
elbow-joint, in rest and motion.-50. Violent lancinating pain
in the thumb. (a. 3 h.) Weariness of the thighs, as after an
excessive effort. Twitching of single parts of muscles on the
posterior surface of the thighs, especially when the muscles
are put upon the stretch, when sitting and when drawing up
the knees in the recumbent posture; the twitching is perceptible
to the eye, and can be felt with the hand. The lower limbs go
to sleep when laid across one another. Tensive aching pain
in the bend of the left knee, extending down to the heel.-55.
Bubbling sensation in the bend of the knee, as if it could be
heard. Painless bubbling in the bend of the knee, extending
as far as the heel. Stiffness of the knee, which is paioful in
motion. Painful weariness in the bend of the left knee when
standing, with a drawing sensation from above downward.
Tensive weariness in the bend of the right knee.-60. Bubbling in the leg, from above downward, accompanied with
sticking. Tearing and sticking pain transversely across the
instep. Stinging itching in the hollow of the foot. Bubblingsnapping sensation in the ball of the left big toe. Stinging
itching of the root of the little toe; almost as one experiences
in a frozen toe.
[Tearing in the upper arms and the finger-joints. Tearing in
the forearms.--85. The muscles of the forearm feel contracted,
accompanied with a tremulous motion of the hands. Sensation in the lower surface of the forearm as if it were going to
sleep. Distended veins of the hands. (a. 2 h.) The palm of
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rest of the body were warm. (a. 20 h.)-90. Sweat in the
palm of the hand while the hands are closed. Tearing from
the thumb to the little finger across the hand. (Stitching in
left knee when walking.) (Early in the morning, after rising,
the left tarsal joint feels sprained, and is painful when treading
upon the foot.) Sticking in the left foot, in the edge of the
sole, behind the little toe.-95. Burning paroxysmal pain between the internal malleolus and the tendo Achillis, as if it
were touched from time to time by an incandescent coal. (a. 5 h.)
GENERAL SYMPTOMS, SLEEP AND FEVER:-65. He feels
a simple pain in all his joints when moving them. (a. 12 and
more hours.)  The limbs upon which he lies, go to sleep.
Heaviness in the whole body as when one wakes from a deep
sleep. Drowsiness. Snoring inspirations during sleep. (a.
1 h.)-70.   Vexatious, offensive dreams at night.  Vivid
dreams, ufhich make one sad and anxious. He extends his
hands above his head when sleeping. He is restless when
sleeping; he moans and bends his head backward. The child
tosses about in the night, cries several times, and says tremblingly that there are men.-75.  The child is pale; she
grumbles in her sleep as if she were quarrelling, and has convulsive drawings in the fingers, facial muscles and eyelids.
He is delirious in his evening-sleep, and walks about in his
bed with his eyes closed without talking, and feels very hot.
It takes her a long time, after waking, to become conscious of
herself. After sleeping he feels a heaviness in his whole body.
After sleeping his eyes are agglutinated.-80. After sleeping
the mouth is lined with fetid mucus. After sleeping he has a
putrid taste in his mouth. After sleeping his breath has a fetid
smell. ' After sleeping he has a pressure in the pit of the stomach spreading over the sternum during an inspiration, and being
changed to a pain as if bruised. He shudders without being
cold externally. (a. ' h.)-85. One cheek is occasionally pale,
while the other is red, or both are pale. Alternation of chilliness and heat for only two minutes; she feels moreover weary
and anxious, and every thing was repugnant to her, even those
things which were dearest to her. He feels hot all over without being thirsty. (a. 2 h.) His hands and feet feel hot, without his arms and thighs feeling hot, the face being cool. Cool
sweat in the face, especially around the mouth and nose. (a.
3 h.)-90. He sweats on the forehead and hairy scalp, even
after making a little exertion.
[Debility of the whole body when walking. Debility of
the whole body. The whole body feels heavy as if one had
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Before falling asleep he raises his hands involuntarily above
his head. In his sleep, which is restless, he imagines that he
is walking about in a state of half consciousness, half dreaming and half waking. Anxious dreams of deceased relatives.
'-105. Early in the morning, after sleeping, he feels lazy and
suffers with a violent clawing and tensive headache transversely across the whole anterior half of the head. (Slight
chilliness, early in the morning.) The cheeks feel hot to him
and others. Warmth of the whole body, without thirst. Heat
of the body, with restlessness.-110. Quick pulse. Sweat
which tinges linen yellow and smells of rhubarb.]
MORAL SYMPTOMS: He is silent, and nothing makes an
impression upon him. He is lazy and taciturn. Moaning,
anxious, ill humor. The child asks for many things with a
sort of impetuosity and with cries.
[Delirium. State of mind as if one were half asleep. (a.
11 h.) Gloomy mood; he is unable to continue long the same
occupation.-115. Peevish, taciturn.]
RHUS RADICANS, OR TOXICODENDRON.
(Express the juice from the recent plant, and mix it with equal parts
of alcohol. The following symptoms have been obtained from the Rhus
tox. The Rhus radicans of this country is believed by some to have
a somewhat different action from the Rhus toxicodendron. HEMPEL.)
THE symptoms of this remarkable and valuable drug have
a great many interesting peculiarities.
One of them is that the symptoms which this drug is
capable of exciting in the healthy organism, are most violent
when the part affected is in a perfect state of rest, or is kept
as immoveable as possible.   The alternate symptom, the
exacerbation of the symptoms in a state of motion, is much
rarer. As regards the other peculiarities, every one may easily
discover them for himself in the following list of symptoms,
which is perfectly truthful and accurate.
On comparing the symptoms of Bryonia and Rhus, some
of them will be found to be strikingly similar, others strikingly
opposed to one another. The very same symptoms which,
when excited by Rhus, are aggravated in a state of rest, are
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of these two drugs belonging to one family will account for
the fact that Bryonia and Rhus were the specifies for the epidemic typhus which desolated many districts of Europe in the
late war of 1813. While thousands of patients whose treatment was derived from speculative notions about the essence'
of the disease, died almost without an exception, all those who
were treated with Rhus and Bryonia recovered, as may be
seen in the sixth number of the Allgemeine Anzeiger der
Deutschen, where I describe the nature and homoeopathic treatment of the epidemic. What a triumph for the homoeopathic
healing art!
Large doses of Rhus act about six weeks; smaller doses
proportionately less. It is owing to this slow action that the
improvement is frequently perceived only thirty-six hours after
the dose had been administered. The unpleasant effects of
Rhns may be relieved by Bryonia, Sulphur, Camphor, Coffea
cruda.
Long experience has convinced me that the tincture of
Rhus should never be used, and that a small portion of a drop
of the 30th potency is entirely sufficient for curative purposes.
RHUS.
HEAD: After rising she feels intoxicated, and imagines she
will fall. Her head is affected; she is unable to stand firmly.
Violent vertigo when lying down, with fear that he will die.
(a. 10 h.) Vertigo; every thing turned with her, especially
when standing or walking, also (but less) when sitting, not at
all when lying down.'-.5. Reeling and tottering sensation in
the body, without feeling giddy in the head. Sensation, when
walking in the open air, as if something were turning in the
head, still he does not feel giddy. Stupid feeling in the head,
when sitting down, as if intoxicated; when rising he feels
giddy, as if he would fall forward or backward.2 Giddy when
walking, as if she would fall forward.3 Dizzy when rising
from bed; he is scarcely able to keep himself on his legs.-10.
The head feels gloomy and dull. Stupefied, weak feeling in
the head. Weakness of memory. He seems to be engaged
in thinking, but he has no ideas. When walking, he feels so
dizzy that he scarcely sees the men which are standing before
him.--15. She feels a vertigo after walking or stooping, not
otherwise. Loss of thought, as if owing to a swimming of the
eyes; frequently she is unable to see things. Loss of thought;

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for instance, in writing 12 he would put down 1, but was unable
to recollect the other number; when holding paper in his hands,
he had to think what it was. Stupefied headache, and buzzing
in the head. Obtuse feeling in the head (immediately).---0.
The head feels obtuse and as if intoxicated, early in the morning. (a. 12 h.) Reeling, with headache affecting the whole
head; when writing he lost his thoughts and memory, and he
was unable to collect himself. Obtuse feeling of the head,
pressure in the right temple, and a pressure directly over and
behind the right orbit, as of a weight. Pressure in the temples.
Headache as if the eyes were pressed out of their sockets, with
yawning and chilliness, without thirst.-25. When stooping
he feels as if he could not raise himself again; the nape of the
neck feels embarrassed; when stooping he feels as if a quantity of blood were rushing to his brain. Constant heaviness in
the head; when stooping he feels a sort of weight settling down
the forehead, and drawing down the head, the face becoming
hot at the same time. Headache behind the left eye, with
pressure from behind forward. The head feels so heavy that
she has to hold it straight in order to diminish the load which
is pressing down in the forehead. The head feels heavy and
gloomy when turning the eyes; the eyeball itself hurts him.30. Painful heaviness in the temples, pressing from above
downward. Headache as if the brain were compressed from
temple to temple. Heat in the head, with dry lips and thirst,
followed by a violent headache, as if the forehead should be
pressed asunder, with great heaviness in the forehead, especially when coming into the room out of the open air, or when
waking from the siesta; the headache disappears as soon as
she lies down in the evening. Burning pressure in the region
of the right temporal bone. Pressure in the right temple, irradiating from below upward, in the evening when in bed, worst
in rest; in order to be relieved he had now to sit down, now to
leave his bed.-35. Tearing in the head to and fro, worse
when stooping; from five o'clock in the afternoon until bedtime. Headache, drawing in the occiput and temples, with
pressure in the eyes; it is so violent early in the morning that
he has to leave his bed. (Headache, as if he had spoiled his
stomach.) Tearing headache. On waking and opening his
eyes he is attacked with a violent headache, first in the forehead behind the eyes, as if the brain would be torn to pieces,
as after an intoxication by brandy, and made worse by moving
the eyes; afterwards in the occiput, as if the cerebellum were
bruised; a pressing from within outward is felt in the temples.
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were sore, extending as far as the teeth.) When making steps,
she feels every step reverberate in the head. Occasional sensation in the brain, as of the flagging of sails. Wavering sensation in the brain, when walking. Stitches in the head from
within outwards.-45. Fine beating in the right side of the
head. Burning in the head and a fine beating or pecking headache. Burning pain, sometimes in the occiput, sometimes in
the forehead. Burning-creeping sensation in the forehead. He
feels the pulse in the occiput.-50. A few fine, violent stitches
in the right temple from without inward. Her head feels too
full and heavy (with ringing in the ears), occasionally accompanied with stitches in the left temple from within outward.
Heaviness in the upper part of the head, after walking. Single
stitch in the head, above the eye, from within outward, while
eating, and continuing for four minutes; followed by nausea
and fulness; a warm sensation ascending into the head. Singlejerks in the occiput, in the afternoon.-55. Tearing in the
upper part of the head, shortly after a meal; at the same place
the head feels sore to the touch; sometimes the wholQ head is
affected by the drawing pain. Painful creeping in the head, a
sort of digging as with a needle, a fine prickling digging. A
sort of creeping headache after a walk in the open air. Creeping in one part of the occiput, in the afternoon, as if an abscess
would form. Creeping in the scalp. (a. 72 h.)-60. Headache
rather externally, contracting the scalp as if she were pulled by
the hair; nevertheless, the head is not painful to the touch.
The hairy scalp is very painful to the touch, and when moving
the hairs backwards. The head is painful to the touch, like a
boil. Corrosive itching of the hairy scalp of the forehead, face,
and around the mouth; rash-shaped pimples make their appearance. Pain in the posterior cervical muscles, towards evening, as if the parts had gone to sleep, and as if the head had
been kept erect too long.
[Vertigo. Violent vertigo. Vertigo as if he were held up
into the air while sitting. Vanishing of thought during a
walk after dinner.-5. Staggering walking, without vertigo.
While walking he staggers constantly to the right side. His
head feels confused, without any definite pain. Vertigo and
stupid feeling in the head. Dizziness.-10. When turning
the head, she lost her senses; when stooping she felt as if she
could not raise the head again. The head feels dull, immediately. Obtuse feeling in the head and want of inclination for
literary occupations. His head feels weary, he cannot think
well; he is averse to talking, or finds it troublesome.-15. His
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a single idea, and was almost quite stupid.' Slow development of ideas. Forgetfulness: he is unable to recollect the
latest events. Dullness of memory: he has great trouble in
recollecting the most familiar things and names; sometimes
his recollections are quite distinct, when he is free from the
febrile chills. The head feels full and heavy, with sensation
when stooping, as if the brain were falling forward.-20.
Sensation, when shaking the head, as if the brain were loose
and were knocking against the skull. Headache transversely
through the forehead. Headache in the occiput, which goes
off when bending the head backward. Headache in the forehead when moving the arms violently, as if pressure were
made with a dull point. (a. 25 h.) Pressure and drawing in
the left side of the hairy scalp from below upward.-25.
Tearing pain in the right temple. (a. h.) Simple tearing
transversely across the hairy scalp, externally. Drawing
with pressure on the left side of the hairy scalp. Creeping
and crawling over the forehead and nose when sitting straight,
going offwhen stooping.]
FACE AND EYES:-65. Redness and sweat of the face,
without thirst. (a. 1 h.) Sensation as if she had a gauze before her eyes; she is unable to see distinctly. The eyeball
feels sore when turning the eye or when pressing upon it; he
is scarcely able to turn the eye. Pressure in the eye as if it
contained dust. Painful pressure in the eyes.-70. Pressure
in the eye, when exerting the sight. Pressure in the left eye,
as if it were inflamed; the internal canthus is red, and filled
with gum in the evening. Aching and contractive pain in the
eyes, evening. Burning pressure in the eye, from evening
until morning; going off in the morning after rising. In the
morning the sclerotica is red, with a burning pressure in the
eye; the eyes felt as if protruding from their sockets.-75. In
the morning the eyes are red and agglutinated. Ophthalmia.
Bleareyedness. Lachrymation in the evening, with burning
pain.-80. Biting in the eyes; agglutination of the eyes in
the morning. Biting in the inner surface of the lower eyelids.
(a. 2 h.) In the cold air the eyelids are made sore by saltish,
acrid tears. The eyelids feel dry, especially in the inner canthus. In the evening the eyelids feel heravy, stiff and rigid, as
if paralyzed, and as if he found it difficult to move the lids.85. Stitches under the eye. Bruised pain in the inner side of
the orbital bone, towards the nose. Pressure in the region of
the malar bone, with fine stitches.
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margins around the eyes. (a. 18 h.) Pointed nose for three
days. The face looks disfigured and distorted; the left side
looks contracted and shorter, and the right elongated. (a. 22 h.)
Redness and sweat of the face, without thirst. (a. 1 h.) The
skin of the face peels offl-35. Violent swelling of the face;
the head becomes twice as large as before; a sort of phlegmonous erysipelas, obliging him to keep in his bed for four weeks.'
Erysipelatous swelling of the face and neck.2 Great swelling
of the head, face and eyelids, making it impossible for him to
open them for twenty-four hours. Violent swelling of the face.
Swelling of the face, especially of the eyelids and lobules of
the ears.-40. Swelling of the head in some persons. Violent
burning of the swelling of the face, eyelids and lobules. Intolerable itching of that swelling. Swelling of the head, neck
and chest down to the umbilicus. Swelling of the lip and
nose, followed by pale swelling of the face; on the third day
the swelling of the face increased, with burning pain, the eyelids being closed by swelling, the eyes running; on the fourth and
fifth day the face was covered with vesicles filled with yellow
water; they burst and emitted but a small quantity of water;
the swelling of the face lasted eight days, longer under the
chin; it scaled off.3-45. Drawing and tearing in the region of the eyebrows and in the malar bones. Inflammation
of the eyelids. Biting itching of the right upper eyelid (going
off after some friction). Twitching sensation in the left upper
eyelid. (a. 48 h.) Sensation in the right lower eyelid, consisting of twitching and contracting.-50. The right upper
eyelid feels swollen and occasions a pressure; this goes off in
the open air. (a. 26 h.) The eyelids are dry and are constantly closed as if he were drowsy, in the evening. Twitching and feeling of dryness of the eyelids, during a febrile chill.
Inflammation of the eyelids. Itching of the right outer canthus. (a. 27 h.)-55. Red, hard swelling, like a stye, on the
lower lid of the left eye, towards the inner canthus, with an
itching pain, for six days. (a. 48 h.) Sensation as if the
right inner canthus were swollen. Biting sensation in the
right eye, as of an acid. The objects look pale.' Pressure on
the frontal bone, increasing gradually until it ceases of a sudden.-60. Dull drawing in the left side of the forehead
through the left cheek, down the jaw, through the muscles
and teeth, as if a toothache were approaching.]
' From exhalations of the plant and from gathering it.
' From the exhalations of the plant.
8 From the juice spirting upon the hand.
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EARS AND NOSE: Painful beating in the internal ear at
night. Otalgia. (Whizzing in the ear.) Piping in the ears,
as of young mice. (Titillating creeping in the ears, as of
something living; she had to insert her finger.) Frequent
bleeding at the nose even when merely stooping.-95.
Bleeding at the nose in the night. (a. 4 h.) Bleeding at the
nose in the morfiing. (a. 40 h.) Bleeding at the hose
when clearing the throat. Sore feeling about the nostrils.
Herpetic eruption around the mouth and nose; sometimes causing a darting and burning-itching pain. (a. 24 h.)
[Fine, painful tearing behind the left ear. Tingling in the
right ear, when walking. (a. I h.) Two violent reports in
the left ear in short succession, as if the tympanum were
burstitg, when on the point of going to sleep in taking the
siesta, itn the recumbent posture; he started in affright at every
report, but soon went to sleep again. (a. 4 h.) Bleeding at
the nose.-65. Feeling of hardness and swelling under the
nose, going off when feeling the part. Tension below the
right nostril. The tip of the nose is red and painful to the
touch, as if it would ulcerate. (a. 8 d.) Crusty eruption near
the left wing of the nose and below the nose. (a. 48 h.)
Burning sensation below the left nostril, making the air
which comes out feel hot; this symptom goes off in the open
air.]
MOUTH, TEETH AND JAWS:-100. (Pustule in the fold
of the cheek, which is painless per se, but when touched a fine
pricking is experienced in it. (Burning vesicles around the
mouth, and near the nostril.) Pimple on the lower lip, below
the vermilion boider, in the white skin. Clusters of pimples,
which are filled with a watery fluid when first forming; they
are near the corners, on the border of the lower lip, and feel
sore when touched, and when not touched a smarting sensation. as if occasioned by salt, is experienced in them. (a. 10 h.)
Fine, burning cramp in the right cheek, in the afternoon, as if
the parts were ulcerated; the skin of the cheek becomes hot
and rough, as if an eruption were coming out; he had to rise
from bed, and felt very thirsty.-105. Pimples on the side of
the chin, the tips whereof become filled with pus; when touching them, a pain is experienced in them as if a sharp edge
were pressed into them, accompanied with a burning which is
continuous. Pain in the region of the articulation of the jaw,
close to the ear, which feels like a cramp in rest and when
moving the parts; the pain is diminished by a strong pressure
upon the articulation, and by eating warm things. Pain in the
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when moving it. (a. 1 h.) Pain in the articulation of the jaws,
as if they would become dislocated, during a spasmodic yawning in the evening. (a. 1 h.) Cracking in the joint, when
moving the jaw to and fro (in the morning). (a. 12 h.)-110.
Cracking in the ear (in the articulation of the jaw) during
every movement of the jaw. Aching and digging-up pain in
the submaxillary gland, even when not moving it. Swelling
of the submaxillary glands; deglutition caused a pricking in
the glands. Single dartings, in the evening, from the temple
to both jaws and rows of teeth, debilitating him entirely, and
accompanied with a bruised pain in the left temple; he yawned, but he was unable to go to sleep immediately, lest the pain
should return. Slowly stitching and at the same time darting
pain in the cuspidatus, in the evening.--115. Darting toothache in the night, at ten o'clock; the dartings entered into the
head, and were relieved by pressing upon the parts with a cold
hand. Dartings in the nerves of the roots of the hollow teeth.
Darting in the nerve of the tooth, from below upward, palliated
by imposing a cold hand upon the part. Cutting toothache,
as when a wound is inflicted. Intolerable burning sore pain in
the gums, as far as the roots of the molar teeth, at half past two
o'clock in the night; the pain obliges him to sit up in bed, with
a feeling of heat in the body and especially about the head,
with sweat on the forehead.-120. Cutting beating pain in
that portion of the palate where the teeth terminate, as if there
were ulceration going on; contact occasions a pricking as in
an ulcer. Pressure in the inner gums of the foreteeth, and in
the periosteum of the teeth, shifting here and there. The teeth
feel loose, with painful tingling in the teeth from time to time,
as when a part goes to sleep. Painful tingling in the tooth,
resembling a digging as with a needle; a fine prickling digging. The teeth are painful when chewing, as if they were
elongated and loose; still they are not painful when touched,
and do not vacillate.-125. Toothache (in the evening), first
in the hollow tooth, which became looser and raised, afterwards also in the other teeth, in which partly a prickling, partly a creeping was experienced. The foreteeth vacillate and
feel painful, both when touched by a warm and cold drink.
Pain of the foreteeth, when touched by the tongue. Visible
vacillation of the first two molar teeth, the two cuspidati, and
the four lower incisores, with a creeping pain in the gums, also
between the acts of mastication. Looseness of the lower incisores, she is unable to use them in masticating.-130. Great
vacillation of the lower four incisores; the gums stand off from
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without feeling any pain, except when the teeth themselves feel
painful. [70. Early in the morning, when rising, he feels a
pricking point in the right side of the lower lip, with sensation
as if it were bleeding. (a. 48 h.) Dry, arid lips, covered with a
reddish crust. Sudden prickings in the right cheek. Cutting
contraction in the right cheek. Cutting pain in one point of
the cheek; afterwards he experiences an itching and pricking
in that point, which goes off after scratching. (a. 10, 11 h.)-75.
Burning contraction in the right cheek, with aching pain in
the crowns of the three upper molar teeth. Coldness in the
closed mouth, as if a cold wind were moving in, with roaring
in the left ear. Pressure in the outer side of the gums of the
lower molares, and at the same time on the shoulder, and in
the region of the left clavicle. Dull pressure in the lower molares and near the shoulder in the region of the left clavicle.
Toothache in the right upper teeth, as if they were pulled into
their cavities by the roots.-80. Toothache in the lower molares; sharp pressure and a dull pain, with a musty smell in
the mouth. Sensation between the right teeth, as if a tenacious
body were between them. Sensation in the lower jaw, as if
the gums were squeezed from both sides, with a musty sensation of decaying flesh in the mouth. Cramplike pain in the articulation of the jaw. The parotid and submaxillary glands
are swollen and hard.]
INNER MOUTH, TASTE AND APPETITE: Confluence of
water in the mouth; he has to spit frequently. Internal
inclination to spit, as if he had much saliva in the mouth.
The saliva flows out of his mouth while taking the siesta in
the sitting posture. His mouth fills with water during the
siesta. He has to spit out a quantity of saliva and mucus the
whole day; at the same time something sour rises from the
stomach into the mouth. Frequent hawking of mucus in the
morning. She hawks a good deal, only in the morning; the
more she rinses her mouth the more does the mucus in her throat
increase. The mucus on the tongue has a salt taste.-140.
Feeling of dryness in the throat. The tongue is not coated,
but very dry, which occasions a desire to drink. Feeling of
dryness on the tip of the tongue (without any dryness being
visible); he thinks that that is the cause of his thirst. Thirst
occasioned by a feeling of dryness in the mouth; it remains in
spite of drinking, in the afternoon and after midnight. Feel.
ing of swelling in the throat, accompanied with a bruised piln,/
both when talking and when keeping the throat quiet; when
swallowing he feels a pain as of a swelling, with pressure, and
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stuck in. (a. 3 h.)-145. Stitch when swallowing and yawning, as if she had swallowed a pin. Severe stitches in the
throat, in the region of the epiglottis, dull at the commencement
and sharp at the termination; they are only felt between the
acts of deglutition, and pass off while swallowing. Stinging in
the throat during deglutition when the throat is dry; a pressure
being felt when the throat is moist. Sharp, bitter-sour taste
in the mouth.-150. Coppery taste in the mouth and a scraping sensation extending deep into the throat. Putrid taste in
the mouth, early in the morning after waking and after a meal,
without any bad smell from the mouth. Greasy taste in the
mouth; the food, however, has a natural taste. In the forenoon he has a taste in the mouth as of putrid meat, as if the
stomach had become spoiled by putrid meat; aliments, however, have a natural taste (the putrid taste did not return after
a meal). Putrid, slimy taste in the mouth, she has to spit a
good deal.--155. (His mouth feels bitter the whole day; food
too has a bitter taste.) Bitterness in the mouth, which disappears after eating. (Bread has a bitter taste.) (Sour things
have a bitter taste to her.) Sourish taste in the mouth after
taking milk.-100. Aversion to coffee. No appetite for tobacco, but no aversion to it. Frequently he feels a sudden appetite for dainty things. From time to time one feels a shuddering as from nausea over the whole body, without any sensation
of chilliness. She has no appetite, but food has a natural taste;
she has a putrid taste in the mouth after having swallowed a
mouthful.-165. Repletion in the region under the sternum, with
a sensation as if the appetite had gone for ever. Complete loss
of appetite for any kind of food; he does not relish any thing
solid or fluid, nor tobacco. (a. 16 h.) She ate without having
any desire for food, and she relished her food. Although she
relishes her food pretty well, yet she has no appetite for it,
and her stomach always feels full. The breakfast will not go
down, owing to a feeling of repletion.
[Rough and sore feeling in the left tonsil during deglutition.
(a. 6 h.) Apparent dryness of the mouth; feeling of dryness
with violent thirst. Accumulation of saliva. Confluence of
saliva in the mouth after smoking tobacco as usual.-90. Frequent spitting of tenacious saliva. A good deal of mucus in
the mouth, without any strange taste. Tenacious mucus in
the throat, which comes off after a little hawking, but leaves a
sort of roughness. Slimy taste in the mouth; the mouth feels
lined with mucus.  He relishes his food, except the bread,
which has a rough, dry and scraping taste.-95. Bread has a
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mouth. Bread, and food generally, are repugnant to him.
Aversion to meat and& broth for several days.-100. Desire
for cold milk, he swallows it greedily.]
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS:-170. Repletion and eructations
after moderate eating. A sort of canine hunger; nevertheless,
he has a sort of soap-taste in the mouth; every thing he takes.
has a straw-taste and causes eructations; the appetite disappears after taking the least quantity of food, and he feels replete. Creeping in the stomach and horrid eructations, which
only abated in the recumbent posture, but returned whenever
he raised himself. Empty eructations after eating or drinking..
Violent empty eructations in the evening, followed immediately
after by hiccough which had no sensation of any kind. (a. 36
h.)-175.   Frequent eructations, also tasting of the ingesta.
Burning eructations. Giddy in the head shortly after a meal.
Drawing toothache in a tooth which is not hollow, shortly after
dinner. Anxiety in the abdomen with flatulence, mostly after
a meal.-180. Sudden weakness in the head and vertigo,
(when standing) making him feel as if he would fall forward.'
Headache immediately after a meal (tension in the whole
sinciput). (Cough immediately after a meal.) Weary immediately after a meal.-185. Excessive sleepiness immediately
after a meal. Excessive distention of the abdomen immediately after a meal. Headache after drinking beer. Sensation of heat in the head after drinking beer.  Shuddering,
especially after a meal.-190. Pressure at the stomach after
a meal, for several hours, as if occasioned by indigestible food.
Pinching in the epigastric region, after eating or drinking.
Nausea after eating or drinking. Nausea and confluence of
saliva in the mouth after eating and after drinking coffee. (Her
stomach felt oppressed during dinner; this prevented her from
falling asleep; the pressure had passed off after waking.)195. Early after rising, he feels warm and qualmish as if he
would vomit; the nausea disappears after lying down again.
She frequently raises herself in the night in her sleep, and she
gags as if she would vomit; but she does not vomit. Confluence of the saliva in the mouth early in the morning, with a
desire to vomit; still she feels hungry. In the evening she
felt several times a suffocative sensation ascending from the
pit of the stomach to the pit of the throat, which arrested the
breathing momentarily.
[He feels replete after taking a glass of wine; he has an aversion to wine and feels at the same time a heaviness of the head.

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Complete want of appetite. Complete loss of appetite, for several
days. Want of appetite; he eats but little, is very soon satiated,
and is nevertheless hungry.-105. At a period when he ought to
have been hungry, he was without any appetite, the mouth being
full of saliva which had a flat, slimy taste. Want of appetite in
the palate and throat, with emptiness in the stomach and canine hunger, the latter disappearing after having been seated
for a time. Peculiar heaviness in the abdomen, which felt quite
empty, with hunger in the sitting posture. (a. 24 h.) He was
hungry in the morning, but when sitting down to breakfast he
cared nothing about eating. Natural hunger early in the morning; indifference to food at dinner, which he relished nevertheless.-110. More than his usual appetite.' (a. 4 d.) Little
appetite, but hunger with sensation as if the hunger affected
the chest. He felt qualmish and nauseated after rising from
bed, as if in the chest. Nausea. Nausea as if in the throat.
-115. Nausea in the chest with canine hunger; the nausea
disappears after satisfying the hunger. Nausea in the stomach
and qualmishness in the chest, which became worse when
stooping. (a. 26 h.) Risings from the stomach, which became
incarcerated in the right chest. After a meal he becomes
faint and giddy. Drawing with pressure, from below upward,
in the left hypochondrium, with anxiety and nausea in the chest.
(a. 63 h.)-120. Nausea early in the morning after rising, with
a sort of anguish, which gradually goes off in the open air.
(a. 27 h.) Nausea which was somewhat relieved after eating,
but which returned again, with hunger without an appetite.
Fullness in the stomach after a moderate meal, as if he had
overloaded the stomach, the appetite continuing strong. Canine
hunger and emptiness in the stomach, with want of appetite in
the palate and throat, going off after having sat a while. Hard
pressing in the hypochondria from below upward, with anxiety,
as if he were threatened with death, when sitting crooked.
(a. 9 h.)
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if swollen, impeding respiration (in the evening).-200.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if he had swallowed too
large a morsel. Oppression in the stomach toward evening, as
if the parts in the pit of the stomach were drawn together. (a.
6 h.) A sort of clawing in the pit of the stomach, as if too full
and tight. Violent throbbing below the pit of the stomach. Violent throbbing in the region of the stomach.-205. Contractive
pain on the right side toward the stomach. Stitches extending
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from the right side towards the stomach. Sticking pain with
pressure in the region of the stomach (impeding a deep inspiration). Colic: sensation as if a heavy lump were lying in the
abdomen. No colic when lying down, but the abdomen is
painful when sitting, as if it were pressed upon.-210. Aching
pain at a small spot in the abdomen, as if a wind had become
incarcerated, only when moving and turning the body considerably, for instance, when going up stairs; not when feeling the
part. Spasmodic pains in the right side of the abdomen, early
in the morning, when catching a little cold, accompanied with
a moaning, desponding, disconsolate mood. (a. 24 h.) First a
cutting in the abdomen, afterwards a sticking in the right side
of the abdomen. Colic composed of cutting, tearing, and pinching, affecting the whole of the intestines, without much flatulence or distention of the abdomen, worse during motion, but
gradually improving during rest. (a. 24 h.) Painful distention
of the abdomen, with colic, as if occasioned by a quantity of
flatulence, shortly after a meal.-215. Excessive distention of
the abdomen, shortly after a meal. His abdomen was distended the whole day, with fermentation in the same. Fetid flatulence. Burning in the abdomen and thirst.-220. Digging-up
and writhing colic, as if a worm were moving in the abdomen.
Drawing pain in the left side of the abdomen during an inspiration. Contractive pain in the left groin. Pain and contraction in the abdomen, obliging her to walk crooked. Cutting in
the middle of the abdomen, before noon, at the same time she
was frequently obliged to go to stool, the discharge looking
natural; the pain abated by bending the body double; it increased by motion. (a. 16 h.)
[Pressing in the abdomen, as if the intestines were raised
towards the heart, when sitting. (a. 25 h.) Sensation, when
raising himself after stooping, as if the abdomen were bloated,with a warm feeling in the chest. A pressing in the left side
below the ribs. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, during motion. Sticking pain in the pit of the stomach. (a. 1- h.)-130.
Simple sticking in the pit of the stomach, near the right hypochondrium. (a. 10 h.) Pain in the stomach. Sensation as if a
lump were lying in his stomach, after a meal, especially when
standing. Painful pinching below the diaphragm, above the
stomach; afterwards the pinching is felt in the stomach itself.
Pinching in the pit of the stomach, extending thence rapidly
into the hypogastrium, where it is felt at a small place. (a. 3 h.)
-135. Pinching in the umbilical region on the right side, with
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upward. (a. 25 h.) Pinching in the right side under the ribs,
soon extending to the umbilical region, as if he had worms in
the body, when sitting. (a. 23 h.) Pinching in the abdomen,
in the forenoon, when walking in the open air, accompanied
with incarcerated flatulence, which is not passed in sufficient
quantity. (a. 25 h.) An almost jerking pinching in different
parts of the abdomen.-140. Excessive pinching in the abdomen, during a natural evacuation. (a. 25 h.) Distention of the
abdomen in the umbilical region, with violent pinching. Digging-up pain in the right side of the abdomen. Sticking, from
the umbilicus toward the region of the heart, as if an arrow
were flying through the part, repeated at every beat of the
pulse. (a. 24 h.) Sticking above the umbilicus.-145. Drawing from the umbilical to the pubic region. (a. 27 h.) Contusive
pain below the umbilicus. Visible contraction in the middle of
the abdomen, across the umbilicus, the abdomen feeling hard,
distended and rigid along that line. (a. 3 h.) Cramplike drawing in the umbilical region. Cutting in the left side of the umbilicus, during an inspiration while sitting.-150. Cracking and
rumbling in the abdomen, with shocks in the direction of the
mons veneris. (a. 36 h.) Fullness and fermentation in the abdomen, with hunger, the whole of these symptoms passing off
after a meal. (a. 26 h.) The flatulence occasions a jerking in
the abdomen. Easy emission of a quantity of wind, which
seems to form in the rectum. (a. 1 h.) Frequent flatulence in
the abdomen, which he does not pass in the evening.-155.
Rumbling flatulence and pinching in the abdomen, without
any flatulence being emitted. Darting and pinching pain in
the abdomen. When walking, the interior of the abdomen feels
lax, and he feels a shaking in it at every step. Early in the
morning, after rising, the abdomen was affected with an ulcerative pain when extending the body, and the abdominal integuments felt as if too short. (a. 24 h.) Drawing sensation,
with pressure in the right side of the abdomen, and a feeling in
the abdominal integument, when sitting, as if it were covered
with cobweb. (a. 4 h.)-160. Pressing on the mons veneris.
Sensation in the mons veneris, as if distended, when walking in the open air. Drawing, transversely, across the region of the abdominal ring, when sitting. Tension, with
stitching in the left groin. Sensation in the left groin, as if one
portion of the contents (hernia) had protruded--165. Pressure
in the right groin as if hernia would come on. Heaviness in the
left groin, when walking, as if a tumor were hanging down.
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STOOL:-225. Constant tenesmus, with nausea and tearing
in the intestines; the urging sometimes was ineffectual, sometimes resulted merely in a watery discharge. Burning in the
rectum before every stool. The child cries previous to stool;
it is quiet after the evacuation is over. Four natural stools at
short intervals (after a few hours). Seven diarrhceic stools, like
jelly, streaked, white and yellow, without colic. (a. 20 h.)-230.
Three or four watery stools, with a quantity of flatulence. (a. 24
h.) Diarrhea. (Several loose stools a day, followed by tenesmus.) Diarrhoea; every evacuation being preceded by pinching. (a. 40 h.) Hacked diarrhceic stool.-235. (White stool,
neither too loose nor too hard.) (Constipation.) (a. 3 d.) (Stool
somewhat bloody.) Frequent urging, but scanty discharge. (a.
68 h.) Sore, blind haemorrhoids, protruding after every stool.
(a. 24 h.)-240. Soreness of the anus between the stools. Laborlike drawing toward the uterus, when standing. Drawing
in the back from above downward, with tension and pressing
in the rectum, as if every thing would come out there. Creeping in the rectum as of ascarides (after a few hours). Itching,
deep in the rectum.-245. Itching pain of the anus, as if occasioned by hemorrhoids.
[Severe pinching and digging-up in the abdomen, accompanied with sudden expulsion of frequent stools, mingled with
flatulence, excessively fetid, first thick, afterwards watery. (a.
1 h.) The colic abates after the evacuation, but soon returns
again with a renewed desire for stool.-170. Diarrhoea. Diarrhaea, several times an hour, for 60 hours. (a 30 h.) Stools,
mixed with blood. Red and yellow stool, mixed with mucus
jellylike and flowing. Sudden, loose, yellow, frothy stools,
without almost any smell, and without being preceded by
colic; the first drops are passed involuntarily, as if the sphincter were paralyzed. (a. 24 h.)-175. Coherent, but loose, whiteyellowish stools. (a. 45 h.)]
URINARY ORGANS: Burning pain in the region of the
root of the urethra, during inicturition. Stitches in the bladder,
on both sides, when a desire to urinate is coming on. He has
to urinate every minute in daytime. Profuse emission of urine.
(a. 14 h.)-250. He urinates three times in the night. He
eructates whenever he emits urine. Hot urine. Dark urine.
The urine is turbid while being emitted.-255. Dark urine,
which soon becomes turbid. White-turbid urine, which became
more so as the emission continued, so that the last drops looked
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[Horrid eruption upon the genital organs,' closing of the
urethra by swelling." Humid eruption on the scrotum,3 and
swelling of the prepuce and glans. Considerable biting in the
forepart of the urethra, both duiing and after micturition, continuous more in rest than when walking. (a. 5 h.) Swelling of
the glans, early in the morning when rising, with simple pain
when touching it, accompanied with biting in the urethra, during and after micturition. (a. 12 h.)-180. Stinging itching of
the inner surface of the prepuce. (a. 9 h.)]
GENITAL ORGANS: Pain in the inguinal glands, at night
when in bed, when she moves, turns to the other side or raises
herself.-- 260. Simple pain in the abdominal ring, as if hernia would protrude. Red spots on the inner side of the prepuce, near the frmnu]lum. Swelling of the prepuce, close to
where it unites with the glans. Irresistible desire for emission,
after three o'clock in the morning. (a. 20 h.) Profuse nocturnal
emissions. (a. 6 h.)-265. Violent labor pains, as if the menses
would suddenly make their appearance, in the hypogastrium
(immediately, for four hours). Stitching in the vagina, not increased by contact. Pain in the vagina, as if sore, in the evening, shortly after touching it. Sore pain in the vagina in the
evening, without touching it, two evenings in succession. Discharge of blood from the womb (menses). (a. 7 h.)-270. Some
discharge of blood from the womb, without pain, in a pregnant
female, about new moon. (a. 72 h.) In a female somewhat advanced in years the menses stopped suddenly on the third day,
without another drop of blood.4
[Violent erection toward morning, with frequent desire to
urinate. Frequent erection at night, with frequent emissions
of urine. Cutting drawing in the left testicle. The menses,
which had ceased for a long time, reappear profusely. (a. 7
h.)-185. The menstrual discharge causes a violent biting
pain in the pudendum.]
CATARRH, LARYNX AND TRACHEA:-Frequent, violent,
almost spasmodic sneezing. Hoarseness deep in the trachea.
-275. Scraping rough feeling in the larynx, causing hoarseness. Roughness in the throat and trachea, as if the chest
were raw and sore. Involuntary flow of a quantity of mucus
from the nose, as in a very bad kind of catarrh, without any
SFrom moistening the hand with the juice, and from the genital
organs having probably been moistened by the juice likewise.
2 And death.
F From moistening the hand with the juice.
SShe was fifty years old, and continued to have her menses for too
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catarrh being present, early in the morning after rising.
(The nose is sometimes obstructed as in dry coryza, worse in
the room, better in the open air.) Ascension of a hot vapor
from the throat (the lungs).
[Roughness of the throat, inducing a short and hacking
cough. (a. 3 h.) Cough and coryza, with expectoration.
Sensation of coldness in the throat during an expiration, as if
a cold breath were rushing out.]
CHEST: Palpitation of the heart, so violent when sitting
still that the body became moved by every beat of the pulse.
Tremor of the heart. Itching of the breasts. Itching of the
left nipple, in the evening after lying down in bed. Vanishing
of the milk in the breasts. (a. 12 h.)-285. Contractive sensation in the sternum, with sticking jerks in the sternum.
(Early in the morning when in bed.) Pain in the chest as if
the sternum were pressed in, going off after rising. Contractive sensation in the chest. Tension across the chest in the
evening, short breathing and weakness in all the limbs. Oppression of the chest in the night, with sticking pains, especially during an inspiration.. (a. 5 h.)-290. Shortness of
breath, especially when going to stool. She is not able to sit
down; has to take deep breath, as if she would suffocate, especially after a meal. Nausea, with desire to vomit, under the
short ribs, oppressing the breathing. Oppressed and anxious,
as if she had no breath. Sensation in the pit of the throat, as
if the trachea were stopped and constricted; this sensation
went off for a short time by eating and drinking, but returned
speedily.-295. The breathing becomes heavy after he had
walked awhile. Scraping and burning sensation in the chest,
even between the inspirations. Short, anxious, painful cough,
frequently waking him  before midnight, with very short
breathing. Frequent titillation in the air-passages, as if he
would cough, making the breath short;it goes off by moderate exercise. Titillating cough especially in the evening,
causing dryness in the throat.-300. Cough, with a disagreeable tension across the chest. Frequent vomiturition in the
evening after lying down, with bitter taste in the throat, until
he falls asleep; the same vomiturition and taste in the throat
early in the morning, until he rises from bed. Sweat all over
when coughing. (Cough in the open air.) Panting cough,
with concussion in the head.-305. The cough racks the
whole chest, as if every part in the chest were loose. Pain in
the stomach when coughing. (Vomiting of the ingesta when
coughing, in the evening.) When coughing she feels a taste
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blood. The cough torments him a good deal in the night.310. Dry cough before midnight, which occasioned a sticking
in one of the loins. Cough at three o'clock in the morning,
worst after waking. Cough especially violent after waking.
(Cough, especially in the morning, with black, viscid expectoration.) Stitches when coughing in the left side of the chest.
-315. Disagreeable feeling of heat in the chest, when walking in the open air. Slow drawing down the left chest, not
during the inspirations, but when the chest is quiet. Pimples
in the right side of the chest, extending as far as half the
back; they feel sore and as if excoriated, with fine stitches
piercing from within outwards. Deep stitches on either side
of the sternum, when stooping while sitting. Violent sticking
in the left side in the evening, under the ribs, until midnight.
-320. Boring stitches in one of the lowest ribs, when standing. Lancination from the right breast to the left side of the
abdomen, in the evening. Stitches in the left side when talking and taking a deep inspiration. Frequent stitches in the
side. Frequent stitches in the right side.-325. Stitches in
the side when walking in the open air.
[-190. Weakness in the chest after a walk in the open
air, making it difficult for him to talk. Fullness in the chest,
accompanied with hunger without appetite. Pressing in the
left chest not far from the pit of the stomach, when stooping
while sitting. (a. 25 h.) The chest and the upper molares
feel pithy and numb. The left side of the trunk, from the
axilla to below the ribs, is swollen and painful.-195. Oppression of the thoracic cavity. (a. 2 h.) Oppression of the
chest, as after violent weeping. Constrictive sensation in the
chest; he feels qualmish and nauseated. Stinging, oppressive
pain in the sternum, impeding respiration, with a continual
short cough, without expectoration. (a. 2 h.)-200. Fatiguing
cough, with expectoration of white mucus, day and night.
Some severe, pulsative stitches over the region of the heart,
obliging him to exclaim, when sitting, in the evening. (a. -
h.) Boring pain in the left side, in the evening when in bed.
(a. 5h.)]
NECK:--His neck aches during motion, as if stiff and tensive. Pain in the nape of the neck, as of a heavy burthen, preventing him from lying down. (a. 4 d.) Tearing between
the shoulders, drawing them near one another from both
sides. Violent rheumatic pain between the scapulae, neither
alleviated nor increased by motion or rest, relieved by warmth,
but aggravated by cold. (a. 48 h.)
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Pressure in the posterior cervical muscles when bending the
head forward.-205. Pressure in the upper part of the nape
of the neck; the place feels numb. (a. 10 h.) Drawing across
one side of the nape of the neck, when stooping. Rheumatic
stiffness in the nape of the neck. Stiffness of the nape of the
neck. (a. 4 h.) Stiffness of the whole neck, obliging her to
complain of pain in the nape of the neck whenever she attempts to move her head. (a. 4 h.)-210. Itching of the
neck and the forearms. The left shoulder feels paralyzed.
Tensive cutting across the scapula. Rumbling jerking and
contractive sensation in some parts of the left scapula and
over the right knee. Pain on the left scapula as if a strong
pressure were made upon it with the finger. (a. h.)-215.
Contraction of the skin on the left scapula. (a. 54 h.) Tensive cutting across the scapule. Jerking in the side near
the left scapula, when sitting. Pressure under the left scapula in the side of the back, seeming to come from below.
Drawing and pressure under the left scapula, oppressing the
breathing.-220. Pressure on the right scapula.]
BACK --330. Stitching in the back when stooping (evening). Stitches in the back, with pressure, more when
walking than when sitting; also when stooping, but more
when raising himself again. Drawing pain in the back in
the evening; he had to sit straight. Drawing pain in the
back when sitting, disappearing when walking. Constrictive
pain in the muscles of the back when sitting, diminished
by leaning backward, increased by stooping forward.-335.
When sitting, the small of the back feels painful, as after strong
stooping and bending of the back. Pain in the small of the
back, as if bruised, when lying upon it quietly, or when sitting still; he does not feel any thing when moving about.
Stitching jerks in the small of the back (when walking).
Stiffness of the small of the back, painful during motion. Pain
in the small of the back, when touching the parts, as if the
flesh had been beaten loose.-340. (When walking or standing he feels a sort of tearing from the hip to the knee.) When
lying on one side, his hip aches, and when lying on the back,
the small of the back aches.
[Bruised sensation in the right side of the lumbar vertebrM
and in the small of the back. Stiffness in the small of the
back. When standingor bending backwards, he feels a pressure
in the small of the back as with a sharp edge.-225. Burning
point in the small of the back, towards the right side. Heaviness and pressure in the small of the back, as if a blow had
been received upon it, when sitting. (a. 6 days.) Drawingdarting sticking, as with a nail, in the os coccygis.]



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UPPER EXTREMITIES: Stitching in the shoulder when lying
down, ceasing during motion. Swelling of the axillary glands,
which is painful both when touched and when in a state of rest.
Sensation from the shoulder to the hand, as if something were
rolling down; the sensation is neither warm nor cold.-345. Tremor of the arm when exerting it moderately. Drawing stitches
in the arms, commencing in the shoulders. Boring stitches in
the upper arm, when standing. Tearing in both upper arms;
worse when working; she then has to let her arms hang down;
they are more painful under the bed-cover, and the bone aches
when feeling it. Painless beating in the left elbow.-350.
Drawing and tearing from the elbow joint to the wrist joint.
Tension in the elbow-joint, when stretching the arm; she had
difficulty in lifting the arm. Lancination in the left carpus.
Drawing pain in the palm of the right hand. Cold sensation
in the carpus which has the natural warmth to the feel, as if
a cold wind were flowing upon it.-355. The dorsum of the
hand is covered with rhagades, and hot; the skin is hard,
rough and stiff. In the evening the hands and face are swollen
and hot. (Bubbling for several hours in the right hand between
the thumb and the index-finger.) Hard pimples on the hand,
with stinging corrosive itching.  Inflamed blotch over the
middle-joint of the ring-finger, with itching-burning pain, sometimes passing over into a slow stitch; cannot be removed by
friction and scratching.-360. Pimples on the inner side of the
carpus and on the cheeks, which resemble itch, affected with
burning itching, and smarting when scratched. (Pinching on
the dorsum of the fingers, on the outer parts of the arms and
on the occiput.) (Spasmodic contraction of the fingers.) In
the morning the index and middle finger of one hand feel as
if gone to sleep.
[Sensation on the left shoulder, near the clavicle, as if some
one were pressing there. Tearing in the shoulder-joint and in
the upper part of the scapula.--230. Burning prickings in the
arm, below the axilla. Drawing in the left arm, when raising
it, from below the axilla to the middle of the upper arm.
Sensation as if hot water were running through the arms.
Prickings in the left upper arm. (a. 5 days.)  Violent stitch in
the right upper arm, as if coming from without.-235. Tension in the left upper arm in the open air. (a 10 h.) Jerking
sensation in the left arm. Cramplike drawing in the left elbowjoint, when moving it. (a. 76 h.) Burning-itching pain in the
left elbow, obliging him to scratch, and going off after scratching. (a. - h.) Digging-up pain in the bone of the left forearm
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forearm feels stiff.-240. Debility and stiffness of the forearm and fingers when moving them. (a. 25 h.) Coldness of
the forearms. Corrosive burning in the right forearm. (a. 4
d.) Jeiking tearing in the elbow-joint and the wrist-joint, also
in rest, relieved by motion. (a. 5, 6 h.) Violent tearing pain
in the arm, most violent when lying still.-245. Sensation of
debility in the upper part of the right forearm during motion,
and pain in the carpus, as if sprained, when seizing any thing.
(a. 27 h.) The left forearm is painful as if bruised. (a. 48. h.)
Erysipelas, swelling, pustules and burning itching of the
arms and hands. Sensation in the skin of the left forearm as
if rubbed with a woollen cloth, or as if it had been scraped
with a knife, accompanied with a cold sensation in the arm.
Sprained sensation in the upper surface of the left carpus,
when bending it.-250. Burning in the flesh between the
thumb and left index-finger. (a. 11 h.) Involuntary painless
jerking inward of both thumbs, only when laying the hand on
something, for instance, on the table. (a. 24 h.) Creeping and
gnawing in the lower knuckles of the second and third fingers of
the left hand. Stitching in the dorsum of the index-finger in
a tendon. Stinging pain in the fingers.-255. Sensation in
the tips of the fingers (in the warm room) as if they were too
much filled with blood, the dorsa of the hands being cold. (a.
10 h.) Creeping in the tips of the fingers as if they had gone
to sleep. Sensation in the left index-finger, as one feels after
it had gone to sleep. Tearing in the joints of all the fingers.]
LOWER EXTREMITIES: Aching pain in both hip-joints at
every step, and a paralytic feeling in the anterior muscles of the
thighs.-365. Red, hot spot on the right hip, affected with a
burning pain. Jerking in the thigh, with tremor of the knees.
Stitches in the thigh fiom within outwards. Boring stitches
in the thigh when standing. Occasional drawing pain in the
thigh, obliging her to bend double, when rising from a seat
and when standing, but not when sitting. (a. 96 h.)-370.
Jerking tearing in the right thigh, a little above the knee. (a.
96 h.) When sitting down after a walk, he feels a buzzing
sensation in the knees and the bends of the knees. Stiffness,
especially in the knees and feet. Drawing and tearing from
the knee to the tarsal joint. Drawing pain in the knee.-375.
Stitching in the side of the knee when walking. Violent itching in the region of the tendons of the hamstrings, in the evening when pulling off the stockings; scratching caused pain.
Drawing in the whole foot, as if paralytic, when sitting. Great
inclination to stretch the leg and foot, early in the morning in
bed. The bends of the knees and the calves feel heavy as a
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lower limbs feel heavy and iveary, as if she had walked a
good deal. The legs feel very weak in the afternoon when
walking in the open air; he was scarcely able to drag them,
they felt so heavy and bruised; after having sat an hour, all
weariness had disappeared.  Tension in the calves when
walking, and as if the hamstrings were too short. Jerking in
the calves. Heaviness and tension in the feet, when sitting;
when walking, he merely feels weary.--385. Painful weariness
in the legs when sitting, going off by walking. (a. 36 h.)
Tension in the knee as if it were too short. Heaviness in
the legs extending from above the knee to the lower tarsal
joint, making it difficult for her to stand; this heaviness
diminishes when walking and is not perceptible when sitting.
His feet feel weak only when sitting, as if the blood were
descending into the feet. Weariness in the feet so that she is
not well able to ascend a height, as if she had been running
too fast.-390. Her lower limbs feel paralyzed. (a. 12 d.)
Cramp in the calf after midnight, when lying in the bed,
and when sitting down after a walk; the cramp disappears
by bending the knee. Cramp in the calf when sitting, going
off immediately after rising or commencing to move (immediately). Stitch in the tendons of the hamstrings directly above
the calf, during fatiguing motion, when rising from a seat, and
when touching the parts. (Clucking sensation in the outer
side of the calf lasting several hours.)-395. Lancination
in the parts over the tibiae, anteriorly; accompanied with
debility and weariness. When rising from a seat she feels
a stitch across the knee. Sudden pain for half an hour in
the affected leg, toward evening: a general slight beating and
creeping, accompanied with a cramplike pain (somewhat
as is felt in a panaritium, in rest, but increased by motion;
worst when touching the part; it disappeared suddenly). Pain
in the tibia; a sort of groaning in them in the night when laying her feet across one another; she had to move her legs
frequently to and fro, which prevented her from sleeping.
Beating in the dorsum of the foot.-400. Tingling in the feet
early in the morning when lying in bed (and after rising).
Deadness of the right foot; it felt as if made of wood. Itching
in the region of the outer malleolus of the left foot and above
the dorsum of the foot. Swelling of the feet, which is painless
when touched, in the evening. (a. 48 h.) Sticking as with
knives in the lower part of the tendo Achillis, worse when
touched and after lying down.-405.  Stitch in the inner
malleolus of the right foot, when rising from a seat. Cramplike
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Early in the morning, when rising, the foot feels sprained.
(Sweaty feet.) Pain in the sole of the right foot, near the ball,
as if an increasingly strong pressure were constantly made
upon the painful spot.-410. Tension and pressing in the
sole of the foot. When treading, the heels ache and feel pithy.
Stitches in the heel when treading. Short, burning pricking
between the small and the great toe, in the evening when
walking and also at night when in bed. (a. 12 h.) Stitching
in the affected ball of the big toe, in paroxysms, as is felt in
an abscess which opens; a beating is felt in the evening.415. Stitch from the big toe to the middle of the left breast,
when standing. Stitch in the right big toe. The chilblains
break out again, four months and a half too early, a burning
itching in the chilblains in the afternoon and evening; when
not scratching, he feels a pricking in the chilblains, obliging
him to scratch; tumors come on after scratching.1 The corn
has a burning sore pain, from the pressure of the shoe. (a. 3 h.)
Pain in both heels when first treading, as if he walked on
needles.-420. Pricking in the bottom of the foot, as if he were
walking upon needles. (Small, red, round blotches on the ball
of the foot.)
[Drawing pain in the right buttock, directly below the
small of the back, going off by pressing upon the part.-260.
Cramplike contraction in the right buttock. Cramplike pain
in the left buttock when standing. (a. 29 h.) Cramp in the
left buttock and thigh. Tension in the groin near the left
hip, when sitting, as if there were not skin enough.-265.
Tension in the left hip-joint when sitting. Tension in the left
thigh, coming out of the joint. Drawing and tearing in the
right groin, extending along the thigh. (a. 9 h.) Tearing
pain in the outer part of the midde of the thigh when sitting,
going off during motion. Sensation in the upper part of the
right thigh, internally, towards the groin, as is felt in the fingers
when stretching them apart, with the wrist-joint being either
strained or sprained. (a. 58 h.)-270. Tension in the posterior
side of the thigh when crossing the limbs. (a. 6 d.) Bruised
and drawing pain in the right thigh. (a. 56 h.) Cramplike
pressure when sitting, in one part of the right thigh below the
groin. Burning point in the inner side of the right thigh, near
the scrotum. (a. 2- h.) Red, burning spots and streaks on the
inner side of both knees, with small vesicles which soon dried
up.-275. Crawling on the inner side of the right knee, with
tension of the tendons. (a. 2- h.) Tension with stretching of
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the tendons on the inner side of the right knee, causing an
uneasiness in the foot. (a. 2- h.) Tension in the left knee-joint,
when rising from a seat. A drawing in the bend of the right
knee, when bending it. (a. 27 h.) Tearing in the knee and the
tarsal joint, more in rest.-280. Stitching below the right knee.
Stitching during a walk, first in the interior of the left, then of
the right knee. Cramplike pressure in the left tibia when
bending the knee; afterward burning. Coldness in the region
of the left tibia. Pressure in the outer region of the right tibia,
which is followed by a burning.-285. He can scarcely get
along in the street, owing to the stiffness of the legs; he constantly staggers to the right side (forenoon). Fine pricking in
the outer parts of the leg. (a. 11 h.) Stinging itching in the
left calf. Drawing in the right calf, internally, which makes
the foot uneasy. Sensation as if the skin of the calf were too
tight, with stinging in the skin when sitting, disappearing
dhring motion.-290. Cramplike drawing in the left calf extending as far as the bend of the knee. Sticking as with a
knife in the left tarsal joint, from without inward. Drawing
in the right tarsal joint, Burning stitches and sensation of
warmth on the dorsum of the right foot. (a. 4 d.) Drawing in
the heel of the left foot, from below upward, accompanied with
burning.-295. Feeling of heat in the left foot. Stitching in
the left heel, when sitting, after a walk in the open air. Spasmodic contraction in the inner side of the bottom of the foot,
abating when stretching the foot or bending it upward. (a. 64
h.) Stinging itching in the ball of the big toe of the left foot.
Drawing-aching pain in the big toe of the right foot, with a
sensation of warmth.-300. Fine stinging in the left big toe.
Fine stinging in the fourth toe of the left foot.]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Pricking in a small spot in the limbs,
becoming worse when lying down. Pricking in the joints, in
rest (and when bending, not when stretching the limb), not
when touching them, nor during the night when in the recumbent posture. (Creeping pain in the face, the dorsal spine and
the sternum.)-425. Creeping in the ulcer. Pains in the affected part, with anxiety, which cause him to moan, when
sitting still. (Biting pain in the ulcer, as of salt, only in the
night; she is frequently waked by the pain; the pain disappeared in the daytime, and only returned when walking in the
open air.) Pricking in the region of the scurf, early in the
morning when waking. (Pain in the ulcer as if bruised.)430. Burning-biting pain in the ulcer, with crying and moaning.  (Quickly-passing burning in the affected part.) The
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Drawing in all the limbs when lying down.--435. Continual
tearing-drawing pain about eight o'clock in the evening, when
sitting; disappearing during a walk (is not felt again when
lying down). The pains in the joints are worse in the open
air. He feels stiff when going down hill; the stiffness is not
felt when walking on level ground. She feels stiff when rising
from a seat. Feeling of stiffness when commencing to walk
after having sat still.-440. Weariness which is worst when
sitting, diminishes when walking; he feels very stiff when
rising from his seat. Great debility, as if his bones ached;
she sits or lies down all the time. Unsteadiness of the limbs,
with chilliness; was on that account unable to stand. Paralytic sensation of the whole body, in every joint; it is worst
after sitting when attempting to rise again, and towards evening. After having walked an hour in the open air, he felt a
pain in his feet, and became immovable; this went off again
when sitting.-445. His lower limbs feel weary. Sudden
faintishness at nine o'clock in the evening, with full consciousness his heart did not beat; he was more cold than
warm; his mind felt easy, but he was scarcely able to walk.
(a. 48 h.) The limbs tremble after exerting them for a time.
He trembles and grasps at things hastily. She staggers when
rising in the morning, and is unable to stand erect. (a. 20 h.)
-450. Early in the morning, when lying in the bed, those
limbs and joints upon which he does not lie, feel bruised.
[Extreme mobility and animation of the body, one afternoon (third day). Tremulous sensation in the limbs, even
when in rest. Jerking in different parts of the body, between
the joints.-305.  Jerking in the limbs. Jerking of single
muscles. Burning itching here and there. Stinging pain in
the limbs. Creeping in the paralyzed parts.-310. Swelling
of the hands and feet. Black pustules, inflamed and itching,
covering the whole body in a short while. Scurfy eruption
over the whole body. Burning eruption of small vesicles
filled with water, and redness of the skin of the whole body,
except the hairy scalp, the palm of the hand and the bottom
of the feet. Itching of the whole body, especially the hairy
parts, the hairy scalp and the genital organs.-315. Red spots
of the size of large lentils, with small vesicles in the middle
filled with water. Black stain on the spot which had been
touched by the juice. (a. 3 d.) That portion of the skin which
had been touched by the juice became tough and hard like
leathtr. The skin touched by the juice becomes as hard as
tanned leather; the hardened parts scale off in a few days.
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fainted.' He feels aebilitated, bruised, as if he had not slept
a whole night. Extreme weakness of the lower limbs, especially in rest. The left arm and leg are somewhat contracted and stiff.-325. Paralysis of the lower limbs for three
days; he walked with the greatest difficulty, dragging his feet
along.2  During and after a walk, all his limbs feel stiff and
paralyzed; accompanied with a sensation in the nape of the
neck as if it were oppressed by a hundred-weight. Inclines
to lie down. Cannot remain up.]
SLEEP: Inclines to sleep, when sitting down after a walk.
A good deal of yawning in the morning, as if sleepy; also in
the evening. Wants to lie down all the time; drowsiness in
daytime, anxiety, restlessness, sadness, dry lips. Drowsiness
in daytime; she feels very sleepy in the morning when rising.
-455. Restlessness during the siesta; he moves his hands to
and fro when sleeping, and plays with his fingers and hands.
He feels nauseated when sitting up. Inclines to lie down, feels
weary and debilitated; does not feel rested enough when sitting. Does not want to get up in the morning. Feels drowsy
in the evening at six o'clock, suddenly, and to such an extent,
that she is not able to undress herself; paralyzed in all her
limbs.-460. Violent and spasmodic yawning,3 occasioning a
pain in the articulation of the jaw, which is near being dislocated, in the morning, and at any other period. Sleeplessness
before midnight, with or without sweat. Sleeplessness until
midnight, without heat; he was simply sleepless. He has no
sleep in the night, he sweats as soon as he lies down, without
thirst, but leaving him no rest. Painful cramp, first in one,
then in the other leg, in the forenoon, when in bed, which can
neither be removed by bending or stretching the lithb, nor by
leaning the foot against the foot-end of the bed, for half an
hour. (a. 12 h.)-465. Feels so wakeful and hot in the evening, that he is unable to sleep; no thirst, felt chilly when uncovering himself, his blood was agitated, his arteries throbbed,
sensation in his eyes as if thick clouds were passing before his
eyes; after midnight he became quiet and slept well. She
feels nauseated in the evening, when lying down; she had no
rest in bed, and had to turn from side to side all the time.
1 From the smoke of the wood, five or six persons.
s From moistening the fingers with a strong tincture of Rhus tox.
8 The muscles of mastication, in this cramp, seem to obtain a spasmodic preponderating action, which is sometimes so violent that the
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Sleepless for four nights; she could not remain up. Jerking in
that part of the head upon which he is resting in the night.
She is frequently waked in the night by an ugly bitter taste, with
a dry feeling in the mouth.-470. Thirst in the night without any desire for drink, the mouth feeling slimy. Violent pressure at the stomach as she was about to fall asleep, this prevented sleep for a long while. As soon as he was near falling
asleep, he had anxious dreams about his affairs. In the evening when sleeping he talks half loud about his daily affairs.
(a. 12 h.) Soporlike slumber, full of continual anxious dreams.
-475. Restless slumber after midnight, full of vexatious,
disagreeable ideas and thoughts. Frightful dreams, for instance that the world is perishing by fire, with palpitation of
the heart when waking. Dreams about fire. Cannot sleep
after three o'clock in the morning; if he sleeps again, he has
vivid dreams, and feels, after waking, as if he had not slept at
all. She sleeps with an open mouth.-4S0. Short breath in
the night. He cannot lie in any other position, in the night,
except on his back. Sensation in the night, as if something
pressed him out of his bed. Great anxiety in the night; he
cannot remain in his bed. Disagreeable feeling of heat over
the whole body, through the night, without thirst.-485. No
sound sleep after midnight; she has a burning sensation over
the whole of her body, obliging her to toss from side to side,
without thirst, accompanied with dreams full of anxious agitation. He talks loud in his morning sleep. In his night sleep
he talks about business, wants to throw away every thing,
asks for this or that. Starting, when on the point of falling
asleep, as if he dropped something of importance. He started
every quarter of an hour in his forenoon sleep.-490. Loud
and sniffing expirations during sleep; the inspirations are inaudible. Dizzy in the morning when waking, soon disappearing when rising. Shuddering sensation when rising from bed
in the morning.
[Frequent yawning in the morning when rising.-330.
Some began to yawn. Has no rest in the night. Restless, disturbed sleep, turns a good deal from side to side. A good deal
of sleeplessness at night. Restless sleep; he tosses about, and
raises his bed cover.-335. Falls asleep late, and tosses about
in his bed. Weeps loud in his sleep. Violent colic in the
night. (a. 5 d.) Is waked about midnight, by a violent pinching, digging-up bain in the abdomen, with a sensation of weariness and emptiness in the pit of the stomach, and quicklypassing desire to vomit. Anxiety at night; he would like to
leave his bed and call for help, on account of an indescribably
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disagreeable feeling.-340. Wakes from his sleep with convulsive, irregular movements of the limbs. Complains of an
excessive headache, which seems to come from a sensation in
the limbs, as if they were violently distended. Nausea in the
chest and stomach in the evening, when in bed, going off after
going to sleep. Dreams about things which had been done or
spoken of in the evening. (a. 72 h.) Light dreams about things
which had been thought or said the day before. He dreams in
the night that the plans which had been conceived the day
before had been realized, in connection with the things which
had suggested the plans.-345. Wakes early out of humor.
Out of humor, in the open air; is near sleeping when walking.]
FEVER: Feeling of coldness in the limbs, for instance, as
when a finger becomes dead, or when a limb is about to go to
sleep, or as is felt in the interior of a limb when a paroxysm of
fever and ague sets in; no coldness is perceptible to the hand.
He is very sensitive to the cold open air; it affects the skin
painfully; however, he is not averse to the open air.--495.
Icy-cold feet, in the evening when in bed; they cannot be got
warm; the rest of the body being warm. (a. 3 h.) She is
attacked with shuddering as soon as she leaves the stove. He
cannot get warm when walking in the cold air, although he
may be covered ever so much; he shakes with chilliness in the
open air, with violent thirst, and the lips being glued together
by mucus. Chilliness in the room towards evening; she had
a cold thrill all over. Chilliness (immediately).-500. Shuddering in the back (immediately). Chilliness about five o'clock
in the evening, with shaking in the room, with beating toothache
and confluence of saliva in the mouth, without thirst; the shaking and chilliness are still worse in the open air; afterwards the
shaking and chilliness continue in the warm room, even near the
hot stove, with violent thirst, the ptyalism ceasing; the chilliness ceased only in the bed, the thirst remaining; this was
followed by a stupid sleep, as if the head had been dull and
obtuse; the thirst existed yet in the morning, and the dullness
of the head likewise, but this passed off after rising. (a. 6 d.)
Chilliness toward evening; he had to lie down and to cover
himself; after this he became warmer. At seven o'clock in
the evening, he felt chilly and cold to himself externally, without shuddering, but did not feel cold to others, nor did he feel
cold internally; he is able to drink cold without being troubled
from it; immediately after lying down he feels hot externally,
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he is in a state of half slumber, a general exhalation sets in,
increasing to a sweat after midnight, first in the face, then on
the hairy scalp and throat down to the chest. Chilliness in
the open air, without thirst.-505. Shuddering and heat at
the same time over the whole body, after a walk in the open
air, without thirst, also some warm sweat over the whole skin
the palms of the hands sweat most. She feels too hot internally, the whole day, and chilly externally; nevertheless her
skin feels naturally warm to the hand, and she has no very
great thirst; coffee increases the internal heat. Pinching chilliness in the feet and between the shoulders; and a quarter of
an hour after, a good deal of external heat and burning pain
on the left arm and in the left side of the upper part of the
body, with redness of the cheeks. Chilliness and heat in the
evening; her face feels to her very hot; nevertheless the
cheeks felt pale and cold, but the breath which came out of
the mouth was very hot; two evenings in succession. Her
face looks red, and she experiences a burning heat in the skin;
to others her skin has a moderate temperature.-510. Evening-fever with diarrhoea; chilliness at eight o'clock in the
evening, followed by dry heat and thirst, and cuttings in the
abdomen and diarrhoea, for several hours, in bed; afterwards
sleep; diarrhoea again in the morning. (a. 24 h.) Eveningfever with diarrhoea (second paroxysm); chilliness through
all the limbs, for one hour, after six o'clock in the evening,
without thirst; followed by dry heat, after which came heat
with profuse sweat and thirst, three hours in all; mucous diarrhoea with violent cuttings in the abdomen, followed by tenesmus, and by a pressing from both temples towards the centre of the head, with congestion of blood and heat in the head.
(a. 48 h.) Fever: drowsiness, weariness and yawning (in the
forenoon); when walking, he felt inclined to sleep, with anxiety; afterwards an evacuation with cutting, followed by excessive heat in the whole body (at ten o'clock in the forenoon),
without thirst; sensation as if warm water were poured over
him, during which he felt an occasional shuddering; or sensation as if his blood were coursing hot through the vessels
and too violently through the head; and if the head were
pressed down, obliging him to stoop, with beating headache;
chilliness at seven o'clock in the evening, as if cold water
were poured over him, or as if the blood coursed too rapidly
through the vessels; after lying down and covering himself he
was attacked with heat immediately; in the night he felt a
kind of drawing in the dorsal spine, between the shoulders
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sweat in the morning. Fever: towards noon he is attacked
with a febrile coldness in all his limbs, with violent headache
and vertigo (somewhat relieved by a walk); again chilliness
toward evening; he has to lie down; he is unable to sleepin
the night; he is in a constant state of giddiness and sweat.
(a. 48 h.) Fever: (at five o'clock) in the afternoon he feels a
stretching in all his limbs, a shuddering over the whole body,
with much thirst, cold hands, and redness and heat in the
face; he feels a shuddering in the evening, in bed; in the
morning his whole body had been covered with a moisture,
accompanied with a pressing in the temples.-515. Chilliness
in the feet and between the scapulae; soon after heat on the
left side and in the left arm (immediately). Fever: (at six o'clock) in the afternoon the body feels warm, with internal and
external heat of the head, and shuddering over the body, without thirst; accompanied with stretching, drawing and debility
in the limbs, and headache as if the head felt dull and the sides
of the occiput were pressed together; accompanied with violent cough, short breath, and pain in the throat, as if the tonsils were swollen; towards morning the whole body was covered with a slight moisture. The left side of the body felt hot
and the right side cold, without chilliness. Chilliness about
the head and back, the fore part of the body felt hot. Occasional cold shuddering during the sweat, at night, in bed, the
shuddering being accompanied with cramps in the abdomen.
-520. Inclines to vomit, with heat of the head and hands,
and chilliness of the rest of the body; afterwards chilliness all
over during the inclination to vomit. She feels hot to herself
and others, the veins being distended, and accompanied with
a weakness, obliging her to lean backward, with violent thirst,
also frequently in the night; next day shuddering over the
upper part of the body, especially the arms. Heat in the forehead, in the evening, and in the whole head; the heat is not
felt so much on the outside. Extreme heat in the hands, with
dull headache, in the evening. (He is attacked with heat,
when sitting down.)-525. When returning home from a
walk in the open air, he is attacked with heat and sweat over
the whole body. Violent burning in the skin, with twitching
tremulousness of the skin, and a general sweat at night; a
violent paroxysm of cough sets in as soon as he stretches the
hand from under the cover. He is attacked with warmth
when walking in the cold, open air, and he is covered with
sweat all over. Sweat over the whole body, except the face,
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head.-530. Slight, vaporous exhalation from the skin in
daytime; he wants to be covered. The skin is moist and the
hair of the head is wet. Night-sweat, especially around the
neck. Sweat before midnight. Profuse morning-sweat.535. Daily morning-sweat. Sour-smelling morning-sweat,
with cold, sweaty cheeks. Slight sweat the whole night.
Sweat on both legs in the morning. Vaporous exhalation in
the night, of an acrid smell, without the skin becoming wet.
-540. Thirst, even in the morning. Violent thirst. (a. 1
h.) A good deal of thirst in the night (from two to five
o'clock); afterwards a vaporous exhalation.  Absence of
thirst. (a. 2 h.).
[Sensitiveness to the cold open air. (a. 4 h.) Chilliness,
with dry lips, and less thirst than hunger. Constant chilliness.-350. Shaking and chilliness when entering a warm
room from the open air, without thirst. Extreme coldness of
the hands and feet, the whole day. Great desire for water
and beer. Slow, sometimes irregular pulse. (a. 4 h.) Quick
pulse.-355. Warmth in the face and fingers, with chills in
the scapulae, without thirst. Heat and great thirst. Slight
chills, which were followed by slight warmth after lying down
in the evening, without thirst. Double-tertian fever, with
jaundice. Sweat all over, also in the face. (a. I h.)-360.
Sweat over the whole body, inodorous and not debilitating,
while sleeping, at three and four o'clock in the morning.]
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Impatient and vexed about every
trifle; she does not like to be spoken to often.-545. Out of
humor. Averse to every kind of work, even ever so little.
When on the point of falling asleep, he starts in affright about
a trifle, as if it would cause him the greatest misfortune. Her
ailments are excited or increased by the slightest chagrin, for
instance, discharge of lumps of blood after the menses had
ceased, etc. Sad; weeps without knowing why.-550. Invcluntary weeping without feeling in a weeping mood, with rumbling in the abdomen.   Company was indifferent to him.
Desponding; he would like to weep. Sadness, inducing a
love of solitude. (a. 10 h.) Melancholy and anxious, as if
she apprehended a misfortune, or as if she were alone, in dead
solitude and silence, or as if she had taken leave of a friend,
worst in the room, but relieved by walking in the open air.555. Dryness in the throat, with fits of frightful anxiety and
mental uneasiness. Anxious and tremulous (from 10th to 27th
day). Debility, with anxiety as if he would die, more after
than before midnight. Desires to die, without feeling sad.
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cause she thought she could not sit unsupported, on account of
the pain (bruised and drawing sensation in the limbs).-560.
Anguish of heart, more in the afternoon than forenoon; she
felt so anxious half the night that she did not sleep, and
sweated all the time. (a. 12 d.) Internal uneasiness, which
prevented her from sitting still; she had to move to and fro on
her chair, all her limbs being in that state of perpetual motion.
Restless mood, anxiety and apprehensiveness, accompanied
with constant paroxysms of sudden and painful uneasiness
about the heart (in the pit of the stomach), and heavy breathing. He did not sleep half the night, was desponding, apprehensive and full of anguish about the heart. Ill-humored,
desponding.-565. Full of sad thoughts, aniious and fearful,
which induce debility, and oblige her to lie down for hours,
to gather strength. He imagines that an enemy means to
poison him. She had an inexpressible anguish, with pressure
at the heart and tearing in the small of the back. She was
unable to sleep from three o'clock in the morning; she rose
anxious, restless, and debilitated, and trembles constantly,
especially in the knees (with sweat in the back).-570. During
her anxiety she feels a confused movement under her chest,
oppressing her so much that she breathes heavily and deeply,
which gives her relief; the pulse is alternately slow and fast.
Anxiety and apprehensiveness at twilight, towards evening,
as if he ought to kill himself, for one hour. He was assailed
with sad thoughts, which gave her fear and made her tremble.
She could not chase away her disagreeable thoughts. He has
a perfect control over his ideas, and is able to pursue any train
of ideas at his pleasure, without being disturbed with intercurrent thoughts.'--575. He has a perfect control over his ideas,
and is able to pursue any train of ideas at his pleasure, with
calm, slow breathing.2
[Mental derangement; he imagines he will die.]
RUTA GRAVEOLENS.
(Express the juice from the whole plant and mix it with equal parts
of alcohol.)
THIS powerful plant has been chiefly used by laymen as a
domestic remedy.

I Curative effect.

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Rosenstein praises it in affections of the eyes induced by
too much reading. Swedjaur and Chomel join in that praise.
Symptoms 38 and 39 show that the good effects of Ruta in
those diseases depend upon its being homoeopathic to them.
A drop containing r-o-oi- of a grain is, in many cases,
more than sufficient for curative purposes.
Camphor antidotes the unpleasant effects of Ruta.
RUTA.
(The following symptoms are by Hahnemann.)
Dullness of the brain in the forehead, with a beating pain in
the forehead, in the evening, before going to bed, and still
worse in the morning when waking from too deep a sleep.
(Tearing in the outer region of the right parietal bone, going
off in the evening; afterwards a tumor was discovered at the
same place of the size of a walnut, which is painful when
touched as if there were subcutaneous ulceration, going off in
a few days.) (First a violent pain, sticking and tearing, in the
hairy scalp, after which a tumor forms in that place of the size
of a dollar, and one finger high, which was first painful to the
touch.) Sweat on the vertex (immediately).
5. Visible twitchings in the muscles of the eye brows. (a.
12 h.) (Flying pains before the eyes.)
(Bleeding from the nose.) (She blows blood from her nose
the whole day.)
Bleeding of the gums when cleaning the teeth.-10. Diggingup pain in the lower teeth.
Aching pain in the velum pendulum palati, more between
than during the acts of deglutition. (a. 2 h.) (Pricking in the
pit of the stomach.)
When she seated herself, she felt a sticking which came
out of the abdomen. Discharge of blood at stool.
15. Fullness in the chest,.with pressure, causing asthma
and short breathing.
Numbers of fine, deep stitches, changing to a corrosive
itching, with redness and heat of the skin of the arms. Hands
and feet are debilitated: she was unable to hold any thing
firmly in her hand, and when sleeping she did not stand firmly
on her feet. Pain in the posterior spinous process of the os ilium,
even when sitting, as if something would press out there; the
pain decreased, whenever the parts were pressed upon. Burning pain in the upper and inner side of the thigh, only when
sitting, especially when waking in the recumbent posture, not
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cramplike drawing pain from the middle of the thigh down to
the hip-joint, and thence to the small of the back.) (Cold feeling in the inner side of the legs, from the bottom of the feet to
the knee, without shuddering, as if the parts had gone to sleep.)
(a. 24 h.) He feels crowded in every part of his body, oppressing the breathing. All her limbs feel heavy and debilitated; she was averse to work.
(Cold sweat in the face, in the morning in bed, with redness of the cheek.)
25. Heat all over.
Dissatisfied with every thing around him, and especially
with what he did himself.
OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.
HEAD: Sudden attack of vertigo when sitting; every thing
turns with her in a circle; afterwards her cheeks glow. (a. 12
h.) Violent vertigo when walking in the open air; he came
near falling on the right side. (a. 26 h.) Violent vertigo, early
in the morning when rising from bed; he came near falling
forward. (a. 24 h.)  Slow train of ideas.-5. Frequent absence of thought; things which have become quite familiar to
him are done by him quite mechanically at an improper period.
(a. 48 h.) Gloominess of the head, a sort of inability to collect one's consciousness. Dullness of the head. Sensation in
the head and body as if he had not slept enough. Heaviness
in the head, mostly in the forehead, continuous, as if a weight
were lying in the forehead. (a. - h.)-10. Headache after dinner,
a sort of pressure on the whole brain, with great mobility of
the nervous system, and restlessness in the whole body, which
does not allow him to sit down. Painful pressure on the whole
brain, in the morning after rising. (a. 24 h.) Obscuring pressure in the whole head. Stupefying headache with nausea,
especially in the right side of the forehead, with a feeling of
heat in the face. (a. 4- h.) Painful pressure in the sinciput,
at regular intervals like the beats in music.-15. Pressure
in the forehead, over the root of the nose. (a. 2- h.) Drawing
headache in the right side of the forehead. Pecking headache,
in one side of the occiput. Intermittent, boring stitches in the
right side of the forehead (when sitting.) (a. 31 h.) Stitchingdrawing pain extending from the frontal to the temporal
bone.-20. Sticking drawing in the vertex, externally. (a, 24
h.) Tensive-drawing pain as after a blow or shock, in the
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it was a kind of itching, accompanied with soreness; the itching disappeared by scratching, together with the soreness.
Corrosive itching of the left side of the hairy scalp, obliging
him to scratch and returning frequently. (a. 36 h.) Corrosive
itching of the whole of the hairy scalp, especially of the left
side and the occiput, abating after much scratching, but returning constantly. (a. 38 h.)-25. Two little ulcers on the hairy
scalp, one on the left side and one towards the nape of the
neck, occasioning a corrosive itching, which obliged him to
scratch all the time, and returned frequently. (a. 38 h.) Gnawing pain with pressure, on the forehead. (a. 12 h.) Dull tearing in the temporal bones. (a. 1 h.)  Pain as of a fall,
extending from the temporal bones to the occiput, in the
pericranium. Burning compressive pain, on the head, externally, causing stupefaction. (a. 11 h.)-30. Heat in the head.
Great heat in the head at eleven o'clock in the evening, with
feverish uneasiness of the whole body, and anxiety. Erysipelas
on the forehead.1
FACE AND EYES: Itching of one side of the face. (a. 24
h.) Crampy tearing pain in region of the malar bone, with
stupefying headache in both sides of the forehead. (a. 5 h.)35. Sensation as if shadows were hovering before his eye.
Sensation as if there were not sufficient light before his eyes.
Contraction of the pupils. (a. 2' h.) Sensation in the eyes as
if he had exerted them too much by reading. Slight, aching
pain in the right eye, with obscuration of vision, as after
having observed too long a time an object incommoding the
eyes.-40. Feeling of heat and sensation as of fire in the eyes,
with soreness, when reading at candle-light. Burning under
the left eye. (a. 3 h.) Itching of the inner canthi and the
margins of the lower eyelids, increasing to a smarting biting
by scratching; at the same time the eye fills with tears. (a. 4 h.)
Pressure on the upper wall of the orbits, with tearing in the
ball. Pressure on the inner surface of the left eye, with considerable lachrymation in the open air. (a. 48 h.)-45. Pressure on both eyeballs, accompanied with spasm of the lower
eyelids, which draws them partly upwards and partly towards
the inner canthus, the latter most, for some days. (a. 8 h.)
Spasm of the lower eyelids, the tarsal cartilage moves to
and fro; when this abates, water runs out of both eyes for
an hour and a half. Spasmodic movement to and fro of the
orbicularis muscle. Involuntary staring at one and the same
object, with contraction of the pupils. (a. - h.)
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EARS: On shaking the head, he experiences a sensation
in his ear as if something were rolling to and fro.-50. Sensation in the ear as if a piece of blunt wood were moved over
its walls, a sort of scraping with pressure. (a. 2 h.) Pain
about the ears as if violent pressure were made upon them.
Titillating, hot pressure in the ears, becoming worse by inserting the finger. Itching stitches in the rightinner ear. (a. 3 h.)
Contusive pain in the cartilages of the ears.-55. Pain
as of a shock or fall below the mastoid process. Numb pain
in the facial bones, as after a shock, descending as far as
the teeth and jaws.' Sharp pressure in the root of the nose.
(a. 36 h.) Pain in the upper part of the nose as if a plug
were bored through it in a transverse direction, occasioning a
scratching and a pressure; this sensation does not pass off by
blowing the nose or by inserting the finger into it. Slight
sweat on the dorsum of the nose; the nose and cheeks are
warmer than usual, the face being but slightly red, without
thirst.-60. Pinching in the left cheek. (a. 24 h.) Gnawingarthritic pain in both cheeks. Pimples on the upper and lower
lips (from applying the vinegar of Ruta).
TEETH AND MOUTH: The inner side of the right upper
gums is sore and swollen, with stinging pains, which are most
violent when touched. (a. 36 h.) The mouth feels sometimes
dry and viscid.-65. Feeling of soreness and pressure in the
region of the velum pendulum palati, when swallowing, but
not otherwise.
TASTE, APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Desire for
cold water in the afternoon. (a. 33 h.) Unquenchable desire
for cold water in the afternoon; he drinks much and often
without being incommoded by it. (a. 24 h.) Eructations (immediately). Empty risings.-70. Eructations tasting of the
ingesta, after a meal. The aliments she eats have a taste as
of wood; they taste dry and flat. (2 d.) He has an appetite;
but as soon as he eats, he experiences a tensive oppression in
the epigastrium and chest, as if he were replete with food.
(a. 5 h.) She has an appetite as usual; but as soon as she
begins to eat, she feels an aversion against every thing. Frequent hiccough (while smoking the usual tobacco). (a. 4 h.)75. Frequent hiccough with some nausea (while smoking
the usual tobacco). (a. 34 h.) Inclination to vomit when
stooping.
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the stomach, with desire for stool, decreasing momentarily by
emission of flatulence. Lancination in the interior of the pit
of the stomach. (a. 24 h.) Gnawing oppression in the pit of
the stomach, night and morning. (a. 12 h.)-80. Oppression
in the region of the liver, near the pit of the stomach, exciting
an uneasiness. Burning gnawing in the stomach. Emptiness
and gnawing in the stomach, as if he had not taken any food
for a long time. (a. 10 h.) Fine, painful beating, or a pecking
sensation, under the left short ribs. Pain under the left short
ribs, increasing when pressing upon the part, and arresting the
breathing, when waking in the night.-85. Corrosive burning in the left region of the abdomen. Coldness in the interior
of the umbilical region, and sensation as if something became
detached in that part. Severe stitches in the abdominal muscles,
in the pit of the umbilicus, obliging him to draw in the abdomen. (a. 1 h.) Lancination from below the umbilicus towards
the mons veneris, during an expiration, arresting the breathing;
she does not feel any thing when pressing upon the parts hard.
Alching-gnawing  pain in the region of the liver.--90.
Scratching and gnawing in the umbilical region, mixed with
nausea. (a. 6 d.) Cutting-pinching, as of incarcerated flatulence. (a. 2- h.) Pinching and aching pain in the abdomen,
with a feeling of uncomfortableness as after a cold. (a. 48 h.)
Tensive pressing in the whole of the abdomen from the umbilicus to the hypogastrium, at night, as if the menses would
make their appearance; the pain increpses when pressing upon
the part. Agreeable coolness in the abdomen and chest.-95.
Heat in the abdomen and chest. Drawing pressure in the
region of the kidneys along the loins, when sitting. Bruised
pain in the loins, with oppressive tension in the opposite parts
of the hypogastrium, only when sitting, but not when walking
or standing. A digging-up, bruised sensation in the lumbar
region directly over the small of the back, when sitting down
after a long walk; the pain continues for some time when
walking, and then disappears gradually; it returns when standing or sitting. Rumbling in the abdomen. (a. 1 h.)-100.
Fetid flatulence. (a. 24 h.) Easy emission of flatulence. Emission of flatulence as if stool would come on. (a. 39 h.) Lancinations in the rectum when sitting. Tearing in the rectum
and in the urethra, between the acts of micturition. (a. 2 d.)
STOOL:-105. Scanty, hard stool, almost like sheep's
dung. (a. 40 h.) Difficult expulsion of stool in the first
twenty-four hours, as if occasioned by a want of peristaltic
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usual; the tenesmus continues after the evacuation. (a. 24 h.)
Two loose stools after a previous sensation of nausea in the
rectum, the stools being expelled with great difficulty owing to
a sort of rigidity and inactivity of the rectum, (a. 12 h.) Retarded  stool on the second day.-110. Frequent urging
for stool, with protrusion of the rectum; a considerable quantity of flatulence is emitted whenever the urging takes place;
the rectum protruded when stooping ever so little, and especially when cowering (a. 72 h.); the falling of the rectum
continued the following days, and, although the rectum was
easily pushed up again without any pain, it fell out again immediately for several days.
URINARY ORGANS: Pressure in the region of the neck of
the bladder, as if the neck closed with pain, shortly after micturition. (a. 24 h.) The quantity of urine he emits is very
inconsiderable; but after micturition he feels a pressing in the
bladder without any more urine being emitted (on the second
and third day). Immediately after micturition she feels at
every step as if the bladder were filled and were moved up
and down; not when sitting. (a. 48 h.) Considerable pressing in the bladder, as if it were too full; the quantity of urine
emitted is but small; after micturition the urging continues as
if more urine would come: which, however, is not the case
(after a few hours for several days).-115. Excessive urging
as if she could not retain the urine, although she emitted only
a drop; during and after micturition she feels a painful burning in the genital organs, and the urging continues for a long
time; she had quiet nights, the urging was felt only in the
morning before day-break.
GENITAL ORGANS:-Increased sexual desire. Nocturnal
emissions, without dreams.
LARYNX AND CHEST:-Frequent sneezing. Pain in the
region of the larynx, as of a bruise or contusion.-120. Agreeable coolness in the chest. Gnawing, corrosive drawing in
the left chest. Gnawing in the left chest. Gnawing pain
in the right side of the chest, accompanied with a somewhat
corrosive and burning sensation.-125. Strong compression
of the lower part of the chest in the region of the last false
ribs, at night; he dreams that some one is seizing him round
the body violently, and that he wakes in consequence. (a.
24 h.) Pressure in the region of the sternum, which, to judge
from the feeling, seems both internal and external. Hard
pressure in the region of the sixth true rib, more violent during
an expiration and contact. (a. 2 h.) Dull shock in the left
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axilla, more violent during an inspiration. (a. 30 h.)-130.
Sticking pain in the interior of the left nipple, more violent
during an inspiration. (a. 4 d.) Stitches in the chest and
arrest of breathing, which causes great anxiety; when going
up stairs. Stitches in the outer surface of the sternum during
every movement (sec. day). Oppressive sticking in the sternum, when sitting, both during an inspiration and expiration.
(a. 4 h.) Fine cutting, which extends from the throat into
the chest, especially into the region of the clavicle and the
axilla, where it stops; the cutting is felt when walking, and
becomes worse as one walks faster. (a. 36 h.)-135. Tremulous bubbling in the region of the last true ribs of the right
side. (a. - h.) Intermittent gnawing or pecking in the region of one of the costal cartilages, at night, over the xiphoid
cartilage.
BACK: Pain extending from the os coccygis to the os sa.
crum, as if caused by a fall or bruise. Hard pressure in the
region of the left lower surface of the os sacrum. Pain in the
lumbar vertebrae, as if bruised.-140. Painful darting in the
dorsal spine, opposite the pit of the stomach; this becomes
worse by pressing upon the part with the hand, in which case
a pain is felt under the last short ribs extending into the abdomen afterwards, and arresting the breathing. The dorsal
spine is painful as if bruised, when sitting or walking; this
pain arrests the breathing. Hard pressure on the left side
close to the os innominatum, not far from the dorsal spine.
(a. 2 h.) Intermittent painful beating in the back, directly
over the left os innominatum, going off when pressing upon
the parts, and reappearing afterwards. Beating in the region
of the posterior border of the left os innominatum (after a long
walk, extending across the hip over the anterior surface of the
thigh, down to the knee, and disappearing when pressing upon
the os innominatum).-145. Intermittent beating in the anterior spinous process of the left os innominatum. Stitches in the
dorsal spine when sitting, accompanied with sudden attacks of
anxiety. Drawing-aching pain in the right side of the dorsal
spine, opposite the liver; the pain being especially painful
during an inspiration. (a. 2 d.) Pain as of a fall in the
dorsal vertebra, in motion and rest. Drawing pain in the
dorsal spine, as if bruised, frequently arresting the breathing.
-150. Bruised pain in the left side of the back when sitting,
disappearing again when standing or walking. (a. 101 h.)
Pain as if bruised in the dorsal spine, and paralytic weakness
in the small of the back. Bruised pain along the dorsal spine
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in the interior region of the right scapulae. (a. 14 h.) Stinging itching between the scapulme; it did not go off by rubbing
(immediately).-155. Drawing-sticking pain in the apex of
the scapula, when moving it, obliging him to let the arm hang
at once. Drawing pain in the scapula, arresting the breathing. Drawing in the nape of the neck.
UPPER LIMBS: Intense pain, as if sprained, in the shoulder-joints; these pains abate somewhat by raising the upper
arm and by drawing it, but they return immediately by letting
the arm hang down, or by laying it upon any thing. Pain in
the right axilla as of a burning-biting ulcer. (a. 48 h.)--160.
Crampy drawing in the biceps muscle of the upper arm.
Painful jerks in the upper arms, beginning in the centre;
when the pain reaches the elbow it is felt all along the arm as
far as the tips of the fingers, the bones feeling too narrow; accompanied with weariness and heaviness of the lower limbs.
Coolness in the interior of the arms. Itching of the left upper arm, inducing a desire to scratch. (a. 8 h.) Hard pressure in the right elbow-joint, more violent when stretching the
arm. (a. 12 h.)-165. Pain in the left elbow-joint, as of a
shock, with weakness in the arm. (a. 36 h.) Dull tearing in
the long bones of the arm. (a. 1 h.) Dull tearing pain in the
right elbow-joint, and the neighboring parts, extending to the
lower extremity of the humerus; when stretching the arm the
pain is changed to a sort of painful pressure. (a. 36 h.) The
ulna feels bruised. Crampy tearing in the left forearm. (a. 25
h.)-170. Paralytic pressure in the outer side of the right forearm. (a. 10 h.) Painful drawing with pressure, in the middle
of the anterior surface of the right forearm. (a. 34 h.) Tearing,
with pressure in the right wrist-joint, more violent when moving it with force. (a. 32 h.) Distention of the veins of the hand,
after a meal. (a. 4 h.) Stinging titillation in the palm of the
left hand. (a. 36 h.)-175. Erysipelas of the hands, from
gathering the plant. Pain in the left wrist-joint, as if broken,
even in rest. Pain in the bones of the wrist-joints, and of the
dorsa of the hands, as if bruised, in rest and motion. Crampy
pain transversely across the right hand. (a. 7 h.) Painful
drawing, with pressure, in the posterior joint of the two last
fingers at night. (a. 42 h.)-180. Pains in the fingers, in rest,
as if bruised or contused. (a. 6 h.) Tearing in the left middle
finger, especially the middle-joint, and the middle phalanx. (a.
- h.) Drawing, with pressure, in the middle joint of the three
right middle fingers.
LOWER LIMBS: Pain in the bones around the hips, as of
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ble; all his joints are painful, and the haunch bones feel
bruised.-(a. 10 h.)-185.  When feeling the affected parts,
especially the haunch bones and tibice, they are painful as if
bruised. (a. 29 h.) Burning, sharp pressure, in the upper bend
of the right thigh. (a. 1 h.) Pain in the middle of the femora,
as if bruised (in motion). The whole of the anterior surface
of the thighs feels bruised and is painful to the touch. (a. 31
h.) When stretching the lower limbs ever so little, the thighs
are painful in the middle, as if bruised.-190. The bruised
pain in the thighs continues two days, so that he is scarcely
able to walk. Pressure in the middle of the outer side of the
right thigh. Bruised feeling in the posterior part of the
thigh and above the knee (during motion). He is unable to
walk directly after sitting and rising; he tumbles back upon
his chair; the bones feel as if broken; the thighs give way
from weakness and pain. When walking he staggers from side
to side.-195. When walking he staggers from side to side;
the feet do not support him; the thighs feel debilitated, and
are unable to hold out. Hard pressure in the upper inner surface of the left leg. Hard pressure in the middle of the outer
side of the left leg. The knees give way when rising from a
seat and commencing to walk. (a. 4 h.) Paralytic heaviness in
the knees; he is obliged to change the position of his feet; he
feels relieved after a walk. (a. 1 h.)-200. He finds it dificult
to go either up stairs or down stairs; his knees give way.
Cramplike contraction of the bends of the knees when rising
from a seat. Weariness in the left knee after a walk; the knees
gave way. Tremulousness in the knees, with lassitude of the
feet. Tremulous heaviness of the legs.-205. He is not allowed to tread firmly, lest the bones in the feet should ache,
accompanied with a feeling of heat. Dull stitches dart slowly
along the tibia, commencing in the dorsum of the foot. Beating
and hacking pain in the anterior side of the left tarsal-joint,
as if there were an ulcer. Burning and corrosive pain of the
bones in the feet, in rest. Burning sensation under the malleolus externus, when standing.-210. Sticking pain, with
pressure, when sitting, first in the left then in the right heel. (a.
12 h.) Burning tearing in the left big toe, especially when
making pressure from without. (a. 6 h.) Burning pains in the
toes, as from a bruise or contusion, as if a foreign body had
been thrust into the parts. Cramplike fine stinging in the little
toe of the right foot, when sitting, which became more intense
when moving the toes. (a. 33 h.) Painful drawing in the toes.
-215. Painful pressure in the bottom of the left foot, when
sitting. (a. 36 h.) Hot, prickling titillation in the bottom of the
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GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Cramplike tearing, with pressure,
now in the upper now in the lower limbs, in rest and motion.
(a. 3- h.) When lying down, all the parts upon which he is
lying are painful, as if bruised, even in bed. (a. 17 h.) Itching
of the whole body, early in the morning when rising from bed,
abating after scratching. (a. 24 h.)-220. He feels tired and
lazy, only when sitting; he does not feel so any longer after
having walked a while. His lower limbs feel so restless and
heavy that he cannot keep them still; he turns constantly
from side to side.
WEAKNESS: Great debility. Great weariness and heaviness in the whole body after dinner; she was so sleepy that
she had to close her eyes; she felt better in the open air. He
feels very tired after a short walk; his limbs feel bruised; his
loins and the small of his back ache; but he feels the pain only
when he sits down; he feels relieved when rising and walking
about.-225. Tiredness in the limbs when sitting; when keeping his hands upon his knees they felt so comfortable that he
did not like to remove them from that position. Lassitude and
heaviness in the whole body.
SLEEP: Yawning and stretching of the hands. Imperfect
yawning, several times; the yawning was accomplished half
only.-230. She fell into a deep and sound sleep as soon as she
laid down in the evening. Excessive drowsiness after a meal;
he fell asleep when reading; it was a sleep with half consciousness; when touched ever so lightly he woke with a cry of terror. Restlessness in the night: she wakes frequently, experiencing a nausea; and a painful turning around the umbilicus;
a sensation as if the water would accumulate in her mouth;
sometimes rises up to the pit of the throat. He is excessively
restless, tosses from side to side, wakes every hour, and
has great difficulty in falling asleep again. Restless sleep, with
vexatious dreams.-235.j Frequent waking in the night, as if
the time for rising had come. Vivid confused dreams.
FEVER: Shuddering of the whole body, even while near
the warm stove; hands and feet are cold to the touch, the face
being warm interiorly and exteriorly, and the head feeling
dull as in catarrhal fever, with violent thirst, which disappeared after drinking once. Chilliness and coldness of the whole
body. A cold thrill on one side of the head and face.-240.
Coldness descending along the vertebral column. Chilly shuddering, especially in the back and over the chest, at short intervals. Cold sensation in the back ascending and descending.
Chilliness, or rather shaking chills, over the whole back, with
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nal chilliness; she is unable to get warm (before the proving
she had this sensation regularly previous to the appearance of
the menses).-245. Heat in the face, interiorly and exteriorly,
with redness. Heat over the whole body in the afternoon,
with febrile uneasiness and anxiety as if he should die, arresting his breathing; he is especially troubled with great heat in
the face, without thirst, accompanied with white coating of the
tongue and a feeling of rough dryness on the same. Great
restlessness three evenings in succession, with headache and
febrile heat. Increase of warmth in the feet. After walking
in the open air. she perspired over the whole body. (a. 6 h.)
MORAL SYMPTOMS.-250. Frequent attacks of anxiety,
with apprehensions and.desponding thoughts. Indifference.
She is not disposed to do any thing; she does not feel comfortable. He feels low-spirited in the afternoon and the whole
of the evening; he indulges melancholy, sad thoughts, and feels
weary of life. Anxiety the whole day, as if he had done any
thing evil; when the door was opened he feared they came to
take him to prison.-255. He is peevish and out of humor if
things do not take place according to his wishes. (a. 24 h.)
Irresolute, not disposed to do any thing. Inclines to be angry.
Inclines to contradict.-260. Out of humor and distrustfil the
whole day; he did not trust his best friend, and imagined he
was deceived. (a. 40 h.) Good-humored (curative effect).
When applied externally, it draws blisters and corrodes the
skin.
SAMBUCUS NIGRA.
(Express the juice from the recent leaves and flowers, and mix it
with equal parts of alcohol.)
NEXT to Chamomile, the Sambucus Nigra has been abused
in domestic practice more than any other drug. It was not
even considered as a drug, but as a mere domestic remedy, as
if its use were of not much, if any, importance.
The frequent use of Sambucus in domestic practice is
indeed a proof of its usefulness; but from its usefulness it does
not follow that it is not hurtful where it is not homoeopathic.
Common sense tells us that Sambucus, being a powerful
remedy, must be hurtful when it is administered without being
homoeopathic to the disease; for this reason, that it affects
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morbidly the healthy body, and must therefore affect so much
more the body in a state of disease.
Common physicians are indeed unaware of the ailments
which Sambucus is capable of producing; they are ignorant
of the effects of Sambucus altogether. But because physicians
do not see those effects, this is no reason why they should not
exist. The misery of oppressed subjects is not the less real
because government turns away its eyes from it or declines
listening to their complaints.
The ordinary physician is frequently in the habit of prescribing tea of Chamomile or Sambucus, together with his
other mixtures; he recommends even healthy persons to drink
either kind of tea for breakfast, as a drink which he says preserves their health and makes them even more healthy than
they are. So little does he know the nature of drugs.
The following list of symptoms is not complete, but it is
sufficient to enable the honest and unprejudiced practitioner to
employ Sambucus homoeopathically in many diseases.
A small portion of a drop of the tincture is sufficient at a
dose. Large cupfuls of an infusion of Sambucus can do no
more than heal diseases to which the drug is homceopathic;
but on the other hand, such excessive quantities become hurtful by exciting great heat and profuse sweats, which deprive
the patient of his strength.
SAMBUCUS NIGRA.
(The following symptoms are by Hahnemann.) Dizziness
early in the morning when rising. Red spots on the cheeks
here and there, accompanied with a burning sensation.
(a. 1 h.)
Tearings and stitches in the teeth of the upper and lower
jaw of the left side, extending as far front as the incisores (a.
2 h.); the pain extended as far as the eye, with sensation in
the cheek as if it were swelling, which was not the case.
Titillation in the ears and throat; the titillation in the throat
was somewhat relieved by the tongue.
5. Thirst, without the drink he takes being agreeable to
him.
He slumbers with his eyes and mouth half open; on
awakening he was unable to catch his breath; he had to sit
up: when sitting up the breathing was very hurried, with
wheezing in the chest as if he should suffocate; he tossed his
hands about, head and hands being bluish and puffed; he
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came on; no cough, especially from twelve to four in the
night.1 Tearing in the finger joints.
Drowsiness, without any sleep. Dreams.
10. Restless sleep; when sitting up in the bed she felt as
if the pains went lower down, and she felt more easy. He
starts from his sleep in affright, with anxiety and shortness of
breath, increasing at times unto suffocation with trembling.
Chills with shaking, before retiring. (a. 4 h.) Agitation of
the blood in the evening, half an hour after lying down,
accompanied with a tremulous sensation. Feeling of an
intolerably dry heat all over the body. 15. While the heat is
on him, he dreads uncovering himself; he imagines it will
give him a cold or a colic. Heat of the whole body, without
thirst, shortly after lying down. (a. 2 h.) A heat is felt in the
hollow of the hand and the bottom of the feet when touching
those parts. Sweat in the face, many hours after the dry heat
had passed. Profuse sweat, without thirst, when waking,
from  seven o'clock in the evening until one o'clock in the
night, in the face and all over; after his sleep he was more
hot from perspiring, but without thirst.-20. Periodical delirium; he saw frightful things on the wall.
OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.
HEAD: Dizziness; cloudiness of the head, for some
minutes. (a. 1 h.) He feels very well early in the morning,
except that, when moving about, his head feels giddy, accompanied with a tensive sensation, as if the head were full of
water (a. 24 h.)  Lancination through the left half of the
occiput, frequently recurring and continuing for a long time;
between the attacks he feels a dull sensation in those parts.
(a. I h.) Tearing and aching pain in the upper part of the
forehead, spreading, as it were, like rays towards the eye (after
two days).-5. Aching and tearing pain in the head when
stooping, extending as far as across the left temple, close to
the bone. Tearing in the temple, more particularly close to
the head, occurring in single paroxysms, which pass off very
quickly. (a. 10 h.) Pressing in the whole head, in all directions, from within outwards. (a. 1 h.) Pressure in the temples
from within outwards. (a. 1 h.) Aching pain in the forehead,
and a sudden, painful jerk through the brain from one side to
the other. (a. I h.)-10. Aching, stupefying pain in the head,
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ing pain in the head, as is caused by intoxication. (a. 20 h.)
Digging-up pain in the vertex. (a. I h.) Itching of the forehead, going off by rubbing. (a. 4 h.)
EYES AND NOSE: At first the pupils are very much
contracted (a. 40, 44 h.), afterwards very much dilated.-15.
Sensation as of a light flush, as one experiences in blushing,
rising as high up as the face. (a. 1 ~ h.) Heavy and pressing
sensation in the tip of the nose, as if it would bleed. (a. 2 d.)
Itching of the dorsum of the nose, with a slight pithy feeling
in the skin of the nose. (a. 3- h.) Tension in the left cheek,
with a gnawing pressure in the region of the upper jaw-bone.
Tensive pain, as if the cheek were swollen, and numbness of
the cheek. (a 11 h.)
EARS:-20. Sharp stitches in the interior of the right
ear, accompanied with a cramp-pain in that ear. (a 8 h.)
Painless, suppurating pimple on the left side of the lower lip,
with a reddish areola. (a. 37 h.)
PHARYNX, (ESOPHAGUS: Oppressive heaviness in the
nape of the neck; moving the head requires a greater effort
than usual. (a. 4 h.) Cutting stitches deep in the cervical
muscles of either side, especially when moving the neck. (a. ~
h.) Great dryness of the palate, without thirst.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN.-GASTRIC SYMPTOMS:-25.
Hiccough during and after a meal. Sensation of incipient nausea in and below the pit of the stomach. Short stitches close
below the stomach, increased by external pressure (when sitting). (a. 4 h.) Feeling of dull pressure in the region of the
stomach. (a. 4 h.) Rumbling in the abdomen.-30. Pinching in the abdomen, with emission of flatulence, as if occasioned by a cold. (a. 48 h.) Pain in the abdomen, as if the
bowels were bruised. Pinching pain in the abdomen, when
leaning against a sharp border. Pressure in the abdomen,
with nausea, whenever he presses it against any thing. (a. 101
h.) Stitches in the obliquus externus, when sitting or standing.
(a. 4 h.)-35. Spasmodic tearing in the abdominal muscles,
especially when moving them, in the evening when lying
down. (a. 12 h.) Fine pinching in the abdominal muscles of
the right side, below the short ribs. (a. 1 h.) Fine tearing in
the left side of the abdomen. (a. 1 h.) Sticking in the left side
of the abdomen, above the hip; single, rather dull prickings,
regular as the pulse, for a quarter of an hour; now increasing,
now decreasing.
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urinate at night. Frequent emission of a bright-yellow urine.
Thin stream. (a. 10 h.) Itching of the orifice of the urethra.
(a. 1 h.)-45. Involuntary emission of semen, after midnight.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS: Hoarseness, occasioned by a
quantity of viscid, tenacious mucus in the larynx. Oppression
and stitches in the left side of the chest, below the nipple. (a.
5 h.) Oppression and pressure behind the sternum, and pressure in the pit and region of the stomach, with nausea and a
feeling of debility. (a. 5 h.) Cutting pinching in the region of
the last false ribs, towards the dorsal spine. (a. 9 h.)-50.
Sharp, intermittent cutting in front, in the region of the third
false rib, especially when moving the trunk. (a. 3 h.) Sudden
clutching, internally, in both sides of the chest, in the region
of the fourth true rib. (a. - h.)
BACK: Drawing pressure in the small of the back, extending as far as the muscles covering the inner surface of the os
ilium, when standing. (a. 2 h.) Cutting shocks in the os sacrum, most violent when bending forward, with a tensive pain.
(a. 9 h.) Aching pain in the middle of the spine, not disappearing by any motion, and continuing for a long while. (a.
- h.)-55. Pulsative throbbing sticking under the right scapula, when sitting. Cutting stitches in the region of the scapulae, in rest. (a. - h.) Sharp stitches from within outward, in
the region of the right scapula, interiorly; most violent in rest.
Fine pinching in the axilla. (a. 4 h.)
EXTREMITIES: Fine stitches in the middle of the upper
arm, in the inner side. (a. 1 h.)-60. When he leans on the
upper arm, it feels as if it would break. (a. 3 h.) Paralytic
heaviness in the elbow-joints. (a. h.) Drawing pain in the
carpal bones, and extending along the ulna, in rest. Sharp
stitches in the spinous process of the ulna. (a. - h.) Cutting
stitches in both wrist-joints, regular as the pulse; the stitches
are somewhat relieved by moving them. (a. I h.)-65. Tearing pain above the hip-joint, all around, only when walking.
(a. ~i h.) Crampy drawing in the posterior and superior part
of the thigh, when walking, in the region where the gluteus
maximus is inserted. Drawing-sticking sensation in the upper
part of the anterior muscles of the right thigh, in rest. (a 3- h.)
Stinging itching of the inner side of both thighs; when rubbing the thighs the stinging becomes a burning. (a. 1 h.) The
hamstrings are put upon the stretch, and feel as if too short, so
that standing becomes troublesome to him. (a. 4L h.)-70. Violent itching of the patella, with a rough and scraping sensation, as if an eruption would break out. (a. 4- h.) Sensation
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upon them; boih symptoms are felt only when standing. (a.
i h.) Sharp piercing stitches in the inner side of the tibie,
somewhat relieved by motion. (a. 1 h.) When standing, the
middle of the right tibia feels dead, cold, and as if gone to
sleep. (a. 4 h.) In the evening, when in bed, he feels a tearing
pain in the external malleolus of the right foot, and in the anterior tibial muscles.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS:-75. When sitting, he is suddenly
attacked with a painful drawing in every part of the surface of
the body. (a. 3 h.) His hands tremble when writing. Great
heat all over, when walking. (a. 3 h.) Most of the pains come on
in rest and go off during motion; only a few painful symptoms
are occasioned by motion. Dropsical swelling (from the external application).
SLEEP:-80. Frequent waking from sleep, as if wakeful.
Vivid dreams, which he is unable to recollect. Lascivious
dreams, with emission.
FEVER: The pulse becomes slower, and falls from 70 to
60. (a. - h.) The pulse became slower by ten beats, but more
full. (a. 6 h.)-85. Repeated attacks of slight shuddering. (a.
-L h.) Slight chilliness, the face being warmer than usual. (a.
1 h.) Chill over the whole body, with stinging crawling,
now in one, now in another place, with remarkable coldness
of the hands and feet; in the lower limbs the shuddering extends especially from the knees downwards. ( a. j h.) Chilliness over the whole body, especially the hands and feet;
they are cold to the touch, although the latter had been wrapped
up very warm. (a. h.) The hands are cold. (a. 1 h.)-90.
Creeping in the fingers, which are quite cold. (a.,h.) The
feet are icy-cold, the rest of the body being naturally warm.
(a. - h.) Burning sensation in the face, the body being moderately warm, and the feet icy-cold, without thirst. (a. 1 h.)
The pulse is quicker, a few beats above 70. (a. 2 h.) Warm
feeling about the head and neck; the face and the rest of the
body are also warmer to the touch than usually, but without
thirst.-95. Frequent flushes of heat in the afternoon, with
great heat in the face; only half an hour after sweat breaks
out in the face. (a. 10 h.) Profuse sweat after midnight, but
not about the head. On waking, he is covered with sweat all
over, two nights in succession.
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Great tendency to start; he starts
at things which he sees constantly around him. Continual
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SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA.
(Extract the tincture without heat from 50 grains of the entire herb
by means of 500 drops of alcohol, shaking the mixture every day.)
THIS drug, which was first used in the south of the continent of America, as a domestic remedy against worms, became
known to our physicians some eighty years ago. Ever since
then it has been used to expel lumbrici, and for no other
purpose.
The formation of worms in the intestines is merely one
symptom of a more fundamental disease which requires to be
cured; otherwise the expulsion of worms will not prevent
their reappearance in the bowels. It would be foolish to use
such a powerful drug as the Spigelia for the expulsion of
worms, unless the fundamental malady is likewise cured.
This cure is possible, as I know from several cases where the
patient got well without a single worm being passed.
However, physicians were short-sighted enough to persist
in considering Spigelia as a drug fit only to expel worms. To
employ such an important remedy for no other purpose, which
is often accomplished by a little Cina, would be the same as to
perform an ordinary piece of work with a most valuable instrument. The following symptoms show that the varied and great
powers of that plant are destined to accomplish results which
are much more important than to expel a few lumbrici.
Considering that Spigelia is generally administered in doses
of sixty or seventy grains, it must be confessed that it could
not be administered by more unscrupulous or unskilful hands
than those of our physicians who content themselves with administering a drug as the common man was in the habit of
giving it, without inquiring into the dynamic relation of the drug
to the pathological state of the system; a relation which can
only be discovered by proving the drug upon the healthy organism.
This drug has the peculiarity that the primary effect of a
dose, even when not repeated, increases progressively in the
first seven or ten days. The provings ought therefore to be
instituted with the greatest care, inasmuch as even sixty,
eighty, or a hundred drops of the tincture produce powerful effects in even robust and very healthy persons.
A small portion of a drop of the decillionth potency is
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of action, it is necessary to select Spigelia with the greatest
care, and with the strictest reference to the characteristic
symptoms of the case.
The excessive effects of this drug may be neutralized by
frequently repeated small doses of Camphor.
SPIGELIA.
HEAD: Vertigo: after having stood a few minutes he is in
danger of falling. Vertigo; when looking down he imagines
he will fall. When walking he becomes giddy; every thing
turns with him in a ring; he is obliged to stand still; he feels
like one drunk. Weakness of memory; he is unable to remember the most familiar occurrences.-5. Obtuseness of the
head. Headache, confused feeling in the head. Heaviness
and pain in the head, when shaking it. He cannot shake his
head; the shaking makes his brain ache, and makes him
giddy. When talking loud, or when coughing, his head aches
as if it would burst.-10. He dares not stoop; if he does, his
brain feels as if it expanded, and would fall out at the forehead. The occiput is heavy; it feels as if it were drawn
down by a load. Headache, as if the head were too heavy;
when putting the facial muscles upon the stretch, the skull
feels as if it would burst open at the top. Long stitches in the
forehead, coming and going like the pulse, from evening until
morning, forcing him to exclaim; accompanied by a hammering in the ears. Pain in the occiput, as if the arteries were
pulsating across an obstacle.-15. After having stooped a
while he is unable to raise his head again, owing to a pain in
the nape of the neck. Severe pains in the outer parts of (in?)
the occiput (towards morning), and a sensation of stiffness in
the nape of the neck; in the morning he is unable to move the
head, until he has risen from his bed, and has dressed himself;
after that it disappears. Pain in the nape of the neck early in the
morning after rising; when holding the neck still, the nape is
painful, as if it had gone to sleep; he is obliged to move the
nape of the neck all the time, for it is not painful then. The
occiput is painful as if he had received a blow upon it. The
occiput is extremely painful; he is not well able to lie upon it.
-20. Ulcerative pain of the scalp in the region of the vertex,
when touching it; from time to time he feels a dull sticking
jerk in that region, which seems to penetrate deep into the
brain. The scalp is painful, and the hairs are painful to
the touch. (The hairy scalp is covered with rash-pimples.)
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[Vertigo.1  Vertigo when sitting, standing, or walkingleast when lying down-the head falls backward, with nausea in the palate, and uncomfortableness in the thoracic and
abdominal cavity; pinching pain in the abdominal cavity
with sensation as if he had to go to stool; this pain deprives
him of consciousness. Vertigo: when looking down he is on
the point of falling down instantaneously. Vertigo when
turning the head while walking; he does not feel any when
looking into the air without turning the head (in the open air).
-5. Vertigo: he staggers when walking, as if he would fall
to the left side. (a. 4 h.) Vertigo, as if he were intoxicated and
were unable to tread firmly. (a. 14 h.) He sits as if absorbed
in reverie; he is staring all the time at the same place. (a. 3 h.)
Great forgetfulness, want of memory. Mental indolence
and great forgetfulness.-10. His memory appeared to him
more faithful and stronger than before. (a. 5 d.) Intoxication.
Obtuseness of the whole head. (a. J h. Obtuseness of the
whole head, with pressure in the forehead from within outward. (a. 5 d.) Painful obtuseness of the head.-15. Drawing,
with obtuseness in the occiput, in the evening when walking in
the open air. (a. 10 h.) In the evening, his whole head feels
obtuse, his head feels confused. His head feels stupefied as
from smoking. (a. - h.) Sensation in the head, when sitting,
as if it were empty and reeling. (a. 1 h.) Constant stupidity
in the head, so that every kind of labor which requires medi-'.4
tation, is difficult for him.-20. Every kind of labor which
requires an exertion of the mind, is difficult for him.
Gloominess and aching in the forehead and temples; accompanied with a sensation as if both sides of the head were
pressed together in the direction of the forehead. In the upper
part of the forehead the head feels confused and empty; the
scalp is sensitive to the touch, and the hairs feel as if standing
on end. (a. 3 h.) Pain in the forehead. Aching pain in the
whole of the sinciput.-25. Violent pressure in the right temple, which gradually spreads over a larger surface. (a. 23 h.)
Violent pressure in the temples. (a. 1 h.) Long continued sensation in the brain as if something were tied round the head very
firmly. (a. 28 h.) Pressure in the region of the left frontal protuberance from without inward, accompanied with a similar pressure in the outer and inner parts of the brain. Pressure in the
region of the right frontal eminence, from within outward. (a.
11 h.)-Violent pressing from within outward, in the forehead. (a. 2 h.) Pressure in the cerebrum and cerebellum,
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causing dizziness. Aching pain in the left hemisphere of the
brain, immediately. Aching pain in the left side of the forehead, the pressure being from within outward. (a. J h.) Continual aching of the head, worse when stooping. (a. 35 h.)35. Pressing in the forehead from within outward, worse when
stooping. (a. - h.) Painful pressure in the right side of the
head, as if the head would burst. (a. 82 h.) Pressing in the
forehead as if the brain would issue from it, abating for a few
moments by pressing upon it with the hand. Tensive-aching
pain in the forehead, from within outward. (a. 34 h.) Violent
pressure in both temples from without inward, especially in
the right temple. (a. 56 h.)-40. Pain under the left frontal
eminence, as if a heavy load were lodged there. Violent aching pain in a small spot of the vertex. Violent pressure in the
region of the left occiput from without inwards; he could not
stoop without increasing the pressure, unless he pressed upon
the affected part strongly with the hand. Drawing with
pressure in the right vertex and occiput. Pressure, with
tearing in the head, from the left frontal eminence to the occiput. (a. 34 h.)-45. Frequently recurring drawing in the region of the left temple. Pressure with tearing in the outer
parts of the frontal bones. (a. 8 d.) Boring pain in the forehead. Boring pain in the region of the occiput and on the top
of the head, as if he endeavored to draw the head backward.
(tLAFlapping sensation in the brain when walking; he feels
every step.-50. Shaking and flapping sensation in the
brain, even when merely moving the head. While walking
in the open air, he feels at every step a violent pressure in the
head, from without inward, towards one point in the middle of
the brain; the pressure comes on with a shock. (a. 6 h.)
Violent jerks in the occiput, afterwards in the temples, at every
step, when walking in the open air. (a. 28 h.) The headache
is worse in the open air.-55. The headache is worse when
lying down, better when walking about.' Shocks and jerks in
the left side of the head (a. 54 h.). Shocks, with tearing, in
the right temple. (a. 50 h.) Tearing pain in the forehead, setting in with a shock, more violent in the right frontal eminence; it causes an involuntary standing still of the globes of
the eyes, when standing or sitting. (a. 27 h.) Violent tearing
in the forehead, the occiput and the temples.-60. Tensivetearing pain in the forehead, especially below the left frontal
eminence, towards the orbits (a. 6 h.). Fine, digging-up
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bone, during motion, when walking, and more particularly
when missing a step, towards evening; several evenings in
succession. (a. 11 h.) Digging-up and digging-up tearing
pain in the occiput, in the left vertex and the forehead, during motion, and during every strong noise, and increasing
in violence when speaking loud, or when merely opening the
mouth a little; can be most easily borne when lying down.
(a. 12 h.) Intolerable gurgling pain in the occiput, at first increasing by walking, and afterwards by the least motion, and
is most relieved by leaning backward on a chhir; the pain became worse in the horizontal posture. Slow tearing stitch in
the left side of the head.-65. Intermittent, contractive, lancinating pain at a small spot of the left parietal bone, rather
posteriorly; the pain seems to be rather superficial. Sticking,
with pressure, at a small point of the left side of the occiput.
(a. 49 h.) Sharp sticking directly behind and above the right
frontal eminence. Violent, but fine prickings, as of electric
sparks, in the left temple. A good deal of heat in the head.70. Burning pain in the left frontal bone. (a. 1 h.) Burning
pain in the region of the left temple and forehead. Burning
in the left outer parts of the left temple. Burning in the skin
of the right temple, near the eye. Burning pain in the outer
parts of the right forehead, extending as far as the eyes, so
that he is unable to turn them without suffering pain.]
EYES: Swelling in the region of the temporal border of
the orbit, aching when left alone, and feeling sore when
touched.-25. Severe aching in the region of the left side of
the orbital bone, near the temple, downward toward the zygoma; afterwards the bone in that region begins to swell; this
swelling is painful and sore when touched. Pain as if the
upper eyelids were hard or immovable; he is not well able to
raise them. Ulceration and smarting soreness of the margins
of the eyelids. Profuse moisture in the eyes, without any sensation. Bleareyedness; the water which runs from the eyes
is biting and acrid.-30. Pain in the eyes as if there were
sand in them. A quantity of eye-gum, and frequently the
whole day. Aching pain in the eyeballs. The eyes are very
weak; there seems to be some inward obstruction; they remain in the position in which he places them, and he does not
distinguish what he sees, like one whose sight is vanishing.
When looking steadily at any thing his sight vanishes.-35.
He sees well at a distance, but not at a proximity.
[75. Burning pain in the left eyebrow. Burning itching
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in the skin of the left side of the forehead. (a. 34 h.) The
scalp feels as if it were contracted and tight.-80. Sensitiveness of the whole head to the touch, especially when moving
the scalp. Pain in the left orbit as if it were pressed together
from above. Severe pressure above the right orbit, with a dull
aching pain in the whole head. (a. 21 h.) Dull pressure above
the orbits. (a. 1Q minutes.) He feels constantly as if his eyelashes were full of hairs or filaments; or as if a fog were before his eyes; this sensation increases by rubbing the eye. (a. 1
h.)-85. Creeping in the eyes. Itching in the left eyeball,
going off by rubbing. Itching stitch in the right eyeball, returning after rubbing. (a. 1 h.) Continued sticking pain in
the right eyeball, also when moving it. (a. 24 h.) Violent digging-up stitch in the middle of the eye and in the inner canthus, not impeding vision, but pressing the upper eyelid down.
(a. 74 h.)-90. Redness and inflammation of the whites of
the eye, early in the morning; his eyelids are so heavy that
he is scarcely able to open them. The whites of the eye are
red and filled with turgid blood-vessels. Pain in the eyes.
Pain in and above the eyes. He was not able to turn the left
eye without pain in every direction.-95. His eyes ache when
moving them as if they were too large for the sockets. Tensive pain in the left eyeball. (a. 49 h.) Sensation in the eyes
as if they were running, which however is not the case, accompanied with a weak pressure in the eyes; the sight is altered during all this time, as if his eyes were really running.
(a. 26 h.) Painful pressure from without inward, on the side
of the right eye. (a. 3 h.) Intolerable aching pain in the eyeballs, still more painful when turning the eyes; when he attempts to roll his eyes to one side for the purpose of looking
at a thing, he becomes giddy; he has to turn the whole head
in order to look to one side.-100. Contractive burning pain
in the right eyeball. Burning pain in the left eye, towards the
temple. (a. 33 h.) Dry heat in the eyes, in the afternoon.
Burning pain in the outer canthus of the right eye. Burning
pain in both eyes, so that he is obliged to close them involuntarily; for five or six minutes he is unable to open them, accompanied with an anxiety that he will not be able to open
them again; after the pain had disappeared, he was able to
open his eyes again; but now he was prevented from seeing
by a fiery appearance, which was towering before his eyes in
the shape of blood-red masses; the power of sight returned
amidst a flow of tears and a considerable dilatation of the pupils.
(a. 14 d.)-105. Sparks before the eyes, as previous to the
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of the eyes, to the right and left, owing to irregular movements
of the recti muscles, the external and internal., Contortion of
the eyes. His sight is less distinct than usual; when looking
at a thing he has to exert his eyes as if they were full of water.
Transitory amaurosis.-110. Dilatation of the pupils. Dilatation of the pupils (after a short time). The smallest dose produces dilatation of the pupils. The pupils are unchanged,
but they look weak and dim. The eyes look faint and dim.
(a. 7 d.)-115. Yellow borders around the eyes. The eyes
look weak and dim, the pupils being unchanged. The eyelids
are so relaxed and paralyzed that they hang down very low,
and have to be lifted up with the hand, the pupils being very
much dilated. Sensation under the right upper eyelid as if a
hard body were lodged under it; this went off by rubbing. (a.
4 d.) Burning pain under the right eyelid. (a. 3J h.)-120.
Fine painful cutting, as with a little knife, in the border of
the left lower eyelid. (a. 9 h.) Sticking pressure under the lids
of both eyes. (a. 21 h.) Fine painful pricking in the border of
the right upper eyelid. (a. 23 h.) Single, recurring stitches in
the left eyelid. Sticking pain in the internal right canthus. (a.
111 h.)]
EARS: Constant snapping as of electric sparks, and humming in the ears, extending into the forehead, accompanied
with undulating pulsations in those parts; he is obliged to
hold his hand over his eyes to obtain relief. Strong buzzing
in the ears, especially in the evening. Sensation in the ears
as of the moving of the wings of a bird; after this a humor
flows out of the ears and the hearing becomes extremely acute.
Talking sounds like the ringing of bells through both ears,
and sounds through the whole head.-40. The ear closes
when blowing the nose, he does not hear; the ear opens again
when shaking it with the finger inserted into it, the hearing
returns likewise. She thinks her ear is stopped up, even when
she does not listen or talk. Boring, dull-stitching jerk in the
inner ear, from time to time, darting even into the throat
(through the Eustachian tube).
[Early in the morning, when rising, the facial muscles look
as if pushed out of their natural positions, and swollen. When
waking from his siesta, his whole face looked swollen, bloated,
pale and disfigured, as in a person who is threatened with a
heavy illness, without pain or tension, or any other troublesome sensation; the swelling disappeared entirely after six
hours, but returned again more violently on the following
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malar bones, exteriorly. (a. 4 d.) Pressure, with tearing in the
left zygomatic process, with indistinct sensation of swelling
when the pain abates.-130. Darting tearing in the right
malar bone. (a. 30 h.) Violent drawing stitch from the right
upper jaw to the vertex of the head. (a. I h.) Fine stitch in
the left cheek. (a. 4 h.) Burning pain in the left cheek, continuous. (a. 27 h.) Burning in the skin, in the region of the
temple, in front of the ear. (a. 75 h.)-135. Drawing pain in
the tragus of the left ear. Otalgic pain in the region of the
border of the left outer ear. (a. 22 h ) Clawing pain in the
region of the posterior portion of the outer right ear. (a. - h.)
Twitching in the right outer ear. Itching of the right outer
ear. (a. 36 h.)-140. Itching in both outer ears at the same
time, (a. 5 days.) Burning pain of the right outer ear. Burning sensation in the whole of the left outer ear. Gradually
increasing painful pressure in the meatus auditorius. (a. I h.)
Sensation as if a plug were pressing into the left ear. (a. J
h.)-145. Aching pain in the left ear. (a. 13 h.) Aching pain
in the interior of the right ear, extending through the whole
of the malar bone and in the right molar teeth. (a. 57 h.)
Continuous pain in the right ear, as if it were being pressed
asunder. (a. 59 h.) Drawing pain in the left ear, towards the
malar bone. Violent tearing shocks in the right ear, several
times.-150. Paroxysmal darting pain in the ear, extending
as far as the eye and the lower jaw. (a. 12 h.) Beating in the
left ear. Boring stitch in the interior of the right ear. (a. 49 h.)
Itching stinging in the left ear. Itching creeping in the right
ear.-155. Itching prickling sensation in the right ear. (a. 77
h.) When setting down the foot suddenly, a bounding sensation is perceived in the ears, as if water were splashing in
them. (a. 4 h.) Noise in the left ear, as if the wind were suddenly passing along. Whizzing in the ear. Sensation in
both ears as if he heard a ringing at some distance, with a
sensation as if the ear were loosely stopped, or as if a strong
fog were before it.-160. A strong sound affects the inner
ear painfully. (a. several days.) In the open air when the
wind rushes into the ears they feel closed as with a finger. (a.
5, 6 h.) In the evening the ears become closed as if something
were lodged before the tympanum, which feels contracted. (a.
14 h.) Hardness of hearing in the left ear, as if the ear were
closed with the finger, accompanied with a fluttering noise in
the ears. (a 2 h.) Sensation as if the left ear were loosely
stopped, but without hardness of hearing. (a. J h.)]
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direction of the ear, and around the ear as far as the nape of
the neck, making it impossible for him to move his head without feeling pain. Stinging pain in the right side of the neck;
when swallowing he feels a stinging in the parotid gland and
in the interior of the ear, a sort of middling pain between otalgia and sore throat. Considerable swelling on the left side of
the chin, itching during the siesta. (a. 12 h.) Burning in the
upper lip. Blackish painless pimple in the vermilion border
of the lower lip.-50. Swelling of the cervical glands. Beating-tearing toothache; it is made worse by cold water, but
goes off when lying down. Toothache, a sort of pressing
from within outwards, most violent when lying on the right
side; he does not feel it while he is eating or drinking, but
immediately after the toothache commences again, and he
frequently wakes in the night from that pain. Toothache
preventing his night's rest; it drives him out of his bed; he
does not feel that pain in daytime, except immediately after a
meal, not during the meal. Smoking in the evening gives
him a toothache.
[165. Disagreeable sensation in the root of the nose, as if
there were an impediment. Prickling in the nose, obliging
him to scratch, and afterwards disappearing for a short while.
Itching of the whole side of the nose. (a. 35 h.) Titillation
of the dorsum of the nose, as if the little hairs on the nose
were lightly touched, or as if a soft breeze were blowing'over
it; this sensation was felt a long while. Itching of the right
wing of the nose.-170. Itching boring in the right nostril,
obliging him to sneeze. (a. 78 h.) Herpetic eruption, with sore
feeling to the touch, in and around the right nostril. (a. 12 d.)
Burning in the right upper lip, also continuing while
moving the lip. (a. 52 h.) Continued burning tension in the
upper lip, in rest. Several small pimples on the chin, containing pus, almost without any sensation even while touched.
(a. 4 h.)-175. Painful pressure on the right angle of the
lower jaw. Pain as if the right lower jaw were torn out of
its joint, only during mastication; between the acts of mastication only a dull pain was felt in the articulation of the jaw.
(a. 34 h.) Coldness in the upper teeth, with fine dartings in
the same. Drawing pains in the hollow tooth. Intermittent
dartings through both rows of teeth, especially in a hollow
tooth. (a. 4 h.)-180. Painful jerks in the nerve of a hollow
tooth, from the crown to the root, at intervals of ten minutes,
worse in the afternoon; the pain increases when water or air
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one of the left molar teeth. (a. 20, 24 h.) Cramp-pain in the
upper molar teeth, the lower jaw having the appearance of
being spasmodically drawn against the upper. Gnawing pain
in the hollow tooth.]
MOUTH, PHARYNX, AND (ESOPHAGUS.-GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: White coated tongue. Putrid taste in the mouth, and
he thinks that his mouth smells badly. Fetid, putrid taste in he
mouth. Burning pain in the region of the palate. Frequent
empty risings, after every meal.-60. He has no desire to eat,
but his thirst is great. He does not relish his tobacco. Pressure
in the pit of the stomach, as if oppressed by a load. Stitches
in the pit of the stomach during an expiration, less when lying
than when sitting or walking. In the evening he had several
stitches under the left ribs, causing him to bend double entirely.
[itching-boring stitch in the right side of the tongue,
from behind forward, with a sourish taste in the mouth.-185.
Fine stitches in the right side of the tongue. The tongue was
covered with fissures, as if it would peel off; they disappeared
again in the following night. (a. 5 d.) Vesicles, now on the
tongue, now on the palate, burning when touched. (a. 41 h.)
The tongue was painful during mastication, as if the back part
of it were swollen. Sensation in the back part of the tongue
as if it were swollen. (a. 12 h.)-190. Swelling of the left
side of the fauces, and fine stitches in that part when swallowing. Shuddering and chilliness, with tensive pain in the left
side of the neck below the ear, in the evening; next morning
one of the glands of that same region was swollen, the swelling being hard and painful to the touch; accompanied with
stinging of the left side of the throat during deglutition, with
swelling of the gums and a difficulty of opening the jaws; the
stinging during deglutition ceased when pressing the swelling
in; he perspired two mornings in succession. (a. 9 d.) Frequently recurring pressing stitch in the throat, in the region of
the larynx; at first it is fine, then it becomes severer and bigger, disappears during deglutition, but returns again immediately after. (a. 28 h.) White-coated tongue. Offensive smell
from the mouth, the whole day, perceptible only to others.195. Early in the morning, when waking, he has a quantity of mucus in the fauces and mouth, which is alternately
white and yellowish, without any peculiar taste. (a. 22 h.).ccumulation of a whitish,frothy saliva in the mouth, which
he is frequently obliged to spit out. (a. 16 d.) Titillation in
the pharynx, and sensation as if a half liquid body would ascend from the pharynx into the fauces, accompanied with a
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so violent that he feared in his anxiety he would faint, for
three minutes. (a. 4- h.) He was not able to swallow the
saliva; it came up again every time he attempted to swallow,
as if it nauseated him; he had to spit it up. Confluence of
saliva in the fauces.-200. Flat taste in the mouth; nevertheless the food has a good taste. Excessive dryness in the
mouth, early in the morning after waking; sensation in the
mouth, as if full of needles, and as if glued together, without thirst; there was even a good deal of saliva. (a. 24 h.)
A good deal of thirst and no appetite. (He becomes hot while
eating something cool.) Great desire to eat and drink,for four days.
-205. Complete aversion to smoking and to use snuff. Aversion to smoking and to coffee during the whole time of proving.
Eructations. Empty eructations.-210. Sour eructations, the
acidity being tasted as high up as the tongue. Nausea, as if
he had fasted too long; a sort of canine hunger, with nausea.
Desire to vomit. Pressure at the stomach. Pressure in the
pit of the stomach, as from a lump, disappearing after pressing
with the hand, and changing to a tension and pressure in the
chest.-215. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if he ought
to eructate to obtain relief; but no eructation took place till he
had swallowed air. Troublesome feeling of fullness in the abdomen after a moderate meal.]
ABDOMEN:-65. Cutting pain in the umbilical region, several afternoons (from five to six o'clock), with chilliness, diarrhnea, and a good deal of micturition. Colic as from a hard
swollen lump in the umbilical region, in the evening.
Stitches above the groin, in the hypogastrium, with a stitchlike oppression of the chest. Tensive pain in the right groin
when touching it. Cutting and sticking in the region of the
abdominal ring; the intestine protruded, which was rarely the
case, and formed a sort of hernial sac; when touching the
place it felt sore.
[Sensation in the abdomen as if a great load were falling
down, especially during an inspiration. (a. 3 h.) Painful
pressure in the abdomen, as if the walls of the abdomen
would burst, especially in the evening, previous to the loose
stool, after which the pressure abates somewhat. (a. 9 d.)
Shifting pinching, with pressure, in the abdomen, disappearing
again after the emission of flatulence, three afternoons in succession, at three o'clock.-220. Pinching pain, with pressure, in
the abdomen. Pinching in the whole of the abdomen, in the
recumbent posture, so violent that he was unable to stir. (a.
44 h.) Pinching in the abdomen as if all the intestines were
strung together; this occasions a great anxiety, and makes
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the breathing troublesome. (a. 4, 7 d.) Violent pinching in
the abdomen, followed immediately after by a loose stool, the
looseness increasing gradually, but the evacuation being nevertheless somewhat difficult. (a. 49 h.) Now a pinching,
now a grumbling or rolling is felt in the abdomen; every
paroxysm of this sort of pain is accompanied with a desire to
pass his urine; the urine was unchanged, but it went off in
greater quantity, for six days. (a. 14, 15 d.)-225. Pinching'
pain in the abdomen. (a. 11 d.) Pinching in the umbilical
region, on the left side. (a. 10 h.) Pinching stitch in the abdomen, with emission of flatulence; this is immediately followed by a desire for stool. (a. h.) Pinching in the abdomen, which extended into the chest like a stitch, accompanied
with emission of flatulence. (a. 84 h.) Sticking while walking, on the left side of and near the umbilicus.-230. Dull
stitch in the pit of the stomach and oppression of the chest,
worse during an inspiration. Dull stitches during an inspiration on the left side of and near the umbilicus. Dull, intermittent stitches on one side of and at a distance of a few fingers' breadth from the pit of the stomach. (a. 1 h.) Sharp
stitches in the abdominal cavity, in the region of the os innominatum, resembling splenetic stitches, only while walking; they pass off after having made thirty or forty steps.
Intermittent, burning, sharp stitches on the left side and near
the pit of the stomach.-235. Sharp stitches, occurring at regular intervals like the beats in music, deep, internally, below the
ribs, ceasing after a long and deep inspiration, and returning
during an expiration. Stitches in the region of the liver, disappearing when walking more slowly. Severe cutting in the
abdomen, from both sides towards the centre (early in the
morning when in bed), with emission of flatulence, which afforded no relief. The cutting and digging in the abdomen
which seemed to be occasioned by the sitting down, are much
less painful after rising. Tearing drawing through the abdomen. (a. 5 d.)-240. Slight burning in the abdomen, with
tasteless eructations that seem to be mingled with something
watery. (a. 2L d.) Itching in the left groin. Dull stitch in
the groin. Tensive stitch in the right groin, only during a
walk. Boring-digging pain in the right groin.-245. Itchinggnawing, fine stinging in the muscles of the left os innominatum. Intermittent, dull stitches in the left side, directly over
the os innominatum. Burning stitch, posteriorly, in the region
of the border of the left os innominatum, on the side of the os
sacrum, during an inspiration. Boring stitch in the os ilium.
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in the rectum and anus, as of ascarides. (a. 1 h.) Itching in
the region of the anus and os coccygis, for many days, and
not abating after scratching. Itching of the anus, abating after
scratching. (a. 4- h.) Dull pressure in the rectum, between
the stools. Grunting in the abdomen, resembling the croaking
of frogs. (a. 4 h.)-255. Audible grunting, in the abdomen.
(a. 40 h.) Loud grunting in the left, afterwards also in the right
side of the abdomen. (a. -t h.) Rumbling here and there in
the abdomen, as of flatulence, painful now and then. Rumbling in the bowels preceding an evacuation, of which several
papescent ones occur early in the morning, and one in the
evening. (a. 6 d.) The emission of flatulence is accompanied with a sensation as if a quantity of loose stool had escaped, together with the flatulence; which was not the case
however.-260. Flatulence having a smell as of rotten eggs,
for several hours. The evacuations and the desire for them
were accompanied with a painful bruising sensation in the region of the first four ribs of the left side, going off after the
evacuation.]
STOOL:-70. White stool, every day. Discharge of
pieces of thick mucus by the anus, for two days; he felt as if
he passed wind; the stools were like sheep's-dung, and enveloped in mucus. Long, ineffectual desire for stool in the
abdomen, after an evacuation.
[No stool on the first day; on the second day (after taking
another dose) he passed hard stools, after long pressing. Spasmodic pushing and pressing in the rectum, as if he could not
retain the stool. (a. 3 h.) Frequent desire, without being
able to pass any thing. (a. 4 d.)--265. Desire for stool; but
he does not pass any thing, and the desire passes off again.
Stool, the first portion of which is hard, the second loose; after
the evacuation he experiences a few pushes in the forehead,
from within outward. (a. 26 h.) Discharge of loose stool, for
two days, mingled with a yellowish tenacious mucus, two or
four times a day, at irregular intervals. (a. 3 d.) One or two
loose or even watery stools a day. (a. 16 d.)]
URINARY ORGANS: The urine is emitted with difficulty in
the night; the emission is followed by burning. Ten copious
emissions of urine in one night, with painful pressure on the
bladder, going off after the emission was terminated. (a. 12
h.)-75. (The urine spirted out of the urethra when pressing
upon the bladder exteriorly.) In the afternoon, while rising
from his seat, five or six drops of urine drop out of his urethra
suddenly and involuntarily; this takes place four times in
succession; every dropping is succeeded by burning in the
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[Desire to urinate, as from a diuretic.-270. Frequent desire to urinate, succeeded by the emission of a quantity of urine,
without any trouble. (a. 3- h.) Two copious emissions of
urine in succession, even after having emitted the urine previous to taking the medicine. (a. 1~ h.) Frequent copious emissions of urine for three days and a half. Watery urine. (a. 2 -h.)-.275. Urine with whitish sediment, for several days.
Burning stitch in the urethra, with desire to urinate. (a. 59 h.)]
GENITAL ORGANS: One-half of the glans is swollen. (a.
7 d.) Creeping about the glans every day.
[Frequent erections, without any sexual desire, but with
thoughts about an embrace. (a. 17 h.) Discharge of prostatic juice. (a. 20 h.) Itching stitch in the left testicle. (a.
51 h.)-280. Itching stitch in the right testicle and in the
penis, from behind forward. Burning stitch in the right testicle and in the penis. Twitchings in the scrotum. (a. 4 d.)]
CATARRH AND RESPIRATORY ORGANS: Sudden coryza;
first dry, and in four hours fluent; the fluent lasts twenty-four
hours.-80. Some cough early in the morning, when the
coryza had passed off. (a. 48 h.) She is attacked with cough
and coryza in the night. Catarrh, a sort of catarrhal fever;
he was hoarse, and felt hot to others day and night; no thirst
or sweat, the eyes protruding, with profuse coryza, violent
headache and weeping mood. Dry, violent, hollow cough,
occasioned by an irritation deep in the trachea, especially
when stooping; the cough arrests his breathing. (Painful
pressure in the chest, after hawking.-85. Sticking in the
chest, contracting it, so that he was unable to breathe. Sticking in the chest, from within outward, between the acts of
respiration, which is easy.
[Frequent sneezing. (a. 4 h.) Sneezing early in the
morning after waking, with discharge of bloody mucus.-285.
Obstruction of the forepart of the nose; with frequent flow
of mucus from the posterior nares into the fauces, for eight
days. Obstruction of the nose for several days. Expectoration of a quantity of mucus from the fauces, the whole day,
proceeding most of it from the posterior nares. (a. 24 h.)
Spontaneous discharge of the nasal mucus by the mouth
from the posterior nares; only a little tenacious green mucus
was discharged by blowing the nose; the forepart of the nose
was always dry (from the sixteenth to the twenty-sixth day).
The flow of mucus from the posterior nares into the mouth
was frequently so copious and perceptible that he had to hawk
it up immediately to prevent suffocation; this woke him at
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by the tobacco. Discharge of mucus from the nose, which is
now white, now yellow, also from the hack part of the mouth.
(a. 7 d.) Increase of dry coryza, after a meal. (a. 12 h.)
Sudden violent cough from water having got into the larynx.
Sort of suffocative cough, as is occasioned by a quantity of
water getting into the larynx.-295. Short and dry cough in the
open air, making the chest feel sore. Sensation as of excessive
hunger in the chest, with confluence of saliva in the back part
of the mouth. (a. 4 h.) Pain in the chest, at intervals. Violent pressure in the chest below the left clavicle. Excessive
hard pressure in the whole of the chest, towards evening.300. Strong, painful, oppressing pressure in the middle of
the chest. Pressure above the xiphoid cartilage when standing. Pressure and drawing in the chest when standing.
Tearing with constriction of the muscles of the chest when
standing. Tearing with constriction of the lower part of
the chest, above the pit of the stomach, with oppression: afterwards the same pain is felt in the upper part of the chest,
below the pit of the throat, accompanied with palpitation of
the heart.-305. Violent pain in the upper part of the left side
of the chest, resembling a pain as if sprained, only when turning the body to the right side. when missing a step, or when
turning the left arm, for a whole day. (a. 7 d.) Lancinating
pain commencing below the left nipple and extending into the
region of the scapula and the upper arm, more violent during deep inspirations. (a. 11 h.)  Tearing-boring pain
from  within outward below  the right nipple, extending
toward the sternum, and changing to a sharp pressure with
tearing. (a. 2 h.) Cutting constriction of the chest, with anguish. Sudden, drawing, stinging pain along the sternum
from above downward.-310. Tensive stitches in the left
chest, more violent during an inspiration. (a. 27 h.) Continued tensive stitch in the right side of the chest and abdomen,
continuing during inspirations and expirations, worse when
walking, tor two hours. (a. 82 h.) Tensive-drawing stitch
in the true ribs of the right side, continuing during an inspiration and expiration, more violent when pressing upon the parts
externally. Continuous tensive stitch in the right chest, more
violent during an inspiration and expiration. Tensive-boring
stitches in the left chest, continuing during an expiration. (a.
57 h.)-315. Tensive stitch in the false ribs of the right side,
continuing during an expiration. Boring stitch in the region
of the diaphragm, on the right side, continuing during an inspiration and expiration. Stitch in the chest, in a transverse
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especially felt in the sternum. Sharp stitches above the left
nipple from without inward, when sitting crooked while writing, recurring at various periods; the stitches disappeared
speedily when he raised his chest. (a. 31 h.) Fine prickings
in the right side of the chest. (a. 5 h.)-320. Momentary,
violent sticking pain in the left chest, toward the clavicle, preventing the breathing, in the evening. (a. 12 h.) Quick,
painful darting in the front part of the chest, as of an electric
spark. Darting pain in the outer parts of the upper portion of
the chest, below the axilla. (a. 55 h.) Violent stitch in the
left side, close below the heart, passing into a sort of creeping
for a short while, and afterwards returning with the same violence in the form of a stitch. (a. j h.) Pinching stitch in the
left region of the diaphragm, so violent that it arrested his
breathing, and he had to stand still. (a. 2- h.)--325. Itching
stitch below the clavicle. Itching, corrosive stinging near the
left axilla, anteriorly. (a. 1~ b.) Itching stitch in the left
pectoral muscles. (a. 10 h.) Dull stitch in the left chest,
continuing during an inspiration and expiration.  Dull
stitches in the right chest, continuing during an inspiration.
(a. 2 h.)-330. Dull sticking-pinching pain below the right
nipple, in the thoracic cavity, from within outward, more violent during an inspiration. (a. 8 d.) Dull stitches in the
region where the beat of the heart is felt, a little more exteriorly, recurring regularly as the pulse. (a. 3 h.) Dull
sticking in the region where the beat of the heart is felt. (a.
56 h.) Dull, oppressive sticking in the heart, between the region where the beat of the heart is felt, and the scrobiculus cordis; the same sticking is felt in and above the scrobiculus cordis, and the chest is oppressed.  Unusually strong beating
of the heart; he frequently hears the beating; the beating
could be seen externally through the clothes.-335. Palpitation of the heart and anxious oppression of the chest. Palpitation of the heart, early in the morning after rising, when
sitting, with anxious oppression of the chest; the heart seems
to be in a tremulous motion. The palpitation of the heart
increases by sitting down, and by bending the chest forward.
The anguish increases during a deep inspiration, and when
arresting the breathing; he has then palpitation of the heart
and oppression; the heart beats more violently, and he feels
the pulsations of the heart when laying the hand on the pit
of the stomach. As soon as he sits down after rising, the
heart begins to beat violently; the part above the place where
the beating is felt fzels as if painfully oppressed by a load;
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abdomen, as if caused by incarcerated flatulence, continuing
longer than the palpitation.]
BACK: [-340. Stitches in the small of the back, worse
during an expiration and inspiration. (a. 21 h.) Twitchings
in the dorsal and intercostal muscles. Stitches in the back,
opposite the heart. Prickings in the back when walking,
shifting to the left side  (a. 12 h.) Painful pricking in the
upper dorsal vertebrae.-345. Itching stitch in the dorsal
muscles of the right side. Itching in the back, in the region
of the right scapula, not going off by scratching. Bauised
sensation in the spine, even in rest. (a. 38 h.) Sensation in
the left scapula as of drops of blood pressing through a valve,
a kind of bubbling. (a. I h.) Dull, boring stitch in the left
scapula. (a. 70 h.)-35(. Sharp stitches in the region of the
right scapula, exteriorly, returning at regular intervals. Single
jerks in the muscles of the right shoulder. Red pimple on the
neck, sore to the touch. (a. 10 d.) Some red pimples on the
neck, sore to the touch. (a. 5 d.) Intermittent drawing in the
posterior cervical muscles towards the occiput.-355. Paralytic sensation on the left side of the neck, not impeding the
motion of the head, and going off very soon. (a. I h.)]
UPPER EXTREMITIES: Pain as if sprained in the shoulder joint, and in the posterior joint of the thumb and indexfinger. His arm frequently went to sleep when writing, so
that he was unable to hold his pen. Severe stitches in the
bend of the elbow, and in the fingers.-90  Single sticking
jerks above the wrist-joint. Single sticking jerks near the posterior joints of the fingers. Cold hands, with cold clammy
sweat, especially in the palm.
[Twitching on the top of the right shoulder. Tensive pain
in the left axilla, in rest. (a. 38 h.) Burning pain in the left
axilla. (a. 31 h ) Itching in both axillae, especially the left.
(a. 13 h.)-360. The left shoulder and the arm hang down
very heavily when walking, with tension in the forepart of
the upper arm. Trembling of the upper limbs. Feeling of
weight in the right upper and lower arm, in rest; nevertheless
he raises the arm very easily. (a. 3 h.) Drawing pain in the
right deltoid muscle, more violent when pressing upon it
strongly. Cutting drawing across the deltoid muscle.-365.
Pressure with tearing in the middle and the external surface
of the right upper arm, more violent when touched. Twitching in the muscles of the left upper arm. (a. 71 h.) Itching
stitch in the tip of the left elbow. (a. 11 h.), Itching, pricking pains in the bend of the right elbow, obliging one to
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arm, directly above the wrist-joint, only in rest. (a. 55 h.)370. Aching in the right lower arm. Pain in the right lower
arm as if both bones were squeezed with pincers, in rest. (a.
22 h.) Boring stitches in the right lower arm. (a 52 h.)
Itching in the outer parts of the right lower arm. (a. 5 d.)
Aching above the right wrist-joint, in rest. (a. 34 h.)-375.
Violent lancinating pains above the left wrist-joint, when moving the index-finger while holding the arm close to the body.
(a. 45 h.) Tearing in the carpal joints of the left hand, recurring at regular intervals; soon after a cramp-like tearing is
felt in the palm of the hand, not impeding the motion of the
hand. Cramp-pain transversely through the metacarpal bones
of the left hand, from the side of the thumb to the tip of the
little finger, as if the whole hand were squeezed together. (a.
6 h.) Drawing pain transversely through the metacarpal
bones. Fine tearing in the phalangeal articulations. (a. 40
h.)-380. The hands are pale-yellow, as after a long illness.
The hands go to sleep in rest, with tingling in the tips of the
fingers, going off when moistening them or when firmly seizing any thing with them. Creeping in the hands when pressing them together, as if they had gone to sleep. (a. 12 h.)
Boring creeping in a small point of the right palm. (a. 79 h.)
Itching in the palm of the hand and in the tips of the fingers,
as if they had been frozen.-385. Burning itching in the
middle of the palm of either hand. (a. 24 h.) Involuntary
drawing of the tendons of either hand, so that the fingers were
drawn crooked, with cramp-pains in the hollow of the hand.
Reddish hard pimple in that spot of the palm of the left hand
which had been burning and itching the day previous; the
pimple remained for several days with a burning itching sensation. Painful drawing in the metacarpal joint of the
thumb.   Tearing pain in the joints of the right thumb. (a.
7 d.)-390. Tearing in the articulations of the fingers of the
right hand, recurring regularly as beats in music. (a. 12 h.)
Burning pains in the dorsum of the posterior joint of the little
finger. (a. 7J h.) Burning pain in the outer parts of the articulation of the left thumb. Paralytic pain in the right indexfinger. Pimple on the middle-finger of the right hand, painless
of itself; when pressing upon it, it emits a yellow pus, and
disappears on the day following. (a. 17 d.)-395. Tearing,
with pressure, in the tip of the left little finger. (a. 48 h.)
Itching stinging in the tips of the fingers. (a. 10 minutes.)
Bubbling, dull stitches in the tips of the fingers, as if frozen.
(a. I h.)]
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cles of the thighs, only when walking. Single jerks in the
outer parts of the patella.-95. Compressive pain in the knees,
mingled with drawing and striking; the pain increases the
longer he walks. The knee is painful when touching it, as if
bruised.  Bruising pain in the interior of the knee-joint,
when bending the knee. Digging-up and great uneasiness in
the left knee; he had to change its position all the time, to
bend it, to stretch it, etc. (a. 4 h.) Creeping in the calves.100. Drawing in the legs from above downward, with a feeling of warmth, or as if warmth were coming to the parts; the
feet were likewise warmer. Single sticking jerks above the
tarsal joints. Early in the morning, when first setting the feet
upon the floor, the soles are painful: as if ulcerated.
[Tensive pain in the left glutei muscles, when walking. (a.
5 d.) Great lassitude of the lower limbs, especially in the
thighs, as low down as beyond the knees, as is felt after long
running, even when sitting.-400. Bruising pain in the groin
and in the upper and inner part of the thigh, towards the perinaeum, as after a long ride in a person who is not used to riding. (a. 3, 4 h.) Drawing pain in the right hip, and in the
muscles of the right thigh. Below the neck of the left femur,
in the external and posterior muscles, he experiences, at a small
spot, intermittent, burning, sharp stitches when sitting, little
diminished by rising, but more violent than before when sitting down again. Itching in the skin, more in the thighs
than legs, frequently returning after scratching. (a. 11 h.)
Continual corrosive itching of both thighs, as if an eruption
would make its appearance; scratching does not relieve it; it
is not perceptible in the body.-405. Creeping itching of the
right thigh, going off by scratching. Tension in the muscles
of the anterior thigh, only when walking. Tension in the
right thigh, only when sitting. (a. 36 h.) Itching, continuous
stitch in the left thigh. Tensive, continuous stitch in the
left thigh, when walking, ceasing when standing, and afterwards returning when sitting down. (a 4. d.)-410. Drawing tearing in the right thigh, when sitting. (a. 29 h.) Tearing, with pressure in the outer parts of the left thigh, from the
knees to the os innominatum, as if in the periosteum; the pain
was more violent in those parts where pressure could be made
upon the bone. (a. 11d.) Aching in the right thigh, more violent
when pressing upon it. (a. 5J h.) Aching above the right knee
when sitting, disappearing by motion. (a. - h.) Boring pain
above the right knee-joint, only in rest.-415. Tearing tension in the outer side of the left knee-joint, when setting down
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sprained, in the left knee-joint, only when walking, so that
he is sometimes obliged to limp, in that he is not well able to
bend the leg. Sharp, deep pricking in the outer parts of the
right patella, when sitting. Strong prickings through the knee,
when bending it; only when walking the pricking ceased for
a few moments. (a. 5 d.) Short-lasting feeling of heaviness in
the right leg, when sitting. (a. 9. h.)--420. Itching diggingup in the left tibia below the patella, in rest. Tensive stitch
in the left tibia, in rest. (a. 4 d.) Sticking in the calf, accompanied with jerking and pulsations in the patellce, when the
knees are stretched. (a. 13 d.) Sensation in the right calf as
if drops of blood were pressing through a valve, a sort of bubbling. (a. - h.) Digging-up pain in the right calf, interiorly,
more violent when walking.-425. Cramp in the left calf. (a.
11 h.) Tensive drawingin the left calf, when walking. When
sneezing he experiences a tremulous chilliness through the legs,
from above downward. Burning pain above the right malleolus internus. (a. 37 h.) Fine boring stitch in the right malleolus internus, in rest. (a. 33 h.)-430. Pain when bending the
foot up and down as if the tendons around the joint were too
short, a cramp-like sensation. (a. 10 h.) Smarting drawing in
the tarsal-joint, with a feeling of soreness. (a. 4 h.) Hard pressure as of a hard stone in the tarsal-joint, accompanied with
drawing in the joint, when standing. Darting tearing in the
dorsunm of the foot. (a. 45 h.) Intermittent tearing in the metatarsal bones of the left foot. (a. 12 h.)-435.  Intermittent
tearing in the left foot, behind the toes. Itching of the dorsum
of the left foot, in rest, not going off by scratching. Itchingboring stitch in the dorsum of the right foot, in rest, obliging
him to scream violently. (a. 79 h.) Burning pain in the dorsum
of the left foot. (a. 56 h.)  Digging-up, with pressure, in the
right foot, behind the toes, only in rest; 440. Fine tearing in
the muscles of the left toes. (a. 10 d.) Wart-like excrescence on
the second toe of the left foot, without sensation, disappearing
again after three days, and leaving a white cicatrix behind. (a.
3 d.) Wart-like excrescence on the second left toe, painfully
smarting, but burning when the shoe presses upon it, like a
corn; it left a white thick cicatrix. (a. 17 d.) Itching stitch
in the second toe of the right foot. Creeping in the tips of the
right toes, only in rest. (a. 53 h.)-445. Itching stitch in the
bottom of the right foot, continuing during motion. Violent
stitches in the bottom of the left foot, when sitting. (a. 4 d.)
Boring-itching stitch in the ball of the second and third toes.
Sensation in the bottom of the left foot, when treading, as if the
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stitch-like pain. (a. 29 h.) Itching creeping in the bottom of
the right foot. (a. 77 h.)]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: When walking, every step he misses
causes a painful jerking through the limbs. His lower limbs
feel heavy; he feels a humming in his lower limbs; he has to
drag them along.--105. He feels bruised all over; when rising
from a seat he feels giddy, his feet feel unsteady, as if lie would
stagger. Pain, as if sprained or bruised in the right shoulderjoint and in the posterior joints of the thumb and index-finger.
Great lassitude of body and mind, especially after standing. He
feels extremely debilitated when hungry. All the symptoms
are worse in the afternoon.
[Trembling of the lower, and then of the upper limbs. Small
blotches on the lower limbs, after scratching them. The whole
body is very sensitive to the touch; when knocking any part of
the body against any thing, the part feels painful and shuddering; even when treading, the body is painfully concussed. (a.
3 d.) Prickings in several parts of the body, after a moderate
walk, when going up stairs.-455. All his limbs are affected,
especially when walking; his spine feels bruised. He does
not feel well in any part of his body; his limbs feel heavy and
weary; he is not disposed to work, although his mind feels
cheerful. (a. 6 d.) Tearing in the limbs, either directly above
or belowthe joints, close to the bones, as if they were scraped.
Great heaviness in the upper and lower limbs; after going up
stairs he breathes heavily. Great lassitude, especially when
going up stairs. (a. 2 h.)-460. Great lassitude in the morning; all his limbs feel heavy; he dislikes to stir. (a. 7 d.)
Weariness when walking, standing or lying down; he is almost unable to do any thing with his hands, or even to dress.
Weakness of the body and tremor of the hands when seizing
any thing. (a. 131 d.) Heaviness of the arms and lower limbs.
He feels intolerably hot when taking but moderate exercise, especially in the face; the whole body perspires when the exercise is more violent. (a. 14 d.)-465. He is very sensitive to
cool air. Great lassitude after a walk. When walking in the
open air, he is at first strong, but soon feels weak, especially in
the muscles of the thighs, with an anxious pressure on the chest,
in consequence of which he would like to eructate, which he is
however unable to do; he obtains relief by a desire for stool
and emission of flatulence. (a. 5- h.) In the evening, while in
the open air, he feels very sick and anxious, with internal heat,
and has to hasten back to his room, where he does not feel
much better. (a. 11 h.) After a moderate exercise, he feels so
debilitated that he imagines that he is on the point of dying. (a.
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SLEEP: Constant yawning (immediately). No sleep before midnight, every night, but no pain. Constant restlessness
in all the limbs, at night; he has to change the position of his
limbs all the time, to bend or stretch them. (a. 10 h )1 Restless
sleep, frequently disturbed, full of anxious, frightful dreams, for
example: that the lightning had knocked away his shoulder.
Weary early in the morning when waking.-115. He feels
more weary in the morning than the evening previous.
[Yawning without drowsiness. Frequent desire to sleep,
which he is, however, able to resist. Drowsiness, with yawning,
as if he had not slept enough. (a. 5 h.) Irresistible drowsiness in
the evening as long as he remained up; but as soon as he had
laid down, he was unable to sleep for a long time.-475../fter lying down he remained awake until late in the night.
Weariness in the morning; shortly after rising he was unable
to keep off sleep when sitting. (a. 7 d.) Irresistible desire to
sleep, with yawning, the whole forenoon. (a. 2 h.) He feels
so drowsy in the morning that he has to hang his head over,
and his eyes closed. (a. 2- h.) Long siesta, contrary to habit;
uponi waking he could not prevail upon himself to get up, and
he fell asleep again.-480. Sleep, disturbed with many dreams
which he does not recollect. Stupefied sleep.2 Sleep disturbed
with vivid dreams, which he is unable to recollect; after midnight he wakes frequently, and is in a half-waking state.-485.
Confused dreams, during which his mind is so busy that he
feels weary in the morning; when waking he does not recollect his di eams. Vivid dreams of known things, of one and
the same object, for a long time. Vivid dreams about fire and
dispute; he thinks it is time to rise at one o'clock. Anxious
dreams of fire and ghosts.-490. Nocturnal emission, before
waking in the morning, without occasioning any debility, during a dream about an embrace. Dream about an embrace with
emission, without erection.]
FEVER: Violent thirst, late in the evening. (a. 28 h.)
Severe chilliness over the arms and shoulders. Severe chilliness through all the limbs, the whole day, without thirst, two
days in succession. Severe chilliness and coldness immediately after dinner.-120. Chilliness in the afternoon, followed
by heat and thirst. Fever: chilliness in the evening, with
cold hands and distended abdomen, without thirst; next night,
while lying quietly on his back, all his joints feel bruised, he
has vivid, pressing dreams, talks in his sleep, his body feels
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hot, mouth, nose, and eyes dry, without thirst. Chilliness for
half an hour in the evening, when lying down, followed by
heat and sweat all over, almost the whole night. Alternate
chilliness and heat the whole day, with redness 6f face. Feeling of heat in the body, without any heat being perceptible to
others.-125. Heat in the lower limbs, at night, without sweat
or thirst. Feeling of internal heat at night, with dryness of
the mouth, without thirst. He sweats when covering himself
lightly.
[Weak and irregular pulse, now slow, now quick.-495. His
pulse, which is generally at 72, falls to 54. During the morning, fever. (a. 24 h.) Chills every morning after rising.
Thrills of shuddering over the whole body, at intervals of from
two to ten minutes; they seem to commence especially in the
region of the chest. Sometimes the chills extend from the pit
of the stomach only as far as the abdomen and the lower limbs,
sometimes also as far as the back. (a. 24 h.) A slight movement of the body brings on chills.-500. Shaking chills without thirst, early in the morning, with tolerable lightness in the
movements of the fingers, and brightness of mind. Occasional
chilliness every morning after rising, for a couple of hours.
Chilliness of the whole body without thirst, only in the morning (a. 2 h.), several mornings in succession, returning at
intervals, and extending from the feet upwards.. Every
morning he has thrills of chilliness, now only over the feet,
now over the head and hands, now over the back, or the chest
and abdomen, now over the whole body, without thirst. (a. 72
h.)  Slight chilliness in the back, toward the abdomen as far
as the umbilical region. (a. 2 h.)-505. Thrill of shuddering
over the whole body, without heat or thirst. (a. 1 h.) Sensation of goose-skin on the right thigh, without any chilly feeling. Chilly feeling and goose-skin on the arms; he dares not
approach his arms to the body, for then he experiences a disagreeable, shuddering sensation. (a. 4 h.) Thrill of cold shuddering over the whole body, except the arms, with sensation as
if the hairs stood on end. Thrill of shuddering over the
whole body, with heat over the whole body, without thirst. (a.
7 h.)-510. Cold sensation over the whole body, without any
coldness to others; his skin was warm to the feel all over, especially on the chest. Internal fever early in the morning:
cold thrills at intervals from five to ten minutes, with increased
warmth of the skin; the chilliness seems to start from the pit
of the stomach, and to spread over the trunk, head, and the
upper limbs, without thirst. (a. 24 h.) Coldness of the tips of
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(a. 3 h.) Cold hands, hot face, no thirst. (a. 5 d.) Feeling of
heat all over, and especially heat in the face; nevertheless he
longs for the warm bed in the evening. (a. 7 d.)-515. The
hands feel cold to the face, but warm, to one another; the
palms are a little moist and clammy. Feeling of heat in the
face and hands; whereas the hands feel cold to the face and
the face cold to the hands. (a. 8 h.) Alternation of coldness and
heat on the left side of the forehead, no change of temperature
being perceptible to others.  For five days in succession he
felt a chilliness in the morning after rising, at the same
hours, and heat at noon (five hours afterwards), mostly on
the trunk, but more so in the face, with redness but no particular thirst. Alternation of heat and chilliness; the chilliness
being especially felt on the back, the heat in the hands and
face.-520. As soon as he lies down he feels chilly; after
which he is covered with a profuse fetid sweat. Heat, with
great desire for beer. Great heat, with sweat over the whole
body, especially about the head, without thirst. (a. 1 h.) Increased warmth in the back; hands and abdomen feel to him
burning hot; he feels hot all over. Flushes of heat over the
back, after supper.-525. Feeling of heat in the spine. Flush
of heat over the face, without reddening it. (a.: h.)]
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Restlessness and apprehensiveness;
he was unable to remain quiet at any one place. Sad and out
of humor, with redness of face.-130. Extreme low-spiritedness, in the evening; he felt as if he could kill himself, with
chilliness of the body. (a. 8 d.)
[Want of attention. He does not like to talk. (a. 7J h.)
He is not able to join in the joy of others, although he is not sad.
(a. 7 h.)-530. Anxiety and apprehensiveness of the future.
(a. 10 d.) Deep reflection about his future fate. (a. 24 h.)
Anxiety for the future, his mind being intractable and inclined
to ill-humor. He is sad, discouraged and timorous. (a. J h.)
sad and out of humor.-535. Serious, taciturn; he gets out of
humor when one attempts in the least to jest with him. He is
out of humor about any thing that does not seem good to him,
for many hours. He gets easily angry. At first he is gloomy
for three hours, afterwards he feels bright and cheerful; in the
afternoon his gloominess returns. He is cheerful, full of confidence, and satisfied; his condition alternates with palpitation of
the heart and oppressive anxiety of the chest.-540. In spite
of his pains and troubles he feels cheerful, free from care, contented; whereas he was usually apprehensive and suspicious
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(Roast the sponge in a tin cylinder, by turning it over incandescent
coal, until it is brown and can be rubbed into a powder, 20 grains of
which are used to 400 drops of alcohol to make the tincture; shaking the
tincture twice a day for eight days, without warmth.)
THE sponge which is burnt to a black coal appears to be
much less powerful; whereas the brown-roasted sponge communicates to the alcohol all its great remedial virtues. Water
turns milky from the tincture, of which it holds a good deal in
solution. The sponge contains some Iodine.
The goitre, although originating in various causes combined, yet is the same malformation generally, and ought to be cured
by the same specific.
Medicine being unaquainted with specific remedies for specific diseases, nothing was left to the common man than to experiment with drugs until he should have discovered the proper agent. This was indeed the longest road, but it is the only
one which has led to the discovery of the only known safe remedies for diseases which are permanently the same and spring
from the same cause.
Thousands of years must have elapsed before the Spongia
tosta was known as a specfic for goitre. Arnold von Villanova has been the first to recommend it for that disease, in the
thirteenth century.
Medicine appropriated to itself the discovery of the Spongia;
but thinking it beneath their dignity to use a simple drug, physicians combined it with many other drugs; the mixtures helped either little or nothing, until the remaining good effects at
last were attributed to the accessory ingredierts. The Spongia
was at last entirely omitted from the pulvis ad strumas, and rejected altogether by several modern pathologists.
I have found that one or two doses of the smallest portion of
a drop of the potentialized drug is sufficient to cure goitre. For
other purposes of healing, a small portion of the decillionth potency is sufficient.
Camphor is the most powerful antidote of Spongia.
Spongia is a specific against a certain form of angina membranacea (s. 145), the local inflammation being previously appeased by Aconite.* Hepar snip. will le se!dorn found necessary
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HEAD: Weakness of the head, and a dullness which unfits him for any kind of mental labor, accompanied with a feeling of weariness through the whole body. The head feels dull
and stupid. The head feels heavy the whole day. Heaviness
of the head after resting it on the table.-5. Drawing pain in
the vertex (immediately), violent pressure in the forehead and
occiput, as if they were pressed together, at noon. (a. 5 h.)
Beating in the left temple. Buzzing like a double pulsation in
the region of the ear, when lying upon it, on either side. Sensation in the forehead as if the blood had become accumulated
in it.-10. Increased rush of blooJ to the head. Sensation in
the head as if every thing would issue through the forehead.
[Vertigo when sitting as if the head would fall to one side,
with a feeling of heat in the head.  (a. - h.) Giddiness as if
one would fall backward. Vertigo in the head, as if tipsy.
(a. - h.) Violent rush of blood to the brain, with heat on the
orehead; perceptible throbbing of the carotids. (a. 1 h.)-5.
Dullness of the head; he staggers as if tipsy, for one hour.
(a. + h.) Painful heaviness in the occiput, as if it were full of
lead, while walking; it recurs at intervals. (a. 14 h.) Heaviness and fullness of the head, increased by stooping. Painful
pressure in the vertex. (a. 5 min.)-10. Dull painful pressure in the right frontal eminence, from within outward. (a.
30 h.) Dull headache in the right hemisphere of the brain,
when coming from the open air into the warm room. (a 1-,
35 h.) Painful pressure in the right parietal bone, from within outward, when lying down. Dull painful pressure, from
before backward, in the forehead, above the eyes, as far as the
occiput and nape of the neck, for ten hours, until he falls
asleep. (a. 3 h.) Violent tearing pain in the left temple, close
to the orbit, occasioning a sensation of pressure in the left half
of his eye. (a. 2 h.)-15. Aching in the forehead. Sensation of pressure from within outward in the right temple.
(a. 11 h.) Violent pressing pain in the left occiput, as if it
would burst. (a. 94 h.) Jerks through both sides of the head,
especially in the temples as far as the occiput, whenever he gives
a jerk with his arms, or sets his foot down firmly. (a. 1 h.)
Occasional pain in the side where the (small) goitre is; beating in the head, descending down to the cheeks and extending
pellet of 30th potency. The more acute the disease and the smaller
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into the neck in the shape of a tearing.-20. Dartings in the
forehead, increased when walking. (a. 5 h.) Painful pressure on the right side of the head and neck, descending. (a.
4 h.) Stinging, with pressure, now in the forehead, now in
the occiput, felt only during motion, accompanied with a sensation of burning heat from the region behind the ear, across
the occiput down to the nape of the neck. Transverse prickings on the left side of the forehead. (a. 4 h.) Boring prickings in the left side of the forehead when walking in the open
air, as if from within outwards.  (a. 34 h.)-25.  Sharp
stitches in the left temple, externally, as far as the forehead.
(a. 6, 14 h.) Pressure on the left side of the forehead. (a. 84
h.) Sharp pressure in both temples, externally.  (a. - h.)
Pressing pain, from within outward, on the left side of the
forehead, when sitting, going off after rising. (a. 64 h.)
Gnawing pain on the top of the head, externally. (a. 1 h.)30. Disagreeable sensitiveness of the scalp, especially when
moving it. (a. T h.) Burning in the right side of the scalp.
(a. 15 h.) Sensation as if the hairs on the top of the head
stood on end, or as if some one were moving them; most
violent when performing any movement of the body. (a. 1 h.)]
FACE AND EYES: Strong heat of one side of the face, excited even by thinking of it. Aching over the right eye, rather
externally. (a. J h.) Pressure below the eyelids, all round.15. Tension in the region of the left eye, near the temple. (a.
4 h.) Early in the morning, when in bed, the left lids close;
she can open them only with difficulty. When staring at one
point, she has headache and her eyes run. She has great
trouble in distinguishing distant objects. Itching of the eyelids.-20. Burning in the left eye, around the eyeball. Pricking in the region of the eye. Suppuration of the eyes. The
eyes are deep sunk. Pale face.
[Tensive contractive sensation over the root of the nose. (a.
114 h.) Creeping stitches in the left nasal bone. (a. I h.)-35.
Yellow crustlike eruption in the region of the left eyebrow,
painful only when touched. The eyes look faint and the eyelids are swollen, as after an intoxication, or as if he had been
revelling all night; he is debilitated and drowsy. (a. 34 h.)
Sudden stitching drawing in the region of the outer angle of
the left orbit, extending around the upper and lower border of
the eye, towards the inner canthus. (a. 1- h.) Tensive sticking pain in the left outer canthus, most violent when moving
the eyes; going off by contact. (a. 44 h.) Stinging itching
below the left eye, somewhat abating by rubbing. (a. 5 h.)-40.
Heaviness of the eyelids. Oppressive heaviness in the eyelids,
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as if they would close. (a - h.) Sticking, and lastly aching
pain in both eyes, in the evening. (a. 9 h.) Pressure in the
right eye and sticking. Burning pain in the outer surface of
the left lower eyelid.-45. Redness of the whites in the eye.
Considerable lachrymation. Flushed cheeks, although the
face has only the usual temperature.
EARS: Red swelling of the anterior border of the concha of
the right ear, with a pimple in that swelling, which emitted a
humor like an ulcer, for nine days; the ear was painful when
pressing upon it. (a. 24 h.) Pressure and pushing in the ears.
Otalgia, a contractive pain. (a. 3 h.) Hardness of hearing.
Itching of the left cheek. (a. - h.)-30. Stinging itching in the
left cheek. (a. - h.) Sticking in the outer parts of the cheek.
Swelling of the cheek. Crampy hard pain extending from
the articulation of the left jaw, along the cheek, in the evening, when eating (for five days).
Dull ringing in the ears. (a. I h.) Ringing in the right
ear. (a. 10 h.)-50. Inflamed pimple close to the meatus auditorius, which became finally covered with a scurf, and remained for several days painful to the touch. Tumors on the
left ear, painful to the touch. (a. 1 h.) Burning in the orifice
of the right ear. Sore pain in the cartilage of the ear, not
altered by contact. (a. - h.) Tensive pain in the swelling close
to the orifice of the meatus auditorius, and creeping in that
swelling as if it would form an abscess and break open; occasional stitches are felt in it. (a. 15- h.)-55. Fine stitches in
the right ear, from within outward, as if through the tympanum (immediately). Cramp-pain in the left ear, when walking
in the open air. (a. 244 h.) Drawing pain in the internal right
ear. (a. 9-1 h.) Tearing sensation, with pressure, in the right
malar bone. (a. + h.) Fine darting stitch from the upper jaw
into the interior of the right ear, in the evening when in bed.]
NoSE: Tearing in the nose.-35. Arrest of mucous secretion in the nose. Eruption on the tip of the nose, and on
the lips.
MOUTH, JAWS AND TEETH: The lower jaw is painful to
the touch. Sensation in the thyroid gland, and in the cervical
gland, during an inspiration, as if air were rushing up and
down in those parts. Sensation as if the cervical glands were
swollen. (a. 14 h.)-40. Pain as if the cervical glands near
the larynx and trachea were swelling. Sensation of pressure
in the goitre, several times a day. Continual prickings above
the pit of the throat, externally, in the lower part of the goitre.
Several large pimples under the chin on the neck, painful
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of the tongue, with sore pain.-45. Stinging and burning vesicles on the inner side of the cheek, and on the border of the
tongue, preventing her from eating any thing solid. Itching
in the upper and lower teeth. Pain in the posterior molares of
the right lower jaw, as if the gums and teeth were swollen, and
as if the teeth were lifted out, for two days. Painfulness of the
gums during mastication; they are swollen. Pain as if something had got between his teeth.-50. Ptyalism. (a. I h.)
[60. Cramp-pain in the left upper jaw. (a. I h.)
Transverse prickings in the left upper jaw. (a. 21, 3h h.)
Violent and long-continued bleeding of the nose, during dinner, after blowing the nose but little. (a. 3 d.) Fine stitches
below the lower lip. (a. 7 h.) Continued violent burning below the right corner of the mouth, in the chin, as if an eruption would form; the burning increases by putting the skin
upon the stretch. (a. 6 h.)-65. When touching the left side
of the chin as far as the corner of the mouth, it is painful as if
ulcerated. (a. 4 d.) Several glandular swellings below the
right lower jaw, impeding the motion of the neck; a tensive
pain is experienced in them when touching them. (a. 73 h.)
Sticking pain in the goitre when swallowing; slight aching between the acts of deglutition. Stitches in the goitre; also between the acts of deglutition.-70. Stiffness of the neck,
when turning it and when stooping. Intermittent, slow pressure on the right side of the neck, as if the skin were pressed
together between the fingers; that same region was painful to
the touch along the carotid artery. Painful pressure above the
thyroid cartilage, increased by touching it (immediately).
Aching pain in the region of the larynx while singing. (a. 6Q
h.) Tension of the right cervical muscles, when bending the
head backward. (a. 3 d.)-75. Sensation in the goitre as if
every thing in it were vacillating and moving about in it as if
alive, especially when swallowing. Sensation in the goitre as
if there were a movement in it, a bloating and pressing as if
every thing would come out. Painful tension on the left side
of the neck near the pomum Adami, when turning the head to
the right side. (a. 1 h.) The region of the thyroid body feels
indurated. (a. 4 d.) Twitching of the muscles of the right
side of the neck when lying down. (a. 24 h.)-80. Fine
Sdarting stitches in the outer region of the larynx at different
periods. Shooting stitch on the left side of the neck. (a. 1f
h.) Long slow stitches in the right cervical muscles, immediately upon waking from sleep, disappearing during deglutition,
and afterwards re-appearing again immediately. (a. 23 h.)
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Painful cramp in the cervical muscles after opening the mouth
widely, and afterwards biting the teeth together firmly; the
lower jaw was drawn down violently, with a heaviness in the
articulation of the jaw as if it would be dislocated.-85.
Drawing prickings through the left side of the neck. (a. 60 h.)
Painful feeling of stifness in the left side of the nape of the
neck when turning the head to the right side. (a. J h.)
Frequently returning, cracking pain with pressure on the left
side of the nape of the neck, close to the scapula, not influenced by motion. (a. 71 h.) Cracking in the nape of the
neck when stooping. (a. 16 h.) Pricking in the upper incisored.-90. Sensation, when chewing, as if the molares were
dull and loose. (a. 6ý h.) Burning pain in the left upper
molares. (a. 12 h.) ]
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Burning in the
throat, fauces and ears. Sticking sensation in the throat,
especially after a meal, and sensation in the outer parts of the
neck as if something were pressing out, morning and evening.
Sweetish taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the throat, not in
the mouth.-55. Empty eructations. (a. 1 h.) Continued
nausea. Increased appetite. Violent hunger.
[Eructations. (a. 2 h.) Sour regurgitations. (a. 5 h.)
Hiccough. (a. 81, 33, 37, 57 h.)-95. Repeated hiccough.
(a. T h.) Bitter taste in the throat. (a. 1 h.) Bitter eructations. (a. 1 h.) Desire for cold water in the evening. (a. 38
h.) Diminished appetite.-100. Confluence of water in the
mouth, with nausea. (a. 24 h.) Nausea when smoking as
usually. (a. 30 h.) Disposition to vomit, without any vomiting. Tobacco has a scraping bitter taste in the mouth and
fauces. (a. I h.) Violent thirst after smoking.]
*       STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Pressure in the pit of the stomach, in the afternoon.-60. Aching pain in the region of the
stomach, continuing the whole forenoon. (a. I h.) She cannot bear any tight clothes around the trunk, especially not
around the region of the stomach. Fullness in the abdomen,
after a meal, as if the prover did not digest. Distended abdomen. (a. 24 h.) Grunting in the abdomen and empty risings.
(a. I h.)-65. Spasms in the abdomen. (a. 6 d.) Pain in
the abdominal ring, as in inguinal hernia. A number of ascarides are passed every day; creeping in the anus.
[Disagreeable sensation of laxness in the cesophagus and
stomach, as if he had drank a quantity of tepid water, for several hours. (a. 23 h.) Sensation of internal coldness in the pit
of the stomach, with fullness in that region. (a. 4 h.) Heat in
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of the body feeling chilly. (a. 3 h.) Painful contraction below
the stomach, on the left side, especially when lying on the right
side. (a. 17 h.) Stitches in the right side of the abdomen, in
the region of the liver. (a. 1 h.)-110. Pricking in the abdomen, with loud rumbling. (a. 5 h.) Frequent pinching in the abdomen, abating after emission of flatulence. (a. 14 h.) Cutting
in the epigastrium, after a meal in the morning. (a. 26 h.) Cutting in the abdomen after supper, in the direction of the left
chest. (a. 4 d.) Violent colic after breakfast, obliging him to
bend the abdomen double; accompanied with great desire for
stool, the faeces being natural but scanty. (a. 5 d.)-115. Colic,
pinching in the whole abdomen. Pinching deep in the abdomen, when sitting; it obliges him to get up, he imagines he has
a desire for stool; the pain abates immediately after rising, and
disappears entirely when stooping while standing. (a. 10 h.)
Fine stitch in the outer region of the navel. (a. 2 h.) Tensive
pain in the epigastrium when walking, worse when stooping. (a.
1 h.) Tensive pain in the epigastrium, when sitting.-120. Digging-up sticking in the abdomen, on the left side, perceptible
only during an expiration, and worst when stooping. (a. 10J h.)
Sensation as of something alive burrowing under the abdominal
wall, above the left hip, in the left side, upon which he is resting in bed, in the morning. (a. 22 h.) Strangulating sensation
in the left side of the abdomen, becoming more painful by
pressing upon the part with the hand. (a. J h.) Strangulating sensation deep in the abdomen, relieved by the emission of
flatulence, but increasing again soon. (a. 7 h.) Dull stitch in
the psoas-muscles of the right side. (a. 6 h.)-125. Cramppain in the left groin, while sitting. (a. 14 h.) Glandular swelling in the right groin, affected with a tensive pain when walking. Tearing pain, with pressure, in the abdominal ring, only
when sitting, on both sides, at different times. Qualmish feeling in the abdomen, accompanied with frequent liquid stools.]
STOOL: (The first portion of the faeces is hard, the latter
soft.) White diarrhoea. (a. 48 h.)-70. Tenesmus at every
stool. Bruising pain in the region of the anus, almost like soreness. Every evacuation is preceded by stitches in the anus and
grunting in the abdomen.
[Emission of flatulence, and a loose evacuation. (a. 6 h.)
i   -130. Hard stool, delaying 7 hours. (a. 9 h.) Pressure in
the lumbar region, occasioned by flatulence, during stool. (a. 36
h.) Tensive pain from the middle of the abdomen to the anus.
(a. 114 h.) Sore pain at stool, for some days. (a. 2 d.) ' Tenesmus in the anus, during stool, as if diarrhaea would set in.
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URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS: (Pain in the neck of
the bladder, as if he would urinate). Thin stream.-75. (Inability to retain the urine.) (The urine looks frothy.) The
urine deposits a thick, grayish-white sediment. Simple pain of
the scrotum, also when touching it. Squeezing, strangulating
pain in the testes.-80. Long, rather dull stitches dart from
the testes into the spermatic cord. Aching swelling of the testes. (a. 10, 24 h.) Swollen, painful spermatic cord. Pain in
the back, afterwards palpitation of the heart, previous to the
menses, the whole day. Drawing in the upper and lower
limbs during the menses.
[135. Frequent emission of urine. (a. 11 h.) The clear,
saffron-colored urine deposits a yellow sediment when standing. (a. 23 h.) Voluptuous itching of the tip of the glans, for
several hours, obliging him to rub. (a. 52 h.) Itching burning
of the scrotum and the body of the penis, several times. Painful drawing stitches from the body of the penis through the
glans. (a. 4 d.)-140. The menses appear too early and- too
profusely (immediately).]
CATARRH, RESPIRATORY     ORGANS:-85. Hoarseness,
cough and coryza, very violent. Pain in the chest and trachea
when coughing, with roughness in the throat. Constant cough
from a deep spot in the chest, where he feels a pain as if that
part of the chest had become sore and bleeding from the cough.
(a. I h.) Dry cough. (a. 4 h.)-90. Dry cough, day and
night, with a burning in the chest, as if some hot substance
were in the chest; the cough diminishes after eating and drinking. (Frequent night-cough for two minutes, with ill-humored
expression of countenance.) (Violent asthma, a. 10 d.) Slow
deep breathing, as after exhaustion, for several minutes. (a. I
h.) She became suddenly debilitated after an exertion; the
Schest was especially fatigued; she was almost unable to speak,
had heat in the face and nausea; in a few hours heaviness in
the head.-95. Hurried, panting breathing after a dance. She
becomes weak after every exertion, no matter how little; the
blood rushes to the chest, the face becomes hot, the body begins
to glow, the veins are distended and she loses her breath; it
takes her a long time to recover herself. After a moderate exercise in the open air she becomes suddenly weak and sinks
down upon her chair; great anguish, nausea, paleness of face,
the blood rises from the heart into the chest, as if she would
vomit blood; her eyes close involuntarily, almost spasmodically; tears press out of the eyes through the closed lids; she is
conscious of herself, but she is unable to control the action of
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chest, near the shoulder. (a. I h.) Fine stinging in the outer
parts of the chest and arms, for several days.
[Sneezing and fluent coryza. Dry coryza. (a. 25 h.)
Scraping burning and constriction of the larynx. Dryness in
the region of the larynx, increased by hawking. (a. I h.)-145.
Difficult respiration, as if the throat were closed with a plug,
and as if the air could not pass. (a. I h.) Hollow cough, with
some expectoration, day and night. Painful pressure below
the short ribs when coughing. (a. 1 h.) Hawking of mucus.
(a. 25 h.) Boring stitch in the right intercostal muscles, continuing during an inspiration and expiration. (a. 7 h.)-150.
Violent prickings in the right side of the chest, from within
outward. (a. 56 h.) Drawing stitches in the left chest when
sitting with a curved back, especially when taking a slow,
deep inspiration. (a. 5 d.) Severe, intermittent stitches in the
left side of the chest. (a. 1j h.) Drawing stitches below the
second rib of the left chest, only when walking. (a. 8 h.) Fleet,
painful stitches in the right side of the chest; if he rubs the
part, he feels as if a load were descending there behind the skin.
(a. 50 h.)--155. Cutting pain with pressure in the left side of
the chest, when taking a deep inspiration; not much pain
otherwise. (a. 3 d.) Sticking-pinching crawling in the left
side of the chest, in the region of the sixth, seventh rib, becoming more painful by external pressure. (a. 10 h.) Sudden pain
in the muscles of the chest and back, left side, as if a broad,
pointed body were pressing upward; a broad pressure with
many fine stitches. (a. 3 d.) Pressure in the left chest, sometimes accompanied with stitches in motion and rest. Pinching
jerk in the left side of the chest, from without inward. (a. 20
min.)]
BACK: 100. Violent stitch in the small of the back. The
small of the back and the nates are very numb.
[160. Dull pain in the region of the right sacro-iliac symphysis, when standing. (a. 27 h.) Pressing sensation in the spinal marrow, going up and down, when sitting straight. (a. 6
h.) Feeling of coldness in the back, in the region of the last
ribs. (a. I h.) Aching in the small of the back, only when
walking, especially when setting down the left foot. (a. 1 h.)
Fine tearing in the region of the os sacrum, from the right side
to the left, superiorly, only when sitting. (a. 5 d.)-165. Burning itching of the back, at night; he merely slumbers, tosses
about constantly, with heat of the body, no thirst; especially
towards morning. Painful, shooting stitch in the region of the
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sticking pain, accompanied with soreness. (a. I h.) Jactitation of the muscles around the left shoulder-joint.]
UPPER LIMBS: Stitches in the elbow-joint, when moving
it. When bending the arm he feels a stitch in the tip of the
elbow; this is followed by tearing in the elbow-joint, as long
as he keeps his arm bent. Aching in the tip of the left elbow.
(a. I h.)-105. Pain in the left lower arm as if the bone were
compressed. (a. 1 h.) Large blisters on the right lower arm.
Drawing pain in the lower arms. (Burning in the arms and
hands.) Several stitches in the right wrist-joint, in rest. (a. 1
h.)-110. Tensive pain in the left wrist-joint, in rest and motion. (a. 1 h.) Violent drawing in the left wrist-joint. (a. 3 d.)
Itching in the ball of the left thumb, which cannot be removed
by rubbing. (a. 3 h.) Swelling of the hands; she was unable
to bend her fingers. The metacarpal joint of the left middle
finger became big and red, and felt rigid when bending it.115. Aching pain in the posterior finger-joint of the right hand.
(a. 1 h.)
[Burning on the top of the left shoulder. (a. 16 h.)-170.
Fine stitches in the axilla, when sitting. (a. 1 h.) Constant
pricking itching in the left axilla, when sitting. (a. 5 h.)
Sticking drawing through the upper arm. (a. 1 h.) Cramppain below the elbow-joint, in the upper part of the fore-arm,
with slow bubbling, especially when leaning the arm on any
thing. (a. 3 d.) Severe boring stitches, from within outward,
in the internal muscles of the right forearm. (a. 1 h.)-175.
Heaviness in the forearms. (a. I h.) Trembling of the forearms and hands (in a few minutes). Drawing-aching pain in
the right wrist-joint. (a. 6 h.) Crumbling sensation in and
behind the wrist-joints. (a. - h.) In one point of the palm of
the hand he feels a pinching with sensation as if the skin were
drawn towards that point. (a. a few minutes.)-180. The
tips of the index-fingers become numb, without turning pale.
(a. I h.) Cramp-pain in the ball of the left thumb, only when
moving the hand, the whole day. (a. 6 h.) Painful drawing
in the posterior joint of the left thumb, extending into the forearm. (a. 14 h.)  Cramp-pain in the ball of the right thumb,
continuing the whole day, and spreading into the thumb
when the hand is moved. (a. 1, 14-, 25 h.) Continuous
sore stitch in the region of the anterior articulation of the
thumb. (a. 14 h.)]
LOWER LIMBS: Pain in the internal part of the thigh,
above the right knee, aching posteriorly. (a. { h.) Violent
drawing in the left knee; afterwards profuse sweat, in the
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tibia, the whole forenoon.-120. Tearing in the malleoli; the
feet are heavy as lead, the heaviness ascending in the tibiae.
(Prickings in the heels, when sitting down after a long walk,
for one hour.)
[185. Quick jerkings of a part of a muscle, in the region
of the right buttock. Fine, excessively painful stitch in the
skin of the internal portion of the right thigh. (a. 54 h.) Severe boring stitches from within outward, in the outer parts of
the right thigh, near the hip. (a. 8 h.) Continuous drawing
stitches in the upper part of the outer portions of the thigh, directly below the left groin, especially when walking. (a. 21
h.) Titillating itching of the outer parts of the left thigh, close
to the groin, obliging him to rub the parts. (a. 21 h.)-190.
Tension, as if a muscle were too short, in the outer parts of
the upper extremity of the thigh, whenever setting down the
foot; the tension is always accompanied by a stitch. (a. I
h.) Pulsative sharp stitches through the right thigh over the
knee, early in the morning when in bed. (a. 22 h.) Sticking
pain, with pressure, over the right knee (when sitting). (a. 4
h.) Heaviness in the knee-joints, perceptible when walking.
(a. 1 h.) Weariness in the knees when walking, as if they
would bend, even when setting down the foot firmly. (a. 4
h.)-195. Drawing pressure, in paroxysms, in the region of
the bend of the left knee, felt only when bending the knee, and
alternating with a similar sensation in the axilla. (a. 6 h.)
Dull sticking in the left knee, in the evening when lying down
(continuing during motion), for a quarter of an hour. (a. 41
h.) Continued prickling itching in the bends of the knees,
when walking, obliging him to scratch. (a. 5 h.) Aching
pain in the tendon of the right outer hamstring, more violent
when walking than when sitting. (a. 7, 9 h.) After a short
siesta the legs go to sleep, first the right, then the left; when
trying to walk, the left leg was spasmodically drawn up to the
thigh; even when sitting he was not able to keep it stretched, it
was then drawn spasmodically backward. (a. 5 d.)-200. Sharp
stitches in the right calf, when walking. (a. 1ý h.) Great
uneasiness in both legs; he has to change their position frequently. (a. 161 h.) Sensation of heaviness, with tearing, in
the left tibia, close to the tarsal joint. (a. 34 h.) When walking fast, he experiences a sensation in the lower part of the left
tibia as if a load were hanging from it. (a. 3 d.) Drawing
tearing from the right tarsal joint to the knee. (a. 81 h.)205. Drawing pain from the right foot to the thigh. (a. 11
h.) Creeping in the left foot, coming on when walking, and
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heel from below upward, when sitting. (a. 6 h.) Severe
pricking in the right heel, from within outward, when standing. (a. I h.)-210. Aching pain in the right heel, increasing
when walking. (a. 1b h.) Voluptuous itching in the dorsum
of the toes of the right foot, early in the morning, when waking, obliging one to scratch. (a. 24 h.)]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: At all hours of the day he feels a
creeping somewhere about the skin, were it only at a very
small part; after that the spot becomes hot and red; then he
feels a corrosive itching in that spot like the crawling of a flea
(without pricking), after which miliary vesicles make their appearance; the itching is not diminished by scratching; on the
contrary, scratching seems to make the itching more lasting.
(a. 2 h.) An itching eruption makes its appearance upon the
skin, together with red, itching spots. When scratching an
itching spot, an itching is felt in many other parts.-125. Especially when feeling cold, she experiences an itching gnawing in the outer parts of the chest, in the pit of the stomach,
back, upper arms, at other times only about the feet; rubbing
increases the gnawing itching and produces redness; vesicles
make their appearance upon those parts, but they soon disappear again. The lower half of the body feels numb. Weariness in the whole body, especially the arms. She feels most
comfortable in the horizontal posture. Extreme relaxation of
body and mind; she prefers not doing any thing.-130.
Bruised feeling in the upper and outer parts of the body. On
waking, his whole body feels bruised.
[Itching over the whole body as when sweat breaks out,
obliging him to rub, and returning all the time, early in the
morning when waking. (a. 48 h.) Continuous itching stitch
about the whole body, now here, now there, as of a fine needle,
obliging him to rub, but not disappearing by the rubbing.
Painful stitches in several parts of the body, obliging him to
scratch. (a. 49 h.)-215. Weariness of the lower limbs. (a.,
h.) The body felt so heavy that he felt obliged to lie down on
the ground when walking in the open air, without drowsiness.
(a. 9 h.) Continued lassitude and bruised feeling in all the
limbs, especially in the muscles of the lower limbs. (a. 2 h.)]
SLEEP: Sleeplessness until after midnight. He was unable to sleep; as soon as he fell asleep, he became delirious;
his forehead felt thick and sore to the touch, an aching pain
over the eye, worse when stooping, as if every thing would
come out of the forehead; he felt chilly and cold in the back;
this lasted twenty-four hours, during which time he felt chilly.
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-135.   Sad dreams. Fatiguing dreams. Vexatious and
anxious dreams, exciting a desire to weep.
[Great weariness and disposition to sleep. (a. 1 h.) Sleepiness with yawning, without being inactive, in the afternoon.
(a. 8, 33 h.)-220. Sleep disturbed with dreams. Sleepless
almost the whole night, with frightful dreams about murder
(sixth night). He frequently wakes in the night, as in affright.
Four nights in succession he slept very little, the sleep being
disturbed with many dreams; he wakes about midnight, but
he feels so restless that he is unable to fall asleep again; when
closing the eyelids he saw at once the most vivid images: at
one time he imagined that a battery was fired, at another that
every thing around him was in flames; at times scientific subjects crowded upon his mind; in short, a number of objects
went through his fancy, disappearing as soon as he opened his
eyelids, and reappearing when closing them; this lasted until
morning. Early in the morning, when waking, he was covered with sweat all over. (a. 25 h.)]
FEVER: Cold hands. Cold feeling in the lower limbs.140. Coldness, paleness, and sweat in the face, with heat of
the whole body. Stretching of the upper and lower limbs. (a.
- h.) Fever: early in the morning he has pain in the head
and abdomen, followed by violent chills, with cold bluish
hands and some thirst; afterwards, when lying down, he felt
a dry, burning heat, with some thirst and a good deal of uneasy
slumber, for 36 hours; during the night, when waking and
moving about, he felt a nausea and vertigo, with slight sweat
every twelve hours, when the heat abated; lastly tearing and
sticking in the left eye and cheek, and eruption on the lips.
In the afternoon he felt a headache in the occiput, a sort of
heaviness and a stitch when turning the head, with heat in the
face, hands and feet, chilliness of the rest of the body and disposition to coryza, accompanied with weariness of the body,
and bitterness in the mouth; in the evening, after taking off
his clothes, he has shaking chills, followed in a quarter of an
hour, when in bed, by heat in the whole body except the
thighs, which were numb and chilly; sweat at night.-145.
Increased temperature of the whole body, with thirst. Cool
sweat in the face, in the evening when sitting, accompanied
with an increased feeling of warmth through the whole body.
Flushes of heat in the face and blood, with excitement of the
nerves. Several attacks of heat a day, with anxiety, pain in
the region of the heart, weeping and disconsolateness; she
would like to die immediately.
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warmth of the stove. (a. 1- h.) Shuddering and chilliness
over the whole body, especially in the back, although he was
standing near the warm stove, without thirst, continuing for
two hours. (a. ý, 221 h.) His limbs are disposed to stretch.
(a. 30 h.) The pulse is fuller and quicker. (a. 1 h.) Sensation of burning heat on the forehead, without any heat being
perceptible to others, with quick, hard pulse, for half an hour.
(a. } h.)-230. Violent heat on the forehead, alternating with
shuddering in the back, without thirst, in the afternoon. (a. 10
h.) He feels a sudden and anxious heat over the whole body,
with heat and redness in the face, and sweat. (a i h.)]
MORAL SYMPTOMS: She is very timorous, and is unrelentingly pursued by a frightful image from the past.-150. Apprehensive as if she were threatened by a misfortune. She inclines to start, and does'start at every trifle; when starting she
always feels a heaviness in the feet. She is not satisfied with
the quantity of work done; she cannot do it to her satisfaction.
Taciturn and dissatisfied. Insolent, contradictory.-155. Mischievously witty. Alternately cheerful, weeping, quarrelsome,
and vexed mood.
[Headache, loss of appetite, drowsiness, lassitude all over, ill-.humor; every thing was disagreeable to her. Taciturn and indolent. (a. 3 h.)-235. Irresistible desire to sing, with excessive mirth, for half an hour (a. - h.); afterwards absent in
mind, and not disposed to work, for an hour.]
SCILLA MARITIMA.
(The tincture of the bulbous root of Scilla maritima.)
Pound one hundred grains' weight of a recent bulb into a
pap, adding gradually one hundred drops of alcohol; dilute and
mix this pap with five hundred drops of alcohol; let the mixture stand a few days, and of the clear brownish tincture,
which ought to be poured off previously, mix six drops with
ninety-four drops of alcohol, shaking the two well together.
This makes the first attenuation (--).
The following list of the symptoms of Scilla is not complete. I have added a few notes illustrative of the use of that
drug.
Large doses of Scilla act a fortnight.
Murray and Tissot praise camphor as an antidote of Scilla;
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HEAD: Early in the morning, when rising, he feels giddy as if he would fall to one side. (a. 48 h.) His head feels
weak and dreamy. (a. 6-12 h.)  The head feels cloudy and
dizzy. (a. 2 minutes.) Clawing headache in the sides of the
head. (a. 1 h.)-5. Contractive pain in both temples. Darting stitch in the right temple as far as the forehead. Violent
drawing stitches in the right temple; they contracted one-half
of the brain. Flapping sensation in the head, when shaking it.
(Tearing headache, not preventing mental exertion.) (a. 12 h.)
[Vertigo with nausea, as after having turned in a circle for a
long while. Obtuseness of the forehead and occiput, with pressure in front and behind. Dull, humming headache, early in
the morning after rising. Heaviness in the whole of the sinciput, early in the morning after waking.-5. Extreme heaviness in the whole head, as if he could not keep it still, only
when sitting. Flat pressure on the whole top of the head, as of
a burthen. (a. 12 h.) Short lasting pressure in the occiput.
Aching pain in a small spot of the left frontal eminence. Aching-drawing pain in the forehead.-10.  Quickly passing
pain in the occiput, extending from the left to the right side.
Single painful stitches in the forehead, from the left to the right
side, and accompanied with drawing. Drawing in the right
temple, terminating in a stitch. (a.  h.) Drawing-sticking,
long-continued pain in the occiput, when sitting. Slow stitches
in the right forehead.-15. Painful shock in the left frontal eminence. (a. 1 h.) Tearing pain in the occiput. Diggingup pain in the forehead. Painful sensitiveness of the top of the
head. Painful sensitiveness of the top of the head and internal
stupefaction, early in the morning.-20. (Gnawing) itching of
the forehead and chin, as if an eruption would break out, disappearing while scratching the part, but returning immediately
after. Stitches in the right frontal eminence and nose.]
EYES AND FACE:-10. Titillation in the outer canthus of
the left eye. Itching in the left eye. (a. 24 h.) Contractive
sensation in the right eye. Great dilitation of the pupils. (a. 2
min.) Contraction of the pupils. (a. 5 h.)
[The face looks alternately sunken and bright, without
heat or chilliness. Distorted, rigid features, enlarged eyes and
staring look, with redness of the cheeks; without thirst. Staring look.-25. The left eye is evidently smaller than the
right; the upper lid of the left eye feels swollen, it hangs down,
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smaller. The eyes feel as if they were swimming in cool water, for a few minutes. Contraction of the pupils (immediately).
-30. Dilatation of the pupils. Fine burning in the outer
canthi. A multitude of fine prickings in the outer canthus of
the left eye. Violent tearing in both eyes at the same tinle,
behind the eyeballs as it were.]
EARS AND NOSE: (Tearing pain in the interior of both
ears.)  Acrid mucus from the nose. Sore feeling about the
margins of the nostrils.
[Tearing pain behind the left ear.]
MOUTH, JAWS AND TEETH: Humid and spreading eruption over the middle of the upper lip, with stinging itching.
-20. Vesicles on the tongue. Stitches in both the upper
cuspidati, as when a sharp and cold air rushes into the teeth,
when eating or drinking any thing either cold or warm. (Pain
in the sub-maxillary glands.) (a. 3 h.)]
[35. Stiffness in the left cervical muscles. Stinging itching
about the throat and jaws, as of a flea, going off momentarily
by scratching and recurring afterwards. Pimples on the neck
which increase until the 7th day, and are painful only when
rubbed. (a. 4 d.) Drawing and squeezing in the cervical muscle, even when not moving them. The skin of the neck is
sensitive to the rubbing with the cravat, and exhibits reddish, almost excoriated places. (a. 24 h.)]
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: (Every thing tastes
sour and bitter.) Empty eructations for several hours. (a. 1 h.).
-25. Frequent sour risings into the mouth. Complete loss
of appetite; he is unable to eat any thing, and nevertheless
has a good taste in the mouth.
[40. His mouth feels viscid and slimy. The upper palate
feels rough and scraping posteriorly. Burnt taste in the palate, even while chewing food; it remained after eating, and was
felt only while swallowing. Burning in the palate and throat.
Scraping burning in the palate, resembling heartburn. (a. 5,
6 d.)-45. Canine hunger (in a few hours). He could not
eat enough, he relished his food so much; his stomach felt
full, and he had an appetite nevertheless. Complete loss of
appetite. Loss of appetite, partly because he had no appetite,
partly because the food tastes as if burnt, and partly because
some food had no taste: for example, meat and soup; whereas
other kinds of food had a sweetish taste, such as bread and
butter.-50. The taste of food is less and dull. Weak appetite. Tobacco does not taste well. The food, especially meat
and soup, has a repulsively sweetish taste. (a. 48 h.) Empty
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repulsive taste. After dinner he has eructations tasting of the
ingesta, and a disposition to vomit. Nausea and eructations.
Desire to vomit in. the region of the stomach.-60. Nausea in
the back part of the throat, and an almost constant confluence
of saliva in the mouth. Constant alternation of a desire to
vomit in the pit of the stomach, and indications of diarrhoea in
the abdomen; either one or the other is present, the latter
especially. Excessive efforts to vomit. Violent nausea. Vomiting.]
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Sticking pain, with pressure,
in the left side of the abdominal muscles. (a. 24 h.) Bubbling in the right abdominal muscles. Pinching in the hypogastrium (a. 14 h.); returning at the same hour, next day, and
abated and disappeared after emission of flatulence.-30.
Itching of the anus.
[65. Weakness of the stomach. Spoils the digestive
power of the stomach. Painful clawing below the breast, in
the pit of the stomach. Fine stitches near the left side of the
pit of the stomach. (a. 32 h.) Cardialgia.-70. Intermitting
pressure in the pit of the stomach. (a. h.) Pressure at the
stomach as of a stone. Excessive pain in the stomach. Inflammation of the bowels. Painless rumbling in the abdomen.
-75. Pinching in the abdomen. Pinching and rumbling in
the abdomen, as of flatulence, which was emitted. (a. 14 h.)
Incarceration of flatulence and cutting in the abdomen, without emission of flatulence. Rumbling above the pubic region
(more frequently when standing or walking, than when sitting), going off after a meal speedily and permanently. Empty feeling in the abdomen, as when one had been fasting-80.
Drawing pain in the abdomen, increased when walking and
not abating by pressing upon the abdomen. (a. 28 h.) Tearing through the abdomen, below the umbilicus. (a. 4 h.)
Acute pain between the umbilicus and the pubic region, as of
flatulence or a purge, or as if diarrhoea would set in. (a. 2 h.)
Tension of the abdomen, which however felt soft. Cuttingpinching in the abdomen.-85. Sensitiveness of the distended but soft abdomen. Emission of a loud flatus whenever he
touched the abdomen. Emission of flatulence, fetid. (a. 1 h.)
-90. Unceasing emission of noisy, strong, fetid flatulence,
relieving the abdomen momentarily.]
[STOOL: Hard, scanty faeces, in the evening. (a. 12 h.)
Hard stools every day. Papescent stool, without colic. Discharge of a quantity of brown, loose, slimy, fetid faces, with.
out pain or tenesmus, accompanied with bubbling flatulence,
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filaments.-95. Diarrhoea from    two to seven in the morning,
watery, almost without any flatulence. Constipation. Sticking in the region of the anus when walking. (a. 8 d.)    Stools
tinged with blood.
URINARY ORGANS: Tenesmus of the bladder after micturition, without any urine being present. (a. 5 h. for 3 d.)
The emissions of urine are not more frequent, but more scanty
(for three days). Frequent micturition, without any increase
of urine (in the first hours).' Less desire to urinate, and scanty secretion.  (a. 20 h.)-35. Great desire to urinate, with
scanty emission. (a. 40 h.) (Hot urine, the faeces being
mixed with undigested particles, and very fetid.)
[Great desire to urinate, and to evacuate the bowels; the
first emission of urine being accompanied with a loose stool
without colic. (a. 10 minutes.)-100. When pressed a second
time to urinate, he had a loose stool without colic. Constant,
but inffectual desire to emit urine.   (a. 1 h.)  Less secretion
of urine. (a. 45 h.) Little secretion of watery urine. (a. - h.)
Violent desire to urinate; he emitted an unusual quantity of
urine, which looked like water.   (a. 7 h.)-105. Little desire,
with reddish urine, in the ordinary quantity, with reddish sediment, for three days. (a. 20 h.)  He is unable to retain the
urine, the quantity being too great (a. 1 h.) for twelve hours.
Great desire to urinate.    (a. I h.)2  Less emission of urine
than usual, and scanty emission of a urine which is not dark.
(a. 24 h.)   Sanguinolent urine.-110. Brown-yellow, transThe primary effect of Scilla upon the uirnary passages is a great
desire to urinate, 33, with copious emission (106), especially of a urine
which is clear as water (104) (111), or which at least is watery, although not much so (108).
In a few hours after this first and positive effect of Scilla, the secondary effect or reaction of the organism takes place, being the contrary of the primary effect, viz: little desire to urinate, scanty and rare
emission of urine 32, 44 (102), the urine having sometimes a natural
color (108), sometimes being more dark (105) (110), or the emission
being scanty even when there is much desire, 35, or no emission at all, 31.
All this being unknown, it was impossible that Scilla should ever
have cured dropsical swellings, for which purpose it was already employed by the Egyptians thousands of years before the Greeks. Most
of those patients who were treated with Scilla for dropsical swellings,
were hurried into premature graves.
Dropsical swellings can only be cured by Scilla when the symptoms of the urinary organs correspond to those of Scilla. Such swellings are very rare. Scilla will, on the contrary, be found a specific
remedy in cases of diabetes.
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parent urine, scanty, and forming flocks when standing (the
first eight hours).' Frequent emission of urine which is clear
as water, with sudden desire. (a. 1 h.)   Urinates at night.
(a. 18 h.) Sticking in the region of the orifice of the urethra,
and a little further back. (a. 21 h.)  Sticking pain in the urethra when pressing at stool. (a. 8 d.) ]
GENITAL ORGANS: Anxious, dull stiches in the glans.
Compressive pain in the testicles.
[115. Hemorrhage from the uterus.]
CATARRH AND RESPIRATORY ORGANS: (She sneezes several times at night.)-40. (Mucous discharge from the nose.)
Coryza with ulcerated nostrils.) Dry coryza. Titillation in the
region of the xiphoid cartilage, internally, occasioning a cough,
which increased the titillation. He is frequently obliged to take
a deep inspiration, and this deep inspiration occasions a cough.
-45. Frequent desire to cough, the cough being dry and short,
of four or five turns, occasioned by a titillation below the xiphoid
cartilage. Cough, which was at first accompanied with expectoration.)2 Constant expectoration of mucus. (a. 2 h.) Dry, violent
cough, occasioning a racking pain in the abdomen, and dryness
in the throat. When coughing and walking, he feels a pain in
the side of the abdomen as if an intestine would break forth.-50.
Cough even unto retching. Coughing, talking, or performing
the least exercise, excites an intolerable feeling of heat, without
any heat being perceptible externally. (a. 20 h.) (Rattling before the cough, which disappeared after the cough.)  Darting
stitches on either side of the chest, not far from the sternum.
(a. 24 h.) Pressing, broad stitches during an expiration, below
the last rib, on either side (for two days).-55. Dull, broad
stitches in the lowermost last rib, early in the morning when
in bed, which waked him. Drawing pain in the chest. (a. 8 -12 h.)  Drawing stitch from  the last true rib, as far as the
shoulder. (a 4 3 h.) Compressive pain in the right side of the
SThis appeared to be a curative effect; the prover suffered with copious secretion and emission of urine.
2 According to all my observations, Scilla excites the mucous glands
of the trachea and of the bronchial tubes, so that the mucous becomes
thinner and looser, and can be thrown off more readily; see 46, 47, 52
(126) (128). This is its primary effect. When used as an expectorant, it palliates the symptoms, and, if the tenaciousmucus in the chest
be a chronic ailment, Scilla finally increases the suffering, inasmuch as
by a reaction of the organism, the mucus in the bronchial tubes becomes
more and more tenacious, and the cough more and more dry, see 43 45
48 (125). Scilla is therefore useful for excessive secretion of muous in
the chest, for which it was already recommended by Weickard.
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chest, terminating in a stitch. (Aching pain in the right side
of the chest, below the arm, which becomes a beating pain
when stooping; when touching the parts, he felt a pain as if
the flesh were loose.)-60. Pointed stitches in the region of
the extremity of the clavicles towards the shoulder, during an
inspiration and expiration.
[Violent, continued sneezing and fluent coryza (immediately). Acrid coryza, with frequent sneezing. Profuse fluent
coryza early in the morning. (a. 6 d.) Violent catarrh; the
eyes look dim and faint, and are full of tears (in the forenoon).
(a 7 d.)-120.    Heavy, slow expirations and inspirations.
Asthma, with frequent quick breathing and anxiety as long
as the asthma lasted. Asthma and sticking in the chest, most
troublesome during an inspiration. Oppression across the chest,
as if it were too tight. Slight irritation in the pit of the throat,
inducing cough, in the upper part of the trachea; he coughs a
few turns. (a. 1 h.)-125. Cough with diminished expectoration. (a. 9 d.); at every turn of cough he experiences a painful
pressure in the thoracic cavity, from within outwards, and a
painful contraction of the abdominal muscles. Cough in the
morning, with profuse mucous expectoration. (a. 7 d.) Pneumonia;1 violent cough early in the morning, with stitches in the
side at every turn of cough, with expectoration, (a. 6 d.); the days
previous there was scarcely a trace of cough. Stiches in the
region of the left and right true rib, at the same time.-130. A
kind of pleurisy. Constrictive stitch in the left side, under the
last rib, excited by rapid walking. Stitches in the left side. (a.
1 h.) Stitches in the middle of the xiphoid cartilage, almost
like one continuous stitch. Repeated stitches in the sides.--
135. Excessive stitching near the sternum from above downwards, making the breathing difficult. Pressure (tension?) in
both sides, from the axilla to the abdomen, particularly when
extending the thoracic cavity during an inspiration. (a. 2 h.)]
[BACK: Painful sensitiveness of the skin from one hip to
1 In searching the records of the physicians of any century, we shall
find that the best among them have occasionally used the Scilla with
the greatest success in pleurisy, although they well knew the extreme
acridity of that root when placed upon the tongue, or when taken internally in large doses. These good effects were obtained in virtue of the
homceopathicity of that root to those pleuritic affections, (see 53 to 55,
58, 60 (122) and (127) to (135). The physicians who employed Scilla
were much more successful than those who resorted to the barbarous
use of antiphlogistics and bloodletting. They would still have been
much more successful if they had administered Scilla strictly homceopathically, in small doses, (the quintillionth or sextillionth of a grain,)
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another, across the back. (a. 6 d.) Painless drawing in the
outer part of the left scapula. Painful darting above the left
scapula. (a. 8 d.)-140. Red pimples on the back, the tips
whereof were full of pus, with stitch-like itching, and with a
burning-stinging itching after scratching; on the day following
every pimple was covered with a small crust. A spot of the
size of a dollar, between the scapulae, composed of densely
crowded, but not confluent pimples, with titillating (creeping)
itching, as of a flea, transformed by scratching into a burningstinging itching, but changing again to a crawling itching
some time after.]
UPPER AND LOWER LIMBS: Stiffness in the nape of the
neck. (a. 12 h.) Rheumatic pain in the lateral cervical muscles. Sweat in the axilla. Convulsive jerking of the left arm
(when standing).-65. Convulsive jerking of the upper and
lower limbs, when sitting. (a. 24 h.) The thighs feel bruised.
Weariness of the thighs. Bubbling, descending from the upper
part of the thigh to the toes, in one uninterrupted line. Contractive pain in the bend of the left knee, obliging him to bend
the knee, when standing.-70. Drawing pain in the leg.
Burning pain in the ball of the right foot, as after freezing.
Sweat of the toes.
[Crawling itching under the right arm, in the outer parts of
the chest, removed for a short while only by scratching. Painless jerkings and jactitations in the muscles of the upper arm.
Slow pricking along the skin from the shoulder to the middle
of the upper arm.-145. The hands frequently go to sleep in
the day time, when leaning the head upon them, and of the
lower limbs when crossing the legs. Painful pricking in the
middle of the left metacarpus. Darting pain in the wrist-joints,
transversely. (When handling the recent bulbs with the hands,
they become covered with vesicles.) Stitch-like drawing pain
from the left wrist-joint into the fingers.-150. Painful pricking in the joints of both hands, also without moving them. (a.
3 d.) Small red spots upon the hands, feet, chest, and the
whole of the body, assuming the appearance of itch-like pimples, a sort of greasy itch which shows itself between the fingers, on the feet and the whole body, with burning itching. (a.
a few days.) Prickings in both thighs. Drawing-pain in the
muscles of both thighs. (a. 7 h.) Intermitting drawing pain in
the outer parts of the thighs, when sitting or walking.]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Soreness between the limbs. Bubbling sensation below the scapula, in the back and the left upper arm.-75. Continued, dull, rheumatic pains about the
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24 hours.) Weariness. (a. 6 h.) Feeling of heaviness in the
whole body, as if weary. (a. 8-12 h.)
[155. Burning and itching in the skin. Cold gangrene.
Excites scirrhous tumors. Scirrhous tumors, accompanied by
fever and inflammation, are apt to become cancerous from
using squills. Pains in the whole body.-160. Uneasiness
in the upper and lower limbs; he has to move them all the
time to obtain relief. Violent pains in the limbs. Stinging,
now in one, now in another part of the body.  Spasmodic
movements.-165. Convulsions. The whole body becomes
faint, which is especially perceptible when taking a long
walk.]
SLEEP AND FEVER: Sleeplessness, without any particular
cause. Heat in the face, more internally than externally, without thirst, increasing when moving the body; the rest of the
body feeling chilly, when uncovered ever so lightly.-r80.
Heat and redness in the face, for three hours, especially in the
face, when performing the least motion, and when talking. (a.
10 h.) (Dry external and internal heat, without thirst, for three
hours (a. 2 h.); afterwards internal dry heat, without thirst.
Heat in the head, with cold feet. Every afternoon the body
feels hot, without thirst, and cold feet. Thirst during the
evening-chills, without any internal or external heat.
[Frequent yawning without drowsiness. (a. 2 h. Stretching
of the upper limbs, with yawning, without drowsiness.
(a. 11 h.) He feels more debilitated from the sleepless nights,
than from the diarrhoea. His head feels confused; nevertheless he is in good spirits.-170. Drowsiness in the evening,
a few hours before his time. Sleep, with merry dreams.
Faintness and drowsiness after dinner. Restless sleep. Frequent waking, and turning in the bed from side to side.-175.
He dreams that his body has become puffed up to an enormous
size; the dream was so vivid, that he felt himself on waking,
to see whether it was true. He wakes after midnight, with
anxiety and desire to vomit. He fetches a deep and heavy
breath occasionally. Debility early in the morning after waking and rising, especially in the region of the hips. Confused
feeling and heaviness in the head, after a quiet sleep without
dreams. (a. 72 h.) -180. Small, hard pulse; it feels like a
tight cord. During the vomiting, the pulse falls to 40, shuddering over the whole body, the skin being somewhat cold.
(a. 6 h.) When walking, even in the heated room, he feels
cool and chilly in the back and arms, not when sitting. Icycold hands in a warm room. (a 1I h.)-185. Icy-cold hands
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chilliness at night, with external heat, without thirst. (a. 6 d.)
Feeling of great heat in the whole body, in the afternoon, but
without any external redness or thirst, for some hours. (a. 6 d.)
External heat with internal chilliness in the evening, immediately after lying down. (a. 7 d.)-190. Chilliness, and shortly
after, heat over the whole body. Heat over the whole body, as
of heating drinks, with icy-cold feet, without shuddering, thirst,
or sweat. Feeling of heat in the whole body, without thirst,
or sweat. (a. 2 h.) ]
MORAL SYMPTOMS:-85. Vexed about trifles. Courage,
resoluteness.
[Lazy in the morning, is not disposed to mental labor.-195.
Averse to any business, indifferent, taciturn. Not disposed
to think, desponding. Anxious, with dread of death.-200.
Great anxiousness. Whining mood. Cheerful mood (probably
curative effects).]
DELPHINIUM      STAPHISAGRIA.
[Pulverize four grains of the seed, together with an equal weight of
chalk (for the purpose of taking up the oil), and extract the tincture by
adding 600 drops ofalcohol, shaking the mixture once a day, for a whole
week, without warmth.]
The ancients employed the Staphisagria in a very crude
manner, for the purpose of exciting vomiting or ptyalism, as we
learn from Dioscorides, who likewise recommends it against
tooth ache, borrowing this recommendation from domestic
practice.
Joh. Hein. Schulze (Theses de Mat. Med. Hal. 1746, p. 435),
who suffered with toothache, took some of the seeds into
his mouth; but he experienced such a violent exacerbation
that he thought he would become crazy.
The Staphisagria being used by the Greeks for the extirpation of lice, they called it <geQoxoxxov; it is still now an ingredient of an ointment used for that same purpose (unguentum
pediculorum).
Every drug being so much more capable of curing violent
diseases as it is capable of powerfully affecting the healthy
organism, a good deal may be expected of Staphisagria as a
curative agent.
Dose: one pellet of the thirtieth potency.
Large doses act over three weeks.
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STAPHISAGRIA.
HEAD: vertigo in the room, as if stupefied, not in the open
air. Vertigo when stooping and turning the head suddenly;
every thing turned with him in a half circle. Vertigo: he
stumbled against a door when walking. Vertigo when lying
down, in the evening, as if every thing turned with him.-5.
Obtuseness of the head, only in front, in the middle of the
forehead, at a small spot of the size of the tip of a finger; a sort of
stupid feeling: when in the street he knew not whether he was
going right or left; he had to be very careful lest he should
fall. Alternation of stupefying and boring headache. Violent
headache, early in the morning after waking, as if the brain
were torn, going off afterward amid violent, spasmodic yawning. Headache during motion, as if the brain would fall out;
also in rest he felt as if the brain were compressed, were
standing off from the skull, and were lying in it loose. When
shaking the head, he had a sensation, at a small spot in the
middle of the forehead, as of something heavy, such as a
leaden bullet, lying in the brain, which would not become
detached.-10. Paroxysmal obtuseness of the head; sometimes his head felt clear. When he attempts to conceive an
idea, it escapes from his mind. Dullness of intellect, preventing him from any kind of work. Tearing in the forehead, in
the evening when sitting; when stooping he felt a sticking in
the forehead; when walking he felt relieved. Sticking headache, the whole day. (a. 17 d.)-15. Sticking in the left temple. Single, long, dull stitches from the scalp into the brain,
not far from the vertex; the place is painful to the touch.
Tearing in the outer parts of the head and in the teeth. Itching of the hairy-scalp. Itching, crusty eruption of the hairyscalp, as well as directly over and behind the ear.-20. The
hairy-scalp itches; it is humid and covered with crusts. Great
falling off of the hairy-scalp. Large but painless blotch in the
hollow behind the lobule of the ear, with a white pimple on the
top. Itching pimples in the nape of the neck.
[Vertigo, especially when sitting; diminished by walking
about. (a. 1 h.) Vertigo. (a. 8 h.) Obtuseness of the head
when standing or talking, as if he would become giddy, for a
long time. (a. 14 h.) Vertigo in the forehead, and a stupid
feeling in the fore part of the head. (a. 5 h.)-5. The head
feels obtuse, dull and heavy. (a. h.) The head feels obtuse
all the time, and the mind feels depressed. Confused feeling in
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first idea when interrupted in his conversation, or when his attention is directed to some other object. Vanishing of thought;
when thinking of any thing, so many ideas crowd upon his
mind in confusion, that he is unable to disentangle them, and
forgets his first idea altogether.-10.  Weakness of memory.
A few minutes after reading he has only an indistinct recollection of the thing read; or when thinking of any thing he
forgot shortly after what he had been thinking of, and recollected it again only after long thinking. A sort of painful
buzzing in the head. (a. 5 h.) Humming and sticking in the
whole head, worse when stooping and walking, in the evening,
for many hours. (a. 36 h.) Confused feeling in the head, early
in the morning, with contractive pressure in the vertex. (a. 4
d.) Headache in the vertex, a sort of contraction and compression from all sides.-15. Oppressive, stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, more violent when moving
the head and when standing. Heavy loads in the head, over
the cribriform plate, like a lump shaped into a ball. Pain in
the head when stooping, as if the parts would issue through
the forehead. (a. 5 h.) Headache as if the brain were compressed (mostly in the forehead) with paroxysmal roaring in
the ear, which terminates much sooner than the headache.
Sensation as if the occiput were compressed internally and
externally.-20. Pressing of the brain, especially in the occiput, against the skull, and pressure in the brain, as if too much
blood had accumulated in it, in the evening before going to bed,
continuing after lying down. (a. 39 h.) Pressing headache in
the left half of the forehead, from within outward. (a 2 h.) Oppressive painful heaviness in the occiput, with pressure from
within outward, when walking in the open air. (a. - h.) Heavy
pressure over the orbit of the right eye, in the open air. (a. 3- h.)
Heaviness in the head. (a. 72 h.)-25. Heaviness of the head, relieved by leaning the head upon the hand. (a. 1 h.) Hardpressure in the head in the region of the right temporal bone, and
of the vertex. Hard pressure on the right side of the forehead.
Pressure over the right eye, and drawing from below upward.
Pressure above the right eye, behind the eyebrow, as of something hard.--30. Aching pain in the left temple, externally and
internally, as if one pressed upon the part somewhat hardly
with the finger. (a. 1- h.) Drawing pressure in the forehead,
from time to time. Violent tearing with pressure through the
left hemisphere of the brain, especially violent in the forehead,
gradually increasing and decreasing. (a. 54 h.) Dull, painful,
sometimes sticking pressure from within outward, first in the
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going off in rest, but returning with so much more violence
during motion. (a. 4 h.) Sharp pressure on the top of the
head, occasionally.-35. Stitch-like and drawing pain, with
pressure, in the left side of the forehead. (a. 2 h.) Dull pinching headache in the forehead, with stitches in the region of the
temples, abating by walking, but returning when sitting or
standing. (a. 4 h.) Sudden stitches in the upper part of the
frontal bone, causing him to start. Boring stitch in the vertex
from within outward. (a. 56 h.) Boring stitch, with pressure
from within outward, in the whole of the left half of the forehead, awaking him early in the morning twice, with violence,
for one minute. (a. 22J h.)-40. Sharp burning prickings
in the left temple. Fleet burning stitches in the occiput, from
right to left during the first day, afterwards from below upward.
Dull sticking in the right temple, externally and internally, as if the bone would be pressed out; more violent when
touching the part. Drawing-cutting tearing in the side of the
forehead. Burning-sticking pains in the region of the left parietal bone.-45. Burning stitches in the outer parts of the
frontal bone. Corrosive itching of the whole of the occiput,
rather made worse by scratching. (a. 14 h.) Corrosive itching
of the upper part of the occiput, with sore pain, returning at
the same time in the evening and at the same place. Itching
gnawing of the hairy scalp, increased by rubbing, for several
days. Pricking itching of the hairy scalp, and small pimples
on the forehead.- 50. Fine burning pricking of the outer
parts of the scalp. A number of hairs can be easily pulled out
of the scalp without any pain. (a. 4h.) Burning pain, with
pressure, in the region of the left temporal bone, interiorly,
close above the ear. (a. 2- h.) Rheumatic drawing with pressure, when bending the head forward, in the outer parts of the
occiput, commencing at the articulation. Painful drawing
in several outer parts of the head, more violent when touched.
-53. Drawing-tearing sticking in the left temple, apparently
in the bone, continuing as the pulse (a. 40 h.); next day it
was felt from time to time, now in the left, now in the right
temple, sometimes also in the left frontal protuberance, less violent, continuing a few days. Painful drawing in the region of
and behind the occipital protuberance, at every motion of the
head. (a. 10 minutes.) Sore feeling in the outer parts of the
right parietal bone, only when touching them, preventing him
from lying on that side. (a. 80 h.) Rigid pain in the left side
of the nape of the neck and occiput, only at night, frequently
waking him from sleep, and making it impossible for him to
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FACE AND EYES: Small (itching?) pimples in the face at
a distance one from the other.-25. Beating pain, with pressure, in the whole face, from the teeth to the eyes, for sixteen
days. Dilatation of the pupils. When looking at a thing it
appeared covered with a white gauze, which made the object
invisible. When reading, he saw gmall black flashes between
the letters, and then whole lines had disappeared. When
looking into the open air he sometimes saw black flashes before his eyes, a kind of vibration of the light.-30. In the
dark of the night, while in bed, she sees a fiery column before
her eyes. The eyes are dim, and so hot that the eyeglass becomes cloudy from the heat. Dim-sightedness as if the eyes
were full of water, with itching and stinging in the inner canthus; he has to rub the place. When writing, the eyes soon
ache; especially in the afternoon he experiences a smarting
and burning in them, after which a few smarting tears run
out; he has to avoid the light, because light brings on the
pain the sooner. Smarting pain in the inner canthi.'-35.
A rather biting than itching pain in the inner canthus of the
left eye. Biting water runs from the eyes early in the morning. Violent itching in the inner canthus, early in the morning, worst in the open air; he is obliged to rub the eyes. He
sees a shine around the candle, in the evening. Dry gum in
the eyelashes and in the outer canthus, at night; the gum becomes likewise dry in the open air, and this occasions a tension.-40. Dry gum in the inner canthus, constantly; he is
frequently obliged to rub it off in day-time. Early in the
morning the eyes are closed with gum in the inner canthus.
Sensation in the eyes as if they were full of sleep. Dryness of
the eyes in the evening, with pressure in the same. Pressure
in the eye; she has to wink frequently.-45. Early in the
morning, when waking, the eyes are dry, and a pressure is experienced in them; she is unable to open them without having
previously moistened them. Contractive sensation in the upper eyelid, causing a flow of tears. Pressure in the upper
eyelid, the whole day, more violent when closing the eye.
Itching of the margins of the eyelids. (a. 2 h.) Inflammation of the white of the eye, with pain.-50. Pimples around
the inflamed eye.
[The face is bloated as from a cold.-60. His eyes look hollow and large, his face looks weary and pointed, as after a nightly
revelry, or as after disagreeable emotions. Small pimples on
the forehead and near the corners of the mouth, occasioning a
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violent itching and a pain as of subcutaneous ulceration when
touching the parts. (a. 9 h.) Pimples in the face, on the forehead, the cheeks, and around the mouth and the wrist, occasioning a drawing, itching disappearing for a short while by
scratching, but afterwards returning in the form of a stinging.
The pimples in the face sometimes occasion a tensive soreness; when touching them they feel painful, as of subcutaneous ulceration. Fine prickings in the face and in the rest of
the body.-65. Burning tearing, with pressure, in the right
temple, close to the eye. (a. 7 h.) Burning sensation, with pressure, around the left eye. (a. 4 h.) Contraction of the pupils,
after half an hour, after which they dilate considerably. Dilatation of the pupils, the first days. Dilatation of the pupils for
many hours.-70. Contraction of the pupils. (a. -, 1 h.) Severe
pain; cutting as with a pain below the left upper eyelid. (a. 75 h.)
Pain under the left upper eyelid, as if a hard body were lying
under it. (a. 13 h.) Pain, with pressure from within outward, in the upper wall of the right orbit, directly behind the
eye, continuing a long while and returning frequently. (a. 10
d.)-75. Aching pain in the upper part of the right eyeball.
(a. 3- h.) Hard pressure in the inner canthus of the right eye.
(a. 31 h.) Dryness of the eyes, continuing the whole day.
(a. 13 h.) Burning, which is not disagreeable, in the outer
canthus of the right eye, extending a good ways back of the
eye towards the ear, and returning in paroxysms. (a. 1- h.)
-80. Itching of the margin of the upper eyelid, in the open
air (a. - h.); two hours later the itching was likewise felt in
the other eye; it went off by rubbing. Blunt stitches in the
eyes, when exerting them. Sticking shocks in the eyeball, as
if it would burst. (a. 1- h.) Deep, hollow  eyes, with blue
elevated margins, like one who has indulged in excesses, for
four days. The right eye is open more widely than usually.
(a. 78 h.)-85. Dim-sightedness at a distance, and at a proximity. (a. 10 h.) Illusion of sight; when rising from a seat,
he thinks he is much larger than usual, and every thing before
him appears to be much lower than it is. (a. 26 h.) Tearing pressure in the outer canthus, in the region of the lachrymal sac. (a. 72 h.) His eyes close sometimes, although he is
not drowsy.]
EARS AND NOSE: Dull, but deep stitches in the interior,
first of the left, then of the right ear. Inclination of the right
articulation of the jaw to become dislocated while gaping. Pain
in the articulation of the jaw, while yawning.  (Drawing
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Itching of the cheeks. Smarting pain of one nostril, as if it
were ulcerated. Sore nose, interiorly, with scurf.
[Cramp-like burning pain, with pressure in the outer parts
of the left posterior concha. (a. 8 h.)-90. Stitch in the left
ear. (a 31 h.) Dull, painful stitch, deep in the right ear, in the
evening. (a. 48 h.) Tensive stitch in the left ear. (a. 81, 36
h.) Feeling of coldness rushing into the right ear like a cool
breath, for a few hours. Ringing in the left ear. (a. 41 h.)-95.
Ringing in one or the other ear, when moving the head, disappearing again in rest. (a. 23 h.) Slight reports in both ears,
occasionally, as if the wind were suddenly rushing in, without any diminution of hearing. Drawing in both malar bones.
Tearing, with pressure, in the left malar bone, the teeth being
affected with a similar pain. (a. 1 h.) Tearing and pulling
from the head through the cheeks as far as the teeth. (a
36 h.)]
JAWS AND TEETH: Scurfy ulcer in the middle of the
upper lip.-60. Pimple on the vermilion border of the upper
lip, covered with scurf. Burning swelling of the gums, with
heat in the cheek. The gums are painful to the touch. The
gums bleed for many days when pressing upon the gums or
brushing the teeth. The gums become pale and white.-65.
The teeth blacken rapidly; she is obliged to brush them twice
a day; nevertheless they exhibit black transverse streaks in
the middle. The inner side of the gums is painful and swollen,
also when swallowing. Blister on the inner side of the gums,
passing into an ulcer, and occasioning a stinging pain. Blotch
on the gums, which is not painful per se, but when pressed
upon with any thing hard. (a. 17 d.) The gums become corroded.-70.  The toothache is excited by drawing air into
the mouth. Gnawing pain in the four lower fore-teeth, especially at night. Painful traction in the teeth from time to time,
followed by beating in the gums. Drawing toothache, with
pressure in the anterior teeth, as if occasioned by mercury,
worst at night, towards morning. Piercing drawing in the
hollow tooth, and in the corresponding tooth of the other side,
early in the morning.-75. Violent drawing toothache, with
swelling of the cheeks; aching pain in the same side of the
head, and heat in the face. Swelling of the cheek near the
lower jaw. Pimples on the neck. Pain of the submaxillary
glands both when touched or left alone. The submaxillary
glands are painful as if swollen and contused.-80. Swelling of the tonsils and submaxillary glands.
[100. Cutting drawing in the left malar bone. (a. 22 h.)
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in the left malar bone. (a. 22 h.) Burning sharp sticking in
the left cheek, obliging him to scratch. Itching (corrosive)
pricking of both cheeks, obliging him to scratch.-105. Ulcerative pain of the left cheek when yawning. Sore pain in the
left nostril, in the cartilage of the septum, when touching the
part, as if it would ulcerate. Itching of the left wing of the
nose, going off by contact. (a. 78 h.) Sensation in the lip as
of fine cuts, as if it had become cracked. Burning of the middle of the upper lip, near the outer border, for minutes.-110.
Vesicle on the margin of the vermilion border of the lower lip,
stinging and burning when touched.   Sharp stitches with
pressure in the upper lip from within outwards. Shining-red
ulcer on the margin of the vermilion border of the lower lip,
occasioning a dull sticking-drawing pain which is sometimes
accompanied with an agreeable itching, inducing scratching,
which causes stinging. (a. 6 h.) Ulcer on the lips, with a
gnawing-drawing pain in the ulcer. (a. 37 h.) Ulcer on the
lips, emitting at first pus (a. 3 d.), afterwards greenish water.
-115. Tensive sensation below the chin, in front, under the
border of the lower jaw, as if a blotch would form. Sensation
below the chin, near the symphisis of the lower jaws, as if
a gland were swollen; there is something hard, like cartilage, of the size of a hazlenut; he feels a hard aching pain
in that part, during deglutition, when touching the part, or
when rubbing the part with the cravat. (a. 26 h.) When
bending the head forward, when sitting, it falls forward almost
involuntarily. (a. 10 h.) Heaviness of the head and weakness
of the cervical muscles; he had to lean the head either backward, or on either side. (a. 12 h.) Sensation in the nape of the
neck, as if it were pressed down.-120. Paralytic drawing in
the region of the spinous process of the first dorsal vertebra.
Paroxysmal stitches in the side of the neck, almost behind the
ear, in the evening. Tensive stitch in the left cervical muscles. Drawing with pressure on the right side of the neck,
independent of motion or contact. (a. 32 h.) Tensive pressure in the side of the neck.-125. Drawing aching, rheumatic pain in the side of the neck, when bending the neck forward. Fine tearing in the muscles of the neck. (a. 5 minutes.) When bending the neck forward, a rheumatic pain is
experienced in the region where the neck rests upon the shoulders and back, a sort of drawing-pressing stiffness. Compressive-drawing toothache in the right row, which can be excited
by cold water. Drawing pain in the hollow tooth, early in
the morning. (a. 72 h.)-130. Violent tearing in the roots of
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to one, now to another side. A tooth which had been but
slightly affected for a long time, became suddenly hollow
within eight days. Exfoliation of the posterior surface of an
incisor tooth. (a. 28 h.) Painful drawing in the gums of the
posterior molar teeth and in their roots. Painful drawing in
the gums of the incisores and the cuspidatus, and in their roots,
right side, extending into the muscles of the lower jaw. (a. 26
h.)-135. Painful spasmodic shrinking of the gums of the
upper and lower teeth of the right side, making it impossible
for her to separate the jaws without pain. When eating he
feels a tearing in the gums and in the roots of the lower
molar teeth. (a. 72 h.) Tearing in the whole row, with a
feeling of dullness in the teeth, when biting upon them. (a. 40
h.) Toothache when eating; the teeth are loose; he is not
able to chew his food properly; when chewzing he feels as if
the teeth were pressed more deeply into the gums; he has
the same sensation when the teeth of the upper and lower
jaws simply touch one another; the gums are white. (a. 56 h.)
The hollow teeth are sensitive to the least touch; and if the
least food remains in the hollow tooth, a violent pain is felt
extending into the root, and the gums around the teeth are
sore.-140. Tearing toothache, immediately after eating and
chewing, and after taking a cold drink, going off within half
an hour, but returning after another chewing; it was not
brought on by warm drinks or liquids; nor was it excited by
motion, but made worse when already existing, especially by
exercise in the open air. When drinking any thing cold, her
teeth became painfully affected, like hollow teeth. Toothache
in a hollow tooth after eating; a corrosive drawing (except in
the incisores, where a pressure was experienced), which became
much worse in the open air, even when the mouth was closed,
but gradually eased in the room for several days. (a. 5 d.)
The teeth begin to grumble, even when chewing. Tearing,
first in the root of the hollow tooth, afterwards extending as far
as the crowns of the teeth, only directly after eating and chewing, aggravated in the open air; accompanied with a pressure
upon the crowns of the affected teeth, towards their roots;
when touching the tooth with the finger, the other teeth become painful. (a. 9 d.)-145. Titillating sticking in the
molar teeth of the right lower jaw. (a. } h.)]
MOUTH: Sticking in the tip of the tongue without its being
touched by any thing. Sticking pain in the border of the
tongue when pressing it against the palate, as if a sting were
sticking in the tongue, going off when eating. Sore pain of
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[Whitish coated tongue. (a. 46 h.)]
PHARYNX AND (SOPHAGUS:-85. Rough throat, as if
sore, when talking and swallowing. Stitches in the palate,
extending into the brain. Dryness in the throat, especially in
the evening, before going to sleep; stinging in the throat during
deglutition.
[Painful drawing from the os hyoides as far as the lower
jaw; more violent when touching the side of the neck. (a. 48
h.) Swelling of the sublingual gland, which prevents deglutition, for four hours. (a. 3 h.)-150. Burning scraping in the
palate, between and during deglutition. The palate is rough
and scraping, but very moist. Smarting with pressure in the
posterior part of the palate, only between the acts of deglutition. (a. 4, 5 h.) Scraping sensation in the fauces, behind the
nares, as if snuff had got through. Dry tongue and tenacious
mucus in the posterior nares, closing them.-155. He talks
very faintly, on account of a weakness in his organs of speech,
although he is otherwise lively. Dry feeling on the tongue,
confluence of a sourish water in the mouth, and tenacious
mucus, obstructing the posterior nares.]
TASTE AND APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Confluence of saliva in the mouth. Ptyalism.-90. Flat, qualmish taste in the mouth; nevertheless, food has a good taste.
Watery taste in the mouth; food, however, has a good taste.
Food has no taste to him, still he has an appetite. Bread tastes
sour to him. Great desire for milk.-95.  (Beer excites a
scraping, repulsive taste in the throat.) Tobacco has a biting
taste. Heartburn while smoking the accustomed tobacco.
Scraping eructations, affecting the larynx.  Pressure and
sticking as high up as the chest, when she attempts to eructate.-100. Hiccough after every meal. Hiccough half an
hour after supper. For three days he feels qualmish. Nausea,
with desire to vomit, every morning. Desire to vomit.-105.
Sensation as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed; still
he has no appetite. Extreme canine hunger, even when the
stomach was full of food; when eating again he relished his
food. Digging-up pain in the stomach. Fullness in the pit of
the stomach, with pressure and sticking.
[Sanguineous saliva, immediately. Stinging in the palate,
when dry, in the evening. (a. 12 h.) Bread has a sourish taste.
-160. Ugly, bitter taste in the mouth, when empty. (a. 46
h.) Constant accumulation of mucus in the mouth, without
any bad taste. The mouth is always full of a watery humor,
as when one is very hungry. Sensation as if one would vomit,
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pharynx, when eating, as if he would vomit. (a. 9 h.) Confluence
of water in the mouth, after a meal; a kind of water-brash. Confluence of water in the mouth, immediately, with single, short
eructations, as after having taken an emetic which has no effect. A sort of eructation; a quantity of mucus gets into his
mouth from the upper part of the throat. (a. j h.) Tasteless
eructations; but neither air nor any thing else comes up.-170.
Rising of a tasteless humor after a meal. Eructations tasting
of the ingesta. Frequent, empty eructations. Frequent hiccough when smoking.-175. Frequent hiccough accompanied
with nausea and stupefaction of the head. (a. I h.) Absence
of thirst; he drinks less than usual. A few hours after a copious and substantial meal, he has a violent sensation of hunger, with confluence of water in the mouth.]
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Pressure in the stomach early
in the morning after waking, as of a load, remaining the same
in any position of the body. (a. 6 h.)-110. Tension across
the epigastrium, in the hypochondres (as hypochondriacs complain of), causing an anxiety and oppressing the breathing,
early in the morning, in bed. Pressure, with heaviness and
tension in the abdomen. The abdomen feels compressed,
which oppresses the breathing. Tensive, painful pressure in
the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much and then pressed
upon his abdomen, with nausea and confluence of saliva in
the mouth. Drawing pain transversely through the abdomen.
-115. Drawing in the sides of the abdomen from above
downward, as if the menses would appear. (a. 4 d.) Drawing
pain in the abdomen, as of flatulence. Incarceration of flatulence in the abdomen (the first eight hours). Emission of
a quantity offetid flatulence, for 36 hours. Rumbling in the
abdomen.-120. Rumbling and cutting in the abdomen, for
many days. Continued sticking pain in the abdomen, under
the right ribs, only at the commencement of a walk in the open
air. Three paroxysms of cutting in the umbilical region, as if
externally, in the evening when in bed. Cutting in the bowels, especially after a meal, with nausea, causing the water to
flow together in the mouth, and great lassitude; after the cutting she experiences a great heat in the face, and the blood
rushes to the head; the veins of the hands become distended.
Spasmodic cutting in the abdomen, with trembling of the
knees, in daytime, when performing the least exercise, especially violent after micturition; in the evening the cutting is
felt without performing any exercise, relieved by bending
double.-125. Cutting in the abdomen, before stool.
Tensive pain in the region of the stomach. (a* 13 h.)
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ing again when sitting and bending the body forward. (a. 1 h.)
-180. Clawing pressure below the sternum, on the left side
of the xiphoid cartilage. Fleet painful pressure under the last
ribs, as of incarcerated flatulence. Contraction in the hypochondriac region, oppressing the chest and breathing (a. 2 d.),
continuing for three days. Clawing pressure below the short
ribs of the right side. (a. 1 h.) Great rumbling in the abdomen, without pain and without emission of flatulence. (a. 1I
h.)-185. Rumbling in the left side of the epigastrium. (a. 1 h.)
Rumbling in the abdomen after a meal, which sounds as if
bubbles were bursting. Rumbling in the abdomen, and drawing in the intestinal canal. Hard, painful pressure below the
umbilicus, on the right side. Stitches, with a clawing sensation, above the umbilicus, on the left side; they are sharp, and
recur regularly as beats in music.-190. Pinching stitch in
the bowels, left side. (a. 35 h.) Continuous, dull stitch in the
region around the navel, worse during expiration and when
pressing upon the part. (a. 8 h.) Tensive stitch in the left
abdominal muscles. (a. 32 h.) Bruising pain above the hips,
in the loins, extending below the umbilicus, most perceptible
when bending forward but felt likewise when touched. (a. 18
h.) Bruising pain in the abdomen. (a. 48 h.)-195. Itching
prickings in the umbilical region. Dull stitch in the left
groin, more violent when pressing upon the part, but disappearing during an expiration and inspiration. (a. 84 h.) Copious
emission of flatulence. Hot flatus. (a. 36 h.) Excessively
fetid flatus.-200. Pinching in the bowels with emission of
flatulence. (a. 13 h.)  Violent screwing-pinching pain in the
whole of the abdomen, now here, now there. ( 2L h.) Pinching
in the abdomen, transversely, and drawing in the sides, as if
diarrhoea would set in. Pinching in the epigastrium, early in
the morning, as if diarrhoea would set in; nevertheless he was
unable to go to stool.-205. Tremulous sensation in the abdomen, and indication for diarrhoea. Tardy stool early in the
morning, owing to an absence of the peristaltic motion in the
large intestines.]
STOOL: Cutting colic and nausea, early in the morning, followed by diarrhea; the last portion is mere mucus.' Colic,
diarrhea, the last portion of which is mere mucus. (a. 42, 48 h.)
Loose stool, which goes off without his being aware of it,
SThe following four symptoms seem to have been occasioned by an
excessive dose; almost every drug becomes a cathartic when taken in an
excessive dose; the true primary effect ofStaphisagria seems to be: colic,
with desire for stool, constipation, or scanty, hard, or even loose faeces,
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while he imagined that wind would pass. (a. 2 h.) Diarrhoea
and flatulence. (a. 3 h.)-130. Several ordinary stools a day,
four days in succession. Hard stool with flatulence between.
Frequent desire for stool, without colic; he passed very little
each time, which was very hard, with a pain in the anus, as if
it would burst. Ineffectual desire after stool, without any thing
in the rectum. Contusive pain in the rectum, after a hard
stool, for three-quarters of an hour.-135. Smarting sore pain
in the rectum, a long time after stool. Costiveness for several days (the first days). Violent itching of the anus, with
blotches around the anus. Painless swelling of the inguinal
glands, most perceptible when walking or standing, and continuing for many days. (a. 36 h.)
[The stool is twelve hours later than usual, and comes off
in small and hard pieces. (a. 14, 15 h.) Hard stool on the first
day, no stool on the second, hard stool again on the third day,
ordinary stool on the fourth day. Cutting and digging-up in
the epigastrium and hypogastriumn, after which a small quantity of loose faces is passed; after the expulsion of the faces,
the cutting is felt again with a renewed desire for stool, but no
evacuation in spite of any exertion; a sort of tenesmus, which
does not disappear (nor does the colic) until he leaves the seat.
-210. Cutting in the abdomen, with violent desire for stool,
after which a small quantity of liquid faeces is passed, with
internal chilliness in the head; a kind of tenesmus immediately after the passage of the faeces. Hard, scanty stool, with
a burning-cutting pain in the anus. (a. 10 h.) Scanty, hard
stools of a small size, coming off with a painful pressure in the
anus. (a. 26 h.) Continuous aching pain in the rectum, when
sitting. Difficult stool; at first he passed hard fmeces; these
were immediately followedby a loose stool, which excited pain
and pressing as if the rectum had been constricted; they wanted to come off, but in vain; renewed tenesmus.-215. A
loose, yellowish, copious evacuation, immediately after a hard
stool, early in the morning. Loose, but difficult stool, owing
to a constriction of the anus, as in haemorrhoids. Loose stool.
(a. 49 h.) Itching of the anus when sitting, between the stools.
(a. 7 h.)]
URINARY ORGANS: 140. Copious and frequent micturition, for several days. (a. 24, 40 h.) Scanty secretion of
urine the first day.' Copious, red urine. Cutting during micturition, which becomes still worse after micturition. SmartSThe symptoms of the urinary organs are similar to those of the
alvine evacuations, as may be seen from the observations of others.
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ing and burning tingling at the orifice of the urethra, between
the acts of micturition. Burning, deep in the urethra, when
sitting, only between the acts of micturition.-145. Burning
in the whole of the urethra, at every micturition, for many
days. Pressure upon the bladder, when waking from sleep;
she had to emit a large quantity of urine; renewed desire, with
pressure, in an hour. Involuntary spirting out of urine when
coughing.
[Frequent emission of a watery urine at first; in a few
days the urine became dark-yellow.-220. Emission of a
small quantity of urine every fifteen minutes, for the first four
days; on the days following the usual quantity of urine is
passed, but of a dark color, and every hour. He urinates very
often, on the second day less frequently, but more copiously.
He urinates a little more frequently than usual, and a little less
copiously at a time. (a. 7 d.) Frequent desire to urinate,
passing a small quantity of dark-colored urine, for three
days. Frequent desire to urinate, with copious secretion of
urine. (a. 6 h.)-225. Desire to urinate: he emits scarcely
a spoonful of reddish or dark-yellow urine in a thin stream,
sometimes drop by drop; after urination he feels as if the
bladder were not yet empty, for the dropping continues. He
urinates frequently, but little at a time, about a cupful of dark
urine. (a. 24 h.) He urinates less than the first day, but
more frequently than in his healthy days, and a little more
than on the first day. (a. 3 to 7 d.) Immediately after micturition he feels a pain as if sprained, directly above the urethra, behind the os pubis. At night the urine is passed with
erection of the penis, drop by drop, with burning in the region
of the neck of the bladder, accompanied with ineffectual desire
for stool; he was relieved by lying bent double.-230. A sort
of burning in the middle of the urethra, between the acts of
micturition. (a. 6 h.)]
GENITAL ORGANS: Discharge of prostatic juice during
hard stool. Involuntary emission during the siesta, in an old
man who had not had such a thing for thirty years. (a. 12
h.)-150. Nocturnal emission for three nights in succession.
Nocturnal emission five nights in succession, accompanied
with lascivious dreams. After a nocturnal emission he feels a
weakness and heaviness in both arms, as if he had lead in
them. The primary effect of Staphisagria is to excite the
sexual desire; five or six days after, a constant absence of
that desire sets in, both in the genital organs, and in the fancy.
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Voluptuous itching of the outer parts of the scrotum,' increasing by rubbing, becoming a sore pain externally, while the
itching continues internally, and finally occasions an involuntary emission of semen. (a. 5, 6, 8 d.) Painless bubbling in
the scrotum. Dampness about the corona glandis, below the
prepuce. White humid excrescences in the hollow behind the
corona glandis, and a similar excrescence on the corona itself,
both of them itching when touched by the shirt. Painful sensitiveness of the pudendum; when sitting she feels a pain in
that part.-160. Spasmodic pains in the pudendum and the
vagina. Stinging itching of the pudendum. Smarting of the
pudendum, also between the acts of micturition. A vesicle on
the internal surface of the great labium of the right side, posteriorly, occasioning a biting per se, but a sore pain when
touched. (a. 9 d.) Appearance of the menses, which had
ceased to flow for a year, with cutting and rumbling in the
bowels, at new-moon.2
[Excessive erection the whole night, without emission. (a. 16
h.) Erection the whole night without any amorous fancies,
and without emission. Amorous dreams at night, with two
emissions. Nocturnal emission, without dreams.-235. Violent drawing-burning stitches from the right abdominal
ring, apparently in the spermatic cord, as far as the right
testicle, (which is, however, painless to the touch,) when sitting, standing or walking, but most violent when stooping. (a.
33 h.) Drawing (tearing) with pressure in the right testicle,
as if it were violently compressed. Aching pain in the outer
parts of the left testicle when walking, also after every friction; the pain is more violent when touching the part. (a. 8
h.) Sticking pain in the right side of the glans, when standing
or walking.
CATARRH, LARYNX AND TRACHEA: 165. (Obstruction
of the nose in the avening; she cannot breathe through the
nose, and talking is difficult.) Sneezing, with coryza. Suddenly appearing fluent coryza, with catarrhal sound of the
voice, for a quarter of an hour (at two o'clock in the afternoon).
Profuse coryza without cough. Cough with expectoration of
mucus.-170. Coryza and cough for several weeks. Tenacious mucus in the chest, the first six and eight hours after
taking the medicine, and then several mornings in succession;
afterwards, and in the daytime, loose expectoration from the
'Cured by smelling of Ambra.
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chest. Weak feeling in the chest; something tenacious in the
trachea obliges her to hawk. Cough, with the titillation exciting the cough, only in the daytime. Violent cough after lying
down, in the evening and at noon, with expectoration of tenacious mucus.-175. Cough with expectoration, mixed with
five to eight drops of blood, preceded by a scraping sensation
in the chest. Cough, with yellow expectoration like pus, most
violent in the forenoon from 9 to 12 o'clock, not very copious
in the morning. (a. 5 d.) Ulcerative pain behind the sternum,
when coughing. [Frequent sneezing without coryza. (a. 2
and 10 h.)-240. Coryza; at first he blows out nothing but
thick mucus, afterwards thin. (a. 4 d.) Violent fluent coryza;
one nostril is obstructed, not the other, with frequent sneezing,
lachrymation and chapped lips. (a. 3, 4 d.) Violent coryza:
tickling in the nose with discharge of a quantity of mild watery
fluid or of thick mucus, afterwards nothing but thick mucus
comes out. Constant desire to hawk, excited by tenacious
mucus in the larynx, which he finds it unable to throw off. He
throws off a quantity of mucus easily.-245. Sharp cough
threatening to tear open the larynx, as if occasioned by a constant narrowing of the trachea, without any previous particular
irritation. (a. 4 d.) Sharp irritation in the larynx, with desire
to cough, immediately after a meal, the cough, however, being
very little. (a. 4 d.) Sharp cough shortly after a meal, with
confluence of water in the mouth; sensation as if this water
were driven through the oesophagus with force, and cut it. (a.
26 h.) Itching, fine, sharp stitches in the region of the upper
end of the sternum, directly below the pit of the throat, obliging him to scratch the part.]
CHEST: Pressure and heaviness in the chest, when sitting,
which abated when walking. Pressure in the left chest, uninfluenced by breathing.-180. Oppression in the chest and
feeling of uneasiness, driving him from one place to another, in
the afternoon. Asthma towards the end of the embrace. Uneasiness in the chest. Palpitation of the heart when walking
and when listening to music. Tremulous palpitation of the
heart during slight exercise.-185. Violent palpitation of the
heart when waking from the siesta. Constant pain in the middle of the sternum, as if something were ulcerating in that region, worst when raising and stretching the body; the pain
likewise increases when touching the part; it becomes a tension and a sort of pressure, arresting, sometimes, the breathing.
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parts, nor when taking breath. Pain of the outer parts of the
chest to the touch. Dull sticking-aching pain in the region
of the cartilages of the last ribs, when stooping; they feel sore
when touched.-190. Rash upon the chest; the chest becomes
red and itches when he becomes warm. Herpetic eruption in
the region of the lower ribs, composed of small, close, red pimples, occasioning a burning-itching stinging, like nettles; the
place becomes painful after rubbing it; accompanied with a
thrill of chilliness across that part, and across the epigastrium.
Stiffness in the nape of the neck. Itching in the nape of the
neck.
[Painful stitches in the chest, making the expirations difficult.
-250. Dull stitch in the left chest, returning  in a few
minutes. Violent stitch in the right chest, when sitting and
bending the upper part of the body obliquely to one side and
forward. (a. 2- h.) Tensive stitches in the left chest, when
lying down and during motion, more violent during an expiration
than inspiration; most violent when going up stairs, when a
continuous stitch is felt finally, which almost arrests the
breathing. (a. 17 h.) Continuous, boring, dull stitch in the left
chest. (a. 37 h.) Dull stitches in the intercostal muscles of
either side, when sitting, worse when leaning backward, and
continuing during inspirations and expirations. (a. - h.)-255.
Soreness behind the sternum. Contractive oppression of the
chest, causing slow and difficult inspirations; the expirations
relieve the symptom; accompanied with anxiety and restlessness, especially when sitting, relieved by walking for five
hours. (a. 6 h.) Pressure above the pit of the stomach, like
soreness, with nausea in that region. Sticking-cutting in the
region of the left costal cartilage; sensation as if an incision
were being made there, accompanied with stitches. Sharp
stitches commencing in the posterior region of the right ribs,
and winding round as far as the cartilages.-260. Stingingitching between the costal cartilages. Sharp stitches in the
region of the fourth costal cartilage of the right and left
side, at intervals of several seconds, and lasting longer than
usual; they press slowly from within outwards, independent
of breathing. (a. 14 h.)]
BACK: Pressure and tension in the muscles of the nape of
the neck and of the shoulder. (a L h.)-195. Early in the
morning, rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck and between
the scapule, like a drawing; when rising from bed the pain
was so great that she was unable to move her arms or to turn
her neck the whole forenoon, several mornings in succession,
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back, at night, from evening until 5 o'clock in the morning,
shocks and knocks, arresting his breathing, during a slumber.)
Severe stitches along the back, from below upward. (a. 7 d.)
Stitches and pain as if sprained, in the small of the back, at
rest, disappearing when walking.  Early in the morning he
feels a pain in the small of the back, as if every part of it were
broken; when rising from her bed she was unable to raise
any thing from the floor, until 8, 9 o'clock; after this she felt
hungry, and then had colic with diarrhoca, the latter portion
of which was slimy.-200. Drawing-down pain in the small
of the back, more when stooping than when standing straight,
least when sitting. Pressing in the small of the back the
whole night, as if bruised; the pain was worst at 4 o'clock in
the morning; it went off when rising.
[Pain in the small of the back, not much impeding walking,
most violent when rising from a seat, when turning to the
other side in the bed, and whenever performing a lateral movement, for several days. (a. 10 h.) Violent burning in the lower
and outer parts of the os sacrum. (a. - h.) Drawing-sticking,
sometimes darting in the os sacrum, when sitting.-265.
Hard pressure on the left side of the vertebral column, in the
dorsal muscles. (a. 4 d.) Drawing pressure in the first dorsal
vertebre, accompanied with a smarting sensation. (a. 1I h.)
Burning-aching pain below the right scapula, close to the spinal column, accompanied with a painful feeling of heaviness
in the right chest. (a. 2 h.) Stabbing pain between the first
dorsal and the prominent vertebrae.]
UPPER LIMBS: Pain in the region of the bones of the
arm, not in rest nor when touched, only during motion. Intolerable pressure in the periosteum of the humerus, in rest and
motion; the place is still more painful to the touch. (a. 36
h.) Drawing, with pressure, in the right upper arm, in the
evening when in bed.-205. Itching pimples on the elbow
and towards the hands. Drawing-tearing pain in the forearm, especially when moving the arm and hand. Red elevation on the forearm, with a pustule in the middle, with burning
pain when left alone, and occasioning an ulcerative pain when
touched. Herpes on the hands, itching in the evening, and
burning when scratched.
[Stitches in the left axilla.-270. Itching prickings in the
right axilla. (a. 3 minutes.) Itching prickings in both axillae. (a. 5 minutes.) Dull, aching pain in the right axilla.
Drawing-sticking in the left shoulderjoint, especially when
moving the arm towards the chest. Stitch, with pressure in
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Slight pressure on the shoulder, painful to the touch, as if the
flesh were loose, when walking. Pressure upon the shoulder,
as if it were being pressed down by a load, when sitting.
Pain in the right shoulderjoint, as if sprained, only during
motion. Dull sticking pains in the region of the shoulderjoint, more violent when touching or moving the joint.
Drawing, with pressure, in the shoulder-joints, early in the
morning when in bed and directly after rising; more violent
during motion. (a. 5 d.)-280. Fine tearing about the head
of the left femur, more violent during motion. Paralytic drawing in the shoulder-joint, sometimes in the whole arm when
laying it under the head while lying in bed. (a. 90 h.) Tearing pain in the left upper arm, in the deltoid muscle, when
sitting, going off by motion. Tearing pain in the muscles of
the left upper arm, close to the elbow. Stitch-like tearing in
the muscles of the right upper arm, near the elbow-joint.-285.
Violent aching pain in the left shoulder-joint, not disappearing by motion. (a. 36 h.) Paralytic aching pain in the left
upper arm, more violent during motion. (a. 72 h.) Hard
pressure in the right upper arm from without inwards, more
violent during motion. (a. 2 h.) Paralytic aching pain in
the outer parts of the upper arm, more violent during motion
and contact. (a. 36 h.) Drawing, with pressure, here and
there, in the upper limbs, more violent when touched. (a. 7
h.)-290. Paralytic pressure in both upper and lower arms;
more violent during motion and contact. (a. 5 d.) Drawing, with pressure, in the deltoid muscle. Slow, dull stitches,
like pressure, in the middle of the forearm. Paralytic weakness around the elbow-joint. (a. 2 h.) Sensation, near the
bend of the elbow, more toward the forearm, as if an eruption
had broken out, or as if one had ripped the skin with a pin, a
kind of burning thrill; however nothing is seen in that spot
which is especially painful when touched.-295. Drawing,
with pressure, a sort of clawing, below the left elbow, near the
outer side of the ulna. Lancination in the left forearm. (a. 1
h.) Drawing, with pressure, in the muscles of the forearm
and on the dorsum of the hand. Jerking in the left forearm,
in rest. (a. 75 h.) Cramp-pain around the right wrist-joint,
going off when stretching the fingers, but returning when
bending them, which is accompanied with a lancination
through the whole arm as far as the shoulder. (a. 24- h.)300. Transverse drawing pressure in the wrist, especially
during motion. Lancination in the left wrist-joint. (a. 1 h.)
Drawing pain through the metacarpal bones in the dorsum of
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the left hand, inducing one to scratch. Painful drawing in the
metacarpal joint of the right index-finger.-305. Paralytic
drawing-pain in the phalangeal joints, more violent during
motion. Hard pressure in the region of the metacarpal bone
of the left index-finger, more violent when touching or moving the finger. (a. 4 min.) Intermittent aching pain in the region of the metacarpal bones of the left thumb, more violent
when touched. Painful drawing in the joints of the fingers of
the right hand. (a. 5 h.) Fine, jerking-tearing in the muscles of the thumb, especially violent in the tip. (a. 45 h.)310. Tearing pain in the muscles of the ball of the left
thumb, going off when moving the thumb. Fine, jerkingtearing in the muscles of several fingers, especially in their
tips. When stretching the fingers without supporting them
upon any thing, they are convulsively moved up and down.
Creeping in the fingers, as if they would go to sleep. (a. 4 -h.) Aching, cramp-like pain in the ball of the right little finger, when moving the hand.-315. Continuous aching pain,
commencing in the metacarpal joint of the right middlefinger, and extending towards the tip of the finger, continuing
also during motion. (a. 77 h.) Deep, itching-burning,
sharp prickings in the left thumb, inducing scratching.
Tensive stitches in the tip of the left thumb. (a. 52 h.)
Pricking pain in the metacarpal and phalangeal joint of the
right index-finger, continuing during motion. (a. 54 h.)
Cramp in the fingers and in several parts of the limbs.-320.
Sensation as if the tips of the fingers of the left hand were
covered with a hard skin; he has little sensation in them,
and does not well distinguish what he touches. The right
hand feels hotter to him than it was hot; it was redder than
the other hand, with a fine tearing in the metacarpal joints of
four fingers. Titillating, sharp stitches in the palm of the
hand. (a. 1 h.)]
LOWER LIMBS: His nates feel sore after he has been sitting
a while.-210. Feeling of numbness in the left hip when
standing, extending down to the abdomen. Aching pain
around the hip joint when walking and sitting. Sore pain in
the upper and internal surface of the thigh. All the muscles
of the thighs feel bruised when walking fast, for two days.
Herpes on the thighs and legs.-215. Creeping in the thighs
and legs, which had been swollen for years, the swelling being
elastic, with sensation as if the interior of the limbs were hot
and heavy, and were being distended. Stitching pain, with
pressure, in the outer side of the knee, when treading and feeling
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leg, in the evening, in bed; after rubbing, flat ulcers break out,
with violent pain. Heaviness and tension in the calf.-220.
Intolerable cramp in the calf and sole of the foot of that limb
upon which he is resting; it wakes him from the siesta. (a. 24
h.) Cramp, especially in the upper and lower part of the calf,
when waking from sleep; it cannot be diminished either by
stretching or by rubbing the limb; the pain becomes more intense by thinking of it, even after it had already been diminished. Swelling of the metatarsal bone of the right little toe,
painful when touched. Painless swelling of the dorsa of both
feet, of long duration. (a. 13 d.) Burning, painful itching in
the interior of two toes, as if they had been frozen. (a. 4 h.)
[Burning, corrosive itching of the nates, as when something
made of wool is drawn over the skin, in the evening when in
bed; scratching drove it from one place to another. Boring
pain in the left glutei muscles, when sitting. (a. 12 h.)-325.
Stinging itching of the glutei muscles and several parts of
the body. When lying down he experiences a painful weariness across the thighs, and as if they were bruised; with sensation of excessive rigidity in the joints and a tremulousness
in the same, so that he is not able to hold them still. Pain as
if sprained in the middle of the left thigh, especially when
walking. (a. 8 h.) Tension in the vastus externus when
walking. Paralytic pain, like drawing, in the middle of the
thigh, anteriorly, in rest and motion.-330. Burning pricking
in the posterior surface of the left thigh. Deeply penetrating,
dull stitch in the middle of the left thigh, exteriorly. Fine,
painful, piercing stitches in the internal surface of the left
thigh, directly over the knee. (a. 38 h.) Itching stinging in
the internal sides of the thighs. (a. 3 h.) A kind of gooseskin, without chilliness, over both thighs and legs; a number
of red and white pimples on them, the tips whereof contain a
whitish pus. (a. 10 d.)-335. Weakness of the thighs and
legs for several days, especially in the knee-joint; he has to
drag the foot; accompanied with lancinations in the calf, and
pain in the small of the back. (a. 10 h.) Dull sticking, almost
scratching sensation in the right thigh, internally, above the
knee-joint. (a. 8 h.) Stitch-like pain in the inner border of
the knee. Jerking, above the right patella. (a. 9 h.) Drawing tearing below the left patella, not going off by motion. (a.
54 h.)-340. Pain in the thighs when walking (more in the
left), she has almost to drag them. (a. 51 h.) Drawing sticking in the right knee-joint, more violent during motion. Dull
stitches in the region of the knee-joint, near the patella; when
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pain. Dull stitches in the right knee-joint, early in the
morning, immediately after rising, more violent during motion. (a. 5 d.) When walking, he experiences in the right
knee-joints and in the bellies of the gastrocnemii muscles a
paralytic drawing resembling a weakness, continuing for a
long time, even after walking, when sitting.-345. Pain (as if
one had missed a step?) in the knee, for one minute, when
walking, and when moving the foot. Sensation, when rising
from a seat, as if the knees would bend involuntarily; a tremulous, nervous drawing-up in the bend of the knee. As soon
as he lies down he experiences a drawing-up sensation in the
knee-joints, a kind of nervousness and voluptuous uneasiness
in those joints, obliging him to get up. Drawing sticking in
the left knee-joint when sitting; sometimes he feels a jerking
in the joint. Burning pricking below the left knee, on the
outer side, sometimes in paroxysms.-350. Boring stitch in
the right tibia, in rest. (a. 1, 35 h.) Itching of the right tibia
above the external maleolus, not going off by rubbing. (a. 21
h.) Paralytic pressure in the gastrocnemii muscles of the right
leg, externally, more violent when touched. Tearing pain in
the muscles of one or the other leg, when standing or sitting.
(a. a few minutes.) Lancination in and below the right calf,
and above the left heel. (a. 1, 10 h.)-355. Itching stitch in
the right calf, continuing when standing and walking, and going off by scratching. (a. 78 h.) Drawing, with pressure, in
the outer part of the tibia, when sitting. (a. 6 h.) Drawing
pressure in the tarsus, transversely, especially during motion.
Tearing, with pressure, in the left tarsal bones, close to the
joint. (a. 51 h.) Contractive sensation of heaviness in the
tarsal bones of the left foot, close to the tarsal joint. (a. 3J h.)
-300. Slinging itching close above the outer maleolus of
the right foot; it obliges him to scratch, but does not leave
any peculiar sensation. Burning itching of the internal malleolus of the right foot. (a. 4 d.) Itching in the region of the
tendo Achillis, above the heel. Stinging itching of the big toe
of the right foot. Burning, with pressure, in the tip of the big
toe of the right foot, in rest. (a. 4- h.)-365. Burning itching
of the little toes, in the evening, as if they were frozen; they
are painful when touched, and the painful places are red, for
four days. (a. 12 h.) Itching burning of the little toe of the
right foot, as if it were frozen; it felt painful when pressing
upon it slightly. Tingling in the lower surface of the toes,
which does not induce scratching; they feel as if they had
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the left foot, in rest. (a. 29 h.) Pricking in the bottom of that
foot which is laid across the other, when sitting. (a. 17 h.)]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: 225. Itching of the head and the
whole body, especially early in the morning, a creeping itching
and crawling as of a flea, going from one place to another.
Blotches of the size of peas on the whole body and thighs, itching and emitting a humor when scratched open, when they
occasion a burning pain. Tearing and jerking around the
ulcers in the evening and early in the morning, in rest; ceasing when walking. Lancination in the ulcer. Smarting in
the ulcer, as of salt.-230. Smarting itching in the ulcer, as
of salt. Darting and pecking pains of the ulcerated leg, the
skin of which becomes covered with a thin crust, from which
a yellowish water oozes out. In the morning, after rising from
a seat, he turns pale, becomes giddy, falls to one side as in a
swoon; similar paroxysm next day about the same hour. All
his limbs ache; the muscles ache when touching them, the
joints when moving them, more in the forenoon than in the
afternoon. Pain in all the bones.-235. Early in the morning, when rising from bed, all the joints feel stiff, especially the
shoulder and hip-joints, and the small of the back. Early in the
morning, when in bed, she feels very tired, without any drowsiness; all her limbs ache as if bruised, and as if no strength
were in them, for one hour. Great weariness, early in the
morning, when waking, disappearing soon.
[Drawing-tearing pain here and there in the muscles of
the whole body, when sitting. (a. 81, 34 h.) Pain in the joints
of the shoulders, elbows, fingers, back, knees, of a drawing
kind, when moving those joints, less in rest, especially in the
evening. Tremor in the interior of the limbs, early in the
morning, when keeping them for a long time in one position.
(a. 24 h.) Paralytic drawing in different parts of the body, especially the joints, when leaning the limbs for a time in an
unusual and inconvenient position. Itching sharp stitches in
diferent parts of the body.-375. Prickings, resembling fleabites, in the lower limbs, hand, nape of the neck, head, etc. (a.
1J h.) Stinging burning here and there in the skin. Burning
sensation in the limbs, now here, now there, but never in the
rest of the body. Deeply penetrating sharp stitches, returning
at long intervals, in different parts of the limbs. (a. 1 h.) Below the shoulder and hip-joints the limbs feel bruised and
painful, as after a long journey on foot.-380. General bruised
feeling, worst when walking, relieved when sitting and lying
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able to drag her feet. The whole body feels painful as if
bruised, with feeling of lassitude, worse during motion; when
walking, a little after having been seated, the painful sensation
came on again with renewed violence. (a. 40 h.) Great weariness in the knee-joints early in the morning after rising; he
finds it difficult to walk or to stand. (a. 24 h.) Debilitated all
over, especially in the joints, when walking. Weary and
weak, early in the morning. (a. 41 h.)-385. Great weariness
and disposition to sleep, in the afternoon when sitting. (a.
3 d.)]
SLEEP: Great inclination to yawn and stretch herself. Falls
asleep as soon as he lies down in his bed, in the evening.-240.
Drowsiness in daytime; he slept whenever he sat. Great
drowsiness in the afternoon. He falls asleep late in the evening, and wakes again at 4 o'clock in the morning, several
nights. He dreams about his business, as soon as he falls
asleep. Vivid dreams, with coherent ideas.-245.  Dream
about murder. The child is very restless in the night, and
calls her mother all the time. He wakes every hour in the
night, from 2 o'clock, without any cause. Restless night; he
woke every night half and then slept again. He did not sleep
the whole night, and nevertheless his eyes closed.-250. Violent burning pains in the ulcer, in the evening after lying down,
for hours, so that she was unable to fall asleep. The herpes
itches only at night. His upper and lower limbs started, several nights, as if some one had tickled him; a kind of spasmodic but painless jerking; he felt moreover hot, although he
covered himself but lightly, but without thirst or sweat.
[Violent yawning, causing the tears to drop from his
eyes. (a. - h.) Frequent yawning as if he had not slept
enough. (a. 2 h.) Great weariness and drowsiness after a
meal; he feels a desire to lie down, falls asleep soon, but feels
gloomy and heavy when waking, and dreads to walk; walking was very troublesome for him, especially going up hill;
after walking a little longer, he felt very cheerful and strong.
Wakefulness early in the morning, followed by drowsiness and
a chilly shuddering in the back.-390. He wakes towards
morning, as if he had slept enough, but falls asleep again immediately. (a. 46 h.) Drowsiness in the afternoon; his eyes
close. Wakeful before midnight; but as soon as he went to
sleep he dreamed of dispute. Immediately after going to sleep
he is waked by a dream that he is fighting with a wild beast,
which makes him start. (a. 30 h.) Restless and anxious
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night. Vivid, disagreeable dreams, towards morning. Dreams
full of wrath.-400. Restless dreams; he is busy with all
sorts of things, starts as in affright, wakes, but does not become entirely conscious of himself. Amorous dreams and
emission of semen. Voluptuous dreams without emission. In
the evening her calves pained her so much that she was unable to go to sleep; she had to change the position of her limbs
constantly, to get some relief; she had the same sensation in
the calves after having got up in the night and having laid
down again. (a. 37 h.) He dreams as soon as he falls asleep;
now he fights with some one, now he has anxious images,
which wakes him, and then he dreams again.-405. Dreams
about murder the second night.]
FEVER: Fever in the evening consisting of the cold stage
merely. Shuddering the whole night, without thirst and without any subsequent heat.- 255. Internal shuddering, with violent thirst, several days, at three o'clock in the afternoon, without any subsequent heat. Shuddering, with goose-skin, several
afternoons at three o'clock, ceasing in the open air, and no
thirst. Chilliness early in the morning when in bed, without
any subsequent heat. Chilliness early in the morning when
in bed, followed by heat; she did not wish to rise in the morning. Slight heat after the shuddering.-260. Early in the
morning, when in bed, he feels a heat about his head, with
sweat on the forehead. In the open air she was attacked with
some heat and some headache, (towards evening.) Feeling of
great heat, as if she were burning externally, with thirst; there
was orgasmus sanguinis; no previous chilliness. Feeling of
great heat at night, in the hands and feet; he had to keep them
bare. Heat in the night, especially around the forehead, so
that she remained awake ever since three o'clock; chill at nine
o'clock in the forenoon.-265. Disposition to sweat. A good
deal of sweat, several nights after midnight. Night-sweat,
having a putrid smell. (a. 8 d.) Sweat smelling like putrid
eggs, after midnight. (a. 4, 6 d.) Profuse night-sweats. (a.
10 d.)
[Cold feet in the evening, in bed. Violent chill in the evening before falling asleep; he shook in his bed, and could not
get warm. (a. 20 h.) Frequent chilliness in the night, which
wakes him, but he does not become conscious of himself.
Shuddering, with drowsiness and dryness of mouth. (a. 3 h.)
-410. Shuddering and chilly feeling when taking a meal,
without thirst, two hours before the hot stage. Chilliness in
the back, even when near the hot stove. (a. I h.) Back and
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chills over the back and arms, toward the nape of the neck,
over the head and face, early in the morning after rising.
Chill, shaking the whole body, with warm forehead, hot cheeks
and cold hands, without any subsequent heat and without any
thirst. (a. 1 h.) Shuddering over the whole body, without
thirst and without being immediately followed by heat. (a.
30 h.)-415. Fleet chilly shuddering along the back, after a
meal. Feeling of heat to him, and real heat in the face, without thirst, an hour after the chilly stage. Feeling of warmth
over the back, which is not disagreeable, three hours after a
meal. At intervals he experiences a thrill of heat ever the
lower part of the back, the rest of the body being without any
subsequent sweat. Feeling of warmth on the forehead, as of
a constant, warm breath touching it; sometimes also a cold
breath, with redness of the cheeks and warmth of the external
body. (a. 4 d.)-420. When waking in the night, he is covered with warm sweat, on the abdomen, feet, genital organs,
although covered moderately, no thirst; when uncovering
himself, a cold air comes upon him, the sweat ceases, he imagines he will catch cold. (a. 72 h.) Excessive sweat in the afternoon, with heat of the whole body, without thirst, although he
sat very quietly.
MORAL SYMPTOMS:-270. He recollects anxious thoughts
and things from the past, as if they were present, causing anguish and sweat: after this, there is a blackness before his
eyes; he knows not whether the images are true or illusory;
afterwards he thinks every thing is sometimes different, and
he loses all desire to live. He knows not whether the things
which he sees in his fancy are real or imaginary (from five to
seven in the afternoon). (When walking fast, he feels as if
some one were walking after him; this gives him anxiety and
fear, and he has to look round all the time. Hypochondriac
mood; every thing is indifferent to him; he does not care
about living. Even the most interesting thing was indifferent
to him.-275. Vexed, early in the morning; he was going to
push away from him all those things which he held in his
hand. She does not want to hear any one spoken of; she
wraps up her face and weeps aloud, without knowing why.
Every word which is said to her vexes her; she weeps when
one attempts to talk to her.  Peevish; she weeps several
times without any apparent cause. Weeping mood.-280.
She sheds tears and grieves at her condition; nothing gave
her any pleasure. (a 50 h.) She felt sad and spiritually dead,
but had no disposition to weep. Violent, internal anxiety,
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[Serious, thinking of himself, taciturn. Phlegmatic, with
weariness of mind and sadness of heart; every thing is indifferent to him, but he is neither vexed nor debilitated. His
mind feels weary; he has no desire to talk or to think; the
things around him are indifferent to him.-425. Not disposed
to any serious work. Out of humor and not disposed to any
mental labor. (a. 2 h.) Out of humor and vexed the whole
day; he was beside himself with ill humor, and was extremely thoughtful. (a. 37 h.) Silent ill-humor; he is vexed
at every thing, even at those things which do not concern him.
Out of humor and restless the whole day.-430. He dreads
the future.  Sad; he apprehends evil consequences from
trifling things, and cannot ease himself. Sad without any
cause.-485. Quarrelsome, but merry mood. At first he is
cheerful,2 then anxious, and lastly, calm and contented. He
became cheerful and communicative.2 LHe was cheerful and
communicative, and enjoyed his existence.
DATURA STRAMONIUM.
(Express the juice from the recent plant, and mix it with equal parts
of alcohol.)
THIS stupefying plant does not produce any real pain primarily. The pain occasioned by Stramonium is the result of
the secondary action of the organism. Stramonium, in its
primary effect, occasions an excessive mobility of the voluntary muscles, suppression of the secretions and evacuations,
being succeeded by paralysis of the muscles and excessive secretions and excretions as a secondary effect. Stramonium
cures certain kinds of spasmodic muscular motions, and restores suppressed secretions in some cases when there is no
pain.
The homceopathic physician will never administer Stramonium in cases of complete paralysis or inveterate diarrhoea, or
Incipient short-lasting reaction of the organism in a person of an
apprehensive and desponding mood; afterwards the primary effect of
the drug became again visible in the anxiety, which was again conquered by the reactive power of the organism, after which the mood
remained cheerful.
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when violent pain constitutes the chief part of the symptoms,
or when the symptoms of the case are too much like the secondary symptoms of Stramonium, which are always more numerous in narcotic drugs than the primary.
But what powerful curative virtues does not Stramonium
possess in cases of mental disorders, or convulsions, to which
it is homceopathic! I know this from experience.
I have found Stramonium curative in some epidemic fevers,
the physical and mental symptoms of which were similar to
those of Stramonium.
Some kinds of hydrophobia are cured by Stramonium,
others by Belladonna, others again by Hyosciamus.
Moderate doses act only thirty-six or forty-eight hours;
smaller doses act less long.
Violent primary effects are neutralized by citric acid, or by
berries in which it is contained, such as currants, berberis, etc.,
much better than by vinegar. Smoking diminishes very much
the cloudiness produced by Stramonium. According to Falck,
it may be relieved by alcohol, and according to Pleheve, by a
cold foot-bath.
A drop, or, in some cases, a portion of a drop, of the 9th
potency, is a sufficient dose.
STRAMONIUM.
(The following symptoms are by Hahnemann.)
Intoxication. (a. 8 h.) Stupid feeling in the head. Intoxication, and heaviness in the body. (a. 1 h.) Vertigo: the head
feels drawn backward; he is moreover very drowsy.-5. Disagreeable lightheadedness, with a feeling of weakness in the
head. Diminished memory. The loss of sense seems to be
accompanied with an internal uneasiness, and to proceed from
it. Clawing headache.
The black letters seem to him gray, and as if a second letter of the same kind, and of a light-gray color, were placed
sideways or above (a kind of diplopia), for example:
F
F'
-10. Objects appeared to be in an oblique position. He saw
things as if through coarse linen, only fragments of them, and
as if cut through; for instance, of a face he only saw the nose,
1 When he attempted to draw this phenomenon on paper while he
saw it, he drew but one F, and afterwards carried the pen over the
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etc., as if the eyes had but a small vision, and he was only
able to see a small point at once. He imagines he sees a reddish-gray border around white things, for instance, around
paper.
When reading, he was unable to distinguish a syllable; the
letters seemed to move and become blurred. Dullness of
vision, like a fog before his eyes, as if he saw things through a
glass of turbid water; the objects looked as if they had become diffused and were too distant.-15.  Almost complete
blindness for six hours; on the days following, he experienced
a pressure as from the middle of the eyeball, at every change
of light, either when going from a dark place into a lighter, or
from a light place into a dark. Distinct vision, more so than
usually. (Curative effect, after 24 hours.) Swelling and inflammation of the eyelids. Involuntary lachrymation.
Beating toothache, as if a portion of the teeth would fall out.
-20. Sensation as if the inner mouth were raw and sore.
(a. 24 h.) Dryness in the throat. Great dryness in the
mouth, so that white bread tastes to him like straw. Great
dryness in the mouth, so that he is unable to spit, although the
tongue looks moist. Ptyalism.
25. Strangulating sensation in the throat. The velum
pendulum palati hangs down very low; food and drinks went
down with a good deal of difficulty, and with a scraping pain
in the velum pendulum palati. Inability to swallow. Difficult deglutition, with stinging pain in the fauces. Difficult
deglutition, with aching pain in the sub-maxillary glands.
30. Loss of appetite. Increased appetite. Nausea. Bilious vomiting, after the least motion, even after sitting up in
the bed. Constant bitterness of mouth, the food tastes bitter.
-35. Pressure in the region of the heart. Colic, as if the abdomen were puffed up; the abdomen was painful even when
touching the side. Tearing pain in the abdomen, as if the
umbilicus were being torn out, which afterwards retreats into
the chest. Sensation as if the abdomen were extremely tense.
Distention of the abdomen, which is not hard.-40. Discharge of coagulated blood from the anus. Haemorrhoidal
flux for several days.
Constipation for six days, without any pain from repletion,
or without any distention of the abdomen. Suppression of all
the excretions.
Emission of urine without any power; he was indeed able
to retain the urine, but he felt all the time as if he had not the
power to retain the urine and to close the neck of the bladder;
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accompanied with a sensation as if the urethra were too narrow and unable to be distended.
45. Tumor in the groin. Increased menstrual flow; the
blood comes off in large pieces, and is coagulated. Excessive
menstrual flow, metrorrhagia, with drawing pains in the abdomen, the thighs, and other limbs.
His nose feels obstructed and dry, although he is able to
breathe through  it.  Difficult breathing.-50, Oppressed
breathiug. Aching pain in the chest and sternum, excited by
talking. Sensation as if something were turning about in the
chest; afterwards heat in the face.
Bruising pain in the back and abdomen, excited by motion,
(a. 12 h.) Bruising pain in the back and shoulder. (a. 13 h.)
-55. A spot in the back which is painful when touched or
no. Small spot in the back, occasioning a drawing pain when
touched. Drawing-tearing pains in the back and epigastrium.
(a. 1 h.) Drawing pain in the middle of the spine, with
drawing pain in the opposite posterior part of the stomach.
Drawing pain in the middle of the spine.-60. Drawing
pains in the small of the back.
Trembling of the arms when eating. Drawing pains in
the thighs. Vacillation of the limbs when walking or standing. Trembling of one and more limbs.-65. Trembling of
one hand, when eating. Convulsions of the limbs. All the
limbs ache. The limbs feel as if gone to sleep. Sensation
as if one part of a joint were separated from another, and
could not be joined to it again.
Pimples, like blotches, on several parts of the body, and also
in the palm of the hands, occasioning a stinging-itching, increased by rubbing. Immobility of the limbs, she is unable to
stir (a sort of catalepsy). Weakness of the body, weariness of
the feet. Violent desire to lie down. Cutting pain in the
sternum, after lying down in the night, disappearing after
emission of flatulence, but returning afterwards.
75. Restless sleep. Vivid dreams about historical facts.
He goes frequently to sleep, and, when waking, has a comically majestic appearance. Cold limbs.-80. Coldness of the
whole body.
Coldness and chilliness for eight hours. The feet were extremely cold early in the morning, and nevertheless they were
extremely sensitive to every cold current of air. Heat in the
face. Sensation of heat in the face, when the coldness and
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heat; but if he merely stretches a finger from under the cover,
the pains become very violent. Fever: first heat in the head,
afterwards coldness of the whole body, followed by heat of the
whole body with anguish; sleeps during the heat, and violent
thirst after waking, so violent that he feels a stinging in his
palate, until he drinks. Slight sweat at night. Heat and
sweat all over, without thirst. (a. 5 h.) Red rash over the
shin. (Irregular spots on the arm resembling flea-bites.) (a.
3 h.)
Loquacious dementia: he complains of a dog cutting and
tearing his breast with the teeth. He imagines he is dying
and cannot live until evening; he rejoices at dying, makes
preparations for his funeral; his mind being otherwise in good
order, and his health being good. He is very sad after lying
down in the evening, has thoughts of death, and weeps violently.
95. Despair. Great ill-humor, even unto vehemence, followed immediately after by a disposition to laugh aloud.
OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.
HEAD: Vertigo. Vertigo, with redness of face. Vertigo,
with pain in the abdomen, and a gauze before his eyes.-50.
Vertigo, with diarrhcea. Vertigo, headache, dimsightedness,
violent thirst, tenacious mucus in the mouth, rumbling in the
abdomen, and pain in the epigastrium. Vertigo for eight days.
Vertigo; he staggers to and fro like one drunk. He becomes
giddy while sitting or standing in a room; he staggers.-10.
Vertigo, want of thought four mornings in succession after rising; he has but a dull and distant recollection of things,
(weakness in the memory,) and he sees as if through a gauze,
for two hours. Staggering. He staggers about the room and
looks as if he were seeking something.-15. He stumbles
against the door whenever he goes through it. Intoxication.
Intoxication, with thirst, and a profuse flow of a burning urine.
Rush of blood to the head. Heat of the head, and sparkling
eyes.-20. Apoplexy. Weakness of the head. Heaviness
in the head. Stupefaction of the head. Stupefaction of the
head, with dimsightedness.-25. Stupidity. She sits senseless and immovable like a wooden figure. Dulness of the
head. Obscuration of all the senses. Obscuration of all the
senses and anxiety, followed by a red rash on the back, and
sweat.-30. Extreme insensibility of all the senses. Insensibility. Headache. Dull or violent headache.-35. Pain in
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distention of the abdomen at times. Beating headache in the
right temple, with diarrhoea. Giddy headache with fainting
and thirst.-40. Headache and pain in the eyes. Violent
headache and toothache, with profuse lachrymation. Convulsions of the head and arms, with hiccough. Spasmodic drawing, only in the head and eyes, with grinding of the teeth.45. He frequently raises his head from the couch. Spasmodic
drawing of the head to either side, with screaming and raising
of the arms over the head. Early in the morning he moves his
head to and fro, with excessive thirst. He moves his head to
and fro; this movement is only interrupted by hiccough.
Swollen face, turgid with blood.-50. Swelling of the face.
FACE AND EYES: Swelling of the face and redness of the
cheeks. Swelling of the face, eyes and tongue. Swelling and
redness of the eyes and face -55. The skin on the forehead
is wrinkled, the eyes stare, the whole face looks wild and
frightful. (a. 3 h.) At first his face looks friendly, except the
staring eyes; at last it becomes quite disfigured by deep furrows from the inner canthus to the cheek, by folds running
from the nasal wings across the angle of the mouth, and by
knitting the eyebrows, and it looks frightful on account of the
sparkling eyes; after the lapse of an hour the eyes look dim
and the face has a dismal expression. (a. ~, 2 h.) At first his
face looks quite friendly, except the dilated pupils, but afterwards it looks dismal, like that of a man who is anxious, with
deep furrows and wrinkles. The cheeks are red and bloated,
but the upper part of the face looks gloomy and contracted.
Frequent redness of the face, with staring eyes.-60. Erysipelas on the right side of the cheek, nose and face. Pale face.
Frequent sweat in the face and on the forehead. Contracted
pupils; they do not dilate in the dark; all things appear to
him smaller and at a greater distance, and like one dazzled by
the light. (a. 1 h.) Dilatation of the pupils.-65. Extreme
dilatation of the pupils, with obscuration of sight. The dilated
pupils contract again after drinking vinegar. The pupils are
dilated and immovable. Dim, sad look.-70.    Sparkling
eyes; he complains of the rays of the sun dazzling him and
of the loss of appetite. Glistening eyes. Staring eyes. Staring, somnolent eyes. Burning of the eyes, with dimsightedness and profuse sweat.-75. Pressure and tension in both
eyes, for six days. (a. 2 h.) Pressure in the eyelids, as if
swollen, which is really the case, or as if oppressed with sleep;
hence a great disposition to sleep, which he is however able to
overcome. (a. 3I h.) Ulcerated eyelids. Agglutination of the
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with dilated pupils and contortion of the eyeballs in every direction. His eyes close, his eyes see black. The upper eyelid hangs
down, as if caused by a spasm of the orbicularis muscle. Redness of the whites of the eyes and the margins of the eyelids;
the eyes run profusely. Extreme sensitiveness of the eyes to
the light. (a. 24 h.)-85. Lachrymation of the left eye, of the
right eye, and of both eyes together. He sheds tears without
knowing it. Lachrymation of both eyes, with obscuration of
sight.-90. He opened his closed eyes only when spoken to.
Dimsightedness. Obscuration of sight, excessive.-95. Dimsightedness every morning, as if a gauze were before the eyes.
Dimsightedness with great thirst. Dimsightedness with thirst
and sweat. Bleareyedness after dimsightedness.-100. Vertigo and headache after dimsightedness. Presbyopia for a long
time; he was only able to read distant print. Contraction of
the pupils occasioned by drinking vinegar after the pupils had
been dilated by the stramonium: during this contraction all
objects appeared to him extremely small; as to the distant
objects, he did not see them at all; but on looking at the sun,
the pupils remain staring, and his eyes became entirely black.
The patient is unable to discern small things, such as the point
of a pin. Indistinct, confused sight.-105. All things look as
if in an oblique direction. Diplopia: he sees small things at
the places where they are, but he sees a second representation
thereof a little higher and to one side. The objects are multiplied and of various colors. Black things seem to him gray.
-110. He sees objects in a room which do not exist. Fiery
visions before her eyes. Disappearance of sight and hearing.
EARS: Wind rushes out of both ears. Shuddering about
the chin.
MOUTH AND TEETH: 115. Trembling of the lips, hands,
and feet. The lips have a yellow streak along the vermilion
border, as in malignant fevers, and adhere firmly together;
he fears lest they should   grow  together.  Toothache.
Grinding of teeth. Grinding of teeth, with shuddering over
the whole body.-120. Grinding of teeth; he raises his hands
above his head, and he moves them as if he were winding a
ball of thread. Grinding of teeth, with gloominess in the
head. Grinding of teeth, contortion of the hands and shuddering-lock-jaw, with closed lips. Muttering.-125. Constant
muttering. The patient screams until he is hoarse. He
screams until he has lost his voice. Stuttering. Stuttering
and uttering of inarticulate sounds.-130. He talks little, and
utters single inarticulate sounds with a loud voice. His voice
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usual; it is a mere sounding, he is unable to utter an intelligible word (he hears and feels it himself); this makes him
anxious. A kind of paralysis of the organs of speech: he has
to exert himself a long while before he is able to utter a word;
he merely stammers and utters inarticulate sounds. He is
mute and does not answer. Dumb, he expresses his wish by
pointing to things.-135. He was mute, immovable, and
pulseless for six or seven hours, and his limbs were paralyzed,
without consciousness; after that period he tossed about in
his bed with great rage, made innumerable signs to those
around him which were not understood, and then became
quiet again. His tongue is paralyzed; it trembles when he
attempts to put it out, as in typhus fever. Swelling of the
tongue. Swelling of the tongue all over.-140. The swollen
tongue hangs out at the mouth. Bloody froth at the mouth.
Hydrophobia (with other symptoms mentioned in their respective places, we have): restlessness, violent convulsions,
the patient being so violent that he had to be tied; he rolled
about in his bed sleepless and uttered crowing-screams: he
was delirious without memory or consciousness; his pupils
were extremely dilated, violent desire to bit'e, and to tear every
thing with his teeth; extreme dryness of the inner mouth and
fauces; the sight of a light, mirror or water excited horrible
convulsions; irresistible aversion to water, with constriction
and convulsions of the oesophagus, froth at the mouth, and
frequent spitting. Dread of or aversion to water and any
other liquid, with spasmodic motion. Aversion to watery
liquids; he became enraged when his lips were moistened.
PHARYNX, (ESOPHAGUS:-145. Inability to swallow, on
account of dryness of the throat. Dryness of the tongue and
palate, so that they feel quite rough, without any thirst at
first. (a. - h.) Extreme dryness in the mouth and want of
saliva; he is unable to spit up any thing, although the tongue
is pretty moist and clean. The palate feels parched, so that
he is not able to eat a mouthfil of bread.-150. Excessive
dryness of the inner mouth. Extreme acidity of the tongue
and mouth. Sensation of dryness on the tongue and in the
throat. Feeling of great dryness in the mouth and want of
saliva, although the tongue looks clean and moist. Great
dryness of month and fauces.-155. Dryness of mouth,
thirst; dimsightedness, sparkling eyes, sweat and diarrhoea.
Dryness of mouth and palate with violent thirst (a. 6 h.), and
such an absence of taste that he drank a pound of vinegar at
one draught, without tasting it. Tobacco has yet some taste,
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oesophagus, so that he apprehends suffocation. (a. 3 h.)
Bread and butter taste to him like sand; on account of the dryness of the mouth, the things remain in the cesophagus and
threaten to strangle him. Thirst with great dryness of heat.
-160. His cesophagus feels constricted. She tries to eat bread
and milk, but is unable to swallow either. Constrictive sensation
in the fauces after a meal. (a. 2. h.) His throat feels constricted as if he should suffocate, or as if he were threatened
with an apoplectic fit. Constriction and spasm of the oesophagus.-165. Thirst, violent, or with headache. Violent
thirst with copious secretion of burning urine.-170. Troublesome thirst with the slaver hanging out in threads. Frequent spitting. Slaver hanging out at the mouth. Frequent
ptyalism.  Long continuing ptyalism  and diuresis.-175.
Profuse ptyalism with constantly increasing thirst. Copious
ptyalism, day and night; he loses from three to four pounds
of saliva. Ptyalism with hoarseness. Tenacious ptyalism.
Viscid mucus in mouth, with good appetite.
GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: 180. Hiccough. Violent hiccough.
Sour eructations. Constant bitterness in mouth, and the food
has a bitter taste. Food has a spoiled taste.-185. Every
kind of food tastes to him like straw. Diminished appetite.
Undiminished appetite, with colic, diarrhoea and vomiting.
(The limbs are convulsed, while an artificial vomiting is excited.) Inclination to vomit.-190. Inclination to vomit, with
profuse ptyalism, in the evening. Nausea, with flow of an extremely saltish saliva. Vomiting at night. Vomiting of green
bile at night. In the evening he vomits up bile with mucus.
-195. Vomiting of green mucus, with thirst. Vomiting of
a sour-smelling mucus. Vomiting of mucus in the evening.
STOMACH: Biting pain in the stomach. Aching pain in
the stomach.-200. Anxiety about the pit of the stomach.
Anxiety about the pit of the stomach, before noon. Anxiety
about the pit of the stomach, with dry heat of the body. Anxiety about the pit of the stomach, with difficult respiration.
ABDOMEN: 205. Bloated abdomen, especially in the region
of the pit of the stomach. In the evening the abdomen is
bloated, with heat of the body and anxiety in the pit of the
stomach. Bloated, but not hard abdomen. The abdomen of
children becomes highly bloated from the seed of stramonium,
with anxiety in the pit of the stomach, cold sweat, chilliness of
the limbs, confusion of intellect, stupefied half-slumber, and
anxious evacuations upward and downward.-210. Bloated
abdomen, painless to the touch. The epigastrium is tense,
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the abdomen, with diarrhoea. Rumbling in the abdomen with
colic.-215. Violent fermenting in the abdomen for 7 days.
Rumbling in the abdomen, with obscuration of sight.  He
complains of rumbling in the abdomen, as if living animals
were crying and moving about in all the bowels. Colic,
rumbling and diarrhcna.-220. Colic, diarrhoea. Itching in
the abdomen. Colic, watery vomiting and diarrhoea.
STOOL: He has a desire to go to stool, but he has an
evacuation only 24 hours after. Constipation. A writhing
pain in the bowels, previous to every evacuation; a blackish
diarrhoea every hour. (a. 36 h.) Diarrhoea, six days in succession. Diarrhoea, ceasing after a profuse perspiration.-230.
Diarrhea, with increase of appetite. Diarrhoea, with paleness
of face. Stools have a cadaverous smell. Emission of a
large quantity of flatulence.
URINARY ORGANS: He was frequently obliged to urinate,
but the urine was retained a minute before it came, and
although it came out merely in drops, yet a large quantity
was passed in the forenoon. (a. 4 and 5 hours).-235. During
micturition, no stream is formed in spite of all pressing and
urging; the urine is warmer than usual, but it comes out only
in drops; he is not able to hasten the emission or to press out
the last drops, but without experiencing any painful sensation
in the urethra, except the sensation as if a cylindrical body
were pushed through the urethra.' Suppression of the excretions from the bladder and stool. Retention of urine. Diuresis,
with shuddering and rumbling in the abdomen. Profuse, involuntary emission of urine.-240. Profuse diuresis. Profuse
diuresis without thirst.
GENITAL ORGANS: Lasciviousness. Complete inability to
perform an embrace. Impotence.-245. During the menses
the body smelled as of semen. Excessive loquacity during
the menses. Watery menses. Discharge of black blood from
the uterus.-250. Metrorrhagia. Reappearance of the menses
which had been suppressed for four years. Erysipelas of the
left cheek immediately after the menses. Hiccough and moaning after the menses.
CATARRH AND CHEST: Obstruction of the nose.-255.
Sensation as if the nose were obstructed, although he breathes
freely. Frequent sighs. Violent stricture across the chest.
Hard pressure on the cartilages of the third and fourth rib,
with difficult respiration; he is unable to inspire a sufficient
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quantity of air; he does not feel any great anxiety. (a. J h.)
Oppressive and unusual pains.-260. Difficulty of breathing,
with anxiety about the pit of the stomach. His breathing becomes more and more difficult, and he becomes blue in his face.
Feeling of dryness in the chest. Spitting of blood. Slow inspirations and sudden expirations.-265. Drawing (rheumatic)
pain, extending from the side of the neck into the limbs.
EXTREMITIES: Fine, sharp stitches in the forearm and a
rheumatic constrictive pain in the deltoid muscle. The sound
hand trembles when eating. He grasps at a thing quickly,
imagines he has seized the thing before touching it, and, if he
does hold the object, he does not feel that he has hold of it. (a.
4-5 h.)--270. Spasmodic rigidity of the whole of the lower
limbs. (a. 36 h.) Severe pain in the loins. Pain in the right
thigh. A few sharp stitches in the outer part of the right tibia.
Boils on the feet.-275.  Burning and itching of the feet.
Rheumatic drawing in the left tarsus, evening. (a. 36 h.) More
or less violent burning in the dorsum of the foot. (a. 24 h.)
FAINTING FITS: He wants open air. He hurries off too
fast in going to a place.-280. Extreme irritability; he moves
about so fast in the first hour, that all motion is finally arrested
and his eyes see black. He performs all his movements with
great force and hurriedness, so that he feels anxiety if he cannot achieve them at once. Although he staggers, yet his limbs
obey the will so readily, that he feels as if he had none; they
seemed to him much longer than they were, so that when
walking, he thought he had already touched the floor, when
the foot was yet half a foot away from it; this makes him
finally set down the foot very rapidly. When going down
stairs he takes two steps for one, and is not aware of it till he
stumbles. Fainting.-285. Fainting in the forenoon, with
great paleness of face, and afterwards loss of appetite. Fainting, with great dryness in the mouth. Snoring during a swoon.
After the swoon there remains a spasm of the head to either side,
with redness of face. Heaviness of the limbs.-290. Heaviness of the feet and weariness of the legs. Slow motion of the
limbs, with creeping in the same. Heat over the whole body
and sweat, during the least motion. (a. 24 h.) Difficult motion
and creeping in the limbs, with lachrymation.-295. Sensation in the arms and limbs as if they were separated from the
body in the joints. The limbs go to sleep. Difficulty of moving the limbs, the pulse being almost extinct. Immobility.300. Loss of voluntary motion (catalepsis) atnd loss of senses;
deglutition remains uninjured. Stiffness of the whole body.
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several parts of the body.-305. When rising, he threatens to
fall (in the first eight hours). He is unable to walk alone, he
falls unless he is held. The lower limbs bend suddenly when
walking. Weak when walking. He is unable to stand.-310.
He has to lie down.
SLEEP: Drowsy and staggering. Sleeps a few hours.
Drowsiness in daytime.-315. He sleeps in the daytime, and
he wakes with an important and solemn look. Quiet sleep.
Quiet sleep after the convulsions had ceased. Sleeps twentyfour hours. Some sleep twenty-four hours; they lie like dead
persons.-320. After a deep sleep full of dreams (a. 24 h.),
during which he has an emission of semen, he feels quite
drowsy, and he sees as through a gauze. Deep, sound sleep; he
fetches breath with great trouble and snores during an expiration and inspiration. Deep sleep with snoring. Deep, snoring sleep, drawing up the leg rarely. Slumber, with snoring
and a bloody froth at the mouth; dark-brown countenance,
death.'-325. He lies on his back with open staring eyes.
Restless sleep, violent headache and profuse diuresis. Restless
sleep full of dreams, with tossing about in the bed. Restless
sleep followed by violent headache, vertigo, lachrymation and
ptyalisrn.-330. Sleep interrupted by screams. Screaming
and howling at night. Wakes from his sleep with a scream.
Remained awake all night, tossed about in his bed, and uttered
crowing screams. Sleepless.-335. The limbs of the child
were quite stiff. Continual cramp in hands and feet. The
hands are clenched (not the thumbs), but they can be opened.
Violent motion of the limbs. Constant movement of the hands
and arms, as if he were spinning or weaving. (a. 8 h.)-.340.
Convulsions. Violent convulsions in bed, during which he
was like frantic, and had to be tied. (a. 6 h.) Frightful
convulsions at the sight of a candle, mirror, or of water. The
convulsions and the delirium could especially be excited by
contact; they were followed by great weakness. The convulsions and the dilatation of the pupils remained when the pulse
had already become slower and the abdomen relaxed. (a. 18
h.)-345. Spasmodic movements. Spasms in the left arm,
afterwards in the right leg, followed by sudden spasms of the
In the case of a child of eighteen months, six hours after swallowing the seed. The body was covered with a number of brown stripes,
the abdomen was filled with a yellowish water, the bowels were distended with air, the liver, spleen and lungs, were likewise covered with
brown stripes, there was a good deal of water in the pericardium, the
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head in all directions. He moves his limbs to and fro. His
hands tremble when seizing any thing. Spasmodic drawing
up and inwards of the anterior muscles of the thigh, in paroxysms.-350. Convulsions, jerks. Convulsions of the left
lower limb; they commence with a shock and the limb is
drawn inwards and upwards. Spasmodic tossing up of the
limbs. Alternate contractions of the hands and feet. Slow
contracting and stretching of the limbs, in paroxysms.-355.
Trembling of the limbs. Trembling of the whole body. Constant trembling of the feet.
FEVER: Tremulous, weak, unequal, sometimes intermittent
pulse.-360. Small, quick pulse. Frequent, quick, small, irregular pulse. Small, quick, and at last scarcely perceptible pulse.
Extinct pulse. Strong, full pulse of 80 beats.-365. Strong, full
pulse of 90 beats. Chill through the whole body, with single jerks
partly of the whole body, partly of single limbs, of the elbows
and knee-joints, without any thirst. Whenever he takes a dose of
stramonium, he experiences a disagreeable, shuddering chill,
as if he dreaded the stramonium. (a. 3, 4, 5, h.) The limbs
and the trunk are cold all over. She lies on the floor, cold,
senseless, and breathing feebly. (a. 2 h.)-370. Chilliness
along the back, in the afternoon. Chilliness and shuddering
of the limbs at night. In the afternoon he experiences a tremulous tossing of the knees and feet, as of violent chilliness, his
mind being intact. Violent chill. Fever in the afternoon.375. Violent fever at noon, returning with the same violence
about midnight. After the vomiting, in the evening, he experiences a continuous, violent fever, with profuse sweat. Fever
every day, after noon. Fever in the evening, for two days.
Towards noon he experiences great heat, redness in the face,
vertigo and lachrymation.-380. Great heat with quick and
small pulse and bright-red vermilion-colored countenance.
In the evening he feels a burning above the knee when walk-,ing, and heat through the whole body, with excessive thirst.
(a. 12 h.) Heat of the whole body. Great heat, slight sweat,
quick, soft pulse.-385. Great heat, and talking during sleep.
Copious sweat. Sweat with diminished appetite. Profuse
sweat at night.-390. Sweat after severe thirst. Sweat in
the back. Frequent sweat with good appetite, diarrhoea, distention of the abdomen and colic. Violent sweat, with great
thirst. Profuse sweat, with colic.-395. Great sweat, with
increase of thirst. Cold sweat over the whole body. Eruption' over the whole body, with swelling, inflammation and itchAll the eruptions and the itching occasioned by Stramonium, seem
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ing. Blisters upon the skin, breaking out after the violent
symptoms have made their appearance. Inflamed, painful
pustules on the right leg, emitting an acrid water. (a. a few
weeks.)-400. Itching eruption. Chest and back are covered
with a red rash, pale in the morning, redder and more frequent
in the afternoon, and perceptible in the warmth, for 11 days;
after the lapse of that period the scales drop off. Itching over
the whole body, early in the morning, after waking. Tingling
in all the limbs. Creeping under the skin.-405. Creeping,
extending from the left side into the thigh, or into the toes of
the same side, thence into the abdomen, whence the creeping
descends again into the right thigh and foot.
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Uneasiness, delirium. While slumbering he hears two persons talk, but he does not know who
they are. He does not seem to notice the objects around him,
and he really does not notice them.-410. Stupefaction of the
senses; some laugh all the time, but they neither hear nor
see, although they have the thing constantly before their eyes;
they even talk and answer the questions put to them, as if they
had their senses, although the whole is like a dream to them.
After waking he does not recognise any thing around him; he
takes his book and goes to school, but he enters by the wrong
door. After waking, all things appear to him as if they were
new, even his friends, as if he had never seen them. He imagines he is very tall, but the objects around him seem to him
very small. Absence of mind; bland delirium (for 24 hours).
-415. He apprehends the loss of his senses. Imbecility.
Insanity.-420. Dullness of sense. Confusion in the head.
Strange fancies. Loquacious delirium.-425. Delirious, he
had no memory or consciousness. During the intervals of
his half consciousness, he recollects his waking dreams, but
not those things which he had done or said in his lucid moments. He talks with a person whom he does not know, and
answers that person as if he were in his senses; but, upon
coming to his senses he does not recollect the conversation.
He talks with absent persons as if they were present, accosting
dead figures, such as chessmen, with the names of those persons, and not noticing any of the persons around him. He
walks about the room taciturn with staring, sparkling eyes and
blue margins around the same, but he does not notice the objects around him, and is interested only in the objects of his
fancy.-430. He dreams with open eyes, talks nonsense, and
if his friends tell him so, he excuses himself, saying that they
had induced him to talk nonsense; after that he is again absorbed in his dreams, and continues his nonsense. The patient
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expresses his wishes by signs, and runs about for some days
busy with his fancies, and cheerful. He dances on the churchyard, at night. Insane, he dances, gesticulates, breaks into a
laughter, sings. (a. 3 h.) He sings and utters unclean things.
-435. He is like one enchanted and beside himself. He
grasps at the air with his hands, laughs, crawls about his bed.
He shows by his gestures that his mind is confused: he kneels
down and extends his arms as if he were looking for something. With his eyes staring, and his pupils dilated, he saw
nothing, did not recognise any of his family, carried his hands
about as if he would grasp at something, and stamped with
his feet. He bends his knees, and kneels down, and stretches
his arms as if he were looking for something.-440. Confusion
of intellect, he laughs, moans. Paroxysms of constant talking,
or of rage, or he breaks into a loud laughter, or he acts as if he
were spinning.  Senseless quarreling.  Continued violent
quarrel. He beats those around him with a terrible cry, and
rages.-445. He bites a person's hand. Rage. Furious delirium. Indomitable rage. She has to be kept in her bed by
force.-450. A strong man was scarcely able to hold him.
He assails men, beats them, and endeavors to seize them.
Great desire to bite, and to tear every thing with his teeth, even
his own limbs. Alternation of convulsions and rage: he had
such violent spasms that his mother was not able to hold him;
when the spasms abated he became furious, beat and bit those
who attempted to hold him. Rage, he wants to murder men.
-455. Rage, he wants to kill himself. He imagines he will
be slaughtered, roasted and eaten. He jumps out of his bed at
night, and exclaims that the disease will break forth from his
head. She sometimes exclaims about dogs, cats, and rabbits
approaching her from above, from the side and in the middle
of the room. Delirium, he is frightened as if a dog would bite
him.-460. He imagines he sees ghosts. He starts up in
affright. Sadness. His imagination is confused, and is disturbed with fear. Strange objects intrude upon his fancy,
frightening him.-465. She imagines she sees a number of
persons and grasps at them, and yet they were not present.
Frightful fancies, his features show fright and terror. In his
lucid moments he requested to be held lest he should fall.
The things, and persons around him appear to be changed:
although he knows at first that his friends are around him, yet
he forgets it immediately after; he imagines he is quite alone
in a wilderness, abandoned; he is afraid; figures of animals
jump up out of the ground, side by side, causing him to fall to
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to run forward.  He sees more horrifying figures on his
sides than before him (between three and four hours).-470.
He imagines he is alone all the time, and he is afraid. He has
no rest any where; he is frightened by visions even with his
eyes open, forms of dogs, cats, and other frightful animals
growing out of the ground by his side, and causing him to
start to one side in affright. Inclines to start. Alternate consciousness and rage.
LEONTODON TARAXACUM.
(Express the juice from the recent plant before it begins to blossom,
and mix it with equal parts of alcohol.)
LIKE many other drugs, this too has been abused in the
treatment of disease from mere speculative suppositions, by
giving it in excessive quanitities in the treatment of disease.
In all cases where the so-called practical look of the physician failed in establishing the fact that the case before him
required the remedy indicated in the books, he suspected obstructions of the capillary vessels in the interior of the body,
and prescribed Taraxacum to dissolve the viscid and inspissated humors. The milky juice of that plant sufficed to lead
to the supposition that it would act like soap, and dissolve the
obstructing humors in the same manner as soap dissolves
chemically all sorts of substances in a vessel.
If the Taraxacum had been proved upon healthy persons,
its pathogenetic effects would have indicated its therapeutic
powers, and would have shown that Taraxacum, like any
other drug, can only cure diseases to which it is homoeopathic.
One drop of the tincture is sufficient at a dose.
TARAXACUM.
(OBSERVATIONS OF OTHERS.)
HEAD: Vertigo when walking in the open air, as if intoxicated; the head now inclined to the right, now to the left side.
(a. 21 h.) Unsteady step and vertigo, when walking in the
open air, as if he would fall over. (a. 10 h.) Great obtuseness and dizziness of the head, when walking in the open air;
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like vertigo; at times a sensation as if the brain were distended in various places; this sensation gives no pain.-5. Sensation in the head as if the brain were constricted from all
sides by a soft pressure. When walking in the open air, he
feels a crawling pain in the forehead, with pressure, spreading
from the middle of the forehead, as if it contained something
alive. (a. 4 h.) Sensation in the head, half pressure, half
itching. Pressure in the lowest part of the occiput, and heaviness of the same. Heaviness of the head, with heat and
redness of the face.-10. Painful pressure in the sinciput in the
direction of the forehead. Oppressive stupefying pain in the
forehead, as after an intoxication. (a. 1 h.) Aching pain in
the right temple. (a. 35 h.) Burning painful pressure in the
head from below upward. Painful pressure in the head from
within outward. (a. 21 h.)-15. Heaviness in the occiput,
going off when stooping, and coming on again when raising
the head and keeping it straight; in this case it is worst.
When sitting, he feels an oppressive stupefying pain in the
whole forehead, so that he lost his senses when reading, and
did not know where he was, accompanied with nausea; he
felt better in the open air. (a. 1j h.) Continued painful pressure upon the forehead. (a. 4 h.) Drawing aching pain in
the temple. Painful drawing pressure on the frontal bone,
when standing.-20. Drawing pain in the left temple
when sitting, ceasing when walking or standing. (a. 5 h.)
Tearing pain in the occiput, when walking, going off when
standing still. Tearing in the outer parts of the occiput, when
walking. Lancination in the occiput, behind the right ear.
Lancination in the left side of the forehead in quick succession.
-25. Continuous sticking pain in the left side of the head
(for six hours). Prickings in the left temple when sitting,
ceasing when standing. (a. 1, h.) Violent, continuous pain
in the left temporal region, when walking, going off when
standing. (a. 38 h.) Sharp stitches in the left and outer
side of the forehead, not abating to the touch. (a. 13 h.)
Dull sticking pressure in the outer parts of the forehead. (a.
j h.)-30. Pimple on the right side of the hairy scalp, above
the temples, painful when touched, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration. (a. 15 h.) Tension of the forepart of the
scalp, as if it were fastened tight to the skull.
EYES: Pimple in the middle of the left eyebrow, occasioning a painful pressure when touched. (a. 27 h.) Contraction of the pupils. (a. 4 h.) Dilatation of the pupils. (a.
26 h.)-35. Agglutination of the eyelids, early in the morning when waking, for several days. The eyes do not bear the

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light of day, they water constantly, accompanied with a pressure in the region of the right upper eyelid, as if there were
something which he tries in vain to wipe off. Burning in the
left eyeball. (a. 11 h.) Violent burning in the right eyeball, towards the inner canthus.-40. Burning, fine pricking
in both eyelids of the left eye. (a. 4 h.) Stinging-burning
pain in the left eyeball. (a. 20 h.) Burning pricking in the
left eyeball, toward the outer canthus. (a. - h.) Sharp
sticking pain in the right eye. Sharp pressure as of a grain
of sand, in the inner canthus of the right eye, with sensation
as if the eyelids were swollen.
EARS: 45. Hardness of hearing; in the evening his hearing is dull. Pressure in the interior of the left ear from without inward. Chirping in the left ear, as of grasshoppers. (a.
33 h.) Tearing in the outer meatus auditorius, and sharp
pressure behind the ramus of the lower jaw. Stitches behind
the ear, with tearing along the side of the neck.-50. Sticking in the right ear from within outward, which ended with
being felt from without inward. Itching-burning stitching in
the right ear. Drawing pain in the outer parts of the right
ear. (a. 5 h.)
FACE, MOUTH AND TEETH: Sharp pressure in the right
cheek. (a. 4 h.) Stitch with pressure in the cheek.-55.
Pustule on the upper part of the left cheek, with a red area,
occasioning a gnawing pain when touched. (a. 24 h.) Pustule on the right wing of the nose. (a. 8 h.) He twice bleeds
from thle left nostril, before dinner. (a. 30 h.) Cracking of
the middle of the upper lip. (a. 6 h.) Pustule near the right
corner of the mouth. (a. 49 h.)-60. Sudden itching below
the clin. (a. 1 h.) Acute pain when moving the jaw and
neck, in the region of the lower part of the parotid gland and
in the muscles of the neck, and extending from the sternum
up to the mastoid process. Jerking in the lower part of the
side of the neck. (a. 15 h.) Sharp, boring stitches in the
left side of the neck from within outward, for a few minutes
(immediately). Jerking, with pressure, in the posterior cervical muscles, behind the left ear. (a. 31 h.)-65. Sticking in
the left side of the nape of the neck, as of a somewhat dull
pin, when standing, going off when sitting down. (a. 1, h.)
Sticking, with pressure, in the nare of the neck. Painful
pressure, like two shocks, in two incisores, rather in the
crown. Sour-tasting blood flows out of the hollow teeth of
the right side. Sensation in the teeth, when chewing, as if
they had been made dull by eating some fruit. (a. 37 h.)-70.
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along the cheek as far as the eyebrows. Bui'ning prickinig it
the left side of the tongue. (a. 9 h.) Tongue coated white
(a. 21 h.) White-coated tongue, peeling off here aind thre:
gradually. (a. 111 h.)  The tongue is coated with a Wxiteý
skin, with a sensation of rawness in the outer piarts of thA
tongue; it then peels off in patches and leaves darkred,
delicate, sensitive places. (a. 34 h.)-75. Dry, browni-coated
tongue, early in the morning, when waking. Confluence of
saliva in the mouth, and sensation as if the larynnx were
closed by pressure. (a. 31 h.) Difficult deglutition; a kinid
of pressure as from an internal swelling of the throat. Sharpý
pressure in the anterior wall of the pharynx and larynx, between the acts of deglutition, inducing cough, but going off
when swallowing. Confluence of sourish water in the moutht
-80. The phlegm tastes sour, and sets the teeth on edge.
(a. 3, 4 h.) Dryness and stinging in the throat. Feeling of
dryness in the throat, and a bitter phlegm  in that region,
making the speech sound hoarse.
TASTE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: At the tip of the tongue
the butter has a repulsive, saltish-sour taste; when reaching
the palate, it has the usual taste. Meat, especially gravy, tastes3
sour to him, when it touches the tongue.-85. Bitterish ta'ste:
in the mouth, before a meal; food however has a natural taste.
Bitter taste rises into the mouth from the oesophagus. Tobac,
co has no good taste, it occasions a burning in the; throiat
almost like heartburn, and arrests the breathing, goes off agaiiiby drinking. Bitter eructations and hiccough. Empty ertu-.
tations, continuing for several days, and came on especially
after drinking. (a.  h.-90. NaUisea, accompanied with:
anxiety, when sitting, going off when standing. (a. 2, h.)j
Nausea, as if the stomach were overloaded with fat thiris;
he felt as if he should vomit, with an oppressive sttiped)ring
pain in the forehead, he felt relieved in the open airl (a. 1I
h.) Qualmishness and nausea in the pharynx. (a. 21 ho.)
Great chilliness after eating, and especially after dririking.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Painless motion and gruntin-g in'
the abdomen.-95. Rumbling in the umbilical region, towvar~~d
the left side. Sudden continuous movement in the:abdbmi~en
as if bubbles burst in- it. (a. 51 h.) Tension in the pit of the'
stomach, and pressure on the xiphoid cartilage, when st1od.'
ing. Pressure below the ribs of the left side. Aching pain izi
the left side of the abdormen.-100. Pinching in the abdomen-x
(a. l: h.) Pinching in the abdomen, followed by eniissiori'of
flatulence. (a. 3, 16 h.) Continuous stitchestwth pressfiir  i':
the left side of the abdomen. (a. 24, 30 h.) Boiing pain ifn
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the region of the umbilicus, from within outward, toward the
right side.-105. Single, violent and sharp stitches partly
in the left portion of the epigastrium, partly in the left or
right side of the abdomen, partly in the hypogastrium. (a.
14, 31 h.) Severe stitch in the side of the abdomen, continuing for a minute. Burning stitches in the left portion of the
hypogastrium, in the direction of the genital organs. (a.
twenty-five hours.) Pressure in the left lumbar region from
within outwards. Itching-stinging pain in the right abdominal muscles.-110. Painless bubbling in the muscles of the
left iliac region. Feeling of pain in the left groin when walking, as if sprained, somewhat relieved by standing and touching the part. (a. 6 h.) Titillation in the perinaeum, between
the anus and the genital organs, obliging him to scratch. (a. 14
h.) Voluptuous itching of the perineum; after scratching a
corrosive pain was felt in the part scratched, lasting for hours.
(a. 32 h.)
STOOL: Two soft stools on the first day, difficult and requiring much pressing. (a. 8 h.)-115. Third evacuation on
the first day, hard, and requiring a good deal of pressing. (a.
16 h.) The stool comes on sooner than usual, and is papescent; the urging continued, without any thing being passed.
URINARY AND GENITAL ORGANS: Desire to urinate,
without pain. (a. 1 h.) Frequent desire, with copious emissions. (a. 3 h.)' Frequent desire with scanty emissions. (a.
25 h.)'-120. Tickling of the prepuce. (a. 71 h.) Continuous
boring pain in the glans. Fine stitch in the left testicle. Burning stinging in the right testicle. Nocturnal emission every
other night.-125.  Long-lasting, involuntary erections. (a.
9 d.)
RESPIRATORY ORGANS: Frequent sneezing when walking
in the open air. (a. 4, 28 h.) Titillation in the region of the
pit of the stomach, inducing a hacking cough; he felt it coming a few seconds previous, but was not able to prevent it. (a.
40 h.) Boring and digging pain in the right chest, more violent and continuous when walking. (a. 3 h.) Pressure in the
left side of the chest, below the axilla.-130. Pressure in the
internal surface of the ribs, during an expiration, when standing, in the right side of the chest, from the hepatic region into
the chest, in a place of the size of the hand. Burning pressure
S These two symptoms, the former of which is the primary, the latter the secondary effect, show how wrongly the common physicians proceed in endeavoring to cure dropsical swellings, with diminished secretion of urine, by Taraxacum. It will be found useful in some kinds of
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in the sternum, more violent during an expiration than during an
inspiration. (a.  h.) Stitch, with pressure, in the right chest,
going off during expiration or inspiration; when pressing upon
the part, the stitch returned and spread as a continuous stitch. (a.
2 h.) Stitch into the right side of the chest. (a. 4 h.) Dull sticking in the left chest. (a. 1 h.)-135. Sticking in the left side
toward the back. When standing, during an inspiration, he
experiences stitches in the chest from without inward. Continuous sticking in the right side of the chest when walking.
Violent sticking in the sternum. (a. 6 h.) Stitch in the right
chest, directly below the axilla. (a. 11 h.)-140. Three violent stitches, one at every inspiration, below the last rib of the
left side, posteriorly. Severe stitch in the region of the sixth
rib. Violent sticking in the left side of the chest, in the region
of the lowest rib. Boring-sticking drawing in the region of the
acromial extremity of the right clavicle.-145. Jerking in the
left intercostal muscles. Jerking  in the right intercostal
muscles. (a. 14 h.) Tensive pain in the region of the diaphragm, during a deep inspiration.
BACK: Pressure in the small of the back. Soft pressure in
the small of the back, when standing.-150. Painless creeping in the small of the back. Tensive sticking in the back
towards the right side. Sticking pain, with pressure, in the
whole of the spine towards the right side, when lying down,
with difficult breathing, especially violent in the small of the
back. Continuous dull stitch in the right scapula, from within
outward. (a. 21 h.) Rumbling and bubbling in the right
scapula.
UPPER LIMBS: Throbbing on the top of the left shoulder
for one minute. Jerking in the top of the left shoulder. Painless rumbling on the top of the left shoulder, with chilliness all
over. Jerking in the external muscles of the left upper arm.
(a. 4 h.) Twitching in the upper arm.-160. Paroxysmal
throbbing in the internal surface of the upper arm. Aching
pain in the muscles of the left upper arm. (a. 30 h.) Aching
pain in the internal side of the left upper arm. Pain in the
outer side of the left upper arm, resembling electric shocks.
Itching pain in the internal side of the left upper arm.-165.
Sharp stitching in the outer side of the left arm. A series of
painful, and partially violent prickings in the posterior surface
of the upper arm, going off by friction. Intermittent stitches
in the outer side between the elbow and the middle of the right
upper arm, in rest. Sticking in the right elbow-joint. Stinging in the left forearm, in rest and motion. (a. 13 h.)-170.
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13 h.) Jerking in the muscles of the left forearm. (a. 10 h.)
Burning in the right forearm. Aching pain in the internal side
of the right forearm. Frequently returning drawing pains in
the forearm.-175. Tearing drawing in the left wrist-joint, extending into the three last fingers. Pimples on the hands, especially on the sides of the fingers, also on the dorsum of the
hand, itching somewhat. Burning pain in the third and fourth
fingers of the left hand. Sticking pain in the fourth finger of
the left hand. Aching pain in the three last fingers of the
right hand.-180. The tips of the fingers are cold as ice.
(a. 6 h.)
LOWER LIMBS: Jerking in the left glutei muscles, inferiorly. Itching of the left glutei muscles. Twitching in the
upper part of the muscles of the thighs. (a, 2 h.) Sticking pain
in the whole of the left thigh. (a 9-, 101 h.)-185. Boring
stitches in the internal side of the thigh when sitting. A spot
in the upper and front part of the the thigh feels painful as if
bruised, more so when touched than when walking. Pressure
on the inner side of the right thigh, when sitting or standing,
but not when walking. (a. 2 h.) Gnawing itching of the left
thigh, obliging one to scratch. (a. 7- h.) Tearing in the outer
hamstring when sitting.-190. Drawing-sticking pain in the
outer side of the right knee. in rest and motion. (a. 3 h.) Sticking pain in the whole of the knee-joint. Sharp pressure in the
outer side of the knee, when bending the leg. Burning pain in
the left patella. Continuous burning pain in the front part of
the right knee.-105. Burning pain in the outer side of the
right leg. Burning pain in the lower part of the right leg.
Burning in the front part of the tibia. Violent stinging in the
right leg, extending from below upward, when standing, going
off when sitting. (a. 30 h.) Prickings in the outer side of the
left leg, extending from below upwards, when standing, going
off when sitting. (a. 31 h.)-200. Drawing pains in the legs,
when sitting and walking. Weakness of the legs, especially
when going up stairs. When walking, the right leg is weaker
than the left, and nevertheless this leg feels as if the muscles
were stretched the most. Corrosive pain in the outer parts of
the right leg (when standing). (a. 1J h.) Tearing pain in the
outer border of the left leg (when standing). (a. 2 h.)-205.
Beating, dull stitches in the surface of the right calf, below the
bend of the knee. Stinging in the right calf. Continuous
burning stitches in the calf (when sitting). Aching pain in
the left calf. (a. I h.) Darting pain in the right calf, going
of speedily when touching the part. (a. 1 h.)-210. Violent
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ing one to scratch; the itching continues after the scratching;
after the scratching the place became red and humid. (a. 17 h.)
Stitch in the dorsum of the left foot, toward the big toe. (a. 37
h.) Stitch in the internal malleolus of the right foot, when
sitting. (a. 32 h.) Itching stinging in the region of the internal malleolus. Drawing- pain in the dorsum of the right
foot when standing, going off when sitting. (a. 1 h.)-215.
Drawing-aching pain in the dorsum of the left foot, when
standing. (a. - h.) Tearing drawing in the left tarsal-joint.
Burning pain in the right foot, externally. Burning drawing
in the dorsum of the left foot. (a. 37 h.) Pressure in the dorsum of the right foot. (a. 22 h.)-220. Itching in the dorsum
of the right foot, going off by scratching. (a. 11 h.) A few
itching vesicles on the dorsum of the foot. Stitches extending
from the dorsum into the bottom of the foot. (a. 11 h.) Boring pain in the bottom of the right foot. Burning boring in
the bottom of the left foot. toward the little toe.-225. Sticking
pain in the bottom of the right foot, from within outward,
when sitting, at times violent, at times fine. (a. 10, 21 h.)
Itching stinging in the bottom of the right foot. (a. 32 h.)
Burning-aching pain in the bottom of the right foot, in the direction of the toes, when sitting. Continuous traction along
the tibia, coming from the little toe, when sitting. Paroxysms
of burning in the toes, especially in the dorsum of the right
big toe.-230. Sticking in the right big toe, in the direction
of the second toe. Burning stinging in the right big toe, when
walking. (a. 9 h.) Lancinations in the toes. Violent itching
in the dorsum of the fourth toe of either foot. (a 25 h.) A good
deal of sweat between the toes, especially those of the right
foot.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: 235. He moves all his limbs with
ease, but he feels as if the moving forces were tied up. Weak
feeling of the whole body; a languor, during which he would
like to sit or lie down; when doing either he is in a middling
state of consciousness and unconsciousness, like one who is
on the point of falling asleep. Internal sensation as if he were
very sick; all his limbs ache when touched or when placed in
a forced position. Almost all the symptoms appear when sitting; they disappear when walking.
SLEEP: Frequent yawning when sitting, as if he had not
slept enough. (a. 51 h.)-240. Drowiness in the daytime
(when reading); his eyes closed, he had to lie down; the
drowsiness passed off during motion. (a. 5 h.) Irresistible
drowsiness after a meal; when waking he felt a desire to
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after the emission of urine. He falls asleep when listening to
scientific objects, in spite of his efforts to the contrary, and he
fell at once into vivid dreams. Anxious, vivid dreams, which
he is unable to recollect.-245. Dreams full of dispute at
night. Voluptuous dreams. Frequent waking from    sleep,
and tossing about in the bed; he had no rest in any position.
Frequent waking from   sleep, as if he had slept enough.
When waking from sleep his whole body was covered with a
light sweat, exciting a biting in the skin all over, which induces him to scratch. (a. 23 h.)-250. In the evening when
on the point of falling asleep, his whole body was covered
with sweat, which continued the whole night; in the morning
he felt bright. He began to sweat all over when on the point
of falling asleep; the sweat woke him frequently; every time
he woke he felt a heat all over his body, and a more glowing
heat on his cheeks; he was drenched with sweat, but he felt
bright in the morning.
FEVER: Slight sweat over the whole body. (a. 22 h.)
Sudden warmth of the face when walking in the open air;
also of the rest of the body, without thirst. (a. 37 h.) Heat
in the face, to himself and others, with redness. (a. 11 h.)
-255. Face, hands and the rest of the body are hot, without
thirst. (a. 6, h.) Chilliness through the whole body. (a. 26
h.) Chilliness for some hours, with continuous, oppressive
headache. Violent chilliness when walking in the open air,
as in a paroxysm of fever, without being followed by either
thirst or heat. (a. 24 h.)
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Irresoluteness; dread of labor, although the work progresses satisfactorily as soon as commenced.-260. He feels quite gloomy when unoccupied; he
knows not what to do with himself, and is nevertheless unable
to make up his mind as regards doing any thing. Ill-humored
in the morning, and not disposed either to business or talking.
(a. 25 h.) Disposed to laugh. Loquacious to excess. Firm,
religious courage and confidence; cheerfulness; he is content
with himself and his situation.
THUYA OCCIDENTALIS.
(Crush the green leaves into a fine mass; then mix this with twothirds of its weight of alcohol, and express the juice.)
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similar to the Juniperus Sabina, has never been seriously employed by European physicians. Parkinson and Hermann
state mere speculative theories in regard to its therapeutic
properties. According to Boerhaave, the distilled water has
been serviceable in dropsical swellings. According to Kalm,
it is employed in North America as a domestic remedy against
indefinite pains in the joints.
From the following symptoms it will appear that Thuya is
a specific against sycosis, and against sycosic gonorrhcsa, provided it is not complicated with other miasms.
I have hitherto used the smallest portion of a drop of the
decillionth potency, even in the worst cases. But inasmuch as
the sycosic gonorrhoea is one of the few idiopathic diseases, it
gave me a fair opportunity of testing the higher potencies of
Thuya, and I found that even the sixtieth potency exhibited
the therapeutic power of Thuya more powerfully than the
lower.'
The same statement applies to the other liquid and similarly prepared drugs, as I can affirm from boundless and most
accurate observations.
Small doses act from two to three weeks.
Large doses seem to be best antidoted by Camphor.
THUYA.
HEAD: He staggers after having stooped. Vertigo, also
when sitting; she staggers when walking. Frequent vertigo,
also, when lying in bed. A good deal of vertigo when sitting
down; a sort of moving to and fro, made worse by lying down.
-5. Vertigo, especially when sitting down and closing his
eyes; it went off when lying down. His head feels obtuse
and unable to think. Slow thinking and slow talking; when
talking she tries to find the words. (a. 3 d.) Weakness in the
head; his brain feels dead and numb. He was unable to get
rid of the thought which he just had in his mind.-10. Headache, early in the morning; sometimes he feels as if the head
were screwed asunder in the articulation of the malar bone and
the upper jaw; sometimes as if a nail were driven into the
SThe discovery that trituration and succussion develope the medicinal properties of drugs in proportion as those processes are carried on
farther, until the material substance shall have been transformed, as it
were, into medicinal spirit, is of inexpressible value, and so undeniable
that those who, from a want of knowledge of the resources of Nature,
consider homceopathic attenuations as mere mechanical divisions of the
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vertex with a sudden jerk; sometimes as if the forehead would
fall out, with internal chilliness; all these symptoms improved
in the open air. Headache, early in the morning, as after too
sound a sleep, or as after stooping, a sort of pulsating, or a sort
of short jerks, with pressure, accompanied with redness in the
face. Boring pressure in the head.   Drawing headache.
Tearing in the right side of the sinciput and face, transversely
across the nose, as far as the malar bone and above the eyes;
most violent morning and evening.-15. Sticking headache.
Fine prickling in the head, early in the morning. Drawing in
the temporal muscles, a sort of external headache, worse during deglutition. Pricking pain in the region of the temples.
Three red, painful blotches in the region of either temple.-20.
Itching of the occiput.
[Reeling sensation, as after frequently turning in a circle.
(a. ( h.) Cloudiness in the forehead (immediately). Stupefaction of the head, early in the morning. (a. 6 h.) Does not
heed those things which take place around him.-5. His
head feels cloudy, so that he knows not where he is, when
standing. (a. I h.) Stupid feeling in the head, with nausea.
Sense of intoxication, especially early in the morning. His
head feels dreary, when sitting or standing. Dull pain in the
head, as if stupefied.-10. Numb feeling and humming in the
left hemisphere of the brain and in the left ear. (a. 3 h.)
Cramp-like sensation in the left side of the head, with a subsequent feeling of warmth. Painless drawing in the right
parietal bone, with a slight pressure, a warmth which is almost agreeable, spreading over the whole body. (a. 4 h.) Dull
drawing pressure across the forehead, as if a load descended in
it, (a. 4J h.) Deep pressure in the right temple. (a. 1 h.)15. Pressure in the left frontal protuberance, resembling a
jerk. (a. 4 h.) Pressure in the right frontal eminence, resembling a jerk, and descending towards the eye. (a. 41 h.) Pressure in the left parietal bone, with a dull pain. (a. 2 h.) Dull
aching pains in the occiput, for six hours. (a. I h.) Painful
pressure across the forehead. (a 1 h.)-20. Furious pressing
in both temples from without inward, as if the brain were
pressed out. Violent, painful pressure in the head, now here,
now there, only momentarily. (a. 2 h.) Drawing with pressure in the left temple. Jerking tearing in the occiput, more
on the right side. (a. 1 h.) Drawing-tearing headache from
the vertex to the middle of the brain.-25. Heaviness in the
head, as if the brain were pressed inward by a load. (a. 11 h.)
Sensationi of heaviness in the head, especially in the occiput,
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head, with ill humor and a want of desire to talk. (a. 3 h.)
Headache from the forehead to the occiput consisting of pressure, and of a feeling as if the head were bruised and torn,
when waking, and going off by continuing to sleep. Sensation in the upper part of the vertex as if it were knocked in.--
30. Sensation in the right parietal bone, as if a nail were
driven in, disappearing when touching the part. (a ~ h.) Jerklike stitch through the whole head, leaving a sensation of pressure behind. (a. 1 h.) Prickings, especially along the forehead. (a. 5, h.) Violent lancination through the right hemisphere, from the occiput to the forehead. (a. 11 h.) Violent
contractive pressure in the outer parts of the left frontal eminence, which seems to press the upper eyelid down. (a. 1j h.)
-35. Headache, as if the head were compressed from without, with pulsative throbbings and stitches in the region of the
temples; those pains disappear by external pressure and by
bending backward, but return by bending forward. (a. 4 h.)
Headache in the posterior region of the skull as if it were
pressed into a narrower space from both sides. Swelling of the
veins in the region of the temples, in rest, without heat. (a. 18
h.) Strong stitches in the outer parts of the left temporal
region. (a. 8, 12 h.) At night he does not like to rest on his
left side; when lying upon it he feels a pain in a place near
the occipital protuberance; he feels that pain likewise when
touching the part; even the hairs in that region are painful
when touched.-40. Dull aching behind the left ear. (a. I h.)
Violent burning aching behind the right ear. (a. 9 h.) Corrosive gnawing in the skin of the occiput, with a sensation as if
something were running about in the hairs, for half an hour.
(a. 13 h.) Biting and corrosive gnawing in the right side of
the hairy scalp, in the evening. Sensation in the nape of the
neck as if knocked in twain. (a. 3 h.)-45. Tension of the
skin in the nape of the neck when moving the head. (a. 16 h.)
Feeling of stiffness in the nape of the neck and in the left
side of the neck, extending as high up as the ear, even in
rest, not impeding the motion of the neck (the painful stiffness did not increase by the motion of the neck). (a. 24 h.)
Drawing pain with pressure from below upward, in the right
side of the neck, even in rest. (a. 2 h.)]
EYES: Shortsightedness. Sensation as of a gauze before
the eyes, and a pressure in the same, as if the eyes were
pressed out of the head, or as if the eyes were swollen. The
eyes are dim in the open air, as if a gauze were before them,
when looking at things either near or distant, with gloominess
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darker to him, with a sensation around the eyes as if he had
not slept enough.-25. The vision of the inflamed eye is
darkened. Weak eyes; pressure in the eyes as of fine sand.
Stinging in the eyes (in raw air) early in the morning. Stitches
in the eye when the light is too bright. The whites of the eye
are reddish, like blood.-30. The whites of the eyes are inflamed and red, with smarting in the eyes and a pressure as of
sand. Pressure in the eyes, for two or three days. Red blotch
on the margin of the lower eyelid. Violent, deeply penetrating
sharp stitch, from time to time, in the inner canthus of the
right eye. (a. 2 h.)- 35. Burning pressure in the outer canthus of the left eye, without any redness. (a. 9 d.) Running of
the left eye when walking in the open air. (a. 9 d.) Eye-gum
in the inner canthi, the whole day.
[ Tearing pain in the region of the left eyebrow, going off
after contact. (a. 11 h.) Sticking with pressure above the
left eye, moving towards the right eye and disappearing afterwards.-50. Boring pain over the inner canthus of the right
eye. (a. 3 d.) Feeling of heat and dryness in the outer canthus of the left eye, as if the parts would become inflamed. (a.
29 h.) Great dilatation of the pupils. (a. 6 h.) The pupils remained contracted for five days. (a. 1 h.) When writing, the
objects appeared to tremble (immediately after dinner).-55.
Black points before the eyes, even when closing them; those
points seem to move amongst one another, accompanied with
an obtuseness of the occiput. A redness without sensation in
the white of the left eye, near the cornea, early in the morning. (a. 74 h.) Violent stitch in the inner canthus of the left
eye, causing a humor to come out of the eye, which obscured
the sight. (a. 11 h.) Dry feeling in the eyes. Considerable
pressure above the right eye, externally. (a. 33 h.)-60. Swelling of the upper eyelids. (a. 76, 120 h.) Pimples between the
eyebrows, containing pus in their tips, and somewhat itching.
(a. 6 h.)]
FACE: [Digging-up, painful itching in the left malar bone.
(a. I h.) Boring pain in the region of the left malar bone,
diminished by contact. (a. 7, 29 h.) Pimples in the whole
face. (a. 17 h.)-65. Itching in the face, obliging him to
scratch.]
EARS AND NOSE: In the evening, when in bed, he experiences a terrible hammering and tearing in the ear until after
midnight; accompanied with micturition every half hour, and
coldness of the legs up to the knees. Spasm in the inner ear,
a sort of compressing and forcing, followed by a stitch, like a
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the evening.-40. Aching pain in the meatus auditorius (at
noon). (Increase of wax in the ear.) Creeping and twitching
toward the malar bones. Fine-darting pain in the malar muscles, only when walking in the open air. Glandular swelling
on the side of the left cheek.-45. Burning heat in the face
and cheeks, continuing the whole day. Scurfy, itching eruption on the cheek, not far from the corner of the mouth. Ulceration half an inch up in the nose; a scurf has formed in that
part. Corrosive creeping in the dorsum of the nose. Nasal
mucus mixed with coagulated blood.-50. Bleeding at the
nose, two or three times a day.
[Fine, cramp-like pain in the right outer meatus auditorius,
most violent when pulling at the scalp from the top of the vertex. (a. 4 d.) Violent, shocklike stitches in the right side of
the fauces, speedily extending to the ear, and causing a sensation
in the ear, when opening and closing the mouth, as if a hole were
in the ear through which the air can penetrate. (a. 64 h.) Sticking pain with pressure in the right meatus auditorious. (a. 5 h.)
Pinching pain in the right ear.-70. Tingling in the ears. (a. 1
h.) Roaring in the ears as of the wind in a stove. (a. 1 h.) Tension in the lower part of the outer ear, as if it were drawn down
by means of a ribbon. (a. 6 h.) Crampy sensation in the right
outer ear. (a. 41 h.) Cramp-pain in the right cheek, when the
cheek is at rest. (a. I h.)-75. Red pimple in the hollow behind
the right nasal wing, full of a watery fluid, somewhat itching.
(a. 6 h.) Tensive sensation above the right nasal wing, going
off by friction. (a. 24 h.) Swelling and hardness of the left
nasal wing, with a tensive pain. Sensation under the right
nostril as if a place would become hard. (a. 3J h.) Drawing
pain between the mouth and nose, as if the periosteum were
tighter than usual; afterwards the pain is felt across the nasal
bones as if a saddle were across them.]
JAWS AND TEETH: (Stitches in the lip.) Jerking in the
upper lip. Burning of the vermilion border and palate.
Stitches in the lower jaw through the ear.-55. Pain in the
left side of the neck, as if he had been lying on a hard couch,
or in a forced position. When moving the neck he experiences
a short stitch in the cervical muscles, which causes him to
start. Pain in the swollen glands of the neck, so that he was
not able to lie upon them. The veins of the neck are bloated
and blue. Pressing pain in the hollow tooth when blowing
the nose.-60. Sharp drawing toothache, in the teeth of the
lower jaw fiom below upward, frequently without any cause,
but usually at dinner. Sticking pain in an incisor. Darting
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evening until midnight, dull, as if the nerves were delicately
touched; sometimes a jerking was experienced in the tooth.
Swollen and sore gums.-65. Considerable swelling of the
gums and tongue; the latter is painful when she touches it
with any thing hard, or when eating.
[80. Jerking sensation in the upper lip, near the corner
of the mouth. Fine itching of the inner side of the upper lip.
Itching pimples on the margin of the upper lip, towards the
middle. (a. 6 h.) Red pustules above the lip, emitting blood
when scratched. (a. 36 h.) Dryness of the lips, without thirst.
(a. 11 h.)-85. Itching pimples on the chin. (a. 5 d.)
Stiffness of the muscles of mastication on the left side,
painful when opening the jaws.  (a. 4 d.) Violent pressing pain below the left molar tooth, as if the tooth were shattered, immediately after every cup of tea which he took; the
pain affected the upper and lower jaw, and disappeared gradually. (a. 1 h.) Violent tearing in the left upper jaw, toward
the eye. (a. 2 h.) Drawing tearing in the left lower jaw,
evening.-90. Gnawing-boring pain in the left upper jaw, repeatedly. (a. 1- h.) Continued gnawing-pain in a hollow
tooth, affecting the whole side of the head; and increased by
any thing cold (drink or air), and by mastication. (a. 4 d.)
Sudden, violent tearing in the first molar tooth of the left
lower jaw, extending rapidly through the whole of the jaw.
(a. I h.) Darting through the gums of the posterior molar
teeth. (a. 34 h.) Violent drawing stitch in the angle of the
left lower jaw, disappearing after contact. (a. 8 min.)-95.
Prickings in the left lower jaw. (a. 11 h.) Sore pain below
the posterior teeth of the right side. Sore feeling in the gums
of the left lower jaw, when touching them. (a. 48 h.)
Toothache, a sort of hacking, or sharp beating in the gums.
A row of small red pimples close to one another, sore to the
touch, on both sides of the neck, from behind forward. (a. 26 h.)]
MOUTI, PHARYNX AND (ESOPHAGUS: The tip of the
tongue is sore to the touch. White vesicle on the side of the
tongue, close to the root very sore. Rough, scraping feeling
on the surface of the tongue; it is coated white; before the
middle of the tongue a white, oblong, somewhat painfiul blister. The inner mouth feels as if full of blisters, as if he had
burnt it, with much thirst at night.-70. When swallowing
the saliva he feels a sort of sore pain in the whole palate,
towards the left ear, internally, as when air rushes into a
wound. Pressure and sensation of heaviness in the velum
pendulum palati. Swelling of the salivary glands; they
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throat. Sensation in the throat as if full of mucus, preventing
him from swallowing, and as if the fauces were constricted;
the throat became rough from hawking.-75. Sore throat, a
sort of swelling, as if brought on by a cold. Pressure in the
back part of the throat during deglutition. Stinging in the
throat. Desire to swallow. The saliva is somewhat sanguinolent.-80. Dryness in the back part of the mouth, and
thirst, even early in the morning.
[100. Itching in the anterior surface of the neck, inducing
scratching. Stinging pains in the anterior surface of the
neck, below the larynx. (a. 9 h.) Pinching stitch in the
right side of the neck, disappearing by moving and turning it.
(a. 3- h.) Gradually increasing stitch with pressure, on the
right side below the tongue, as if the part were pricked; sometimes worse when swallowing. (a. 4 h.) White coated
tongue, without thirst.-105. Feeling of dryness in the palate,
without thirst. (a. 11 h.) Violent desire for cold drink, the
whole day, without heat. (a. 8 d.) He hawks up a bloodred mucus.]
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Rancid eructations.
Heartburn when stooping. Scraping sensation in the throat.
Roughness in the throat, as if occasioned by snuff.-85. Flat,
sweetish taste in the mouth. Food has too little saltish
taste. (Tobacco has a musty taste when smoking.) A quantity of mucus in the throat when eating; she is obliged to
hawk it up; otherwise she is unable to swallow the food.
(Every thing he eats nauseates him.)-90. He has an appetite, but he does not relish his food; after eating he feels faint
about the heart, anxious, with palpitation of the heart. A
slimy sweetish taste in the mouth after a meal. After eating,
the abdomen bloats. Hiccough soon after eating; afterwards
pressure in the pit of the stomach, followed by puffiness and
eructations, as from a spoiled stomach.-95. (Bitter eructations after a meal.) Putrid eructations, late in the evening.
(a. 12 h.) Pain in the pit of the stomach after a meal, when
moving the body or when touching the region of the stomach.
(a. 11 d.) Pressure in the pit of the stomach, immediately
after a meal.-100. Anguish in the pit of the stomach, rising
into the head and returning again to the stomach; accompanied with qualmishness.
[Want of appetite; he does not relish his food. Bitterish
taste of the saliva. (a. 2 h.)-110. Bread has a bitter taste
to him. Eructations tasting of the ingesta when smoking as
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the stomach. (a.   h h.)-115. Nausea and vomiting of a
sourish liquid and of food, several times. (a. 3 h.) Desire to
vomit after the usual smoking, with sweat breaking out over
the whole body, without thirst; nausea and sweat disappeared after the stool. (a. 20 h.) Excessive flatulence, immediately after a meal; the abdomen is distended, with prickings,
pressing and pushing, and scanty emission of flatulence. Desire for cold drink before a meal, and some time after a meal.
(a. 10, 11 h.) Frequent pinching in the region of the stomach, during dinner.-120. Debility and laziness after a meal;
the least exercise gives him trouble; he feels nauseated and
has to lie down.]
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: Cramp-pain in the pit of the
stomach. Cramp in the stomach, increasing very much in the
evening. Contractive cramp in the epigastrium. Tension in
the abdomen. (a. 3 d.)-105. Tension in the abdomen as if
tied too fast. (a. 12 h.) Bloatedness of the abdomen, with
contractive pains, like cramps. Bloated abdomen. Pressure
inthe right side of the abdomen, as if too replete, in the lumbar region, when lying in the bed, after midnight; it impedes
respiration. (Burning in the abdomen, but more in the chest,
the hypochondria and the pit of the stomach; all those parts
felt hot to the touch.)-110. (Burning, especially in the
hepatic region.) Pain in the abdominal muscles when bending
backward, as if sprained. Rumbling in the abdomen. Movement in the abdomen as of something alive, as if the abdominal muscles were pushed outward by the arm of a fetus, but
painless. Tearing in the abdomen from below upwards, commencing in the right groin, in paroxysms. (a. 7 d.)-115.
Painless swelling in the groin, when walking, or touching the
part. Drawing pain in the groin, when she stood still or was
walking, but not when sitting. Drawing pain extending from
the inguinal glands through the thighs as far as the knee,
more violent when sleeping, with subsequent laziness in the
limbs. Stitches from the groin through the thigh, only when
sitting down, but neither when standing nor walking.
[Fine, painless beating in the middle of the scrobiculus
cordis, almost like the beating of an artery. (a. - h.) Pinching in the left side of the abdomen. (a. 2- h.) When standing
and leaning on one side, he experiences a dull pricking above
the hip, in the lumbar region, close to the dorsal spine. (a. I h.)
Sticking in the left side of the abdomen, aggravating the
walking. (a. 14 h.)-125. Pressure in the lower part of the
liver, as of a stone, when walking. (a. - h.) Cutting in the
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going off when standing still, or when pressing upon the part.
Pressing pains in the left renal region, from within outward,
when sitting. (a. 2 h.) Drawing pains with pressure in the
left lumbar region. (a. - h.) Feeling of burning heat in the
lumbar region. (a. 1 h.)-130. Pain in the abdominal muscles of the left side, as if a hook were being drawn up in the
part, a sort of hooking from below upward. Burning pressing
together transversely across the abdomen, externally as it
were. (a. I h.) Distention of the abdomen, as if the intestines were constricted in the umbilical region. Single painful
prickings in the perinmum, from within outwards, going off
when drawing the anus in. (a. 8 h.) Beating-sticking pains
in the right groin. (a. 1 h.)-135. Pressure from without inward, in the right groin. (a. 4 h.) Audible grunting in the
abdomen. (a. 1 h.) Grunting in the right side of the abdomen, after stool. (a. 10 h.) Cutting pains in the hypogastrium. (a. 4, 9 h.) Noiseless emission of flatulence. (a. 4
h.)-140. Pressing in the abdomen, especially against the
sides, as of flatulence, previous to stool. (a. 9 d.)
STOOL: Urging as for stool, but ineffectual; afterwards
(on the first day) loose stool; next day loose stool without
pressing; no stool on the third day.-120. Urging for stool
three times with erection. The evacuations take place with a
painful constriction of the anus. Diminished stool. (a. 5 d.)
(Debility after stool.) (a. 5 d.) Violent pain in the rectum
during stool; the pain was so violent that she was unable to
pass the stools.-125. Painful contraction in the rectum and
anus, followed by tearing, as if in the bowels, in paroxysms.
Violent burning in the fold between the nates, when walking.
(a. 9 d.) Burning in the anus. Burning-pricking in the rectum, between the stools.  The haemorrhoidal tumor of the
anus is painful when touched ever so lightly.-130. (Red,
painless blotches about the anus, resembling fig-warts.)
[Several ordinary stools. (a. 13, 16 h.) Loose stool (immediately). Loose stool several mornings in succession. Several loose stools. (a. 2, 10, 12, 14 h.)-145. Frequent and
copious evacuations of papescent stool, they give him a good
deal of relief. Discharge of hard, large, brown faeces, in balls,
streaked with blood. (a. 14 d.) Hard, difficult stool, especially
in the afternoon. (a. 8 h.)' Frequent urging without any
stool. (a. 16 h.) Constipation for several days, consequent to
a copious emission of semen.]
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URINARY ORGANS: Frequent micturition, almost every
hour, but no pain. A good deal of micturition, had to urinate
at night. (a 12 h.) Frequent and copious micturition. He
has to press at urinating, urging every minute; some urine
comes out now and then only, which is accompanied with a
burning pain in the urethra.-135. The stream is interrupted
five or six times, before the urine is entirely voided. Sensation
in the urethra, as of a fluid running along it, especially in the
evening. Sensation after micturition as if some drops were
running out of the urethra, for a quarter of an hour. After
micturition, some urine remains in the urethra, which drops
out afterwards, not out of the bladder, but out of the urethra.-140.  Burning in the urethra during   micturition.
Burning in the urethra, at urinating, and yet a while after.
Burning in the urethra, between the act of micturition. Cutting
during micturition. Burning pain in the urethra, at urinating,
as if the urethra were excoriated. (a. 48 h.) Burning itching
in the tip of the glans, at urinating.-145. Smarting and
itching of the pudendum, especially in the urethra, during and
a little while after micturition. Pain in the pudendum, as if
sore and smarting, especially at urinating. Stitches in the
urethra from behind forward, between, not during the act of
urinating. Extraordinary stitch from the rectum into the urethra, below the franulum. Severe stitch in the urethra, in
the evening. (a. 3 d.) Stitches in the urethra, at night, preventing sleep, accompanied with frequent erections. Lancinations in the forepart of the urethra. Lancination in the urethra between the acts of urinating. (a. 30 h.)
[Frequent urging to urinate, and frequent micturition,
without pain. (a. 1.) Profuse micturition. (a. 20 h.) Frequent and copious micturition. (a. 4i h.) Frequent urging,
with subsequent discharge of copious, watery urine, also at
night. (a. 36 h.) The urine looks like water while coming
out; after long standing, it becomes cloudy.--155. Red
urine, depositing thick brick-dust sediment when standing.]
GENITAL ORGANS: Single stitches in the tip of the glans,
between the acts of micturition, especially when squeezing the
part. Painful stitches in the internal surface of the prepuce.
-155. Stinging itching in the tip of the glans. Stinging
and itching of.the glans. Erection for several hours, early in
the morning, when half asleep. Prickings in the scrotum at
night.-160. Itching of the left side of the scrotum (evening).
Drawing sensation in the testes. The left testicle is drawn up
to the abdomen, accompanied with swelling of the inguinal
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ing and itching in the scrotum; the rubbed place feels painful
and burning.-165. Sweat of the scrotum. Sweat of one-half of
the scrotum. Profuse sweat of the small organs of generation all
over. Itching of the pudendum, when walking. The pudendum
feels sore and smarting.--170. Swelling of both labia, painful
and burning only when walking and when touching them. (a.
51 d.) Burning and smarting in the vagina, when walking and
sitting. Sticking in the pudendum after a long walk. Pressing
and contractive pain in the pudendum when sitting. Cramp-pain
in the pudendum and in the perineum, when rising from a seat.
-175. Cramp-pain in the pudendum, extending as far as the
abdomen. (a 10 h.) Mucous discharge from the female urethra.
Round, flat, unclean ulcer on the corona glandis, painfil and
burning, surrounded with redness; in a few days a stinging is
felt in it. (Whitish ulcer in the internal surface of the great
labium, first sore and painful to the touch, afterwards itching,
and of long duration.) Humid pimple on the scrotum.-180.
Considerable swelling of the prepuce. Red spot, like a miliary
pimple, on the outer surface of the prepuce; it changes to an
ulcer, is covered with scurf, itches, and is sometimes painful
and burning. Small pocks in the internal surface of the prepuce, deepened in the middle, and humid and suppurating;
painful only when touched. (a. 16 d.) A few red, smooth
excrescences behind the glans, under the prepuce, with a
creeping sensation, continuing ten days. (a. 22 d.) Red excrescence on the inner surface of the prepuce, resembling a
figwart.-185. Balanorrhoea. (a. 8 d.) Small low vesicle on
the glans, occasioning a stinging pain at urinating. (a. 24 d.)
Tickling of the figwarts. Titillation of the figwarts. Itching
stinging of the figwarts.-190. Burning and painful stinging
in the figwarts. Fine stitches in the figwarts near the anus,
when walking. Severe stitches in the figwarts on the genital
organs. Burning pain of the figwarts when touched. (Sore
pain of the figwarts near the anus, also when touching them.)
-195. Bleeding of the figwarts.
[Discharge of prostatic juice, in threads, early in the morning after waking. Noctural emission with fatiguing pain in
the orifice of the urethra, as if too narrow. Nocturnal emission, which wakes him. (a. 23, 48 h.) Cutting pain, which is
most violent when walking, immediately before and during
the acts of urinating, also at other times, behind the pubic bone,
in the region of the bladder. (a. 12 d.)-160. Burning, piercing stitches in the neighborhood of the orifice of the urethra,
between the acts of micturition. (a. 9 h.) Drawing-cutting
pain in the urethra, when walking. (a. 10 h.) Violent stitches
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in the glans, near the urethra, constantly accompanied with a
desire to urinate; the urine comes out in drops when the
stitches are felt; while the urine comes off the stitches are
sometimes more violent, sometimes they disappear altogether;
the desire to urinate continues until the sticking ceases entirely. (a 7} h.) Frequent burning stitches in the penis,
continuing as far as the testes and the umbilical region,
most violent when sitting, disappearing when walking and returning when sitting. (a. 24 h.) Jerking pain in the penis, as
if a nerve were suddenly and painfully put upon the stretch.
-165. Aching pain in the testes as if crushed when walking
or sitting, increased by walking. (a. 2 h.) Titillating sensation between the prepuce and glans. (a 4 h.) Several burning stitches in the glans. (a. 8 h.) Burning stitches with
pressure through the scrotum and spermatic cord, from below
upward. Repeated sharp stitches in the left testis. (a. 7 h.)]
RESPIRATORY ORGANS AND CHEST: Creeping in the nose
as in catarrh. Sensation in the upper part of the nose like dry
coryza, most violent in the evening, nevertheless the nose feels
obstructed. Violent, sudden coryza. Hoarseness, as if occasioned by a contraction of the pharynx.-200. Profuse fluent
coryza and catarrh, which he had not had for many years. Violent coryza with nightly cough. (a. 13 d.) Sticking in the
larynx in the region of the pit of the throat, during an inspiration, for two days. Uneasiness in the cervical muscles, in
the nape of the neck, and in the chest, or slow squeezing at
intervals, accompanied with a sort of nausea. Blueness of the
skin in the region of the clavicles.-205. Oppression of the
chest as if something had grown fast in it. (a. some hours.)
Visible palpitation of the heart, without anxiety. Asthmatic,
obliging one to take a deep inspiration. Tightness now in the
left chest, now in the left hypochondrium, inducing a hacking
cough. Difficult, oppressed breathing with great desire for
water and much anxiety.-210. Sensation as if some one
were excoriating the chest from within. Pain in the region of
the heart. Pressure in the chest, coming on after a meal. Pain
in the chest, resembling a pressure, most violent after a meal.
Paroxysms of pressure in the outer parts of the chest, around
the axilla.-215. Considerable orgasmus sanguinis when going
up stairs; her heart beats violently; she has to rest frequently.
[170. Sneezing. (a. 28 h.) He frequently blows blood from
the nose. Bleeding of the nose two days in succession, when
blowing it slightly, early in the morning after rising. Bleeding at the nose, especially when becoming heated. (a. 70 h.)
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low the larynx, aggravated by deglutition. (a. 3J h.)-175.
Hoarseness and fluent coryza (towards evening). (a. 11 h.)
Dry coryza, with continued headache, such as generally aocompanies dry coryza. (a. 48 h.) Dry coryza, without sneezing, with phlegm in the fauces, obliging one to hawk, but
which cannot be hawked up. (a. 26 h.) Dry coryza, which is
changed to fluent coryza in the open air, by sneezing. (a. 10 h.)
Fluent coryza early in the morning. (a. 70 h.)-180. Frequent
fluent coryza. (a. 2 h.) Cough early in the morning when
rising, as is excited by sharp things. (a. 25 h.) Strong pressure as of a heavy body in the middle of the chest, which does
not impede respiration (when sitting). (a. h.) Tension from
the first false rib as far as the left axilla, especially when raising the arm. (a. 1 h.) Prickling in the right chest. (a. 3 h.)185. Dull stitches with pressure in the left side of the chest,
unchanged during inspirations or expirations. (a. I h.) Several beating stitches in the left side of the chest. (a. 2 h.)
Strong, dull, intermittent stitches in the chest, from the left
axilla, inward. (a. 12 h.) Pinching pain in the region of the
fifth and sixth ribs. Boring pressure above the pit of the stomach. (a. 40 h.)-190. Sensation as if sprained or strained in
the left side of the chest, close to the region of the scrobiculus
cordis. (a. 61 h.) Bruising pain in the right side of the chest
below the arm. (a. 3J h.)]
BACK: (Stitch in the back through the chest from below
upward.) Aching pain in small parts of the back, here and
there, when sitting. Boring in a small spot in the back,
Sore feeling in the oiter parts of the back. (a. 4 d.)-220. Draw.
ing pain in the back, when sitting. Tensive pain in the
small of the back. Drawing in the small of the back. Dull
painful pressure in the small of the back and in the lumbar
region, as if bruised, early in the morning after rising, more
violent when standing and turning the trunk, less when walking. (a. 15 d.) Itching boil with a large red border, near the
small of the back.-225. Tearing in the left scapula. (a. 3
d.) Bruising pain below the scapula for several hours,
Beating and throbbing in the shoulder-joint.
[Aching pain in the small of the back, when stooping.
Stitches with pressure from the os sacrum as far as the side of
the pelvis. (a. 7 h.) Paroxysmal burning stinging on the
right side, close to the os sacrum, disappearing entirely after
strong friction. (a. 32 h.)-195. Violent, stitch-like pains in
the back when walking, along the left side of the lumbar vertebra, not changed by sitting down. (a. 10 h.) Stitches with
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back, between the scapulam, when sitting. (a. 13 h.) Pains
in the back, as from continued stooping, in the evening, immediately after lying down. (a. 66 h.) Painful drawing in the
os sacrum and os coccygis and in the thighs, when sitting;
after having been seated for a while that drawing hinders
erect standing. (a. 4 h.)--200. Sudden, cramp-like pain in
the small of the back when changing the position of the feet
after long standing; he threatens to fall. (a. 6 d.) Sensation
as of the beating of a large artery in the dorsal spine, when
sitting. (a. 61 h.) Sensation of stiffness in the spine as after
standing for a long time crooked. (a. 13 h.) Pointed stitches
between the scapulae. (a. h.)]
UPPER LIMBS: Cracking of the shoulder-joint when bending the arm backward; she was then unable to move the
arm, on account of the dislocation-pain felt in the joint. Profuse sweat in the axilla.-230. Heaviness in the left arm
from the middle of the upper arm as far as the fingers, perceptible during rest and motion. Involuntary jerking of the
arm in the daytime. Starting upward of the upper part of
the body in the daytime. A pain-like tumult in both arms,
from three o'clock in the morning, until six. Violent drawing
of several hours, apparently in the bones of the arms.--235.
Digging-up drawing pain in the whole arm, in the periosteum,
as far as the fingers, accompanied with a pressure as from
within outwards; when waking, pressure down to the periosteum; he feels a pain as if the flesh were separated from the
bones. Titillation in the surface of the upper arm, followed
by a fine stitch at a small spot. The arm trembles after having been writing for half an hour, and a drawing pain is felt
in it. Painful difficulty of moving either arm, as if the joints
had no sinovial fluid.-240. (Pricking pain in the elbowjoint.) Throbbing in the elbow-joint, like pulsations, in the
daytime; in the evening he feels a drawing in the arm extending as far as the fingers. Drawing pain in the left lower
arm, from above downward. Painless red circumscribed spot
on the left forearm. The skin, especially that of the hands,
feels dry.-245. Tearing in the left wrist-joint. Pain in the
right wrist-joint, as if sprained. The balls of the two indexfingers become red and big. Prickling pain in the posterior
finger-joints. Fine stinging in the dorsa of the fingers.-250.
Stinging in the tips of the three middle left fingers (afternoon). (All her fingers feel numb.) Sharp stitch in the nail
of the left thumb. (a. 48 h.) The anterior joints of the three
middle fingers of the left hand become red and swollen, with
stinging, extending as far as the tips of the fingers (at five
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[Painful stinging in the anterior and superior part of the
right shoulder, near the clavicle, accompanied with dull tearing. (a. 5 h.)-205. Drawing stitches in the right shoulderjoint and the bend of the right elbow. Paralytic feeling in the
arms, as if he had lifted too heavy a burthen. (a. 8 h.) Frequent paralytic pain in the middle of the muscles of the left
upper arm, in rest and motion. (a. 11 h.) Stitches in the
outer parts of the right upper arm, perceptible in any position
of the arm, going off by contact. (a. 1 h.) Bruising pain in
the upper arms as if beaten black and blue.--210. Sticking
pain in the right deltoid muscle, as with a dull point, when
walking in the open air. Prickings in the outer side of the
left elbow, being the same in any position of the arm, speedily
disappearing by contact. (a. ~ h.) Boring pain in the outer
parts of the elbow-joints. (a. 5 d.) Heaviness in the forearms. (a. 5 h.) Pain in the outer parts of the right forearm
as from excoriation.-215. Lancination from time to time in
the outer side of the right forearm. (a. 3- h.) Lancination
in the internal side of the left forearm, from the hand to the
elbow-joint. (a. 34 h.) Pain in the elbow and wrist joints, as
if they were dashed to pieces and crumbling. (a. 42 h.)
Burning-sticking pain immediately above the right wrist-joint.
(a. 6 h.) Feeling of dryness in the outer parts of the hands.
(a. 26 h.)-220. When writing the hands tremble as if from old
age. (a. 20 h.) Sticking behind the middle joint of the middle finger, as if a thorn had been pushed in, most painful when
bending the fingers. (a. 16 h.) Violent, cramp-like pressure
in the left hand, between the inner sides of the little and goldfinger, with a feeling of heat in all the fingers of that hand,
whereas the left metacarpus and the whole of the right hand
were icy-cold. (a. 2, h.)  Tingling in the tips of the three
middle fingers of the left hand, as if they had gone to sleep.
(a. 14 h.) Lancination in the little finger.]
LOWER LIMBS: Cracking in the elbow, knee, and tarsal
joints, when stretching the limbs.-255. Pimples on the right
buttock, itching and burning when touched or scratched. Tension from the hip-joint into the groin and along the posterior
part of the thigh down to the bend of the knee, also when
sitting quietly, but more when walking, less when standing.
The thighs and legs go to sleep when sitting. Sticking in the
upper part of the thigh. Sweat of the upper part of the thighs
near the genital organs.-260. Pain as if bruised above the
middle of both thighs, when walking in the open air. Weariness of the internal muscles of both thighs, in paroxysms.
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external appearance; they suppurate, do not itch, and disappear in 18 hours. Itching pimples on both knees, burning
when touched and scratched. Single stitches in the knees,
only when commencing to walk, and especially when rising
from a seat.-265. Involuntary motion of the knee to and
fro, when the pain increases. The limb is heavy and stiff
when walking. A drawing pain in the right leg, from above
downward, in paroxysms. White blotches on the calf, of the
size of a hazel-nut, itching violently, and far around, but occasioning a stinging-burning pain when rubbed. Tension through
the leg, as from weariness.-270. Pressure from within outwards in the tibia. (Enlargement of the tibia as if swollen.)
The dorsum of the foot and the toes are swollen, inflamed and
red, and they are painful per se as if pithy, but a tensive pain
is experienced in them when treading or when moving the
foot. Involuntary jerking upward of the foot when the pain
increases. Painless, red spot on the dorsum of the right foot.275. Pain in the heel as if gone to sleep, early in the morning,
when rising from bed. Sharp stitch in the tendo Achillis,
above the heel. (a. 2h.) Drawing in all the toes, extending
into the leg. Drawing in the big toe. Lancinations on both
sides of the nail of the big toe of either foot.-280. Lancinations in the corn. All the toes are inflamed, shining red and
swollen; they itch, and a burning is felt after rubbing. Sweat
of the feet, especially of the toes. Sweat of the hands and
feet.
[225. Fleet, burning stitches in the lower limbs, spreading
through the same all over. (a. 28 h.) Painful feeling of laxness in both hip-joints, as if the articular capsules were too
flaccid and weak to support the body, only when standing,
not when walking, accompanied with weakness of the whole
body. (a. 12 d.) Pain in the left thigh (in the evening) when
walking, as if it would break down. (a. 10 d.) Scraping,
smarting sensation in the inner side of the right thigh. Pain
in the right thigh and leg as if dislocated, when the limb was
standing backward, when walking, and was just being moved
forward.-270.  Abrupt, burning-biting stitches near the
inner hamstring. Continued burning-biting stitch in the anterior surface of the left knee. (a. 25 h.) Long-continuing burning in the bend of the left knee, as if an eruption would break
out. (a. 25 h.) Continuous, corrosive stitches in the skin of
the right patella, when bending and stretching the right leg.
(a. 74 h.)-235. Dull beating pain in the outer side of the
knee, when sitting, increased by walking. (a. 6 h.) Painful
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when sitting. (a. 2} h.) Cramp-pain above the left knee,
when sitting. (a. 46 h.) Sensation above the knee, as if the
parts were cut into with a fine knife; a sort of coarse sticking
pain as if bruised in the legs.-240. Intermittent pinching
in the calves. (a. 4 d.) Weakness of the left leg when sitting,
passing over with a cutting sensation in the gastrocnemii
muscles when walking, which recurred at intervals in the sitting posture. (a. 3 h.) Sharp-drawing pain in the outer parts
of the internal malleolus of the left foot, thence extending
gradually into the calf. (a. 21 h.) Frequent, stupefying pain
in the region of the internal malleolus of the right foot. (a. 1.
h.) Fine stitches in the outer parts of the external malleolus
of the right foot. (a. 4 d.)-245. Continuous, burning stitch.
near the external malleolus of the right foot, in rest. (a. 28 h.)
Fine, painful stitches, like mosquito-bites, in rapid succession,
in the bend of the right foot. A sort of cutting with subsequent
sensation of warmth, in the dorsum of the left foot, near the
joint, while walking. Voluptuous itching in the internal side
of the dorsum of the right foot. (a. 1 h.) Cramp-like drawing
in the fleshy part of the anterior joint of the big toe of the right
foot, with a feeling of warmth, less perceptible when walking
than when sitting. (a. 3 h.)-250. Intermittent pinching near
the metatarsal bone of the little toe. (a. 3 d.) When sitting or
walking, he experiences a feeling of weariness in the bottom of
the right foot, as after a distant journey on foot, and as if
bruised. (a. 6 h.) Creeping jerkings in the bottom'of the feet,
as after a long walk. (a. 4 d.) Voluptuous itching under the
toes of the right foot, perceptible in any position of the foot.
(a. 10o h.) Quickly passing, violent stinging in the bottom of
the left foot, near the big toe. (a. 24 h.)-255. Burning of the
corns. (a. 5 d.)]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Pain drawing from the legs through
the thighs into the head, and thence back again into the pit of
the stomach, during which attack she had a blackness before
her eyes, and she felt qualmish.-285. Pimples resembling
varicella on some parts of the thighs, elbows and forearms;
they were surrounded with a red areola, and their tips were full
of pus. Itching of the body, back, and upper and lower limbs,
like fleabites, especially in the evening and night. Prickling
itching of the whole body, until one o'clock at night, not affected by rubbing. On waking at night, arms and legs had
gone to sleep. Titillating itching of the whole body.-290.
The itching spots on the body become burning and painful
after rubbing (nettle rash). (a. 20 d.) Pressure in different
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ling sensation. The skin of the whole body is painful to the
touch. The symptoms are most violent after three o'clock in
the afternoon and night, preventing one from falling asleep.295. Paroxysm: when walking in the open air he felt nauseated, intoxicated and giddy; he had heat in the face, anguish and sweat, and was scarcely able to breathe; his feet
felt so heavy that he staggered (for an hour). (a. 20 h.)
Weariness and bruised feeling in the shoulders and thighs.
Weakness of body, not of mind.
[Stiffness and heaviness in all the limbs. The body feels
very weary and as if bruised, with aversion to exercise, in the
afternoon. (a. 11 h.) Great lassitude in all the limbs, in the
afternoon when sitting. (a. 13 h.) While sitting he was several times attacked with drowsiness, without feeling tired. (a.
41 h.)-260. Sensation as if the whole body were very thin
and delicate and could not resist the least attack, as if the
continuity of the body had been in danger of becoming dissolved.]
SLEEP: He becomes sleepy early, but his sleep is restless,
disturbed with dreams, and he wakes very early, out of humor,
and not disposed to rise. She tossed about for an hour in
her sleep before midnight.-300. Restless for two hours in
the evening when in bed, before he was able to fall asleep.
Restless sleep; he tosses about because he feels too warm. A
good deal of dry heat in the night, and restless sleep. Restlessness atlight and anxiety; he cannot sleep; both his legs
feel cold and are covered with cold sweat. He cannot sleep
before midnight, and then he wakes again at four o'clock in
the morning.-305. Very restless before falling asleep. Sleepless nights; he is very restless, and the body feels cold; when
he fell into a nap he dreamed at once of dead bodies. He
dreamed as soon as he fell asleep. Sleep full of dreams and
startings. He slept only until twelve o'clock, and remained
wide awake the whole night, nor was he sleepy in the morning.-310. Disposed to vomit the whole night; he forced
up nothing but mucus. He talked calmly in his sleep. Anxious dreams with loud exclamations. She weeps in her sleep.
When lying on the left side he dreams of danger and death.315. He dreams of having had an embrace, but without an
emission; painful erection when waking. Early in the morning, when waking, he is scarcely able to collect his senses, for
half an hour. Tired early in the morning when rising. Violent headache in the morning when waking, after a deep sleep
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which lasts five hours; he did not get warm in his bed; had
neither appetite nor thirst.
[Excessive drowsiness in the afternoon; his eyes closed
while sitting. (a. 14 h.) Drowsiness towards evening, without
being able to sleep. (a. 9- h.) He has not slept enough in the
morning; is not disposed to rise; feels weary, ill-humored. (a.
38 h.) Refreshing sleep (curative effect). (a. 24 h.)-265.
Long dreams occasioned by the evening conversation, with
deep meditation; when accused of a crime, he relies upon his
clear conscience. Restless sleep with dreams. (a. 68 h.)
Frightful dreams; they wake him, with a feeling of heat in the
body. Restless night; he woke frequently; fell from one
dream into another, with emission of semen. Anxious vision
while falling asleep; he then feels a few dull shocks in the
left side, and gasps for air. (a. 18 h.)-270. Restless sleep with
inodorous sweat. (a. 48 h.) As soon as he falls asleep at night,
all the covered parts become covered with an agreeable, warm
sweat, which disappears when waking; this sweat breaks out
frequently in the night.]
FEVER: Chilliness without thirst, every morning.-320.
Chills, in the evening when in bed, only on the left side of the
body, which felt cold to the touch. Chilliness every evening
from six to half past seven o'clock, with external heat of the
body, dryness in the mouth, and thirst. Violent orgasmus sanguinis every evening; throbbing in all the arteries at every
motion; less when sitting. Heat in the face and burning and
redness of the cheeks, two evenings in succession.-325. Redness and burning of the left cheek, accompanied with chilliness
of the back from below upward, when performing any movement (not when standing or when sitting still); her fingers become numb. Violent chill for a quarter of an hour at three
o'clock in the morning; afterwards thirst, then profuse sweat all
over, but not about the head, which was only warm. Clammy
head towards morning.
[Thirst without heat early in the morning when rising. The
pulse becomes weak and descends to 60. (a. 4 d.) Sudden heat
in the face and redness. (a. 1 h.)-275. Excessive heat of the
face without thirst, the hands and the rest of the body being
merely warm. (a. - h.) Heat and redness of the face without
thirst, when sitting. (a. 3 h.) Continuous feeling of heat in the
whole face, without any change of complexion, without thirst,
the tips of the fingers being cold, the remainder of the hand being
lukewarm, and the remainder of the body feeling hot. (a. I h.)
Feeling of burning heat in the face, producing neither real
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moderately warm. (a. 2 n.) Swelling of the veins of the temples and hands (in rest) without heat. (a. 18 h.)-250. The
tips of the fingers are icy cold as if dead, the rest of the hand,
the face, and the rest of the body feeling hot to the touch, without thirst. (a. 4 h.) Agreeable warmth over the whole body
the whole evening, with coldness of the fingers, especially
those of the left hand, without thirst; accompanied with a sensation as of goose-skin, and a slight shuddering over the body.
(a. 31 h.) Warm hands with bloated veins, the face being cold,
but the forehead hot. (a. 12 h.) Shaking chill over the whole
body, without the body feeling cold to the hand. (a. 2 h.) A
shuddering creeps over his back from time to time. (a. 32 h.)285. Coldness in the back which cannot be relieved by the
warmth of the stove.  Shuddering through and through
when uncovering the body ever so little in the warm air, with
or without goose-skin, hands and face being warm. (a. 1i h.)
While dressed he has frequent shudderings through the whole
body, without goose-skin. (a. 21 h.) Shaking chill with much
yawning; the warm air feels cold to him, and the heat of the
sun does not seem to be strong enough to warm him. (a. 3
h.) Nausea and vomiting, the vomiting being followed by
several chills, with heaviness in the upper and lower limbs and
a tearing in the occiput.-290. Rush of blood to the head
with sweat in the face and desire for cold drink, even when
undressedC(a. 11  h.) Slight heat, followed by a creeping
chill, with icy-cold hands in the evening. (a. 5 to 6 h.) Heat
with thirst, without chilliness either before or after the
heat, the mind feeling well disposed. (a. 1, 4 h.) During the
febrile heat he had more lucid thoughts and was more disposed to any thing. (a. 31 h.)]
MORAL SYMPTOMS: (During a rapid walk he became restless and low-spirited.) Mental uneasiness for many days; all
things are troublesome and disagreeable to him.-330. Lowspirited and desponding. Tired of life. Dissatisfied. Extremely scrupulous about the least trifle. Every thing is unpleasant to him; he is anxious about the future.
[Angry about an innocent jest.-295. Out of humor unless
every thing is according to his fancy. He walks with an excess of lightness, as if carried along on wings; she made several miles in a very short time and in excellent spirits (immediately). Good humor.' (a. 15 h.) Cheerful mood, without
excess.' (a 7 h.) Disposition to talk.' (a. 16 h.)--300. Absence of mind, unsteadiness, and disposition to perform now
this, now another thing. (a. 6 h.)
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VERATRUM      ALBUM.
(The alcoholic tincture from the root of Veratrum album.)
THE following symptoms can only be considered a part of
those which the Veratrum is capable of producing.
I might have added the symptoms which have been noted
by the ancient Greek authors, to confirm my own; but I have
omitted doing so, lest I should make myself liable to the charge
of attempting to shine by quotations.
It is certain, however, that the ancients could not have acquired the reputation of performing wonderful cures with Veratrum at Anticyra and at other places, if there had not been
some foundation for it.
Our physicians do not often resort to Veratrum album, for
this reason, that they cannot prescribe it in justa dosi, in
drachms and ounces.
Hence, all the diseases which can only be cured by that root
have to remain uncured.
Physicians have not known, heretofore, that Veratrum facilitates the cure of at least one-third of the cases of insanity generally occurring in lunatic asylums, inasmuch as they did not
know to what special kinds of insanity Veratrum prresponds,
or in what dose it ought to be administered.
Veratrum requires to be given in different doses from those
employed by the ancients. It is true many of their insane
patients were cured, but many others died from the effects of
the enormous doses. For even the ancients supposed that
diseases were the result of some morbific matter which had been
introduced into the system, and that the cure made the sweeping
out of that matter necessary. Hence they gave Veratrum in
the crude form, and in doses large enough to induce vomiting
and diarrhoea. The fact of some of their patients getting well,
did not permit them to change their opinion, that the culte was
effected in another way than by purging and vomiting.
It is not true that moral or mental diseases require enormous doses of any drug to be cured. It is true allopathic and
improperly selected doses seem to attack the organism of such
patients less than generally. But in such diseases the general
health suffers least, and the patients are sometimes very robust, the invisible organs which no anatomist has ever discovered, and which serve the soul as a connecting medium, being
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In such diseases seventy grains of tartar emetic have frequently been given without any effect, but the mind was generally affected so much more; in many cases the mania or
melancholia became incurable.
On the other hand, it is true that such diseases can be easily
cured by small doses of a remedy which is homoeopathic.
I have frequently cured patients by the smallest part of a
drop of the 12th potency, which I mixed in the usual beverage
of the patient, in order to avoid all violence.
Pains to which Veratrum is homoeopathic, and which
sometimes drive the patient to a kind of delirium and madness,
have frequently yielded to the smallest dose.
Veratrum is likewise useful in fever and agues which
consist merely of external coldness, or are characterized by internal heat and dark urine, especially when the body or at
least the forehead is covered with cold sweat.
It is very useful in several hypochondriac affections, and
in certain kinds of inguinal hernia, at least as an intercurrent
refiedy.
Sudden bad effects from Veratrum are most safely removed by some cups of strong coffee. Camphor removes aching in the head, with coldness of body and sopor, with want
of consciousness.
Aconite is to be employed when the patient is anxious and
beside himself, with coldness of body or a burning sensation in
the brain. The other chronic ailments brought on by the
abuse of Veratrum, for instance, the fever before midnight, are
most easily removed by Cinchona.
Some among the subsequent symptoms seem to be secondary symptoms, which can only be determined with accuracy
by closer observations.
Small doses act five and more days.
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HEAD: Vertigo; every thing turns in a ring with him.
(a. 3- h.) Want of ideas. He loses his mind. Dizzy; he
feels as if nothing were firm in his head.-5. Very dizzy,
early in the morning. He is only conscious of himself as in
a dream. Bland delirium; coldness of the body, with his
eyes open, and a cheerful and sometimes a smiling countenance; he talks of religious things, and of vows which he
had promised to fulfil; he prays, and he imagines he is any
where else than home. (a. 1 h.) Uninterrupted dizziness for
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beating headache. (a. 6 h.) Beating headache over the left
eye for a quarter of an hour. (a. 1 h.) Beating headache.
Dull pressure in the vertex, early in the morning after waking. Aching pain in one side of the head, accompanied with
pain in the stomach. (a. 4 h.)-15. Headache as if the brain,
were broken. Paroxysms of pain in various parts of the
brain, partly as if bruised, partly pressure. Constrictive
headache, with constrictive pain in the fauces. When stooping, the blood rushes to the head. (a. 8 h.) (Sensation along
the temple as of a drop of water running down alongside of it,
without producing a cool sensation.)-20. Feeling of warmth
and coldness on the head at the same time, his hairs being
sensitive. He feels chilly on the top of the head, and at the
same time about the feet. (a. 1 h.) Itching of the forehead.
Cold sweat on the forehead.
[Vertigo, excessive. When thinking, his ideas soon fail
him.-5. Reeling and intoxication. (a. 24 h.) When walking the headache increases unto reeling, but it abates again
when sitting. (a. 2 h.) He almost forgets the word which
he is about to utter. Almost entire vanishing of the senses.
Stupid feeling in the head, with nausea, for two days.-10.
Headache, with some stiffness. Headache, with vomiting of
green mucus. Headache and pain in the back with colic, and
desire to vomit. Painful obtuseness of the head, with tensive
pressure now in the temples, now in the vertex, most violent
when sitting straight and standing, diminished when stooping
and when lying on the back, with contraction of the pupils.15. Dull headache, extending from the temples to the forehead, increased by stooping, going off by bending backward,
and by pressing upon the head, but returning again when
raising the head. (a. 3 h.) Pressing pain in the vertex,
as if the head were being pressed fiat,, changed to a beating pain by motion. Internal cutting in the vertex. (a. 4 h.)
Single stitches in the forehead, even when sitting. (a: 4 h.)
His head feels heavy, and every thing seems to turn in the
head.-20. Buzzing and humming in the forepart of the forehead, with dull internal headache. (a. 4 h.) Drawing pain
in the head and small of the back. Violent headache, with
diuresis. Excessive headache, disappearing at the appearance
of the menses. Concussion in the head and jerking in the left
arm, with paleness of the fingers.-25. Corrosive itching,
continuous stitch in the hairy scalp, obliging him to scratch.
(a. 10- h.) Sensation in the hairs of the right side of the
head as if a cluster of hairs were being electrified; a sort of
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a slight shuddering of the skin under the hairs. (a. 5 h.,
and afterwards.) Painful stiffness in the nape of the neck
during the headache.]
EYES: The pupils incline to become contracted.-25.
Contraction of the pupils (a. 1, h.), with continued compressive pain in the eyes. Dilatation of the pupils. Weak feeling in the eyes. The eyes look faint, surrounded with blue
rings.-30. The eyes are distorted and protrude. Diplopia.
A sort of paralysis of the eyelids; they felt as if too heavy; he
was scarcely able to raise them. Feeling of dryness about the
eyelids. The eyelids are dry, especially after he has been
sleeping; they are painful as if they were excoriated; they
are rigid and glued together.--35. Excessive dryness of the
eyelids. Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, accompanied with a feeling of dryness and heat. (a. - h.) Long continuing, strong feeling of heat in the eyes. The eyelids glue
together during sleep. (a. 2 h.) Heat in the eyes and face,
with redness of the cheeks, as if caused by a hot vapor blowing upon them.-40. Painful ophthalmia with excessive headache, preventing the nightly sleep.(a. 6 d.) Ophthalmia with
tearing pain. Inflammation of the whites of the eyes, with
tearing pain.
S[Contraction of the pupils (immediately and a. 6 h.).-30.
Dilatation of the pupils. (a. 4 h.) Excessive dilatation of the
pupils, with perceptible weakness of sight; he does not even
recognize persons standing close by, or recognizes them only
very slowly (at 7 o'clock in the evening). (a. 8 l.) Pain in
the eyes. Complains of pain in both eyes, and raises the hands
above the head. Painful pressure in the eye, with want of
appetite.'-35. Pressure in the eyelids, as if too dry, after a
short siesta; followed by lachrymation. (a. 61 h.) Painful
feeling of dryness in the upper eyelid, as if salt were between
it and the eyeball, without any considerable redness in the
eye, after dinner. Painful sticking, with pressure in the upper
eyelid, near the outer canthus. (a. 10 h.) Fine, sharp stitches
in the canthi. Stinging itching in the internal sides of the eyelids. (a. 2 h.)-40. Bruising pain of the right eyeball near
the outer canthus, repeated paroxysms; when pressing upon
it, it ceases to ache. (a. 3 h.) Frequent lachrymation, with
redness of the eyes, as in catarrh. (a. 6 h.) Heat in the
eyes with headache. Redness of the whites in the right eye.
Inflammation of the right eye.-45. Inflammation of the
right eye with febrile heat. Considerable ophthalmia.  The
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eyes look watery, as if covered with albumen. Blueness of
the left eye, with frequent eructations. The eyes are turned
backward so that the whites only can be seen, for an hour.50. Scintillations before the eyes. When rising he sees black
spots and sparks before his eyes; he was on that account
unable to rise for eight hours, and had either to sit still or lie
down. (a. 3 h.) Vanishing of sight; he is unable to see.]
FACE: Cold, disfigured face, as of a dead person. Bluish
face.-45. (Jerking-pinching sensation in the muscular parts
of the face.) (a. 3 h.) Drawing and tensive pain over the
whole right side of the face and over the right ear. (Sweat
in the face and in the axillae, when walking.)
[Pale face; dark-red, hot face.- 55. Redness of face with
great thirst and diuresis. Extreme redness and heat of the
face. Burning in the face and about the head. Itching here
and there in the face, and behind the ears, as if pimples would
break out (without any visible redness), with a feeling of soreness behind the ears. (a. 28 h.) Titillating itching in different
parts of the face, rather biting than stinging; afterwards small
red pimples break out, with red, hard, elevated borders, and
brown, afterwards yellow tips containing pus; these are painless at first, but when matured they are sore to the touch.-60.
Close rash on the cheek, with pain in the face. Copper-red
eruption in the face, around the mouth and the chin. Swelling in the face for several days. Jerking in the cheek at noon;
scintillations before the left eye; paleness of face and fainting,
followed by vomiting a quantity of white foam; the paroxysm
returns for three days. Stitches in the right cheek and the
right chest, with ptyalism.]
EARS AND NOSE: Pressing in the right ear, early in the
morning. (a. 2 d.) Tingling in the ear.-50. Roaring in the
ears as of wind. Sensation as of a pellicle being stretched
across the ear. One or the other ear is stopped up. Aching
pain in the meatus auditorius. (Tearing in the lobule.)-55.
Sharp stitches behind the left ear and the jaw. Smell before
the nose as of manure. (a. 16 h.) Sensation as if the nose
were too dry inside, as is generally the case when the dust of
the road gets into it. (a. 3 h.) (Bleeding at the nose, while
sleeping, at night.) Sensation as if the nose were ulcerated
inside.-60. Sensation as if the nasal bone were compressed
and pressed in.
[65. Single stitches deep in the left ear. Sensation as of a
cold breath in the right ear, followed by a feeling of great heat
in the ear, then again a feeling of coldness; this alternates
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tacked at once with a humming and roaring in the ears, and
he fancies he sees nothing but fire before his eyes, for eight
hours. (a. 4 h.) He complains of deafness, and pain in the
chest. Biting titillation and itching below the right lobule.70. Red spots upon the nose. Vesicles on the nose, standing
close to one another. Hemorrhage from the right nostril.]
JAWS AND TEETH: The skin of the lips becomes chapped.
Burning in the vermilion border of the upper lip, and a little
above. Pimple near the corner of the mouth, in the margin
of the vermilion border, painful per se, but more so when
touched. Foam at the mouth.--65. He is unable to speak.
Lock-jaw. Dull pressure in the muscles of the left jaw, resembling a strong pressure with a dull pointed piece of wood.
Pain in the submaxillary glands, as if pinched. (a. 3 h.) Vacillation of the teeth.
[Vesicles near the left corner of the mouth. Red eruption
around the mouth and on the chin.-75. Dry lips and dry
mouth, in the evening, not without thirst. (a. 13 h.) Sticking
pain in the articulation of the jaw when opening the mouth,
preventing him from drawing down the lower jaw properly.
(a. 4 h.) When eating, all the muscles of the lower jaw are
painful as if bruised, so that he is obliged to stop chewing.
Painful blotch in the lower jaw; when touching it, it causes
at first a contractive pain, but afterwards it becomes changed
to a pustule with an inflamed border. Smarting pain in the
front part of the lower jaw, per se. (a. 9 h.)-80. Swelling of
the left submaxillary glands, accompanied with sore throat,
especially on the left side, causing a sort of strangulation and
constriction of the fauces when swallowing, continuing a short
while after swallowing. (a. 1 h.) Drawing and pressure in
the left side of the throat. Grinding of the teeth. Swelling
of the gums and jaws. Great toothache and headache.-85.
First he had toothache, afterwards the face was red and swollen. Great weakness, with the toothache and the inflammation
of the tonsils. A pain in the upper and left molar teeth, which
is composed of pressure and weariness, as if filled with lead.
The toothache is at first a painful pressure; afterwards, when
chewing, it changes to a drawing extending into the root of
the tooth, even when taking only soft things between the
teeth.]
MOUTH, PHARYNX, (ESOPHAGUS: Spasmodic constriction
and strangulation in the cesophagus, as if one had eaten an
astringent pear. Narrowing of the oesophagus, as if occasioned
by a tumor. Burning in the throat. Scraping in the throat.
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as if a burnt place had been healed and were covered with a
thick epidermis, or as if the palate were lined with the skin of
a plum. Dryness in the throat, which cannot be removed
by drink. (a. 6 h.)
[Stammering.-90. Speechlessness. Burning in the upper
part of the tongue and in the pharynx. Burning in the mouth,
as if rubbed with pepper; however, the mouth is not dry.
Burning in the throat. Inflammation of the buccal cavity.95. Warmish sensation in the posterior part of the mouth and
fauces. Pain in the mouth after the nausea; afterwards considerable inflammation in the mouth; lastly redness and swelling of the tongue. Dryness in the region of the palate, and
desire for water. Dryness and viscidity in the mouth, without
any particular thirst. Early in the morning, after waking, he
has for an hour an extremely troublesome feeling of dryness
in the mouth, and viscidity, without thirst, diminishing but
little after rinsing the mouth. (a. 20 h.)-100. The mouth
feels alternately dry and viscid, and then watery. (a. 24 h.)
Confluence of tasteless water in the mouth. Ptyalism. Flow
of viscid saliva. Sudden confluence of a quantity of water
in the mouth, which he cannot swallow quickly enough, and
which therefore chokes him somewhat. (a. 121 h.)-105. Sensation of coldness in the oesophagus from below upward (a
cold spot being likewise felt in the posterior part of the palate);
this is soon followed by the gulping up of a quantity of warm,
sweetish-saltish, slimy fluid; after which the coldness in the
oesophagus and palate abates for a while, but afterwards returns. (a. 24 h.) Increased flow of saliva with an acrid, saltish taste in the mouth and upon the tongue, and great heat in
the palm of the hand and in the pit of the stomach. Flow of
mucus from the mouth, toward noon. Drawing pain in the
throat, thirst, and colic. Distention of the cesophagus.-110.
Distention of the oesophagus, with sensation as if he would
suffocate.]
TASTE, APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS: Aversion
to warm food; when eating of it he did not like it, on the contrary he had a desire for fruit. Desirefor fruit. Desire for lemon
juice.-80. Desire for acid things. Diminished taste; pappy
taste in the mouth. (a. I h.) (Constantly a sourish taste in
the mouth, with confluence of a quantity of watery saliva.
Tasteless saliva; tastelessness in the mouth. Taste and coolness in the mouth, as is occasioned by peppermint.--85. Putrid, herb-like taste in the mouth, almost like tussiloga petasites.
(a. 3 h.) Smarting taste as of peppermint in the mouth,
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the mouth, which continues and unites with nausea and inclination to vomit. Putrid taste in the mouth, as of manure.
Empty eructations (immediately). Eructations even before
breakfast; sour eructations in the afternoon.-90. Bitter eructations. Empty eructations in the evening after lying down in
bed, followed by a scraping sensation in the region of the
larynx, almost as after heartburn. (a. 12 h.) (Eructations
tasting of the ingesta.) Constant flow of saliva from the
mouth, like water-brash. Nausea, with hunger and pressure
in the region of the stomach, while eating, disappearing after
eating.-95. Disposition to vomit after breakfast, going off
after dinner. (a. 12 h.)  Great nausea before breakfast. Inclination to vomit with a bilious taste in the mouth. Two
paroxysms of vomiting, three or four turns of vomiting each
time; the nausea continued between the paroxysms; the things
vomited smelled sour.1 Vomiting of bile, afterwards of tenaciots mucus.-100. Every vomiting was preceded by shuddering over the whole body. He has to lie down even at the
commencement of the vomiting; after the vomiting he feels so
debilitated that the femora feel as if they would escape from
the acetabula. Hiccough. Hiccough in the morning when
smoking. (a. 24 h.) Cardialgia.
[Hiccough, continuing a long while. Fullness in the chest
that he would like to eructate all the time, without any nausea.-115. Frequent disposition to nausea. Powerful eructations, mostly empty. (a. 6j h.) Empty eructations after a
meal. Frequent expectoration of mucus, after frequent eructations. Constant eructations, with disposition to vomit, and accompanied with excessive cough.-120. Voracity. Voracity
without thirst. Hunger and great thirst. No desire for warm
food at noon, but so much the more for fruit. Desires only cold
things, herrings, sardines, fruit.-125. Continuous greediness
for sour cucumbers. Has no appetite or hunger; did not relish
his food. Drinking is followed by shuddering or goose-skin. Diuresis, accompanying hunger and thirst. He feels qualmish; he
would like to eat, still he has no appetite for food.-130. He eats
a good deal, still he complains of hunger and emptiness of the
stomach. Qualmishness in the pit of the stomach. Nausea.
Constant nausea and ptyalism, the appetite and thirst being
normal. Great nausea and disposition to vomit, with great
thirst.-135. Great nausea, with profuse flow of saliva. Nausea, with great thirst and diuresis, for three days. Great nauSThe vomiting was appeased by drinking cold milk, but the patient
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sea, with red, sweaty face. Disposition to vomit, and hoarseness; a good deal of cough. Disposition to vomit, foam coming out at his mouth.-140. Disposition to vomit, with lockjaw. Disposition to vomit and ptyalism, with lock-jaw. Excessive desire to vomit, even unto fainting. Vomiting. Vomiting of the ingesta.--145. Vomiting of the ingesta with green
mucus. Vomiting of all the food he had taken, and long sleep.
Vomiting of the ingesta, with mucus and green matter. Vomiting of green mucus. Vomiting of green mucus, afterwards
of copious froth.-150. Vomiting of green mucus, followed by
chilliness. Vomiting of froth, followed by vomiting of a yellow-green, sour-smelling mucus. Nightly vomiting of tenacious mucus. Vomiting of white mucus at night. Vomiting
of white mucus, with good appetite.-155. Vomiting of darkgreen mucus and diarrhea, in spite of which he has an appetite for eating and drinking. Vomiting of a good deal of mucus,
with excessive weakness. Vomiting of black-green mucus.
Black vomit. Vomiting of bile and mucus, then of black bile,
and lastly of blood.-160. Cholera. Violent, excessive vomiting. Cold hands previous to the vomiting; after the vomiting the hands became hot, with orgasmus sanguinis. Vomiting with heat of the body.]
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN: 105. Clawing pain in the pit
of the stomach, especially when walking. Pain in the stomach,
as from canine hunger. Feeling of weakness in the stomach
with internal coldness in the region of the stomach, and a slight
pressure. Violent pressure in the pit of the stomach, extending as far as the sternum, the infra-costal region and the
ossa ilii. (a. 8 h.) Pricking in the region of the spleen, after
a moderate meal, when walking in the open air.-110. Tensive pain in the hypochondria, as of flatulence. Painful pressure and drawing around the pit of the stomach. Pain in the
hypochondria and in the chest, owing to a deficient emission
of flatulence. Pain in the abdomen, now here, now there, as if
the parts were being cut with knives (immediately). Drawing tearing pain deep in the abdomen, for minutes, most
violent above the pubic bone. (a. 1 h.)-115. Cutting colic.
(a. 12 h.) Cutting colic with diarrhoea, early in the morning
at four o'clock. Flatulent colic affecting the bowels and the
whole of the abdomen, now here, now there; the flatulence is
emitted with so much more difficulty as it passes of more tardily. (from 6 to 12 h.) The intestines are painful, as if bruised,
when the flatulence refuses to come off. Painful pressure in the
region of the coecum, as if caused by a spasmodic incarceration
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(the first hours). The flatulence passes off with great force
upward and downward. Jerking in the abdominal muscles
with a warmth in the chest which is not disagreeable. (a. j h.)
Sensation before stool deep in the abdomen, as if he would
faint. Writhing sensation in the abdomen and back, previous
to stool, with great weakness; he felt lighter and stronger after
stool.-125. Anxiety during an evacuation, with apprehension of apoplexy.
[Distention of the abdomen.-165. Distention of the abdomen, with ptyalism. Swelling of the abdomen, with colic
and emission of flatulence. Loud rumbling in the abdomen.
Colic, with loud rumbling. Painless grunting in the abdomen,
as of wind. (a. I h.)-170. Grunting and pinching in the abdomen, as of flatulence, accompanied with rare and scanty
emission of flatulence. Rumbling in the abdomen, as if he
had diarrhaea, accompanied with frequent emission of wind.
(a. 6 h.) Cardialgia. Burning in the pit of the stomach.
Complains of pain in the stomach, still he eats, drinks, and
sleeps a good deal. Pains in the stomach and intestines.
Pinching in the abdomen, at times below, at times above the
umbilicus, in the afternoon, shortly after a meal; when sitting,
it was felt at a different place than when walking, and vice
versa. Colic, thirst, and diuresis.-180. Nightly colic, with
sleeplessness. Colic in the umbilical region. Lancinating
pain in the abdomen, soon after a meal. (a. 29 h.) Cutting
colic in the umbilical region, with diuresis and thirst. At times
he experiences a sticking colic, at times sticking pains here
and there in the body, accompanied with a smarting in the
throat, as of pepper.-185. Dull aching pain, as if bruised in
the intestines in the pubic region, the whole morning, accompanied with a sensation in the left groin as if inguinal hernia
would form, mostly when sitting. Colic around the umbilicus,
as of flatulence, without any considerable tightness of the abdomen. (a. 6 h.) Pinching in the abdomen, as in diarrhoea,
but without desire for stool. (a. 2 h.) Drawing-aching colic in
the evening during a walk. Colic from* the back towards the
umbilicus.-190. Drawing-pinching colic, followed by flatulence and expulsion of tenacious faeces, which adhere to the
rectum considerably. Frequent sensation in the abdomen as if
diarrhoea would set in, but without urging; a sort of laxness and
rumbling in the abdomen. Sudden (pinching?) colic early in
the morning, in bed, followed immediately by urging; during the
colic he expelled yellow-green papescent faeces, the last portion
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quence; a bruising sensation in the bowels above the pubic
bones, and a qualmish sensation in the pit of the stomach remained. (a. 20 h.)]
STooL; Unperceived discharge of loose faeces together with
the wind. (a. 4, 16 h.) Quick, frequent loose stools (the first
hours). Flatulence after dinner, accompanied with unperceived discharge of liquid stool; afterwards discharge of acrid
foeces with tenesmus. (a. 12 h.)-130. Burning at the anus
during stool. (a. 12 h.) Obstructio alvi, owing to the hardness and size of the faces. (a. 3, 14 h.) Urging in the epigastrium; nevertheless the expulsion of faces is either difficult or does not take place at all, as if owing to a want of activity of the rectum, which does not seem to participate in the
peristaltic movement of the rest of the intestines. (a. 4, 15 h.)
Dull colic,- on account of the abdomen being distended by
wind, as if the bowels were bound, with uneasiness. Suppression of all the secretions.'-135. Diarrhoea with pain, the
pain existing during and after stool. Paroxysmal indications
of inguinal hernia. Motion as if a hernia would become incarcerated. Stitches when coughing, starting through the abdominal ring along the spermatic cord. (a. 3 h.) Pressing
against the anus, with blind hmmorrhoids.-140. Blind haemorrhoids. (a. 10 h.)
[Excessive alvine discharges. Frequent and painful diarrhoea.-195. Frequent and violent diarrhoea (immediately).
Loose stool. Diarrhoea with profuse sweat. Chilliness and
shuddering with the frequent stools.-200. Extreme weakness when going to stool. During stool he turns pale. Diarrhoea, with appetite for food or drink. Violent, bloody diarrhoea.-205. The first portion of the stool is of large size;
the latter consists of thin strings, although they have the proper consistence and color. Constipation on the first day. Costiveness with diuresis. Heat and pain in the head with the
costiveness. Chronic constipation.-210. The evacuations
are accompanied with a cold, profuse sweat on the forehead.
Burning at the anus during stool (smarting pain at the anus).]
URINARY ORGANS: Burning urine. The scanty urine is
yellow and turbid, even while emitting it. (a. 24 h.) Acrid
urine. Stitch in the orifice of the urethra, after micturition.145. Pinching pain in the urethra, between the acts of micturition. Pain in the urethra as if constricted behind the glans,
accompanied with ineffectual desire to urinate, the bladder
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[Painful pressure in the bladder, and burning during micturition. Burning in the forepart of the urethra during micturition. (a. 3 h.)-215. Involuntary micturition. Diuresis,
With loud rumbling in the abdomen. Diuresis, with profuse
coryza.]
GENITAL ORGANS: Soreness of the prepuce. Drawing
pain in the testes. Erections.-150. Greater sensitiveness of
the genital organs. (a. 12, 15 h.) Reappearance of the menses
about new-moon, after having been suppressed a long time.
Headache (tearing?) especially in the morning, accompanied
with a disposition to vomit, during the menstrual flow, which
had delayed six weeks; the headache abates in the evening.
[Profuse menses.-220.   Reappearance of the menses
which had been suppressed for many years. The appearance
of the menses is preceded by bleeding at the nose. The menses
appear too soon, on the thirteenth and ninth days. Pimples on the right labium, before the menses. The menses are
preceded by vertigo (toward noon) and sweat (at night).-225.
The menses are accompanied by buzzing in the ears, pain in
all the limbs and great thirst. Grinding of the teeth, and bluish
face, toward the end of the menses.]
CATARRH, LARYNX, TRACHEA: Catarrh. (a. 8 h.) Catarrh in the chest, without any real (involuntary) cough; the
viscid mucus has to be hawked up, (a. 8 h.)-155. Scraping
in the throat, as in catarrh. Tickling in the lower parts of
the bronchial tubes, inducing cough, with slight expectoration. (a. 1, 6 h.) Dry and hacking cough, excited by a titillation
in the lowest region of the sternum (immediately). Tickling
in the lower part of the bronchial tubes, inducing cough, without expectoration. (a. 24 h.) Oppression of the chest, when
coughing.-160.   Short breath (a sort of oppression of the
chest) when performing the least exercise, even at home; the
cough does not cease until he sits quite still. Spasmodic constriction of the larynx, with contraction of the pupil. Paroxysms of constriction of the larynx, sufocative fits, with protruded eyes. (a. j h.) Arrest of breathing. The breathing is
almost entirely extinct.
[The exterior of the nose feels dry and hot, as in dry coryza. (a. 6 h.) Strong and frequent sneezing.]
CHEST: 165. Spasmodic contraction of the intercostal
muscles of the left side, arresting the breathing. (a. 3 h.)
Painful constriction of the chest. Cramp-like contractive pain
in the left chest, returning periodically (immediately). Many
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rising. (a. 5 d.) Clawing pain in the region of the sternum,
more after drinking than after eating.-170. Aching pain in
the region of the sternum after eating or drinking. Pressure
in the region of the sternum. (a. 2 h.) Pressure under the last
rib, which ends in a stitch, worst during an inspiration. (a. 24
h.) Cutting pain in the chest. (a. 15 h.) Pain under the ribs,
especially during an expiration.-175. Several paroxysms of
sticking pain in the right chest a day, arresting the breathing.
Stinging-beating pain in the left chest, at a small spot. (a. 5 h.)
Excessive anguish arresting the breathing. Violent beating
of the heart, raising the ribs; the heart causes the hand to
start back without pain. Heaviness of the head in the nape of
the neck; the cervical muscles refuse to support the head.180.  The muscles of the nape of the neck feel paralyzed.
Rheumatic stiffness of the nape of the neck, occasioning vertigo, especially during motion. Stinging around the neck and
in the outer parts of the chest, as of nettles, abating when
gently rubbing the parts with the hand (with redness and
rash-like pimples which could only be felt). Pain in the outer
parts of the neck, as if the skin were sore. Pain between the
scapulae, which becomes dragging when turning.
[Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and hurried,Jaudible breathing.-230. Oppression of the chest, after a burning
in the throat and a gnawing pain in the stomach. Asthma
and difficult breathing even when sitting, accompanied with
headache. Asthma: he cannot take sufficient breath, on account of the windpipe being closed up with tenacious mucus.
(a. 4- h.) Painful and difficult breathing. Soft pressure on
the chest, when standing, and oppression of the chest. (a. 11j
h.)-235. Oppression of the chest, when walking, and pressing in the same, as if too full, arresting the breathing. Suffocative oppression of breathing.  Constriction of the throat.
Suffocative constriction of the throat.-240. Pulsative pressure in the left chest, in the region of the fourth rib, as with a
dull point: when touching the part, it felt sore and as if there
were subcutaneous ulceration. Paroxysms of anguish about
the heart, which beats very strongly, with a sensation as if it
were very warm. (a. 4 h.) Stitches in the right side. Pain
in the side, with pains in the region of the stomach. Pain in
the region of all the ribs.-245. Pain in the side, in the mamme and thighs. Sharp, slow stitches, near the nipple, itching
at last. Pain in the left chest, afterwards in the back. Frequent pain in the chest. Painful pressure in the upper part of
the sternum, occurring regularly as beats in music.-250.
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cough. Pain in the side, and headache, with almost dry
cough. Pain in the left side when coughing, with weakness
and difficulty of breathing. Three or four turns of a deep,
hollow cough in the evening, which seems to proceed from the
abdomen.-255. Long turns of hollow cough, with cutting
pain in the abdomen. (a. 6 h.) Titillation in the chest, as if
cough would set in, in the middle of the sternum. (a., and 1
h.) Severe cough in the evening, for three hours, with ptyalism. Hoarse, dry cough at night. Severe, dry cough in the
night and morning.-260. Frequent expectoration after a dry
cough. Cough with profuse expectoration, blue face and involuntary emission of urine. Burning in the region of the
scapula.]
[BACK:-185. During exercise he feels a rheumatic
pain between the scapulac from the nape of the neck to the
small of the back; it is especially violent when going to stool.
Violent pressure in the region of the scapula, as if crushed and
bruised. Paralytic and bruising pain in the sacro-lumbar articulation and the knee-joint. Pain in the small of the back
when walking on a level, not when sitting (in the morning).
Stitch in the small of the back when stooping, continuing a
long while.-190. Aching pain in the small of the back when
standing.]
[Pain from the scapulae along the whole of the back, with
diuresis, thirst and costiveness. Colic in the umbilical region,
after pain in the small of the back.-265. When stooping and
then rising again, he feels an aching in the back, and as if the
back were broken. A painful drawing pressure and a bruising pain is experienced in the spine when walking; the pain
goes off by pressure. (a. 11 h.) Pain in the loins. Pain in
the loins and arthritic tearing pains in the lower limbs.
Bruising pain in the left side of the small of the back, when
stooping or when rising again.-270. Intermittent stitches in
the region of the os coccygis, when standing, more itching than
stinging.
UPPER LIMBS: Cutting pain in the top of the shoulder,
one cut. Arthritic pain in the deltoid muscles of the upper
arms, and in the knee. Paralytic and bruising pain in the
arms; he cannot raise them and keep them raised without
pain or effort. Paralytic and bruising pain of the left upper
arm, when stretching it.-195. The arms feel cold when
raising them. Feeling in the arm as if it were too full and
swollen. Pain in the middle of the left forearm, as if the
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further on toward the elbow.-200. (Dry herpes between the
thumb and index-finger, on the hand.) Corrosive itching of
the inner side of the wrist. (a. 24 h.) Tingling in the hands
and fingers. Tingling in the hand as if it had gone to sleep.
Tingling in the fingers, causing anxiety.-205. The fingers
feel dead, and as if gone to sleep. (a. I h.) The metacarpal bones are painful to the touch. (a. 20 h.) Red,
painless blotches on the dorsa of the fingers between the second and third joints. (a. 20 h.) Tensive pain in the middlefinger when moving it. (a. 20 h.) Pain in the joint of the
thumb as if sprained.-210. Burning-itching pain in the first
joint of the little finger, as if it had been frozen. Painful
paralytic weakness in the upper and lower limbs, as from excessive fatigue; he is scarcely able to drag them.
[Single stitches in the left shoulder-joint, even in rest.
(a. 4 h.) Concealed, indescribable pain in the right axilla.
Convulsions in either arm. Heavy pain in the middle of the
left humerus, moving from above downward. (a. 1 h.)-275.
Drawing pain in the bend of the elbows, when drawing them
up; sensation as if there were a swelling in the bends, and as
if this prevented him from drawing them up; accompanied
with a paralytic feeling in the arm. (a. 15 h.)]
LOWER LIMBS: Diffcult walking; first the right, then
the left hip-joint feels paralytic. The thighs and hips feel
as if they would break down; a paralytic pain is experienced
in them. Weakness in the thighs and knees.-215. Vacillating gait. Cracking in the region of the knee. Cutting
pain in the knee, one cut. (Sticking in the knee and ankle.)
(a. 5 d.) Occasional drawing in the knees, when standing,
walking and sitting.-220. Tension in the bends of the
knees when standing and walking, as if they were too short.
Bruising pain in the knees when going down stairs. (a. 4 h.)
Painful jerking in the right knee. Visible raising of the knee
when sitting, once every quarter or half hour, without pain;
she started every time; it ceased in the evening after lying
down. Electric starts, followed by a bruising pain in the knee
and elbow.-225. Pains in the feet, especially the knees, as
if too weary, as if large stones were tied fast to the parts; he
has to lay them hither and thither to find relief. (a. 48 h.)
When treading he experiences a pain below the knee, in the
bone, as if it had been broken and were not yet firmly united.
Painful heaviness of the legs, as if too weary. Pain in the
calves and tibime, as if they would break down. Creeping in
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morning. Tearing pain in the tibiae, from above downward.
Cramp in the calves. The feet swell rapidly and become thin
again in a few hours. Jerkings in the weak foot, when standing, in quick succession, not when walking. (a. 3 d.)-235.
Coldness in the feet, as if cold water were flowing about in
them, with trembling. Tensive pain in the extensor muscles
of the toes, when walking. Burning in the ankle. Sticking
pains in the big toe. (a. 5 h.) Return of gout.-240. Burning itching in the left heel, deep-seated. (a. 2 h.)
[Cramp-like drawing in the glutei muscles, when standing.
Visible pulsative jerking of the vastus externus, when sitting
or standing; the muscle rose and descended again, regularly
as the pulse; painless, and returning immediately after walking. (a. 9 h.) Rheumatic drawing pain in the muscles of the
thigh, when standing. (a. 3 h.) Cramp-like painful pressure
in the thigh or calf when bearing on that foot, less while standing. (a. 3 h.)--280. Pain in the thighs, when sitting, as if
broken. (a. 8 h.) Cramp-like drawing pain in the right thigh,
when standing, commencing in the bend of the knee. (a. 12
h.) Cold smarting sensation in the outer parts of the kneejoint. Burning of the tibia, in the evening, as if they had
been exposed to a severely cold temperature. (a. 14 h.) Bitingitching and creeping sensation in the calf, when standing. (a.
4 h.)-285. Painful drawing transversely through the tarsal
joints, when sitting. (a. 11 h.) Pain of the tarsal joints, when
walking, as if sprained, after previously stretching the feet
backward while sitting, so as to rest them on the dorsa of the
toes. (a. 15 h.) Short-lasting, sticking pains in the toes of
the right foot, when standing, for two hours. (a. 14 h.) Violent stitch in the corn of the left foot, when sitting. (a. 14 h.)
Sore pain in the corn, when standing on tip-toe. (a. 15 h.)]
GENERAL SYMPTOMS: Corrosive itching in the skin. (a.
12 h.) Cutaneous eruptions, resembling itch. Clusters of
painful pimples, here and there. Rash; itching also in daytime when one is warm (only in the joints?); the places burn
after scratching them, and blotches made their appearance, as
if occasioned by nettles.-245. Itching in the bones. Pain
in the muscular parts of the body, composed of pressure and
a bruised feeling. Sensation in the bones as if bruised. (a. 2
h.) Shootings in the body, here and there. Drawing pain in
the limbs.-250. Drawing pain in the limbs during a rapid
walk, disappearing when continuing to walk. Tearing pain
in the extensor muscles when sitting. (Pain in the limbs upon
which one rests, as if the couch were hard as stone.) Pressure
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immediately, momentarily. (a. 8 d.) Stiffness of the limbs, especially in the forenoon and afternoon.-255. The limbs go
to sleep. Pain in all the limbs as if exhausted by too great
fatigue.
[290. When walking, his feet and knees feel heavy and
awkward. His arms and feet always feel as if gone to sleep,
also wheli lying down. (a. 8 h.) Heat and tingling in the
whole body as far as the tips of the fingers and toes. Itching
of the arms and feet as if an eruption would break out, but
without redness. (a 2 h.) Scaling off of the epidermis.-295.
Burning sensation.  Stretching of the limbs.  Cramp-like
drawing above the joints, in the limbs, from above upward,
during motion. (a. 10, 12 h.) Convulsions in the limbs and
profuse sweat; afterwards headache, vertigo, and a good deal
of drinking.]
WEAKNESS, FITS: Chronic weakness. The open air affects him like one who is just recovering from a severe illness.
Sweats easily during motion.-260. Feels weak, as if the air
had been too hot. Fainting fit. Slow motion of the body.
Relaxation of the muscles. Excessive weakness.'-265. He
falls down from weakness.   Paralytic failing of strength.
Sudden failing of strength, inducing sleep, in the forenoon.
Debility in all the limbs. Inclines to lie down.-270. 'Sleepy
weakness in the morning, preventing'him from rising.
[Spasms, convulsions.--300. Epileptic convulsions. Trembling in all the limbs, horrid anguish about the heart, and disposition to faint. Weakness all over, as after a long walk. (a.
2 h.) Debility of the whole body, especially of the arms and
hands; he was not able to lift up even a book. He is unable
to rise for eight hours; has either to sit or to lie down; when
rising he is tormented by a horrid anguish, the forehead being
covered with a cold sweat, and a nausea unto vomiting befalling him. (a. 3 h.)-305. The debility continued when lying.
down, but all the other symptoms ceased; they came on again
when rising; they ceased likewise when sitting, but the headache remained.   Excessive weakness.   He apprehends a
swoon. Fainting. Apoplexy.-310. The pulse collapses, almost. Imperceptible pulse. There is the usual number of
pulsations, but the pulse is weak and almost imperceptible. (a.
8 h.)]
SWhich seemed to yield to iron.
2 The general spasms of Veratrum seem to set in shortly before death,
and seem to be a secondary symptom, indicating an inability on the part
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SLEEP: Coma vigil. Coma vigil: one eye is open, the
other is closed half or entirely, and he frequently starts as in affright. (a. - h.) Anxiety after going to bed, until midnight;
coma vigil, with drawing movements in the abdomen, causing
a humming in the head.) Drowsiness, with starting as in affright, preventing sleep; afterwards febrile paroxysms.-275.
Sweat all over, in the evening, when he wants to g6 to sleep.
Sweat in the morning, especially in the face; also in the daytime his face inclines to sweat. Heat and sweat, in the evening
when in bed, but more heat. While sleeping he stretches his
arms above his head (the first hours). Moaning during sleep.
-280. Vivid and anxious dreams about robbers; he woke as
in affright, and imagined still that the dream was true. He
dreams that he is chased violently.
[Yawning and stretching after the siesta. Yawning, which
was frequently so violent that it occasioned a roaring in the
ears.-315. Repeated yawning and stretching, with weakness
and a bruised feeling in all the limbs, as if he had not slept
enough (in the morning). General debility, as if he had not
slept enough; his mind was otherwise bright (in the morning).
His mind was so lively for two evenings in succession that he
was unable to go to sleep before midnight; accompanied with
an intolerable feeling of heat, in the bed (he tried to uncover
himself), with restless tossing about.  Long, uninterrupted
sleep.-320. Sleeps for three days, even during his epileptic
fits.' Quiet sleep, with thirst and diuresis. He fell asleep on
his chair, with half consciousness. His sleep is disturbed with
anguish and emotion; he complains that the blood in all his
veins, especially about the head, is burning, that a spasm arises
from the chest towards the throat, with great heat of the head
and hands; heat and anguish disappeared in the open air, and
were followed by frequent yawning. Indistinct dreams; he
wakes unusually early in the morning.-325.    Frightful
dreams, followed by vomiting of tenacious, green mucus.
Frightful, anxious dreams at night, for instance, that he was
bit by a dog and was not able to escape.   Quarrelsome
dreams.]
FEVER: Yawning. (He wakes in the night with a good
deal of chilly trembling in the right arm.)-285. Febrile motions. The pulse is very slow and almost collapsed. (a. 4 and
several hours.) Shuddering, cold thrills in the skin, for instance, of the face. (a. 2 h.) Cold sweat.  Coldness of the
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times for a long time.' Quotidian fever, before midnight.
Heat, and redness in the face in the evening (and shuddering
over the whole body); also in the morning, when in bed,. the
face feels hot. Heat in the sinciput and forehead, going over
first into a warm, afterwards a continuous cold sweat on the
forehead. Redness and heat of the face, with slight chills.295. Heat and redness in the face and heat in the hands, with
an unsolicitous mood, which makes him heed only the nearest
things, and a tendency to start. (a. 1 h.)
[The whole body feels cold to him and others. (a. 11 minutes.)-330. Coldness over the whole body, soon after taking
the medicine. Internal cold thrill from the head to the toes of
either foot, with thirst (immediately efter taking the medicine).
Chilliness over the whole body. Chilliness and shuddering
early in the morning. Constant chills in the back and over
the arms.-335. Chilliness and shuddering the whole day,
with drawing pain in the outer parts of the neck and in the
back. Chilliness in the limbs, and a drawing pain in the
same. Chill early in the morning after rising, while dressing.
Occasional alternation of chilliness and heat, accompanied with
vertigo, constant anxiety and disposition to vomit. Sudden
alternation of complete paleness of the face, and heat and redness.-340. Chill in the morning, and coldness with thirst,
for half an hour, without any subsequent heat, with weakness
in the limbs, especially the thighs. (a. 24 h.) A dood deal of
desire for cold drinks (immediately). Much thirst, in the afternoon and evening. Heat and glow, and redness of the cheeks,
with contracted pupils and cold feet. (a. 10 h.) Internal heat;
nevertheless he does not want to drink.-345. Heat and
sweat all over, without thirst, pale face. (a. 2 h.) Heat in the
back, as if sweat would break out, in the evening, during a
slow walk in the open air. Sweat of the hands. Profuse
sweat all over, toward morning.  Sweat having  a bitter
smell toward morning.-350. Cold sweat. As soon as he
rises from his seat, a cold sweat breaks out on his forehead.
Cold sweat all over. Cold sweat all over the head and trunk.
Sour sweat.-355. Sweat with burning in the skin. Longlasting night-sweat. Profuse, continuous sweat, during a long
sleep. Profuse sweat, with thirst and good appetite.-360.
Sweat with excessive thirst.]
MORAL SYMPTOMS: Silence. He does not talk, except
when irritated, and then he scolds. He gets vexed when proSI have observed it sometimes in the evening, sometimes in the
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voked. (a. 4 h.) He hunts up other people's weak sides, and
reproaches those persons with those weak sides.-300. Desire
to work. Anxious uneasiness to be busy. Activity and mobility of the limbs, the pains and emotions diminishing. Excessive sensitiveness; increase of the mental powers. He is
extremely lively, eccentric, wild.-305. Tremor of the whole
body. Fear. Despair. Melancholia, and chilliness as if cold
water were poured over him, accompanied with frequent desire to vomit. Sadness, despondency, grief, with involuntary
weeping and disposition to lay down his head.-310. She is
disconsolate about her imaginary misfortune; she runs about
the room howling and screaming, her looks turned to the floor,
or she sits in a corner absorbed in reverie, moaning, weeping
and lamenting; worst in the evening; sleeps only until two
o'clock. He moans and is beside himself, he cannot restrain
himself. (a. 2, 3 h.) Anxiety, as if he had committed an
evil deed. Anxiety, as if he apprehended some misfortune.
Sensation in his whole frame as if he were going to his end;
however he is composed.-315. Soft grief, until he sheds
tears. (a. 24 h.)
[Anxiety. Anxiety and vertigo. Excessive anguish in
the evening and after dinner. Great anguish, the whole night.
-365. Great anguish, early in the morning. Slight delirium. He is very noisy, wants to escape, and can scarcely
be held back. He curses and swears the whole night, and
complains of a stupid feeling in the head, with headache and
ptyalism. Stamps with his feet (with want of appetite).370. Continuous rage, with great heat of the body. Rage:
he tears his clothes and does not talk. He bites his shoes
to pieces, and eats them. He eats his own faeces. He does
not know his relatives.-375. Insanity: he says he is a
hunter. He pretends to be a prince, and demeans himself
with pride. He pretends he is deaf, and blind, and has cancer. She pretends to be in labor. She boasts of being pregnant.-380. She says she will soon be confined. She kisses
any body, previous to the appearance of the menses. Bright
redness and heat of the face, with constant laughing. Alternation of laughing and moaning. He sings and whistles joyfully, in the night.-385. She clacks with her hands over her
head and sings; accompanied with cough and tenacious mucus in the chest. Frequent paroxyms; she runs about in the
room until she falls down. She screams and runs about, with
a dark-blue face. Uneasiness of mind, oppression and anxiety. Anxiety, screaming and running about.-390. Screaming and running about, with paleness of countenance and timo


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rousness. Timorousness terminating in frequent eructations.
Tendency to start and timorousness. Loquacity. Taciturnity: he dreads to talk; talking is very hard for him; he
speaks with a low and feeble voice.-395. Cannot bear being
spoken to. Every little thing irritates him. (a. 1 h.) Vexed
at the least trifle, accompanied with palpitation of the heart,
and hurried, audible breathing. Cheerfulness, sagacity. His
head feels bright, when he is busy: but when he has nothing
to do, he feels stupid and is taciturn. (a. 2, 15 h.)-400.
Eager to work, with restlessness; he attempts a great many
things, but he gets tired of a thing as soon as begun; he does
not accomplish any thing. A sort of indifference the whole
day; he frequently rubbed his forehead, in order to clear up
his mind.
FROM NOACK AND TRINKS.
INASMUCH as not all the numbers of the work of Drs.
Noack and Trinks are out, we subjoin the following clinical
remarks on Opium and Pulsatilla in the shape of an appendix.
According to Noack and Trinks, Opium is useful for morbid
conditions from the excessive use of spirituous drinks. Consequences of fright and chagrin. Morbid conditions, occasioned
by catching cold while the body was heated. Hydrargyrosis.
Lead-intoxication.  Diminished sensibility, and irritability.
Want of reaction against given drugs. Excessive sensitiveness
to external impressions. Neuralgia of the brain and nerves.
Starting of the body after great surgical operations. Convulsions with sopor, after concussion of the spinal marrow. Convulsions with spasmodic or rattling breathing, coldness of the
face and body. Tetanus. Epilepsy. Coma. Sopor, with
bright-red, bloated countenance, eyes half-open, lower jaw
hanging down. Sleeplessness from excessive liveliness. Intermittent fevers with coma. The febris Werlhoffii, becoming
fatal in the second or third attack. Nervous fever. Typhus
cerebralis. Ecstasy. Frightful visions. Delirium tremens potatorum. Sanguineous cerebral apoplexy. Nervous cerebral
apoplexy. Paralysis. Acute hydrocephalus with sopor. Nervous headache with violent congestion of blood to the head.
Cerebral affections from coup de soleil. Obscuration of the
crystalline lens. Mercurial ptyalism. Cataract. Feculent



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vomiting in miserere. Colica plumba. Neuralgia coeliaca.
Tympanitis: Miserere. Vomiting offaeces and urine. Incarcerated hernia with vomiting of faeces and urine. Paralysis of
the intestinal canal. Constipation. Dysuria. Excessive sexual desire. Suppression of the menses. Metrorrhagia during
pregnancy. Weak, false, spasmodic labor-pains. Eclampsia
parturientium. Fatiguing cough, followed by yawning. Dry
cough, excited by a constant titillation in the trachea. Suffocative catarrh, with rattling, unequal, suffocative breathing.
Suffocative condition in a case of pneumonia. Paralysis of
the lungs.  Spasmodic asthma.    Neurocarditis with great
mental irritation, tremor of the heart and double-beat of the
heart, anxiety, and oppression. Stenocardia. Valuable palliative in organic affections of the heart.
PULSATILLA is especially adapted to the cure of subacute affections, especially with the catarrhal-rheumatic and
gastric character and remitting type; morbid conditions of
the mucous, serous and fibrous tissues, with profuse secretions of the venous system, with irritable weakness of the
cerebral and splanchnic nerves, morbid conditions during
the period of evolution and involution in the life of females, during pregnancy and confinement. It is moreover
suitable as a curative agent to persons with a phlegmatic-melancholy temperament, lymphatic constitution, pale face, blue
eyes, blond hair, timid, weeping disposition, inclining to internal grief and chagrin, mild, yielding, sometimes light and goodnaturedly malicious; in females it is especially indicated, when
the catamenia delay beyond the regular period. Pulsatilla is
particularly indicated in affections characterized by chilliness
and absence of thirst, with evening-exacerbation (which takes
place in most of the catarrhal-rheumatic affections), and when
the patient falls asleep very late. Pulsatilla will be found an
adequate remedy in the following affections: Acute and chronic rheumatisms, acute and chronic gout, St. Vitus' dance, the
lower degrees of chlorosis. Affections of the venous system,
of the veins, and the venous capillaries. Affections of the mucous and serous membranes, with increased secretion. Dropsical accumulations in the thoracic cavity and in the abdominal
cavity, under the skin. Varicella. Measles, rubeolae. Erysipelas phlegmonodes. Old ulcers. Internal suppuration. Chilblains. Somnolence. Sleeplessness. Intermittent fever, with
quotidian, tertian, quartan type, with violent chilliness, slight
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by depression, especially when accompanied with sexual disturbances. Vertigo. Nervous, gastric, catarrhal and rheumatic headache. Catarrhal and rheumatic scrofulous inflammation of the eyelids and eye. Hordeolum. Obscuration of the
cornea. Cataract. Amaurosis. Hemeralopia. Diplopia. Inflammation of the meatus auditorius externus.  Otalgia.
Otorrhcea. Catarrhal and nervous deafness. Rheumatic face
and toothache.  Epistaxis.  Angina catarrhalis.  Gastric,
bilious, and pituitous conditions, with and without fever. Indigestions. Saburral derangements. Spasms of the stomach
and abdomen. Affections of the liver and spleen. Plethora
abdominalis venosa. Mucous diarrhoea. Dysentery.   Mucous hmmorrhoids. Affections of the kidneys. Catarrh of the
bladder. Ischury and dysury. Incontinentia urine in children and pregnant females and lying-in females. Prostatitis
acuta and chronica. Gonorrhoea. Inflammation of the testes.
Hydrocele.  Varicocele?  Amenorrhcea.  Dysmenorrhoea.
Menstrual colic. Delaying and too scanty menses. Metrorrhagia, with venous character. Ailments during pregnancy
and confinement. Absence of labor-pains. Long-continuing
and painful after-pains. Suppression of the lochra. Metritis.
Febris puerperalis. Suppression and deficiency of the secretion of milk. Leucorrhoea. Fluent catarrh. Laryngeal and
bronchial catarrh, with and without profuse secretion of mucus.
Haemoptysis. Phthisis pituitora and purulenta. Whoopingcough. Affections of the right ventricle. Ischias. Perniones.
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LIST    OF   REMEDIES
CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.

OPItiM...
PULSATILLA....
RHEUM....
RHUS TOXICODENDRON..
RUTA.....
SAMBUCUS NIGRA...
SPIGELIA...
SPONGIA TOSTA...
SCILLA MARITIMA.
STAPHISAGRIA..
STRAMONIUM...
TARAXACUM....
THUYA....

Page..  1
S.  23
S.  64
S. 71. 102
S. 113
S.  119
S. 143
S 156
S.165
S 192.206. 214
S.235

VERATRUM.......



JLIST OF NAMES OF DISEASES.

A.
Apoplexy, -
C.
Cataract,
Cerebral affections,
Chiorosis,
Chilblains,
Coma,    -
Constipation,
Colica plumbo,
Cough,
Convulsions,
D.

Febris Werihoffli,
Frightful visions,

255
255

-  255

255
255
256
256
255
256
256
256
255
255
256
251
256
355
255
256

Gout,

G.
H.

256

Hernia,
Hydrargyrosis,
Hydrocephalus with sopor,

256
255
255

M.
Metrorrhagia during pregnancy,              -    256
Measles, rubeolm,   -      256
Mercurial ptyalism,     - 255
Mimerere, -            255,256
No

Delirium tremens potatorum,
Dropsical accumulations, -
Dysuria, -   -    0   -
E.
Eclampsia parturientium, -
Eestasy,
Epilepsy,
Erysipelas, phlegmonodes
IF.

Neurocarditis, -
Nervous headache,
Neuralgia,

256
255
255, 256

P.
Paralysis of the lungs,     256
Paralysis of the intestinal canal,                      256

Fevers,                255, 256



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R.

Rheumatisms, -

- 256

S.
Sleeplessness, -   -    255,256
Sexual desire, excessive,  256
Stenocardia,    -      -   256
Somnolence,     -   -    - 256
Sopor,   -    -   -    -   255
Spasmodic asthma, - - 256
Suppression of the menses,  256
Suppuration, - - - 256
St. Vitus's dance,  -  -   256

Suffocative Catarrh, - - 256
T.
Tetanus,    -        -   - 255
Tympanitis,   -    -   -    256
Typhus cerebralis,   -   - 255
U.

Ulcers,

-     -    - 256

V.
Varicella, - -    -    -   256
Vomiting offieces and urine, 256

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