BOVISTA.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Lycoperdon Bovista, Pers.
Nat. order , Fungi; Common names , Warted Puff ball, Kugelschwamm.
Preparation , Triturations.
Authorities.
1 , Hb, Hartlaub and Trinks, Arzneimittellehre, 3; 2 , Ng., ibid.; 3 , S., ibid.; 4 , Petroz, Journ. d. l. soc. gal., 4, 82, symptoms observed by M. Gerard from inhaling the fumes of the burning fungus; 5 , Ibid., symptoms observed by a young woman from olfaction of the tincture.
MIND
- Emotional.
- Talkative, 3.
- Very open-hearted; she spoke of her own failings, contrary to her custom, 3.
- Averse to everything after dinner, 2.
- Very much exhilarated; life seems very pleasant to her, in the morning, but, towards evening, out of humor and peevish, 3.
- Very courageous and vigorous; he would like to fight with everybody, 3.
- Melancholy the whole day, 3.
- Dull and depressed; and towards evening she became very weary, 3.
- Very much depressed (after three hours); then alternating moods and (after seven hours) great sadness, amounting to melancholy, 1.
- Anguish; she felt as if enveloped in a black vapor, 5. [10.]
- Great sensitiveness ; became easily offended at everything, 3.
- Very apprehensive, and at the same time fretful; she was disinclined to do any work, 2.
- Very irritable; everything affected her, 3.
- Peevish mood, for an hour in the morning after rising (fifth day), 2.
- Ill-humored, fretful, and apprehensive, with confusion of the head, 2.
- Ill-humor, confusion of the head, gloominess, also peevishness and irritability, for fourteen days, 1.
- Peevish, fretful, and ill-humored during a violent headache in the afternoon, 2.
- Fretful, ill-humored, and indifferent to life, 3.
- At one time life seemed very exciting to him, at another very hateful, 3.
- In company she was lively; alone, sad, depressed, and not interested in anything, 3. [20.]
- Extremely indifferent to all external objects (ninth day), 1.
- Intellectual.
- Confused thoughts, 5.
- Stupid feeling, 2.
- Very absent-minded, so that it was impossible for her, even on great exertion, to pay attention to what one was saying or doing (after thirteen days), 1.
- She is very absent-minded, makes mistakes in writing, leaves out whole syllables, and writes several words entirely wrong (after five days), .
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo. [30.]
- The head is somewhat confused and heavy, 3.
- The head was very much confused and dizzy after coition; he was unable to sleep for a long time, 3.
- Head very much confused and empty, with drawing about the whole head, especially in the morning, 1.
- Head very much confused; he could not think correctly, with heaviness and pressure in the forehead, 3.
- The head was very much confused and painful on stooping, mostly in the left temple, 2.
- Vertigo for several minutes, 3.
- Vertigo; the whole room seemed to turn about with him, 3.
- Frequent transient vertigo, 3.
- Frequent vertigo, wherewith all his senses left him, 1.
- Vertigo, even to falling forward, towards evening, 3.
- Vertigo, which drew him backward, 3. [40.]
- Vertigo, on rising, as if everything turned around in a circle with her, and she could not trust herself to stand upright, 3.
- A kind of vertigo, with stupefaction, in the morning on rising from his chair, so that he nearly fell down (second day), 1.
- Sudden attacks of vertigo and feeling of stupidity in the head, on rising; she loses consciousness for a moment, preceding and following a headache, in the morning, 2.*
- Vertigo and feeling of heaviness in the head, while standing, followed by sudden jerking of the head backward, 2.
- Dizziness, in the morning, 1.
- Dizzy and stupid, and a feeling of whirling in the head, after rising from stooping (first day), 2.
- Sensations.
- Heaviness of the head, 5.
- Heaviness of the head (after a few moments), 4.
- Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, 3.
- In the evening, the head is stupid and heavy, and feels as if bruised (second day), 2. [50.]
- Headache, on waking, as after too much sleep, 3.
- Headache, with heaviness of the head, which makes her ill-humored and unable to think continuously; the pain is increased on lying, and is most severe on waking from the midday nap, and is combined with a kind of pulsating beating in the head; its chief seat is in the forehead over the nose, which is at the same time stopped (after fifteen days), .
EYE
- Objective.
- Redness of the eyes, 4.
- Inflammation of the left eye, 3.
- The eyes are closed involuntarily, though without drowsiness (after a few moments), 4.
- Lost in thought; she looked a long time at one point, 2.
- Subjective. [130.]
- Weak eyes, without lustre, or snap, 3.
- A feeling as if something was in the right eye, with lachrymation in it (first day), 1.
- Burning in the eyes, and such great heat in the cheeks that she thought they would burst, 3.
- Heat in the right eye, and a painful contractive feeling in it, for an hour, 1.
- Pressure in the eyes, as if something were in them; with which the left eye is red (after eight days), 1.
- Stitches over the left eye, as with a pointed instrument, 3.
- Excessively painful tearing, deep in the right eye, which extends above it to the forehead, 2.
- Smarting in the eyes, so that he had to keep them shut, 4.
- Orbit, Etc.
- Tension in the left eyebrow, 2.
- Extremely painful pressure and twisting deep in the right orbit; the bone is very sensitive to pressure, during menstruation, 2. [140.]
- Pressive sticking in the right orbit, 3.
- A sudden turning when sitting, or a sensation of a sudden current of air above the left eye, above the root of the nose, 2.
- A feeling of painful contraction, with stitches over the left eye, as if the left frontal eminence would be screwed together; the pain began at the root of the nose, and extended outward behind the left frontal eminence, with lachrymation of the left eye; afterwards the place above the eye was sensitive to pressure; after the pain ceased heat arose over the whole body, with a feeling as if sweat would break out during dinner (fifth day), 2.
- Sticking in a small spot above the left eye, with redness of the cheek, without external heat, after dinner, 2.
- Lids.
- Could not open the eyes well in the morning (sixth day), .
EAR
- Objective.
- Twitching in the left external ear, for ten minutes, 2.
- (A copious purulent offensive discharge from the ear, which had lasted four years, disappeared), 1.
- Subjective.
- Heat and burning from the right ear, extending down to the angle of the lower jaw, 2.
- Drawing in the ears (after three days), 1.
- Stitches in the ears, 3.
- Stitches in the right ear, 1.
- Tearing in front of the right ear, which suddenly disappears, after dinner, 2.
- Extremely painful tearing in the left ear, in the afternoon, 2. [160.]
- Tearing deep in the right ear, and a tensive sensation on the border of the concha, 2.
- A feeling of picking in the left ear, as though something were lying in it, 2.
- Severe itching in the ears, with some difficulty of hearing, 1.
- Hearing.
- He did not hear distinctly, understood many things wrongly, and also made mistakes in speaking, 3.
- (In the ears, especially in the right, frequent noises, like rain), 3.
- Roaring in the left ear, with diminished hearing for a short time, 2.
NOSE
- Objective.
- The septum of the nose where it unites with the upper lip is red and sore, 3.
- *Scabby nostrils, 1.
- A scab in the nostril is frequently renewed, after removal, the sore place burns, 2.
- Coryza, for a few moments only, 4. [170.]
- Stopped coryza, 1.
- Stopped coryza, in the morning, after rising, with frequent sneezing; with which she could draw air only through the right nostril, 2.
- She is frequently obliged to blow the nose, whereby only thin water is discharged, 3.
- Frequent need to blow the nose, though but little nasal mucus is discharged, 2.
- The nose is very much stopped; troubles her in speaking, 3.
- Great stoppage of the nose; she could only get air through with great difficulty; with pressure in the temples, 3.
- At night, the nose is stopped; she cannot draw air through it (eighteenth day), 1.
- The left nostril is stopped, and a few drops of water run out of it (seventeenth day), 2.
- Fluent coryza, 3.
- Fluent coryza; thin mucus is discharged from the nose, 2. [180.]
- Fluent coryza, with confusion of the head, 3.
- The previously profuse, tough, yellow nasal mucus, a quantity of which was discharged, became white and more profuse (after sixteen days), 1.
- Frequent sneezing, 2.
- Sneezing, in the morning, after waking, 2.
- A few drops of blood from the nose every time on sneezing (fifth day), 2.*
- Bleeding of the nose in the morning, 3.*
- Subjective.
- Constant feeling of coryza in the nose, and swelling of it (fifteenth day), 1.
- Burning in both nostrils, as if they were sore, 2.
- A contraction over the nose, with a feeling of heaviness and pressure as though the skin were too short, 3.
FACE
- The face is very pale, in the morning, after rising , for several days (after fourteen days), 1.* [190.]
- Great changes of color in the face, which is at one time red, at another pale, 3.
- Tension and heat rise into the face, 3.
- Locally.
- Boring and digging in both malar bones, 3.
- Cracked lips, 2.
- On the inner border of the left side of the lower lip burning, as in a cut, 2.
- Fine stitches, as with needles, or as from splinters, in the lower lip, 3.
- Violent tearing in the left side of the lower jaw, and in one of the teeth, 2.
- A feeling of throbbing on the left side below the lower jaw; she believes that a gland must be swollen, 2.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- The teeth are frequently coated with mucus, 1.
- The teeth, gums and lips are filled with clotted blood, in the morning, on waking, 1. [200.]
- Slight gnashing of the teeth, now and then, in the evening, as in a chill (after fifteen days), 1.
- A hollow tooth seems longer than the others, 2.
- Toothache, as if the exposed nerves were rubbed, 1.
- In the evening, in bed, toothache, which was only relieved by warmth (after fourteen days), 1.
- The toothache ceased on going into the open air, 1.
- Painful boring in the teeth, in the evening, 2.
- Digging-boring pain in a hollow tooth, with a tearing pain in the right side of the head, and stitches in the ears, very much increased by cold, 3 . Digging pain in a hollow tooth, morning and evening, 3.
- Tearing-digging in the hollow teeth, extending thence into the temples, in the evening in bed, 2.
- Drawing toothache, as if the roots would be torn out, in the evening, 2. [210.]
- Dull drawing pain in the hollow teeth (after twelve hours), 1.
- Painful drawing a few times in a hollow tooth of the right lower jaw, in the evening, 2.
- Very painful drawing toothache awoke her before midnight, and lasted an hour, three nights in succession, 2.
- Violent drawing pain in the hollow back teeth of the left lower jaw, for two evenings in succession , in bed, which lasted till morning, during menstruation, 2.
- Dull toothache, which she had not had for several years, followed by long-continued, elevated, pale swelling of the upper lip and sweat all night, till morning, which was especially profuse on the head (after three weeks), 1.
- Stitches in the sound teeth, especially at night, so that he could not sleep on account of it; the gum bled easily; the pain was relieved if he sucked the blood out of the teeth with the tongue, 1.
- The stitches in the teeth extend into the eyes, 1.
- Pain in the upper front teeth; they pain on touch, and do not bear chewing; with the upper lip beginning to swell, the toothache was somewhat relieved; the swelling increases so that the lip hung far over the lower one and was even with the nose; after the swelling of the lip had somewhat subsided, the left cheek began to swell; all the swollen parts were painful to touch (after fifteen days), .
THROAT
- Sensations.
- Dryness in the throat, on waking, sticking on swallowing, and numbness in the mouth, disappearing after rising and eating, 2.
- Great dryness in the throat, in the morning, on waking, so that the tongue seemed almost like wood, 3.
- Frequent pain in the throat, 1.
- Burning in the throat, 3.
- Sore throat in the evening; painful when swallowing the saliva, as if something were sticking in the throat; he was unable to swallow food easily, 3. [250.]
- Scraping in the throat, with irritation to cough (first day), 1.
- Every morning, scraping in the throat, with mucus, 1.
- The sleep was frequently interrupted by scraping in the throat; she was obliged to hawk up mucus, 3.
- Scraping and burning in the throat, as if he had eaten something too hot, 3.
- Scraping and burning in the throat, causing a dry cough, 3.
- Rawness of the throat, in the morning, after rising, and in the evening, for several days, 2.
- Tickling in the throat, which obliges her to cough frequently, in the afternoon, at five (third day), 2.
- Slight irritation of the pharynx, 4.
- Swelling of the cervical glands, 1.
- Swollen cervical glands, with tension and drawing pains, for six days, 3.
STOMACH
- Appetite. [260.]
- Constant excessive hunger; he was unable to eat enough, and was soon hungry again, 1.
- (Hunger in the afternoon, contrary to custom), 3.
- Hunger towards evening, 3.
- She relished the food, although afterwards she had a pressure in the stomach as if she had overloaded it, 3.
- Appetite without real hunger, 3.
- No appetite; she was obliged to force herself to eat, 3.
- No appetite for cooked food, only for bread (eleventh and twelfth days), 2.
- A child loses its appetite; the whole body becomes hot, with puffy, scarlet face; it lies and vomits mucus and food; followed by excessive sweat through the night, mostly on the head, with nose-bleed twice during sleep (after twenty-seven days), 1.
- Thirst.
- Great longing for water and wine, 3.
- Thirst the whole day (after twenty-one days), 2. [270.]
- Thirst, the whole afternoon and evening, contrary to his usual habit (fourth day), 2.
- Thirst, especially in the evening, 3.
- Thirst, during the chill, 2.
- Thirst for cold water, 3.
- Thirst for milk, in the morning (after four days), 2.
- Much thirst, towards evening, as if she had eaten much salt food, 3.
- Unquenchable thirst (after three hours), 1.
- Loss of thirst, 1.
- He had an unnatural thirst; previously he almost never needed to drink, 1.
- Eructations and Hiccough.
- Empty eructations, several mornings, fasting, 2. [280.]
- Frequent empty eructations , even before breakfast, 2.
- Eructations, tasting of the breakfast, the whole forenoon, 3.
- Eructations of gas, 3.
- Inclination to hiccough; it only, however, amounts to half a hiccough, in the forenoon, .
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Frequent sharp stitches in the right hypochondrium, near the back, 2.
- Stitches, with a peculiar indescribable pain, in the right hypochondrium (twelfth day), 2.
- Some stitches in the left hypochondrium, and, at the same time, in the left elbow, 2.
- Burning stitches in the left hypochondrium, on sitting bent, which disappear on becoming erect, 2.
- Umbilical.
- Very transient burning internally about the navel, at 11 A.M., 2.
- Sticking colic about the navel, 3.
- Stitches about the navel (after one hour), 3.
- Frightful colic in the umbilical region after eating, as if knives were cutting the abdomen, for several minutes (third day), 1.
- Twinges about the navel, with griping, in the morning on waking, as if he should go to stool, 3.
- General Abdomen.
- Distended abdomen, with pain in it (eighth day), 1. [310.]
- Distension of the abdomen, with rumbling in it, which disappeared after passing flatus in the morning (fifth day), 2.
- Great distension of the abdomen, which constantly increases till midnight, and at last disappears after the passage of flatus (eleventh day), 2.
- Severe rumbling and noises in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would ensue, though a diarrhœa-like stool occurred only after several hours, 3.
- Much rumbling in the bowels, as from a purge, always relieved by passage of flatus, 2.
- Very severe rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, with constipation, 3.
- Frequent passage of flatus, 3.
- Very frequent passage of loud flatus, followed by distension of the abdomen and colic, at 5 A.M., 2.
- Much passage of flatus, after lying down in bed, 3.
- Offensive flatus, especially in the morning and evening (first day), 1.
- Offensive flatus, and rumbling in the abdomen, in the evening, 2. [320.]
- Very violent pain in the abdomen, as if everything were dried up, in the evening in bed (eighth day), .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Very violent pressing pain deep in the rectum, extending forward, after the diarrhœa, 2.
- Severe itching in the rectum, as from small worms, on riding, 3.
- Burning in the anus, continuing a long time, after a watery stool, 2.
- Transient stitches through the perineum towards the rectum and genitals, 1.
- Urging to stool without effect, with passage of flatus, at 6 A.M., 2.
- Urging to stool, when only a little thin stool of a yellowish color passed, followed by burning in the anus (fifth day), 2. [350.]
- Painful urging to stool, followed by three attacks of diarrhœa, and afterwards tenesmus and burning in the anus, with prostration of the whole body (twenty-first day), 2.
- After an ordinary stool, a feeling as though diarrhœa would still come on, 2.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Diarrhœa six times during the day, with cutting pains in the abdomen (eleventh day), 2.
- Diarrhœa, with pain, in the morning, with which the abdomen felt as if suppurating, 3.
- Diarrhœa, with colic, in the evening, 3.
- Diarrhœa, with tearing in the abdomen, and tenesmus in the rectum, at night, 3.
- *Diarrhœa, frequently before and during menstruation (nineteenth day), 2.
- Quite watery diarrhœa, four times in succession, with tenesmus and burning in the anus (sixth day), 2.
- Frequent fœcal diarrhœa in the morning (fourth, fifth days), 2. [360.]
- Profuse diarrhœa, morning and evening, 3.
- A stool three or four times a day; he was obliged to make great exertion when the stool, at first hard, then soft, passed, 2.
- A soft stool followed soon after the customary evacuation, 3.
- An ordinary stool, although he had had the usual stool in the morning, before taking it, 2.
- Two liquid stools a day until the thirty-first day, mostly in the forenoon, 2.
- Stool, soft in the morning, hard in the evening (second day), 2.
- Stool normal in the morning, liquid in the afternoon (eleventh day), 2.
- Irregular stool; it occurs at an unusual time of the day and is too hard, 1.
- Stool more copious than usual, 3.
- Stool soft (sixth day), hard (seventh day), 2. [370.]
- Stool softer and more regular than usual, 2, 3.
- It seems to make a hard stool soft, as a secondary action, 1.
- Constipation.
- Constipation for three days, 3.
- No stool the second day, 2.
- No stool on the third day of the menstruation, 2.
- Stool only every second or third day and rather hard, 3.
- The evacuation follows with difficulty and great exertion, .
URINARY ORGANS
- Pain in the region of the kidneys, 3.
- Urethra.
- The orifice of the urethra is inflamed and agglutinated, 3.
- Pain in the urethra on urinating, as if the urine passed over a sore place (fourteenth day), 1. [380.]
- Burning in the urethra when not urinating, 3.
- Burning in the urethra on urinating, 3.
- Burning in the urethra after every urination (second day), 2.
- Stitches in the urethra, 3.
- Itching in the urethra when not urinating, 3.
- Frequent urging to urinate, but only a little urine passed, 3.
- Frequent urging to urinate; she was obliged to rise at night, to urinate, and considerable passed, 3.
- Very frequent urging to urinate, with a profuse discharge of urine, 3.
- After urinating, soon again frequent urging thereto; she, however, passed only a few drops, 2.
- Micturition.
- (Frequent urinating with sudden urging), 1. [390.]
- Increased passage of urine in the afternoon, 1.
- She passed urine four times in the afternoon and much each time (after four days), 2.
- Urine frequently intermitting on urination, 2.
- Urine.
- Urine clear-yellow, with a slowly forming cloud, 2.
- The urine was yellowish green, afterwards turbid, 2.
- Urine turbid, like gruel, with violent sediment, for several days in succession, 2.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Burning in the genital organs, 3.
- A red, hard, painful nodule in the skin of the penis, which suppurates (fourteenth day), 1.
- Emissions two nights in succession, which was once associated with a voluptuous dream (in one who had never had the like before), 1.
- Female.
- A voluptuous sensation in the genital organs, 3. [400.]
- Soreness on the mons veneris during menstruation, 2.
- Some leucorrhœa for eight days, 3.
- Leucorrhœa after menstruation, 2.
- *Profuse leucorrhœa, of a yellowish-green color, so acrid that it almost corrodes the pudenda and thighs, 3.
- Very thick, mucous, tenacious leucorrhœa when walking, 2.*
- Discharge of thick leucorrhœa, like the white of an egg, when walking, 2.*
- (Menstruation four days too soon and more profuse than usual , followed by some leucorrhœa), 3.*
- Menstruation eight days too early, 3.
- Menstruation nine days too early and rather profuse (two days after taking it), 2.
- Menstruation nine days too early and more profuse than usual, 2. [410.]
- Menstruation two days too late, coming on in the evening, on lying down; after midnight painful urging towards the genitals, with great heaviness in the small of the back, which was somewhat relieved the next day with discharge of blood, 2.
- Menstruation five days too late, 2.
- Menstruation was less than usual and did not continue so long, 2.
- Menstruation did not last as long as usual, and flowed mostly at night, 2.
- The menses flow most profusely in the morning, but scanty during the day and night, 2.*
- The menstrual blood was very watery, with weariness of the thighs, 2.
- Traces of menstruation between the menses (ninth, tenth, thirteenth, eighteenth days), .*
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Larynx.
- Great scraping in the larynx as if sore, extending down into the chest, with much tough mucus in the chest, which threatens to suffocate her; this mucus is raised with difficulty and tastes salty, 3.
- Tickling in the larynx provoking cough, 3.
- (Frequent irritation to cough from tickling in the larynx; the mucus which she expectorates is very tough and only loosened with great effort), 3.
- Voice. [420.]
- Hoarseness every morning, 1.
- Catarrhal voice, with roughness in the throat, the whole morning (sixth day), 2.
- Cough.
- Cough, excited by tickling in the trachea, in the evening and morning after rising for several days in succession, 2.
- Cough caused by tickling in the chest, which she could not suppress in the morning on entering into the room from the cold air (seventeenth day), 2.
- Spasmodic cough; difficulty of breathing; deep anxious respiration; in feeble tones she called for help; when the window was raised the fresh air revived her and was very agreeable, 5.
- Dry cough in the evening and morning for an hour, 2.
- Dry cough in the morning after rising for half an hour (twentieth day), 2.
- Respiration.
- Deep, noisy breathing, 5.
- Anxious breathing, 5.
- Oppressed breathing, 3. [430.]
- Shortness of the breath on every exertion of the hands, 3.
CHEST
- Feeling of heaviness on the chest, as if something lay upon it, and she could only breathe deeply, 3.
- Cutting-burning in the middle of the chest, more externally, twice in succession, 2.
- Oppression and heat in the chest, which rises into the head, 3.
- Oppression in the middle of the chest, with fine stitches, on breathing, 2.
- Oppression of the chest; he was frequently obliged to sigh in order to get a full breath, with which he could not bear anything on the chest, and his large waistband seemed too small, 3.
- A severe pressure extends from the pit of the stomach up into the chest after eating; better when walking, worse when sitting; sometimes with a drawing-tearing pain in the left side of the head, 3.
- Stitches in the chest, extending from before backward, increased by deep breathing, during dinner, 3.
- Stitches first in the middle of the chest, then in the right hypochondrium, and afterwards in the left (tenth day), 2.
- Front.
- Burning on the sternum and visible pulsation, especially in the pit of the stomach, 3. [440.]
- Feeling of constriction below the sternum, 3.
- Pressure beneath the sternum and in the stomach, 3.
- Spasmodic pressure beneath the sternum, as if the stomach were overloaded, six days in succession, 3.
- Painful stitches in the middle of the sternum, 2.
- Painful dull stitches, or boring, in the sternum, in the evening (third day), 2.
- Stitches, frequently in succession, in the forepart of the lower portion of the chest, when standing stooped and without influencing the respiration; after dinner, 2.
- Sides.
- A visible pulsation above the right mamma, near the clavicle, 3.
- Stitches in the left side of the chest, 3.
- Stitches in the right side of the chest, and at the same time in the right great toe, 2.
- Stitches, as with an awl, in the upper part of the left mamma, extending through to the back, 3. [450.]
- A burning stitch on the outer portion of the left ribs, 2.
HEART
- Fulness and anxiety in the præcordial region (after one hour), 1.
- Pressure in the præcordial region, with tension in the temples, with pressure on the sternum, 3.
- Sharp pain in the præcordia (after a few moments), 4. [460.]
- *Palpitation, 3.
- Palpitation, with vertigo and headache, 3.
- Palpitation in the heart, with congestion to the head, heat and thirst, with itching in the right eye, 3.
- Palpitation, with trembling of the whole body and uneasiness, 3.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Stiffness in the neck, in the morning, on rising (fourth day), 1.
- Painful tension on the right side of the neck, on moving the head, with twitches in the left ear, 2.
- Tension and pain on pressure, as from a blow in the neck, 3.
- Stitches in the nape of the neck, during rest and motion, in the evening, 2.
- Sharp stitches on the left side of the neck, extending into the left ear, 2.
- Tearing in the tendons of the left side of the neck, 2.
- Back. [470.]
- Sticking and tearing pain on the inner border of the right shoulder-blade, with a feeling as though a piece of it would be torn off, on sitting bent, disappearing on becoming erect, 2.
- Several violent stitches, as with a knife, between the shoulders, in the afternoon, 2.
- (An old pain in the back, with stiffness after stooping, disappeared), (after seventeen days), [°], 1.
- Sticking pains in the lumbar region, increased on turning the body, 3.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Great weariness in the hands and feet the whole day, 3.*
- Suddenly, great weariness in the hands and feet, in the afternoon, 2.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Weariness in the arms, especially in the shoulder-joints, 3.
- Loss of power in the left arm, 3.
- The left arm felt lame and sprained, so that it was with difficulty that he could raise it above the head; the pain increased during the day so much that at last he could scarcely make any movement with the arm; after sweat in the morning, the pain was very decidedly diminished (fifteenth day), 1.
- The right arm was painful and sore to the touch, with pressure in the shoulders, 3.
- Shoulder. [480.]
- A previously morbid onion-like smell in the axillæ was very much increased (after three days), 1.
- She could not move the right arm freely; she had no power in the shoulder-joint, 3.
- Difficult to raise the right arm; she seemed to have no power in the shoulder, 3.
- Sensation in the right shoulder-joint as if it was exhausted by great exertion; she had no strength at all in the arm, and if she took hold of anything it pained, 3.
- Great tension in the shoulder-joint, 3.
- Tension in the shoulder-joints, as if they were too short, on bending the arms backward, 3.
- Violent dull stitches and tearings on the inner border of the left shoulder-blade, deep in the bone, 2.
- Violent tearing in the right shoulder-joint (after twelve days), 2.
- Painful piercing-tearing in the right shoulder-joint, in the afternoon (fifth day), 2.
- Arm.
- Violent pain on the inner side of the left upper arm, as if it would break, in the forenoon, 2. [490.]
- Violent tearing in the outer side of the left upper arm, especially in the bone, in the afternoon, 2.
- Bruised pain in the right upper arm, in the bone, relieved by firmly pressing upon it, in the morning, 2.
- Elbow.
- Very sensitive boring-sticking pain beneath the elbows, on the margin of the radius; it extends to the fingers, white become lame on account of it, for two minutes, 3.
- Stitches in the right elbow, afterwards in the left also, in thee evening, 2.
- Tearing in the left elbow, in the morning, (after three days), .
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Hip.
- An intermitting pain in the right hip, on stooping, as if the sacrum were broken, 2.
- Biting, as from fleas, on the hips and on the abdomen, 3.
- Thigh.
- Slight burning on the thigh, above the knee, 2. [520.]
- A piercing stitch in the middle of the left thigh, on sitting down, 2.
- Sore feeling in the bend of the thigh, during menstruation, 2.
- Sore feeling in the bend of the right thigh; in walking, it feels as though something woollen rubbed against it, 2.
- Knee.
- A feeling of weariness in the hollows of the knees, 3.
- Stiffness and pain in the left knee, if he tries to stretch it out, after it has been bent for some time, 1.
- Sticking pain in the left knee, especially on rising from sitting, 1.
- Violent stitches in the left knee-joint, nearly the whole forenoon, on rest and motion; she thought that she could not endure it (second day), 2.
- Violent sharp stitches on the inner side of the right knee, as if in the bone, 2.
- Sensation above the knee-cap, as if it had been bruised, 3.
- Leg.
- The right leg is very much asleep; the same in any position, for a quarter of an hour, in the afternoon (first day), 1. [530.]
- The whole left leg is so sleepy, with crawling, as from ants upon it, that she cannot stand upon it, 2.
- Very weary pain in the right lower leg, during menstruation, 2.
- Raging or beating pain in the right fibula, with tearing extending up to the knee, in the afternoon (sixth day), 2.
- Cramp in the left leg, 1.
- Cramp in the calves towards morning, in bed; it was so violent that the pain continued till evening, as if the leg were too short (after fourteen days), 1.
- Transient stitches in the left leg, and in the chest, 1.
- Sharp stitches in the middle of the left tibia (second day), 2.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Objective.
- Frequent stretching, without sleepiness, 2.
- Very awkward; everything falls from his hand s, 3.*
- Debility.
- Feels very weary, 1. [550.]
- Very weary the whole day, 3.
- Very weary and exhausted, after a walk (sixth and seventh days), 1.
- Great weariness obliging her to sleep after dinner (fifteenth day), 1.
- Excessive weariness, in the evening, after eating (first day), 1.
- Excessive weariness, during and after dinner (fourth day), 1.
- Such loss of strength that she could neither rise nor hold her head up, 5.
- A sudden attack like faintness, at noon, when sitting down, as if objects turned bottom upwards (third day), 1.
- When trying to walk, she fell down in a swoon; her limbs and body became stiff, 5.
- Although everything was done to restore her, she again fell down and remained motionless; she was in despair, 5.
- Restlessness.
- She found no rest, 3. [560.]
- Uneasiness, anxiety, unpleasant warmth, and heaviness in the abdomen, and alternating sensations of coldness through the whole body, 1.
- Sensations.
- (He feels as if intoxicated by wine), 3.
- General anxiety and weakness of body, eructations, nausea, distension in the abdomen, passage of flatus, frequent yawning, and stretching of the limbs, with irresistible desire to sleep (after two hours), 1.
- Bruised feeling in the whole body, especially in the joints of the arm and the abdominal muscles, on motion and touch (fourteenth day), 1.
SKIN
- *The skin of the fingers becomes unusually dented by the instruments with which she was working (shears or knives), 3.
- Eruptions, Dry.
- Goose-flesh over the whole body, with severe itching, 1.
- The corners of the mouth are broken out, 3.
- Very severely itching small spots, like a tetter, on the right side below the chin; the itching was not relieved by scratching, 2.
- A painful eruption on the temple, 3.
- Itching eruption on the throat, 3. [570.]
- A small reddish swelling, hard to touch, like a boil, on the right leg, 3.
- Pimples over the whole body, with very severe itching, 3.
- Itching and small pimples on the head (after three weeks), 1.
- Large, scattered pimples, papulous, on the forehead, without itching (seventh day), 2.
- Several tensive pimples on the upper and lower lip (after twenty days), 2.
- Several pimples on the left side, near the mouth, without itching, 2.
- An itching pimple, which itches still worse after scratching, on the forepart of the neck, 2.
- An eruption of hard, red pimples, as large as peas, which itch very much, and burn, and then disappear after some days, on the chest, on the left hand, and on the left foot; after scratching the itching is worse, 3.
- *The hands are covered with small, dry, reddish pimples, which gradually disappear after a few days, 1.
- Several pimples, which do not itch, on the back of the hand, and between the middle and ring fingers, 2. [580.]
- An itching pimple above the knee, 3.
- A pimple on the tibia, with a sensation as if burnt, 3.
- *Eruption on both feet of small, red, rash-like pimples, with an itching-burning pain, with which the feet are covered, as far as half way up the calves; lasting two days, scratching does not affect them, 3.
- Moist.
- A number of small vesicles containing water, about the left corner of the mouth (after twenty days), .
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Much yawning, in the evening, 3.
- Frequent yawning, with sleepiness, in the afternoon at five, 2.
- Great sleepiness early in the evening, 3.
- Very sound, quiet sleep at night, and when he arose later than usual in the morning, great weariness, especially in the limbs, 1.
- Sleep after eating, quite contrary to his habit, 3. [620.]
- Sleepiness during dinner (third day), 2.
- Great sleepiness, after dinner (fifth day), 1.
- Sleeplessness.
- Little sleep, 3.
- Uneasy sleep, with much tossing about the bed, 3.
- Very restless night, she awoke every hour, 2.
- When he awoke at night from a very sound sleep, he did not seem to know where he was, 3.
- Dreams.
- Sleep full of dreams, 3.
- Dreams of past and future events, 3.
- Many dreams of subjects of previous conversation, in a sound sleep, 3.
- Tiresome dreams, 2. [630.]
- Anxious dreams of serpents which had bitten her; that she would die; that she had a bleeding wound, etc.; whereupon she awoke and continued anxious a long time after waking (after fifth day), 2.
- Vexatious dreams, and waking every moment through the night, 1.
- Frightful dreams, that she was in a cellar and the walls were falling in; that she was obliged to remain and could not get out, 2.
- Dreams of danger of drowning, and that some one had fallen into the water, 2.
- A dream of ghosts, whereupon she awoke frightened, 2.
- Unremembered dreams (after four days), 1.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- He was chilly the whole day, with cold hands, 1.
- She was constantly chilly on the uncovered parts, on the neck and chest, and was obliged to bind cloths about them, even at night (third and fourth days), 2.
- Although she sat by a warm stove she was chilly the whole day (second day), 2.
- Chilliness at 5 A.M., in bed, three mornings in succession, 2. [640.]
- Chilliness every morning from six to nine, cold to touch externally, with griping in the abdomen, without subsequent heat, and without thirst, 1.
- Chilliness the whole evening , she could not get warm (fourth day), 2.
- Chilliness in the evening, lasting the whole night (eleventh day), 2.
- A shaking chill lasting a few moments, in the evening, on lying down in a warm room (after fifteen days), 1.
- Shivering and coldness, during supper, 3.
- Chilliness with thirst, with tension and stitches in the throat, so that she could not turn her head easily, also with sticking in the chest, 3.
- Constant cold hands and feet, 1.
- Feet very cold at night, could not be warmed, 3.
- *Intermitting fever of eight days' duration; severe chill every evening from seven till ten , commencing with chilliness in the back, the first day with thirst, without subsequent heat or sweat; every time with violent drawing pain in the abdomen (after four days), 1.
- Chilliness, with glowing heat of the face, 3.
- Heat. [650.]
- Orgasm of blood, with thirst, 3.
- Increased warmth in the whole body, in the afternoon (third day), 2.
- Great warmth and sweat over the body, in the evening (first day), 2.
- Frequent flushes of heat, 3.
- Much heat and thirst, the whole day, 3.
- Heat, anxiety and restlessness, the whole day, 3.
- Frequent heat and oppression of the chest, so that he was obliged to be uncovered, whereupon he felt better, .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), For an hour after rising, peevish mood; head confused, etc.; on rising from chair, kind of vertigo, etc.; dizziness; on waking, at 3 o'clock, headache; after walking in open air, pressive headache; pressive headache; on moving about, pain, etc., on left forehead; tearing in forehead; tearing on vertex, etc.; 7 o'clock, on going from room into cold air, beating, etc., in right head; 7 o'clock, stitches in left occiput; itching on head; lachrymation; on rising, seems as though veil before eyes; after rising, stooped coryza; after waking, sneezing; after rising, face pale; on waking, teeth, etc., full of blood; yellow-coated tongue; after waking, burning in tip of tongue, etc.; after waking, numbness of mouth, etc.; on waking, dryness in throat; scraping in throat; after rising, rawness of throat; thirst for milk; fasting, empty eructations; qualmishness in stomach, etc.; nausea, etc.; gurgling in stomach; on rising, stomach feels foul, etc.; on waking, twinges about navel; 5 o'clock, passage of flatus, etc.; offensive flatus; on waking colic pain in abdomen; pain in right arm; pain in abdomen; diarrhœa, etc.; fæcal diarrhœa; profuse diarrhœa; hoarseness; after rising, cough; on entering room from cold air, cough; dry cough; after rising, dry cough; stitches in right ribs; stitches in side of chest; on rising, stiffness in neck; tearing in right elbow; tearing above the wrist; after washing, itching, etc., in arms; 5 o'clock, in bed, chilliness; 6 to 9 o'clock, chilliness; 5 to 6 o'clock, sweat.
- ( Forenoon ), Pain in occiput; eructations; inclination to hiccough; nausea in stomach; nausea, etc.; 11 o'clock, burning about navel; liquid stools; stitches in side of chest, etc.; pain in left arm; stitches in knee-joint.
- ( Noon ), Attack, like faintness.
- ( Afternoon ), During violent headache, peevish, etc.; 2 P.M., twitching in the brain; raging in left temple; till evening, pressure on occiput; in warm room, stitches in occiput; tearing in left ear; 5 o'clock, tickling in throat; hunger; sensation of colic in intestines, etc.; increased passage of urine; stitches between shoulders; weariness in hands, etc.; pain in shoulder-blade; tearing in left arm; right leg asleep; pain in right fibula; 5 o'clock; yawning, etc.; warmth in whole body.
- ( Toward evening ), Out of humor, etc.; weary; dry mouth; thirst.
- ( Evening ), Vertigo; head stupid, etc.; 8 o'clock, pain in left forehead; stitches in middle of forehead; stitches in forehead; stitches in side of vertex; especially in bright light, confusion, etc., in occiput; gnashing of teeth; in bed, toothache; boring in teeth; in bed, digging in hollow teeth; drawing toothache; drawing in hollow teeth; in bed, during menstruation, ; sore throat; rawness in throat; thirst; gurgling on left side; offensive flatus; offensive flatus, etc.; in bed, pain in abdomen; diarrhœa, etc.; profuse diarrhœa; cough; dry cough; stitches in sternum; stitches in nape of neck; stitches in right elbow; tearing in left elbow; tearing etc.; in wrist; stitches in great toes; after eating, weariness; itching all over; itching on the arms; itching, etc., in arms; itching on forearms; yawning; early, ; Shaking chill; warmth, etc., over the body.
SUPPLEMENT: BOVISTA. Authority.
6 , Dr. Roth (Journ. de la Soc. Gall., Mat. Méd. Pure, vol. ii, p. 133), M. Pr. Correspondance practiques, 1828, p. 65.
- Dull headache, like a pressure, below the left eye, toward the temporal region, 6. [660.]
- In the afternoon, a kind of intestinal colic, with urging to stool, 6.
- Transient lancinations extending through the perinæum towards the anus and genital parts, 6.
- More copious discharge of urine, in the afternoon, 6.
- Fulness and anxiety in the præcordial region (in an hour), 8.
- Spasmodic pullings in the tendons of the left carpal joint, 6.
- Numb feeling in the left carpal joint, 6.
- Transient lancinations in the left thigh and leg, as also in the chest, 6.
- Cramps in the left leg, 6.
- General anxiety, general fatigue, eructations, nausea, abdominal inflation, emission of a great deal of flatulence, yawning and stretching, and invincible drowsiness, 6.
- Restlessness, anxiety, unpleasant heat and heaviness in the abdomen, and from time to time sensation of coldness throughout the body, 6.