[Under this head are included symptoms from Ferrum metallicum pulveratum and Ferrum aceticum, since both were used by Hahnemann without distinction. (Ferrum carbonicum is also included; see authority, No. 23.]

Ferrum, The element.

Common names , Iron; Eisen.

Preparation , Triturations of pure metallic iron; solutions of the Acetate and triturations of the Carbonate.

Authorities. ( 1 to 11, from Hahnemann ).

1 , Hahnemann, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. 2; 2 , Fr. H-n., ibid.; 3 , Gross, ibid.; 4 , Rasazemsky, ibid.; 5 , Harcke, in Hufel. Journ., xxv, not found (Hughes); 6 , Lentin, Beitr., vol. 1, p. 75, symptoms not found (Hughes); 7 , Nebel und Wepfer, Diss. de Méd. Chalyb., Heidelb., 1711, not accessible (Hughes); 8 , Ritter, in Hufel. Journ., xxvi, I, effects of Pyrmont and Schwalbach waters; 9 , Scherer, in Hufel. Journ., iii, D. 620, effects of Iron given in chorea; 10 , Schmidt-Müller, in Horn's Archive, 9, 2, from finest powdered Iron (Hahnemann); 11 , Zacchioli, in Kuhn's Magazin für Arzneim., 1, 1794, from a few grains of Iron filings (Nos.

10 and 11 , not accessible, -Hughes); 12 , Provings by the Amer. Provers' Union (Drs. Cox, Dubbs, Howards, Pehrson, Duffield, Miller, Negerdanke, Payne, Raue, and Mr. Koller), "with triturations and dilutions from the first dec. to thirtieth cent., and one with the 200th dil. of Jenichen;" no day-books nor details furnished; 13 , Petruschky, aged 21, took 6 drs. and 2 scruples of Liq. ferri acet., within fifteen days, in doses of 4 to 24 drops, four times a day; Loeffler's provings, Bernardi and Loeffler's Zeit., 1847 (from Frank's Mag., 4, 161); 14 , Loeffler, aged 31, took 1 oz. and 3 drs., in twenty-five days, in doses of 10 to 25 drops, three times a day; then 30 drops, four times a day, followed by a pause of four days, and then commencing with 1 drop, and increasing 1 drop each dose, ibid.; 15 , Rast, aged 25, took 1 oz. in doses of 2 to 26 drops, four times a day, ibid.; 16 , Sturm, aged 21, took 2 ozs., in twenty-five days, in doses of 5 to 30 drops, ibid.; 17 , Herzer, aged 20, took 1 1/2 oz., in doses of 5 to 40 drops, ibid.; 18 , Abel (omitted, not in good health); 19 , Dr. Alb took 60th dil. first day, at 5 A.M. and 10 P.M.; third day, at 7.30 A.M. and 11.30 P.M.; afterwards 10 drops of 20th dil.; Z. f. Ver. Hom. Aetz. Oest., 2, 213; 20 , Dr. Laa took 1 grain of 1st trit., ibid.; 21 , same, a proving on a healthy woman with 1st trit.; 22 , Dr. Gonzaler, chronic poisoning of a lady by different preparations of Iron prescribed for general debility, El Criterior Med., 10, 273 (L'Hahnemannisme, 2, 435); 23 , Dr. Knorre, effect of 1 grain of 3d dil. of

Ferr. carb ., A. H. Z., 6, p. 35; 24 , v. Schroff.

MIND

Emotional.
Intoxication, 8 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
In the evening became exceedingly lively, 12.
"My surroundings seem very large and capacious, and I am inclined to attribute great importance to trifles, and am generally in an unusually earnest mood, without external cause," 13.
Constant desire for solitude; horror of conversation, noise, visits, and even the society of her cherished friends, 22.
Not inclined to talk; disinclined to work, 12.
Temper more equable all through the proving, 12.
Feels very sober and uncomfortable, but not gloomy, 12.
(Depression of spirits, as from too loose bowels), 1.
A gloomy depression of spirits and a nervous excitability during the whole time of the menses, 12. [10.]
Mental depression previous to menses, 12.
Gloomy feelings after menses, 12.
She never complained or wept, and was always plunged in deep melancholy when no one was about her, 22.
Anxiety, 7, 8.*
Anxiety, as if something evil had happened to her, 1.
Anxiety at night, as if some evil had happened to her; she could not sleep; tossed about in bed, 1.
From slight cause, anxiety, with throbbing in pit of stomach, 1.*
Ill-humor; disinclined for everything; indifferent even to subjects in which he usually took an active interest; joyfulness was impossible, 17.
The ill-humor appeared not only during the period of the greatest aggravation of the abdominal affection, but like that it was also worse soon after taking the drug; it, however, continued after the abdominal trouble disappeared, and increased in the last days of the proving when the abdomen was almost free; it even continued after stopping the drug, and gradually disappeared, 17.
My usual lively disposition changed without any cause; I became ill-humored, morose, and disinclined to every mental and physical labor (second day), 19. [20.]
Excited by the slightest opposition; everything irritated or depressed her ; even her children's caresses increased her bad temper; she was often rude to those about her, because she hated to see or talk to them, and wanted them to leave her in solitude, which alone was pleasing to her, .*

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo. [30.]
Confusion of the head (seventh day), 15 ; (thirteenth day), 13.*
Confusion of the head, as after a sleepless night (second day), 19.
Confusion and stupefaction of the head, 8 . [Observations referring to the waters of Pyrmont and Schwalbach, where the Carbonic acid must also have had some effect. -Hughes.]
Slight, but transient confusion of the head, 16.
Vertigo on descending , as if she would fall forwards, 1.*
On lying down, vertigo, as if he were shoved forwards or were driving in a coach (especially on shutting the eyes), 1.
One very decided symptom was a vertigo or dizziness in the head; after sleeping in the afternoon, on suddenly rising, vertigo came on to such a degree that everything appeared black, as if a dark curtain was slowly let down before the eyes, and he had to lean against the door for support, or he would have fallen; this vertigo was accompanied by nausea, prostration, and a lethargic dulness; went to sleep again, and found great difficulty in arousing himself; in the afternoon, two momentary attacks of vertigo; a sensation of balancing to and fro, as when water, 12.
Head feels dizzy, or rather swimming, for half an hour, 12.
On looking at running water she became dizzy and giddy in the head, as if everything went round with her, 1.*
Giddy, with headache, 12. [40.]
Giddy, darkness before the eyes, 12.
Whilst walking, giddy and as if drunk, as though she would fall over obstacles, 1.*
Giddiness of the head, with great stupor and restlessness, it being impossible to confine or apply the mind to study, 12.
Head swimming, hands cold, 12.
Beer rises to her head, 1.*
General Head.
Great congestion towards the head, 1.
Rush of blood to the head; the veins on the head were swollen for two hours, , .*

EYE

Objective.
For five days red eyes, with burning pains (after third day), 1. [130.]
The white of the eye was discolored (second day), 19.
White of the eye yellow (third day), 19.
Weakness of eyes, with great lachrymation, 12.
Eyes weak, with lachrymation, and watery discharge from the nose for eight or ten days, 12.
Subjective.
Eyes are painful, as if he were very sleepy, and they would close; also burning in them, 1.
Burning in eyes, 1.
An aching in the right eye; eyelids agglutinated in the night, 1.
Pressing in the eyes, as if they would protrude, especially the right, 12.
(Shooting in left eye), 1.
In the evening, itching in eyes, and aching as from a grain of sand in them, 1.
Brow and Orbit. [140.]
A slight sensation above left eyebrow; towards the nose an iron pain, 12.
A slight heaviness over the eyes and forehead, in the morning, 12.
Pain over left eye coming very suddenly, and lasting a short time , returning for several days, 12.*
An occasional severe pain over the left eye, with lachrymation, 12.
Sharp pain over right eye, 12.
Sticking pain over left eye, lasting fifteen minutes, 12.*
A slight painful sensation in the orbit of the left eye, with heartburn, 12.
Stitches in the external corner of the right orbit, 12.
Lids.
Redness and swelling of upper and lower lids; on upper a kind of stye filled with pus; the lower lids are full of hard matter (purulent mucus), 1.
If the writes for only two hours, he cannot open his eyes wide; they become watery, as if he had not slept enough, 1. [150.]
Can scarcely open the eyes; the eyelids are pressed down, .

EAR. [160.]

Painfulness of left external ear, as if there were an ulcer on it (after twelve hours), 1.
Stitches in right ear, in the morning (after twelve hours), 1.
Hearing.
Humming in ears, which, as well as the disagreeable feeling in the brain, is relieved by laying the head upon the table, 1.
Ringing in the right ear, 12.
Chirping before the ears like crickets, 1.

NOSE

Objective.
At 1 P.M., four very painful spasmodic sneezes in rapid succession, 12.
Watery discharge from the nose all day, with dull headache, 12.
In the morning on stooping, some bleeding from nose, 1.*
Several drops of blood fell from the right nostril, a circumstance never before occurring, in the forenoon, 12.
Bleeding from the left nostril (four times in ten hours), 1.
Subjective. [170.]
Nose numb and stiff, 12.
Pain in nose from the eyebrows, 12.
Pain in nostrils from the head, 12.

FACE

Objective.
Expression by turns melancholy and fretful, 22.
Flushed face, with burning cheeks, 12.*
Flushed face, with burning cheeks, while riding in the open air on a cloudy day, 12.
Face somewhat yellow (second day), 19.*
Cadaverous jaundiced complexion, 1.*
Cadaverous, also blue-spotted face, 1.
The fresh redness and fulness of the face is very perceptibly diminished (eleventh day), 13. [180.]
(She became pale, had rumbling in the bowels, the chest was contracted, congestion to the head; she was affected with spasmodic violent eructation; then heat in face, particularly the right cheek, and pain in the head on the crown, like shooting), 1.
Decided turgescence of the face (second day), 20.
The fulness and bright redness of the face decidedly decreased during the proving, 15.
Pinched features, 22.
Subjective.
Sensation in face as if swollen and bloated, 12.
Cheeks.
Cheeks slightly flushed, 22.
Lips.
Pale lips, 1.*
Paleness of the lips and face, 8 . [Effect of uterine hæmorrhage induced by

Iron , not of the metal itself. Compare S. 543. -Hughes.]

Lips dry and pale, 22.

MOUTH

Teeth.
The tooth back of right eyetooth feels longer than the other, and very sore, for eight days, 12. [190.]
Toothache , all the morning, 12.*
Gums.
All the gums discolored, 22.
(Swelling of gums and cheeks), 1.
Tongue.
Tongue red at the tip, and thickly coated; white on the anterior portion, yellowish-white on the back, 22.
Tongue thickly coated yellowish-gray (thirteenth day), 13.
Tongue with a white coat, mouth dry, taste bad, 12.
Tongue slightly white during the last part of the proving, 16.
At the back and in the centre of the tongue a constant painfulness, like fine uninterrupted stitches, aggravated by the contact of food and drink; when not eating and drinking the part feels as if it had been burnt and were numb, 1.
Tongue more natural after eating, 12.
General Mouth.
Mouth dry in the morning, 12. [200.]
When he has slept for an hour before midnight, a heat comes up as if from his abdomen; the mouth becomes dry, and a bad vapor and putrid taste rise up into his mouth, 1.
Taste.
Bad disagreeable taste, 12.
Taste not good on rising, 12.
Pasty taste (third day), 19.
Sometimes and earthy taste in mouth, 1.
Slimy taste in the mouth, with white-coated tongue, without loss of appetite (thirty-eighth day), 14.
Sweetish taste in mouth, as from blood, 8 . [With Ss. 502 and 485. -Hughes.]
(In the morning, sourish taste in the mouth), 1.
In the afternoon a putrid taste rises into his mouth that takes away all his appetite, 1.
Constant taste of iron in the mouth, masking all other flavors, 22. [210.]

THROAT

Rising of phlegm, 22.
(Sometimes a sensation like a plug in the throat; not when swallowing, but when swallowing), 1.
A sensation as of a lump in left side of throat, below tonsil; painful during empty deglutition, but not when eating or drinking, 12.
Feeling of constriction in throat, 1.*
Choking in the throat, 12.
Burning in the throat, with eructations of an acrid gas, 12. [220.]
On swallowing, aching pain in throat, with head in fauces; he cervical muscles are stiff and painful on movement, 1.
Sore throat, not painful when eating, 12.
Sore throat, with dulness and heaviness all day, 12.
(Raw and sore throat, with hoarseness), 1.
Fauces and Œsophagus.
Violent constriction of the fauces (after every dose of the Iron and water), 16.
Sensation extending through the œsophagus from the stomach, 12.
(On coughing, and aching, with sore sensation in the œsophagus, as when a blister bursts and leaves a sore place), 1.
External Throat.
Chronic glandular swelling on the neck, 1.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Increase of appetite (first days), 15.
Appetite still vigorous; after every light meal pressure in the stomach (ninth day), 13. [230.]
Unusually great appetite (fifth day), 13.*
Very greatly increased appetite, with good digestion during the whole proving, 17.
Appetite so voracious that double the amount of an ordinary meal in the evening was hardly sufficient (while taking the Iron), 14.*
Sensation of great hunger (second day), 20.
Sensation of great hunger, so that she was obliged to eat at an unusual time; she had, however, lost the sense of satisfaction, for in spite of eating several times a day, and not a very small quantity each time, she was unable to appease her hunger (first and second days), 21.
Appetite much diminished, 12 ; (thirteenth day), 13.
Little appetite (third day), 19.
Little appetite, especially for meat; she felt so full, 1.
Little appetite with a clean tongue (eleventh day), 13.
Complains of loss of appetite, 12. [240.]
He has no appetite, for he always feels full ; but drinks taste good, and are taken with relish, 1.*
*Anorexia; extreme dislike to all food ; everything tasted of Iron, 22.
Anorexia, without bad taste or thirst, 1.*
Even when she has appetite, she can eat but little; she is immediately full, and the food oppresses her, 1.
He can eat only bread and butter; meat disagrees with him, 1.*
Thirst.
Thirst in the evening after chills and fever have vanished, 12.
Thirst in the evening, followed by heat, with perspiration, 12.
Thirst after chill (3 P.M.), before heat, .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Feeling of fulness in both hypochondria (fourth day), 19.
Pressure in the right hypochondrium, 22.
Shooting pain in left hypochondrium, 12.
Pain in liver and chest, 12.
Cramplike sensation in splenic region, 12.
A slight dull pain and heavy feeling in the splenic region, 12.
General Abdomen.
Distension of abdomen, 10. [330.]
Hard distended abdomen, 1.
Quiet distended abdomen, without flatulent symptoms, 1.
Extension, or a swelling of abdomen, 12.
Abdomen somewhat tympanitic, 22.
Movement in bowels, as if diarrhœa would ensue, but stool natural, 12.
Rumbling of bowels, with headache, 12.
All day rumbling of the bowels, with pain in small of back and kidneys and a slight soreness in the urethra when urinating, 12.
In the evening rumbling in the bowels, and feeling of soreness in them, with sensation as if they were about to be moved, 12.
Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen at 1.30 A.M. (first night), 19.
Rumbling and gurgling in the whole abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on; there was however the regular daily stool (second day), 19. [340.]
Rumbling and gurgling in the transverse colon, especially in the cæcum (fourth day), 19.
Awakened from an uninterrupted sleep of five hours by rumbling and griping in the abdomen, which is full and tense; violent attack of colic for ten or fifteen minutes, always relieved by emission of flatulence; very greatly relieved after a copious evacuation of the bowels, so that the colic was only distressing while sitting up (thirty-eighth day), 14.
Great rumbling in abdomen day and night, 1.
A flatulent condition of bowels all day, extending through the whole abdomen; no perceptible change in a warm room, in the open air, while riding, or sitting quiet, 12.
Flatus in right side of abdomen, while riding in a carriage; soon passing off, .

RECTUM AND ANUS

Objective.
Protrusion of large hæmorrhoids from the anus, 1.
Violent hæmorrhoidal flux, 8.
Contractive spasm in rectum, for some minutes, 1.
Subjective.
Tearing in rectum, 1.
Itching and gnawing in rectum, and ascarides are passed in the slimy stool, 1. [380.]
The ascarides seem to increase by its use ; he cannot sleep at night on account of the itching in the rectum; the worms creep at night out of his anus, 1 . [From drinking Pyrmont water. -Hahnemann.]
Pressing-tearing through anus, with hard stool, 12.
Urgent desire for stool, followed by a frothy stool, accompanied by much loud flatulence, at 9.30 A.M.; after which and before 4 P.M., there were three watery almost odorless stools, always followed for six minutes by griping in the pit of the stomach, but by relief of the feeling of fulness in the hypochondria (fourth day), 19.
Frequent urging to stool, with burning in anus, and pain in back on moving, 1.
Straining at stool, all day, 12.
Severe straining with stool, and after, 12.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa, with nervous spasmodic pain in abdomen, back, and anus, 8.
Frequent diarrhœa, 1.*
Frequent diarrhœa; stools watery, with or without tenesmus, and preceded or not by pain, but always with much flatulence and more frequent after taking food or water, 22.
Violent diarrhœa, 6. [390.]
Very profuse watery diarrhœa, with cutting pains in the abdomen, lasting one day, 23.
Strong purging, 8.
Frequent diarrhœic stools, 8.
Stool changed to greenish and black on the third day, at the same time it became harder, indeed very hard; but after a dose of 26 drops and more it gradually became softer, so that during the last days of the proving there were copious pasty stools, 16.
Constipation was at no time included; during the first proving there was daily a copious and only at times a partly hard evacuation, for the most part delayed for two or three hours; the normal brown color changed on the second day to a greenish and greenish-black, 14a.
Diarrhœic stool, 2.*
Yellow stool, 12.
At 8 A.M., a very sudden discharge from bowels, watery, without pain or smell, 12.*
Fæces consisting mostly of small hard pieces, evacuated with much straining, at first brown, then greenish and greenish-black; only one in the day was there a copious soft evacuation (third day), 14a.
Stool without smell, 12. [400.]
At every stool mucus and sometimes blood is passed, 1.
Constipation.
Constipation ; the stool before the proving was regular every twenty-four hours, but after the second day of the proving it occurred only every two or three days, with frequent urging to stool; fæces after the fifth day always dry, more or less dark-green; three days after the last dose they became again pasty and brown as usual, .*

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
Pains in bladder, 12.
Extremely distressing tenesmus vesicæ, commencing with tickling in the fossa navicularis, obliging him to urinate very frequently (sixteen times a day, on the previous day only ten times, passing from 1 to 2 ounces at a time); this became very severe, and from 7 to 10 P.M. was associated with a tormenting tenesmus recti in the evening (third day), 14a.
Urethra.
(Gonorrhœa) mucous discharges from the urethra after a chill, 1.
(When urinating, burning pain in urethra, as if the urine was hot), 1. [420.]
Slight soreness in urethra when urinating, 12.
Tickling in the urethra, especially in the fossa navicularis, in the afternoon; this is associated with urging to urinate (fifth day), 13.
Sensation of tickling in the urethra, gradually extending along the whole urethra, on commencing to urinate, continuing for several seconds afterwards; this increased during the subsequent days, and during the whole proving was associated with persistent and unusually frequent desire to urinate, with no noticeable increase of the quantity of urine passed daily, 15.
Continual desire to urinate, with pain in liver, chest, and kidneys, 12.*
Urging to urinate, with tickling in the urethra extending to the neck of the bladder (sixth day), 13.*
Urging to urinate continues from the fifth day, during the proving, 13.
Urging to urinate seldom, with unusually frequent micturition, 17.
Urging to urinate entirely absent during the night, but occurring regularly during the day, about 8 A.M. and towards 5 P.M., lasting two or three hours very severely, relieved while sitting and lying, but when walking becoming intolerably aggravated, reaching its greatest severity on the seventh day (sometimes occurring every five or ten minutes), continuing during the eighth and ninth days (when omitting the medicine), and after the total suspension of the medicine it quite speedily disappeared, although it could still be felt after fourteen days; the character of the trouble varied somewhat, since it became more and more plainly a neuralgic affection; usually there appeared twice in the day, between 8 and 9 A.M. and 6 and 7 P.M., a sensation of tickling and warmth in the glans penis, which was associated with an irresistible desire to urinate, and, on urinating, as soon as the urine reached the glans, there was felt in it an exceedingly distressing pulsation, even continuing several minutes after micturition, together with constantly increasing tenesmus vesicæ; the distress was relieved by rapidly drinking a large quantity of water, but especially by strong compression of the glans penis with the finger, the longer it lasted the more easily relieved; this appeared for the last times one month after commencing the last proving, after a copious dinner, and then disappeared entirely, .

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Erections of penis, 1.
Erections of penis by day, almost without cause, 1.
Nocturnal emissions, 1.
A seminal emission, 12.
A pollution, not followed by weakness, 12.
Female.
Sterility without abortion, 1.
Abortion, 1.
Pain near mouth of uterus when lying down, 12.
Sticking, shooting pain in uterus, 12. [450.]
Leucorrhœa like whey, which (at first) caused smarting and soreness, 1.
A previously painless white discharge becomes painful as if the parts were raw, 1.
Prolapsus of vagina only during pregnancy, not at other times, 1.
Less dryness in vagina on commencing coitus, and more pleasure in it, 12.
Painfulness of the vagina during coition, 1.
Menstrual flow amounting to menorrhagia, and lasting six days; considerable discharge of pale blood, obliging her to keep perfectly still, as the least movement increased it prodigiously, 22.
Metrorrhagia, 8.
The catamenia, which were about due, came immediately after the iron bath, and twice as copious as usual, 1 . [This is the primary action of

Iron ; the following symptoms (458 to 462), are secondary effects, therefore it is only in those cases of suppression of the menses wherein the other symptoms correspond homœopathically to

Iron that this metal can be curative. -Hahnemann.]

Catamenia came on one day later; the discharge is scantier, consists of watery blood, and is accompanied by violent cutting in abdomen (after six days), 1.
Menses some days retarded, 1. [460.]
The catamenia leave off for two or three days and then reappear, 1.
Menses cease for eight weeks, 1.
Menses cease for three years, 1 . [From constant use of ferruginous water. -Hahnemann.]
Before the occurrence of the catamenia, discharge of long stringy bits of mucus from the uterus, during which she had the sensations in the abdomen usually attending the catamenia, 1.
Menses came on, with feeling of wretchedness, a prostration of physical power and a mental depression united, which rendered it nearly impossible to rise and go through the duties of the day; was compelled to make the effort, and the exertion conquered the languor and depression; the latter part of the day felt well, better than usual, and the pain usually suffered at the commencement of the menses entirely disappeared, 12.
During menses, felt not pain, nor any of the distressing sensation in the limbs, extending from the back to the knees, which heretofore were always present, 12.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
A hot vapor rises out of the windpipe, 8 . [With Ss. 502 and 485. -Hughes.]
Painful sensation in the larynx, provoking coughing and hawking, aggravated by pressure upon it, on waking in the morning, but towards noon giving place to a similar sensation behind the upper third of the sternum; on hawking and coughing, expectoration of frothy, tenacious mucus, mixed with black blood, frequently till 4 P.M. (fifteenth day), 13.
In the evening, in bed, her glottis contracts, the blood rushes to the head, she feels a burning externally in the throat and between the shoulder-blades, and on the upper part of the body generally, whilst the feet are cold; in the morning, perspiration, 1.
Voice.
Hoarseness, with sensation of roughness in the larynx (after eight days), lasting two weeks, 16.* [470.]
Voice almost extinct, utterance difficult, and panting, 22.*
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough all day and also after lying down in the evening, 1.
Night-cough, 12.
Cough worse when moving, 1.*
(Increased dry cough), 8.
Dull cough without expectoration, and when he coughs it seems as if he could not get air, 1.
Whilst suckling the child, cough, with expectoration of blood, 1.
Cough dry in the evening after lying down, but with expectoration on waking, 1.
In the morning, he expectorates much pus (with putrid taste), 1.
A large quantity of white purulent expectoration after slight coughing, increased by smoking tobacco and drinking brandy, 1. [480.]
On waking in the morning, much greenish purulent expectoration, with sickly taste, 1.
Scanty, thin, frothy expectoration, with streaks of blood, 8.*
By hacking he expectorates bloody mucus (after five days), 1.
, .*

CHEST

Consumption of lungs, from iron filings given for a tapeworm (L. W. Sachs), 12.
Rush of blood to the chest, 8.
Sensation of dryness and mucus on the chest; the dryness is relieved for a short time only by drinking, 1.
Pain in chest and liver, 12.
Pain in the chest and stitches and tension between the scapulæ; he could not move, 1.
Pain in right chest, liver, and kidneys, with constant desire to urinate, 12.
Pain in left clavicle, as if it had fallen asleep, 1.
An old pain in left lung revived, not accompanied by a cough, and passed away in one or two days, 12.
At slight dull heavy pain across upper part of chest, rendering breathing uneasy, continuing many days, 12. [510.]
Fulness and contraction of the chest, 1.
Contractive cramp in the chest, 1.
Contractive cramp in the chest, and cough only when moving and walking, 1.*
Tightness of the chest, as if it was constricted; anxious asthma, aggravated by walking, 1.
Drawing pain in chest and heart, 12.
Dull drawing pain across the chest, 12.
Some oppression of the chest (sixth day), 13.
Oppression in the chest, as if it were constricted, 8.
Oppression of the whole chest, with need of taking a deep breath (seventh day), 13.
(The child is oppressed in the chest; rattling), 1. [520.]
Weight across the chest, 12.
A slight heaviness in upper part of left lung, rendering breathing rather difficult, and feels sore below the clavicle and left nipple, hindering him from taking a long breath, 12.
Sticking-cutting pain in chest, 12.
Stitches all over the chest, 12.
Stitches in right chest, 12.
Slight stitches through the lungs (seventh day), 13.
Pain in the chest, as if bruised, 1.
Full inspiration increased pain in chest, .

HEART AND PULSE

Præcordium.
Bruit de souffle perceptible now and then at the heart, 22.
Tension in the præcordial region (seventh day), 13.
Drawing pain around heart and in chest, 12.
Heart's Action. [540.]
Rapid action of the heart (fifteenth day), 13.*
Slight palpitation, especially on movement, 22.
Pulse.
Small weak pulse , sometimes intermittent, sometimes uneven, 22.*
Scarcely perceptible pulse, 8 . [See not to S. 187. -Hughes.]
Pulse 61, tense (seventh day); 55, full and tense (eleventh day); 54, small and tense (fifteenth day); 60, rather fuller and still tense (sixteenth day); 67, still tense (eighteenth day); 68, less tense (nineteenth day); 70, moderately large and soft (twenty-first day); 75, normal, as before the proving (twenty-second day), 13.
Pulse 68 to 72, soft, not full, 12.
Pulse 72, with fever, 12.
Between 4 and 5 P.M., pulse 68 to 72, not hard, pretty warm, and a slight headache, 12.
Pulse 68 to 72, with fever, 12.
Pulse 68 (first day) 60, natural (third day); natural (eighth day), 12. [550.]
Pulse usually 76, gradually feel to 70, but afterwards returned to the normal; the tension of the pulse increased, 17.
Pulse before the proving 75; during the proving it decreased two to four beats a day; on the last day it was only 54 ; immediately after stopping the medicine it became more frequent, but only reached its normal after eight days; coincident with the slowness of the pulse there was diminution of fulness, with remarkable rise of the tonus in the walls of the arteries; the character of the pulse corresponded to the rapid action of the heart; this condition is the more noteworthy since the summer temperature has exactly the opposite effect upon healthy people, 13.
Pulse normally 76, becoming reduced during the first eight days to 62 , rapidly rising during the intermission between the first and second provings to 73, but again sinking on renewing the proving in three days to 63, after the fourth day becoming much more frequent in spite of the continuance of the medicine (probably dependent upon the distressing urinary troubles), .

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Neck and back of head stiff and sore, 12.
At 8 A.M. neck feels stiff, hands and feet cold, hands most so; feet quite cold all night, but not so much so as night previous (fourteenth day), 12.
Pain in neck, 12.
When lying on the right side, neck and shoulder severely painful, 12.
Soreness and stiffness of neck, 12. [560.]
Neck sore, as if bruised, 12.
Back.
Pain in back, with menses, 12.
The distressing pain in back and limbs, from which she suffered during her whole life, have never returned with the menses, 12.
A kind of tearing in the back, even when sitting and lying, 1.
Dorsal.
A kind of paralysis; inability to raise the arms on account of painful tension between the scapulæ and in the sternum, 1.
When she works with her arms she has stitches in the scapulæ, 1.
Between the scapulæ a kind of tearing, even when sitting, which is aggravated by walking, 1.
Lumbar.
Lumbago all night, goes off on rising, 12.
Lumbago in left lumbar region, 12.
Pain in small of back. 12. [570.]
Pain in small of back and liver, 12.
On rising, a slight soreness in the small of the back, with rumbling in bowels, 12.
Pain in region of the kidneys, 12.
Pains in kidneys, 12.
Sacral.
Pains in sacrum, on rising from a seat, 1.
An aching pain on each side of the sacrum, at its junction with the ossa innominata, 12.
Whilst walking, stitchlike jerks in the sacrum, which extend more towards the hips than upwards; more painful after sitting or standing, almost as if he had strained himself, 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Objective.
Swelling of the hands, and legs up to the knees, 1.*
The fingers and toes are drawn up with cramp with great pain, 1. [580.]
Stiffness in fingers and toes, 12.
Toes and fingers stiff, 12.
Subjective.
Feeling of exhaustion and heaviness of the limbs (thirteenth day), 13.
Heaviness of limbs for forty-eight hours, 1.
Heaviness of the limbs, with general exhaustion (thirty-eighth day), 14.
Heaviness, weariness, and relaxation of limbs, 1.
Distressing sensations in limbs, from back to knees, with menses, 12.
Pains in the joints, 12.
Limbs sore and languid; quite restless, 12.
Pain in limbs from touch, 12.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Objective. [590.]
A lameness in right arm, with disinclination to move it, involuntarily assisting it with the left hand, 12.
Arms nearly rigid, 12.
Arm entirely stiff, and severe pain, 12.
Arm immovable, fixed in a straight position, with trembling and chilliness all over; took a dose of Ran, bulb, 200 , which aggravated all the symptoms in two hours to an extreme height; soon after improvement gradually occurred from the fingers upwards, being greatly relieve about 11 P.M.; much better next day (but the pain continued for fifteen days, and was always worse in the morning), 12.
Cannot keep his arms still, but must sometimes flex and sometimes extend them, 1.
Pains worse, arm more stiff; a bending position of the arm towards the chest renders it more tolerate; pain increases, motion and change of position aggravated it; the weight of the bedcover makes it intolerable, 12.
Subjective.
An irresistible desire to bend the arm was followed by such intense pain as to drive him out of bed at 2 A.M.; after walking about for an hour and a half, went to bed again, and fell asleep in a sitting position, 12.
Downward-shooting pains (in shoulders and arms) , more severe than the shooting upwards, 12.*
Drawing in the arm, whereby it feels heavy and as if paralyzed, 1.
Shoulder.
Creaking in the shoulder-joint, which feels bruised on being touched, 1. [600.]
Shoulder and neck painful, 12.
Boring pain in shoulder, passing down to finger ends, 12.
Boring pain in right shoulder-joint, passing down the biceps to the elbow-joint; motion aggravates the pain, heat relieves it; pain worse at irregular intervals, 12.
Shoulder sore to the touch, 12.
A continual soreness in front part of right shoulder, and also in right arm, 12.
Pain changes its location, at one time the shoulder, at another the elbow-joint is most affected, 12.
Arm.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Lower extremities weak, 12.
A kind of paralysis; a tearing with violent stitches from the hip-joint down to the tibia and sole of the foot (the ball is always painful when touched, as if bruised); by day he cannot step on account of pains, which, however, diminish when he walks; in the evening after lying down they are worse; he must get up and walk about in order to relieve the pains until midnight, 1.
Hip.
Shooting and tearing in the hip-joint, which pains as if bruised when touched, down along the tibia; worse in the evening, in bed; he must get up and walk about, 1.*
Thigh.
Numbness in thigh, 1. [630.]
Paralytic pains in thigh, also when sitting; after sitting some time in a crouching position, she has to relieve herself by stretching out the feet: when she rises from her seat the paralytic pain is worse; it goes off, however, on walking, 1.
Tonic cramp of thigh and legs, 9 . [From iron applied to the soles of the feet. -Hahnemann. "In case of chorea." -Hughes.]
Aching pains, extending from right heel into thigh, 12.
Knee.
Swelling of knees and ankles and pain therein, especially on extending the knee in bed, 1.
On rising from a seat relaxation and weariness in the hollows of the knees, especially when walking; [On commencing to walk. -Hahnemann.] after standing still, 1.
Weakness of knees, so that he sinks down (immediately), 1.
On account of pains in the knees, as if over-fatigued, he must sometimes flex, and sometimes extend them, he cannot keep them still, 1.
A contractive pain in knee and ankle-joints, 1.
Leg.
The varicose vein in the left leg continued to extend itself downward, more painful to the touch, 12.
The legs tremble, and pain on walking, as if bruised, 1. [640.]
Calves very weak, as if bruised, 12.
Legs feel as if gone to sleep, 1.
A very disagreeable sensation between the knee and ankle of the left leg, as of a swollen vein, very painful to touch, and occasionally inconvenient when walking, .

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Considerable emaciation, 22.*
The blood before the proving bright red, colorless corpuscles few, unusually large, coagulated in seven minutes and fifty seconds, serum yellowish, clear, alkaline, coagulum moderately firm; after the proving the blood still unusually bright, corpuscles very deeply colored, colorless corpuscles few and small, coagulated in eight minutes and twenty seconds, coagulum firm and elastic, 16.
Blood before taking was bright red, with numerous colored corpuscles, and few colorless, coagulated in five minutes and thirty-eight seconds; serum yellowish, clear, alkaline; coagulum rather soft; after the proving blood dark red, very deeply colored corpuscles, very numerous colorless corpuscles; coagulated in five minutes and thirty seconds; serum clear, yellow; coagulum soft, 15.
Before taking, the blood was bright red with few small, colorless corpuscles, and a remarkable number of elementary corpuscles; coagulates in five minutes and fifty-four seconds; serum clear yellow, alkaline; clot firm and elastic; after taking the Iron fifteen days, blood dark red, corpuscles intensely colored and very sharply margined; numerous large colorless corpuscles, almost no elementary corpuscles; coagulated in eight minutes and fifty-four seconds; serum remarkably dark yellow, alkaline; clot compact and elastic, 13.
Blood before the proving rather bright red, with faintly colored corpuscles, and few colorless ones; coagulated in six minutes and fifty-seven seconds; after the proving a deep dark red; corpuscles intensely colored; very numerous colorless corpuscles, 17. [670.]
Trembling and chilly all over, with stiff arm, 12.
Frequent attacks of trembling throughout the body, 1.
General imperceptible trembling, alternating with spells of weakness, accompanied by remarkable anxiety, 22.
Great trembling throughout the body, lasting weeks, 5.
General increase of vigor (sixth day), 13.
Physically and mentally stronger while taking the Iron, 14.
Diminished desire for physical or mental exertion (thirty-eighth day), 14.
Inclination to lie down, 1.
Irresistible inclination to lie down (after one hour), 1.
Very languid, drowsy, disinclined to talk, or work, 12. [680.]

SKIN

Objective.
Great paleness of skin, 23.*
Icteric discoloration around eyes, lips, and nails, 22.
Eruption.
On top of right shoulder a round, red, itching spot (size of a dollar), which peels off like dust in the evening and night, 12.
Spot peeling off on shoulder, 12.
Very fine dust on the left hand, like flour; the skin peels off in this dustlike form till the next morning, 12.
(Scarlatina during desquamation corresponds to the peeling off of skin), 12.
Dark hepatic spots ( e. g ., on the dorsum of the hand) inflame and suppurate, 1.
Subjective.
Parts of the skin ( e. g ., on the dorsum of thumb, of toes, etc.), which are the seat of burning pains when not touched, smart intensely on the slightest touch, 1. [730.]
Eyebrows itch, 12.
Nose itches, 12.
Slight itching, and sticking, stabbing feeling above right knee, 12.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Frequent gaping all day, 12.
In the morning, attack of stretching and yawning, during which the eyes are full of water (after eight hours), 1.
After dinner (noon), sleepiness and dizziness, also some headache over the root of the nose; he could not undertake any mental employment, 1.
Sleepy, with thirst, in evening, 12.
Disposed to sleep more than usual, 12.
Great disposition to sleep, it being almost impossible to keep awake while reading, 12.
Apt to fall asleep when seated at any time of day, 1. [740.]
Very apt to go to sleep, 12.
Almost irresistible inclination to sleep during the last days of the proving, 16.
Falls asleep while sewing, she must lie down; sleeps one hour, and awakes with excessive thirst, and cramps in right foot, 12.
Sat down to study, fell asleep; slept an hour or more, still felt very sleepy, and again went to sleep till 11 P.M.; went to bed, fell asleep immediately, 12.
Must retire early, 12.
Heavy morning sleep till 9 o'clock, from which he can scarcely rouse himself, 1.
Sleep in the afternoon, 12.
He sleeps with half-opened eyes, 1.
Sleeplessness.
Almost entire sleeplessness both day and night; whenever she go to sleep, she would wake up in a quarter of an hour, bathed in sweat, and suffering from extreme prostration and epigastric anxiety; she felt as if life was leaving her, and then followed a state of nervous excitement, 22.
She lies long before going to sleep, 1. [750.]
He lies for half and whole hours before falling asleep, 1.
She must lie for two or three hours before she falls asleep, 1.
She falls asleep tired and sleeps , though restlessly , and lies awake for a long time before again going off to sleep , and yet is not tired when she gets up in the morning, 1.

FEVER. [770.]

Chilliness.
Chilliness, with headache, in the morning, 12.
Chilliness and trembling all over, with stiff arm, 12.
General chilliness the whole day, 12.
More or less chilly all day, especially in the afternoon, then a little feverish in the evening; quite chilly again, and did not get warm for a long time, after going to bed, 12.
Between 1 and 2 P.M. rather chilly for a short time, 12.
At 5 P.M. a little chilly, then feverish for a short time (fifteenth day), 12.
Must go to bed in the afternoon with a chill, 12.
In the afternoon violent chill for half an hour, then thirst, must go to bed, followed by heat, with perspiration (fourteenth day), 12.
At 7.30 A.M. general coldness over whole body, hands and feet very cold (second day), 12.
In the evening in bed he became cold all over, instead of getting warmer, 1. [780.]
In the afternoon a little cold for a short time, then a little feverish (fourteenth day), 12.
A creeping feeling, slight chilliness all over, more in the back, commencing at 7 A.M., 12.
At noon rather chilly, creeping sensation all over, 12.
(Rigor, and during the chill his face go glowing hot), 1.
In the evening, before going to sleep, rigor, without external coldness; in bed he was chilly all night, 1.
Back feels chilly, 12.
Coldness of hands and feet, 8.
From thirteenth to twenty-third day hands and feet cold and numb, 12.
Hands quite cold and stiff all day, 12.
Hands cold and numb, 12. [790.]
Hands and feet cold and numb, chilly all over, does not go off by walking, though had free perspiration, 12.
Feet colder than usual the whole time, 12.
Cold feet for ten days, 12.
Cold feet for eighteen days, 12.
On getting into bed, feet cold; lies awake some time, .

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On waking, dullness in head; heaviness in head; eyelids heavy; sour taste; after rising, colicky pain; on rising from bed, cramp in calf; pain in leg; at 7.30 o'clock, general coldness; beginning at 7 o'clock, creeping feeling; heat of face; after rising perspiration.
( Forenoon ), Dyspnœa, etc.
( Afternoon ), On suddenly rising, after sleeping, vertigo; putrid taste; towards evening, lassitude ; debility; chilliness; at 3 o'clock, feverish.
( Evening ), The symptoms; headache, etc.; after walking in open air, pressing in head; in bed, pain in hip-joint; when walking, pain in tibia, etc.; in bed, cold all over; before going to bed, rigor.
( Night ), Nauseated; in bed, stitches in sternum; lumbago.
( Before midnight ), When lying, especially on side, vomiting.
( Midnight ), Perspiration.
( Alternate mornings ), At daybreak, perspiration.
( Open air ), Lachrymation.
( Change of position ), Pain on vertex.
( Conversation ), All symptoms.
( Cool, open air ), Pressure on top of head.
( Descending ), Vertigo; sensation in frontal eminences.
( After dinner ), Thirst.
( Drinking water ), All symptoms.
( Before eating ), Heat in stomach.
( After eating ), All symptoms; nausea; vomiting of food; immediately, discomfort; heat in stomach; pressure in stomach; colicky pain; weariness in feet.
( Heat ), The symptoms.
( Full inspiration ), Pain in chest.
( Lying ), Vertigo; in evening, dyspnœa.
( Looking at running water ), Dizzy, etc.

FERRUM.