Lactic acid, C3H6O3.

Preparation for use , Dilutions.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. S. Swan, proving with the 15th dil., obtained from Dr. Reisig ( Note: The preparation was doubtless, sour milk, and not pure lactic acid), drop doses every hour for ten hours, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1871, p. 569; 2 , same, effects of 30th, in a lady-patient, reported by Dr. B. Fincke; 3 , same, effects of 30th, in Dr. B. Fincke ( Nos.

4 to 18, provings by T. F. Allen, with pure acid, N. Y. J. of Hom ., 1, p. 337); 4 , J. H. Buffum, two doses of 30th dil.; 5 , W. H. T., 30th dil.; 6 , F. R., 30th dil.; 7 , R. S. M., 30th dil.; 8 , C. A. S., 30th dil.; 9 , J. P. W., 30th dil.; 10 , J. R. P., 30th dil.; 11 , B. W., 30th dil.; 12 , A. B. C., 30th dil.; 13 , D. A. Babcock, 30th dil.; 14 , Dr. Simmons, Jr., 30th dil.; 15 , A. W. J., two provings, each, with one dose of 30th dil.; 16 , F. R., several doses of 1st dil.; 17 , Blanck, several doses of 1st dil.; 17 a , same, second proving; 18 , Dr. S., one dose of the 1/10th; 19 , Miss Sarah Tremper, proving with 200th dil., drop dose every hour till effects appeared, from MS. by Dr. Swan., N. Y. J. of Hom., 1, 337; 19 a , same, proving with several doses of 1m; 19 b , same, several doses of 10m; 20 , a man suffering from diabetes took 15 drops four times a day; doses doubled next day; after three days, repeated the experiment; from Foster's Clinical Med., 1874, "the production of acute rheumatism by lactic acid;" , same, effect of 75 drops in course of twenty-four hours; , same, 30 drops in one forenoon; , effects in another case of diabetes; from Foster.

MIND

Exalted condition of the brain and special sense; memory improved (third day), 7.
Mind clear; everything seems very distinct (morning of second and fourth days), 9.
Almost impossible to write correctly; drops out words and misspells (second day), 4.
Memory seems affected; cannot remember anything an hour after it has happened; unusual (fifth day), 19a.

HEAD

Vertigo.
Vertigo at 8 P.M. (second day), 10.
Vertigo when turning the head; suddenly; fulness of the head (second day), 1.
Vertigo, with heat in the head (third day), 10.
Vertigo and nausea on rising (third day), 10.
Vertigo, and sleepless at night (first day), 19a.
General Head. [10.]
Rush of blood quickly to the head on rising from a seat at 11 A.M.; everything turned black before the eyes, and she nearly fell down (sixteenth day), 19b.
Congestion of the head (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 19b.
Congestion of the head, painless, with strong pulsation of the vessels of the neck (5 P.M., third day), 7.
Sensation as if all the blood was trickling down from the front to the back of the head (tenth day), 19.
Lightness of head (twelfth day), 19.
Head dull all day, very nervous about it (seventh day), 19b.
Head dull and heavy, with occasional pain in the forehead and eyes (second day), 19b.
Great pain in the head, worse on the left side, at 7 P.M. (second day), 10.
Heavy, dull pain in the head at 8 P.M. (second day), 10.
Fulness in the head, it feels too heavy, at 8 P.M. (third hour), 10. [20.]
Fulness, as if the top of the head would rise off (fourth hour), 10.
Fulness of the head all day; on stooping, it seemed as if the blood would spurt from the nose; relieved at 10 P.M. (twelfth day), 19.
Headache at the base of the brain, extending up and over to the vertex; relieved by pressing the head behind the orbits; with flushed face and rheumatic pains in the bones; aggravated by motion (fourth day), 7.
Head began to ache at 11 A.M.; increased till 3 P.M., when it seemed as if it would burst (fifth day), 19a.
Slight headache during the evening; a dull pain on both sides of the forehead, with a sensation of fulness (second day), 14.
Forehead.
Slight pain in the forehead, and head is sore to the touch (fourth day), .

EYE

Objective.
Marked protrusion of the eyes, with dilated pupils (fourth day), 1.
Subjective.
Dull, heavy feeling in eyes, with tendency to close them, with the headache, 13.
Pain in the left eye and brow, extending across the forehead, continuing from 2 P.M., the rest of the day (fourth day), 19.
Pain in the eyes, worse on closing them, but nearly as severe on opening them (fourth day), 19a.
Sensation of fulness in the eyes, and a confused, bursting-out feeling on looking steadily at any object, especially a bright light; relieved by closing the lids; pupils dilated (first day), 15.
Eyes feel as if they would burst open or burst out of the head, worse on turning the head; lasted, very severe, all night (fifth day), 19a.
Congestion, as if the blood were forcing its way out of the eyes (second day), 19b.
Sharp pain in left eye, more while reading, with photophobia (fifth day), 19.
Lids. [60.]
Peculiar twitching across the right upper lid, about 10 A.M., transient; in the left eye at 11 A.M. (second day), 19.
Jerking of the left upper lid (third day), 11.
Ball.
Pressure on the cornea is very painful (fourth day), 19a.
Pupil.
Pupils somewhat enlarged, with slight pain in the balls (fourth day), 5.
Pupils dilated (fourth day), 7 ; (first day), 15, 10.
Pupils much dilated, attract attention, 6 P.M. (fifth day), 13.
Pupils dilated more afternoons and mornings, 15.
Vision.
Smoky appearance of the room (second day), 10.
Dark clouds pass before the eyes, cannot see the letters on the blackboard (second day), 10.
Feels for another step when at the bottom of the stairs (second day), .

EAR. [70.]

Cold spot over the right ear, it feels like a stone, evening (second day), 10.
Pain extends into the ear from the parotid glands, 10.
Hearing.
Singing and snapping in left ear (second day), 10.
Roaring in left ear on rising and in afternoon (third day), 10.

NOSE

Objective.
A sore, like a cold-sore, inside the nostrils (fourth day), 9.
Discharge (from nose) white and frothy, a little thicker than water (thirteenth day), 19.
Catarrhus nasi, with copious thick, yellow mucous discharge, 2.
Nose bled a little at 8 P.M. (fourteenth day), 19b.
Bloody discharge from nose several times (seventeenth day), 19.
Subjective.
Nose stopped during morning (twelfth day), 19. [80.]
Nose very dry and burning (second day), 4.
Feeling as if blood would spurt from the nose (twelfth day), 19.

FACE

Face flushed with the headache (fourth day), 7.
Rush of blood to face and head (ninth day), 19b.
Pain extends from the left eye to the eye-tooth, like neuralgia (fourteenth day), 19a.

MOUTH

Tongue.
Tongue coated thick white (first to sixth day), 19.
Tongue coated thick yellow (fourteenth day), 19, 19a ; (third day), 19b.
Tongue bright red on the edges, with a sore, raw sensation on the right side (fifth day), 5.
Tongue feels large is coated white (third day), 15a.
Tongue sore on the left side, raw, and red, 17a.
General Mouth. [90.]
Mouth dry (third day), 15a.
Mouth dry and tastes like copper (third day), 15.
Roof of mouth dry; cannot keep the tongue from constantly moving over the roof of the mouth; sensibility increased; felt burnt (first hour), 4.
Mouth and fauces feel dry; constant inclination to swallow; not relieved by drinking (first hour), 4.
Great dryness in the mouth and throat (first hour), 19.
Mouth hot; the tongue seems to fill it up (fourth day), 15a.
Saliva.
Commenced soon to secrete large quantities of saliva, which in the morning was found to contain grayish lumps, afterwards the expectoration was yellowish, and tasted salty; this appeared to be secreted just inside the glottis (sixth day), 1.
Mouth constantly full of water, worse after each eructation, 18.
Saliva salt, like brine, continued several days, 18.
Taste.
Bad taste in the mouth (fifth day), 19 ; (sixth day), 19a. [100.]
Taste fetid (third day), 10.
Peculiar taste on the tongue posteriorly, extending into the throat, with immediate accumulation of saliva, 3.
Taste acrid, with nausea, like copper (first hour), 10.
Taste metallic (first day), 15a.
Sour, metallic taste, lasts fifteen minutes after a dose, repeatedly, 14.
Taste like copper (third day), 15.

THROAT

Sense of a plug in the throat, with scraping and dryness a feeling like that from tobacco (second hour), 10.
Fulness in the throat, which keeps him swallowing frothy mucus; the lump or fulness feels like a small puff-ball; not relieved by swallowing (morning of fifth day); this returns in the evening after another dose, and is repeated after subsequent doses, 14.
Constriction and soreness of the throat, with difficulty of swallowing solids, at 5 P.M. (third day), 7. [110.]
Throat constricted and dry ("similar to Lachesis"), (second day), 9.
Throat constricted and rough, with pain in occiput, etc. (sixth hour), 9.
Constricted feeling low down in the throat, with slight nausea, causing a severe paroxysm of coughing (first hour), 8.
Neck feels too short by two inches (second and third days), 1.
Uvula.
Elongation of uvula (fifth day), 1.
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus.
Mucous membrane of fauces dry, red, and congested (third hour), 4.
Dryness of posterior fauces, with hawking of mucus from posterior nares (second day), 1.
Intense burning in the œsophagus after an eructation, with a qualmish feeling, and an increase of saliva, 18.
Fulness of the fauces, with intense burning in the throat, fauces, and œsophagus, 18.
Constriction in the fauces, with dull pressure; acrid taste, with nausea; mouth tastes like copper (first hour), 10. [120.]
Rawness of pharynx from posterior nares, left side, down to œsophagus, with sensation of a quantity of mucus lodged in the nares and larynx, causing hawking; hawking does not seem to relieve it entirely, a portion only of clear viscid mucus coming away (third and fourth days), 1.
Swallowing.
Swallowing solid food very difficult; it is almost impossible to force solid food into the œsophagus, semifluids more easily, and fluids easily swallowed (evening, second day), 12.
External Throat.
Pain in the submaxillary and parotid glands, a stiff feeling in the parotids, and a pain extending from them into the ear, at 8 P.M. (third hour), .

STOMACH

Appetite.
Appetite not very good, and apparent indifference to food; very little satisfies; what is eaten seems to sour on the stomach, with eructations and a great deal of flatus (fourth day), 9.
No appetite for supper (second day), 10.
No desire for breakfast; the stomach seems to come almost up into the mouth; worse on sitting still (fourth day), 15.
Thirst.
Thirst but slightly relieved by drinking, in the evening (second day), 12.
Eructation.
Constant desire to eructate, which he dreads on account of the burning; worse from smoking, 18.
Eructations of hot, acrid fluid, which burns from the stomach to the throat, 18.* [130.]
Eructations of burning hot gas from the stomach, causing a profuse secretion of tenacious mucus, which must be constantly hawked up ; aggravated by smoking tobacco, 18.*
Belching, with taste of ingesta (third and fourth day), 1.
Nausea.
Nausea (third day), 9.*
Nausea all the morning, and till 3 P.M. (first day), 19.
Nausea on awaking, with a sensation of weight low down in the stomach, with pains in the head darting from the centre of the brain in straight likes to the occiput; pains predominate in the back of the head (second day), 15.
Nausea continues till 10 A.M. (fourth day), 15.
Woke suddenly at 5.30 A.M., with very much nausea, which increased till he vomits a thin, colorless, watery stuff; somewhat relieved after getting out of bed (fourth day), 15a.
Nausea, especially at 6 A.M., before rising; a faint, gone feeling low down in the stomach (first day), 15a.
Nausea on rising in the morning, with vertigo (third day), 10.
Nausea on rising in the morning; after eating, sick feeling, not amounting to nausea, with taste of food (third and fourth day), 1. [140.]
Nausea shortly after rising, lasts till 10 A.M.; it returned from 3 to 5 P.M., and again in the evening half an hour after eating (fifth day), .

ABDOMEN

Umbilical and Sides.
Pain around the umbilicus (second day), 10.
Stinging pain in left side of abdomen, running into the spermatic cord, in the morning (third day), 10.
General Abdomen.
Bearing-down pain in the upper part of the abdomen (second day), 19a.
Jerking and sharp cutting pain in the muscles of the abdomen; waked from sleep, with a scream, at midnight (second day), 10.
Stinging pain in the muscles of the abdomen, at 4 P.M. (second day), 10.
Hypogastrium.
Pain across lower part of bowels on the right side (fourth day), 19.
Colic in the lower part of the abdomen, which nothing seemed to relieve; stool normal (second day), 4.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Protrusion of piles after a stool, very painful; had to sit down two or three times; could not walk (thirteenth day), 19b.
Severe aching pain in the anus, waking out of sleep; relieved by stool, at 2.30 A.M. (fourth day), 5. [170.]
Tenesmus (third day), 10.

STOOL

Diarrhœa preceded by sharp pain across the lower abdomen (second day), 19a.
Diarrhœic stool, hurrying to the closet, without pain in the rectum, 17.
Loose bowels, with transient pain in the abdomen after the stool (fifth day), 19.
Soft stool, with hard lumps, in the evening (second day), 10.
Soft, mushy stool at 9 A.M., again at 2 P.M. and 6 P.M.; had hardly time to get to the closet (second day), 5.

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
Bladder feels sore, as though it had been overtaxed or strained; must keep bent forward to take off the pressure, in which position he feels much more comfortable (third day), 14.
Micturition.
Desire to urinate oftener than usual, but did not pass much at a time; urine high-colored, 17, 17a.
Frequent desire to urinate (tenth day), 19.
Urine passed frequently and in large quantities (repeated through two provings), 14. [180.]
Urinates frequently, day and night; the attempt to retain it causes pain, 14.*
Called out of bed at 3 A.M. to urinate; urine profuse and pale; urinated again at 8 A.M.; copious, light lemon-color (sixth day), 13.
Rises four times in one night to urinate; urine light straw-color (third day), 14.
Seemed to be fast turning to urine, and running away through his penis; had to stop proving; a renewal of the proving brings it on again, with the sore stretched feeling in the bladder, 14.
Before proving, troubled with a desire to urinate every half hour; since taking the drug, has urinated only four or five times in twenty-four hours, 11.
Urine.
Urine white and thick, in the morning (second day), 19b.
Urine high-colored, but clear (tenth day), 19.
Urine light-reddish, but clear (second day), 19 ; (third day), 19b.
Urine somewhat increased; passed with difficulty (fourth day), 9.
Urine scanty and high-colored (second and third day), 10. [190.]
Urine normal in color and quantity, but has a greasy pellicle on the surface (first day), 4.
Urine cloudy and dark (first day), 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Menses more profuse than usual; two days too early, 19a.
Menses scanty, seventeen days too late; in the morning had pain across the small of the back, and in the lower part of the abdomen; menses appeared at 11 A.M.; with a very distressed feeling across the lower part of the abdomen; back pained all day and night; flow scanty and pale, 19.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Dryness and burning of larynx (after twelve hours, second day), 1.
Dryness and rawness, extending to larynx, the rim of the glottis being particularly affected (fifth day), 1.
Rawness and swelling increased, with spasm of the glottis, awaking me from sleep and causing severe pain and suffocation (fourth night), 1.
Voice.
For an hour and a half after rising, my voice was entirely without control , whispering and speaking when expecting to speak loud; croaking and deep voice; this continued more or less through the day (sixth day); and with the other symptoms gradually disappeared the day after, 1.
Some hoarseness; sensitive to the cold air; (here followed a cold, for which other remedies were taken), (second day), 9.
Cough and Expectoration.
Severe paroxysm of coughing, with slight nausea, caused by a constricted feeling low down in the throat (first hour), 8. [200.]
Spasmodic, ringing cough, caused by irritation of the throat from hot eructations, aggravated by smoking tobacco, 18.
Dry cough all day (twelfth to fourteenth day), 19.
Secretion of and a hemming up of small lumps of tough mucus of grayish color (fifth day), 1.
Respiration.
Sawlike, rasping sound of respiration (fifth day), (took Bell. 1m), 1.

CHEST

Left lung and back of the breast sore all day, but did not pain (fifth day), 19.
Pain in the lower part of the left side, extended around to the back, soon passed off, after eating, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), 19a.
Woke at midnight with a scream, and pain and cramp in the muscles of the left side, with jerking and sharp cutting pain in the muscles of the abdomen (second day), 10.
Sharp transient pain in the lower part of the left side, at 10.30 P.M. (second day), 19.
At 9 A.M., a severe, sharp, cutting or sticking pain in the upper third of the right side; worse from motion; most relief from folding the arms across the chest; it becomes so severe that he is obliged to take Bryonia, which relieves him, but the side remains very sore; after another dose of Lactic acid, the pain and soreness returned; is compelled to keep the arm close to the side to avoid pain; it is very difficult to put his coat on or off; repeated in subsequent proving, 14.
Pain in the back part of right breast at intervals during the morning, till 11 A.M., when the pain extended to the axilla, which feels sore to the touch (fourth day), 19. [210.]
Pain in the back of the left breast, two or three times during the day (sixth day), 19.
Sharp pain in right breast at 11 A.M. (sixth day), 19.
Sharp pain darted through the lower part of the right breast at 1 P.M., and continued at intervals during the afternoon (fourth day), 19.
Sharp pain in back part of the left breast during the afternoon; at 6 P.M., a similar pain in the right breast, after which is felt sore to the touch; soon passed away (second day), 19.

HEART AND PULSE

Præcordium.
The heart-sounds were clear (sixth day), 20a.
Slight depression and constriction in the cardiac region; relieved by bending the chest forward; in the forenoon (second day) and repeated, 12.
Sharp pain around the heart, causing palpitation, a few minutes after 11.30 A.M.; lasts till 2 P.M. (second day), 19.
Pulse.
The pulse rose 12 beats (after three days), 20a.
The pulse was 102 (sixth day), 20a.
Pulse 98, full and soft, 20b. [220.]
Pulse 96, full and soft, 21.
Pulse 90 and full (third day), 20.
Pulse 90, feverish (third day), 15.
Pulse 62, small and feeble (second day, half an hour after a dose), 10.

NECK AND BACK

Rheumatic pain in the right side of the neck and right breast, worse from stooping the head; continued about an hour (sixth day), 18.
Great distress in the region of the kidneys (tenth day), 19.
Pain in the lower part of the back and head all night; the pain extended to the shoulders, especially the right, 19.
Pain in the small of the back at 11 A.M.; extends up the left shoulder and side of the neck; did not last long in the neck and shoulder, but continued in the back all day (second day), 19.
Pain in the small of the back about noon; continued all night (fourth and fifth day), 19b.
Pain in the small of the back all night, could hardly lie in bed (first and second day); extends to the shoulders (third day), 19a. [230.]
Pain in the region of the kidneys, from 11 to 12 A.M. (fourth day), 19.
On retiring, a severe pain in the left lumbar region, more a weak feeling, which is relieved by turning on to the side (first and second day), 4.
Aching in the lower part of the back, from 3 to 10 P.M. (first day), 19.
Sharp pain across the small of the back and shoulders, worse when walking (fifth day), 19.
Sore pain across the lower part of the back all day (second day), 19b.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

The attempt to take the acid was always followed by pains in the joints, 21.
Pains in the joints, in the evening (second day), 30.
Severe pain in various joints, 21.
Acute pains in the joints and flying pains about the limbs, 20.
After taking it for a week in May, he was laid up with such severe joint pains that I was called to visit him and found him in bed with pains in his elbows, shoulders, ankles, knees, and, as he said, all over him, 21. [240.]
He had a bad night from pains in the joints, which disturbed him very much, and which came on suddenly after midnight (fifth night); the next morning the metacarpo-phalangeal and first phalangeal articulations of the first and second fingers of each hand were found to be red, swollen, hot, and painful; the slightest movement aggravated the pain, and he could not on this account pick up anything with his fingers; the acid mixture was stopped, and in the evening the pain in the knuckles was less, and the redness was diminished; they were, however, still stiff; no other joints were affected (sixth day), 20a.
Elbows and knees painful and stiff, 20b.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Shoulder.
Pain in the shoulder on moving the arm, with soreness in the side (third day), 14.
Rheumatic pains in both shoulders, running up the muscles of the neck to the mastoid process, and into the ears, 17a.
Wrist.
Slight rheumatic pains in the wrist-joint (half an hour), 8.
Flying pains about the joints for four days, after which he was disturbed at night be severe pain in the right wrist, which in the morning was red, swollen, painful, and hot, and was a typical specimen of a rheumatic joints, 20b.
Hand.
Small joints of both hands, wrists, and in the last degree the elbows are red, swollen, and painful; they seem typical symptoms of acute rheumatic arthritis; in the evening both wrists, the small joints of the fingers and the elbows are all red, hot, swollen, tender, and painful (third day). Lactic acid was discontinued, the next day the joints were better, 20.
Pains returned in the knuckles in the evening; they were swollen, red, and tender, 20b.
Fingers.
Pain in the second joint of the right thumb, at 1 P.M., for an hour (second day), 19.
Index finger, right, swollen, two bright red spots on it, one between first and second, the other between second and third joints; the last itched once or twice during the day; from 2 to 10 P.M., it itched and burned like a bee-sting; on the fifth day it was sore between the first and second joints, but not red; between the second and third joints red, but not sore; the red spot looked like a blister, 19. [250.]
Right index finger felt sore between the first and second and also between the second and third joints; these pains continued during the proving, alternately appearing and disappearing, 19.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Thigh.
Pain in the thigh, and stinging in the sartorius muscle (third day), 10.
Soreness to touch along the track of the right sciatic nerve, on getting out of bed; lasts all day, pulsating constantly, but slightly (fourth day), 17.
Knee.
A swelling or redness of the knees or other joints, 21.
None of the joints were swollen except the right knee, which was faintly red, decidedly swollen, and very tender and painful; the other joints were simply stiff and painful on movement, 21.
Weakness of the knees, and stinging in the joints (third day), 10.
Great weakness in the knees on going downstairs; feels for another step at the bottom, with vertigo (third day), 10.
He complained a good deal of pain in the knees, which had hitherto escaped (fourth day), 20.
Pain in the knees when walking; they cripple forward (evening, second day), 10.
Pain in the knee-joints similar to neuralgic pains, at times extending to the toes, with a thrilling sensation as if one's foot had been asleep (third day), 9. [260.]
Pain in the patella (third day), 10.
Rheumatic pains, dull yet sharp, in the knee-joint on moving the leg, at 7 P.M. (third day), 8.
Sharp pain in the right knee, rendering the joint stiff and walking painful (fourth day), 21.
Stinging pain in the knees, and inside the thighs (fourth day), 10.
Leg.
Cramp in the calf of the leg early in the morning, before leaving the bed, also after rising a feeling of soreness in the part (third day), 9.
Foot.
Sensation as though the feet were perspiring, and the stockings soaked full, 17a.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Great jerking of the muscles, and rigor all over the body, in evening (second day), 10.
Spasm of different muscles; it is difficult to eat or write (second day), 10.
Weakness on rising in the morning, with pain in the head (third day), 11.
Subjective.
Sensitive to cold air, hoarse, etc. (second day), 9. [270.]
Very tired, felt as if he had walked a long distance, during and after motion (fourth day), 7.
Felt weak during the morning (fifth day), 19.
Felt sick all over; relieved by eating lunch, at noon (third day), 19a.
Rheumatic pains in the bones, worse on motion (fourth day), 7.

SKIN

Objective.
Red spots on the left arm, left hip, left hand, in the morning (third day); on the scrotum, with itching (third day), 10.
Several distinct bright-red blotches (as large as a raspberry) on the anterior portion of the lower third of the left leg, with slight burning, but not itching, relieved by cold, and by passing quickly from warm to cold, or cold to warm; the eruption is brightest at 8 A.M., fades in the middle of the day, and grew lighter again during the evening; brighter, on pressure (first and following days); eruption fades away from the periphery towards the centre; the centre remains bright till the fifth day, when it disappeared, 15 ; in the second proving, these deep-red blotches reappear on both legs, and extend almost over the thighs and lower limbs, to which they are confined, 15a.
Elevations on the back like hives, with itching; also itching and redness on other portions of the body (eighth day), 6.
Eruptions on right arm and left leg, itch and burn, 11.
Papular eruption on the face and hands (fourth day), 9.
Small blisters on the hands, 11. [280.]
Erysipelatous redness of left cheek and left side of nose, with small sore vesicles on nose, in the morning (third and fourth day), 1.
Subjective.
Itching of the body on going to bed, on account of cold from the clothes (third day), 10.
Itching and burning on going out into cold air, with creeping and stinging in left half of body, left arm, hand, and leg, in the evening (second day), 10.
Itching is aggravated by scratching, 15.
Itching of the skin, relieved by scratching, 6.
Itching on different parts, chest, back, abdomen, and extremities (eighth day), 6.
Itching and redness, not on exposed parts of the body, 6.

SLEEP

Sleepless, with vertigo (first day), 19a.
Restless all night, could neither lie still nor sleep, 19.
Does not sleep well; restless; backache all night (sixth day), 19. [290.]
Did not sleep well; restless; seemed to have had dreams but did not remember them; tired on waking (fifth day), 19b.
Very restless at night (first day), 9.
Very tired on waking, with aching of the limbs, as if she had not slept any (second day), 19b.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Cold and chilly at noon; transient (third and sixth days), 19a.
Shivering in the muscles, with burning and stinging in the left half of the body (third day), 10.
Rigor all over, with jerking of the muscles; cold feet; right hand cold, left hand hot; in the evening (second day), 10.
Feet cold, in the evening (second day), 10.
Heat.
The temperature showed no marked change until four or five days, when it remained steadily at 99°, instead of varying as it had done for some time previous (after third day), 20a.
Temperature 99.2°, 20a.
The temperature, which on the previous evening had been 98.2°, had risen to 99.4° (sixth day), 20a. [300.]
Temperature in morning, 100°; in the evening, 101° (third day), 20.
Flashes of heat over the whole body; feverish (third day), 15.
Fever, with severe headache, from 1 to 4 P.M. (sixth day), 19a.
Slight fever, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), 19a.
Heat of the head excessive (fourth hour), 10.
Left side excessively hot, trembling in all the muscles, with nausea and vertigo, general sickness all over; he thinks he is proving tobacco, in the evening (second day), 10.
Sweat.
The skin was freely perspiring, 21.
Copious acid perspiration, 20b.
Sweating of hands and feet, 11.
Unusual perspiration of the feet , not offensive, so that by 6 P.M. he needed to dry his stockings; this was repeated for several days, beginning at noon, 6.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Nausea; weakness.
( Forenoon ), Depression, etc., in cardiac region.
( Noon ), Coldness.
( Afternoon ), Fulness in top of head; dilatation of pupils.
( Evening ), Dilatation of pupils; rigor, etc.; feet cold.
( Motion ), Headache at base of brain; pain darting to occiput; especially getting up in morning, nausea; rheumatic pains in bones.
( Reading ), Pain in eyes.
( Sitting still ), Feeling in stomach.
( ). Burning eructations; burning, etc., in stomach.
Amelioration.
( Bathing ), Headache, 19.
( Eating ), The symptoms, 15 ; nausea.

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