Cicuta virosa, Linn. ("Cicuta aquatica" is Phellandrium aquaticum).

Nat. order , Umbelliferæ.

Common names , Water Hemlock, Cowbane; (G.) Wasserschierling, Wütherich; (Fr.) La cigue vireuse.

Preparation , Tincture of the fresh root, collected when the plant begins to flower (Hahnemann).

Authorities.

1 , Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 6, 263; 2 , F. H---n, ibid.; 3 , Hornburg, ibid.; 4 , Langhammer, ibid.; 5 , Allen, Synopsis, poisoning, ibid.; 6 , Bresl. Samml., 1729, poisoning, ibid.; 7 , Wepfer, de cicuta aquatica, ibid., with additions from Wibmer's details of the cases of poisoning; 8 , Lembke, proving with repeated doses of 10 to 200 drops of tincture, A. H. Z., 51, 109; 9 , Tragus, effects of an infusion of root in a woman, Wibmer; 10 , Scaliger, effects of eating root, Wibmer; 11 , Reimann, ibid.; 12 , Gäritz, two girls, aged 4 and 6, ate the root, ibid.; 13 , Box, in Schwenke, from Wibmer; 14 , Blom, a man ate root, ibid.; 15 , Ettinger, effects of eating the root, ibid.; 16 , Trew, ibid.; 17 , Bennewitz, child ate the root, Frank's Magazine, 1, 39; 18 , Meyer, ibid.; 19 , Allihn, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 3, 359, poisoning; 20 , Velten, seven children ate the root, Casp. Woch., 1840, No. 19; 21 , Schleiser, a girl ate the plant, Hempel's Mat. Med., 2, 183; 22 , Willson, effects of eating root, Lancet, Sept. 1871; 23 , Lenden, three boys ate the root, B. and F. Med.-Chir. Rev., April, 1866; 24 , a student took 15 grammes of root in half an hour, Schmidt's Jahrb., 1; 25 , L'Art Méd., 20, 460, case of poisoning by an omelette containing Cicuta.

MIND

Emotional.
Aberration of mind, singing, performing the most grotesque dancing-steps, shouting, 25.*
Delirium, 9, 10, 22 ; (in two hours), 24.
Delirium; after an unusual sleep heat of the body; she sprang out of bed, danced, laughed, and did all sorts of foolish things, drank much wine, jumped about, clapped her hands, and grew very red in the face; the whole night, 7.
Intoxication, 9.
Feels as if intoxicated, while sitting, standing, and walking (after five minutes), 2.
Drunkenness, 5.
Drunkenness, reeling, 6.
Excited, with apprehension concerning the future; everything which could befall him seemed to be dangerous, 1.
He did not believe that he was living under ordinary relations; everything seemed strange and almost fearful to him; it seemed as though he had awakened from an acute fever and saw all kinds of visions, though without physical sick feeling, 1. [10.]
It seemed as though he was a child of 7 or 8 years, as if objects were very lovely and attractive to him, as toys to a child, 1.
Likes to be alone and is disinclined to speak, with diminished power of comprehension, 8.
Laughing and biting, 12.
Weeping, moaning, and howling, 5.
Lively mood, inclined to work, with a feeling of lightness on walking or making any other muscular exertion, 8.
Quiet disposition; he was exceedingly contented with his condition and with himself, and was very happy, 4 . [Curative action. -Hahnemann.]
Sadness for several days, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
When others were lively he was sad, 1.
(Gloominess for two days after the headache), 1.
Dejection (second day), 19. [20.]
Anxiety, 7.
Anxiety; he is excessively affected by sad stories, . [Not found. -Hughes.]

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head, in the morning after rising, 1.
Confusion of the forehead, 8.
More or less confusion of the forehead, 8.
Stupefaction and heaviness of the head (after seventy-four hours), 4.
Vertigo, 7, 18 ; (second day), 19 ; (soon after), 20, 22.* [50.]
Vertigo, while walking, as if he would fall toward to the left (after seventy-two hours), 4.
Vertigo, reeling, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Vertigo; he fell to the earth, 5.
Giddiness (after half an hour), 22.
Fell down from giddiness, 20.
Dizzy, 7.
Reeling, 12.
Reeling, so that she believes she would fall (after six hours), 2.
Reeling and tottering, while walking (after eighty-two hours), 4.
General Head.
Jerking and twitching of the head, 2. [60.]
Head bent backward (a kind of opisthotonos), 6.
If she is allowed to sit quietly a long time her head gradually sinks down, while her eyes remain staring at the same point, so that when the head has sunk low down the pupils lie almost under the upper lid; when she has ceased with a kind of internal jerk, whereby she suddenly returns to consciousness for a short time, she again falls into a similar insensible condition, wherefrom she is aroused from time to time by an internal shivering, which seems to her like a chill, 2.
Dulness in the head, with a shaking chill; with stiffness of the neck, and sensation as if the muscles were too short, 2.
Anxiety in the head, 2.
Strange feeling in head, 24.
Heaviness in the head, while sitting, 3.
Heaviness of the head and chest, .

EYE

Objective.
Eyes prominent, 7.
Eyes protruding from the head, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Staring looks, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.] [110.]
Staring look, almost without winking; it seems as though a gray fog were before the eyes, 8.
Staring look at one and the same point, whereby everything looks like black cloth (after six minutes), 2.
Staring (after quarter of an hour); she stares with unaltered look at one and the same place, and cannot help it , although she wishes to do so very much, wherewith she has not entire control of her senses, and must be very much excited to answer correctly; she makes a visible effort by turning the head to abandon objects with her eyes, but by so doing she loses her consciousness, and everything becomes black before her eyes, 2.*
Subjective.
Very much inclined to stare at objects, 8.*
Slight pressure in the eyes on reading, 8.
Brow and Orbit.
Twitching of the orbicularis beneath the lower lid, 1.
Pressive pain beneath the left brow, in the bones; it then extends towards the temple and left zygoma, 8.
Drawing stitches in the eyebrows (after twelve hours), 4.
Lids.
Pressure upon the lids, 8.
Pressure in the right inner canthus, so that he was obliged to close the eyes and press them together, in order to relieve it, 3. [120.]
Sticking in the left lids, 8.
Stitches in the eyelids, 8.
Tearing in the eyelids, 8.
Pupil.
Pupils dilated soon after taking, 8.
Pupils dilated and fixed, 21.*
*Pupils dilated and insensible, .

EAR

Flow of blood from the ears, 6. [150.]
Sore pain behind the left ear, 3.
Sore sensation behind the left ear, as after a bruise or blow, 3.
Pain behind the right ear, such as would remain from a bruise or blow, 3.

HEARING

She does not hear well unless one speaks loudly to her, and she pays attention, 2.*
Cracking in the right ear, on swallowing, 2.
Violent ringing in the left ear, 3.
Roaring in the ears, 18.
Roaring in both ears, worse in the room than in the open air, 2.

NOSE

Very frequent sneezing, without coryza (after twenty-nine hours), 4.
Nose stopped, 8. [160.]
Stoppage of the nose, 8.
Stoppage of the nose, together with profuse secretion of mucus in it, 1.
Yellow discharge from the nose, 1.
Discharge of bright-red blood from the right nostril (three teaspoonfuls), 8.
Slight touching of the nose renewed the bleeding from the right nostril, 8.
Dryness in both nostrils, as if they were stopped, without any mechanical hindrance, 8.
The right wing of the nose pains, as if sore, as after a blow or bruise, 3.

FACE

Objective.
Anxious expression, 22.
Redness of the face, 6 . [With S. 450. -Hughes.]
Face red, 22.* [170.]
*With the spasms, the face became dark-red, lips blue, with bloody froth from the mouth, 17.
Flushed countenance, 22.
Cadaverous paleness (two children), 19.*
Face pallid, 21.*
Face pale and drawn, 18.*
Face puffy, 7.
Face (and throat) swollen, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Muscular movements of the face (in a boy of fourteen), 19.
Cheeks.
Pressure beneath the right malar bone, 8.
Lower Jaw.
Gnashing of the teeth, 6. [180.]
Teeth clenched, lockjaw, 6.*
Lockjaw, 6.
Firmly closed mouth, with froth from it, 19.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Toothache in the nerves of the lower row of teeth, 3.
Tongue.
A whitish sore (sore place) on the margin of the tongue, very painful to touch, 2.*
General Mouth.
Sensation of dryness in the mouth, 2.
Saliva.
Much salivation, 8.
Frothing at the mouth, 7.
Froth in the mouth, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Mouth full of froth, 6 . [Post-mortem. -Hughes.] [190.]
Water, tinged with blood, flowed involuntarily from his mouth, 23.
Speech.
Tried to speak, but could not move the tongue, 15.
While speaking a few words, he can articulate the first five or six words without hesitation, but while speaking the rest of the words he is seized by slight jerking of the head backward, even noticed by others, sometimes also the arms jerk, so that he seems compelled to draw backward and swallow a syllable, and to articulate almost as in hiccough, 2.
Completely dumb, 12.

THROAT

Dryness of the throat, 7, 8, 12.
Dryness and scraping in the throat, 8.
Great dryness of the throat (after half an hour), 22.
Fine stitches in the throat, 8.
Sensation in the throat and chest, as if something as large as the fist were lodged there, and were pressing the throat asunder, impeding respiration worse while sitting than while walking, 2.
The throat seems grown together internally, and is painful externally, as if bruised, on moving or taking hold of it, becoming worse for several hours, with eructations from noon till evening, 2.
Swallowing. [200.]
Unable to swallow, 6.*
Entire loss of power of swallowing, 21.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Constant hunger and appetite, even if he had just eaten, 2.
Appetite for eating at noon, but the appetite disappeared with the first mouthful, 1.
*Great longing for coal; he swallowed it, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Loss of appetite on account of a dry sensation in the mouth; food has not a bad, but still not its complete, taste, 1.
Does not relish his breakfast; it filled up his abdomen, as if he had eaten too much, 1.
Thirst.
Thirst, 7, 12.*
Great thirst for cold water in the afternoon, 8.
Great thirst, (with the cramps), 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Eructation and Hiccough. [210.]
He raises, as by eructations, a very bitter yellow fluid, while stooping in the open air; it rises from the stomach to the mouth, and causes a burning in the throat, the whole forenoon, 3.
Hiccough, 3, 6, 7.*
Frequent hiccough, 7.
Loud sounding hiccough, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, 19 ; (after half an hour), 3.
Nausea in the morning, with sticking-tearing headache, 2.
Nausea, while eating, 2.
Nausea, with stitches in the forehead, the whole day, 2.
Vomiting, 5, 11, 13, 18, 23, 24.
Vomiting, without relief of the lockjaw, 6. [220.]
Copious vomiting, 17.
Difficult vomiting, followed by relief, 7.
Vomiting of blood, 7, 16.

ABDOMEN

Objective.
Abdomen distended, 21.
Abdomen distended by gas, with passage of much flatulence, 8.
Rumbling and roaring in the abdomen (after a quarter of an hour), 3.* [240.]
Much accumulation of flatulence; constant anxiety and fretfulness, 1.
Much persistent moving of flatulence in the abdomen, 8.
Frequent emission of flatus, 8.
Profuse discharge of flatus, 3.
Subjective.
Sick feeling in the abdomen in the morning, and as this disappeared in the afternoon, headache, sticking in the right side of the head, extending from the right eye and nose (in both of which it was most violent) to the occiput, lasting three days, followed by running from the nose and discharge of yellow mucus (after nine days), 1.
Dull, painful sensation in the abdomen, 8.
Pain in the abdomen, 18.
Pain in the abdomen and sleepiness, immediately after eating, 1.
Most fearful pains in the abdomen, 19.
Tearing pains deep in the abdomen, increased by pressure, 8. [250.]
Most violent colic, 18.
Hypogastrium.
Distension and painfulness of the lower abdomen (second day), 19.
Griping in the lower abdomen, immediately after eating, 1.
Sudden, sharp stitches, extending from the navel to the neck of the bladder, 8.
A kind of sore pain in the right pelvic region, in the margin of the ilium, as after a violent blow, a pulsating, drawing sensation, 3.
Sensation in the right groin as if an ulcer would break through (while sitting), 3.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Protrusion of the rectum, with thin stool, 8.
Sensation as of liquid stool in the rectum, 8.
Itching internally in the rectum, just above the anus; after rubbing, pain as if burnt; the pain always causes shuddering; after walking, while sitting still and during a stool, 1.
Swelling on the right side of the anus, as from hæmorrhoidal tumors under the skin, whereby the orifice is contracted, with annoyance during stool, 8. [260.]
Burning in the anus, with soft stool, 8.
Sudden urging to stool, without warning; he was scarcely able to retain it, together with bruised pain in the back and general loss of strength; the stool was passed suddenly, and was followed by urging, with great desire to urinate, 8.

STOOL

Diarrhœa, 5.
Stool almost hourly, consisting of black offensive mucus in small portions, with urging at 2 P.M., 8.
Stool softer than usual, 8.
Thin stool (at 2 and 5 A.M.), with violent urging to urinate, which could not be withstood, 8.*
Thin slimy stool at 7 and 8 P.M., with profuse urine, 8.
Constipation, 6.

URINARY ORGANS

Urethra.
Sticking in the navicular fossa of the penis, 8.
Dull sticking pain in the navicular fossa of the urethra, 8. [270.]
Stitches in the urethra, 8.
Dull stitches in the urethra, 8.
Tickling in the navicular fossa, with frequent erections, 8.
Violent itching in the navicular fossa, 8.
Urging to urinate, 8.
Frequent urging to urinate, 4, 8.
Frequently repeated desire to urinate, with difficulty in retaining the urine, 8.
Micturition.
Frequent micturition, 8.
Very frequent micturition, 2.
Involuntary micturition, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]* [280.]
Violent spurting out of the urine, 6.
Urine scanty and dark, 8.
Urine more scanty than usual during the night, 8.
Difficult passage of urine at night, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Retention of urine, 6 . [With S. 266.]

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Erections, without desire, 8.
Frequent erections, without desire, 8.
A sore drawing pain beneath the penis, extending to the glans, which compels him to urinate (after twelve hours), 3.
Testicles drawn up against the abdomen, 8.
Testicles drawn up tightly into the abdominal ring, 8. [290.]
Emission, without voluptuous dreams, 4.
Three emissions in the night, 3.
Female.
Menstruation delayed, 2.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Pressure below the larynx, while sitting (after four hours), 3.
Voice.
Hoarseness, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Cough and Expectoration.
Cough, with much expectoration, especially during the day, 2.
Respiration.
Respiration stertorous, 23.
Slow, difficult respiration, 19.
Respiration deep, labored, 8.
Deep inspiration, while sitting, 8. [300.]
Deep inspiration at times, more while sitting than while walking, 8.
Respiration feeble and rattling, 21.
Respiration very weak and scarcely perceptible, 18.
Respiration uneven, stertorous, at times interrupted by hiccough, 18.
Oppression of breathing, 7.*
Want of breath the whole day (immediately), 2.*

CHEST

Burning about the nipple (after thee hours), 2.
Tightness of the chest, so that she could scarcely breathe, the whole day (immediately), 2.*
Pressure upon the chest, with at times deep inspiration, 8.
Oppressed sensation in the chest, with deep respiration, 8. [310.]
Jumping in the chest, about the pit of the stomach (after one hour), 3.
Front.
Pressure, as after a blow, and sore sensation on the lower end of the sternum, while walking, 3.
Sides.
Pressive pain in the right pectoralis major, while walking slowly, afterwards in the left pectoral and intercostal muscles, without affecting respiration then in the left knee, in the external malleolus, in the right pectoral, right forearm, and radial side of the right wrist and dorsal surface at the base of the right fingers, 8.
Some needle-like stitches beneath the last false ribs of the left side, on inspiration and expiration, which disappeared while standing and walking (after three hours), 4.

HEART AND PULSE

Præcordium.
Sudden sensation, as if the heart stopped, while walking, 8.
Pain in the præcordial region, 7.
Pain in the præcordium, 7.
Sticking and burning pains in the præcordial region, 7.
Pulse.
Pulse 90, 22.
Pulse slow and full, 8. [320.]
Pulse small and slow, 17.
Pulse weak, 24.
Pulse soft, small, and scarcely perceptible, 21.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Swollen neck, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Tension in the cervical muscles, 3.
Sore tension in the left cervical muscles, on bending the head backward, 3.
A kind of cramp of the cervical muscles; if he looks around, he cannot bring the head back again, the muscles do not yield, and when he attempts to force them it hurts very much, 1.
Drawing pains in the left side of the neck (after six hours), 3.
Tearing (immediately) in the muscles of the right side of the neck, 8.
Back.
*The back bent backward like an arch, 6. [330.]
Painful stiffness in the back, on stooping, 8.
Peculiar sensation, extending through the back along the posterior surface of the legs, similar to that experienced on lying down after a fatiguing walk; felt while sitting, 8.
Dorsal.
Painful sensation on the inner surface of the scapulæ, 3.
Painful tension across the right scapula, 8.
Stitches in the muscles on the right scapula, 8.
Sensation as if there were an ulcer on the right scapula, 3.
Transient stitches in the muscles of the back, in the region of the eleventh and twelfth dorsal vertebræ, aggravated on deep inspiration, 8.
Shock in the dorsal vertebræ, 3.
Pain in the lumbar muscles, 8.
Pain in the lumbar and dorsal muscles, 8. [340.]
Frequent pain in the lumbar muscles, 8.
Sacral.
Tearing-jerking in the coccyx, 3.*

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Objective.
Trembling in the upper and lower limbs, 3.*
The limbs were tossed about hither and thither, 6.
He tossed his limbs now to one, now to the other side, 6.
*Spasmodic distortion of the limbs, throwing himself to the distance of two feet, 6.
Great weakness in the arms and legs , after slight exertion, 8.
Limbs palsied, 21.
Complete paralysis of the limbs; sensation was benumbed, but not completely lost; paralysis of the arms was incomplete, 22.
Subjective.
Sensation of great weakness, now in the right shoulder, now in one or the other knee, or in the ankle, 8. [350.]
Alternating painful pressure in various muscles of the extremities, mostly in the lower legs, with prickling in the toes, 8.
Tearing in the extensor of the left forearm and at the base of the three last toes of the right side, 8.
Bruised sensation of the forearms and legs, 8.
Painful bruised sensation, alternately in the arms and legs, with heat streaming through them, making motion difficult, 8.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Objective.
*Frequent involuntary jerking and stitches in the arms and fingers (lower limbs and head), 2.
Jerking in the left arm, so that the whole body is jerked (after four minutes), 2.
Loss of power of the whole arm and fingers, 3.
Subjective.
Sensation as if there were no power in the left arm, with a sticking-tearing pain in it, 2.
Arms felt numbed, and their movements were weak, 22.
The arm seems very heavy on raising it, with sticking in the shoulder, so violent that she cannot raise the arm to the head without crying aloud; she cannot even move the fingers, 2. [360.]
Painful sensation beneath the right arm, 3.
Drawings in the left arm, 8.
Pressive pain in the muscles of the right upper and forearm, 8.
Tearing pain in the whole of the left arm, as far as the fingers, 2.
Shoulder.
Twitching in the left shoulder (after twenty minutes), 2.
Sensation of cracking in the shoulder-joint, not audible, 2.
Tearing in the muscles of the left shoulder, 8.
Sore pain, as from a blow, in the right shoulder-joint, 3.
Arm.
Painful weakness in the muscles of the lower portion of the left upper arm, 8.
Painful weakness in the muscles of the right upper arm, on writing, 8. [370.]
Tearing in the inner side of the lower portion of the right upper arm, 8.
Elbow.
(Swelling on the inside of the left elbow-joint, as if an ulcer would form; on moving the arm it pains as if one pressed on an ulcer), 1.
Painful sensation and heaviness in the left elbow, 8.
Forearm.
Sticking-like tearing in the muscles of the right forearm, while writing, disappearing during complete inactivity of the body (after one hour and a quarter), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Objective.
*Frequent involuntary jerking of the lower limbs, 2.
Visible trembling of one leg, 2.*
Great weakness in both legs, on sitting and standing, less in the arms, relieved on walking about, 8.
His legs refused to carry him, and he staggered ; objects seemed at one time to approach, at another time to recede from him, 22.*
Lower extremities numbed, not insensitive, but completely paralyzed, 22.
Painful stiffness and stiff sensation of the lower limbs, so that he could not walk at all for three hours (after one hour), 2. [390.]
Pressure in various muscles of the lower extremities, 8.
Pressure and weakness in the legs, 8.
Hip.
Burning-sticking in the left hip-bone, 3.
Thigh.
Sudden great weariness in the left thigh, on rising, 8.
Tension in the fascia of the anterior upper and outer part of the left thigh and in the hollow of the right knee, towards the inner margin, while walking, 8.
Pressure on the right trochanter major, 8.
Tearing in the muscles on the inner surface of the right thigh, 8.
Tearing pain in the thighs, while walking; they are heavy, 2.
Pain, like a tearing, in the thighs, immediately after rising from sitting, with aching, as if beaten, in the knees; the pain in the thighs is worse while walking, like a deepseated stiffness, 2.
Knee.
While sitting, a feeling in the knees as after a long walk, 8. [400.]
Painful pressure in the right knee, 8.
Painful bruised sensation in the knees, 8.
Leg.
Very violent trembling of the left lower leg, 2.
Great weakness in the lower legs, 8.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Veins very prominent, 8.
Twitchings (in two children), 19.
Spasm of all muscles, 24.* [440.]
The most violent (tonic) spasms, so that the fingers were bent and could not be straightened, neither could the limbs be bent or straightened, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Convulsions, 12, 13, 16.*
*Convulsions; complete loss of consciousness, 15.
Convulsions, with loss of consciousness, frightful distortions of the limbs and whole body, 7.*
*Convulsions, with wonderful distortion of the limbs, head turned backward, back bent as in opisthotonos ; after the convulsions were relieved the child fled to its mother for help, but was soon attacked by still more violent convulsions, which lasted till death, 7.
Convulsions, and sudden death, 20.
General convulsions, 6.*
Rapid convulsions in quick succession, with frightful distortion, trismus, opisthotonos, and great swelling of the præcordial region, violent hiccough, lasting half an hour without intermission until death, 7.
*Frightful convulsions, 5, 16.
He fell to the ground and passed urine with great force; was attacked with most violent convulsions; mouth was firmly closed, so that it could not be opened; he gnashed the teeth, distorted the eyes; blood spurted from the ears, and much swelling was felt in the præcordial region, 7. [450.]
Epilepsy, 5, 6.
Frightful epilepsy, recurring at first at short, then at long intervals; the limbs, head, and upper part of the body are convulsed in the most wonderful manner, with clenched jaws, 6.
Attack like epileptic spasms, 20.
Epileptic attacks, with swelling of the stomach, as from violent spasm of the diaphragm; , .*

SKIN

Objective.
Black spots on the skin, 14.
Eruptions, Dry.
Much eruption on the ears, 2.
*An elevated eruption over the whole face (and on both hands) as large as peas, which causes a burning pain when touched; it afterwards becomes confluent ; of a dark-red color, lasting nine days, followed by desquamation, which lasts three weeks, 2 . [I have cured chronic pustular, confluent eruption on the face, with only a burning pain, with the aid of one or two doses of a small portion of a drop of the juice, but did not venture to administer a second dose under three or four weeks, if the first was not sufficient. -Hahnemann.]
A cluster of sixteen or eighteen small red spots on the back of the left hand, smooth, disappearing on pressure, 8.
A small red spot on the dorsal surface of the first phalanx of the left thumb, 8.
Eruptions, Moist.
A burning-itching vesicle on the left side of the upper lip on the vermilion border, 3.
Red vesicle on the right scapula, very painful to touch, 3.
Elevated eruption as large as peas on both hands, even on the balls of the fingers, in which there is a burning pain when touched; afterwards it becomes confluent , of a dark-red color, and moist (ninth day), 2.*
Small itching vesicle on the back of the right hand, 8. [490.]
FiVe vesicles, as large as poppy-seeds, surrounded by red areolæ, without sensation, on the back of the left hand, between the first and second fingers, 8.
Eruptions, Vesicular.
Much eruption on the temples, and in front of the ears, filled with pus at the tip, and painful like a boil, 2.
Subjective.
Itching over the whole body, so that he was obliged to scratch, 2.
Burning-itching all over, 1.
Drawing beneath the skin, on the outer side of the left thigh, .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Frequent yawning, 3.
Frequent yawning, as if he had not slept enough (after one hour and three-quarters), 4.
Sleepiness, so that the eyes constantly closed, 3.
If she looks long at one place she becomes sleepy, and feels as though her head were pressing downward, although one sees nothing of it; she does not, with open, staring eyes, recognize letters, 2. [510.]
Very sleepy, even during the day, with weakness and great thirst, 8.
Sleep, 14.
Sleep for two hours, immediately, 15.
Sleeplessness.
Frequent waking at night, with sensation as if he had slept enough; even on rising at 6 A.M. he felt vigorous, and experienced no ill effects from too little sleep, 8.
Frequent waking from sleep, with sweat all over every time, from which, however, he feels refreshed, 4.
Loss of sleep the whole night (immediately), 2.
Loss of sleep; he awoke every quarter of an hour, with a painful heavy sensation in the head, 2.
Every morning he has not slept enough, 2.
Dreams.
Vivid but unremembered dreams, 4.
Vivid dreams at night about the events of the previous day, 1. [520.]
Many confused dreams, full of disquietude, 3.
Voluptuous dreams, with drawing pain the navicular fossa, 8.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Temperature diminished, 17.
Frequent chilliness, 8.
General coldness of surface, 21.
Icy coldness of whole body, 20.
They all long for a warm stove, 6 . [Not found. -Hughes.]
Chilliness in the whole abdomen, 8.
Slight chilliness through the back from 2 to 3.30 P.M., 8.
Frequent chilliness through the back, 8. [530.]
Coldness and stiffness of the arms and feet, 19.
Coldness creeps down the legs, then coldness in the arms (coldness seems to come more from the chest), after which there is great inclination to stare at one point, 2.
Feeling of coldness creeping through the lower legs and arms, with alternations of heaviness and lightness in these parts, 8.
Cold sensation streams through the lower legs, with tearing in the toes; cold sensation is especially persistent in the right lower leg, 8.
Ears cold, 8.
The whole abdomen was cold, 18.
Cold extremities, 8.
Heat.
Sensation of increased warmth in the whole body, 8.
General heat and special heat in the chest , lasting three-quarters of an hour, aggravated by the accustomed smoking, 3.
Excessive heat in all parts of the body, from the beginning to the end of the proving, 3. [540.]
Skin hot and dry, 22.
Heat and heaviness in the forehead, 8.
Heat, extending from deep in the occiput to the vertex and to one side of the head (always deep in the head), 8.
Heat low down in the occiput, 8.
Heat and burning about the eyes, 1.
Heat in the abdomen (and chest), 3.
Heat in the chest (and abdomen), 3.
Much heat and heaviness in the head, .

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), After rising, confusion of head; on waking, headache; nausea, etc.; feeling in abdomen.
( About noon ), Anxiety, etc.
( Afternoon ), Thirst; from 2 to 3.30 o'clock, chilliness through back.
( Night ), Urine scanty; difficult passage of urine.
( While eating ), Nausea.
( After eating ), Immediately, pressure in pit of stomach; immediately, pain in abdomen, etc.; immediately, griping in lower abdomen.
( Deep inspiration ), Stitches in muscles of back.
( Moving the part ), Pain in throat.
( On reading ), Pressure in eyes.
( Rest ), Headache.
( After rising from sitting ), Immediately, pain in thighs.
( In room ), Roaring in ears.
( Sitting ), Objects seeming to move in circle; sensation in throat; pressure below larynx; sensation through back; feeling in knees; sensation through lower legs; crawling in legs.
( While standing ), Tearing in tendons of foot.
( Taking hold of part ), Pain in throat.
( ), General heat, etc.
( While walking ), Vertigo; pressure, etc.; in end of sternum; sensation as if heart stopped; tension in fascia of thigh; pain in thighs ; tension through arm; sensation in leg; tearing in tendons of foot; stitches in heels.
( On writing ), Weakness in muscles of arm; tearing in muscles of forearm.
Amelioration.
( Afternoon ), Headache.
( Passage of flatus ), Headache.
( While sitting upright ), Headache disappears.
( While standing ), Stitches beneath ribs disappear.

CICUTA VIROSA.