ARANEA SCINENCIA.

By Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

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Authority.

Dr. Wm. Rowley, N. Am. Journ. of Hom., 7, 64; two provings (1, "N. S." 2, "E. P.") with the 1st and 2d dilutions.

MIND

  • Could not collect his thoughts (with slight pain in head), (second day), 1.

HEAD

  • Vertigo worse when stooping (third day), 1.
  • Vertigo, with nausea (after two hours), 2.
  • Severe pain in head, affecting the eyes (immediately), 1.
  • Slight pains in head (after fifteen minutes), 1.
  • Dull, heavy pain in head all day (second day), 1.
  • Dull, sluggish pain, but quite intense, all over the head (after one and a half hours), 1.
  • After dinner, dull pain in head, rather increased till after supper, when it was relieved (first day), 2.
  • Head dull, with heavy, painful fulness (fourth day), 1. [10.]
  • Dull, stupid feeling in head, with feeling of fulness and dull, aching pain (after two hours), 2.
  • Dull, heavy pain in postero-superior part of head (after twenty minutes), 1.
  • Could not rest on account of pain in head, 1.

EYES

  • Eyes feel weak and inflamed (second day), 1.
  • Eyes felt heavy, with a blur over them (after one and a half hours), 1.
  • Constant twitching of the under lids (second day), 1.
  • Eyelids swollen (third day), 1.
  • Eyes run a good deal (second day), 1.
  • There seems to be a blur constantly collecting over the eyes (second day), 1.
  • Glimmering before the eyes (immediately), 2.

MOUTH. [20.]

  • Rather profuse flow of saliva (immediately), 2.
  • Sweet taste in the mouth (immediately), 2.
  • Dryness and prickling in throat (immediately), 2.

STOMACH

  • Foul stomach (second day), 1.
  • Slight pain in stomach (after two hours), 2.
  • Sour eructations (after two hours), 2.
  • Slight nausea (after one and a half hours), 1.
  • Strange feeling in stomach, as if he had not eaten for a long time, continuing for about an hour (after half an hour), 1.

ABDOMEN

  • Very unpleasant dull rumbling pains in bowels (second day), 1.
  • Colic increased by bending forward (immediately), 2.

STOOL AND ANUS. [30.]

  • Sensation as if the bowels were loosened (after two hours), 2.
  • Bowels costive (second day), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

  • Increased secretion of urine, so that he had to get up twice during the night, 1.
  • Urine cloudy, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

  • Slight palpitation of the heart on waking, which soon passed off (second day), 2.

GENERALITIES

  • Felt fatigued, physically and mentally, as though he had labored hard (had felt uncommonly well in the morning), (after two hours), 2.
  • Felt uncommonly well in the morning, with good appetite for breakfast (second day), 2.
  • The whole system appears deranged (second day), 1.
  • Felt as if he had been drinking (immediately), 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • Sleepy on sitting down (fourth day), 1. [40.]
  • Slept well all night (usually restless and sleeps but little), (first day), 2.
  • Uncommonly sound sleep at night (immediately), 2.
  • Felt as if he had been broken of his rest, yet did not seem sleepy (after one and a half hours), 1.
  • Very restless during night; could sleep but a few moments at a time, and then not soundly, 1.

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Bending forward ), Vertigo; colic.
  • ( After dinner ), Dull pain in head.
  • ( On waking ), Slight palpitation of the heart.
  • ( Warm room ), All symptoms.
  • Amelioration.
  • ( Morning ), Felt uncommonly well.
  • ( Open air ), Symptoms rather relieved.
  • ( After supper ), Pain in head.

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