Gratiola officinalis, Linn.

Natural order , Scrophulariaceæ.

Common names (Germ.), Gnaden-kraut; (English) Hedge hyssop.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities.

1 , Nenning, Hartlaub and Trinks, Reine Arzneim, 2, p. 1; 2 , Trinks, ibid.; 3 , Stoerck, Med. Prakt. Unterricht f. Wundärzte, vol. ii, p. 63, ibid.; 4 , Ehrhardt, Hannover. Mag., 1780, No. 23, effects of 20 grains of fresh herb on self, and of an infusion of half a drachm, 15 grains on another person, and of 10 grains on a woman, ibid.; 5 , Gesnerus, Epist. Med., L. iii, Ep. 31, p. 911, ibid., effects of a scruple with Sambucus; 6 , Chomel, Usuelles, i, p. 48, general effects ibid.; 7 , Burckel, Diss. de Gratiola, ibid.; 8 , Dr. Herrmann, Archiv f. Hom., 17, pt. 2, p. 165, a man, aged 39, took 1 to 3 drops of tincture, and afterwards 5 to 24 drops; 9 , same, a man, aged 31, took 1 to 12 drops of tincture; 10 , Dr. Krautzenstein took 2 to 20 drops of tincture twice a day, ibid.; 11 , Dr. Muhlenbein took 10 drops first day, 20 drops second day, 30 drops third day, 35 drops fourth day, 50 drops fifth and seventh days, ibid.; 12 , same, a strong man, aged 30, took 1 drop daily for a week, then 3 drops daily for a week, then 6 drops same, then 10 drops same (this prover was "stone blind" from a cataract, which was yellow instead of white; symptoms commenced after three doses of 10 drops each), afterwards the same prover took doses of 20 drops of tincture and 10 grains of powdered root every second evening, and afterwards one dose of a scruple, ibid.; 13 , Dr. C. G. F. Muhlenbein, aged 29, took 10 to 60-drop doses, ibid.; 14 , Dr. Nicol took repeated doses of 3 to 6 drops every three days for four weeks, ibid.; 15 , Dr. Nicol's wife took 3 to 6 drops of tincture for fourteen days, ibid.; 16 , Dr. N.'s father, aged 72, took 3 drops of tincture four times, at long intervals, ibid.; 17 , Dr. Spearman took 5 to 15-drop doses, ibid.; 18 , Dr. Sternheim, repeated provings, with doses of 10 to 20 drops of tincture, ibid.; 19 , Lembke, N. Zeit. f. Hom. Klin., 17, 97, took 10 to 50 drops of tincture.

MIND

Emotional.
Very much excited, and unable to fall asleep in the evening, 12.
Very talkative and joyous, 1.
So joyous and lively that she jumps and dances (after one hour), 1.
Sad mood (after one hour), 1.
Anxiety and heat in the whole body, with weakness, which disappear in the open air, 1.
Fretful mood (first day), 2.
Fretful and ill-humored; nothing pleases her (first day), 1.
Fretful, irritated by every contradiction, angry outbreaks, misanthropic, with solicitude about his own health, 10.
Very ill-humored (first day), 1. [10.]
Great ill-humor and desire to be alone (first day), 2.
Very much out of humor (after half an hour), 1.
Averse to everything at 1 P.M., 1 ; no desire to talk or move, 2.
Intellectual.
Earnest, reflective mood, 2.
She is in deep thought and does not seem to hear what is said to her at 2 1/2 P.M., 1.
Disinclination to every mental work, 10.
Irresolute; no persistency in work, 2.
He does not seem to apprehend objects as distinctly, but is much more confused than usual (after quarter of an hour), 1.
Loss of thought; she does not seem to know what she will answer when she is asked a question, and is obliged to think for a long time first; in the afternoon, 1.

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head (after two hours), 1 ; (second day), 13. [20.]
Painful confusion of the head, which disappeared after breakfast, but frequently returned after dinner, 15.
Vertigo, as if she would turn in a circle (after five minutes), 1.
Vertigo, as if objects wavered, more on the left side, lasting a quarter of an hour (after five minutes), 1.
Vertigo, as if the head moved back and forth, on reading; disappearing after reading, 1.
Vertigo on rising from sitting (after five minutes), 1.
Vertigo, like reeling, immediately after rising, lasting several hours, 8.
If she closes the eyes, it seems as though she would fall, on account of vertigo, and the whole room goes round; disappearing in the open air (after quarter of an hour), 1.
Vertigo, as if it turned around to the right, disappearing in the open air (after five minutes), 1.
Vertigo, as if he would fall forward, with weakness, in the open air; the vertigo disappears in the room (after one hour), 1.
Slight attacks of vertigo at times, especially on walking rapidly, 14. [30.]
Vertigo disappears in the open air and returns in the warm room (after quarter of an hour), 1.
Dizziness, 9.
Dizziness of the head, he stands long looking at one spot without thinking (soon), 2.
As if intoxicated, during and after eating (after half an hour, and later), 1.
She seems intoxicated; disappearing in the open air (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
General Head.
Rush of blood and feeling as if intoxicated in the whole brain (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Violent rush of blood to the head, with throbbing in the forehead, amounting to vertigo, with blackness before the eyes; aggravated by motion, especially on riding, and increasing even to loss of consciousness, only disappearing after several hours' sleep, 10.
The head is very light and free (after a quarter and one hour), 1.
Dulness in the head while standing and walking, only somewhat relieved by lying; between 7 and 8 P.M., .

EYE

Dryness of the eyes, with feeling as if sand were in them, 1.
Burning pains in the left eye, lasting half an hour (after six hours), 1. [120.]
Pressure upon the eyes, in the afternoon (first day), 13.
Pressive pain in both eyes (after three hours), and frequently repeated the whole day (first day), 18.
Tearing in the eyes, with mucous secretion in the lids, especially in the inner canthi, 10.
Brow.
Twitching and jerking of the left eyebrow (after two hours), 1.
Drawing pain in the left eyebrow (after a quarter of an hour), 2.
Lids.
Redness and itching in the canthi, more in the afternoon than in the morning, 8.
Twitching of the left lids, after dinner, 1.
The eyelids fall together on account of weakness (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Agglutination of the lids, with dry mucus, mostly in the canthi, 8.
Tension in the external canthus, at 2 P.M., when reading, 1. [130.]
Pressure in the canthi, with inflammation of the conjunctiva, 8.
Stitching in the right inner canthus, with itching, disappearing on rubbing (after one hour), 1.
Tickling in the left inner canthus, disappearing on scratching, after dinner, 1.
Constant itching in the eyelashes, 9.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Lachrymation, when reading, with feeling of weakness in the eyes, 1.
Pressure in the eyeballs (second day), 2.
While reading it seems as if a fog were before the eyes, at 1.30 P.M. (after one hour and a half), 1.
Sensation as of a cloud before the eyes, with a feeling as if they were drawn together, and were smaller than usual, after breakfast, 1.
She seems to see objects at a distance better than those near, with burning heat in the face (after two hours), 1.
Shortsightedness, noticed on reading, 1. [140.]

EAR

External.
Burning before the left ear, which does not entirely disappear on rubbing (after two hours and a quarter), 1.
Burning behind the right ear, at 4 P.M., 1.
Tearing in front of the left ear, near the eye (after one hour), 1.
Tearing and drawing upward and downward in a small spot near the left ear, soon disappearing on pressure (after half an hour), 1.
Internal.
Sharp sticking in the left ear, which immediately disappears on walking, at 1 P.M. (second day), 1.
Fine tearing in the left ear, which soon disappears (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
Crawling in the ears, immediately, 2.

NOSE

Objective.
Tendency to sneeze, which soon disappears (after a quarter of an hour), 1. [150.]
Sneezing twice, each time with a stitch in the left side (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
Sneezing, with stitches in the hypochondriac region, during dinner, 1.
Frequent sneezing, during dinner, 1.
A few drops of water run from the right nostril, 1.
Coryza, in the evening before lying down, disappearing in bed, 1.
Subjective.
On vomiting the nose feels full and stopped; relieved after vomiting, 1.
Feeling of stoppage of the nose (after half an hour), 1.
Pressure in the left upper nasal region (after three hours), 1.
Frequent fine tearings in the upper part of the left side of the nose (after two hours), 1.
Irritation and tickling in the left side of the nose, as if one would sneeze (after two hours), 1. [160.]
Itching biting in the right nostril, which does not entirely disappear on scratching (after two hours), 1.
Itching in the right nostril, which disappears on rubbing (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.

FACE

Objective.
Long-continued redness of the face (after half an hour), 1.
Pale color of the face (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
The face burns like fire and is also externally warm and red, after dinner, 1.
Tensive feeling in the face, like a swelling (third day), 2.
Tearing in the right half of the face (third day), 2.
Cheeks.
Burning and crawling, with feeling of swelling of the cheeks (after one hour and a half), 2.
Burning and crawling in the right zygoma, and after a quarter of an hour also in the left, 2.
A sudden burning in the right zygoma, which just as suddenly disappears (after one hour and three-quarters), 1.
Lips. [170.]
Swelling of the upper lip, every morning for four or five weeks, disappearing after a few hours, 15.
Sticking in the upper lip, as if it would crack, with thirst, in the morning (third day), 1.
Chin.
Painful crack in the left side of the chin (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
Tearing in the right lower jaw, at 1 P.M., 1.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Painfulness of all the teeth, especially on touch, and on taking cold things; lasting a long time, 15.
Feeling of coldness in the two right upper incisors (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
A pain difficult to describe in both hollow eye-teeth, always on eating and drinking cold things, and also on drawing cold air into the mouth, 14.
Drawing in the upper incisors (after one hour), 2.
In a left upper back tooth a transient sensation of coldness (after one hour and a quarter), 1.
Frequently intermitting boring in the first left back teeth, in the afternoon, though worse at night, and with no pain in the forenoon (sixth and eighth days), 1. [180.]
A stitch extending from the right upper back teeth up to the head (after half an hour), 1.
Tearing in the anterior upper right back teeth, which frequently returns (after half an hour), 1.
Two very painful tearings in the last left lower back teeth, which disappear on pressing upon them, at 4.30 P.M., 1.
Gums.
Inflammation of the gum of a hollow tooth, 8.
Tongue.
Slimy coated tongue, though with a natural taste to the food and great appetite, during the whole proving, 8.
Rawness of the tongue (after one hour), 1.
General Mouth.
In the morning after waking, a feeling as if the breath were offensive, or as if he had not rinsed the mouth for a long time, disappearing after rising (second day), 1.
Burning in the palate, with dryness and sensation of rawness, immediately, lasting half an hour (sixth day), 13.
An unpleasant sticking and cutting pain in the palate near the left side of the uvula, with a kind of stiffness, so that swallowing was difficult and painful; lasting the whole day (third day), 11.
Crawling in the palate (after one hour), 2.
Saliva. [190.]
Accumulation of saliva, 3.
Great accumulation of saliva in the mouth; he spits out clear water by the spoonful, .

THROAT

Objective.
Mucus collects in the throat, which she can neither swallow nor raise, because it constantly remains after swallowing or raising; it provokes a cough (after a quarter of an hour), 1. [200.]
Much hawking of mucus, especially in the morning, 8.
A nauseous fluid rises into the throat (after one hour), 1.
Bitter uprising into the throat (after half an hour), 1.
Subjective.
Feeling of mucus in the throat, with rawness and inclination to hawk, 1.
Rancid feeling in the throat, after dinner, 1.
Slight aching in the throat, as if inflammation would follow, lasting four hours (after three hours), 1.
An indescribable aching in the throat which causes constant swallowing, which however is difficult, as from constriction of the throat; food and drinks are swallowed without this sensation, indeed, almost without difficulty; after eructations, especially if thereby a bitter fluid is evacuated, this sensation disappears, but returns after several hours, 10.
Pressure in the throat, as if mucus were in it, which she could neither hawk up nor swallow (after half an hour), 1.
Sticking in the throat when swallowing and when not, from afternoon till midnight, 1.
Sticking pains in the left side of the throat, aggravated by swallowing, lasting four hours (after ten hours), 1. [210.]
Painful sticking sensation in the throat, on the left side, when not swallowing, it is rather a clawing, 1.
Scraping in the back of the throat, immediately (first, second, third, and fourth days); it extended deeper down into the pharynx than on the preceding days (fifth day), 17.
Scraping and nausea in the throat, as after vomiting, which is not changed by swallowing, soon after dinner, 1.
Rawness in the throat, with some hacking cough (after two hours), 1.
Feeling of rawness in the throat, with hoarseness (after one hour), 1.
Two sticking jerkings in the forepart of the throat, at 2 P.M., 1.
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus.
Crawling sensation in the fauces (after three-quarters of an hour), .

STOMACH

Appetite.
Hunger but want of appetite (first day), 2.
Hunger with dread of eating, especially solid food, at 7 P.M., 1.
Diminished appetite, bread tastes the best, 1.
She eats more from habit than from hunger, she can eat only bread with relish (first and second days), 1.
The dinner does not relish, although he eats as usual and has his usual taste, 1.
Appetite and hunger have entirely disappeared (first day), 1.
Aversion to all food, with a natural taste, 1.
Aversion and shuddering, with nausea in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), 1. [230.]
Aversion to the accustomed tobacco, 1.
Special aversion to fat, she eats even pork without appetite, 1.
Disgust and dread of all nourishment (after one hour and a half), 1.
Thirst.
Thirst in the evening; after drinking water the qualmishness was somewhat relieved, 1.
Increased thirst during the morning hours, 1.
Violent thirst at an unusual hour (after four hours), 1.
Eructation and Hiccough.
Inclination to eructate (first day), 18.
Inclination to eructate, which changes to qualmishness (after five minutes), 2.
Constant but ineffectual desire to eructate (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
Tendency to eructations and pressure extending from the stomach up into the throat, so that it takes away the breath (after two hours), 1. [240.]
Feeling as if she would eructate, followed by empty eructations (after five minutes), 1.
Eructations, soon (second day), 13.
Eructations, several times during the first hours, 2.
Eructations while eating, and regurgitation of the food, 1.
Empty eructations, after breakfast, 1.
Sweet eructations (after a quarter of an hour), .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria. [330.]
Burning in the left hypochondriac region, immediately disappearing on walking (after one hour), 1.
Sticking in the right hypochondriac region, on sitting down, at 2.30 P.M., 1.
Dull sticking in the right hypochondriac region, with constant cutting in the abdomen, an hour and a half after dinner, 1.
Violent sticking in both hypochondria, with fulness and feeling of distension; relieved by passage of flatulence and stool, 10.
Sticking in the right side of the abdomen beneath the false ribs, at 2 P.M., 1.
Dull sticking pain beneath the short ribs of the right side, in the evening (third day), 2.
Pain, extending from the right hip to the hepatic region, as if I had for a long time bent far over to the opposite side (second day), 13.
Umbilical.
Feeling of flatulence in the umbilical region, without desire to pass it (after five hours), 1.
When the great nausea had decreased, the pains in the abdomen began; they extended from both sides towards the umbilical region, 1.
Griping about the umbilicus, after eating (second day), 2. [340.]
Painful pressive sensation in the umbilical region, lasting a long time, 1.
Cutting pains in the umbilical region, which, however, frequently remit (after two hours), 1.
Cutting colic pains in the umbilical region (after three hours), 1.
Sticking about the umbilicus, after the stool, in the afternoon, 1.
Sticking pain near the right side of the navel, lasting only a short time, 1.
Violent stitches about the umbilicus, followed by the usual stool (after one hour and a half), 1.
Violent twinging about the umbilicus, from 2 to 4.30 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
Tearing and cutting in the umbilical region (second day), 17.
Crawling sensation, as from a worm, in the umbilical region (after four hours), 1.
Crawling and burrowing in the umbilical region (after two hours), 1.
General Abdomen. [350.]

RECTUM AND ANUS

Objective.
The hæmorrhoids, which had existed ten years previous, reappeared with a sticking-biting sensation, 1.
Spasmodic contraction in the sphincter ani (sixth day), 13.
Subjective.
A burning sensation in the rectum, after every stool, 1.
A burning sensation at the end of the rectum, during and after stool, 1. [450.]
Feeling of soreness deep in the rectum, 1.
A painful stitch in the anus (after two hours), 1.
Some prickling in the anus, after the usual stool, 1.
Smarting in the anus, almost as from pepper, ten minutes after the diarrhœa, 1.
Throbbing pain in the anus, for several days (third day), 1.
Itching in the anus, that disappears from scratching, immediately returns; after further scratching, burning, at 5 P.M. (third day), 1.
Itching in the anus with much desire for stool, and alternately hard and thin stool, 9.
Itching and crawling in the anus; a hæmorrhoidal pimple which was very painful disappeared after 2 drops, but returned after 12 drops, with violent burning-sticking pain, but only disappeared of itself after three days, 8.
Constant desire for stool (second day), 13.
Urging to stool, followed by a partly soft stool, with some pressure, at night and in the morning, 1. [460.]
Urging to stool, with discharge of blood after the stool, in the evening (first day), 18.
Much urging to stool, as if diarrhœa would follow, the stool, however, is very hard, 8.
Frequent urging to stool without passage (first day), 1.
Transient urging to stool (after one hour and a half), 1.
Ineffectual urging to stool (after one hour and a half), 1.
Tenesmus; painful contraction in the rectum, after every stool (after six hours), 1.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa the next morning, without griping (after 10 grains), 12.
Diarrhœa of very thin fæces, without other symptoms, at 2.30 P.M., 1.
*Diarrhœa, consisting only of yellow-greenish water, followed by burning in the anus (after four hours), 1.
Diarrhœa, consisting of mucus, with tenesmus, five times, preceded by fulness in the abdomen, waking from sleep, after midnight (ninth day), 1. [470.]
Pasty diarrhœa of an offensive odor (after 10 grains), 12.
*Diarrhœa three times, consisting of green frothy water, which is forcibly evacuated without any pain , after dinner, 1.
Diarrhœa twice, with burning in the anus, without relief; the pains in the abdomen only disappear after the emission of flatulence (fifth day), 1.
Two diarrhœa-like stools of thin fluid, bright-yellow fæces, followed by chilliness, 1.
Purging, 5.
Hypercatharsis, 6, 7.
Frequent evacuations, without colic, 4.
*Frequent discharge of yellow, watery fæces (after one hour), 1.
Frequent stools, consisting of thin watery fæces, with soreness in the anus (after one hour), 1.*
Frequent stools, with burning and pressure, and pressing out of great lumps, with sticking pains on drawing in the anus and even at other times, followed by passage of offensive, brown, very corrosive mucus, without fæces; the irritation in the anus continues, and only after several attempts there pushes out a mass of pasty, dark-brown, very offensive fæces, mixed with mucus; the last exertion evacuates only white mucus, like the white of an egg, and only after this evacuation does the irritation in the anus cease, and the pains in the hypochondria and abdomen disappear, 10. [480.]
Three evacuations of yellow water , followed by ineffectual urging, without pains in the abdomen, at 2 P.M., .

URINARY ORGANS

Urethra.
Burning in the urethra during micturition, 8.
Burning in the whole urethra after micturition, 10.
Urging to urinate, 12.
Micturition.
It increases the urine (apparently the secondary action), 3.
Frequent micturition in the evening, 1.
Frequent passage of much watery urine, 1.
*Urine diminished, 1. [520.]
Urine less than usual and seldom, 1.
The urine is scanty and reddish , and becomes turbid on standing (first day), 2.*
Urine.
Urine dark yellowish-red, with brickdust sediment (not an unusual symptom before the proving), (third day), 13.
The urine becomes turbid, like muddy water, on standing, 1.
The urine deposits a slight cloud (after one hour), 1.
Mucus in the urine, with a cloudy sediment on standing, 10.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Drawing pain in the glans penis (second and third days), 2.
Emission in the morning after a lascivious dream, followed by long-continued, painful erections, 2.
Female.
Menstruation eight days earlier and lasting two days longer than usual, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Severe scraping in the larynx, and paroxysms of dry cough, at 7 P.M. (first day), 19. [530.]
Dry cough in the morning on rising, which soon disappears on walking (third and fourth days), 1.
Dry cough wakes him towards midnight (after forty hours), 1.
Dry cough, with oppression of the chest and chilliness, lasting two hours, about midnight (after forty hours), 1.
Dry cough, consisting of two shocks, during which there is pressure in the left side of the abdomen, beneath the short ribs, in the forenoon (second day), 1.
Scraping cough, with feeling of soreness in the whole of the air-passages (second and third days), 1.
(The cough, which had continued for eight days previous, disappeared), (after twenty-four hours), 1.

CHEST

A kind of cramp in the chest; a sensation as if the whole chest were contracted, worse between the scapulæ and beneath the sternum; after rubbing the back, there were eructations and then the spasm disappeared (it occurred only once), 15.
Pressure on the upper part of the chest, without affecting respiration (after one hour and three-quarters), 1.
Constant pressure on the chest, 1.
Oppression of the chest and increased beating of the heart (after one hour), 2. [540.]
Oppression of the chest on ascending a hill; he was frequently obliged to stand still in order to get breath, in the evening (second day), 1.
Feeling of oppression of the chest, disappearing after eructations (after eight minutes), 1.
Heaviness and pressure on the chest during inspiration (after one hour and a half), 1.
Sticking in the last left false ribs, at one time severe, at another slight, frequently and entirely remitting, in the morning on rising, after stool, and after dinner (second day), 1.
Dull sticking beneath the right false ribs (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Dull sticking pain in the region of the left short ribs (first and second days), 2.
Fine sticking, from the left scapula across the shoulder towards the right female breast, at 2.30 P.M., 1.
Dull stitches beneath the short ribs during dinner, intermitting (fourth day), 2.
Fine stitches in the middle of the chest, 1.
Fine stitch in the right upper costal region (after three-quarters of an hour), 1. [550.]
A small stitch in the right lung on every inspiration (after one hour and a half), 1.
Throbbing pain in the region of the left short ribs for several days in succession (first day), 1.
Sides.
Pains beneath the short ribs, on the left side, after dinner, 2.
Burning in the upper part of the left side of the chest (after one hour), 1.
Pressure in the left side of the chest during inspiration and on stooping, 8.
Transient pressure in the right side of the chest (fourth day), 17.
Sticking in the left side of the chest on inspiration (after one hour), .

HEART AND PULSE

Feeling of pressure at the heart, as if there was some impediment to its beating, 12.
Violent and rapid beating of the heart (first day), 2.
Pulse very rapid; once an intermission in the pulse, with a feeling of pressure at the heart as if its action were impeded, 12. [570.]
Falling of the beat of the pulse, especially in the head, 12.
Pulse before breakfast 62 (usually 75 to 80), (second morning), 11.
Pulse somewhat small, otherwise normal, 12.
Pulse small, sometimes intermitting, according to the palpitation, 10.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Feeling in the nape of the neck as though grasped with the hands (after one hour), 1.
Drawing and tearing in the right side of the neck, 9.
Dorsal.
Drawing downward between the shoulders (after five minutes), 1.
Sticking pains in the lower dorsal vertebra on the left side (after forty-eight hours), 1.
Lumbar.
A frequent dull pain in the left lumbar region, especially on walking, which was relieved by external pressure, 14.
Dull but transient sticking in the region of the right kidney (after two hours), 1. [580.]
Bruised pain in the loins, 2.
Bruised pain in the loins after a short walk (second day), 2.
Sacral.
Pressive pain in the coccyx, after the stool (second day), 1.
Dull burrowing pain in the right ischium in the evening (first day), 2.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Objective.
Laxity of the limbs, 9.
Weariness and weakness in the arms and legs the whole day (fourth day), 13.
Weakness of the hands and feet while walking (after one hour), 1.
Subjective.
Relaxed and paralyzed feeling in the limbs (after 10 grains), 12.
Heaviness of the arms and legs when moving about (first day), 2.
Suppurating pain in the right hand and left foot (third day), 18.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [590.]

Weakness of the right arm and trembling of the right hand during dinner, disappearing after awhile, 1.
Paralyzed feeling in the left arm in the evening (first day), 2.
Drawing in the arms and tearing in all the joints, 9.
Tearing-drawing pains in the arms, especially in the left elbow and wrist (second and third days), 2.
Shoulder.
Sticking pains through the whole of the left shoulder-joint, lasting a long time (after thirty-six hours), 1.
Rheumatic tearing in the shoulders, 9.
Tickling burning in both axillæ, which disappears on scratching, 1.
Sticking near the right axilla (after one hour), 1.
Arm.
Cramplike drawing in the lower portion of the left upper arm, 2.
A stitch in the left upper arm above the bend of the elbow (after three-quarters of an hour), 1. [600.]
Tearing in the upper arm occurred periodically for some days after the proving (fifth day), 17.
Tearing pains in the left upper arm just above the elbow, 1.
Momentary tearing in the flexor muscles of the upper arm (fifth day), 17.
The right upper arm feels bruised and tired when moving it or when raised, not during rest (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Elbow.
Sticking on the upper surface of the elbow on bending the right arm (after two hours), 1.
A stitch from the bend of the left elbow through the arm to the tip of the elbow, afterwards only in the bend of the elbow (after one hour and a half), 1.
Tearing in the right elbow, as if in the joints, at 1 P.M., 1.
Tearing pains in the left elbow, which do not last long (after forty-eight hours), 1.
Tearing-throbbing pain in the left elbow-joint (third day), 2.
Tearing pains in the left forearm, beneath the elbow, in the afternoon, 1. [610.]
Slight tearing on the anterior surface of the left forearm, near the elbow (after two hours), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Objective.
Reeling gait (first day), 2.
Weakness and heaviness in the limbs the whole forenoon, 1.
Weakness of the legs and sticking in the calves, while walking in the open air, disappearing in the room, after dinner, 1.
Subjective.
Violent drawing in both legs, extending to the knees and down into the feet, like a pain from great weariness, at 7 P.M. (seventh day), 19.
Hip.
Fine stitch in the left hip at 2.30 P.M., 1.
Tearing below the right trochanter in the bone (after half an hour), 1.
Thigh.
Burning in the external surface of the right thigh while sitting down, 1.
Spasmodic drawing in the thighs extending to the knees (from 20 drops), 8.
Coarse stitches in the bend of the left thigh, which disappear of themselves (after one hour and three-quarters), 1. [630.]
Tearing from the middle of the left thigh to the knee (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Bruised pain in the thighs, which makes standing difficult; he is obliged to sit (after one hour and a half), 1.
Knee.
Burning in the bend of the right knee, while sitting, which disappears on walking, an hour after dinner, 1.
Painful tension in a small spot in the right knee (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Drawing and tearing in the left knee-joint which is very painful when walking, though disappearing after walking a long time (after two hours), 1.
Sticking in the inner surface of the right knee, while walking, an hour and a half after dinner, 1.
A stitch beneath the right patella, both on sitting down and on rising, disappearing on walking, 1.
Fine stitch above the right knee (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Tearing on the inner margin of the left patella (fifth day), 17.
Leg.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
A cataleptic condition, with perfect consciousness, while lying down in the afternoon, followed by deep sleep, with an emission; after waking, a bruised feeling of the whole body, especially of the back and left arm (first day), 2. [650.]
Externally weary and sleepy in the morning on waking (fourth day), 13.
Weak and powerless in the whole body the whole forenoon, 1.
Weak and ill-humored the whole forenoon (first day), 1.
Weakness and prostration seemed to be increased in the open air (after one hour), 1.
Great weakness of the whole body, 18.
Great exhaustion of body and mind (first day), 2.
Subjective.
General discomfort and ill-humor (first day), 1.
Suffering, prostrated (after one hour and a half), 1.
Depressed sensation in the whole body, with complete disinclination for mental labor (sixth day), 13.
Sticking sensation in several places in the body, especially in the lower limbs, 1. [660.]
Feels bruised, in the morning, in bed, better after rising, but confused in the head (fourth day), 2.
Violent pulsation felt through the whole body; it seems, however, to be seated lower down than the pit of the stomach, and lasts only a few moments, and is most violent immediately after a stool, 10.
Symptoms appear to be most prominent after dinner, from 2.30 to 3 o'clock, 1.

SKIN

Eruptions.
Pimples as large as peas on the right chest, with yellow tips, without sensation, but burning after scratching, 2.
Two itchlike tetters on the anterior surface of the left arm, above the elbow, which were scratched sore at night, without sensation, 1.
An itchlike pustule beneath the left nates, which at night was unconsciously scratched off, and burned, and continued to burn for eight days, 1.
A small boil, with pus at the tip, only painful on pressure (sixth day), 1.
Subjective.
Tension and burning in the skin of the right side of the neck two hours after dinner, 1.
Frequent fine sticking, like fleabites, in various places, in the nape of the neck, ankles (fourth day), 1.
A row of fine stitches, like fleabites, from the left angle of the jaw down to the neck (after three-quarters of an hour), 1. [670.]
Biting on the left eyebrow, which disappears on scratching, at 3 P.M., 1.
Biting in the tip of the nose, which disappears on scratching, at 3 P.M., 1.
Biting in the left side of the neck, which disappears on scratching, at 3 P.M., 1.
Biting in the left ankle, which disappears on moving (after three hours and a half), 1.
Fine biting, as from fleas, in the right flank (after three hours), 1.
Itching-biting above the right temple, which disappears on scratching (after two hours), 1.
Itching-biting on both cheeks (after three hours), 1.
Itching-biting on the right zygoma, which disappears on scratching, but immediately reappears above the left eyebrow (after two hours), 1.
Itching-biting on the right lower jaw, which disappears after scratching (after three hours), 1.
Itching-biting in the right inner malleolus, which disappears after scratching (after two hours), 1. [680.]
Frequent itching-biting above the right ear, which disappears after scratching (after one hour and a half), 1.
Crawling, as from insects or cobwebs, in the face, especially violent on the lower jaw, and provoking scratching; after this some pustules appear, which leave no scurf, but a desquamation of the skin, .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Yawning, with sadness and sleepiness, at 2.30 P.M., 1.
Yawning and lassitude of the body, with inclination to lie down (first day), 2.
Much yawning and great weariness, 9.
Frequent yawning, 1.
Very frequent yawning and sleepiness during the day; quiet, sound sleep at night, 8. [710.]
Sleepiness (second day), 18.
Some sleepiness, and now and then yawning (fifth day), 11.
The eyes close from sleepiness, while reading, at 2 P.M., 1.
Could scarcely keep his eyes open on account of sleepiness, which does not go off in the open air, an hour after dinner, 1.
Excessive, at times overpowering, sleepiness, after every midday meal, with sensation of general weakness, 14.
Overpowered by sleepiness, in the evening (after second dose), and every morning and evening a feeling as if she had not slept enough, which disappeared if after rising she took again a short nap, 15.
Very sleepy two hours after dinner, 1.
She became very sleepy, as if she had not slept during the night, 1.
Falls asleep early, 1.
Sound, stupefying sleep; he is confused on waking, 2.
Sleeplessness. [720.]
Very late falling asleep in the evening (second day), 1.
If I remained up longer than the usual time in the evening, I was frequently unable to fall asleep, 14.
Sleep at night is very light, during which she hears everything (second day), 1.
Frequent waking after midnight, after which he is only half asleep (second day), 1.
Dreams.
Joyous, lively dreams, 1.
Foolish, disconnected dreams (third night), 1.
Frightful dreams of serpents, etc. (first day), 1.
Dreams of the death of his relatives, 1.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilliness over the whole body, even in a warm room (after five hours), 1.
Chilliness and shivering, especially down the back, with very cold hands, in the forenoon (first day), 2. [730.]
Chilliness in the evening after lying down, which she even believes continues during sleep (second day), 1.
Chilliness, while vomiting, without subsequent heat, 1.
Chilliness and creeping chills (second day), 18.
Chilliness, with cold hands, which returns several times during the day (after three hours), 2.
Frequent chilliness (third day), 18.
Great chilliness (from 20 drops, 8.
Febrile chilliness, shivering, and gooseflesh after nearly every stool, 10.
Constantly more chilly than warm, 1.
Coldness on entering a room at 3.30 P.M., 1.
She dreams that she is freezing; she wakes, and she is really cold, but falls asleep again, and wakes in the morning without chilliness, 1. [740.]
Shivering, with frequent shaking and nausea, during dinner, 1.
Shivering on going into the room after a stool (after one hour and a quarter), 1.
Chilliness in the head, even in a warm room (after one hour and three-quarters), 1.
Creeping chills over the back (second day), 18.
Shivering over the head in the evening (first day), 2.
Heat.
Warmth of the whole body, especially of the head, passing off in the open air (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
Rising heat, with redness of the face and increased external warmth (after one hour and a half), 1.
Feeling of warmth, and sweat of the head and hands (after one hour and three-quarters), 1.
Warmth in the chest, above the pit of the stomach, then in the head, with redness of the face and hands, with only moderate warmth of the skin (after one hour and a quarter), 1.
Warmth and swelling of the hands (after three-quarters of an hour), 1. [750.]

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Sticking, etc., in forehead; sticking in upper lip, etc.; hawking of mucus; thirst; nausea; in bed, after late supper, cramp in stomach; on rising, dry cough; in bed, bruised feeling.
( Forenoon ), Bitter taste in mouth; weakness, etc., in limbs.
( Afternoon ), Loss of thought; pressive headache; by motion of body, headache; pressure upon eyes; redness, etc., in canthi; qualmishness; pain in forearm; tearing, etc., in back of index finger; when writing; tearing in thumb.
( Evening ), Heat in head, etc.; before lying down, coryza; sticking in throat; thirst; pain beneath short ribs; on lying in bed, rolling, etc.; in abdomen; griping in abdomen; frequent micturition; pain in ischium; feeling in left arm; on lying down, chilliness; shivering over the head.
( Night ), Perspiration.
( Open air ), Vertigo; fulness of head, etc.; headache; drawing in side of head; nausea; weakness, etc.
( Walking in open air ), Bitter eructations; weakness in legs.
( After breakfast ), Cloud before eyes; pasty mouth; sweat.
( Closing eyes ), Vertigo.
( Application of cold ), Pain in eye-teeth.
( Drinking cold water ), Waterbrash.
( During dinner ), Sneezing; hiccough, etc.; weakness of arm, etc.; shivering.
( After dinner ), Face burns, etc.; feeling in throat; soon, scraping, etc., in throat; hiccough; nausea, etc.; qualmishness in stomach, etc.; sticking from chest to stomach; rumbling, etc., in abdomen; twinging in upper abdomen; from 2.30 to 3 P.M., the symptoms.
( Eating ), Intoxicated feeling; pressure in pit of stomach; griping about umbilicus; rumbling, etc.; in abdomen; in morning and evening, griping in abdomen; cutting in upper abdomen.
( Fasting ), Waterbrash.
( Perspiration ), Tension in stomach; pressure in left chest.
( After every meal ), Especially dinner, fulness in epigastric region.

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