CINNABARIS.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Mercuric sulphide, Hgs.
Preparation , Triturations.
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, 426, internal administration; 2 , ibid., effects of fumes; 3 , Jac. Hill, in Edinb. Essays, iv, effects of fumes of Cinnabaris (from Hahnemann); 4 , Pet. Schenk, vii, obs., 213, effects of the fumes, ibid.; 5 , Oettinger, Diss. Cinnab. exul. redux. Tübing., 1760, p. 22, effects of prepared Cinnabaris taken internally, ibid.; 6 , Neidhard's provings, in "Metcalf Hom. provings," S. A. took 1/1000th of a grain daily, two days; 7 , ibid., A. J. B. took 6th dil.; 8 , ibid., A. J. B. took 3d dec. trit., first and fourth days; 9 , ibid., J. P. Dake took 3d dec. trit., and again the 3d cent. trit.; 10 , ibid., J. H. Henry took 6th dil.; 11 , ibid., A. Lindsay took 6th dil., afterward the 3d trit.; 12 , ibid. C. L. Merriman took the 6th dil.; 13 , ibid., J. L. Mulford took 1st trit.; 14 , ibid., D. S. Pratt took 6th dil.; 15 , ibid., J. M. Randell took 6th dil.; 16 , ibid., J. C. Raymond took 30th dil. (two provings); 16 b , ibid., same prover took 1/10th trit.; 17 , ibid., H. Ring took 30th dil., and afterward the 6th dil.; 17 b , ibid., same prover took the 1 1/2 cent. trit.; 18 , ibid., C. E. Toothaker took 5th dil.; 19 , ibid., D. Wilder took 6th dil.; 20 , ibid., J. R. took 30th dil., afterward 3d cent. trit., the 6th dil., and 3d dec. trit.; 21 , ibid., T. took 30th dil.; 22 , ibid., Mrs. H. took 6th dil.; 23 , ibid., Miss F. took 6th dil.; 24 , ibid., Mrs. F. took 5th dil. and 5th dec. trit.; 25 , ibid., a patient with phimosis took 1st trit. two weeks; 26 , Cattell, B. J. of Hom., 11, 528, symptoms from Br. Am. J. Med. Assoc., 1848.
MIND
- Emotional.
- Illusion of mind; he considers himself well, 3.
- Peculiar agreeable sensation of exhilaration , and with fulness extending from all sides of chest, particularly the thorax, towards the stomach and heart, accompanied or followed by a similar sensation in all the joints, continuing with intermissions till 8 o'clock; at 5 A.M. (second day), 18.
- Sense of elevation on walking in open air; never felt better in his life; like the effects of a cordial, 18.
- Depressed, melancholy, cynical state of mind, 20.
- Feels desirous of improving spiritually, but is rather disconsolate (second day), 20.
- Every little noise about the house troubled him, as though it were something serious (after ten minutes), 9.
- Irascibility, 10.
- Unusual irritability, throughout the whole proving, 19.
- His friends remarked that he was very cross and sullen, in afternoon, 15. [10.]
- Mind in morbid state; disposed to fret at trifles, and not at all satisfied with himself (second day), 20.
- Intellectual.
- General feeling, as not being fit for any mental labor, 20.
- Indisposition to mental exertion, 17.
- Indisposition for mental labor (second day), 7.
- Aversion to close study, 20.
- Quite difficult to fix the mind long on any subject; cannot pay attention to lectures as well as before; this sensation is relieved by open air, 20.
- Great difficulty in collecting ideas and studying usefully, 20.
- Cannot think long, deeply, or clearly on any subject, and his mind seems to be altogether disturbed, 20.
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Dizziness and lightness of head, 23.
- A little giddiness and pain in forehead, with sensation of soreness in eyeballs, upon arising at 7 A.M.; these passed away soon after breakfast (second day), 9.
- General Head.
- Dulness in whole head, especially in forehead just over eyes, in evening (second day), 17.
- Heaviness in head, 17. [20.]
- Head feels weary, as from long mental application (second day), 7.
- Pain deep, as if in the centre of the head, 10.
- Fulness of head (sixth day), 11.
- Fulness and general pressure in whole head, as after taking cold, with dull aching pain in region of
Benevolence , better in open air (after two hours), 12.
- Head full in forenoon (second day), 17b.
- Head full, heavy, with strong pulsations of temporal arteries (third day), 17b.
- Congested sensation over whole head, particularly in the forehead, 20.
- Strange congestive sensation about head, principally in forehead (after five hours), 20.
- Intense headache, so severe he could hardly endure it; relieved by external pressure, 25.
- Excessive headache, 2. [30.]
- Attacks of excessive headache, which are relieved by external compression of the head, 4.
- Pain in head increased to a heavy stupefying ache, aggravated by thinking, reading, and pressure (after eleven hours), 8.
- Drawing pain in head, extending from crown to occiput, inclining to the right, before going to bed, 10.
- Occasional darting pains through the head from without inwardly (second day), 7.
- Headache much worse after sleeping, 25.
- Forehead.
- Pain in forehead, 15.
- Pain in region of Causality, 10.
- Pain in organ of Tune, 15.
- Occasional pain in sinciput (second day), 18.
- Slight pain in sinciput (after one hour), 18. [40.]
- Severe pain in forehead, lasting all night (second day), 19.
- Fulness and pressure in forehead, for two hours (after eight hours and a half), 20.
- Dull pain in forehead, which is cold, and is relieved by warm hand (second day), 19.
- A kind of dull pain (sometimes more intense and sharper) in forehead and top of head, worse when lying on left side and pressing forehead into pillow, almost every morning after waking; as soon as he turns to left side or the back the pains return; on turning to right side, or getting up and washing, the pains disappear, 11.
- Some pain of a dull character in forehead over eyes, in afternoon, becoming severer in evening, and aggravated by motion (second day), 16.
- Dull heavy ache in front of head (second day), 7.
- Aching pain in the whole of the forehead and top of head, in morning on waking, aggravated by lying on left side and back, relieved by lying on right side and pressing forehead with pillow (second day), .
Mirthfulness ), 17.
- Occasional shootings in upper part of left temple, along temporal ridge, in evening (second day), 17.
- A dull pain, felt before in temple and side of forehead, disappeared (after ten minutes), 9.
- Vertex.
- A kind of a sore pain began at about 9 A.M. in the crown of the head, and extended as far front as the organ of
Veneration (at times there is a slight sensation of throbbing); it is very sensitive to touch, he cannot even touch the hair without causing a sore pain; this pain continued all day (seventh day), 11.
- Parietals.
- Pain in left side of head, temple, and supraorbital ridge, at 11.40 o'clock, 15. [60.]
- Constant pain in right side of head; from the temples the pain goes to the occiput, 25.
- Sensation of sticking over the secretive region, which increases and becomes a numb pain, extending to right temple ( Time and
Locality ), with a feeling of warmth on right side; pain extends from one temple to the other across the os frontis from right to left, is mild in the forehead, but violent in the organs of
Time and Locality , both night and day, and on rising in morning, 10.
- Pain darting through from sides of head and temples; the pain is near the outer edge of the orbit of right eye, and more frequent on right side of head than on left, 25.
- Throbbing pain in organ of Conscientiousness extending to forehead over eye, on waking in morning (second day), 11.
- Occiput.
- Rush of blood to back part of head, attended with violent itching and heat, extending to each ear; and behind the left ear there came three hard lumps, on the size of a small shot, the other that of a buckshot, and the last a size larger (after one hour), 10.
- Pain sometimes in left side of occiput (organ of Amativeness), (sixth day), 17b.
- A fulness and pressure in occiput and back of neck, after rising from bed, continuing with much severity until about noon, after which the symptom somewhat abated (fifth day), 17b.
- External Head.
- A protrusion in the outer parts of the head, only during the day, 1.
- Head excessively sore on outside to every touch, 25.
- Skull externally sensitive when touched, even the hairs pain, 1.
EYE
- Objective. [70.]
- Livid circles around both eyes, 10.
- (Inflammation of the right eye; itching pressure and sticking in the inner canthus and in the lower lid, with constant lachrymation, when looking at anything, with severe fluent coryza), 1.
- Subjective.
- Eyes very sensitive to cold air, when walking out (second day), 18.
- Weak sensation in left eye (third day), 11.
- Sensation as if there were something in the eyes, lasting three days, 10.
- Numb pressing pain in eyes, 15.
- Aching soreness of eyes, worse in evening (second day), 19.
- Brow and Orbit.
- Pain from inner canthus of left eye across eyebrows (organs of*
Size, Color, Order, Calculation ), 10.
- Sharp aching pain in right supraorbital region, shooting backwards and downwards to ear and side of neck; worse in warm room, and on moving eyes and scalp (after half an hour), 8.
- Lids.
- Weakness and sleepiness in the eyes about noon; could scarcely keep them open (seventh day), 11. [80.]
- Feeling as if the eyelids were enlarged and puffed, as if the muscles were too short, when looking up to the wall, 10.
- Drawing sensation from right inner canthus across the malar bone to the ear, 10.
- Shooting pains in inner canthus of right eye, with a burning and itching, 13.
- Itching of the lids of both eyes, 10.
- Itching and sticking in the internal and external canthi (third day), 17b.
- Severe and frequent itching in outer canthi, from 9 to 12 o'clock, with a sense of stiffness in upper eyelids (second day), 18.
- Excessive itching in inner canthi of eyes, for two days (after nine hours), 18.
- Lachrymal Apparatus.
- Eyes watery and dull, with a sharp sticking pain in left inner canthus, as of a sharp stick being stuck in lower lid (second day), 7.
- Flow of tears, 22.
- Excessive lachrymation, 25. [90.]
- Watery sensation in left eye, soon passed off (after eleven hours), 20.
- Pain from right lachrymal duct around the eye to the temple, 10.
- Sticking pain about punctum lachrymal of left upper eyelid, 17.
EAR
- Sensation as if there were something in the ear, 15.
- Sensation of water in left ear, which soon passes off (after ten hours and a quarter), 20.
- A pain and sensation of fulness in meatus of left ear, for a short time (after one hour), 17b.
- Aching in both ears, lasting about fifteen minutes, 24.
- Hearing.
- Noises in ears after eating, 25.
- Roaring in the head, for half an hour after dinner, and in the evening before going to sleep, which made him dizzy, 1.
NOSE
- Objective.
- Flow of mucus from right nostril, lasting for three days, 10. [100.]
- Discharge of much mucus from nostrils (sixth day), 11.
- Much coryza, 1.
- Epistaxis, 4.
- Subjective.
- Symptoms of a cold in the head (?), with lameness of the thighs, much mucus in lumps of a dirty-yellow color, from posterior nares, during the whole week (second and third days), 11.
- Sensation on bridge of nose similar to that produced by touching it with a metallic substance, 17.*
- Uneasy creeping and pressive sensation about ossa nasi, lasting about an hour, and is the sensation experienced by most persons on putting on a pair of heavy spectacles, if not accustomed to wear them (after one hour), 17b.*
FACE
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Aching soreness in teeth (second day), 19.
- Pain in molar teeth of right side, 10.
- Tongue. [110.]
- A whitish-furred tongue, in morning, 10.
- Tongue covered with a white fur (after three hours), 6.
- Small spot on left side of tongue, which itches, 10.
- Sore spot on tip of tongue (fourth day), 17b.
- Small sore on right side of tip of tongue, also one on each lip, continuing several days (second day), 18.
- Sensation of soreness of left side of root of tongue on swallowing, accompanied by roughness and stiffness, continuing through night (after nine hours), 18.
- General Mouth.
- Sores in mouth on under lip (second day), 19.
- Small sore on roof of mouth, 10.
- Great fetor of the mouth, 3.
- Dryness in mouth, with desire for cold water, 25. [120.]
- Much dryness and heat in the mouth and throat, at night, he is obliged to drink frequently, with sticking posteriorly under the tongue, 1.
- Contractive burning sensation in the palate, 1.
- A peculiar drawing in mouth, after rising, until breakfast (second day), 18.
- Soreness in roof of mouth, 17.
- Pricking sensation in mouth and fauces, 10.
- Saliva.
- Increased flow of saliva (second day), 16, 21.
- Increased flow of saliva during the day, so much so, that when he attempted to speak, he found some difficulty, from his mouth being constantly filled with saliva (second day), 16.
- Salivation, 26.
- Most excessive salivation, immediately, 3.
- Incipient salivation, 5.
- Taste. [130.]
- Bad taste in mouth, with phlegm and ptyalism, .
THROAT
- A good deal of mucus at the posterior nares, which comes away in lumps (second day), 19.
- Throat dry, at 8 A.M., on waking (second day), 20.
- (Increased dryness of throat and mouth, being obliged to moisten and rinse the mouth every time he wakes), 11.*
- Pressive contractive pain in the throat, when simply swallowing saliva, 1.
STOMACH
- Much appetite for eating and drinking, and much desire for coition, 1.
- Great desire for eating, and for coition, 6. [140.]
- Appetite greatly impaired, in morning. But little appetite for breakfast (second day), 7.
- Loss of appetite, 25.
- Loss of appetite, eats very little, 25.
- No appetite, aversion for all food, 1.
- Thirst.
- Thirsty, at 8 A.M., on waking (second day), 20.
- Eructation.
- Acidity of stomach, general headache, and heaviness of eyes came on before noon, somewhat as usual, only much aggravated (second day), 9.
- Regurgitation of wind from stomach (second day), 19.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Nausea (immediately), 1.
- Nausea and uneasiness in stomach (after ten minutes), 7.
- Nausea, with occasional throbbing in left hypochondrium (second day), 7. [150.]
- Mucus thrown up tastes like old tallow, mixed with coffee, 10.
- Stomach.
- Sensation of emptiness in stomach, and very hungry two hours after eating a hearty breakfast, 11.
- Sense as if secretions were flowing from stomach and all the mucous surfaces, as well as from the salivary glands (second day), 18.
- Soreness in stomach, with tightness in temples, 23.
- Tenderness of epigastric region (after eleven hours), 8.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Pains of short duration in right hypochondrium; in middle of left breast, in front; in left kidney; occiput (fifth day), 17b.
- The severest pains were in hypochondria and kidneys, 17b.
- Aching and somewhat sharp pain in the left hypochondrium, in front, over a space as large as may be covered by the hand; worse on moving about, and in the open air. Pain soon extending around the lower border of ribs behind, and to region of left kidney, where it seems dull and somewhat oppressive. All felt and disappeared in four hours. Soon after, appearing in right hypochondrium, in front, and extending around to back, and region of right kidney, where the pain is of the same character as in the left kidney. The dull pressive pain is felt in one and then in the other region of the kidney alternately. The pains intermit in severity, and those in the hypochondria are relieved by bending forward (soon after), 17.
- Umbilical.
- Constrictive feeling in umbilical region, at 11 A.M. (third day), 8.
- Soreness in umbilical region, obliging him to turn during the night as well as during the day (third day), 11.
- General Abdomen. [160.]
- Abdomen distended (second day), 7.
- Rumbling through the abdomen, below transverse colon, which lasted about one hour and a half (after six hours), 6.
- Rumblings in abdomen, and pains passing from the epigastric to the public region (after ten minutes), 9.
- Uneasy, indescribable feeling in abdomen, 8.
- Sensation of approaching looseness of bowels, in evening, 17b.
- Pain in bowels before each evacuation (second day), 13.
- Sensation as if abdomen were too large, and wishes to have everything loose about the bowels, 15.
- Griping pain in bowels, 15.
- Excessive griping in the bowels, 3.
- Shooting pains in bowels, at intervals during day, 13.
- Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. [170.]
- Pain in lower part of abdomen, attended with diarrhœa, and also flatulence, after taking the first dose. (Colic from eating boiled cabbage), .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Bleeding piles for two days, 10.
- Feeling of weight in lower part of rectum, and a sensation like aching, after dinner (ninth day), 17b.
- Violent itching in anus, worse at night, in bed, 10.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Nightly diarrhœa for two weeks, without colic, 2.
- Two stools daily, 1.
- Two easy soft stools every day, preceded by some griping, which is relieved after the stool, 1.
- Two passages from bowels, in afternoon, the last one with straining, 24.
- Constipation.
- Constipation, only one passage in a week, 25. [180.]
- Violent constipation, lasting all the time while taking, and for a long time after, 10.
- Disposed to costiveness throughout the whole proving, 17b.
- Stools hard and too large (second day), 7.
URINARY ORGANS
- Urethra.
- Pain like a soreness in the urethra, while urinating, although it is not painful to pressure, 1.
- Sensation as if there were a raw spot in centre of urethra, which woke him up two nights in succession, 10.
- Urgent desire to urinate (after ten minutes), 9.
- Micturition.
- Increase of urinary discharges, 10.
- Great increase in flow of urine and saliva, lasting one hour, with shooting pain in left side of head, from occiput to forehead, 22.
- More profuse discharge of clear urine, 10.
- Urine.
- Urine tinged yellow (third day), 8. [190.]
- Urine turbid, 15.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Redness and swelling of the prepuce; it looks sore, with itching pain, 1.
- Small red spots on the glans penis, 1.
- Two small red spots appeared on each side of the glans, secreting a large quantity of lardaceous matter. It had the appearance, according to his opinion, of herpes preputialis, 10.
- Shining red points on the glans, as if pimples would form, 1.
- Penis swollen, 1.
- Jerking in the penis, 1.
- Violent erections in the evening, 10.
- Violent erections in the evening, in bed, 1.
- Tearing stitches in the glans, 1. [200.]
- Itching pain in the fossa behind the glans penis; pus having a nauseous sweetish odor oozes out, 1.
- Violent itching of the corona glandis, with a profuse secretion of pus; the itching was so violent as to cause him to rub it, which only ceased it for a short time, to return with tenfold violence, 10.
- Burning, sticking itching on the corona glandis, in the evening, relieved by rubbing, soon after, returning more violent than ever, 1.
- Sexual excitement on the least provocation (second day), 20.
- Sexual excitement, as if about to have an emission, but is able to combat the feeling, at 2.30 P.M. (second day), 20.
- Increased sexual desire, with erections, which continued at night, terminating by an emission of semen (second day), 16b.
- After finishing the medicine, all desire for an embrace is lost, which was not the case before the took the medicine, 10.
- Female.
- Leucorrhœa, the discharge of which causes a pressure in the vagina, 1.*
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Voice.
- Hoarseness of the voice, in the morning, going off in two or three hours, 13.
- Every evening, hoarseness with crouplike cough, 10.
- Cough. [210.]
- Cough, 3.
- (On lying down she is compelled to cough incessantly, relieved by sitting up; single, very dry shocks of cough), 1.
CHEST
- Front.
- Pain under lower point of sternum, extending to left side under short ribs, 10.
- Pain running near ensiform cartilage from the seventh rib on right side, diagonally through to the chest, 21.
- A severe pain extending from the cartilage of the seventh rib at its junction with the sternum, to the right hypochondriac region under the inferior border of the tenth rib, from 4 to 5 P.M. (second day), 16.
- Sticking in chest, just beneath sternum, 15.
- Sides.
- Pain in upper part of left and right lung, 10.
- Pain on seventh rib of each side, in a spot as large as a quarter dollar, more on left side, 10.
- Occasional pains in left side of chest, between cartilages of fifth and sixth ribs (second day). Returned in evening, in region of heart, of a sharp cutting character, producing difficulty in getting breath, while they continued (third day). Returned in forenoon, followed by wandering pains throughout whole chest (fourth day), 16.
- Soreness under right breast, near last true rib, particularly on drawing breath, 25.
HEART AND PULSE
- Præcordium. [220.]
- *An inward soreness over the heart, extending along the left arm on taking a long breath, 10.
- Heart's Action.
- Nervous trembling of the heart, with anxiety, to which she was formerly subject, again returns, in evening, 24.
- Pulse.
- Pulse at first rapid, intermitting, strong, afterwards tremulously weak, 3.
- Pulse, which was at 12 M. from 44 to 52, rose at 4 P.M. to 80, 15.
- Pulse 60, at noon; 80 in evening (second day), 19.
- Pulse 60 (second day), 7.
- Seems to lower the pulse in forenoon and make it irregular, 15.
- Throbbing-like pulse and sticking here and there near the sternum and beneath the short ribs, mostly when walking, least when sitting and lying, 1.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Pain in back part of neck, when head is thrown back, extending to occiput, 10.
- Pain on right side of neck, below the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, on turning head, 10. [230.]
- The muscles of the back part of neck seem as if contracted, 10.
- Pain as if dislocated in the cervical vertebræ, 2.
- Soreness from right ear into the middle of the posterior cervical region, as if the glands were affected (second day). Soreness increased, very severe in evening (third day), 150.
- Back.
- Tearing pain and a sensation as if everything would separate in the side of the back, especially at night, on the slightest motion in bed, and also in the arm while writing, both relieved by the warmth of the stove, 1.
- Dorsal.
- General pain all over the back, down to loins, worse after every dose of medicine, aggravated on drawing a long breath, 10.
- Dull pain in lower dorsal portion of spine, continuing only for a short time (after ten minutes), 9.
- Sticking pain in region of left side of fifth and sixth dorsal vertebræ, in evening (fifth day). Same pain occasionally on the right side of same vertebræ (sixth day), 17b.
- Lumbar.
- Aching in small of back, as if bruised, 24.
- Aching pain in small of back and legs (sixth day), 11.
- Aching across small of back and in limbs, in morning (third day), 11. [240.]
- Severe aching and drawing pains in back, from region of kidneys to sacrum, and in thighs and legs, all last night and to-day. Drawing up of legs affords relief. (The pains in legs were exactly like those he suffered years ago from
Calomel ), (seventh day), 11.
- Awaked by a dull sticking pain in region of left kidney, which lasted but a short time, about 4 A.M. Afterwards, tossing about and sleeplessness for an hour (fifth day), 17b.
- Sharp pain, at night, in region of kidneys, as if a nail had been driven in on each side of the vertebræ, 10.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Paralytic sensation in all the limbs; he is heavy and sleepy, 1.
- Numbness and heavy aching in arms and knees, and lower legs, at 8 P.M. (second day), 8.
- Pain in all the joints, with lameness, during the day (second day), 19.
- Dull aching in bones of forearms and legs (second day), 7.
- Dull aching pain in bones of forearms and legs (after six hours and three-quarters), 8.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Œdema of right arm, 26.
- Pain along left arm, particularly in little finger, third finger, and thumb, 10. [250.]
- Wakened several times from sleep at night by a severe pain in right arm. It continued next morning and during the day; at times very severe, commencing about the centre of the os humeri, and extending to the elbow and along the radius to its inferior extremity; the pain was of a heavy, aching character, deepseated, and caused lameness and difficulty in moving the arm (fourth day), 16.
- Severe stitches, at times, in the arm, 1.
- Shoulder.
- Lame sensation in right shoulder-joint, in evening (second day), 17.
- Elbow.
- The least twitch causes the elbow-joint and shoulder to crack, 10.
- Numb feeling in elbows, as if the ulnar nerve was compressed, also numbness in knee-joints, 15.
- A constant pain in left arm-joint when turning and straightening the arm and when writing, 10.
- On supinating the forearm, the pain is worse at the elbow; it feels as if the "crazy-bone" were struck, 10.
- Forearm.
- Numbness of left arm, from elbow down to end of little finger, 8.
- Numbness in left arm, from elbow to end to little finger, passing off on using the arm, and returning again while at rest (second day), 7.
- Fingers.
- Pain in right little finger, 10. [260.]
- Occasional shooting and prickling pain in the two middle fingers of left hand, better by firm pressure upon thumb (after two hours), 12.
- Sharp darting pains like electric flashes, passing from the first phalanx of ring finger of right hand to middle of forearm, and from lower extremity of radius of left arm up to elbow (after one hour), 16.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Lameness and frequent stitches on walking, particularly inner side of knee-joint (second day), 18.
- Tired feeling in all the joints of lower extremities, better from rising and walking, 20.
- Drawing in all the muscles of the lower extremities, on the under surface, 10.
- Hip.
- Pain and tired feeling in right hip, and afterwards in left, 20.
- Thigh.
- Aching pains in thighs, during day and night (second day), 11.
- Drawing-aching pains in thighs, from the hip-joints nearly down to the condyles, aggravated by moving, and accompanied with great lameness on getting up and attempting to walk, getting better after walking a short distance, 11.
- Shooting-aching pain on posterior side of right thigh, from hip-joint to middle of os femoris, on straining at stool (after two hours), 11.
- Knee.
- Pain in knee-joint, worse at noon, while walking, 10. [270.]
- Frequent pain in lower side of left knee, near inner side of tibia (second day), 18.
- Sticking pain in back part of left knee-joint for a short time in forenoon (second day), 17b.
- A slight sticking pain in right knee-joint, with a creeping sensation above and below it, seemingly about the bone, lasting about an hour, in afternoon (second day), 17b.
- Leg.
- Painful jerking in the lower leg, in the evening, after going to sleep, awakens him, 1.
- Pain in tendo Achillis and os calcis after walking, 15.
- Ankle.
- Sore feeling of the ankle, attended with heat and itching over the whole leg, 10.
- Foot.
- Pressive sensation in the foot, as if it would go to sleep, 1.
- Toes.
- (Rheumatic pain in the great toe), 1.
GENERALITIES
- Objective.
- Nervous system excited, 20.
- Lassitude, weariness, 10. [280.]
- Uncommon tiredness and weakness (sixth day), 11.
- Great weakness of all the limbs, in morning (second day), 7.
- Continual restlessness and dreams that a lump is in his throat and right ear, 11.
- Great restlessness and nervousness (second day), 19.
- Nervousness and irritability for a short time, about noon (second day), 17b.
- Subjective.
- Heaviness and sleepiness during day (fifth day), 17b.
- A dull, heavy, and at times a sleepy feeling during day (second day), 11.
- Sense of languor and depression, as after excessive exhilaration or intoxication; this continued, with intermission, for three days (second day), 18.
- Felt wearied in body and confused in mind on going to bed (after ten minutes), 9.
- Feels very tired in morning, after restless sleep with many dreams (third day), 11. [290.]
- Feeling of depression and weakness of whole system, as after a severe illness (second day), 7.
- Feeling as if an attack of typhus fever were coming on, 10.
- Sense of general prostration in morning (second day), 7.
- General nervous, uneasy sensation (second day), 20.
- A peculiar nervous thrill pervading the whole frame, even to the fingers and toes, affecting especially the joints (second day), 18.
- Sensation of having taken cold, 20.
- A very uncomfortable sensation in the body after eating, as if it were distended and puffed up; sensation across the chest and stomach, as if oppressed, 1.
SKIN
- Objective.
- Redness of skin, like a chronic eruption, 25.
- Eruptions, Dry.
- Eruption on posterior cervical region, 20.
- Eruption on inner and lower part of thigh, with itching (second day), 19. [300.]
- (Warts here and there on the prepuce, which bleed when touched), 1.
- Eruptions, Moist.
- A small pimple (like a transparent vesicle), sore to touch, on inner edge of eyelid, near the spot where the pain was, the latter having disappeared (second day), 17.
- Right middle finger and palm of hand, scurvy tetter exedens, 10.
- Eruptions, Pustular.
- (The margin of ulcers becomes painful and tense), 2.
- Sore in inside of under lip towards the left, 11.
- Subjective.
- From the first, felt as if pimples would come out over his body, with general uneasy sensation and itching; (has had this feeling for some time, but now in an aggravated form), 20.
- Itching at night, especially on inside of thighs, 20.
- Itching in various parts of the body while walking in open air, 17b.
- Itching over the body during the day (second day), 17b.
- Spot on right side, on one of the ribs (seventh and eighth), as large as a wafer, very sore to touch, with occasionally a sore pain in and around it (fourth day); some pains on left side, but without the sore spot (fifth day), 17b. [310.]
- Itching of eyelids and of various parts of body (sixth day), 17b.
- Itching of nose, with bleeding, after blowing it; the blood is very dark; the itching is caused by pimples at right nostril, 10.
- Itching on left side of face, 10.
- Itching in palm of right hand, 10.
- Violent itching on the inside of the thighs, knees, and legs, worse at the knees, especially at night (sixth day), 11.
- Violent itching and pricking on inner side of knee-joint ever since he began to take the medicine, worse in the night and the morning before getting up, .
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Sleepiness.
- Drowsiness, 25.
- Great drowsiness and lassitude in warm room (after two hours), 12.
- Unusual drowsiness in morning, 24. [320.]
- Unusual drowsiness and heaviness over eyes (after three hours), 24.
- Felt a drowsy sensation, as though he could sleep readily; went to bed at 12 o'clock (after two hours), 20.
- Desire to sleep during day, 17.
- Disposition to sleep during the day, 10.
- Disposition to fall asleep while listening to the lecture, several times, notwithstanding great effort to keep awake, at 11 A.M. (third day), 8.
- Great inclination to sleep during day (third day), 17b.
- Sleeplessness.
- No desire for sleep, but sat up and read until 1.30 A.M.; did not sleep for half an hour after going to bed, 20.
- Restlessness at night, 17.
- Restlessness and sleeplessness during night from a constant flow of ideas, changing from one subject to another, 16.
- Great restlessness at night, continual dreaming and waking, 11. [330.]
- Restless and tossing about during the whole night, with anxious dreams, which he is wholly unable to recall after awaking (second day), 7.
- Restless, uneasy sleep; increased restlessness on following night, with constant dreaming; seemed to dream before getting to sleep, 19.
- Sleep restless, with vivid dreams, but he cannot remember them in morning, 15.
- Still had drowsy sensation on going to bed, and very strong desire to sleep, but could not sleep on account of a disagreeable nervous sensation, which cause him to toss about in bed for an hour and a half, 20.
- After retiring, did not sleep for over an hour, but tossed about, very nervous and mentally vexed, 20.
- Wakes up suddenly, as from a dream, 25.
- Waking suddenly after midnight, as from a dream, he has no breath, like a nightmare, 1.
- Awoke and started up several times without purpose, 9.
- Loss of sleep during forepart of night (second day), .
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Chilliness in warm room, 8.
- Feeling of coldness and sensation of inertia, 25.
- Sensation as if a cold breeze was blowing upon the eyes, very marked, in afternoon, when sitting in house (second day), 18.
- A space about the size of a quarter-dollar, just above and between the supraorbital regions (root of nose?), felt as though pressed upon by a cold metallic body, while within the cranium underneath there seemed to be more warmth than usual (after ten minutes), 9.
- Coldness in the joints; shivering and drawing in the arms and legs, 1.
- Hands cold, 15.
- Heat. [360.]
- Fever, 26.
- Occasionally, fever and fulness in forehead, 20.
- From the front to the back of the head, mostly over right eye and temple, heat in the head (second day), 7.
- Front of head very hot (after half an hour), 8.
- Heat rises from the stomach into the throat and head, at night, while lying in bed, disappears on sitting up, 1.
- Flashes of heat, confined to abdomen, with great flatulence, 13.
- Abdomen, below transverse colon, felt hot (after three hours), 6.
- Sensation of warmth under sternum (second day), 18.
- Felt a warm glow through legs, soon succeeded by a dull pain in left arm, just above elbow, and occasional darting pains in lower extremities (after ten minutes), 9.
- Sweat.
- Perspiration about 12 M., 10. [370.]
- Skin moist and cool (second day), 7.
- Sweat between the thighs while walking; it has an offensive odor and is corrosive, 1.
- Profuse sweating between the thighs, 10.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On rising, etc. 7 o'clock, giddiness, etc.; after waking, especially when lying in left side and pressing forehead into pillow, pain in forehead; on waking, especially when lying on left side and back, aching pain in forehead; on waking, pain in organ of
Conscientiousness ; after rising from bed, fulness, etc.; in occiput, etc.; furred tongue; after rising, drawing in mouth; on waking, at 8 o'clock, throat dry; appetite impaired; on waking, at 8 o'clock, thirsty; hoarseness; aching across small of back, etc.; at 4 o'clock, pain in kidney region; weakness of limbs; sense of prostration; before getting up itching etc., on inner side of thighs.
- ( Forenoon ), All symptoms; head full; at 11 o'clock, feeling in umbilical region; pain in knee-joint.
- ( Noon ), While walking, pain in knee-joint; nervousness, etc.; perspiration.
- ( Afternoon ), From 4 to 5 o'clock, pain from ribs to hypochondriac region; pain in knee-joint; sensation on eyes.
- ( Evening ), All pains; pain in forehead; pain in right frontal region; shooting in temple; soreness of eyes; erections; hoarseness; soreness from ear to neck; pain in side of dorsal vertebræ; at 8 o'clock, numbness, etc., in limbs; sensation in shoulder-joint.
- ( Night ), Dryness, etc., in mouth; itching in anus; on motion in bed, pain in back; itching inside of thighs; itching, etc., on knee-joint; while lying in bed; heat from stomach into throat, etc.
- ( Before midnight ), Loss of sleep.
- ( Open air ), Pain in left hypochondrium.
- ( After dinner ), Feeling in rectum.
- ( After eating ), Noises in ears.
- ( Inspiration ), Soreness under breast.
- ( Long inspiration ), Soreness over heart; pain over back.
- ( Lying down ), Cough.
- ( Motion ), Pain in forehead; sensation across temples; pain in left orbital region.
- ( Pressure ), Pain in head; sore feeling over ossa ilii.
- ( Reading ), Pain in head.
- ( Rest ), Numbness in arm.
- ( Sleeping ), Headache.
- ( Before stool ), Pain in bowels.
- ( Thinking ), Pain in head.
- ( Walking ), Throbbing pulse, etc.; pain in tendo Achillis; sweat between thighs.
- ( In warm room ), Pain in supraorbital region; drowsiness, etc.
- ( Writing ), Pain in arm.
- Amelioration.