Corallium rubrum

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CORALLIUM .

Corállium rubrum, Lamk . Red coral. I. Provings.-1 . ATTOMYR. [A- says he proved it onhimself and two girls in the 3rd trit., but nowhere gives any information to which of the three the symptoms belong. Neither in his nor in Melicher's proving is there anymention of the time after taking the dose when thesymptomsappeared. appeared. A- says a few grains of the trit. sufficed to produce the symptoms he records.] Head empty as if hollow ; extremely violent headache, pressing out at forehead, compelling to move head from place to place, butwithout relief, which is only obtained for ashort time by almost completely uncovering the burning hot body; pressive pain in forehead, so that her eyes cannot be kept open, relieved by walking in open air; pressure in forehead and temples whereby her sinciput seems to be pressed flat; violent headache as if her parietal bones were driven asunder, increased by bending forwards ; on moving quickly or shaking head she felt as ifwind rushed through cranial cavity ; her head felt as if

three times the normal size ; on bending forwards all her blood seemed to be propelled towards head and face ; heat offace increased by bending forwards ; dry heat in face with normal temperature of rest of body; when she lays her hand on face a cold shudder comes over her, in m.; the eyes smart as if sore when she moves the eyeballs or even the lids ; pressure in the reddened eyes as it from sand in them, e.; burning of eyes from theglare of the candle; the l. eye pains as if hot and dry; pain in eye as if itwere pressed from the front back into orbit; an extremely acute drawing pain in external wall of 1. orbit, whence it extended to beneath cheek-bone, in the course of the malar nerve ; he does not hear as well as usual ; on drawing down lower jaw, as also whenbiting and yawning, the 1. maxillary joint pains as if dislocated ; great dryness ofnasal and pharyngeal m.m.; in r. nostril on inner side of its ala a painful ulcer involving the nasal bones with a painful feeling as if they were forced asunder, then the pain extended to frontal sinus and the eyes and temples, with thirst; the r. side ofnose is swollen, the swelling is hot and pulsating ; disturbed sleep, nocturnal epistaxis; bleeding now from the r., now fromthe l. nostril ; the lips cracked, painful ; swollen, painful submaxillary glands, 1. side, worse when swallowing and bending head forwards; pressure on the fossa canina causes ulcerative pain in the two corre. sponding teeth ; both 1. rows of teeth are as if on edge, the teeth feel as iftoo close to one another, or as if a tough substance stuck between each pair ; on swallowing, dry sore-throat ; on swallowing pain in temporal muscles; food seems to him quite tasteless, everything tasted like sawdust ; farinaceous food tastes like straw ; beer tastes sweet to him; wine tastesright to him, but stupefies him immediately; anorexia ; no appetite, but yet no marked repugnance to food or drink ; longing for acids and salt meat; great thirst ; 1 h. after eating,hot cheeks, burning hotforehead; cold feet; nausea with dry tongue; nausea with violent headache, both increased by sitting up ; painless rumbling in abdomen; constipation for 6 d.,the 7th a copious soft stool; scalding urine; urine clay-coloured with similar sediment; great sweat of genitals; two seminal emissions in 24 h , the first at n., the second in afternoon siesta, the latter with flaccid penis and without any dream. Frequent sneezing, preceded by tickling in nose; stuffed cold in head, cannot breathe through 1. nostril. After stuffed coldinhead for 2 d. a very violent fluent coryza, during which mucus resembling melted tallow, and which leaves a similar stain on the linen, comes away in such quantities that 4 pocket-handkerchiefs were saturated in an h.; it dropped out ofthe nose as fast as blood in epistaxis, ceased for a short time, and again recurred, for 2 weeks. Sacrum feels bruised. Stiffness in nape muscles, she cannot move head to either side without pain. Pain inwrist afterwriting rapidly fora longtime. Painful tearings through r. tibia. Pain in knee, tibia, and ankle-joint after a long walk. After slight exercise in open air prostration of upper and lower extremities, e. The hot parts become chillywhen uncovered. Artificial heat is grateful to the hot and cold symptoms. On palm and some of the fingers smooth spots, at first coral coloured, then dark red, finally copper coloured. Excessive yawnings very frequently and in rapid succession, during which maxillary joint is painful. Very great drowsiness and irresistible desire to sleep, so that she could fall asleep standing. As soon as she falls asleep she starts up from a frightful dream. Very restless, dreamful n. Tossing about and throwing off clothes in sleep. Sleeplessness till midnight, though otherwise well. He does not fall asleep before midnight, tosses about in bed, cannot rest, if he uncovers himself he is too cold, and under the bedclothes too hot, for 3 successive n. Great but allayable thirst with febrile chill, but normal temperature of skin and severe frontal headache. Dry febrile heat without thirst. General inward and outward febrile heat without thirst, not followed by sweat, with full hard pulse. Very peevish, he scolds and swears on account of the pains. Irascible, ill-humoured. (Archiv, xi. 3, 166.) 2. FR. MELICHER took 3rd trit. Confusion of head as after intoxication ; headache as from pressure in the frontal sinuses, with increased secretion of nasal mucus ; on closing lids hot feeling in eye, as if it were in tears ; the l. zygoma pains as if bruised, worse when touched ; great accumulation ofnasal mucus through posterior nares, making him constantly hawk ; a painful pimple on the upper lip, near the orifice of the r. nostril ; after eating, giddy as if intoxicated ; in scrob. cordis a pres-

sure, aggravated by coughing, swallowing, and breathing deeply ; swelling ofprepuce, the border of which pains as ifraw when it touches the shirt ; the frænum preputii is painful, as if wounded by fine needles ; the whole glans and inner surface of prepuce secretes a yellowish-green fœtid pus, is very sensitive, red, swollen ; red flat ulcers on glans and inner surface of prepuce, with secretion of much yellowish matter. A painful cough, with feeling as if a stone lay in the pleural sac, pressed it down, and caused a violent pressive pain in chest beneath sternum, thence the pain extended to scapulæ, but goes off gradually as the cough diminishes. He expectorates yellow pus-like mucus. On breathing deeply, the air that passes through air passages appears to be icy cold, with some irritation to cough and much difficult hawking up of bronchial mucus, m. Pain in sacral region as from pressure of a blunt instrument. Pressive pain in scapulæ, aggravated by coughing. Pain in shoulder-joints, first in l. then in r., then in both together, as if the head of the humerus were forcibly pressed out ofthe joint. Pain in insertion of deltoid muscle and in middle of r. forearm, as if those places were pressed by sharply-opposing fingers. Tearing in r. tibia, with feeling as if someone tickled him in the hough, which makes him quickly bend the knee when walking. (Ibid.)