Apium virus. Poison of the honey-bee.

Preparation , Tincture of the working bees (made by putting them alive into alcohol), or of the poison sac, carefully extracted.

Authorities. [No.

1 , obtained from Central N. Y. proving; Hering, Amer. Arzneipruf.; A. R. Morgan, N. Y. St. Trans., 8, 104; Bell. H. M., 6, 860; Samuel Dean, N. E. M. Guz., 2, 284; Marcy, N. A. J., 16, 501; E. U. Jones, N. A. J., 2, 409; J. P. Dake, N. A. J., 6, 885; Cropper, N. Y. St. Trans., N. S. 1 (MSS.), and some other scattering observations. Nos.

2 to 8 , from proving of Central N. Y. Hom. Soc., 1852; 9 to 24 , from Hering's Amer. Arzneipruf.; (Bee-bread symptoms by Whitmore, Chicago Med. Examiner, 1865]

1 , Effects of the sting; 2 , F. Humphreys; 3 , L. B. Wells; 4 , Bishop; 5 , Hays; 6 , Bigelow; 7 , Greene; 8 , Kellogg; 9 , Hering, crude virus; 10 , Hering, θ; 11 , Hering, from a woman, "Th." 30th; 12 , Hering, from a girl, "O." 30th; 13 , Helmuth, crude; 14 , Kindermann, crude; 15 , Langstroth, from the poison; ( 16 to 23 , new symptoms obtained from patients); 16 , Marcy; 17 , Bishop; 18 , Blœde; 19 , Hering; 20 , Berens; 21 , Washburne; 22 , Marcy; 23 , Humphreys; 24 , Symptoms from sting of the humble-bee.

MIND

Excitement, with heat at night, 3.
Laughs at every misfortune, 1.
In the daytime, he danced with excessive joyousness; performed all his antics singing and dancing; was affability itself; and utterly unable to walk slowly. He laughed at the greatest misfortune; as he would at a comedy, 1.
She feels like crying about everything, 18.
Sad thoughts, with longing for death (third day), forenoon, 11.
Dejection, with great prostration, 13.
Anxiousness, with tension on the vertex, 19.
Great anxiety and excitement; must lie down; wants to get up and go again, just before death, 1.
General anxiety and distress, 1. [10.]
Great anxiety in the head and swelling of the face, 1.
Anxiety, excitement, and fear increase until death, 1.
Dread of death, or sensation as if he should not be able to breathe again, 6.
Premonition of death arose after a few minutes; "he believes he his going," 1.*
Feels that he must succumb, after a few minutes, and dies ten minutes after being stung, 1.
She thought she must die, she felt so strangely, 1.
He says, after a few minutes, "I am a dead man," 1.
Is himself conscious of an extremely disagreeable, violent, and sensitive mood; would have liked to kill a dog that barked at him, etc.; everything went wrong; nothing could be done to please him, 15.
Became more angry than ever before; (in a female scold), 19.
Irritable mood (fifth and sixth days); nothing appeared to satisfy him; everything out of place (eighth day), (2d dil.), 2. [20.]
Mental restlessness, during uterine hemorrhage, 2.
Confusion of mind, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Confusion when attempting to read a study, 1

, (A. R. M.)

It seems so her as if she did not know what to do, as if she had no volition of her own, her head feels so stupid, 11.
Stupid, sleepy, and headache, 2.
Unfit for mental exertion, 2, 3.
Inability to think clearly, or express himself, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Inability to concentrate the mind, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Mind bewildered, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Heat stupid, 9. [30.]
Torturing sensation in the head, during which he becomes wholly incapable of mental labor, 15.
Inclination to change his occupation; will not keep steadily at anything, with dulness of the head (second day), 9.
She was partially conscious, and continually moaning, 1

, (J. P. D.)

Was unconscious of what passed about him, 1.
Complete loss of consciousness, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Perfect insensibility, with vomiting, desire for rest and sleep, slow beat of the heart and scarcely perceptible radial pulse (Wasp).
Sank into a state of insensibility in fifteen minutes (five minutes before death), 1.

HEAD

Dulness of the head, with restless condition, 9.
Gloominess of the head and some confusion, 2.
Head confused and gloomy (first day), (2d dil.), 2. [40.]
Confusion of the head with the pains, 2.
Head dull and confused, 15.
Head is dull and slightly confused, 3.
Head feels big, confused, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Confusion of the head, with pain in the forehead, 2 , (2d dil.).
Pain in sinciput, and confusion of the head, 2.
Head confused and dizzy, with constant pressive pain above and around the eyes, that is somewhat relieved by pressure of the hands, 15.*
Vertigo.
Confused vertigo, very violent at times; worse when sitting than when walking; extreme when lying down and closing the eyes . (During several days, and after several strong doses), 2.
Attacks of vertigo and nausea (fifth day, and lasting into the second week), 12.
Vertigo, with headache (evenings, after sleeping), 12. [50.]
Vertigo, with blindness, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Headache, with vertigo, 2.
Vertigo, and pressure in the forehead, after sneezing, 2.
Vertigo, when pressing the head, 2.
Vertigo, 2.
After sleeping on the sofa, evenings (second day), 12.
Dizziness in the head, during the whole second day, 12.
Whirling in the head, with weakness, 12.
She grows dizzy and faint, while standing, 12.
Headache and chilliness, from 8 to 10 in the evening, with some toothache; pain in the forehead, first left side, then right, thus alternating; afterwards, in the vertex, right side, where it is also sensitive to the touch; then in the temples, and, at last, again in the forehead, right side (second day); morning of the third day, pain again in forehead, left side, 11.
Her whole brain feels as if tired , gone to sleep and crawling; she feels it at the same time in both arms, especially the left, and from the left knee down to the foot, 10. [60.]
During toothache, she feels it in her head, when biting her teeth together, 11.
Headache, worse when reading, increased in a warm room, 15.
Pain spreading from the gums into the head, 20.
With cough, in single shocks, all the evening (first day), 9.
With suppressed menstruation, 9.
Burning, piercing in the head, 9.
Burning and throbbing in the head, increased by motion and stooping, relieved for awhile by pressing the head firmly with the hands; with occasional perspiration (for some hours), 6.
Very violent headache, and sensation of a great pressure, as of congestion to the head, with throbbing and painful burning in the temples, redness and smarting of the eyes, 17.
Bursting, expansive pain in the head, attended by vertigo and confusion of the mind, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Inflammatory swelling, and twitching so violent that an apoplectic attack was feared, 1. [70.]
The head seems as if too large, swelled to the size of a bushel-basket, causing him to look into the glass, involuntarily, 1.
Swelling of the head, 1.
Head feels too large, 1.
She feels as if her head were too large; with sore throat, 19.
Fulness and pressure in the head and stomach, 24.
Head as if too full; it seems as if there were too much blood in it; heaviness, pressure, and sometimes a sudden rush of blood to the head, during which warm, close rooms are perfectly intolerable, 15.
Great rush of blood to the head, 17.
Dulness and the head feels compressed, 24.
Head pains, as if pressed together, 24.
Throbbing in the head, worse when moving and stooping, relieved for awhile by pressing the head between the hands, 15. [80.]
Dull pain over the whole head, relieved by pressure, 13.*
Dull, heavy headache on rising, lasting till 3 in the afternoon (second day), 3.
Dull pressure in the head, when rising from a reclining position, or from sitting, 15.
Heaviness and pressure in the head, one hour after taking one drop, lasted three and four days, 3.
Oppressive headache, when in a warm room, and reading, 6.
Oppression of the head, 1.
Frontal headache, 6.
(Piercing), 4.
Violent headache, mostly confined to the forehead, with fever (second day), 6.
Headache in the forehead, left side, with single stitches under the left ear, lachrymation of the left eye, chilliness, yawning, and some pain in the umbilical region (evening of eighth day), 11.
Particularly disagreeable pain in the forehead with dulness and confusion (first day), (2d dil.), 2. [90.]
Sensation of dulness across the forehead, just over the eyes (third day), 8.

EYES

Swelled about the eyes, 18.*
Swelling that entirely closes the eyes, 1.*
*Redness of the eyes, 17.
*Eyes red and itching, 1.
Redness of the eyes, with headache, 17.
Tremulous twitching in the left eye, for several days, more at night, 2.
Pain round about the eyes, 15.
Pains in the eyes, 12.
Eyes burn, 12. [140.]
Burning in the left eye, 11.
Burning stinging in the right eye , beginning with a dull heaviness, and causing flow of water (repeated twice), 2.*
Burning stinging and sensation of swelling around the left eye and in the superciliary ridge, 21.*
Smarting and sensation of burning in the eyes, with bright redness of the conjunctiva; very sensitive to light, 17.*
Boring and piercing in the eyes, forenoons; lachrymation, all day (third day), 12.
Piercing itching around the eyes, in the brows, lids, and in the eyes themselves, more in the left, especially in the inner canthi, with a desire to rub the eyes while pressing them hard; with this, soreness and smarting on the margin of the lids, in the canthi, and in the eye itself ; quivering of the eyeball, and a feeling in the eyes all day as if there were mucus in them, especially in the left, 15.
Piercing itching in the eyes, lids, and around the eyes; more in the internal canthi, 15.
Stinging itching in the eye, eyelids, and around the eyes , on the left side, and more at the internal canthus, 2.*
Piercing itching in the left eye, in the lids, and around the eye, mostly in one corner, and in the throat at the same time (first day), 2.
Piercing in the eyes; was obliged to remove her spectacles while reading and writing (nearsighted woman), (evenings, seventh day), 11.* [150.]

, (A. R. M.)

Growing dark before the eyes, 11, 12.
It grows dark before his eyes when stooping (afternoons, fourth day), 11.
Sensation of whirling around in the sight, with difficult vision at the same time, lasting for only a moment, 6.

EARS

Ears purple, 1

, (A. R. M.)

A small, rough, reddish tetter in the centre of the lobe of the left ear, extending somewhat back; remained in the antrum after an eruption caused by preparing Rhus; was entirely removed after

Graphites ; after five months, appeared again, a week after taking the Apis, and remained a week; was only removed after Graphites, 12.

In the inner cartilage of the left ear, a little pimple, painful when pressed (tenth day, and longer), 11. [220.]
Tension behind and under the ears, 2 ; behind the left ear, extending up from the back of the neck, 2 ; behind the right ear, 2 ; behind the left ear, 2.
Pains in the inner right ear (second day), 9.
Similar pain behind the left ear as over the eyes; violent drawing from the back of the neck, extending behind the left ear, 15.
Burning in the upper part of the left ear, 2, 5.
Stitches under the left ear, 11.
Frightened starting from sleep at noise, 12.

NOSE

Nose swollen, 1.
Nose much swollen, red and œdematous, 1 , (Bell.).*
Nose swollen; red stripes under the eyes, extending across the cheeks, 18.
Entire stoppage of the nose, from swelling of its mucous lining, 1 , (Bell.). [230.]
Nose affected, as if it would swell, 9.
Violent sneezing, immediately, 2.
Frequent sneezing, for many days (eleventh day), (in two provings), 2.
Sudden coryza, afternoons, 4 o'clock, with dryness of the nose; then burning of the lips, and sensation as if they would chap (fifth day), 11.
A kind of coryza (after four hours); worse evening, second day, with dull sensation in the nose; now and then some dropping; dry on the morning of third day; moisture only when blowing the nose; more affected outwardly, and feels as if it would swell, 9.
When blowing it some blood comes from the nose (mornings, second and third days), and afterwards, sometimes even in the fourth week, 11.
(Blood flowed from the nose, after death), 1.
Dryness of the nose in catarrh, 11.
Tip of the nose cold, with chilliness in the evening, 13.
Itching of the nose, 12. [240.]
Itching on the left nostril, is painful, with redness (fourth day), 12.

FACE

Paleness of the face, 1.
Paleness of the face; trembling of the hands and feet, 24.
Very pale and seemed ill, but without any swelling (badly stung child), 1.
Paleness of the face, with faintness, 12.
Pallor of the child, 1.
Countenance assumed a pallid, deathlike, look, frightening those around with the thought that he was about to die, 1

, (E. U. J)

His face grew pale, 4

, (E. E. M.)

Red face; wants is bathed, 1.
Her face became red, then purple, 1

, (J. P. D.). [250.]

The face is red and hot; pain, burning and piercing, and swollen so as to be unrecognizable (not gone after eighteen hours), 1.*
The face becomes purple, 1 , (Bell.).
Face livid, 1.
Livid, blue-reddish color of face (two weeks), 17.
(Color of face very dark, almost blue-black, after death), 1.
The face is swollen to blindness, and, for a week, he goes about blinking like an owl, 1.
The face swelled so that he could hardly see (after a sting in the face), 1.
Inflammatory swelling of the face; the right eye completely closed, the left eye almost; the cheeks hang down to the breast (after being stung in the right corner of the mouth), 1.
Nose and face swell immediately after being stung in the tip of the nose; continues several days, 1.
Face inflamed, 1. [260.]
Erysipelas of the face; over the whole face light redness, swelling, heat, with burning fever, coated tongue and thirst (in a girl of nine; sixth dilution every two hours), 2.*
Nettle-rash in the face, 1.
Burning in the face, with sensation of fulness, as if the bloodvessels were overfilled; very much aggravated when stooping, 13.
Peculiar burning and a heat in the face which he cannot describe; it lasted twenty-four hours, and for more than two weeks left behind a livid, bluish-red color of the face, 17.*
Heat of the face, with chilliness, 11.
Sensation as if face would swell, left side, especially about the eye (after one hour), 9.
Tension in the face waked him at 1 o'clock at night; the nose was swollen and the right eye and cheek; stinging pain when touched; under the right eye, beginning at the top of the nose, red stripes crossed the cheeks, lasted till 4 o'clock; the following day, again, after midnight, rapid swelling of the upper lip, with heat and burning redness, lasting till toward morning; third night, a sudden running across the right cheek, like a little insect, and stung him beside the nose, upon which the cheek and upper lip swelled, 18.
Prickling in the face, 2.
Burning cheeks, with cold feet, .

MOUTH

When biting the teeth together, in swallowing, after yawning, and otherwise, a kind of grinding the teeth, only a single, involuntary jerk; is repeated very often (seventh and following days), 11.
Toothache, 1.
Toothache with headache, 11.
Twitching toothache in the left upper back teeth, 24.
Jumping pain in the left upper molar teeth, 5.
Toothache in the upper jaw, right side, during which she feels the biting together of her teeth in her head; with chilliness, evenings (second day), 11.
Violent pain in the first left upper molar; seems connected with the headache (after five hours), 9.
Heat, with toothache, 9, 11. [300.]
Easy bleeding of the gums (sixth day), 11.
Very troublesome pains in the gums, 15.
Violent pains spreading through the gums, 21.
Swelling of the tongue, then of the whole body, after a sting in the vertex; he could neither speak, nor move his tongue, nor swallow the least morsel, 1.
Swelling of the tongue and lips (after a sting in the temples), 1.
Burning from the tongue down the whole throat into the stomach, and eructation every four to five minutes, with gathering of tasteless water in the mouth; the eructations increased very much after drinking water, it almost suffocated her, 10.
Burning stinging on the tongue, 2.
Prickling heat on the tongue, 3.
Tongue very painful, after seven hours; the burning rawness increases; vesicles rise along the edge; stings with the pain, ( θ ), 2.
Rawness, burning, and blisters, along the edge of the tongue, which are very painful, with stinging (after eight hours), ( θ ), 2. [310.]
Extreme sensation of rawness and scalding, all around the margin of the tongue; little pimples on the edge ( θ after four hours), 2.
The whole margin of the tongue feels as if scalded, as if quite raw ; little papular elevations appear along the edge of the tongue (after two hours), .*

THROAT

The glands of the throat swollen on the injured side, 1.
Great accumulation of viscid mucus deep in the throat, compelling frequent hawking (mornings, eleventh day), 2. [340.]
Dryness in the throat without thirst, 19.*
Dryness in the throat, 3 ; in the fauces, 13 ; of the palate, 12.
Dryness and heat in the throat (first day), 3.
Burning in the throat , extending to the stomach, 10.
Sensation of rawness in the throat, with viscid saliva, that adheres to the hard palate, velum, and tongue, 13.
Sensation of rawness in the throat, with inclination to frequent hawking, 15.
Frequent inclination to clear the throat, 15.
Sore throat, accompanied by a hoarse, hard, spasmodic, and somewhat hollow cough, caused by a sensation of filling up in the throat, as though he needed to raise something. Does not recollect, however, raising anything, 1

, (E. U. J.)

Sensation of soreness in the fauces and throat, extending downward through the chest to the pit of the stomach. He described this feeling of soreness as one of erosion, excoriation, or rawness, and supposed it to be such as a consumptive might feel, who had a violent and hard cough for a long time (in a few minutes), 1

, (E. U. J.)

Sensation of fulness, contraction, and suffocation in the throat, 22.* [350.]
Throat felt constricted, and as if a foreign body was lodged in it; deglutition was painful, 1.*
Sensation of constriction and erosion in the throat , in the mornings, after fifteen minutes; increases to such a degree, in eight hours, that swallowing becomes difficult, 2.*
Disagreeable oppression in the throat (in one hour), 1 , (Deane).
An aching pressure, as if from a hard body, back in the upper part of the throat and fauces; continuing for some hours (at half an hour), (occurred in two provings), 2.
Stinging itching deep in the throat, at the lower part of the neck, accompanied with a sensation of constriction, 2.*
Pressure in the fauces as of a foreign body, 2.
Roughness and sensitiveness of the pharynx (every time after smelling the poison), 15.
Difficult swallowing, 1.*
Inability to swallow a single drop, with swelling of the tongue, 1.*
Not until some hours after the sting, the throat swelled inwardly, then outwardly; voice grew hoarse; breathing and swallowing very difficult ; difficulty of swallowing not caused by the swelling in the throat, but by the irritation of the epiglottis, for every drop of liquid put upon the tongue nearly suffocates him.

Small white spot, about half an inch to the left of the glottis . (Death after twenty-seven hours, after a sting in the throat), 1.

STOMACH. [360.]

Entire loss of appetite, 13.
No appetite, nor desire for food, though it was not repulsive to him, 1

, (E. U. J.)

Lessening appetite, for several days, although the coated tongue grows cleaner, 9.
The first mouthful of food he took "seemed to drive the soreness downward, and each succeeding mouthful to drive it further down," and he continued eating, until the soreness and cough quite left him, and did not return, 1

, (E. U. J.)

Thirst, with burning in the mouth, 11.
Burning thirst, seems to rise from the stomach, with dryness in the throat; without thirst; burning cheeks and cold feet, without increased pulse, 10.
Great thirst, when working at night, after diarrhœa, 13.
Asks for a drink of water, 1.
Asked for water, and drank some, 1.
No thirst, with dryness of the throat, 10.* [370.]
No thirst with the dryness in the throat, but she drinks very often, although it relieves her but little, 10.
*No thirst, with heat, 9.
Violent eructation, 5.
Eructation tasting like yolk of eggs, 2.
Eructation tasting of the ingesta, 13.
Eructation, with copious accumulation of tasteless water, 9.
Increased eructation after drinking water, 9.
Violent eructation of wind during headache, 13.
Eructation relieves the pain over the left hip, 2.
Aversion, with chilliness and cold limbs, 1. [380.]
Gagging, after a sting in the temples, 1.
Nausea, apparently from the throat, 5.
Nausea seems to come from the throat, 5.
Sickness at the stomach, and pain over the whole body so severe as to cause crying, 1

, (C. C. C.)

Was obliged to go home and lie down, on account of nausea, 1.
Nausea and inclination to vomit in the night, with a disagreeable rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would set in, mornings; loose, urgent stool, 5.
Nausea to vomiting, with fainting, 12.
Nausea, followed by yellow and bitter vomiting (after forty-five minutes), 1

, (A. R. M.)

Some nausea and vertigo, 12.
Nausea and vomiting, 13. [390.]
Nausea and vomiting, 1.
Nausea and vomiting, with swelling of the head, 1.
Nausea and vomiting of food, with diarrhœa, after repeated vomiting; first, bile, afterwards a thin, very bitter-tasting liquid, with violent pains across the lower abdomen, 13.
Vomiting (wasp), 1.
Vomiting of ingesta, 13.
Vomiting of bile, 13.
Vomiting and diarrhœa, 1.
Severe vomiting and profuse diarrhœa, 1

, (E. E. M.)

For several days, he was troubled with a morbid excitement of the digestive apparatus, 1

, (E. E. M.)

Most terrible pains in the stomach appeared immediately after taking the second attend.; the following day, coldness in the middle of the sternum, which, after it gradually subsided, was followed by a burning heat in the stomach, 20. [400.]
Burning heat in the stomach, 20.*
Heartburn, 1

, (C. C. C.)

Heat and burning in the stomach (first day), 3.
Burning in the stomach, and eructations, 10.
Sensation of soreness in the stomach and abdomen, 13.*
Crawling, drawing and gnawing in the stomach; later, a violent compression in the abdomen, 24.
Prickling pain in the stomach, as from needles, 5.
Pressure in the stomach, 24.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, 1.
Pressure in the region of the orifice of the stomach, 13.

ABDOMEN. [410.]

Violent burning pain under the short ribs, on both sides, worse and lasting longest on the left, where it prevented sleep for weeks, 17.
Under the right ribs, sensation as if gone to sleep, 19.
Pain, left side, under the last ribs, 5.
Pain in the abdomen, in the umbilical region, and chilliness, 11.
Fulness and evident enlargement of the abdomen. (In a woman, after several large doses), 2.
Rumbling in the abdomen, 13.
Rumbling in the abdomen, with a sensation of fulness, 13.
Rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would ensue, 5.
Rumbling in the abdomen, with violent urging to stool, 13.
Restlessness in the intestines, and death, 1. [420.]
Faintness and nausea, from the short ribs across the whole abdomen (soon after a sting in the scrotum), lasting three hours), 1.
Nausea in the abdomen, is obliged to lie down, 1.
Sickly feeling in the abdomen, which inclines him to continue in a quiet, sitting posture, 5.
Pain in the abdomen from the hips towards the umbilical region (forenoons), (second day), 12.
Violent pain in the abdomen, relieved when sitting up, 13.
Slight pain in the abdomen, with urging to pass flatus (after fifteen minutes), 9.
Pain in the abdomen, mornings, and urging to stool, 12.
Pain in the abdomen, with urging to stool, and pain when straining (mornings, after rising, after dreaming it at night, second day), 12.
Sometimes pain in the abdomen, again with a feverish, trembling feeling (second day), 12.
Disagreeable sensation and growling in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa were setting in, 5. [430.]
Frequently, pain in the abdomen, mornings, and very hard scanty stool; as formerly often (in third week), 12.
Sore feeling in the abdomen, in the morning, 5.
As if sore in the abdomen, 13.
Soreness of the bowels felt when sneezing, or pressing upon them, 5.*

, (E. E. M.). [440.]

Violent griping in the abdomen, 24.
Dull pains in the bowels, 5.
Heaviness in the abdomen, 1.
As if the intestines had been crushed, with stools and tenesmus, 13.
Violent cutting pains in the abdomen, 1.
Violent pains across the lower abdomen, with bitter vomiting and diarrhœa, 13.
Sensation as if diarrhœa were coming on, 5.
Aching and pressive pain in the hypogastrium, with bearing down in the uterus, as if the menses were coming on (in two persons), 2.
Aching and pressure in the lower abdomen, 2.
Pressure in the region of the lower abdomen, 13. [450.]
Bearing down, 11.
Slow, throbbing, boring pain over the left crest of ilium, relieved by eructations (second day), 2.

STOOL AND ANUS

Sensation in the rectum like an electric shock, slightly painful, and followed by urging to stool, 11.
*Sensation of rawness in the anus, with diarrhœa, 13.
Throbbing in the rectum, with a sensation in the anus as if stuffed full, and with heat, 5.
Excessive tenesmus, 13.
Urging to stool, 2.
Urging to stool, with rumbling in the abdomen, 13.
Frequent urging to stool; pains in the anus after much straining, the following morning, 11.
Passage of flatus before stool, 5.* [460.]
Copious, watery diarrhœa, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Copious diarrhœa and vomiting, 1.
Copious evacuations of blackish-brown, green and whitish excrements, 1.*
Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhœa, first lumpy, and not fetid; afterwards, watery and very fetid ; then pappy, mixed with mucus and blood. Then followed stools like a dysentery, with much tenesmus, and a sensation as if the intestines had been crushed, 13.
Several loose stools daily, 2.
Two loose stools daily, for five days, 3.
Loose stools, eight days in succession, 3.
Loose stools in the morning (fifth day); loose urgent stool in the morning (sixth day), 2, 5.*
Loose, lumpy stool, 5.
Yellow, watery diarrhœa, with griping (twelve discharges, within twelve hours), 4.* [470.]
*Greenish, yellowish, mucous diarrhœa, without any pain (about twenty-four hours after the first dose (2d); and twelve times, the same day; then ceasing, while she took 2d, and later, after 1st), 17.
Yellowish, slimy, green-colored diarrhœa, with swelling of the labia, 1.
Increasing prostration during diarrhœa, 13.*
Stools soft and pappy, mixed with serum, as if soft fæces had been beaten in water, but not dissolved; orange-colored, 8.*
Stool every morning; scanty, pappy, light-yellow; did not begin to grow darker for a week, 9.
Several thin, yellow stools, with extreme weakness and prostration; the stools occur with every motion of the body, as if the anus were constantly open . (In a woman of forty, with ascites, after 6th dil.), 2.*
Colorless water passes from the anus, 5.
Stool natural, preceded by emission of flatulence, and a small quantity of almost colorless water, containing lumps, or fragments of jelly-like mucus, streaked with blood, 5.
Blood and mucus with the stools, .

URINARY ORGANS

For several days he was troubled with a morbid excitement of the urinary organs, 1

, (E. E. M.)

A very disagreeable sensation in the bladder, with a bearing-down in the region of the sphincter, and so frequent a desire to urinate that he not only did so by day, but was compelled to rise ten or twelve times during the night; soreness and burning when passing urine, 15.
Burning in the urethra, 5.
Burning in the urethra before and after urination (third day), 3.
Burning before and after passing, 3, 8.
Burning and soreness when urinating, 1, 15.*
As if scalded when urinating, 17. [490.]
*Soreness when urinating, as if scalded, 4.
Stitchlike pain in the urethra, 5.
When beginning to urinate, the swelling of the labia minora obstructs, 11.
Frequent desire to urinate, 22.
Frequent desire to urinate, attended with burning in the urethra, with uneasiness in the spermatic cord (sixth day, from large doses), 8.
Frequent desire to urinate, with some burning before and after emission (second day), 3.
*Frequent desire to urinate, with a disagreeable sensation in the bladder; a bearing down in the region of the sphincter, 15.
Almost incessant desire to pass urine; in passing, the urine seems to him to be unusually warm, even to burning, with sensation as if the flow were obstructed by a contraction in the bulbus; the quantity of urine is quite as usual, 13.
After taking the 6th dilution in the evening, he was obliged to pass urine every five minutes the following days, 2 , (and others).
Repeated urination every few minutes all day (in a person never subject to such attacks; day after taking one drop of the 2d dilution, at night), 2.* [500.]
Day and night, very frequent passage of colorless urine, 18.
Frequent and excessively profuse discharge of natural urine, 2.*
Frequent and extraordinarily copious discharge of urine, otherwise as usual, day and night, in a dropsical, pregnant woman (after three doses of the 30th dilution), 23.
Enormous secretion of urine (four to six pounds daily), , with flatulence and some looseness of the bowels (bee-bread), (Whitemore).

APIS. SEXUAL ORGANS. [510.]

A pustule, sore as a boil, surrounded by a red areola, and maturated in the centre, arises in the hair of the pubes, remaining sore and painful some days (eleventh day), 2.
Sensation of weakness in the genitals, 24.
Uneasy sensation in the spermatic cord, 8.
Frequent and long-lasting erections, 1.
The testicle swelled to such a size "that it scarcely had room in the scrotum," with tension, and the most violent itching (after a sting in the scrotum), 1.
Desire to cohabit during the day, while sitting at home and when driving (after five, six, and eight hours), 9.
Very much increased sexual desire, in a hysterical woman, 19.
Hemorrhage from the uterus, occurring in a lady who was always regular and healthy; coming on one week after the cessation of the usual menstrual period, and three days after taking the medicine, 2.
She feels as she does in the beginning of pregnancy, 4.
*Bearing-down pains in the uterus, as if menstruation were coming on, with aching and pressure in the hypogastrium, 3. [520.]
Bearing-down pains, as in the early stages of parturition (in several cases), 4.
*Metrorrhagia at the second month, with profuse flow of blood, heaviness of the abdomen, great uneasiness, restlessness, and yawning, 2.
Miscarriage at the second month (from drop doses of the 2d dilution), 2.
Miscarriage at the third month, 2.
Abortion in the fourth month, with very copious hemorrhage, in a young, perfectly healthy, recently married woman, during a mild attack of fever, for which Apis 6

was given, 2.

Should be given to pregnant females with the utmost caution, 2.
The numbness and dulness, beginning in the right abdominal region (from the ovaries) to the hip, now extends to the ribs, and down over the whole thigh; better when lying upon it, 19.
When stretching in bed, a fine cutting pain in the left side of the abdomen, in the ovarian region, across to the right; first very faint, then stronger and stronger, increased at every repeated stretching; four or five times the same, then ceasing (evening, seventh day), 11.
Great increase of pain and tenderness in the ovarian region, in two cases; one, of large induration, the other, in a supposed incipient stage of development, 17.
In the region of the diseased right ovary, soreness, hardness, and burning heat, 19. [530.]
Pain in right ovarian region during menstruation, 20.*
The right ovarian region very sensitive during the period, 20.*
Drawings in right ovarian region (twentieth day), 11.
Drawing in the right ovarian region (twentieth day), 11.
In the region of the left ovary, pain as if strained, more when walking, evenings at 6 o'clock; after several hours, also, a bearing down on right side, and a lame feeling in the shoulder-blades; towards 11 o'clock, when walking, she is compelled to bend forward, on account of a contractive, painful sensation in the abdomen; still felt the following morning, somewhat to the left (first day), 11.
A deep, penetrating pain begins in the clitoris, and extends down into the vagina; the labia minora are swollen, and feel dry, hard, and covered with a crust; hindered passing urine at first all day until it ceases, late in the evening, after the application of cold-water compresses, 10.
Much flow of mucus from the uterus and the vagina, with cessation of internal burning in the abdomen, 19.
Pressure in the abdomen, in the back, and sacrum, as if the periods were coming on; she distinctly feels it running downward, 19.
She feels, for several days, as if her periods were coming near the right time; but they remain away, and pregnancy has taken place (twentieth and following days), 11.
Bearing-down pains, and sensation as if the menses would come on (in several cases), 2. [540.]

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

Sensation as of a rapid swelling of the lining membrane of the air-passages, 1

, (B.)

Feeling of rawness, with inclination to hawk, 15.
Speaking is painful; she feels as if it wearied the pharynx, in which there is drawing and pain, 19.
He grows hoarse, 1.
Hoarseness and difficulty of breathing, 1.
Hoarseness and rough voice through the day and night (second day), 2, 5 , (and others).
Hoarseness, mornings , with dryness in the throat and no thirst, and drinking is of no use; at the same time, soreness in the suprasternal fossa, and sensitiveness to pressure, likewise, in the region above both clavicles; later, violent stitches through the lungs, here and there, through the hips and sides of the chest, with aching all over, but especially in the left breast; constantly, a peculiar sensation as if cords were being pulled from the suprasternal fossa, downwards and sideways, in different directions, 19.
Irritation to cough in the suprasternal fossa, 9.* [550.]
Severe cough, especially after lying and sleeping ; the tickling that causes it, in a little spot, very distinctly deep down on the posterior wall of the windpipe (second day, before midnight); would like something to reach it with and brush over it; his head aches while coughing; he must bend it back, and hold it so that the shock cannot act with such violence; as soon as the least bit of mucus loosens, he is better, 9.
Hoarse cough, with evening heat, 1.
Cough prevents sleep, after lying down, and wakens him towards midnight, with the same distinct clicking down back, which irresistibly irritates to violent shocks that are felt in the head; ceases directly after the loosening of a small lump of mucus, which is swallowed (third to fourth days); cough the fourth and fifth days, only evenings, not at night, 9.
Cough, preventing sleep, 9.
When coughing, pain through the chest, from the clavicle, 19.
Cough, more in warmth, and in repose, and rousing from first sleep, for several evenings, 9.
Cough, when starting in sleep, 12.
Violent shocks of cough, from a crawling irritation down in the windpipe, near the suprasternal fossa; and, at every shock of cough, increased headache in the left side and upper part. After half an hour, something loosens and is swallowed, when the cough ceases directly (first day, when roused from sleep before midnight), .

, (B.)

Dyspnœa; it seemed impossible to breathe ; had to fan him to keep him alive, 1

, (A. R. M.). [560.]

Sensation as though he should not be able to breathe again, 3.
Sensation as if he would not be able to breathe, 6.
Great feeling of suffocation; it seems as if she could not long survive, for want of air, 1*

, (B.)

Intense sensation of suffocation; threw the collar wide open; could bear nothing about the throat ; with dusky hue to the face, and bluish lips, 1

, (C. W. B.)

Can scarcely breathe from swelling of the tongue, so that the laborious inspiration can be heard all over the house, 1.
Difficulty of breathing, inclination to sleep, and increasing shortness of breath when walking, 1.
Breathing very difficult, and every drop of liquid nearly chokes him, 1.
Hurried and difficult respiration, with fever and headache (second day), 5.*
Difficult, anxious breathing, with constriction in the throat; worse when lying, 22.
Sensation of fulness, constriction, or suffocation in the throat, with difficult, anxious breathing; worse in a horizontal position, 22. [570.]
Labored inspiration, as in croup, 1.
Breathing oppressed in pressure of chest, 12.
Breathing oppressed by pressure in the back, 11.
Short breath, 1, 3.
Short, quick breathing, nights, 6.
Breathing very slow, 1.
Closed rooms, especially if overheated, are insupportable to him, 15.
Pain in the heart that interrupts breathing, 3.

CHEST

At every pressure, when holding the breath, pain through the chest, 19.
Heat in the chest, 3. [580.]
Sensation of burning heat in the chest and stomach, early in the morning (second day), 3.
Sensation of warmth or burning in the chest (first day), 3.
Fulness, tension, and pressure in the chest (first day), 3.
Sensation of fulness in the chest, 3.
When coughing, and at every pressure, pain above the clavicle, and from there down through the chest, 19.
Sharp pains in the chest, at nights (fifth day), 2.
Sometimes, sharp pains and stitches through the chest, 15.
Stitches through the chest and back, at night (sixth day), 2.
Stitches through the chest and back, at night, 5.
Pressure in the chest, 3. [590.]
Pressure in the chest (soon), 2.
Pressure in the chest, after pains in the shoulders and upper arms, 2.
Slight oppression of the chest, with frequent desire to draw a deep inspiration, 5.
Like a pressive pain in the upper part of the chest, 15.
As if the chest, near the last ribs, were crushed, pressed, or beaten, 17.
Sensation of heaviness, 2.
Pain, as of a bruise, and sensation of weight in the chest (for several days), 4.
Trembling and pressure in the chest, with oppressed breathing (forenoon, second day), 12.
Sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feeling, as if from recent injury, from being jammed, bruised, or beaten (confirmed in many provers), 4.
Pain in the chest, stinging, first left, then right, where the cartilages of the ribs bend toward the hypochondria; at the same time, everything grew dark before her eyes, in which she felt pain (forenoon, third day), 12. [600.]
Trembling in the chest, 12.
Stitches in the side, 1.
Sticking through the sides of the chest and through the lungs, 19.

HEART AND PULSE

Slow beating of the heart; scarcely perceptible radial pulse (wasp), 1.
Violent palpitation, sensible to himself and audible to those in the room, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Rapid, feeble beats of the heart, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Action of the heart interrupted, 1.
Pulse accelerated (first day), 3.
Pulse increased 20 strokes, full and strong (second proving), 6. [620.]
Pulse 95, full and strong, 6.
Pulse 88, with sensation of heat, evenings, 12.
Pulse increased from 65 to 77 (first day), 3.
Pulse decreased very soon, 1.
Pulse hardly perceptible (wasp), 1.
Pulse feeble, scarcely discernible at the wrist, 1

, (E. E. M.)

No pulse at the wrist, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Pulseless at wrist for twenty minutes, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Pain in the heart, 1.
Pain near the heart that almost arrested the breathing, continuing, at intervals, for some days, 3. [630.]
Sudden attack of acute pain just below the heart, soon extending diagonally towards the right chest, 1

, (B.)

Several stitchlike pains just below the heart, 5.

NECK AND BACK

Nettlerash in the back of the neck, 6.
Slight sensation of stiffness in the nape of neck and small of back, 5.
Swelling in the back of the neck in gouty patients, 1.
Swelling on the back of the neck, so that his head is pressed upon the chest, 1.
Back of neck stiff, 15.
Tension in the right side of the neck, beneath and back of the ear (soon; 6th dil.), 2 , (and others).
Rheumatic stitches in the muscles of the right side of the neck; worse when moving the head in that direction; came on when rising in the morning; is very painful; less noticed when moving the head in any other direction (second day), 2.
Rheumatic stitches in the right side of the back of the neck, 15. [640.]
Violent piercing-burning pain in a small spot down on the left of the back of the neck, also on the occiput and left arm (after two hours), 9.
Pains extending from the shoulder up to the back of the neck, 2.
Sharp, tensive pain from the neck up back of the left ear, extending forward over the left side of the head (first day), 1, 2.
Tensive pain in the left shoulder, extending up into the back of the neck (second day), 2.
Pain in the back, over the shoulder-blades; worse on the right side (first and second days), 9.
Lame feeling in the scapulæ, 11.
Dull pressure under the scapula, with sore feeling on moving the parts, 5.
Pressure under the shoulder-blades, painful when moving, 15.
Peculiar weakness in the back, 10.
Peculiar excessive weakness along the whole back, on both sides of the spine, as if she could not lie upon it for weakness, 2, 10. [650.]
Burning and heat, like "prickly heat," on the back, 1

, (B.)

Sudden flush of heat over the back, as though sweat would break out, with a pain at the left ilio-sacral junction, 4.
Chills running over the back, 10.
Backache, 11.
Stitches in the back and chest, 5.
Stitches through the back, 2.
Back as if bruised, 9.
Back feels bruised near the last ribs, on a place a hand's breadth in extent, as if the muscles internally were sore, especially on the left side (the whole third day), 9.
Pressure behind on the last ribs, on both sides of the spine, which somewhat hinders breathing, about as in anxiety (twenty-first day), 11.
Prickling on the back, 2. [660.]
Sensation of stiffness in the sacrum, 15, 5.
Pain in the ilio-sacral junction, 4.
Urging in the sacrum, as if to the period, 19.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Trembling of the hands and feet, 24.
He first swelled about the joints, where bunches were forming that looked somewhat inflamed and itched very much, 1.
Blood settled under the toe and finger-nails, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Cold limbs, with chilliness, 1.
His extremities grew cold, 1

, (E. E. M.)

A cutting instrument seemed to penetrate all his limbs at the same time, like an electric discharge (wasp), 1.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

Red and white spots on the arms, 1. [670.]
Burning and heat, like "prickly heat," on the arms and hands, 1

, (B.)

Swelling of the whole arm, so that he could not take off his coat without an effort, in the evening, and was only able to put it on next morning with the greatest difficulty.
The arm remained very sensitive for some days (after a sting in the hand), 1.
Unpleasant sensation in the inner side of both arms, reaching from near the elbow to the axilla; also, a similar sensation in the anterior and inner part of each thigh, reaching from near the knee to the inguinal region, which ceased in the course of half an hour, 1

, (S. D.)

Drawing pains in the arm, that begin in the shoulders and extend to the end of the fingers, 13.
Itching, and appearance of blotches, in arms and hands, like nettlerash, on scratching, 1

, (B.)

Drawing pain through the arm, beginning in the shoulders, 13.
Hand and arm swollen and painful for several days, 1.
Crawling, as if going to sleep, in both arms, especially in the left, 10.
Itching stitching in the back of the arm, 11.
Left arm affected (after fifteen minutes), 9. [680.]
Burning stinging on the left arm, 9.
The upper part of the arm is painful, 2.
Aching in the right shoulder and upper portion of the arm (soon), 2.
Dull pains, apparently in the bones of the arms and fingers, 5.
Aching in right shoulder and upper arm, and pressure on the chest (first day), 2.
Great increase and intensity of the odor from the axillary glands (fourth day), 8.
Stinging pains in the left elbow, sudden, but not lasting (third day), 8.
Œdema of the hands, 9.*
The hand becomes purple, 1

, (B.)

Nettlerash on the back of the hand, 3. [690.]
Hands tremble, 24.
Hands as if dead, during chill, 10.
Hot hands, 10.
Burning, as of fire, in small circumscribed spots on the hands (lasting some minutes, second day; first dilution), 2.
Hot hands, during chilliness, 11.
Burning and stinging in the hands, especially the palms, that became very red; half an hour after a sting in the neck. Cold water relieves, 1.
Prickling in the hands, palms, and back of the hands, 2.
The back of the hand swollen to the finger-tips (after a sting upon it), 1.
Sore and red spots in the palms, 1.
Itching in the palms, mostly left, in little burning spots, 9. [700.]
Itching and burning on the back of the hands, and on the knuckles, also on the first joints of the fingers, especially of the right hand; the skin begins to chap finally, here and there, as if from cold, to which she had not been exposed (evenings 9 o'clock, fifth day), 11.
The right hand swells as if puffed up, and is slightly bluish-red; pressure of the fingers makes white spots, that disappear slowly and leave no indentation, without heat and without pain, except some tension; with nettlerash (sixth dilution), 19.
Itching and chapping of the right hand (still felt on the seventh day), 11.
Itching and chapping of the right hand; the lower lip also begins to chap (evenings, eighth day), 11.
The fingers swell and remain very sensitive for several days (after a sting), 1.
The stung finger was swollen little, or not at all, 1.
The bones of the fingers are painful, 5.
Very distinct sensation of numbness in the fingers, especially in their tips , about the roots of the nails, with a sensation as if the nails were very loose, and he could shake them off, 13.*
Cold fingers, 11.
Cold hands, 1.
Drawing pains extending to the ends of the fingers, 13. [710.]
Itching in the fingers, 11.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

Lower limbs feel paralyzed, 24.
Dull pains, as if in the bones of the lower extremities, 5. [720.]
Sore feeling of the flesh of the lower extremities, disappearing on walking, and returning again while sitting, 5.
Itching and pricking in the lower limbs, 3.
Sore pain in left hip-joint (immediately after every dose of the second dilution); later a weakness, unsteadiness, trembling in this joint, 20.
Drawing through the thighs to the tips of the toes, with numb sensation in the latter, 13.
An itching stitch posteriorly on the thigh, 11.
Burning itching, especially posteriorly, on the left thigh (after four hours), 9.
Violent pain in the left knee, outside, over, and under the knee, mostly half in front (after two and a half hours); violent, short pains in front, below (after six hours); now and then violent on outside (second day), 9.
Fine burning stinging on the knee (first day), 2.
Crawling, as if from an insect, on the inner side of the right knee (mornings, fourth day), 9.
From the left knee to the foot, crawling as if going to sleep, 10. [730.]
Darting, transient pains in the external malleolus of the left ankle (for four days), 8.
After the sting of bees, the former gouty concretions appeared again, and then disappeared, 1.
Red and white spots on the feet, 1.
*When taking off the foot-gear, evenings, frequent swelling of the feet, 15.
At night, on removing the boots and socks, he found that his feet were swollen full, with a sensation of heaviness and stiffness ; the upper parts of the feet felt bungling and itched, and were of a bright red color; on the soles of the feet and balls of the toes painful fulness, and as if he stepped on cushions when he walked (sixth day, from many large doses), 8.*
Feet trembled, 24.
Burning of the feet (first day), 3.
Burning and pricking in the feet (after a sting on the neck), 1.
Cold feet, with burning cheeks, 10.
*Sensation in the toes, and the whole foot, as if too large, swollen, and stiff, . [740.]

GENERALITIES

Actual swelling, or "puffing up," of the whole body, without any noticeable change of color, except in the face, 1

, (E. U. J.)

(No blood, when venesection is attempted), 1.
The blood let from a young, healthy woman, five minutes after she was stung, was colorless, and only red in the centre of the vessel, 1. [750.]
Twitching of the muscles, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Jactitation of the muscles, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Trembling, 1.
Stretching, 12.
She was found to be in a spasm, generally tonic, but in a measure clonic; her knees were drawn up to her breast, and her hands and arms moved convulsively, 1

, (J. P. D)

Convulsions, 1.
The whole nervous system seemed most violently affected, 1.
Terrified starting during evening sleep, 12.
Excessive irritability of the nerves, 18.
The sting instantly strikes through his whole frame, like an electric shock, thrilling both ends of his fingers and toes, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Restlessness; would constantly like to go from one place to another, 18. [760.]
An extraordinary restlessness overcomes him in the afternoon, with as much exhaustion as if he had done very hard manual labor. (After smelling the bee poison, when gathering a swarm), 13.
Nervous restlessness, 1.
Nervous restlessness, during the latter half of the night, 2.
Nervous restlessness; she did not know what to do with herself, so that tears came to her eyes, 1.
Bodily unrest, as if after hard work, 13.
General lameness, especially in the lower limbs (humble-bee), 24.
Tired, as if bruised in every limb, especially in the back, as one feels in the morning, after exertion; especially perceptible on rising after sitting , must stretch himself even in the street (after six hours), 9.*
*General feeling of lassitude (second day), 3.
*General feeling of lassitude, with trembling, 3.
For several days, totally unfitted for labor of any kind, 1

, (E. U. J.). [770.]

Frequent loss of all strength with a trembling sensation, 15.
Great weakness at intervals, 9.
Attack of weakness, during which she grows dizzy (evenings, third day), 12.
So weak directly, that he was obliged to lie down, and lost his consciousness (after a sting in the middle finger), 1.
During continual diarrhœa, weakness increases, and headache diminishes, 13.
Scarcely able to walk; staggering, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Truly distressing prostration and lassitude, 1.
With all the rest of the symptoms, a constant feeling of lassitude and great prostration, 13.
Much prostration, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Sudden prostration, with coldness, 1

, (A. R. M.). [780.]

Great prostration for several days, 1.
Sudden prostration of the vital forces (shortly after), 1

, (E. E. M.)

Sudden prostration of the vital forces; severe vomiting; profuse diarrhœa; cold extremities; pale face; severe griping pains in the abdomen; pulse weak, scarcely perceptible at the wrist. (From a sting on the eyebrow), 1.
Prostration and depression (soon), 13.
Heavy and prostrate in fever, 10.
Was obliged to be led into the house; threw himself on the bed; unable to hold himself up, 1.
Without feeling either weakness or faintness, she is yet suddenly compelled to lie down on the ground, 1.
Sinks quite exhausted at stool, 1.
Felt as if dying, nor could he describe the feeling in any other language, 1

, (E. U. J.)

Must lie down, he feels so unwell, 1.
Must lie down, 1. [790.]
Lies down, but rises again to go to the neighboring brook; after a few steps, dies, 1.
Goes home and lies down; wants his red face bathed; wants to be raised up; asks for water; lips are cold; he dies, ten minutes after the sting of an humble-bee, in the temple, 1.
Faintness, 1, 2.
Fainting; trembling, 1.
Faintness (wasp), 1.
Faintness, with nausea, 1.
He felt very strangely in an instant; it seemed to him as if he were going to faint. He asked for water just before death (after a sting in septum of nose), 1.
A faint and deathly feeling came over him, 1

, (E. U. J.)

Faintness, deathlike prostration, which continued half an hour, accompanied with intense anxiety and distress at the stomach, oppression of the chest, dyspnœa, short, rapid breathing, pulse accelerated, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Fainting and twitchings, when the pains are violent, 1. [800.]
She falls down, 1

, (B.)

She staggered and fell, 1

, (J. P. D.)

Fell to the ground and died in a few minutes, 1.
My flesh was as sensitive as if cut with many lancets (next day, after many stings), 1.
Sensitive to steel points that are directed towards her; it seems to her as if the skin in the glabella were being drawn up towards the forehead, 18.
The whole surface of the body becomes exceedingly sensitive to the touch; every hair is painful when touched (6th dil.), 2.*
Skin extremely sensitive to contact ; painful to the slightest touch; could not bear the sheet upon him, 1*

, (A. R. M.)

Numbness over the whole body, at once, 1.
A very strange feeling, which she could not define (in the minutes), 1

, (J. P. D.)

Violent pain, 1 ; for days, 1. [810.]
Screamed aloud at great pain, that increased with intense rapidity (directly after the sting of a wasp), 1.
Sensation in whole body, as if everything were too large, 1.
Sensation as if crushed over the whole body, on the sides, hips, back, in short, everywhere; with restlessness all night, and loose, urgent stool, mornings. (From several pellets of the 6th, taken evenings, on account of great warmth; the same symptoms are repeated in the same order, three times, after similar doses), 2.
Felt very sore from head to foot (after first day), 1

, (J. P. D.)

Bruised sensation all over; sides, hips, back, in fact, he ached everywhere (after reaction), 1

, (E. E. M.)

Trembling sensation, with heat, 11.

SKIN

Desquamation of the whole surface of the skin (wasp), 1.
Inflammatory swelling of the whole body; the right eye entirely, the left almost closed; cheek and nose level; the lower cheek hung down upon the breast; the breast was like a great loaf, 1.
Rapid, considerable swelling, 1.*
Swelling of the whole body, 1.* [820.]
Spreading, inflammatory swelling (humble-bee), 24.
Inflammatory swelling till death, 1.
Painful, red swelling, 1.
*Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissues, ending in their destruction, 1.
Swelling and an erysipelatous redness, 1.*
Sharp pain and erysipelatous swelling, very hard and white in the middle, 1.*
From 1 to 4, mornings, tension and swelling in the face and lips, 18.
Hand, arm, face, and head, swell considerably (after a sting in the middle finger), (wasp), 1.
Face, neck, breast, and limbs considerably swollen, 1.
Swelling of the whole left side of the body (side of the sting, in the testicle), first in the joints, 1. [830.]
Blotches on the body, and on the back of the hand, with stinging as of nettles, 3.
Body covered with large wales, size of a silver half dollar, slightly elevated and white*

(C. C. C.), 1

The whole body covered with red spots, as if scalded, with burning and sticking (after a sting in the neck), 1.
Red and white blotches over the body and extremities like nettlerash, 1*

, (A. R. M.)

Red place near the sting, with swelling on the stung spot, and red stripes along the fingers and the arms, 1.
Erysipelatous redness of the toes, 2 ; and the feet, 15.
Redness of the stung spot; not till later, when the attacks were improving, 1.
Red lines along the lymphatic vessels, from a sting in the middle finger and the arm (wasp), 1.
Over the whole body, the most violent inflammation and excessive pressure when rubbing; covered with small white spots, resembling mosquito-bites, 1.
Large, florid blotches appeared upon the skin, resembling erysipelas. This lasted for something over an hour, but was essentially relieved by a solution of borax, 1

, (S. D.). [840.]

Rash; red blotches, with great sensitiveness of the skin to contact. This sensitiveness extended all over the body, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Spots of the size of a dollar swell up, without changing the color of the skin, and become uncommonly sensitive to the touch, as if sore ( θ and 1st), 2.
Sudden, indescribable sensation over the whole body, with a stinging feeling; red and white spots on the palms, on the arms and feet, 1.
Her whole body was covered with thickly swelled wales, without itching or burning; whereupon other symptoms disappeared, 1.
Light-red, raised, hard swelling of the sting, and a chilly sensation around it (wasp), 1.
Elevations on the skin, as after the bite of insects, painfully sore, sensitive to touch, 2.*
Small elevations on the skin, as after the bites of ants, appear at the extreme end, over the left eyebrow, pain as if sore, and are very sensitive to pressure (third day), 2.
In a few minutes after the cessation of the spasms, there appeared all over her body and limbs, and even on her ears, a red eruption; some of the elevations in circumference the size of a pea, but generally like millet-seed. This eruption continued visible for an hour, and was very itchy while passing away, 1

, (J. P. D.)

With swelling of the face, and the whole body, he is covered with a kind of urticaria, that is somewhat paler than the usual color of the skin, 1.
Itching and appearance of blotches, like nettlerash, after scratching, 1*

, (B.). [850.]

Eruption, like nettlerash, over the whole body, with burning and itching (second day, after 30th dil.), 3.*
Nettlerash over the whole body, and lessening of the previous symptoms, 1.*
Nettlerash after fever, 1.*
Very soon, a dense nettlerash over the whole body, that itched very much, and disappeared after a good sleep, 1.
Nettlerash (appeared a week after the sting; the symptoms had disappeared), 1

, (C. C. C)

Sensitive pimples, (B.).
Red pimply eruption, covering the entire body, but more evident and thicker upon his chest and back than upon his face and limbs, 1

, (E. U. J.)

Tetter on the lobe of the ear, 12.
Eruption around the lips, 2.
Inflammation, violent pains, and gangrene, 1. [860.]
Pain of the sting seemed to penetrate deeply, and as if a hook were being drawn out there (wasp), 1.
Violent sensation of burning like fire, in the seat of the sting (wasp), 1.
Sensation of burning heat and stinging, in various portions of the surface of the body, at the same time, 4.*
Vivid, stinging pain, swelling and inflammation, 1.
Over the whole body, from head to foot, as if he were being stung by insects, so that it prevented him from sleeping all night, 20.
Stinging, prickling, burning, smarting, itching sensation, all over the skin, 1

, (E. E. M.)

Stitch, as from an insect, and then swelling, 18.
Throbbing in the swelling, 1.
Prickling over the whole body , externally and internally, 1.
Prickling all over the body , most on the back and palms of the hands, the face, forehead, and under the eyes; chiefly in circumscribed points (directly after taking the 6th dil.), 2, 5. [870.]
Prickling over the whole body, as after the sting (lasting one to two weeks, returning after every exertion), 1.
Intense burning itching all over his body , so severe that he retired to his room, and rubbed himself vigorously with his flesh brush (almost immediately), 1

, (E. U. J.)

Burning itching in several places, 9.*
Burning itching places, here and there, especially on the back (second day), 9.
Itching pricking in the skin in different parts of the body , more on the lower extremities, and continued through the day (first day), 3.*
In evening, an intolerable itching, attended with a burning, fiery sensation, commencing in the arms, and finally spreading over the whole surface of the body, reaching to the feet, 1

, (S. D.)

Itching over the whole body (humble-bee), 24.
The most violent itching, like pricking with needles, so that his whole body had to be rubbed with cloths, 1.
Itching over various parts, especially on head and fingers (humble-bee), 24.
Itching on the head, 11 ; on the forehead and face, 2 ; about the eye, 2 ; and about the eyebrows, 15 ; the lids, 2, 3, 6, 15. [880.]
In the canthi, 2, 15 ; in the eye, 2 ; on the nose, 12 ; on the back, 2; on the hands, 1, 2, 11 ; the palms, 11 ; fingers, 24 ; on the thighs, 11 ; the knees, 9 ; the lower limbs, 3.
Violent itching of the tensively swelled scrotum, 1.
Itching of eruptions, 2 ; the bunches on the joints, 1.
Stinging itching on the posterior surface of the right thigh, like flea-bites; directly after, the same on the right arm; better after scratching, afternoon, 11.
Itching of the feet, 12.
The itching is relieved by friction, 1

, (E. U. J)

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Inclination to yawn, 6 ; mornings (fourth or fifth day), 11.
Must yawn much, and is often sleepy; she feels the least interruption of her morning sleep all day (third and fourth week), 11.
Yawning, chilliness, headache, 11.
Yawning in uterine hemorrhage, 2. [890.]
Much yawning after rising in the morning, although she had slept long enough (second day), 11.
Great inclination to sleep ; still he walks a tenth of a mile, 1.
*Great desire to sleep, amounting to most extreme sleepiness, 13.
Desire for rest and sleep, but they compelled him to move about (wasp), 1.
When the other symptoms diminished again, the prostration, with great desire to sleep, remained, 13.
Very sleepy, early in the evening (second day), 9.*
Sleepiness, prostration , and vomiting of bile, 13.
Very drowsy mornings; will not rise; back as if beaten; must extend and stretch himself; is confused in the head (second day), 12.
She fell asleep while sitting, evenings, and started several times at a noise (after one hour), 12.
They sleep very long, mornings , for several weeks (with many), (C. Hg.). [900.]
Too much sleep (from second to third day), 11.
Frequent waking during the night, 1, 3 ; to pass urine, 1, 23.
Awaking four times from sleep at night, with great thirst for cold water, 13.
Anxious starting in sleep , with some cough, 12.*
Sleeplessness, 1.
Was kept awake and restless during the whole night, by loose, urgent stools, 1

, (E. E. M.)

Nervous restlessness all night, that prevents sleep, 2.
Nervous restlessness, especially during the latter half of the night, 15.
Fidgety restlessness in the latter part of the night (third day, 2d dilution), 2.
Very restless sleep; inclination to frequent awaking during the night, and incessant dreaming, 1. [910.]
Has not the least enjoyment from sleep, it seems to him as if his brain had no rest at all, either day or night, 15.
A burning pain under the left ribs at night, preventing sleep, 17.
Stitches in the skin, preventing sleep, as if from in sects, 20.
Awakes from tension in the face at night, 18.
Boring in the temples when awaking, 3 ; pressive pain, 2.
The symptoms of the sting improve after sleep, 1.
Night-sleep full of dreams (third day); still the same, mostly of travelling (eleventh day), 2d dilution, 2, 5 ; repeated at every proving, 2.
Sensation as of movement from place to place, mostly travelling by railroad, 3.
Dreams mostly of journeys, 2 ; long distances, 11.
Often dreams of flying far through the air, 15. [920.]
Dream that he made journeys in great leaps through the air, like a bird, 1.
Feels like a bird in the air; takes great leaps in his dreams, 1.
Plagues himself in dreams all night, with a flying apparatus; tries to arrange the wings, which, however, will not work, 15.
Dreams of a great, hot stove; was obliged to walk over a hot floor; also, on dirty, wet roads for a very long distance; them he came to a dinner-table where many people were assembled (first day), 11.
Frequent waking first night, and dreams, with vexatious care about various kinds of business, 3.
Dreams of a tormenting, active kind, full of care and toil, 15.
Dreams of many people who are quarrelling; one among them, who becomes nearly beside himself, he leads from the room by the arm, whereby he is calmed (humble-bee), .

FEVER. [930.]

Strange, inward trembling feeling, as after a sickness, with a kind of shudder, without coldness or shivering; down the back, morning; more in the upper half, afternoons, 3 to 5 o'clock (after seven to nine hours), 9.
When she was put to bed at noon she was seized by a violent chill, although it was a warm summer day, during which the face remained red, and the body covered with large, red spots, 1.
Chill, with shivering, accompanied by a terrible, racking pain all through the head, with increased prostration, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Chilliness all over; unwell feeling, so that he is obliged to lie down, 1.
Chilliness while sitting still, caused previously by a slight movement, with heat in the face, and headache, evenings (second day), 11.
Occasional feeling of chilliness, 6.
Slight chilliness, soon passing off, followed by fever at night, 6.
Frequent chilliness, and hot hands in the fourth week, 11.
Chilliness evenings, with yawning and headache, and tip of nose cold (fourth week), 11.
Chilliness, cold limbs, and nausea, 1. [940.]
Chilliness, with toothache, 1.
General creeping, chills, repeated at short intervals; something moved over him, rolling like waves (wasp), 1.
Sudden chills, then heat and perspiration, 1.
Shaking chills after thirty-six hours of heat, 17.
Chill, with cold fingers, especially those of the left hand (evenings, third day), 11.
Chilly every afternoon at 3 o'clock; she shudders, worse in warmth; the chills run down the back; hands feel as if dead; feverishly hot after about an hour, with a hoarse cough; heat of the cheeks and hands, without thirst; ceases gradually, but she feels heavy and prostrate, 10.*
Sensation of cold, without coldness of the skin, with ague, 17.
Shudders, and diarrhœa, 1.
Coldness of the limbs, 1.
Shuddering, and then nettlerash, 1. [950.]
Cold feet and burning cheeks, 10.
Cold feet, with burning toes, 5.
Fever, 1.
Violent fever, 1.
Hot and burning sensation, and oppressive feeling all over; for several days, 1

, (E. E. M.)

Sensation of heat and stinging over whole body (C. C. C.), 1.
Sensation of heat through the whole body, without external sensation of heat; the trembling feeling, as formerly; pulse 88; after several minutes she grows dizzy while standing, and as if about to faint; is compelled to sit; turns very pale, and feels nausea to vomiting; after lying down on the sofa she fell asleep; anxious starting in sleep, with some cough; turns on the other side, and sleeps quietly (evenings, soon after repeated doses, second day), 12.
Feverish, trembling, with pain in the abdomen, 12.
Fever and nettlerash after a sting in the hand, 1.
General sensation of heat, worse in the chest and stomach (first day), 3. [960.]
Heat, with headache, 6.
Heat when breathing rapidly, 5.
Heat at night, with agitation (first night), 3.
Hot flushes, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Heat, 6.
Heat in the face and chilliness, evenings, 11.
Heat and difficult breathing, 5.
Burning of the skin of the hands, 2.
Heat on circumscribed spots on the foot, 2.
The heat of the room is intolerable, 15. [970.]
Burning of the feet, 3.
Heat after chilliness, evenings, 10.
Heat at night, after chilliness, 6.
Flushes of heat mixed with chills, 1

, (A. R. M.)

Fever-heat increasing for thirty-six hours, then a violent shivering chill, at 5 o'clock in the morning, during which she felt very cold herself, but not so to others, 17.
As if perspiration would break out, 4.
Perspiration breaks out occasionally, 6.
Perspiration broke out, so that it penetrated the clothing, 1.
Perspiration now and then, with headache and heat, 6.
Perspiration after trembling and fainting, then a nettlerash, 1.* [980.]
Dry skin alternating with perspiration, 6.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), 5 o'clock, ague; boring in temples, when awaking; pressive pain; headache when rising; pain in forehead; lachrymation; adhering lids; sticking in the right lower lid; swelling of the eyes; blowing blood from the nose; dry palate; mucus in the mouth ; hawking mucus; accumulation of mucus and hawking; pain in the throat; burning in chest and stomach; sensation of soreness in the abdomen; pain in the abdomen; after rising, pain in the abdomen and urging to stool; urging to stool and pain; stool; soft stool; diarrhœa ; hoarse; when rising, pain in nape of neck; crawling on the knee; drowsy; yawning; heat.
( Forenoon ), Sad; increased headache; dark before eyes; pains in the eyes; burning in mouth and thirst; pain from the hip toward the navel; piercing in the chest; pressure on the chest.
( From mornings till 3 P.M .), Headache.
( Afternoon ), When stooping, dark before eyes; increased headache; 4 o'clock, sudden coryza; kind of chill in the back; *3 to 4 o'clock, chilly ; itching; itching of the head.
( Evening ), Vertigo, when standing; dizzy and weak; vertigo and headache ; headache; piercing in the temples; piercing in the eyes and weakness; pain in the eyes, when sewing ; lachrymation; cold nose; coryza worse; chapping of the lower lip; toothache ; dry under the tongue; pain in the abdomen; pain in the ovaries; hoarseness, beginning; cough ; chapping of the hands; feet swollen; faint; sleepy; sleepy and startled; increased aversion to cold; chilliness ; chilliness and cold fingers; sensation of heat.
( Night ), Quivering and twitching of the eyes, worse left; adhesion of the eyes; secretion of mucus from the eyes in bed; aversion and nausea; disgust, inclination to vomit and feeling of diarrhœa; short breath; sharp pains in chest; stitches through chest and back; stitches in the chest and back; heat.
( Before midnight ), Cough, that awakes.
( Latter part of night ), Restless.
( During day ), Frequent urinating.
( ), Frequent urinating.

SUPPLEMENT: APIS. Authorities.

25 , Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xiii, 1817, p. 130, James G., aged thirty-nine, was stung by a bee on the middle finger of the left hand; 26 , Drs. Bell and Ritchie, Am. Journ. of Med. Sci., vol. xix, 1836, p. 266, a man, aged twenty-six years, was stung by a bee on the under side of tip of the nose; 27 , Dr. Krieg, Caspar's Woch. (Lancet, 1842-3 (2), p. 654), a man, aged sixty years, was stung in the centre of the cornea by a bee; 28 , G. H. Spalsbury, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. liii, 1855, p. 285, Mrs. H. was stung by a honey-bee on the left forefinger (she had ulcers in her mouth produced by kreasote); 29 , Dr. N. Nivison, N. Y. Med. Journ., 1857, p. 339, a farmer, aged fifty years, was stung by a bee on the side of the neck, death on the sixth day; 30 , C. Hanbury, Jr., Med. Times and Gaz., 1860, p; 233, Mr. J. was stung behind the ear; 31 , M. Monquin-tandou, ibid., quotes the case of a man, aged thirty-six years, who was stung on the back of the right hand by three or four bees; 32 , John Ewens, Med. Times and Gaz., 1860 (2), p. 359, a man was stung by a common bee below the right ear; 33 , same, Lancet, 1872 (2), p. 437, an elderly lady was stung; 34 , E. W. South, M.D., Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. vi, 1873, p; 18, a man, aged thirty-five years, was stung twenty-seven times by bees; 35 , H. King, M.D., Ohio Med. and Surg. Rep., vol. vii, 1873, p. 285, Mr. W. S. aged fifty years, was stung on the back of his hand; 36 , Dr. James Kitchen, Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. vi, 1873, p; 249, a farmer was stung in nine places by honey-bees; 37 , George Walker, Lancet, 1874 (2), p. 833, the writer was stung on the forearm by a bee; 38 , Bull. de la Soc. Méd. de la Suisse Romande, 1874, No. 8 (Hahn. Month., vol. xi, p. 506 1876), a boy, aged eighteen years, was stung in the middle of the right palm; 39 , E. W. Berridge, Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. ix, 1876, p. 246, Miss ---, was stung by a bee on the forehead; 40 , Dr. Tinker, copied from MSS., Mrs. A., aged forty years, not pregnant, for abdominal enlargement and cessation of menses, took 15 drops tincture, and repeated the dose after three hours.

The conjunctiva was greatly hypertrophied, and the cornea covered with a dense opaque layer of membrane. There was every reason to believe that the internal structures also, fully participated in the diseased process. On closely examining the eye a dark and slightly prominent spot was discovered in the centre of the cornea, around which much vascular injection was perceptible, and from this spot was extracted a long filiform body, the sting. The inflammation soon began to subside, but some striking results became permanent in consequence of the injury. The tint of the iris had changed from its natural grayish blue to a perfect blue, the pupil remained dilated and immovable on the stimulus of the light, and the patient, who before the accident was obliged to use convex glasses, now required one concave, being nearsighted on the left side, 27.
Very soon after, he became faint and began to vomit, which was repeated nine times, his bowels also were relaxed, though he did not mention how many times, 36.
Shortly after attacked by sharp crampy pains in the stomach and abdomen, followed presently by severe vomiting and diarrhœa, which lasted at intervals for about two hours, and which simulated closely an attack of cholera morbus, 34.
Nausea, followed by profuse vomiting (second day); breathing oppressed and sighing (third day); diarrhœa; countenance skrunken, wan, and anxious; pulse reduced in force and volume; tongue covered with a dirty white fur, pale, soft and flabby (fourth day); sleeplessness; great restlessness and jactitation, 29.
Vomiting; slight spasm or convulsion; pulseless and breathless; lips livid; mouth open; eyelids closed, pupils insensible to light; skin cold and clammy. System very much relaxed, urine passed involuntarily. On the skin of the extremities, small purple spots, about three or four lines in diameter, nails on fingers and toes purple, and skin on feet the same, 30.
Soon after the sting there was faintness, vomiting, and purging, followed by prolonged fainting and low pulse, with repeated rigors and profuse sweating. On another occasion there was a severe attack of asthma in addition to the other symptoms, 25.
He was instantly affected with an indescribable sensation over his whole body, with a prickly feeling, and white and red spots in the palms of his hands, and on his arms and feet. Tears at the same time involuntarily flowed, the nose and face swelled, accompanied with hoarseness, loss of taste, oppression at the pit of the stomach, and difficulty of breathing. On his way home, which was distant about half a mile, he felt a great disposition to sleep, with increased difficulty of respiration, and by the time he reached his house, his face, throat, breast, and limbs were considerably swelled, with an increase of the other symptoms. He was soon seized with chilliness, cold extremities, and nausea, .