Bufo

Rana Bufo, L.

Nat. order , Bufonidæ, of the Batrachian family of vertebrate animals.

Common names , Toads; (German) Die Kröte; (French) Le Crapaud commun.

Preparation , Trituration of the poison from the cutaneous glands, obtained by irritating the animal.

Authorities.

1 , Desterne, Journ. d. l. Soc. Gal., 2d series, 4, 289 (symptoms without reference to cause or time); 2 , Aëtius, "De nox. animal. morsu," effects of bite, from Desterne's compilation; 3 , Sennert, "La Méd. du Prophète," effects of eating toads (ibid.); 4 , Ambroise Paré, "De la Morsure du Crapaud," xxxi, 773, effects of taking the poison in wine (ibid.); 5 , J. L. Hannemann, effects of venom applied to the sound skin (ibid.); 6 , Standigelius, "De la crainte," etc., effects of venom spirted into the eye; of bathing in water taken from a pool frequented by toads (ibid.); 7 , Schelammer, effects of momentarily introducing a toad into the mouth, without touching (ibid.); 8 , Paullinus, "Ephemerides," effects of toads taken into the stomach, by eating the spawn on herbs, also effects of the venom injected into the eye, also effects of the bite, also effects of an infusion of roasted toads powdered (ibid.); 9 , Brandelius, effects of a toad jumping into the mouth and entering the stomach during sleep (ibid.); 10 , Schrœckius, effects of swallowing the ovules of a toad in muddy water (ibid.); 11 , Gavini, Correspondence Scientif., effects of venom injected into the eye; 12 , Houat, Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd., I, p. 41; 13 , Archive (Homœop.), 14, 2, 102, effects of repeated doses of the 30th potency of the venom; 14 , Struvius (from Desterne), effects of a live toad in the stomach; 15 , Hencke, A. H. Z., Mon. Bl., 1, p. 18, effects of 30 drops (of the tincture?).

MIND

• Emotions.
• Constant feeling of intoxication, 12.
• After eating he is always as if intoxicated, 12.
• Paroxysms of fury, which cease as soon as he sees any one, 12.
• Propensity to bite, 11.
• The child runs like mad, 11.
• Inclination to get drunk, and he takes pleasure in being intoxicated, 12.
• Desires solitude, and yet is afraid of being left alone and dying forsaken, 12.
• Aversion to strangers, 12.
• Dislike to conversation, 12. [10.]
• Howling, constant crying, 11.
• Sadness, full of restlessness and apprehension, 12.
• He is anxious about the state of his health; is afraid he will die or that some other misfortune will happen to him, 12.
• Excessive anguish, 12.
• Very easily frightened; a bird or insect flying by causes a start, 12.
• Fear of animals, 12.
• Fear of catching diseases, 12.
• Very sensitive disposition, 12.
• Choleric disposition, 1.
• Nervousness; excessive irritability, 1. [20.]
• Irritable, impatient humor, 1.
• He is irritated and weeps about the merest trifle, 12.
• He is irritable, anxious about his state of health, with great dread of death, 12.
• Impatience and ill-humor, 12.
• Ill-humor when going to sleep at night, and on waking, in the morning, 12.
• Defiance, duplicity, spitefulness, 12.
• Anger, with desire to strike and destroy, 12.
• Alternate complaining and crying in the case of a child, 11.
• Varying mood; taciturn, hypochondriac, 12.
• Apathy sort of stupidity, with regular pulse, 11.
• Intellect. [30.]

HEAD

• Vertigo and General Sensations. [40.]
• Vertigo, 3, 4.
• Vertigo with tottering, so that he requires support, 12.
• Dizziness; the head is as if carried along by the motion of waltzing, 1.
• Dizziness, especially in the morning, with weakness, as after losing blood, 1.
• The dizziness appears only in the morning, three or four times, especially after a meal, 1.
• Constant shaking of the head and arms, 11.
• Numbness of the head, with sensation of intoxication and great somnolence, 12.
• Heavy, stupefying headache, with sensation as if the scalp and ears were burned by an acid, 12.
• Heaviness and weight of the head, so that he has to support it, 12.
• Heaviness of the head, 6. [50.]
• Pains in the head, extending to the maxillary sinuses, 12.
• Neuralgic pains running through the whole head, and affecting the eyes and nape of the neck, 12.
• Headache with vertigo, trembling of the whole body, dimness of sight, eructation, nausea, and vomiting, 12.
• *Great heat in the interior of the head, with sensation as if the brain were boiling, 12.
• Sanguineous congestion, with deepseated pains in the brain, 12.
• Sensation as if the cranial bones were separated, 12.
• Pressive and contractive pains in the interior of the head, 12.
• Pressive and throbbing pains in the head, with frontal heaviness, 12.
• Sensation of a great weight on the head, with lancinating pains in the sinciput and eyes, 12.
• Stitches and prickings in the brain, 12. [60.]
• Sensation of shaking, as if a heavy ball was in the head, 12.
• Hammering pains from the eyebrows to the cerebellum, 12.
• Hammering sensation in different parts of the head, with commotion of the whole brain, 12.
• Throbbing and lancinating pains, as if there were an abscess in the head, 12.

EYES. [100.]

• Frightful and squinting look, 4.
• The eye is somewhat bloodshot from the penetration of the venom, 11.
• Inflammation of the eyes and lids, 12.
• Sensation as from cold water on the eyes, 12.
• Spasmodic pains in the eye, 11.
• Drawing in the eyes, with dimness of vision, 12.
• Pressive and crampy pains in the eyes, with dazzling and vertigo, 12.
• Lancinating and drawing pains in the eyes, 12.
• Lancinating and beating pains in the eye, which had been poisoned by the venom, 8.
• Sensation as if the eyes were full of sand, 12. [110.]
• Directly after the poison has been cast into the eye itching, redness, swelling, dimness of vision; very painful lancinating pains; stinging; there last two symptoms last a long time, 6.
• A whitish-looking crust over the brows, 13.
• Ulceration of the lids, 12.
• Large scabs on the eyelids, 12.
• Swollen and burning eyelids, 12.
• The eyes open more widely, 6.
• Inability to keep the eyelids open, 11.
• Continual winking, 12.
• Convulsive beating of the eyelids, 12.
• The eyelashes fall out, 12. [120.]
• Burning pains at the corners of the eyes, with ulceration and suppuration of these parts, 12.
• Considerable lachrymation, 12.
• Ulcers on the cornea, 12.
• Pupil with red and white reflections, 12.
• Pupil dilated and apparently vacillating, 12.
• The sight, previously at times weak and disturbed, becomes excellent, and this condition lasts ten months, 1.
• Myopia, 12.
• Presbyopia, 12.
• Dimness of vision, 3, 8.
• Loss of sight, 4. [130.]

EARS

• Ears swollen and scabby, 12.
• Inflammatory swelling of the ears and parotids, 12.
• Warty excrescences on the ears, 12.
• Desquamation, ulceration, suppuration, and bleeding of the concha of the ears, 12.
• Ulcers and abscesses in the ears, 12. [140.]
• Herpetic eruption behind the ears, with intolerable itching, 12.
• Purulent discharge from the ears, 12.
• Sensation of burning heat in the ears, 12.
• Distensive pains in the ears, as if an animal was trying to force its way out, 12.
• Feeling as if the auditory canal were stopped up by concretions, 12.
• Crampy pains in the interior of the ears, 12.
• Stitches and digging in the ears, as from a foreign body in them, 12.
• Pulsative pains in the right ear, with a sensation as if there was hot vapor in it, 12.
• Pressing on the submaxillary glands relieves the internal pains of the ears, 12.
• Very sensitive hearing, 12. [150.]
• The least noise annoys him; even music is unbearable, 12.
• Attacks of deafness, 12.
• Hardness of hearing; he hears, and especially understands words, with great difficulty, 12.
• Crackling, roaring, and tingling in the ears, 12.
• The symptoms of the ears often coincide with those of the eyes and of the head, 12.
• The contact of water aggravates all the ear symptoms, 12.

NOSE

• Nose swollen, red, and covered with pustules, 12.
• After coryza, crusts in the nose, 1.
• Liability to cold in the head, 12.
• Stoppage of the nose, with sensation as if it were clogged up, 12. [160.]
• A great deal of sneezing in the evening, on going to bed, 1.
• Frequent sneezing in the evening; obstruction, with heaviness in the head and eyelids, 1.
• He blows clear water from the nose, 1.
• Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, 12.
• Coryza, with great dryness of the nose, 12.
• Coryza in the morning, with sneezing three or four times in succession, 1.
• The secretion from the coryza has a bad smell, 1.
• The coryza ceases after a sweat, in the morning, in bed, 1.
• Considerable mucous secretion, which is dry or soft, and extremely fetid, 1.
• The secretion of mucus, of an exceedingly offensive smell, continues for twelve days, 1. [170.]
• Discharge of yellowish, greenish, and grayish mucus, of a putrid odor, especially in the evening and after being in the open air, 12.
• Blowing of blood from the nose, 1.
• Epistaxis, 1.
• Epistaxis, principally morning and evening, 12.
• He bleeds from the nose nearly to fainting, 12.
• Heat and great itching in the nostrils; constant desire to bore in the nose, 12.
• Burning in the nostrils, 1.
• Burning, lancinating pains in the nose, extending to the forehead, 12.
• The cold air, when breathed, seems to corrode the nostrils, 12.
• Ulcerated nostrils, as if burnt, 12. [180.]
• Throbbing and gnawing pains in the nasal bones, 12.
• Strong odors are annoying, especially that of tobacco, 12.
• Loss of smell, 12.

FACE

• Altered expression, 11.
• Thin, bony face, with large eyes, red, or sunken, and with circles round them, 12.
• Face pale, yellow, or gray, 12.
• Face in places white and pale, or red and gray, 12.
• Face every now and then flushed with heat, 1.
• After an attack of dizziness the face becomes flushed, the heart feels compressed, the chest seems squeezed in a vice, 1.
• Red face, as after a vapor-bath, 12. [190.]
• Inflammation and puffiness of the face; the eyes appear lost in their orbits, 12.
• Inflammation, swelling, and caries of the facial bones, 12.
• Lancinating pains in the face, with bruised sensation in the bones, 12.
• Throbbing and heat of the face, as from being too near the fire, 12.
• Water and dampness are very disagreeable to the face, and cause pricking, 12.
• Very painful cramps felt from the head to the cheeks, and vice versâ, 12.
• Swollen, thick, hanging lips, 12.
• Lips contracted, dry, chapped, bleeding, very painful, 12.

MOUTH

• Teeth and Gums.
• The teeth decay and break easily, 12.
• The teeth fall out, 3. [200.]
• The teeth feel long and loose, 12.
• The teeth seem to sink into the gums when eating, 12.
• Toothache, especially in the evening and at night, 12.
• Boring pains in the teeth, 1.
• Pulling pains in the teeth, with contraction of the jaw and compression of the teeth, 12.
• Lancinating, boring, and digging pains in the teeth, excited by cold air, change of temperature, and movement, 12.
• Swollen gums, bleeding very easily, 12.
• Hard swelling of the gum, with pain as if forcing out the back, teeth, which seemed too long, with increased secretion of saliva at night; the symptoms prevented sleep; laying the arm hard on the cheek prevented the pain for a short time (after fifty-three days), 15.
• Inflammation, abscess, and ulcers of the gums, 12.
• Pains as if the gums were burned, 1. [210.]
• Tongue covered with a loose, pasty, yellowish coat, 15.
• Black tongue, 4.
• Tongue cracked, and often of a bluish color, 12.
• Tongue thick, hard, and full of small burning pimples, 12.
• Large pimples like abscesses under the tongue, with great difficulty in eating, 12.
• Tongue difficult to move, 13.
• Easy biting of the tongue, which bleeds readily, 12.
• Desire to drink and moisten the tongue, although it is covered with saliva, 12.
• Mouth in General and Saliva.
• Cracks and exfoliation of the walls of the cheeks, 12.
• Erysipelatous inflammation of the entire mouth, 12. [220.]
• The mouth smells offensively, 23.
• Very bad-smelling breath, especially in the morning, 12.
• Pain in the palate and in the right margin of the tongue, with complete aversion to tobacco, .

THROAT

• Inflammation and swelling of the throat and tonsils, 12.
• Convulsive movements and constriction of the throat, with sensation as if there was a stone there, 12.
• Something seems to come down from the head into the throat, 1.
• Mucus descends from the nasal fossæ into the throat, 1.
• Accumulation of much viscid mucus in the throat, with constant taste of blood, 12.
• Constant inclination to hawk, 12.
• Dryness of the throat in the morning, 1.
• Raw feeling and lancinating pains in the throat, 12.
• The air, in passing through the throat, seems impregnated with a corrosive acid, 12. [250.]
• Throbbing pains, as from an abscess, in the tonsils, 12.
• Inflammation and dryness of the pharynx and œsophagus, 8.
• Difficult and painful deglutition; he can hardly swallow his saliva, 12.
• Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands of the right side, 15.

STOMACH

• Appetite and Thirst.
• Excellent appetite, 1.
• Violent hunger, even after eating, especially in the evening, 12.
• In the morning after breakfast, often feels hungry, as if he had eaten nothing, 12.
• Would like to be in the country and eat pot-herbs, 12.
• Desire for pastry and dainties, 1.
• Desire for confectionery and acid fruits, 12. [260.]
• Fastidious in eating, 12.
• Dislike to salted or hot food, 12.
• Loss of appetite, with thirst, 12.
• Aversion to food and drinks, 11.
• Loathing of food, 1.
• Irregular appetite, which ceases after the first mouthful, 1.
• Slight thirst during a meal, while the cough continues, 1.
• Urgent thirst for cold sugared water, 1.
• Eructations, Hiccough, Nausea, and Vomiting.
• Incessant eructations, evening and morning, 12.
• Eructations tasting sour, bitter, or nauseous, 12. [270.]
• Eructations tasting like spoiled eggs for three or four hours, after eating fresh bread and pastry, 1.
• Sugar-water and milk cause eructations and nausea, 12.
• Fetid risings, 8.
• Risings during the day, with some acidity, 1.
• Regurgitation and heartburn after every meal, 12.
• Hiccough, 2, 8.
• Frequent hiccough, 12.
• Phlegm, followed, especially in the morning, by bitter, bilious vomiting, 12.
• Abundant phlegm, which rises, especially in the afternoon, and seems to afford relief, 12.
• Nausea for five minutes, half an hour, or an hour after a meal, three or four times, on different days, 1. [280.]
• Nausea, with weight and pressure in the epigastric region, 12.

ABDOMEN. [310.]

• Burning and contraction in the hepatic region, 12.
• Cramps in the liver, which force him to writhe and to cry out, 12.
• Digging and gnawing sensation, with neuralgic pains at the liver and stomach, especially at night, 12.
• Throbbing pains, with sensation of swelling and tearing at the liver, 12.
• Beating and lancinating pains in the liver, as from an abscess, and accompanied with bilious vomiting, 12.
• Every movement of the body aggravates the pains in the liver, 12.
• Inflammation and swelling of the spleen, with pressive and lancinating pains, ineffectual urging to stool, constipation, and disposition to be frightened, 12.
• Inflammation of the bowels, with distensive pains, inflated abdomen, colic, and diarrhœa, 12.
• Enlarged and hard abdomen, 12.
• Inflation of the abdomen, with heat and lancinations, especially on the left side, 12. [320.]
• Encysted tumors of the mesentery, 12.
• Flatulence, 1.
• Fetid flatulence, 1.
• Flatulence and eructations for ten days, especially after a meal, 1.
• Copious emission of flatulence in the morning, preceded by borborygmi, with empty feeling in the stomach, 1.
• Sensations as if cold balls were running all through the intestinal canal, 12.
• Burning in the bowels, as from an eruption, 12.
• Tensive pains, with extreme weariness at the abdomen, extending into the hypochondria, 12.
• Daily pain in the abdomen, on the fortieth day after taking the medicine, after the ulcers on the finger and tibia had healed, especially in the morning and after drinking milk, and also from smoking tobacco; it was not very violent, but a very troublesome, digging-cutting pain (so that he thought of being poisoned), 15.
• Cramps in the bowels, which seem twisted and knotted up, 12. [330.]
• Colic in the daytime, four or five hours after a meal, with borborygmi, at various intervals and lasting several hours, 1.
• Violent colic, with convulsive movements of the limbs and jaws, 12.
• Lancinating colic, so violent as nearly to cause fainting, with burning thirst, cold sweat in the hair, followed by four stools, increasingly liquid, .

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Prolapsus recti, even between stools, 12.
• Erysipelatous swelling of the anus, 12.
• Blind hæmorrhoids, with great pain, 12.
• Hæmorrhoids, with discharge of blood, and sometimes of purulent matter, 12.
• Frequent protrusion of very painful hæmorrhoidal knobs, 12.
• Reappearance of hæmorrhoids, with loss of clear red blood and a feeling of comfort, in the case of a female disposed to piles, 1.
• In consequence of straining at stool there escapes from the hæmorrhoidal tumor a jet of blood, the quantity of which may perhaps be estimated at 150 grammes; after this trifling hæmorrhage sense of fatigue, 1.
• Itching and burning at the anus, 12.

STOOL. [350.]

• Stool every two days, 1.
• Frequent urging to stool for three or four days, but resulting in only one very scanty evacuation daily. To this state succeeds, for three or four days, four daily stools, accompanied with colic and flatulence, 1.
• Five stools in one day, 1.
• Several daily stools, 12.
• Two stools in the day, which are yellowish, soft, but consistent, 1.
• Stools at night, towards two or three o'clock, A.M., 1.
• Diarrhœa, often accompanied with inclination to vomit, 12.
• Watery diarrhœa, with copious urination and canine hunger, 12.
• Dysentery, 8.
• Diarrhœic stools, with tenesmus and heaviness, 12. [360.]
• Diarrhœic stools, sometimes involuntary, with burning in the abdomen, and especially in the rectum, 12.
• Whitish stools, as in icterus, 9.
• Yellowish, liquid stools, 1.
• Yellow diarrhœic stools mixed with dark substances, 12.
• Brown stools, of a very bad smell, 12.
• Bloody diarrhœic stools, sometimes followed by very liquid whitish stools, 12.
• Hard, difficult stools, 12.
• Stool sometimes hard, sometimes soft, sometimes both together, 15.
• Thin stools, 11.
• Semi-liquid stools after a meal, for three days; one or two daily, morning and evening, without colic; followed three or four days after by an obstinate hæmorrhoidal tumor, the size of a filbert, and situated outside the margin of the anus; the appearance of this tumor is preceded by smarting, three or four days before, 1. [370.]
• Lumbrici in the child's stools, 11.
• Ascarides and lumbrici, 12.
• Constipation; frequent ineffectual urging to stool, 12.
• Suppression of stools; the whole body is cold, while the head is burning hot, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Sensation as if the neck of the bladder were obstructed by polypi, 12.
• The bladder feels swollen, with constant desire to urinate, 12.
• Soft concretions in the kidneys and bladder, 12.
• Nephritic colic, 12.
• After every urination, painful stitches in the kidneys and bladder; weakness and depression, 12.
• Pulsative and lancinating pains in the kidneys, often with hæmaturia, 12. [380.]
• Ulcers in the urethra, 12.
• Profuse discharge of yellow and gray mucus from the urethra, with painful weariness and weakness in all the lower portion of the body, 12.
• Cutting pains, as from a knife, all along the urethra, with inclination to apply the hand there, 12.
• Great smarting in the urethra, especially after urinating, 12.
• Too frequent urination, 12.
• Urine frequent and copious, of a normal color, 11.
• Clear urine with liquid stools, 1.
• Whitish urine, with chalky sediment, 12.
• Red urine, 1.
• Urine brown, smelling strong, like fish-brine, 15. [390.]
• Urine full of glairy mucus, 12.
• Scanty urine, of a yellow-ochre color, with yellowish sediment, coincident with some pains in the loins; after the pains in the loins, the urine is clearer and very abundant; micturition four times in a night, 1.
• Urine scanty, thick, yellowish, depositing a sediment, and diffusing a strong ammoniacal smell, during constipation, 1.
• Turbid and grayish urine, 12.
• Suppression of urine, 14.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• He applies the hands to the genital parts, 11.
• The least motion aggravates the pains in the genitals, 12.
• Penis swollen, red, and burning, 12.
• Hardly any erection, 12.
• Obstinate impotence, 12. [400.]
• Impotence all night, in the case of a man thirty-two years old, 1.
• Burning pains in the prepuce, 12.
• Pimples of a tuberculous appearance at the scrotum, 12.
• Inflammation of the testicles, with sensation as if a tumor were forming there, 12.
• Atrophy or hypertrophy of the testicles, 12.
• Pains in the testicles, as if they were pulled and twisted, and sometimes as if they would return into the abdomen, 12.
• Increased venereal appetite, 12.
• He seeks solitude that he may abandon himself to onanism, 12.
• Complete absence of venereal desire, 12.
• Aversion to coition, 12. [410.]
• Speedy ejaculation without pleasure, sometimes with spasms and painful weakness of the extremities, 12.
• The ejaculation is tardy, or altogether wanting, 12.
• Frequent nocturnal emissions followed by debility, 12.
• Involuntary discharge of semen, 2, 3.
• Female.
• Hard tumor and polypi of the uterus, 12.
• Ulcers and fissures at the os uteri, 12.
• Inflammatory swelling of the womb, 12.
• Metrorrhagia, 12.
• Liability to abortion, 12.
• Difficult, painful and tedious parturition, 12. [420.]
• Sensation as if something rose from the uterus to the stomach, with nervous agitation and spasms, 12.
• Distensive and burning, or crampy, digging, or gnawing pains in the womb, 12.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

• Membranous productions in the larynx, 12.
• Ulcers and tubercles in the larynx, 12.
• A great quantity of mucus obstructs the larynx and bronchi, 12.
• Burning sensation, and bleeding fissures in the larynx, with severe, jerking, and suffocative cough, 12.
• Sensation of contraction in the windpipe, and of heaviness in the chest, 12.
• Sense of compression of the larynx, with great difficulty in breathing, 12. [450.]
• After having cold feet, prickings in the larynx exciting a cough all day, and especially in the evening; the cough continues all night, 1.
• Throbbing, lancinating, and excoriative pains in the larynx, 12.
• Obstinate hoarseness, 12.
• Severe cough, excited by a constant tickling in the larynx, 12.
• Cough caused by a pricking in the larynx, only at night, and for several nights running, towards 1, or 3, or 4 o'clock, A.M., 1.
• Cough excited by a stinging in the larynx, following coryza, 1.
• Thick cough, especially on waking, in the morning and in the evening, with cold sensation, followed by great heat, and congestion to the chest, 12.
• Cough after meals or from any emotion, 12.
• Motion increases the frequency of the cough, although it is equally troublesome during rest, 1.
• Violent cough, provoking vomiting, 12. [460.]
• Hoarse cough, with tearing sensation in the chest, 12.
• Deep, hollow cough, with lancinating and bruised pains, especially in the left side of the chest, 12.
• Dry, hacking cough, seemingly ameliorated by more frequent alvine evacuations, 1.
• Dry cough, with burning in the larynx and chest, 12.
• Cough, with expectoration of mucus and blood, or of blood only, 12.
• The cough occurs in the daytime, before a meal and in the room; it ceases during the night, 1.
• Clear, viscid expectoration, often without cough, 12.
• Copious expectoration, frothy, whitish, yellow, grayish, or greenish, and purulent, 12.

CHEST

• Inflammation and swelling of the breasts, 12.
• Engorgement of the breasts, 12.
• Small knotty indurations and tumors, like scirrhus, on the breasts, 12. [480.]
• Large abscess forming sinuses in the breasts, 12.
• Milk vitiated, and often mixed with blood, 12.
• Sensation as if the breasts were drawn towards the abdomen, 12.
• Boring, lancinating, digging, crampy, pinching, and gnawing pains, in the mammary and axillary glands, 12.
• Granulations and tubercles in the lungs, 12.
• Inflammation and swelling of the lungs especially on the left side, with severe, tiresome cough, 12.
• Weakness of the chest, with feeling as if it would collapse, 12.
• Feeling of rumbling and of numbness, beginning at the cardiac region and extending through the chest, 12.
• Oppression of the chest, 3, 8.
• Oppression in the afternoon, two days running; the chest and heart feel tightly compressed, 1. [490.]
• Oppression and loss of breath when going upstairs, 1.
• Oppression of the chest, with palpitation, especially when walking rather fast, or in going upstairs, 12.
• Burning heat in the chest, as if there were a furnace in it, 12.
• Pressive pain in the chest, in a small spot, now here, now there, when walking (after five hours), 15.
• Cutting pains in the whole chest, accompanied by tickling and pricking, 12.
• Painful stitches in the chest, which cheek respiration, 12.
• Violent, sharp, short stitches, which impede respiration, as if piercing the deep pectoral muscles and the mammary gland, mostly on the right breast, several times a day at different times, lasting ten days (after twelve days), 15.
• Violent itching, which seems to come from the lungs, and often shifting about in the chest, 12.
• Feeling as if there were two swellings at the upper part of the sternum, appearing to grow larger when in bed, impeding the respiration, and causing pain in swallowing anything, even saliva, 1.
• Smarting in the upper third of the sternum, .

HEART AND PULSE. [500.]

• The heart-beats are sometimes quick, sometimes slow, intermittent, or irregular, 12.
• Palpitation of the heart, at intervals, 6.
• Palpitation of the heart, sounding in the ears like drum-beats, 12.
• Palpitation of the heart after a meal, with interval during which the person feels as if going to be ill, 1.
• Four days after getting chilled, pain at the heart every two hours of the day; straining to vomit; cough with expectoration, tinged with clear red blood; about 8 o'clock the next morning, the cough, the red expectoration, and the pain at the heart return; towards the fifth day, the sensation of having two swellings ceases, but the cough and hoarseness remain, 1.
• Feeling as if the heart was very large, and plunged in a vessel of water, 12.
• Lancinating and pulling in the region of the heart, as if it were being distended, 12.
• Pains as if pins were thrust into the apex of the heart, 12.
• Sensation of scraping and weight in the heart, 12.
• Trembling feeling at the heart, 12. [510.]
• Shocks and digging at the cardiac region, with great oppression, especially in the evening, after meals, and from movement, 12.
• He has to press upon the cardiac region, to allay the pains, 12.
• Hard, frequent, irregular pulse, much quicker and more agitated evenings than mornings, 12.

NECK AND BACK

• On waking, stiff neck, arthritic pains, and aggravation of all the pains, 12.
• The pains in the head affect the nape of the neck, which feels as if compressed, 1.
• Boring pains, with painful weariness in the loins; he has to lie on the back for relief, 12.
• Pains in the loins so violent that they prevent breathing; they very nearly cause fainting; a red-hot iron seems to pierce the loins; the violence of the pains renders the least movement impossible; this symptom appears in the morning, two days running; the first time it lasts five or six minutes, and two or three minutes the second day; the following day, dull pains in the loins, as from a strain in the back, preventing him from straightening himself, or stooping down; during the pains in the loins, the urine is scanty, of the color of yellow-ochre, thick, with a yellowish sediment; the pains in the loins last five or six days, 1.
• Pains in the loins, lasting six or seven days, followed by a very violent trembling of both legs at once, in the morning, and giving way of the legs, from weakness, for two days together, 1.
• Distensive pains, with sensation of swelling and discomfort in the loins, 12.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Trembling of the limbs, 12. [520.]
• In the case of a child the legs are drawn up so as to touch the buttocks, 5.
• Limbs easy to move, 13.
• Numbness and deadness of the limbs on waking in the morning, 12.
• Pinching-digging pains, drawing about as if in the periosteum, not continuing long, and always affecting the middle of the long bones (after five days), lasting twelve days, 15.
• Contractions and very painful cramps, from the extremities of the limbs to the trunk, 12.
• Contractions in right arm and leg, 12.
• Cramps and startings in the limbs, 12.
• Lancinating, digging, and tensive pains with great weariness in the limbs, 12.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Inflammatory tumors on the arms, 12.
• The upper extremities go to sleep when lightly lying upon them; after a few days also the lower extremities, lasting fourteen days, 15. [530.]
• Heaviness of the arms, with great difficulty in moving them, 12.
• Painful weariness of the arms, with violent pain in trying to move them, 12.
• Paralytic weakness of the arms and hands, 12.
• Burning, lancinating pains in the bones of the arms, 12.
• After the poison has touched the right hand sharp burning and swelling of the arm, which is colored yellow on a black ground, 8.
• Bruised pains in the arms, legs, and loins, especially during movement, 12.
• Bruised and crushing pains in the arms, especially the joints, 12.
• Digging, pinching, pressive pain in the right arm, which is seated in the deltoid muscle, on the slightest attempt to raise the arm, though by no other motion of the arm, and not when taking hold of it or during rest, lasting fourteen days (after fifth days), 15.
• Digging, throbbing, periodic pain on the inner surface of the right ulna, lasting five days (after second day), 15.
• Drawing pains in the arms, especially in the evening, at night, and on waking in the morning, 12. [540.]
• The lightest covering on the arm annoys and feels uncomfortable, 12.
• Pulsative and lancinating pains, with erysipelatous swelling of the arms and hands, 12.
• Digging pains in the elbow-joint, 12.
• Swelling of the wrist and of the finger-joints, with burning pains and strong pulsation in these parts, 12.
• Hands and fingers often numb and stiff, with disposition to become crooked, 12.
• Panaritium, attacking even the bones of the fingers, 12.
• An insignificant bruise of the right little finger, which he got fourteen days after taking the medicine, became on the third day very painful and suppurated; a few days afterwards the finger became again inflamed, caused tearing-drawing pain along the whole arm and redness of the finger along the lymphatics extending to the axilla, in which small granular swellings appeared and were painful, especially to motion and touch; in thirty-six hours the inflamed lymphatics become swollen as if they had been injected; the lymphatic glands in the axilla become hard and painful and swollen as large as beans; the arm was heavy and painful, and had to be carried in a sling; a few olfactions of Hepar Sulph. 1st, relieved the lymphatic swelling in one night, and the corrosive pain in the ulcer in the little finger and the ulcer under the nail of the thumb within twenty-four hours, .

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Feeling as if a peg were driven into the joints of the hips, knees, and feet, and prevented them from moving, 12.
• Staggering gait, more like jumping than walking, 12. [550.]
• Great weakness of the legs, so that on rising up they give way under the weight of the body, 12.
• Lancinating pains, with painful weariness in the hips and legs, especially when walking or changing position, 12.
• Aching weariness of the thighs when walking, 15.
• Cord-like swelling, as in phlegmasia alba dolens , from the groins to the popliteal region, 12.
• Tophus on the knees and feet, 12.
• Swelling of the knees, with pulsative and distensive pains, 12.
• Burning and dryness in the knee-pan, 12.
• Pains of dislocation in the knees and feet, 12.
• Lancinations in the knees, especially when walking, 12.
• Bruised pain in the knees; he has to squat down, 12. [560.]
• Inflammation, swelling, and great brittleness of the leg-bones, 12.
• Gouty swelling of the legs, 12.
• Swelling of the legs, especially in the evening and after walking, 12.
• Deep-red swellings, like bruises, on the legs, 12.
• Varicose swellings in the legs, 12.
• Trembling of the legs, 1.
• Uneasiness and irritation in the legs; he has to move them constantly; he knows not what to do with them, nor what position to take for relief, 12.
• Heaviness of the legs, with sensation of pulling in the joints, 12.
• The legs easily get numb, 12.
• Feeling of stiffness in the right leg that begins above the right knee, where it is most marked (ten minutes), 15. [570.]
• Weakness of the legs, even to falling, for more than eight hours, 1.
• Violent cramps in the legs, which draw up with a start, towards 4 or 5 A.M., 1.
• Cramps in the legs and toes, especially on stretching them out in bed at night, 12.

GENERALITIES. [580.]

• Inflammations and sanguineous congestions, especially of the chest, throat, and head, 12.
• Swelling of the whole body, 2.
• Obesity, 12.
• Progressive emaciation, even to consumption and death, 9.
• Constant emaciation, with good appetite, 12.
• Emaciated body, with bloated abdomen, 12.
• Swelling and induration of the glands, 12.
• Swelling, ulceration, and curvature of the bones, 12.
• Malignant tumors of an erysipelatous character, 12.
• Arthritic nodes, 12. [590.]
• Nervous attacks, with laughing and weeping together, 12.
• Pandiculations, 11.
• Jactitation of tendons, 11.
• Convulsions, 8.
• Epileptic convulsions in the evening, at night, and sometimes in the morning, as well as at the period of the new moon, 12.
• Attacks of tetanus, 12.
• Great sensitiveness to cold air and to wind, 12.
• He has every moment to change his position, 12.
• Fits of muscular exaltation, in which he has to move the arms about forcibly, 12.
• Restlessness all over, with great physical and moral agitation, 12. [600.]
• He cannot keep still, is constantly restless, although movement aggravates the pains, 12.
• Desire to move about and take gymnastic exercise in the evening, 12.
• Uneasiness and weakness, especially mornings, with inability to move about, 12.
• Languor, laziness, no desire for any occupation; if he does anything it is only mechanically, 12.
• On waking great lassitude and drowsiness, as if he had not slept, 12.
• With the headache general feeling of fatigue, nausea, and cold feet, 1.
• Great fatigue and profuse sweat after the least exertion, 12.
• General weakness, often accompanied by palpitation and vertigo, 12.

SKIN

• Swelling and redness of the whole body, as in general erysipelas, 12.
• Skin bloated and tense, or loose and flabby, 12.
• The whole surface becomes pale and swollen, as in dropsy, 3.
• The patient becomes yellow, 4, 9.
• The skin takes on a deep yellow tinge, 2. [630.]
• Skin of a yellow tinge, as in jaundice, 12.
• Skin greenish, and always looking dirty or oily, 12.
• Skin moist, or dry and stiff as parchment, and affected by every change of temperature, 12.
• Every slight injury, even the prick of a pin, suppurates, with corrosive pain, 15.
• Very unhealthy skin, excoriating and chapping easily, 12.
• The skin of the face tans quickly, and is easily excoriated and torn, 12.
• Scabs and cracks in the face, 12.
• Chaps and fissures on the hands, 12.
• Excoriation between the buttocks and the thighs, 12.
• Eruptions, Dry.
• Acne rosacea, 12. [640.]
• Miliary eruptions and urticaria, 12.
• Very smarting miliary eruption on the penis, pubis, and scrotum, 12.
• Burning eruption like nettle-rash on the hands, 12.
• A large quantity of scales on the face, which are constantly renewed, with intolerable itching, 12.
• Furfuraceous herpes, with great itching of the legs and thighs, 12.
• Eruption of little pimples on the skin, after contact with the saliva or urine of the toad, 3.
• Pimples like small furuncles, 12.
• Small, white pimples, lasting only for a day, 12.
• Red and very painful pimples on the forehead, 12.
• An erysipelatous attack, in a woman subject to the complaint for many years, was on the point of breaking out, when it was cut short immediately by a few doses of the remedy; subsequently, two pimples appeared on the right temple, on the side most frequently attacked by erysipelas; these pimples, the size of a small lentil, ended in a rounded head; the whole temporal region in the middle of which they were situated was red and swollen. This redness disappears on pressure with the finger, but returns again immediately; at the same time it is always painfully sensitive to cold, and the sensation it causes is identical with that which marks the onset of erysipelas; this eruption lasts seven days; it is accompanied at its first appearance, for two nights successively, by difficult and broken sleep; afterwards return of the pimples on the temples, with sensation when they first break out, as if the skin were pinched, . [650.]

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Fits of drowsiness coming on after eating, and in the open air, 12.
• Drowsiness, with agitation and sleeplessness; he is constantly turning in bed, 12.
• Great sleepiness, especially in the morning, after breakfast, or after being in the open air, 12.
• Invincible drowsiness after a meal, 1.
• Very heavy sleep, with congestion to the head, 12. [690.]
• Sleep tardy, or too prolonged in the morning, with dreams, nightmare, and great fatigue on waking, 12.
• Insufficient sleep; he awakes too early, 12.
• Wakes too early, 3 or 4 o'clock A.M., 1.
• Wakes up every few moments, 1.
• Wakes up sad, or very joyful, 12.
• Sleep with talking, cries and groans; he awakes sobbing, 12.
• Restless sleep, with starting awake, fright, palpitation, etc, 12.
• Sleeplessness in the evening and at night, 12.
• Sense of fatigue during sleep, and of numbness in every limb, obliging him to change his position frequently, 1.
• Many dreams, fantastic, and generally frightful, 12. [700.]
• Dreams of travel, of projects, and of greatness, 7.

FEVER

• He desires warmth; is always cold, especially in the limbs, 12.
• Obstinate coldness in bed at night, 12.
• Shivering all over after stool, aggravated in the evening, 1.
• Coldness, shiverings, trembling, and vertigo, especially on going into the fresh air, 12.
• Coldness and shivering, with moisture of the skin, nervous excitability, and trembling, 12.
• Chilly sensation in the calves, which precedes a cramplike pain in that part, 1.
• Chilliness and numbness of the feet, 12.
• Alternations of heat and cold rising like waves from the lower part of the body, 12.
• Heat and burning all over, accompanied by passing shiverings, 12. [710.]
• General sensation of heat and turgescence, followed by contraction and icy coldness of the whole system, 12.
• Fever with shivering, increase of muscular strength, and delirium, especially in the evening, 12.
• Feverish heat all over, excepting the feet, which remain constantly cold, day and night, during four days, 1.
• Calor mordax, with embarrassed head, burning of the neck, throat, and chest; agitated pulse, great thirst, 12.
• The heat of the fire is distressing to him, 1.
• Fever is developed, the extremities become burning hot, 2, 3.
• Quotidian evening fever, with great depression, 12.
• Tertian fever, with general painful weariness, great hunger, and urgent thirst, 12.
• Quartan fever, with intense heat and violent delirium, 9.
• Heat which rises into the face, 1. [720.]
• Great heat, contraction, and digging in the loins, 12.
• Burning heat of the hands for three weeks, 1.
• Sensation as if the legs and feet were held over a pan of burning charcoal, 12.
• Burning hot feet, 1.
• The skin is burning, red, and crimpled in different places, 12.
• Aggravation of the fever in the evening, at night, and sometimes in the morning, 12.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On waking, ill-humor; dizziness, etc.; after a meal, dizziness; on waking, at 3 A.M., headache; coryza; bad-smelling breath; insipid taste of food; nauseous, etc., taste; dryness of the throat; after breakfast, feels hungry; vomiting; emission of flatulence; pain in abdomen; pains in uterus; towards 1, 3, or 4 A.M., cough; on waking, cough; on waking, stiff neck, etc.; pains in loins ; on waking, numbness, etc., of limbs; after breakfast, sleepiness; in bed, sweat; in bed, on waking, general moisture; in bed, perspiration.
• ( Afternoon ), After breakfast, headache; rising of phlegm; after a meal, vomiting; oppression; towards 4 or 5 o'clock, itching.
• ( Evening ), Towards 5 o'clock, headache; towards 4 or 5 o'clock, soreness in forehead, etc.; semilateral headache, etc.; sweats on the head; on going to bed, sneezing; mucus from nose; toothache; hunger; leucorrhœa; cough; shocks, etc., at cardiac region; pulse quicker; swelling of the legs; fainting fits; skin symptoms; after stool, shivering; fever, etc.
• ( Night ), When going to sleep, ill-humor; headache; toothache; digging, etc., in liver, etc.; pains in arms; skin symptoms.
• ( Toward morning ), During sleep, perspiration.
• ( Open air ), Mucus from nose; itching; fits of drowsiness; sleepiness.
• ( When ascending stairs ), Oppression, etc.
• ( On going to bed ), Cramps in legs, etc.
• ( After breakfast ), Faintness.
• ( Cold air ), The pains; pains in teeth; coldness, etc.
• ( Cold liquids ), Mouth symptoms.
• ( Dampness ), Most symptoms.
• ( After eating ), As if intoxicated; almost immediately, vomiting; turning in the stomach; fits of drowsiness.
• ( After exertion ), Sweat.
• ( Hearty food ), Most symptoms.
• ( Great heat ), Most symptoms.
• ( Strong liquors ), Most symptoms.

SUPPLEMENT: BUFO. Authority.

16 , Dr. R. de Gumbleton Daunt, Dublin Med. Press, Sept. 25th (Pharm. Journ., Second Series, vol. iii, 1861-2, p. 291), the skin contains glands which secrete a milky glutinous fluid when the toad is put to pain or irritated; this is scraped off and dried in Brazil.

• It produces incurable obstruction and enlargement of the liver, and a speedy death, 16.