On distilling wood-tar a volatile oil is obtained, which separates into a lighter and heavier oil; the heavier oil is

Kreasote , the lighter Eupion.

Formula

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Authority.

Symptoms, by Dr. Wahle, from "self, sons, daughters, from Dr. Bertoldi, and others, in Rome," Int. Hom. Press, v, p. 91. (Communicated by Dr. Held.)

MIND

Emotional.
Cheerful, joyous disposition, unusual to her, for two days in succession; confusion of the head, with dull drawing pains in the forehead and the anterior parts of the temples.
She is very irritable, and angers easily.
She is very angry; she could cry for rage, and doses not know why.
Intellectual.
Great shortness of memory; ideas forsake her easily.

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head, ameliorated by compression.
Vertigo, everything becomes black before the eyes.
Everything turns around with her when she sits up in bed.
General Head.
Dulness of the head, as if it was too full.
Heaviness of the head (after four days). [10.]
In the morning, heaviness and confusion of the head (after twenty-four hours).
Headache; sensation as if the head was too full, or as if the brain was tumefied (after three hours).
Headache, drawing, with painful pulsations in the forehead, so that she had to lie down; headache as after becoming drunk from beer (after a quarter of an hour).
Pressive and squeezing headache (after one hour and a quarter).
Several very painful stitches inside of the head (after half an hour).
Pain, as if the head was ulcerated inside, with pulsation and beating in it.
Headache, with vertigo and whirling; pulsations and jerkings in the head; it totters back and forth when walking; and rest brings relief.
During menstruation, jerking headache.
Forehead.
On the left superior part of the forehead a pain as if a cyst would form (after two hours).
A contracting pain, pressing out in the forehead (after forty-five minutes). [20.]
Burrowing pains in the forehead, with pressing down of the upper eyelids, and moisture in the eyes as from tears; the pains extend to the maxilla, and to the left corner of the mouth; the anterior portion of the left temple is sore to the touch (after eleven hours).
A quiet, burrowing pain in the forehead, with sensation of warmth in the eyes (beginning after fifteen hours, and continuing for twenty-four hours).
Drawing frontal pains (after one hour).
A sticking pressure on several spots of the forehead (after four hours).
Pressing pains, as if everything would be squeezed out of the forehead (after forty-five minutes).
Dull pressive pain in the right side of the forehead from within outward (after two hours).
Temples.
Drawing pains in both temples; a sensation of continual pulling from one side to the other, felt more during rest, with a sensation as if the head was continually shaking from one side to the other.
Some stitches in the left temple (after four days).
Vertex.

EYE

Eyes weak, as if she had cried, and when lying down her head aches.
Sensation in the eyes as if something hung down from above over them, so that she had continually to wipe them.
Pressure in the eyes, as if the globes would be pushed out. [40.]
Burning, pressive pains in the eye, with copious lachrymation.
Several successive stitches on the external margin of the left eye (after half an hour).
Brow.
Painful pressure above the arch of the right eyebrow, extending hence to a part of the brain and descending into the teeth of the superior maxilla of the same side (after three hours and a half).
Lids.
Œdematous swelling of the right upper eyelid in the morning when waking (after sixty-eight hours); the œdema increases during a walk in the fresh air; the lower eyelid also swells up, and then the left one (Graphites 6 brought quick amelioration and a cure after thirty-six hours).
Twitching of the right eyelid; the eye becomes smaller; the upper lid is drawn down and can only be raised with great exertion; at the same time tensive stiffness in it, with profuse lachrymation; daylight increases the lachrymation, whereas candlelight does not affect it; all objects appear pale; commences in the afternoon and lasts thirty-six hours.
Twitching of the external canthus of the left eye.
Frequent twitching of the right upper eyelid.
Itching under the upper and lower eyelid of the right eye, so that she can hardly stop rubbing; in the morning (after three days).
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Lachrymation, more in the fresh air than in the room.
The eyes water and are dim, with frequent yawning (after four days).
Vision. [50.]
Like a veil before the eyes.
Everything appears pale, as if she had a thin veil before her eyes (after five days).

EAR

Pressing in the ears, as if the wind was blown with force and for a long time into them, whereby the external parts are equally affected (after three hours).
Painful pressing in the right ear.
Shooting and tearing in the left ear, extending to the external temporal region (after second day).

NOSE

Objective.
The left nostril is cracked, and the crack bleeds.
Sneezing; each time the blows his nose the sneezing reappears.
Mornings, sneezing, with fluent coryza, for several days.
Frequent sneezing, eight to ten times in succession, with transient titillation in the upper part of the nose, in the evening.
Bleeding from the left nostril; the blood looks bright red, thin, and fluid (after four hours). [60.]
Bleeding from the left nostril reappears with greater force at 6 P.M. [He suffered several days every morning, after having coughed several times during the night, from bleeding of the right nostril; the blood was bright red and thin. Belladonna, which corresponded to the cough from a slight laryngeal inflammation, did nothing. Eupion 6, a dose in the evening when retiring, and another dose in the morning, removed the whole quickly, and Belladonna then acted well on the cough. -Dr. HELD.]
Bleeding from the right nostril when blowing the nose.
After the menstrual flow had intermitted for six hours, epistaxis from the right nostril on stooping, preceded by vertigo and dimness before the eyes; in the afternoon.
Subjective.
A sensation of soreness in the upper inner nose on drawing air through the nostrils in the evening (after twelve hours).

FACE

Cheek.
On lower portion of inner side of right cheek a painless hard nodule of the size of a pea.
Lip.
The upper lip is fissured and painful, as if raw.
The lip and throat are always dry, yet she has no thirst.
The lips are painful as if sore; they are dry.
Chin.
Painful drawing on the left under jaw, continuing several minutes (after four hours).

MOUTH

Teeth.
The teeth stick together when the jaws are closed. [70.]
In the morning, sensation as if the teeth were imbedded deeply in some soft matter, without pain; as soon as she takes something in her mouth this sensation disappears, for several days.
The teeth on both sides are painful, as if they were loose, which is not the case.
The teeth of the right upper jaw pain, as if loose, the gum swollen and scorbutic; hop soup aggravates the pains.
Toothache; a kind of numbness in the upper and lower left carious molars; it appears immediately when lying down, and disappears when she rises and moves about in her room (after ten days).
Toothache, a kind of grumbling in the front teeth; a sensation as if the gums were swollen, and the teeth, which are firm, would drop out (after thirty-six hours).
In the morning, an hour after rising, tearing in all the teeth, and pinching, as with nails, on the external parts of the cheeks; the teeth on the left side are more painful than on the right side; the tearing extends to the temple, with swelling of the cheek and upper lid, great chilliness and intercurrent heat (after twenty-four hours).
The drawing pains in the head attack also the teeth of the upper right maxilla (after three days).
Sticking pains in the left posterior molars; they feel spongy and loose (after some days).
Tearing in the left upper teeth, extending to that side of the nose and to the forehead; the left cheek and nose are red and swollen, with general chilliness, without subsequent heat; during washing (after twenty-four hours).
Ulcerative toothache, as if there were an ulcer beneath them, preventing her from eating.
Gums. [80.]
The gum between two hollow teeth is tumefied, painful, as if inflamed.
A painful jerking-drawing in the gum of the left superior maxilla (after two hours).
A sore pain in the gum of the upper right maxilla, only when touched.
The gum is painful, as if excoriated by the contact of food or drink.
Tongue.
The whole tongue looks red, and covered with raised nodules, like herring-roe.
Tongue red at the tip, covered with small red papillæ; the tip dry; the back covered with a thin, dirty-white coating.
Dry tongue and throat, but without thirst, especially felt during inspiration, for several hours.
Tongue and palate pain, as if sore.
The anterior part of the tongue rough like a grater.
General Mouth.

THROAT

In the morning, much white, bad-tasting mucus in the throat, expectorated after slight paroxysms of cough.
Sensation of mucus in the throat, without being able to expectorate.
Sensation of dryness on the uvula, without thirst.

STOMACH

Thirst.
Increased thirst.
Eructation.
Eructations after sardines taken a few hours before, and great appetite. [100.]
Eructations and vomituritions and throwing up of food, in the evening (after eleven hours).
Immediately after taking the drug, frequent empty eructations, tasting like Eupion, for five hours.
Sweet-sour eructations in the evening in bed (after eleven hours).
Eructations tasting of the food, and sensation as if the breath were retained in the pit of the stomach.
At night, nausea until 3 A.M., followed by sleep and dreaming; she awakes frightened, but falls back into her dreams again; for several nights.
Nausea, on becoming erect, with much thirst and very copious menstruation and trembling through all the limbs; lancinating pains under the right breast, aggravated by breathing (third day of the menses).
Nausea, with eructations and taste of the drug, the whole day.
Vomiturition, emanating from the lower part of the abdomen.
Twice in succession, dark-green, tasteless vomiting of mucus, followed by trembling of all extremities (after two drops of 1st cent.).
Stomach.
Bloatedness and sensation of fulness in the stomach, with internal chilliness in the evening (after twelve hours). [110.]
A bruised pain transversely across the stomach, beginning in the evening between 9 and 10, continuing up to 11, when she falls asleep, and only awakes at 4 A.M., copiously perspiring, and her menses setting in five days too soon.

ABDOMEN

Several consecutive stitches around the umbilicus.
Gurgling in the intestines, without any other trouble.
Frequent borborygmi.
Flatulency; after passing flatus the pains cease. She cannot walk straight on account of inflammatory pains in the abdomen; the pains are aggravated by coughing, sneezing, or blowing the nose, even though she puts one foot over the other.
In the muscles of the left side of the abdomen, from the pelvic bones obliquely downwards, a painful tension, similar to what she formerly felt during pregnancy.
Contracting pains in abdomen, so that she has to bend over, which gives relief; one day before menstruation.
On the left side of the abdomen, a pinching pain, as if a small part were pinched with a nail (after one hour).
On the right side of the abdomen, a dumb aching pain, with sensation of ulcerating when touching the spot with her hand. [120.]
Pressing pain deep in the abdomen, continuing for over a week.
Cutting pains in the intestines, ceasing after passing flatus (after fourteen hours).
Cutting pains in abdomen during menstruation; when the pains cease the discharge is always very copious; the blood looks red, and is very thin.
A twisting pain in the abdomen, continuing five minutes, and recurring every quarter of an hour, only ameliorated by crouching down (after a few days).
A very painful twisting and griping (cramps) in abdomen, relieved by crouching down, followed by chill and nausea, finally vomiting of dark-green mucus; she became warm, followed by two stools; after evacuation upwards and downwards the abdominal cramps decrease, but a still pain and malaise remain for a long time, continuing an hour and a half before breakfast.
Colic, with sensation as if diarrhœa would follow (after five hours).
Colic, frequently intermitting and recurring; after continuing three hours, copious white discharge from the vagina, continuing for several hours, but the colic ceased and did not return (after thirty-two hours).
The abdomen pains during motion, as if ulcerated and inflamed (after several days).
A painful movement in the right side of the abdomen, as from confined flatus (after a quarter of an hour).
Iliac Regions.
In the left side of the abdomen, immediately over the crista ilii, when walking, raising the arm, or coughing, a severe pain, nearly taking her breath away; she feels nothing when at rest; after a few hours the pains move low down into the abdomen, and then pass off. [130.]
Stitches on the left anterior crest of the ilium when walking (after two hours).
In left inguinal region a squeezing, pressing pain, when quiet (after four hours).

RECTUM AND ANUS

Spasmodic pains a few inches up in the rectum, radiating upwards and downwards, extending downwards into the labia, with such severity that she cannot sit down; they pass off during the night, but return in the morning as soon as she gets up; she has to lie down at 10 P.M. of the third day; after sleeping for an hour, she awakes free from the pains, but complains of severe backache with nausea, and the abdominal muscles pain on touch as if ulcerated, which continues for several days.
A spasmodic, periodically returning pain an inch up in the rectum, extending to the vagina, and producing there also a spasmodic contracting pain.
Drawing and tearing in the rectum, aggravated during stool, which is natural.
After a natural stool, itching in the rectum (after twenty-four hours).
Inclination to stool, with great straining, but she passes nothing (second day).
Tenesmus; only a few tablespoonfuls of blood are passed per anum, when the tenesmus ceases.
In the morning frequent tenesmus, but no stool follows, only each time about a cupful of blood is discharged, which weakness her greatly.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Three to four times daily, bloody stools. [140.]
Four times daily, hard and dry stools, with great straining each time.
Bloody stools.
Dark blood in the painless stools.
Constipation.
Stool hard; she has to strain a great deal.
Stool every three to four days, with great straining and prolapsus uteri.
No stool for three days.

URINARY ORGANS

Urethra.
Frequent inclination to urinate, but she passes only a little; worse when standing than when sitting.
Micturition.
Frequent and copious micturition, the urine of a lemon color in several persons.
Copious micturition.
Urine.
Urine chestnut-brown, a few days before the menses. [150.]
Hot urine, passed without pain.

SEXUAL ORGANS

During urination, a sore pain between the labia.
A burning, stinging, itching, and swelling between the labia, momentarily relieved by rubbing, afterwards the burning becomes more severe; after washing with cold water the external genitals feel stiff and numb, with sensation of rawness and soreness (compare 109, 110, 135, 232; these are curative effects).
Pruritus pudendi is worse in the evening, with pain in the sternum, as if it were raw; when she touches it or turns over in bed she can hardly bear the pain.
Painless, soft discharge through the vagina.
During her backache, some blood passed the vagina, although she had her courses only two weeks ago.
Leucorrhœa, eight days after her courses, coloring the linen yellow, and forming stains of the size of a six pence on her chemise, with great lassitude, emaciation of the whole body, stitching pains in the soles of her feet when walking, and trembling all over the whole body, felt only during rest (as if the whole body consisted of jelly), continuing several days (after fourteen days).
Leucorrhœa in connection with backache; when this ceases, the discharge gushes out abruptly, with stitching pains in the forehead (after four days). days).
Copious leucorrhœa; it runs from her (after ten hours); continues for twelve hours; remits in the evening; returns again after twenty-four hours in the morning, and only continues for a few hours.
Menses a few days too soon, without the leucorrhœa which usually precedes them a few days. [160.]
Menses set in four days too soon and too copious; it is rather a flooding (it was just the contrary before, slight on the first day and copious on the second and third days); at the same time, bruised sensation in the chest; when breathing, stitches in the middle of the chest and in the heart, which also take away her breath; on the third day the pains decrease.
Copious menstrual discharge on the third day, with severe backache, painless pulsating in the head, pressing towards the forehead, with a sensation as if the head were too full.
Copious and thin fluid menstrual discharge.
During menstruation, deep in the abdomen a painful twisting, extending to the rectum, intermitting and returning; as soon as the pains cease, the flooding sets in again (second day).
Menses stopped for twenty-four hours; returned and kept on for two hours and a quarter, with the sensation as if the whole upper part of her body were wabbling from the short ribs to the head; she has slightly the same soaring sensation in her feet.
On the third day her courses cease, and she suffers from severe headache and chilliness; on the fourth day the flow returns copiously for a few hours, and the headache and chilliness cease.
The menses nearly cease on the third day; on the fourth day, at 9 A.M., she has nausea with salivation; she is very irritable, has no inclination to speak; this continues for ten minutes, then her courses appear again copiously for a few hours, and then all her troubles cease.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx and Bronchi.
A sensation below the larynx as if something was sticking there, with short, dry, hacking cough. [170.]
A spot of the size of a bean, on the internal right side of the larynx, pains like a sore, or as if water dropped continually on a sore place (smarting), of fifteen years' standing, in a man of fifty-four years, cured.
Crawling sensation in the upper bronchi, causing a dry cough (after two hours and a half).
Titillation on the right side of the larynx, causing a continual cough; after three or four paroxysms of cough, which causes shortness of breath, he expectorates tasteless white mucus, and the dyspnœa ceases.
Cough and Expectoration.
Rough, scraping, metallic, dry cough, as if he had eaten rancid fat and taken brandy afterwards (after three hours).
Hard, suffocating, dry cough, with stitching pains in the left chest, which returned regularly every winter.
Cough partly dry, partly loose, with yellow, greenish, sometimes foul-tasting expectoration, day and night; great lassitude and thirst.
Cough the whole day, with titillation in the chest and gray, yellow, thick expectoration, tasting like rotten eggs.
She has to cough a long while, with tearing pains in the chest, before she expectorates anything; warm drinks ameliorate, but there are shortness of breath and great weakness.
He has to sit up when coughing, with breaking out of perspiration.

CHEST

Feeling of heaviness in the chest, when breathing (after four days).
She feels full in the chest and has to breathe deeply to get air enough, in the evening. [180.]
Sensation in the chest as if everything were too tight; she cannot bear the pressure of her clothing; violent beating in the region of the heart and anguish, when resting as well as when moving about, the whole afternoon.
Oppression in the middle of the chest, when stooping, as if it were too tight, for several hours; the mammæ increase in size, with pressive pains in them, as if something painful were drawn through them, with oppression of the chest, so that she had to inspire deeply, and rest twice on going up stairs, on account of shortness of breath.
During a corroding pain in the right labium, a sense of oppression in the lower part of the chest, with sensation of soreness; most severe towards evening.
A transient stitch in the left lower chest, preventing breathing.
Transient stitch in the centre of the left chest, with consecutive dry cough (after a quarter of an hour).
Some severe stitches in the left posterior upper chest, when writing (after five hours).
When taking a deep inspiration and stretching the body, stitching pains in the middle of the chest; when breathing easily, it feels like the pain of an inflamed part.
Drawing-stitching pains in the chest; the whole chest was affected, with heaviness of breathing, lasting several hours.
Pains in the chest; the whole chest pains as if ulcerated, aggravated by breathing; they begin in the afternoon, and continue until she goes to bed and falls asleep; in the morning, when awaking, the pains were gone, but the neck was stiff and painful; the pains went downwards between the shoulders.
Front.
Pains in the chest, as if the centre of the sternum were pressed in, when at rest (after five minutes). [190.]
Continual stitches at the inferior part of the sternum, without any influence on breathing.
Sides.
Stitching under the left arm, when at rest.
Stitches in the left side, in the region of the upper second false rib, aggravated by inspiration (after seven days).
Three consecutive stitches in the left side below the short ribs, towards the heart.
Mammæ.
Stitches under the right mamma, in the skin (after five hours and a half).
Sticking pains under the right mamma, aggravated by lying, breathing, or walking, beginning at 7 P.M., and lasting till midnight, followed by stitches close under the heart, with malaise and hot rising from the stomach, as if she would vomit, but she did not; at 1 o'clock waterbrash; then she fell asleep, and slept till after 5, when she awoke, bathed in perspiration.

HEART AND PULSE

Palpitation of the heart, with slow pulse; she believes the beat of her heart must be heard far off, with some oppression of the chest.
Four hours before the menses appear, severe palpitations, ceasing when the discharge begins.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
A node on the muscles of the neck, left side, two inches below the processus mastoideus, of the size of a hen's egg, burning and pulsating, and preventing her from turning the neck.
Back.
One day before menstruation, backache, relieved by bending backwards, but continuing during the whole first day (which was never the case before).
The backache commences in the morning, and lasts the whole day (after three days). [200.]
The backache commences at noon, and continues till evening, when copious leucorrhœa with lassitude sets in, and continues (after twenty-four hours).
Severe backache during menstruation, so that she has to lean and support herself against something, which gives relief.
She has to sit or lie down frequently, on account of severe backache.
Drawing pains in the back, aggravated by motion, but continuing the same when standing, sitting, or lying (after nine days).
Dorsal.
A tensive sensation of stiffness between the shoulders (after one hour).
Drawing between the shoulders, with horripilations.
Lumbar.
Pains in the small of the back at noon, on the first day of her menses, worse on the right side than on the left, so that she can hardly move, with sensation of heat on the forehead.
Pressing heaviness in the lumbar vertebræ, in the forenoon.
Sacral.
The pains in the back extend to the pelvis, and when she stoops she can hardly get up again; the sacrum pains as if it were broken.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Lassitude in all the limbs; she could rest all the time. [210.]
Great lassitude in all extremities, and frequent yawning, with sleepiness (soon after taking the drug in the forenoon).
Sensation in the extremities as if some disease would set in there.
She cannot sleep the whole night on account of tearing in the extremities and restlessness in the legs.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Objective.
Trembling of the right arm; she is unable to hold it firmly.
Subjective.
A paretic pain in the right arm, so that she has to cease sewing.
Crampy pains in the muscles of the right arm, as if several muscular fasciculi were squeezed (after two hours).
Shoulder.
A stitching pain in the left posterior axilla, increased by breathing.
Arm.
From the upper, inner, right side of the arm, down to the elbow, a pain as if the muscles were beaten off from the bones; she can hardly move the arm.
In the right deltoid muscles several consecutive stitches, so that she loses all power in her arm (after sixty hours).
Drawing-tearing pain in the right humerus and below the elbow-joints, mornings.
Forearm. [220.]
Stitching pains begin on the forearm close to the elbow, pass around it and spread over all the fingers (after sixty hours).
On the inner upper side of the left forearm several consecutive stitches, radiating to the fingers (after two days).
A drawing-stitching goes from the fingers up to the elbow, and causes a peculiar stitching in the centre of the forearm.
Hand.
The hands go to sleep easily.
In the centre of the palm of the right hand a severe stitch, radiating to the elbow, and leaving a sensation of numbness for five minutes in the ring and little fingers.
In the joint of the right hand, twitching, periodically returning pains of luxation (after four hours).
Fingers.
Several stitches along the surface of the right index finger.
In the joints of the middle finger of the right hand an acute beating pain, with the sensation as if the heads of the bones were too large and had not room enough in their articular muscles (after half an hour).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Stitching-tearing pains, beginning in the small of the back, through the legs and thighs to the toes, extending also to the abdomen, like a pressure downwards, as if she were in labor, with frequent but fruitless inclination to stool (after twenty-four hours); after four hours of pain her menses set in very copiously, when the backache ceased, but the pains in the thighs continued till she went to bed; during that time she had tearing pains in the left side of the face.
Thigh.
Heaviness in the thighs; she cannot raise them well during motion, and at rest the sensation is one of pressure. [230.]
A nervous pain in the left thigh, when awake (after three hours).
In both thighs a tensive pain, as if the skin and muscles were too short, so that she can hardly go up stairs, and when she rises from a chair she has to walk lame for a little while, till she becomes used to motion.
From the upper end of the right hip a painful drawing to the middle of the thigh, where it ends with a painful stitch (after thirty-six hours).
On the posterior side of the thigh (from the neck of the femur to the hollow of the knee-joint), a painful sensation as if the muscles were torn from the bones; especially felt when ascending, stooping, or sitting, aggravated by the least touch, with the sensation as if the bone were affected.
Knee.
A paretic pain of luxation in the right knee-joint when going down stairs (after three hours).
Acute, very severe stitches, either in the knee-joints or in the joints of the foot, sometimes simultaneously in several joints, with sensation of internal heat, as if fever would set in (after fifty-two hours).
Twitching pains in the left knee, radiating to the hollow of the knee (after two hours).
Leg.
A sensation of warmth in the left anterior leg, as from the vapor of hot water (after five minutes).
Burning pains in the calves, as if she had taken very long walks (after three hours), in the evening till she goes to bed; when she awoke in the morning she felt nothing in the calves; but she had the same sensation in her thighs, preventing her from taking a long step or from standing; it feels as if the sinews in the thighs were too short; for twelve hours.
A tensive pain from the joints of the foot to the knee (after two hours). [240.]
On account of severe cramps in the calves, she has to get out of bed three or four times at night, and walk about from fifteen to thirty minutes; the toes are drawn up at the same time. [A person who suffered for many years from these cramps was cured in a few days by a few doses of Eupion, 30 .]

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Lassitude of the whole body, as if she had walked a long distance, sitting down feels pleasant, commencing in the morning and lasting all day. [250.]
Feeble and tired all over, as from bruises (after a few days).
In the evening, in bed, a great internal restlessness through the whole body; every particle trembles, and is in a vibratory motion.
Subjective.
In the morning she feels well and easy all over; she hardly feels her body.
The whole upper part of the body, especially the arms, pain as if tired.
Drawing pains, either in the fingers, or in the left posterior apex of the scapula, or in the left shoulder and left elbow-joint, or in the left leg; they continued twenty-four hours (after two hours).
An electric stitch shot through the whole body, so that she became frightened and could not understand where it came from, while sitting (after sixth day).
Tearing and stitching in all the muscles of the whole body, worse in the muscles of the arms and thighs, with great sleepiness and hot flashes; in bed, a great deal of the heat in the lower extremities, and many painful glandular swellings in the inguinal region (after several days).
She feels pulsations all over her body while sitting quietly (after forty-five hours).
When turning the upper part of the body from right to left, it became black before her eyes, and she could see hardly anything; what she heard seemed to come from a distance, lasting five minutes; she also seemed to feel a kind of spasm through her whole body, and when she became fully conscious, the right cheek was cold; she felt coldness in her mouth, especially the right tip of the tongue felt cold, as well as the whole right side of the body, all of which passed off gradually (after eight hours).

SKIN

Objective.
On the left forearm a small nodule of the size of a white bean, which gradually grows to the size of a hen's egg, becomes red, hot, and inflamed, as if it would break, but this does not happen; the node moves up to the elbow-joint, where it finally disappears. [260.]
A yellow streak, as from Nitric acid, on the back of the left index finger.
Subjective.
Itching-biting in the skin of the whole body, as from fleas, relieved by scratching, but returning, in the forenoon.
The itching of the genitals penetrates the whole body; at night she cannot remain in bed, and must get up; worse when lying or sitting than during motion.
Itching-biting on the external genitals, as if the urine were acrid, continuing several hours (after one hour and a half).
Itching, beginning on the back of the right hand and spreading to different parts of the body, especially on the upper eyelids and forehead, where the hair begins, commencing a quarter of an hour after taking the drug and continuing the whole day.
Repeated itching on the female sexual parts, frequently ceasing and returning the whole day.
Frequent itching in the centre of the lumbar vertebræ, so that she has to scratch (after thirty hours).

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Frequent yawning, with internal shiverings, as if fever would set in.
Much yawning, with chilliness.
Great sleepiness towards noon.
Sleeplessness. [270.]
In the first two nights of her courses, sleeplessness without cause.
Restless sleep at night; she threw herself about in bed the whole night, and does not know why (after sixty hours).
Dreams.
She dreams of disgusting things; naked men and old women are around her.
Anxious dream, her child seemed to have fallen into the water, which made her very anxious.
Anxious dreams; she passes a bridge with her child, and is in danger of falling into the water with it; a man comes and leads her over the bridge; when she awakes in the morning, she is bathed in perspiration.
Anxious dreams the whole night; she awakes from a dream, and when she falls asleep, she dreams the same frightful thing again (the whole night).
The whole night anxious dreams; she falls from one dream into another, and still has sleep enough in the morning.
She dreams of falling into an abyss, and feels anxious about it.
Screams out in her sleep, with anxious dreams, and when she awakes, her throat feels perfectly dry, and she has to moisten it.
In her dreams three oxen run after her, so that she awakes with severe palpitations. [280.]
He dreams, two nights in succession, that he suffers from a chronic, dry, fatiguing, consumptive cough, which he cured in twenty-four hours with one dose of Eupion.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilliness, with headache; fulness in forehead, and a drawing pain towards the temples (after four hours).
At 4 P.M. chilliness over the whole body, with tearing in the head and stitches in both temples, jumping hither and thirther, so that she has to lie down; after a quarter of an hour's rest, and having taken some warm drink, chilliness and stitches ceased, without being followed by heat or thirst.
The whole day chilliness, worse in the morning than in the afternoon, with stitching pains in the head and chest.
Inward chilliness, with headache, more on the right side, and with thirst (after four hours).
Shaking chill, without subsequent heat or thirst, with foul taste in the mouth.
Shivering the whole afternoon, without consequent heat; at night many confused dreams, with throwing herself about in bed; when she awakes, she does not recollect her dreams, but has some headache.
Heat.
Towards noon (five hours after taking the drug), dry heat, without chill, and drawing pains in the small of the back; the heat continued for five hours, but the pains in the back for twenty-four hours, and were worse at night than in the daytime; she could scarcely lie on account of them; the pains in the back intermitted for twenty-four hours, and returned again at 4 A.M., in bed, in connection with a periodically returning pulling pain around the navel; no stool for twenty-four hours at that time, but regular the next time; during the pain in the back she had, every twenty-four hours, inclination to urinate, with pressing on the bladder, and passed copiously a pale urine.
Dry heat in bed, at 9 P.M., without thirst, with continual headache, with which she falls asleep, but wakes up with the same headache.
Burning heat in the face, toward evening, for several days. [290.]
When standing, hot flashes in the face, with anxious sweat, so that she is obliged to sit down.
Sweat.
Perspiration of a foul odor, even at the slightest motion.
At 3.30 A.M. she is perspiring, and awakes with nausea and inclination to vomit, but she only throws up clear water; after rising, the nausea continues until she has taken something warm; she feels very weak at the same time, would like to go to bed again (after two days).
When awaking, at 5 A.M., she was in a perspiration, which is unusual with her.
Copious nightsweat towards morning.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Heaviness, etc., of head; in bed, stitches in occiput; itching under eyelids; sneezing, etc.; sensation in teeth; an hour after rising, tearing in teeth, etc.; pappy mouth; mucus in throat; pain in humerus, etc.; chilliness.
( Afternoon ), Towards evening, heat in face.
( Evening ), Sneezing, etc.; pruritus pudendi; in bed, restlessness.
( Night ), Up to 3 P.M., nausea, etc.; towards morning, sweat.
( Fresh air ), Œdema of eyelids; lachrymation.
( Ascending ), Sensation in thigh.
( Blowing nose ), Pains in abdomen.
( Breathing ), Pains under breast; pains in chest; pains under mamma.
( Coughing ), Pains in abdomen.
( After eating ), Sour taste.
( On becoming erect ), Nausea, etc.
( Hot soup ), Toothache.
( Inspiration ), Sticking in shoulder-blade; stitches in side.
( Light of day ), Lachrymation.
( Lying ), Toothache, pains under mamma; itching.
( During menstruation ), Jerking headache.
( Motion ), Pains in back.
( Rest ), Pains in temples; pains in inguinal region; stitching under arm; trembling of body.
( Sitting ), Sensation in thigh; itching.
( Sitting up in bed ), Vertigo.
( Sneezing ), Pains in abdomen.
( Standing ), Inclination to urinate; hot flashes in face, etc.
( During stool ), Tearing in rectum.
( Stooping ), Oppression in chest; sensation in thigh.

Eupion