ARGENTUM METALLICUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Metallic silver.
Preparation , The pure precipitated metal for trituration (Hahnemann used the leaf silver).
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann (R. A. M. L., 4, 337); 2 , Gross, ibid.; 3 , Franz, ibid.; 4 , Meyer, ibid.; 5 , Haynel, ibid.; 6 , Herrmann, ibid.; 7 , Wislicenus, ibid.; 8 , Langhammer, ibid.; 9 , Hering, Archive, 15, and N. Archiv., 3, 1, 96, clinical symptoms, except symptom 204, from Arch., 1, 186, produced by the 1st trit.; 10 , Huber, Oest. Zeit., 2, six provings with repeated doses, with 1st, 2d, and 3d trits., and 4th, 5th, and 6th dils.
MIND
- He is all the time in a kind of intoxication; he knows not how to define it, 3.
- Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk the whole day (after three hours), (reaction), 8.
- When pleased, excessively merry, but cries a long time about a trifle, 1.
- Discouraged, 1.
HEAD
- Confusion of the head at 10 A.M. (3d trit.), 10.
- Head cloudy, as if benumbed (1st trit.), 10.
- Sense of obscuration in the head, as if there were smoke in the brain, 4.
- Dulness in the head, 2.
- The head feels dull and hollow; his whole brain aches, accompanied by chilliness, 1. [10.]
- Dizzy stupefaction of the head (1st trit.), 10.
- He began to feel a tingling and turning in his head, as if he were tipsy, 1.
- He felt suddenly giddy, and as if a mist were before his eyes, 1.*
- Attacks of vertigo; he cannot well control his senses ; also, when sitting or reflecting (after half an hour), 2.*
- Very dizzy on coming in from a walk, with slight shivering through the skin (1st trit.), 10.
- Stinging-burning pain in the head, 1.
- Slight pressure on the head causes a feeling of soreness, 3.
- Violent shooting and tearing pain in the head, 1.
- (Early in the morning, stitching headache, with redness of one eye), 1.
- Pressive headache in the forehead, over the eyebrows (after two hours), 7. [20.]
- Pressing pain in the forehead, with stupor, and drawing pressure in the occiput, 1.*
- Intermittent boring pain in the left side of the forehead the whole day; the pain increases in the evening, after lying down (after seven hours), 8.
- A transient pain deep in the right frontal eminence, extending obliquely to the right temporal region (5th dil.), 10.
- Drawing pains in right frontal eminence, (1st trit.), 10.
- A transient tearing pain deep in the right frontal eminence, extending toward the right temple (5th dil.), 10.
- Drawing pain in the left frontal eminence (3d. trit.), 10.
- A short painful drawing in the left frontal eminence (6th dil.), 10.
- Pressive tearing in the left frontal eminence (after six hours), 2.
- Pressive tearing under the left frontal eminence; the globe of the eye feeling, at the same time, compressed, .
EYES
- (The upper and lower eyelids are very red and thick ; the eyes, however, do not suppurate), 1.* [50.]
- A single violent vertical stitch through the skin and cartilage of the left upper lid (afternoon), (5th dil.), 10.
- Frequent fine stitches, with itching, which provokes scratching, in the left canthi, and the itching also often in the skin of the left ear (6th dil.), 10.
- Frequent sticking in the canthi (3d trit.), 10.
- A short but severe sticking in the left internal canthus, as if with a coarse needle, at 3 P.M. (5th dil.), 10.
- Violent itching in the corners of the eyes, 1.
EARS
- Increased warmth in the concha of the left ear, and itching, which provokes scratching (6th dil.), 10.
- In the folds of the external ear, a sensation as if a many-footed insect were crawling, without itching (4th dil.), 10.
- Violent itching of the external ear; he scratches until the parts bleed, 1.
- A pressive tearing over the left ear, in a small place (after twelve hours), 2.
- Repeated violent stitches in the fossa behind the right lobule, penetrating into the head (3d trit.), 10. [60.]
- A drawing pain from the fossa behind the right lobule as far as the skin of the cheek, extending down to the lower jaw, as if the pain were in the periosteum, 3.
- Two successive unusually severe stitches in the fossa behind the lobule of the left ear, from without inward (4th dil.), 10.
- Frequent itching in the folds of the concha; it causes scratching, which was always followed by a burning sore pain, afternoons till evenings (6th dil.), 10.
- A corroding itching in the fossa of the right auricle, causes scratching (3d trit.), 10.
- A painful drawing in the fossa behind the right lobule, close to the cartilage, extending downward in a crescent form, during rest (2d trit.), 10.
- A sensitive drawing in the fossa, just behind the lobule of the left ear, recurring at short intervals (6th d.), 10 , (repeated the next day).
- Corrosive itching of the lobules of both ears, early in the morning, after rising (after twelve hours), 2.
- Itching on the inner surface of the lobule of the left ear, causes scratching (1st trit.), 10.
- Sensation in the right ear as if it were stopped up, 1.
- Painful drawing within the left ear (3d trit.), 10. [70.]
- Cutting stitches from the left internal ear as far as the brain, 1.
NOSE
- The nose is obstructed, in the forepart of both nostrils; sensation as of biting in the left nostril, 3.
- Fluent coryza; the nose is constantly full of mucus, 2.
- Violent fluent coryza, without sneezing (after ten hours), 8.
- Excessive fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, for two days, 5.*
- When blowing the nose, violent bleeding (immediately after dinner, and again in three hours), 1.
- Irritation in the nose, as if a cold would come on (after one hour), 4.
- A throbbing in the left nostril (fore part), tension in the external skin of the nose as though the nasal bones were compressed, with tickling pricking in the left nostril, that occasioned several violent sneezings (4th dil.), 10.
- *Tingling and itching in the nose, followed by bleeding, 1.
FACE
- Sensation of heat, without redness in the face (1st trit.), 10. [80.]
- Fine drawing pain in the muscles of the face, especially in the region of the cheek-bones, 7.
- Perceptible throbbing over the whole of the left cheek, as though the muscles would be raised from the mucous membrane, with a feeling as though the left cheek were larger, with a slight chilly burning in the skin, and redness of both cheeks; lasts six to eight minutes (4th dil.), 10.
- Painful, gnawing pressure on the bones of the right side of the face; most severe on the zygoma (after one hour), 7.
- Fine, painful stitches in the right malar bone, 7.
- Drawing tearing in the right zygoma, 10.*
- Tearing in the left zygoma, 6.
- *Swelling of the upper lip, close under the nose, 1.
- Cutting stitches under the right half of the lower jaw, apparently in the gland, from without inwards, 5.
MOUTH
- The lower row of teeth sticks to the upper, as though the enamel were covered with a sticky cement (3d trit.), 10.
- A sensitive aching in the last hollow lower left molars (3d trit.), 10. [90.]
- A feeling as though the enamel of the teeth was covered with a sticky cement (2d trit.), 10.
- An incisor tooth being pressed forward was painful (after five hours), 7.
- The gums are painful, especially when touched, 1.
- A little blister on the tongue, sore and burning, 1.
- Feeling of dryness of the tongue, which, however, is moist, 3.
- Dryness of the tongue, and hard palate (6th dil.), 10.
- Dryness of the middle of the tongue and hard palate (5th dil.), 10.
- A burning on the tip of the tongue, as though he had chewed some aromatic substance, afternoons (3d trit.), 10.
- Dryness of the mouth and tongue (quarter of an hour), (4th dil.), 10.
- Great dryness of the mouth (quarter of an hour), (4th dil.), 10. [100.]
- Dryness in the mouth (1st trit. and 4th dil.), 10.
- Dry sensation in the mouth (quarter of an hour), (5th dil.), 10.
- Sticky, tough saliva on the palate (causes scratching), 9.
- The saliva accumulates in his mouth, with a shaking chill, 1.
- Much flow of saliva during the afternoon nap, causing spitting; with so much dryness of the mouth that the tongue stuck to the palate (for ten minutes), (4th dil.), 10.
- His speech is impeded on account of much viscid saliva accumulating in his mouth, 3.
THROAT
- The region of the submaxillary gland is swollen; this makes the neck stiff, and produces a tension in the parts when moved; deglutition at the same time is difficult, as if there were internal swelling of the throat; he is obliged to force every mouthful of food down his throat (after forty-eight hours), 7.
- Violent pulsation of the carotids, especially on the left side (4th dil.), 10.
- *Viscid, gray, jelly-like mucus in the throat, which can be easily hawked up; early in the morning, 2.
- Slight drawing, hardly sensitive, pains in the left parotid gland (4th dil.), 10. [110.]
- Drawing pain in the right submaxillary and parotid glands (1st trit.), 10.
- When masticating, sense of cutting towards the parotid gland, as after taking something very acid; it seems to be felt in the Eustachian tube, 3.
- Boring and grinding pain in the throat, 1.
- Roughness and rawness of the throat, continuing the whole day, 5.
- *His throat feels raw and sore, 1.
- Soreness and rawness in the throat, during expiration and deglutition, 3.
- *When coughing, raw and sore in the throat, not in the windpipe; nor when swallowing, 9.
- *Sense as of scraping in the velum pendulum palati, as if a rough body were glued to it; it was not a painful, but a disagreeable sensation, and was more felt during empty deglutition than when swallowing a morsel, but it was felt constantly, and forced him to swallow the saliva; in a few hours this feeling descends deeper into the throat, 3.
- When yawning, painful tension in the fauces, as from swelling, 2.*
- Itching crawling in the pharyngeal orifice of the right Eustachian tube, which extends to the tympanum, followed by the same in the left ear (2d trit.), 10. [120.]
- Feeling of nausea in the throat, followed immediately by heat all over, mostly about the head, with redness of the face, without thirst (after half an hour), 4.
STOMACH
- Very great appetite (after forty hours), 2.
- Excessive appetite, continues even when the stomach feels full, 2.*
- Sensation of hunger (4th dil.), 10.
- Excessive, almost painful sensation of hunger in the stomach, recurring in paroxysms (5th dil.), 10.
- Excessive, gnawing hunger the whole day, which cannot be satisfied by eating ; afterwards, for several days, this hunger could only be allayed for a short time by eating, 5.*
- Sensation of hunger, as from great emptiness in the stomach, mornings, (4th dil.), 10.
- Hunger, mornings after waking (1st trit.), 10.
- During the afternoon nap, a sensation of hunger, with attacks of nausea (3d trit.), 10.
- Sensation of hunger in the stomach (an hour after taking it), with slight nausea (6th dil.), 10. [130.]
- Sense of hunger, with drawing-in of the pit of the stomach, through the day (3d trit.), 10.
- Sensation of hunger with nausea, (painless) contraction of the pharynx, and inclination to swallow the saliva (lasts several minutes), (3d trit.), 10.
- Sensation of hunger, forenoons, with nausea as from emptiness in the stomach, and scraping irritation in the bronchial tubes, causing a dry cough (2d trit.), 10.
- Appetite entirely gone; he loathes food when merely thinking of it, 1.
- Woke at 7.30 A.M., with hunger and great weakness in the shoulders (6th dil.), 10.
- Indifference to food; he is satiated immediately, 3.
- No appetite, early in the morning, 3.
- (Great desire for wine), 1.
- Sensation like heartburn (after one and a half hours), 4.
- Hiccough, when smoking tobacco as usual (after one and a quarter hours), 8. [140.]
- Almost continual qualmishness and nausea, 3.
- Retching, by which a bitter, acrid, badly smelling liquid is brought up from the stomach into the mouth, leaving behind a continual sense of rawness, roughness, and burning in the throat (heartburn), (after eight hours), 2.
ABDOMEN
- A transient stitch within the abdomen, between the right hypochondrium and the epigastrium, followed by hunger and loud rumbling in the bowels (3d trit.), 10.
- Sharp stitches, from within outwards, in the abdominal muscles, near the last true rib; they terminate in a fine pinching, and abate a little by rubbing (after sixty hours), 7.
- Bruised pain in the flank, over the left hip, and on the whole left side of the pelvis (2d trit.), 10.*
- ( With uterine weakness ), [°].
- Distension and fulness in the upper abdomen, with a hungry feeling (5th dil.), 10. [150.]
- At night, a pressive, painful distension of the abdomen; it passed off without emission of flatulence, 1.
- Tympanic distension of the whole right side of the bowels, with bruised pain on hard pressure; slowly disappears after passage of wind (4th dil.), 10.
- Rumbling and fermenting in the bowels, as though fluid were poured from one intestine into another (4th dil.), 10.
- Rumbling in the abdomen during the night, and emission of flatulence, 1.
- Loud rumbling in the left side of the abdomen, like the croaking of frogs (after three-quarters of an hour), 8.
- In the morning, sense of burning, like heartburn, in the abdomen, stomach, and as far as the chest, 1.
- Contractive pain in the belly, after the morning stool; it seems owing to a cold, when sitting, 1.
- Contraction and tension of the abdominal muscles, when walking, so that he has to walk stooping, 3.
- Bellyache, as in diarrhœa, 3.
- Cutting, internally, transversely across the abdomen, 3. [160.]
- A painful drawing, frequently through the day, on the posterior portion of the pelvis, left side, externally during rest (4th dil.), 10.
- Pain, as if sprained, on the posterior surface of the outer rim, left side of the pelvis (at the insertion of the gluteus maximus), renewed at every step, afternoons, after a long walk (second day), (4th dil.), 10.
- Drawing-stinging pain in the right side of the pelvis, toward the back part, during rest (2d trit.), 10.
- Boring pain on the right side of the hypogastrium, just over the groin (after thirty-four hours), .
STOOL AND ANUS
- A sensation in the rectum as though a living worm were boring through the anus, and by its windings rubbed around the rectum; lasted ten minutes; returned while sitting and standing after a meal (4th dil.), 10.
- Frequent and always successful desire for stool in the lower part of the rectum, with expulsion of a small quantity of soft stool, continuing for several days (after two and a half hours), 1.*
- Sensation as though a small worm forced its way through the sphincter ani (3d trit.), 10.
- A feeling as if many small, living threadworms hung out of the anus, which on stooping caused an itching, but no need to scratch (4th dil.), 10.
- Feeling in the anus as though small, longish bubbles of air were escaping, 10.
- A severe itching in the anus and along the fossa between the nates, causing scratching, at 8 P.M., while walking; lasts five minutes (4th dil.), 10.
- Stool after dinner very dry, and like sand, but passed without trouble (after eight hours), 3.*
- A brownish-yellow, pasty, almost diarrhœic evacuation, with ineffectual pressure at the end of the stool (2d trit.), 10. [180.]
- Pasty stool (one-quarter of an hour), (4th dil.), 10.
- Three pasty stools during the day, the last one almost, diarrhœic, preceded by pinching and urging (4th dil.), 10.
- Straining in the hypogastrium during a rather soft evacuation, and even afterwards (after seventy-two hours), 7.
- More force than usual required to evacuate the bowels (6th dil.), 10.
- It occasioned effort to finish a stool or passage of urine, so that the back part of the pelvis, especially the left side, sometimes pained as if sprained (5th dil.), 10.
- Stool hard, insufficient, which straining (3d. trit.), 10.
URINARY ORGANS
- Slight burning when urinating, as though the urine were acrid (though it was normal), (3d trit.), 10.
- A transient stitch in the urethra from behind forwards (4th dil.), 10.
- Frequent desire to urinate, and copious emission of urine, for several hours (after two hours), 8.*
- Frequent micturition (after six hours), 2.
SEXUAL ORGANS. [190.]
- A painful, transient drawing through the right inguinal ring down to the testicles, at 4 P.M. during rest, with a pasty stool (4th dil.), 10.
- Repeated tearing pains along the course of the spermatic cord, extending into the testicles, during rest at 4 P.M. after a short walk (2d trit.), 10.
- Crushed pain in the testicles , evenings in bed (2d trit.), 10.*
- *Crushed pain in the right testicle, even the pressure of the clothes increases the pain, on walking (2d trit.), 10.
- A repeated, grabbing pain deep in the substance of the right testicle, when at rest, with a certain fear and anxiety (3d trit.), 10.
- Pain in the left testicle, as after a contusion (after forty-nine hours), 8.
- Sexual desire somewhat diminished (6th dil.), 10.
- Emission of semen almost every night, 1.
- Emission at night (3d trit.), 10.
- Pollutions at night, without lewd dreams, 8. [200.]
- An incomplete emission during sleep (4th dil.), 10 , (See S. 148).
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- Laughing produces mucus in larynx, and excites cough, 3.*
- When going upstairs, or stooping, mucus gets into the air-passages, which is expelled by a single fit of coughing, 3.*
- On quietly inspiring, two tones (as from a bassoon, a low and a high) sounded at the same time from low down in the throat (just before going to sleep evening), (4th dil.), 10.
- When eating fruit, it seemed to him repeatedly as if a little piece stuck in the larynx ; it feels as if in the upper part and in front something lay in a little spot almost as if chilling , and somewhat pressing, which sensation constantly irritates him to cough, without being removed by doing so (1st trit.), 9.
- In the throat (larynx), a remarkable shattering kind of a crack or crash, with almost a metallic reverberation (like that heard from the ice breaking up in the spring), (3d trit.), 10.
- *Rawness and soreness in the upper part of the larynx, when coughing, not when swallowing, 1.
- A dull cutting, which becomes a stitch, in the air-passages, from below upwards, occasioning two or three fits of cough ; it continues even after the cough; the cough produces a kind of watery expectoration, which, however, does not relieve the irritation to cough (after twenty-four hours), 3.*
- It seems like a raw spot in the windpipe, in the region of the suprasternal fossa; worse when speaking, talking, or singing, 9.
- Pain in the cricoid cartilage, caused by a draught of air, with a feeling of a stopper in the throat, and on pressing on it a bruised pain, 10. [210.]
- Cough from laughing, 9.*
- (Cough in the morning), 1.
- Irritation, hacking cough, without expectoration; early in the morning after rising (after forty-eight hours), 8.
- Several attacks of a short, rattling cough by day, not in the night, nor in the open air, with white, thickish, easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch , but not transparent, without taste or smell, 1.*
CHEST
- Mucus in the chest, and cough, with expectoration (after twenty-six hours), 8.
- Spasmodic aching and tension in some of the ribs, 1.
- Drawing, stinging pain, as if an ulcer, in the lowest rib near the spine (2d trit.), 10.
- Violent cutting in both sides, in the region of the lowest ribs, from within outwards; the pain is severe only during a deep inspiration; when moving the trunk without taking an inspiration, he feels no aggravation of the pain, but feels it as soon as he inspires (after ten hours), 7.
- A pinching, pressive pain in a place, as large as a half dollar, in the right side of the chest below the axilla; at noon, while at rest, on pressing on it a bruised pain remains (4th dil.), 10.
- On the right side of the chest, a place affected with a pain, as if something hard were pressing upon the ribs, 3. [220.]
- A painful drawing in the right side of the thorax, about one and one-half inches below the axilla, paining, on strong pressure, as if bruised; while at rest after a meal (6th dil.), 10.
- During a deep inspiration, under the second or third rib of the right side, in a place of the size of half a dollar, a pain pressing from within outwards, 5.
- Sharp stitches on the right side, near the handle of the sternum (after eight hours), 6.
- Sharp stitches on the right side, near the nipple, 6.
- *In the right side of the chest, for a minute, such a violent stitch from within outwards that he can neither expire nor inspire (when sitting), (after twenty-eight hours), 8.
- Cramplike pain in the left side of the chest; after the pain has subsided the place is still painful to the touch (after nine hours), 7.
- Gnawing irritation on the left side of the chest, when at rest, 7.
- Sensation of oppression in the left side of the chest, over the heart (after seventy-eight hours), 7.
- Cutting, as with a fine knife, across the cartilages of the false ribs on the left side; mornings in bed after waking, the spot pains on pressure as if bruised (4th dil.), 10.
- A horizontal cutting, as with a knife, on the left side near the pit of the stomach, in the cartilage of the false ribs, after breakfast when quiet (5th dil.), 10. [230.]
- Pain, as if sprained, in the cartilage of the left false ribs, horizontally across the rib near the pit of the stomach, .
HEART AND PULSE
- Frequent spasmodic, though painless twitchings of the whole cardiac muscle, especially on lying on the back , with a constantly recurring, though not anxious thought, that he would have apoplexy and never complete the proving (2d trit.), 10.*
- (Oppressive burning in the region of the heart), 5.
- In the evening, in bed, quick pulse, with thirst (after eleven hours), 4.
NECK AND BACK
- The nape of the neck feels stiff; there seems to be something foreign in the occiput, a kind of drawing and pressing on it, 1.
- Painful tension on both sides of the foramen magnum, especially on motion, after waking in the morning (third day), (6th dil.), 10.
- Violent drawing pain in the right neck, close to the foramen magnum (3d trit.), 10. [250.]
- A drawing pain from the mastoid process, extending for an inch downward, disappears on pressure (3d trit.), 10.
- Pressure on the outer left side of the neck, when walking in the open air, 3.
- A tensive, bruised pain on each side of the neck, along the course of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles, only noticed when the head is turned to the opposite side, and the muscle put upon the stretch, on sitting in the open air (3d trit.), 10.
- Tickling-itching stitches between the scapulæ, resembling violent flea or mosquito bites; he could not scratch enough, 1.
- Sharp pressure under the scapulæ, 7.
- Excessive tearing in the upper portion of the left scapula; the pain is felt when sitting, and abates when rising from the seat, 2.
- Tearing in the glenoid cavity of the scapula, extends as far as the clavicle, 6.
- Tingling of the left scapula, as if the parts hand gone to sleep, 3.
- A transient itching between the scapulæ, causes scratching (5th dil.), 10.
- Cutting stitches at the termination of the ribs, on the right side, near the vertebral column, especially when curving the back, 5. [260.]
- Pressure in the side of the back, opposite the bowels; afterwards, fearfully violent, as though he would die, oppressive stitches occurring on the least motion, or when breathing, so that he had to walk bent; when lying still, a griping there, as in a malignant ulcer; oppression of the chest, as if a heavy load had been lying on it, which prevented breathing, 1.
- Bruised pain in the back and loins, after waking, in the morning (third day), (6th dil.), 10.
- Drawing tensive pain in the left lumbar region, and in the groin, below the inguinal ring, extending to the thigh; at 7 P.M., while at rest, after a moderate walk (4th dil.), 10.
- Dull stitches in the second lumbar vertebra, 6.
- Sensation as if the small of the back had been knocked away (after twenty-four hours), .
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL. [270.]
- Loss of power in the limbs (1st trit.), 10.
- Great loss of power of the limbs, especially of the upper arm, about the shoulder, mornings, after waking (4th dil.), 10.
- Mornings, in bed, after waking, unusual fatigue of the limbs, especially of the upper arms, as far as the shoulder, as after a long walk; with slight chilliness under the whole skin, and feeling of hunger, which disappeared after a short attack of nausea (6th dil.), 10.
- Discomfort, heaviness, in all the limbs, 2.
- A sort of pressive tearing in the extremities of the long bones, just above or below their joints, in different parts of the body (after forty-eight hours), 2.
- Cramplike drawing in the back of the right hand and foot, 3.
- Pressive, drawing and tensive pain in the bends of both elbows and knees (in every position); when pressing upon the parts, the pain disappears for a moment, but returns immediately, 1.
- Tearing and pressive pain in the metacarpal bone of the thumb, and in the two posterior joints of the big toes; worse by contact, 6.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the right shoulder and left inner malleolus of the ankle, on walking (1st trit.), 10.
UPPER EXTREMITIES
- Twitching of muscles from the right anterior clavicular region toward the shoulder-joint (in a fasciculus of the pectoralis major), during rest (4th dil.), 10. [280.]
- Tearing on the top of the shoulder, and in the region of the head of the humerus, 6.
- A momentary tearing on the articular eminence of the right shoulder, at 5 P.M., while at rest (6th dil.), 10.
- Tearing pain from the articular eminence of the right shoulder to the neck, during rest (4th dil.), 10.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the uppermost muscles of the right shoulder-blade, on exerting the outstretched arm (4th dil.), 10.
- Frequent painless, muscular twitchings around the right shoulder-joint, at one time in the posterior margin of the axilla, at another in front of the clavicle extending to the top of the shoulder (4th dil.), 10.
- Boring-scratching pain in right shoulder-joint, mornings, when walking (3d trit.), 10.
- A short, painful tearing in the right shoulder-joint, and then in the right frontal region (6th dil.), 10.
- Tearing drawing (afterward, beating, throbbing) pains in the right shoulder-joint in rest, with marked paralytic weakness of the joint (5th dil.), 10.
- Pressive, bruised pain on the top of the left shoulder-joint, on walking (one hour), (2d trit.), 10.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the left shoulder-joint, at rest (4th dil.), 10 . at rest (4th dil.), 10. [290.]
- Pressive tearing below the shoulder-joint, 2.
- A sharp, painful drawing in the right deltoid muscle (4th dil.), 10.
- Drawing, digging pain under the right deltoid muscle, 10.
- Drawing pains in left deltoid muscle, which pains on pressure, as if beaten, at rest; lasts ten to fifteen seconds (4th dil.), 10.
- Boring stitches in the right axilla, which did not cease when touched (after thirty hours), 3.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the posterior wall of the right axilla, on muscular exertion, disappears in rest (3d trit.), 10.
- The arm is inclined to go to sleep, when lying on it, mornings, with increased flow of saliva (2d trit.), 10.
- Paralytic feeling in the arms during motion, especially in the elbow-joint (after thirty-two hours), .
ARGENTUM METALLICUM. LOWER EXTREMITIES
- Powerlessness of the lower extremities after waking; the knees knock together when walking (3d trit.), 10.
- After rising from bed, great weariness of the lower extremities, most marked in the region of the trochanters; it seemed as though the ligaments and muscles had given way, with painful tension in the muscles about the trochanter and buttocks, as if sprained ; especially sensitive on walking; on hard pressure, they pain as if bruised (6th dil.), 10.
- Stiffness of the lower extremities, evening (6th dil.), 10.
- Shivering-like creepings through the whole outer side of the left lower extremity on standing in a room (1st trit.), 10. [350.]
- Paralytic weakness in the hip and thigh, 1.
- Paralytic weakness in the right hip-joint when walking, especially when moving the leg forward, and stitches when setting down the foot; this caused him to limp, but soon went off, 5.
- Painful stiffness in the muscles about the hip-joint on dressing (6th dil.), 10.
- Paralytic drawing in the bones of the right hip (3d trit.), 10.
- On running, when he steps on the left foot, which is stretched forward, a painful pricking pressure in the right hip-joint, 2.
- Violent pain at a place behind the left hip, as if he had had a violent fall upon it; only felt during motion; not excited by standing (after thirty-two hours), 8.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the right hip-joint (1st trit.), 10.
- A pain, as if sprained, in the left hip, caused by sneezing (4th dil.), 10.
- A pain, as if sprained, in the hip-joint on every step, so severe that it caused him to limp (2d trit.), 10.
- A violent electric shock, starting first from the left; then from the right hip-joint, and disturbing his after-dinner nap (3d trit.), 10. [360.]
- Burning sore feeling between the nates after a short walk (1st trit.), 10.
- The glutei muscles pain as if bruised on walking, stooping, adduction of the thigh, or by lying on the parts (6th dil.), 10.
- Throbbing stitches, synchronous with the pulse, from the left trochanter, along the neck of the femur, to the socket; lasts ten minutes; the end of each throb was always accompanied with a fine stitch; mornings, after waking, in bed (4th dil.), .
GENERALITIES
- Twitchings and palpitation of several muscles, especially of the right thigh, 2.
- Woke in the morning weak and depressed (4th dil.), 10.
- Paralytic weakness on motion (1st trit.), 10.
- Great weakness of the body, especially of the thighs, when sitting or walking, with sleepiness (after four hours), 4.
- Lassitude and heat all over when walking in the open air; he has no sweat, and feels a sort of anguish, as if his clothes were too tight, 1.
- Great weakness in the limbs, and tensive bruised pain in the neck, mornings, after waking; better after rising (5th dil.), 10.
- Frequent drawing pains, now in one, now in another joint, now in the upper arm, in the calf, forehead, always short and alternating, in rest (2d trit.), 10. [420.]
- Drawing pains, now in the left forehead, now in the occiput, now in the left elbow-joint, in rest (1st trit.), 10.
- Painful pressive tension, alternating between the tendon of the right psoas and the triceps humeris; on pressing on it, pain as if bruised (1st trit.), 10.
- Pain, as if sprained, on the external posterior rim of the pelvis and on the right inner malleolus, on motion, after rising (3d trit.), 10.
- Slight soreness between the nates, around the anus, and in the groin, on moderate walking (2d trit.), 10.
- Seems to be beset with pressive, burrowing, tensive, stiff, bruised, and broken feelings (of the bones), (3d trit.), 10.
SKIN
- Burning itching, here and there, on the skin; for instance, upon the skin of the face, the hands, etc., not, however, making scratching necessary, 1.
- Frequent sticking in the skin, as from fleas (6th dil.), 10.
- Intolerable itching, as from a flea creeping over the head and the whole body, 1.
- Stitches here and there in the skin, as from electric sparks, through the day (3d trit.), 10.
- Itching biting, causing scratching on the skin of the forehead (5th dil.), 10. [430.]
- Pimple on the left temple, painful when touched, 1.
- A little blister on the tongue, sore and burning, 1.
- A furuncle formed on the lowest left rib, not painful, but sensitive to touch; it discharged after six days, but the hardness under the skin remained fourteen days (6th dil.), 10.
- Stinging and itching burning under the skin, in the inner side of the wrist-joint (after thirty-two hours), 7.
- (Several pimples on the tibia, with a burning pain), 1.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Dizzy drowsiness; his eyes closed, 1.
- Inclined to sleep, forepart of night, but could not, on account of heat and stinging, as of gnats, in the skin; when half asleep, was attacked with vertigo, so that he thought the head would fall out of the bed, followed by violent convulsive shaking of the body, as in epilepsy, with vertigo and sleeplessness, 10.
- On beginning the customary afternoon nap, a repeated sudden electric shock of the whole left lower limb, starting from the left knee-joint, interrupting the nap (5th dil.), 10.
- Wakes at 3.30, and cannot sleep again (3d trit.), 10.
- Night extremely restless (6th dil.), 10. [440.]
- Very restless night on account of many anxious dreams (5th dil.), 10.
- Sleep restless, with many dreams of care and fright (4th dil.), 10.
- Extremely restless at night ; dreamy; dreams of unpleasant things; not remembered (5th dil.), 10.
- Sleep full of dreams (1st trit.), 10.
- Sleep full of very active anxious dreams, which were not recalled in the morning (very unusual), (6th dil.), 10.
- Dreams about the events of the day, 1.
- Night full of dreams of the day's business (4th dil.), 10.
- Many anxious dreams, causing nausea (3d trit.), 10.
- Frightful anxious dreams at night (2d trit.), 10.
- Anxious dreams; on waking up, he still felt so anxious that he imagined he had suffered the accident he had dreamed about, 1. [450.]
- A dream that he was followed by a raging, powerful fiend; in the morning, he woke very early, and was very weak; the weakness seems to concentrate itself in the hip (5th dil.), 10.
FEVER
- Shivering through the whole body (after one and a half hours), 8.
- Slight chilliness under the whole skin, mornings, in bed, after waking, etc. (6th dil.), 10.
- In the afternoon, chilliness until he went to sleep; even in bed, he could not get warm; sweat after midnight, 1.
- Chilliness on the back and on the feet, extending beyond the malleoli; it continued for two hours, and was very painful; walking did him no good (after six and a half hours), 5.
- Chills over the upper portion of the body, at night, when lifting the cover ever so little; when properly covered, he felt naturally warm (after four hours), 1.
- Slight creeping chills in the skin, on uncovering the upper part of the body (4th dil.), 10.
- In the forenoon, heat and feeling of heat over the whole body, less, however, about the head, without any thirst, with a little sweat on the abdomen and some on the chest, 1.
- Hectic fever every day from 11 to 12 or 1 o'clock, 9.
- Sweats very easily, especially during and after eating (1st trit.), 10.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Early, stitching headache; early, after rising, itching of lobules of ears ; early, *mucus in throat; sensation of hunger; after waking hunger; early, no appetite; burning in abdomen, etc.; cough; early, after rising, hacking cough; in bed, after waking, cutting across cartilages of false ribs; in bed, after waking, cutting in the cartilages of the false ribs; after waking pain in back and loins; after waking, loss of power of limbs; when waking, muscular twitchings around right shoulder-joint; when walking, boring scratching in right shoulder-joint; after waking, in bed, stitches from left trochanter to socket; after waking, great weakness in the limbs, etc.
- ( Forenoon ), Sensation of hunger, etc.; heat, etc., over whole body.
- ( Noon ), *The symptoms reappear ; at rest, pain in right side of chest.
- ( Afternoon ), Stitch through skin, etc., of left upper lid; itching in the folds of the concha, etc.; burning on tip of tongue; two vomitings; after long walk, pain as if sprained, on left side of pelvis; on writing, twitches in right thumb; chilliness.
- ( Evening ), After lying down, boring pain in left side of forehead; in bed, drawing in right half of brain, etc.; *in bed crushed pain in testicles ; in bed, stitches under ribs; in bed, quick pulse, etc.; paralytic drawing in right radius; in bed, drawing above the wrist, etc.; in bed, burning stitches in left tibia.
- ( Night ), Distension of the abdomen; rumbling in the abdomen, etc.; when lifting the cover, ever so little, chills over upper part of body.
- ( After midnight ), Sweat.
- (
10 A.M .), Confusion of head.
- (
11 A.M .), Stitching in the side of left forearm, etc.; great fatigue, etc.
- (
2 P.M .), Drawing pains above the wrist.
- (
3 P.M .), At rest, tearings in lower end of left arm.
- (
6 P.M .), Burning pain on elbow; tearing in back of left middle toes.
- (
7 P.M .), At rest, after moderate walk, pain in left lumbar region.
- ( Adduction of thigh ), Pain in lumbo-sacral region.
- ( Draught of air ), Pain in cricoid cartilage.
- ( Walking in open air ), Pressure on side of neck; pain in condyle of tibia; lassitude, etc., all over.
- ( Bending arm ), Tension at point of elbow.
- ( Sitting bent ), Pain in left side of sternum.
- ( Breathing ), Pressive stitches in side of back.
- ( On coming in from a walk ), Very dizzy, etc.
- ( Contact ), Pain in region of temporal bones; pain in metacarpal bone of thumb, etc.; pain in flesh of upper arm.
- ( Coughing ), *Raw, etc., in throat; rawness, etc., in upper part of larynx.
- ( Curving the back ), Stitches at the termination of the ribs.
- ( During deglutition ), Soreness, etc., in throat; ( *empty ), scraping in velum pendulum.
- ( After dinner ), Immediately, when blowing nose, violent bleeding.
- ( After beginning to eat ), Pressure from hypogastrium downwards.
- ( After eating ), Coldness in right side of pelvis.
- ( During and after eating ), Sweats very easily.
- ( During expiration ), Soreness, etc., in throat.
- ( Extending arm ), Pain in bend of right elbow.
- ( Muscular exertion ), Pain in right axilla.
- ( Inspiration ), Pressure from hypogastrium downwards; cutting in region of lowest ribs; pain under second and third ribs; stitches between ribs; stitches in chest, etc.
- ( Laughing ), *Produces mucus in larynx ; *excites cough.
- ( Lifting the part ), Cramp in upper arm.
- ( Lying on back ), *Twitching of the cardiac muscle.