"A normally white, usually dark olive-green, soft, glutinous, mucous substance, of a urinous odor, which floats in the allantois fluid, or is attached to the allantois membrane of the mare or cow, chiefly during the last months of pregnancy." -SCHREGER (from Hering).

Preparation , Trituration of a dry, dark, reddish-brown substance, said to have been obtained by Helffrich from the tongue of a newly born filly. -Hering.

Authorities. (Hering, Arzneiprüfungen, p. 491); 1 , Hering; 2 , a young man; 3 , Hering's son, aged 13; 4 , Helffrich; 5 , "J.," a pupil of last; 6 , Dr. Floto; 7 , Dr. Reichhelm; 8 , Neidhard, tincture; 9 , same, 4th trit.; 10 , F. Hasmann took 3d and 30th dils., alternately; repeated experiments on self and others.

MIND

Emotional.
Lascivious fancies in the forenoon (first day), 6.
Homesick in the evening (second day), 6.
Apprehensiveness, anxiety about the future, in the evening (second day), 6.
He is easily frightened by an unexpected noise, and headache is caused thereby, 3.
Fretful, sleepy, during the headache, with vertigo, 5.
Fretful, discontented with himself, almost lachrymose, in the morning (third day), 7.
Uncomfortable and fretful about everything, 2.
Ill-humored, weary of life, even to suicide, in both provings (seventh day), 6.
Chatting throughout the day; therewith ill-humored, peevish (first day), 7. [10.]
Peevish, ill-humored (second day), 6.
Peevish, fretful mood (first day), 6.
Peevish, depressed (fifth day), 6.
Peevish hypochondriac mood, nothing is good enough, in the forenoon (first day), 6.
Extremely peevish, in the evening, quarrelsome mood, with heat over the whole body (second day), 6.
He feels as though he would fifth with any one, 9.
Discontented with the present condition, in the evening (second day), 6.
Intellectual.
Disinclination for any kind of business; the headache, especially, was very much increased by mental exertion, in the forenoon (first days), 6.
Keeping school was very difficult for him during the proving, 5.
Aversion to study (third day), 6. [20.]
Inability to think (first and eleventh days), 6.
Inability to perform mental work; after reading a sentence, he immediately forgot the beginning of it, in the evening (third day), 6.

HEAD

Confusion.
Confusion of the head, especially in the evening (second day), 7.
The forehead is constantly confused, without actual pain, 2.
General Head.
Is unable to hold the head erect, 6.
On rising the head falls forward as from heaviness, 10.
Inclination to bore the head into the pillow, at night, with constant turning it back and forth, 10.
Feeling of remarkable lightness in the head; something crawling or creeping, which seems to be associated with the stomach; it seems as though it would make him frantic, 9.
Feeling of emptiness in the head and abdomen (fifth day), 6.
Pains in the head from a fright, 3. [30.]
Heat of the head and pain towards morning; if he feels of the head it seems as though it were hollow, after a restless sleep, 5.
Headache, especially in the forehead (Aconite and, after an hour, Coffea relieved), (twentieth day), 4.
Headache extending into the nose, 6.
Headache in the evening, in bed, 4.
Headache, with vertigo, and with heat, especially of the head, 1.
Headache, with vertigo and stupefaction, preceded towards morning by heat in the head, then at 10 P.M., chilliness, afterwards flatulence, aversion to tobacco, thirst, ill-humor, sleepiness and frequent yawning; a few cups of coffee relieved (immediately), 5.
Headache, with nausea, as if the head were compressed (he feels it in the whole head), worse when walking slowly, disappearing on walking rapidly and on running, also on sitting and during rest, 3.
Dull headache, with heat (fourth day), 6.
Drawing, digging pain in the head, jerklike sticking, with sticking in the eyes, in the evening, in bed (first and second days), 6.
Jerklike drawings across the head, more towards the left side (ninth day), 6. [40.]
Pressive headache, in the morning (first and second days), 6.
Pressive or pressing headache, especially in the evening (eighth day); the same pain in the forehead, in the evening (ninth day), 7.

EYE

Objective.
Staring look (fourth day), 6.
Subjective.
The eyes are painful on moving them, with pain in the forehead, 2.
Burning in the eyes and lachrymation during the headaches, 1. [70.]
Burning in the eyes; it constantly seems as though he should go to sleep, at first more in the left than in the right eye, 10.
Aching of the eyes, during the headache, 10.
Very acute pressure in the right eye, as from a grain of sand, in the evening, lasting two or three hours, 10.
Sticking in the eyes during the headache, 6.
He constantly places the body and especially the head in such a position that he can involuntarily turn the eyes with greater freedom, in the morning (fourth day), 6.
Brow.
Pain like a heaviness above the eyes and in the forehead, 8.
Sticking pain above the right eye, in the evening, 10.
Lids.
Frequent twinging in the left lower eyelid (eleventh day), 6.
Lachrymal Apparatus.
Lachrymation on drawing air through the nose, 10.
Vision.
Candlelight seems to have a blue color, 3. [80.]
Red, blue, green, round spots before the eyes, on walking in the street, a very much larger one in the middle with smaller ones about it; they disappear on going into the house, and it becomes dark and black before the eyes, 3.

EAR

Feeling in the left ear, in the afternoon and evening, as if it would discharge, obliging him to bore into it (after three weeks), 4.
Stitches in the left ear, with boring-tearing pain, 2.
Crackling in the left ear, in the evening while sitting; it comes on about every five minutes and then disappears, 10.

NOSE

Objective.
Twitching and itching of the nose, 10.
Vibrating or slight twitching in the left side of the nose, 10.
Nosebleed, in the morning (fifth day), 4.
Small blackish clots of blood come from the nose and mouth, 2.
Subjective.
Feeling of coldness in the nose, during inspiration (tenth day), 6.
The air passes cold through the nose into the air-passages; he feels as if the mucous membrane of the nose and larynx was wanting or raw, and as though much more air than usual passed through the nostrils, 10. [90.]
Feeling of stopped coryza, chilliness, thirst, and headache, 5.

FACE

Paleness of the face, with weakness, 8.
Heat of the face, in the morning (fourth day); also in the evening (third day); with aggravation of the mental symptoms, 6.
Involuntary jerking of the lower lip (first day), 5.

MOUTH

Toothache in the left maxilla (first day), 6.
Tongue coated white, red at the tip, 3.
A fixed, burning sore pain in the mouth above the incisors, by the upper jaw, lasting several days (second week), 6.
Much saliva in the mouth with headache, 10 ; with sore throat, 2.
Bitter taste in the mouth, 3.

THROAT

Pains in the throat, with chilliness, in the evening, 6. [100.]
Pains in the throat; feeling of a lump in the left side of the throat, when swallowing and on talking, in the morning, 3.
Pain in the throat, extending from the palate to the larynx, in the evening (third day), 6.
Tickling irritation low down in the throat, 2.
Tickling in the throat, which provokes cough, 2.
Tickling in the throat, during inspiration, 3.
The tonsils, especially the left, begin to ache, from morning till 10 A.M., together with much saliva in the mouth, 2.
Tenacious mucus in the fauces, in the morning, 3.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Craving for sour, acrid things and aversion to sweet things, with a white coated tongue, red at the tip, 3.
Loss of appetite, coated tongue and ill-humor (first day), 2.
Want of appetite, during the whole proving, 2. [110.]
No appetite, with saliva in the mouth and headache, 10.
Aversion to eating, especially in the morning, 10.
Aversion to tobacco, 5 ; in forenoon (first and third days), 6.
Disgust for smoking, in the morning (second day), 6.
Thirst.
Thirst, with a sick feeling and headache, even in the forenoon, 5.
Eructations and Hiccough.
Eructations, in the morning (third and fourth days), 6.
Eructations, with chilliness, in the forenoon (fourth day), 6.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, especially in a draft, 3.
Nausea, with headache, 3.
Vomiting, with soft stool, 6.
Stomach. [120.]
Icy coldness in the epigastric region, in the left side on the ribs and in the abdomen (fourth day), 6.

ABDOMEN

Slight pulsating pain beneath the left ribs, 9.
Violent colic about the umbilicus (second day), 6.
Rumbling in the abdomen, 1.
Flatulence and ill-humor in the forenoon, 5.
Offensive flatulence, with colic, 6.
Emission of flatulence (fourth day), and in the forenoon (first day), 6.
Abdomen hard, not relieved even after stool, 2.
Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen and head (fifth day), 6.
Coliclike pains in the abdomen, especially about the umbilicus, with emission of much offensive flatus, in the morning (second day), 6.

ANUS. [130.]

Spasm of the sphincter ani in the forenoon (third day), 6.
Pain in the upper part of the anus (second day), 6.
Pressure in the upper part of the anus, 6.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa, with discharge of some fluid from the urethra after micturition, in the morning (third day), 6.
Diarrhœa-like stool in the evening, with emission of flatulence (thirteenth day), 4.
Soft stool follows the headache after drinking coffee, 5.
Soft stool, with vomiting and discharge of fluid (prostatic?) from the urethra after micturition; in the evening, after he had had a hard, lumpy stool in the morning (second day), 6.
Stool irregular, not at the usual time (eighth, ninth, and tenth days), 6.
Constipation.
Constipation; small, nodular stool (second day), 6.
Hard, irregular stool (second week), 7. [140.]
Small, hard, crumbly stool (fourth day), 6.
Thick, hard stool, in balls, with tenesmus, preceded by cutting colic in the morning (second day), 6.
Hard, thick stool, after much dragging, in the forenoon (first day), 6.

URINARY ORGANS

Urethra.
Discharge of fluid (prostatic?) from the urethra after micturition, with a soft stool (second day); during diarrhœa (third and tenth days), 6.
Drawing, extending from the anus through the urethra, in the evening (third day), 6.
Sudden drawing pain from the anus through the urethra in the morning (third day), 6.
Micturition.
Urging to urinate in the morning on waking; the urine does not pass with the usual large stream, it seems as though it were retained by a swelling, 10.
Profuse emission of clear watery urine (first day), 6.
Dribbling of the urine after the emission in the morning (third day), 6.
Urine.
Urine scanty, clear (first day), 6.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male. [150.]
Pain on the top of the penis in the morning (third day), 6.
Tensive pain in the testicles (second day), and in the lower part of the testicles in the forenoon (second day), 6.
Drawing pain in the testicles (fourth and tenth days), 6.
Crawling sensation in the testicles, 9.
Drawing in the right spermatic cord in the region of the external ring, 10.
Increased sexual desire in the forenoon (third day), 6.
Increased sexual desire in the evening (fifth day), 6.
Great sexual desire, with erections, in the forenoon (second day), 6.
One or two profuse emissions at night, caused by dreams (apparently towards morning), followed by constant tossing about from side to side, with loud groans, so that he called aloud (fourth day), 6.
Female.
It expedites menstruation, especially at the climacteric period, 10. [160.]
Menstruation fourteen days too early, without any pain; she feels better than usual two days (in a woman thirty years old), 10.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Pain, extending from the palate to the larynx, in the evening, 6.
The larynx feels raw, as if the air was too cold, 10.
Cough during sleep, without waking, 3.
Barking cough, 3.
Expectoration of loose mucus in the morning (fourth day), 6.
Mucous expectoration from the lungs, especially in the morning (which he had not had for six months), 5.

CHEST

A pressing-outward and drawing-upward from the right hypochondrium to the left shoulder, 3.
Dull, pressive pain in the chest and on both sides, lasting the whole day, 2.
Stitches in the chest in the forenoon (second day), 6. [170.]
Pressive pain in the right side of the chest, between the third and fifth ribs (where the prover had had tubercles in the lungs), 10.
Stitches in the left side, so that respiration is difficult (tenth day), 6.
Repeated stitches in the left side, 8.
Some dull stitches in the left side of the chest, more towards the back, 2.
Pain in the left side of the chest, shooting from below upward (ninth day), 6.
A hard, movable swelling of the size of a hazel-nut, full a finger's breadth beneath the left nipple, between the ribs and skin, in the evening, in bed, disappearing the next day (tenth day), 6.

HEART AND PULSE

Heart.
On every turning of the body, especially on rising from sitting, some hard, violent beats of the heart, 2.
Frequently a pain when walking, as though the heart would be torn out; generally there are frequent, very hard beats of the heart, 2.
Pulse.
Pulse rapid in the forenoon (second day), 6.
Pulse slow and weak during the chill in the forenoon (fourth day), 6.

BACK. [180.]

Pains, as if in the spinal cord, in the morning (fourth day), 6.
Pain in the back beneath the left scapula, 2.
Pain between the left scapula and the spine on swallowing or on deep breathing, and on bending towards the left side, in the evening, 10.
Stitches beneath the left scapula lasting a long time, 2.
Jerking across the spine, between the shoulder-blades, in the forenoon (fourth day), 6.
Drawings in the region of the upper lumbar vertebræ in the morning (first day), 6.
Pain in the small of the back (third day), 6.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Weariness of the arms and limbs, at first for one day, more on the left side; and then for two days, more on the right, 10.
Weakness and weariness in the limbs, 10.
The limbs were so weak that he believed that he could not get from the place where he was, yet it disappeared on rapid walking, 3. [190.]
Heaviness of the limbs (tenth day), 6.
Tearing pain in the arms and limbs on stretching them out, 3.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

The left arm frequently feels paralyzed from the shoulder down, 2.
Feeling of heaviness in the left shoulder, as if a heavy weight were lying on it and pressing the shoulder down, only disappearing while lying, 3.
Twinging in the bones of the left upper arm (fifth day), 7.
Paralysis of the wrist (right?)

every morning, in bed , and only at this time, commencing on the eighth day, and after three months had not entirely disappeared (Causticum relieved), 6 . [Similar, only more violently painful and persistent, after Oxalic acid 1/10, in which Causticum also relieved. -Hering.]

A sprained feeling in the wrists, especially in the left, as though he had sprained the hand, 3.
Pain in the left wrist, as if sprained, on rising in the morning, 3.
Feeling of lameness and heaviness of the hands, wrists, and fingers (tenth day), 6.
Stiffness and a feeling of lameness in both hands, as if swollen and asleep (sixth day), 6. [200.]
The greatest weakness of the hands and fingers, so that he could not hold them tightly together, 3.
Great weakness of the hands, so that he could not hold anything with them, 3.
Stiffness of the right middle finger in the morning, 10.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Weariness and aching in both thighs and calves (fifth day), 5.
In the evening, jerking in the inside of the right thigh above the knee; after two days the same in the left, 10.
Feeling as though the knees were sprained, with great weakness in them on standing, 3.
Sticking above the left knee (fifth day), 7.
Pressive drawing tearing above the left knee in the morning, in bed; the same feeling in the right leg below the knee (sixth day), 6.
Jumping-throbbing pain on the outer side of the left calf in the morning (first day), 6.
Lameness, drawing, and tension in the right ankle in the morning (ninth day), 6. [210.]
Weakness and dryness in the ankles and soles of the feet, so violent that he dreaded to step (first day); disappearing after washing with brandy, 5.
Tension in the sole of the left foot in the morning (eleventh day), 6.
Cramp in the foot (tenth day), 6.
Cramp in the metatarsus in the forenoon (second day), 6.
Cramp in the soles of the feet in the evening when sitting (first day), 4.
Cramp in the sole of the left foot in the evening, in bed (thirtieth day), 4.
Cramplike pain in the ball of the left foot in the evening when sitting (thirty-first day), 4.
Pain, as though sore on the ball of the foot and above it on the toes on bending the foot, 3.
Sticking in the corns in the forenoon (fourth day), 6.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Starting at noises, 3. [220.]
Laziness in the forenoon (first day), 6.
Weakness, general prostration, physically and mentally, 1.
Weakness, general exhaustion, physically and mentally (seventh to ninth days), 6.
General weakness and constant inclination to lie down and sleep (eleventh day), 6.
Great weakness and prostration, with pale face, 8.
On waking, was so weak that he was obliged to lie down, 2.
Physical and mental exhaustion, very noticeable from the beginning of the proving, and very decided after the eleventh day, 6.
Uneasiness; is driven from place to place, 10.
Tossing about the bed towards morning after an emission, 6.
Subjective.
Desire to lie down, but was not relieved thereby, 2. [230.]
Inclination to lie down, while lying, the head feels better, at noon (first day), 6.
On rising, the whole body feels heavy and uncomfortable, especially the head, in the morning (fourth day), 6.
Feels heavy and uncomfortable over the whole body, especially in the head, on rising in the morning (fourth day), 6.
He feels sick, weak, and fretful the whole of the fourth day, 6.
Bruised sensation and weakness of the whole body, 2.
Appearance and aggravation of all the symptoms towards evening (first day), 6.
The mental symptoms especially are worse in the evening, with heat of the face (third day), 6.
Violent symptoms relieved by two or three cups of coffee, 5.
Symptoms appear mostly while sitting, 6.

SKIN

Objective.
Papulous eruption in various places (first day), 6. [240.]
Eruption on the back and shoulders (fourth day), 6.
Itching, burning, dry eruption, like tetter, on the middle of the tibia (first day), 6.
A spot of nettlerash as large as a bean, with red areola and with violent itching, not relieved by scratching, on the lumbar vertebræ (fifth day); also on the right side of the forehead, with large areola (seventh day); then one on the right nates, in the evening, in bed, which itches until it makes him furious (tenth and eleventh days); on the calves and loins, itching just as much after scratching, disappearing on the thirteenth day, though still itching as much; on the fourteenth day on the right forearm; a small spot in the right hand on the side of the thumb, lasting only sixteen hours (twenty-first day), 7.
Eruption of many poisonous vesicles on the arms and thighs (first day), 5.
Pustules on the thighs, with red areola (first day), 6.
A small pustule on the right middle finger (first day), 6.
Subjective.
Formication on the right hand, in the morning (fourth day), 6.
Itching as from flannel on the skin, relieved by rubbing, on the chest, upper arms, sides, beneath the axillæ, then on the thighs, afterwards on the shoulders and back, lasting an hour and a half; at noon when riding, again in the evening when riding, but not on the arms (first day); returns repeatedly on riding in the evening (fourth day); morning, forenoon, noon, and evening (sixth and subsequent days to the thirty-first day); mostly upon the chest and between the shoulders , sometimes extending across the shoulders or under the arms, 4.
Itching of the feet (fifth day), 7.
Violent itching, as from cobwebs under the nose, more towards the right side, two evenings in succession; afterwards an eruption on the left side of the face, 10. [250.]
Fine itching on both sides of the chest, in the forenoon (third day), 6.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Frequent, almost spasmodic yawning (first day), 6.
Inclination to sleep, generally the whole day (ninth day), 6.
Sleepiness and burning in the eyes, 10.
Sleepiness, early in the evening (first day), 6.
Constant sleepiness; the sleep is quiet but not refreshing, 2.
Great sleepiness, 3.
Falls asleep without much though and cogitation, which is not usually the case (second day), 6.
Sleeplessness.
Sleepless, 1.
Falls asleep late, preceded by unconscious slumbering without thought (soon after taking), 6. [260.]
Half-waking condition the whole night; restless, without, however, waking from sleep; she had many obscure fancies about her daily duties (3d dil.), 10.
Sleep restless, and in the morning heat in the head (following a repeated dose in the evening), 1.
Night extremely restless, full of dreams, 8.
Dreams.
Much dreaming at night, without remembering it (fourteenth day), 4.
Lascivious dreams (sixth day), 6.
Lascivious dreams, without emissions, 10.
Anxious dreams during the night, of an angry ox chasing a child (tenth day), 5.
Frightful dreams; he heard many alarms during the night; was in delirium, 6.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilliness and shaking all over, 10.
Chilliness over the whole body, in the forenoon (first day), 6. [270.]
Chilliness, beginning in the back, 2.
Chilliness and eructations, in the forenoon, 6.
Chilliness and a feeling of stopped coryza, at 10 A.M., followed by thirst, sleepiness, headache, etc., 5.
Chilliness at 10 A.M., preceded by heat of the head and vertigo, followed by emission of flatulence, 5.
Chilliness, especially in the posterior portion of the upper arm, with a weak, slow pulse, in the forenoon (fourth day), 6.
Chilliness and pain in the throat, in the evening (first day), 6.
Great chilliness of the whole body, in spite of very warm weather, not relieved in the warmth of the bed, 3.
Chilliness on the back of the upper arm, 6.
Cold feet (fourth day), 6.
Heat.
Heat, in the evening, with hypochondriac mood (fourth and fifth days), 6. [280.]
Heat over the whole body, in the evening, with peevish, irascible mood (second day), 6.
General heat, heaviness in the limbs; is scarcely able to hold the head erect (tenth day), 6.
Fever heat, towards evening, with aggravation of all the symptoms (first day), 6.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Fretfulness; after uneasy sleep, heat in head; pressive headache; nosebleed; mucus in fauces; aversion to eating; disgust for smoking; pains in abdomen; diarrhœa; urging to urinate; in bed, paralysis of wrist ; pain in wrist; stiffness of middle finger; in bed, tearing above knee; on rising, body feels heavy, etc.; formication on hand.
( Forenoon ), Disinclination for mental exertion; pain in forehead, etc.; chilliness.
( Afternoon ), Towards evening, all symptoms; mental symptoms; towards evening, fever heat.
( Evening ), Confusion of head; in bed, headache; in bed, pain in head; pressing headache; in bed, pain in head; pressure in eye; pain above eye; pain in throat, etc.; jerking in inside of thigh; cramp in feet; on riding, itching of skin; chilliness; heat.
( Coffee ), Headache.
( Mental exertion ), Headache.
( Motion ), Pain in temple; headache on right side, etc.
( In room ), Headache.
( Sitting ), The symptoms.
( Stooping ), Headache on right side.
( Walking with sun in face ), Headache.
( Turning body ), Especially rising from seat, beating of heart.
( Walking ), Pain in heart.
( Walking slowly ), Headache.
Amelioration.
( Evening ), Pains eyes.
( Coffee ), Violent symptoms.
( Lying ), Heaviness in shoulder; pains in head.
( Rest ), Headache.
( Running ), Headache.
( In shade ), Headache.
( Sitting ), Headache.

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