Anemone Nuttalliana, DC., A. patens var Nuttalliana, Gray (Pulsatilla Nuttalliana, Gray).

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common names , Pasque flower (American).

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant.

Authorities.

1 , W. H. Burt, M.D., U. S. Med. and Surg, Journ., 1, 65, took 4th dec. dil., 1 ounce daily, for five days, then 2d dil. same way, on the eighth and ninth days; 1 a , same, took of a maceration of a small plant, in alcohol, a quarter of an ounce, first day; half an ounce, second day; 2 , Miss C., aged eighteen, took tincture, repeated doses, for eight days of 5 to 30 drops, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed; 2 a , same, took 20 drops to 1 teaspoonful doses; 3 , Mrs. W. (has passed her menstrual period four days, but feels well), took, of a drachm of tincture in half a glass of water, a teaspoonful every hour during two days; 4 , T. C. Duncan, Hale's New Remedies, took of tincture diluted one-half, half an ounce, first day, 3 drachms second day; ( 5 to 16 , provings by Dr. C. Wesselhœft, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1868); 5 , a man, aged thirty-two, took a drop of 3d dec. dil. 10 P.M., first day, and at 10 A.M., second day; 5 a , same, three doses of same in one day; 5 b , same subsequently took 10 drops 2 dec. dil. at 11 P.M., first day; morning and evening, second day, and evening, third day; 5 c , same, one day after last proving took 1st dec. dil. for three days; 5 d , same a month later took tincture, 10 drops morning and evening, first day; half a drachm, third day, and morning and evening, fourth day; 1 drachm; morning and evening, fifth day; 5 e , same, took a dose of a drachm of tincture; 6 , Mrs. W. took 1 drop 3d dec. dil.; 6 a , same, one hour after the appearance of menses took same dose; , Mr. P. took 10 drops of the tincture; , W. C. P., aged twenty, took a drop of 3d dec. dil., night and morning, for four days; , same, took a dose of 10 drops of tincture; , Mr. H. E., aged twenty-five, took a drop of 1st dec. dil. at 10 and 11 P.M., 2d day; same at 8 A.M., third day; same, morning and evening, fourth and fifth days; at night, sixth, seventh, and eighth days; , same, later took 2 dec. dil., evening, first day; morning, second day; , Miss C., aged forty (just recovered from a bad cold, commenced again to cough after one or two doses, and waited two or three days, then resumed the proving), took 3d dec. dil., one dose, first day; one, second day; one, fifth and sixth days; , Miss M. C., aged thirty, took 3d dec. dil., a dose, first and third nights; , Dr. G. Œhme, proving on his wife by 2 dil., a few doses; , Dr. W. Wesselhœft took 3d dec. dil., first, second, third, seventh, and eighth days; then 30 drops of tincture, eleventh and twelfth days; 100 drops, thirteenth day; , Miss S. W., aged twenty, took 2 drops, morning and evening for four days; , Miss A. G., aged eighteen, took 2 drops of tincture, first day; after three days took 3 drops in water, in two doses; , Dr. A. Brown took 3d dil. in water, a sixth part, night and morning; , Mrs. M., aged thirty, took a drop of 3d dil. three evenings in succession; , same, repeated four evenings.

MIND

Sad, gloomy state of mind, with frequent eructations of sour air (after fifteen hours); sad and gloomy (after thirteen hours, second day); with languor (fourth day), 1.
Depression of spirits (seventh day), 12.
Great depression of spirits, in the afternoon; a kind of homesickness, with despondency (fourth day), 5c.
Anxiety (second night), 5b.
Felt very irritable, "cross;" could not bear to be spoken to; noise vexed her; felt like weeping at trifling annoyances (second day), 3.
Irritability, wants to keep moving about; quick, nervous motions, 8.
Dulness of mind and disinclination to work (after three hours, fifth day), 5d.

HEAD

After being out in the open air, on entering the house, a dizziness in the head (sixth day), 2.
In the afternoon felt a sudden dizziness and fulness in the head, lasting only a few minutes (first day), 6. [10.]
Dulness and heaviness about the head (seventh day), 12.
Dull headache, slight, lasted half an hour (six hours after first dose, second day); dull headache in the morning, passed away after active exercise before breakfast (third day), 5b.
Some headache in the morning (fourth day), 5b.
Severe headache all the afternoon (fourth day), 4.
Dull, heavy feeling in the head, in the morning, less in the afternoon (fifth day), 4.
Dull headache (fifth day), 1 ; (third and fourth days), 11.
Dull headache and nausea, till about 11 o'clock (second day), 11.
Sight headache (first night), 10.
Dull headache and slight nausea nearly all day; better about noon, but increased towards night (second day), 10.
Headache and miserable feeling the first half of the day (third day), 10. [20.]
Headache at intervals all day, accompanied with habitual backache (fourth day), 13.
(Headache after having been actively occupied all night), (eleventh day), 12.
Slight headache (after eleven hours, eighth day), 1.
Flying pains in the head and feet (sixth day), 1.
Forehead.
Dull frontal headache, with dull pain in epigastrium (first day); slight frontal headache all the morning (eighth day), 9.
At noon dull, oppressive frontal headache (which I have not had months), (third day), 5b.
Several times have had hard pains in the whole upper forehead, that would pass to the back of the head, like a wave, affecting the whole brain (after nine hours), 1.
Severe frontal headache, caused by a sour stomach, during the restless night (third night), 1.
Severe, dull frontal headache (eighth day), 1.
On waking in the night, dull frontal headache (second night), . [30.]

EYE

Profuse secretion of the mucus of the eyes through the night (fifth night), 1.
Slight secretion of mucus in the eyes (tenth day), 1.
Profuse secretion of mucus in the eyes, in the morning (second and third days), 1a. [50.]
Dull pains deep in the eyes, with smarting of the eyes (after six hours, ninth day), 1.
Eyes, which are usually very weak, feel stronger (seventh day), 9.
A number of times have had a hard pain over the left eye, feeling as if a nail were being pressed into the forehead (after five hours second day), 1.
Occasional sharp pains in the eyes, with the drawing pains in the ears (third day), 1a.
Dryness of eyes (third day), 12a.
Sensation of dryness and heat in the eyes and nose (third day), 12a.
Smarting of the eyes, with profuse flow of tears (third day), 1.
Smarting of the eyes (fifth and eighth days), 1.
Smarting of the eyes, with the deep dull pains in the orbits (ninth day), 1.
Brow and Lid.
Twitching of left eyebrow and upper lid, lasted for half an hour, after going to bed (ten minutes after second dose, fifth day), 5d. [60.]
Constant twitching of the right eyelids, all the forenoon, especially when reading, and at intervals, all day (third day); some twitching of right eyelids, at intervals, all day, more while reading (fourth day), 5d.
Paralysis of the eyelids; almost impossible to keep the eyes open, with the dull headache (first day), 1a.
The eyes, which are habitually sensitive, became worse; redness of the edges of the lids, dryness and irritation make it impossible to use them, especially in the evening, 6a.
On waking in the night, found it impossible to open the eyes for nearly five minutes (sixth day), 9.
About 8 P.M. my eyelids commenced smarting and itching, and on retiring the lids felt very hot to the eye (fifth day); in the morning the eyes were slightly sealed by a soft yellow matter; in an hour I noticed a thick white substance on the edge of the lower lid, next to the eyeball (sixth day), 2.
Eyelids agglutinated (third and seventh day), 1.

EAR

Hard, drawing pains along the right Eustachian tube, for half an hour (fifth day), 1.
Frequent pains in the ears, of a drawing character, from the inside outwards, with the pains in the head and eyes (after three hours, second day), 19.
Frequent drawing pains in the ears all day, with occasional sharp pains in the right temple and eyes (third day), 1a.
Frequent sharp pains in the right ear and temple (fourth day), 1a.
Feeling in the left ear as if it were closed (first day); as if both were closed (second day), 1a.
Frequent snapping noises in the ears (after five hours, second day), 1a.
For two hours after taking the medicine, had a constant fluttering noise in the right ear (third day), 1.

NOSE

Sensation of dryness and heat in nose and eyes, for an hour, after taking medicine (third day), 12a.

FACE. [80.]

Complexion at first rough, after taking medicine; became very clear after disappearance of the rash, 6a.
After eating, flushed face, pressure of blood in the face (after three hours, fifth day), 5d.
Painful drawing in left cheek-bone and jaw (after second dose, fifth day), 5d.

MOUTH

Tongue.
Arose with tongue coated white, and with flat, pappy taste in mouth (fourth day), 5c.
Tongue covered with tough slime , red, rather dry, and swollen, showing the impressions of the teeth along the edges (sixth day), 5d.*
Yellowish coating along the centre of the tongue (third, fourth, ninth and tenth days), 1.
Tongue unusually red after eating (fifth day), 5d.
General Mouth.
Offensive breath in the morning, noticed by myself and others, continued all the following day (fourth day); offensive breath after eating (fifth day), 5d.
Mouth and lips dry (sixth day), 10.
Smarting of the velum palati, during the day (fifth day), 5d.
Saliva. [90.]
Mouth filling with saliva (third night), 11.
Taste.
Flat taste in the mouth (third day), 1.
Flat, bitter taste (fourth day), 1.
Flat rough taste in the mouth (ninth day), 1 ; (fourth day), 1a.
On awaking, dry, pappy taste in the mouth, as if the tongue was thickly coated (which was not the case), (sixth day), 5d.*
Sweetish bitter taste, not unpleasant (third day), 5d.
After sleeping in the afternoon (in consequence of fatigue), awoke with vinegar-like acidity in the mouth, and dull pressing pain in the stomach, 5e.
Bad taste in the mouth (first day), 6.

THROAT

Frequent inclination to clear the throat (seventh day), 12.
After eating, slight irritation in throat, with expectoration of white, tough mucus, which is raised with ease throughout the forenoon (third day); slight irritation in throat, occasionally with trifling expectoration, raised without much effort (fourth day); irritation of throat, with slight expectoration (fifteenth day), 12. [100.]
Throat is dry, smarts on waking, and contains much tough mucus, which is very hard to dislodge (sixth day), 5d.
Slight sensation of scratching and huskiness (immediately, second day), 12.
Husky feeling in throat until noon, and at intervals throughout the afternoon (after one hour and a half), 12.
Slight huskiness and dryness of throat for an hour, after taking medicine (third day), 12a.
At 6 P.M., a sensation as if there was a plug in the lower part of the throat, remaining until retiring (third day); in the morning it had disappeared; but reappeared, following a raw, tickling sensation in the throat (fourth day), 2a.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Increased appetite, while eating; one hour after eating very hungry, and hungry all the evening, particularly at bedtime (after second dose), 5a.
Increased appetite, 8.
Great desire to eat, although directly after breakfast (soon), 6.
Very great hunger before usual time; could scarcely eat enough to satisfy appetite (second day), 5b.
In the evening, great hunger; not to be relieved by eating; the hunger increased with eating (third day); no appetite for breakfast, food relished however (fourth day); good appetite for dinner, which I took about 1 o'clock, away from home; ate a sufficient quantity, without being satisfied. Hungry after eating; arriving home in about an hour and a half, found dinner waiting, and ate again as much as if I had eaten nothing all day; could have eaten more, felt hungry again after eating. Concluded not to eat supper; but while driving in the evening felt very hungry; had to go home, when I ate two slices of bread with a tumbler of milk. Desired to eat more but abstained; decided desire to eat, at 10 P.M. (fifth day), 5c. [110.]
Felt renewed appetite after hearty breakfast; hunger and emptiness of stomach, an hour after breakfast, lasting till dinner (seventh day); great feeling of hunger and emptiness (eighth day), 9.
Indifferent appetite, with a feeling as if I were going to have fever; anxious, miserable feeling (second day), 10.
Very little appetite, in the morning (fifth day), 10.
Indisposition to eat (fourth day), 11.
But little appetite (fourth day), 4.
No appetite for dinner (fifth day), 5d ; (first day), 8a.
Not the least appetite for breakfast, notwithstanding exercise in the open air (sixth day), 5d.
Loss of appetite , could not eat breakfast, do not want any dinner (fourth day), 11.*
Thirst.
For two days afterward, more thirst for cold water than usual; the same feeling during the three following days, with four or five discharges each day, 8a.
More thirst than usual , in the morning (sixth day), 10.* [120.]
During the evening very frequent thirst, drank freely of cold water, which was extremely grateful (fifth day), .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Dull pains in the right hypochondrium , lasting ten minutes at a time (third day), 1.*
Dull pains in the right hypochondrium (eighth day), 1.* [190.]
A good deal of dull pain in the left hypochondrium (ninth day), 1.
Umbilicus.
Distress in the umbilicus (after five hours, second day), 1.
Severe pain in the umbilicus, at 6 A.M., with a desire for stool; dark-colored stool, covered slightly with mucus, followed by the same pains, for half an hour (eighth day), 1.
Sharp cutting pains in the umbilicus, followed by a natural stool, at 10 P.M. (third day), 1a.
Slight pain in umbilical region (after ten minutes), 12a.
General Abdomen.
Rumbling in the bowels (first day), 1a.
After dinner, rumbling of wind in distended abdomen, moving from epigastrium to hypogastrium, 5a.
Rumbling in abdomen, with colicky pain, much and frequent discharge of flatus, 5e.
Slight distortion of abdomen, in the afternoon (fourth day), 5d.
Constant dull pains in the whole abdomen (fourth day), 1. [200.]
Aching pain in abdomen in one spot, increased by moving or changing position (after two hours, second day), 5d.
Pain and slight looseness of the bowels, twice in the day; feeling as if diarrhœa would come on; pain in the bowels, with feeling like approaching diarrhœa, at 9 P.M. (sixth day), 10.
Slight colicky pains after eating a ripe pear, in the afternoon (second day), 5c.
Pain in bowels after eating, at 10 P.M. (third day); pain in bowels and diarrhœa (fifth day), 13.
Aching pain in left groin, quite severe just above the crest of the left ilium, on moving or bending (fifth day), 5d.
Rheumatic pain above left crest of ilium, continues on moving and bending the body (sixth day), 5d.

RECTUM AND ANUS

All the evening and afternoon, have had a feeling as if I must go to stool immediately, with constant distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and umbilicus (eighth day), 1.
Desire to go to stool, as if diarrhœa were coming; which, however, did not take place, 5e.

STOOL

While riding on horseback, had a sudden attack of diarrhœa, obliging him to dismount (immediately); in the afternoon had two more dark-colored, thin, paplike discharges, with urgent desire (first day), 7.
Diarrhœa and pain in bowels (fifth day), 13. [210.]
Bowels operated on in about fifteen minutes, leaving them in a very loose condition, with a feeling of emptiness in the stomach; during the day four watery discharges, of light-yellow color, without pain or wind; during the three following days, four or five discharges each day, thin and yellow, 8a.
Slight looseness of the bowels, with pain (sixth day); looseness of bowels (seventh day), 10.
Bowels slightly relaxed (sixth day); passages more frequent and moist (seventh day), 2.
A loose, papescent stool, attended with some gripping in the bowels and a good deal of chilliness; four similar stools occurred during the day (after three hours, second day), 3.
Mushy stool, with hard pains in the epigastrium, at 6 A.M. (fifth day), 1.
Mushy stool, followed the severe pain in the lower portion of the epigastrium, at 7 A.M. (sixth day), 1.
Dark-colored stool, covered slightly with mucus, at 6 A.M.; hard, dry lumpy stool, at 10 P.M. (eighth day); dry, lumpy stool, at 6 A.M.; natural one at 6 P.M. (tenth day), 1.
Small hard stool, at 9 A.M. (second day); small dry stools each morning (fourth and fifth days); rather large, dry, lumpy stool at usual time in the morning (sixth day); very hard, dry, lumpy stool eight hours later than usual (seventh day), 9.
Hard, lumpy stool (second day), 1.
No desire to go to stool, but a large evacuation of dry pieces on going at the usual time (second day), 9a. [220.]
An insufficient hard evacuation, at 9 P.M. (second day), 5c.
No stool in the morning as usual; hard insufficient stool in the evening (fourth day); no stool (fifth day), 5d.
A natural stool, the first since I commenced the proving, after the sharp, cutting pains in the umbilicus, at 10 P.M. (third day); natural stool at 9 P.M. (fourth day); natural stool at 8 A.M. (fifth day), 1a.
Bowels constipated (fourth day), 4.*

URINARY ORGANS

Urethra.
Pain in end of urethra on urinating, at 12 P.M. (third day), 12.
After retaining urine for several hours, marked pain on urinating; increasing pain during evening and until going to sleep (fourth day), 12.
Micturition and Urine.
Nearly all day had frequent inclination to urinate, soon passing off without urination, but recurring frequently; actual urination was too frequent, however, about every three hours, an unusual thing, as she habitually urinated only three times daily; the urine had a natural appearance, but was rather above the usual quantity (second day), 3.
During afternoon, frequent desire to micturate, urine clear (second day); frequent and urgent desire to micturate, although no great quantity to urine passes (third day); frequent inclination to pass water towards evening; during evening, increased desire to micturate (fourth day); frequent desire to urinate (fifth day); frequent inclination to micturate (seventh day); (towards evening, after drinking ale, had great desire to pass water), (eighth day); strong desire to urinate (fifteenth day), 12.
(Two successive days unusual desire to pass water, about 12 o'clock each day), (third day), 5c.
In the afternoon and night, a frequent desire to urinate (third day), 6. [230.]
Very frequent urination; four times while walking, in the evening (second day); passed water more frequently than usual for five days, 7.
Had to rise in the night on account of urgent desire to urinate (first day); copious discharge of urine, light-colored (second day), 9a.
Have to get up to urinate in the night (second night), 5b.
Urinary organs normal for several days; specific gravity of urine, at 7 A.M., 1.018-20; at 10 P.M., 1.026-30. Amount voided daily, 30 to 36 ounces. At 2 A.M., woke with great urging to urinate (this was something unusual); voided 10 ounces of very light-colored urine; specific gravity 1.010 (after four hours); at 8 A.M., great urging to urinate; voided only 7 ounces, this was darker in color, but still not normal; specific gravity 1.014 (after ten hours); some pain, or rather uneasiness, in the kidneys and bladder, 35 ounces of urine voided during the twenty-four hours; specific gravity of the last 1.030 (second day). At 7 A.M., great urging to urinate; voided 7 ounces of dark, yellow urine; specific gravity 1.027; with every evacuation of urine, some tenesmus and strangury; the uneasiness of the kidneys has been more marked to-day; specific gravity 1.031; voided in the last twenty-four hours, 25 ounces of urine (third day). At 7 A.M., specific gravity 1.025; 10 P.M., tenesmus has been more marked, extending up the ureters, increasing the uneasiness of the kidneys; the amount of urine passed to-day was 23 ounces; specific gravity 1.030 (fourth day). At 7 A.M., urine quite light in color; specific gravity 1.014. 10 P.M., urine has been copious to-day; have but little of the tenesmus (fifth day). At 7 A.M., specific gravity of urine 1.016, copious, light-colored; feel about all right; just a little uneasiness at the kidneys (sixth day). The urine was at first (second day) of a light straw-color; after standing some time (forty-eight hours), it began to smell putrid, owing to the destruction of the large amount of albumen in it, epithelium, serum, etc. While under the influence of the additional 3 drachms, my urine was of a dark-yellow color; the uriniferous odor was not so strong as in normal urine; after standing some time it would deposit a light cloudy precipitate. The urine of the fifth and sixth days returned to the light straw-color, with but little smell, and soon threw down a light-colored, fleecy sediment. A careful analysis of the light-colored urine revealed the presence of albumen and the phosphates in excess; urine feebly acid; the dark-colored urine revealed an excess of uric acid and the phosphates; urine strongly acid. The light-colored urine voided on the second day, in the field of the microscope, six hundred diameters, revealed quite a number of epithelia, and after standing, a large amount of phosphates, earthy and triple; in the dark-colored urine was seen many crystals of uric acid, and especially of the phosphates. The light-colored urine, voided on the fifth and sixth days, showed a large amount of epithelia, renal casts of the tubule uriniferi and mucus corpuscles, .

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Distressing erection, soon subsiding, at 4 A.M. (eighth day), 12.
On passing water, irritation in end of penis (fourth day), 12.
Slight pressing-drawing pain in right side of penis, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), 12. [240.]
Pain in penis on waking, quite severe; increased when passing water; continues all day, and at 4 P.M. is pressing and drawing (fifth day); slight pain on passing water, decreases and disappears towards evening (sixth day); towards evening, slight pressing-drawing pain on right side of penis, with frequent inclination to micturate (seventh day); (towards evening, after drinking ale, and after retaining urine for several hours, slight return of pain in penis), (eighth day), 12.
Three times have had hard stitching pains in the left spermatic cord, lasting from five to ten minutes each time (ninth day), 1.
Hard stitching pain in the left spermatic cord and testicle, at 11 A.M. (ninth day), 1.
A number of times had stitching-drawing pains along the left spermatic cord (ninth day), 1.
Drawing pains in the testicles once (fifth day), 1a.
Dull distress in the testicles, with drawing pains along the left spermatic cord (eighth day), 1.
Twice had dull pains in the testicles, more in the right one (ninth day), 1.
Slight seminal emission (first day), 9a.
Female.
Stinging-darting pains passing through the uterine region, from side to side (after one hour, second day), 3.
Fluor albus of a mild kind, but so profuse and combined with so great depression of spirits and weakness that she refused to make further trials; although the medicine removed a pleuritic or pulmonary pain from which she was suffering at the time. Since that time she has occasionally taken it with good effects, for the same pain, which she has had frequently for years. The first, or at most the second dilution have always removed the pain very speedily (in one-quarter of an hour, and sooner), 12. [250.]
At 4 P.M., had a flow of whites, about a teaspoonful, without pain (third day), 16a.
Leucorrhœa, slightly, in the evening (a symptom she never had before), (fourth day); still more of leucorrhœa (fifth day), 16.
Feeling as if menstruation (which has been irregular of late) was coming on (sixth day), .

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Coughed a good deal every day, for two or three days (after taking one or two powders, morning and night), 10.
*Coughed a good deal to-day; constant inclination to cough (third day), 10.
A small sore spot in the upper part of the windpipe; continues all day (fifth and sixth days); grew better during the day (seventh day), 16a.

CHEST. [260.]

Sharp stabbing pains in the pectoralis major muscles for five minutes, followed by a burning distress where the pains were (eighth day), 1.
During the evening, pain in left side, under the arm, nearer the back, severe, lasted till bedtime (after last dose), 14.
Aching pain (slight) in the chest all the forenoon (fifth day), 5d.

HEART AND PULSE

Audible pulsation of the heart for half an hour (after second dose, fifth day), 3d.
Pulse 80 (generally 60) for two hours (fifth day), 5d.

NECK AND BACK

Stiffness in right side of neck, in the morning (fifth day), 10.
Habitual backache, with headache at intervals (fourth day), 13.
Lameness of back and loins particularly (second night), 5b.
After a long walk, felt a shooting pain across the lower part of back for about half an hour (after eight hours); pain then settled in the left side, where it remained during the evening (first day), 13.
Dull pains in the lumbar region (eighth day), 1. [270.]
Pains in the lumbar region (ninth day), 1.
Wake up frequently during the night with some lameness in lumbar region (third night), 5b.
Awoke frequently with aching in the loins and hips, causing frequent change of position in bed, which seemed too hard, after 1 o'clock (second night), 5c.
Weakness in the loins, and a general feeling as if menses were coming on, which ought not to appear for five days (after one hour); sensation like approaching menstruation continues (second day), 6.

EXTREMITIES

Awake frequently with aching of the limbs, lameness of back and loins particularly (second night), 5b.
Frequent flying pains in the hands, feet, and toes (eighth day), 1.
Stiffness of the fingers, with dull pains in the ankles and toes (third day), 1.
Slight drawing pains, by spells, in the fingers and toes (fourth day), 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Rheumatism in right shoulder (seventh day), 10.
Lameness of the muscles of the right upper arm (after two days), 13. [280.]
The muscles of the arms ache, and are quite stiff (especially the flexors); passed off in a short time after moving them (ninth day), 1.
Frequent pains in the wrists and fingers, lasting but a moment (after six hours), 1.
Drawing pains in the left metacarpal bones (fifth day), 1.
Fingers stiff (ninth day), 1.
Sharp pains in the first joint of the right fore-finger (third day), 1.
All the forenoon have had hard (drawing pains from the first to the second joint of the right middle finger (second day), 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Hip and Thigh.
Sharp neuralgic pains, passing from the hip-joint down to the middle of the thigh, along the great ischiatic nerve (after nine hours), 1.
Drawing pains in the sartorius muscle (left), when walking (after three hours), 1.
Knee.
Pain in both knees, aching, worse in left (third day), 9.
For two hours, while in bed, had severe pain in the whole right knee, of a dull aching character (fourth day), 1. [290.]
Sharp drawing pains along the outside of the left knee, half way down the leg (eighth day), 1.
Some rheumatism in right knee (sixth day), 10.
Leg.
Great heaviness of legs, while walking (fifth day), 5d.
At noon, began to feel great weakness in the legs; could scarcely stand, and walking became difficult; it was a "trembling weakness," she said, with a sensation of great weariness and heaviness; this continued till she went to bed (after five hours, second day), 3.
Nervous pains in the legs, particularly the left one. Felt as if she could not sit still (fifth day), 16a.
Slight soreness in left calf (after two days), 15.
Soreness in calf of right leg; slight pain while walking; very painful on going down stairs; the soreness is like that following cramp in leg (after third dose); the soreness continued about three days, and then the other symptoms disappeared at the same time, 15.
Ankle.
Dull pains in the ankles (second day), 1a.
Dull pains in the right ankle-joint (third day), 1.
Severe pain in left ankle, extending to the hip, continuing for some hours (fourth and fifth days), 9. [300.]
Drawing pains in the right ankle (fourth day), 1.
Flying pains in the ankles (ninth day), 1.
Foot.
Accompanying the desire to urinate, in the afternoon and night, was a nervous sensation in the feet, a constant, irresistible desire to move the feet, almost impossible to control (third day); this continued through the next day, and was worse at night. The continued sensation in the feet was felt on the fifth day, .

GENERALITIES

Great debility, with a feverish feeling, in the evening (first day), 1a.
Great debility (second day), 1a.
Weakness on waking (third day), 3.
Arose in the morning feeling generally languid and sick, with right side of head aching (I am almost always very well in the morning), (second day), 10.
Feeling very languid, in the morning (second day), 1a.
Very tired from a hard day's work (after thirteen hours, second day), 1.
Languid, with a gloomy state of the mind (fourth day), 1. [310.]
Very languid and feverish (eighth day), 1.
Very languid, with great depression of spirits (tenth day), 1.
Went to bed feeling much exhausted (first evening), 8a.
Little dulness in the morning after good rest (fifth day), 10.
Disinclination to move during the forenoon, with great fatigue after walking (eighth day), 12.
More miserable at night; feel as if I had taken cold (sixth day), 10.
Always more miserable at bedtime, 10.
Anxious miserable feeling (second day); same feeling, with headache, the first half of the day (third day), 10.
Bruised feeling, 15.
On waking in the night, feeling of general discomfort, like that preceding fever (second night), 5b. [320.]
Has not felt well since the third day (eighth day), 3.
Although quite severe in its effects, they disappeared wholly after a night's sleep (second night), 3.
Symptoms not so strongly marked (after thirteen hours, second day), 1a.
The effect lasted six days, gradually decreasing during that time, 5c.

SKIN

There is an eruption breaking out on my ankles, itching severely at night (eleventh day). The eruption has extended half way up to my knees, and several large blotches are on my back; the eruption is as large as a three-cent piece, and from that down to a fine eruption; the color is a dark-red; it itches more or less all the times but at night the itching is most intolerable; the eruption stands out from the skin very prominently, and is exceedingly hard; the last two days it is commencing to pass away. This eruption may not be the effects of the Pulsatilla, but I never had anything like it before, and I shall attribute it to the Pulsatilla until it is proven otherwise (twenty-second day), 1.
Slight rash on back and shoulders, lasting about two days (after one dose), 7.
Itching on right side of chest; small scattered pimples and red points; skin assumed a roselike redness on slight friction; itching was quite intense at times, chiefly on right breast, in the evening, while undressing, also in bed, and occasionally in the day; it lasted five days (twenty-second day), 5d.
*In four weeks itching blotches, light-red and rashlike , on right breast, itching severely at night. In three days it spread all over the chest in little red dots or stipples, lasting a week; relieved by scratching; worse on being heated, 6a.
In eight weeks much itching on back and shoulders, small stipples, and general erythematous redness (never had the slightest skin eruption), 6a.
Red rash over the body , face, neck, back, chest, arms, legs, abdomen; most on chest and abdomen; red blotches, and in some places red points running together making blotches (after sixteen days). Three days later, erythema still very severe. Small and large spots on face, with white skin between, resembling measles; spots grow red, and itch severely when body becomes warm. The eruption gradually changes into a kind of nettlerash; modular, white, hard elevations on red base; nodules of irregular form, round, elongated, and angular; turn white after scratching, like mosquito-bites; lasted ten days, and was relieved by Antim. crud. 200, 8a.* [330.]
Great itching over all parts of the body (after seven days); after another interval of eight days, incessant itching again in daytime, and mostly towards evening; itching worse at night before bedtime; continued also in the night; rubbing with fleshbrush relieved it; most free from itching in the morning; riding in cold air increases the itching, which returned at longer intervals and in less degree all through the winter, 8a.*
In the evening itching over all parts of the body, .

SLEEP

Sleepiness; sleep not refreshing (fifth day), 5d.
Very sleepy all the afternoon (eighth day), 1.
Want to sleep all the time (tenth day), 1.
Slept soundly till 1 o'clock; had to arise to urinate (second night), 5c.
Unusual wakefulness for an hour, at 4 A.M. (eighth day), 12.
Very wakeful for two hours (first night); some wakefulness (third night), 11.
Very wakeful for a time (very unusual for me), with slight headache (first night), 10.
Lay awake one night for several hours, waking up at intervals; restless, could not lie still; slept well on the following nights, 8. [340.]
Could not sleep on account of having eaten too much (bread, butter, and milk), (third day), 5c.
Restless night, with severe frontal headache, caused by a sour stomach (third night), 1.
Sleep somewhat disturbed; slight seminal emission (first day), 9a.
Restlessness (second night), 5b.
Sleep restless all night; many dreams (first night); confused dreams all night (second night), 5b.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilliness, with full and uncomfortable feeling in stomach (first night), 11.
For one hour after taking the medicine was very chilly, with a constant inclination to yawn (eighth day), 1.
A good deal of chilliness for an hour, with a loose papescent stool and some griping in the bowels (after three hours, second day), 3.
In the evening felt very chilly , at times shaking as if with ague (ninth day), 2.*
In the evening very cold feet, remaining until retiring (second day), 2a.
Heat. [350.]
Heat (second night), 5b.
After sleep, feverish heat of the body (sixth day), 5d.
Feeling feverish, with great debility, in the evening (first day), 1a.*
Skin hot and flushed, at 2 A.M. (after four hours), 4.
Cool blustering wind is very refreshing to the hot face (sixth day), 5d.
Face became red and hot, lasting till bedtime (six hours after first dose), 14.
Face hot and flushed (eighth day), 1.
Hot face and very cold feet, so that she had to put them into the oven to get them warm again (four hours after last dose), 14.
Hands hot, feeling feverish, but the pulse is not affected any (second day), 1a.
Hands hot and dry, with stiffness of the fingers (first day), 1a. [360.]
Hands hot and dry (fourth, eighth, and ninth days), 1.
Hands dry and hot all day (fifth day), 1a.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Mucus in eyes; offensive breath; stiffness in right side of neck; languid; on waking, weakness.
( Afternoon ), Depression of spirits; after eating a ripe pear, colicky pains.
( Evening ), Thirst; pain in left side; chilliness; cold feet; feverish.
( Night ), Woke with pain in lumbar region; nervous sensation in feet; the symptoms; on waking, general discomfort; itching; 2 A.M., skin hot.
( 12 o'clock ), Desire to pass water.
( After eating ), Redness of tongue; offensive breath.
( Bending ), Pain in left groin.
( After dinner ), Rumbling of wind.
( Entering house after being in open air ), Dizziness; inclination to nausea.
( Going down stairs ), Soreness in calf of right leg.
( Heat ), Itching blotches.
( After meals ), Pressure from food.
( Motion ), Pain in abdomen; pain in left groin.
( Reading ), twitching of eyelids.
( While riding ), Eructations; emptiness and coldness in stomach; pressure in stomach; in cold air, itching.
( While sitting ), Emptiness and coldness in stomach.
( On urinating ), Pain in end of urethra; irritation in end of penis.
( Walking ), Pains in eyeball; pain in sartorius muscle; heaviness of legs; soreness in calf of right leg.
( Warm room ), Pain over right eye.
Amelioration.
( Walking in open air ), Pain in over right eye.
( Rubbing with fleshbrush ), Itching.
( Scratching ), Itching blotches.

Pulsatilla Nuttalliana