By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Aloe socotrina, Lam.
Nat. order , Liliaceæa.
Preparation . The fiery red gum is to be triturated.
Authorities. [Nos.
1 to 24 , taken from Hering's Arzneiprufungen; 25, A. H. Z., 74, 29; 26, Z. f. v. H. Œst., 1, 88; 27, Symptoms from five provers, Jour. du dispens. Hahn., 8, 285.]
, L. S., θ; 4 , Pren, θ; 5 , A. B., I., 30th by olfaction and by the mouth; 6
, A. B., II, θ; 7
, A. B., III, θ; 8 , C. Hering, 1/10th and higher; 9 , J. Jeanes; 10 , Koch; 11 , Neidhard, 1/10th; 12 , Raue, 1/10th; 13 , Williamson; 14 , Buchner, θ; 15
, S. T., θ; 16 , J. M., a girl, θ; 17 , Giaccomini, θ ; ( 18 , N. T.); 19 , Voigtel; 20 , E. R. L.; 21 , Wedekind; 22 , Gosewich; 23 , Zumbrock; 24 , Whitey, 1/100th; 25 , Watzke, θ; 26 , J. O. Muller, 3d dec.; 27 , Fischer, θ.
MIND
Amorous thoughts, present themselves, which are very annoying (first day), 6.
Before taking it, the disposition is apprehensive, speculative, amorous; after taking it, quiet, immovable, contented, joyful, reflective; mind is more self-sufficient, more inclined to labor; no sleepiness after a meal (first to third day), 6.
Contented, happy humor in the evening, as well as all the following day (fifth day), 5.
Towards evening, uncommonly aroused by inspiriting, joyful news (fifth day), 5.
Merry, self-contented; fraternized with the whole world (fifth day), 6.
At evening, in a happy mood, he feels completely happy and contented, 8.
(Immediately, strong exhibition of will; he quarrels with every one who contradicts him; it seems as if he would permit himself to be torn in pieces, sooner than give up his will), .
Vertigo, as if everything whirled about with her, worse on going up stairs and turning quickly, 12.
Very peculiar vertigo each day, after taking the third trituration; during motion, he feels as if he ought to lie down; whilst standing and walking, an inner sensation which makes everything seem insecure, and which makes him very anxious; then nasal catarrh, first on the left side, then on the right, with copious secretion of mucus, which soon becomes thick; afterwards, no more vertigo, 8.
Whilst sitting, after meal, he feels as if he sat upon a high chair; a kind of vertigo (the fifteenth and subsequent days), 7.
After 11 o'clock A.M., sense of dull pressure throughout the whole head when walking, a shaking as if the brain lay loose therein, considerably aggravated in fresh, cold air, also on laying the head down, then and awhile after rising up, a beating, thumping pain, like pulsating, especially in the occiput; better awhile after eating (the first day, after having taken the medicine five times, less the second day; disappearing the third day), 12.
Sensation as if the head were widened, being pressed out on all sides (after four hours), 6.
Sluggish, drawing, sensitive pain in the head, more externally (the first day), 7.
She received a shock from the arm up into the head; thereupon the sensation of a wind from the head into the abdomen (Kerner).
*Pressive pain in the forehead , from the third to the fifth day, thereafter relief, 4.
Confusion of the sinciput, especially with chilliness, 7.
Downward and inward pressing pain ( down towards the nose ), in the middle of the forehead (in a mesmerized person), 1.*
*Dull headache across above the forehead, with heaviness in the eyes, and nausea, 12.
A dull, pressive pain in the forehead, in the afternoon, 4.*
Headache in the forehead and on the vertex, as from a weight (fourth day), 12.
Headache in the forehead, with abdominal symptoms, 1.
Pressure in the forehead, immediately after licking Aloes (in a girl nine years of age), 1.
Painfulness of half the face, arising from the forehead, 4. [110.]
Pressive pain in the forehead, involving the orbits (the third day), 2.
Dull drawing and sticking over the right side of the forehead; the head feels murky; it compels one to make the eyes small; at the same time, the desire for labor continues longer (fourth day), .
EYES
The eyes are glittering, somewhat reddened, prominent, 20. [150.]
Throbbing and sense in the back part of the ear, 20.
Drawing, sticking pain in the left inner ear, which is after awhile also felt in the right, 14.
A slight twining kind of pain in the right ear (evening of third day), 1.
A twinging earache and cramping pain in the right ear (fourth day), 4.
Transient stitches from the left temporal region toward the ear, 15.
On pressing the teeth together, a sensation of numbness behind the ear; it draws in the lower jaw, down through a back tooth (fourth day), 6.
Towards midday, a drawing pain, from before backward, below the right external meatus auditorius, behind the lobules, in the mastoid process, and in the ear-passage itself (fourth day), 6.
At times, a transient pain in the left external ear-passage, especially on pressing the teeth together (fifth day), 7.
Frequent ringing and buzzing in the ears, 20. [180.]
At nine o'clock in the evening, when reading aloud, frequent fine crackings in the right maxillary joint (first day), 2.
Rustlings in the right ear, which almost amount to cracklings, on moving the maxillary joint (after two hours), 7.
Just after getting into bed, sudden explosion and clashing in the left ear, as from the breaking of glass; the clink of the bits of glass was heard at the bottom of the head, and extended thence toward the right ear, 27.
NOSE
The nose is very red without redness of the face, in the cold open air (the first day), 7.
In the evening, coldness of the tip of the nose, sensible only to the finger touching it, 1.
Early in the morning, in bed, great dryness in the nose (third day), 1.
Nose-bleed early in the morning, a few drops (second day), 2.
Some blood is blown out in the afternoon (fifth day), 6.
After waking, while yet in bed, the right nostril bleeds a dessertspoonful (eighteenth day), 7.
Pain in the forehead pressing down into the nose, 1.
Pain in the nose, especially early in the morning and never except on motion (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 7.
Sensation of burning, like fire, in the left nostril, 27.
A sensation in the nose, as if it would commence bleeding (the first day), 2.
The right wing of the nose is scurfy and sensitive on its inner surface, fourth and eight days; and again somewhat on the twenty-first and twenty-second days, 7.
FACE
Pale over night (as if up all night), sickly look (sixth day), 5. [210.]
He is very sensitive to the coldness of the weather, has a very pale look, sunken, and sickly (thirteenth day), 5.
Pale, wretched color of the face (first to third day), 6.
The countenance is sickly, suffering, and pale (tenth day), 7.
Increased warmth and redness of the face; wide-awake, excited (after half an hour), 7.
Turgescence of the skin, especially of the face; it is very red, and its temperature is increased, 20.
Periodic heat of the face, with pressure in the temples, 2.
Dry lips; the dried epidermis has a white appearance if it is not frequently moistened by the tongue (second and third days), 7.
Dry lips; the epidermis is white, scaly; he continually licks them with the tongue (from the sixth to the eight day, and on the sixteenth day), 7.
Dry lips, and hour after dinner, together with dryness in the mouth; the lips are parched and white, without thirst; better in the evening (fifteenth day), 7.
Dry lips, scurfy, swollen, and painful (ninth day), 7.
Dryness of the lips; they are very red and hot, sometimes trembling, 20.
The under lip is swollen, with a thick-skinned long vesicle, in the red part of the lip where it turns inward, of the size of a flaxseed, smooth, yellowish, covered with hard skin; it makes the whole part of the lip thick (sixth and seventh days), 7.
Spongy scurf upon the lips, which exudes moisture, looks ugly (tenth day); on the eleventh day the lips are very dry, the spongy scurfiness is moist, 7.
Superficial cracking on the inner side of the upper lip, when laughing, 14.
A painful little crack on the under lip, near the angle of the mouth (second day), 7.
A blackish point (maggot), on the edge of the upper lip, on the left side, becomes inflamed; it is the next day a yellow pustule; goes away the eight to the eleventh day, . [230.]
MOUTH
The teeth have looked bad for many days, have a yellowish cast (seventeenth day), 5.
The concave edges of the teeth seem sharp, they hurt the tongue (seventeenth day), 5.
The teeth are affected as after eating sugar (first and second days) (N. N.).
A drawing from the ear into the lower jaw through a back tooth, 6.
Gnawing pain in a hollow tooth on the left side of the lower jaw, in the evening, recurring periodically throughout the whole night, worse by eating, 11. [240.]
A lower, hollow back tooth becomes sensitive, especially when eating (second day); on the afternoon of the third day it is still sensitive, on the fifth day he cannot bite them; on the sixth day, it is still more sensitive, it even pains without touching it; it is more sensitive on the ninth day; on the tenth day, a pustule appears on the front part of the gum, under this same tooth, 5.
Evenings, dryness on the tongue and in the mouth, with increased thirst, and redder lips than usual (after the 1/100th), 24.
Large yellow ulcers arise on the tongue after the use of Aloes in weaned children, 8.
Cold feeling of the left side of the tongue, after a few minutes, 8.
After dinner, a sensitive painfulness on the right side of the tongue at the back part, especially if it bite against the teeth, as if they were sharp and impinged upon a sore spot (the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days), 7.
In the morning after waking, suddenly, an extremely fine but severe stitch on the under part of the tongue, from behind forwards, which is twice repeated on moving the tongue (neuralgia sublingualis), 10.
The taste of the aloes exceedingly nauseous, which rather increased after fifteen minutes; after one hour it still continued, and remains for a long time as a nauseous bitterness in the mouth, 7. [260.]
Nauseous, bitter taste in the mouth (early on the second day), 2.
Taste, between the root of the tongue and the soft palate, like that soon after a decoction of Senna leaves, from early in the morning till one o'clock (second day), 12.
Taste in the mouth like ink or iron, with irritation to cough, 7.
Dryness and inflammation in the throat with cough and expectoration, 11.
On rising in the morning, some rawness of the fauces, chiefly in the upper part, in the soft palate and uvula, with a somewhat raw voice, which disappears at breakfast, returning on going into the open and cold air (afternoons), (second day), 7.
Sensation as if the palate were swollen (three o'clock in the morning); when rising and during the forenoon in the fauces, increasing in the afternoon, continuing in the evening. On empty swallowing and yawning the arches of the palate are painful (the fourth and following days). The sensation in the fauces only on forced empty swallowing; but it increases a few hours after rising, and is noticeable even without swallowing, but not on swallowing food. On chewing, the sides of the soft palate pain, as if sore, or as if burnt with hot food, aggravated in the evening (fifth and sixth days), 7.
The arches of the velum palati pain on chewing hard food; the hard palate and the region around the hindermost back teeth feel as if burnt and inflamed; not on swallowing food. Especially painful is the stretching of the soft palate on yawning (sixth to eight day), 7.
Soreness of the left arch of the palate, on opening wide the mouth (ninth and tenth days), 7.
Pain in the throat as if the soft palate and uvula were swollen; evenings, worse on awaking in the morning; first disappears at midday (twenty-first and twenty-second days), 7.
Hoarseness in the back part of the fauces, 5. [280.]
Thick mucus in the mouth and fauces on waking at three o'clock, 5.
Hawking thick mucus out of the fauces for a few days (the fourth day), (morning of fifteenth day), 7.
The pain in the fauces is accompanied by expectoration of thick, lumpy mucus from the fauces and choanæ (twenty-second and twenty-third days), 7.
Appetite more for fruit and bread (fourth day), 7.
Longing for juicy food, fruit, but not for water (tenth day), 5.
Meat diet was (to jaundiced persons) welcome after the use of Aloes (W.).
At noon he ate well and much (first, second, eleventh, and twelfth days), 5. [300.]
At noon, good appetite, then it seemed to him as if he was not yet satisfied as the first day; still he did not eat again, and on working it went away; it seemed again as if something ailed him, he knew not what; this took place many times before long-enduring hunger (fourth day), 5.
Appetite good; in the afternoon again hunger, continued eating, as after long abstinence (tenth day), 5.
Frequent appetite, but not great (thirteenth day), 5.
Great appetite for stimulating food, with fulness in the stomach, 4.
The child preserves a good appetite during the diarrhœa, 8.
After that he had for many days only a very small appetite; on one afternoon he had a very great longing; he ate a double supper; that night he had pain in the back, 1.
Warmth and sensation of hunger in the stomach (after one hour), 7.
Nausea rising into the stomach, with inability to vomit, 27. [350.]
Neither nausea nor a change in condition is observed therefrom, 13.
Nausea, immediately after taking it; must sit completely still in order not to vomit; also, other days, 12.
With the nausea, pains extend from the stomach towards both sides of the chest, 12.
ABDOMEN
Painfulness across below the ribs, with painful weakness in the legs; therewith, an evacuation somewhat diarrhœic, with chilliness, so that he feels very cold as often as he goes away from the stove, 1.
Stitches under the left ribs, in the hepatic region, 27.
Distension as if it were too narrow around under the ribs, 1.
Occasional stitches in both hypochondria, extending around the navel, and then passing into the rectum. [380.]
An inner pressure at the short ribs, after three hours, 2.
Pinching at both sides of the hypochondria, first day, 2.
Pain in the left hypochondrium, better after passage of flatus, 3.
Stitches in the left hypochondrium, as if in the left ligaments of the womb, and in the ovaries, 27.
Dull pain in the left hypochondrium (third day); pressive pain (fourth day), 4.
A jerking pain in the region of the left lower rib, internally, going from above downwards, and from the outside inwards, on walking, morning (sixth day), 1.
Dull stitches in the splenic region through the left breast (in the supraorbital region, in the frontal prominences, in the finger-joints), (sixth day), 4.
Awaked by dull stitches in the splenic region, drawing into the loins (first night), 2.
Transient stitches in the spleen (seventh day), 4. [390.]
Affection of the lower end of the intestinal canal and of the pelvic organs (in very many cases, after its continued use for a longer or shorter time), 10.
Heat, soreness, sense of heaviness in the rectum, 10.*
Heat in the rectum and anus when the fæces pass, [°], 13.
During slight distension of the abdomen and pleasant crawling of the bowels, three diarrhœic stools; the last with burning in the rectum, hæmorrhoidal pains, and much flatus (after seventeen hours), 1.
In most cases, troublesome heaviness in the lower part of the abdomen, and active irritation at the end of the intestine; sometimes copious evacuations of blood, as if they were really hæmorrhoids, when they had not previously existed (Trousseau and Pidoux).
Cutting pains in the rectum, with the passage of a solid stool (ten o'clock, evening of twentieth day), 7.
Itching and burning in the anus, painful in the highest degree, prevents his sleeping for a long time, 4.*
Burning in the anus ; a kind of sore feeling, with increased itching around the anus, and an increased evacuation the third day (in two brothers, from fifty to sixty years old, after repeated doses), 9, 8.*
The evacuations which Aloes produced are of a bilious character; the diarrhœa which it causes is (with the exception of the debility) similar to a bilious diarrhœa, combined with burning in the anus, 13.
Burning pain in the anus after a hard evacuation, 15.
Rather an inner sensuality than irritation of the parts compels him to satisfy himself (at evening, on going to bed, fifth day), 5.
Active desire at evening, and uncommon thirst for water (eleventh day), 5.
He awoke at 1 o'clock at night with active desire; without being wide awake, he seized hold of the parts until the emission of semen; he had to make water, and on fully awaking it seemed as if the time must be much later (fourth day), 5.
The increased desire relieved; the amorous mood removed (fifth day), 6.
Probably one of the best remedies to repress a too lively desire, especially in children, which only a few remedies do, 8.
Small quantities cause frequent erections, and increase the sexual desire (Rust's Mag).
Stitching in the right side of the larynx with each paroxysm of cough, 27.
In a dream at night he was in danger; he would have screamed out, but could not, from hoarseness; in the morning he awoke with hoarseness low down in the fauces, which disappeared after breakfast (third day), 5.
Voice husky; hawking, coryza-feeling in the nose, with chilliness (twenty-fourth day), 7.
A scraping feeling in the throat shows itself sometimes in the morning hours, and forces a not entirely dry hacking many times, 1.
A tickling irritation to cough in the fauces, without expectoration, but with the taste in the mouth of ink or iron (evening of fourteenth and morning of fifteenth and sixteenth days), 7.
Dry cough, especially troublesome towards evening, 27. [870.]
Hoarse, crepitant, deep-sounding cough, as if the whole trachea was raw, dry, and full of mucus, 27.
Dry cough, sometimes provoked by determination of blood to the chest (second day), 2.
Cough, followed by expectoration of a substance the size of a bean; it is composed of mucus, yellow, tenacious, and difficult to break up, 27.
Constant expectoration, caused by tickling and scraping in larynx, 27.
Five drops of the tincture were given for pressure in the abdomen, with pain in the loins and weakness in the legs; then followed apprehension, the breath will stay away on going up stairs; could not work, became anxious, with paralysis in all the limbs; the cutaneous veins disappeared; must sit and sleep; at first, he felt better walking than sitting; after a few hours these symptoms and those of the disease were much relieved, 1.
HEART AND PULSE
Pain in the præcordial region, which extends through to the left scapula, 12.
In bed, the heart beats quicker, and frequently it gives a very strong beat, which shakes the whole body; for the most part, after midnight, after 2 o'clock, 12.
Pulse very slow, 55 beats, weak and suppressed, with coldness, especially through the legs; half an hour later, the pulse is still irregular in force and frequency; the sensation of hunger increases; an hour later, more frequent, 60, weak, sometimes intermitting a beat (soon after taking), 7.
Pulse before eating, 60; after the midday rest, 70, sluggish and weak; at halt-past three in the afternoon, scarcely 60; at nine in the evening, regular (first day), 7.
In the morning, after rising, pulse only 60, weak, and suppressed; in the afternoon, over 60 beats (second day), 7.
In the morning, the pulse scarcely 70; at 3 P.M. 62 (third day); at 2 1/2 P.M., 62; at 10 P.M., 70 (fourth day); at 9 A.M., 75 (fifth day), 7.
ALOE. CHEST
Constriction, with periodic pressure and squeezing in the chest, especially in the right half (second day), 2.
Jerking stitches through the chest, also in rest, in lying, impeding respiration, with some palpitation (eighteenth day), 7.
Cutting, tearing, sticking jerks in the chest, which suddenly stop the breath, especially if he would recover himself from a stooping or twisted posture; many days (fifteenth day); in the epigastric region, also, 7. [900.]
Dyspnœa and dull stitches in the lower part of the chest, 2.
Every stitch is scarcely an inch long and very severe.
After a few minutes, its place is changed, it seems more in front and higher up; twenty to thirty minutes later, similar stitches in the right chest in the same place, though less severe (after three to four hours), 8.
The anterior portions of the chest and the sides up into the axillæ are painful to the touch, as if beaten, as if the pains were seated between the bones and the flesh.
The forepart of the chest is also painful on deep inspiration.
The abdomen is also painful in the same manner, especially the umbilical region, painful of itself, and worse on touch, still more in the deeper tissues, or in the intestines themselves, and for the most part, in the morning.
The abdominal muscles are painful for many days on rising up from lying.
On moving the arms, the muscles which go from the chest to the arms are painful at their costal attachments (continuing eight days), 1.
Weakness of the whole chest, now and then (second, third, and following days), 7.
Weakness of the chest on bodily exertions (fifth and eighth days), 7.
Severely pressing pains behind the upper part of the sternum, alternating with the same pains under the right ribs, 4.
Immediately on rising, sensitive, pressive pains, as if sprained, behind the middle of the sternum, only on moving the arms, on stooping and crouching together, relieved by stretching the chest out straight and throwing it forward (whole of thirteenth day), 5.
On bending to the left side, short, pinching stitches, deep within at the back part of the left chest and under the left nipple; at one time impeding respiration, at another permitting deep respiration, .
NECK AND BACK
Goitre (a.a.). [920.]
On the right side of the neck, it feels sore on motion, as if one of the muscles were drawn and painfully stretched (sixteenth day), 7.
Cracking of the cervical vertebræ on moving them, morning at eight o'clock (second day), 6.
On sitting, in the forenoon, drawing, tensive, burning on the right side of the nape, as if in the muscles; it disappears on motion (second day).
On sitting in the afternoon the same tensive drawing; on stooping, burning (morning of third, and afternoon of fourth days), 6.
Tension and compression in nape of neck, behind both ears, 27.
Drawing pain in the right side of the nape, only on moving the neck, after rising from the midday rest (first day); the same pain on motion tensive, almost burning (eleventh to nineteenth day), 7.
Pain under left shoulder-blade, coming from præcordial region, 12.
Dull, sticking pain and squeezing between the shoulders, more on the right side, continuing through the night and following day, 2.
Bruised pain in the whole back, between and on the shoulder-blades, as after long stooping (second day), 6.
Very little appetite for many days; on one afternoon a very great one, ate two large portions at evening.
In the following night, pain in the region of the last dorsal vertebra, as if seated in the spinal cord; could not lie on the back, only on the sides; now stretched out straight, now with the thighs flexed on the body.
On rising, it disappeared (twenty-first day), 1. [930.]
Pressure and drawing in the right kidney region (second day), 2.
Sacral pains, on rest and motion (second day), 12.
Sacral pains on rising in the morning; during the day it is drawing about in the sacrum, with the feeling of heaviness therein, especially on sitting (second day), 2.
A heaviness in the sacral region which involves the pelvis and acts on the rectum, loading it (third and fourth days), 2.
Pressing and heaviness in the sacral region, especially on sitting, relieved by motion (continues over eight days), 2.*
Completely stiff in the sacrum after sitting, the rising up is difficult for him; then it feels like a load in the sacrum and pelvis (third to fifth day), 2.
Burning, biting, and sticking on the sacrum, between the skin and flesh, as of a mustard plaster (afternoon of third day, after the nausea had disappeared), 12. [950.]
At night, in bed, pressive pain in the right forearm; it began in the middle of the forearm, and ended in the wrist-joint, where it seemed as if it would press the bones of the wrist asunder (ninth day), 1.
Paralytic drawing in the anterior part of the forearm (third day), 6.
Sensitive, jerking-drawing, as in the flesh, from the left forearm into the palm of the hand, six to eight times, in quick succession, on sitting still and writing (3 to 4 o'clock P.M., third day), 7.
Pains in the forearm ending in the wrist-joint, 1.
On stretching out the left hand it feels as if the nerves were too short, and were dragged like an electric shock, 8.
In the left hand and forearm, the sensation as if internally asleep; now and then an internal jerking and twitching without pains (third day), 8. [970.]
The left hand falls asleep, forenoons, on sitting in a wagon (third day), 8.
Swollen hands in the evening, eight to ten o'clock, with heat and tickling-itching, especially in the balls of the thumb, compelling vigorous rubbing; feels as if frozen (thirteenth day), 5.
Sensation as if a hair lay on the back of the hand, also on the back of the fingers; many times, 8.
A peculiar sensation on the last phalanges of the left hand, particularly, as if the hairs there slowly rose up; it seems to him as if a hair lay on the fingers (seventh day), .
LOWER EXTREMITIES
Weariness and heaviness of the lower extremities (second, third, and eight days), 4. [990.]
On lying down after eating, the limbs fall asleep (fifteenth day), 7.
The whole left leg is asleep, without provocation (after one hour), 7.
Pain, as if from a sprain, in the outer left ankle-bone when walking, 27.
Evening, on lying in bed, and in the morning, the sensation as if the ankle-joint were sprained, or the left great toe, or in a finger or thumb which had been sprained a few months before (third day), .
Transient pains, as if bruised or sprained, in various places; on the left forearm, right shoulder-blade, left side of the ribs, etc. (fifteenth day), 7.
Frequently, a sensitive drawing in different places in the body, as if it involved the bones; for example, in the right knee, as if in the joint, on sitting still; sooner fatigued on motion (fourth day), 7.
Jerking, drawing, dull, sticking pains in the finger, knee and elbow joints (fifth day), 4.
Dull sticking pains in the joints (eighth day), 4.
Pains from weakness in the ankle-bones and the joints of the hands, 8.
SKIN
Weakness inconsiderable, even when the skin was very golden-colored, 13.
The cutaneous veins disappeared, with anxiety of the chest, 1.
Numerous pimples on various places (fifth day), 4. [1050.]
On the abdomen, small pimples as large as the point of a pin, elevated, raw, with circumscribed redness, which itch, and compel one to scratch (from rubbing in the tincture), 1.
Cold hands and feet after eating, without sleepiness, 7.
Wakes many times at night with chill (second day), 5.
Coldness of the hands and feet (fourth and fifth days), 5. [1080.]
Cold feet on going to bed at 9 o'clock (fifth day), 5.
Coldness of the feet up into the calves, at evening, in bed, occurring after a seminal emission, preventing sleep for two or three hours (fifth day), 5.
Cold hands and feet in the morning; the feet are cold the whole afternoon; toward evening they become suddenly warm, so also the hands (sixth day), 5.
Cold feet the whole night; little sleep (eighth day), 5.
He feels very cold in the night (ninth to tenth day), 5.
Warm feet and icy-cold hands the whole evening; they alternated often through the day; now the feet and hands, now only the hands, cold (tenth day), 5.
The night from the tenth to the eleventh day, chilliness, mostly from 1 to 2 o'clock, decreasing toward morning, 5.
As he, in the forenoon, came from a cold room into one much heated, weariness, weakness, and creeping chills through the whole body (eleventh day), .
SLEEP AND DREAMS
At evening, in the open air, violent, frequent yawning, without sleepiness, 8.
Frequent, deep, loud yawning, after the midday sleep, 7.
Midday sleep, with chasing visions; a crow of dreamy thoughts (fourteenth day), 7.
Tired early in the evening (first day); he even sleeps on the sofa (fifth day), 5.
Very sleepy, indifferent in the evening (thirteenth and thirty-first days), 8.
No sleepiness while reading, after a meal, with cold hands and feet (first day), 7.
CONDITIONS
Aggravation.
( Morning ), *Usually awakes in the morning with severe urging to stool, etc.; before 5 o'clock, aroused and excited in the head; stool ; 5 A.M., swelling in the throat; 6 o'clock, thin stool; tormina in the umbilical region; 7 o'clock, hunger on waking, after waking, pains in the bowels, and pappy stool, etc.; after rising, a stool; on rising, urgency to urinate; 8 to 9 o'clock, swelling in the throat; a crowd of thoughts busy him and prevent his falling asleep again; stool and headache; nasal pains; dryness in the nose; fruitless inclination to sneeze; nose bleed; stitch in the tongue; rawness in the fauces; mucous expectoration; bitter taste; little appetite; abdomen pains; pain in bowels (also evening); flatulent troubles; passage of flatus; offensive flatus; thin stool; diarrhœa; yellow diarrhœa, etc.; itching near the anus; hoarseness; dry hackings; drawings in the chest; cracking of the cervical vertebræ; cold hands and feet; weak pulse.
( Forenoon ), Unhappy mood since the forenoon; much excited; pressure in head, after 11 o'clock; earache; bad taste at the root of the tongue; canine hunger; griping in bowels from 10 to 12 o'clock; burning in the nape; epididymis sensitive; the hand asleep; chilliness, etc.
( Afternoon ), Afternoon generally the time of aggravation, especially of the symptoms of the mucous membranes ; ill-humor worse; excited; pain in forehead; suppurative pain in the upper part of the head; sudden fluent coryza; coryza; blood blow from the nose; hunger; thirst; cutting abdominal pains; offensive flatus; diarrhœa; four stools; stool; at 3 P.M., itching of the hæmorrhoids; drawing in the urethra at midnight; increased urgency to urinate; pain in the neck; burning in the sacrum; drawing in the finger joints; pain in the toes; the legs and hands cold at midday; at 3 o'clock, the feet warm; at 4, the hands; cold feet; cold legs; at noon, sluggish; also in the afternoon, without sleep; chilliness; pulse slower.
( Evening ), The symptoms appear in the evening, particularly ; towards evening, dry cough; increased ill-humor and pain in the loins; indifferent and sleepy; shootings in the head (and the following morning); pressure in the eyes; coldness of the tip of the nose; earache; twingeing in the ear; cracking in the maxillary joint; dryness in the mouth with thirst; swelling of the throat; little appetite; itching of the navel; copious passage of flatus; offensive; urgency to stool; stool; stool at 10 P.M.; stool late; diarrhœa; crawlings in the anus; itching of hæmorrhoids (and in the morning); stitches in the hæmorrhoids; urgency to urinate; sexual desire; tickling in the throat, forcing cough (and mornings); stitches in the chest; pain in the phalanges; hands swollen and hot; attacks of distress, and heating over the hips, into the loins; pain in tendo Achillis; cold feet; into the calves; wrenching pains (and in the morning); yawning and hunger.
The weather is cloudy, cold, rainy (in December), and his humor morose, thoughtful, discontented (fifth day), 6.
Ill-humor; peevish about himself, so that he insults and blasphemies; worse afternoons (third day), 8.
Very discontented and unhappy mood, since the forenoon, with confused head and lack of inclination to labor; better in the evening (twenty-four day), 7.
After meal, no sleepiness, but a forbidding and unconcerned humor; about half-past three, he is better and much inclined to joke, continually mocking the remarks of others; in the evening is inclined to work (twelfth-day), 5.
Lassitude, alternating with great mental activity ; eight day, 4. [40.]
Immediately after a meal, he sat down by himself, without speaking, without any desire for mental or physical exertion; meditating, wrapt up in himself, as after a sickness or a fit of anger, which still gnaws internally, which one cannot express. Nothing can engage his attention, he is averse to and disgusted with everything. From one till after four in the evening, already an opposite condition sets in; he is not at all angered about an accident which otherwise probably would have angered him, 5.
Great restlessness and excitement (second day), 4.
Smelling camphor relieves the troubles quickly and considerably. There even follows for awhile inclination and ability for mental labor, which requires clear thinking. After an hour, however, all the troubles return (eighth day), 4.
Pain in the forehead, pressing outward towards the temples; appears soon after taking Aloes, and continues, 2.
*Dull pressive pain in the supraorbital region (first day), 4.
Pulling every evening, from above the right eyebrow to the bottom of the right side oft the forehead, 27.
Dull stitches in the supraorbital region (the first and fifth day), 4.
Stitches over the brows and in the frontal prominences, 3.
A single darting drawing over the left eye and outward through the same (after four hours), 6.
Pressive tension, sometimes pulsating, in the sinciput, 20. [120.]
Dull pressive pain in the sinciput (second day), 4.*
Pressing outward to the temples with periodic heat of the face, and flickering before the eyes (the first day), 2.
(Slight pressive pain in the right temple; sour food produces an inclination to vomit and lassitude), 1.
Pressive pain in the left temple especially, appearing now and then, 1.
Pressive boring in the left temple, soon thereafter a sticking, drawing outwards to the left eye, from above, out of the brow downwards, afternoon and evening (second day), 6.
Drawing stitches over the right temple, not deep (the third day), 6.
First transient, then severe stitches in the left temporal region, aggravated by every footstep, 15.
Dull stitches through the left temple into the brain, 2.
At midday, a pain as of subcutaneous suppuration, on a spot as large as a half-dollar, on the right side of the top of the head (between organs 16 and 12, according to Combe), so that even touching the air is very painful (afternoons); also in the evening, in another spot of the same size (the second day), 6.
On the left side in the scalp, near the vertex, a feeling as if it had been beaten, so that pressure thereon is painful, but yet feels good (the fifth day), 8.
Painfulness behind the top of the head, as of subcutaneous ulceration; the air stands up more on this spot, continuing from midday, the seventh day; tenth and eleventh days, again a sensitive spot behind on the vertex, 5.
In the occiput (and abdomen), beating at night, when lying down; stitches after stooping; external soreness, 1.
An ache, like a pressure in the scalp of the occiput, 1.
On combing the hair in the morning, a sensitive spot on the left side on upper part of the occiput; towards evening, on the right side of the head, on the top (twelfth day), 5.
Pressive pain in the pharynx, sensation of rawness and swelling, especially on swallowing; hawking up of thick mucus on awaking (morning at three o'clock), going away on rising (fourth day), 6.
Hawking up thick, tough, lumpy mucus, like jelly, easily loosened, early after rising (fifth day), 6.
At noon, very little appetite, and a feeling as if one does not oneself know what is the matter, whether one has appetite or not, so that two hours later he again ate more apples; a kind of torpidity of the stomach; he did not know when he was satisfied; the stomach showed no decided will; after one to three hours, 5.
Some nausea, with pain in the umbilical region increased by pressure, and diarrhœa, 1.
Once, after half a drachm for headache from heat of the sun, vomiting a quantity of thick mucus on going to stool, which returns a half hour after a glass of water.
The pulse and strength were thereby sunken till the next day, 17.
In a city where one had begun to adulterate beer with Aloes, hæmatemesis was almost endemic.
The use of alum-whey gave almost sure relief (Neumann).
Soon after taking it, troublesome sense of fulness in the region of the stomach, followed by distension of the epigastrium and both hypochondria; with a pain in the first hypochondrium, which goes away after a passage of flatus, but returns with renewed distension, 14.
Fulness in the epigastrium, with great appetite for stimulants (second day), 4.
Fulness of the stomach after drinking water, and bilious eructations, 14. [360.]
Pressure in the stomach with a feeling of warmth therein (first day), 4.
The pit of the stomach pains very much on making a false step, 1.
Pressure in the epigastrium and up into the pharynx (fourth day), 4.
Painful pressure under the sternum (fourth day), 4.
Some pressure in the pit of the stomach after breakfast, relieved by eructations, 2.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach through to the back, like a weight, with sore pain; sometimes this pain rises higher up into the chest and then sinks down again; accompanied by copious eructations, 12.
Feeling of weakness in the pit of the stomach, like a weight and burning there, 12. [370.]
With the nausea, pains which draw from the stomach up into both sides of the chest, worse on motion (third day); still the same pains drawing from the pit of the stomach to both sides of the chest, 12.
Snatching under the pit of the stomach (in a mesmerized person), 1.
Dull, pressive pain in the region of the liver (fourth and fifth days), 4.
Hard, pressive pains in the region of the right lower ribs, alternating with just such pains in the upper part of the chest, as if it were seated under the sternum; i. e ., they are found now here, now there.
The former are more transitory, but more frequent; the latter more enduring, but less frequent, 1.
Dull pain on the right side under the ribs, the same in all positions, worse on standing, so that he bends himself forwards, 8.* [400.]
Pain in the region of the liver; at times it pains by the last ribs internally, as if strained, as after great exertion (first day), 8.
Transient stitches in the hepatic region (second day), 4.
Blunt stitches, now in the left, now in the right hypochondrium (second day), 2.
Periodic blunt stitches in the hepatic region, sometimes moving into the chest and obstructing respiration (first day, less the second day), 2.
Single blunt stitches in the hepatic region (first day), 2.
On deep inspiration, it sticks in the præcordium, 2.
Stitches moving from the hepatic region into the chest, 2.
Pain in the liver ( Aloe perfoliata , herb.), (Hong.).
Aloe increases the secretion of bile, and irritates the liver, 13.
The purgative action of Aloes is secondary; the primary action is increased irritation of the liver, and consequent augmented secretion of bile, whose quantity and irritation induce purgation, 13. [410.]
After passage of flatus, the distension in the hypochondria, and the pains in the left hypochondrium disappear, 4.
Abdomen painful, especially in the umbilical region, 7.*
Severe pressing in the left side of the chest, across over to the umbilicus, 20.
Throbbing, boring, sticking, in the umbilical region, 12.
*A twisting and griping pain in the upper abdomen, and around the umbilicus, compelling to sit bent up, which relieves; therewith, repeated urging to stool, but only flatus passes off, which is very offensive, and produces burning in the anus, with short relief from the pain (second day), 2.
Pinching and twisting pains around the umbilicus, 27.
It gripes sometimes in the umbilical region, with shivering through the whole body (first day), 2.
Frequent cutting and twisting about the umbilicus, so that she lies upon the abdomen, but she cannot remain lying quietly, because the pains do not decrease in severity, 20. [420.]
Cutting about the umbilicus after going to stool (second day), 2.
In the morning, on rising, severe raking in a small circle about the navel, just as if he had received a blow from a fist upon the abdomen.
But he felt the pain plainly in the intestinal canal, and a pressure, upon the umbilical region increased it very much.
Therewith, yellowish pappy diarrhœa, and occasionally some nausea (third day), 1.
Dull stitches in the umbilical region; sneezing, 14.
At 6 A.M., moving about in the umbilical region, with urgency to stool and hunger; second stool, with flatulence, and a kind of tenesmus (fourth day), 6.
Some flatulent distension, with predominating ill-humor (second and third days), 4.
Flatulent distension along the colon, with a pain which presses outward, is increased by motion, and suddenly disappears on passage of hot flatus (morning of second day), 4.
Periodic movements and distension in the abdomen, chiefly after eating (third day), 2.
There is moving about in the bowels frequently audible to him; swashing and gurgling (twelfth day), 5.
Cuttings in the abdomen, after a powerful dose (Shreger).
Excessively painful cuttings in the intestines during a meal, preventing further eating, 25.
Copious cutting in the abdomen, with watery, long-continued diarrhœa; not seldom, also, with passage of flatus; tenesmus and inflammation chiefly of the lower part of the intestinal canal (Vogt).
Cuttings in the abdomen, as from taking cold (by a mesmeric woman), 1. [450.]
Drawing, cutting pains, across through the abdomen, the whole day; with ill-humor, fretfulness, anthropophobia, not disposed to go into the open air, although it is even made better thereby, 4.
Cutting in the abdomen is very severe, after eating food containing some vinegar, 2, 1.
In the afternoon, slight cutting in the upper abdomen which, by means of motion, especially by stretching the body outwardly, is increased; it is relieved by sitting bent (first day), 2.
Griping in the abdomen before, with, and after the stool; with the stool loud flatus (sixteenth day), 7.*
In large doses, Aloes produces small stools, but very troublesome abdominal gripings (Hahnemann).
A twisting and griping pain in the upper abdomen, soon after dinner and supper (first day), 2.
In the morning, after waking, aching in a large spot in the middle of the abdomen; thereby is compelled to lie bent, and to press upon the abdomen, which relieves it.
After rising, the pain passed into mild cuttings, and he had two naturally colored pappy evacuations.
(On the morning succeeding, an afternoon dose of five grains), 1. [470.]
Aching in the bowels, partly across the upper part, partly in the middle, going downward.
If she lies upon the abdomen there seems to be a stone therein, and it hurts.
On lying on the side, the stone seems to be in the side.
She sweated very much through the night, and on the next day was taken with dry coryza and diarrhœa. (From rubbing the tincture on the abdomen), 1.
Painful sensation in the abdomen; yellowish diarrhœa towards morning; dull pain across under the ribs, with distension, as if were too narrow; therewith, some headache in the forehead (from two grains, immediately), 1.*
Painfulness in the whole abdomen, especially in the sides and in front, down along both sides of the navel, which parts also cannot endure being touched; on making a false step on stone pavement, it hurts very much in the pit of the stomach (many days), 1.*
The abdomen is painful to pressure (first day), 4.
On lying on the abdomen, feeling of a stone in the abdomen; on lying on the side, in the side, 1.
(Slight throbbing, like palpitation, in the abdomen, during rest, especially nights, lying down; sometimes, also, in the occiput) (after four weeks), 1.
Pleasant crawlings in the bowels, and diarrhœic stools, 1.
Pricking in the intestines before stool, 17. [480.]
Sensation as if he had taken cold in the bowels, after the morning stool (third day), 6.
Dull abdominal pain, as after taking cold, morning and evening repeatedly, still without inclination to stool (twenty-third day), 7.*
*A feeling of weakness in the abdomen as if diarrhœa would result ; not till after eight hours, a copious evacuation, amid the passage of much flatus, 4.
The pain in the abdomen compels one to bend the body, which nevertheless aggravates the sticking pain through the left breast (third day), 4.
The abdominal muscles pain, when rising from a recumbent posture, with pressing to stool, 7.*
Throughout the whole day passage of much offensive flatus, 15.
In the evening, much offensive flatus , loud and still, 8.
In the evening much offensive flatus , with relief (first day), 2.
After the midday nap, much offensive flatus, just the same toward evening (ninth day), 5.
In the evening, loathsome-smelling flatus (third day), 7.
After dinner, much offensive flatus (sixth day), 7.
Copious offensive, or inodorous flatus (third day), 7. [520.]
After the stool, much loud, long, lazy flatus, with an uncommonly strong, loathsome, offensive smell, which diffuses itself very rapidly (nineteenth day), 7.
The whole day very much offensive flatus, mostly in the morning. The harder and more delayed the stool, the more copious; the more copious and easy the stool, the more seldom (twenty-third day), 7.
Passage of hot flatus (first day), 4 , burning in the anus, 2.*
Relieved by the passage of hot flatus upward and downwards (third day), 4.
Sticking, cutting pains in the anus, following stool, 1.
Stitches from the anus into the loins, and into the abdomen, 20.
On walking, after the morning stool, many drawing stitches in the anus, more on the left side and forward to the region of the prostate gland and vesiculæ seminales (eleventh day), 5.
*The not too hard fæces prick quite severely in the anus, as if it would tear it forwards; afterwards, a continued pain in the anus , which compelled him to draw it together frequently, whereby it becomes tense and aches (third day), 1.
The tenesmus is peculiar; an unpleasant sensation in the anus, as if more stool would follow, which must be held back on account of the soreness; yet, on account of this pain, he does not dare to draw the anus together as usual, 6.*
Some loss of blood at stool, as if hæmorrhoids were coming on, 27.
Passage of very much blood with the stool, with severe pain in the loins, 20.
Passage of blood from the anus (Fallopius).
*Sense of fulness, like congestion, of the protruded strangulated hæmorrhoids; later, an indefinite urgency to stool, and a second small stool, which was entirely unusual, whereby the hæmorrhoids protrude very much, and pain, as if sore and chapped in the anus (after three hours, forenoon), 8.
Swelling of the hæmorrhoids; they pain as if raw, 20. [590.]
Soft piles at the anus itch evening and morning (eighteenth day), 7.
After rising, a hard, small, tough stool, with sore pains in the hæmorrhoids, some of which are still protruded (nineteenth day), 7.
Continual smarting of the hæmorrhoids, even during rest, on sitting and lying, as if rubbed raw (twenty-second day), 7.
Hæmorrhoids very sensitive , on wiping after the stool. (twenty-third day), 7.*
In the morning, the piles in the anus are small and little sensitive; through the day more swollen and sensitive; sometimes stitches therein and itching (twenty-fourth day), 7.
In the afternoon, much itching in the piles and anus generally (twenty-second day), 7.
Towards evening, on rising from sitting, many fine, sensitive stitches in the hæmorrhoids, so also later in the evening, when sitting (twentieth day), 7.
Twenty-four hours' relief with the hæmorrhoids; on that day, for the first time, much blood with the stool, 8. [600.]
If cold water applications afford relief from the hæmorrhoids, an indication for Aloes? 8.
Soft, painless, varicose tumors on the perineum (fourteenth day), 7.
On a walk of two miles, the perineum became very sore, which otherwise seldom happened in five or six miles (fourteenth day), 5.
Urgency to stool on passing water at night (tenth and eleventh days), 8.*
Urgency to stool at times in the evening, which he can overcome (sixth day), 8.
Urgency to stool immediately after eating (fifteenth day), 5.*
Many times a day, urgency, as with diarrhœa, only hot flatus passes with great relief; but it soon returns, with a sensation as of a plug wedged in between the symphysis pubis and the os coccygis (second day), 4.*
Frequent urgency to stool, with a sensation of heaviness in the pelvis (first day), 2.*
Ineffectual efforts for stool, with feeling of debility, 3.
Fruitless straining, and severe tenesmus in the rectum, and passage of vigorous, easily escaping flatus, 11.
Evacuation of very large, conglomerate pieces of intestinal mucus, 8.
After loud grumblings and moving about in the abdomen, a thin evacuation, passing almost involuntarily, consisting in part of thin, yellow fæces, partly of bilious-streaked pieces of mucus mixed with the fæces; thereafter crawling in the anus, which compels one to rub it, 1.
Passage of a membranous-looking mucus through the anus, 18.
Thin or soft stools mixed with blood entirely ceased the first two days; they then return less often, and after four to six days are of a natural consistency, 8.
Stool at an unusual time, ten hours later, and pappy (first day), 2.
Stool twice (entirely unusual), more pappy (second day), 2.
Urging to stool at nine o'clock in the morning ; after half an hour, a small, thin stool, then griping in the bowels for a few hours, as after taking cold, and subsequent headache; the next day, without repetition of the dose, stool repeated at the same hour, pappy, and less than the urging seemed to indicate, with subsequent pain in the bowels; the third day, slight urging to stool the whole day, until the ordinary urging to stool follows at evening (after the 1/10th taken five times), 12.*
At nine and ten in the evening, a diarrhœic stool, then again the next day, more frequent in the forenoon, very thin, very yellow; everything that the child had eaten could be seen therein (from sucking Aloes), 8.
Two pappy, yellowish stools, with much passage of flatus (the same evening after taking the 1/10th, at ten o'clock in the afternoon), 11.
In the evening, a diarrhœic stool (second day), 4.
Eight hours after taking it (at five in the evening), again, indeed, a small, thin stool, something entirely unusual, followed by more fulness and pressure in the anus, 8.
After the morning stool, the feeling many times as if he ought to go again; at four in the afternoon, a thick, pappy, natural stool, with sensation as if it were solid (second day), 8.
In the morning, before eight, after breakfast, a disconnected, soft stool, with pressing, passing flatus and eructations; at ten o'clock in the evening, another stool, soft, disconnected, and copious (sixth day), 8.
A stool at 3 P.M., and nine in the evening (eighth day), 8. [710.]
A stool at six and eleven o'clock in the evening (ninth day), 8.
A stool at six o'clock in the morning, after getting up, small, thin, pappy, easy; the same again at noon, and at three in the afternoon, with sputtering, that is, with gushing flatus and thin fæces; just the same in the evening at six and before ten o'clock; could have gone still oftener (tenth day), 8.
At nine o'clock in the forenoon, a second stool, small, yellowish, shining, with much sputtering flatus, with some tenesmus; he dreaded lest he should let fæces and urine both go together; whilst he would force out, yet at the same time he held back; at eleven in the forenoon again (eleventh day), 8.*
A stool at three and six o'clock in the afternoon, and nine and eleven in the evening; with the last much loud flatus, with very little fæces (eleventh day), 8.
At seven in the morning, immediately after rising, another stool as yesterday; five times through the day; sometimes only flatus with little fæces, also many passages of flatus besides; could have gone oftener (twelfth day), 8.
Stool five times up to three o'clock in the afternoon, then again five times; continual passage of much flatus, wherewith he must fear that a stool will escape with it; in the evening, he could pass flatus, loud and strong without being obliged to fear this (thirteenth day), 8.
A stool at eight in the morning, the same at noon; then, indeed, twice just as liquid, though less flatulence (fourteenth day), 8.
On passing water in the morning, a second at eleven in the forenoon, a third stool, with flatulence (third day), 8.
On rising, he must immediately go to stool, thin, and so, indeed, three times; much flatus besides, wherewith some stool easily escapes involuntary (fifteenth day), 8.*
Four copious stools, sometimes appear undigested (sixteenth and seventeenth days); in the forenoon, copious, fluid stools within three hours, after hasty urging, grayish-yellow, undigested, with much growling about in the abdomen (eighteenth day), 8. [720.]
At seven o'clock, a third stool, with straining, when he thought he had finished still more came; at eleven, in the forenoon, a fourth stool (fourth day), 8.
At three in the morning, he awakes with hasty urgency to stool, dull gripings; movings about in the abdomen; thin, pappy evacuations; afterwards a feeling as if more ought to come (second day), 8.
After waking, at three o'clock, a copious, thin, pappy stool, without straining, 8.*
At five in the morning, a regular stool, with passage of urine (fifth day), 8.*
Only one stool in the morning; urine normal (fourth day), 8. [730.]
After a remission, from two o'clock at night until the next day, after dinner (thirty-six hours), a stool, and better humor (evening of eleventh day), 8.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a thin, pappy stool, with dull pains in the abdomen (twenty-third day), 8.
The afternoon stool small, little, soft pieces, with flatulence (third day), 8.
Stool in the morning after rising (sixteenth day), 8.*
A stool at two o'clock in the night, solid, toward the end pappy, diarrhœic (tenth day), 8. [740.]
*At first hard, then fluid stool, which seems to be very hot, 20.
The first part of the stool is hard, the latter part thin, pappy; very often for many weeks, 6, 7.
At first hard, then, towards the end, diarrhœic, 7.
Late in the evening, a copious evacuation of the bowels, though more solid, occurring in addition to the usual forenoon one (first, and the same on the third day), 4.
Copious evacuations difficult, and after long and repeated exertion, 25.
Scanty, crumbling evacuation, with a feeling as if more ought to come (after one hour), 2.
Feeling with the stool as if the bowels were indolent, 8.
With a pappy stool, feeling as if it were solid, 8.
At two o'clock in the afternoon (an unusual time), a stool too small, in disconnected small pieces, with much offensive flatus, two hours after dinner, during a disturbed state of mind, which was still increased after the stool (after three hours), 8. [750.]
A stool at ten o'clock in the evening, thirty hours after the previous one, less than usual, with the feeling again as if it came indolently; it does not present itself in a right way (fourth day), 8.
There is a daily stool, indeed, but yet it is difficult to pass; it distends the rectum at first, 1.
The stool ceases after a small quantity (1/30th), 8.
Urinating in children increased in quantity and frequency, 8.
The urine passes more easily; formerly he had always to wait awhile before it came, 11.
Urine passed with some difficulty (Richter).
Urine passes with difficulty (Richter).
With the last stool, at 10 in the evening, the passage of urine is somewhat impeded; it passes out from the bladder a few seconds before it appeared; then with interruptions, and every time with some urgency, which the urine does not immediately follow (tenth day), 5. [800.]
The afternoon urine becomes cloudy on standing, with a whitish coat at the bottom of the vessel, a fine granular cloudiness in the urine; smell putrid, ammoniacal (first day), 7.
The urine deposits a yellow sediment, like bran, 27.
Heaviness in the uterine region, with pains in the loins and groins, 10.
Heaviness in the uterus and pains in the back (Trousseau).
Determination of blood to the uterus (Arnemann).
Cramps in the uterus, with loss of a little white mucus, 27.
Irritative action on the uterus and pelvic organs, from the determination of blood to these organs; repletion of the bloodvessels, especially the veins; hence it is in a condition to augment existing irritated conditions or bleedings and to act as an emmenagogue in amenorrhœa and chlorosis (Pereira).
Menstruation appears, very copious, though it had occurred not long before, 20.
The menses appear six days too early, with sensation of coldness, 27.
The blood shows as in menstruation, in the case of a woman nursing a child two months old, 27.
A young girl, suffering from amenorrhœa, took daily three grains of the watery extract; thereupon, pappy taste, loss of the previous good appetite, congestion to he head, headache, relieved by cold applications, alternating with pains in the loins, gripings; three soft stools a day; the periods, which had stayed away three months, came on at night, with severe pain in the loins, 14.
It often produces a large evacuation of the monthly purification (Hahnemann).
Given for too copious menstruation, it increased it, 13.
Severe stitches in the forepart of the middle of the left chest, in the region of the sixth rib, so that, on attempting a deep respiration, he must give it up (evenings at nine; fourth day), 7.
Stitches in the right side of the chest, under the mamma, 27.
Stitches from the liver into the chest, interrupting the respiration, 2.
Pains from the epigastric region into both sides of the chest, 12.
Sticking pains through the left chest when crouching on account of pains in the abdomen, 4.
On stretching in the morning a sticking-drawing in the left chest, from the region of the sixth and seventh ribs, only superficial but preventing respiration (fifth day), 7.
Pressive pain in the right ribs, under the axilla, extending into the region of the right shoulder, towards the back, 27.
Morose and ill-humored for several days; on the fourth day, severe drawing sacral pains, which spread over the whole pelvis; they filled him with ill-humor; they were aggravated, evenings, and continued for eight days, 3
Habitual, sensitive drawing in the metacarpal bones and joints of the right middle finger (3 P.M., first day), 7.
In the metacarpal joint of the fourth finger, a frequently recurring sticking and drawing pain (first day), 4.
Painful drawing and stiffness of the left middle finger, seated especially at the metacarpal joint (first day); jerking-drawing pain in the metacarpal joint of the left fourth finger (second day); pains and stiffness in the right (third day), 4. [980.]
Extremely painful tearing stitches in the second joint of the left fourth finger (ninth day), 5.
Pain as if sprained or taken cold in the last joint of the left fourth finger (ninth day), 5.
Aching in the lower condyles of the first phalanges of the right hand, evenings, 1.
Fine stitches in the finger-joints (seventh day), 4.
The soles pain on walking on pavement, as though he had performed a long journey, 1.
Cold feet, 5, 6, 7 ; after eating, without sleepiness, 7 ; at evening, 20 ; evening in bed, 5 ; preventing sleep at night, 5 ; mostly in the forepart of the toes only, 7.
Pain on the inner margin of the metatarsal bone of the left great toe, on walking and in rest; first there is a pressure, then follows a slight drawing, as if the pressure extended itself (after fifteen hours), 1.
He wakes many times in the night, with some chilliness and sensitive pain in the great toe on every motion, as if it were sprained, sometimes in the right sometimes in the left, whether in the first or last joint could not be distinguished (first day, again sixth day), 5.
In the afternoon, on walking in boots, pain in the right third toe, as if frozen (fourteenth day), 5.
For several days, pain in the right little toe, as from chilblains (twenty-fifth day), 7.
Shivering through the whole body; it creeps through all his bones like cold, on slowly swallowing the Aloes, becoming, after fifteen minutes, like a cold shivering creeping; it goes especially down the back, also in the limbs; on sitting, it makes his body erect; not changed by moving about; lasts forty minutes, 6.
After eating, coldness and chilliness of the hands and feet; after walking, the feet become warm, the hands less so; in the evening, both warm (first day), 6. [1090.]
At midday, the thighs down to the knees are cold, the forepart of the feet, around the toes especially, particularly in the midday nap; at 3 o'clock the feet become warm, the hands at 4 o'clock (first day), 7.
At evening the feet become cold, on account of which he cannot get to sleep (third day), 7.
Chill at 3 o'clock, on rising; throughout the day, very sensitive to the cold; chilly in the open air and in the room; more severe in the afternoon; the cold runs through the skin of the whole body, with some confusion, especially of the forehead; at evening, cold legs as far as the knees, in spite of lying on the sofa in a warm room (ninth day), 7.
Chilly; it often creeps down his back (tenth days), 7.
Could not get to sleep before 1 o'clock on account of coldness of the legs, which at first became cold in bed (twentieth day), 7.
Chilly and sensitive to the air (twenty-third day), 7.
At evening, cold feet, as far as the calves, on account of which he could not get to sleep (twenty-third day), 7.
It frequently creeps down the back, with very cold legs as far as the knee (twenty-fourth day), 7.
The night from the fourteenth to the fifteenth day, without chill, and with a good sleep; the weather had become warmer, 5. [1100.]
Cold is better endured, though he had slept in a warm room, 8.
Cannot get to sleep for a long time, because the evening fatigue vanished; a crowd of thoughts busy him; in the morning he lies in a doze till it is day; tired and prostrated ; sexual desire frequently aroused (nineteenth day), 7.*
Cannot get to sleep till one o'clock on account of cold legs, 7.
Restless sleep, with waking up and feeling cold (fifth day), 5.
After an emission of semen, restless sleep, with repeated wakings, at 8 o'clock in the morning, when he must go immediately to stool; a copious passage, with vigor, some hours after the previous one (fifth day), 5.
He felt very cold at night, passing urine at 2 o'clock; he thought it must be later than two (ninth day), 5.
Restless sleep (tenth and eleventh days), with repeated wakings; at half-past one he had to urinate, shortly thereafter, sexual excitement, with erection, 5.
The nights from the eleventh to the twelfth, and from the twelfth to the thirteenth days, little chilliness, better sleep; at half-past two he waked up and began to urinate; had thick mucus in the mouth and fauces, 5.
After evening sleepiness, poor night sleep, constantly half awake, coldness of the feet in bed, much chilliness, excited brain (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 5.
Wide awake for a long time, many evenings, on account of coldness, and activity in the head, dozy sleep, first towards four or five in the morning (eleventh to fourteenth days), 5.
Awaked at night with thirst, drinks a glass of cold water and breaks out into a sweat, several nights, 8.
Woke up frequently, with urgency compelled him to get up, then a slight passage (fourteenth day), 5.
Slept badly; excited (mentally); dozy; great urgency to urinate; sleeplessness before midnight, 27. [1150.]
Very restless sleep; she throws off the bed-clothes, 26.
Restless the night from the first till the second day; awake many time, and, immediately thereafter, irresistible sexual excitement; on rubbing, it immediately went away, 7.
Twitching, with restless sleep and excited brain, 5.
Feels cold at night, 5 ; at 3 o'clock, on getting up, 7.
Dream about huge monsters and all sorts of animals, 27.
Dreams that he is crazy, and that everybody is watching him, 27.
Awaking, completely active, before seven, with many indistinct dreams; otherwise he wakes at nine (second day), 6.
No sound sleep; coldness; awakes at 3 o'clock from a mass of confused dreams, the last was remembered, but on rising was also forgotten (fourth day), 7. [1180.]
Dreams towards morning that he has defecated in his breeches (twenty-fourth day), 7.
( Night ), Toothache; stitches in spleen, awaking one; throbbing in the abdomen on lying; pains over the loins waking one; passage of flatus through the whole night; urgency to stool; urgency with urinating; shocks that force him to rise upright out of bed; waking with chill; waking with chill and pain of the great toe; offensive perspiration; excessive perspiration.
( Before midnight ), Sleeplessness.
( After midnight ), Bellyache and diarrhœa; sexual desire at 1 A.M.; chill at 1 to 2 A.M.; disappearing toward morning; at 2 A.M., stool awake, with urgency to urinate; after 2 A.M., palpitation, in bed; at 3 o'clock, swelling in the throat; awake at 3 A.M.; with dreams; for a thin stool; stool, with chilliness; at 4 A.M., stool; sexual desire; sleepiness, from midnight until 5 A.M.
( Open air ), Pain in the soft palate, after skating; red nose in the open air; averse to walking in the wind.
( Just after getting into bed ), sudden explosion and cracking in the left ear, etc.
( Bending body forward ), Stooping aggravates the headache; stooping forward increases pain in liver; pain in breast-bone; burning in the neck; *stitches in the middle of the "croupe," when stooping.
( Cold ), Cloudy weather causes ill-humor; very sensitive to cold weather; less endurance of cold; fresh cold air increases the headache; raw voice returning in the open and cold air; pain in abdomen a from taking cold.
( On chewing ), The palate painful, etc.
( Contact ), Pains in head; pullings, etc.
( Darkness ), Headache.
( After dinner ), Small stool, etc.
( Lying ), Lying on the abdomen, with cuttings around the navel, but not relieved; on account of pain in back, cannot lie on back, only on side; on lying in a warm room, cold legs; on lying down (and awhile afterward), throbbing in the head.
( Motion ), Exercise increases the headache; pain in the nose, only on motion; nausea; the cutting abdominal pains; pain from flatulence; the pains from the stomach to the chest; on motion, particularly of the arms, pain in the breast-bone; cracking of the cervical vertebræ; pain in the neck; the great toe feels as if sprained.
( Moving the arm ), The arches from the arm to the chest pain.
( Pressure ), The abdominal pains; abdomen sensitive to touch; seems to aggravate the symptoms.
( Pressing the teeth together ), Sensation of numbness behind the ears; pain.
( Raising the body ), On rising up from lying, the abdominal muscles pain; on rising up from stooping, jerks in the chest; on rising in the morning, pain in chest as if sprained.
( Rest ), Beating in the abdomen and palpitation; pain across the loins; in the midday rest, cold feet.
( Sitting ), While sitting, pulsating in the anus; while sitting, more pressing in the loins; heaviness in the loins; after sitting, stiffness in the loins.
( Spitting ), Raw pain in larynx.
( Standing ), Pain in liver.
( After stool ), Pain in anus.
( Stretching the body ), Pains in the abdomen; sticking, drawing in chest.
( Stretching out the hand ), Pain therein, as if too short.
( Walking ), On walking, it shakes in the head; jerks in the left hypochondrium; stitches in the anus; cracking of the hip-joint; stitches in right knee-joint; pain in left ankle-bone; shiverings; vertigo on going upstairs and turning quickly; at every step, the stitches in the temple are much worse; on making a misstep, pain at the pit of the stomach; on bodily exertion, pain in chest.
( Warmth ), Headache.
( Writing ), Drawing in the left forearm.
Amelioration.
( Afternoon ), Easy passage of flatus.
( Evening ), Unhappy mood better; conciliatory mood; inclination to work; not vexed; aroused; happy mood; dryness of lips; chilliness; hands and feet again warm.
( In cool air ), Headache.
( Open air ), Feels better; especially the headache and ill-humor abate; exercise in open air relieves; all the symptoms disappear or are ameliorated on exercise in the open air; walking in open air relieves pain in bowels.
( Bending body forward ), Pains in abdomen compel him to sit crouched together; crouching relieves cuttings in the abdomen.
( Light ), Headache.
( Motion ), Drawings; burnings in the neck; sacral pains.
( Pressure ), Beaten feeling in head; he is compelled to press on the abdomen, which relieves him; relieves.
( Rest ), Must sit still, else he would have to vomit.
( Sitting ), Must sit down and sleep, with anxiety of the chest.
( Stretching out straight ), Pain in breast-bone.
( Walking ), Better than when sitting; pain in loins; cold feet become warm; hands less so; relieved by going about.
( Warm weather ), Chilliness.
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