Bufo Sahytiensis

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

A south American toad, to which this name has been given by Dr. Mure, in his Pathogénésie Brazilienne.

MIND

  • Aversion to work, with unfitness for it, the whole afternoon (first day).
  • Gay, lively (thirty-ninth day).
  • Very gay in the evening; disposed to talk about cheerful things (thirty-eighth day).
  • Careless (twentieth day).
  • Sadness; he shuns society (thirty-ninth day).
  • Gloomy and silent mood (thirty-ninth day).
  • He is unable to act with decision; he forms projects and does not accomplish them (thirty-ninth day).
  • Heightened imagination (thirty-ninth day).
  • Weakness of mind and memory, less in the evening (thirty-ninth day). [10.]
  • Lazy and discouraged (twentieth day).
  • Not disposed to study (after three days).
  • He is apt to forget things he had been occupied with a moment before (seventeenth day).
  • Weak memory (after twenty days).

HEAD

  • Extreme heaviness of the head, at 2 o'clock (first day).
  • Heaviness of the head after a walk (thirty-ninth day).
  • Long-lasting headache (thirty-ninth day).
  • Pressure on the right side of the forehead (thirty-ninth day).
  • Sharp stitches in the left temple (thirty-ninth day).
  • (Sense of weakness in the whole left side of the head), (thirty-ninth day). [20.]
  • Large red pimple on the occiput (thirty-sixth day).

EYES AND EARS

  • The orbits feel larger and as if in contact with the orbital walls (after seventeen days).
  • Almost continual expansive pressure in the orbits, and sensation of external itching; he is obliged to rub his eyes with the palm of his hand (after two days).
  • The upper portion of the orbits seems to be in contact with the orbital walls, especially at night (after twenty days).
  • The eyes are red, and smart (seventeenth day).
  • The eyes smart, and are painful to touch (nineteenth day).
  • Pain in front of the lobe of the left ear (thirty-ninth day).

STOMACH AND STOOL

  • Pricking at the pit of the stomach (thirteenth day).
  • Easy stools (third day).

SEXUAL ORGANS, CHEST, AND BACK

  • Constant erections without desire (after four days). [30.]
  • Painful sensation under the false ribs (thirty-ninth day).
  • Pressure at the cartilages of the false ribs (fourteenth day).
  • Itching on the lumbar vertebræ (twentieth day).
  • Pain at the sacrum, worse when rising, stooping, or sitting (after two days).

EXTREMITIES

  • Pricking in the tips of the right fingers and left toe (thirty-ninth day).
  • Pinching at the inside of the left elbow (thirteenth day).
  • Pain in extensor muscles of right arm (thirty-ninth day).
  • Acute pain in the right wrist (thirty-ninth day).
  • Crampy pain at the outer side of the right leg (thirteenth day).
  • Pain at the inner part of the right knee (third day). [40.]
  • Ganglion on the sole of the right foot (thirty-ninth day).
  • Prickling at the right big toe (twelfth day).

GENERALITIES AND SKIN

  • Less active than usual (after three days).
  • Excoriation of the left masseter muscle, discharging a little sanguinolent humor (thirty-ninth day).
  • A former fungus bleeds (seventeenth day).
  • Red pimple, which breaks and leaves a black spot in its place (thirteenth day).
  • Pimples on the forehead (thirty-ninth day).
  • Pimple on right wrist (thirty-ninth day).
  • A black spot on the right outer ankle, which had remained after a pimple, continues (twentieth day).
  • Formication of the lower jaw (twentieth day). [50.]
  • Formication in the lumbar region (thirty-ninth day).
  • Violent itching (thirty-ninth day).
  • Itching almost all over (after three days).
  • Itching on the face (after two days).
  • He is obliged to rub his face in the morning (twentieth day).
  • Violent itching at the lips (second day).
  • Itching at the pubis (second day).
  • Itching about the anus (twentieth day).

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • Drowsiness (thirty-ninth day).
  • Sleeps for an hour in the middle of the day, contrary to habit (thirty-ninth day). [60.]
  • No sleep (eleventh day).
  • Dreams every night, but on waking, does not recollect what they were about (thirty-ninth day).

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning ), Obliged to rub face.
  • ( Rising ), Pain at sacrum.
  • ( Sitting ), Pain at sacrum.
  • ( Stooping ), Pain at sacrum.
  • ( After a walk ), Heaviness of head.
  • Amelioration.
  • ( Evening ), Weakness of mind.

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