Calcarea Caustica

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Aqua Calcis (in part).

Preparation , To one part by weight of quicklime (CaO), add five parts of distilled water (to be securely corked in a warm bottle); when quite cool, add five parts of alcohol, shake frequently for several days, after which, decant the clear liquid.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. A. W. Koch, prize essay, Hygea, 5, 270, a man thirty-one years old, took 3 to 6 drops of the tincture; 2 , Ibid., took the 1st and 2d dilutions; 3 , A married woman, twenty-six years old, ibid., took 2 to 6 drops of the tincture; 4 , Ibid., took the 1st and 2d dilutions; 5 , A maid, seventeen years old, proved the tincture, ibid.; 6 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 2d dils.; 7 , A man, forty years old, proved the tincture, ibid.; 8 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 3d dils.; 9 , Wife of last, forty years old, proved the tincture; 10 , A maid, seventeen years old, proved the tincture; 11 , Ibid., proved the 1st dil.; 12 , A man, twenty-five years old, proved the tincture; 13 , Ibid., proved the 1st and 2d dils.; 14 , A maid, sixteen years old, proved the tincture; 15 , A maid, twenty-five years old, proved the tincture; 16 , A woman, thirty-two years old, proved the tincture; 17 , A maid, twenty years old, proved the tincture; 18 , Dr. Keil, Zeit. f. H. Kl., 3, 149, a woman took a spoonful of Aqua Calcis, night and morning, for several days (as a tonic!); 19 , Liedbeck, A. H. Z., 42, 26, proving of Aq-calcis.

MIND

  • Thought very difficult (second day), 7.

HEAD

  • Confusion.
  • Confusion of the head (first day), 2, 7, 14.
  • Confusion of the head (second day), 13.
  • Confusion of the whole head (first day), 9.
  • Head very much confused (after two hours), 12.
  • Head very much confused, especially on the left side (first day), 2.
  • Confusion in the head (in the evening, first day), 7.
  • Head much confused (in the evening, when drinking beer), (first day), 1.
  • In the evening, after drinking his usual beer, the head became so confused that he could scarcely hold it up (second day), 1. [10.]
  • Head much confused, evenings, in bed, especially on the left side (after drinking beer), (first day), 1.
  • Head confused, the whole afternoon, as after intoxication (second day), 2.
  • Confused head, in the forenoon, especially on the left side, with periodic stitches; the headache is pressive, so that mental labor is very difficult (third day), 1.
  • Head very much confused; dull pressive pain in the forehead, extending to the occiput, so that he could scarcely attend to his business (second day), 1.
  • Confusion in the head, with pressure in the forehead, and transient stitches in the temples (second day), 2.
  • Feeling in the head as if she were foolish (fourth day), 15.
  • Headache, so that (as she expresses it), she cannot think any more (third day), 14.
  • Vertigo.
  • Vertigo (first day), 12, 15, 16.
  • Vertigo, as if the room were turning in a circle; she thinks she will fall from the chair (first day), 5.
  • Vertigo (in the evening, first day), 13.
  • Sensations. [20.]
  • Severe pain in the head (first day), 17.
  • Heat in the head (first day), 10.
  • Stitches in the head, from before backward (second day), 8.
  • General pressive headache (first day), 12.
  • Violent pain in the head, on stooping, as if the brain followed the force of gravitation (third day), 4.
  • Tearing in the head (third day), 8.
  • Tearing from the occiput to the forehead (fifth day), 12.
  • Forehead.
  • Very confused head, in the forehead (first day), 16.
  • Pain in the forehead and above the eyes (first day), 7.
  • Frontal headache (first day), 9. [30.]
  • Frontal headache, especially above the eyes (first day), 10.
  • Transient pressive pain in the forehead, 3.
  • Sticking pain in the left frontal eminence (after two hours), 2.
  • A violent sticking pain from the right eye to the frontal eminence, so that the eye waters, at dinner (third day), 2.
  • Stitches in the whole of the frontal sinus, and in both temples (second day), 6.
  • Dull stitches in the left side of the forehead and temple (second day), 2.
  • Tearing in the forehead, above the eyebrows (first day), 5.
  • Tearing pain in the left frontal eminence (after two hours), 5.
  • Tearing in the frontal sinus (first day), 14.
  • Throbbing pain in the frontal sinus, so that one is constantly obliged to contract the skin of the forehead, which affords relief (second day), 6. [40.]
  • Severe throbbing pain in the forehead, at 9 P.M. (second day), 6.
  • Temples.
  • Sticking pain in the left temple, at 6 1/2 P.M. (first day), 6.
  • Tearing-sticking pain in the left temple (first day), 2.
  • Tearing in the right temple (first day), 1.
  • Tearing pain in the left temple, extending to the left frontal eminence (after one hour), 1.
  • Vertex.
  • Dull pressive headache, in the middle of the upper part of the skull (first day), 7.
  • Occiput.
  • Pain in the occiput (first day), 8.
  • Dull rheumatic pain in the occiput (evening, at 5), (first day), 1.
  • Pressive pain in the occiput (first day), 12.
  • External.
  • A feeling as if the hairs were pulled up (first day), 5. [50.]
  • Transient sensation, as if the hairs on the forepart of the head were pulled up (evening, first day), 3.

EYE

  • A pain in the right eye, as if a foreign body were under the upper lid; stitches extend thence to the forehead, and the conjunctiva of the lids is red (sixth day), 2.
  • Feeling in the left eye, on rising in the morning, as if a thorn were in it, so that she must rub it; she was unable to open it (second day), 6.
  • Burning in the eyes, in the evening, by candlelight (second day), 3.
  • While reading in the evening, at 10, burning of the eyes (second day), 1.
  • Tearing in the eyes (in the afternoon, first day), 13.
  • Orbit.
  • Paroxysmal boring pain on the upper orbital border of the right eye (first day), 3.
  • Stitches along the course of the supraorbital and supratrochlear nerves (immediately after taking), 2.
  • Transient tearing pain from the supraorbital border of the left orbit to the inner canthus, and down to the wing of the nose, at 6 P.M. (first day), 3.
  • Lids.
  • Violent pains in the upper lids, so that every motion is painful (first day), 3. [60.]
  • Severe pressure and heaviness in the lids (first day), 9.
  • Tearing pain in the inner canthus of the right eye, extending down to the upper lid, with a feeling as if the eyeballs would become swollen (first day), 9.
  • Lachrymal Apparatus.
  • Lachrymation of the right eye (fifth day), 2.
  • Lachrymation in the open air (third day), 2.
  • Conjunctiva.
  • Redness of the conjunctiva of the lids (first day), 3.
  • Ball.
  • Pain in the eye, as if the ball would be pressed out (first day), 12.
  • Stitches in the eyeball (first day), 12.
  • Tearing stitches through the eyeballs (first day), 12.
  • Vision.
  • Photophobia (first day), 3.

EARS

  • Tearing in the right mastoid process (first day), 8.
  • Dull pain in both ears (second day), 2. [70.]
  • Bursting pains within the left ear (at 9 P.M., first day), 1.
  • Severe tension and pressure in the internal portions of the ear (first day), 12.
  • Pinching-sticking pain in the left ear, extending to the opening of the Eustachian tube, in the throat, at 5 P.M. (second day), 2.
  • Violent sticking-drawing pains within the left meatus auditorius, extending outward (immediately), 1.
  • Violent sticking, pressing-out pain in the internal portion of the left ear; this continues, more or less severe, some time, 1.
  • Sticking pains through the left and right ears (evening, second day), 1.
  • Dull sticking in the left ear, as from a foreign body (first day), 2.
  • Tearing through the inner portion of both ears (first day), 7.
  • Hearing.
  • Ringing and roaring in the ears (third day), 13.

NOSE

  • Coryza, especially of the left nostril (second day), 2. [80.]
  • The nose has been dry for two days; it discharges a thick tough mucus (third day), 1.
  • Stitches from the left wing of the nose, at the angle extending to the internal canthus (first day), 4.

FACE

  • Tearing in the right cheek-bone (first day), 8.
  • The inner surface of the lips very red, with injected vessels, 18.
  • Stiffness in the joints of the jaws (first day), 10.
  • Very violent pain in the right articulation of the jaw, which was somewhat swollen, fourth day; the next day the joint was immovable, and the cheek swollen; the third day, violent pain on moving the jaw; the pain was relieved in the evening, and the night was quiet; the right cheek was still greatly swollen; disappeared after two days, 3.
  • Rheumatic nervous pain in the right articulation of the jaw, on pressure (this might be attributed to the fact that the person had worn a neck cloth through the whole winter, and had left it off the last three days), 4.
  • Tearing in the left half of the lower jaw (second day), 8.

MOUTH

  • Teeth.
  • Severe toothache, every night, at 2 o'clock, as it the tooth was fuzzy and too large, together with tensive pain in the left ear, as if something was sticking in it (fourth to sixth day), 2.
  • Dull tearing toothache in a hollow tooth (first day), 2. [90.]
  • Transient tearing pain in the left lower incisors (first day), 1.
  • The back teeth feel fuzzy (first day), 9.
  • Severe pain in the hollow back teeth; they seem too large (third day), 1.
  • The back teeth seem too large, and are somewhat painful (first day), 10.
  • Drawing pain in an upper hollow back tooth of the left side, and a feeling as if it were too large (first day), 2.
  • Dull tearing-sticking pain in two hollow back teeth, which seemed enlarged (first day), 1.
  • Tongue.
  • Tongue greenish-yellow, and thickly coated (fifth day), 12.
  • General Mouth.
  • Offensive mouth (fourth day), 1.
  • Mouth offensive, especially the posterior portion, on the arches of the palate, with mucus (fourth day), 2.
  • Dryness of the mouth, 18. [100.]
  • The palate feels as if mucus was upon it but none is expectorated (first day), 1.
  • Taste.
  • Mouth bitter (fifth day), 12.

THROAT

  • Mucus in the throat, which is difficult to raise, almost causing vomiting; for two days (second day), 9.
  • Hawking of granular glutinous material (like cooked rice), which collects in the larynx and trachea (for fourteen days), 4.
  • Pain in the throat, on rising; swallowing is difficult (second day), 5.
  • Burning in the fauces and œsophagus, caused by water, 18.
  • A feeling in the pharynx as if a bone were sticking in it (first day), 1.
  • Was scarcely able to swallow (first day), 17.

STOMACH

  • Appetite.
  • Severe hunger three hours after eating (first day), 1.
  • Loss of appetite (third day), 12. [110.]
  • Loss of appetite for beer (second day), 2.
  • Eructations.
  • Many eructations (first day), 1.
  • Eructations tasting of the food, and also sour and bitter (first day), 1.
  • Nausea.
  • Nausea (second and fifth days), 12.
  • Nausea, with eructations of frothy fluid, after eating some bread (after one hour), 4.
  • Nausea, which is followed, after half an hour, by vomiting of sour fluid, half an hour after dinner (first day), 6.
  • Stomach.
  • Burning in the stomach, 18.
  • Tensive feeling in the stomach (first day), 1.
  • Spasmodic contraction of the stomach (second day), 12. [120.]
  • Oppression above the epigastric region, and in the hypochondria (first day), 7.

ABDOMEN

  • Hypochondria.
  • Sticking pain in both hypochondria, especially severe in the left (first day), 1.
  • Pain on the left side of the region of the spleen, as if a ball were turning on its axis (second day), 4.
  • General Abdomen.
  • Rumbling in the abdomen (first day), 5.
  • Rumbling in the abdomen (fifth day), 12.
  • Constrictive pain in the abdomen, extending towards the uterus (first day), 5.
  • Griping in the abdomen (first day), 14, 15, 17.
  • Griping in the abdomen (first day), 17.
  • Griping in the abdomen (fifth day), 12.
  • Griping in the abdomen, with flatulence, at noon (second day), 2. [130.]
  • Violent stitches in the intestines, like fine knife-stitches (he often had this symptom when not proving), (second day), 1.
  • Violent stitches in the small intestines when bending forward (second day), 2.
  • Tearing in the abdomen (after half an hour), 12.
  • Slight tearing pain in the abdomen (after one hour), 12.

RECTUM AND ANUS

  • The usual hæmorrhoids seemed to be smaller (second day), 1.
  • Hæmorrhoids trouble (first day), 13.
  • Sticking-tearing motions in the rectum, extending towards the anus (first day), 12.
  • Crawling in the rectum and anus (second day), 13.

STOOL

  • Diarrhœa.
  • Stool twice and painless (second day), 2.
  • Three thin stools before breakfast, and one again after breakfast (second day), 5. [140.]
  • Stool always very painful, as if a nail were scratching in the anus (since the beginning of the proving, until the last two days, when it was no longer painful, and the hæmorrhoids were very small), 2.
  • Thin, pasty stool, with much mucus, immediately after breakfast (second day), 1.
  • Passed many pieces of a tapeworm (first day), 15.
  • Constipation.
  • No stool (first day), 1, 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Male.
  • Emissions in the night (first day), 1.
  • Female.
  • Menstruation eight days too early, 4.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

  • Larynx.
  • Stitches in the larynx (first day), 14.
  • Dull stitches in the left half of the larynx (third day), 2.
  • Voice.
  • Hoarseness (first day), 14.
  • Hoarseness with pain in the throat (first day), 17. [150.]
  • Hoarseness; a feeling of rawness in the trachea; cough (first day), 15.
  • Cough and Expectoration.
  • Cough, with stitches in the chest (first day), 17.
  • Cough, with expectoration of mucus and blood (third day), 13.
  • Cough, with some expectoration of blood, hoarseness, and pain in the throat (first day), 16.
  • Expectoration of mucus streaked with blood (fourth day), 13.

CHEST

  • Pressure on the chest, which disappeared after half an hour; it felt as if all the blood had stagnated in the abdomen, as after nightmare (third day), 1.
  • Pressive pain in the chest (third day), 13.
  • Sticking pain in the region of the sixth and seventh ribs, increased by inspiration, without cough; it changes to a tearing, its seat being in the intercostal muscles and pleura costalis (first day), 1.
  • Stitches in the chest (first day), 16.
  • Stitches in the chest, on inspiration, with some cough at noon (second day), 14. [160.]
  • Biting in the nipple, without eruption (first day), 4.
  • Sternum.
  • Oppression across the sternum (second day), 13.
  • Pressive sticking pain beneath the sternum, above the præcordial region and the hypochondrium (fourth day), 1.
  • Stitches across over the breast-bone (second day), 2.
  • Sides.
  • Sticking pain, in the left side of the region from the fifth to the seventh rib, after dinner (first day), 2.
  • Stitches in the right side, in the lowest ribs (first day), 8.
  • Stitches below the right short ribs (third day), 6.
  • Stitches in the left side of the chest (second day), 2, 14.
  • Stitches in the left side of the chest (second day), 14.
  • Stitches in the left side of the chest, between the sixth and seventh ribs (first day), 1.

NECK AND BACK

  • Neck. [170.]
  • Stiffness of the neck (first day), 10.
  • Stiffness of all the muscles of the neck (second day), 1.
  • Neck stiff from noon till evening (first day), 9.
  • Stiffness in the back of the neck (first day), 7.
  • Tension in the muscles of the neck, on both sides (first day), 12.
  • Aching and stiffness in the neck, half an hour after rising (third day), 6.
  • Tension and stiffness in the nape of the neck and occiput (second day), 1.
  • Tearing in the neck (third day), 8.
  • Tearing in the muscles of the neck (first day), 1, 8.
  • Sticking-tearing pain in the muscles of the neck; continues the whole day (third day), 2. [180.]
  • Tearing in the nape of the neck, with stiffness (first day), 7.
  • Back.
  • Tearing in the back (first day), 7.
  • Dorsal.
  • Violent pains in the shoulder-blades, extending into the small of the back, when sitting (second day), 4.
  • Peculiar pain like rheumatism in both shoulder-blades (first day), 3.
  • Rheumatism in the right shoulder-blade, at 10 1/2 P.M. (third day), 2.
  • Sensation in both shoulder-blades as if they were fuzzy, and had gone to sleep, at 8 P.M. (second day), 3.
  • Sticking in the shoulder-blades (third day), 6.
  • Tearing in both shoulder-blades, between the shoulders, then through the neck and occiput as far as the forehead (first day), 5.
  • Tearing between the shoulders (first day), 8.
  • Tearing between the shoulders (second day), 8. [190.]
  • Tearing between the shoulders (third day), 8.
  • Rheumatic pain between the shoulder-blades, with stitches, on breathing, and oppression, extending forward to the sternum (first day), 9.
  • Tearing between the shoulder-blades (first day), 7.
  • Lumbar.
  • Stitches in both lumbar regions (first day), 5.
  • Pains in the small of the back (first day), 1, 3, 8, 9.
  • Pain in the small of the back (fifth day), 12.
  • Pain in the small of the back, on waking, relieved on moving about (third day), 1.
  • Slight rheumatic pains in the small of the back, neck, and upper arm (second day), 1.
  • Drawing in the small of the back (first day), 13.
  • Drawing pains in the small of the back (first day), 9. [200.]
  • Pressive-drawing pain in the small of the back (in the morning, second day), 1.
  • Violent sticking pain in the small of the back (first day), 5.
  • Sticking in the small of the back, at 6 1/2 P.M., 6.
  • Tearing pain in the small of the back (first day), 7, 8.
  • Sacral.
  • Tearing in the coccyx (first day), 7.
  • Tearing in the coccyx (third day), 8.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

  • Trembling in the limbs (first day), 12.
  • Trembling in the extremities (first day), 1.
  • Trembling in the extremities, and weariness, worse in bed (possibly the result of the day's exertion), (first day), 1. [210.]
  • Trembling of the limbs, she could not continue her work; the symptom disappeared after eating a piece of bread (first day), 3.
  • Great trembling in the arms and feet (second day), 6.
  • Great weariness of the limbs (after one and a half hours), 3.
  • Rheumatic pain, alternating in all the joints (third day), 2.
  • Slight rheumatic pains in the left arm and in the feet (first day), 1.
  • Wandering pains in the extremities (third day), 12.
  • Pains in the hands and feet, after a foot-bath (third day), 3.
  • Drawing-tearing pain in a joint, when exerting it, or in an unaccustomed position (seventh day), 2.
  • Tearing in the right upper arm and right thigh (first day), 7.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Tearing in the left arm (third day), 8. [220.]
  • Tearing under the left arm (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the right arm (third day), 7.
  • Shoulder.
  • Slight rheumatic pain in the right shoulder (third day), 2.
  • Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder (first day), 1.
  • Tearing in the right shoulder (first day), 5, 7, 8.
  • Sticking-tearing pain in the right shoulder, 2.
  • Slight rheumatic pain in the right shoulder-joint (second day), 1.
  • Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder-joint, at 10 P.M. (second day), 2.
  • Aching in the left shoulder-joint on hanging down the arm (second day), 6.
  • Tearing-drawing pain in the left shoulder-joint, which extends over the whole upper arm and becomes so violent that it is difficult to raise the arm; it is chiefly seated in the deltoid muscle, in the fascia, and in the shoulder-joint, lasting three hours (immediately after taking), 1. [230.]
  • Tearing in the right shoulder-joint (first day), 9.
  • Slight tearing in the right shoulder-joint (twenty-first day), 7.
  • Tearing in the left shoulder-joint (first day), 7.
  • Tearing in the right axilla (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left axilla (first day), 7.
  • Arm.
  • Rheumatic pain in the biceps, deltoid, and elbow-joint of the right arm (first day), 2.
  • Stitches in the left upper arm (first day), 7.
  • Tearing in the left upper-arm (first day), 7.
  • Transient dull tearing pain in the left upper arm, from the shoulder to the elbow, after dinner (first day), 4.
  • Elbow.
  • Stitches in the right elbow (first day), 2. [240.]
  • Stitches in the tip of the right elbow (second day), 6.
  • Tearing in the elbows (first day), 8.
  • Very marked tearing in the left elbow-joint (first day), 7.
  • Forearm.
  • Tearing in the right forearm (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left forearm (third day), 8.
  • Drawing-tearing pain in the left forearm, as if in the bones, or in the intercostal ligament (first day), 2.
  • Wrist.
  • Stitches in the left wrist and metacarpal joints (second day), 2.
  • Tearing in the right wrist (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left wrist (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left wrist (third day), 8.
  • Hand. [250.]
  • Paralyzed condition of the right hand, so that he is unable to raise it; the hand will follow the force of gravitation, at 5 P.M. (first day), 5.
  • Tearing in the left hand (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left hand (third day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left metacarpus (second day), 7.
  • Fingers.
  • Sticking-tearing pain in the right thumb, at 10 P.M., when in bed (first day), 2.
  • Tearing in the first joint of the right thumb (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the second joint of the right thumb (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left thumb (first day), 7, 8.
  • Tearing in the first joint of the left thumb (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the first joint of the right index finger (first day), 7. [260.]
  • Tearing in the second joint of the left index finger (first day), 8.
  • Drawing-tearing pain in the first joint of the left index finger, which changes to a dislocating pain, after dinner (first day), 2.
  • Tearing in the left middle finger (first day), 7.
  • Tearing in the first joint of the right little finger (first day), 7, 8.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Severe tension in the lower extremities (third day), 12.
  • Hip.
  • Transient stitches in the right hip, without moving (second day), 1.
  • Wrenching pain in the right hip-joint (second day), 8.
  • Stitches from the right hip-joint down to the middle of the thigh (third day), 2.
  • Severe stitches in the right hip-joint, on walking, 5 P.M. (first day), 5. [270.]
  • Tearing in the right hip-joint (first day), 11.
  • Sticking pain in the left hip-joint, when walking, and in the open air (first day), 2.
  • Tearing in the left hip-joint (first day), 8.
  • Thigh.
  • Tearing in both thighs (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the right thigh (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the right thigh (second day), 7.
  • Tearing in the right thigh (fourth day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left thigh (second day), 8.
  • Knee.
  • Tearing in both knees, extending down through the feet (first day), 5.
  • Stitches in the right knee (second day), 6. [280.]
  • Tearing in the right knee (third day), 8.
  • Tearing in the hollow of the right knee (first day), 7.
  • Tearing in the left knee (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left knee, at 6 P.M. (first day), 6.
  • Tearing and sticking in the left knee (first day), 2.
  • Tension in the right knee-joint (first day), 7.
  • Violent sticking pain in the right knee-joint, on stepping, continuing in bed on moving it, at 10 P.M. (fourth day), 4.
  • Tearing in the right knee-joint (first day), 7, 8.
  • Tearing in the right knee-joint (third day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left knee-joint (first day), 8.
  • Leg. [290.]
  • Tearing in the left leg (third day), 8.
  • Tearing in the lower part of the right tibia (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the right side of the tibia of the right leg, down to the toes, at 5 P.M. (second day), 5.
  • Tension in the calves (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the right calf (first day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left calf (second day), 8.
  • Tearing in the left tendo Achillis (third day), 8.
  • Ankle.
  • Tearing in the left ankle (first and second days), 8.
  • Foot.
  • Tearing over part of the right foot (first day), 8.
  • Stitches in the sole and in the forepart of the right foot (first day), 7. [300.]
  • Tearing in the left heel (first day), 8.
  • Toes.
  • Aching in the first phalanx of the right great toe, on moving the joint (second day), 6.
  • Sticking pain in a corn on the left third toe (third and fourth days), 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

  • Weariness (first day), 15.
  • Great weariness (first day), 12, 16.
  • Great weariness (third day), 12.
  • Extreme weariness, so that he must lie down, and was only free from the troubles in the throat and cough after eight days, 17.
  • In the morning, on rising, weary and peevish (second day), 2.
  • Great prostration and trembling of the body (first day), 1.
  • On waking, felt as if he had been intoxicated (second day), 2. [310.]
  • In the morning he felt unwell, as if he had been intoxicated the day before (he had drunk wine the evening previous), (second day), 1.

SKIN

  • Very fine rashlike eruption on the forehead, without biting (second day), 4.
  • Six brownish-red, isolated, or partly confluent spots like flea-bites, of the size of a penny, in the lower part of the tibia; the skin somewhat swollen; lasting fourteen days (second day), 2.
  • Biting vesicles, filled with lymph, in various parts of the body (first day), 8.
  • Biting-itching eruption, with a red areola filled with purulent lymph (fifth day), 2.
  • Severe itching and sticking in the skin, especially in the neck and back; small vesicles appear filled with lymph, and surrounded by a red areola (sixth day); the next day the eruption extends to the chest, throat, and behind the ears and occiput, 3.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • Sleepiness.
  • Yawning (first day), 1.
  • Much yawning (first day), 1.
  • Great sleepiness in the evening (first day), 7.
  • Night quiet, until morning, when a severe tension of the skin wakes him (first day), 12.
  • Sleeplessness. [320.]
  • Night restless, with many dreams (second day), 9.
  • Night restless, with many dreams (third day), 2.
  • Night very restless (second night), 1.
  • Night restless with confused head (first day), 9.
  • Night very restless, tossing hither and thither, loss of sleep, head much confused (first day), 1.
  • Night restless, sleepless; continued toothache in a left upper hollow back tooth, also with earache (second day), 2.
  • Night restless, sleepless, with many dreams, which could not be remembered the next morning (second day), 2.
  • Restless sleep at night, with dreams (first day), 7.
  • Restless sleep, with anxious dreams (first day), 7.
  • Sleep restless, full of unpleasant dreams (first day), 2. [330.]
  • Night quite sleepless, full of dreams, much tossing about in bed (third day), 2.
  • Nightmare and restless dreams (third night), 1.

FEVER

  • Chilliness.
  • Shivering down the back (first day), 9.
  • Severe chill (first day), 17.
  • Violent chill, in the evening, on going to bed (first day), 4.
  • Very violent chill at 7 P.M., lasting half an hour (first day), 3.
  • Severe shaking chill, with chattering of the teeth, at 7 1/2 P.M. (first day), 6.
  • Chilliness for several weeks, in summer, 19.
  • A severe chilliness, on rising, 3.
  • Great chilliness of the whole body in the evening, on going to sleep (first day), 3. [340.]
  • Continued chilliness, followed by heat at noon (fifth day), 12.
  • Severe shaking chill at 7 P.M., lasting an hour, followed by severe heat in the head, lasting half an hour (first day), 5.
  • Heat.
  • Severe burning of the skin, before going to sleep (in the evening,

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning ), On rising, feeling in eye; pain in small of back; on rising, weary, etc.
  • ( Forenoon ), Confused head.
  • ( Noon ), Griping in abdomen; stitches in chest, etc.; till evening, neck stiff.
  • ( Afternoon ), 5 o'clock, pain in ear.
  • ( Evening ), Confusion of head; when drinking beer, head confused; in bed, after drinking beer, head confused; vertigo; pain in occiput; sensations as if hairs were pulled up; by candlelight, burning in eyes; while reading, at 10 o'clock, burning of eyes; on going to bed, chilly; on going to sleep, chilliness; before going to sleep, burning of the skin.
  • ( Night ), 2 o'clock, toothache.
  • ( In open air ), Pain in hip-joint.
  • ( In bed ), Trembling in the extremities, etc.
  • ( When bending forward ), Stitches in the intestines.
  • ( After eating bread ), Nausea.
  • ( At dinner ), Pain from right eye.
  • ( After dinner ), Nausea; pain in rib-region.
  • ( On hanging down arm ), Aching in shoulder-joint.
  • ( Inspiration ), Pain in rib-region; stitches in chest.
  • ( Pressure ), Pain in jaws.
  • ( On rising ), Pain in throat.
  • ( After rising ), Aching, etc., in neck; chilly.
  • ( When sitting ), Pains in shoulder-blades.
  • ( On stepping ), Pain in knee-joints.
  • ( On stooping ), Pain in head.
  • ( On waking ), Pain in small of back.
  • ( On walking ), Stitches in hip-joint; pain in hip-joint.
  • Amelioration.
  • ( Evening ), Pain in articulation of jaws.
  • ( After eating bread ), Trembling of limbs disappears.
  • ( On moving about ), Pain in small of back.

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