Curare

A South American (Guayana) arrow-poison, of variable strength and composition, supposed to be made from different species of Strychnos (toxifera, Schomb ., cogens, etc.), or of Cocculus; by some it is asserted that animal poisons are added. (Serpents' fangs have been found in the imported article). One authority asserts that a certain kind of toad secretes a poison identical in action with Curare, and that the venom of these toads is obtained by some Indians who manufacture Curare.

Native Names , Curare, Urari, Ourari, Wourari, Wourali, Wurali, etc.

Authorities.

1 , Preyer, Berl. Kl. W., 1865, effects of triturating some; 2 , Same, effects caused by getting a few drops of a solution into a cut in the finger; 3 , Same, effects of fumes while evaporating a solution of Curare.

Appendix. Houat's proving, Nouv. Donn. de Mat. Méd. et de Tox., p. 71.

HEAD

• Headache, 3.

EYE

• Tears roll down the cheeks, 2.
• Rush of blood to head, with transient but very violent headache, 1.

NOSE

• Increased secretion of mucus, 1.
• Constant flowing of mucus, 2.

MOUTH

• Increased secretion of saliva, 1.
• Mouth was unable to hold the saliva, 2.
• Bitter taste, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• A very unusual secretion of urine, 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Remarkable weariness, 1.

FEVER

• Whole body covered with sweat, 2.

APPENDIX OF CURARE. MIND

• Emotional.
• Paroxysm of insanity impelling him to attack himself; he strikes, scratches, and tears himself with a sort of relish, and without feeling any pain.
• Foolish merriment, interrupted by fright and weeping.
• Fits of ecstasy at night, as if caused by hearing music.
• Everything he sees appears foul and nasty.
• Fondness for luxury and grandeur.
• He would like to go travelling in great style.
• Aversion to society.
• Gayety mingled with sadness and sighing.
• Melancholy, egotistical, envious, obstinate, intractable disposition. [10.]
• Brooding sadness, frequent weeping, with desire for solitude.
• Great despondency; becomes reckless about himself.
• Regrets for the past.
• Disposition to suicide.
• Anxiety, apprehension, excessive anguish.
• Very easily frightened and made to weep.
• Excessive fear of death.
• Irascibility, wicked disposition; desires to lie in wait in order to assault others, and even to kill and rob them.
• Constant ennui.
• Will wavers and intellect is dull; he has to be guided and driven into action. [20.]
• Indifference to everything going on about him.
• Intellectual.
• The thoughts are disconnected and unfixed.
• Confusion of ideas, with sensation as if in a constant delirium.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Sensation of dizziness in the head, with pressure on the temples and constriction of the throat.
• Frequent attacks of dizziness.
• General Head.
• Cerebral tuberculosis.
• Congestion of blood to the head, with pulsating, vibrating pains, and loss of consciousness.
• Congestion of blood to the head, with hæmorrhage from mouth, nose, and ears; contraction of the throat, suffocation.
• Rush of blood to the head, with transient but very violent headache, 1.
• The head is bent backwards, with stiffness of the neck. [30.]
• Swaying and trembling of the head.
• Violent movements of blood in the head and in the heart.
• Cerebral hæmorrhage, followed by paralysis, especially on the left side.
• Weakness and numbness of the head.
• Burning pain, crampy and lancinating pains in the head, with muco-purulent discharge from the nose.
• Contractive movements in the brain, with difficulty in collecting his ideas.
• Heavy headache, with inability to hold up the head.
• Sensation of great pressure on the skull.
• Lancinations, digging, and contractions in the brain, with spells of faintness.
• Lancinating, boring, cramplike pains in the whole head, with inclination to lie down and stretch himself. [40.]
• Sensation as if the head were bruised by repeated blows.
• Feeling of a strong pulsation passing from the head to The heart.
• Painful oscillations within the brain, as from a serous effusion.
• Sensation of simmering and boiling in the head, when moved ever so slightly.
• Forehead.
• Neuralgic pains, starting from the forehead and extending to the neck and face.
• Parietals.
• Semilateral headache, with pulsating pains sometimes on the right side, sometimes on the left.
• Great pressure on the parietals, as if the head were bound with iron.
• Occiput.
• Violent blows in the region of the cerebellum.
• External Head.
• The hair loses its gloss, and finally turns white.
• The hair becomes matted and frizzled like wool. [50.]
• The hair falls off.
• Large greasy ulcers on the head.
• Scaly herpes, scabs, and fissures on the scalp.
• Itching and burning pimples, like tubercles, on the hairy scalp.
• Great sensitiveness of the scalp.
• Enervating tickling all over the head.
• Intolerable itching on the scalp, with constant desire to scratch it.

EYE

• Objective.
• Greenish color and dimness of the eyes.
• Redness and swelling of the eyes, as if from a blow, especially in the morning on waking, and in the afternoon.
• Eyes red and inflamed. [60.]
• The eyes are weak and sensitive; they cannot be used without causing vertigo.
• Neuralgic pains which pass from the eyes to the base of the brain and cause faintness.
• Burning, lancinating, digging pains in the eyes.
• Distensive and drawing pains in the eyes, as if something was trying to tear them.
• Contractive pains in the eyes, especially in the evening.
• Smarting pain in the eyes, with frequent winking.
• Lids.
• Eyelids red and swollen.
• Corrosion and contraction of the borders of the lids, with inability to close them.
• Gum on the lids, especially on waking in the morning.
• Ulcers and scabs on the borders of the lids. [70.]
• Many small burning pimples on the eye-lashes and beard.
• Sensation as if the eyelids were on the stretch and tearing.
• Pulsations and spasmodic fluttering of the eyelids.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• Lachrymation with great photophobia.
• Ball.
• Elevations, like water-blisters, on the sclerotica, at the canthi.
• Pupil.
• Pupil strongly dilated.
• Great contraction of the pupil.
• Vision.
• Amaurotic weakness of sight.
• Attacks of blindness towards evening.
• Constant mist before the eyes. [80.]
• Myopia.
• All object appear trembling and confused.
• Fiery circle before the eyes, together with many small black spots.

EAR

• Objective.
• Erysipelatous swelling of the internal ear, as also of the head.
• Internal otitis, with pains which drive one to insanity and suicide.
• Excessive secretion of cerumen.
• Purulent otorrhœa.
• Hæmorrhage from the ears.
• Subjective.
• Sensation as if soap-bubbles were bursting in the ear, with burning and lancinating pains.
• Pains in the ear, which cause fainting. [90.]
• Severe digging, together with drumming, cracking, and detonations in the ears.
• Nervous, lancinating pains which extend from the ears into the legs, with desire to lie down.
• Sensation as from a corrosive acid deep in the ear.
• Hearing.
• Hardness of hearing, with great sensitiveness to noise.
• Total deafness.
• All sorts of noises in the ears, even whistling and cries of animals.
• Humming and roaring in the ears, with attacks of deafness.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Nose inflamed, with sensation as if some one was trying to pull it off.
• Enormous swelling of the nose.
• Tumors in the nasal fossæ, interfering with respiration, and bleeding very readily. [100.]
• Ulcers in the nose, with swelling of the nasal bones and cartilages.
• Abundant discharge from the nose of greenish, bloody, and very offensive mucus.
• Coryza, with frequent sneezing; constant discharge of nasal mucus, heaviness and weakness of the head and eyes.
• Epistaxis, especially in the evening and at night.
• Stoppage of the nose, with very painful dry coryza.
• Frequent ineffectual inclination to sneeze.
• Very disagreeable dryness of the nose.
• Sensation as if an instrument was being passed up the nostrils.
• Sensation as if a sharp instrument was passed into the brain through the root of the nose.
• Scratching pains in the nostrils. [110.]
• Pulsating, digging, and pungent pains in the nose, which are reflected throughout the whole head.
• Intolerable tickling and burning in the nostrils, with sensation as if they were all raw.
• Smell.
• Anosmia.

FACE

• Objective.
• Pale, greenish, cadaverous face.
• Face pale, incrusted with small, red, hard tumors, which remain so without ripening.
• Face puffy, with sensation of coldness all over it.
• Congestion, redness, and puffiness of the face, with a dark circle around the eyes.
• Erysipelatous swelling, shifting quickly about on the face.
• Skin of face relaxed and pendant.
• Sensation as if the facial bones became enlarged. [120.]
• Facial neuralgia, mostly starting from the left temple.
• Neuralgic pains, with drawings of the muscles and distortion of the face.
• Beating pains in the bones of the face.
• Cheeks.
• Swelling of the cheeks and gums.
• Lips.
• Inflamed lips covered with phlyctenæ.
• Lips thick and full of scirrhous tubercles.
• Swelling of the lips, with inability to close the mouth.
• An indurated tumor of a syphilitic nature on the lips.
• Ulcers and fissures on the labial commissures.
• Dryness, chapping, and frequent bleeding of the lips.
• Chin. [130.]
• Trismus.
• Sensation as if the jaw, the lips, the tongue, and the whole mouth were paralyzed.
• Neuralgic pains going from the jaws to the teeth.
• Crampy pains in the jaws, with clenching and grinding of the teeth.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• The teeth decay and fall out easily.
• Sensation as if the teeth, when meeting each other, yielded to the pressure and receded into the gums.
• Boring, lancinating toothache, aggravated in the morning, afternoon, and at night, also by cold air, eating, and strong liquors.
• Gums.
• Gums gray, black, and bleeding.
• Swelling of the gums, especially in the evening, with inability to eat.
• Abscesses on the gums.
• Tongue. [140.]
• Tongue deep red, ulcerated, cracked, and bleeding.
• Tongue inflamed, thick, heavy, and covered with small pimples, especially on the edges.
• Sensation of very disagreeable dryness and roughness of the tongue.
• General Mouth.
• Inflammation of the palate.
• Ulceration and bleeding of the palate.
• Inflamed varices on the roof of the mouth and in the throat.
• Hard and very painful pimples on the palate.
• A great many small pimples on the palate, with itching and burning.
• Saliva.
• Copious salivation.
• Bloody foam at the mouth; emission of urine and much flatulence.
• Taste. [150.]
• Bitter taste.
• Bitter, sour, metallic, and bloody taste in mouth.
• Bitter, sour taste in back of throat.
• Speech.
• Confused speech, nasal voice; cannot talk any more, but cries.

THROAT

• Objective.
• Congestion of blood and hæmorrhage from the throat.
• Throat as if paralyzed, and sometimes burning, sometimes icy cold.
• Subjective.
• Constant inclination to swallow and hawk, in order to clear the throat.
• Sensation as if something hard stuck in the throat.
• Great heat and burning in the throat.
• Constriction of the throat, with fits of suffocation. [160.]
• Roughness of the throat, with great accumulation of thick mucus.
• Pulsation and raw pains in the throat.
• Tonsils.
• Softening and destruction of the tonsils.
• Very painful inflammation and swelling of the tonsils.
• Abscess of the tonsils, with noisy and difficult respiration.
• Pharynx and Œsophagus.
• Spasmodic movements of tension and relaxation in the pharynx and œsophagus.
• Excoriation and shrinking of the œsophagus.
• Swallowing.
• Very difficult deglutition; fluids return frequently through the nostrils.
• He has to drink at every mouthful, in order to wash down the food, which sticks in the œsophagus.

STOMACH

• Hunger.
• Hunger, even after eating heartily. [170.]
• Morbid hunger, with fever and fainting fits.
• He is very fond of meat.
• Anorexia, but the appetite returns on eating.
• Aversion to bread and vegetables.
• Thirst.
• Wants to drink a great deal.
• Desire for water and sweetened drinks.
• Desire for wine and milk, which, however, do not agree with him.
• Disgust for brandy and all strong liquors.
• Eructation.
• Eructations, which relieve the pain for a moment.
• Frequent bitter and burning eructations. [180.]
• Regurgitations, sometimes bloody and purulent.
• Heartburn.
• Pyrosis, and vomiting of acrid and burning matters.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea and salivation, with vertigo and roaring in the head.
• Vomiting of everything taken.
• Vomiting, accompanied by cough and involuntary stools.
• Vomiting of food after eating, with hiccough and inability to remain seated.
• Vomiting of decomposed food, mixed with bile and blood.
• Bilious or bitter, green or gray, vomiting.
• Discharge of phlegm and vomiting of bloody matter.
• Stomach.
• Strange movements and agitation in the stomach. [190.]
• Dryness and spasms of the whole digestive canal, with thirst and inability to drink, fever, delirium, and paroxysms of hydrophobia.
• Constant sensation of emptiness and hunger in the stomach.
• Sensation of a large ball in the stomach, with nausea and very fatiguing hiccough.
• However little he eats, severe pains in stomach, so that he has to double himself up.
• Pinching, going from the stomach to the back, and followed by horrible cramps.
• Pinching, burning, pulsating pains in the stomach, as if he had a tumor there.
• Contraction and paralysis of the stomach.
• Cramps and colics in the stomach, with vomiting, and coldness of the extremities, especially in the evening and at night.
• Sensation as if the stomach were forcibly drawn towards the abdomen.
• After eating, pressure, burning, lancinations, and rumbling in the stomach, eructations, and frequent vertigo, desire to vomit and vomiting, with pains in the loins and diarrhœic stools. [200.]
• Great sensitiveness of the epigastric region.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Enormous swelling of the liver, with general dropsy.
• Engorgement of the liver, with sensation as if pricked with pins.
• Abscesses and concretions in the liver, with lancinating and pricking pains on movement.
• Sensation of uneasiness and torpor in the liver.
• Sensation as if the liver were raised and pushed towards the heart.
• Sensation of swelling and of paralysis of the spleen.
• Pressing and pulsating pains in the hepatic region.
• Pressive and lancinating pains in the spleen.
• Lancinating, digging, and tearing pains in the liver, especially during motion. [210.]
• Painful stitches and cramps in the hepatic region, especially in the afternoon.
• General Abdomen.
• Swelling and inflation of the abdomen.
• Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.
• Movements and shocks in the abdomen, as if from something alive.
• Borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen, with a great deal of incarcerated flatus, and constipation.
• Burning of the abdomen, as if from nettlerash.
• Burnings in the bowels, and horrible colic, forcing him to bend over and press the abdomen.
• Burning and lancinating pains in the abdomen.
• Burning colic, as if a red-hot iron were thrust into the bowels, with severe bilious and offensive diarrhœa.
• Sensation as if the whole abdomen had been beaten. [220.]
• When coughing, shocks in the abdomen, burning and tearing in the chest.
• Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
• Inflammation and swelling of the inguinal glands.
• Inflammatory inguinal swellings.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Prolapsus ani.
• Pimples and abscesses on the anus.
• Very painful hæmorrhoidal tumors, with agitation, ill-humor, and weakness.
• Blind hæmorrhoids, with burning, lancinating pains at the anus, and diarrhœa.
• Flowing hæmorrhoids, with constipation, itching, and lancinations in the rectum and anus.
• Very profuse bleeding at the anus, even when not defecating.
• Frequently, during stool, sensation of closure of the anus, with throbbing in the rectum and temples. [230.]
• Pains of excoriation in the anus, as if it were flayed to the quick.
• Indurated and fistulous tumor on the perineum.
• Excessive urging to stool, with very little result, in spite of much effort.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Diarrhœa, with inflammation of the bowels, colic, nausea, and vomiting.
• Stools semi-liquid, brown, very offensive, and followed by much smarting at the anus.
• Stools whitish, liquid, choleraic, with cramps in the stomach.
• Stools yellow, or bloody, or of undigested food, with burning heat in the bowels.
• Constipation.
• Stools hard, large, and very difficult.

URINARY ORGANS

• Kidneys and Bladder.
• Great heat, accompanied by digging, in the kidneys.
• Sensation of congestion and engorgement of the kidneys. [240.]
• Cramplike pains in the kidneys, with vesical tenesmus and bloody urine.
• Pulsating, pressive, lancinating, and boring pains in the kidneys.
• Has to twist himself, or constantly to move his legs about, during the pains in the bladder.
• Aggravation of all the pains in the kidneys by movement.
• Sensation of fulness of the bladder, with distensive and lancinating, or burning, tearing, or crampy pains.
• Very great smarting at the neck of the bladder and in the urethra, with discharge of a few drops of yellow mucus, which stains the linen.
• Urethra.
• Blennorrhagic discharge, copious, yellow, green, and even bloody.
• Intense blennorrhagia, with chordee.
• Prostatic discharge after urinating.
• Burning and tearing pains in the urethra, while urinating. [250.]
• Burning, lancinating, cutting, and bruised pains in the urethra.
• Urging to urinate; he cannot hold his urine without feeling sick.
• Urging to urinate, accompanied by dysuria and nausea.
• Urging to urinate, with strangury and fainting fits.
• Micturition.
• Urine nearly always difficult to pass, thick, and scanty.
• Obstinate retention of urine, with lancinations and pulsations in the bladder, as if it would break to pieces.
• Urination, with tenesmus, colic, cramps in the jaw and legs, and trembling all over.
• Urine.
• Urine clear and frequent, with digging and cramps in the kidneys, drawings in the stomach, dry mouth, and great thirst, especially in the evening and at night.
• Urine dark, or white and viscid.
• Urine turbid, thick, and oily, often blood-streaked. [260.]
• Diabetic urine, with great emaciation.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Very strong smell of the genitals.
• Penis red and swollen.
• Pimples change into chancrous sores, especially on the prepuce.
• Abundant secretion of smegma behind the glans.
• Descent of the testicles, with sensation as if an inguinal hernia would escape.
• Orchitis often accompanies the blennorrhagia.
• Sexual desire, but no erections.
• Complete absence of sexual desire, in spite of violent erections.
• Frequent and debilitating nocturnal emissions, with great indolence, and desire to sleep a long time. [270.]
• During an embrace, the ejaculation is slow and without enjoyment.
• Female.
• Distensive pains in the ovaries and uterus.
• Drawing in the ovarian region, with desire to press on it.
• Inflammation and swelling of the womb, with pinching, burning pains and as if pricked with pins.
• Ulcers on the os uteri.
• Sterility.
• Abortion.
• Lancinations and digging in the womb.
• Vaginitis, with great smarting of the vulva and thighs.
• Leucorrhœa, scanty, thick, purulent, clotted, and very offensive. [280.]
• Menses generally too soon.
• Menses too soon, weak, and short-lasting.
• Menses retarded and too profuse.
• Menses very capricious, either retarded or too soon.
• Before menses, burning and contractions in the uterus.
• During the menses, colic, headache, pains in the loins, general prostration, and hypochondria.
• Metrorrhagia.
• Sexual desire, with furor uterinus , heat, itching, and burning of the vulva.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi.
• Sensation of dryness and rigidity in the respiratory mucous membrane, as if it was parchment.
• Swelling and hypertrophy of the cartilages of the larynx. [290.]
• Granulations in the larynx, with burning, lancinating pains, purulent expectoration, and very offensive breath.
• Large quantities of mucus and false membranes in the larynx.
• Fits of occlusion of the larynx, with suffocation.
• Burning, lancinations, and contractions in the larynx.
• Sensation as if the windpipe were torn low down.
• Sensation of heat and scraping in the bronchi.
• Voice.
• Voice thick, weak, wheezing.
• Frequent hoarseness.
• The voice gives out sometimes after speaking a few words.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Violent cough, shaking the whole body, provoking vomiting, and often causing syncope. [300.]
• Catarrhal cough, with coryza.
• Deep wheezing cough, as if coming from the bowels.
• Fatiguing spasmodic cough, as in hooping-cough.
• Hard, dry cough.
• Hollow cough, with rattling, and expectoration of mucus seeming to come from the base of the chest.
• Cough aggravated by fresh air, laughing, motion, change of temperature, after eating, when hungry, in the morning, in the evening, and at night on going to bed.
• Yellow, gray, green, or black expectoration.
• Spitting and vomiting of bright blood, often without cough.
• Respiration.
• Great difficulty of respiration.
• Great dyspnœa.

CHEST. [310.]

• Burning heat in chest, with sensation as if the bronchi were swollen and torn.
• Painful stitches, especially in the right side of the thorax, with sensation of swelling and of pleuritic effusion.
• Inflammation and tuberculization of the lungs.
• Mammæ.
• Inflammatory swelling of the mammæ.
• Hard tumors, like scirrhus, in the breasts.
• Large abscess on the breast.
• Ulcers and fissures on the nipples.
• Drawing, boring, pinching, lancinating pains, extending from the breasts into the axillæ.

HEART AND PULSE

• Heaviness of the heart, with severe palpitation.
• Lancinating and distensive pains in the region of the heart. [320.]
• Irregular pulse, sometimes intermittent, and nearly always hard.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck.
• Wry neck; the head is turned backwards, and he falls down, with loss of consciousness and stiffness of the body.
• Large and painful tumors on the neck, mostly on the right side.
• Swelling and deviation of the cervical muscles and bones.
• Scrofulous swelling of the cervical glands.
• Sensation as if he had always a tight iron collar round the neck, with congestion and great heaviness of the head.
• Sensation as if the bones of the neck were twisted, forming a hump in the throat.
• Lancinations in the lateral portions of the neck, as if iron blades were run through them.
• Back.
• Convulsive movements in the spine and limbs.
• Contractions and drawings in the spine, with sensation of retraction and twisting of this part. [330.]
• Painful contractions in the spinal column.
• Inclination to twist the back and extremities.
• Painful digging and cramps in the back, causing him to change position every moment.
• Contractions and twisting sensation in the scapulæ and shoulders.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Shocks and disordered movements of the limbs.
• Rheumatic and gouty swelling of the joints.
• Sensation as if the joints were soldered together.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Painful, red, inflammatory swelling of the whole arm.
• Contractions and spasms in the arms, which crack and writhe about.
• Complete paralysis of the arms, beginning with insensibility of the skin. [340.]
• Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms, he is unable to hold them up, or even to change their position.
• Sensation as if the arm were squeezed in different places.
• Shoulder.
• Inflammatory swelling of the axillary and inguinal glands.
• Wrist.
• Swelling of the wrists and hands.
• Hand.
• Excessive trembling of the hands.
• Great weakness of the arms and hands.
• He can hold nothing in his hands.
• Sensation as if a weight were fastened to each hand, and were pulling the arms out of their sockets.
• Fingers.
• Panaritium.
• Fingers swollen and stiff; he can open the hands only with great difficulty, and by jerking efforts. [350.]
• Softening and great fragility of the nails.
• Excessive pain in the nails, with sensation as if they were twisted and torn out.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Lameness and stumbling gait.
• Lancinating and digging pains in the joints of the legs, especially the knees and hips.
• Thigh.
• Sciatica, with stiffness of the limb, and great difficulty in walking.
• Leg.
• Very painful swelling of the legs and feet, every evening.
• Frequent retraction of the legs, with great difficulty in extending them.
• The legs have a tendency to become bowed outward, like those of rickety children.
• Varices of the legs, with burning heat, and sensation as if the feet were dragging cannon-balls.
• Gouty and rheumatic pains in the legs.
• Ankle. [360.]
• Sensation as if the ankle were forcibly compressed, and all its nerves knotted or cut.
• Foot.
• Swelling of the feet, with abscess and tendency to gangrene.
• Swelling of the feet, with burning, throbbing, and inability to protect them from the heat.
• Cannot bear any covering on the feet, which are inflamed and burning.
• Toes.
• Tendency to corns.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• Excessive emaciation.
• Dryness of the muscles and extreme emaciation of the face.
• Deficient circulation, with concretions in the nerves.
• Periostitis.
• Agitation and tremor of the whole body. [370.]
• Certain movements are made unconsciously, and on becoming aware of them, he starts with surprise.
• Grotesque movements of the head, arms, and legs, as in St. Vitus's dance.
• Convulsions resembling eclampsia.
• Sudden and transient attacks of convulsive movements and shuddering.
• Very violent spasms, especially of the arms.
• Epileptic fits.
• Epileptic fits very often occurring at night.
• Attacks of tetanic stiffness of the entire body.
• Laziness and great indifference.
• On waking, weakness and prostration, nausea and vomiting, great difficulty in collecting his ideas, in speaking and understanding; delirium, inclination to stretch; appetite and great thirst. [380.]
• After an embrace, weakness, languor, and desire to lie down.
• Weakness succeeded by sleep, with nightmare, and frightful dreams.
• Great weakness of mind and body.
• Strong tendency to paralysis, especially of the motor apparatus.
• Subjective.
• Skin excessively sensitive to heat, cold, and the contact of air.
• Bone-pains, especially at night.
• Crampy and tearing pains on every movement.
• Lancinations and burning, tearing, rheumatic pains, especially in the elbows and hands.
• Severe lancinating and cutting pains, especially in the joints of the arms.
• Tearing pains in the muscles, often caused by the slightest exertion. [390.]
• Bruised pain all over, especially in the arms and scapulæ.
• All the bones feel broken; he has not strength to move about.
• Pulsating and burning pains.
• Pains affecting on side or the other of the body, and often felt crosswise.

SKIN

• Objective.
• The skin frequently inflames, turns red, breaks easily, and bleeds.
• Skin sickly, and very easily injured; wherever it is pressed upon, however lightly, it itches, turns red, and burns.
• Yellow, gray, always dirty-looking skin.
• Skin coppery-red, or blue around the ulcers.
• Brown skin.
• The skin is checkered by variously colored spots. [400.]
• Ecchymoses, phlyctenæ, pemphigus.
• Livid blue spots, as from bruises.
• Swelling of the skin, almost every evening.
• Sometimes, after the slightest exertion, the skin puffs up, and streams with perspiration.
• Desquamation of the skin, especially on the legs.
• Oozing of blood through the skin, with great restlessness and fear of death.
• Stiffness and insensibility of the skin.
• Paralysis of the epidermis.
• Eruptions, Dry.
• Red patches, which turn yellow and terminate in desquamation.
• Many very painful subcutaneous pimples. [410.]
• Small, hard pimples, itching and burning, on different parts of the body.
• Herpes, with scabs, which after falling off leave an inflamed sore, or with thick, long-lasting scabs, especially on the forehead and cheeks.
• Herpetic eruptions, the scabs being constantly renewed.
• Scaly herpes.
• Urticaria.
• Urticaria and miliaria, with fever; chills and heat in alternation.
• Itching and burning miliary eruption, with thick, rough skin.
• Scarlatina.
• Burning miliary eruption on the penis.
• Itching miliary eruption on the concha, and in the internal ear. [420.]
• Burning herpes on the eyelids.
• Pimples, like tubercles, on the tip of the nose.
• Acne rosacea, with varices, and bleeding of the cheeks.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• Erratic and phlegmonous erysipelas, followed by continual boils and abscesses.
• Erysipelas on the legs, extending to the abdomen.
• Eruptions, Pustular.
• Red and hard tumefactions, which crack and suppurate.
• Very painful pimples, secreting a thick, greenish matter.
• Subcutaneous pimples, like tubercles, and very long in suppurating.
• Frequent boils.
• Pustular eruption, especially on the abdomen, with headache and fever. [430.]
• Pustulous herpes.
• Scabies.
• Boils and pustulous eruptions on the neck.
• Furuncles on the back, constantly renewing themselves, and suppurating freely.
• Ulcers.
• Sores healing very slowly, and passing easily into gangrene.
• Malignant ulcers in different parts of the body.
• Abscesses on the legs, with bloody suppuration.
• Varicose ulcers on the ears.
• Corrosive ulcers on the auricles, with scabs and fissures especially after getting chilled.
• Corroding ulcers of a cancerous nature on the cheeks.
• Subjective. [440.]
• Formication and attacks of numbness of the legs, felt from time to time, and ending in complete paralysis.
• Sensation of formication, and as of a morbid process (travail morbid), about the bones.
• Tickling of the skin, so that he wants to rub it all the time.
• Intolerable itching, and burning all over, as if he had been attacked by thousand of insects.
• The skin-symptoms are aggravated by cold or great heat.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Invincible drowsiness, and heavy sleep, in the daytime, especially afternoons.
• After the spasms, heavy sleep with snoring.
• Comatose sleep, or he sleeps with his eyes open, and hears the noise made about him.
• Coma vigil; somnambulism.
• Sleeplessness.
• Tardy slumbers, and too early waking. [450.]
• Sleeplessness, especially after midnight.
• Sleeplessness at night, or very restless sleep, with fright, crying, talking, sighing, and starting.
• Dreams.
• Dreams of the day's business.
• Strange visions, somnambulism; he talks and gets out of bed in his sleep.
• Dreams about fire and conflagrations.
• Frightful dreams; he imagines he is pursued and threatened; he is agitated, screams, tries to defend himself, or to hide.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• The skin feels cold.
• Coldness, commencing on the abdomen and extending all over; cold sweat, spasmodic movements of the extremities, and faintness.
• Shiverings after a meal, and in the afternoon.
• Sensation of shivering, starting from the stomach, and spreading over the whole body, especially in the afternoon.
• Heat. [460.]
• Fever; heat, especially in the head, on the back and legs; agitated pulse; great thirst and weakness.
• Fever, with thirst and great hunger, yawning and stretching, hot head and hands, convulsive paroxysms and fainting.
• Fever, with general heat, restless tossing about, delirium, clenching and grinding of teeth, horrible cramps, desire to bite, fear of everything which shines or stirs.
• Fever, with excessive heaviness of the head, burning and drawing in the articulations, general painful prostration, almost constant delirium, black mouth, foaming and convulsed.
• Quotidian fever, commencing at 2 or 3 o'clock P.M., continuing well into the night; burning heat, accompanied by partial and transient chills, incoherent speech, great prostration, and often paralysis of the limbs.
• Pernicious fever, with constant chilliness.
• Increase of fever at night, or in open air.
• Decrease of fever in the morning.
• Heat and burning in the hips, with lancinating and crampy pains, on the least movement.
• Sweat.
• Cold and bloody sweat, especially at night.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation. [470.]
• The pains are aggravated in the morning and evening, by change of weather, dampness, or heat, and in the wind.
• The pains are aggarvated by movement, damp weather, cold, by wind, and strong liquors, as also in the evening, and sometimes in the morning on waking.
• Aggravation of the pains by the lightest pressure on the neck, also by swallowing saliva or drinking.
• Aggravation from riding in a carriage, or walking, and also after wine, brandy or milk.
• Amelioration.
• The pains are relieved after the first mouthfuls of food.

SUPPLEMENT: CURARE. Authorities.

4 , M. M., Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. iv., p. 78, a man, æt. thirty years, took Curare (F2 ) in water, effects in four days (verified in two provers).

• Giddiness as if drunk, 4.
• Light head, 4.
• Pain in back of head, 4.
• Faintness, 4.