Indigo

An oxidation product, from the juices of several plants, chiefly Indigofera tinctoria, Linn.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Hartlaub and Trinks, Annales, 3, 329; 2 , Blaufuss took repeated doses of 1 to 3 grains, Martin's provings, Hom. Vierteljahrsschrift, 10, p. 81; 3 , Fries took 1 grain daily for three days, ibid.; 4 , Græfe took 1 grain first day, 2 grains second day, ibid.; 5 , Gunther took 1 grain daily for three days, afterward a dose of 1/100th grain ibid.; 6 , Hilper took 1 grain, first, second, and fourth days, proving subsequently repeated, ibid.; 7 , Horn took 1 grain, first and second days, ibid.; 8 , Kuntzmann, proving with 1-grain doses, ibid.; 9 , Martin, provings, 1-grain doses, ibid.; 9 a , same 1/100th grain doses; 9 b , same, 5 grains of 1st trit.; 10 , Oehler took 1/100th grain in the morning and afternoon, ibid.; 11 , Reichmann, effects of 1/100th grain in the morning and afternoon, ibid.; 12 , Vulpius took 1 grain, first, second, and third days, ibid.; 13 , Werther took 1 grain daily for three days, ibid.; 14 , Wilcher took 1 grain first and second days, ibid.; 15 , Dr. Lembke's provings, A. H. Z., 45, 338, repeated doses of 2d trit., 2 to 12 grains, afterward of 1st trit., 2 to 10 grains, and after a week 26 grains; 16 , Roth, Diss., Berlin, 1834, and Br. and For. Med. Rev., 1836, effects of Indigo in epileptics; 17 , Dr. G. von Stahly, Jr. (reference as last), effects in epileptics; 18 , Nankievitz, Preuss. Ver., 1837 (from Roth, Mad. Med., I); 19 , Hilsenberg, ibid.; 20 , Groszheim, ibid., 1833; 21 , Doepp, Hufel. Journ., vol. 80 (from ibid.); 22 , Ideler, effects of doses of from 1 scruple to 1 ounce in epileptic patients, Lancet, June, 1835, from Berl. Med. Zeit.; 23 , same as 17; 24 , same as 16.

MIND

• Illusions of sensation; it constantly seems to her as though she had a large goitre, which was very prominent; she was constantly obliged to look down and feel whether it was so, 1.
• Very lively mood (third day), 6.
• Sad, discontented, ill-humored, retired in himself, 1.*
• Great irritability (second day), 9b.
• Ill-humor, in the evening (second day), 14.
• Fretfulness, ill-humor, indolence, 1.
• Anxiety, 10.
• Great anxiety, 5.
• Great desire to work (fifth day), 6. [10.]
• Dulness of sense, 11.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo (fourth day), 3.
• General Head.
• Rush of blood to the head (after 3 grains), 2.
• Congestion of the head, transient, 10.
• Dulness and heaviness in the head on moving it, in the forenoon (after one hour), 1.
• Heaviness in the head (twenty-second day), 15.
• Sensation of heaviness and swaying in the head (seventh day), 15.
• Head heavy and confused, with pressure deep within the brain (twenty-third day), 15.
• Head heavy, as if full, especially in the forehead, with increased warmth of the forepart of the head and drawing in the arms and legs, in the morning (second day), 15.
• Headache (second and fifth days), 9b. [20.]
• Headache, with redness and heat of the face (first day), 6.
• Headache, in the evening (third day), 3.
• Headache, about 8 or 9 P.M.; disappearing, but returning violently at 11 P.M. (second day), 6.
• Violent headache, with chilliness (second day), 12.
• Raging and beating in the whole head as with a hammer (after two and a half hours), 1.
• Warmth rushes into the head and distresses her for a long time as soon as she goes into the house after walking in the cold air; the grumbling also reappears frequently during the day, especially on suddenly rising from sitting or stooping, but disappears in the open air (first day), 1.
• Feeling of heat in the head, 15.
• Heat in the head; pressure in the temples from within outward (twenty-third day), 15.
• Transient heat mounts from the stomach into the head while sitting, 1.
• Feeling of distension, and as if everything were turning around in the head, while reading at 8 A.M. (eleventh day), 15. [30.]
• A peculiar sensation of distension in the middle of the brain, with a trembling sensation on every step beneath both eyes and extending to the temples, with a painful, weak sensation in the lower legs (fourth day), 15.
• Bursting pressure deep within the brain extending towards the ears, at 8 A.M. (ninth day), .

EYE

• The eyes seem weak as though they would close, without sleepiness, 1.
• Pressure in the eyes, for several days, 6.
• Pressure in the left eye (after half an hour), 8.
• Orbit.
• Pain in the left side of the orbit (after two hours), 14.
• Tearing in the bones of the left lower orbital margin, towards the nose, while sitting (after two hours and a half), 1.
• Lids.
• Inflammation of the meibomian glands of the left lower lid (fifth day), 6.
• Jerking or twitching above the right lid, painless (first day), 1.
• Jerking and burning in the right lower lid, 1. [110.]
• Spasmodic twitching of the right lower lid (second day), 12.
• An agreeable sensation about the lids and nose (fourth day), 6.
• Sensation as if the upper lid were drawn down (after one hour and a half), 1.
• Twitching in the right canthus so violent that it impaired vision, in the evening (third day), 1.
• Fine sticking in the right inner canthus, disappearing on rubbing (second day), 1.
• Itching in the inner canthus, now in one, now in the other eye, in the evening (third day), 1.
• Ball.
• Pain in the left eyeball, in the evening (second day), 14.

EAR

• Sudden sensation as if the ears were stopped and as though the head were distended at both sides, immediately disappearing (third day), 15.
• Pain in the left ear, extending into the left parietal bone and left temple, while sitting soon after dinner, 1.
• Boring-gnawing pain in the left ear, extending towards the right, with undiminished mobility of the jaw, disappearing on rubbing, in the afternoon, 1. [120.]
• Violent boring pain deep in the right ear, extending towards the parietal bone, and over the temple in the afternoon, 1.
• Pressure and roaring in the ear (after one hour), 2.
• Painful sticking in the right ear, extending forward towards the temple; the pain extends into the right lower jaw (after half an hour), 1.
• Stitches in both ears at the same time (after one hour and a half), 1.
• Tearing deep in the right ear, shooting thence into the left parietal bone, in the forenoon (second day), 1.
• Tearing in the right inner ear, then changing into the lower back teeth of the same side, while sitting in the afternoon, 1.
• Painful tearing in the left external meatus, frequently repeated (first day), 1.
• Violent tearing in the right ear for half an hour, in the evening (third day), 1.
• Violent tearing in the right concha, in the evening (second day), 1.
• Violent tearing in the bone behind the left ear (third day), 1. [130.]
• Violent painful tearing in front of the right ear, in the bone (first day), 1.
• Roaring in the ears (fifth day), 6.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Bleeding of the nose (thirteenth day), 15.
• Bleeding from the nose, in the morning (tenth day), 15.
• Bleeding from the right nostril, in cool weather and without apparent cause (fifth day), 15.
• Bleeding from the right nostril, in the evening during cool weather and without being previously heated (ninth day), 15.
• Nosebleed, with vanishing of vision, in the afternoon (third day), 1.
• The right nostril bleeds easily (second day), 15.
• Blowing of some blood from the right nostril, in the morning (second day), 15.
• Suddenly bright red blood from the right nostril, with a constricted sensation in the region of the heart and palpitation (eleventh day), 15. [140.]
• Ineffectual efforts to sneeze (after two hours), 1.
• Unusual sneezing (after a quarter of an hour), 9.
• Frequent sneezing, especially violent at 11 P.M., often followed by great irritability of the nose (fourth day), 6.
• Violent sneezing, repeatedly, in the afternoon (fifth day), 6.
• Violent sneezing four times in quick succession, followed by some blood from the nose, which is bright red (fifth day), 6.
• Violent sneezing six or seven times (after half an hour), 8.
• Violent sneezing, lasting a quarter of an hour, followed by profuse bleeding of the nose, lasting three-quarters of an hour (after one hour), 5.
• Subjective.
• Stoppage of the nose (second to fourth day), 1.
• Drawing sensation extending up both nostrils (after one hour and a half), 1.
• Tearing, cutting as with knives in the bones and cartilages of the nose, in the afternoon while sitting, 1. [150.]
• Fine tearing in the right side of the nose, lasting a long time, in the afternoon (first day), 1.
• Great irritation in the root of the nose (fifth day), 6.
• Tickling in the nose (after two hours), 1.

FACE

• Objective.
• Frequent rush of blood into the face, with burning in the cheeks (third day), 1.
• Subjective.
• Tickling sensation in the face, in the evening (fifth day), 6.
• Cheeks.
• Sticking in the upper jaw and upper lip, in the afternoon (first day), 6.
• Pain in the right zygoma, extending to about the orbit, 14.
• Very painful sticking as with an awl in the right zygoma; in the afternoon while sitting (fifth day), 1.
• Lips.
• Jerking in the right side of the lower lip, in the evening (third day), 1.
• Chin.
• Tearing in the chin (after half an hour), 1. [160.]
• Boring in the right side of the lower jaw, especially beneath the back teeth (thirteenth day), 1.
• A boring pain in the angle of the left lower jaw, thence it extends up into the left temple and head, afterwards back again, while sitting, relieved by rubbing; after dinner, 1.
• Boring-jerking pain extending from the right temple into the bone of the lower jaw, while sitting in the forenoon, 1.
• Tearing in the middle of the right lower jaw, afterwards a similar pain in the teeth of the left upper jaw, while sitting in the afternoon, 1.
• Tearing in right lower jaw, rather towards the front from time to time, while walking in the open air, then also continuing in the house, lasting till evening (first day), 1.
• Violent tearing in the middle of the lower maxilla, which then changes to the back teeth, where it becomes a gnawing, while sitting in the forenoon, 1.
• Boring, gnawing, tearing pain in the angle of the left lower jaw; thence it extends into the left parietal bone, then into the inner ear, afterwards in the right and then again into the left ear; together with throbbing deep in the bones; at 1 P.M., while sitting, 1.
• Gnawing pain in the middle of the right lower maxilla, which then changes to the teeth corresponding to the same bone, disappearing when biting the teeth together; while sitting in the afternoon, 1.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Pain in the teeth, pressive (first day); intermitting (second day), 14.
• Toothache (fifth day), 6 ; (fourteenth day), 15. [170.]
• Toothache, after dinner and supper (ninth day), 15.
• Toothache an hour after eating, lasting for two hours, and especially violent when walking rapidly (tenth day), 15.
• Fine, sudden, transient stitches in the upper incisors, nape of the neck, left ankle-joint (third day), 15.
• Tearing in the lower from incisors, and as she opens the mouth again two violent tearings, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Feeling of crawling in the roots of the three lower right front teeth, lasting an hour, transiently relieved by pressing upon them, at 7 P.M. (first day), 1.
• Crawling and almost tickling in the three front lower incisors, disappearing on biting upon them but immediately returning, at 4 P.M. (first day), 1.
• Pressive, frequent tearing pain in the right upper teeth, and especially in the left back teeth (after two hours), 14.
• Sticking in the roots of several upper teeth of the left side, at 2 P.M., especially violent about 4 P.M., and frequently repeated (seventh day), 1.
• Tearing in the right lower teeth (twelfth day), 15.
• Tearing and gnawing now in the right, now in the left lower molars, disappearing after lying down in the evening (third day), 1. [180.]
• Sudden tearing in the right lower hollow back teeth, as though the teeth would be drawn out; the tearing extends into the upper back teeth, the ascending rami of the jaw, the right ear, and the temples, associated with increase of saliva, perspiration of the right half of the head and general perspiration, in the evening in bed; the pains are aggravated by warmth, relieved by motion of the body; cold air seems to relieve for the moment; pulsation in the whole right side of the lower jaw; (took Nux 3, at 10 P.M., after which the pain gradually disappeared), (sixth day); the pains in the right lower back teeth returned the next morning after the dose, were paroxysmal, afterwards increased, were aggravated by drawing in the warm air, and accompanied by accumulation of saliva; in the afternoon the teeth felt as if protruding from their sockets, returning at intervals for the next two days, 15.
• Frequent jerklike tearing in the right lower back teeth, causing involuntary crying out, at 5 P.M. (eighth day), .

THROAT

• Sticking in the left side of the throat while swallowing, in the morning (second day), 1.
• Tickling in the throat, with dry cough, during the epistaxis (third day), 1.
• Fauces and Œsophagus. [200.]
• A sense of constriction at the fauces, soon after first administration (in most instances), 24.
• Distressing spasm at the isthmus faucium, when administered in the form of a powder (in some cases), 24.
• Scraping in the fauces, immediately, 8.
• Feeling in the œsophagus almost like heartburn (after half an hour), 1.
• External Throat.
• Contractive sensation externally in the forepart of the throat (after one hour), 1.
• Cramp in the parotid glands (after one hour), 2.
• Drawing in the skin of the right side of the throat, extending into the lower jaw (after three hours), 1.
• Violent tearing, extending from the left submaxillary gland into the left lower teeth (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
• Jerking in the left jugular vein, disappearing for only a short time on rubbing, then returning again in a less degree, while sitting in the afternoon, 1.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Appetite increased (sixth day), 7. [210.]
• Increased sensation of hunger, 1.
• No desire for anything at noon, though there was no aversion; daily, 3.
• Thirst.
• On the second, third, and fourth days, he drinks almost nothing, 1.
• Constant inclination to eructate, with a distressing sensation in the stomach, lasting a long time, 1.
• Eructation and Hiccough.
• Eructations and loss of appetite, towards noon, 14.
• Frequent empty eructations, 1.
• Ineffectual eructations (after two hours), 1.
• Sour eructations (after three hours), 1.
• Bitter eructations (after two hours), 1.
• Eructations tasting like ink, which she was unable to get out of her mouth for a long time (soon), 1. [220.]
• Sweet uprisings in the stomach, 1.
• Hiccough, 1.
• Hiccough after dinner (first day), 1.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, soon after breakfast (soon), 14.
• Nausea, after the early breakfast (second day), 2.
• Nausea, inclination to vomit, etc., with delicate persons even vomiting; at times the retching is so violent as to prelude the further use of the remedy, whilst in other cases the nausea continues for two or three days, and then gradually subsides; the retching and vomiting differ somewhat from those produced by common emetics, the contractions of the abdominal muscles and of the diaphragm being less violent, and the act not being succeeded by the usual feeling of distress and prostration; the ejecta present no peculiarity, except a blue color, 24.
• Nausea, vertigo, and headache, at noon (second day), 9b.
• Nausea, with the headache and vertigo, lasting the whole afternoon, and only disappearing in the evening, after being a long time in the open air (second day), 9b.
• Nausea, with weakness (second day), 14.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Pain in the left hypochondrium (seventeenth day), 15.
• Pressive pain in the right hypochondrium (after a quarter of an hour), 9.
• Painful stitch in the right hypochondriac region, as large as the palm of the hand, with a stitch extending to the front of the shoulder-joint; while sitting, disappearing on moving about, 1.
• Umbilical.
• Intermitting gurgling extending from the stomach into the abdomen in the umbilical region, while sitting (after two hours), 1.
• Pain in the umbilical region, 18 ; (fifth day), 1.
• Pain in the umbilical region, which feels hard to the touch, aggravated by pressure and inspiration, as well as by fasting, and also in the evening, only, however, while sitting (first day), 15.
• Violent cutting pains at the umbilicus (second day), 9b.
• Griping about the umbilicus and urging to stool, followed by diarrhœa, with griping in the abdomen; after the stool the griping ceases (after one hour), 1.
• General Abdomen.
• Rumbling and moving about in the abdomen, 1. [260.]
• Flatulence (soon), 14 ; (after half an hour), 8.
• Emission of much flatulence (second day), 9b.
• Unusual flatulence and urging to stool (after one hour, second day), 9.
• Frequent emission of offensive flatus, in the evening, night, and morning (second and third days), 1.
• Slight gastro-enteric pains during nausea and retching, and during the diarrhœa, in rare instances so violent as to proscribe the further use of the remedy, 24.
• Pain in the upper abdomen, with nausea and anxiety, lasting an hour, at 2 A.M. (first day), 1.
• Painful tension about the upper abdomen; afterwards griping, followed by at first hard then liquid stool, in the afternoon (first day), 1.
• Fulness in the abdomen, with much flatulence (second day), 9b.
• Sensation of fulness and moving of flatulence in the abdomen, 9b.
• Griping and rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would follow; afterwards a soft stool, with emission of much flatus (fourth day), . [270.]

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Dull sticking in the rectum (twenty-third day), 15.
• Urging to stool, followed by liquid evacuation (after half an hour), 8.
• Great urging to stool, at 6 P.M. (second day), 6.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• It seems to promote the stool in its primary action, 1.
• Slight diarrhœa, which, however, ceases spontaneously when the Indigo begins to be more easily assimilated with the digestive organs, 23.
• Constant diarrhœa, 16.
• After all inclination to vomit has ceased a diarrhœa usually takes its place, increases rather than diminishes as the treatment proceeds, and lasts during the whole time that the Indigo is administered; from four to six stools of a semifluid consistency and a blue-black color are produced daily, with accompaniment of slight gastro-enteric pains, 24.
• At first the patients vomited frequently, without any straining or derangement of the digestive organs; after a few days this ceased, and they had six or eight stools a day, sometimes accompanied by slight colicky pains; after a short time the purging diminished, the matter passed assumed a fluid character, and this state continued as long as the drug was administered, without the appetite or digestive organs being injured, 22. [290.]
• Four to six soft stools daily, 19.
• Two evacuations in the morning, followed by tenesmus, without pain in the abdomen (after second day), 1.
• Stool with violent pressure, though it was soft, and after a quarter of an hour a loose stool, 1.
• Liquid stool, without any symptoms either before or after, 1.
• Urging to stool, followed by liquid evacuation (although he had had a stool shortly before taking the drug), soon, 8.
• Stool softer than usual (fourth day), 1.
• Hard stool daily, 1.
• Constipation.
• Bowels remained obstinately constipated instead of being relaxed (one or two cases), 24.
• Stool indolent during the whole proving, 15.
• Stool delayed, scanty, hard, for several days (ninth day), 15. [300.]
• Stool withheld (first day), 15.
• Stool retained (second and third days), 15.

URINARY ORGANS

• Bladder.
• Pain in the bladder, during micturition (second day), 6.
• Urethra.
• Sticking in the urethra (fourth day), 13.
• Peculiar itching in the urethra and on the scrotum (second day), 5.
• Micturition.
• Constant desire to urinate; the urine is turbid (second day), 7.
• Constant desire to urinate, he is obliged to go every hour regularly, without, however, having drunk more than two cups of coffee; urine turbid (second and third day), 7.
• Secretion of urine decidedly increased, so that he was obliged to pass it twenty-four times during the day; however, he had respite during the night; during micturition a decided sensation of contraction of the urethra, with pain in the region of the bladder; urine very slimy and turbid (fourth day); symptoms somewhat relieved, urine much clearer and passed with less tension (fifth day), 7.
• Great desire to urinate, at an unusual time (first day), 15.
• Great desire to urinate (after one hour); urinating four of five times during the hour, 2. [310.]
• Frequent urging to urinate with burning in the base of the bladder (after fourteen days), 8.
• Excessive and frequent urging to urinate in the afternoon, and especially at night; only a little turbid urine was passed each time, and micturition was painful (first day), 5.
• Frequent micturition, with pressure in the abdomen, urine clear, throughout the first day, 9.
• Increased emission of urine, 5.
• Increased flow of urine, in the afternoon (second day), 9a.
• Burning micturition (third day), 5.
• Urine.
• Urine increased (third and fourth day), 15.
• Urine increased and passed more frequently than usual (second day), 1.
• Secretion of urine increased (second day), 9 ; (in afternoon), 9b.
• Urine of a dark violet hue; that secreted at night paler than that of the morning, 24. [320.]
• Urine colorless, very thin (first day), .

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Coldness of the glans penis and prepuce, 3.
• Itching of the glans penis (fourth day), 13.
• Sexual excitement increased (fourteenth day), 8.
• Sexual desire somewhat increased (fifth day), 7.
• Sexual desire greatly depressed (third day), 7.
• Female.
• Menstruation eight days too early (sixth day), 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx and Trachea.
• Sticking in the larynx, in the evening (third day), 15.
• Sticking and tickling in the larynx, with irritation to cough (first day), 15. [330.]
• Fine sticking in the larynx, lasting a long time (first day), 15.
• Stitches in the larynx and short paroxysms of cough, a few times (fifth day), 15.
• Violent stitches in the larynx causing lachrymation and accumulation of saliva (sixth day), 15.
• Clawing pain in the trachea, which gradually extended lower down until it seemed to involve the smallest bronchi, provoking cough which loosened small masses of tenacious mucus; these symptoms gradually disappeared after half an hour (after half an hour), 8.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Cough in the morning after rising, soon disappearing, 1.
• Cough wakes her frequently at night; she also coughs frequently during the day (sixth day), 1.
• Cough amounting to suffocation, in the evening before, and two hours after, lying down (second day), 1.
• Violent cough, which provoked vomiting, before, and half an hour, after lying down (third evening), 1.
• Profuse expectoration of mucus from the bronchial tubes and trachea, 11.
• Respiration.
• Oppressed respiration, while sitting (fourth day), 15. [340.]
• Respiration impeded, like a cramp in the chest, in the open air (after ten minutes, first day), 9a.
• Difficult respiration, 15.
• Difficult respiration, with oppression of the chest as from a weight, worse while sitting lasting several hours (twenty-second day), 15.
• Respiration short and difficult, with oppression of the chest and anxious sensation in the heart and short beats of the heart, worse during rest, better when walking (lasting several hours), (twenty-third and subsequent days), 15.

CHEST

• Rumbling and gurgling in the chest on every inspiration, lasting a long time, 1.
• Pain in the walls of the chest, in various places (thirteenth day), 15.
• Pain in the short ribs of the right side (after two hours), 14.
• Pain almost like a burning in one of the lower ribs of the right side, frequently occurring (first day), 1.
• Tightness in the chest (twenty-fourth day), 15.
• Tightness of the chest, with difficult respiration (seventeenth day), 15. [350.]
• Pressure on the middle of the chest, without affecting respiration (after one hour and a half), 1.
• Pressure upon the chest, and oppression behind the sternum (fifth day), 15.
• Pressure upon the chest, with difficult respiration (seventh day); while sitting (first day), 15.
• Oppression of the chest, 10, 15.
• Oppression of the chest, the breath is inspired with difficulty, while sitting (third day), 15.
• Oppression of the chest with palpitation, while sitting (fourteenth day), 15.
• Constant feeling of oppression in the chest as from a weight, with difficult respiration, and with the assistance of the abdominal muscles, while sitting (nineteenth day), 15.
• Cutting pain in the middle of the lower false ribs of the right side, in the forenoon (first day), 1.
• Sticking in the walls of the thorax (eleventh day), 15.
• Stitch in the right false ribs, extending to the small of the back (after two hours), 1. [360.]
• Stitches extending around the left wall of the thorax (second day), 15.
• Sharp stitches in the lower false ribs, very painful, 1.
• Fine stitches through the left lung, more towards the anterior wall of the thorax (fourth day), 15.
• Constrictive stitches in the chest, 9.
• Violent palpitation, like a twitching, in the region of the right fourth and fifth ribs, at 3 P.M. (second day), 6.
• Front.
• Pain in the sternum and on the sides of it (sixth day), 15.

HEART AND PULSE

• Præcordium.
• Tensive pain in the region of the heart (third day), 3.
• Oppression at the heart, while sitting (fourth day), 15.
• Heart's Action.
• Some violent beats of the heart at its tip (seventh day), 15.
• Several strong beats of the heart (sixth day), 15. [390.]
• Violent beating of the heart (eleventh day), 15.
• Violent beating of the heart perceptible in the head, at 7 A.M. (seventeenth day), 15.
• Violent irregular beating of the heart, while sitting, 15.
• Palpitation (two hours after 3 grains), 3.
• Palpitation with oppression of the chest (eighteenth day), 15.
• Palpitation and rush of blood to the head with heat, while walking rapidly, even lasting some time in the house, in the evening (fourth day), 1.
• Pulse.
• Pulse rapid (second day), 6.
• Pulse more rapid than usual, with violent beating of the heart perceptible in the head and arm, together with short and impeded respiration, while sitting (frequently repeated during the day), (seventeenth day), 15.
• Pulse spasmodic, 16 ; (after half an hour), 9.
• Hard pulse (two hours after 3 grains), 2.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck. [400.]
• Feeling of stiffness in the cervical muscles, during rest (fourth day), 15.
• Drawing in the left side of the neck (eighth day), 15.
• Violent drawing on the left side of the neck, while walking, especially under the skin (seventh day), 15.
• Violent pressure in the muscles between the neck and left shoulder, several times (sixth day), 15.
• Tearing beneath the skin on both sides of the neck, in the evening (fourteenth day), 15.
• Tearing in the left side of the neck (twelfth day), 15.
• Tearing extending up and down in the left cervical muscles (third day), 15.
• Back.
• Drawing extending from the small of the back into the shoulders (after three hours), 1.
• Sticking in various muscles of the back (seventeenth day), 15.
• Bruised pain in the muscles of the back (twenty-third day), 15.
• Dorsal. [410.]
• Pains in the left scapula (fourth day), 15.
• Pressure between the scapulæ, 15.
• Dull pressure in the spinal processes of some of the dorsal vertebræ, lasting a long time (fifth day), 15.
• Constant fine sticking in the right scapula (after one hour), 1.
• Drawing-sticking pains following the course of the left musculus rhomboideus, 8.
• A stitch between the scapulæ, after dinner, 1.
• Stitches in the scapulæ (nineteenth day), 15.
• Stitches in the muscles between the scapulæ (first day), 15.
• Lumbar.
• Sticking in the small of the back, preceding a hard stool; the pain disappears after the stool (first day), 1.
• Dull stitches in the right lumbar region, intermitting, 1. [420.]
• Nephritic colic, with greenish urine, 17.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Objective.
• Subsultus tendinum in all the limbs (third day), 14.
• Weariness of the limbs (fifth day), 6.
• Weakness of the hands and feet, as if sprained (third day), 1.
• Subjective.
• Feeling of weakness in the limbs (fourth day), 6.
• Drawing in several joints (tenth day), 15.
• Pressure in the right elbow (fifteenth day), 15.
• Pressure in right lower leg and right forearm (sixth day), 15.
• Pressure in left calf and forearm, 15.
• Pressure in left calf, upon right tibia, and right radius, coming and going several times (fourth day), 15. [430.]
• Tearing in right shoulder-joint, afterwards in right ankle (fourteenth day), 15.
• Tearing in the joints of the hands and feet, a few times during the day (third day), 15.
• Tearing in the right great toe and in the first and middle joints of the left ring and middle fingers, while sitting in the afternoon, 1.
• Bruised pain, suddenly changing its location, in the joints and soft parts near the joints (nineteenth day), 15.
• The pains in the limbs seem to be aggravated after every meal (sixth day), 15.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Weakness of the arms, in the forenoon, 1.
• Drawing in the muscles of the arms (eighteenth day), 15.
• Drawing, extending down the left arm, starting from the lower portion of the neck (fifth day), 15.
• Drawing, extending from the right shoulder-joint through the whole arm as far as below the joint of the thumb, where it ended in the bone with a jerking, while sitting; disappearing on moving about (after three hours), 1.
• Frequent bruised pain in the arms (sixteenth day), 15.
• Shoulder. [440.]
• Pressive pain in the right deltoid muscle (twenty-second day), 15.
• Sticking beneath the right axilla, 1.
• Sticking pain through the left shoulder from before backwards, while sitting in the afternoon, 1.
• Violent sticking in the right shoulder-joint, at 4 P.M., 1.
• Tearing in the left shoulder-joint, at 4 P.M. while sitting, 1.
• Upper Arm.
• Pain beneath the left humerus (after two hours), 14.
• Drawing in the right upper arm (seventeenth day), 15.
• Painful jerking drawing, extending from the right shoulder along the outer surface of the humerus to the vicinity of the elbow and back again, thence into the right scapula, where it disappeared, while sitting, 1.
• Sticking on the outer surface of the right upper arm from without inward (after two hours), 1.
• Frequent stitches in the upper arm (seventh day), 15. [450.]
• Tearing in the right upper arm (twelfth day), 15.
• Tearing in the left upper arm (fourteenth day), 15.
• Tearing in the muscles of the right upper arm (eighth day), 15.
• Tearing in the middle of the right upper arm, in the bone, at first aggravated by pressing upon it, but relieved by long-continued pressure, while sitting (first day), 1.
• Tearing and pressure in the muscles of the upper arm, frequently followed by a sensation of loss of power in the forearm, which is afterwards felt in the pectoral muscles (twenty-second day), 15.
• Painful tearing above the elbow, extending into the shoulder-joint, while sitting in the afternoon, .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Great weakness of the lower limbs, even in the evening, lasting after lying down (sixth day), 1.
• (Rheumatic heaviness of the limbs), (second day), 9b.
• A drawing in the anterior surface of both legs, while walking, changing to a sensation of weakness while sitting (fourth day), 15.
• Tearing pain four fingers' breadth above the left knee-joint, extending to a hand's breadth above the ankle; in the afternoon while sitting; disappearing on rising and walking about, 1.*
• Hip.
• Sticking from without inward just above the right hip (after two hours), 1.
• Thigh.
• *Indescribable pain, extending from the middle of the thigh to the knee, in the bone, disappearing when walking and returning during rest, in the afternoon, 1.
• Drawing in the flesh on the outer side of the right thigh (first day), 15.
• Tearing in the left femur towards the outer surface, while sitting after dinner, 1. [490.]
• Tearing in the middle of the left thigh, in the bone, in the afternoon while sitting (third day), 1.
• Bruised pain in the middle of the thigh, as usual before the menses, even while in bed in the evening (fifth day), 1.
• Wandering bruised pain in the left thigh, back of the right foot, and right side of the cranial bones (twenty-second day), 15.
• Knee.
• Constant weariness of the right knee (first day), 13.
• Boring pain in the left knee-joint, while sitting, 1.
• Drawings in the left knee and in the left dorsal muscles (fourth day), 15.
• Drawing pains in the left knee-joint, extending to the middle of the left thigh, in the bone (after three hours), 1.
• Pressure above the right knee (seventeenth day), 15.
• Stitches in the right knee (sixth day), 15.
• Stitches in the forepart of the knee, while sitting (second day), 15. [500.]
• Tearing in the knee (after three hours), 1.
• Leg.

GENERALITIES

• Objective.
• Circulation excited, 10.
• Nerves very much affected (sixth day), 7.
• Subsultus tendinum, 16.
• Slight spasms and twitchings of the tendons (after a few weeks), (in some cases), 24.
• Indolent, very weary, in the forenoon, 1.
• Unusually little weariness, after eating, 14.
• Great weakness through the day, 5.
• Great weakness, after only a short walk, 11.
• Subjective.
• Constant malaise and vomiting, 20. [540.]
• Very sick and weary (second and third days), 7.
• Sticking and tearing here and there over the whole body, in the afternoon and evening (fifth day), 1.
• The pains are either removed entirely by rubbing and pressure, or they return in a less degree, 1.

SKIN

• Eruptions, Dry.
• Eruption of fine heat-rash, especially on the left side of the face, extending from the forehead to the throat (after 3 grains), 2.
• Pimples on the forehead, also on the right side of the lower jaw, all with a painful sensation (fifth day), 6.
• The whole face and also the whole body covered with pimples (after a few days), 4.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• Itching vesicle on the back of the left hand, in the evening (third day); the followed morning the same on the back of the right hand, 19a.
• Eruptions, Pustular.
• A small boil on the right side of the neck, disappearing after three days (after seven days), 1.
• A rather large on the left nates (after four days), 1.
• Subjective.
• Itching of the skin, especially of the face (after 3 grains), 2. [550.]
• Violent itching in various parts of the body, especially in the right elbow-joint (second day), 3.
• Tingling in the forehead (fifth day), 6.
• Tickling sensation alternately in various parts of the face, especially about the external canthus and wing of the nose (third day), 6.
• Feeling of tickling in the left cheek (second day), 6.
• Itching on the chin, disappearing on rubbing, 1.
• Itching of the hypogastric region (third day), 14.
• Itching of all the limbs, 5.
• Itching on the backs of both hands, followed by eruption of hives, which soon disappears, but returns in the evening (after one hour), 9.
• Itching on the back of the left hand, with eruption of two pimples, 9.
• Itching on the inner side of the thigh (third day), 14.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness. [560.]
• Yawning, with sleepiness (after two hours), 1.
• Much yawning, 9.
• Frequent yawning, in the forenoon, 1.
• Great inclination to sleep, the whole day (third day), 12.
• Sleepiness in the afternoon, 1.
• Great sleepiness in the evening (first day), 9a.
• Great sleepiness, while sitting, at 9 A.M., 1.
• Excessive sleepiness (third day), 5.
• Very sleepy towards evening, but then a restless night (second day), 1.
• Prolonged sleep, in the morning, with agreeable dreams of journeyings (third day), 9b.
• Sleeplessness. [570.]
• Falls asleep late in the evening, 1.
• Sleep gentle, refreshing, but not sound, 5.
• Uneasiness at night, 5.
• Starting up and frequent waking at night, 1.
• Dreams.
• Uneasy dreams at night (second day), 9a.
• Frightful dreams (fifth day), 3 ; (sixth day), 7.
• Remembered dreams of quarrels and fights (first night), 1.
• Dream of flying upon the back, several feet above the earth (first day), 9a.
• Anxious dream that she was riding in a wagon, and the horses ran away, whereupon she woke in a fright (second night), 1.
• Muttering unintelligible words in sleep, before midnight (first day), 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness. [580.]
• Chilliness over the whole body (after half an hour), 8 ; (second day), 12.
• Chilliness of the whole skin, coldness of the usually warm hands (after one hour), 8.
• Unusual chilliness (the whole first day), 5.
• Coldness in the morning, after rising, 1.
• Some coldness before going to sleep, 1.
• Coldness of the hands, lasting a quarter of an hour (after half an hour), 8.
• Heat.
• Great heat, especially of the face, 5.
• Feeling of warmth in the forepart of the chest (first day), 15.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Head heavy, etc.; at 8 o'clock, while reading, feeling in head; after rising, pain in parietal bone; after waking, numbness of inner mouth; early, on waking, sensation in upper abdomen; after rising, cough; after rising, coldness.
• ( Forenoon ), While sitting, beating in cranial bones; while sitting, sensation in head; stitches in temple; tearing, etc., in temple; while sitting, tearing in side of head.
• ( Afternoon ), Sticking on vertex; while sitting, sticking in zygoma; at about 4 o'clock, sticking in roots of teeth; at 5 o'clock, tearing in back teeth; while sitting, sticking in sternum; while sitting, pains in limbs ; sticking, etc., all over.
• ( Evening ), Headache; at 8 or 9 o'clock, returning at 11 o'clock, headache; twitching in canthus; itching in canthus; pain in eyeball; pain in stomach, etc.; sticking in larynx; cough; palpitation, etc.; tearing in sides of neck; stitches in malleolus; sticking, etc., all over.
• ( Sitting bent over ), Sticking in parietal bone, etc.
• ( After breakfast ), Nausea.
• ( After walking in cold air ), On going into house, warmth rushes into head.
• ( After dinner ), While sitting, relieved by rubbing, pain in angle of jaw; hiccough.
• ( After eating ), The pains; especially when walking rapidly, toothache.
• ( Fasting ), Pain in umbilical region.
• ( Inspiration ), Pain in umbilical region.
• ( After every meal ), Pains in limbs.
• ( Motion ), The pains.
• ( Pressure ), Pain in umbilical region.
• ( Rest ), All symptoms.
• ( While sitting ), Heat from stomach into head; stitch in hypochondriac region; pain in umbilical region; difficult respiration; oppression of chest; pains in breasts; pains in limbs.
• ( After supper ), Pain in wall of thorax.