Iris Versicolor

Iris versicolor, Linn.

Natural order , Iridaceæ.

Common name , Blue Flag.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. J. G. Rowland, Thesis Phil. Hom. Med. College, 1852, effects of 3d dil.; 1 a , same, effects of 1st dil.; 1 b , same, effects of nearly 1 1/2 ounces of tinct.; 2 , another prover, effects of 1st and 3d dils. and tinct.; 3 , another prover took 1st and 3d dils. and tinct.; 4 , another prover took 1st trituration; 5 , Dr. William A. Burt, proving with 3 grains green root (twice) first day; 10 grains of green and 20 of dried root, second day; 30 drops tinct., third day; 4 grains of green root, fourth and fifth days, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed.; 5 a , same, subsequent proving with 50 grains of green root; 5 b , same, proving with "Irisin;"

Note: Probably the mongrel so-called resinoid, there being no alkaloids known to exist in the natural order Iridaceæ. -T. F. A.; repeated doses of 1st dec. trit. to 20 grains of crude; 6 , Dr. William A. Holcombe, proving with 2 or 3 drops of strong tinct. four times a day for five days, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed.; 7 , Dr. Sandford; a lady took 2 or 3 one-grain pills of Irisin for several days (for constipation, without relief); 8 , Berridge, N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 2, 57, Mrs. --- took repeated doses of 6th dil. for eleven days; 9 , Dr. Croker took 6th dil., N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 2, p. 58; 10 , Wesselhoeft's provings, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1868, effect of chewing fresh root; Note: Was suffering from severe habitual headache at the time; this headache disappeared entirely in half an hour, though hitherto it had invariably lasted till he went to bed; 10 a , same, took repeated doses of 5th dil. for three days; Note: The prover had been suffering from sore throat for five days, with irritation of the larynx in the evening, and dryness and burning along the edge of the soft palate, which awoke him nights; the tonsils were swollen and painful on swallowing; this sore throat did not trouble him throughout the first day of the proving, better second day, well forenoon of third day; 10 b , same prover afterwards took 2 daily doses of 3d dec. dil., beginning with 10 and ending with 25 drops, for six days; on seventh and eighth days took 1st dec. dil. twice daily 10 to 20-drop doses; 10 c , same proving with the tinct. doses 10 to 50 drops; 11 , Mrs. N. (from same), a dose of Iris (?); Note: She had been troubled for the past few days with nausea and disordered stomach, but after taking the medicine it pased off, and she ate a hearty dinner; she afterwards took a dose of 5th dec. dil.; 12 , Mrs. S. (from same) took 5th dec. dil., first and second days; , Dr. Squier (from same), provings with tinct. in doses of 1 to 20 drops; , Dr. Butman, provings with 1 to 20 drops of tinct. (from same); , Mrs. D. B. H., took 5th dec. dil., night and morning (same); , Mr. D. B. H., took same (same); , Mr. C. B. Fox, took same (same).

MIND

• Emotional.
• Much mental depression, 7.
• Great depression of spirits, with the headache, 3.
• Despondency; thinks his is going to be very sick, then a disposition to laugh at his fears, which, however, soon return, 1b.
• Nervous fretfulness, lasting all day, 16.
• Vexed, irritable mood, disposed to find fault, 3.
• Feels irritable, cross with her children, dislikes every one (third, fourth, and fifth days), 8.
• Very irritable through the day (sixth day), 5.
• Awoke feeling very irritable (fourth morning), 5.
• Ill-humor, 1b. [10.]
• A disposition to feel displeased with everything and everybody, which gives place to a feeling of liveliness and activity, 1.
• Intellectual.
• Inability to fix the mind on any subject; when writing mind will wander to other things, 1b.
• Cannot fix my mind on my studies (fourth day), 5b.
• Dulness of the head (mental faculties and special senses), (five minutes after 3d dose), 13.
• Weakness of memory (in twenty-four hours), 15.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Immediate dizziness, 11 ; with pressure in forehead, 10a.
• Sudden dizziness, immediately, soon passing off, 1.
• Slight giddiness, coming on suddenly while walking within doors, 15.
• General Head.
• Slight momentary dulness of head (resembling vertigo), 13.
• Lightness in the head, after the giddiness, 15. [20.]
• Head feels very heavy, eyes dull, with pain directly over the left superciliary ridge, 7b.
• Sensation of fulness of the head, 1b.
• Headache, with pain in the bowels, 3.
• Headache, much aggravated by coughing, 1a.
• Slight headache, 1b.
• Headache is very troublesome (eleventh day), 5b.
• Headache occurring irregularly several days, 3.
• Headache, gradually diminished (five minutes after 2d dose, first day), 14.
• Dull, heavy headache (twelfth day); all day (sixth and seventh days), 5b.
• Stupid and stunning headache, with the neuralgia (fourth day); violent headache (fifth day), 6. [30.]
• Slight, dull, stupid headache (second day), 6.
• Headache for two days; the third day he was seized with a peculiar headache; the pain shot, as he describes it, like an electric shock, from the right temple to the left part of occiput, and continued for about half an hour; headache with great depression of spirits and general debility, 3.
• Acute pains in the head, as if the top of the head would come off; felt chiefly in the forehead and vertex, after having been in the cold air, and on making quick motions, in the morning, soon after taking (eighth day), 10b.
• Forehead.
• Pain in the forehead and left temple (second day), 5b.
• Pain in forehead at intervals (third day), 12.
• Slight pain in forehead, and considerable in posterior fontanelle, at 6 P.M. (second day), 14.
• Slight pain in forehead, changing from side to side (second day), .

EYE

• Eyes much sunken in (second day), 5a.
• Severe burning pain in the internal canthus of the right eye, 1b.
• Redness of the conjunctiva, as if from cold, 2. [60.]
• Eye filling with tears, 1b.
• Profuse flow of tears (after fifteen minutes, fourth day), 5.

EAR

• Pressure towards and out at the ears (first day), 10a.

NOSE

• Sneezing , immediately, 1a.*

FACE

• General appearance of anguish, 7.
• Expression of great anguish in the face, 7.
• Flushed face (second day), 4.
• Cracked lips, 17.
• Dry, cracked lips, 1a.
• Waked with neuralgic pains in the right side of the face; darting stitches in two carious teeth; pain affects especially the infra-orbital nerve; facial neuralgia passed off (third day); facial neuralgia, involving the supra- and infra-orbital, and the superior maxillary, and the inferior dental nerves; began after breakfast, with stupid or stunning headache, and lasted several hours, with great severity (fourth day); began after breakfast, and continued with terrible severity for twenty hours; violent headache accompanied it, and general malaise (fifth day); dull soreness where the neuralgia had been (sixth day), 6.*

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Toothache, 17.
• Slight toothache, in a warm room, 1a.
• Teeth sore (tenth day), 5b.
• Teeth feel elongated and sore; back, upper, and lower molars; dull heavy, aching pain in them for three hours (second and third days), 5b.
• Teeth feel too long and are very sore (second day), 5a.
• Gums.
• Swelling of gums on the inner surface of left side of lower jaw, under the molar teeth, 2.
• Tongue.
• Tongue coated white (fifth day), 5b.
• Tongue and gums greasy or slimy, in the morning, 17.
• Tongue feels thick, at 7 A.M. (second day), 5a.
• General Mouth.
• Rugæ of roof of mouth appear to sight enlarged, pale, and two on right side are excoriated (sixth day), 8. [80.]
• Feeling of a greasy coating over mouth and tongue, early in the morning, 2.
• Burning and smarting of palate, and fauces, 10c.
• Mouth and stomach feel on fire (after fifteen minutes, fourth day), 5.
• Back part of the mouth and fauces felt on fire all the afternoon, with profuse flow of saliva (first day), 5.
• Soreness of the roof of the mouth, with roughness of the hard palate, very painful on being touched with the tongue or solid food, for several days; this is aggravated by a detective filled tooth, painful, feeling too long, and very tender when used, 10a.
• Soreness of hard palate, 10a.
• Great feeling of rawness of roof of mouth just behind front teeth; worse from hot or cold drinks, eating, touching with tongue, and especially from onions or cheese; also a feeling as if the skin of that part were hanging loose (third day); constant (fourth and fifth days); extend down to throat (sixth day); the same rawness of roof of mouth just behind the front teeth, but without the feeling of loose skin; after eating cherries in the morning (thirteenth day), 8.
• *Mouth and tongue feel as though they had been scalded , in the morning (second day), .

THROAT

• Rough throat, running saliva, 17.
• Burning in the throat, palate, and tonsils, increased by expiration, diminished by inspiration (five minutes after first dose); increased (after second dose); same symptoms (after third dose, first day); increased (third day), 14. [100.]
• Sore throat, 1b.
• Sore throat, with slight soreness of the chest, after the stiffness and lameness had disappeared, 11.
• A feeling of rawness in the throat (after half an hour), 1b.
• Taste at first sweetish, and resembling that of slippery-elm bark; he thought it quite insipid at first, but then began a smarting, burning, and scratching sensation in the soft palate, at first slight, but slowly increasing to a violent fiery heat, spreading over the whole extent of the fauces, upward towards the nares, and far down into the œsophagus; the throat felt as if it were three times as large as usual, and like a fiery cavern; drinking water alleviated the burning for a short time only; many enlarged bright-red bloodvessels became visible on the uvula, palate, and posterior wall of fauces; the heat, redness, and painful burning lasted for two hours and a half, very gradually subsiding (after five hours), 10.
• (Had to run a long distance in the afternoon to reach the cars; got very much heated and into a profuse perspiration; took cold in the cars; sore throat again in the evening; burning, smarting, dryness of palate and fauces; feeling as if a horsehair were drawn tightly across the left palate, with burning and smarting; then took ten drops in a teaspoonful of water on going to bed; for half an hour the smarting increased; slept two hours and awoke without the smarting (second night); in the morning raised some loose mucus without coughing; never had the sore throat without subsequent severe coryza and catarrhal cough for several days; in this instance the affection was decidedly arrested at the outset), 10a.
• Uvula and Tonsils.
• Tonsils, uvula and soft palate bright-red, with engorgement of larger vessels (second day), 13.
• Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus.
• Heat about fauces, soft palate and tonsils, soon changing into smarting and burning; relieved by inhaling cold air; deglutition not painful but more difficult; the burning lasted over two hours (after a few minutes, first day), 10c.
• Burning in the fauces (after first dose); some burning in the throat; burning extends down the course of œsophagus to pit of stomach, with slight nausea (after second dose); gradually wore off towards evening, .

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Increased appetite (after larger doses of tincture), 10c.
• Loss of appetite, 4 ; (second day), 5a.
• No appetite (fifth day), 5.
• No appetite at dinner (third day), 6.
• Eructation.
• Empty eructations and pain in the stomach, 2.
• Frequent empty eructations, in the course of the day (second day), 10c.
• Constant eructation of gas (seventh day), 5b. [120.]
• Frequent eructations of tasteless gas (third day), 5b.*
• Constant eructations of tasteless gas (fourth day), 5b ; during the whole period, 5.*
• Constant eructations of sour gas (second day), 5a.
• Stomach very sour (second day), 5a.
• Food rises very sour (after seven hours and a half, first day), 5a ; (four hours and a half after first dose, first day), 5b.
• Heartburn.
• Heartburn, several times in the day; a hot cramplike sensation rises upward from pit of stomach (second day), 10c.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea (five minutes after second dose, first day), 14.*
• Nausea and eructations of wind, 1.
• Nausea, straining, and belching of wind, 7.
• Nausea, belching of a large quantity of wind (ten minutes after second dose, third day), 14. [130.]
• Nausea, and vomiting of a thin watery fluid of an exceedingly sour taste ; constant nausea for more than an hour, and vomiting several times (first and second day), 1b.*
• Nausea and slight vomiting of watery and extremely sour fluid, immediately, 1a.*
• Slight nausea (after third dose), 13.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria. [150.]
• Pain of a dull, aching character, in right hypochondrium, when walking, 2.
• Umbilicus and Flanks.
• Rumbling all the afternoon in the umbilical region (third day), 5b.
• Great deal of rumbling in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, with desire for stool; had a soft papescent stool, without pain (second day), 5b.
• Awoke at 4 A.M., with great rumbling and distress in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, and with great desire for stool, followed immediately by a copious, thin, watery stool, which could not be retained a moment without pain; another thin watery stool, with great rumbling in the bowels, at 8 A.M. (fifth day), 5.
• Uterine pain in the umbilical region, passing in successive shocks (like the effects of a galvanic battery) upward to the epigastric region, followed or accompanied by nausea, straining and belching of wind, 7.
• Severe colic in the umbilical region; pains came on every few minutes; lasted two hours, at 5 P.M. (eighth day), 5b.
• Severe colic, first in the right, then in the left flank, with urging to stool, in the afternoon (third day), 6.
• General Abdomen.
• Great commotion and rumbling in the bowels above the seat of the pain, but little or none below, with no desire for stool, 7.
• Great rumbling in the bowels (eighth and ninth day); all the time (fourth day), 5b.
• Flatulence, 17. [160.]
• For a day or two much fetid flatulence, 2.
• A good deal of fetid flatulence, in the afternoon (fourth day), 6.
• A faintness as if the intestines were being revolved in the wrong direction, lasting several hours, and recurring towards evening (soon) (seventh day), 10b.
• Pain in abdomen, which is relieved by discharge of flatus, 2.*
• Slight pain in bowels, with head and soreness, as after a cold, and with premonitions of diarrhœa; this lasted for three hours (after half an hour), 11.
• Flying pains all though the bowels (second day), 5a.
• Sharp, griping pain in bowels , for five minutes, at 6 P.M. (second day), .*

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Anus feels prolapsed; pained all day (fifth day), 5a.
• Constant distress in anus, feeling as if it were prolapsed (second day), 5.*
• *Severe burning in anus after stool (sixth day); diminishing after each stool (seventh and eighth days), 6.
• *Anus feels sore, or as if sharp points were sticking in the parts, in the morning (second day), 5.
• Some disposition to stool, with burning at the anus (fifth day), 6.
• Violent call to a second stool by a sensation as if wind were forcibly distending the rectum; no wind was discharged, but I was relieved after discharging a little greenish dark water attended with severe burning in the anus (sixth day), 6.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa. [180.]
• Diarrhœa with colic, 1b.
• Diarrhœa with rumbling and cutting in the lower part of the abdomen, 1b.
• Thin watery diarrhœa, continuing through the day (third day), 4.*
• Diarrhœic stools, succeeded by pain in the umbilical region (fourth day), 4.
• After breakfast a diarrhœic stool, with subsequent pain in the epigastrium, 2.
• Sudden diarrhœic stool after supper, 2.
• Looseness of bowels, 17.
• Soft, painless stools, with great rumbling in the bowels (twelfth day), 5b.
• Six dysenteric stools during the night, with pain and rumbling in the lower part of the abdomen, 1b.
• Two greenish-black stools, with burning at the anus (fourth day), 6. [190.]
• Very soft, yellow stool, with great rumbling in the bowels, but no pain (fifth day), 5b.*
• Soft, papescent stool (four hours and a half after second dose, third day); (five hours after first dose, fourth day); in the evening (eighth day), 5b.
• Soft, papescent stool, with pain in the umbilical region at 5 P.M. (eleventh day), 5b.
• Soft, papescent stool without pain, but rumbling in the bowels (six hours and a half after second dose, first day), 5b.
• Soft, papescent stool, with great rumbling in the bowels, at 8 A.M. (seventh day), 5b.
• Large, yellow, papescent stool, with great rumbling and no pain (after three hours); another large watery stool; the burning in the pancreas (?) is fearful to endure (after three hours and five minutes); another watery stool, with colicky pains in the epigastric region (after three hours and a quarter); there has been severe colic in the epigastric and umbilical region for the last two hours; every few moments copious watery stool, with great rumbling in the bowels (after six hours); great pain and distress in the bowels, followed by a large water stool, still the pain continues (after six hours and a half); *another watery stool; anus feels on fire (after seven hours); *another water stool, with a disposition to strain and bear down; great burning in the anus (after seven hours and a half); another watery stool, with straining (after nine hours and a half, first day); great rumbling in the bowels, with desire for stool; had a profuse one of a watery nature; followed by great straining, with the passage of a little mucus, at 4 A.M.; another watery stool, followed by great straining, with the passage of blood and mucus, at 5 A.M.; another stool, of mucus streaked with blood, with great tenesmus, at 5.30 A.M.; stool of water and mucus with great straining, at 7 A.M.; copious stool of water and undigested food, with great straining, at 9 A.M.; another of mucus and water, with great tenesmus and rumbling in the bowels, at 10.30 A.M.; small stool of mucus, with great tenesmus and rumbling in the bowels; for the last six hours the mucous membrane of the anus has been prolapsed, , at 12.45 P.M.; another small stool of mucus, with severe tenesmus, at 3 P.M. (second day), .

URINARY ORGANS

• Kidneys.
• Pain in right kidney; lasted three hours (third day), 5b.
• Urethra.
• Cutting and sticking in the urethra when making water, with coldness and itching over the genitals, the itching being worse on scratching, 1b.
• Sharp cutting pain in the urethra, when commencing to urinate, 1a.
• Micturition.
• Very frequent, copious, perfectly limpid urine (third and fourth days), 6.
• Passed water but twice during the day (second day), 5b.
• Urine.
• Urine increased in quantity, 2.
• Increase of urine; urinated eleven times profusely (twelfth day); voided urine in large quantities (thirteenth and fourteenth days), 5b.
• Urine more copious, 2.
• The urine was very copious, and had a strongly disagreeable odor, during the proving, 3. [210.]
• Urine scanty and of strong odor; very dark and thick in the morning; it passes without force, and only after some straining, but without pain, 10a.
• Urine very scanty and high-colored (fifth day), 5a.
• Urine very scanty, red, and burning the whole length of the urethra for half an hour after voiding it (second day), 5a.
• Great diminution of the secretion of urine; made a very little water morning and night, followed by great burning in the urethra for half an hour after voiding it (fourth day), 5b.
• Urine very red (second day), 5b.
• Urine thick, of strong odor, and deep amber-color (owing to excess of uric acid); it flows without force, and even requires some effort to discharge it, but without pain (eighth day), 10b.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Inflammation of the glans penis; it is very much swollen and red (second day), 5a.
• Discharge of semen (third, ninth, tenth, and eleventh night), 5b.
• Discharge of semen, with amorous dreams (something I am not accustomed to), (first night), 5 ; (second and fourth days), 5b.
• Female.
• Menses (always regular and profuse) appeared three days later than usual, and were scanty, 11.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi. [220.]
• A good deal of hawking an clearing out of the larynx (first day), 6.
• Frequent and painful hawking (screatus) of a tough mucus from the larynx (seventh and eighth days), 6.
• Frequent hawking; cough with soreness in trachea, also tickling without further expectoration, at 10 A.M. (second day), 10a.
• Catarrhal mucus in a lump rattled up and down the trachea; at length it was expectorated with a sweetish offensive taste at 10 A.M. (second day), 10a.
• Obstruction and catarrhal soreness of air-passages, at 10 A.M. (second day), 10a.
• Voice.
• Very hoarse (second day), 5a.
• Cough and Expectoration.
• Short dry cough, excited by tickling in the larynx, 1a.
• Slight hacking cough in the morning, without expectoration, with soreness in the larynx anteriorly (third day), 10a.
• Raised some phlegm (second morning), 11.

CHEST

• Rattling of mucus in the chest, not to be raised by hawking (after twelve hours), 10a. [230.]
• Soreness of the chest, across from nipple to nipple, with a tender painful spot on right border of sternum; pain on inspiration; in the morning (second day), 10a.
• Awoke at night with severe tickling under top of sternum, and cough, dry and distressing, because nothing could be raised nor the tickling be reached; rattling of loose phlegm low down in the windpipe (first day), 10a.
• Pain in left side of chest, 3.
• Pain in the left side, as though the ribs were pressing hard upon the lower portion of the lung; unable to take a long breath, for the pain in the left lung, which was of a sticking and cutting character, 1a.
• Cramp in left side, under the ribs, 16.
• Cramp in the left side, like a knife, lasting a few minutes, followed after awhile by darting pains in the bowels, 15.

HEART AND PULSE

• Action of heart increased in force and frequency; pulse 89 (normal 72), (ten minutes after first dose), 14.
• Pulse accelerated, 2.
• Pulse somewhat accelerated, 3.
• Pulse feeble and frequent, 7.

BACK. [240.]

• Stiffness in the back, increasing on sitting down, remaining all the morning (eighth day), 10b.
• Feeling of weariness in the back for several days, 2.
• Pain in the back (second day), 12.
• Severe backache (second day), 5a.
• Very severe backache (sixth day), 5a.
• Back pains me very much (twelfth day), 5b.
• Back pains very severely; very much worse by walking (seventh day), 5b.
• Dorsal.
• Stiffness in trapezius muscles (first day), 10a.
• Stiffness of trapezius muscles causes constant shrugging of the shoulders and desire to twist the head from side to side; lasted all the forenoon, 11.
• Lumbar.
• Constant pain in the lumbar region, aggravated by motion (fifth day), 5b. [250.]
• Great pain in lumbar and sacral regions; almost impossible to walk (sixth day), 5b.
• Dull heavy pain in the lumbar region all day (fourth and eleventh day), 5b.
• Crampy pains in the right lumbar region, in the evening, continuing several hours and causing a sweat to break out, 3.
• A violent painful tearing in the lumbar region on rising, making it impossible to straighten the body into an erect posture for several moments; can gain the erect posture only very gradually (eighth day), 10b.
• Feeling of weakness and weariness in the lower part of the back, 2.
• Pain in the small of the back, all day while sewing (third day), 12.
• Considerable stiffness of latissimus dorsi muscle of right side on moving, but not on touch or pressure (eighth day), 10b.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Pains through the day in almost all the limbs, 2.
• Tensive, momentary, and constantly recurring pains in all the joints, but mostly the smaller , which shift rapidly about , mostly in the evening, that is, from supper to bedtime, 2.
• Neuralgic pains, like severe constriction around left upper arm, forearm, and thigh, several times throughout the day (ninth day), 10b. [260.]
• Severe rheumatic pain in the whole right arm and right knee-joint, worse on motion, and continuing when at rest, 1a.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Shoulder.
• Pains tensive and sticking in right shoulder during motion, particularly on raising the arm (this symptom set in soon after commencing the proving, continued throughout, and was observed for five or six weeks after discontinuing the medicine), 2.*
• *Rheumatic pain in the right shoulder, worse on motion, especially by raising the arm, 1.
• Arm.
• Arms between elbow and shoulder became very lame, as after severe exercise, also sore to the touch (after three hours and a half); the lameness soon extended to the shoulders and back of the neck, like rheumatism after taking cold; the stiffness and lameness disappeared during the night, 11.
• Sharp pain near outside of left arm when moving it, 2.
• Elbow.
• Heaviness of elbows and hands, with pain in the back between the shoulders, which finally settled in right arm between elbow and shoulder (third day), 12.
• Hand.
• Heavy feeling in hands and elbows, as if the prover had been drinking wine (second day), 12.
• Pains in the metacarpal joints of both hands, muscles of right arm, and pectoralis major, mostly during motion and in the evening, 2.
• Fingers.
• Pain in the fingers, 17.
• Pains in phalanges of right hand, and in the end of the index finger of the same hand, in writing (observed several weeks after proving), 2. [270.]
• Pain in last joint of middle finger of left hand, 2.
• Continuous sharp pain along the left side of the first phalanx of middle fingers of right hand; sharp pains in the middle fingers of the left hand, succeeded instantly by a similar pain in axilla of same side, occurring frequently during about five minutes, 2.
• Sharp, cutting pain, frequent, in the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation of thumb of the right hand, 2.
• A number of shooting, shifting, and momentary pains in the phalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal articulations, 2.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Almost impossible to walk, my limbs are so weak and painful (second day), 5a.
• Hip.
• Pain in left hip-joint when walking, 2.
• Slight coxalgia in left hip while walking in the evening (first day), 10c.*
• Slight sciatic pain (after first dose, second day), 10a.
• Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending down to the popliteal space ; it lasted for an hour, causing him to limp, in the evening (first day), 10a.*
• Sciatic pains, as if left hip-joint were wrenched , or forced to remain long in an awkward position, several times in the day (eighth day), 10b.* [280.]
• Sciatic (neuralgic) twinges in hip-joint, pain as if wrenched, followed by a burning ache, several times (ninth day), 10b.
• Violent tearing pain in the right hip-joint, knee, and shoulders, very severe, the most severe only lasting about two or three minutes (second day), 1b.
• Sciatic twinges behind left trochanter several times, quite severe, with lameness, in the morning while writing (fourth day), 10b.
• Thigh.
• Sudden rheumatic lameness of posterior femoral region, while exercising in the morning, causing a limp (after twenty-two days), 10a.
• Pain in left thigh, 2.
• In the course of the morning, the pain took the direction of left sciatic nerve; could not walk without limping; pain shooting from behind large trochanter down posterior part of left thigh into the foot on every motion, particularly while walking, till 4 P.M.; when it passed off; marked sciatica of left side; never had anything of this nature before; when he takes cold, it never assumes the form of rheumatism or neuralgia (second day); immediately on rising, severe pain in left sciatic nerve only in walking; pain more acute, and with more soreness than yesterday; pain only on motion, with weakness of the left leg; cannot walk without limping, yet violent exercise, running, or jumping, does not increase the pain more than moderate exertion (third day), 10a.
• Knee.
• Pains in the right, then in the left knee, when walking, 2.
• Knees weak and trembling (after six hours and a half, first day), .

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Objective.
• General languor, 1b.
• Languid and feverish in the afternoon; no disposition to mental or physical exercise, 4.
• Great lassitude, 1b.
• Debility and loss of appetite (third day), 4.
• General debility with the headache, 3.
• Weakness, 1b.
• Weakness and languor, with rumbling in the bowels (second day), 4.
• Much prostration, 7. [300.]
• Very much exhausted (second day), 5a.
• Worn out by fatigue and suffering; I got no relief or sleep but by the inhalation of chloroform (fifth day), 6.
• Faint and exhausted (after six hours and a half, first day), 5a.
• Subjective.
• General malaise with the neuralgia (fifth day), 6.
• Felt as if he had taken a cold, with lameness of trunk and lumbar region (second day), 10a.

SKIN

• Several pimples on lower extremities and other parts of the body, like mosquito-bites, 4.
• A pimple on middle finger of left hand, the next day the inflammation was extended over the hand; the day after it became more violent, and occasioned great pain, and was afterwards opened to obtain relief; no pus was found; but it was subsequently formed, and discharged through the opening, which penetrated as far as the bone; a fungous growth meanwhile had taken place around the edges; pain extended from the hand up the arm; there was much swelling and pain [The pain in the finger was accompanied by perspiration, although the weather was very cold.] in the part affected, which had much the appearance of a malignant boil; there was a disposition to a similar formation on the index finger, but the inflammation subsided after a time, and finally disappeared, 3.
• Seven small vesicles appeared on the right wrist, which gradually formed into pustules, having a depression in the centre; these dried up in one night, leaving crusts, which remained nine days before disappearing (after taking medicine five days), 1a . [The prover thinks it proper to state he had been attending a severe case of small-pox.]
• Boils on back, face, and hands, 2.
• Intense itching of the face, as if she could tear it to pieces, worse when warmth from exercise, at 11 A.M. (second day); continues at times (fourth and fifth days), 8.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness. [310.]
• Sleepy, dulness, and dizziness of head (ten minutes after second dose, third day), 14.
• Feeling of sleepiness, with great chilliness, only feeling at all comfortable when near a very hot fire, and even then cold; chilly sensations are felt down the back (second day), 1b.
• Great desire to sleep in the daytime; fell asleep while reading (third day), 5b.
• Drowsiness and loss of appetite (second day), 4.
• Sleeplessness.
• Restless night (second night), 5b.
• Restlessness for five nights in succession, 3.
• Unusual restlessness during the night; sleep disturbed by startings, 2.
• Restless at night, with troublesome dreams, 4.
• Restless night; bad dreams (sixth and eleventh days), 5b.
• Restless night; horrid dreams (fourth night), 5b. [320.]
• Restless night; dreamed of snakes and everything bad (third night), 5b.
• Restless night; dreamed of digging up dead people, and finally fell into a grave, which awoke me, feeling very much frightened (eighth night), 5b.
• Very restless at night (first night), 5b.
• Very restless night; awful dreams of the dead (ninth and tenth nights), 5b.
• Sleep very restless (fifth day), 5.
• Sleep very restless all night, with bad dreams (fourth night), 5.
• Woke up unusually early, with dry mouth and general depression, 3.
• Woke two hours earlier than usual, with no disposition to renew sleep, 2.
• Dreams.
• Amorous dreams, with discharges of semen (fifth day), 5.
• Dreams of fighting, etc. (first night), 5b. [330.]
• Dreams of suffocation and fire, 1b.
• Dreamed of dissecting a woman who was hanging up by the heels in my office; awoke very much frightened; made several attempts to get up to shut the door, but could not; it was a real nightmare (third day), 5b.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Great chilliness over the whole body during the night, although abundantly covered (second night), 7b.
• Heat.
• Fever (second day), 4.
• Heat over the whole body, then chilliness, with cold hands and feet, 1b.
• Head feels hot, and face flushed, 1b.
• Hands hot and dry all day (third and fourth days), 5b.
• Heat of the palms, 11.
• Sweat.
• Sweat over the whole body, particularly in the groin, 1a.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Soreness of anus.
• ( Afternoon ), Colic.
• ( Evening ), Pain in joints; pain in shoulder ; pain in metacarpal joints.
• ( Coughing ), Headache.
• ( Expiration ), Burning in throat, etc.
• ( Motion ), Pain in parietal protuberance; pains in joints; pain in lumbar region; pain in arm, etc.; particularly on raising arm, pain in metacarpal joints.
• ( Walking ), Pain in hypochondrium; pain in back; pain in hip; pains in knee; pain in calves; pain in great toe.
• ( When warm from exercise ), Itching of face.
• Amelioration.
• ( Inspiration ), Burning in throat, etc.
• ( Continued movement ), Pain in parietal protuberance.
• ( After stool ), Burning in anus.

SUPPLEMENT: IRIS VERSICOLOR. Authority.

18 , Dr. C. H. Weaver, Hale's New Remedies, 2d edition, p. 1103, proving by Dr. Weaver; 19 , same, proving by N. F.

July 25 th. At 1 A.M. took 8 drops, an immediate feeling as though the brain was partially narcotized, soon followed by sharp, cutting pains darting through the temples; also in the elbows and biceps muscle; also feeling of contusive lameness in the last-mentioned parts.

4 P.M., took 10 drops; acid, peppery taste in the forward half of the tongue; sore and raw feeling in the throat, especially around the epiglottis, with hoarseness; a stuffed-up, smarting sensation in the posterior nares, as from a recent cold, increased secretion of nasal mucus; griping in the bowels, with several light, but somewhat acrid stools. The proving was continued two or three days, but about the same sensations were produced.

August 31st, 5 P.M., took 10 drops; peppery taste in mouth; stinging, sharp pains in temples, but dull in vertex and over the eyes; very sharp acrid feeling near epiglottis, with hoarseness. At 8 P.M., 10 drops; passed a very restless night; was troubled with frightful dreams and fancies. 7 A.M., feeling as if intoxicated; stinging, rheumatic pains in elbows and forearms, and in knees; pulse slow and labored, but considerable heat of skin; up to 12 M., headache of a nervous, gastric character; stinging pain in right shoulder; constriction in chest and at middle of sternum; acute, distressing pain in stomach; continued stuffed-up feeling in posterior nares, and nasal sinuses, with discharge of thin, clear mucus; continual snuffing and occasional sneezing throughout the day, and hoarseness; passed considerable limpid urine frequently. About 4 P.M., began to feel very weak; griping in the bowels and soreness over the surface of the abdomen; also great soreness and harshness of the muscles of the neck; somewhat feverish, with intense itching in various parts of the body.

September 1st. Arose feeling weak, passed a very copious, mushy, light-colored stool; have still a dull headache, with some sharp stitches through the temples; but the most marked symptom is a sharp, raw, excoriating feeling in both nares, with constant inclination to empty the nose; discharge of nasal mucus is very free; sneezing constant for the space of twenty minutes. 6 A.M. took 15 drops; sharp; aching pains in shoulders, arms, and especially the first finger of the left hand; increased hoarseness; nausea; almost constant weakness, so increased towards evening, with terrible headache and giddiness, that I was obliged to cling to my horse for support in the saddle; fell two or three times in walking to my room, but after a cup of warm tea and a little Nux vomica am able to get about; next day headache continues, and not until the expiration of a week does it feel quite easy; also the discharge of mucus from the nose is very profuse, in fact, almost incessant for ten days, the bronchia being also affected in a similar manner, but less severe; it felt and acted like a severe attack of catarrh, with influenza, and had I ever been affected in a like manner before I should think it the result of a severe cold.

Note.

• A marked symptom observed in three former provings, upon as many persons, was troubled and lascivious dreams, with a profuse, involuntary emission of seminal fluid, 18.
• Took three pellets medicated with the 1st dec. dilution four times daily. The following were the principal sensations: Constrictive, pressive feeling about the sternum; shortness of breath; sharp cutting pains through the temples, with dimness of vision; griping in the bowels, with profuse light-colored diarrhœa, so prostrating that he is obliged to discontinue the proving, 19.