Hydrophobinum

The virus from the mad dog.

Preparation , Trituration with sugar of milk.

Authorities. ( 1 to 7 , provings by J. R. Coxe, Jr., M.D.; Phil. J. of Hom., 3, p. 262).

1 , J. R. C., Jr., took 3d dil. three times a day for four days; 1 a , proving with 6th dil.; 1 b , proving with 30th dil.; 1 c , proving with 3d dec. dil.; 2 , Daniel Coxe, aged 17, took 3d dil. in same manner; 2 a , same took 6th dil.; 3 , Charles Coxe, aged 7, took 6th dil.; 4 , N. E. W., aged 18, took 3d dil.; 4 a , same took 6th dil.; 5 , same took 30th dil.; 6 , A. R. S., aged 18, took 3d dil.; 6 a , same took 6th dil.; 7 , Miss A. S., aged 30, took 3d dil.; 7 a , same took 6th dil.; 7 b , same took 30th dil.; 7 c , same took 3d dec. dil.; ( 8 to 18 , and a few authorities given after the symptoms, from same reference, no details furnished); 8 , Hering; 9 , "B.," Behlert on females.; 10 , N., Neidhard; 11 , "V.;" [erase "11 v. (vide reference to other symptoms. -Hering.)]

12 , "Schm.;" 13 , "W.;" 14 , "My.;" 15 , "E.;" 16 , "Br.;" 17 , "C.;" 18 , Peterson.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Strange notions and apprehensions during pregnancy, 8.
• Exaltation; thinks he has something of importance, 8.
• Singing, in walking through the whole house, entire day, 11.
• Sang more than usual, but did not feel at all merry; singing involuntary, 7.
• Happy disposition, after perspiring in the evening, 11.
• Exhilarated, felt as if he had received joyful intelligence, all day, 4.
• During the first two or three days, temper more equable than usual, 7.
• Felt unusually serious, 7.
• Had a good cry before going to bed; felt very sad (third day), 7. [10.]
• Bitterly crying, with headache, 11.
• Anxiety of mind, restlessness, with great prostration, 11 ; with pain in the heart, 11 ; with the headache, 13.
• Feeling as if I had heard, or was about to hear something bad; morose and crabbed feelings until 4 P.M. (fourth day), 1a.
• Mind much depressed; felt as if something disagreeable was about to happen (third day), 3.
• Feeling as if something annoying was about to happen; goes off when thinking of it, 1.
• He cannot prevent ideas of something awful about to happen, or as if he would do something awful, 8.
• An indescribable idea, which I could not shake off, of something dreadful about to happen to me; all day feeling as if some great misfortune were about to occur, 1c.
• Irritability, 9.
• Irritable, with headache, 11.
• Feel irritable; spoke short to the children (ninth day), 7. [20.]
• Very irritable at trifles, 7b.
• Am extremely irritable, or rather feel stern (sixth day), 7b.
• Disposed to get mad, 10.
• Impatient all day, 7a.
• Impatient all day, with headache, 11.
• Cross and hypochondriac in the evening, 12.
• Felt very cross; did not want to converse or see any one, .

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo while sitting, and after rising or walking he staggers, 9.
• Slight vertigo when rising from a chair (sixth day), 2.
• Dizzy, as if he could not hold the head, 8.
• After stooping dizzy, and losing sight, 9.
• Dizzy headache (eleventh day), 7.
• Dizzy headache all day, spirits not depressed (third day), 7b.
• A dizzy dulness in the vertex, he fears he will fall while walking, in the evening, 8. [50.]
• Slight dizziness and nausea (sixth day), 7.
• While stooping, giddiness on the right, 11.
• After lying down in bed, a giddy-like shock in the upper part of brain, 8.
• General Head.
• Rush of blood to the head while lying down, 8.
• Lightness in head, 12.
• Lightness (of head) after nausea, 11.
• Dulness (of head), 11.
• Have had all day a singular sensation in head (third day), 7.
• Feels as if a leaden ball was rolling about in the brain, 5.
• Pain in the head (fifth day), 7. [60.]
• Slight pain in head and heart (fourth day), 4a.
• Pain from mouth up through head, and down to back of neck, quite severe, 7b.
• Pain in head, which was very severe till 9 P.M. (fourth day), 2a.
• Intense pain in head, extending back of forehead to organ of firmness, at 2 P.M.; soon after to whole to of head, or to eyes, lasting all day (second day), 7.
• Burning waving towards the head, 11.
• After moving, turning, stooping, feels as if head would burst, 11.
• Head feels as if it would spit, and a great pressure on top, 5.
• Dull, heavy pain in the head, 3.
• Headache all day (fourth day), 1a ; (sixth day), 7.

EYE

• Objective.
• Eyes somewhat red and inflamed (the cornea), 1c.
• No pain, but eyes still slightly red, and occasional stitches in right temple, 3.
• Eyes bloodshot and painful (fourth day), 3.
• Inflammation in eyes during the day (tenth day), 7. [140.]
• Inflammation of one eye; frothy matter pours out between the lids; pimples around the eyes since the bite of a dog in the finger, 16 . [A cure. -BRAUNS.]
• Subjective.
• Weakness of eyes when looking upwards, 9.
• Great weakness in eyes, but no pain, 5.
• Some pain in eyes (eighth day), 7.
• Burning in eyes, 9.
• Headache not severe; pain extends into right eye (fourth day), 2.
• Eyes ached intensely, 7b.
• Soreness in eyes (fourth day), 4.
• Soreness in eyes, and pain in forehead above them (second day), 4.
• Soreness in eyes and throat, and difficulty in swallowing (fourth day), 40. [150.]
• Drawing, beating pain over the eyes and into the balls, 10.
• A curious stinging pain in left eye, extending to forehead, over right eye painful, at 9 A.M. (third day), 2.
• Tickling and heat in eyes, 11 ; from the neck, 11.
• Brow.
• Pain over the left eye previous to retiring (fourth day), 7a.
• Pain in small spot over right eyebrow, rendered worse by writing, 7b.
• Pain over right eye inwards, pressing the temple, 9.
• Sharp pain across eyebrows, afterwards burning in the eyelids (fifth day), 7a.
• Drawing-beating pain over the eyes and into the balls, 10.
• Lids.
• Eyelids as if they were lame, or were firmly closed, in the morning, 9 . [By Behlert, erase "9."]
• Burning in the lids, . [160.]

EAR

• Rush of blood to right ear, after it a pressure, as if from a dull point, 8.
• Ears feel very still, 7a.
• Buzzing in right ear, 12.
• Rushing noise, like water falling, in left ear, 9.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Frequent sneezing, ceases after his attention is called to it, 14.
• Often coagulated blood in the nose, 9.
• Subjective. [170.]
• Pain in nose (second day), 7a.
• Pain in the nose and right neck and side; feel very stiff, most about the jaws (fifth day), 7.
• Nose pains from thinking, 11.
• Headache extends into the nose, 11.
• Sharp pain runs up the nose, 11.
• Nose feels bruised (fifth day), 7a.
• Tickling in nose, 11.
• Itching in nose (all day), 7.
• Smell.
• My sense of smell, which is always extremely acute, became painfully so, particularly in reference to unpleasant effluvia; the action of the nostrils was extremely painful, 7b.
• The greatest sensibility to the smell of tobacco; tastes the snuff, while the box is one foot distant, 7c.

FACE

• Objective. [180.]
• Paleness and qualmishness, 9.
• Quivering in the face, 11.
• Slight twitchings in face and hands, 7b.
• Face pale yellow, nearly brown, 8.
• Subjective.
• Heat in the face after drinking coffee, 9.
• Heat in face, with redness, 9.
• Heat in face, and soreness of left cheek, from thinking, 11.
• It draws about in right side of face, 9.
• Cheeks.
• Quick drawing from the right malar bone towards nose, 12.
• Feeling as if bitten in the face, left side of mouth, 7. [190.]
• Something seems gnawing right cheek-bone (fifth day), 7.
• Rending pain in right upper jaw towards the ear; jaws ache with the headache, 11.
• Shooting pains in upper jaw, 7a.
• Chin.
• Biting-snapping, with convulsions, 11.
• Several severe twitches in jaws, 7b.
• Jaws feel stiff, and a disposition to gape, 7b.
• Jaws stiff and sore, with headache (after nearly a month), 7b.
• Both jaws feel stiff; tingling in cheek-bones (third day), 7.
• Jaw quite stiff at times, more painfully so than before (tenth day), 7.
• Jawache nearly all day, and pressure on top of head most severe, 7a. [200.]
• While reading, jaws began to ache; the longer I read, the more they ached; gaped frequently (seventh day), 7.
• It seems to make the jaws ache to write (second day), 7a.
• Jaws ache severely (second day), 7a.
• Jaws feel sore and stiff; have a great disposition to press the hand against the lower jaw, 7.
• Jawbone feels quite sore, 7b.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Teeth feel on edge (second day), 7a.
• Pain in roots of back teeth, 9.
• All the teeth ache, 9.
• Headache and earache extend into the teeth, 11.
• Teeth very sensitive; pulsation in teeth of upper jaw, 7b. [210.]
• Toothache during pregnancy, 8.
• Gums.
• Gums painful, 9.
• Tongue.
• Pain in the root of the tongue and left side of throat (second day), 7a.
• General Mouth.
• Feeling of coolness in mouth, as after peppermint, 14.
• Felt as if the velum pendulum palati was elongated; examining, found it not so, but was slightly inflamed (fifth day), 1.
• Have had quite a sore mouth, feels as if there were lumps in it, 7b.
• Have had, for a week previous to taking medicine, a dry, parched mouth, with great thirst; now, mouth full of saliva, and total disinclination to drink (third day), 7.
• Saliva.
• Increase of saliva, not more viscid than usual (third day), 1a.
• Towards noon, slight increased of saliva, 5.
• Much saliva, 6a. [220.]
• Much saliva, not thicker than ordinary (sixth day), 7.
• Great flow of saliva and difficulty in swallowing liquids (second day), 4a.
• Saliva more plentiful, but thin, and of a yellow color (fifth day), 2.
• Much viscid saliva (second day), 2, 1c.
• A large quantity of viscid saliva in mouth, causing me to spit an unusual quantity (third day), 2.
• A very large amount of viscid saliva, and an increase of oil in the hair (fourth day), 2.
• Saliva more viscid, constant spitting, feeling of general malaise all over, without pain, or knowing where to locate it (fourth day), 1.

THROAT

• Objective.
• Inflammation of the throat (Braung).
• Slight inflammation of throat and fauces as far as I could see (third day), 1a.
• Throat much inflamed, some difficulty in swallowing, 1c.
• Much mucus in throat and nose (fourth day), 7a.
• During the day, bile rises in the throat; an unusual quantity of tough saliva in mouth and throat, 7.
• A terrible pain in throat all day, and great pain in swallowing, 5.
• Great heat in the throat and around the heart (second day), 1a. [240.]
• Throat feels as though I had swallowed a small quantity of red pepper (fourth day), 1.
• At 3 P.M., felt a strange constrictive sensation in back part of throat never experienced before; at 4 P.M., worse, could not swallow without great pain; went off at 6 P.M.; returned in an hour, lasting till 10 P.M., 2.
• Violent spasms of throat at 2 P.M., feeling as if I was about to be suffocated; went off at 9 P.M., 1c.
• Sore throat, 3, 4a.
• Sore throat all day (fourth day), 1a, 3.
• Throat feels sore and as if swelled, 6a.
• Sore throat, increased saliva, no inflammation, as far I could see, though it felt as if inflamed, and hotter than usual (seventh day), 1a.
• Sore throat, constant desire to swallow, 6a.
• Very slight sore throat, constant desire to swallow (second day), 1.
• Sore throat increased, slight difficulty in swallowing liquids, much saliva, rather more viscid than usual (third day), 1. [250.]
• Sore throat, not able to swallow without great pain (fifth day), 5.
• Sore throat and headache all day, 1b.
• Slight sore throat, difficulty in swallowing liquids; this time a real difficulty; epiglottis appeared partially paralyzed (this symptom continued three days in several persons, going off by degrees); no difficulty in swallowing solids, 1a.
• Slight sore throat, 1b, 7.
• Throat quite sore, headache in both temples, numbness in both arms, slight pain in lumbar region all day, .

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Better appetite than usual, 7a.
• Appetite to-day and yesterday perfectly ravenous, 7b.
• Likes cold apple-butter, 8.
• Little appetite in the morning, 8.
• Aversion and disgust to everything fat, particularly mutton, 8.
• Thirst.
• Not thirty these two weeks, 7a.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, with pale face, after diarrhœa, 11.
• Sickness of the stomach after eating eggs or fat meat; nausea, with giddiness and headache, 11. [280.]
• Vomiting of the supper at night, 11.
• Stomach.
• Noise in the stomach like bubbles of water; pressure like something pointing, 8.
• Pressing inwards in pit of stomach after eating, 9.

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• Pressing pain in hypochondriac regions after quick walking, 12.
• Painful throbbing, like an abscess, in the hypochondriac regions, 9.
• Gnawing pressure in the left hypochondriac region, 8.
• Tearing from left (hypochondriac region) to right, 9.
• Pain in region of liver and right kidney, 7c.
• General Abdomen.
• Difficult and impeded passage of wind, 8, 11.
• Burning waving and rolling (in abdomen), 8. [290.]
• Feeling of coldness and burning in abdomen, 9.
• Violent bellyache, 17.
• Pressive drawing and wrenching sensations (in abdomen), 9.
• Shooting in abdomen, 9, 11, 17.
• Shooting in right side of abdomen, 9.
• Iliac Region.
• Glands in groins swelled very much and pained greatly for two hours (sixth day); not much abated (seventh day), 2.
• Pain in both groins; the right groin has two little balls swelled up under the skin, quite painful (fifth day), 4.
• Much pain in right groin and slight swelling there at 2 P.M. (fifth day), 7a.
• Dull pressure above the right groin, on a small, distinct point, 12.
• A dragging pain in both groins, 2.

RECTUM AND ANUS. [300.]

• Piles protrude, 11.
• Blood from anus during menstruation, 11.
• Bright-red blood from anus, with a horrible burning and stinging, like thorns, 6.
• Sphincter (ani) closes violently, 11.
• Pulsation outside of anus, 11.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa, 9, 18.
• Diarrhœa, without pain, in the morning, 8 ; with pain in the morning, 7c.
• Softer stool than usual, 8, 9.

URINARY ORGANS

• Bladder.
• Cold and burning feeling in bladder; pain in sphincter, 8.
• Urethra.
• After urinating, flow of prostatic juice, 8. [310.]
• Burning and tenesmus in region of prostate and down urethra, 10.
• Tickling burning in urethra after urination, 12.
• Micturition.
• Urging to urinate, 8.
• Very frequent urination; very copious watery urine, 10.
• Urine.
• More urine and brighter colored, 8.
• Urine brown, turbid, with reddish or whitish sediment, 8.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Great weakness of the male parts; they feel empty, as if gone; bearing down in urethra, 8.
• Tickling and burning on corona glandis, with some greenish pus, 10.
• Aching in testicles, 8.
• Lascivious ideas and erection, afternoon, 8. [320.]
• Indifference during erection, and even during coition, 8.
• Nightly emission in sleep, with dreams, 10.
• No sperm during coition; the sperm passed off in sleep, 8.
• Female.
• During the day, great pain, extending from uterus into breast and right side of abdomen (seventh day), 7.
• Bearing down in uterine region, 9.
• Sharp pains in uterus, shooting down to labia, 7c.
• Slimy leucorrhœa during the proving, 7c.
• Menstruation after fifty days, with headache, 7c.
• Menstruation after two weeks, with hæmorrhoids, pulsation in anus, and weakness of back, 9.
• Taken three days after menstruation is over, it reappears in two cases, 9.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [330.]

• Sighing, 11.
• Sighing, with oppression of breathing, 11.
• Sighing, with pain in heart, 11.

CHEST

• Rush of blood from the chest upwards, with toothache during pregnancy, 8.
• Pain from within outwards, in right side, 11.
• Pain in left side, 7a.
• Dull pricking pain in left side from head to waist, 3.

HEART

• Slight pain in heart and head (fourth day), 4a.

BACK

• Pain in back and both groins, 5.
• Aching in loins into back, 11. [340.]
• Aching from loins down to feet, 7a.
• Drawing downwards (in loins), 8.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Severe pain in all the joints, 5.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Numbness in both arms, 1.
• Hands numb, with the headache (after nearly a month), 7b.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Heavy bruised feeling in both thighs, 2.
• Legs felt heavy and throat sore, 5.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Chlorosis (Barr, Gross).
• Great weakness and prostration, 8.
• Nervous and irritable (seventh day), 7a. [350.]
• Felt very nervous and much excited (third day), 7b.
• Feel lazy, requires an effort to think (fourth day), 7.
• General malaise all over, without pain, or knowing where to locate it (fourth day), 1.
• Feel very bad to-day, severe pain in eyes, and in all my joints, 5.

SKIN

• Pimples on left forehead, afterwards on the right, 12.
• Slow maturing, bluish pimples on face, 8.
• Trickling in the left cheek, at 6 A.M., 7.
• Itching in root of penis, 8.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Excited, cannot sleep, 11.
• Admires his own skill in talking fluently Latin in a dream, 8. [360.]
• Subordination, like a servant in a dream, 14.

FEVER

• Flushes (in the face) and headache alternately, 9.
• Face sweats, with flushes, 11.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Eyelids as if lame; little appetite.
• ( Afternoon ), While reading and thinking, pain on top of head.
• ( Evening ), At 9 o'clock, pains over eyes, etc.
• ( After coffee ), Heat in face.
• ( When looking upward ), Weakness of eyes.
• ( Moving ), Bursting feeling in head.
• ( Stooping ), Vertigo; bursting feeling in head.
• ( Writing ), Pain over eye.
• Amelioration.
• ( Cold air ), Headache.
• ( After meals ), Feels better.