Mephitis

Mephitis putorius; M. chinga, Tied.

Class , Mammalia.

Order , Carnivora.

Family , Mustelidæ.

Common names , Skunk, stinkthier.

Authorities.

Hering, Corresp. Blatt., symptoms obtained from 30th dilution, and several from inhaling the substance while preparing the dilutions. (Dr. Neidhard's report of the effect of the substance on a young man " afflicted with symptoms of consumption ," producing a spasmodic cough with a crowing sound, lasting all night and returning several times, N. Am. J. of Hom., 3, 505, is not admitted).

MIND

• Emotional.
• Excited mood, with warmth of the head, 1.
• (Very talkative, almost as if intoxicated), 1.
• Fretful about trifles or only fancied occurrences, 1.
• Intellectual.
• Disinclination to work, with inclination to stretch, 1.
• Aversion to mental labor, on account of distracting fancies, 1.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Dull confusion of the head, as if it became enlarge, with ill-humor and nausea, 1.
• Vertigo on stooping; suddenly while sitting; on various motions of the head; or on turning over in bed, 1.
• General Head.
• Feeling of heaviness; a dull pressure, especially in the occiput, as if here and there pressed in with the finger, 1.
• Headache on riding a carriage, 1. [10.]
• Violent headache follows fulness, which presses upward, 1.

EYE

• Red vessels in the eyes, 1.
• Pain as from exerting the eyes, 1.
• Pain as if something were in the eye, 1.
• Heat, burning and burning pressure in the eyes, especially in the morning and evening, 1.
• Stitches as if with needles in the eyes, 1.
• Pain above the eyes, 1.
• Pressure upon the lids, a burning in the margins as if styes would develop, 1.
• Redness of the conjunctivæ, as if injected with blood, 1.*
• Pain in the eyes on turning them in various directions, 1.
• Vision. [20.]
• Weakness of vision; also, usually, pain in the eyes or head, 1.
• Dimness of vision, 1.
• Short-sighted; he is unable to distinguish letters ; they run together, 1.
• (Night-blindness), 1.

EAR

• Earache, 1.
• Tearing in the ear, or in the jaws and teeth, 1.

NOSE

• Fluent coryza and cough, with soreness of the chest, 1.
• Nose-bleed, 1.
• Nose dry, 1.
• Long-lasting irritation to sneeze, 1.

MOUTH. [30.]

• Pains in the hollow back teeth , especially of the lower jaw; sudden jerking in the roots of the teeth; tearing drawing, 1.
• Coppery taste in the mouth, 1.

THROAT

• Distressing irritation to ineffectual hawking, 1.
• Choking while drinking and talking, 1.
• Pain in the right side of the throat, 1.
• Tension in the cervical muscles of the right side, 1.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Appetite at one time great, at another slight, 1.
• No appetite in the morning , not even for smoking, 1.
• Eructations.
• Eructations relieving the flatulent troubles, 1.
• Hiccough-like eructations, 1.
• Nausea. [40.]
• Nausea, with a feeling as if the head were distended; with emptiness, 1.
• Nausea , with scraping in the palate, 1.
• Stomach.
• Feeling of emptiness and nausea, 1.
• Pressure in the stomach, with colic, 1.

ABDOMEN

• Pain in the hepatic region, 1.
• Pain as from flatulence in the left side, 1.
• Colic as in diarrhœa, without stool, 1.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa, 1.
• Stool infrequent but thin, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

• Urging to urinate, very frequent micturition, especially at night; urine clear, 1. [50.]
• Urine turbid, with sediment, in the morning after the evening fever, 1.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Warmth of the genitals, 1.
• Soreness of the female genitals, with swelling of the labia, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Cough on reading aloud, while talking, and after drinking; caused by choking, 1.

CHEST

• Rheumatic pain in the right side, 1.
• Sore pain behind the last ribs and posteriorly, extending up into the chest internally, on deep breathing or moving the back, 1.
• Pain in the lowest ribs of the left side, to touch, pressure, especially on coughing and sneezing, 1.

BACK

• Stitches in the spine on moving, 1.
• Weariness in the small of the back, in the morning, 1.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Trembling of the arm, on resting upon it, 1. [60.]
• Uneasiness in the left arm , which seems insensible, 1.
• Rheumatic pains in the arms ; paralytic drawing pains, better on moving, 1.
• Tearing a bruised feeling in the bones of the arms, 1.
• In the first joint of the index finger, a disagreeable feeling, that obliges him to stretch and crack it, 1.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Woke at night with rush of blood to the legs ; heat in them, 1.
• Drawing rheumatic pains in the thighs and hip, especially in the lower leg, extending down to the foot, 1.
• The knees feel beaten, 1.
• Uneasiness in the both lower legs , as if they would become insensible, 1.*
• Sudden cramplike pain in the left foot, that compels him to hop, 1.
• Stitches in the foot, 1. [70.]
• Pain like gout in the heel, 1.
• Burning in the little toe, 1.
• Throbbing like a pinching in the great toe, 1.
• Burning and pain in the corns, 1.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Great weakness and weariness, whereby the muscles are painful to touch and motion, 1.
• Prostrated and sleepy after eating, 1.
• Uneasiness of the whole body internally, with an indescribable extremely unpleasant sensation, 1.
• Paralyzed sensation , especially with the pains, 1.
• Pain in the back and all the limbs, with paralysis, 1.
• Wandering pains, with desire to urinate, 1. [80.]
• Rheumatic pains of various kinds in different provers, 1.
• Frequent sensations like electric shocks, 1.
• Very fine nervous vibrations causing great uneasiness , as if extending into the interior of the bones, 1.
• In the evening vertigo, headache, symptoms in the eyes, toothache, colic, a feeling of coldness, uneasiness, 1.
• Some of the symptoms rapidly alternate with others quite different, during the first days; afterwards they become more constant, until at last, after several weeks, they disappear, 1.
• Smelling Camphor relieved for only a short time, without removing the symptoms, 1.
• Washing in ice-cold water is very agreeable, 1.

SKIN

• Pimples on the forehead, lower jaw, back, nates, and the inner side of the thighs, 1.
• Itching, heat, redness, and erysipelas, with vesicles on the right external ear, 1.
• Itching on the scalp, face, and chin, 1. [90.]
• Itching on the scrotum, 1.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Frequent yawning, so that the eyes fill with tears, 1.
• Sleepiness, sleep in the midst of society, 1.
• Sleep the greater part of the day, after good sleep at night, 1.
• Extremely sleepy in the morning , stretching for an hour as if stupefied, with burning in the eyes, tearing in all the limbs; he was uncommonly refreshed by turning upon the other side, 1.
• Sleeplessness.
• Woke earlier than usual in the morning, 1.*
• Dreams.
• Very vivid remembered dreams of water, fire, spitting, blood, of disheartening loss, 1.
• Nightmare, 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Pressure and chills in the abdomen, as from taking cold, with a feeling of coldness, shivering, and desire to urinate, better by a warm stove, 1.
• Coldness and desire to urinate, with colic as before diarrhœa; in the evening, 1.
• Heat. [100.]
• Increased warmth, especially in the morning ; is less chilly in the cold air, and does not dread cold water, 1.
• Warmth in the head, genitals, and legs, at night, 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), No appetite; weariness in small of back; warmth.
• ( Evening ), Vertigo, etc.; coldness, etc.
• ( Night ), Frequent micturition; rush of blood to legs; warmth in head.
• ( Motion ), Pains in arms.
• ( Riding in carriage ), Headache.
• Amelioration.
• ( Washing in ice-cold water ), Is very agreeable.