Note By Dr. Lippe . -"What you find in my text-book on Palladium are only the characteristic symptoms taken from provings made and collected by Dr. Hering. I could make no additions. Confirmed are the mental symptoms as compared with those of Platina; also the ovarian symptoms."

The editor, therefore, will not publish the symptoms from Lippe's text-book, but, with others eager to cure the sick, will wait impatiently till the original provings may be given to the world.

SUPPLEMENT: PALLADIUM.

The element.

Authority. (C. Hering, M.D., North Am. Journ. of Hom., New Ser., vol. ix, 1878, p. 136); 1 , effects of triturating (first day), took, at 11.30 A.M., a teaspoonful of the black water, obtained from washing out the mortar after making the 1st trituration (third day); a swallow of the rinsings at 9 A.M. (fifth day); 2 , Mrs. Margaret C. took 3 drops 4th at 6.30 A.M. (first day), same at 5.45 (second days), 4 drops at 5.30 A.M. (fourth day); after all symptoms had vanished, took 6 glob. of 5th, then of 6th, for three mornings, without experiencing anything more; 2 a , same, took 4 drops at 6 A.M., and another dose before retiring; 3 , Dr. C. G. Raue took a dose of 3d trit. in the morning (first day), second dose (fourth day), third dose in the morning (eighth day); 4 , Mr. Oscar Tietze took 3d trit. at 9.30 A.M., three hours after breakfast; 5 , Dr. Pherson took 1 drop of 3d trit. at 9 A.M.; 6 , Dr. J. R. Coxe made a proving on A. S. C. S., a woman, æt. twenty-nine years, who took a dose of 3d trit. at 10 P.M. (first day), another dose at 7 A.M. and 10 P.M. (second day), sixth dose at 6 A.M. (fourth day), eighth powder in the morning (fifth day); 7 , M. I. C. took 2 grains 3d trit. daily for six days; 8 , S. A. C., æt. ten years, took 2 grains 3d trit. daily for five days; 9 , D. C., æt. fifteen years, took same daily for four days; 10 , L. C. C., æt. thirteen years, took 8 grains 3d trit., within four days, without noticing symptoms; 11 , I. R. C. took 1 grain 3d trit. daily for eight days; 12 , Dr. C. Niedhard, Mrs. N., a nursing mother, took 1 grain 3d trit. between 3 and 7 A.M., two days before she expected her catamenia, which occurred through the period of nursing, and on the second day took a cold bath, which she had not done for a long time.

MIND

Strong inclination to use forcible language and violent expressions (first day), 1.
Time seems longer to him, as often as he looked to the clock less time had passed than he expected (fifth day), 1.
The child was irritable (first day), 12.
Ill-humored in the evening (fifth day), 1.
She is in a disagreeable mood; feels as if she could not bear or put up with anything, without anything having occurred. The child is the only one with whom she is not impatient (second day), 6.
Though usually tired in the evening, feels mentally "gone;" is very awkward in speaking English, it is too much trouble, he is tired of it (fourth day), 3.

HEAD

Very painful dulness in the head, stitches running to and fro in the left side of the head (after half an hour, third day), 1.
Some headache, 8.
Headache in the morning (sixth day), 8. [10.]
Insupportable headache (seventh day), 6.
Frequent headache, as before inwardly in places the size of an apple or a first, or dull crooked stitches (eighth to eleventh day), 1.
Noticed no symptoms until 6 P.M. (eleven hours and a half). After a walk, dull heavy pain in left eye and in back part of orbit, lasting one hour, grew severer in spreading over forehead and vertex, then disappeared (first day). Towards 8 o'clock, after a walk, pain in right eye, temple, and around the ear. During dinner pain in right temple near the eye. Slight unpleasant sensation; around the left eye (second day), 2.
Headache, making her irritable and impatient; she feels as if it would do her good if "she could knock somebody's head off," but is able to control herself. Inclined to be pert, and makes faces like a savage (fourth day), 6.
Forehead.
Dulness in frontal region, as if a heavy load were lying on the brain; each experiment is accompanied by the feeling as if this load were pushed forward from the occiput to the forehead. (It occupies more the central portion of the brain, the temples are free), (after one hour). In an hour and a half the pain had reached its climax, abated gradually, and all was gone in three hours, 5.
Slight fulness in forehead and a sensation as if the brain were being shaken; lasted for thirty-six hours, but was not unpleasant, 7.
In the afternoon, dull aching and heavy feeling across the forehead and over the eyes (first day). Next morning again heaviness over the eyes and in forehead, 12.
While triturating and soon after a pressure is felt on the right side of the forehead, in the boundary line of the hair covering a spot the size of a finger-tip, and lasting from half an hour to an hour; the sensation is that of a cooling or slightly burning pressure, and is quiet new, 1.
A fluttering pain in "cautiousness," right side, between a stinging and pressing, passes off when touching it or fixing the attention upon it (first day), 3.
Temples.
Very marked tension in temples (after four hours), 2a. [20.]
Pain in temples and on the vertex, lasting several hours (after four hours), .

EYE. [30.]

Eyes dry and itching, nearly every evening, rubs them, without giving relief (fifth day), 1.
While walking, pain around left eye, extending beyond right eyebrow (after four hours), 2a.
Eyelids felt heavy, in the afternoon (first day), 12.
Edges of eyelids feel dry (fourth and fifth days), 1.
Itching of the eyelids, has to rub them, more left than right side (first day), 4.

NOSE

Slight coryza (third dry), 1.
Burning in the nose, as from horseradish, followed by a watery discharge, in the evening (third day), 1.

FACE

He thinks he notices a marked diminution of growth in his beard (sixth day), 1.
Since several days, and particularly noticeable to-day, is a sensitiveness of the second left upper incisor, and a feeling as if it were a dead foreign body (seventh day), 1.
The right corner of the mouth pains as if sore (fourth day), 1.

THROAT. [40.]

Frequently hawks up small solid lumps of phlegm, which he must swallow (eighth to eleventh day), 1.
Peculiar pain in throat when swallowing, as if something were hanging in the region of the hyoid bone, as if breadcrumbs had lodged there; the pain disappears for several minutes, then returns suddenly, while the muscles of the throat are in a passive state, a disagreeable, tickling sensation, as if an awn had lodged in the throat (first day), 4.
Dryness of fauces and tongue; the tongue looks redder in the middle; no thirst in the morning (fifth day), 1.

STOMACH

Aversion to beer (eighth to eleventh day), 1.
Several times tasteless eructations between 10 and 11 A.M. (after and hour), 4.
Several times eructations, the last one leaving a sourish taste in the mouth (soon), 5.
Violent pain, like the digging with the end of a stick, in right side, two or three inches to the right of the epigastrium, where the eighth and ninth ribs ascend to the sternum; then pressing pain under the ribs, left side (third day), 1.

ABDOMEN

Pain and soreness in the liver (seventh day), 6.
Frequent passage of small quantities of odorless flatus (third day), 1.
Frequent passage of unusually small and short flatus (sixth day), 1. [50.]
Bellyache before rising (third day), 2.
Pain in the abdomen, particularly in the region of the spleen (third day), 6.
Soon after rising, between 6 and 7 A.M., most violent, sharp, knifelike pains in the lower portion of the abdomen; she seldom had anything similar. It was so severe that she could not hold the child, but passed off after a passage. Two slight attacks after breakfast, with inclination to stool; nothing passed, however, but wind (seventh day), 6.
Is troubled at times with symptoms of tapeworm. Palladium seemed to have a special effect upon it. Sensation as if the abdomen were enlarging, very soon. Several stitches in the left side, in the region of the hip-bone, but more inward; in the intervals a peculiar pain, as if air-bubbles pressed forcibly upward through the intestines. The stitches and the peculiar feeling in the intestines returned, and extended to the right side. After 11 A.M. transient pain in the lower portion of the intestines, on the right side, as if the testicles were squeezed. About an hour later, after a meal, the above-mentioned stitches returned, but were of short duration. They returned several times, first on the left side, then less severe on the right. Often but single stitches, or, more accurately, bites, as if an animal were snapping and tearing off little bits from the inside. Flatulency and distension of the abdomen. Sensation as if the intestines were strangulated and twisted in different directions, more in the upper than lower portion. Frequent passage of flatus. Painful stitches in the left side, followed by cutting, more right than left side, almost unbearable, lasting some minutes; returns after a short interval and lasts longer (first day). Stitches in the abdomen (second day). Unpleasant sensation in the groins, painful to pressure, feeling as if emptied of viscera (third day). The prover had no more symptoms of tapeworm for more than year afterwards, 4.
Aching in the left groin at every step (seventh day), 3.

RECTUM AND ANUS

At the approach of a stool, dull stitches, or dull aching twitches, in the left side of the rectum. The dull stitches return in the evening (tenth day), 3.
Pain in rectum, with a retained stool, no urging to stool; pain increased till 1 P.M., just before dinner, when a soft stool occurred and the pain ceased (third day), 1.
After a stool, with much pressing, sense of fulness in the anus, in the evening (fifth day), 1.

STOOL

(Of a constipated habit for years, the stools now became soft, and remained so until after the proving, when again constipation as before), 7.
First a hard, then a mushy, thin stool, with protrusion of the anus, at 10 P.M. (first day), 1. [60.]
Slight inclination to stool, as if diarrhœa would set in, while walking on the street, towards evening (third day), 1.
Thin stool, with quick and violent urging, as if diarrhœa would set in (fourth day), 1.
All stools but one on the fourth day, since the proving commenced, occurred in the afternoon or evening (fifth day), 1.
Frequent stools, followed by slight colic (first day), 12.
Stool more frequent and softer. Continues two days after stopping, 9.
Stool no longer daily, but every other day (eighth day), 3.

URINARY ORGANS

Pressing pain in region of left kidney, as if the urine had been retained too long; worse while sitting; pressure does not aggravate, but rather relieves it, but it gets worse afterwards. Frequent urging to urinate; aching in the bladder. Pain in kidney very marked towards evening (fourth day). While sitting, still some pain in left kidney (fifth day), 3.
Pressing in the bladder, as if it were full of urine (first day), 4.
Stitches through the bladder and painful weakness (tenth day), 3.
Stitches through the urethra to the glans (first day), 4. [70.]
Increased urging to urinate, he passes more, but not often, in the evening (third day), 1.
Frequent urination; the bladder feels full, and yet but little urine passes (thirteenth day), 3.
Frequent urination during the day; frequent urging and scanty discharge (first day). Copious urination (second day). Urging to urinate and scanty discharge remain (third day), 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Erections every morning, but none in the evening and at night, even none from excitation (eighth to eleventh day), 1.
Pain in uterus or region of the bladder (fifth day), 6.
In the evening she went to church, and walked home rapidly, when the menses reappeared, as they had done often after exertion; it was the seventh day since they had commenced, and since thirty-six hours there had been nothing visible. The occurrence of the menstrual flow may be attributed to the medicine, for it is of a different character than that which usually occurs after exertion, it is more like clear blood (second day). Menses continue, but less copious and watery (fourth day), 6.
The proving was commenced a day after her catamenia had ceased; the following menstrual period came several days sooner, 2.

CHEST

After sitting awhile, "congestion" in right side of chest (after four hours), 2a.
Aching along the edge of the ribs and the diaphragm (fourth day), 3.
On bending the body forward, while sitting, flying stitches from the middle of the chest in the direction of both shoulders (thirteenth day), 3. [80.]
Pressing in the suprasternal fossa (first day), 4.
Stitches in right chest in the region of the nipple, running deep in; worse from taking a deep breath, disappearing while walking in the open air (seventh day), 3.
Fleeting stitches on the inner side of the collar-bone, on entering the room, after walking in the open air (seventh day), 3.

HEART

Frequent painful pressure in the cardiac region, and low down in the left chest, occurring at intervals (fourth day), 1.
At 2 A.M., pain in the cardiac region (fifth night), 6.

BACK

Pain in left trapezius muscle, as from lying on it too long; worse when turning the head to the left (fifth day), 3.

NECK AND BACK

Sensation as if he were getting a stiff neck, especially on both sides, above the first dorsal vertebræ; immediately after in the lower portion of the scapula, and at the same elevation in the spinal column, a pressing pain as if a dull object were being slowly pressed against the spine. This is followed by a repetition of the stiffness in neck (first day), 4.
Very painful contraction of several muscles on the right side of the neck, felt several times since the proving commenced (seventh day), 1.
Painful drawing in the neck and shoulders and down the left arm, of short duration (first day), 3.
Weak back in the morning (sixth day), 6. [90.]
In the afternoon dull pressing backache, as from sitting up stiffly too long (eighth day), 8.
Sat three hours in church, in the evening, listening to a tedious sermon and dull exercises, which gave her a pain in the back, but no headache. This, another time, would have failed to come (fifth day), 6.
During the night pain in the back across the hips, perhaps because the child was restless. She was anxious about it, but not impatient (fifth night), 6.

EXTREMITIES

For about an hour aching through the limbs, as if beaten, with a feeling as if the menses would appear, in the afternoon; both symptoms diminished in the evening, without entirely disappearing (first day). The menses did not appear, 12.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

As if beaten in the muscles of both arms and shoulders to the elbows (second day), 12.
Painful drawing in the right shoulder, on returning to the room, after walking in the open air (seventh day), 8.
Sensation in left arm as if it were "going to sleep" (third day), 1.
Rheumatic pains in the right shoulder, in the evening (eighth day), 1.
A few lightning-like stitches in the right shoulder, almost making him scream (seventh day), 3.
Tickling in the right shoulder (after ten minutes), 6. [100.]
Left arm still feels as if "gone to sleep," at 11 A.M., lasts half an hour (fourth day), 1.
The numbness in arm passed off in the evening (fourth day), 1.
The right arm and often get numb in the night (eighth to eleventh day), 1.
Slight numbness in the right forearm, extending to the fingers, from 3 P.M., seventh day, until evening of the eleventh, 11.
Drawing pain in left forearm, as if lame, more on the radial side, disappearing in the open air (seventh day), 3.
Sudden twitching in the right wrist and metacarpal bones (third day), 1.
Pain in right wrist, extending into the forearm (after four hours), 2a.
Severe pain again deep in the left hand, burning and boring, as if shattered; it wakes him (second night), 1.
While sitting still, constant painless twitching, which crooks the fingers, particularly the index finger, until 12 o'clock (fourth day), 1.
Short, violent, stinging pains in the metacarpal bones and thumb of the left hand (fifth day), 1. [110.]
Sudden stinging pain in the metacarpal bone of the middle finger on the left hand, at noon (first day), 1.
Stitches in the fingers, first left then right (first day), 4.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Dull gnawing pain in left hip (after one hour and a half), 2a.
Twitching pain in left hip-joint, during the morning (fifth day), 6.
On the following days she has a sensation as if the articulating ends of the thigh-bones expanded or were pressed out of their sockets, especially on the left side; she did not notice it while walking, but when pressing down as if for a stool, 2a.
Pain above the left knee, extending from there into the chest, in the morning (sixth day), 6.
Tensive pain in right knee, of short duration (first day), 4.
Small stitches above the knee, like flea-bites (first day), 4.
Tearing in the legs, isolated short stitches, as if proceeding from little pimples (first day), 4.

GENERALITIES

Very tired in the evening (thirteenth day), 3. [120.]
Very tired when walking, he reels on coming into the room, in the evening (third day), 1.
Feels heavy, tired in the limbs, inert, and undecided, in the morning (third day), 1.
Aversion to making any exertion. She feels as after taking Mercury and afterwards Magnesia, as she has sometimes done, but this may have been caused by the exertion (seventh day), 6.
While walking it seems to him as if he had grown much taller; the feeling recurs repeatedly. The symptom did not return later either in lying down or walking (third day), 1.
Towards morning, somewhere in the left side (forgotten because it disappeared on turning), a peculiar pain never experienced before (second night), 1.
Neuralgic pains in the body, here and there (first day), 4.
Bellyache before rising, afterwards pain in right temple. At 7.30, while walking, rheumatic pain in right hip. At 9.15 pain in right thumb, then in forefinger, first in right, then in left temple, in right shoulder and arm, then again in right temple. Some pain is small of back, extending over the right thigh, then pain in right wrist, in left hip, right hand, and right lower jaw. After a walk, at noon, pain in right temple and right arm. The pains change place so quickly, and at times are so transient, they are hard so describe. The pain returns oftenest of the temple, and remains there longer than anywhere else (third day), 2.
At 2.30 P.M., violent throbbing throughout the body, preventing sleep for a long time (after seven hours and a half, second day), 6.
Feels worse in the afternoon (third day), 1.
Motion seemed to aggravate all symptoms (fourth day), 2. [130.]
Nearly all symptoms appeared towards evening, or were more perceptible then (thirteenth day), 3.

SKIN

Small pimples on various places, particularly back of the left ear, painfully sore (sixth day), 1.
Itching pimples in the whiskers, left side, in the evening (seventh day), 1.
In the third week a slowly ripening pimple above the tip of the nose, which bled for a long time, after the pus was squeezed out, 1.
A deepseated pimple on the right cheek near the wing of the nose, red, not painful (does not come to a head), (seventh day), 3.
Pimple on the back portion of the right zygoma (eleventh day); one in the same place on the left zygoma (twelfth day), 3.
A pimple on the right side of the neck, which has been several days, begins to itch and burn. A pimple beneath the right eyebrow, near the canthus, burns and bites when touched (eighth day), 3.
A vesicle on the inside of the under lip near the left corner (sixth day), 3.
Several small vesicles, clear as water, on the edge of the lower lids (seventh day), 1.
Between 2 an 3 P.M., something similar to a fleabite on the right side above the lip, also on left nostril, and on various places on the body and head (after seven hours, second day), 6. [140.]
Felt a burning and itching on a small spot on the right side of the face, in the morning (third day), 1.
Burning and itching on a spot below the point of the right shoulderblade, also on various places on the right thigh and leg (fifth day), 1.
Burning and itching in a small spot in the left groin, in the evening (third day), 1.
Crawling, as of fleas, and itching on various parts of the body, on the back, arms, abdomen, thighs, and ankles, 9.
At 7 A.M. crawling over the entire back and thighs, as from fleas, accompanied by itching; disappears when scratching, but soon reappears in a neighboring place (second day). With thirty-six hours it had become very troublesome, lasted during the entire proving and two days after stopping the drug. One day observed small elevations here and there like a nettlerash, red on a base whiter than the skin, 7.
Itching over the whole body, while undressing, in the evening (sixth day), 1.
At 1 A.M. itching above the left zygoma, about the eye and nostril, later also in right side of face, near the eye, and on the side of the head (third day), 6.
Itching on the inner side of the left ankle, on the inner side of the right thigh, on the right elbow, and more on the back of the neck, in the left eyebrow, and in the left arm (after ten minutes), .

SLEEP

Drowsy and lazy in the evening (fifth day). The drowsiness and fatigue return later every evening; he is very much exhausted, disinclined to work; he lies down and goes to sleep if he can (sixth day), 1.
Unusually sleepy in the evening, while riding in the carriage and seeing patients, not after coming home (second day), 1. [150.]
At 2 P.M. she lies down, falls asleep, and wakes with a start. The head, which ached in the forenoon, is better, and the hip no longer pains. She slept another half hour before dusk, which completely relieved the headache (fifth day), 6.
At 3 P.M. overpowering sleepiness, lasting for one hour, passes off with pain in left temple. With this the symptoms closed (fourth day), 2.
For nearly a week he has had the same kind of a dream every night, he always remembers it in the morning, of houses, buildings, in which he was or beside which he stood, often as if he stood at a window, walked up and down staircases, through various apartments, etc. (seventh day), 1.

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