Sumbul

by Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Ferula sumbul, Hook, f. (Bot. Mag., 1875).

Natural order , Umbelliferæ.

Common name , Sumbul (Persian and Arabic).

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Lembke, A. H. Z., 34, p. 273, repeated doses of 2 to 20 drops of 2d cent. dil.; 2 , same, 10 drops of 6th dil. at one dose; 3 , Mr. H. Cattell, Brit. Journ. of Hom., vol. 9, 1852, p. 256; began, August 1st, with 10 drops of mother tincture of root at night, 20 grains in the morning; no symptoms for one or two days; 1/2 ounce night and morning, and then every four hours; afterwards the dose was divided into 2 drops every hour, then 1/2 ounce of 1st dil.; mother tincture, 1/2 ounce, in 2 ounce doses, night (eleventh day); 2/15 at night (twenty-ninth and thirtieth days); 5 drops, fasting, in the morning; 5 drops of tincture, fasting, at night (fortieth day); 5 drops of tincture, fasting, in the morning and 10 P.M. (forty-first day); same in morning and at night, fasting (forty-second day); 5/5, then 2/0, 5/5; after 10 P.M., 3/0, 5/5, fasting (forty-third day); 5/3 noon, medicine discontinued (forty-fourth day), took Spig. 3/3 in nine doses, 1/3 three times a day sixty-first day); Spig. 1/12 night and morning, six doses (sixty-seventh day); Sumb. 1/3 (one hundred and sixty-ninth day); Merc. 1/5, without effect (one hundred and seventy-second day); Thuja, in water, a tablespoonful very hour (one hundred and seventy-fourth day); Phos. ac. 1/3, 1/9, alternately with Thuja, every three hours (one hundred and seventy-sixth day); Nitr. ac. 1, in water, every four hours (one hundred and seventy-eighth day); Nitr. ac. in water (one hundred and eightieth day); Nitr. ac. night and morning (one hundred and eighty-third day); the symptoms in this group are probably some of them due to the remedies used (Nitr. ac. and Thuja), and are therefore of secondary value (one hundred and ninety-second day); 4 , A.M. T., a woman, æt. twenty, dose 3 φ at night; 3/5 morning, from September 8th, at night; September 22d, dose, at night, gtt. 1/3 trit.; morning, 3/4 from trit.; September 30 th, medicine discontinued; 5 , Murawjew, Med. Zeit. Russ., 1853 (Hierschel's Archiv, vol. 1. p. 241), 20 to 30 drops of tincture of the resin and decoction of Sulphur several times a day; 6 to 13 , from Dr. Altchul, in "a small work" (Brit. Journ. of Hom., vol. 11, 1853, p. 678); 6 , Dr. Altschul, subject to rheumatic affections and catarrhal diarrhœas, especially if he gets his feet wet, took 10 drops of mother tincture in distilled water; tincture prepared by macerating a drachm of Rad. sumbul in 1 ounce of alcohol twenty-four hours, at a temperature of 18° R., then pressing fluid out of root and filtering; an aqua destillata was prepared by putting 1 part of root in 12 parts of water, letting it macerate twelve hours, and distilling a fourth part of it; 6 a , same, ten days later, took 20 drops of tincture, with same symptoms as before, and additional ones; 7 , Mr. K. Fahrn, æt. forty-two years, took 10 drops of mother tincture; 8 , Mr. Sowornoradt, æt. twenty-two years, thin, nervous, pale, took 6 drops of tincture; 9 , W. A. Kalmus, æt. twenty-one years, in robust health, took 8 drops of tincture in 1/2 ounce of distilled water; 9 a , same an infusion of 1 ounce of sumbal in a pint of water and poured it into the water when he was taking a bath; 9 b , same, swallowed an infusion of 1 drachm of root in 1 1/2 pints of water; 9 c , same, chewed the root and swallowed the saliva; 9 d , same used same dose as a decoction; 9 e , same, took 12 drops of mother tincture; 9 f , same, took 1 scruple of tincture in 1/2 ounce of distilled water, in the afternoon; 10 , a friend of Mr. Kalmus made an infusion of 1 ounce of Sumbul in 1 pint of water and poured it into the water when taking a bath; 11 , Dr. Altschul and Mr. Kalmus, each took 20 grains of powder of root and had same symptoms as before, but in a greater degree; 12 , B. Fischer, æt. seventeen years, of unimpaired health, except diarrhœa, to which he is subject when he gets his feet wet, took, in the morning, fasting, 8 drops of tincture in 1/2 ounce of distilled water; 13 , a lady, æt. thirty-two years, subject to hysteria, frequently ill, took 10 drops of tincture; 14 , symptoms by Engelmann, as quoted by Hencke, Supplement to A. H. Z., vol. 55, 1858, No. 4, provings of tincture and 3d dec. dil.; 15 , omitted; 16 , Mr. J. Morgan, in Med. Press and Circular, as quoted in Med. and Surg. Reporter, No. 886 (Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 11, 1874, 416), a young man took 1/2 ounce of tincture during the night.

MIND

  • Humor excited and cheerful, 12.
  • More cheerful in humor and more disposed for intellectual occupation; he felt in the happy enthusiastic state of mind that accompanies the consciousness of having performed a noble deed; this sort of medicinal intoxication went away in a few hours, 6.
  • Very cheerful, 7.
  • Cheerful humor, 9.
  • Dull humor, though he was usually cheerful, 9.
  • Anxiety, 5.
  • Easily frightened, 1.
  • Melancholy; no desire for labor, even intellectual, in the evening (twelfth day); mirthful, witty, inclined to gayety; continued smiling; calm, contented; amorous; fond of the society of women; cannot feel compassion (fifteenth day); mirthfulness and smiling; nothing disturbs (sixteenth day); mirthfulness, smiling, good-humor, wittily inclined; sympathy with suffering seems robbed of its pain (eighteenth day); fit of hysterical laughter and tears (twenty-second day); tranquillity, indolent, good-humor, mirthfulness (twenty-fourth day); clearness of intellect, especially in evening (twenty-fifth day); vivacity, hastiness; intellect very clear, in the evening (twenty-sixth day); intellect clear, in the evening (twenty-seventh day); nervous excitement and heat, especially in head from listening to a disputation, in the evening (twenty-eighth day); humor fidgety, nervous excitability; cannot continue reading, restless; irritability and agitation from harsh music, in the evening (twenty-ninth day); anxious activity, with physical weakness and debility; nervous excitability; restlessness whilst reading (thirtieth day); intellect clear, in the evening (thirty-second, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth days); mistakes in writing; mild, good-humored, excitable (thirty-fourth day); intellect dull, in the morning; clear, in the evening ; humor merry, smiling (forty-first day); irritability, in the afternoon and evening (forty-eighth day); disposition mild, amiable, smiling (forty-ninth day); nervous excitability; humor depressed, with despair of the future (fiftieth day); humor became cheerful and happy again this morning (fifty-first day); excitability; easily depressed; easily roused into a passion; sensation as if the least provocation would enrage, with merry cheerful humor; the sensation of excitability is accompanied by fulness in temples and forehead and cerebellum, especially on left side, with pulsations in neck on left side, below the ear, in the evening (fifty-second day); frequent mistakes in writing and summing ; one letter or figure is found written for another, even in simple words, and especially in common arithmetical operations, for many days past (fifty-third day); humor (since the fifty-fifth day excessively touchy) irritable, peevish, and sad, as if overburdened with cares and harassed; melancholy despondency, as if ill-treated by every one purposely, alternately with cheerfulness, mirth, and smiling ( reaction? ), (fifty-ninth day); humor disagreeable (sixty-first day); continued mistakes in letters and figures (sixty-first day); inability to study (one hundred and sixty-ninth day); mildness, amiability, except during the pains; extremely irritable during the pains, while walking or during any exertion (one hundred and seventy-third day); cheerfulness, except during the agony of the pains, to which all the system seems to contribute (one hundred and seventy-sixth day); nervous excitability and weakness; susceptibility to emotional impressions and fear of vertigo (one hundred and seventy-eighth day); mild cheerfulness, amiability (one hundred and seventy-ninth day); clearness of intellect, in the evening, but reading fatigues (one hundred and eighty-third day); cheerfulness; listlessness; not desire for mental labor (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Humor at times cross (slightly), (tenth day), 4. [10.]
  • Great activity of mind, 14.
  • The thinking faculty was somewhat disturbed next morning, 6.

HEAD

  • Confusion and Vertigo.
  • Confusion of the head, 9.
  • He felt confused during the next day, but in the afternoon became more overwhelmed, having a great tendency to snore and did so while quite awake, 16.
  • Slight confusion in the head, with moderate pressing and contractive pain in the left half of the forehead (after ten minutes); the turgescence towards the head lasted scarcely half an hour, 6.
  • Slight confusion, accompanied by feeling of contraction in the forehead (soon), lasting half an hour, disappearing after eructations, 7.
  • Dull confusion in left frontal region (one hundred and eightieth day), 3.
  • Dull empty confusion in left frontal region over left eye; reading fatigues; incapacity for prolonged attention; at times, chiefly in the evening, clear intellect, especially in the warmth; head worse in the morning, even on rising; clearer of an evening and in the warmth (one hundred and eighty-first day), 3.
  • Vertigo, 14.
  • Slight vertigo, of short duration, 8. [20.]
  • Vertigo on stooping and from using warm water; inability to stoop from vertigo, in the evening (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Reeling vertigo when rising from a seat and while lying, 14.
  • Giddiness on stooping (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Giddiness on rising from a seat, on stooping, on moving about; feeling of want of security , as if in imminent danger of reeling, or of having a fit whilst moving or standing, relieved by holding on to some object for safety, worse after 6 P.M. (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • General Head.
  • Dulness of the head, 14.
  • Dulness of the head, especially in the forehead, 1.
  • Dulness of the head, especially in the forehead and occiput, with sensation of fulness, 1.
  • Dulness and confusion in the head, especially in the forehead (first day), 2.
  • Head freer than usual (first day), 2.
  • Heaviness in head and forehead (nineteenth day), 3. [30.]
  • Heaviness in the head (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Dull heaviness and tension in cerebellum (one hundred and eighty-third day), 3.
  • Headache, 5.
  • Slight headache, 9.
  • Headache; tensive aching pain over eyes and in forehead, especially left temple, at 6 P.M., and in the evening (thirty-sixth day), 3.
  • Tensive pains and heat in cerebellum, worse on left side, in the evening (one hundred and eighty-third day), 3.
  • Dull pain and tensive fulness, in head, increasing at 6 P.M. (fourteenth day), 2.
  • Fulness in head and its vessels, with sensation of dizziness, and oppressive fulness in the forehead and over eyes (seventh day), 3.
  • Fulness in head, especially forehead and cerebellum; oppressive fulness in forehead (eleventh day), 3.
  • Sunbeams affect the head, which feels full of blood; sensation of heat and uneasiness, with fulness, in cerebellum, extending to spinal cord; dulness in head; dizziness; inability to stoop from giddiness (twenty-fourth day), 3. [40.]
  • Ebullition of blood in the head, lightness, and exalted feeling (forty-sixth day), 3.
  • The blood seems circulating quickly in the head, especially on left side (fiftieth day), 3.
  • Uneasiness in left cerebellum, painful, with stiffness in the muscles adjoining, on moving the head; uneasiness, heat, lightness, and ebullition of blood, chiefly in forehead and cerebellum (fifty-third day), 3.
  • Occasional shooting pains from left cerebellum to left forehead (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Sensation of slightly benumbing constriction in brain, as if contracted, in the morning (sixth day), 3.
  • During catamenia, pains around the head, from cerebellum to frontal region (eighth day), 4.
  • Cold in the head, worse in the morning (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Cold in the head (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Forehead.
  • Dull cloudy confusion in left frontal region and over left eye (one hundred and sixty-ninth day), 3.
  • Dull confusion in left frontal region; reading fatigues, worse in the morning (one hundred and seventy-third day), 3. [50.]
  • Dull aching in left frontal region and over left eye (one hundred and seventy-third), 3.
  • Dull confusion in left forehead, especially over eye, at intervals, worse in morning (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Dull confusion in left frontal region, with slight nausea and sleepiness, in the morning (one hundred and eighty-second day), 3.
  • Dull confused stupor in left frontal region, on rising in the morning, relieved by warmth (one hundred and eighty-third day), 3.
  • Dull pain, confused, in left frontal region (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Heaviness and oppressive fulness in forehead (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Oppressive fulness and heaviness in forehead and over eyes (ninth day), 3.
  • Fulness in forehead (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Pressure in the frontal region, 9, 9d.
  • Dull pressure in the forehead, with confusion of the head (soon), 1. [60.]
  • Pressure in the left frontal eminence, 1.
  • Beating-pressive pain in the left frontal eminence, in a circumscribed spot (first day), 2.
  • Pressive oppression in forehead (eleventh day), 3.
  • Dull pain in forehead over eyes (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Oppressive dull pains in forehead (twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth days), 3.
  • Oppression in forehead (thirty-eighth day), 3.
  • Oppression in forehead, chiefly left temple, and nausea, at 11 P.M. (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Oppression in the forehead and dull constriction over the head, chiefly from forehead to occiput; head heavy (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Pain and heat in forehead (twelfth day), 3.
  • Pain in forehead, after dinner, dull (thirtieth day), 3. [70.]
  • Dull constrictive pain in forehead, on rising (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Temples.
  • Pain in the temples, 14.
  • Dull pain in temples (fourteenth day), 3.
  • Pain in left temple (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Dull pain in left temple (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Slight dull oppression on temples, especially the left, and over the left eye (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Dull compression from one temple to the other, with heat within the forehead and heaviness in the head (first day), 2.
  • With the sensation of excitability, fulness in temples and forehead and cerebellum, especially on left side, with pulsations in neck, on left side below the ear, in the evening (fifty-second day), 3.
  • Painful pulsation in left temple, at 7 P.M. (fifty-first day), 3.
  • Vertex.
  • Headache, excessive, all over top of head, extending to the eyebrows, like a very heavy weight (twenty-second and twenty-sixth days), 4. [80.]
  • Pressure in a small spot on the vertex (two hours after 2 drops), 1.
  • Occiput.
  • Slight pain in the occiput, 14.
  • External Head.
  • Round sore elevations of the cuticle on left parietal bone, painful when touched, dry, and coming off in dry scabs, at different times, chiefly in line over ear (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Slight contraction of the skin of the forehead (after five to ten minutes), 8.

EYE

  • Objective.
  • Sudden sensation of some foreign body in left eye, like grit or dust, which seems to diffuse itself over the eyeball and obscures the sight; eye cannot bear the light, 5 P.M., worse at 6 P.M.; lachrymation; it cannot be opened more than half way, as if eyelids were swollen, and very painful when closed, so as to disturb sleep (thirteenth day). Awoke at 5 A.M. with aching pain in left eye; the pressure of the closed eyelid very painful; red streaks across the cornea, towards external canthus; inflammation of conjunctiva of left eye, towards external canthus; sensation of some fixed grit or foreign sharp substance, which grates against the eyeball when turned outwards; aching pains in left eye, worse when moving it; eyeball cannot easily be turned outwards (fourteenth day), 3.
  • Subjective.
  • The eyes (especially the left , which had a sensation of a grit in internal canthus) very weak (sixty-seventh day), 3.
  • Aching in left eye from (artificial) light (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Stupefying pressure in the eyes, with transient dimness of vision (after ten minutes), 6.
  • The eyes seem too tight, with biting in the lids and blinking (first day), 2.
  • Eyes sensitive to light, 1.
  • Brow. [90.]
  • Twitchings in left eyebrow (eleventh day), 3.
  • Lid.
  • Biting in the left eyelids, 1.
  • Vision.
  • Dimness of vision, 14.
  • Transient dimness of sight, 11.
  • Slight obscuration of vision, 9c.
  • Impaired sight and flickering before the eyes (soon), lasting half an hour, disappearing after eructations; the vision was much better after the trial than it had been before, 7.
  • Eyes dull and sight indistinct (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Dizzy wavering sensation before the eyes (after ten minutes), 6.
  • Quivering before the eyes, 8.
  • Swimming before the eyes (seventeenth day), 3.

EAR. [100.]

  • Loud singing and hissing in both ears (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Singing (as of a kettle) in right ear, in the evening (thirty-third day), 3.

NOSE

  • Objective.
  • Nose sore about edges, from cold aqueous coryza (twenty-first day), 3.
  • Alæ of nose sore, worse morning and towards night (fiftieth day), 3.
  • Swelling of left ala nasi (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Sneezing (fifth and following days), 3.
  • Watery coryza (seventeenth day); coryza of yellow mucus; complete stuffing in the nose (eighteenth day); coryza; aqueous running from nose (nineteenth day); tenacious yellow mucus copiously formed in nose, worse in left nostril ; nose dry towards the alæ (forty-second day); watery coryza, at 8 P.M. (forty-third day); thick whitish coryza and diminished smell, in the morning (forty-ninth day); watery coryza (fiftieth day); obstructing, yellow, gummy mucus in left nostril and root of nose, in posterior nares and throat (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Repeated attacks of epistaxis, 8.
  • Subjective.
  • Stuffing in nose, at 8 P.M. (third day), 4.
  • Stuffing at root of nose (fifth day); stuffing in nose, with diminished small (seventeenth day); stuffing in nose, extending down its chamber, always worse half an hour after a dose (twenty-eighth day); stuffing in nose, at 6 P.M., and in the evening (thirtieth day); stuffing in the nose and its chambers of thick bright-yellow gummy mucus, in the morning (thirty-first day); stuffing of yellow mucus in nose, the root, and chamber, extending down into throat; stuffing in nose, at 6 P.M. and in evening (thirty-second day); stuffing in nose of thick tenacious yellow mucus, at root of nose, and its chambers (thirty-third day); stuffing in nose in its chambers (thirty-fourth day); nose become stuffed at root and in chambers (thirty-sixth day); clogged sensation (fortieth day); stuffing in nose of yellow tenacious mucus, copious, obstinate, and continuous, on waking, increasing at 9 A.M. (forty-first day); stuffing in nose (forty-third day); stuffing in chambers of nose, extending down towards throat, in the morning; nose stuffed at root (forty-fifth day); stuffing in nose (forty-sixth and forty-seventh days); Camphor, by olfaction, speedily removed the stuffing at the nose , and as this was a well-marked symptom, it served as an index which called my attention to the action of different potencies; occasionally after taking the mother tincture, and the voice and nose being perfectly clear and free, the one almost immediately became husky or hoarse, and the other, with the throat, was obstructed with mucus; if the symptoms were present, a corresponding aggravation took place; after the 3d, this occurred after a slight interval, which again was prolonged after the 5th, till, at the 15th potency, it did not appear for half an hour, or even much more, and was proportionately less intense, 3.
  • Mucous membrane seems irritable, as on taking cold; sensation of clammy dryness in the mouth, extending all through it (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3. [110.]
  • Teasing tickling in the nose, that troubled him three times during the day), 9c.
  • Picking the nose (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Itching at intervals, inside point of nose (forty-third day), 3.
  • Itching inside nose, at tip, in the evening (forty-fourth day), 3.
  • Itching inside nose at point; thrusting of the finger into the nose (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Smell.
  • Loss of smell (nineteenth and thirty-third days), 3.

FACE

  • Objective.
  • Painful expression of face; face very pale, with very numerous black pores (one hundred and seventy-third day), 3.
  • Face pale, very thin (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Subjective.
  • Cramplike pain in both masseter muscles, at noon and in the afternoon, with stiffness on moving the jaw and pain in the meatus auditorius, 14.
  • Sensation of a drop of cold water trickling for half an inch occasionally just above zygoma, left side (sixty-first day), 3. [120.]
  • Sensation as of cobwebs being moved over different parts, first of cerebellum and then over face (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Sensation of cobwebs moving over face, at 10 P.M., in bed (twenty-fourth day), 3.
  • Sensation as if skin of face were tightened (eighteenth day), 3.
  • Lips.
  • Swelling of the upper lip, of the gums, 9.
  • Dryness and heat of lips and mouth (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Jaws.
  • Sensation of partial dislocation of lower jaw, forward, on left side (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.

MOUTH

  • Teeth.
  • Shooting pain in first upper molar of left side, extending into cheek (twenty-third day), 3.
  • Shooting pain in first lower molar, left side, in the morning (twenty-fourth day), 3.
  • Tongue.
  • Tongue coated dirty yellow (first day), 2.
  • Tongue covered with moist brown coating (ninth day); light-brown coating on tongue; tongue feels rough, as if scraped (eleventh day); tongue covered with brown coating, in morning (on awaking), (twelfth day); heat in tongue and throat and in stomach (fourteenth day); tongue white, with slight brown crust in centre and at back, in the morning (fifteenth day); tongue white and brown streak down the middle, wider at back, in the morning (seventeenth day); tongue white, with slight brown in centre and at back, in the morning; tongue rather flabby, pitted with the impress of the teeth on its edges; [As in collapse, fever, small-pox, etc.], papillæ at apex enlarged; papillæ conicæ and filiformæ slightly enlarged, coated white, with brown crust at back (nineteenth day); tongue white with brown crust at back (twenty-second day); tongue dirty brown at back, in the morning (twenty-third day); tongue elongated, red (thirty-first day); tongue white, elongated, in the morning (thirty-second day); tongue covered with moist brown coating; papillæ red, enlarged, in the morning (thirty-fourth day); tongue covered with moist brown coating on awaking; papillæ red and raised (thirty-sixth and thirty-eighth days); tongue glazed (fortieth day); tongue coated white, rough (forty-eighth day); tongue coated moist brown, in morning; becomes red and elongated, and the papillæ like deep red spots, with wedge-shaped brow crust at back, towards evening (fifty-second day), 3.
  • General Mouth. [130.]
  • Flat odor from the mouth (first day), 2.
  • Breath at times hot to the hand, offensive (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Breath hot and balmy in mouth, hot to the hand and to the lips, in expiration from the nose (twenty-eighth day), 3.
  • Breath feels hot (forty-first day), 3.
  • Breath feels hot, in the evening (twelfth day), 3.
  • Breath offensive (twenty-first, one hundred and seventy-first, one hundred and seventy-fifth, and other days), 3.
  • Breath very offensive, and disagreeable odor from the body, tainting the clothes (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Dryness in mouth and throat; no thirst (eighteenth day), 3.
  • Saliva.
  • Salivation, 1.
  • (Frothy saliva and difficult speech, on account of difficult mobility of the tongue), 14. [140.]
  • Watery saliva, with pressure in the stomach, 1.
  • Much thin tasteless saliva, 1.
  • Salivation and chilliness (first day), 2.
  • Saliva increased, 7 P.M. (twelfth day), 3.
  • Copious secretion of saliva (fortieth day), 3.
  • Watery increased saliva and frequent swallowing (fortieth day), 3.
  • Increased watery saliva and frequent swallowing (forty-fifth day), 3.
  • Increased saliva; constant swallowing (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Increased saliva (fifty-second day), 3.
  • Taste.
  • Taste clammy (eighteenth day), 3. [150.]
  • Taste deficient (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Eats without relish, 14.
  • Want of relish for animal diet and stout (ninth day), 3.
  • Want of relish and taste clammy (eleventh day), 3.
  • No relish for food (eighteenth day), 3.
  • No relish for stout (thirty-third and thirty-fourth days), 3.
  • Want of relish for food and beer, which tastes flat and insipid and heavy (forty-fifth day), 3.
  • Diminished relish (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Distaste to meat; pastry disagrees (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.
  • Taste of horse-chestnuts, at night (half an hour after dose 2/15th), (twenty-ninth and thirtieth days), 3. [160.]
  • Want of taste; taste clammy, at noon, with eructations and taste of food (herring) many hours (eight) after eating (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Taste of bread, at 7.30 P.M. (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Mawkish taste; diminished relish (one hundred and seventy-fourth day), 3.

THROAT

  • Phlegm in throat (ninth day), 3.
  • Tenacious mucus in throat (fifth day), 3.
  • Tenacious mucus in throat of sweetish taste (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Tenacious mucus, sweet tasting, in throat, causing hawking, but without detaching it upwards (twentieth day), 3.
  • Tenacious mucus in throat, greenish (twenty-second day), 3.
  • Tenacious obstructing mucus in throat, with hoarseness (twenty-sixth day), 3.
  • Obstructing mucus in throat (thirty-second day), 3. [170.]
  • Tenacious mucus in throat, in the morning (thirty-fifth, thirty-seventh, and forty-first days), 3.
  • Tenacious obstructing mucus in throat, and increased saliva, with frequent swallowing (forty-second day), 3.
  • Tenacious sweet mucus in the throat (forty-third day), 3.
  • Obstructing mucus in throat (forty-fifth day), 3.
  • Erosion, burning heat, and rawness in the throat, with phlegm (tenacious mucus), (eleventh day), 3.
  • Heat in throat, in the evening (twelfth day), 3.
  • Heat in throat, which makes breath hot, like warm balmy air (twenty-eighth day), 3.
  • Harshness, roughness, and slight tickling in throat (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Rawness in the throat, in the evening (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Hoarseness and rawness in the throat towards night (forty-eighth day, 3. [180.]
  • Soreness and rawness in the throat (fifteenth day), 3.
  • Soreness, as of excoriation, in upper part of throat, on left side near tonsil, painful when speaking, at noon (twenty-sixth day), 3.
  • Soreness, as of excoriation, in throat and upper part, and back of mouth, left side, at noon (twenty-seventh and thirtieth days), 3.
  • Scratching in the throat, 6a.
  • Scraping in the throat, as if sore, 14.
  • Tickling in throat (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Tickling in throat inciting to cough, at 6 P.M. (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Fauces and Œsophagus.
  • Stitches in the fauces, with a sensation of rawness and soreness, not on swallowing saliva (first day), 2.
  • Awake at 4 A.M., with constriction at the top of the gullet, constant swallowing, obstructing mucus in throat and mouth, tenacious and thick; attempts to clear the throat by a sound like croup; the breathing is impeded, but better when lying on the back; sensation as if a film were formed around the top of the gullet; choking constriction; chest on left side feels loaded and oppressed (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • The symptom of dryness of the œsophagus was transient, 6a.
  • Swallowing. [190.]
  • Constant want to swallow, with accumulation of tenacious mucus in throat, and increased saliva, in the morning (thirty-first day), 3.
  • Constant swallowing (thirty-third day); at 9 A.M. (thirty-sixth day), 3.
  • Slight swelling of left parotids, and sensation of partial dislocation forwards of left temporo-maxillary joint (one hundred and seventy-eighth day), 3.

STOMACH

  • Appetite and Thirst.
  • Appetite increased, 9f, 11, 14.
  • Appetite increased; the dinner was eaten with great relish, 6.
  • Very great hunger (first and second day), 2.
  • Appetite great, without thirst (eleventh day); appetite variable; large at one meal, absent at the next, without relish (twentieth day); appetite deficient, especially for animal food (twenty-ninth day); great appetite (for bread) (thirtieth day); appetite good (thirty-third day); appetite great, at 6 P.M. (thirty-fifth day); no desire for animal food or beer, little appetite at dinner (forty-fourth day); want of appetite for meat (one hundred and sixty-ninth day); good appetite, except for meat (one hundred and seventy-fourth day); appetite good, chiefly for farinaceous food (one hundred and seventy-fifth day); appetite for farinaceous food; distaste to meat (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3.
  • Disgust and nausea, 8d.
  • Thirst.
  • Thirst for wine, in the evening (twentieth day); thirst for stimulants, especially wine in the evening (twenty-first day); desire for wine (twenty-second day); thirst for stimulants, in the evening; wine tastes very agreeable, but does not satisfy or allay the desire (twenty-third day); desire for wine (twenty-seventh day); slight desire for wine, in the evening (thirty-first day); thirst for stimulants (thirty-third day); thirst go wine; it tastes very agreeable, whilst stout tastes heavy, and leaves a clammy, insipid aftertaste, as if flat, and is not relished (forty-first day); no thirst one hundred and seventh, and one hundred and seventy-fifth, one hundred and seventy-external and internal (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3.
  • Feverish dryness, external and internal (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3. [200.]
  • Sensation of feverish dryness, without thirst (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.
  • Eructations.
  • Eructation, 9e, 9f.
  • Empty eructations, 1.
  • Empty, tasteless eructations, 1.
  • Frequent empty eructations (first day), 2.
  • Empty eructations; also several times before the stool (first day), 2.
  • Many empty eructations, with almost constant desire to urinate (first day), 2.
  • Frequent empty eructations, 1.
  • Eructations, with rumbling and rumbling and twisting in the intestines, transient, 14.
  • Eructations, with musk odor, 11 ; (after five minutes), 12 ; (after half an hour), 7. [210.]
  • Eructations, with the odor of musk, immediately, lasting for a quarter of an hour incessantly, then interruptedly for an hour, when they went off, 9.
  • Violent eructations, with the taste of musk, that lasted an hour, 8.
  • Eructations, with a distinct musk smell (soon), 6.
  • Eructations of wind (twelfth day); eructations, with taste of bread, at 7 P.M. (twenty-ninth day); eructations of wind (thirty-eighth day); eructations of wind, at 11 P.M. (fortieth day); eructations of wind at 11.30 A.M., with taste of last food (bread), (forty-first day); eructations of wind and pyrosis, with taste of last food (bread), (forty-first day); eructations of wind, at 11.30 P.M. (forty-eighth day); after beer, eructations and slight burning pyrosis, with taste of beer, at 4 and 10 P.M. (fiftieth day), 3.
  • Hiccough and Heartburn.
  • Hiccough, with cough, at intervals (fifty-ninth day), 3.
  • Stout at dinner, followed by pyrosis (thirty-eighth day), 3.
  • Nausea and Vomiting.
  • Nausea (after five minutes), 12.
  • Nausea and salivation, 1.
  • Nausea all day (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Nauseous feeling in throat, 3 to 5 P.M. (thirty-eighth day), 3. [220.]
  • Nausea and oppression in forehead, at 11 P.M. (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Slight nausea, with the confusion in the head and sleepiness, in the morning (one hundred and eighty-second day), 3.
  • Slight nausea in throat (one hundred and eighty-third day), 3.
  • Bilious vomiting, 5.
  • Stomach.
  • Increased assimilation and appetite, 5.
  • Feeling of emptiness of the stomach, followed by bulimia, demanding immediate satisfaction (after ten minutes), 12.
  • Pains in the stomach or intestines, 5.
  • Pain, as of a knife, in stomach, at 4 P.M. (eighth day), 4.
  • Tensive pains over stomach, cardiac end, and through left breast (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Pressure in the pit of the stomach, 5. [230.]
  • Pressure in the stomach, with rumbling, 1.
  • At times pressure between the stomach and navel, aggravated by pressure, feeling of fulness in the epigastric region (second day), 2.
  • Dull pressure deep in the pit of the stomach, with a sensation of anxiety, followed by rumbling (first day), 2.
  • Pressive colic in the epigastric region (first day), 2.
  • Shooting pains in cardiac end of stomach (left hypochondrium), (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Slight shootings in cardiac end of stomach, in the evening (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Burning, dry heat in stomach rising into throat (eleventh day), 3.
  • In stomach and bowels a pleasant warmth, which lasted an hour and a half after the eructations, 7.

ABDOMEN

  • Hypochondria.
  • Shootings in right hypochondrium (fourth day), 3.
  • Shootings in the right hypochondrium, while walking in the evening (twelfth day), 3. [240.]
  • Shootings, tensive pains in lower right hypochondrium (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Umbilicus and Sides.
  • Pain in the umbilical region, and drawing in of the abdomen, even on gentle pressure with the hand, 1.
  • Bubbling in the left side of the abdomen (first day), 2.
  • General Abdomen.
  • Abdomen flabby, doughy (first day), 2.
  • Distension of the abdomen, with some sensitiveness deep in the umbilical region, aggravated by drawing in the walls of the abdomen (first day), 2.
  • Abdomen full and distended, with sensation of heaviness (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Abdomen very distended, heavy (not hard), (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Abdomen full, distended (thirty-fourth day), 3.
  • Abdomen hard and heavy (fortieth day), 3.
  • Abdomen heavy and inflated; sensation of bloatedness, puffy fulness, extending as high as the sternum; uncomfortable, especially on stooping or lifting the leg (forty-third day), 3. [250.]
  • Emission of flatus (nineteenth and following days), 3.
  • Emission of hot, offensive flatus (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Emission of fetid flatus (ninth and thirty-eighth days), 3.
  • Emission of much flatus (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Rumbling in the abdomen, 1.
  • Rumbling and gurgling in the intestines, 14.
  • Frequent bubbling in the abdomen (first day), 2.
  • Borborygmi, 3, 5.
  • Occasional noise in the bowels, as if from the generation of flatulence there, 9.
  • Increased secretion from the mucous membrane of the intestinal canal, 5. [260.]
  • Sensation of fulness and heaviness in the abdomen (eleventh day), 3.
  • Pains in the abdomen as if from a knife (twenty-sixth day), 4.
  • Forcing-down pains, commotion in intestines and sickliness, especially in left abdomen (twenty-fifth day), 3.
  • Dry heat in abdomen, which flushes to the skin (ninth day), 3.
  • Heat in the abdomen under the navel, feverish heat in abdomen and stomach, whence it rises into the throat and head, and flushes to the skin, which becomes moist (tenth day), 3.
  • Pinching in the bowels (after ten minutes), 12.
  • Sensation of diarrhœa in the abdomen (first day), 2.
  • Sensation of approaching diarrhœa, pains in abdomen, lower part (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
  • Commotion and slight nauseating pain in left lower abdomen, as of approaching diarrhœa, without stool, in the morning (one hundred and eighty-second day), 3.
  • Gnawing pains in right hypogastric region, below last rib (seventh day), 3. [270.]
  • Gnawing pains in right hypogastric region (eleventh day), 3.
  • Gnawing pains in right region, in the evening (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Slight gnawing pains in right hypogastric region, in the morning (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Tensive pain and gnawing in right hypogastric region, worse on a deep inspiration (thirty-fourth day), 3.
  • Gnawing pains in right hypogastric region, under last ribs, in the evening (forty-first day), 3.
  • Gnawing pains in right hypogastric region (forty-third day), 3.
  • Gnawing (biting) in right hypogastric region, under ribs (forty-fourth day), 3.
  • Gnawings in right hypogastric region, in the evening (forty-fifth day), 3.
  • Throbbing pains in right hypogastric region, in the evening (seventh day), 4.
  • Swelling of glands in left groin, with tenderness (one hundred and seventy-fourth day); more tender (one hundred (one hundred and seventy-fourth day); more tender (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3. [280.]
  • Glands in left groin painful (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Commotion in left iliac region in intestines, as if approaching liquid stool (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Twitching pain in left iliac region (thirty-first day), 3.
  • Sickly pain in left iliac and inguinal regions, before the stool (twenty-fourth day), 3.

RECTUM AND ANUS

  • Rectum protrudes slightly, posteriorly, like a rim (one hundred and eighty-first day), 3.
  • Hæmorrhoids excited, 14.
  • Sensation as if the rectum protruded and the anus were not closed, after the stool (twenty-fourth day), 3.
  • Sensation of something moving in rectum, at 8 P.M. (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Something seems moving in rectum near anus (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Bitings and sensation of something moving in rectum near anus, at night (forty-eighth day), 3. [290.]
  • Dull stitch in the lower portion of the rectum (first day), 2.
  • Sensation of rawness in anus, with the stool; pain and uneasiness, as if rectum protruded at anus, in the morning; uneasy dryness at anus, which does not seem closed; painful when walking (twenty-fifth day), 3.
  • Repeated desire for stool, 1.
  • Frequent inclination to stool, which is likely to be loose, without stool (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Inclination to stool, 1.

STOOL

  • Diarrhœa.
  • Diarrhœa, 9b, 9c.
  • Serious diarrhœa, 5.
  • Diarrhœic motions, whereas his natural habit was constipation; however, afterwards, constipation came on and continued several days, 9c.
  • Constipation two days; stool soft, preceded by flatus (fifth day); stool hard (seventh day); constipation for three days; stool large, slightly fetid (ninth day); constipation without desire to evacuate, as if from constriction of the anus (tenth day); stool soft, paplike; stool large, soft (eleventh day); constipation (seventeenth and eighteenth days); constipation (for nine days) without inclination (nineteenth day); stool, with great expulsive efforts, preceded by sickliness, commotion of intestines, and sickly pain in left iliac and inguinal regions, rather soft, very long, and thin, with sensations as if rectum protruded and anus were not closed, at 6 P.M. (twenty-fourth day); stool rather soft, passed suddenly, with sensation of rawness in anus (twenty-fifth day); stool passed with difficulty (after six days' constipation), in pieces, and gritty, at 7 P.M. (thirty-second day); stool rather soft, sudden, at 7 P.M. (thirty-fourth day); fetid, soft abundant stool, in the afternoon (thirty-fifth day); constipation (thirty-eighth day); stool, preceded by tremor and cold clammy sweats and forcing, at 6 P.M. (fortieth day); stool at 2 P.M., with want from 9 A.M. (forty-third day); stool, in afternoon (forty-fifth day); stool, at 9 A.M., bard, in lumps (forty-seventh day); slight stool, in hard pieces, at 9 A.M. (forty-eighth day); stool brown, rather soft, easy, with bitings in rectum, near anus, in the evening (forty-ninth day); stool, at 9 A.M., rather hard, in pieces, preceded and followed by perspiration and external heat (fifty-first day); stool hard, in lumps, at 9 A.M. (fifty-fourth day); stool loose, very fetid, in the morning (sixty-first day); stool hard, slight, and in lumps (one hundred and seventy-fifth day); constipation without desire to evacuate (one hundred and seventy-ninth day); stool, at 9 A.M., large and compact, preceded by commotion in left lower abdomen, as of approaching diarrhœa (one hundred and eightieth day); diarrhœa liquid, sudden, and abundant, preceded by faintness and sickness, as if about to vomit, at 6 P.M., preceded and followed by constipation (after plum jam and a quick walk?), (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • (Stool more copious than usual, at first hard, then soft, followed at last by some blood), 14. [300.]
  • Stool softer than usual, 1.
  • Stool thin, with much urging, burning, and biting in the anus and rectum, with painful tension in the tip of the penis, followed by discharge of mucus from the anus, 1.
  • This stools, consisting at last of small bits of mucus, scanty, with much urging, and violent cutting at the orifice of the anus; a constant sensation as if another evacuation would follow, with erection, dribbling of urine, and almost involuntary contraction of the levator ani and sphincter ani, 1.
  • Thin scanty stool, followed by burning and cutting at the anus, and frequent chilliness through the back, with weakness, 1.
  • Stool very scanty, thin, 1.
  • Stool small and soft, 1.
  • Stool scanty, soft, 14.
  • Stool more scanty than usual (third day), 2.
  • Stool consisting of almost only empty urging, with much urine, soon followed by urgent desire for stool, with emission of some flatus, but no stool (first day), 2.
  • Constipation.
  • Constipation, 11. [310.]
  • Constipation lasting three days, 6a.
  • Constipation, for three days, with very good appetite, 14.
  • Constipated for a long time, 7.
  • Constipation; the stool became scanty and hard (after 15 drops, two weeks after the beginning of the proving), 1 . [Probably the secondary action. -T. F. A.]
  • He had a diarrhœa when he went into the bath; this was immediately checked and his bowels became constipated for a couple of days, 10.
  • He was suffering when he began his proving from diarrhœa brought on by cold, which was immediately arrested, and his bowels were constipated for two days, 8.
  • On the day he commenced the medicine he had diarrhœa, but that ceased after taking the Sumbul, and the contrary state, viz., constipation, came on, and lasted two days, 6.
  • Constipation for eleven days; stool passed with slight straining, compact, without lumps, rather soft, in the evening (twenty-first day), 3.

URINARY ORGANS

  • Urethra.
  • Stitches half an inch up urethra, in the morning (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.
  • Micturition and Urine.
  • Frequent desire to urinate (first and third days), 2. [320.]
  • Very frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urinating, 1.
  • Frequent desire to urinate, though nothing had been taken, 1.
  • Constant desire to urinate (half an hour after 20 drops), 1.
  • Constant desire to urinate and for stool, 1.
  • The ineffectual desire to urinate that had been almost constant for several hours became at last a constant pressure, and the urine had to be forcibly restrained (first day), 2.
  • Frequent ineffectual efforts to urinate, with a sensation as if a stool would soon come; cutting in the anus and coldness in the back, 1.
  • Frequent want to urinate, with sensation of the bladder being empty or nearly so and small emission, in the evening (fortieth day); frequent want to urinate, with small quantity at a time; it forms a pellicle, oily, and thin; becomes thick and muddy at bottom; deposits a tenacious rosy sediment, adhering to the sides of the vessel (forty-second day); urine frequent, in small quantities (forty-third day); frequent want to urinate, in small quantities (every three of four hours), (forty-fourth day); increased want to urinate, in small quantities; a drop can be passed into the urethra singly, and this causes momentary relief at its extremity (one hundred and seventy-fourth day); frequent want to urinate (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Urine increased in amount (after 15 drops), 1.
  • Frequent evacuation of scanty turbid urine, 5.
  • Diminished secretion of urine, 14. [330.]
  • Urine much more scanty than usual, in the afternoon (first day), 2.
  • Secretion of urine notably diminished, and had a strong ammoniacal odor (first day), 6.
  • Urine passes clear, quickly, painless, and free, bright reddish yellow; feels hot in its passage through glans; after some time, the cloudy white floating appearance, disturbed, is seen at bottom; urine clear when passed, with white small shreds floating; after some hours, there forms near the bottom a white cloud floating, easily disturbed, in which the shreds appear like white spots; white sediment passes freely and painless, but feels hot to glans (nineteenth day); urine clear, yellowish red; cloudy floating appearance forms in the bottom; oily pellicle on the surface (twenty-fifth day); urine clear, yellowish red, with small white floating shredlike particles, which, after a time, fall into the cloudy appearance at bottom, like white spots; whitish sediment (twenty-seventh day); urine clear, with few white floating particles; deposits a reddish-brown sediment thick, and muddy, with oily pellicle (twenty-eighth day); urine clear last night, with white shreds; after standing, becomes thick and muddy at bottom, and deposits a rosy-pink sediment, which clings to the vessel when shaken about; oily pellicle (thirtieth day); urine clear, deposits a whitish sediment, which adheres to the vessel when moved about (thirty-first day); urine deposits whitish cloud, covered with oily pellicle (thirty-third day); urine clear, plentiful; shreds few; slight cloudy sediment (thirty-sixth day); urine clear, passed last night; deposits a thick muddy white sediment and is thick (fortieth day); urine clear, yellow, passed in small quantities, and deposits a rosy sediment, which adheres to the vessel; urine thick and muddy, clear on the surface, with thin oily pellicle (forty-fifth day); urine reddish brown, clear; forms slight white cloud at bottom (forty-sixth day); urine reddish brown, clear, with slight white cloud (forty-seventh day); urine (passed last night) clear, reddish brown; white, light, cloudy sediment; urine brownish red, with light small cloud at bottom (forty-eighth day); urine reddish brown; forms a copious oily pellicle, which on being moved, adheres to the side of the vessel; has a rosy coating, and deposits a rosy sediment (fifty-first day); urine reddish brown covered with an oily pellicle, and deposits a rosy sediment, which, on shaking the vessel, is found adhering to its sides (fifty-fifth day); urine become thick on standing (one hundred and seventy-first day); urine, after standing, is thick and muddy (one hundred and seventy-fifth day); urine passed clear, without smarting, and deposits, after standing, a whitish thick cloud, in the evening (one hundred and seventy-seventh day); urine, after standing, becomes cloudy, whitish (one hundred and eighty-third day); urine clear, deep, red becomes very muddy; urine becomes thick on standing (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

  • Male.
  • Itching in genitals, with increased desire (fourth day), 3.
  • Itching in prepuce (sixth day); heat and burning sensation in genitals, at 6 P.M.; at 8 P.M., chiefly in perinæum, between the thighs and glans penis. Increased sexual desire; abundance of amorous ideas. Soreness of extremity of penis from friction of the clothes in walking. Glans penis and lining membrane of prepuce painful and irritable; tingling in glans penis; left scrotum hot and inflamed; skin in places excoriated, leaving a bright-red surface beneath. Shooting pains and sensation of great heat in left testis, and burning pain. Erythema of scrotum on left side, exactly to raphé, and of glans and lining membrane of prepuce; redundant secretion of smegma behind glans, near frænum (fifteenth day); burning tinglings in glans penis; prepuce and glans moist, with a watery saltish-smelling fluid; excoriation of left scrotum; extremity of prepuce thickened; phimosis; excretion of whitish curdy matter abundantly between glans and prepuce; glans and prepuce bluish red and swollen; testis on left side dark red, entirely excoriated; saltish smell from genitals, and secretion of saltish-smelling fluid (sixteenth day); shooting pains in extremity of penis; secretion of greenish-yellow pus from excoriated surface of scrotum; voluptuous itching; tickling in prepuce (seventeenth day); want of sexual desire; discharge from glans, aqueous; itching in extremity of prepuce, at intervals (biting, stinging, pleasurable sensation), in the evening (eighteenth day); phimosis; constriction of prepuce a little above extremity (which is swollen), retaining drops of urine (nineteenth day); tickling, pleasurable itching in preputial extremity, at intervals, at 6 P.M. (twentieth day); phimosis (partial), and without pain or tenderness; tickling in extremity of prepuce, at intervals, at 6 P.M. (twenty-second day); itching tingling in prepuce, in the evening (twenty-sixth day); itching in prepuce, at night (thirty-second day); in the morning (thirty-third day); tickling in lining membrane of prepuce; tingling in extremity of prepuce, at 6 P.M. (thirty-third day); tinglings in lining membrane of prepuce; shootings up the left side of penis and tinglings (forty-fourth day); annoyed about 6 P.M., for some evenings, with tinglings in prepuce, which gradually increased and at length interfered with sleep, becoming like lancinations in glans and prepuce, with occasional sharp twinges; small spot of white curdy matter in left corner at root of frænum; surrounding membrane, glans prepuce, and frænum bright red and irritable, with shooting twinges so acute as to jerk the body about; absence of sexual desire (one hundred and sixty-ninth day). Extremity of prepuce becomes inflamed, acutely sensitive to touch; friction of the clothes, as in walking, painful; slight preputial gonorrhœa (one hundred and seventy-first day). Walking becomes very painful; prepuce inflamed, very red, and swollen; penis painful to the least touch over surface and glans; lancinating twinges and shootings in glans and prepuce, chiefly after 6 P.M., and especially in bed at night, and then becoming insupportably severe, with startings and shocks all through the body; cannot lie still; increased by attention and the least touch (one hundred and seventy-second day). Pains, twitchings, lancinating in prepuce, and agony in bed, at night, causing startings in the limbs; cannot lie still; the least movement increases them; desire for Opium to allay the sensibility; absence of sexual desire (one hundred and seventy-third day). Prepuce swollen considerably, projecting beyond the glans; phimosis; violent preputial gonorrhœa; oozing pains ; sensation of melting away, as if drops were passing from the extremity of the penis or it were becoming matter; the effort seems to be aided by the whole body; increased by change of posture; the recumbent, with the muscles and fascia on the stretch, is most easy; pains in penis when pendant, relieved by being kept up (one hundred and seventy-fourth day). Swelling of prepuce increased; it forms a thickened bluish-red lump beyond glans, which cannot be seen; sensation of oozing increased and more frequent; secretion curdy white, and becomes yellow on drying; ulceration at points on the edge of prepuce, which is notched; balanorrhœa increased; change of posture and emotion increase the pains; contortion of the body during the pains, with writhing; erections, without voluptuous thoughts, during the night; the expanding glans causes acute lancinating pains in prepuce; surface of prepuce all over glans, especially on left side, excessively tender to touch, and red; (commenced milk and water tepid injection between glans and prepuce, with much relief, every six hours); great secretion during the night, with acute oozing pains (one hundred and seventy-fifth day); pains and contortions worse to-day; on urinating this morning, smarting lancinations in prepuce and glans, as if the orifice had been growing together, which continues after the act; frequent and painful erections; slight erythema of left scrotum as far as raphé; left testis hangs down, aching extending from it up spermatic cord, whilst walking (although it is suspended artificially); penis very tender over surface of glans, chiefly along corona glandis and on its left side ; smarting pains whilst urine passes through glans and prepuce (one hundred and seventy-sixth day); smarting in glans whilst and after urinating; cold water aggravates, warm relieves the local symptoms; extremity of prepuce can be painlessly handled, but over corona glandis, on left side, is still tender and painful to the touch; it aches on contact, as if hollow , is considerably swollen and pale; expansive pains on touching it; aching-boring pains in the swelling when the penis is pendant; secretion diminished, whitish, but becomes yellow as it dries, and redissolves white; insoluble in alcohol and water; balanorrhœa, with oozing tickling sensations, not disagreeable (one hundred and seventy-seventh day); penis painful when pendant; expansive pains in the swelling over the left corona glandis and great irritability; stitches up the commencement of the urethra, at 3 P.M.; much yellowish matter has discharged this morning, with oozing sensations, and the swelling on left side of glans penis is greatly diminished and so tender (one hundred and seventy-eighth day); balanorrhœa more watery, yellowish (one hundred and seventy-ninth day); phimosis; prepuce can be drawn now about a quarter of an inch backward, exposing the glans; frænum red and swollen; larded-looking surface appears on upper glans; which could not be detached by washing or scraping, and around the margin of which were several distinct spots, like ulcerations, which altered the detachments or separation of a slough; [Pointed out by Mr. Wilson, to whom also are due all the physical symptoms of auscultation, etc.] stinging itching in genitals, chiefly in penis, after 6 P.M. (Nitr. ac.?); occasional oozing sensations, which render it impossible to rest still; heat in the genitals (one hundred and eightieth day); balanorrhœa considerable, during the night, milky, and becoming yellow (one hundred and eighty-first day); balanorrhœa of prepuce slight; no urethral discharge could be detected; [Notwithstanding frequent minute observation both by Mr. Wilson and myself throughout.] thickening and congestion around urethral orifice, lasts several days (one hundred and eighty-second day); itching in extremity of penis, at intervals (one hundred and eighty-third day), 3.
  • Frequent erections (second day), 2.
  • Erections easily excited and frequent, slightly painful; sexual desire restored (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3.
  • Easy erections (first day), 2.
  • Scrotum and Testicles.
  • Sensation of flabbiness and rawness in left scrotum, in morning (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Lest testis became suspended (seventh day); left testis continues suspended (fourteenth day), 3. [340.]
  • Left testis hangs down; genitals flabby; dragging pain in left testis, along spermatic cord, and particularly about abdominal ring (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Aching in left testis (nineteenth day), 2.
  • Aching in left testis (though artificially suspended), whilst walking (one hundred and eighty-first day), 3.
  • Tensive pulsation in left spermatic cord, when walking (fourth day), 3.
  • Shooting in left spermatic cord, at 10 P.M. (fortieth day), 3.
  • Desire.
  • Excitation of the sexual feeling, 9a.
  • Absence of sexual desire (since left scrotum healed), as if from physical weakness; erections few, and without pleasure (twenty-ninth day); desire increased; with frequent erections; tingling, at intervals, in glans (forty-first day); increased sexual desire (fifty-second day); absence of all sexual desire and of erections, but the regulation of motion seems affected (one hundred and eighty-third day); [Phrenologically this is important, confirming a relation between the cerebellum and the co-ordination of motion.]

absence of erection and of all sexual desire , for five days (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.

  • Female.
  • Leucorrhœa white, especially after sitting (eighteenth day); continues (twenty-fifth day), 4.
  • Catamenia premature (five days) and of short duration (three days), with deficient quantity (after six days), 4.
  • Retardation of the menstrual flux, 13.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. [350.]

  • Tickling in the windpipe, 6a.
  • Voice.
  • Voice like speaking through the nose, from obstructing mucus at root of nose, extending down into the throat, in the evening (eighth day); voice rough (eleventh day); hoarseness and tenacious mucus in throat; which renders it convenient to keep the mouth constantly open (eighteenth day); hoarseness (nineteenth day); hoarseness from the mucus in throat (twenty-sixth day); voice obstructed by mucus in throat hoarseness, after 9 A.M. (thirty-third day); voice obscured (thirty-fifth day); hoarseness, at 8 A.M. (thirty-sixth day); hoarseness (forty-seventh day); on rising, the voice gruff, bass and hoarse; obstructing sweetish mucus in throat; voice becomes clearer after a short time (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Cough and Expectoration.
  • Dry cough several times, 1.
  • Hacking cough, from tickling in larynx, chiefly in morning (fourteenth day), 4.
  • Hacking cough, from irritation in throat, as if from warm air ascending spirally, in the daytime (nineteenth day); cough, in the evening (twentieth day); cough, in the morning (twenty-first day); hacking cough, in the morning (twenty-second day); hacking cough, at short intervals, from irritation in throat, as of hot air rising spirally, at 6 P.M., and in the evening (twenty-sixth day); cough hacking, from irritation in throat, as of hot air rising spirally, morning, noon, and evening (twenty-eighth day); hacking cough, troublesome, frequent, excited by speaking, and tickling in throat, in the morning (twenty-ninth day); cough hacking, which detaches sweet mucus into the mouth (thirty-first day); cough ejects sweet mucus into mouth; cough hacking, from tickling in throat, at intervals (thirty-second day); cough, from tickling in throat, at intervals, in the morning; coughing and hiccoughs; shaking hacking cough (thirty-third day); hacking cough (thirty-fourth day); cough from tickling in throat; two or three single coughs in succession (thirty-sixth day); cough in series, 10 to 11 A.M. (thirty-seventh day); cough single, hacking, in the morning, at intervals (forty-eight day); cough, with hiccough, at intervals (fifty-ninth day), 3.
  • Increased secretion from the mucous membrane of the respiratory organs, 5.

CHEST

  • Feeling of tightness in chest with diminished secretion of mucus; the asthmatic symptoms went off after a few hours, 6a.
  • Pains as of knives darting through the chest (after meal), decreasing towards night (eleventh day); after every meal (twelfth day), 4.
  • Pain in the chest on both sides, as if from a knife (twenty-fourth day), 4.
  • Darting pains in the chest under lower sternum (sixteenth day), 4. [360.]
  • Paroxysms of dull pressure under the sternum, 1.
  • Oppression in left chest, clogged sensation, as if it were difficult to force the blood through that lung, worse on stooping (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Dull pains through the left chest, worse on moving the left arm or leaning forward (forty-eight day), 3.
  • Tightness, tensive-stretched feeling across chest between left breast and sternum, and in left breast, worse on inspiration, in the morning (twentieth day), 3.
  • Tightness under left breast (thirty-first day), 3.
  • Tightness, tensive pain in left chest under breast, especially during inspiratory inflation (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Tensive pain in left side under ribs, in a line with the nipple; worse on inspiration, at 9 A.M. (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Tensive pains in left side just below axilla (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Dull tensive pains in left chest under arm-pit and near nipple, in a line with it externally (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Dull tightened pain in left chest on blowing the nose (forty-eighth day), 3. [370.]
  • Dull pain in left side (under axilla, in a line with nipple), in the evening (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Anteriorly , under left clavicle on inspiration a shrill, whiffing, slightly jerking tubular sound, the jerks perceptible throughout inspiration, but the shrill tubular whiffing perceptible only at the commencement of inspiration, 3.
  • Pain like a knife darting through left chest, from a spot a little below the breast, also slightly in right chest, chiefly during the inspiration (fifth day), 4.
  • Pain as of a knife in right side, at noon (fourteenth day); (sixteenth day), 4.
  • Pain like a knife in left side under the ribs (twenty-first and twenty-seventh days), 4.
  • Aching, as if bruised, in the left clavicle, increased by moving the arm, in the evening (forty-nine day), 3.
  • Pains in left chest in the spot below breast; pricking as of needles, in the evening (tenth day); at 5 P.M. (thirteenth day), 4.
  • Uneasiness in left chest over heart, in the afternoon (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3.
  • Sensation of uneasiness in left lung (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Prickings in left side under rib (eighteenth day); slight (nineteenth day), 4. [380.]
  • Prickings in left side under ribs, (twenty-ninth day), 4.
  • Pricking pains in left side, close under ribs in the evening (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Prickings in left chest, in a line with nipples externally (a few inches), (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Prickings in left pectoral muscle on moving the arm (forth-ninth day), 3.
  • Left chest remained affected till the seventy-third day, gradually improving, 3.
  • Pricking in the right side under ribs (seventeenth day), 4.
  • Prickings in right side (twenty-third day), 4.
  • Tensive pain like a string pulling in right breast (third day), 3.
  • Tensive pains in left breast, in the evening (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Lancinations and biting pains in left breast, increased by a deep inspiration (eleventh day), 3.

HEART AND PULSE

  • Heart. [390.]
  • Palpitation of the heart (ninth day); palpitation of the heart, with transient flushes of heat (eleventh day); sinking of the heart, which beats softly as if in water (twelfth day); slight palpitation of the heart (twentieth day); palpitation of the heart, from the least exertion (thirty-fifth day); palpitation of the heart at 9 P.M. (thirty-fifth day); palpitation and jerking of the heart at intervals, worse during the flush of heat, and especially after drinking stout (forty-first day); palpitations; jerkings of the heart, in the evening (forty-fifth day); palpitation of the heart, violent and visible, prolonged after running upstairs (forty-ninth day); palpitation of the heart after drinking beer, increased by paying attention to it (fifty-first day); beatings of the heart at intervals, without any apparent exciting cause, with the heat (fifty-ninth day); heart still palpitated violently and irregular at times, with a bellows' sound; after a dose of Spig. 3-3d, the heart became quiet (fifty-nine day); flushes of heat in floods from the back (sixty-first day); heart's impulse strong; pulse irregular (one hundred and seventy-seventh day); uneasiness over heart, palpitation intermittent; jerking whilst lying down or sitting (one hundred and seventy-eighth day); uneasiness over heart, it flutters slightly, especially after quick exertion, chiefly in the afternoon (one hundred and eightieth day); heart's impulse strong (one hundred and eighty-first day); heart's impulse strong, jerking , especially after exertion, or ascending stairs, and during digestion (one hundred and eighty-second day); the action of the heart full, and sharp strokes at times, irregular, beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly; (like arnica heart), 3.
  • Pulse.
  • Accelerated full pulse, 9f.
  • Circulation perceptibly accelerated, 6.
  • Pulse 70, weak, low, and irregular (fourth day); pulse 78, irregular; afterwards 80, low and weak; subsequently sinks to 70, irregular (ninth day); pulse 90, strong, in the evening (twelfth day); pulse 82, full; afterwards 74; strong, very irregular ; very compressible during the flush (sixteenth day); pulse 96-100, very irregular (eighteenth day); pulse very irregular , 66, weak, low, and occasional quick, full beats, compressible ; afterwards 70, very irregular, strong, the narrow, compressible (nineteenth day); pulse 58-60, with occasional powerful quick beats, in the morning; rises to 88 after dinner; 70 in the evening (twentieth day); pulse 52-6, compressible, very irregular; afterwards 90, followed by moisture on the skin, in the morning subsequently narrow (twenty-second day); pulse 88, irregular in the morning (twenty-fourth day); pulse irregular, 82-88, compressible, narrow, occasionally strong (twenty-seventh day); pulse very irregular, compressible (thirtieth day); pulse strong, compressible, very irregular (thirty-first day); pulse 72, very irregular, compressible (thirty-second day); pulse narrow, compressible, 94, very irregular (now at 66, now 100) (thirty-second day); pulse full, very irregular, compressible, in the evening (thirty-second day); pulse accelerated in the afternoon (thirty-ninth day), 3.
  • Pulse irregular (fourteenth day), 4.

NECK AND BACK

  • Neck.
  • Nape of neck on right side much swollen from the spine to the mastoid process, and left maxilla slightly enlarged; the swelling in not tender, but pressive and hot, the head is with difficulty rotated, but without pain, further than tension over the part which seems to press on the brain (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Stiffness and pain in muscles of neck and back, on rotating the head (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Painful stiffness of the cervical muscles, extending towards the ears and temples, 14.
  • Tensive pain in muscles of neck along left shoulder, over superior edge of shoulderblade (twenty-second day), 3.
  • Uneasiness and sensation of heat over nape of neck, left side (one hundred and seventy-eighth and one hundred and eighty-third day), 3. [400.]
  • Slight uneasiness in nape of neck, right side (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Uneasiness in nape of neck increased (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Shooting pain, extending from the cervical muscles of the left side up to the temporal region (after ten minutes), 12.
  • Pulsation in nape of neck, and between shoulderblades, with heat (eleventh day), 3.
  • Sensation of throbbing in nape of neck, in abdomen, and lumbar region (eleventh day), 3.
  • Back.
  • Tensive pains and pulsations in swelling, extending down left side of spinal column; the spine is not tender to touch or pressure, the uneasiness felt within , not externally (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Uneasiness and sensation of swelling in spinal cord and nape of neck, chiefly on left side, slight prickings and throbbings as if about to inflame, excited and increased by heat, especially of the sun; uneasiness in nape of neck and trembling heat, chiefly in left side below cerebellum, extending in a less degree down the spinal column to sacrum (twenty-fourth day), 3.
  • Posteriorly , over left scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound, similar to that which has been supposed to depend on muscular contraction, and often associated with rheumatism (like Spigelia); this sound is not heard at all anteriorly; laterally , on la line with left nipple, when the inspiratory inflation has been about half completed there are two most distinct inspiratory jerks, but nothing of the tubular whiff; a similar jerking inspiratory murmur, very distinct below left nipple, over seat of pain, but on right side no such jerking to be discovered, either anteriorly or posteriorly (forty-eighth day), 3 . [Examined by Mr. Wilson.]
  • Lumbar.
  • Pains in left lumbar region (seventeenth and twenty-fifth day), 4.
  • Aching pain in lumbar region, in the evening (eighth day), 4. [410.]
  • Aching pain across lumbar region (seventh and eleventh days), 4.
  • Aching pains in left lumbar region (twenty-third day), 4.
  • Darting pains in left lumbar region, in chest, sides, and abdomen, during the day (twenty-eight day), 4.
  • Sacral.
  • Tensive pain near top of sacrum, left side of back, when walking (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Shooting pains and throbbings in sacrum at 6 P.M. (twelfth day), 3.
  • Throbbing in left side of sacrum (seventeenth day), 3.

EXTREMITIES

  • The left arm (and foot slightly), however, continued affected, it easily becomes chilled and numbed in the cold, despite gloves, friction or motion; the fingers, especially the third and fourth, are then bluish-white, the nails blue, with a sensation as if they were being rooted up; when brought into the warmth this hand is slow in recovering itself, and if held near a fire or in a heated room its vessels become distended much more than those of the right side, and in a cool temperature this is some time in disappearing; the arm, too, is easily numbed, even to a sensation as of temporary paralysis, by leaning or lying upon it; if held up when the vessels are distended they suddenly become empty, and again immediately refill on its being brought down (seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Jerkings in the limbs and starts in the muscles, increased to contortion and writhing of the whole body, during the pains; straining and stretching of the facia and muscles; jerking off the chair upon the floor (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Weariness and aching in left extremities and sole of left foot (one hundred and seventy-fourth day), 3.
  • Uneasiness in the extremities and vibrations along the course of the nerves, better after motion in the open air, 14. [420.]
  • Aching in left leg and arm, and in sole of left foot (one hundred and seventy-third day), 3.
  • Aching in left extremities (muscular), and in sole of left foot (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Aching in left limbs and sole of left foot during the pains (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Fulness of hands and feet (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Tremulous tingling, dry, in palms of hands and feet (thirty-fifth day), 3.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Loss of elasticity in vessels of left arm (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Excessive weakness and beaten sensation inside left arm and in triceps (tenth day), 3.
  • Bruised, beaten sensation in muscles of the arms, chiefly in triceps of left arm (ninth day), 3.
  • Bruised, beaten feel in muscles of the arms (ninth day), 3.
  • Left arm weak and easily fatigued (forty-eighth day), 3. [430.]
  • Aching pains down left arm, and in knuckle-joint of its forefinger (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Aching pain as if bruised down left arm (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • The arm was easily numbed by the slightest cold or by resting it upon anything, causing tingling pricking numbness (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Left arm numb and heavy, weary (sixty-first day), 3.
  • The right arm down to the thumb feels numb, 14.
  • The arm felt bruised (sixty-first day), 3.
  • Fatigue in left arm (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.
  • Shoulder.
  • Shoulder-strap falls over left shoulder (as if it were emaciated), ( constant from commencement ), the same suspender, if removed to right side, does not move from its place (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • The left suspender falls over the arm (seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Uneasiness in left shoulder, above superior edge of shoulderblade, and tensive pain (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Arm. [440.]
  • Aching in belly biceps of left arm when extended or touched (forty-second and forty-third days), 3.
  • Forearm.
  • Weakness in forearms (seventh day), 3.
  • Hands.
  • Hands ruddy and their veins distended (twenty-second, twenty-ninth, and following days), 3.
  • Hands red, and the veins distended painfully, especially in left hand, which empties on raising the arm, but becomes painfully distended on depressing it (forty-first day), 3.
  • Hands red, with distended veins, particularly in left hand (forty-fifth and forty-ninth days), 3.
  • Fingers.
  • Swelling of the fingers, 9f.
  • Shooting pain from back of ring finger to wrist of left hand (long ulnar nerve) at 10 P.M. (twenty-fifth day), 3.
  • Sharp, wiry shootings up fingers laterally, and in joint of second and fourth fingers, left hand (sixty-first day), 3.
  • The lateral surfaces of the fingers remained sore (sixty-first day), 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

  • Knee.
  • Pain in knee, with stiffness of leg, impeding walking, 9f. [450.]
  • Aching rheumatic pain, from right knee to ankle, externally, when walking (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Aching in knee-joints, especially the left, when sitting near the fire; it disappears on walking , or sitting in the cool (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Aching in knee-joints, especially the left, whilst sitting with them near the fire; it disappears on removing to a cool place, or by walking (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.
  • Aching in knees when near the fire (one hundred and eightieth day), 3.
  • Aching pain around outer angle of left knee, in front, lightly stiff in walking (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • [Sensation (painful), as if internal ligaments and covering of right knee were loosened, on stepping; transient, in the morning] (fifth day), 3 . [Did not appear again; symptoms inclosed thus [] are doubtful.]
  • Legs.
  • Heaviness and fatigue in the legs, in the morning on awaking, as after excessive walking (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • He felt as if his legs were not his own, and could not trust himself to walk, 16.
  • Slight weariness in right leg (one hundred and seventy-third day), 3.
  • Foot.
  • Trembling of the feet (after ten minutes), 12.

GENERALITIES. [460.]

  • A strong odor of medicine from the breath and skin, and especially from the palms of the hands, which felt, he said, "sticky," 16.
  • Emaciated (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Writhing and muscular contortions during the pains (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Tremors and slight chilliness (one hundred and seventy-fourth day), 3.
  • Tremblings (third and following days), 4 ; (thirty-fifth and forty-first days), 3.
  • Startings during the pains (one hundred and seventy-fourth day), 3.
  • Weakness, 1 ; (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Weakness and trembling (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Sensation of weakness and easy fatigue, after walking about the room (first day), 2.
  • Debilitated muscular power, cannot clench the fist (one hundred and seventy-third day), 3. [470.]
  • Weariness (twenty-eighth and thirty-second days), 3.
  • Weariness and fatigue from the least exertion, especially muscles of arms and hands, chiefly on left side (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Tired feeling of insufficient, unrefreshing sleep (eighth day), 3.
  • Weary and prostrated and unsteady in the feet, on waking (first day), 2.
  • Tired and prostrated, next morning, 6.
  • Weariness in the evening, with stretching and yawning, 14.
  • Weariness, tired feeling all over, especially in left arm (one hundred and eighty-second day), 3.
  • Fatigue after walking (forty-third day), 3.
  • Languor, with sleepiness, in the morning (seventh day), 3.
  • Listlessness and languor (ninth day), 3. [480.]
  • Languor and oppression, weariness and lassitude (tenth day), 3.
  • Languor (sixteenth and seventeenth days), 3 ; (twelfth day), 4.
  • Languor, debility, feel ill (eighteenth day), 3.
  • Languor, weariness (twentieth day), 3.
  • Great languor (one hundred and eighty-third day), 3.
  • Languor for some weeks past (one hundred and sixty-ninth day), 3.
  • Great languor and debility, especially in left limbs (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Lassitude, especially in the limbs, chiefly left arm and leg (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Lassitude (one hundred and seventy-eighth day), 3.
  • Great lassitude and desire to remain recumbent, with the limbs extended (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3. [490.]
  • Fainting (seventeenth day), 3 ; (twelfth day), 4.
  • Faintness and vertigo, with swimming in the eyes on stooping (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Faintness on hearing music, the loud notes jar in the head (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Tendency to fainting from stooping or excitement (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Tendency to faint from the slightest cause (fiftieth day), 3.
  • Faintness and vertigo whilst using the warm injection (one hundred and seventy-eighth day), 3.
  • Sickliness (fourth day), 4.
  • Sickliness and sight obscured (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Sickliness and faintness all over (twelfth day), 3.
  • Sensibility to cold; cannot keep warm, the least draught is felt down the spine (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3. [500.]
  • Sensibility to cold air and to damp weather; easily chilled (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3.
  • Susceptibility to cold air, especially in the spine ; easily chilled (one hundred and seventy-nine day), 3.
  • Excessive sensitiveness to the cold air, 9e, 9f.
  • Sensibility to cold air, especially to the least draught (eighteenth day), 3.
  • Clogged sensation in body, especially in head and stomach (eleventh day), 3.
  • Loss of elasticity in all the vessels of the left cranium, arm , leg, and foot; the vessels feel occasionally distended in left neck and head, and also about the left ankle, stiffening the foot in walking (seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Aching beaten sensation in muscles, chiefly triceps, of left arm (eleventh day), 3.
  • General feeling of tingling, 16.
  • Sunbeams cause ebullition of blood, as if the blood were lightened and circulated more quickly through the brain (fifty-second day), 3.
  • Sensation as if hot water were flowing through different parts of the body, at one time in the spine, especially in the lumbar region, at another in the abdomen, thence it extended into the stomach and dorsal vertebræ; at times dull pressure, deep in the navel, at times higher up; with almost constant sensation as if a stool would soon follow (first day), 2. [510.]
  • In a few hours the action of the medicine was exhausted, 12.
  • Local symptoms worse all evening, after 6 P.M .; and after 9 A.M., for a short time (one hundred and seventy-third day), 3.
  • The pains are worse in the cold, and relieved by warmth of the fire (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • It feels especially good to sit down (first day), 2.
  • When he came out of the bath he felt refreshed and strengthened, 9a.
  • Sanguineous and nervous systems still affected slightly (fifty-eighth day), 3.

SKIN

  • Objective.
  • Skin dry (no sweat), pale and cold, with empty vessels, followed by clammy sweat (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Skin dry, as if washed in acid water (twentieth and twenty-first day), 3.
  • Skin dry, as if washed in acid water, on hands (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Skin pale, bloodless, at intervals in the afternoon (forty-ninth day), 3. [520.]
  • Skin peels off the nose in dry patches (eighth day), 3.
  • Numerous black pores on the face (one hundred and seventy-first day), 3.
  • Eruption of smooth small spots, reddish on face, chiefly forehead (forty-fourth day), 3.
  • Spots reddish on the face, forehead, chin, and whiskers; they contain either water or white, thick, curdy matter (one hundred and seventy-first day), 3.
  • Miliary spots on back, especially right shoulderblade and hip, which provokes scratching till they bleed, at 10 P.M. (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Red spots on shoulderblades, with itching, bleeding when scratched, at 10 P.M. (forty-third day), 3.
  • Small, conical, raised yellow pimple, with bright-red margin, on left arm, over deltoid ridge, containing white crudy matter; pustule on sacral region, just above coccyx, on left side, very red margin, with itching; it is broken and contains water, and afterwards a little blood oozes (one hundred and seventy-eighth day); throbbing, with redness in pustule, another appears close to it (one hundred and seventy-ninth day); itching where the first pustule had been; it is still red, and a third, smaller, has appeared close to it (one hundred and eighty-third day); the pustules not yet healed; they itch and are sore when the scabs are pressed upon; around the scabs redness; pustules containing serum above and behind left ear (one hundred and ninety-second day); similar slight elevations of cuticle, sore to the touch, appeared on the left scalp during the earlier proving at times, but the hair did not fall off (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Itching in the skin (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Itching in skin of nose, in the morning (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Itching between the right thumb and index finger, where there is a small red spot, that reappears after pressure, and obliges scratching; towards evening another red itching spot, of the same kind, appears in another place after the first has disappeared (second day), 2. [530.]
  • The skin, between the fingers of left hand, is sensitive and sore when rubbed (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Itching at times on the inner surface of both thighs, only on the upper part (second day), 2.

SLEEP

  • Sleepiness.
  • Feeling of sleepiness in the cold, 9f.
  • Sleepy and without thought, 1.
  • Sleepiness in morning, with languor (seventh day), 3.
  • Sleepiness in afternoon and at 6 P.M., with protracted sleep at night (till 1 A.M.), (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Sleepiness after a walk, in the evening (twenty-third day), 3.
  • Fell asleep after breakfast (one hundred and eighty-second day), 3.
  • Sleepiness in daytime (one hundred and ninety-second day), 3.
  • Sleep at night long and sound, on the next day was sleepy, and especially weak in the feet (first day), 2. [540.]
  • Sleep prolonged in morning, with difficult arousing from falling suddenly asleep again, with vivid dreams (eighth day); sleep prolonged in morning, with vivid dreams (fifteenth day); sleep prolonged in morning (eighteenth day); sleep prolonged in a half-waking sleep, with vivid dream of having already risen and dressed; dream influenced by occurrences in next room (twenty-third day); sleep prolonged with light sleep, difficult arousing; dreams vivid; amorous dreams, in the morning (twenty-eighth day); sleep prolonged; many dreams, never disagreeable or frightful (thirtieth day); sleep prolonged in morning; many most agreeable dreams; amorous dreams (thirty-third day); sleep prolonged; many vivid dreams (thirty-fourth day); sleep prolonged in morning; vivid agreeable dreams (thirty-sixth day); sleep prolonged; vivid dreams, in the morning (thirty-seventh day); prolonged, with agreeable vivid dreams (thirty-eighth day); sleep prolonged; vivid agreeable dreams of recent events (forty-second day); sleep prolonged (forty-fifth day); sleep prolonged; dreams of personal diseases and injuries (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Sleeplessness.
  • Wakefulness at night, but fall asleep soon and easily (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Sleep interrupted by startings of the limbs, and lying awake greater part of the night from sleeplessness (one hundred and seventy-fifth night), 3.
  • Dreams.
  • Many dreams; dream of falling from a great height (forty-eighth day), 3.
  • Sleep prolonged; dreams many and vivid (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Dreams vivid, in morning; sleep prolonged, like half-sleep; difficulty in arousing oneself (seventeenth-day), 3.
  • Dream of coition, accompanied by profuse sudden emission, and awaking lying on right side (twenty-second day), 3.
  • Dream of coition, with profuse sudden ejaculation and awaking, followed, in morning, by dulness over eyes and in forehead, and difficulty in retaining or collecting ideas (twenty-third day), 3.
  • Amorous dream, and of coition and apparent emission, which was not real (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3.
  • Amorous dreams (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), 3.

FEVER

  • Chilliness. [550.]
  • Chilliness, with cold skin, extending to the upper arms, 1.
  • Chilliness, inability to sustain the animal heat, even in bed; sensibility, especially down the spine , to the least draught; left arm and leg too easily chilled and numbed by lying on them; want of elasticity in the vessels (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), 3.
  • Feeling of cold and rigor (after ten minutes), 12.
  • Coldness of the body (nineteenth day), 3.
  • Coldness in the whole body, in the morning; heat after dinner in flushes (twentieth day), 3.
  • Coldness all over the body, without flushes of heat, during the day (twenty-first day), 3.
  • Coldness, and dry white shrunken skin (twenty-second day), 3.
  • Coldness in morning; sensation of cold wind in lumbar region (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Coldness in morning, especially hands and feet; those of left side feel icy cool, benumbed; sensation of cold wind in lumbar region, coldness in the morning (thirty-sixth day), 3. [560.]
  • Sensation of internal coolness, though not amounting to shivering, as if seated in the interior of the back, 1.
  • General diminished warmth over the whole body, 1.
  • Shivering a few times (soon after 10 drops), 1.
  • Chilliness in the back, with cold hands and finger tips, 1.
  • Chilliness in the back, with cold hands, in the morning (second day), 2.
  • Almost constant chilliness, deep in the spine (first day), 2.
  • Cold creeping over the back, with nausea, salivation, inclination to urinate pressure in the stomach, and rumbling in the bowels, 1.
  • Frequent coldness over the back, 1.
  • Coldness several times, in the interior of the spine, with a sensation as if a soft stool would follow (first day), 2.
  • Sensation of cold air over lumbar region (nineteenth and twenty-third days); in the morning (forty-fourth day), 3. [570.]
  • Creeping coldness, especially in the region of the lumbar vertebræ, thence extending upward and downward; the formerly warm fingers were cool, and the skin on the back of the hands was somewhat shrivelled, 1.
  • Coldness in the lumbar region (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Chilliness in the joints, with aching in left thigh, knee, elbow, and shoulder, extending under the scapula, in bed, in the morning; it disappears on rising (though the room was cold), (one hundred and seventy-eighth day), 3.
  • Feet and hands cold internally, though the fingers seem to be much colder when put against the warm cheeks, 1.
  • Hands cold, clammy, in the morning (thirty-fourth day), 3.
  • Hands cold (forty-first day), 3.
  • Hands cold, in the morning (forty-second day), 3.
  • Hands cold, with frequent flushes of heat and red hands, veins painfully distended (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Heat.
  • Sudden overpowering heat, 1.
  • Dry transient heat all over the body , increased by exertion; it comes in flushes from within to the surface; heat in the skin, which is ruddy and becomes moist (fourth day), 3. [580.]
  • Febrile heat, dry skin, or clammy perspiration (ninth day), 3.
  • Feverish heat, transient, in frequent flushes (eighteenth day), 3.
  • Heat in skin of whole body, especially in hands (which are ruddy and the veins distended), and in feet (fifteenth day), 3.
  • At 8 P.M., great heat and perspiration whilst walking slowly; heat after the least exertion; the heat comes in flushes, followed by moist skin (fourteenth day), 3.
  • Heat and perspiration during and after walking; the heat rises to the head and left nape of neck, causing faintness and vertigo, especially on rising from a seat, moving quickly, or after drinking a little wine, or running upstairs, or looking steadily at any object not directly before the eye; hands feel cool, with heat in the head, face, especially left cheek and neck; sensation of throbbings in neck and nape of neck, on left side; heat increases the symptoms (fiftieth day), 2.
  • Heat and copious perspiration whilst walking, always after drinking warm fluids, especially the heat and perspiration all over, in the evening (fifty-second day), 3.
  • Trembling heat, as if along nerves of back and neck, during the day, with a feeling of insecurity and want of confidence in self-control over the movements (twenty-fourth day), 3.
  • Dry, tremulous, burning heat, while walking, followed by moist skin; hands cold; heat all over the body, increased by a warm room (forty-sixth day), 3.
  • Nervous heat (twenty-seventh day), 3.
  • Heat all over the body, and in flushes (thirty-first day), 3. [590.]
  • Dry tingling heat in skin, and hands and feet, followed by moist skin (thirty-second day), 3.
  • General warmth; heat in face, hands, and feet (thirty-second day), 3.
  • Flushes of heat (sixth day), 4 ; (thirty-second and thirty-ninth days), 3.
  • Heat in flushes, coming often from the back (fourth and ninth days), 4.
  • Frequent flushes of heat and tremblings (fifth and following days), 4.
  • Feverish heat in flushes, transient, with moist skin (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Heat in flushes all over the body (twenty-second day), 3.
  • Heat in flushes; general warmth; heat followed by moist skin, in the evening (thirtieth day), 3.
  • Frequent transient flushes of heat all over the body; general warmth; dry tingling heat in skin (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Transient heat in flushes (thirty-fifth day), 3. [600.]
  • Heat, in the evening, with some flushes of dry heat and tremblings, followed by moist skin (fortieth day), 3.
  • Flushes of heat which ascend to the throat, mouth, and head (forty-first day), 3.
  • Heat, in the evening; flushes of dry heat, 3 ; (forty-first day), 3.
  • Flushes of dry heat; heat all over, followed by moist skin (forty-fifth day), 3.
  • Heat in flushes, with moist skin, in the evening (forty-seventh day), 3.
  • Heat, burning near the surface of the body (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Heat in flushes; heat in left side and cheek; skin on left cheek moist, with perspiration, in the evening; heat followed by perspiration, chiefly in palms of hands and face (forty-ninth day), 3.
  • Heat in flushes, or like floods of heat welling from the lumbar region all over the body, in the evening, in the sunbeams, whilst walking, and during and after mesmerizing , with beatings of the heart (fifty-ninth day), 3.
  • Heat during and after walking, in flushes, with perspiration; flushes of heat, in the evening (fifty-fourth day), 3.
  • Flushes of heat, transient (one hundred and seventy-fourth day), 3. [610.]
  • Great development of warmth, especially in the face, 9f.
  • Increased warmth on the whole body, 9e.
  • Temperature of the skin elevated, 6, 11.
  • The whole afternoon the temperature of the room seemed warmer than usual; general burning over the whole body and easy perspiration (first day), 2.
  • Warmth all day; heat transient, in flushes (twenty-fourth day), 3.
  • Heat in head and face, followed by moist skin, in the evening (thirty-third day), 3.
  • Heat in nape of neck (eleventh day), 3.
  • Sensation of heat and uneasiness in nape of neck, along cervical spinal cord (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Sensation of heat and throbbing in nape of neck, left side (thirty-fifth day), 3.
  • Creeping heat through the back, several times (first day), 2. [620.]
  • Tingling heat in feet and palms of hands; heat in flushes to the skin (twenty-ninth day), 3.
  • Heat, especially in hands, which are ruddy and veins distended, and in feet and skin (twenty-seventh day), 3.
  • Sweat.
  • The profuse perspiration has a strong odor of musk, 5.
  • Very profuse sweat, 5.
  • Perspiration during the pains (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), 3.
  • Stool preceded and followed by perspirations and external heat, which shortly changes to external coldness, with tremblings and cold sweat (fifty-first day), 3.
  • Perspiration in flushes; heat which rises to the head; heat and profuse sweat, at night in bed (seventeenth day), 3.
  • 6 P.M., flies troublesome and continually settle on the skin, which is moist with clammy perspiration (seventeenth day), 3.
  • Greasy [Usually clammy or greasy sweat.] sweat (sixteenth day), 3.
  • Perspiration sour (one hundred and seventy-sixth day), 3. [630.]
  • Cold clammy sweat (thirty-fifth day), 3.

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning ), Confusion of head; cold in head; soreness of nose; on waking, heaviness and fatigue in legs; 6 A.M., local symptoms; sleep prolonged; coldness.
  • ( Evening ), Towards night, soreness of nose; pain in hypogastric region; 6 P.M., tingling in prepuce; 9 P.M., local symptoms; heat.
  • ( Blowing nose ), Pain in left chest.
  • ( Changing position ), Pains in penis.
  • ( Cold ), Pains.
  • ( Drawing in walls of abdomen ), Sensitiveness.
  • ( Emotion ), Pains in penis.
  • ( Exertion ), Heat.
  • ( Inspiration ), Tightness across chest; pain in left chest; sound under left clavicle; pain in left breast.
  • ( Deep inspiration ), Gnawing in right hypogastrium.
  • ( Leaning forward ), Dull pain through left chest.
  • ( Lifting leg ), Sensation in abdomen.
  • ( Moving arm ), Pain through left chest; aching in left clavicle.
  • ( Music ), Faintness.
  • ( Pressure ), Pressure between stomach and navel.
  • ( Rising from sitting ), Giddiness.
  • ( Sitting wear fire ), Aching in knee-joints.
  • ( After sitting ), Leucorrhœa.
  • ( Speaking ), Cough.
  • ( Stooping ), Vertigo; sensation in abdomen; oppression in left chest; faintness and vertigo.
  • ( Stout ), Palpitation.
  • ( Sunbeams ), Head symptoms.
  • ( Walking ), Shooting in right hypochondrium; pain in knee; heat.
  • ( Cold water ), Penis symptoms.
  • ( Warm water ), Vertigo.
  • Amelioration.
  • ( Sitting in the cool ), Aching in knee-joints.
  • ( Walking ), Aching in knee-joints.
  • ( Warmth ), Confusion in frontal region; pains.
  • ( Warmth water ), Penis symptoms.

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