Animal kingdom.

Class , Arachnida.

Order , Araneideæ.

Theridion curassavicum, Walk.

A small spider inhabiting the West Indies frequently found on orange trees.

Preparation , Tincture.

Authority.

C. Hering, M.D., provings on himself and others, Monograph, Appendix to Hahnemannian Monthly, and in Materia Medica, Vol. 1.

MIND

Very joyous; he sings although the head is internally hot; oppressed and heavy.
At night an imaginative excitement in the head and rushing in the ears.
Time appears to him to pass more rapidly , although he does very little.
Much inclined to talk and to occupy his mind; remains awake late in the evening.
After spirituous beverages unusually talkative.
He constantly tries to occupy himself, but finds pleasure in nothing.
Despair; want of self-confidence; he gives himself up.
Great inclination to be startled , with many provers.
When there is cause to be startled he is startled inordinately. [10.]
Great aversion to work.
Aversion to professional labor.
Every occupation tires him at once; is sick of everything, and what he ought to do is most disagreeable to him.
Great sluggishness; he is disinclined to rise in the morning, and after rising is indolent.
Thinking is hard for him when it is of a comparative nature, but not when it is creative, e. g ., he can easily write out a case or problem, but finds it difficult to select remedies; writes treatises with facility, but finds it hard to classify and determine places in systems.

HEAD

Vertigo.
Vertigo and nausea increased to vomiting.
Vertigo renewed from the least motion, during nocturnal paroxysm.
Vertigo increased by every noise or sound.
Vertigo and nausea when her eyes are closing from weariness.
Vertigo; awakes from sleep at night, at 11 o'clock. [20.]
Much vertigo on every occasion, particularly on stooping.
On turning round, her head is dizzy.
General Head.
*It feels as thick in her head as if it where another, strange head , or as if she had something else upon it.
"So thick in her head," with nausea and vomiting on the least motion, particularly when closing the eyes.*
Head very much oppressed and heavy.
Oppression of head, hindering his studies.
Headache in the morning after the nocturnal paroxysm.
Headache in the beginning of every motion.*
Evenings, while walking, he is attacked by general headache, with great depression.
Head much affected after the flickering before the eyes. [30.]
Owing to pains deep in the brain she must sit or walk; it is impossible to lie.
Headache like a pressing band in the root of the nose and over and around the ears.
Oppression and fulness behind the ears.
Headache behind the eyes.
Pressing together in the temples.
Stinging in left temple.
In the evening itching on the head and nape of neck.

EYE

On awaking, burning pain internally above inner canthus.
(The flickering used to be followed by headache; after remedy the flickering appeared alone).
She lost her vision; everything seemed very far, as if a veil were drawn before her; it blazed and flickered before her eyes; she was obliged to lie down; even when closing the eyes flickering continued; thereupon very weak, and the head much affected.

EAR. [40.]

During the rushing sound her hearing is not so good as formerly, notwithstanding the rushing.
Roaring in the ears.
All loud noises make too strong an impression on her; Aconite relieved.

NOSE

Paroxysm of frequent, violent sneezing, and frequent necessity of blowing the nose, thereupon heaviness deep above the nose.
Much sneezing all day and discharge of water from her nose, however, without development of coryza.
In the evening, running coryza, with much sneezing (fifth day).
Nose dry, as if too much air passed in.
More itching in the nose.

FACE

In the morning on awaking, and sometimes at other times of the day the lower jaw is immovable; but then opens, as it were, of its own accord.

MOUTH

Teeth.
(Toothache in the afternoon and evening, causing weeping; it rages everywhere, but drawing particularly in the roots of the sound eyeteeth). [50.]
Teeth, gums, and palate affected by burning and tensive pain.
When ordinary cool water is taken into the mouth it affects his teeth as if it were too cold.
Every sound penetrates the teeth, e. g ., crowing of cocks.
Gum.
Gums, mouth, and nose appear to be dry; at the same time he feels as if too much air were passing into the mouth.
Gums become sore.
Tongue.
(The tongue seems as if burnt; it is so numb that she can tell nothing properly.)
General Mouth.
Froth before the mouth, with the shaking chill.
His mouth has become as impure as if the teeth were full of slime; must rinse his mouth frequently.
Sliminess in the mouth.
Taste.
There is no proper taste; her mouth feels furred (benumbed).

THROAT. [60.]

Little pressure, as if something deep below in the œsophagus were slipping towards the epigastrium, taking away the breath for a few moments.
Throat as if scalded, after vomiting.
Throat felt scalded in the morning, after the nocturnal paroxysm.
Deep down in the œsophagus it presses towards the epigastrium.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Constant desire for food and drink, he knows not what.
Much increased desire to smoke tobacco.
Appetite for acidulous fruits.
Much thirst.
After midday sleep, thirst.
Inclination to drink wine and brandy.
Nausea and Vomiting. [70.]
Nausea caused by the vertigo, after every loud sound.*
Nausea from vertigo on the least motion.
Nausea increased to vomiting, during the vertigo.
Nausea on rising in the morning.
Moschus relieved the nausea, appearing after it on opening the eyes.
Qualmishness in the morning.
Retching and vomiting, with icy perspiration during the nocturnal paroxysm.
Vomiting of bile, in the morning.
Vomiting, first of slimy acrid water, the ineffectual retching during nocturnal paroxysm.
Stomach.
Pressure on the epigastrium causes pain (of which, however, the prover had often complained).

ABDOMEN. [80.]

More discharge of flatus than usual.
Pain in the groins after coitus.
Pains in the region of the groin on motion; when she draws up her leg it seems as if some one tapped her hard on the groin.

RECTUM AND ANUS

(A spasmodic contraction of the rectum and anus returns again).
The anus protrudes and is painful, especially while sitting, without hæmorrhoidal bunches, which he usually has frequently; this passes off, returns again later, and then hæmorrhoidal tumors appear.
A heaviness in the perineal region, which he has had for a long time, now becomes noticeable at every step; it seems to him as if a lump were lying there.
Desire to go to stool appears later and less urgent than usual.

STOOL

Diarrhœa without colic with the vomiting and vertigo at night.
After a long time he has a little scanty discharge, with much urging (tenesmus).
Instead of two stools as usual, she now has only one. [90.]
Stool is not hard, still the discharge becomes more difficult towards the end.
No stool for several days (after first dose of 30th).
Not until the third day there was a scanty papescent stool, with much urgent desire; the next day it was still thinner and scanty; then for one day there was no stool, and after that as usual.

URINARY ORGANS

Increased urination with an elderly woman not disposed to it.
Much urination with a young man disposed to it.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Strong erections in the morning without desire (sixth day).
Weak erection during coition (third day).
(Upon the glans, little red spots.)
Scrotum very much shrivelled.
The excessive sexual desire is immediately lessened, but the usual morning erections remain. [100.]
Sexual desire appears to have vanished, nor will erections take place (fourth day).
Less sexual desire, he is more able to control it.
During the nap after dinner, a seminal emission so inordinately violent and profuse as to penetrate three feet upward beneath the clothing (eighth day); had been obliged to take some tincture of anise during the day.
Female.
Menses omitted after the proving more than ten weeks, in a woman in the climacteric years, but who, in the following year, gave birth to a son as unexpectedly as Sarah.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Night cough.
Increased inclination to take deep respiration, to sigh.

CHEST

Violent stitches up high in the chest , beneath the left shoulder; are perceived even up in throat.
Pinching stitches in left pectoral muscle.

PULSE

Pulse accelerated in the morning after the nocturnal paroxysm.

BACK

Her back was tired in the morning after the nocturnal paroxysm. [110.]
Pain between the shoulders.
Loins affected after vomiting.

EXTREMITIES

Heaviness in all limbs before the chill.
After breakfast, heaviness in every limb; he must lie down; grows sleepy; he is attacked by a severe internal chill so that he trembles (a few hours after globules of the 30th cent.)

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Stinging pain from elbow to shoulder.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

In the evening while sitting, and later, peculiar drawing in the right thigh; it began in the hip and passed downward, with a cold sensation below the knee; it felt everywhere cold internally, but not to the touch; still external warmth was agreeable.
Being internally cold; it draws from the hip to below the knee without external coldness; warmth is agreeable.
In the afternoon her knees trouble her.
Swelling of the feet (secondary effect of the bite).
The little toe pains as if pressed in walking.

GENERALITIES. [120.]

Paroxysm; she awakes, after a short sleep, at 11 o'clock; already in sleeping she felt the vertigo, and was awakened thereby; could not remain lying; tried to reach the chamberpot, but fell down as in a swoon; cold sweat broke out; she strains to vomit till this takes place, and is repeated every quarter of an hour, during which icy perspiration breaks out all over her; at the same time she has several attacks of diarrhœa without abdominal pain; at first she vomited acrid slimy water, almost preventing her from regaining her breath; at length she felt entirely empty at the stomach; the least motion again brought on vertigo and vomiting; she dares not stir, and when her eyes closed, the lids falling, as it were, from being tried, vertigo and nausea immediately returned; after taking Mentha pip. she had some hours of sleep; in the morning on rising, the nausea came again and she vomited bile; her throat felt as if scalded; her back was tired, pulse accelerated, together with headache.
She is so weak that she cannot stand long: she becomes tremulous and perspires.
Very weak after the flickering before the eyes.
He feels exhausted and tremulous, but without feeling trembling.
Every penetrating sound and reverberation penetrates through her whole body, particularly through the teeth, and increases the vertigo, which then causes nausea.
Great exhaustion; he is quite unable to work.
Without feeling pain, she has such a queer sensation in her whole head that she cannot describe it.
Pains in all the bones, as if every part would fall asunder; feels as if broken from head to foot; thereupon violent coldness so that nothing would warm her; without thirst (after the bite).
If violent symptoms sprang up suddenly, Aconite relieved.
Later symptoms, and those remaining long after proving several times, demanded Graphites.

SKIN. [130.]

Small hard pimple beside the ball of the thumb.
Itching in the nape of the neck.
Itching in the back.
In the morning, itching at the edge of the shoulder.
Violent burning itching on inner and upper part of left ring finger; the spot becomes very red; soon disappears.
Itching and knots on the nates.
Violent itching on the calf.

SLEEP

She is very sleepy in the morning early.
Sleepy after breakfast, before the chill.
Long and dreamful midday sleep; dreams of journeys in distant regions, and riding on horses; a person who scarcely ever sat upon a horse. [140.]
She sleeps throughout the whole day.
Remains sleepy and tired all the morning.
Very deep night-sleep.
While sleeping, he often bites into the point of his tongue, so that it is sore the following day; this occurs frequently, even after the lapse of weeks (similar to Phosph. acid, which, however, has it only laterally).
Dreams that he broke off a tooth.

FEVER

Violent shaking chill, during which foam appears at the mouth (after the bite).
Sweating and tremulous.
Light perspiration after walking out.
More perspiration after walking and driving.
Icy sweat covers the body, with faintness and vertigo, and vomiting at night.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Qualmishness; vomiting.
( Afternoon ), Toothache.
( Evening ), Toothache.
( After coition ), Pain in groins.
( Motion ), Vertigo; headache; nausea; pain in groin.
( Noise ), Vertigo.
( Stooping ), Vertigo.
( Loud sound ), Vertigo.

Theridion