Bovista lycoperdon

Volume I — Main text

Lycopirdon Bofvista^ Sow. PufF-ball. Nat. Ord., Fungi,

1. Pro^vings, — i. A young woman, very sensitive to medicinal action, experienced from olfaction of mother tincture : — Anxious respiration ; loss of strength, so as to be unable to get up or raise the head ; anguish, feeling as if in a black fog ; confused ideas ; nausea ; weight in head ; strong pressure on forehead and especially in temples ; breathing deep and noisy. In attempting to walk she fell and fainted ; her trunk and limbs, she was told, became stiff. After great efforts to rise, she fell again and became still, despairing of herself. Convulsive cough 5 difficulty in breathing, which was deep and anxious ; in a feeble voice she asked for help ; a window was opened, and the fresh air brought her new life and great relief. (Petroz, Joum, de la Soc, GaU,y iv, 80.)

2. Hartlaub. — Restlessness, anguish, unpleasant heat and weight in abdomen, and varying feeling of coldness through whole body ; after 3 h. great depression, then altematmg moods, and after 7 h. great sadness, amounting to melancholy ; ill-humour, confusion of head, gloominess, also peevishness and irritability, for i4d.$ extreme indifference to all surroundings (9th d.) ; she is very absent-minded, makes mistakes in writing, leaves out whole syllables and writes several words entirely wrong (5th d.) ; on 13th d. so absent that she cannot, even with great exertion, pay attention to what is being said and done. Confusion and heaviness in occiput, with inclination of eyelids to close, and feeling as if eyes would be drawn backwards (especially in clear evening light), with anxiety and restlessness of body j whole head is confused and oppressed, and there are drawings about it, especially early in m., when also there is dizziness ; frequent vertigo, with feeling as if his senses left him ; when, in early m. rising from seat, a kind of vertigo with stupefaction, so that he nearly fell down Tind d.) ; dull headache, as from pressure over r. eyeball towards temporal region ; neadache, with weight, which makes her ill-humoured and unable to think continuously, pain is increased on lying, and is most severe on waking from mid-day siesta, when it is combined with a sort of pulsation in head, its chief seat being forehead near nose, which is stopped up ; on waking at 3 a.m. very violent headache, in which he feels every pulsation, and which threatens to burst head asunder, gradually disappearing on outbreak of perspiration on head especially (17th d.); tearing pains in forehead, extendin&r to 1. side of occiput and then back again to forehead, finally settling in 1. temple, where it remains several d. (loth d.) ; pressing tearing in forehead, especially over orbits, extending into root of nose r6th and 7th d.) ; tearing in whole head, with weight and bruised reeling, continuing almost constantly. Feeling in r. eye as if something were in it, with lacnrymation (4th d.) ; pressure over eyes, as if something were in them, 1. eye being reddened (8th d.) ; reddened carunculx (32nd d.); he cannot open eyes in m. (6th d.); lachrymation in m.; on rising in m. feeling as of veil before eyes (4th d.); drawing in ears (3rd d.); stitches in r. ear; violent itching in ears, with some dulness of hearing; ulcer in r. ear, with pain therein during swallowing. Scabby nostrils. After 14 d. face is very pale in m. on rising for several d. Swelling of cervical glands \ pain in upper front teeth, which are tender to touch and on chewing, somewhat relieved on upper lip beginning to swell ; this it continues to do till it hangs over lower one, and is in a line with nose ; after swelling of lip had subsided a little 1. cheek began to swell ; all swollen parts are tender to touch (14th d.) Dull toothache, which she had not had for years, followed by long-lasting elevated pale swelling of upper lip, and therewith sweat all n. till m., especially on head (21st d.). In e. in bed, toothache, only relieved by heat (14th d.); toothache ceased on walking in open air; dull drawing pains in hollow teeth (12 h.) ; jerking toothache ?5th d.) ; stitches in sound teeth, especially at n., so that he could not sleep, with ready bleeding of gums, pain relieved by sucking blood out of teeth with tongue ; stitches in teeth go into eyes ; toothache, as if exposed nerves were rubbed \ teeth often become covered with mucus ; as often as he sucks gums, blood oozes into mouth, and the gums pain ; at times clear blood issues from gums without any sucking of gums ; in m. on waking teeth, gums, and lips are covered with clotted blood I in e. now and then teeth clap together, as in a chill. Cutting pain in tongue, lecurring sevend d. ; tongue yellow, furred in m. (7 th d.) Stitching pain in palate, extending to chin, for some m* (ist d.); burning and heat in mouth, without thirst \

much saliva colkctii in mouth * bad taste in mouth, with much mucus $ bad meU from mouth. Every m, throat scrapy and tihlegmy ; frequent pain in throat. G»stant excessive hvmger, he cannot eat enough, and is iioon hungr)^ a^m. After food trighthil pain in umbilical region, as if belly were cut with knife, tor some m. (jrd d.); dviring and after midday meal extraordinary wcannesa (15th d.» had &amc aftej e, meal on ist d.); on 5th d. great drowsiness after food. Thirstlessne$s ; unmieQthablc thirst, in one who had previously never needed to drink. (3 h.). Nausea* r ulncw ajid anxiety in pracordia (i h.). In afternoon colicky feelings in abdomen, and tendency to diarrhoea ; cramp-like pain in abdomen, especially when inspiring and retracting belly (14th d*); frightful colic, so that he was obliged to bend quite double, and could not stand erect, with deep ►red urine and much thirst, cutting pain in front Pof abdomen, in m,, relieved after eating j distended abdomen, with pain iheretn (jrd d,); in e. in bed very violent pains in abdomen, as if all were dned up (3rd d,). Stool occurs at irregular times and is too hard ; in secondary action it seems to make a hard stool soft. Flying stitches through perinaeum to anun and genitals. During micturition pain in urethra, as if urine passed over a sore place, also a red, hard, painful knot in skin of penis, which went on to suppuration (14th d.). Constant feeling U catarrh in nose, with swelling (15th d.) ; fluent and stuffy coryza with oppression 0!" head; nose much stopped up at n. (3rd d.). Hoarseness every m. ; scratching in throat, with urging to cough (ist d.). Stiffness in neck in m« on rising (4th d.), L arm felt lame and sprained, so that it was mth difficulty he could raie it above head, pain increased so much during d» that at last he could hardly move arm, after sweat in m. pain greatly diminished ; cramp-like drawings in tendon of 1, wrist ; sprained and ulcerative pain in L wrist, in middle of palmar surface, only felt on touch or on flexing and extending hand ; feeling of numbness in same* Flying jtitches in L leg^ and in chest; cramp in 1, thigh ; r. leg is " utterly gone to sleep'* in whatever position it is placed, for J h. (tst. d.); shooting pain in 1, knee, especially on rising firom a sitting posture ; stiffness and pain in I knee if he tries to stretch it out again after it has been bent for some time ; towards m.^ in bed, cramp in calves, so violent that they are painful towards e., as if leg were too short (i4tn d.). General anxiety, weakness ot body, eructations, nausea, distension of abdomen, emission of flatus, fi-tquent yawning and stretching of limbs, with irresistible desire for sleep (4 h,) ; sudden attack like faintness, while sitting at noon, as if objects tunted upside down (3rd d.); bruised feeling in whole body, especially in joints of arms and abdominal muscles, to ] touch, and on motion (14th d.) ; he felt very weary and exhausted after a short walk ' (6th and 7th d.). Extraordinary itching on r, arm lor several d. (9th d,), later on i both arms, with biting and burning after washing ; itching over whole scalps extending 1 to neck, especially when warm^ so violent as to compel scratching, which do€% not I relieve ; same on coccyx, where after scratching a scurf appeared, lasting M>me d. I (tst d.) ; goose-flesh over whole body, with severe itching ; itching of whole body ml e., followed bv outbreak of tetters (10 d,) ; itching and small pimples on head (| I weeks); hands are covered with small, drj', reddish pimples, %vhich gradually disappear in a few d. ; small sore places on hairy scalp, with itching; a prvviou&lyl existing wart developed a red point, suppurated, and disappeared (aist d.)* Extraor* dinarily violent pains in- corns, lasting a long rime (i8ih d.). On tst. n, sound quiet sleep, and on rising later than usual in m. great lassitude, especially in legs, unrcmembcred dreams (4th d.); vexatious dreams and waking cveiy moment during n. Chilly all d,, with cold hands; chilliness every m. from 6 to ^^ cold to touch externally, with griping in abdomen, without subsequent heat and v»ithout thirst; in e* on lying down m a warm room a shaking chill for some seconds (15th d.); constant coldness of hands and feet ; intermitting fever of S d. duradon, en'cry ( ~ from 9 to 10 'iolent chill, commencing with coldness on back, on tst d, with ihir» without heat or sweat following, and always with violent drawing colic (4th d.) ; parail lyric and itching feeling in radial arteries of forearms (ist d,) ; copious sweat in axil!je|L while walking along in cold temperature {1st d,) (Hahtl, and Thinks, AnumT mitttlUhrt, iu, !.•)

♦ This IS die of the vicious symptom-lisrs of the sub-Hahnemannic epoch, withoud any information as to subjects, doses, or relations between symptoms. We hav« given Hartlaub's nearly complete^ but a sclccrion only from Schrctcr*s and Nenninjr^i —Eds,

1. Nenning. — His young women Tsee Acidum Hydrocyanicum, I, 16) were generally peevish and ill-tempered while taking drug. During a press! ve headache, sudden attack (while standing) of vertigo and stupid feeling in head, so that she lost consciotfsness for a moment ; headaches are frequently mentioned, sometimes very severe, in all parts, and variously conditioned. Excessively painful pressure and twisting deep in r. eye, involving orbit, which is sensitive to pressure, during catamenia ; similar pain from root of nose to behind 1. frontal eminence, with lachrymation of 1. eye, after cessation of which heat arose over whole body, with feeling as if sweat would break out ; eyes always agglutinated in m. A few drops of blood from nose every time she sneezes (5th d.) ; burning in both nostrils, as it they were sore. Crackeci lips, and burning there. Toothache during menstruation. Burning on tip and numbness of back part of tongue and over whole mouth, and dryness in throat for 4 m. running on waking, disappearing after eating (13th d.). Cold feeling in stomach, as if ice lay in it. Stitches m epigastrium and hypochondria ; abdomen sensitive internally and externally, so that she could not bear it touched, and was oblip^ed to walk bent (nth d.). Painful urging to stool, followed by three attacks of diarrhoea, and afterwards tenesmus and burning in anus, with prostration of whole body (21st d.). Urine turbid, and burning a^er passing it. Menstruation irregular, sometimes too early, sometimes too late, accompanied by headache, toothache, and diarrhoea ; often altered in quality. Thick albuminous leucorrhoea on walking. Much shooting in walls of chest, front and back, and tearing in limbs. Pruritus and itching pimples in many parts. Dreams terrifying. Much chilliness. (Jbid,)

2. SCMRETER. — Mental condition exalted, varying between extremes j much less headache noted than by others ; illusion of vision, so that she feared a person sitting near her cutting paper would stick scissors into her eyes — they seemed just before her face ; contraction over nose, with feeling of heaviness and pressure, as though skin were too short ; great changes of colour in face, at one time red, at another pale ; small depressed ulcer on 1. margin of tongue, sore and painful to touch ; stammering when reading; swollen cervical glands, with tension and drawing paias, for 6 d. ; every m. on rising nauseous taste in mouth, as if stomach was foul, for 14 d. in succession ; orifice c^ urethra inflamed and agglutinated \ great scraping of larynx as if sore, extending down into chest, with much tough mucus in chest, it is raised with difficulty, and threatens to suffocate her ; palpitation, with vertigo and headache, — with congestion to heady heat and thirst, and itching in r. eye, — with trembling of whole body and uneasiness ; great weariness in hands and leet all d. ; marked paresis of arms and hands, especially r. ; skin of hands becomes unusually dented by instruments with which she is working — shears or knives ; much and lasting heat, with thirst, anxiety, and restlessness. (Jbid,)