Hydrofluoric acid, HF.

Preparation , Dilute with water and potentize in silver vials to the fifth centesimal (Hering), (gutta-percha vials are now generally used).

Authorities. ( 1 to 17 , from Hering's résumé, Neues Archiv. f. Hom., 2, 1, 100, and Trans. of Am. Inst. of Hom., 1846), 1 , C. Hg, from a man aged 40, effects of fumes of the acid or inhalations of the potencies; 1 a , from a teaspoonful of the 3d dil. (from silver); 1 b , from the 6th; 1 c , from the 30th; 2 , Dr. J. Jeanes, provings with 1st to 5th dils.; 3 , Dr. W. Williamson, provings with 1st to 5th dils.; 4 , same, from another prover; 5 , Dr. Neidhard, provings, as last; 6 , same from another prover; 7 , Behlert, a girl, effects of 30th; 8 , Campos, 30th dil. on self and four healthy men (repeated doses); 9 , Freitag, 30th dil., repeated on third, seventh, ninth, and seventeenth days; on thirty-second day took 6th dil., repeated on forty-third and fifty-seventh days; 10 , Geist, 30th dil., repeated doses; 11 , Gosewitch, 30th dil.

a; 12 , same, b; 13 , Husemann, 30th dil.; 14 , Lippe, 30th dil.; 15 , Pehrson, 30th, daily for five days every morning; 16 , Kreiner, effects of diluted acid (1/48th, 1/16th, 1/8th); 17 , Thenard, general statement of effects; 18 , Gruber, Austrian Med. Year-book, 1832 (Frank's Mag., 1, 653), a workman exposed his naked hand to the fumes for a minute; 19 , King, suicide of a plumer by half an ounce of the acid, Trans. Path. Soc., vol. 24, p. 98, 1873; 20 , Berridge, Med. Invest. N. S., 3, p. 284, took one dose of 2000th (Jen).

MIND

Emotional.
Great disposition, when alone, to repulsive fantastic imaginations, particularly in regard to persons with whom he stands in near relations, or with whom he is connected; it seems, for example, as though he must get rid of all the servants, children must go out of the house, a betrothal must be broken off, a marriage should be dissolved, etc, 1b.
Aversion to his business, 11.
He is more cheerful and vigorous (after eight and following days), 1a.
Uncommonly gay disposition of the mind, the next morning, 8.
Feeling of perfect happiness within and without (after eight hours), 8.
Feeling of an interior happy state never experienced before, next morning after the remedy, 8.
Feeling of highly enjoying everything (after twelve hours), 8.
All nature seems to smile, in the morning (after sixteen hours), 8.
Satisfaction , he desires no better state of things; all is right (after ten hours), 8. [10.]
Disposition to anxious ideas , frequently to such a degree that a perspiration breaks out (second day), 1a.
He does not become anxious so easily as formerly, 1c.
During the tottering sensation he has a decided though not anxious expectation, as if there was to happen something awful, but he feels no anxiety, 1a.
Sensation as if dangers did menace him , but without being afraid; particularly during the pressure in the occiput, during the staggering, the pain in the bladder, etc., 1a.
Ill-humor, lasting about twelve hours (after eighteen hours), 8.
During the fourth week very irritable towards people, even to the greatest hatred, which he does not hesitate to give vent to in words, but as soon as he sees them everything is forgotten, and he has an entirely different opinion of them. This does not arise either from hypocrisy or cowardice, but it is a suddenly altered view; mentally the same feeling which occurred to him physically during coryza (see S. 139), 1a.
Whilst considering what might happen he gets into a most ungovernable anger, but only in his thoughts; several times during the first days, .

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo. [30.]
Confusion and pain through the head (after five minutes), 2.
Vertigo and headache (part of S. 251), 5.
When rising from lying, vertigo, which lasted also when walking or sitting; afterwards eructations and slight nausea; in the morning, 20.
General Head.
Determination of blood to the head, with heat in the forehead, gradually increasing to a headache in os frontis (after a few minutes), 5.
It appeared to him to proceed from the throat to the head; he felt as if he would be struck by apoplexy; a kind of determination of blood to the head and loss of consciousness; he could not recollect where he was (after smelling the acid), 1.
A stunning sensation in the head, mostly in front, immediately, 3.
Dulness in the head, in the morning until breakfast (from third to eleventh days), 15.
Dulness of the head in the morning, with slight drawings in the right side of the head (fifth and seventh days), 15.
Dulness of the head, immediately; sensation as if the brain was pressed upward (after four weeks), 10.
Dulness and painful tension in the head towards the right (after several hours), 1b. [40.]
Heaviness of the head, with a dull pain deep in the middle of the forehead (after two hours), 8.
Pain in the head, a sensation as if the head was too heavy and would drop from one side to the other, a pressing outward from within (part of S. 191), 6.
The feeling of heaviness in the head continues in diminished degree until going to bed; he awakes with it in the morning, and it only leaves him at 9 A.M., 6.
Contractive pain, first in the head, then beneath the right scapula, 13.
Headache, with nausea and vertigo, 1, 5, 6.
Pressure in the head from within outward, 6, 9, 10.
Pressure in the brain, extending from below upward, 10.
Headache from the nape of the neck upwards, a dull pressure; it appears to proceed from the nape of the neck through the centre of the head towards the forehead; it concentrates gradually more towards the left, as if a throbbing would arise there (two hours after fifth dose), .

EYE

Quivering externally in the right eye, and soon after a burning-shooting pain at the bottom of the orbital cavity (after several hours), 1c.
The vapor affects the eye very much (Liebig).
The eye remains affected for several days, so that he has to wink and rub it, 1c.
Pain in the right eye, 13.
A pain very deep in the posterior part of the right eye, and extending very far into the upper jaw, the same which he had at one o'clock in the left side; between 5 to 6 P.M. (ninth day), 1a.
Burning in the eyes (after fifteen minutes), 5. [100.]
A pressure upon the right eye, while stooping, 13.
Has often an itching in the eyes, which makes him scratch (first week), 1a.
Painful itching in the left eye, as if from a grain of sand, 4.
Brow and Orbit.
Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea; worse on motion (after two and three hours), 5.
Pain over the right eyebrow, which disappears, but a similar pain appears for a short time in the right small toe (next forenoon), 12.
Pain behind the right eye, 13.
Drawing around the right eye, in the evening (after fifteen minutes), 3.
Behind the left eye, towards the temple, in the left nostril and forehead, there is a pain, which seems to be in the bone, as if, very deeply in the interior, something sharp-pointed was moving about (at 1 P.M., ninth day), 1a.
Violent jerking internally behind and above the right eyebrow, in the bone (after one hour), 1a.
Deep in the bones, superior and posterior to the left eye, a soreness occasionally (evening, ninth day), 1a.
Lids. [110.]
Sensation as if the eyelids were opened by force and a fresh wind were blowing on them; after that sensation like sand in the eyeball, which had the same feeling as if the eyes were inflamed. 8.*
Pricking and burning in the internal canthus of eye (second evening), 13.
Quivering above the external canthus of the left eye, in one who never had the like (second day), 1c.
Itching in the right internal canthus of the eye, in the evening, .

EAR

External.
A pain, extending from below upward, behind the right ear, 9.
Behind the right ear a pain which moves upward in the head; at the same time in the right heel, 9.
Internal.
Sensation in the right ear as if there would commence a ringing in the ear, in the forenoon (second day), 1a.
Pain in the right ear (fourth day), 9.
(A pain, to which he was frequently subject at the opening of the left Eustachian tube, appears after one or two hours, and does recur again afterwards), 1a.
Pressing pain in the right ear, 13.
A peculiar pressing and itching deep in the left ear; disappears after stirring with the finger in the ear (after one hour), 10. [130.]
Stitches in the right ear, 9.
Jerking behind the left ear, 5.
Itching first in the right, afterwards in the left ear, 10.
Hearing.
The sensitiveness of his hearing is very much increased in the morning (sixth day), 1a.

NOSE

Objective.
Sneezing, in the afternoon (after four hours), 5.
Violent sneezing seven times, with a discharge of a small quantity of thin mucus from the nose, and collection of saliva in the mouth, with that sensation in the nose which is sometimes caused by very cold weather; in the morning (second day), 1b.
(In a case of chronic obstruction of the nose, with a dull heavy pain in the forehead, where Silex 30th, had been of some service, Fluor. ac. 30th, immediately caused a running from the nose, without any other improvement.) (The same in a case of ulceration), 13.
Early in the morning, on rinsing the mouth with cold water, the nose appears suddenly full of mucus, as if he had fluent coryza, but as quickly passes over gain, 1c.
Frequent attacks of coryza, suddenly appearing and disappearing; it seems as if excitement removed the coryza, 1a.
Sudden attacks of coryza, suddenly appearing and disappearing again; it seems as if excitement removed the coryza (third to fifth week), 1a. [140.]
Coryza (eighth day); on the right side and fluent, with crawling before the sneezing (ninth day); remains semilateral and fluent (tenth and eleventh days), 15.
If he drinks red wine in the evening he has the next morning, or even the next night during sleep, a fluent coryza, with constant dropping and stoppage of the nose, for several weeks, but not from Rhein wine, 1a.
After drinking ale in the evening, a sudden fluent coryza the next day, from morning till evening, then suddenly disappearing (fourth week), 1a.
The next morning after drinking ale in the evening a sudden tickling fluent coryza, which lasts the whole day but disappears the next morning (third week), 1a.
Feeling in the nose as from a severe cold, 1b.
The nose, which for several months had been neither sore nor painful, began again to painful, more on the left side (ninth day), 1a.
The nose was without pain for several weeks, but suddenly after some emissions it began again to pain in the left side (after five weeks), 1a.
The nose, which for many months was free from excoriation or pain, begins again to feel sore, more towards the left (ninth day), 1a.
Crawling in the nose, 15.
Smell.

FACE. [150.]

It appears to him in the morning as if his countenance had suddenly become old; he looks in the glass and sees beneath the eyes superficial, whitish, puffy folds, extending towards the nose, etc., without being in the slightest discontented thereat (ninth day), 1a.
The facial muscles are constantly in motion, 8.
Heat of the face (part of S. 153), 1b.
In the evening after an animated conversation, heat in the face and headache, like a pressing and forcing deep interiorly towards the left; appearing at times and subsiding again; it then passes to the left upper jaw, as if the teeth ached, even on those places where the roots of the teeth had been extracted a year ago, so decided that he was obliged to feel with the finger; together with an inclination to bite together teeth which no longer existed (second day), 1b.
Longing to wash the face with cold water; frequent and repeated washing with great satisfaction; for two weeks, afterwards more seldom, 1a.
Painful sensation, as if the right upper jaw were hot and painful; this is, as it were, reflected in the lower jaw (after fifteen minutes), 1a.
Compression in both zygomas, drawing downward towards the larynx, where she is conscious of it during deglutition and also at other, at 5 P.M., 7.
Sensation of warmth and obtusion in the bone of the right upper jaw (after ten minutes), 1a.
Sensation of warmth on the lips, immediately, 1a.
Very often a burning like a sore on the inside of the lower lip towards the right, very near the edge (after one an two hours), 1a. [160.]
Slight numbness of the right joint of the lower jaw, a continual sensation of warmth, and as if it would begin to pain (after one and two hours), 1a.
In both joints of the jaws (worse in the left), a painful cramplike confusion; (had the same sensation occasionally before), (eleventh day), 1a.
In connection with a drawing in the entire left limb, a peculiar sensation in the right lower jaw, not in the bone, but very close to it, in the evening (after twenty-four hours), 9.
Burning pain on the outside of the right lower jaw on a small spot near the first or second molar tooth (after one and two hours), 1a.
In the right the articulation of the jaw sensation as if a spasm were to take place (after several hours), 10.
Drawing pain in the right lower jaw-bone, towards the middle (one hour after fifth dose), .

MOUTH

Teeth, Objective.
(A decidedly improved condition of the teeth; the carious teeth seem to secrete less, and the gums do not bleed so easily), (after second week), 1a.
The right eye-tooth, which was formerly rough, but became afterwards smooth again, is now rough, and commences to ache, particularly at the root of it; in the upper jaw, along the root of the teeth, pressure is very painful, particularly in the evening; it is mitigated temporarily by cold water (third and the following days), 13.
Subjective.
In the morning the lower incisor teeth feel sharp, as if broken and the tongue feels painful on touching them for several days (fifth day), 1a. [170.]
Bluntness of the teeth, 16.
One drop of the one-sixteenth solution produced in the mouth a bluntness of the teeth, a sensation of sticking, contraction, and tension, after which the mucous membrane of the mouth became whitish and peeled off (after three day), 16.
Teeth feel warm , those of the upper jaw, especially on the left side; the incisor and canine are much warmer than any of the other; a few minutes afterwards there is considerable warmth in the pharynx; these sensations ceased in the course of an hour; the prover remarked particularly, that the heat or warmth was felt in the teeth, and not in the gums or alveolar processes, 6.
All the teeth of the left jaw seem to pain, especially those whose roots have been taken out, 9.
Toothache for a short time in the left lower jaw, 9.
Toothache on the right side, extending to the left thigh, the outer portion above the knee, 13.
The pain in the tooth on the right side disappears for a moment and jumps to the left thigh, on the outside above the knee (third day), 13.
The cold air in a room causes pain in the carious tooth of the right upper incisor, in the evening (after several hours), 1b.
Soon after taking the remedy transient pain in the right eye-tooth (in the evening), 13.
Digging pain in one of the lower incisors, towards the right (third day), 13. [180.]
Toothache; drawing in the left lower jaw (after four hours), 5.
(The right upper incisors are very sensitive on drinking cold water and also on inhaling cold air, particularly the one which is decayed; the same symptom some weeks before the proving), .

THROAT

Objective.
Hawking of bloody mucus from low down, 1.
Subjective.
Feeling of warmth in the throat, 6.
Constriction in the throat, with difficult deglutition, at first in the forenoon (after three hours); it begins towards evening (next day), 9.
Constriction in the throat; pressure and sensation of fulness in the region of the stomach; frequent stale, disgusting eructations, with inclination to vomit; from 1 drachm of 1/48th solution (about 1 1/4 gr.) within one hour and a half, all symptoms disappeared, 16.
Constriction of the throat, rumbling in the abdomen, pressure in the stomach and burning, eructations, retching, for two hours, followed by constipation for two days (after 10 drops of the 1/16th solution, about 5/8 gr.), 16.
Constriction in the left side of the throat, with pressure in the right arm, 9.
Sore throat, with difficult deglutition; his throat, as far as below the larynx, felt so sore that the bread, although masticated very thoroughly, could not be swallowed without the greatest pain; after smelling the acid, 5 P.M., until the next morning after breakfast; the same morning, hawking up of much phlegm, mixed with some blood; during the day abatement of the symptoms, 1. [210.]
A singular sensation as though the passage from the mouth to the nose was wide open, during his walk in the open air, 1c.
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus.
Sensation of heat in the fauces the next morning, 13.
Soreness in the pharynx, extending down below the larynx; swallowing bread is painful, 1.
In the back of the throat, low down, at the entrance of the œsophagus, more to the left side, a sensation as if it were somewhat raw, or a though an ulcer would form; it was indefinite and slightly painful, yet it seemed very troublesome, and twice, while hawking, he thought that blood would come from it, in the morning and forenoon (eleventh and twelfth days), 1a.
Swallowing.
The greatest difficulty was experienced in getting him to swallow anything, 19.

STOMACH

Appetite.
Appetite increased, 8.
Better appetite than usual (part of S. 307), 1a.
Extraordinary appetite after diarrhœa, 1.
Voracious appetite, 8.
Excessive hunger, 8. [220.]
He immediately began to long for coffee, for which he had lost his appetite, on commencing the proving, 1a.
With his usual good appetite, he nevertheless is soon satisfied (third, fourth, and following days), 1c.
Very soon satisfied; therewith the food tastes good and is well digested (first week), 1a.
Very soon satisfied the first week; the second week, he began to eat more in the evening, and the increase of appetite in the evening lasted for several weeks, 1.
The same speedy satiety , without any gastric disturbance, in winter, spring, and summer, during different provings, 1.
He is immediately satisfied after plate of soup, without the slightest sensation of nausea (fourth day), 1a.
He eats very little, though his appetite is very good (second and following days), 1a.
The appetite is diminished, he wants something "piquant," 11.
Aversion to coffee (nineteenth day), 1a.
He relishes wine no more; the desire for it is decreased for several weeks, 1a.
Thirst. [230.]
More thirst (part of S. 333), 1a.*
Thirst at night, 3.
Eructation.
Eructations (part of S. 257), 16.
Eructations and slight nausea in the evening, 20.
Eructations and retching, 16.
Eructations and discharge of flatulency, frequently, 8.
Eructations of wind and sickness of the stomach, very soon, 5.
Frequent stale, disgusting eructations (parts of S. 206), .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Pinching in the region of the spleen at 11 A.M. (fourth and following days), 15. [270.]
(A pain which he has had for six days in the region in the spleen, reaching to the hips, disappears immediately after one drops 30th, and does not return), 10.
Umbilical.
Sensation of faintness, like an emptiness, in the region of the navel, with a desire to draw a deep breath; it is relieved by bandaging; in the forenoon before he has eaten anything; it gets better after eating; in the evening, it is more like a slight burning; when occupied, he does not observe it, 11.
During diarrhœa, pain more particularly in the region of the navel (after several hours), 1b.
Pinching in region of navel, inclination to diarrhœa, and a copious watery evacuation, at 2 A.M. (seventh day), 15.
General Abdomen.
Rumbling in the abdomen, 11 ; (part of S. 207), 16.
Rumbling in bowels, with erratic pain, in the forenoon, 6.
Much rumbling from flatulency (ninth day), 15.
Frequent passage of flatus and eructations; it leaves him immediately more comfortable, and with a feeling as if it was the last, but it is not so, for in a few minutes everything is renewed in the same order, succession, and feeling as before; and so on for two or three days, with the only difference of being at longer intervals than it was at first, 8.
Passes much inodorous wind, 11.
He passes more inodorous flatus, with much noise (after several days), 1b, 51. [280.]
Offensive flatus, in the morning, 15.
Small, very offensive wind precedes the evacuation (second and eighth day), 1a.
Small, excessively offensive discharges of wind, smelling like a mixture of carburetted, sulphuretted, and phosphuretted hydrogen; the odor was exceedingly persistent in the forenoon, several hours before his meal, and in the afternoon, two hours after eating (second day), 1a.
Inclination to draw up the muscles of the abdomen, with great appetite, 11.
Inclination to draw up the abdominal muscles, with great appetite, .

RECTUM AND ANUS

Determination of blood to the anus after drinking wine, 1a.
(The protrusion of the anus during evacuation, habitual to him, was very quickly, and to a considerable degree, diminished for several weeks), (only returned on resuming coffee and wine), 1a.
(A more comfortable feeling in the anus than is usual with him; in one subject to piles), (second day), 1a.
Constriction of the anus in attempting to emit flatulence, 1c.
He feels as if wind was retained in the anus, 1b.
Within and around the anus, violent itching (fifteenth and sixteenth days); continues around the anus until the fifth week, 1a.
Indefinite desire, small odorless wind, and pappy evacuation at 10 A.M. (fourth day); after small, excessively fetid discharges of flatus, a sudden urging, then a thin, pappy passage without any odor, and at the same time a very copious discharge of urine, before dinner; he had eaten peaches before, which, however, never acted that way; and after the passage, a better appetite than usual (eighth day); he observed the tertian type the second, fourth (sixth), and eighth days; the evacuation is more regular than usual (fifth week), 1a.
Ineffectual desire for a passage in the evening (eighth day), 15.
Hasty pressure for a passage, as in diarrhœa, and a soft evacuation, at 2 P.M. (five hours after fourth dose); was formerly very regular in his bowels; passage protracted and very small (next day) on omitting the remedy, 10.

STOOL

Diarrhœa. [310.]
Inclination to diarrhœa, two passages (first day), 5.
(The soft, small passage, which he has every morning after drinking coffee, and again late in the evening, with ineffectual urging and protrusion of hæmorrhoids, changes after four to five days, into copious natural evacuations), 1c.
Free evacuation of the bowels twice a day, 3.
Two hard passage (second day), 5.
His passage is more loose than common, 11.
A large, pappy, yellowish-brown passage, of a very strong disagreeable smell of fæces, together with tenesmus, to which the prover is liable, although less protrusion of the anus than formerly (second day), 1a.
Constipation.
Constipated (second day), (part of S. 207), 16.*
Constipated for two days (after 10 drops 1/16th), 16.
Stool delayed and very scanty (after omitting the remedy), 10.
(The passage (from the bowels) seem to occur every other day, and every day at a later hour), 1.
The evacuation (from the bowels) becomes protracted, insufficient, and lumpy, 1b, 51. [320.]
(During from a stool, some nodules were at last pressed out with some difficulty), (seventeenth day), 1b.
No passage (third day), 1a.

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
A sensation somewhat resembling numbness or burning in the bladder (part of S. 550), 1.
After urination, a pain as if it were above the neck of the bladder in the afternoon, 1b.
Before and after urination, a pain in the lower part of the bladder; there is also pain on pressure (first and second days), 1b.
Dull pains in the region of the bladder (first week), 1a.
Dragging towards the bladder, with feeling of warmth in the abdomen, 8.
Pressure on the bladder, with sensation of warmth in the abdomen (first day), 1a.
Urethra.
An intolerable burning in the urethra, during and after urination , for five minutes, in the morning (ninth day), (in one who never had gonorrhœa), 15.* [330.]
Frequent desire to pass water after several days, 1c.
Micturition.
Free discharge of light-colored urine, very frequent, of sufficiently large, but not increased quantity, leaving him more comfortable ; during and after the discharge he feels a kind of elasticity (in the muscles?), of the urinary organs, with a subsequent agreeable sensation; he drinks less than usual, 8.
Has to get up twice at night to void his urine, which is quite unusual with him; the night is cooler than the previous one (fifth day), 1a.
More urination, and afterwards more thirst (fifth day), 1a.
Urine increased, and of a clear color, after several days, 1b.
Copious evacuation of urine, with the diarrhœa, 1.
Very copious discharge of urine (part of S. 307), 1a.
Less urination the next morning, 1a.
Decidedly less voiding of urine, but the urine is not of a darker color (second and third days), 1a.
The urine has diminished in quantity, and has a decided fragrancy (like Benzoic acid), in the evening and morning (second day); disappeared (fifth day), 1c.
Urine. [340.]
Pungent and strong odor of the urine, which was freely discharged, in the evening (fourth day), .

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Erections, with desire and voluptuousness, 8.
The first erections again of very long duration, and quite healthy nature, and without sexual desire (eleventh morning), 1a.
Frequently a complete and quite natural erection during perfect health; as soon as his thoughts are removed from it, it entirely disappears more rapidly and suddenly than usual (fourth day), 1c.
Sensation of fulness in both spermatic cords (first evening), 1a.
Drawing from the left testicle to the spermatic cord, 5.
Occasionally stitches and drawing through the left testicle to the abdominal ring and spermatic cord (after four hours), 5. [350.]
Sexual desire increased during the action of Fluoricum acidum, 11.
Sexual passion increased, with erections at night during sleep, 8.
Increase of sexual desire with a complete erection, which, however, soon disappeared (third and fourth days), 1c.
Elderly persons had often attacks of venereal desire and erections, and the exercise of this function seemed not to be injurious to them, 1.
Sexual passion strong, with violent erections all night, and desire to cohabit, 8.
Great excitement of the sexual desire (sixteenth day), 15.
Almost irresistible attack of lasciviousness, more in the case of old than young men, 1c.
Lascivious thoughts now and then during fifth and sixth weeks, so that he must force himself to think of other things, 1a.
Highly excessive enjoyment and pleasure during coition, which was not the case before, 8.
Sexual passion more easily controlled (first week), 1a. [360.]
Diminished sexual desire in various degrees, 1c.
Sexual desire lost, or more easily controlled (first week), 1a.
It seemed as if his desire was disappearing for several weeks (sixth, seventh, and following days); he is complete master of his thoughts and sensations, 1a.
While thinking in a perfectly chaste and pleasant way about a girl whom he considers beautiful, there passed some drops of prostatic fluid, .

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
Pain in the forepart of the larynx, as if it were in the cartilage, inducing him to swallow (after ninety minutes), 1a.
Spasmodic sensation, extending from the malar bone to the larynx 7.
Scraping sensation in the larynx provokes hawking and swallowing, 10.
Increased irritability of the larynx; whilst coughing or hawking slightly, there arises a sensation of soreness, which causes an unusual degree of sensitiveness, very soon, 2. [370.]
Immediately a slight itching sensation in the larynx, which causes him to swallow and to hawk, lasting for hours (2 drops), 10.
Respiration.
Breathing continued after the radial pulse had failed, and even after the action of the heart had apparently ceased, 19.
Wheezing during respiration, observed more by others than himself, in the afternoon and evening; in the afternoon on the bed, on which occasion he has to bend backwards, if he wants to take a full breath (sixth week), 1a.
He often breathes deeply, as if the breast within and below was full, in the forenoon, during sitting and writing (twelfth day), 1a.
A kind of oppression of breath deep internally; he is obliged to breathe deeply, which, however, gives no relief (ninth day), 1a.
Difficulty of breathing; there seems to be an impediment in the region of the pit of the throat and upper part of the chest, as though he did not get air enough; at the same time itching pimples on the back, and pain in the chest below the point of the shoulder-blade (ninth day), 1a.

CHEST

Throbbing, as with the pulse, on feeling the chest, 7.
Soreness in the chest (after three hours), 5.
The whole upper part of the chest, deep internally, though more towards the front, seems too tight, so that inspiration is impeded; deep inspiration does not afford relief; it is not like a pressure and not like a constriction; it feels as though something remained fixed there (seventh and following days), 1a.
Oppression, with pain in two chest (after four hours), 5. [380.]
Oppression in the chest on reclining, at the same time a trembling in the lower extremities, 7.
Sticking under the ribs to the left of the ensiform cartilage in the evening (after fifteen minutes), 3.
Front.
Pressure in the centre of the sternum in the afternoon; in the evening, at 10 o'clock, after retiring, a pressing pain in the middle of the chest, which lasts until he falls asleep (first day), 10.
Sides.
Pressing pain in the last rib, towards the right, near the spine (after one hour), 10.
Burning-sticking pain in the left side of the chest, lasting only a moment (after smelling the acid), 13.
A pain, as if a stitch would appear deep in the left side of the chest, posteriorly to the heart (after two hours), 10.
Small stitches in the side (after four hours), 5.
Sore pain in the left side of the chest, as if beneath the skin, felt only on moving; a similar pain in the left shoulder at 10 P.M. (after four hours). On rising in the morning, pain again in the left side of the chest, similar to the one he felt the evening before, 6.
Slight pain close to the right nipple (after one hour), 10.
Throbbing, like a pulsation, on feeling the breast and abdomen, 7.

HEART AND PULSE. [390.]

Uneasiness about the heart (immediately), 5.
Aching in region of heart (after fifteen minutes), 5.
Jerking in the heart (after one hour), 5.
Painful jerking in the heart (after two hours), 5.
Continual soreness in the heart (after one hour), 5.
Pulse small and rapid, 19.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Stiffness in the nape of the neck soon, 3.
Constriction in the left side of the neck (part of S. 435), 9.
Contraction in some muscles of the neck, on the left side and towards the shoulder, during the forenoon, on reposing and whilst rising; after some exercise, it gradually subsides; the pain seems to change from one set of muscles to the other, but is always in more than one; the omohyoideus muscle is decidedly affected, but not the sterno-cleido-mastoideus (fourth day), 1a.
Warm streamings from the right side of the nape of the neck to the shoulder, 13. [400.]
Pain in the nape of the neck, beneath the scapulæ, and in the left side of the chest, 6.
Pain in the right side of the neck in the forenoon, 9.
Very transient drawing pain along the right side of the nape, 3.
Violent drawing pain in the right side of the neck in the afternoon, 9.
Soreness in the left half of the nape (first day), 3.
Inclination to wash the neck and behind the ears with cold water, 1.
Back.
Pain in the back, sometimes high up beneath the shoulder-blades, sometimes deeply seated, as if in the region of the kidneys (first week), 1a.
Dorsal.
A pain under the point of the right shoulder-blade, to which he was formerly subject, and which impels him to bend the body backwards and to stretch, appears after a few hours, and returns occasionally for several days, but more seldom than usual after some weeks, 1a.
Deepseated pain in the back, below the point of the shoulder-blade, more towards the left; it occurs more in a sitting posture, particularly whilst riding (fourth and ninth days), 1a.
Pain, like a contraction, under the right shoulder-blade (part of S. 73), 13. [410.]
Burning-pricking pain in the left shoulder-blade (after one and two hours), 1a.
Lumbar.
Deepseated pain in the left lumbar region at night (fourth day), 3.
Sacral.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Pain in the bones of the right forearm and knee, 5.
Pains of a short duration in the left leg, arm, and hand (after eighth dose), 9.
Different aching pains in the bones of the forearms and legs about the centre, going and coming, 5.
Sensation as if the shoulder and hip-joints were being pulled out of joint, 8.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [420.]

Slight lameness in the right arm, so that he has some difficulty in writing (after fifteen minutes), 5.
The right arm, on which he rests, becomes benumbed and feels lame, with a pricking sensation, at 10 P.M., 1a.
Sensation of numbness, jerking, and lameness in the left arm, appears in the morning and forenoon, and subsides again between 12 and 1 o'clock, 1a.
Heaviness in the right arm, in the morning on waking, with some numbness, although he only lay on the left side (second day), 13.
A burning, pricking, and jerking pain in the whole left arm often returning, as if there was passing through the nerves a very painful, but slow electric shock; most severe on the inside of the left little finger, together with now and then a sharp stitch in the tip of the finger, passing from within outward; at 2 P.M. (second day), 1c.
Pressive pain in the left arm, and also in the left side of the abdomen, 10.
Pain of a deeply penetrating character, first in the right, afterwards in the left arm, most about the junction of the cancellated with the solid portion of the ossa humeri; even after the disappearance of the pain there is soreness upon pressure of the parts previously affected; a similar pain in the muscles over the head of the left radius (in forty minutes), 2.
Shoulder.
A pain in the right shoulder-joint, which he had felt the week before last, but not the last; returned for a few moments, and extended towards the fingers, as if air was passing down , a sensation which he had never experienced before (after one hour), 10.
Sudden jerking pain in the left shoulder, in the bone, 9.
Arm.
Trembling in the biceps of the right arm (after fifteen minutes), 3. [430.]
Trembling in the biceps of the right arm (fifth day), 3.
Pain in the right upper arm in the bone towards the elbow, in the afternoon; from the right arm the pain passed over to the left, with the same pain in the bone (second day), 5.
Pain in the left arm above the elbow, appearing after the pains on the right side (after one or two hours), 1a.
Rheumatic pain in the bones of the left arm, from elbow to shoulder, with lameness (after one hour), 5.
Pinching in the left deltoid muscle, after headache, .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Trembling in the lower extremities (part of S. 380), 7.
Walking is difficult, because the legs feel tired; he is hardly able to drag them along; they are so heavy that he finds it necessary to hold on the arm of some one else for support, 8.
Drawing pain in the whole left leg, 4.
Burning, shooting pain, as if in the nerve, from the right hip downwards, particularly on the inside of the knee; farther down less severe (second day), 1b.
Hip.
Lameness in the left hip (second day), 3.
Pain in the right hip (after seventy-five minutes), 2.
Acute stitches in the right hip-bone, spreading over the glutæi muscles (after one hour), 10.
Soreness and pain, on motion, in the left hip, particularly felt on getting in and out of bed; worse in the morning (third day), 3.
Thigh.
Slight numbness of the right thigh, only whilst crossing the legs, in the evening (after three hours), 1a. [490.]
Pain in the left thigh, on the outside above the knee (part of S. 176), 13.
Pain in the inner condyle of the left femur (after eighty minutes), 2.
Pain in the right ischiatic nerve, in the afternoon, 13.
A violent, slightly burning, quick, nervous pain proceeds from the region of the bladder, down to the right thigh, whilst lying in bed (first day), 1b.
Pressing pain in the fleshy part of left thigh on the outside, 10.
Soreness in the muscles of the thighs (second day), 3.
Bruised pain of the thigh, particularly in the posterior and inner portion (second and third days), 1a.
Violent pain like an electric shock from the region of the bladder, down into the right thigh (first day), 1b.
Burning, itching pain in the back part of the thigh (after olfaction), 13.
Knee.
Dead feeling in the right knee-joint (first day), 6. [500.]
Pain on the inside of the right knee, in the evening (after fifteen minutes), 3.

FLUORICUM ACIDUM. GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
While sitting, pleasurable movements of the whole body, unawares, 8.
Hands, fingers, toes, feet, jaws, lips, eyebrows and lids, muscles of the face, etc., all are in motion (in ten hours), 8.
Writhing about in indescribable agony, 19.
Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue , regardless of the most excessive heat. [The prover resides in Norfolk, Va., situate 36° 50' of N. latitude.]
In summer, or in the cold of winter, he is able to perform with the greatest facility, his usual daily walk of several miles, which every day previously he thought very fatiguing and annoying; indeed he takes the same walk once again afterwards, and is still inclined to take exercise which is not at all required; he can use the same or other groups of muscles, as it may happen, without being at all fatigued, and without noticing it, 8.
(He can bear the summer heat much better, and feels less lassitude than usual; for several weeks), 1a.
Is less tired than usual after a walk in the evening (eighth and eleventh days), 19.
Lassitude (part of S. 257), 16. [540.]
Excessively languid, in the forenoon (after second dose), 3.
Weariness while walking at night, 1.
Weariness, nausea, and eructations the whole day, 16.
An unusual very great weariness, in the evening suddenly, 10.
Weakness, nausea, and eructations, the whole day, 16.
Singular indescribable weakness, like a numbness, as if she had received an electric shock, particularly in the head and hands, with nausea in stomach, without desire to vomit; she never experienced a similar sensation; a few days previously she had taken Acid. nitr., after that Fluor. ac., 1c.
Lameness of the whole body, 5.
A higher grade of wellbeing; he is more decided in his movements (fourth and following days), 1c.
In the morning he feels better than usual, though he had internal fever during the night (first week), 1a.
The left side feels stronger than usual (third day), (F. G.), (Hering). [550.]
A sensation almost like rush of blood, though rather as if caused by the nerves, somewhat resembling numbness and confusion or burning, first in the right side of the forehead, afterwards in the upper and lower jaws of the same side, and appearing in the lower part of the occiput and in the bladder, and so on in various places (first evening and second morning), ; also,

and 1c , but not so decidedly and not in the head, 1.

Slight erratic pain in the left half of the body, in the arm, chest, thigh, etc., with a sensation of slight itching (after half an hour), 10.
Violent but transient jerking, burning, almost boring pains, confined to a small space, 1a.
Pressure and sensation of lameness, particularly in the hand, arm to the elbow, and in the foot, 9.
Pressing pain in different parts of short duration, in the evening; on the chin, neck, in the right forearm, in the left knee, right foot, also in the right shoulder, and left arm, sometimes below, sometimes above the elbow, in the evening, 9.
Jerking pains in different parts of the body, behind the left ear, on the left middle finger and in os sacrum (during first hour), 5.
Whilst sitting, a frequent sensation of a general shaking, with a dull pressure and compression in the occiput, particularly towards the right, with the continual sensation of numbness in the left forearm, and a severe pricking in it whilst stretching it (first forenoon), 1a.
Even a very small, hardly visible quantity would produce the same effects, although only after several hours, 17.
Most of the symptoms are on the right side (F. G.), (Hering).
Almost all symptoms appear in the room, while reading or writing, 10. [560.]
Many symptoms are worse when standing, though better when standing than when sitting, 8.

SKIN

Objective.
Reddish spots above the eyebrows, 3.
Desquamation on the eyebrows, 9.
(On the second toe of the left foot, a painful excoriation, which apparently bleeds), (after three hours), 5.
Roughness on the forehead, like a rough line with its convexity upward (fourth and fifth days, and seventh week), 1a.
Eruptions, Dry.
Elevated red blotches over the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side, but of longer continuance on the right (third and following days), 3.
Elevated red blotches (above the eyebrows, most abundant on the left side, but longer-lasting on the right) still continue, whilst the other symptoms disappear, in the evening (fourth day), 3.
Scaly eruptions, with pricking sensation in the eyebrows (third day), 3.
Pimples on the nose, 1.
Pimples on the abdomen, but principally on the thighs and legs, the points of while formed a crust the next day after taking Fluoricum acidum, and which scaled off the seventeenth day after first dose, and the eighth day after fourth dose, 9. [570.]
In the morning, there appears a pimple of the size of a hempseed towards the right, between the root of the nose and the eye (sixteenth day); several similar pimples in the right side of the face (after five weeks), 1a.
In the afternoon, violent itching on the left shoulder; in the evening, on the back, where small pimples arise; worse late at night until he falls asleep (fourth and fifth days), 1a.
Violent itching and small pimples on both shoulders and on the back, more towards the left (eleventh and following days), 1a.
Violent itching, worse on warm days, and small pimples here and there (twelfth day), 1a.
A group of small red pimples on the left hip, in the back, and lower portion of the region of the joint, and below on a spot half as large as the palm of the hand; which have opened during the night after scratching (fourth and following days), 1a.
Itching pimples on the back (part of S. 375), 1a.
Eruptions, Moist.
The parts around the spot touched by it become white and painful, forming a dense vesicle filled with matter, .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Drowsiness, 8.
Drowsiness, constant sleepiness, for the first five days after the acid, 8.
Periodical attacks of sleepiness, in the afternoon, 15.
Sleepiness by paroxysms, in the afternoon (second day), 15.
Unconquerable sleepiness in the morning soon after the acid; after a short and refreshing sleep, it nevertheless returns every two hours until evening, 15.
Sleepy earlier in the evening (during the first two weeks), 1a.
He is sleepy unusually early in the evening, with sound sleep and early waking (eighth day), 1a.
Sleepy early in the evening; lies down on the bed undressed, and sleeps the whole night; although the window and door were wide open, and the night was very cold, yet he had taken no cold in the morning, but he had had a very good sleep (seventh day), 1a. [630.]
Sudden sleepiness , in the evening (fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, and twelfth days), 1a.
Sudden sleep in the evening; he sleeps straight through till morning (tenth days), 1a.
Suddenly sleepy after drinking wine in the evening; he lies down and does not wish to rise; on going to bed he becomes wide awake, and the face feels so warm that he is obliged to wash himself (fifth day), 1a.
He becomes sleepy every forenoon, or is so prostrated and weary that he is obliged to lie down, about 10, 11, and 12 A.M. (first week), 1a.
The last hours before noon he is always sleepy, dizzy, and tired for several weeks, 1a.
Suddenly falls asleep in the evening, then sleeps the whole night, and also very long in the morning (twelfth day), 1a.
Much more sleep than usual (fourth evening), 1c.
Long sound sleep, for several days (second week), 1a.
Profound sleep until late in the morning (during last weeks for several days), 1a.
He feels better than usual on waking in the morning, till the fifth day, 1c. [640.]
Snoring in his sleep and exclamations in the dream, .

FEVER

Chilliness.
Violent febrile chill, toward evening (first day), 18.
Chilliness in the left arm and in the whole body (after one hour), 18.
General heat (after two hours), (part of S. 252), 5.
General heat, after little exercise (first evening), 1a.
General heat, with nausea, 5. [670.]
General feeling of heat, heaviness, and lameness of the whole body (after one hour), 5.
He feels warmer than usual, so that the March air is very agreeable (after a few hours), 1b.
The first evening, and still more during the next morning, a sensation of greater warmth, with inclination to uncover; cold bathing is more than ordinarily agreeable, especially repeated washing behind the ears and on the nape of the neck (first and the following day, but less), 1a.
After becoming cold in the open air, he becomes warm much sooner than usual (after a few days), 1c.
Sensation as if a burning vapor was emitted from the pores of the whole body, 8.
Heat of the face during an animated conversation in the evening, 1b.
Heat of the face, after drinking wine, 1a.
Heat in the palm of the right hand, the succeeding forenoon, 13.
Slight fever heat under the eyes, soon after the second dose, 6.
Strong heat, extending from the centre of the dorsal region to the loins (after three hours), 8. [680.]
A slight glow on the lower part of the right buttock, towards the outer part, in a spot as large as two hands, in the evening, 1c.
Now and then warm flushes, like a warm breath, from the nape of the neck to the occiput, lasting eight days, 13.
Burning, more externally, in different places, but always on one spot; on the right thigh, left upper arm, left thigh, etc., also on the fingers; at 9 P.M. (after fourth dose), 10.
Perspiration, particularly in the face (third and following days), 1a.
Perspiration breaks out, with anxious imaginings, 1.
Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration; in the afternoon, .

Lobelia ; disappeared on the fourth day of the Fluoric acid proving), 10. [690.]

Perspiration and sensation of heat on the upper part of the body towards the right, particularly along the right of the nape of the neck almost to the shoulder, as if in warm streams; from 7 to 8 P.M. (second day), 13.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Until breakfast, dullness in head; shortly after waking, pain in occiput; sensitiveness of hearing; sneezing, etc.; on waking, taste in mouth; on waking, heaviness in arm; particularly on getting in and out of bed, soreness, etc., in left hip.
( Forenoon ), After 10 o'clock, after quick, short movement, etc., shaking in head.
( Afternoon ), Taste in mouth; chilly.
( Evening ), Discontented; after lying down, pain in forehead, etc.; pain in fingers ; itching.
( Night ), Thirst; itching on shoulder.
( Ale ), Coryza.
( Cold ), Pain in teeth.
( Exercise ), Heat in stomach, etc.
( Passage of flatus ), Pain in bowels.
( Motion ), Pain in left chest.
( Reclining ), Oppression in chest, etc.
( Rest ), Many symptoms.
( On rising ), All symptoms.
( In room ), While reading or writing, almost all symptoms.
( Standing ), Many symptoms.
( Stooping ), Pain in upper forehead; pain in forehead, etc.; pressure upon eye.
( Sitting and writing ), Painfulness of chest; pain in back.
( Beginning walking after standing ), Determination of blood to forehead.
( Warm weather ), Itching, etc.
( Wine ), Heat of face; determination of blood to anus.
( Red wine ), Fluent coryza, etc.
Amelioration.
( Morning ), Cheerful, etc.
( Bandaging ), Sensation in abdomen.

Fluoricum Acidum