Pediculus

Pediculus capitis.

Natural order , of insects, Hemiptera.

Preparation , Tincture.

Authorities.

Mure, Pathogénésie Brésil.

1 , Ch. D. Jolly; 2 , M. Ruoffinel; 3 , M. Benard; 4 , Mme. Al. J., aged twenty-seven; 5 , Mlle. D. R., aged eighteen.

MIND

• Very merry, in the evening (eighth day), 4.
• Merry mood, at 3 P.M. (second day), 2.
• Great unmeaning merriment (fourth day), 5.
• Excessive merriment; she laughs at everything (eighth day), 5.
• Good-natured and obliging (tenth day), 3.
• Causeless melancholy; she worries about trifles (sixth day), 5.
• Irritability; causeless anger (eighth day), 5.
• Malicious, jeering temper (eighth day), 5.
• Entire carelessness about the present or future (fourth day), 5. [10.]
• Strong disposition to study (eighth day), 4.
• Inclination for study, with quickness of apprehension (fourth day), 1.
• Eagerness for work (fourth day), 3.
• Writes with feverish rapidity, in the evening (twelfth day), 1.
• Words came more easily (he usually stammers), (first day), 3.

HEAD

• Confusion of the head, on rising, in the morning, with beating in the right temple (second day), 3.
• She is awakened in the night by a dizziness, with inability to open the eyes (nineteenth day), 4.
• Violent headache, with dizziness and nausea, at 11 A.M. (second day), 5.
• Violent headache, worse on stooping, at 7 A.M. (third day), 5.
• Violent headache, with nausea, when walking (sixth day), 5. [20.]
• Headache (thirteenth day), 3, 4.
• Headache, and pressure on the nasal protuberance, at 10 A.M. (second day), 1.
• Headache, with pressure in the orbits, which prevents raising the eyes (eleventh day), 5.
• Less headache than on the day before (fourth day); headache appearing at very short intervals, and abating immediately (fifth day); better (sixth, seventh, and eighth days); intolerable pain from 5 to 7 P.M. (ninth day); the headache is less frequent and severe (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2.
• Acute intermittent lancinations in the head, worse when stooping (fourteenth day), 4.
• Heaviness of the head (third day), 2.
• Dull pain in the head, when rising, in the morning (sixth day), 1.
• Dulness of the head (first day), 2.
• Forehead, Temples and Vertex.
• Violent headache, with lancination in the forehead, when walking (eighth day), 5.
• Violent frontal headache, from 5 to 7 P.M. (first, second, and third days); less headache than on the day before (fourth day), 2. [30.]
• Violent frontal headache (twelfth day), 5.
• Frontal headache, so that she cannot move her head, all day (first day); at 11 A.M. (third and seventh days); when walking and after a meal, at 8 P.M. (fourth day); increased by bending the head forward (eleventh day), 5.
• Lancination in the forehead (second day), 3.
• Lancination in the left temple (thirteenth day), 3.
• Weight at the vertex (seventh day), 3.
• Parietals and External Head.
• Lancinations in the right parietal bone, for a quarter of an hour (twelfth day), .

EYE AND EAR

• Rings around the eyes (third day), 5 ; (fifth day), 1.
• Smarting in the eyes, as if from weeping (ninth day), 5.
• Sensation as from gravel in the eyes (third day), 3.
• Weariness of the eyes, with redness and smarting (eleventh day), 5.
• Smarting around the eyes (third day), 3.
• Weight over the left orbit, with itching in the corner of the right eye (ninth day), 3. [50.]
• Pupils dilated; eyes seem larger (eighth day), 5.
• Weakness of sight during the whole proving (ninth day), 5.
• Dimness of sight when walking; the brain feels as if compressed, with throbbing and severe pain, on rising in the morning (twentieth day), 4.
• Great weakness of sight; cannot read or sew; at 1.30 P.M. (eleventh day), 5.
• Itching in the right ear (thirteenth day), 3.
• Heat in the ears, at 4 P.M. (eleventh day), 3.
• Roaring in the ears, at 8 P.M. (third day), 1.
• Cracking in the right ear, when eating, at 2 P.M. (fifteenth day), 1.
• Whizzing in the ears when whistling (fifteenth day), 1.

NOSE AND FACE

• Inflammation of the nasal fossæ (sixth day), 1. [60.]
• Lancinations in the root of the nose, for five minutes (twelfth day), 3.
• Swelling and redness of the face (eleventh day), 5.
• Scarlet redness of the face (twenty-third day), 4.
• Deep redness of the face (fifth day), 1 ; (eleventh day), 5.
• Redness of the face (third day), 5.
• Swelling of the left cheek for a day and a half (sixteenth day), 1.
• Formicant pain in the right cheek (third day), 3.
• Dry, swollen, and very red lips; heightened color of the face (seventh day), 3.
• Lips black and cracked (third day); in the evening, during the last days of the proving, 5.
• Weariness of the lower jaw, as after chewing a long time (eleventh day), 5.

MOUTH AND THROAT. [70.]

• Lancinations in the right upper molars (ninth day), 3.
• Tongue very painful, red, and much fissured (eleventh day), 2.
• Very painful sensation of burning and pricking on both sides of the tongue, which is red and deeply cracked (tenth day), 2.
• Small pimples in the mouth (ninth day), 5.
• Scraping in the throat, at 8 A.M. (eighth day), 1.
• Scraping in the throat, with some hoarseness (ninth day), 1.
• The scraping in the throat continues, but is less severe than yesterday, at 7 A.M. (ninth day), 1.
• The sore throat keeps getting worse until evening, and lasts all night (eighth day), 1.
• Dryness of the throat (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2.
• Sore throat, every evening, for four days (twelfth day), 5. [80.]
• Sore throat, with constriction of the pharynx, which prevents deglutition (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2.
• Constriction of the pharynx (eleventh day), 5.
• Scraping in the tonsils, when swallowing, especially on the right side, lasting all day and continuing the next (ninth day), 3.
• Constant swallowing of saliva (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2.

STOMACH AND ABDOMEN

• Hunger, with inability to swallow food; the pharynx feels contracted, followed by faintness and nausea; at 8 A.M. and at noon (sixth day), 5.
• Aversion to food (eighth and twentieth days), 4.
• Thirst, with hoarseness; less scraping in the throat; in the evening (ninth day), 1.
• Constant nausea, in the evening (nineteenth day), 4.
• Difficult digestion, with contraction of the stomach (seventh day), 4.
• Colic in the stomach, with lancinations in the umbilical region (third day), 5. [90.]
• Slight colic (second day), 3.
• Violent colic, making her scream and weep, for half an hour, at 9 P.M. (eleventh day), 5.
• Colic and diarrhœa, after dinner (second day), 3.

STOOL, URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS

• Diarrhœa in the evening, continuing the next morning (first day), 2.
• Very soft stools, in the evening (fifth day), 1.
• Small hard stool (ninth day), 1.
• Small hard stool (tenth and eleventh days), 1.
• Frequent and copious micturition, even four times in an hour (sixteenth day), 1.
• Frequent and copious discharge of watery yellowish-green urine, during the last days, with stool almost every day (before the proving she was usually constipated), 5.
• Urine light yellow, and very odoriferous (sixteenth day), 1. [100.]
• Yellow clear urine since the commencement of the proving (tenth and eleventh days), 1.
• Red urine (third day), 2.
• Male.
• Prolonged erection, without sexual desire (second and third days), 1 ; (second day), 2.
• Prolonged erection (fourteenth day), 1.
• Emission at night, without amorous dreams (fourteenth day), 1.
• Female.
• Very painful lancinations; great heat and itching in the uterus (twenty-third day), 4.
• Shifting pain in the uterus; she cannot lean upon it; in the evening (twenty-third day), 4.
• Painful stitch in the uterus (twenty-third day), 4.
• Leucorrhœa (sixth day), 5.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS, CHEST, AND BACK

• Dry cough (fifth day), 3. [110.]
• Dry spasmodic cough (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2.
• Constant feeling of suffocation (second day), 5.
• Transient sensation of strangulation, especially in the evening, after eating (eighth day), 5.
• Suffocative feeling in the chest, from 4 to 6 P.M. (first day), 5.
• Suffocative sensation in the chest, which is painful to touch, at 8 P.M. (eleventh day), 5.
• Pains in the chest increased by contact, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), 5.
• Pain in the breasts when drawing breath (eighth day), 5.
• Frequent pain in the loins when standing (fourth day), 5.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Bruised pain on the shoulders and arms, which are very sensitive to touch (fifteenth day), 4.
• Severe pricking on the arm, as with a pin (after two hours, first day), 3. [120.]
• Return of rheumatism in the right arm (third day), 2.
• Pain in the bend of the right elbow, especially when extending it (eleventh day), 5.
• Smarting raw pain on the left forearm, increased by contact (this pain appeared six months before), (fourth day), 3.
• Redness of the hands, with blue spots (eleventh day), 5.
• Swelling and redness of the hands (eleventh day), 5.
• Itching, redness, and swelling of the veins of the back of the right hand, at 9 A.M. (second day), 5.
• The hands tremble so much that she cannot sew (fourth day), 5.
• Small lancinations on the back of the left hand, at 2 P.M. (ninth day), 1.
• Lancination and severe itching at the first phalanx of the middle finger (fourth day), 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Great weakness of the legs (sixth day), 5. [130.]
• Violent lancinations above the right knee-pan (thirteenth day), 3.
• Very violent lancinations above the left knee-pan, for a quarter of an hour (twelfth day), 3.
• Weariness of the knees, especially the left knee, which gives way when standing, at 7 P.M. (fifth day), 1.
• Weariness of the knee and upper part of the left leg, from 4 P.M. until evening (thirteenth day), 1.
• Throbbing for some seconds above the left knee-pan; it was felt the evening before; it is very circumscribed in a space of not more than eight to ten centimeters in diameter (sixth day), 1.
• Ganglion under the foot, as large as an almond, hard, swollen, and extremely painful when walking (twelfth day), 2.
• The ganglion on the foot continues (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2.

GENERALITIES

• Eleven days after all the symptoms had disappeared, a swelling of the breast, the face, and almost the whole body set in, accompanied by several of the symptoms of the last days of the proving, especially the constriction of the pharynx. This condition becoming seriously troublesome, relief was sought for in homœopathy. China 10

was administered successfully, and in a few days the prover was restored to health, but the itching and the large pimples, produced by the drug, remained for a long time afterwards, 5.

• The latter part of the proving was marked by a prostration and a sort of moral weakness, which, although not excessive, differed very widely from the primary condition of excitement (sixteenth day), 1.
• Works very hard; increase of physical strength (fourth day), 5. [140.]
• Increase of physical strength (fourth day), 1.
• His movements are quick and lively (seventh day), 3.
• Jerks and startings, in the evening, when sitting or lying, during the last days of the proving, 3.
• Great weariness when standing; dizziness and faint feeling; for an hour, at 9 A.M. (ninth day), 5.
• Numbness, while drawing breath, for a quarter of an hour (second day), 3.
• Dull feeling (twenty-third day), 4.
• Shuddering and rigors, without feeling cold (fifth day), 5.
• Nervous shuddering (ninth day), 5.

SKIN

• Red spots on the cheeks, white spots on the hands, in place of the former pimples (second day), 4.
• Redness of the face, hands, and feet (which last were always of a greenish-white); shoulders and arms not so white as usual (fourth day), 5. [150.]
• The skin comes off in small scales from the forepart of the left leg (fourth day), 5.
• Eruptions.
• Miliary pimples on the face, forehead, temples, and chin; they are vesicular, with a red base, and a black point at their centres; they came out in the course of the day (fifth day), 1.
• Miliary pimples, on a red base, and swollen in their centres, at the nape of the neck; they do not itch, but the friction of the cravat causes a raw feeling (sixth day), 1.
• Miliary eruption on the inside of the arms and forearms (fourth day), 2.
• Miliary eruption, with violent itching, on the inside of the thighs (third day), 2.
• Miliary eruption on the calves, with itching, increasing in the evening, at 3 P.M. (second day), 2.
• Some of the pimples disappear and are replaced by others (third day), 2.
• Small red inflamed pimples on the temples, shoulders, arms, and legs (seventh day), 5.
• White pimples on the forehead (first day), 2.
• Small pimples on the forehead (sixth day), 1. [160.]
• White pimples, with a black point in the centre, in the left corner of the mouth (sixth day), 1.
• White pimples, much swollen, above the left breast (fourth day), 5.
• Red swollen pimples, white at their centres, on the chest and pit of the stomach (sixth day), 5.
• Small red pimples, with black points in their centres, on the right sterno-mastoid muscle (eighth day), 3.
• Pimples on the back, a centimeter in breadth, white in the centre, and smarting severely (fourth day), 5.
• Reappearance of the pimples on the nape of the neck (third day), 2.
• Pimples on the nape of the neck, which, although very large, itch less than the small ones, which remain, in the morning (fourth day); they disappear (fifth day), 2.
• Pimples on the back, smarting, swollen, and inflamed, as if blood would issue from them; they are a centimeter in breadth, white, very red at their circumferences, with black points at their centres (seventh day), .

SLEEP

• Yawning (sixth and ninth days); from 3 to 8 P.M. (eleventh day), 3.
• Drowsiness (ninth day), 3.
• Frequent waking (first day), 1.
• Awakes early in the morning for several days (tenth day), 1. [220.]
• Sleeps very little (second day), 5.
• Very restless night (second day), 5.
• Restless sleep (eighth day), 1.
• Dreams.
• Frightful dream about dissecting one of his friends (first day), 2.
• Frightful dream about a monstrous black figure, which flew up to the sky and darkened the sun (eighth day), 4.
• Dream about seeing acquaintances walking on the water (seventh day), 4.
• Dream about going through the yards of a great many houses and reaching the banks of the Seine, where he sees people sporting and skating (in the summer season) with the water up to their thighs (has not dreamt before for a year), (seventh day), 3.
• Dream about being sick in a filthy hospital, full of vermin, and having a copious discharge of water from the nose (sixth day), 4.
• Dream about being left to die by famine in a dungeon, whence he escapes by crawling out (sixth day), 1.
• Dreams about conspiracies and insurrections, then amorous dreams, with a pollution (tenth day), 1. [230.]
• Dream about enormous lice (ninth day), 4.
• Pleasant dreams (sixth day), 5.
• Dream about being very friendly, then amorous (eleventh day), 1.
• Confused dreams about being pursued (eighth day), 1.

FEVER

• Chilliness and shuddering (second day), 5.
• Chilliness all over (ninth day), 3.
• Coldness, shivering, and trembling, for a quarter of an hour, at 5 P.M. (eleventh day), 3.
• Coldness, with rigors and trembling, at 5 P.M. (ninth day), 3.
• Cold hands, with heat of the face, at noon (ninth day), 3.
• Fever (second day), 5. [240.]
• Rigors; great heat and dryness of the extremities (first day), 2.
• Heat of the skin (third day), 2.
• Heat in the head and hands, at 8 P.M. (second day), 5.
• Heat of the head (first day), 5.
• Head burning hot, with bright-red face (ninth day), 5.
• Heat and deep redness of the face, all the afternoon (sixth day), 1.
• Heat of the face (fifth and thirteenth days), 3.
• Great heat of the hands (fifth day), 5.
• Sweat of the face (first day), 5.
• Sweat of the feet, followed by great coldness (thirteenth to thirtieth day), 2. [250.]
• Cold sweat of the feet, followed by great coldness, at 10 P.M. (twelfth day), 2.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), On rising, confusion of the head; beating in right temple; dull pain in head; pressure and throbbing in brain; 8 A.M., scraping in throat; pimples on nape of neck; sleeplessness.
• ( Forenoon ), 7 A.M., headache; 10 A.M., headache and pressure in nasal protuberance; 11 A.M., headache, with dizziness and nausea, frontal headache; 9 P.M., dizziness, faintness, horripilation in left half of scalp; itching, redness, and swelling of the veins of the hands.
• ( Noon ), Cold hands, with heat of face.
• ( Afternoon ), 3 P.M., merry mood; 5 to 7 P.M., headache; 1.30 P.M., weakness of sight; 4 P.M., heat in ear; 3 P.M., heat and redness of cheeks; 4 to 6 P.M., suffocating feeling in chest; 4 P.M. till evening, weariness of knee and leg; 5 P.M., itching on nape of neck, chilliness, coldness; 3 to 8 P.M., yawning.
• ( Evening ), Merry mood; writes rapidly; 9 P.M., itching of scalp; 8 P.M., roaring in ears; lips black and cracked; sore throat; nausea; 9 P.M., colic; diarrhœa; pain in uterus; after eating, sensation of strangulation; 8 P.M., suffocating feeling in chest; 9 P.M., pain in chest; when sitting or lying, jerks and startings; miliary eruption on calves; when lying down, itching in concha of left ear; itching of forearm; 10 P.M., itching of left wrist; itching on calves; itching all over; 6 P.M., pricking face and eruption; 8 to 11 P.M., pricking all over; 8 P.M., heat in head and hands; 10 P.M., cold sweat of feet; coldness.
• ( Night ), Dizziness; itching.
• ( After dinner ), Colic; diarrhœa.
• ( Eating ), Cracking in right ear.
• ( Putting feet in hot water ), Red pimples on feet.
• ( Sitting ), Itching all over.
• ( Standing ), Pain in loins; weariness of knees; weariness.
• ( Stooping ), Headache; Lancinations in head.
• ( Swallowing ), Scraping in tonsils.
• ( Walking ), Headache; lancinations in forehead; dimness of sight; ganglion painful under foot; itching all over.
• ( Whistling ), Whizzing in ears.