Plantago major, Linn.

Natural order , Plantaginaceæ.

Common names , Plantain, Wegerich.

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant, or of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. Alfred Heath, Hahn. Month., 1868, 3, p. 332, proving with 12th dil., one dose first and third days, 6th dil. eighth and thirteenth days; 1 a , same, 2d dil., a dose first and second days; 1 b , same, tincture, 6 drops first and second days, 5 drops third day; 1 c , same, 12th dil., first, second, seventh, and tenth days (Nos.

2 to 11 , provings by Dr. F. Humphreys, from Monograph, 1871); 2 , Dr. Humphreys, effects of 1st dec. dil., first, second, and fifth days; 2 a , same, effect of tasting tincture; 3 , J. R. Earhart, subject to rheumatic pains during damp weather, took 1st dec. dil., 5-drop doses, first, second, third, fourth, sixth, eighth and fourteenth days; 4 , John Fox, aged thirty, 1st dil., night and morning, for four days; 5 , S. C. Warren, 5 drops of 2d dil., one dose; 6 , J. B. Wood, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for seven days; 6 a , same, 1st dil., every forty-eight hours; 7 , Dr. F. Bishop, 2d dil., repeated doses for two days; 8 , Warren Freeman, took 2d dil., twice daily, for two weeks; 8 a , same, took 1/2 dil., repeated doses of 8 drops for three days; 8 b , same, took 4 drops of 1/2 dil., twice daily; 9 , Mortimer Slocum, 1st dil., repeated doses for five days, and on ninth, tenth, and eleventh days; 10 , T. C. Bunting, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for four days; 10 a , same, second proving 1st dec. dil., doses, first, third, and sixth days; 10 b , same, 2d dil., two doses; 11 , W. A Leavanway, 1st dec. dil., repeated doses for four days; 12 , additional proving by Dr. Heath, N. Am. J. of Hom., 1873, p. 502, a woman suffering from watery discharge from the nose, and an enlargement in upper abdomen, took the 12th dil. (from root and seeds), three times a day for a week; it removed her troubles and caused new symptoms; she continued the drug another week and suffered from its effects.

MIND

Great nervous excitability and trembling of the whole body, with pulse at 120 (fourteenth day), 4.
Highest degree of excitability (twenty-first day), 4.
General depression and despondency, though the weather is bright and beautiful (fourteenth day), 3.
Feel very much out of sorts; low-spirited, with inclination to do a lot of work, but get tired and irritated as soon as I begin (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Feeling of suppressed irritability (after one hour and twenty minutes, second day), 1b.
Very irritable and easily vexed, with an excitement of the nervous system (tenth day), 4.
Irritable and vexed mood, with utter inability for any mental exercise (twelfth day), 4.
Great feeling of irritation; cannot bear to be spoken to (fifth day), 1c.
Irritable feeling, with slight headache in the right temple (sixth day), 1c. [10.]
Low spirits; irritable; disinclination to work (seventeenth day), 1c.
Great irritation with the severe headache; cannot bear to be spoken to (fourth day), 1.
Rather irritable (twentieth day), 1.*
Irritable, with nausea and giddiness, with trembling sensation in the right arm (twenty-ninth day), 1.
Irritable feeling, with slight headache (fifty-third day), 1.
Impatient to get anything finished (second day), 1c.
Impatient and restless mood, with a dull, stupid, or muddled feeling in the brain; very irritable and morose temper, worse in the evening (third day); very irritable and restless mood; easily vexed (fourth day), 4.
Restless disposition, and dull feeling over the sinciput (eleventh day), 4.
Desire to do several things at once, but no inclination to move and do one, with the loss of appetite (sixteenth day), 1.
Feeling great desire to be at home when abroad (twenty-ninth day), 1. [20.]
Meditative mood or internal revery, and unable to associate my mind with any external object, with the feeling of great prostration (eleventh day), 4.
Inability to think, with restlessness at night (seventh night), .

HEAD

Giddiness with the irritable mood (twenty-ninth day), 1.
Violent irritation of the brain; bruised, maddening feeling; cannot bear the slightest contradiction (sixteenth day), 1. [30.]
Feeling of irritability about the head, in different parts; fine stitches (eleventh day), 1c.
Irritable feeling in the head, with soreness of the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day), 1a.
After dinner, I had a dull, painful, stupid feeling in my head, with considerable fever (seventh day), 8a.
Dull feeling of the head or slight headache, during the day (fourth day), 6.
Dull feeling in the head (first day), 4.
Muddle and confused feeling in the head, with inability to think, which lasted all day, and worse in the evening (second day), 4.
Dull, stupid, or muddled feeling in the brain, with the impatient and restless mood (third day), 4.
Dull, muddled feeling in the head, with the inactivity of mind (fourth day), 4.
Head is clouded, heavy, and dull (fourteenth day), 2.
Heaviness and weariness in the head, in the evening, relieved by holding the head backwards, with slight stiffness of the neck (nineteenth day), 1. [40.]
Pain now in the head, then in dorsum of big toe (sixth day), 4.
Dull stupefying pain in the whole head, relieved by motion and aggravated by study (eighth day), 4.
Pain in the head, relieved by pressure, for a few seconds, or from contact with anything cold (fifth day), 1c.
Pain over the left eyebrow, and deep in the scalp; bruised, dull aching, relieved by shutting the eyes, at 9 A.M. (second day), 1a.
Occasional pains in the head, during the evening (sixth day), 2.
Twinges of pain in different parts of the head; now in the right temple, extending backward; then through the occiput from ear to ear; then in other parts of the head more or less severe (seventh day), 2.
Pains in the head, most in the left temporal region, all the time, or with but little intermission (fourteenth day), 2.
Pain in the head, on turning round, as if the brain were stretched (eighteenth day), 1.
All the pains at times in the head, but very slight (nineteenth day), .

EYE

Eyes looked very red and inflamed (third day), 7. [130.]
Feeling as if a hair were hanging over the eye, with the headache (twenty-second day), 1.
After going to bed, sharp pain for some moments over the right eye, extending to the temple (first night), 10a.
Bruised pain in left eye, especially on light pressure, one hour (fourth day), 10a.
Soreness of the eyes, with the irritable feeling in the head (second day), 1a.
Dimness of the eyes, with the bruised feeling in the forehead (thirty-eighth day), 1.
Brow and Orbit.
Slight pricking; bruised feeling in the left brow, for a few minutes, in the evening (nineteenth day), 1.
12 M., a sharp, darting pain in the superior and outer side of the socket of the right eye (eighteenth day), 11.
Pain in the orbits of both eyes; worse on pressure (seventh day), 4.
Dull pain in the orbit of right eye, as if bruised, and worse upon pressure (twelfth day), 4.
Dull, aching pain deep in right orbit, lasting only a few moments (after fifteen minutes, sixth day), 3. [140.]
Occasionally dull, stupefying pains deep in the orbits (nineteenth day), 3.
Lids and Ball.
Soreness of the eyelids (twenty-fourth day), 1c.
Soreness of the lids, with the stuffed-up nose (thirty-fifth day), 1.
Œdema of eyelids, on rising (second day); œdema and redness of eyelids, after rising (fourth day), 7.
Unnatural sense of dryness of the eyelids, continuing for several hours (sixth day), 2.
Itching of the right eyelid (seventh day), 2.
Stiffness and itching of eyelids, at 10 A.M. (ninth day), 2.
Severe painful stitches, first in the left, then in the right eyeball, more at the internal canthus, for an hour (sixth day), 2.

EAR

Pulsating pain in the left ear (eighth day), 4.
Shooting pain in the left ear, lasting several minutes (tenth day), 4. [150.]
Pains often centre in the ear, most in the left, beginning in the head, at 10 A.M. (fifteenth day), 2.
Sensation of hearing more acute; noise is painful; trembling sound, 5.
The least noise appears to go through one (fifth day), 1c.
Ringing in the ears (sixth day), 2.

NOSE

(At 6 P.M., frequent sneezing, with discharge of sanious mucus from left nostril), (second day), 3.
Excoriation and ulceration of the right nostril (sixteenth and nineteenth days), 1.
Sudden discharge of clear water from the left nostril, without pain, about ten or twelve drops, 1a.
Sudden discharge of yellowish water from the right nostril, about a dozen drops, repeated twice within the hour, but not so much in quantity, at 11.30 A.M. (second day), 1c.
Profuse discharge of sanious mucus from left nostril, continuing all day (third day); discharge not so copious; the right nostril is now affected (fourth day); not so copious or watery (seventh day; not so profuse, but of a greater consistence), (tenth day), 3.
Thick discharge from the nose (thirty-fourth day), 1. [160.]
Considerable discharge from nose, and partial stoppage (forty-ninth day); for several days past considerable discharge from the nose, with obstinate stoppage (fifty-third day), 1.
Catarrh returned, her handkerchief being saturated with yellow water from the nose, like saffron (after two weeks), 12.
Fulness and stoppage of the nose (thirty-third day), 1.
Nose stuffed up, with pain or fulness over the eyes, with soreness of the lids (thirty-fifth day); nose still stopped up (thirty-sixth day), 1.
Fine, drawing sensation over the bridge of nose (fifth day), 1c.
Fulness about the root of nose (seventeenth day), 1c.
Sore feeling of the left nostril, sore to the touch (eleventh day), 1c.
Dryness of nose (seventeenth day), 1c.
Tingling sensation about the root of the nose (twenty-fourth day), 1c.
Sensation across the bridge of the nose, as if the nasal bones were being pressed together or pressed inward, at four P.M. (sixteenth day), 3.

FACE. [170.]

Pain in right side of face, with slight swelling and stiffness, as if a boil would form; sore and tender when touched (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Pain in right side of face; neuralgia (fifth day), 1c.
Awoke in the night with sharp attack of faceache, the right side of cheek; violent aching pain, with much heat and thirst (eleventh day), 1c.
Inclination to faceache; sudden, fine drawing and shooting pain, subacute (seventeenth day), 1c.
Faceache on going to bed, very severe, almost driving one to distraction, consisting of an aching, sore, bruised sensation, as if ulcerated, in the left side of the face and temple, passing off in about an hour (twenty-fourth day), 1c.
Faceache in the night; unable to sleep; severe aching pain in the left side of the face, worse on getting warm in bed; violent, bruised, aching pain in the right side of the face, on getting warm walking, easier every few minutes; pain entirely gone from left side of face (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Violent attack of faceache, both sides of face; most intense, indescribable pain; head seemed to be swollen; relieved by Platina (after six weeks), 1c.
Cheeks and Lips.
Left cheek swollen and gums inflamed (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Drawing pain in right malar bone, recurring several times (fifth day), 3.
At 11 A.M., having an eruption on the lips, dry, scaly, and violent burning and tension; more the inferior one; the burning of the lower lip passed off within an hour, and returned but little again (first day), 2. [180.]
Lips have been livid, dark, sickly, and rough for many days (twelfth day), 2.
Watery bladder on the upper lip, as from cold (twenty-eighth day), 1.
Lip feels slimy (forty-fifth day), 1.
Front and upper jaw a kind of tingling as if in the nerves; this symptom before going to sleep, but was not continued or very marked (first night), 10a.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Since taking the medicine there has been very rapid decay of the teeth; the filling has fallen out of two; easily bleeding gums; teeth feel elongated in the morning, and then ache from 2.30 to 4 P.M. each day; the pain is sharp stabbing, and contact along the course of the superior branch of the trifacial nerve is sensitive and readily excites pain, and he cannot lie on that side of the face at night (after a month), 7.
Sordes on the teeth, as if mixed with blood (seventeenth day); sordes having the appearance of white mucus (eighteenth day), 6.
Grinding of the teeth, with the restless sleep (thirteenth night), 4.
Grinding of the teeth whilst asleep; (this symptom occurred very frequently during the whole proving), 4.
Shooting pain in the teeth (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Dull boring pain in left molar of lower jaw (tenth day), 4. [190.]
Pain in the exposed nerve of a front tooth for a short time only (third day), 10a.
Toothache on the left side of the face, before and after breakfast; went off in the forenoon, and returned again after dinner, for an hour or two (second day); toothache, left side, sound and decayed teeth, upper and lower jaw, all the morning (third day; toothache again severely, left side, upper bicuspid and molar teeth, extending to the face; comes on after rising and washing (fourth day); as before, but slight (fifth day); toothache and dull faceache during morning, till after 2 P.M. (tenth day), 2a.
Aching of some decayed teeth in the lower jaw of the left side, after dinner (seventh day), 2.
Toothache in the left upper molars at night; fine drawing pain, feeling as if it were going to throb (sixteenth day), 1c.
Slight toothache on rising, hardly to be noticed, but after going to college, it gradually increased, until noon it was severe; my cheek became considerably swollen; I had constant discharge of saliva from my mouth after 12 M.; this pain was in a decayed tooth; but the teeth on each side were sound, and so elongated that it was with much difficulty and pain that I could eat my dinner; little or no pain in the tooth at night (seventh day); there was slight pain in the tooth, but again toward noon it increased very much, and again with the same flow and drooling of saliva from the mouth; there were some soreness and tenderness of the other teeth on eating (eighth day); not much of the toothache left (ninth day); toothache all gone; but the swelled cheek remained (tenth day); the tooth was the second large molar of the superior maxillary of the left side, .

with relief (third day), 7.

Inclination to toothache in left side of lower jaw in decayed double tooth (fifty-third day), 1.
Grumbling in teeth of left side before breakfast; violent pain after eating (fourth day); pain in teeth of left side (fifth day); toothache during the forenoon; intervals of perfect ease, five to ten minutes (sixth day), 7.
Soreness of the teeth (fifth day), 6.*
Soreness of some sound teeth, while eating breakfast (fifteenth day), 2. [200.]
Sensitive feeling in the teeth appeared before going to sleep, but was not continued or very marked (first night), 10a.
Sore and loose sensation in front incisors, as if chilled by cold air; not subject to pain in the teeth (seventh day), 10a.
Gums.
Discoloration of the gums, dark red (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Small, mattery ulcers on the gums (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Gums inflamed and left cheek swollen (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Painful gum-boil in left upper jaw, with considerable swelling of face; discharge of matter from two heads (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Bleeding of the gums, quite profuse on retiring, at 10 P.M. (sixth day), 2.
Bleeding from the gums, in the afternoon and evening (fifth day); hæmorrhage from the gums (sixth day); slight bleeding from the gums again from preparing some Plantago (seventh day), 2a.
Feeling of stiffness and fulness of gums and face, both sides (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Tongue.
Tongue slightly coated with a whitish coating, 5. [210.]
Morning, white-coated tongue (seventeenth and eighteenth day), 6.
General Mouth.
Breath very offensive, putrid (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Putrid smell from the breath (fifth day), 1c.
Dry mouth in the morning (fourteenth day), 2.
Dirty feeling in the mouth all day (twenty-ninth day), 1.
Saliva and Taste.

THROAT

Profuse secretion of mucus in the throat, with frequent hawking of mucus (after a month), 7.
On waking, feeling of rawness in the throat; relaxed, with sensation as if I had taken cold (second day), 1c.
Feeling in the throat as of a slight swelling deep down on the right side (fifth day), 1c.
Slight rawness and soreness of throat; relaxed sensation, with slight acrid expectoration (tenth day), 1c.
Throat much worse; intense soreness and relaxed feeling, with considerable hoarseness; constant desire to clear the throat of tenacious, white phlegm; burning, acrid taste; obliged to cough and scrape the throat for that purpose; throat raw (eleventh day), 1c. [230.]
Throat relaxed, sore feeling as if raw and had taken a bad cold, with hoarseness and irritating cough (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Huskiness in the throat, with accumulation of very tenacious phlegm; unable to clear the throat, with slight, sore burning feeling (after twenty minutes, second day), 1b.
Awoke with huskiness and soreness in the throat, with rawness and irritation; difficulty of clearing the throat, feeling as if I had taken cold (fourth day), 1b.
Dryness and huskiness in the throat, which lasted about an hour, in the morning on arising (fifteenth day), 3.
Slight huskiness in throat (twenty-eighth day), 1.
Dryness in the throat, on rising, in the morning; disappeared in the afternoon (third day), 3.
On rising in the morning, dryness of the throat (ninth day), 3.
Dryness and soreness of the throat and mouth, mucous membrane of nose (third day), 7.
During all day hard a dry, parched throat (seventh day); also in the evening; a draught of air irritates and produces cough (tenth day), 9.
Slight soreness of throat (thirty-seventh day); sore throat, with considerable hoarseness before getting up; sweetish taste; better during the morning, but throat out of tone, relaxed (thirty-eighth day), 1. [240.]
Soreness and pain in throat (sixth day), 7.
At 10 P.M., roughness and sensation of erosion in the throat (second day), 3.
There was a sensation of scraping in the throat, when swallowing, in the morning, .

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Not much appetite, 5 ; (fifty-third day), 1.
Slight appetite and speedy satiety (fifth day), 2.
Slight appetite (seventh day), 2.
But little appetite, with speedy satiety (twelfth day), 2.
Loss of appetite, with desire to do several things at once, but no inclination to move and do one; resting all day (sixteenth day), 1.
Thirst, with the headache (sixteenth night), 1. [260.]
Thirst (eighteenth and thirty-ninth days), 1.
Thirst, at night, with dirty taste in mouth (forty-fourth day), 1.
Thirst, with the faceache (eleventh day), 1c.
Eructations.
Frequent empty eructations (seventh day), 11.
Frequent empty eructations, with slight rumbling in the bowels and occasional emissions of flatus (third day), 3.
Eructations empty (fifteenth day), 3.
Frequent eructations of wind, continued for three weeks (ninth day), 4.
On getting up, in the morning, I noticed I had constant eructations, which tasted very strong of sulphur, a symptom that I never had before; this eructation lasted me all day, and during the forenoon the sulphur taste was always present; afternoon it changed its character, the sulphur taste was gone, but I had a strong taste of carbonic acid gas, as much so as if I had drank a bottle of well-charged soda water; this gas was in large quantities, and was eructated in intervals of from five to fifteen minutes apart; after supper, part of this gas passed down to the bowels, causing great boring pain, and passing off with a strong effluvium of sulphuretted hydrogen, the eructations still continuing; on lying down, there was a constant rumbling and passing of this gas in the intestines, without a desire to pass it off; they appeared to be inflated and filled with gas (fifth day), 8a.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Feeling of nausea, at 9 A.M. (second day), 1a.
Feeling of nausea, as if going to have a bilious attack, with inclination to diarrhœa (fifth day), 1c. [270.]
Nausea, with the irritable mood (twenty-ninth day), .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Woke at 6 A.M. with severe pain in the left hypochondriac region; continued half an hour (fifth day), 2.
Pain in the left hypochondriac region, at 6 P.M. (seventh day), 9.
About the middle of the day a pain in the left hypochondriac region (eleventh day), 9.
Slight transient pains in the left hypochondrium (fourth day), 4. [290.]
Pain in the left hypochondrium (sixth day), 4.
Slight pains in the right hypochondrium (fifth day), 3.
Pains in the hypochondria continuing all day; not so bad in the afternoon (ninth day), 3.
Sticking pain in the right hypochondrium (after three hours, fourteenth day), 3.
(Sometimes boring rheumatic pains in the hypochondria and chest, mostly in the limbs), (eighteenth day), 3.
Whilst taking it, I had for two days an acute pain in the right hypochondriac region, especially on laughing or movement; the pain would be of a darting-sticking kind, 8b.
Umbilicus and Sides.
Great soreness and tenderness of the navel, as if ulcerated; can't bear my clothes (second day), 1c.
Cutting pain over the navel (eighteenth day), 1.
Sore pain under the navel (eighteenth day), 1.
Cutting pain in the bowels, above the navel, as if diarrhœa would come on (thirtieth day), 1. [300.]
Excessively tender spot just under the navel when touched, felt in the evening, when going to bed (fifty-sixth day), 1.
Very sharp sudden griping-drawing pain in the left side of the navel, causing me to cry out, at 9.30 (fourth day), 1b.
Severe colic pain in the left side of the abdomen, deep beneath the cartilage of the floating ribs, increased by deep inspiration and by lying on that side; came on at 4 P.M.; continued all night and to day; occasional eructations, which do not relieve the pain (tenth day), 2.
Dull pressing pain on both sides of abdomen, about Poupart's ligament (soon after first dose, fourth day), 10.
At 9 A.M. boring pain in or near the umbilicus, which lasted fifteen minutes (ninth day), .

RECTUM AND ANUS

Partial prolapse of rectum during stool (three hours after first dose, fourth day), 10.
Sometimes a sharp cutting pain in the rectum (seventeenth day), 3.
Pains in the rectum and lumbar region (seventeenth day), 6.
Sharp cutting or pungent pain in the lower part of the rectum, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day), 3.
Bearing down and burning in old piles, with diarrhœa pains, all the afternoon (eighteenth day), 1.
Violent purgings of the anus, caused by old piles (twenty-eighth day), 1. [350.]
Discharge of bright-colored blood from the anus during stool rather freely, but no pain (fifteenth day); discharge of blood with every motion for two or three days in succession (twenty-fourth day), 1c.
Violent attack of bleeding from the anus, in the morning, after getting up, without pain; while at stool, passed from four to six ounces of pure bright-colored blood in a perfect stream, and again, about midday, one or two ounces; the blood has since shown itself several times, but very little (after six weeks), 1c.
Feel as if diarrhœa would set in (seventh day), 10a.
Inclination to diarrhœa, with slight pain in the lower part of the bowels, cutting, at 9 o'clock (third day), 1c.
Inclination to diarrhœa with the nausea (fifth day), 1c.
Inclination to diarrhœa (sixth day), 1c.
Inclination to diarrhœa at 9 A.M., with cutting pain under the navel at 1 P.M. (second day), 1a.

STOOL

Diarrhœa, with discharge of bright blood, with painful urging (dysentery), as if the gut would protrude (after two hours and a quarter, second day), 1a.
Diarrhœa discharge, brown color, fermented frothy motion, with urging, with the violent griping pain in the bowels (after five hours, second day), 1b.
Slight discharge of bright blood with motion, no pain at 8 A.M. (second day), 1a. [360.]
Blood passed during stool (seventh day), 10a.
Watery diarrhœa, brown color, with excoriation of the anus (eighteenth day), 1.
*About 10 P.M. had a very watery stool, with very little pain or desire for stool (fifth day); about 1 A.M. I had a stool, also one about daylight; they were watery first, then thicker and more papescent, then watery again, and so on; also passed a large quantity of wind (sixth day); I had a similar operation (seventh and eighth days), 8a.
Loose stool every day, and sometimes twice a day, with some pain in the rectum, and slight colic before stool, 8.
Quite loose stool, but yet passed with some considerable straining and effort (fourth day); no stool (eighth day); loose stool followed the uneasiness in bowels (ninth day); this morning, loose urgent stool; none yesterday, and no indications (eleventh day), 2.
Loose stools, but accompanied with straining, and only passed with much effort; this symptom yet remains after three weeks, 6a.
Looseness of the bowels (fourth, fifth, and sixth days); stools of a normal character, though frequent (seventeenth day), 6.
Bowels acted unusually free (fifty-seventh day), 1.
Bowels confined for three days (eighth day), 4.
No stool during the day, very unusual (third day); loose stool (fourth day), 7.

URINARY ORGANS

Kidneys and Urethra. [370.]
Tenderness over the region of the kidneys on pressure (twelfth day), 4.
Tingling with unpleasant itching in the orifice of the urethra; came on suddenly and lasted a few minutes, in the morning (second day), 4.
Itching or prickling sensation in the lips of the meatus after passing urine (fifth day), 3.
Sudden unpleasant itching in the opening of the urethra, in the evening (third day), 4.
Sudden darting pain up the urethra, while sitting (seventh day), 4.
Sudden darting, stinging pains, running up the urethra, whilst sitting (twelfth day), 4.
7 P.M., a sharp, cutting pain in the urethra, from within outward (eighteenth day), 11.
Micturition and Urine.
On arising, in the morning, urgent desire to urinate, with slight tenesmus of the bladder, but passing very little urine (fifth day), 3.
Up to urinate twice in the night, and passed each time a pint or more of light-colored urine (never before), (first night); white and profuse urine (ninth day), 2a.
Frequent micturition of colorless urine (twelfth day), 4.* [380.]
Frequent micturition of clear urine (seventh day), 11.*
Copious urination (third night, and fifth day); copious urination of a whitish color (seventeenth day), 6.
Still an increased flow of urine (seventeenth day), 3.
Increased flow of light-colored urine, in the forenoon (sixth day), 4.
Largely increased secretion of limpid urine the following twenty-four hours; the quantity was enormous, 6a.
Passing of large quantities of urine (after one week), 12.*
Large quantity of urine (twenty-eighth day), 1.*
Urine free (third day); free and light-colored (fourth day); copious urination (sixth day), 7.
Urine very profuse, light-colored, and deposits a white sediment (after a month), .

SEXUAL ORGANS

Sometimes obstinate itching, and uncomfortable feeling in the genitals (twenty-eighth day), 1.
Unconscious emission of semen, at night while asleep; has not occurred before for many years (third night), 4.
Diminished sexual excitement, all through, thus far (tenth day), 2.
Diminished sexual desire or power; no erections for many days (thirteenth day), 2.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

10 A.M., a scraping, tickling sensation, low down in the bronchia (nineteenth day), 11.
Itching at the top of the windpipe (fortieth day), 1.
Voice.
On getting up this morning, hoarseness, as if from dryness in the larynx, went off after breakfast (third day); remained till evening (fourth day); took none of the drug on account of the hoarseness (fifth day), 10a.
Hoarseness, in the morning, with dirty taste (thirty-ninth day); hoarseness, in morning, better (fortieth day), 1. [400.]
Hoarseness with the sore throat (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Cough and Expectoration.
Slight cough, with expectoration (twenty-eighth day), 1.
Cough, with irritation at the top of windpipe; no expectoration (thirty-fifth day); cough troublesome; no expectoration (thirty-seventh day); cough not so frequent (thirty-eighth day), 1.
Cough (thirty-ninth day); now and then dry (fortieth day); on going into cold air, with slight expectoration (forty-first day), 1.
Cough troublesome (forty-second day); very troublesome on first moving about, relieved by expectoration (forty-third day); very troublesome, with difficult expectoration of light-colored phlegm, causing soreness and roughness of the throat (forty-fourth day); cough, in the morning, almost making me sick, retching slightly (forty-fifth day); occasional cough (forty-ninth day); cough mornings, with slight expectoration, tough mucus, also on going into the cold air (fifty-third day); little or no cough; slight expectoration of mucus (sixty-first day), 1.
Constant scraping cough; phlegm slightly sweet (eleventh day), 1c.
Irritating cough with the sore throat (twenty-sixth day), 1c.
Slight, acrid expectoration, with rawness and soreness of throat (tenth day), 1c.
Saltish expectoration (sixth day), 9.
Respiration.
Panting breathing on the least exercise, particularly on ascending stairs, with violent palpitation of the heart, and accelerated pulse (fourteenth day), 4. [410.]
Frequent involuntary deep breathing, approaching to yawning; this has been more or less present for several weeks (fourteenth day), 4.

CHEST

Sharp stitches or catching pain in the lower lobe of the left lung, on drawing a long breath, at night in bed (eighth day), 4.
Orgasm or flow of blood to the chest, with sensation of heat; this symptom occurred twice (third day), 3.
Orgasm in the chest (slight), (after one hour, fourteenth day), 3.
Oppression of the chest, with the dull and stupid feeling, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day), 3.
Great feeling of oppression in the chest, with hurried respiration and prostration; on talking or reading aloud, was obliged to stop several times to get breath, before being able to finish a sentence, which continued all the evening (eleventh day), 4.
Great weakness and oppression of the chest, with shortness of breath, and followed by nausea almost to vomiting (thirteenth day), 4.
Oppression of the chest, with rapid respiration; difficulty of breathing, as if there were no air, in the room (twenty-first day), 4.
Vague pain in the chest (third day), 3.
Front and Sides. [420.]
Sharp pleuritic pains under the left sternum, while sitting, and relieved by exercise (seventh day), 4.
A dull, aching, subcutaneous pain near the left side of the sternum, a little below the centre; made worse by pressure, also from sitting, but passing off whilst moving (ninth day), 11.
Occasional pains through both sides of the chest; transient, but frequently returning (fourteenth day), 2.
Muscular drawing pain under the right breast, for a second, at 9 A.M. (second day), 1a.
Sharp pleuritic pain in the left side of the chest, came on while sitting, and lasted a few minutes (twelfth day), 4.
Pains through the chest, more the left side, and posterior portions (thirteenth day), 2.
Boring pain in the left side, seemingly in the intercostal spaces (after three hours, fourteenth day), 3.

HEART AND PULSE

In the afternoon, while walking in the open air, sensation of heat in the præcordia, with fulness in the abdomen, going off soon after sitting down (fifteenth day), 3.
Stitch in the heart, after dinner (second day), 10.
Violent beating of the heart, on ascending stairs, which lasted about five minutes, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day), 3. [430.]
Some throbbing of the arteries, at night (second night), 2.
Pulse during the forenoon, 80; after dinner 88 (seventh day), 8a.
Strong, full, and intermittent pulse, varying from 70 to 80 beats per minute, in a recumbent position; and increased from 95 to 100 in the erect position, in the evening (eighth day); pulse strong and full, 80; erect position, 110 in the evening (eleventh day); intermittent and irregular pulse; almost imperceptible, at 100 per minute, and easily compressible, afterwards 120 (fourteenth day); strong, bounding pulse, 120 per minute (twenty-third day); 80 (thirtieth day), 4.
Pulse 72 (twelfth day), 2.
Pulse 92 (third day); 73 (fourth day); 80 (sixth and fourteenth days), 3.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
At 2 P.M., soreness and stiffness of the neck, upon moving or turning the head; passing off after some time (sixth day), 2.
Woke with some stiffness in cords of the neck; the same, only less violent than on two mornings before (seventh day), 2.
Occasionally sensation as if the neck was stiff (twelfth day), 2.
Soreness and stiffness along the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle of the left side of the neck (sixth day), 4.
Soreness and stiffness of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle of the right side of the neck, worse on moving the head to side affected, and relieved on moving it to the opposite side; continued for ten days (after twelve days), 4. [440.]
Slight stiffness of the neck, with the heaviness and weariness in the head (nineteenth day), 1.
Pains in the muscles of the neck and shoulders, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day), 3.
Feeling of fulness of the gland, left side of neck, extending to the side of face (seventeenth day), 1c.
Back.
Tenderness on pressure along the whole spinal column (twelfth day), 4.
Dorsal.
Pulsative pain between the scapulæ, passing from one to the other, thence to the dorsum of the right arm in the extensor muscles, darting from above toward the elbow (ninth day), 11.
Bruised feeling of the top of the spine (eighteenth day), 1.
Lumbar and Sacral.
Pains in the lumbar region and rectum (seventeenth day), 6.
Great weakness across the small of the back, extending around the body, as if the body were broken (twelfth day), 4.
Pain in the small of the back with the restlessness (sixteenth night), 1.
Some weariness and languor, especially in the loins (fifth day), 2. [450.]
At 10 P.M., weariness and pain in the loins and lower extremities (fifth day); also on the sixth day, 2.
Painful weakness of the loins, worse on standing, at 10 P.M. (eleventh day), 2.
Weakness of the loins after exercise (thirteenth day), .

EXTREMITIES

Limbs very stiff on getting up (nineteenth day), 1.
Leadlike heaviness and weight of the extremities, arms, and legs, at 3 P.M. (twelfth day), 2. [460.]
Twitching of the muscles of the arms and legs (after three hours, fourteenth day), 3.
Pains in the limbs, in forenoon (fifteenth day), 3.
(Still feel the boring rheumatic pains in the muscles of the limbs), (eighteenth day), 3.
(Upon lying down, in the evening, sudden transient boring rheumatic pains, first in left wrist, extending over dorsum of hand, then shifting to right ankle, then to left ditto, and extending over dorsum of foot to big toe; continued this course in a more or less regular form for two hours in rapid succession, and sometimes extending all along the muscles of left lower arm to elbow, then to shoulder, with tenderness on pressure; all the pains more frequent and painful on the left side ; at the same time, or alternating with, were transient boring pains in the left temple in a small spot, then shifting to right ditto), (sixth day), 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Shifting, dull pains, here and there, in the upper extremities (fifth day), 4.
Feeling of weight in the upper extremities (sixth day), 6.
Shoulder.
A dull, aching pain in the left shoulder, not continuous (fourth day), 11.
Dull, aching pain in the right shoulder, alternating with a dull, aching pain in the right hip, passing down the limbs (fourth day), 11.
Transient pain in the left shoulder (eleventh day), 4.
(Aching rheumatic pain in left shoulder, going off in a few minutes), (fifth day), 3. [470.]
(Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; came on while sitting, and lasted for an hour), (after four hours, sixth day), 3.
Aching pain in the right shoulder-joint (after three hours, fourteenth day), 3.
Sometimes an aching pain in right shoulder (seventeenth day), 3.
Arm.
Trembling of both arms and hands, in the evening (thirty-eighth day), 1.
Trembling sensation in the right arm, with the irritable mood (twenty-ninth day), 1.
Pain in the muscles of the left upper arm, on moving it or lifting, as if badly bruised; very sore; feels stiff as from a blow or wound when resting it (thirtieth day); quite gone about midday, but came in the right arm in the same position as in the left (thirty-first day), 1.
Pain in muscles of right arm, chiefly below the elbow (after three hours, fourteenth day), 3.
Pain in the deltoid muscle of the left arm (after four hours, fourteenth day), 3.
Elbow and Forearm.
(During forenoon, rheumatic pain in right elbow), (third day), 3.
(Rheumatic pain in right elbow-joint, lasting from 8 A.M. to 3 P.M.), (after two hours, fourth day), 3. [480.]
Transient pains in the extensor muscles of the lower right arm (eleventh day), 4.
Hand and Fingers.
Swelling of veins of hands returned again (seventh day), 10a.
In the evening, on lying down, sudden boring rheumatic pains in the carpal bones of the left hand; then shifting to the right ditto, then down to right tarsal, then to left ditto; these pains continued shifting in rapid succession for several hours; on getting up and walking about the room the pains would all disappear (fifth day), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Stiffness in left knee and a pain on stooping; could hardly rise again (twenty-fourth day); knee symptoms continued even since, but not quite so bad to-day (twenty-seventh day); pain in the left knee, when walking or stooping (twenty-eighth day); pain in the knee still when moving it (twenty-ninth day). Five years ago, I severely sprained it in jumping, which lamed me for several weeks, but have not felt anything of it until now ; the pain now is just as it was then, and I know of no other cause; for it; I believe the medicine is trying it. Left leg still painful when stooping (thirty-second day); rather worse (thirty-third day); leg worse, can hardly use it; painful when stretching it out (thirty-fourth day); rather easier; on stretching the left leg, the stiffness in centre of hollow of knee is like stretching a cord; great pain in knee on stooping; cannot squat with left leg, it being so stiff, and when stooping a little, have no strength to get up with it; leg worse in the evening (thirty-fifth day); leg better after sleeping and resting it (thirty-sixth day); better but very stiff (thirty-seventh day); not so painful (thirty-eighth day); better, but painful when stretched (thirty-ninth day); very stiff on bending, and almost powerless to rise (forty-first day); still stiff, can bend it better after a night's rest; much worse, cannot use it without very considerable pain; have walked to-day about two miles; after sitting down, it was intensely painful on rising; slightly better on moving about (forty-third day); leg getting quite useless, obliged to rest it, and put my hand to help move it (forty-fourth day); very stiff, feels as if it had been dislocated at knee; cannot bent it without pain (forty-fifth day); the pain has been sometimes better, and sometimes very painful for the last three or four days (forty-ninth day); leg still very weak and painful, unable to walk fast or run; pain under left ham on stretching the leg (fifty-third day); leg better but stiff, with at times slight pain (sixty-first day); left leg still very weak (seventy-sixth day), 1.
Thigh.
Bruised sensation on the top of both thighs, when walking, as if from over walking, passing off on walking fast; difficulty at first in doing so (twenty-fourth day), 1c.
Drawing pain in the posterior muscles of the right thigh, with tenderness on pressure (tenth day), 4. [490.]
A sharp, shooting pain, passing from the trochanter major of the right leg into the hip-joint (eighteenth day), 11.
Knee.
Boring pain in the right knee (tenth day), 4.
Pain in right knee-joint and in right side, at irregular intervals, in the evening (fifteenth day), .

PLANTAGO. GENERALITIES

Disposition to stretch, with the chilliness (after seven hours, sixth day), 3.
Dull and sleepy (forty-fourth day), 1.
At 4 P.M., felt dull and stupid, with an inclination to stretch and yawn frequently, accompanied with an oppression of the chest and aversion to mental or physical exercise; these symptoms were relieved by walking in the open air (sixteenth day), 3.
Great restlessness and inquietude (third day), 7.
Impossible to keep quiet in any position one minute; whilst seated would constantly change position, particularly the lower extremities, which became numb, tremulous, and painful when quiet, and pass off on changing positions (tenth day), 4.
Great weariness and desire to lie down (twelfth day), 2. [510.]
Almost irresistible desire to lie in bed from general depression and weariness (fourth day), 2a.
Unwilling to get up, in the morning (seventeenth day), 1.
Feeling of great prostration, with a meditative mood or internal reverie, and unable to associate my mind with any external object (eleventh day), 4.
Painful weariness and prostration, especially in the loins and lower extremities, all day and night (third day), 2a.
Feeling of weakness (fourth day), 6.
Weakness (seventeenth day), 1.
Feeling of weakness and faintness, after use of bowels (fifteenth day), 1c.
At present I am in a very weak state; my muscular strength, which was very great (being able to work at the most difficult gymnastic exercises for hours together, without fatigue, and to lift with either arm upright, over my head, many times in succession, a fifty-six pound weight), has almost entirely left me, and all my endurance seems gone (after six weeks), 1c.
Felt languid and uneasy through the day (second day), 7.
Faint and tremulous feelings, particularly on the least exercise (ninth day), 4. [520.]
Faint and tremulous feeling, with nausea (tenth day), 4.
Sinking faint feeling, after a meal (thirty-fifth and thirty-six days), 1.
Very unwell (twelfth day), 2.
In the first days of the proving, the pains come on at night, and are on the left side, extending backward to the body or head; but after some days they are continued through the entire day, affect both sides of the body, and do not extend backward constantly, but often across, from one side to the other, as in the head, from one temple to the other, .

SKIN

Integuments of the face and head seem unnaturally rigid (fifth day), 2.
Eruptions.
Red blotches that burn on rubbing, 3.
On shaving, the face, which is quite tender, is observed to have an eruption of small, reddish, rough, scaly, erythematous patches, the size of a pea (resembling barber's itch), scattered about on the left side only of the face, and most near the commissure of the lips; no decided pain or itching, but an unpleasant sense of tension (seventh day); eruption on the face less prominent, yet rough (eighth day), 2.
Several papulæ have sprung up around the nose, which are red, and smart when touched, one at the base of each ala, and two on the septum narium (seventh day); the papulæ exude a yellowish humor which soon forms a crust (eighth day); eruption drying up (tenth day), 3.
About the twelfth day, an eruption broke out about the lips and thighs, particularly on the inside of the thigh; the papulæ are isolated, hard, white, and flattened; some of them have a small red point in the centre; they itch slightly on first making their appearance; when scratched, the itching becomes more violent, and a burning sensation supervenes; a deep redness is diffused through the part, which lasts about five minutes; in several hours they become more elevated or acuminated, and finally, in about twenty-four hours, gradually disappear without suppuration or desquamation, and others spring up. Several of these papulæ also made their appearance on the wrist and between the fingers. The eruption continues to the present time (seventeenth day). Several pimples also made their appearance on the prepuce; the itching is always worse during the afternoon and evening; not after going to bed. The eruptions till continues on the thighs; also on the wrists, between the fingers, and on the prepuce, which latter itches excessively, in the morning, on rising; itching always worse in a warm room; also in the evening and morning (nineteenth day). The pimples usually disappear in twenty-four hours, and give place to others; they are always isolated, white, and flattened, on their first appearance, becoming more elevated when scratched; a redness diffuses itself through the part, which remains sometimes ten or fifteen minutes (twentieth day); eruption still continues the same (twenty-second day), 3.
Eruption of small pimples on the chin (twenty-eighth day), 1.
A pimple on upper lip (fortieth day), 1.
One or two very small sore pimples on the face, loins, and seat, pricking like a pin on touching (seventeenth day), 1c. [550.]
Small boil on right shoulder-blade (forty-first day); painful (forty-second day); not so painful (forty-third day); no pain whatever, but slight soreness when touched (forty-fourth day); boil quite gone (forty-fifth day), .

SLEEP

Sleepiness.
Excessive and continued yawning , for one hour after lying down (thirteenth day), 4.
Inclination to stretch and yawn, with the dull and stupid feeling, at 4 P.M. (sixteenth day), 3.
Inclination to drowse and slight headache (five hours after first dose, third day), 9.
Drowsiness in the daytime (sixth day), 6.
Feeling of drowsiness and nausea, but unable to sleep for more than a few minutes (forty-second day), 1.
Drowsy feeling; unrefreshing sleep; dreaming; wakefulness and heavy sleep (seventeenth day), 1c.
Sleepy and dull (forty-fourth day), 1.
Heavy sleep, with dreams (eleventh day), 1c. [570.]
Slept with my mouth open (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Sleeplessness.
Sleeplessness at night, 5.
Sleeplessness; restless sleep, with anxious incongruous dreams (first night); restless sleep; tossing about in bed before going to sleep; frequent waking, and difficulty of going to sleep for a long time; sleep unrefreshing (second night); disturbed and restless sleep, with a variety of unimaginable and incoherent dreams; worse after 4 A.M. (fifth night); tossing about in bed for two hours before going to sleep (fifth night); restless sleep (thirteenth night); highest degree of restlessness all night (fourteenth night); much the same (fifteenth night); fell asleep at 1 A.M., after which frequent waking (twenty-second night), 4.
Sleep somewhat disturbed with feverish tossing about (second day), 3.
Rest very much disturbed, little sleep (third night); sleeplessness at night (sixth night); disturbed sleep (seventeenth night), 6.
Since commencing this proving I have not slept so well; I used seldom or never to wake in the night; now I frequently do (thirty-eighth day); sleep better (fortieth day), 1.
Night somewhat restless, first part (first night); restlessness till 12 or 1, in the morning (second night), 2.
Excessively restless; dozing for a few minutes, and waking all through the night; unable to lie still, with fever and perspiration, pain in the small of the back, burning feet (sixteenth night); very restless night (eighteenth night), .

FEVER

Chilliness. [590.]
Chilliness, on rising, after being seated for three hours, with sensation of heat in the chest, and erratic pains in the limbs, chest, and head; these symptoms continue from 1 to 3 P.M., with disposition to stretch, and chilliness when moving about; cold hands in a warm room (after seven hours, sixth day), 3.
Frequent chilly sensation; continued a long time (twenty-seventh day), 11.
Chilly unpleasant sensation through the day (third day), 7.
Chilly sensation, in the evening, with cold feet (eleventh day), 4.
Some chilliness, and slight headache, cold hands and feet, for some time (sixth day), 2.
Feeling of chilliness, with flushed face (fifth day), 1c.
At 2 P.M. cold chills running over me, and gooseflesh; fingers cold (seventh day), 2.
Coldness of body and shivering, with the irritable feeling in head (eighty-fourth day), 1.
Coldness of body, shivering (second day), 1a.
Cold and shivered (eighteenth day), 1. [600.]
Soon get cold in the feet and legs, when walking outdoors (fifty-third day), 1.
Feet inclined to be cold (eighteenth day), 1.
Heat and Sweat.
Highest degree of excitability; high fever; strong bounding pulse, 120; sensation of great heat, with thirst (here I should say, that for the last week I have been obliged to get up every night and drink), imagining the room to be very hot and close; oppression of the chest, with rapid respiration; difficulty of breathing, as if there were no air in the room; pacing backward and forward in the room in the greatest anxiety, then throwing myself on the bed, and rolling from one side to the other in the greatest mental agony, without really knowing why; continued in this state till 1 A.M., when I fell asleep; after which, would frequently wake up from the most vivid, horrible, and frightful dreams (twenty-first night), 4.
Fever, perspiration, and burning feet, with the restlessness (sixteenth night), 1.
Considerable fever, with the dull painful stupid feeling in head (seventh day), 8a.
Head feels hot and stupid (thirty-fifth day), 1.
Unnatural heat of the head, hands, and feet all the time (twelfth day), .

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), On awaking, headache; headache in left side of head; till afternoon, headache in back of head; itching of the scalp; on rising, œdema of the eyelids; after rising, œdema and redness of the eyelids; teeth feel elongated; toothache; tongue coated white; clammy taste; dirty taste; on awaking, hoarseness and soreness in throat; on arising, dryness and huskiness in throat; when swallowing, sensation of scraping in throat; on awaking, constrictive sensation in pharynx; eructations tasting of sulphur; 6 A.M., woke with pain in left hypochondriac region; on waking, abdomen distended; rumbling in the bowels, followed by griping pains; uneasiness in the bowels, as if diarrhœa would come on; after getting up, bleeding from anus; tingling, with itching, in the orifice of the urethra; on waking, desire to urinate with tenesmus of the bladder; on rising, passage of a large quantity of dark-red urine; hoarseness; cough; on waking, stiffness in cords of neck; pain in loins; pain over right kidney; unwilling to get up; on rising, itching on prepuce; sensation of bruised soreness and tension in skin of face.
( Forenoon ), 9 A.M., irritable feeling in head, with soreness of the eyes; pain over left eyebrow; 10 A.M., stiffness and itching of the eyelids; pains in ear; 11.30 A.M., discharge of yellowish water from right nostril; 9 A.M., feeling of nausea; boring pain in or near umbilicus; 11 A.M., discharge of stinking flatus; 9 A.M., inclination to diarrhœa; increased flow of urine; 10 A.M., scraping sensation low down in bronchia, pain in the limbs; rheumatic pains in right elbow.
( Noon ), Bruised sensation over head; pain in socket of right eye.
( Afternoon ), Shooting pains in left parietal region; 6 P.M., while walking and driving, pain in left side of head; sneezing; 4 P.M., sensation across bridge of nose as if nasal bones were being pressed together; 2.30 to 4 P.M., teethache; eructations, tasting of carbonic acid gas; 6 P.M., pain in left hypochondriac region; 5 P.M., pain in right iliac region; 4 P.M., cutting pain in lower part of rectum; diarrhœa pains; 1 P.M., cutting pain in under navel; 4 P.M., oppression of chest, with dull and stupid feeling; while walking in the open air, sensation of heat in the præcordia, with fulness in the abdomen; 4 P.M., on ascending stairs, beating of the heart; 2 P.M., moving or turning the head, soreness and stiffness of the neck; 4 P.M., pain in muscles of neck and shoulders; 3 P.M., heaviness and weight of extremities; darting pain at inner angle of right patella; 4 P.M., pain in dorsal and plantar surfaces of feet; itching; 1 to 3 P.M., chilliness, with heat in head, and pains in limbs, chest, and head; 2 P.M., cold chills, with gooseflesh.
( ), Irritable and morose temper; nervous and cerebral symptoms; muddled and confused feeling in head, with inability to think; heaviness and weariness in the head; pain in temples; headache over right eye; 10 P.M., itching of the scalp; on going to bed, faceache; 10 P.M., bleeding of gums; roughness and sensation of erosion in throat; sickness of stomach, with rumbling in the abdomen; pains in stomach; when going to bed, tender spot just under navel when touched; griping pain in bowels, with nausea; pains in abdomen; itching in the opening of the urethra; 7 P.M., cutting pain in the urethra; oppression of chest, with hurried respiration; 10 P.M., weariness and pain in the loins and lower extremities; on lying down, boring rheumatic pains in various parts of the body; trembling of arms and hands; on lying down, boring pains in bones of hand; pain in joints of fingers; pain in right knee-joint and right side; itching; 10 P.M., itching over the body; chilly sensation, with cold feet; flushed face.

Plantago