CYCLAMEN.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Cyclamen Europæum, Linn.
Natural order , Primulaceæ.
Common names , Sow-bread; (Germ.), Erdscheibe.
Preparation , Tincture of the root gathered in spring.
Authorities.
1 , Hahnemann, M. M. Pura, 5; 2 , Franz, ibid.; 3 , Hartung, ibid.; 4 , Hermann, ibid.; 5 , Langhammer, ibid.; 6 , Pet. de Abbano, De venen. c. 24, statement from observation, ibid.; 7 , Lembke, proving with 10 to 60 drops of tincture, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 3, p. 65; 8 , Hencke, proving with the 3d dil. in water, A. H. Z., 58, p. 94; [The prover was, at the time, suffering from a bruised pain in the right elbow, which felt as though it had been sprained; only noticed on moving the arm; especially troublesome when touched, without swelling or redness.]
9 , omitted; ( 10 to 37, provings collected by Dr. Hampe, Zeit. f. yet. Oest., 1857, 2, 445 ); 10 , D., a medical student, aged 22, took tincture and 1st dil. as follows: first day, 4 drops; second day, 6 drops at 6 A.M. and 8 drops at 8.40 P.M.; third day, 10 drops at 5 A.M.; fifth day, 2 drs. of 1st dil. at 4.50 P.M.; sixth day, applied 1st dil. to eyelids and ball, repeated after forty-five minutes, and took half an ounce at 2 P.M.; seventh day, took 1 ounce of 1st dil. at 12.50 P.M.; ninth day, took 1 dr. of 4th dil. at 4 P.M.; tenth day, 2 drs. of 4th dil. at 11.40 A.M.; thirteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first days, inhaled fumes of tincture; 11 , Dr. Eidherr took tincture, 5 to 20-drop doses, for seven successive days; 12 , same, proving on a girl, aged 17, with 1st dil., 5 drops first day, 6 drops second day; 13 , same, proving on another girl, aged 17, with 1st dil., 6 to 25-drop doses, for five successive days; 14 , same prover as last took tincture, 5-drop doses, increasing daily from 2 to 15 drops; 15 , a girl, aged 16, took 1st dil., 5 to 12-drop doses for four days; [Three months previous to this she took a cold bath just before menstruation appeared (her fourteenth period), it stopped the same night, and has not returned lately she has been depressed and ill-humored.]
16 , Dr. Kaczkowski took tincture twelve days, 1 to 11-drop doses; 17 , Dr. Loew took 4 drops of tincture daily for four days, 8 drops on sixth day, 12 drops on seventh and tenth days; 18 , Dr. Mayrhofer took tincture during a period of three weeks, doses from 2 to 56 drops; 19 , Dr. Schwarz, aged 25, took tincture twice daily, 6 to 60-drop doses, afterward took 3d dil., 10 to 100-drop doses, the latter proving resulted in a renewal of former symptoms; [This prover suffered habitually from a sticking and throbbing pain in the forepart of the head, especially aggravated by heat or stooping, and accompanied by violent pulsation of the temporal arteries.]
20 , Dr. Szontagh, aged 26, took tincture for sixteen days, 3 to 90-drop doses; 21 , Dr. Vivenot, aged 23, took tincture for sixteen days, 5 to 100-drop doses; 22 , Dr. Walter gave a girl, aged 35, 6 to 8 drops of tincture in half a glass of water, teaspoonfull every two hours; ( 23 to 36 , Dr. N.'s experiments in hospital for syphilitics, on girls who were mostly convalescing from blennorrhœa, condylomata, or abrasions); 23 , F., aged 20, took 5 to 30-drop doses of tincture for seven days; 24 , M. R., aged 17, took 5 to 20-drop doses of tincture for five days; 25 , J. B., aged 17, took 5 drops first day, 10 drops second day, 3 drops third day, 6 drops fourth day, when proving was interrupted by violent fever with erysipelas of face; resumed after sixteen days with 32 drops of tincture at one dose; 26 , W. F., aged 19, took 5 to 30-drop doses for six days; 26 b , same, second proving, 1 to 30-drop doses for eight days; 27 , D. F., aged 16, took 5 to 26-drop doses for six days; 27 b , same, second proving, took 1 to 20-drop doses for eight days; 28 , Sch. F., aged 21, took 5 to 26-drop doses for seven days; 29 , L. (perfectly well), took 3 to 25-drop doses for seven days; 30 , H. F., aged 26, took 5 to 35-drop doses for seven days; 31 , H. E. took 5 to 35-drop doses for seven days; 32 , R. A. (frequently has cramps in bowels; menstruation often delayed, now three months absent), took 5 to 24-drop doses for seven days; , St. M. (had menstruated regularly eight days previously) took 5 to 12-drop doses for seven days; , K. R., aged 25, took 5 to 25-drop doses for six days; , E. R. took 1 to 25-drop doses for eight days; , E. F. took 2 to 30-drop doses for eight days; , N. N. [A man usually suffering from weak vision, so that he is able to use his eyes only for an hour during the day with the help of glasses, only possible at evening in a very strong light and for a short time.] took 5 drops of 1st dil. first day, 10 drops second day.
MIND
- Emotional.
- Disinclination to talk; reading was irksome; in paroxysms, lasting two to several hours, 4.
- He is constantly absorbed in himself and disinclined to talk, 4.
- Tranquil mind, 3.
- Gentle disposition, contented with himself (after three hours), 5 . (Secondary and curative action.)
- Toward evening he suddenly feels a strange joyous sensation, with vivid fancies full of pleasant imagery, 2.
- Profound reflection concerning the present and future, almost to weeping (after twelve hours), 5.
- He is absorbed in deep thought; he desires to be alone, and thinks especially about his future state (after one hour), 5.
- More melancholy than ever; she complained of her weeping mood (third day), 13.
- Extreme sadness, as if he had committed some evil, and had not done his duty (after ten hours), 5. [10.]
- Internal grief and anxiety of conscience, as though he had not done his duty, or had committed a crime (after one hour), 5.
- Anxiety (second day), 12.
- Ill-humor (fourth day), 16 ; (sixth day), 10.
- Ill-humored, morose mood; he could easily take offence at every trifle and get very much exercised about it, 5.*
- Out of humor (third day), 30.
- Out of humor without cause (second day), 10.
- Fretful and sad; has no desire to work; she feels a great anxiety, as if some great misfortune were impending (second day), 22.
- Very fretful the whole day; disinclined to speak and insensible, having very little feeling in his body, 2.
- At times extreme fretfulness and sleepiness of mind, with weakness of body; the latter soon disappears when he commences to move about, 2.
- Sometimes he is very ill-humored and fretful, but suddenly he feels again a strange joyous sensation, to which he even gives expression by a slight quivering of the joints, 2. [20.]
- Although previously lively, he now became suddenly very earnest and somewhat fretful (after two hours); after some time he became again lively, soon again ill-humored, .
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion of the head, 7, 9 ; (sixth and seventh days), 10. [30.]
- Confusion of the head, which, with the other symptoms of the head, was relieved after cold applications to the forehead, so that she began to read; after about forty-five minutes sudden faintness; all objects seemed to turn in a circle; it became black before her eyes, followed at last by violent vomiting (second day), 12.
- Confusion of the head, with pressive sensation in the temporal region (seventh day), 21.
- Confusion of the head, with obscuration of vision, 14.*
- Confusion of the head, with transient roaring in the ears (after four hours), 15.
- Confusion of the head, with watery mouth, eructations, with pressure in the stomach, after breakfast (sixth day), 16.
- Confusion of the head, with increased warmth (second day), 16.
- Confusion of the head, without increased heat (eighth day), 16.
- Slight confusion of the head, which, however, soon disappears (after two hours), 13.
- Slight confusion of the head, with obscuration of vision , so that she could not continue her work (she was unable to distinguish outlines of figures), (fifth day), 13.*
- Great confusion of the head in the evening, with vertigo , as if objects were wavering, and feeling of stupidity in the head, so that she was unable to think, and did not comprehend what she was thinking or doing, with heat of the head, redness of cheeks, and glistening eyes, alternations of chilliness and heat, full, hard pulse, over 100, and finally nausea and watery diarrhœa, preceded by rumbling and colic (first day), 22.* [40.]
- Intoxicated confusion and heaviness of the head, not continuing a long time, but associated with general sick feeling and little appetite (seventh day), 17.
- Confusion of the forehead (fifth day), 10.
- Confusion and heat of the forehead, 7.
- Confusion of the forehead and itching of the scalp (second and fifth days), 10.
- Confusion in the frontal region (sixth day), .
EYE
- Objective.
- Eyes glittering (first day), 22.
- The eye lie deep in the orbits and have a weak look (after one hour and a half), 4.
- Eyes are sunken, surrounded by blue rings (second day), 22.
- Subjective.
- Burning in the right eye (seventh day), 10.
- Burning in the eyes, lasting through the whole proving, especially aggravated on reading; with considerable injection of the conjunctiva (the latter not unusual to the prover), (seventh day), 21.
- Burning in the eyes and flickering of the light on attempting to read in the evening in bed (as he was accustomed to do), so that he was obliged to put out the light, after which he fell asleep and slept uninterruptedly the whole night (very unusual), (sixth day), 19.* [140.]
- Violent, sticking, piercing itching in the eyes and lids, 2.
- Lids.
- Swelling of the upper lids (without dilatation of the pupil), (after one hour), 5.
- Vibrating of the right upper eyelid for four or five minutes, always noticed when one rubs the eye or forehead; this symptom was also noticed on the three succeeding days, and after six days it entirely disappeared (twenty-first day), 10.
- Blinking of the lids (seventh day), 10.
- Blinking of the right upper lid (sixth day), 10.
- Blinking of the eyelids on the slightest pressure or rubbing (seventh day), 10.
- Contraction of the eyelids as from strong light (third day), 10.
- Lids seem to be contracted (fifth day, 10.
- Dryness and pressure in the lids, as if swollen with violent itching sticking in them and in the eyeballs (after seven hours), 2.
- Pressure in the eyelids, as if agglutinated (second day), 10. [150.]
- Pressure upon the eyelids on frequent waking at night (first day), 10.
- Pressure in the left canthus (first day), 10.
- Pressure in the left inner canthus (fifteenth day), 10.
EAR
- Feeling in the right ear as though it were stopped with cotton, or as though one were holding something before it, so that sound could not enter it as usual (after thirty-six hours), 4.
- Drawing pain in the inner passages of the right ear ; hearing was less distinct in this ear (after half an hour), 4.
- Itching stitches in the right ear, which kept growing worse, then disappeared of themselves and left behind a burning in the same place, 2.
- Fine tearing in the inner passages of the left ear, 4.
- Hearing.
- Roaring in the ears (second, third, and sixth days), 26 ; (sixth day), 10 , etc.
- Roaring in the ears, on walking a long time (after the larger doses), 20. [190.]
- Roaring and ringing in the ears (sixth day), 10.
- Ringing and sticking in the ears, especially at night, with headaches (third day), 35.
NOSE
- Objective.
- Sneezing (first and third days and second evening), 10.*
- Sneezing (from smelling the juice), (after half an hour), 5.
- Frequent sneezing (third day), 10.
- Frequent sneezing and yawning (second day), 10.
- Violent sneezing, with itching of the ear (second day), 10.
- Frequent coryza, which seemed to be the cause of febrile excitement (second morning), 22.
- Fluent coryza, without sneezing, 7.
- Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing (after seven hours), 5. [200.]
- Sudden profuse coryza (after half an hour), 5.
- Acute catarrh, with slight fever and great heat, 7.
- Several times in the night sudden discharge of a large quantity of clear watery mucus from the nose, without sneezing, 7.
- Frequent slight epistaxis (eleventh day), 17.
- Subjective.
- Dryness of the nose (second day), 10.
- Pressive pain across the nasal bones (second evening), 10.
- Smell.
- *Diminished smell, 2.
- Strong odors do not affect the smell (third day), 10.
FACE
- Cheeks.
- Cheeks red (first day), 22.
- Oppressive tearing pain in the right upper jaw and in the crown of the right eye-tooth (seventh day), 10.
- Lips. [210.]
- Dry lips, without thirst, 3.
- Numb sensation or a feeling as of an induration in the upper lip, 2.
- Chin.
- Biting together of the jaw (fifth day), 10.
- Tearing in the left submaxillary articulation (first day), 10.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Pain in the right lower row of teeth (seventh day), 10.
- Pressive tearing pain in the left upper row of teeth (seventh day), 10.
- Slight jerking through the upper teeth, 7.
- Sore pain in the right upper incisors, chiefly in the crowns, extending into the walls of the mouth (fifth day), 10.
- Violent stitches in the last hollow back teeth of the upper jaw (after fifteen hours and a half), 5.
- Tearing pain in the three left back teeth, as if they would be torn out, 3. [220.]
- Tearing sticking jerking in the two first right upper back teeth (second day), 10.
- (A pre-existing dull drawing toothache, which had lasted the whole night, disappeared in one minute), 2.
- Tongue.
- Tongue white, 7.
- Tongue coated very white for three days (after eight hours), 5.
- Tongue yellowish-white (seventh day, 10 .)
- Tip of the tongue red, burning, covered with small yellow blisters, 7.
- Increased redness of the tip of the tongue, with several small blisters, with violent burning in it; speaking or chewing was painful, with increased saliva, 7.
- Tongue very much coated (fourth day), 12.
- Burning in the tip of the tongue in the evening, 7.
- Burning and stitches in the left side of tongue, 7. [230.]
- Fine stitches in the tongue (after two hours), 2.
- General Mouth.
- Mouth and fauces redder than in the morning, when they were pale (sixth day), 10.
- Mouth pasty and watery (ninth day), 16.
- Rough, slimy sensation in the mouth, as if he had not washed it in the morning, 2.
- Sensation of swelling of the palate, 20.
- Great dryness of the palate in the evening, with thirst and hunger, 2.
- Saliva.
- Much water in the mouth (tenth day), .
THROAT
- Objective.
- Much hawking (third day), 10.
- Subjective.
- Burning in the throat (after two drops, second day), 16.
- Constant burning in the throat, with accumulation of saliva and mucus in the mouth and at times eructations, with an unpleasant sensation in the stomach (immediately after six drops), (sixth day), 16.
- Great contraction in the throat (soon), (fourth day), 23.
- Constriction in the throat (seventh day), 10.
- Constriction pain in the throat, even from smelling the medicine (immediately), (second evening), 10.
- Sore pain in the throat (second day), 25.
- Scraping in the throat, with eructations tasting of the drug (immediately), 21. [260.]
- Burning scraping in the throat, lasting an hour, 20.
- Jerks and painfulness in the throat (second evening), 10.
- Uvula and Tonsils.
- Uvula and tonsils very much contracted and white (sixth day), 10.
- Fauces.
- Fauces red, 7.
- Fauces very red, painful on swallowing, with much tough mucus, 7.
- Much mucus in the fauces, 7.
- Scraping in the fauces nearly the whole day, 7.
- Scraping in the fauces, lasting the whole day (soon), 7.
- Frequent scraping in the fauces, with pain on swallowing, 7.
- External Throat.
- Pressive drawing pain in the submaxillary glands on bending the neck forward, 2.
STOMACH
- Appetite. [270.]
- Great appetite (second day), 10.
- Greatly increased appetite (third day), 10.
- Unnatural hunger, at times followed by complete loss of appetite (eighth day), 22.
- Alternations of ravenous hunger and loss of appetite, 9.
- Diminished hunger and appetite, 4.*
- Loss of appetite (third day), 12 ; (fifth day), 34.
- Almost complete loss of appetite and thirst (seventh day), 10.
- Complete loss of appetite; especially he does not relish his breakfast and supper; as soon as he begins to eat at these times he becomes satiated, 4.*
- No appetite (fourth day), 27b.
- After eating only a little food, the rest becomes repugnant and nauseates him; the nausea is felt in the throat and palate (after twenty-seven hours), 4. [280.]
- For eight days he could eat but very little, and had a constant feeling of satiety, 4.
- No appetite for breakfast (second day), 10.
- No inclination for breakfast, 4.
- Breakfast was not relished and was followed by nausea and vomiting (eighth day), 17.
- Soon satisfied at dinner, which, however, had the usual relish (ninth day), 16.
- Very little appetite for dinner, followed by constant empty eructations, lasting two hours (fifth day), 19.
- Aversion to bread and butter ; warm food, however, goes down more easily, 4.*
- Thirst.
- Thirst (fifth day), 27b.
- Thirst after eating, which had been absent nearly five days (seventh day), 10.
- Great thirst (first night), 29 ; (third day), 12. [290.]
- Thirst so great that she drank eight glasses of water (sixth day), 27b.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- Dull sticking in the intestines beneath the hepatic region, 3.
- Stitches in the hepatic region (second evening), 10.
- Umbilical and Flanks.
- Frequent griping in the umbilical region awoke him at night, but was relieved by pressure upon the abdomen, and entirely disappeared after a normal stool (seventh night), 21.
- Stitches in the umbilical region (sixth day), 10.
- Tension of the flanks (seventh day), 16.
- General Abdomen.
- Distension of the abdomen (fifth day), 16.
- Distension of the abdomen by gas (sixth day), 10. [360.]
- Rumbling and griping in the abdomen (first day), 10.
- Rumblings and movings in the abdomen, followed by pains, after breakfast (second day), 10.
- Frequent accumulation of intestinal gases, 9.
- Much flatulence (first day), 10.
- Frequent emission of flatulence (fifth day), 16.
- Frequent passage of flatulence upward and downward (second day), 16.
- Pains in the bowels (second and fourth days); (immediately, seventh day), 30.
- Pains in the bowels, especially at night (fifth day), 34.
- Violent pains in the bowels kept her awake at night (fourth day), 34.
- The pains in the abdomen did not cease for a moment (sixth day), 10. [370.]
- Pains in the abdomen, the whole afternoon and at night (second day), 31.
- Pain in the abdomen at night (sixth day), 28.
- Slight pains in the abdomen (first day), 10.
- Feeling of fulness and slight distension of the abdomen (seventh night), 21.
- The right side of the abdomen beneath the navel seems swollen and distended, in the morning; a deceptive sensation, 2.
- Dragging in the abdomen, with increased warmth (fourth day), 15.
- Cramplike pains in the bowels (fifth day), .
RECTUM AND ANUS
- Heat in the rectum, with swelling of the hæmorrhoidal vessels (eleventh day), 16.
- Stitches in the rectum, 7.
- Drawing pressive pain in and about the anus and in the perineum, as if the places were suppurating, while walking and sitting, 2.
- Stitches in the anus (second evening), 10.
- Urging to stool (second day), 10.
- Immediate urging to stool, in the morning; it was thin, with burning and straining, followed by streaks of blood (third day), 16.
- Great urging at stool (second day), 16. [410.]
- Renewed ineffectual urging after a normal stool (third day), 16.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Diarrhœa, lasting five days (after last dose of 100 drops), 21.
- Diarrhœa renewed after every cup of coffee (second day), 22.*
- Sudden diarrhœa set in after taking the drug about two weeks, and lasted three days, 18.
- Some looseness of the bowels (second and third days), 25.
- Two diarrhœa-like stools before and after breakfast, preceded by griping pain in the abdomen (sixth day), 19.
- Stools increased at first; during the first three days pasty, 37.
- Frequent passage of a hard stool (after ten hours), 5.
- Stools increased in number to two a day, several times, 20.
- Two thin fluid evacuations from the bowels, with frequent rumbling in the intestines, and passage of flatus (eighth day), 21. [420.]
- The stool seems to shoot out, at first crumbly, then soft, with palpitation of the heart (second day), 10.
- Thin stools (fourth day), 34.
- Stools regular but thin, (second stool), (seventh day), 10.
- Stool at first normal, afterwards very thin, light yellow (tenth day), 10.
- A sudden thin stool in the evening, without colic, 7.
- Pasty stool (after fifteen hours), 5.
- Stool once pasty (third day), 31.
- A slimy stool, which afterwards is even passed unnoticed (sixteenth day), 10.
- Stools are odorless, brownish-yellow, and mixed with some mucus (second day), 10.
- Compact stool, with a burning sensation in the rectum (fourth day), 16. [430.]
- Stool consisting of hard masses (seventh day), 10.
- Stool with great urging and discharge of some drops of blood (eleventh day), 17.
- Constipation.
- The diarrhœa which had previously existed bad stopped, and she had been constipated since taking the medicine (third day), 23.
- Stool delayed for nine hours (seventh day), 10.
URINARY ORGANS
- Bladder.
- Pressure upon the bladder and rectum, without frequent micturition or stool (eleventh day), 16.
- Great pressure on the bladder and rectum, with frequent urging to urinate, much urine and emission of much flatulence, after the midday nap (eighth day), 16.
- Urethra. [440.]
- Pain going from the bladder to the urethra, while urinating (second evening), 10.
- Sticking in the urethra and urging, to urinate (second day), 10.
- Sticking pain in the forepart of the urethra, while urinating (after seven hours and a half), 5.
- Stitches in the urethra (second day), 10.
- Short stitches in the urethra (second day), 10.
- Urging to urinate, with pressure in the anus (first day), 10.
- Frequent urging to urinate without pains (after one hour), 5.
- Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge (after fifteen hours), 5.
- Micturition.
- Increased secretion of urine (seventh day), 26b.
- Frequent micturition after dinner (first day), 16. [450.]
- Frequent micturition, with urging in the bladder and rectum, and frequent passage of flatulence upward and downward (third day), 16.
- Frequent micturition, with a dragging sensation (fourth day), 16.
- Frequent micturition of much clear urine, 7.
- Large quantity of clear urine was frequently voided at night, though very little liquid had been taken during the previous afternoon and evening, 7.
- Frequent evacuation of watery urine (second day), 16.
- Frequent copious discharge of whitish urine (after four hours), 2.
- Increase of urine for some days, 37.
- Urine very copious, passing in a large stream (second day), 10.
- Diminished amount of urine (second day), 10.
- Micturition seldom, urine scanty (tenth day), 17. [460.]
- Micturition but twice (second day), .
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Prepuce retracted, only in the open air (seventh day), 10.
- Frequent erections at night without dreams to cause them (first day), 10.
- Sensation of soreness on the glans penis and prepuce, after slight rubbing (second evening), 10.
- Female.
- Menstruation came on four days too early, which somewhat relieved her melancholy mood and the heaviness of the feet (fourth day), 13.
- Menstruation appeared on the second night, with violent labor-pains, accompanied by great distension of the abdomen, so that she could scarcely stoop, *the flow was profuse, black, and clotted (previously menstruation was always painless, of a bright red color, and thin), 22. [470.]
- Menstruation came on the fifth day, ran the natural course for six days, after which the girl was well, 15.
- Menstruation ceased on its second day, but returned on its third day, and ran the regular course, 13.
- Menstruation returned on the first day and lasted four days, 33.
- Menstruation returned, preceded by pain in the abdomen (first day), 33.
- *Menstrual flow black, clotted and membranous, 9.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Larynx and Trachea.
- Pain in the larynx, 7.
- Sudden scraping in the larynx, 7.
- Tickling in the larynx, with dry cough, 7.
- Frequent tickling and scraping in the larynx, with dry cough, lachrymation, and accumulation of watery saliva, 7.
- Frequent, suddenly appearing, violent tickling in the larynx, with severe paroxysm of coughing, 7. [480.]
- Scraping and dry sensation in the trachea, in the open air, which causes a suffocative cough (second day), 10.
- Voice.
- Voice weak while reading aloud, together with hiccough (second day), 10.
- Voice rough, 7.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Violent cough, with tickling in the larynx at night, 7.*
- Hacking cough (after three-quarters of an hour), 5.
- Some hacking cough (fifth day), 10.
- Violent cough at night with much scraping in the larynx, pain in the fauces, and thick mucus, 7.*
- The cough, which was usually most violent during sleep, was never caused by talking or walking, even against a cold wind, 7.*
- Much expectoration (seventh day), 10.
- Respiration.
- Suffocation, 6.
CHEST. [490.]
- Tight sensation in the chest, in the morning (eleventh day), 16.
- Paralytic pressure on the chest, in the upper arm, and tibia, while sitting still (after eight hours), 2.
- Oppression of the chest, with difficult respiration, 3.
- Tearing stitches in the chest, during rest and motion, with dyspnœa and shortness of breath (second day), 2.
- Tearing stitches in the last true ribs, on bending the body forward, 2.
- Front.
- Pressure on the sternum (seventh day), 10.
- Pressure in the middle of the sternum (second evening), 10.
- Sharp superficial stitches in the upper part of the sternum, returning at irregular intervals (after thirty-two hours), 4.
- Sides.
- Wheezing in the left side of the chest (third day), 10.
- Burning in the left side of the chest (third day), 23. [500.]
- Pressive pain in the left side of the chest, especially about the heart, as if too much blood had accumulated in that region, with perceptible palpitation, 3.
- Stitches in the left side (first day), 36.
- Stitches in the left side of the chest, aggravated by inspiration (fifth day), 10.
- Some stitches in the right side of the chest above the sixth rib (second evening), 10.
- Mammæ.
- Feeling as though the breasts were larger than usual, with sticking and tensive pains in them; the breasts seemed to be distended, and the glands hard and painful; she supposed that she was pregnant, especially as real milk flowed from her nipples; upon examination this was found to be a watery milk, not unlike the mother's milk during the first few days; it left a spot upon the linen, as from a weak solution of starch; this fluid discharged itself, and could be forced out by drops on pressing upon the breast; as this milky fluid appeared the other annoying symptoms of the breast disappeared; this discharge gradually ceased within a fortnight, 22.
- Feeling as though air were streaming out of the breasts, with swelling and painfulness in them, with discharge of watery milky fluid, 9.
- Violent sharp stitches about the left nipple, at 4 P.M., while walking, .
HEART AND PULSE
- Præcordium.
- Stitches in the præcordial region, on waking at night (first day), 10.
- Stitches in the region of the apex of the heart (first day), 10.
- Heart's Action.
- Heart's action excited; whirring in the region of the heart (fifth day), 10. [510.]
- Violent palpitations (second evening), 10.*
- Beating of the heart and pulse scarcely perceptible (third day), 10.
- Pulse.
- Pulse rapid, with respiration somewhat accelerated (second day), 10.
- Pulse very rapid, scarcely perceptible (second day), 10.
- Pulse of double rapidity, very rapid; respiration, on the contrary, very quiet (third day), 10.
- Pulse hard and full, more than 100 (first day), 22.
- The beats of the pulse are full and regular; after a time the pulse became again quiet (second day), 10.
- Pulse scarcely perceptible (sixth day), 10.
- Pulse nearly imperceptible (fifth day), 10.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- Drawing rheumatic pain in the left side of the neck on moving the head, together with a sensation of beating in the muscles of the neck and in the left ear; in the evening, 2. [520.]
- Rheumatic drawing in the left side of the neck, only felt on bending the head backwards (after half an hour), 5.
- Pressive paralytic pain in the neck, disappearing on bending the head backward, 2.
- Smarting sore sensation internally and externally in the neck, 2.
- Drawing bruised pain deep in the muscles of the neck, which extend internally down the œsophagus, and cause a sensation of tension in it (after ten hours), 2.
- Back.
- Drawings down the spine, relieved by throwing the shoulders backwards, aggravated by throwing the shoulders forward (after seven hours), 2.
- Sticking pains in the left side of the back, in the region of the false ribs, while sitting, disappearing on touch (after fifteen hours), 5.
- Some deeply piercing, griping, dull stitches, returning at irregular intervals for a few seconds, on the right side near the spine, near the os innominatum and the last false ribs, in the region of the kidneys, worse during inspiration, which is impeded by the severity of the pain (after twenty-eight hours), 4.
- Dorsal.
- Tearing across the scapulæ, ending with a sticking and paralytic pain in the arm, 2.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the shoulder-joint (second day), 10.
- Sore pain in the region of the left acromion, especially on taking off the overcoat (fourteenth day), 10.
- Lumbar. [530.]
- Drawing in the small of the back (second and sixth days), 34.
- Drawing pain in the small of the back (fifth day), 30.
- Tension in the lumbar region (tenth day), 16.
- Pressure in the region of the lumbar vertebræ, aggravated at times by stooping, at times by pressure, 7.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Objective.
- Stretching of the limbs as before paroxysms of fever (seventh day), 16.
- Trembling of the hands and feet (fourth day), 23.
- All the limbs are affected, as if their motility were impaired, 2.
- Subjective.
- Heaviness in the limbs, especially in the arms and hands, so that objects are easily allowed to drop, 9.
- Joints painful on motion (fifth day), 10.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Heaviness in the upper limbs (first day), 10. [540.]
- All the pain disappeared in the morning after rising, but returned during the forenoon, in the right elbow, and gradually extended over the whole arm from the shoulder to the fingers, but was especially worse in the forearm; hitherto the pain had only been noticed during rest, and disappeared on moving the arm or on change of position, and immediately returned on keeping the arm quiet; on going to bed the pain returned, and obliged him to move the arm hither and thither, at one time to extend, at another to flex it, until at last he fell asleep, 8.
- A kind of paralyzed, hard pressure on the right upper and forearm, feeling as though in the periosteum and deep internally in the muscles, extending thence to the fingers, and preventing writing (after thirty-seven hours), 4.
- Elbow.
- Tearing pain in the elbow and wrist-joints (seventh day), 10.
- Bruised pain in the left elbow-joint, lasting half an hour, soon followed by a similar pain in the left knee, 8.
- Pain across the outer side of the elbow-joint, as if caused by a bruise or blow, on moving the arm, and more painful when touched, lasting three days (after twenty-five days), 5.
- Forearm.
- Drawing in the left arm, extending into the fingers, 1.
- Painful drawings in the inner surface of the ulna and in the wrist (after thirty-eight hours), 4.
- A kind of paralytic hard pressure, which commences only slightly in the forearm, but extends down to the fingers, where it becomes so violent that he is able to write only with the greatest exertion, 4.
- Sticking pain in the muscles of the right forearm, during rest and motion (after two hours), 5.
- Tearing in the left forearm (first day), 10. [550.]
- Fine tearing in the left radius near to and in the wrist, feeling as though in the periosteum (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
- Violent bruised pain in the right forearm, extending from the elbow to the fingers, painful on the slightest touch, waking him from sleep; only towards morning was he able to sleep quietly, 8.
- Hand.
CYCLAMEN. INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Weakness in the upper and lower legs; on standing a long time they sway to and fro (after half an hour), 4.
- Thigh.
- Cramplike pain in the posterior portion of the thigh above the right popliteus (after eight hours), 4. [560.]
- Rheumatic drawings in the left gluteus maximus, in the upper part, along its attachment to the ilium, towards the sacrum, while sitting, disappearing on standing (after seven hours), 2.
- Tearing pain on the outer side of the right thigh (second evening), 10.
- Knee.
- Drawing pain in the bends of the knees, while standing (second day), 10.
- Drawing pain, becoming a crawling, in the bend of the right knee (second day), 10.
- Drawing pain in the right knee-joint, in the acromion and in the knee-cap (fifth day), 10.
- Drawing pain in the left knee-cap (tenth day), 10.
- Tensive-pressive drawing in the tendons of the knee-joint, while sitting and standing, 2.
- Pressure and painfulness in the left knee, as after a bruise or great fatigue, noticed while walking, 7.
- Pain, as if sprained, in the left knee-cap (sixth day), 10.
- Pressive bruised pain, now in one, now in the other knee, disappearing on motion (after eleven hours), 2. [570.]
- Internal twitching beneath the left knee, 2.
- Leg.
- Drawing pain in the flexor muscles of the left leg on extending it, which seems to come from the bend of the knee and extend to the tips of the toes; the same sensation on the right side, but in a less degree (first day), 10.
- Tearing in the left leg (second day), 10.
- Tearing-pressive paralytic pain in the tibiæ, on motion, with loss of power and unsteadiness in the knees (second day), 2.
- Violent drawing in the left leg, 7.
- Drawing pressure in the tibiæ, now while sitting, now while walking; it disappears while walking and appears while sitting or disappears while disappears while sitting and reappears while walking, touch more frequently painful while sitting (after nine hours), .
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Objective.
- General depression, weariness of the feet, sleepiness, and frequent yawning (seventh day), 21.
- Relaxation of the whole body; it is irksome to even move the limb, 3.* [600.]
- Weakness (second day), 23 ; (third day), 33 , etc.
- Weakness of the whole body (first day), 27.*
- Weakness, paleness of the face, eyes sunken, pulse 108 (third day), 12.*
- Weakness and prostration (fourth day), 23.*
- Weakness, with profuse perspiration (sixth day), 33.
- Great weakness of body, especially of the knees, though mentally he feels strong and vigorous (after one hour and a half), 2.
- Weak and disinclined to work (fifth day), 30.
- Weak and prostrated on waking in the morning (ninth day), 17.
- The child constantly desired to go to bed and to lie down, 1.
- Great uneasiness at night (third day), 34.* [610.]
- Extremely uneasy at night (seventh day), 30.*
- Extremely restless at night (seventh day), 31.*
- Subjective.
- On waking, weariness, with clammy mouth and irritable mood (fifth day), 16.*
- After dinner, weariness, tension in the abdomen, passage of flatulence up and down, profuse micturition with dragging in the bladder and rectum, heat in the head and chilliness in the back, after the midday nap (sixth day), 16.
- On waking, weariness, ill-humor, with pasty taste (fifth day), 16.
- In the evening, weariness and depression (sixth day), 16.
- Great weariness (second day), 29.
- Great weariness and prostration of the whole body (second day), .
SKIN
- Objective.
- Old scars of small-pox, which had become almost imperceptible, reappeared distinct and dark-red; the forehead was thickly, covered with similar spots, as large as peas (sixth day), 10.
- Small reddish spots in the face, especially in the forehead, also some pimples, rather large, which soon fill with pus (twenty-first day), 10.
- Spots half an inch in size, of a bright-red color, like burns, on both thighs (after ten hours and a half), 5.
- Eruptions, Dry.
- Papulous eruption on the scalp, face, and rest of the skin (third day), 10.
- Pimple as large as a pea, which itches painfully, upon the parotid gland (second day), 10.
- After violent itching, which causes him to scratch, a red pimple appears at the first (metacarpal) joint of the ring finger, which soon afterward becomes white as from a water-blister, surrounded by a red areola (after one hour and a half), 5. [640.]
- Papulous eruptions on the forehead (fifth and sixth days), 28.
- Eruptions, Moist.
- Many pimples on the face, which speedily fill with white lymph (seventh day), 10.
- Many pimples on the face, which rapidly fill with a whitish-yellow lymph and then shrivel (sixth day), 10.
- After fine itching, red vesicles appear on the middle of the left little finger (after fifteen hours and a half), 5.
- Eczema on the right side of the chest, about an inch in length and four lines in breadth (after taking the drug two or three weeks), 18.
- Subjective.
- Sensation as if a large animal were running over her whole body (third day), 23.
- Itching gnawing in various parts of the body; it obliges him to scratch, after which it ceases for some time, but returns, 4.
- Itching in various parts of the body, consisting of sudden, sharp, bubbling, continuing stitches, after the disappearance of which there remained for some time a sensation of numbness, 2.
- Itching (sometimes in the forenoon) in various parts of the body, consisting of large stitches, which change to drawing and tearing pain (second day), 2.
SLEEP AND DREAMS
- Yawning (third, fifth, sixth, and tenth days), 10.
- Frequent yawning (third day), 10.
- Endless yawning, in the evening, so that he went to bed early and slept uninterruptedly through the whole night (which was unusual for him), (fifth day), 19.
- Sleepiness after eating (after six hours and a half), 5.
- Sleepiness while sitting (after three hours and a half), 5.
- Great sleepiness and weariness at noon after eating, 2. [670.]
- Great sleepiness in the evening, with deep sleep and lascivious dreams, at night (after taking a cup of tea with four teaspoonfuls of rum), (fifth day), 16.
- Sleepy and fretful, in the afternoon, 8.
- Great inclination to slumber, the whole forenoon, 2.
- Great inclination to sleep in the evening, cannot keep up, 2.
- In the evening, he is unable to keep awake, with constant chilliness, 2.
- Early sleep (before ten), as after great fatigue; dreams confused (first night), 16.
- Sleep towards morning, with light dreams, 2.
- Sound sleep, with indistinct frightful dreams (third day), 13.
- Deep sleep, with confused dreams, which he could not remember in the morning (second day), 16.
- Sleeps longer than usual in the morning (second day), 10.*
- Sleeplessness. [680.]
- Sleeplessness (first day), 24.
- Sleepless (fourth day), 23.
- *Night sleepless (fourth day), 15 ; (fifth day), 27b.
- Sleepless at night with thirst, heat, and some headache (second day), 29.
- Night restless , (second day), 15 ; (third and fourth days), 33.*
- Night restless interrupted by dreams (second day), 23.*
- Night restless, sleep disturbed by frequent attacks of anxiety and inclination to vomit (second day), 12.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Chilliness in the open air (second day), 10.
- Some chilliness followed a feverish attack and paroxysms of heat and throbbing in the head (seventh day), 10.
- Towards evening, first chilliness, without thirst, with great sensitiveness to the cold, which frequently causes sudden shivering and shaking, followed by heat of certain parts, with anxiety, as if some evil were impending, 2.
- Towards evening, at first chilliness for some minutes, with great sensitiveness to the cold, followed by heat in different parts of the body, on the backs of the hands, and on the nape of the neck, but not in the face, 2.
- Constant chilliness the whole forenoon, renewed by every dose, with coldness of the whole body; after the chilliness disappears and the usual warmth begins, at first the nose still remains cold, but as this becomes warm, the previously warm hands become again cold (after half an hour), 4. [710.]
- Alternations of chills and heat (first day), 22.
- Sudden attack of violent shaking chill at 9 P.M.; he soon went to bed, but passed a sleepless night in a feverish heat; on the next day he still felt unwell, continued to have some fever, with headache, which continued through the whole afternoon; in the evening, violent fever again appeared, lasting till about two o'clock at night, when he first fell asleep (after taking the drug two or three weeks), 18.
- Dinner is relished, but is followed by general coldness, with congestion of the head (fifth day), 16.
- Coldness alternating with heat, followed by profuse sweat (second day), 25.
- After the midday nap, coldness over the whole body, heat in the head, tension about the flanks, pressure and heat in the rectum, with swelling of the hæmorrhoidal vessels, flatulence, prostration, and ill-humor (tenth day), 16.
- Feeling of coldness of the whole body (second and third days), 16.
- Feeling of coldness over the whole body after eating (third and fourth days), 16.
- Feeling of general coldness, with congestion to the brain, after dinner (fourth day), 16.
- Shivering through the whole body, with yawning, but without coldness or goose-flesh, in the morning (after twenty-four hours), 5.
- Sudden shiverings, at times, in the evening, with sensation of chilliness, 2. [720.]
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On rising, headache, etc.; on walking, dimness of vision; sensation in mouth; after accustomed smoke, nausea, etc.; feeling inside of abdomen; urging to stool; sensation in chest; on waking, weak, etc.; on waking, weariness , etc.; on waking, heaviness of body, etc.; itching of calf; deep sleep, etc.; shivering, etc.; coldness of hands, etc.; feeling of heat; heat in head; on waking, head hot, etc.
- ( Forenoon ), Pain in arm; chilliness.
- ( Noon ), After nap, tension in region; after eating, sleepiness.
- ( Afternoon ), Vertigo; towards evening, vertigo, etc.; towards evening, headache, headache, etc.; fog before the eyes; nausea; towards evening inclination to vomit, etc.; towards evening, itching, etc.; sleepy, etc.; towards evening, chilliness, etc.; after midday nap, coldness, etc.; after midday nap, coldness over back, etc.; towards evening, warmth of head.
- ( Evening ), Confusion of head, etc.; headache; on going to sleep, headache; burning in tip of tongue; dryness of palate; after eating, eructations; pain in the bowels, pain in side of neck; weariness , etc.; in bed, stitches; in bed, itching; in bed, itching on right calf; itching of toes; at 9 o'clock, attack of chill; shivering, etc.; heat in leg, etc.
- ( Night ), Ringing, etc., in ears; nausea; towards morning, inclination to vomit; griping umbilical region; pains in bowels; griping in abdomen; cough, etc.; on waking, stitches in præcordial region; uneasiness before midnight, heat in face, etc.; sweat.
- ( In open air ), Prepuce retracted.
- ( Moving in open air ), Turning sensation in head.
- ( After breakfast ), Confusion of head, etc.; eructations; rumbling, etc.; in abdomen.
- ( After coffee ), Diarrhœa.
- ( During dinner ), Thirst.
- ( After dinner ), Weariness, etc.; frequent micturition; feeling of coldness, etc.
- ( After eating ), Hiccough ; immediately, rumbling in lower abdomen ; weariness; sleepiness; feeling of coldness.