STANNUM.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
The element, Tin.
Preparation , Trituration of the pure metal.
Authorities. (Nos.
1 to 12 , from Hahnemann, Chr. Kn.)
1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Franz; 3 , Gross; 4 , Guttmann; 5 , Hartmann; 6 , Haynel; 7 , Herrmann; 8 , Langhammer; 9 , Wislicenus; 10 , Alston, Mat. Med., 1, 152 (statement of a case reported to him, -Hughes); 11 , Gusschlæger, in Hufel. Journ. (effect of swallowing granulated Tin, -Hughes); 12 , Meyer, Abr. Diss. Cantel. de Anthelmint, Gött., 1782 (observation, -Hughes); 13 , Stahl, Mat. Med., cap. vi (not accessible, -Hughes); 14 , Dr. Pitet, Jour. de la Soc. Gall., vol. iv, proving of Bichloride of tin (fuming), 3d dil. in watery solution, repeated doses, and in progressive order, during ten days in January and February; 15 , a young woman took a few doses of fuming Bichloride of tin for pruritus of vulva; 16 , another woman took a few doses of the same; 17 , effects on a third woman immediately after a dose; 18 , G. W. Hazeltine, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xxxi, 1844, p. 38, T. A. E., æt. fourteen years, swallowed a draught of Bichloride of tin; 19 , Meinel, Deutsche Klin., 1851 (S. J. 74, 167), effects of Muriate of tin and salt; 20 , E. P. Angell, M.D., Ohio Med. and Surg. Rep., vol. ii, 1868, p. 152, a family ate a cold chicken-pie baked the previous day in a new tin pan; 21 , Dr. Angell ate a similar dish, very heartily, as a test; all the other members of the family had similar attacks, varying in degree with the quantity eaten; 22 , a family ate a custard cooked in a new tin pan the day previous.
MIND
- Excited and inclined to storms of anger (fourth day), 3.
- Violent, very transient anger, 3.
- Remarkably joyful, 4.
- Talkative; sociable, 8.
- Quiet good-humor (after fourteen hours), 8.
- Quiet, absorbed in himself, with great discomfort of the body, 4.
- Quiet, absorbed in himself, solicitous for the future, 8.
- Sad, hypochondriac mood, 1.
- Discontented, 1. [10.]
- Great anxiety and depression a week before the menses, ceasing on the appearance of the flow, 1.
- Indescribable anxiety and despondency for several days, 1.
- Discouraged, 1.
- Contented with nothing without being fretful, 1.
- Fretfulness disappearing, in the open air, the whole day, 2.
- Quiet fretfulness; he answers unwillingly and abruptly ; easily vexed, and easily gets into a temper, 7.
- Peevishness and transient sensitiveness (first three days), 3.
- Vexatious; nothing goes to suit him, 8.
- Aversion and dread of people, 1.
- Restless and distracted; no persistence in work, immediately, 1. [20.]
- Fruitlessly busy, as if a rush of ideas prevented him from completing his work at a certain time; all sorts of things occur to him to be done, 3.
- Indolent and irritable, with heat in the face; would do everything, but really does nothing, 1.
- Is inclined to do no work, and inability to think, 7.
- Dulness of mind, indifference to external objects, indisposition, with paleness and darkness about the eyes, 4.
- Disinclination to talk, 1.
- Want of memory, in the morning on waking, 1.
HEAD
- Confusion and Vertigo.
- Confusion and dulness of the head, as before coryza, which, however, did not occur, with sneezing, 1.
- Vertigo, as if the brain were whirling around; all thought vanished, and he could not continue to read, and sat as if without his senses, 7.
- Sudden attacks of vertigo, while sitting down, 9.
- Vertigo, as if all objects were at too great a distance, 9. [30.]
- Stupefying vertigo, only when walking, in the open air; he reels as if he would fall, 8.
- Dizziness in the whole head, 7.
- Dizziness, while sitting, as if he would fall, 4.
- Dizziness, in the morning on waking from a long sleep, as if he had not slept enough, 4.
- General Head.
- Heaviness and dulness of the head, worse in the evening, 1.
- Heaviness of the head during rest and motion, in the evening, lasting two hours (after nine hours), 1.
- Heaviness and tearings throughout the head (twenty-fifth day), 14.
- Almost constant heaviness throughout the head, sometimes only at the top (thirtieth day), 14.
- Painful heaviness throughout the whole head, sometimes in the forehead only, or in the temples (tenth day), 14.
- Now and then, violent heaviness in the head, sometimes general, sometimes partial; sometimes at one point, sometimes at another (twelfth day), 14. [40.]
- General heaviness throughout the head, especially in the occiput (twentieth day), 14.
- Feeling of weakness in the head, and sleepiness, 1.
- Pain and heat in the head, in the morning on waking, 1.
- Headache mostly every morning, with loss of appetite; nausea and fretfulness, 1.
- The action of raising or of bowing the head causes pain in the muscles which are involved in these movements (twentieth day), 14.
- Painful sensation on shaking the head, as if the brain were loose and beat against the skull, 2.
- Boring, pressive, stupefying pain in the left half of the brain, on the surface, .
EYE
- Objective.
- The eyes are prominent and painful, as after weeping, 1.
- Nightly agglutination of the eyes, with weakness during the day, 1. [120.]
- Dim, weak, sunken eyes (after two days), 7.
- Eyes dim, 1.
- Subjective.
- Pain in the eyes, as from rubbing with a woollen cloth, removed by moving the lids, 1.
- Pressure in the eyes, 1.
- Pressure in the left eye, as from a stye on the lid, 2.
- Jerking in the eyes, 1.
- Twitching in left eye, lasting a week, 1.
- Several sharp, dartings in the globe of the right eye (twenty-first day), 14.
- Burning sticking in the right eye, toward the outer canthus, 4.
- Burning in the eyes, 1. [130.]
- Biting in the eyes, as after rubbing with a woollen cloth, 2.
- Brow and Orbit.
- A pimple on the left eyebrow, with burning by itself and with pressive pain when touched, 1.
- Sudden sensitive dull thrusts in the outer side of the upper margin of the left orbit, 3.
- Jerklike drawing tearing externally above the left eyebrow, 8.
- Drawing pressure in the upper margin of the left orbit, 3.
- Sudden jerks on the upper margin of the right orbit and in other parts, with sensitive stupefaction of the head, 3.
- In the upper part of the right orbit, shootings which penetrate from before backward into the substance of the brain (forty-second day), 14.
- Lids.
- Stye in the inner angle of the right eye, 15.
- Pustular swelling of the left inner canthus , like a lachrymal fistula, 1.*
- Twitching in the right inner canthus, 6. [140.]
- Pressure in both upper lids, 4.
- Pressive pain in the right inner canthus, .
EAR
- Ulceration in the hole for the earring in the lobule of the ear, 1.
- Shooting in the cartilages of the right ear (twentieth day), 14.
- A drawing stitch in the upper part of the left concha, 4.
- Pressure externally on the bones behind the ear, 1. [160.]
- Griping tearing through the cartilage of the lobule of the left ear, with at times a sensation as if a cold wind were blowing in it (after four hours), 9.
- Earache; in the outer ear a drawing pain, 3.
- Boring pain in the right ear, with cold feet, 1.
- Frequent drawing in the left ear, like an earache, 3.
- Drawing in the whole right ear externally and internally; painful on moving the lower jaw, 1.
- Cramplike pain in the whole right ear, lasting eight hours, 4.
- Tearing in the right meatus, like an earache, 7.
- Itching in the left ear, 1.
- Stopped sensation in the left ear, with deafness, which was relieved by blowing the nose, in the morning after rising, lasting four days, 6.
- Hearing.
- Screaming in the ear when blowing the nose, 1. [170.]
- Rushing in the ears as from a stream of blood, 2.
- Ringing in the left ear, 8.
- Creaking in front of and in the left ear, as from a door, in the evening, 2.
- Rustling noise of a grasshopper in the left ear (eighteenth day), 14.
- The jarring of his steps (on walking) resounds painfully in the head (twentieth day), 14.
NOSE
- Frequent sneezing without coryza, 8.
- Violent sneezing, in the evening (eighth day), 14.
- Profuse coryza (after four days), 1.
- Intense coryza, alternating with stoppage of the nose, 16.
- Coryza of the left nostril (tenth day), 14. [180.]
- Violent coryza all day (eleventh day), 14.
- Diminished coryza (twelfth day), 14.
- Blood is blown from the nose, in the morning (seventeenth and eighteenth days), 14.
- Nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on rising from bed, 6.
- Violent nosebleed, in the morning, immediately on waking, 1.
- Stoppage of the nose, in the morning (ninth day), 14.
- Violent stopped catarrh; can get air through only the right nostril, at noon; on the fourth day the nose becomes free, 2.
- Can get no air through the left nostril, which is excessively swollen, red, and painful to touch, 1.
- Heaviness and a stopped sensation in the upper part of the nostril, 7.
- Respiration through the nostrils is impeded in consequence of a permanently congestive condition of the palato-nasal mucous membrane (twenty-third day), 14.
FACE. [190.]
- Face pale and sunken, sickly; features elongated, 1.*
- Constrictive pain in the bones of the face and teeth in the right side, as if they would be drawn up shorter, 3.
- Pressive gnawing in the left side of the face, especially in the malar bone, 9.
- Stupefying pain in the face, especially in the forehead, 8.
- Cramplike pressure in the muscles on the left malar bone, 9.
- Drawing pressure in the bones of the right side of the face, especially in the malar bone and orbits, paroxysmal, 3.
- Cheek.
- Painful swelling of the left cheek, with an ulcer on the gum; the pain causes sleeplessness, 1.
- Burning cramplike pain in the left cheek, in the evening, soon followed by swelling of the cheek, with cutting pressive pain only on drawing up the face, as if a splinter of glass were between the cheek and the teeth, 2.
- Pain in the malar bone, on touch, before the menses; during the menses, pain, as from a blow, even on moving the muscles of the face, 1.
- Tearing extending from the malar bone down into the lower jaw, near the corner of the mouth, 3. [200.]
- Constriction and pressure internally beneath the right cheek, 2.
- Burning pain in the right cheek, beneath the eye, 4.
- Burning-itching sticking on the malar bones, 1.
- Pain and swelling of the upper jaw; the cheeks are red, with sticking in them, 1.
- Lip.
- A sticking-tearing pain in a small spot in the lower lip, 1.
- Chin.
- Broad cutting stitches in the forepart of the chin, 9.
MOUTH
- Teeth.
- Looseness of the teeth, 1.
- The teeth seem too long, 1.
- Jerking toothache in all the teeth soon after eating (cold or warm food), with heat in the face, only better in the open air, 1.
- Continual and annoying tingling in the roots of the lower incisors (thirty-third day), 14.
- Tongue. [210.]
- Tongue yellow, 20.*
- Tongue coated with yellowish mucus (after five days), 4.*
- Burning in the tongue, in the morning (twentieth day), 14.
- Pretty frequent itching in the tip of the tongue (nineteenth day), 14.
- During the proving, frequent itching of the anterior third of the tongue, 14.
- General Mouth.
- Mouth and fauces wonderfully corrugated; he could scarcely swallow, and his mouth felt hard and leathery, 18.
- Tenacious mucus in the mouth, 1.
- Bad odor from the mouth, 1.*
- Sensation in the velum pendulum palati similar to that caused by taking a pinch of snuff, which, by a strong inspiration, is drawn down even to the throat, in the evening (eighth day), 14.
- Sensation in the velum pendulum as if there were a foreign body there, or some mucus which could neither be hawked up nor swallowed; the same sensation in the posterior portion of the nasal fossa (ninth day), 14. [220.]
- Sensation of disagreeable acidity at the velum pendulum (tenth day), 14.
- Saliva.
- Salivation, with bad odor from the mouth, 26.
- Acid saliva runs from the mouth, in the morning on waking, 1.
- Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 2.
- Taste.
- Beer tastes stale and acid better, 1.
- Insipid taste in the throat, 4.
THROAT
- Bad odor from the throat, 1.
- Much mucus in the throat, 1.
- Some mucus sticks in the throat, and the efforts which are made to raise it excite vomiturition (seventeenth day), 14.*
- Thick gray-green mucus, mixed with blood, is detached from time to time in the throat by the efforts to expectorate (twentieth day), 14.*
- Thick, viscid, grayish, blood-streaked mucus adheres to the throat, and is detached with great difficulty (twentieth day), 14.*
- Thick mucus adheres firmly to the throat, and the efforts to raise it excites an almost resistless inclination to vomit (twenty-second day), 14.*
- During the rest of the day, continual expulsive efforts to detach a thick, grayish, and bloody mucus from the throat, efforts which constantly produce an inclination to vomit (twenty-third day), 14.*
- Secretion of a mass of thick, viscid, bloody mucus in the throat efforts to expel which were accompanied by attempts to vomit, 17.* [240.]
- *Inclination to hawk up much mucus from the throat, in the evening, followed by a sore pain in the throat, 1.
- Rawness in the throat (seventeenth day); in the morning (eighteenth day), 14.*
- Sensation of rawness and of dryness in the throat, without thirst (eighteenth day), 14.
- Rawness and dryness of the throat, without thirst, in the morning (twentieth day), 14.
- Sensation of ulceration, of rawness, and of extreme dryness in the right side of the throat, without thirst (twentieth day), 14.
- Sensation as if the right side of the throat were ulcerated, with such dryness that it seems as if the part had ceased to be lubricated by mucus (twentieth day), 14.
- Permanent rawness and dryness in the throat, and during deglutition a painful feeling of being denuded (twenty-second day), 14.*
- Extreme rawness and dryness of the throat, without thirst; these sensations are much more painful during deglutition; thick grayish or greenish mucus adheres to the throat; strong efforts are required to raise it, and these excite inclination to vomit (twenty-third day), .*
STOMACH
- Appetite and Thirst.
- Increased hunger and appetite, 7.*
- Great appetite and hunger; he cannot satisfy himself, 3.*
- Loss of appetite, 20.
- Loss of appetite, with a natural taste of food, 4.
- The child leaves the breast of the mother who has taken Tin, and will not drink anything more, 1.
- Loss of appetite, with emptiness in the stomach, only one noon, 1.
- Increased thirst, 7.
- Eructations.
- Eructations immediately, in the morning, at first like bad eggs, afterwards only of gas, 3.
- Eructations of a flat taste, with much saliva in the mouth, 2. [270.]
- Acid eructations, succeeded by rawness in the pharynx, while walking in the open air, 4.
- Acid risings five hours after the evening meal; uneasiness in the epigastric region, as from slow digestion, although he had eaten less than usual (twenty-fourth day), 14.
- Bitter eructations frequently after eating, 1.*
- Frequent empty eructations, 3.
- Sweet uprisings into the throat, 1.
- Hiccough.
- Frequent hiccough, 8.
- Hiccough from time to time, 1.
- Hiccough soon after eating, while smoking as usual, 2.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Nausea after eating, 1.
- Nausea and qualmishness in the pharynx, 7. [280.]
- Shuddering nausea several times, with nauseating fulness in the pit of the stomach, 1.
- Nausea and bitterness in the mouth, 2.
- Nausea in the fauces and pharynx, as if he would vomit, 7.
- Nausea, with bitter bilious vomiting, after eating some soup, 1.
ABDOMEN
- Hypochondria.
- At first a simple pain in both hypochondria, afterwards dull thrusts from the left to the right side, seemingly aggravated by pressing upon the right side, 2.
- Pressure in the hepatic region, 1.
- Pressure in the upper part of the liver, 2.
- Burning pain in the hepatic region, then dull pain in the rectum, with the stool, 1.
- Cutting in the right hypochondrium, aggravated by sitting bent over, 9.
- Pressive cramplike pain in the left hypochondrium, now better, now worse, 5.
- Umbilicus and Sides.
- Griping cutting in the umbilical region nearly the whole day, 1. [320.]
- Griping in the umbilical region, as from taking cold, 3.
- Spasmodic pain above and below the navel, soon relieved by lying over a table, without emission of flatus, 1.
- Painful digging in the abdomen, above the umbilical region; on pressing upon it, pain, as if upon a sore spot, 3.
- Sudden painful compression in both sides beneath the true ribs, 3.
- A dull slow pressure near the right side of the navel, 3.
- Burning pressure in the right side of the abdomen, 2.
- Sensation as if stretched in the right abdominal muscles, above the anterior spine of the ilium, 2.
- Stitches in the right side of the abdomen, followed by drawing in the right shoulder; she was obliged to lie down, with perspiration on the face and arms, followed by creeping chilliness, 1.
- Several violent stitches in succession, in the right side of the abdomen, especially on coughing and breathing, 1.
- Boring stitch in the left upper abdomen while walking, 4. [330.]
- Crawling movements in the right side of the abdomen, as from a purge, 3.
- A bruised pain in the left side, below the ribs, 1.
- General Abdomen.
- Distension of the abdomen, 1.
- Painful distension of the abdomen, with painful sensitiveness to external touch, 1.
RECTUM AND ANUS
- A pimple like a hæmorrhoid in the left side of the anus, with painful soreness, when touched, 3.
- Pressive pain in the rectum, 4.
- Sharp shootings at the end of the rectum (thirty-first day), 14.
- Violent shooting, as if from needle-pricks, in the base of the rectum, extending even to the anus (twenty-sixth day), 14. [380.]
- A violent thrust, as with a needle, in the rectum (fortieth day), 14.
- Itching stitch in the rectum, 4.
- Sensation of soreness and smarting in the anus, with fine stitches, immediately after a stool, 3.
- A corroding pain about the anus, while walking and sitting, 1.
- Burning in the anus, immediately after a stool, and at other times, 1.
- Constant itching in the anus, 4.
- Frequent urging to stool (which was otherwise natural), 7.
- Frequent desire for stool, but a scanty evacuation, at times consisting of only mucus, 1.
- Sudden desire for stool, the first part of which was natural, then pasty, at last thin, with shivering over the whole body, from above downward, and drawing from the small of the back down through the thighs; when he attempts to rise it constantly seems as though he had not yet finished, 3. [390.]
- Renewed desire soon after a stool, 2.
- Frequent inclination for stool, 3.
- Frequent ineffectual desire for stool, 3.
- Ineffectual desire for stool, 1.
STOOL
- Diarrhœa.
- Most violent dysentery; the stools were at first loose, with much urging and tormina (after fourteen hours); afterwards the discharge became bloody and mucous, with the most intolerable tenesmus, 21.
- Severe attack of something like dysentery, 20.
- Soft stool, in the evening, preceded by colic, only felt a moment before the urging to stool (forty-fourth day), 14.
- In the evening, as on the preceding days, soft stool preceded by colic, only felt at the moment of the urging to stool; fetid flatulence (forty-fifth day), 14.
- Several evenings in succession, a soft stool preceded by colic (forty-second day), 14.
- In the forenoon a soft stool, in the afternoon a thin one, 4. [400.]
- Stool greenish, scanty, 1.
- Scanty stool, 1.
- Dry large stool, with violent cutting pains, 6.
- Stool dry, in lumps, 1.
- Hard stool, which seems slippery, but is not, 2.
- Evacuation of some hard pieces of stool, with pressure, 8.
- Difficult evacuation of consistent but not hard fæces, as if the intestines had not sufficient power to expel them (after twenty-four hours), 9.
- Evacuation of mucus in the form of worms, 1.
- Evacuation of mucus after a stool, 1.
- Constipation.
- Constipation, 20. [410.]
- Constipation for some time, in a mother and her infant, 1.
- Retention of stool for twenty-five hours, 6.
- Stool six hours later than usual, 4.
URINARY ORGANS
- Kidneys and Bladder.
- Dull stitches in the region of the kidneys, extending inward, 3.
- Sensitive pressure in the neck of the bladder and along the urethra, after urinating; it constantly seems as though more urine would pass and some drops follow, when the pressure is still worse, 5.
- Urethra.
- A blister on the margin of the meatus urinarius, 1.
- Soreness in the tip of the urethra, 1.
- Burning in the forepart of the urethra, especially on urinating; he had a desire to urinate every minute and passed much, 1.
- Micturition and Urine.
- Frequent desire to urinate, even at night, obliging him to rise from bed, for three days; followed by more infrequent micturition and a smaller discharge of urine than during health, 8.
- Desire to urinate, only like a feeling of fulness, in the bladder; urine scanty, offensive, and infrequent, but without pain, 1. [420.]
- Retention of urine, 1.
SEXUAL ORGANS
- Male.
- Burning internally in the sexual organs, as in excessive irritation to discharge semen (after twenty-four hours), 1.
- An intolerable voluptuous excitement in the genitals and in the whole body, even to emission of semen (after forty hours), 1.
- Erections immediately; on the following days want of erections, 1.
- Nocturnal erections, without lascivious dreams, 8.
- Jerking in the penis, as far as the posterior portion, almost as when evacuating semen, 1.
- Sticking sensation, as from needles, in the glans penis, 4.
- Burning pain in the glans penis, immediately followed by desire to urinate, 4.
- Burning stitch in the glans penis, 4.
- Nocturnal pollution during sleep, while lying on the back (fifteenth and seventeenth nights), 14. [430.]
- Emissions without lascivious dreams, 4, 8.
- No sexual desire and no ability for coition, not even when excited thereto (secondary action?), 1.
- Female.
- Prolapsus of the vagina, aggravated during a hard stool, 1.
- While transparent mucus in the vagina, 1.
- Leucorrhœa ceases, 1.
- Itching of the vulva, 16.
- Menses more profuse than usual (twelfth day), 3.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Rawness in the larynx, 1.*
- *Mucus in the trachea, in the forenoon, easily expelled by a forcible cough, with great weakness of the chest, as if eviscerated, and with weakness of the whole body and of all the limbs, in which the sensation of weakness extended upward and downward, several mornings in succession, 3.
- Tingling in the trachea, which provokes several fits of dry coughing, in the evening (thirty-third day), 14. [440.]
- *Irritation to cough, in the trachea, as from mucus, on breathing, with neither a loose nor dry cough, felt more while sitting bent over than when walking, 2.
- Voice.
- *Hoarseness, weakness, and emptiness in the chest, on beginning to sing so that she was constantly obliged to stop and take a deep breath; at times a few expulsive coughs removed the hoarseness for a moment, 3.
- The voice is husky, hollow (eighteenth day), 14.*
- Cough and Expectoration.
- *Scraping cough, with greenish expectoration of an offensive sweetish taste, worse in the evening before lying down, with a hoarse voice; a sore sensation in the chest and trachea after every cough (the irritation which provokes it is low down in the trachea), 1.
- Frightful cough, with expectoration and spitting of blood, 1.*
- *Fatiguing paroxysms of cough, so that the epigastric region was painful, as if beaten, 1.
- *Violent, shattering, deep cough, 1.
- *From time to time short cough, as from weakness in the chest, with a hoarse weak sound, 3.
- Tickling cough, as from soreness, low down in the trachea; a scraping, extending upward into the throat, 1.*
- Hacking cough, in three paroxysms, . [450.]
CHEST
- Oppression of the chest, as if it were internally constricted , with a sensation as if the inspired air were very dry, 2.*
- Oppression of the chest, as if something rose up into the throat and took away his breath, 3.
- Distressing oppression in the upper part of the chest, was frequently obliged to take a deep breath, with a sensation of great emptiness in the pit of the stomach, 3.*
- *He was always very much oppressed when coughing, 1.
- Constriction of the chest, with anxiety, in the evening, 1.*
- Constrictive pain in the chest beneath the right arm; a sticking on moving about, 1.
- Drawing pressure on the conjoined cartilages of the last left ribs, 3.
- Pressure from within outward, in the chest, beneath the right nipple, 7. [470.]
- Pressive cramp in the chest, while sitting, aggravated by inspiration, 5.
- Pressure, low down in the chest, as from a weight, 2.
- Tension and pressure across the upper part of the chest, in the morning on rising from bed, 1.
- Aching in the whole of the chest, especially above the pit of the stomach, worse on inspiration, 3.
- Wandering pains in different parts of the chest, and drawings here and there (thirty-first day), 14.
- Bruised pain in the chest , during rest and motion, 1.*
- *Sore pain in the whole of the chest , starting from the throat, 3.
- Sensation as if mucus were in the chest , with rattling when breathing, perceptible internally and audible externally, 2.*
- Burrowing pain in the chest, extending thence into the abdomen, with desire for stool, 3.
- Drawing from the clavicle into the left axilla, 3. [480.]
- At times, during rest, sensation as if the chest dilated, though with a feeling of anxiety, as in palpitation, 3.
- Muscular twitches in the upper part of the chest by the left axilla, .
HEART AND PULSE
- Pain in the præcordial region and hiccough, 19.
- Pulse 100, 19.
- His pulse became indistinct and fluttering, 18.
NECK AND BACK
- Neck.
- The nape of the neck drawn upward, with a feeling of stiffness, so that she could not move the head easily, 3. [510.]
- Cracking in the cervical vertebra, audible even to others, on shaking the head suddenly, 3.
- Weakness of the cervical muscles, as if she could not hold up the head, with pain on moving the head, 3.
- Pain in the nape of the neck, on bending the head forward, 3.
- The deepseated muscles of the posterior region of the neck are painful to touch, near their insertion to the occiput (twentieth day), 14.
- The pain (rheumatic) which I felt yesterday, at the right side of the nape of the neck, in the fibres of the trapezius, was aggravated during the night (twenty-fifth day), 14.
- Itching stitches in the nape of the neck, in the morning in bed, 9.
- Sudden acute stitch in the lower portion of the nape of the neck, 3.
- Back.
- Pain as if beaten, in the back and lower extremities, in the morning on rising; she is weary, as if she had slept too little, and her body was not sufficiently rested; somewhat relieved a few hours after rising, 3.
- Stitchlike tearing in the left side of the back, and from below upward, while standing, 8.
- Sharp jerking stitches in the left side of the back, and at the same time in the left thigh, 4. [520.]
- Fine burning stitches in a small spot in the middle of the back, 5.
- Fine stitches, from within outward, at the back, 4.
- Dorsal.
- Pressive drawing in the spine, below and between the scapulæ, worse on motion, especially on turning the body, 7.
- On raising a weight, he was suddenly affected between the scapulæ as if sprained, more to the left side, with violent sharp knifelike stitches on the slightest movement, breathing, or yawning; intolerable pains on bending backward, 3.
- Drawing tearing in the left scapula, partly towards the back, partly towards the shoulder, 1.
- Sticking griping in the back by the false ribs, 9.
- Burrowing stitches in the right dorsal muscles, persistent during respiration, .
EXTREMITIES
- Great loss of power in the arms and lower extremities, as if there were no strength in them, and as if the latter would not support the body, 3.*
- Paralysis of the left arm and foot, from fright, disappearing at night, 1.
- Weariness in the arms and lower extremities; was obliged to let the arms sink down, 3. [540.]
- Painful weariness in the extremities, while standing, with unsteadiness and tottering; they could not support the body, 3.
- Heaviness in all the limbs, weakness of the chest, and alternating excessive anxiety, 1.
- Bruised pain in the limbs, and especially above the small of the back, 1.
- Bruised pain in all the limbs (twenty-fifth day), 14.
- Bruised pain and coldness in all the limbs (twenty-fifth day), 14.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Paralytic weakness of the arms if he holds a light weight for only a short time, 9.*
- Paralytic weakness and heaviness in the arms , especially in the right arm, chiefly in the upper arm and joints; aggravated by every motion , at times associated with dyspnœa, 7.*
- The arms easily become fatigued from moderate exercise, so that everything he holds is allowed to fall, 7.*
- The arms and fingers are almost immovable, 1.
- Acute jerking, now in the arm, now in the hand, now in a finger, as if he had received a hard blow upon it, 3. [550.]
- Pain as from a sprain, in the joints of the arm; she could not bend them without great pain, 1.
- Tearing in the left arm, especially in the upper arm, deep internally, 7.
- Paralytic tearing in the left arm, especially in the wrist, aggravated by motion, 7.
- Shoulder.
- Pressure and drawing, as from a weight on the left shoulder, in the outer portion of the upper arm and extending from the elbow to the deep lying muscles of the forearm, gradually disappearing in the house, 3.
- Paralytic pain, as from a sprain, just beneath the shoulder-joint, only during rest, only transiently relieved by motion, 4.
- Sensation of compression in the shoulder, 1.
- Tearing on the left shoulder, 4.
- Paralytic tearing in and beneath the right shoulder-joint, more violent on motion, 7.
- During the night, constant sharp pain in the right shoulder, in the fibres of the trapezius, aggravated by lifting the arm, and by touch (twenty-fourth day), 14.
- Sudden acute hard beating on the right shoulder, 3. [560.]
- Itching stitches in and beneath the axilla, 9.
- A burning stitch in the top of the right shoulder, 4.
- Arm.
- Piercing pain, at intervals, in the bone of the left upper arm, as if it were compressed and crushed, during rest and motion, 1.
- Bruised pain in the lower portion of the left upper arm, .
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
- Sensation of weakness in the lower extremities, as if fatigued by a long walk, 3. [620.]
- Weakness of the right lower extremity, especially in the thigh, as if in the bone, so that it was painful while standing, and he was obliged to rest upon the left limb, 6.
- Great weariness and heaviness in the lower extremities after a two hours' walk, 3.
- Uneasiness in the lower extremities; was obliged to move them hither and thither, in the evening, 6.
- Great heaviness in the lower extremities; she could scarcely ascend steps, and was then obliged to sit down immediately, 3.
- Paralytic heaviness and weariness in the lower extremities, especially in the thighs and knee-joints ; can scarcely walk; is obliged to sit and lie, 7.
- Bruised pain in the lower extremities on ascending steps; on descending them, so powerless and weak that he was in danger of falling, 3.
- Hip.
- Violent pain in the muscles about the hip-joint, on raising up the thigh, 1.
- Pain, as from a sprain, in the right hip while walking, so that he was almost obliged to limp, lasting several hours, 8.
- Paralytic pain in the hip-joint, while walking, 4.
- Drawing in the left hip, 2. [630.]
- Transient dull pressure in the ischii, while sitting, 3.
- Thigh.
- Loss of power in the thighs, 3.
- Muscular twitches in the natis, 4.
- Pain, as from a sprain, in the thigh beneath the hip-joint, while walking, 3.
- Pain, as from a sprain, on the thigh, just beneath the hip, only when walking, 4.
- Dull pulsating pressure on the inner side of the middle of the thigh, 3.
- Pressive drawing in the inner side of the left thigh, in the groin, from the ascending ramus of the ischium to the back part of the thigh, then from the hip over the small of the back to the right side; at times grumbling in the ischium, 3.
- Pressive drawing in the outer side of the right thigh, which rests over the left, while sitting, 8.
- Drawing tearing in the left thigh, during rest and motion, .
GENERALITIES
- (Genuine epilepsy), 12 . ["In a boy who suffered frequently from convulsive attacks, especially in the morning fasting, Tin was given to destroy the worms, which were supposed to be present; and thereupon the fits increased and multiplied to perfect epilepsy." -Hughes.]
- It causes emaciation and consumption, 13.
- The whole body and limbs are tremulous and unsteady; yet the hand trembles more when resting it lightly upon anything than when grasping anything tightly, 3.
- Weariness of the whole body, especially after ascending steps, for seven days, 1.*
- Great weariness after descending steps, so that she could scarcely breathe; on ascending the steps she felt nothing, 3.
- Very weak and sleepy, so that he could scarcely endure it, 1. [700.]
- She was suddenly attacked by weakness so that she could scarcely breathe, while dressing, after rising from bed, 3.*
- Great weariness during the day; he was obliged to lie down , but could not sleep, and when he slumbered was attacked with vertigo, vanishing of sense, and dulness of mind, for half an hour, 1.*
- Great weariness, with constant inclination to sit down; it is most felt when walking slowly, so that he involuntarily walks rapidly, 3.
- Excessive prostration; constantly wishes to sit or lie down, and when about to sit down falls upon the chair, because he has not the power to sit down slowly, 3.*
- Most distressing debility , almost preventing my riding home, a distance of a few miles, 21.*
- When walking rapidly he feels the exhaustion less, but all the more afterward, 3.
- Loss of power, as if the limbs were beaten, 3.*
- Extreme exhaustion of mind and body ; cannot continue at any work on account of irresistible sleepiness; is obliged to lie down and sleep, but frequently wakes in different dreams, 7.
- Uneasiness in the whole body, with burrowing on the tibiæ, after waking from a deep sleep, at 1 A.M., 1.
- Uneasiness, so that he cannot remain long in one place, 7. [710.]
SKIN
- Objective.
- Itching eruption over the whole body, 1.
- Itching pimples on the face, painfully sore to touch, or on washing, 1.
- A red, somewhat elevated spot on the forepart of the neck, with a white, quite painless pimple in the middle of it, 9. [720.]
- In the middle of the sternum, a kind of small, red, sharply circumscribed pustule, causing, for a few moments only, acute itching, two evenings in succession (eleventh day), 14.
- A boil in the right ankle of the lower jaw, red, with drawing pain, aggravated by touch, lasting eight days, 1.
- Small itching hives below the wrist, through the day; the itching was aggravated by rubbing, 1.
- Small red, painless spots on the backs of both hands, 1.
- Itching pimple on the left thigh, 1.
- Round yellow spots on the left leg, lasting two days, 2.
- Subjective.
- Violent burning in the hands and feet, 1.
- Fine needlelike stitches over the whole left side of the body; the next day only on the right side, 6.
- Biting itching over the whole body on undressing; was obliged to scratch, 3.
- Itching-burning stitches over the whole body, especially on the thumb, chiefly in the morning in bed, for several days, 3. [730.]
- Burning itching, as from fleabites on the back of the hand for eight hours, not relieved by rubbing, 1.
- Sticking itching on the outer side of the thigh, only transiently relieved by rubbing (after half an hour), 1.
- Itching on the back of the left foot, 4.
SLEEP
- Frequent yawning, as if he had not slept enough, 3.
- Much yawning, when walking in the open air, though with oppression, as from a cord about the chest, 1.
- Stretching of the arms and yawning (after a few minutes), 1.
- He is excessively impelled to yawn, yet he cannot yawn sufficiently, however wide he opens his mouth, 1.
- Sleepiness, after walking in the open air, especially caused by music, and a vivid dream immediately on closing her eyes, 1.
- Sleepiness and inclination to yawn; the eyes close, 7.
- Falls asleep early in the evening after lying down, and wakes late in the morning, 3. [740.]
- Deep sleep, several nights, 1.
- Frequent waking at night, as if he had slept enough, 8.
- Frequent starting up, as from fright in bed, at night, 8.
- Sleep restless, and interrupted by pain (twenty-fifth day), 14.
- Slumbering in the evening hindered by constant uneasiness in the legs, 1.
- At night, on waking, he was lying upon the back the right leg stretched out, and the left drawn up and half uncovered, 3.
- The child moans in sleep, at night, cries, begs, and is frightened, 1.
- (He talked in sleep, and spoke of the uselessness of an external remedy for an internal trouble, as if in a somnambulistic state), 1.
- Dreams.
- Very vivid anxious dreams, at night, 1.
- Vivid dreams full of terror (second night), 8. [750.]
- Pleasant dreams of earthly splendor and greatness, which keep her in good humor after waking, 3.
- Lascivious dreams, with erections, without emissions, 4.
- Lascivious dreams and emissions, without erections, 3.
- Amorous dreams, with physical enjoyment, without a pollution (twenty-second day), 14.
- Anxious dreams of quarrel, strife, and battles, 4.
- Anxious dreams of neglected business, about the same subject, two nights, 2.
- Dreams of fire, 6.
FEVER
- Chilliness.
- Chilliness, 20.
- Chilliness over the whole body , lasting half an hour, 7.*
- Coldness of the whole body, with bruised pain in the limbs (twentieth day), 14.
- Very transient chilliness, especially along the back, 7.
- Shivering several forenoons about 10 o'clock, with coldness in the hands, deadness of the fingers, and insensibility of their tips, 1.
- Coldness and bruised pain throughout all the limbs (twentieth day), 14.
- Gooseflesh over the arms and chattering of the teeth, as in convulsion of the masseter muscles, with only slight sensation of coldness and moderate shivering, 1.
- Shivering only in the left arm, wherewith it jerked up, 1.
- Shivering only in the left foot, extending half way up the thigh, in the evening, 1. [770.]
- Very cold knees and feet, 1.
- Heat.
- Heat, 20.
- Great heat over the whole body, especially on the chest and back, with a sensation as though hot sweat were running down, without externally perceptible heat, 7.
- Sensation of heat over the whole body, especially on the thighs and back, 7.
- Heat and perspiration over the whole body from 4 to 5 P.M., followed by chilliness; during and after the heat thirst, which recurred several afternoons about the same time, 1.
- Anxious heat and perspiration broke out constantly, even on the slightest movement, 3.
- Anxious heat, as though perspiration would break out, attacks him at intervals, 3.
- Sensation of heat, especially internally, 7.
- Internal heat, after walking in the open air, especially in the chest and abdomen, without thirst, 1.
- Skin hot and dry, 19. [780.]
- Great heat in the head, with heat of the forehead, with redness of the face, together with general though with slight heat over the whole body, worse in the evening, with much thirst, five evenings in succession (after five days), 1.
- Heat in the forehead, even perceptible externally, .
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), On waking, weakness of memory, dizziness; pain and heat in head; headache; after rising, stopped sensation in left ear; nosebleed; on waking, acid saliva runs from mouth; scraping in throat; eructations; weakness; tension and pressure across chest; in bed, stitch in nape of neck; on rising, pain in back and lower extremities; pain in lumbar region; itching stitches over whole body; 4 A.M., sweat.
- ( Forenoon ), Pressure in stomach; stitches in chest; 10 o'clock, shivering.
- ( Afternoon ), 4 to 5 P.M., heat.
- ( Evening ), Heaviness and dulness of head; pressing in brain; cracking in front of ear; scraping in throat; constriction of chest, with anxiety; swelling of the hands.
- ( Night ), Pain in nape of neck.
- ( Ascending steps ), Weariness of whole body.
- ( Bending backward ), Pressure in forehead.
- ( Bending finger ), Cutting in ball of left finger.
- ( Breathing ), Stitches in abdomen; deep, feeling of lightness.
- ( Coughing ), Stitches in abdomen; oppression.
- ( Descending steps ), Weakness of body.
- ( After eating ), Bitter eructations; nausea; fulness in abdomen; emptiness in abdomen; stitch by ensiform cartilage.
- ( Expiration ), Stitches in left chest.
- ( Inspiration ), Cramp in chest; aching in chest; cramp in right rib; drawing beneath left breast.
- ( Lifting arm ), Pain in right shoulder.
- ( Lying upon temple ), Pressure in it.
- ( During menses ), Pain in malar bone.
- ( Motion ), Drawing in spine; stitches between scapulæ; tearing in lumbar vertebræ; weakness of arms; tearing in left arm; tearing in right shoulder; tearing in right wrist; tearing in first phalanges of right fingers.
- ( Music ), Sleepiness.
- ( ), Pain in hypochondria.