Cinnabaris

(From the internal use of Cinnabar.) (*Its action lasted nine days)

1. Roaring in the head, half an hour after dinner and in the evening before going to sleep, which makes him dizzy.

2. A projection on the external parts of the head, only by day.

3. On touching the head the skull is painful, and even the hairs are painful.

4. (Inflammation of the right eye; itching, aching and shooting in the inner canthus and on the lower lid, with constant lachrymation when he looks at anything, with severe coryza.)

5. In the palate a contractive burning sensation.

6. In the throat, aching contractive pain, on swallowing the saliva.

7. At night much dryness and heat in the mouth and throat, he must drink frequently; whilst doing so some shooting posteriorly beneath the tongue.

8. A pricking itching on the front part of the neck, with swollen cervical glands, and on the anterior part of the chest; there appear red points that coalesce into round spots, covered with hard granular papules; on scratching the eruption burns and itches still more; finally the places become painful.

9. Great appetite for eating and drinking and great desire for coitus.

10. Great appetite for food and for coitus.

11. No appetite; all food is repugnant to him.

12. Immediately inclination to vomit.

13. While lying in bed at night a heat rose from the stomach into the throat and head, which went off on sitting up.

14. Every day two easy soft stools each time preceded by pinching, less afterwards.

15. Bowels open twice daily.

16. A pain like soreness in the urethra when urinating, although the urethra is not painful when pressed.

17. The penis is swollen.

18. Twitching in the penis.

19. In the sulcus behind the glans, itching pain; matter of a disgusting sweet smell exudes therefrom.

20. Small red spots on the glans penis.

21. Tearing stitches in the glans.

22. On the glans red spots appear, as if pimples were about to come.

23. In the evening on the corona glandis, burning pricking itching, which was allayed by rubbing, but soon returned more severely.

24. Redness and swelling of the prepuce; it looks sore, with itching pain.

25. (Here and there on the prepuce warts, which bleed when touched.)

26. Leucorrhea, which on passing causes a pressing in the vagina.

27. In the evening in bed strong erections.

28. Much coryza.

29. (When she lies down she must continually cough; less when she sits; single, quite dry cough-impulses.)

30. Beating like a pulse and shooting here and there near the sternum and under the short ribs, most when walking, least when sitting and lying.

31. Tearing pain and as if everything were lacerated on the side of the back, especially at night, on the slightest movement in bed, and in the arm when writing; both diminished by the heat of the stove.

32. Severe stitches sometimes in the arm.

33. Perspiration betwixt the thighs when walking, which smells badly and causes excoriation.

34. In the evening, after falling asleep, a painful twitching in the legs, which woke him up.

35. In the foot an aching sensation, as if the foot would go to sleep.

36. (Rheumatic pain in the big toe.)

37. After eating, a very uncomfortable feeling in the body, as if it were blown out and distended; over the chest and stomach as if oppressed.

38. Coldness in the joints; shivering and drawing in the arms and legs.

39. Paralytic feeling in all the limbs; he is lazy and sleepy.

40. Sleeplessness at night, without pains and without fatigue; he felt in the morning as if refreshed and required no more sleep.

41. After midnight he wakes suddenly as from a dream and has no breath, like nightmare.

(From fumigation with Cinnabar.)

1. Intractable headache.

2. Pain in the cervical vertebrae as if dislocated.

3. Nocturnal diarrhea for two weeks, without pain in the bowels.

4. (The borders of the ulcers become painful and tense.)