MERCURIUS IODATUS RUBER.
Mercuric iodide, HgI2.
Biniodide of mercury (Hydrargyrum biniodatum).
Preparation for use
, Triturations.
Authorities.
Amer. Provers’ Union, 1856,
revised by Dr. Hering in monograph, in which the authorities are noted
after the symptoms, provings with 1st to 30th dils.; 1, Dr. Armor; 2,
Mrs. A; 3, Dr. Cowley’s proving on
Mr. Rattner (one symptom); 4, same,
on Mr. Kulm (no symptom found); 5,
Dr. J. R. Coxe, Jr.; 6, same, in
woman; 7, Dr. Siemers, five
provings, a to e; 8, Dr.
Pehrson; 9, Dr. Negendank; 10, Drs. Miller and W. E. Payne; 11, Dr. Raue, from Hering; 13, Rieseberg, ibid.; 13, Honigberger, ibid.; 14, Dr. Robinson, Brit. J. of Hom., 24, 517,
effects of 2d dec. dil., in a young woman.
MIND.
►
Great cheerfulness, in the evening after pleasant things has happened
(first day), [7]. ► The head is worse; but he is
good-humored, even merry (twelfth day), [7].
► *Low-spirited, and disposed to cry
(after four days), [14]. ► Ill-humor about little things, in the
morning (second day; not on fourth day, again on fifth day), [7]. ►
Ill-humor, and bad taste, on waking in the morning, [1]. ►
Ill-humor, during toothache, [7].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Excessive
giddiness; everything seems to reel round her
(after four days), [14]. ► General Head. ►
Dulness in the head, occurring often in the course of the proving, in
the afternoon, [7]. ► Dulness of the head, and slight pressing pain on
the left side, like during a coryza (eighth day); relieved by walking in the open air (tenth
day), [7]. [10.] ► A
drowsy, stolid feeling in the head, [10].
► Heaviness in the head, with
soreness over the bowels (thirteenth day), [10]. ► Dull,
heavy pain in the head (fifth day), [10].
► Pain in the head, and heat, [10]. ►
Pain in head; and slight pain in throat and left eye (tenth to twelfth
day), [6]. ► Pains in the bones of the head, chiefly the
occipital (after four days), [14].
► Fulness in the head (second day), [10]. ►
Dull pain in left half of brain, with the sensation in anus as from
piles (fourth day), [7]. ► Every day, some headache, [7]. ►
In the morning, headache, disappearing with a coryza, which ceases at
noon (tenth day), [7]. [20.] ►
Headache, worse in the forehead, afternoon, 4 o’clock (seventh day), [10]. ►
Headache, particularly in the afternoon and evening; at the same time, a
drowsy, stolid feeling in the head (third day), [10]. ►
Headache at night, continues in the morning; later only right side,
congestion as with a cold; in the afternoon changing sides (sixth day);
next day still more congestive; during the evening on right side only,
of unusual continuation till late (seventh day); towards morning the
same in bed, less after rising (eighth day); better (ninth day), [7]. ►
Headache while sitting still, after sleeping during the day (second
day), [7]. ►
Headache and sticking lips, [1]. ► Headache and sleeplessness, [5]. ►
Severe headache all over, 8 P.M. (first day); all day (second day), [5]; the same (eighth day); slighter
(ninth day), [6]. ► Violent headache, with nausea, from
morning till 2 P.M.; returns in the evening, particularly in the
forehead (twenty-first day), [10].
► Pressure in head, and pain in chest
(the most on ninth day), [6]. ► Pressive pain in the head, all day, [6]. [30.]
► Slight pressing pain in the left
brain, 6 to 8 P.M. (third and fourth days), [7]. ►
Pressing aching in the head and ear (seventh day), [7]. ► Forehead.
► Heavy feeling in the forehead all
day, but more severe then the day before, and in the evening he head
with it a severe breathing throbbing in the right side of the head, from
the front part of the head to the vertex, [10].
► Slight heavy pain right through the
forehead up to the vertex, also the same sensation in the outside of the
skull (form 2 grains of 2d trit., taken in the evening), [10]. ► Pain
in the forehead (first day), [2]. ► Burning in forehead, 2 P.M.; eyes burn
and are inflamed, till 10 P.M.; next morning better (fourth day), [10]. ►
*Sensation in frontal region as if her head was bound around with a
tight cord (after four days), [14].
► Slight headache in the region of
comparison (third day), [1]. ► Dull pressing pain in forehead and left
side, 9 P.M. drawing and sticking, 10 P.M. (first day), [6]. ► Dull
pressing pain in forehead, most severe in right side, continuing at
intervals from 7 to 10 P.M. (second day); with sticking pain in the
heart, till 9 P.M. (third day); slightly, 3 P.M. (fourth day); pain in
head and heart, same as third day; forehead and heart (sixth day), [6]. [40.]
► Sharp pain in sinciput, over both
eyes, at 11 A.M. (first day), [5].
► Pressing-stitching pain in
forehead, throat, left eye, and left cheek (seventh day), [6]. ► Dull,
rending, tearing, gnawing pains in forehead; increased during the night,
disturbing sleep (third day), [12].
► Temples. ► Pain in temple and jaws (seventh day), [10]. ►
Vertex. ► A great heat in the
vertex, only objective, all day, [8]. ► *In the
evening, 11 P.M., felt the vertex
very hot, and a slight pulsation in
it (sixth day), [8]. ► Parietals. ►
Slight heaviness, and in the afternoon slight throbbing beating from
vertex down to the nose, on the right side (sixth day), [10]. ►
Headache, left side (first day), [7].
► On rising, disappearing; headache
in the right side of the head, [10].
► Headache, after awhile one-sided;
goes from right to left side (fifth day); disappears after dinner, [7]. [50.]
► On waking, pressing headache, left
side; disappearing in the evening (eleventh day), [7]. ►
Pressing-stitching pain at sides of head, just above the ears, 4 P.M.
(fourth day), [6]. ► Occiput. ►
Dull pressure in the cerebellum below the protuberance of the os
occipitis; awhile after pressure over the eyes (inhaling the vapor), [11]. ►
External Head. ► Several
small pimples on the hairy scalp, without itching; contain some pus, and
form crusts (seventh to ninth day), [7].
► Small pustules on the head
(fifteenth and sixteenth days), [7].
► Outside of skull feeling heavy, [10].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Eyes
inflamed, particularly the right (eighth day), [9]. ► Eyes
inflamed; right eye worse; bright light irritates greatly, so that he
keeps it closed (third day), [5]. ► Right eye inflamed, and slight
lachrymation (first day), [5]. ► Eyes much inflamed, and burn
(twenty-first day), [10]. [60.] ►
Right eye much inflamed, bloodvessels injected (second day); both eyes;
right weeps greatly (fourth day); still inflamed and weeping, while both
eyes pain (sixth day), [6]. ► After three months he found his right eye
much stronger than he ever remembers it to have been; he can bear a
light directly on that eye, without pain or uneasiness, much stronger
than he ever could before, [5]. ► Subjective. ►
Pains in an over the left eye (second day), [5]. ► Eyes
burn, are inflamed, afternoon till evening (fourth day); less inflamed,
but weak and hot (ninth and tenth days); after the urging to stool and
strong itching disappear (thirteenth day); this inflammation returns
(fourteenth day), [10]. ► Pressing or sticking in the eye, [6]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ► A pain
in the left supraorbital bone he had once before reappears (second day),
[7]. ►
Pressing pain over left eye (fifth and sixth days), [6]. ► Lids.
► Eyelids affected by the catarrh
(eighth day), [7]. ► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Eyes watery, look slightly swollen, [2]. ►
Vision. ► Dimness of sight
(first day), [1].
EAR.
[70.]
► Increased secretion of the earwax
(sixteenth day), [7]. ► Occasionally rheumatic pains in left ear,
as if it would prove a violent and long-continuing otalgia; lasting but
a moment, but frequently returning, [10].
► Earache in right ear, morning in
bed (third day), [7]. ► Pressure in ear with headache, [7]. ►
*All night, itching in both ears (third day); in the right
ear (sixteenth day), [7]. ► Continual itching in the right external
auditory passage; with that, the improved hearing continues (tenth day),
[7]. ►
Hearing. ► Hearing dull
(third, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth
days), [7]. ►
Hearing as usual, dull in the morning (fourth and fifth days), [7]. ►
Hearing dull in the morning, returns after going out of doors, 10 A.M.;
closing only for moments (fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth days), [7]. ►
Dull hearing all day; several days (tenth to twelfth day); better in the
evening (eighteenth morning, nineteenth day), [7]. [80.] ► Hears better with the right ear, and the
improved state continues longer while he takes every morning a
shower-bath (first day), [7]. ► Hears better with his right ear; disposed
to put his finger in this ear to cause a pressure of air on the drum; at
the same time the right nostril runs, more in the evening while drinking
tea (third day), [7]. ► The right ear opens, 2 P.M. (eighth and
fourteenth days); sudden return of hearing (first and twelfth days), [7]. ►
Hearing returns not till evening, after painful jerks in the teeth
(fourth day), [7]. ► Sudden return of hearing with the right
ear, followed by itching in the meatus externus (fourth day), [7]. ►
Hearing improves with the coryza, [7].
► Hearing improved at noon and
afternoon, at 2 o’clock, [7]. ► Singing in the ears, in the evening
(tenth day), [7].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Swelling; hot
and inflamed state of right side of nose, with coryza (after four
days), [14]. ►
Running of nose, with a good deal of sneezing (second day), [2]. [90.]
► In the morning, after a good sleep,
a great deal of mucus is discharged from the nose (tenth day), [7]. ►
Discharge of much clear phlegm from the nose, and also more tears, as
usual, without a cold or coryza (second week), [7]. ► Blowing
the nose, some bloody phlegm is discharged (sixth day), [7]. ► Fluent
coryza from the right nostril, in the evening, [7]. ► Coryza
and dull hearing disappear after getting warm from walking (eighth day),
[7]. ►
Rumbling coryza in the forenoon, ceases at noon (tenth day); or
afternoon, increasing till 11 A.M.; ceased in the evening (sixth day), [7]. ►
Cold in the head (second, fifth, and eighth days); better (ninth day), [7]. ►
*Cold in the head and hoarseness (seventh day), [7]. ►
The cold in the head disappears in the open air, but returns in the warm
room; with it there is a cough from irritation (ninth day), [10]. ►
Subjective. ► Right
nostril stopped by a cold (fourth day), [7].
[100.] ►
In the morning nose is somewhat stopped, or in the forenoon, 9 to 10
(seventh and tenth day), [7]. ► Nostrils and throat ache, are dry, [10]. ►
Irritation of mucous membrane of nose, causing constant sniffing (after
half an hour, first day), [3]. ► Tickling in the nose, causing him to
sneeze (from the trituration), [10].
► Tickling in the nose, irritating to
sneeze (from the vapor), [11].
FACE.
►
Cheeks. ► Aching pain in
left cheek and left eye, which appears slightly inflamed (sixth day), [7]; the albuginea considerably
inflamed, and some pains (eighth day), [6].
► Pressing sticking in the cheek, [6]. ►
Heavy, dull aching in the upper jaw, and then in the lower; mostly on
the sides, worse in the right, [10].
► Lips. ►► *Lips slimy and sticky on waking
(fourth day); sticking together, with headache
(sixth day), [1]. ► Chin. ►
He pressed teeth so much during sleep that the muscles were lame and
tired on waking, [10]. [110.] ►
Pain in the jaws and temples (seventh day), [10].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► During dinner,
pain in all the teeth from chewing (eighth day), [10]. ► Hollow
teeth ache, right side (ninth day), [7].
► Toothache in the right molars
(eighth day), [7]. ► Toothache, more on the left side;
heretofore more subject to get it on the right side (third and fourth
days); both sides (fifth day); right side (sixth, eighth, tenth, and
fourteenth days), [7]. ► Toothache in right lower jaw, in a hollow
tooth; afterwards painful jerks in the left (fifteenth day); the same in
the afternoon, 5 o’clock (third day), [7].
► Toothache on the left side, at
night before falling asleep; unusually ill-humored with it (fourth and
fifth days), [7]. ► After the meals, toothache threatening
(ninth day), [7]. ► For several hours, acute rending pain in
the teeth of the upper and lower jaw, towards the right (eighteenth
day), [7]. ►
Fine stinging in the teeth, at times (seventh day), [1]. [120.] ► During breakfast, teeth sensitive (eighth
day), [7]. ►
Painful jerks in the teeth, afternoon, and better hearing, [7]. ►
Gum. ► Redness of gum
(first day); better (second day), [7b].
► The gums feels sore, as if he was
going to be salivated, [10]. ► The gum of upper jaw, right side, over
the second molar tooth, became excessively tender to touch, as if an
abscess was forming; this tenderness continued for four days; on the
sixth day it had entirely disappeared without forming an abscess, [10]. ►
Tongue. ► A small blister
on the point of the tongue (second and third days), [7]. ► Tongue
constantly dry, with desire to wet the mouth, [2]. ► The
tongue and whole buccal cavity seemed sensitive, as if burnt with hot
tea, [10]. ►
Scalded feeling on tongue, on hour after breakfast (first, seventh, and
twelfth days), [7]. ► General Mouth. ►
Sensation in the mouth as if there were fibres in it (tenth day), [7]. [130.]
► In the middle of the left cheek,
soreness inside (second day), [7].
► In the mouth, on lower lip, a small
sore spot (fourth day), [10]. ► Sensation of being burned in the mouth,
in the forenoon (fourteenth day), [7].
► Saliva. ► Salivation (fifth day), [1]. ► About
12 o’clock at noon, an increase of saliva in the mouth (sixth day), [8]. ►
Unusual afflux of saliva from the salivary glands for the first twelve
hours, tasteless, after fresh taste; salivation returned later again;
mouth constantly filled with a decided metallic taste, [10]. ► Much
saliva in the mouth (fourth day), [5].
► *Profuse flow of saliva, and aching
pains in teeth of lower jaw (after four days), [14]. ► Large
collections of water in the mouth (third and fourth days); not so much,
but obliged to swallow or expectorate (eighth day), [1]. ► Taste.
► Unusually fresh taste, after an
unusual afflux of saliva, [10]. [140.] ►
Taste right, but flabby (sixth day), [7].
► Pappy taste in the mouth, but a
good appetite (fifth and seventh days), [7].
► Slimy taste on waking (third day), [1]. ►
Bad taste on waking (third day), [1].
► Bitterness of taste (after
four days), [14]. ► In the evening (after second dose in the
morning), metallic taste, and taste of Iodine in the mouth; the gums
feel sore, as if he was going to be salivated, [10].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Slight
superficial ulcers in the throat, in patches, like islands in the ocean,
[10]. ►
*Phlegm in the throat, [7].
► *Much phlegm in the throat and nose
(eighth day); hawking it out of the throat
(tenth day), [7]. ► Hawking and spitting of a small quantity
of white, tough expectoration through the day (second day), [1]. ►
Subjective. [150.] ► *Disposition to hawk (seventh day); sensation as if a lump in the throat, with a disposition
to hawk it out all day; hawked up a hard greenish lump
(eighth day), [1]. ► Throat and nostrils dry, [7]. ► Pain in
throat, and head, and eye (tenth to twelfth day), [6]. ►
Sticking pain in throat (sixth day); pressing and sticking (seventh
day), [6]. ►
On waking, sore throat; feels as if scalded; worse during empty
swallowing; all day quite troublesome (sixth day), [1]. ► Sore
throat, worse during empty deglutition (third, fourth, seventh, and
eighth days), [1]. ► Slight sore throat; a disposition to
cough (first day); quite sore and inflamed, cough frequent, and
expectoration more than usual (second day); left tonsil inflamed and
swollen, velum elongated, with seems to be the cause of coughing (third
day); both tonsils swollen and inflamed, velum the same (fourth day);
not so much, eyes also better, but headache very severe (fifth day);
lessening (sixth day), [5]. ► Tonsils. ►
Painful swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands (after
four days), [14]. ► Swallowing. ►
Almost constant desire to make an empty deglutition, apparently from a
large collection of water in the mouth, and from a sense of fulness in
the throat (third day), [10], [11]. ►
External Throat. ►
Glandular swellings of the neck in scarlatina, [10]. [160.] ► During eructations, pain in region of
right parotid gland for two hours; but for twenty-four hours there was
soreness to touch of right parotid, [10].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Inclination to
have the food more salted (twelfth day), [7].
► Thirst. ► Desire to drink but small quantities, [2]. ►
Eructations. ► Eructation,
with the desire for stool, [8]. ► He had to belch up wind frequently, [8]. ►
Loud and bitter belchings (after
four days), [14]. ► Heartburn. ►
Heartburn after dinner (fifteenth day), [7].
► Nausea. ► Nausea while passing a diarrhœic stool
(after four days), [14]. ► Nausea, with headache, [10]. ► Nausea
and sore throat (after half an hour, first day), [1]. [170.] ► A sensation of nausea and sinking at the
stomach, or in the epigastrium; with a general sick feeling (thirteenth
day), [10]. ►
Squeamishness during the meals, several days, [7]. ►
Squeamishness of the stomach, with uneasiness and laziness all over the
limbs, at the same time with rheumatic pains, [10]. ►
Inclination to vomit, and constant strong desire for stool, [10]. ►
Stomach. ► Pain in the
stomach, 10 A.M. (fourth day), [7a],
[7c]. ►
Pain on pressure at epigastrium
(after four days), [14].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Pain in
right hypochondrium (yesterday in the left), with a drawing sensation in
the anus as if hæmorrhoids were coming (one hour after dose), continues
somewhat till the sixth day), [7].
► A heavy, painful feeling in the
region of the liver, pancreas, and spleen, which does not continue all
the time (thirteenth day), [10]. ► Aching and full feeling in right
hypochondrium (third day), [10]. ► A first, transient drawing pains in the
left hypochondrium; afterwards a lame sensation there, in the morning
(eighth day), [7]. [180.] ►
Sprainlike pain in the right hypochondrium, near the pelvis (thirteenth
and fourteenth days), [7]. ► Sudden cutting pain in the region of the
liver (fourteenth day), [7]. ► Left waist feels sore on bending (fifth
day), [6]. ► Umbilical. ►
Distension of abdomen about the navel, with pain at part on
pressure (after four days), [14]. ► Pain around the navel (first day), [1]. ►
General Abdomen. ► Purring
or rumbling in the abdomen (tenth day), [7].
► Loud rumblings in the bowels
(second day), [2]. ► From 6 A.M. till 3 P.M., weakness in the
bowels, stomach, and partly extended into the chest; a feeling as if the
bowels would be moved; during this time, he had to belch up wind
frequently (first day), [8]. ► Bellyache like before a stool, evening
(seventh and ninth days), [7]. ► Sensation similar to threatening colic,
evening till fully asleep (first day), [10].
[190.] ►
Slight soreness all over the bowels; rumbling and soreness all over the
bowels, with slight heaviness of the head (thirteenth day), [10]. ►
In the morning, after a good night’s rest, pain as if sprained in the
right pelvic region, towards the back, disappeared while walking (fifth
day), [7].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Pains in anus, as if hæmorrhoids would appear, [7]. ►
Frequent desire to stool, with pain in the abdomen, [10]. ► Motion
in abdomen, and urging to stool, without an opening, from 11 o’clock,
the whole night through (thirteenth day), [10].
STOOL.
►
Easier passage, and not so thick as usual (second day); with less
difficulty than usual (fifth day), [8].
► Diarrhœa, in the morning, [7]. ►
Diarrhœa, with pain in the abdomen, [10].
► Pain in the abdomen, with
diarrhœa, from 11 P.M., the whole night through (twentieth day), [10]. ►
Soft stool (sixth and eighth days); four firm stools in twenty-four
hours, more at night (tenth day), [7].
[200.] ►
Severe griping and colic pains, forcing him to go to stool, followed by
a very large, copious, but not loose discharge of rather a
light-brownish color; could not make any water at all as long as the
discharge lasted; after the discharge the urging and desire for an
evacuation continued, with irritation and itching in the rectum, all
around the sphincter ani, which felt as if it protruded a little. About
11 o’clock he had again severe colic pains, which left him, after a
pretty loose, light yellowish brown, somewhat watery discharge, coated
with mucus, and of a slight bloody appearance; after the discharge a
slight tenesmus existed for awhile, but the colic pains disappeared more
and more, and only great soreness of the bowels remained; after dinner,
at 2 P.M., the colic pains again returned, with a thin, loose discharge,
and slight tenesmus afterwards; in the afternoon and evening only a
soreness in the bowels, [10].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder. ► Ulcers in
bladder followed its use, [13]. ► Pressure bearing down on the bladder
(after third day), [7]. ► Urethra. ►
During a normal stool in the morning, sensation in the urethra as if the
urine were hot (fifth day), [7]. ► Micturition. ►
Frequent desire to urinate; she cannot hold her water for a moment
(after four days), [14]. ► *Increased flow of urine (third,
fourth, fifth, and sixth days), [10].
► Urine. ►
Red urine (second and third days), [1].
► Urine thick and dark on being passed (after four days), [14].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Towards 2 o’clock, sensitiveness of the right testicle and spermatic
cord (third day), [7]. ► Sexual desire, particularly on going to
sleep (fourth, fifth, and eighth days), [7].
[210.] ►
Nocturnal emission (second and fourth days); towards morning (seventh
days), [7].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Voice. ►
Voice covered and rough (eighth day), [7].
► Hoarse and husky, half an hour
after getting a little wet in a very light shower, in the evening (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Hoarse, with the coryza, [7]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Irritation to cough, [10]. ► During
day spells of cough (fifth to seventh day), [7]. ► Cough,
with sore throat, [5]. ► Cough, with a little loose, whitish,
slimy expectoration through the day, and accompanied with slight
difficulty of breathing (tenth day); cough, with white, thick
expectoration; cough became dry in the evening (eleventh day); better
afterwards, but prevented him from making another proving, [1]. ►
Profuse yellowish expectoration (tenth day), [7]. ►
Respiration. ► Breathing
more difficult than usual (ninth day), [1].
[220.] ►
Difficulty of breathing, with cough (tenth day), [1].
CHEST.
►
Occasionally pain in chest or heart, most on left side (fifth day), [5]. ►
Constriction across the chest (sixth day), [5]. ►
Stricture across chest (fourth day); most painful in the left side, [5]. ►
Aching pain across chest (tenth to twelfth day), [6]. ►
Pressing pain across the chest (fifth day), [5]. ► Sharp
cutting pain in chest, and sticking pain in heart (eighth day), [5]. ►
Front. ► Pressure in the
middle of the chest behind the sternum, irritating the cough (from the
vapor), [11]. ► Sides. ►
In the afternoon he felt several times a sharp shooting through the
right side of the chest, like rheumatism, going down the arm, [10]. ►
During a walk, sudden sticking in the muscles of the chest, on the left
side, exactly on the spot where two years ago he had the commencement of
his acute rheumatism (eighth day), [7].
[230.] ►
Sticking pain in the muscles of the ribs, left side, after walking out
during thawing weather; 2 and 3 P.M. (ninth day); somewhat, 1 and 2 P.M.
(tenth day), [7]. ► Catching pain under right breast oppressing the breathing
(after four days), [14]. ► Awoke from a feeling of great soreness in
the whole breast, but only a few minutes (fourth day), [8].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Dull aching pain in heart (tenth to twelfth day), [6]. ►
Shooting pain in heart all day (seventh day), [6]. ► Sticking
pain in the heart (second day); with pain in head (fourth
day); sticking pains without headache (fifth day), [6]. ► Pulse
accelerated, beating stronger, [2].
NECK AND BACK.
►
On waking, stiffness and pain in the neck, in the region of the first or
second cervical vertebra, going off in a short time (fourth day), [1]. ►
Rheumatic pain, for a short time, in the muscles of the neck and back of
neck (sixth day), [7]. ► An aching and stiffening feeling in right
splenius capitis (third day), [10].
[240.] ►
Stitching pain along left side of the neck and in heart, continuing
until he falls asleep, from 7 to 10.30 (fourth day), [6]. ► Severe
pain in back of neck, as if he had been struck, at 7 P.M. (fifth day), [6]. ►
Pain in os coccygis (first, third, and eighth days); like a pain he had
before the proving, [7].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Stiffness of limbs; better after walking
(ninth day), [7]. ► Rheumatic pains, now here, now there,
generally in limbs, and mostly muscular; alternately in arms and hands,
legs and feet; occasionally pains of a similar character in left ear, as
if it would prove a violent and long-continued otalgia; nevertheless it
lasted but a moment at a time, but frequently returned (thirteenth day),
[10].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Rheumatic pains, soreness, and stiffness
in the left arm, aggravated by motion, particularly on putting on his
coat, and during the middle of the day; the pain is better in the
evening, and at night; he could lie on the arm (Lyc. 3 relieved it), [10]. ►
Arm. ► Rheumatism in the
joint of the left humerus (fifteenth day), [7]. ► Dull,
aching, strained sensation in the middle of the os humeri, as if about
to break; wavering stitches through all the muscles, and sensations as
if they were sore; desire to stretch the limbs and body, [10]. ► Forearm.
► Aching and drawing pain in the
bones of the left forearm, [10]. ► Fingers. ►
Synovial inflammation of the left index, [8].
[250.] ►
Pain in the left fingers, in the morning (second day), [10]. ►
Jerking in the fingers of left hand in the evening, until he falls
asleep (first day), [10].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Rheumatic pain in the right knee and hip
during the forepart of the day; disappeared the latter part (nineteenth
day), [7]. ►
At 8.30 o’clock, when walking, was seized with an acute pain, which
suddenly passed through and around the head of the right tibia at the
knee-joint, in three or four successive throbs; about five minutes after
this paroxysm passed off; it returned in the same form, and with like
intensity; at the same time, pain in the right parotid gland; in half an
hour the pain in the knee disappeared; two throbs of a similar pain were
felt in rectus femoris muscle of the left leg, about one-third the
distance from the knee upwards, and in about five minutes a similar
renewal of the pain in the same place (thirteenth day), [10]. ► Aching
pains from hips to ankles, as though
she had walked many miles, felt more
particularly in the bones (after four days), [14]. ► In the
evening, almost insupportable pain and aching in the lower limbs, better
on moving; went off during a walk in the evening (second day), [2]. ►
Hip. ► In the left
hip-joint, pain as if sprained, in the evening (ninth day), [7]. ►
Knee. ► Weakness of the
knee-joints (first day), [1]. ► Foot. ►
Feet pain (sixth day); particularly the soles (seventh day), [7]. ►
Pain in the ball of the foot and in large toe, ameliorated by walking
(tenth day), [7]. ► Toes. [260.]
► Towards morning pain in the right
big toe, like in podagra, but without swelling and redness; disappear
after rising (third day); returning (sixth to ninth day), [7]. ► Sore
pain between the toes of the right foot (nineteenth day), [7].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Weariness,
nearly all day; a sore pain in left fingers, morning (second day), [10]. ►
Great weakness attending rheumatic pains in the forearm and hand, [10]. ►
Subjective. ► From
midnight till morning, a very restless feeling, with a constriction in
the diaphragm, almost like cramp, [10].
► Desire to stretch the body and
limbs, [10]. ►
Feels weary, and a sort of aching as if bruised in the whole body
(fourth day), [5]. ► Rheumatic pains, more in the forearm and
hand of right side; sensation of great weakness attending the pain
(third day), [10]. ► Wearing stitches through all the muscles,
[10]. ►
The dull tearing-gnawing pains on the third day got in the night so
violent that they disturbed his sleep, [10].
SKIN.
►
Eruptions. [270.] ► Skin on forehead pale-reddish color
(first day); turning dirty gray (fifth day); afterwards over and over
full of the finest wrinkles, peels off in small scales after seven days;
numerous small cracks and rhagades in all directions on the forehead
(after external application), [12].
► Nearly a month after the other
symptoms, several days after the twelfth dose, two small pustules
appeared in the outer side of the right leg, just below the knee, about
two inches distant from each other, slightly itching, sore to touch,
with inflamed bases; on the third day after their appearance they
scabbed, but matter continued to accumulate under the scab; they were
quite sore, and were not healed till thirteen days afterwards; after
healing, another sore of the same character appeared in front or a
little to the left on the same leg, just below the knee; in three days
it healed, and no more appeared, [10].
► A wen which had excited behind the
right ear from infancy, in a young woman of twenty-four, burst open and
discharged (nineteenth day after first dose, and eleventh day after
last), [10]. ► Sensations. ►
Very strong itching on neck, dorsum of hands, particularly on the
fingers of the right hand (thirteenth day), [10]. ► A
painful itching on several parts of the skin of the right forearm (ninth
to twelfth day), [7]. ► About 3 P.M., a pricking-itching
sensation all over the right hand, lasted one hour (second day);
followed by itching-pricking feeling at the lower part of the upper arm,
all around it, lasted from 3 o’clock, half an hour; the same
pricking-itching sensation appeared on the upper part of upper arm,
mostly in the arm-pit, and only lasted a few minutes; all this on the
right side, at 6 P.M. (third day), [8].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Very sleepy
and drowsy in the evening; at the same time squeamishness of the
stomach, with great uneasiness and laziness all over the limbs (fifth
day), [10]. ►
Deep sleep, afternoon, several days in succession, [7]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Could not
sleep well, very restless, headache, [5].
► Lies awake, 5 to 6.30; sleeps till
8 A.M. (second day), [7]. ► Dreams. [280.]
► Dreams a great deal (eleventh,
twelfth, and thirteenth nights), [10].
► Foolish dreams (third day), [1]. ►
Towards 5 A.M., lascivious dreams; prevented by his will a pollution
(third day), [7]. ► Dreams about gunning and farming (seventh
day); gunning and travelling (eleventh day), [1]. ► Anxious
dreams (second day); about removing and his relations (fourth day), [1]. ►
Sleep disturbed by troublesome dreams, such as swimming and wading in
water, and pushing though low places, and under a shed; half conscious
sleep, with fearfulness; also dreamed of detecting robbers in the night
in attempting to enter dwellings (twelfth day), [10]. ► Frightful
dreams (after four day), [14].
► Quarrelsome dreams (seventh day), [7].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Chilly, and
aching in the lower limbs, through the forenoon (second day), [1]. ►
Chilly at bedtime (first day), [2].
[290.] ►
Sometimes a chilly feeling, and a creeping sensation all over the skin,
and a kind of uneasy sore feeling all over the bowels, [10]. ►
Chilly, followed by a flush of heat over the face (first day), [2]. ►
Felt often chilly and then again quite warm, although his pulse was
natural (second day), [10]. ► Intense shivering,
followed by feverishness (after four days), [14]. ► Heat.
► Flush of heat and a sensation of
being tickled over the whole body (fourth day), [2]. ► Felt
pretty warm all over, but not feverish; sometimes a slight chilly
feeling and creeping over the back, [10].
► Flushes in the face, [2]; flushes of heat and a tickling sensation in
the face, [1]. ► Face hot and hands cold, [2]. ► Sweat.
► Very copious night-sweats,
for more than two weeks, [7]. ► Hot perspiration (after four days), [14].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Ill-humor; on
waking, ill-humor; on waking, bad taste; dullness of hearing;
nose stopped. ► (Forenoon), From 9 to 10 o’clock, nose
stopped. ► (Noon),
Pains in arm. ► (Afternoon), Dullness in head; headache, etc.;
from 6 to 8 o’clock, pressing pain in left brain; sleep. ► (Night),
Sweat. ► (After
meals), Toothache. ► (Motion), Particularly putting on coat, pains
in arm. ► (Going
to sleep), Sexual desire. ►
(Empty swallowing), Sore throat. ► Amelioration. ►
(Open air), Cold in head. ► (Walking in open
air), Dullness of head, etc. ►
(Motion), Pain in lower limbs. ► (Walking),
Pain in ball of foot, etc. ► (Getting warm from walking), Coryza, etc.® 2000
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