NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM.
Sodium phosphate, Na2HPO412H2O.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
(Dr. Farrington’s provings,
Hahnemannian Monthly, 12, 172) 1,
“A.” proving with the “10m.;” 2, Dr. D., proving with the “10m.;”
2a,
same, proving with the “c.m.;” 3,
Miss F., proving with the 30th dil.; 4,
Dr. H., proving with the “1m.;” 5,
Mr. H., proving with the “10m.;” 6,
Dr. Hn., proving with the 30th; 6a, same, with the “10m.;” 7, Mr. J., proving with the “1m.;” 7a, same,
with “10m.;” 7b, same, with “50m.;” 8, Dr. K., proving with “1m.;” 8a, same,
with “10m.;” 9, Mr. M.,
proving with the “1m.;” 9a, same, with the “10m.;” 9b, same,
with “50m.;” 9c, same, with “c.m.;” 10, Mrs. P., proving with 6th dil.; 10a,
same, with the 30th; 10b, same, with “2c.;” 11, Dr. S., proving with the
“70m.;” 11a, same, with “c.m.;” 12, Dr. V., proving with “1m.;” 13, E. R. Corson, Thesis, Hahn. Med. Coll.,
1877 (kindness of Dr. Farrington), took 20 grains crude (first day), 2
grains (thirty-seventh day), 6 grains 10 A.M., and 2 grains at 11 A.M.,
12 M., 1, 4.30, and 5.30 P.M. (thirty-eighth day), 4th dec. dil. at
short intervals (forty-second day), 6th dec. every fifteen minutes
(fiftieth day), 200th dil. (fifty-eighth day), 9th dec. (ninety-third
day), 200th dil. (one hundred and eighth day), “1m.” (one
hundred and thirty-sixth day), “30m.” (one hundred and
forty-first day).
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Awakes in
night, and imagines pieces of furniture are persons, [9b]. ►
Melancholy, especially after emissions, [7a].
► Frequent attacks of gloominess,
evening, [2a]. ► Depression; too apt to dwell on
annoyances, [7b]. ► Despondent in evening; could not study
(one hundred and thirty-ninth day), [13].
► Very despondent; imagined he was
going to be sick, to have typhoid fever (one hundred and thirty-seventh
day), [13]. ►
Felt anxious about home; had misgivings; feared bad news (one hundred
and thirty-seventh day), [13]. ► Worries about his health, about the
future, [2]. ►
Apprehensive of some approaching evil, [7b].
[10.] ►
Awakens; fears his child, who has a trifling ailment, is dead; he goes
to her room to relieve the otherwise ineffacable impression (never
nervous before in sickness), [9b].
► Easily startled by the least noise,
especially at night, causing palpitation, [2a].
► Irritable, [2]. ►
Nervous, irritable (sixtieth day), [13].
► Vexed at trifles; disposed to be
irritable, [9b]. ► Ill-humor, mostly forenoons, [2], [2a].
► Intellectual. ► Inclined to study in the evening, [2], [2a].
► No ambition to do anything, [2], [2a].
► Mental dulness; forgot what I had
just committed to memory (one hundred and fiftieth and one hundred and
fifty-first days), [13]. ► Study is burdensome; it is difficult to
remember what is read, [2a].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. [20.] ► Dizzy, as if he would fall; objects turn
around, on rising in morning, [11a].
► Slightly dizzy (after four hours,
first day), [13]. ► General Head. ►
Dulness in head and at root of nose, during the morning (fifty-eighth
and fifty-ninth days), [13]. ► Heaviness and fulness of head, with
flashes of heat in afternoon, followed by sweat, [10b]. ► Empty
feeling in head, [11a]. ► Fulness in head, towards evening
(thirty-seventh day), [13]. ► Fulness in head, with throbbing pain (one
hundred and thirty-seventh day), [13].
► Fulness and heaviness in head, and
slight dizziness, while studying (soon after first dose, thirty-eighth
day), [13]. ►
Frequent sensation of fulness in head, with pulsating pains on stepping,
[2], [2a]. ►
Tensive headache, with dulness and heaviness, accompanied by dim sight,
as from a veil before the eyes, [10a].
[30.] ►
Headache 9 A.M., preceded by gagging and faint feeling; pain all over
head, better at first from pressure; no better after dinner or siesta,
but suddenly leaves at 8 P.M., [12].
► Headache, at 10 A.M., [9a]; every afternoon, after menses, [3]. ►
Headache after dinner, [11a]. ► Headache better before breakfast, [11a]. ►
Headache better after breakfast, worse after dinner, [11a]. ► Dull
heavy headache, with dim sight, [10a].
► Rheumatic drawing up left side of
occiput into forehead, [7b]. ► Throbbing headache (one hundred and
thirty-eighth day), [13]. ► Forehead. ►
Fulness in forehead, over eyes, in morning (one hundred and
twenty-seventh day), [13]. ► Through the morning, at times, while
studying, fulness and dull aching in forehead (forty-first day), [13]. [40.]
► Fulness in forehead, with cutting
pains in right temple (one hundred and twenty-sixth day), [13]. ►
Frontal headache, sharp over left eye, every forenoon, [11a]. ►
Headache over left eye (during menses), [3].
► Headache returns every afternoon,
now over one, now over other eye (after menses), [3]. ►
Throbbing in forehead, lasting almost all day; worse suddenly raising
the head, and when ascending (one hundred and fortieth day), [13]. ►
Temples. ► Pain in right
temple, extending to eye and ear, at noon; better by 5 P.M. (after
eating grapes); in evening, pain over left temple while riding in
street-car, [10], [10a]. ► Pain
in right temple (one hundred and thirty-seventh day), [13]; coming and going (ninety-ninth day), [3]. ►
Very severe pains in temples nearly all morning, [11a]. ►
Pinching in left temple, descending to left ear and nostril, [10]. ►
Sharp pains in right temple, several times during day (forty-seventh
day), [13]. [50.] ►
Momentary cutting in left temple, at 3 P.M., while walking (one hundred
and first day), [13]. ► Sharp cutting in right temple (one
hundred and twenty-fifth day), [13].
► Parietals. ► Sharp cutting in right side of head,
with, at times, a dull aching over the eyes (one hundred and fifty-ninth
to one hundred and eighty-sixth day), [13].
► Sharp tearing in left side of head,
front of ear and temporal region particularly, [2a].
EYE.
►
Eyes bloodshot, [9a]. ► Eyes felt weak, worse from gaslight, at 8
P.M. (one hundred and third day), [13].
► Slight burning in eyes, producing
slight lachrymation, and exciting rubbing of the eyes (forty-eighth
day), [13]. ►
Eyes as if bathed in hot water, [9b].
► Momentary cutting in right eye (one
hundred and sixth day), [13]. ► Fine stitches in eye, inducing winking
and slight lachrymation (one hundred and twenty-ninth day), [13]. [60.]
► Eyes feel sore when reading in
evening, [9a]. ► Eyes feel sore, weak, [11a]. ► Inner
canthus of right eye feels sore; he wants to rub it; slightly injected, [11a]. ►
Soreness and shooting in inner right canthus (one hundred and
thirty-sixth day), [13]. ► Eyes feel as if sand was in them, mostly
the left eye, [9b]. ► Brow and Orbit. ►
Pain over the eyes, [11a]. ► Pain over each eye; worse closing eyes,
on retiring (fiftieth day), [13]. ► Pain in centre of left eyebrow, [12]. ►
Pressure over right eye (during menses), [3].
► Pressure over right eye, with
sighing, as if room were too close; later over left eye; worse before
and after, better during menses, [3].
[70.] ►
Acute pain over left eye, lasting but a moment (one hundred and
twenty-second day), [13]. ► Pain in left orbit, with pain in bowels,
extending up into chest; flatulence, [12].
► Dull aching pain in orbit above
ball, on using eyes, [11a]. ► Infraorbital neuralgic pain on right side
(one hundred and thirty-seventh day), [13].
► Lids. ►
Quivering of right eyelid while reading, before sleep and on awaking, [6]. ►
Lids feel heavy and itch along margins, [11a].
► Eyelids feel sore, itch, and burn, [11a]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Burning lachrymation, [9b]. ► Ball. ►
Dryness of left eyeball, with pain in same, as if bruised, [8], [8a].
► Aching in right eyeball, [9]. ►
Vision. [80.] ► Dim sight, as from veil over eyes, with
dull heavy headache, [10a]. ► Mist before eyes, [11a]. ►
Flickering of sight in left eye, on rising, at 5 A.M., [1]. ► Halo
around gaslight, [11a].
EAR.
►
External. ► Lobe of right
ear burns and itches so intolerably he has to scratch it until it
bleeds, [9b]. ► Middle. ►
Sensation (in ears) as of water dropping from a height into a long
narrow vessel, while lying down, [9c].
► Fulness in both ears (one hundredth
day), [13]. ►
Fulness in ear (one hundred and thirty-seventh day), [13]. ► Full
feeling in interval ear, in evening (ninety-eighth day), [13]. ► Dull
aching in right meatus auditorius (one hundred and fifty-fifth day), [13]. [90.]
► Tickling from middle ear into
Eustachian tube, [7a]. ► Great itching in right meatus auditorius
(ninety-sixth day), [13]. ► Hearing. ►
Imagines he hears footsteps in next room, [9b].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Slight
epistaxis in morning, [2]. ► Subjective. ►
Left nostril stopped up, [7];
worse in open air, [9b]. ► Fulness at root of nose and in ears,
towards evening (forty-second day), [13].
► Great fulness at root of nose; skin
feels drawn tight over it, in evening (fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth
days), [13]. ►
Nose as if full of mucus, and discharge is slight (fifty-ninth day), [13]. ►
Left nostril sore, painful; picks it continually; scabs form, [11], [11a].
► Pricking in left nare (one hundred
and fifty-fifth day), [13]. [100.] ►
Pricking in right nare, acute enough to bring tears to the eyes (one
hundred and fortieth day), [13]. ► Smell. ►
Offensive odor before nose in morning, two days, [2a].
FACE.
►
Cheeks. ► Shooting pain in
right cheek (one hundred and fifty-fifth day), [13]. ►
Peculiar stitching pains along cheeks into ears (ninety-eighth day), [13]. ►
Chin. ► Slight shooting
through left lower jaw (one hundred and twenty-sixth day), [13]. ►
Great soreness in right side of lower jaw, at the angle, with occasional
slight darting pains through jaw (one hundred and twenty-fifth day), [13].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Teeth in morning,
and mouth all day, covered with a brownish mucus, [7a]. ► Gums.
► Two gumboils, one opposite the left
first premolar, the second opposite the last right molar (third day), [13]. ►
Pain in gum, over last molar of left upper jaw (one hundred and
fifty-fifth day), [13]. ► Tongue. ►
Tongue coated dirty white, with dark-brown centre, [2a]. [110.] ► Blisters on tip of tongue, [9a]. ►
Sensation of hairs on tip of tongue, followed by prickling numbness of
whole mouth; next day a small pimple, [10b].
► Stinging in the end of the tongue,
in evening (one hundred and forty-fifth day), [13]. ► Taste.
► Bad taste in mouth, morning, on
awaking; gastric symptoms, [2a]. ► Coppery taste, 5 A.M., [1]. ► Speech.
► Tries to say a word, but it will
not come out; feels as if something closed in the throat, preventing
speech, [7a].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Accumulation
of mucus in throat, [7]. ► Tough, clear, white phlegm from posterior
nares, [7a]. ►
Dropping of thick yellow mucus from posterior nares; worse at night;
awakens him; he must sit up to clear his throat, [7], [7a]. ► Much hawking from posterior nares (have
had this before), (fifty-eighth day), [12].
► Subjective. [120.] ►
Sensation of lump in throat (one hundred and third day), [13]. ► Right
side of throat sore, [11a]. ► Sensation as of a pin pricking right side
of throat; worse swallowing liquid; better from solids, [11]. ► Tonsils.
► Momentary throbbing in region of
left tonsil (one hundred and thirty-ninth day), [13].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Canine hunger,
with gone feeling in stomach; felt as if could not wait until dinner was
ready (one hundred and twenty-second and one hundred and twenty-third
days), [13]. ►
Not very hungry for meals, yet enjoys them; most appetite for supper, [2], [2a].
► Desires strong-tasting things, [7]. ►
Desires strong-tasting things, even alcohol, [6]. ► Desire
for eggs, [9b]. ► Desire for fried eggs, [7]. [130.] ► No desire for food; sick, gone feeling, [11a]. ►
Less relish for dinner (ninety-seventh day), [13]. ►
Aversion to bread and butter, yet formerly fond thereof; very persistent
for weeks, [2], [2a]. ► Thirst.
► Desire for beer; it relieves the
goneness, [9b]. ► Eructation. ►
Eructations after eating, [9]. ► Eructations frequent, tasteless, [9a], [9b].
► Slight regurgitation of food after
dinner (ninety-seventh day), [13].
► Stomach. ► Goneness in stomach and abdomen, even in
chest, [9], [9a], [9b],
[9c]. ►
Goneness in stomach and abdomen, with feeling of weight above the
ensiform, [9b], [5]. ► Gone
feeling in stomach (one hundred and twenty-sixth day), [13]. [140.] ► Gone feeling in stomach, on rising in
morning, [11a]. ► Empty gone feeling in stomach, 11 to 12
o’clock, before breakfast, [11a]. ► Empty gone feeling all day, but worse
after eating, [11a]. ► Stomach feels empty, [11a]. ► Heavy
feeling in stomach, causing a restless feeling, third day after tea, [1]. ►
Sensation of heaviness in epigastrium, better after eating, [10a]. ►
Heaviness in epigastrium and lower third of sternum, worse going
upstairs, during menses, [3]. ► After eating a little feels full, [9b]. ►
Fulness in stomach all the time, but worse after eating, [2a]. ►
Constant feeling of fulness, [2a].
[150.] ►
Pain in bowels ascends to stomach; flatulence; at same time return of
pain in left orbit, [12]. ► Pressure from spine to stomach, before
breakfast, [1]. ► Awakens 2 A.M., with pressure in stomach;
feels as if a round stick was pressing up and forward from about the
last dorsal vertebra into stomach, [1].
► Pressure in pit of stomach, better
eating (after menses), [3].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Sharp
cutting in hypochondria and left iliac region (fifty-fourth day), [13]. ►
General Abdomen. ►
Flatulence, especially after dinner (one hundred and twenty-ninth day), [13]. ►
Very flatulent, during day (fiftieth day), [13]. ► Much
flatulence after eating, with rumbling in bowels (one hundred and
twenty-third day), [13]. ► Anxiety felt through abdomen, lasting
only a few moments, [8]. ► Goneness in abdomen and stomach, with
feeling of weight above the ensiform, [9b],
[5]. [160.]
► While at stool, sensation as if a
marble dropped in left abdomen (descending colon), two evenings, at 8
A.M., [9a]. ►
Bloated feeling, worse evening; wind in bowels; must loosen clothing;
urging to stool, [11a]. ► Colic, as from wind pressing on bladder,
causing frequent micturition; urging to stool, [9b], [9c].
► Momentary colicky pains, with
discharge of flatus, in the evening, while lying (fiftieth day), [13]. ►
Slight colicky pains, after breakfast, while walking up and down room
(ninety-seventh day); after supper, while walking (forty-ninth day);
after stool (one hundred and fifty-sixth day), [13]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
Colic pains in lower part of abdomen, with desire for stool; much flatus
before stool, in evening, after supper, while walking (forty-seventh
day), [13]. ►
Momentary colicky pains in hypogastrium, in morning (one hundred and
twenty-eighth day), [13]. ► Soreness in hypogastrium, after passing
water; better lying on back, worse on belly, in evening (forty-third and
forty-sixth days), [13]. ► Pain through right groin, day after
emissions, [9b].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Distressing, burning, contracting pain in anus and lower part of rectum;
feel it after awaking from a troubled dream, [2a]. [170.] ► Sticking in anus, as from a splinter, on
walking (one hundred and thirty-ninth day), [13]. ► Sore
feeling in anus (one hundred and twenty-seventh day), [13]. ► Sore,
raw feeling in anus, with desire to retract the anus, which relieves
(one hundred and thirty-sixth day), [13].
► Felt a rawness in anus on awaking;
desire to scratch it, which aggravated (one hundred and thirty-ninth
day), [13]. ►
Itching of the anus; soreness, [9b].
► Anus itches and feels raw (one
hundred and forty-sixth day), [13].
► Great itching of anus (one hundred
and fifty-sixth day), [13]. ► Urging to stool, two evenings in
succession, at 8 P.M., [9a], [9c]. ►
Urging to stool; feels often as if bowels would move, but they do not. ► Must bring my will to bear to prevent the
escape of fæces (after three hours and three-quarters, first day), [13].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. [180.] ► Diarrhœa, colicky pains before morning, [19b]. ►
Three or four diarrhœic stools a day, with much flatus; crampy pains in
stomach and abdomen; is afraid to pass flatus lest fæces escape also, [2a]. ►
After rising, bowels loose, rumbling in abdomen; after breakfast, a
small, dry, difficult, dark-brown stool, requiring much straining
(forty-third day); dark-brown stool after breakfast, requiring much
straining (forty-fourth day), [13].
► After coitus, urging to stool and
urine; bowels loose; stools small, [9b].
► Two small stools during day
(ninety-seventh day), [13]. ► Small stool, watery, yellowish-brown
(after six hours); stool profuse, thin, yellowish-brown (after ten hours
and a half); before each passage, weak feeling in rectum and sphincter;
had to forcibly contract the sphincter to prevent an evacuation (first
day), [13]. ►
Small stool before breakfast, soft, yet with effort; sudden urging while
eating; afterwards, watery, yellowish-brown painless stool (one hundred
and seventh day), [13]. ► Desire for stool, which was scanty, with
flatus, at 7.30 A.M.; after breakfast, large, soft stool, with much
flatus (one hundred and sixth day), [13].
► After a light supper, sudden urging
to stool, with colic; had to contract the sphincter to prevent escape of
fæces; stool watery, gushing, painless (one hundred and thirty-sixth
day), [13]. ►
Passage yellowish-brown, watery, containing fecal lumps (after four
hours, first day), [13]. [190.] ►
Sudden urging to stool, which was copious, painless, and easy; the first
part fluid, the second fecal lumps, at 6.30 P.M. (second day), [13]. ►
Sudden urging to stool, at 6.30 P.M.; after supper, during a stool,
difficult to retain fæces; when stool passed, it was mushy,
yellow-brown, with flatus before and during; momentary colic during
stool (thirty-eighth day), [13]. ► Large, soft stool, in evening
(fifty-third day), [13]. ► Large, soft stool, easily expelled, with
feeling afterwards as if much remained behind (one hundred and
fifty-sixth day), [13]. ► Constipation. ►
Costive, [9], [9a], [2], [2a]. ►
One day costive, next day diarrhœa, [9b].
► No stool (thirty-ninth day); desire
for stool, at 9 A.M., but only passed, with difficulty, two small lumps;
normal passage in the evening (fortieth day); normal stool in evening
(forty-first day), [13].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Burning during
urination; urine apparently normal, [9b].
► After coitus, burning and itching
at meatus urinarius, [9b]. ► Micturition. ►
Constant urging to urinate, [9a]. [200.] ►
Awoke in night with distended bladder (thirtieth day), [13]. ►
Obliged to urinate, but pressure not thereby relieved, [1]. ►
Frequent micturition, [11a]; from
wind pressing on bladder, [9a], [9c]. ►
Frequent calls to urinate, passing but little at a time (one hundred and
twenty-eighth day), [13]. ► Passed a large quantity of urine in the
morning, after arising (fifty-first day), [13].
► Bladder seems incapable of properly
expelling its contents; flow soon stops, and requires straining; each
effort resulting in a small spirt of urine (forty-seventh day), [13]. ►
Desire to urinate, but compelled to wait almost a minute before urine
will flow; had to strain at the end of micturition (one hundred and
twenty-fourth day), [13]. ► Same bladder-atony remains (one hundred
and twenty-eighth day), [13]. ► Urine. ►
Urine dark red, no sediment, [1]. ► Urine increased and pale (fifty-ninth and
one hundred and second days), [13].
[210.] ►
Urine greatly increased and pale in afternoon (fiftieth day), [13]. ►
Urine scanty and dark (fifty-third day), [13].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Erections almost
every night (married man), preceded by slight pains in the testicles,
mostly left, [9b]. ► Pain in left testicle, and about the
chin, [9c]. ►
Dull drawing in testicle and cord, [9c].
► Pain in left spermatic cord, [9c]. ►
Drawing in right spermatic cord, [9b].
► Great sexual excitement, [11]. ►
Sexual desire diminished, [9b]. ► Sexual desire, but no erections; later,
total absence of desire, [9a]. [220.] ►
Seminal emission at night, with dreams (one hundred and twenty-fourth
day), [13]. ►
Seminal emission at night, with vivid dreams (one hundred and
thirty-ninth day), [13]. ► Emission of semen, some hours after
coitus; no dream or erection, [9b],
[9c]. ►
Emissions every other night, [11a].
► Three emissions in one week;
unconscious thereof until morning, [7],
[9a]. ►
Emissions every night; no lascivious dreams; semen thin, watery, smells
like stale urine, [7a]. ► Seminal emission during night, without
dreams (forty-second day); seminal emission during night, with dreams
(forty-third day); another nocturnal emission (forty-fourth day); still
another emission, at night, without dreams (forty-fifth day), [13]. ►
Seminal emissions, without erotic dreams, two in one night, [11a]. ►
Female. ► Menses five days
too early, [1]. ► Menses five days too early (always
regular before); feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed; flow pale
(dark in health), with pressure over right eye, and desire to take a
long breath, as if room was too close. Three days later, headache over
left eye; all worse 3 to 4 P.M. Fifth day, flow dark as usual. After menses, much worse. Trembling about the
heart, worse walking upstairs; pressure in pit of stomach, better
eating; headache returns every afternoon, now over one, now over other
eye; sleep restless, tosses from side to side. Next period three days
too early. Same symptoms as before, but flow stopped two days and
returned with headache, chilliness, restless sleep, and paralytic aching
in right wrist; knees felt as if the cords were shortened. (Was under
treatment eighteen months before symptoms were all removed), [3].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Voice. [230.]
► Hoarseness (following pain from
clavicle to stomach), [10]. ► Cough. ►
Cough, after drinking water, [7a].
► Cough, from tickling in throat, [2a]. ►
Irritation in throat; dry, tickling cough (one hundred and sixth day), [13]. ►
Constant cough, and hawking pain in chest, in the mammary regions (one
hundred and sixth day), [13]. ► Respiration. ►
Constant tendency to sigh (menses), [3].
► Desire to take long breath, as if
room too close (during menses), [3].
CHEST.
►
Empty feeling in chest and abdomen, after a meal, [9]. ► Empty
feeling in chest and abdomen, after dinner, [9]. ► Pain
through chest and in left shoulder, [11a].
[240.] ►
Pain through chest, after dinner, especially left side, [11a]. ► Pain
from right clavicle, diagonally, to stomach, so intense that it made her
start, followed by hoarseness, [10].
► Burning, deep in chest, worse right
side, evening in bed, [11a]. ► Sudden feeling of fulness in upper part
of chest, [10], [10b]. ►
Contracted feeling in walls of right chest, lasting only a few moments, [2]. ►
Dull aching pains in chest (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred
and eighty-sixth day), [13]. ► Sore, pressing pain, as after a
contusion, about cartilages of fourth to sixth ribs, right side, worse
from deep breathing, deep pressure; later in evening, cannot breathe
deeply, or move arms, or bend body backward, [2a]. ►
Intercostal muscles feel sore, and as if drawn, when sitting erect or
moving chest, not in ordinary breathing, [9b].
► A spot in right chest feels
bruised, [10b]. ► Front. ►
Like a weight above the ensiform, with empty feeling in stomach and
abdomen, [9b]. [250.] ►
Lower third of sternum pains, as if torn in two, [7a].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Trembling
about heart, worse walking upstairs (after menses), [3]. ► Feels
as if a lump, a bubble, started from the heart, and were forced through
the arteries, [7a]. ► Heart feels uneasy and pains, especially
about its base, when pains in limbs and great toe are better, [10]. [Twenty years ago had pains in toe
and heart relieved by Lycopod.; no return until now.] ► Heart’s Action. ►
Lying down at night, hears heart beat, as though it came from under
pillow, [9c]. ► Every strange noise causes palpitation, [2a]. ►
Pulse. ► Pulse quick,
jerking, 11 to 12 o’clock; before breakfast, [11a]. ► Feels
pulse all over body, [7]. ► Pulse felt in different parts of body, as
if shot were rolling through the artery, [9b].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Crick in both
sides of neck, [9], [9b]. ► Back.
[260.] ►
Weakness in back (sixtieth and one hundred and fifty-fifth days);
towards evening (one hundred and fortieth day), [13]. ►
Weakness in back, requiring an effort to sit erect (one hundred and
thirty-seventh day); back weak, worse towards evening (one hundred and
thirty-eighth day), [13]. ► Stitches to right of spine, on taking
deep breath, morning, [2]. ► Dorsal. ►
Slight pain in left scapula, in evening (one hundred and twenty-seventh
day), [13]. ► Lumbar. ►
Weak feeling in small of back, when lying in bed, at 11 P.M.; most felt
when lying on back, but not relieved by lying on side; diminishes in a
few minutes, and is followed by an annoying, deepseated twitching in
left inguinal region, [2a]. ► Shooting in region of right kidney (one
hundred and fifty-fifth day), [13].
► Fine stitching pains in left renal
region, [2a]. ► Pain in articulation of lumbar vertebra
and sacrum, left side; pressing the spot causes a pain down thigh to
knee, [7a]; later, this spot grew
more painful, and the leg seemed to give was when walking, as though
knee was weak, [7b]. ► Sacral. ►
Sharp cutting in right sacro-iliac articulation (one hundred and
thirty-sixth day), [13].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Right wrist and left ankle weak, and ache
as if paralyzed; after menses, [3].
[270.] ►
Drawing in hands, feet, wrist-joints, and left shoulder, [2a].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Synovial crepitation (in upper limbs), [10], [7a],
[9], [9a], [9b].
► Arm (left) feels “gone,”
tired, [7a]. ►
Arms so weak she must let them drop, [10].
► Heaviness of right arm, [9b]. ►
Contractions of the extensor muscles on the back of the arm, often, when
writing (one hundred and fifty-ninth to one hundred and eighty-sixth
day), [13]. ► Shoulder. ►
Rheumatic pain in right shoulder; feels nervous, [9b]. ►
Shooting pains from neck over right shoulder (one hundred and
thirty-eighth day), [13]. ► Slight drawing in left deltoid, morning, [2a]. ►
Wrist. ► Deep-seated pain
in right wrist, going to centre of palm, [10].
[280.] ►
Sudden drawing-scraping pain in left wrist, at various times, extending
over dorsum of hand to fingers; index finger intensely painful, [2a]. ►
Paralytic aching in right wrist (during menses), [3]. ► Drawing
in right wrist-joint, [2a]. ► Hand. ►
While writing, cannot keep hand from trembling; the pen moves further
than he designs, thus he makes an “A” or a “y” too
long, [7a]. ►
Numbness of right hand and arm, [10b].
► Slight crampy pain in left hand,
particularly index finger, [2a]. ► Fingers. ►
Slight numbness in fingers of right hand, with occasional darts,
especially in ring fingers (one hundred and twenty-fifth day), [13]. ►
Pain in right index finger, in an old gouty joint, [10]. ► Pain
in little finger of right hand, [9].
► Rheumatic pain in joints of little
finger, left hand, [9b]. [290.] ►
Pains darting in little finger of left hand, then in right, worse
riding, [10]. ► Severe shooting pains in the median and
index fingers of left hand (forty-sixth day), [13]. ► Sharp
pain, like a needle, in right middle finger, [2a].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Synovial crepitation (in lower limbs), [10], [7a],
[9], [9a], [9b].
► Unsteady gait, [6a]. ►
Weariness of legs while standing, [9b].
► *Sudden giving way of legs while
walking, as though they would be paralyzed; fears she will
have typhoid fever, [10], [10b]. ►
Hamstrings feel stiff when he attempts to rise; he “kicks out”
to limber up, [9c]. ► Thigh. ►
Dull, boring pain in left thigh and knee (one hundred and second day), [13]. ►
Dull aching in right thigh, very severe, [9a].
[300.] ►
Drawing in inner side of left thigh, [9b].
► Drawing in hamstrings of left leg,
while walking, [7a]. ► Slight drawing in left ischiatic nerve,
from foramen to middle of thigh, [2a].
► Sharp shooting in anterior part of
left thigh (one hundred and twenty-sixth day), [13]. ►
Bruised pain inside of thighs, when walking upstairs, [9a]. ► Knee.
► On getting up, after sitting
awhile, knees tremble, [11a]. ► Pains about patella, [9c]. ► Pain
in left popliteal space, going upstairs, [10].
► Knees felt as if cords were
shortened (during menses), [3]. ► Muscles of left knee pain as if
hamstrings were too short, [9a]. [310.] ►
Sharp cutting in right knee, not influenced by motion (one hundred and
thirty-seventh day), [13]. ► Sharp stabbing in left knee (one hundred
and fifty-sixth day), [13]. ► Twitching in left knee-joint, [2a]. ►
Leg. ► After getting up,
for several mornings, legs, from knees down, feel heavy, as if
paralyzed, [9c]. ► Pains between knees and ankles, when
walking fast, [9c]. ► Slight pains about shin and left
testicle, [9c]. ► Aching along shins, while walking, [10]. ►
Pain in calf, worse on first rising, [9c].
► Aching along shins, while walking, [10]. ►
Pain in calf, worse on first rising, [9c].
► Right calf feels as if tightly
bandaged, [9]. ► When walking, calves feel as if pulled
tight, [9a]. [320.] ►
Sensation as of a needle piercing calf, while walking, [9a]. ► Foot.
► Muscles pain when flexing left
foot, [9c]. ►
Feet felt swollen, and itched (subject to chilblains), (fifty-second
day), [13]. ►
Sharp cutting pains in left foot, through middle of instep to toes,
lasting but a short time (one hundred and thirty-sixth day), [13]. ►
Pain in hollow of right foot, after going upstairs, also while riding, [10]. ►
Pain in hollow of left foot, worse walking or exercising; alternates
from foot to foot, [9b]. ► Pain in ball of left foot, [9c]; walking, [9a].
► Toes. ►
Big toe pains, [10], [10b]. ►
Right big toe pains; as this gets better, pain in heart, [10]. ► When
rubbing big toe, it prickles as if going to sleep, [10b].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. [330.] ► Tired in morning; weak feeling in legs,
seemingly relieved by forcibly stretching, [2a]. ►
Fatigue from slight exertion (fifty-second day), [13]. ►
Languid (after nocturnal emission (one hundred and twenty-fifth day), [13]. ►
Very languid (sixtieth day), [13].
► Lassitude in hot weather (hitherto
indifferent to summer heat), [9c].
► General lassitude, [6], [9], [10], [11],
[2], [5], [17]. ► Nervous, on rising in morning, [11a]. ►
After breakfast, nervous, went to bed again, [11a]. ► Study
makes him so nervous he must get up and walk about, [9b]. ►
Nervousness, goneness at stomach, headache, crick in neck, worse in
thunderstorm, [9b]. ► Subjective. [340.]
► Feels weak and cross, after dinner;
would like to lie down, [2a]. ► Sick feeling, nervous; 11 to 12 o’clock,
before breakfast, [11a]. ► Now and then, slight pains here and there
(sixtieth day), [13]. ► Sore feeling, especially in joints
(sixtieth day), [13]. ► Awakens after 12 P.M.; soon after, a
sensation as from an electric shock, through the body; trembling and
palpitation as from fright, [2a].
SKIN.
►
Eruptions, Dry. ► Itching
of skin, particularly lumbar region and hips; rubbing causes an eruption
of papules, about the size of lentils, and of the color of the skin, [2a]. ►
After going to bed, itching here and there, and lumps, similar to hives,
raise up; scratching relieves itching but is followed by burning; could
not sleep, [11a]. ► Apis removed hives. ► Burning stinging lump, like hives, on
second joint of ring finger, [7a].
► Pimples on left natis, with a broad
erythematous base (one hundred and forty-fifth day), [13]. [350.] ► Pimple on left leg, itching burning; loss
of appetite, [2a]. ► Itching of small pimples near right ear
(one hundred and first day), [13].
► Small, round reddish papules about
the tendo Achilles, and later, on lower limbs, mostly in bends of
joints, itching terribly, [2a]. ► Sepia aggravated, but finally relieved,
eruption about joints. ► Eruptions,
Moist. ► Itching about
mouth, neck; vesicles form; pimples like nettlerash, [9b]. ►
Itching about mouth, neck; vesicles form; pimples like nettlerash, [9b]. ►
Itching about the joints, elbows, knees; at same time itching of right
external ear; vesicles form, [9b].
► Sensations. ► Itching of nose, [1]. ► Itching
about mouth and neck all through the proving, [7a]. ►
Itching of the prepuce, [2a]. ► Itching about the anus, [9b]. [360.] ► Itching of prepuce, of anus, of coccyx, [9b]. ►
Joints itch, [9b]. ► Great itching of the scrotum
(ninety-sixth day), [13]. ► Intense itching of the face, especially
of the nose; also spots on body and limbs itch; feel like insect-bites;
she wants to tear the flesh, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Drowsy, 10
A.M., [9b]. ►
Drowsy all day, mostly forenoon, [9].
► Drowsy, afternoon, must lie down;
after dinner, so sleepy can hardly keep eyes open; tired, weary, not
disposed to do anything, [2a]. ► Very tired in afternoon; falls asleep
while sitting, [2], [2a]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Great and
unusual excitement; not able to get to sleep until near 1 A.M.; awoke at
5 unrested, [1]. ► Could not get to sleep until 4 P.M., then
had a tiresome sleep until 5 A.M., [1].
[370.] ►
Restless sleep all through the proving, [6].
► Restless sleep during and after
menses, [3]. ►
Sleep restless, tosses from side to side (after menses), [3]. ►
Sleepless, after 12 P.M. until 3 A.M., [6].
► Wide awake from the least noise, [2a]. ►
Sleepy, from 3 P.M. until bedtime, then sleepless from thoughts;
finally, urging to sleep, dreams of these thoughts, [6]. ► Dreams.
► Troublesome dreams, [1]. ► Sexual
dreams, thinks she is with her husband, but the act is prevented by the
unbidden entrance of some stranger, [1].
► Vexing dreams, [5], [7b]. ► Dreams of the dead; tired on awaking, [2a]. [380.]
► Sits up in bed, seizes the sheet,
and folds it precisely along the hems, [9b].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Chilliness
(during menses), [3]. ► Chilly, felt mostly in chest, [1]. ►
Chill, followed by hot flashes around body, [4]. ► Cold
feet (subject to them, but only in winter), (fifty-second day), [13]. ►
Feet icy cold by day, burn at night in bed (during menses), [3]. ►
Heat. ► Cannot get to
sleep, feels so hot; thoughts crowd on his mind, [2a]. ►
Flashes of heat and sweat evening, [9a].
► Flashes, every afternoon, headache
(lady who, though fifty, never had them before), [10a]. ► Face
burns, [9b].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On rising, dizziness; offensive
odor before nose; drawing in deltoid; after getting up, legs, etc., feel
heavy; on first rising, pain in the calf. ►
(Forenoon), Ill-humor; frontal
headache; headache over eye; drowsiness. ►
(Afternoon), After menses, headache;
towards evening, weakness of back; flashes. ►
(Evening), Attacks of gloominess;
fulness at root of nose; at 8 o’clock, sensation in left abdomen;
bloated feeling; after supper, while walking, colic pains; at 8 o’clock,
urging to stool; flashes of heat, etc. ►
(Night), Easily startled; dropping
of mucus from posterior nares. ► (Ascending stairs), Heaviness in epigastrium,
etc.; trembling about heart. ► (Drinking water), Cough. ►
(Riding), Pains in little fingers. ► (In thunderstorm),
Nervousness, etc. ► (Walking), Pain in hollow of foot. ► Amelioration. ►
(Eating), Heaviness in epigastrium;
pressure in pit of stomach.® 2000
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