PEDICULUS.
Pediculus capitis.
Natural order
, of insects, Hemiptera.
Preparation
, Tincture.
Authorities.
Mure, Pathogénésie Brésil.
1, Ch. D. Jolly; 2, M. Ruoffinel; 3,
M. Benard; 4, Mme. Al. J., aged
twenty-seven; 5, Mlle. D. R., aged
eighteen.
MIND.
►
Very merry, in the evening (eighth day), [4].
► Merry mood, at 3 P.M. (second day),
[2]. ►
Great unmeaning merriment (fourth day), [5].
► Excessive merriment; she laughs at
everything (eighth day), [5]. ► Good-natured and obliging (tenth day), [3]. ►
Causeless melancholy; she worries about trifles (sixth day), [5]. ►
Irritability; causeless anger (eighth day), [5]. ►
Malicious, jeering temper (eighth day), [5].
► Entire carelessness about the
present or future (fourth day), [5].
[10.] ►
Strong disposition to study (eighth day), [4].
► Inclination for study, with
quickness of apprehension (fourth day), [1].
► Eagerness for work (fourth day), [3]. ►
Writes with feverish rapidity, in the evening (twelfth day), [1]. ►
Words came more easily (he usually stammers), (first day), [3].
HEAD.
►
Confusion of the head, on rising, in the morning, with beating in the
right temple (second day), [3]. ► She is awakened in the night by a
dizziness, with inability to open the eyes (nineteenth day), [4]. ►
Violent headache, with dizziness and nausea, at 11 A.M. (second day), [5]. ►
Violent headache, worse on stooping, at 7 A.M. (third day), [5]. ►
Violent headache, with nausea, when walking (sixth day), [5]. [20.] ► Headache (thirteenth day), [3], [4]. ► Headache, and pressure on the nasal
protuberance, at 10 A.M. (second day), [1].
► Headache, with pressure in the
orbits, which prevents raising the eyes (eleventh day), [5]. ► Less
headache than on the day before (fourth day); headache appearing at very
short intervals, and abating immediately (fifth day); better (sixth,
seventh, and eighth days); intolerable pain from 5 to 7 P.M. (ninth
day); the headache is less frequent and severe (thirteenth to thirtieth
day), [2]. ►
Acute intermittent lancinations in the head, worse when stooping
(fourteenth day), [4]. ► Heaviness of the head (third day), [2]. ►
Dull pain in the head, when rising, in the morning (sixth day), [1]. ►
Dulness of the head (first day), [2].
► Forehead, Temples and Vertex.
► Violent headache, with lancination
in the forehead, when walking (eighth day), [5]. ► Violent
frontal headache, from 5 to 7 P.M. (first, second, and third days); less
headache than on the day before (fourth day), [2]. [30.] ► Violent frontal headache (twelfth day), [5]. ►
Frontal headache, so that she cannot move her head, all day (first day);
at 11 A.M. (third and seventh days); when walking and after a meal, at 8
P.M. (fourth day); increased by bending the head forward (eleventh day),
[5]. ►
Lancination in the forehead (second day), [3].
► Lancination in the left temple
(thirteenth day), [3]. ► Weight at the vertex (seventh day), [3]. ►
Parietals and External Head. ►
Lancinations in the right parietal bone, for a quarter of an hour
(twelfth day), [3]. ► The hair falls off (ninth day), [3]. ►
(The hair, which was fast falling out before the proving, ceases to do
so), (fourth day), [5]. ► Horripilation in the left half of the
scalp, as if the hairs would bristle up, at 9 A.M. (second day), [1]. ►
Contraction of the scalp (twelfth day), [3].
[40.] ►
Sensation as if she were lifted from the ground by the hair (nineteenth
day), [4]. ►
Itching of the scalp (after half an hour, first day), [2]; (sixth day), [1].
► Itching of the scalp, in front
(fifth day); at 9 P.M. (eleventh day), [1].
► Itching of the scalp, as if lice
were running all over it (seventh day), [4].
EYE AND EAR.
►
Rings around the eyes (third day), [5];
(fifth day), [1]. ► Smarting in the eyes, as if from weeping
(ninth day), [5]. ► Sensation as from gravel in the eyes
(third day), [3]. ► Weariness of the eyes, with redness and
smarting (eleventh day), [5]. ► Smarting around the eyes (third day), [3]. ►
Weight over the left orbit, with itching in the corner of the right eye
(ninth day), [3]. [50.] ►
Pupils dilated; eyes seem larger (eighth day), [5]. ►
Weakness of sight during the whole proving (ninth day), [5]. ► Dimness
of sight when walking; the brain feels as if compressed, with throbbing
and severe pain, on rising in the morning (twentieth day), [4]. ►
Great weakness of sight; cannot read or sew; at 1.30 P.M. (eleventh
day), [5]. ►
Itching in the right ear (thirteenth day), [3]. ► Heat in
the ears, at 4 P.M. (eleventh day), [3].
► Roaring in the ears, at 8 P.M.
(third day), [1]. ► Cracking in the right ear, when eating,
at 2 P.M. (fifteenth day), [1]. ► Whizzing in the ears when whistling
(fifteenth day), [1].
NOSE AND FACE.
►
Inflammation of the nasal fossæ (sixth day), [1]. [60.] ► Lancinations in the root of the nose, for
five minutes (twelfth day), [3]. ► Swelling and redness of the face
(eleventh day), [5]. ► Scarlet redness of the face (twenty-third
day), [4]. ►
Deep redness of the face (fifth day), [1];
(eleventh day), [5]. ► Redness of the face (third day), [5]. ►
Swelling of the left cheek for a day and a half (sixteenth day), [1]. ►
Formicant pain in the right cheek (third day), [3]. ► Dry,
swollen, and very red lips; heightened color of the face (seventh day), [3]. ►
Lips black and cracked (third day); in the evening, during the last days
of the proving, [5]. ► Weariness of the lower jaw, as after
chewing a long time (eleventh day), [5].
MOUTH AND THROAT.
[70.]
► Lancinations in the right upper
molars (ninth day), [3]. ► Tongue very painful, red, and much
fissured (eleventh day), [2]. ► Very painful sensation of burning and
pricking on both sides of the tongue, which is red and deeply cracked
(tenth day), [2]. ► Small pimples in the mouth (ninth day), [5]. ►
Scraping in the throat, at 8 A.M. (eighth day), [1]. ►
Scraping in the throat, with some hoarseness (ninth day), [1]. ► The
scraping in the throat continues, but is less severe than yesterday, at
7 A.M. (ninth day), [1]. ► The sore throat keeps getting worse until
evening, and lasts all night (eighth day), [1]. ► Dryness
of the throat (thirteenth to thirtieth day), [2]. ► Sore
throat, every evening, for four days (twelfth day), [5]. [80.] ► Sore throat, with constriction of the
pharynx, which prevents deglutition (thirteenth to thirtieth day), [2]. ►
Constriction of the pharynx (eleventh day), [5]. ►
Scraping in the tonsils, when swallowing, especially on the right side,
lasting all day and continuing the next (ninth day), [3]. ►
Constant swallowing of saliva (thirteenth to thirtieth day), [2].
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN.
►
Hunger, with inability to swallow food; the pharynx feels contracted,
followed by faintness and nausea; at 8 A.M. and at noon (sixth day), [5]. ►
Aversion to food (eighth and twentieth days), [4]. ► Thirst,
with hoarseness; less scraping in the throat; in the evening (ninth
day), [1]. ►
Constant nausea, in the evening (nineteenth day), [4]. ►
Difficult digestion, with contraction of the stomach (seventh day), [4]. ►
Colic in the stomach, with lancinations in the umbilical region (third
day), [5]. [90.] ►
Slight colic (second day), [3]. ► Violent colic, making her scream and
weep, for half an hour, at 9 P.M. (eleventh day), [5]. ► Colic
and diarrhœa, after dinner (second day), [3].
STOOL, URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Diarrhœa in the evening, continuing the
next morning (first day), [2]. ► Very soft stools, in the evening (fifth
day), [1]. ►
Small hard stool (ninth day), [1].
► Small hard stool (tenth and
eleventh days), [1]. ► Frequent and copious micturition, even
four times in an hour (sixteenth day), [1].
► Frequent and copious discharge of
watery yellowish-green urine, during the last days, with stool almost
every day (before the proving she was usually constipated), [5]. ►
Urine light yellow, and very odoriferous (sixteenth day), [1]. [100.] ► Yellow clear urine since the commencement
of the proving (tenth and eleventh days), [1].
► Red urine (third day), [2]. ►
Male. ► Prolonged
erection, without sexual desire (second and third days), [1]; (second day), [2].
► Prolonged erection (fourteenth
day), [1]. ►
Emission at night, without amorous dreams (fourteenth day), [1]. ►
Female. ► Very painful
lancinations; great heat and itching in the uterus (twenty-third day), [4]. ►
Shifting pain in the uterus; she cannot lean upon it; in the evening
(twenty-third day), [4]. ► Painful stitch in the uterus
(twenty-third day), [4]. ► Leucorrhœa (sixth day), [5].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS, CHEST, AND BACK.
► Dry cough (fifth day), [3]. [110.] ► Dry spasmodic cough (thirteenth to
thirtieth day), [2]. ► Constant feeling of suffocation (second
day), [5]. ►
Transient sensation of strangulation, especially in the evening, after
eating (eighth day), [5]. ► Suffocative feeling in the chest, from 4
to 6 P.M. (first day), [5]. ► Suffocative sensation in the chest, which
is painful to touch, at 8 P.M. (eleventh day), [5]. ► Pains
in the chest increased by contact, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), [5]. ► Pain in
the breasts when drawing breath (eighth day), [5]. ►
Frequent pain in the loins when standing (fourth day), [5].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Bruised pain on the shoulders and arms,
which are very sensitive to touch (fifteenth day), [4]. ► Severe
pricking on the arm, as with a pin (after two hours, first day), [3]. [120.]
► Return of rheumatism in the right
arm (third day), [2]. ► Pain in the bend of the right elbow,
especially when extending it (eleventh day), [5]. ►
Smarting raw pain on the left forearm, increased by contact (this pain
appeared six months before), (fourth day), [3]. ► Redness
of the hands, with blue spots (eleventh day), [5]. ►
Swelling and redness of the hands (eleventh day), [5]. ►
Itching, redness, and swelling of the veins of the back of the right
hand, at 9 A.M. (second day), [5].
► The hands tremble so much that she
cannot sew (fourth day), [5]. ► Small lancinations on the back of the
left hand, at 2 P.M. (ninth day), [1].
► Lancination and severe itching at
the first phalanx of the middle finger (fourth day), [3].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Great weakness of the legs (sixth day), [5]. [130.]
► Violent lancinations above the
right knee-pan (thirteenth day), [3].
► Very violent lancinations above the
left knee-pan, for a quarter of an hour (twelfth day), [3]. ►
Weariness of the knees, especially the left knee, which gives way when
standing, at 7 P.M. (fifth day), [1].
► Weariness of the knee and upper
part of the left leg, from 4 P.M. until evening (thirteenth day), [1]. ►
Throbbing for some seconds above the left knee-pan; it was felt the
evening before; it is very circumscribed in a space of not more than
eight to ten centimeters in diameter (sixth day), [1]. ►
Ganglion under the foot, as large as an almond, hard, swollen, and
extremely painful when walking (twelfth day), [2]. ► The
ganglion on the foot continues (thirteenth to thirtieth day), [2].
GENERALITIES.
►
Eleven days after all the symptoms had disappeared, a swelling of the
breast, the face, and almost the whole body set in, accompanied by
several of the symptoms of the last days of the proving, especially the
constriction of the pharynx. This condition becoming seriously
troublesome, relief was sought for in homœopathy. China [10] was administered successfully, and in a few
days the prover was restored to health, but the itching and the large
pimples, produced by the drug, remained for a long time afterwards, [5]. ►
The latter part of the proving was marked by a prostration and a sort of
moral weakness, which, although not excessive, differed very widely from
the primary condition of excitement (sixteenth day), [1]. ► Works
very hard; increase of physical strength (fourth day), [5]. [140.] ► Increase of physical strength (fourth
day), [1]. ►
His movements are quick and lively (seventh day), [3]. ► Jerks
and startings, in the evening, when sitting or lying, during the last
days of the proving, [3]. ► Great weariness when standing; dizziness
and faint feeling; for an hour, at 9 A.M. (ninth day), [5]. ►
Numbness, while drawing breath, for a quarter of an hour (second day), [3]. ►
Dull feeling (twenty-third day), [4].
► Shuddering and rigors, without
feeling cold (fifth day), [5]. ► Nervous shuddering (ninth day), [5].
SKIN.
►
Red spots on the cheeks, white spots on the hands, in place of the
former pimples (second day), [4]. ► Redness of the face, hands, and feet
(which last were always of a greenish-white); shoulders and arms not so
white as usual (fourth day), [5]. [150.] ►
The skin comes off in small scales from the forepart of the left leg
(fourth day), [5]. ► Eruptions. ►
Miliary pimples on the face, forehead, temples, and chin; they are
vesicular, with a red base, and a black point at their centres; they
came out in the course of the day (fifth day), [1]. ► Miliary
pimples, on a red base, and swollen in their centres, at the nape of the
neck; they do not itch, but the friction of the cravat causes a raw
feeling (sixth day), [1]. ► Miliary eruption on the inside of the
arms and forearms (fourth day), [2].
► Miliary eruption, with violent
itching, on the inside of the thighs (third day), [2]. ► Miliary
eruption on the calves, with itching, increasing in the evening, at 3
P.M. (second day), [2]. ► Some of the pimples disappear and are
replaced by others (third day), [2].
► Small red inflamed pimples on the
temples, shoulders, arms, and legs (seventh day), [5]. ► White
pimples on the forehead (first day), [2].
► Small pimples on the forehead
(sixth day), [1]. [160.] ►
White pimples, with a black point in the centre, in the left corner of
the mouth (sixth day), [1]. ► White pimples, much swollen, above the
left breast (fourth day), [5]. ► Red swollen pimples, white at their
centres, on the chest and pit of the stomach (sixth day), [5]. ► Small
red pimples, with black points in their centres, on the right
sterno-mastoid muscle (eighth day), [3].
► Pimples on the back, a centimeter
in breadth, white in the centre, and smarting severely (fourth day), [5]. ►
Reappearance of the pimples on the nape of the neck (third day), [2]. ►
Pimples on the nape of the neck, which, although very large, itch less
than the small ones, which remain, in the morning (fourth day); they
disappear (fifth day), [2]. ► Pimples on the back, smarting, swollen,
and inflamed, as if blood would issue from them; they are a centimeter
in breadth, white, very red at their circumferences, with black points
at their centres (seventh day), [5].
► Pimples still come out, from time
to time, on the thighs and shoulders (thirteenth to thirtieth day), [2]. ►
The left shoulder and arm are covered with small red inflamed pimples,
like gooseflesh (fourth day), [5].
[170.] ►
Red pimples on the shoulders (fourteenth day), [4]. ► Small
red pimples on the hands; they last for an hour, and leave red marks,
like bites (seventh day), [5]. ► Many small pimples, black in their
centres, on the left knee (fourth day), [5].
► Small red itching pimples on the
right calf (nineteenth day), [4]. ► After putting the feet in hot water, they
are covered with small red pimples, without itching, at 9 A.M. (third
day), [5]. ► Sensations. ►
Horripilation all over, eight or ten times in succession (after half an
hour, first day), [1]. ► Formication on the tips of the middle and
index fingers (third day), [3]. ► Pricking all over, especially on the
anterior portions of the thigh and left arm, from 8 to 11 P.M. (third
day), [3]. ►
Pricking in the face, and eruption of small red inflamed pimples, at 6
P.M. (third day), [5]. ► Pricking all over, all day (third day), [4]. [180.]
► The itching lasts a long time, [3]. ►
Great itching during the night (sixth day), [5]. ► Itching
all over, when walking or sitting (third day), [3]. ► Itching
all over, especially on the wrists (fifth day); better (ninth day); less
itching (thirteenth to thirtieth day), [2].
► Itching all over (thirteenth day), [3]; (thirteenth and twenty-third days),
[4]; (eighth day), [5]. ► Itching
all over, with redness (ninth day), [5].
► Itching all over, especially in the
evening (eleventh day), [3]. ► The itching becomes general, grows less
at times, and then gets worse again (fourth day), [2]. ► Violent
itching on the left temple (sixth day), [1].
► Long itching of the left eyebrow;
it extends to the face (third day), [1].
[190.] ►
Itching in the concha of the right ear (thirteenth day), [3]. ► Itching
in the concha of the left ear, when lying down, in the evening (second
day), [1]. ►
Itching in the concha of the left ear (sixth day), [1]. ► Itching
of the tip of the nose, as from worms (third day), [2]. ► Itching
and pricking on the left wing of the nose (sixth day), [1]. ► Itching
on the lower part of the right side of the face (sixteenth day), [4]. ►
Itching of the face and scalp (third day), [2]. ► The
whole beard itches (sixth day), [1].
► Itching at the nape of the neck and
between the shoulders at 5 P.M. (third day), [1]. ► Great
itching of the nape of the neck almost all night (sixth day), [1]. [200.]
► Itching on the nape of the neck,
left temple, and back (sixth day), [1].
► Itching on the back (tenth day), [3]. ►
Itching of the forearm, in the evening (fourth day), [3]. ► Itching
of the right forearm, in the evening, when lying down (fourth day), [1]. ►
Itching of the external portion of the left wrist, at 10 P.M. (first
day), [4]. ►
Itching of the wrists (third day), [2];
(sixth day), [1]. ► Itching on the left wrist (first day), [2]; (tenth day), [3]. ► Itching
on the backs of the hands (fourteenth day), [3]. ► Itching
on the ring finger (fifteenth day), [4].
► Itching on the first phalanx of the
right index finger (third day), [1].
[210.] ►
Redness and itching of the right hip, for half an hour (thirteenth day),
[1]. ►
Itching at the bend of the leg, as from nettles (fourth day), [4]. ►
Itching here and there at night (first day), [1]. ► The
itching continues as bad as ever; it grows worse on the calves in the
evening (sixth, seventh, and eighth days), [2]. ► Very
severe itching on the right instep; it does not last long (tenth day), [2]. ►
Itching spreading over the back and soles of the feet (eleventh day), [2].
SLEEP.
►
Yawning (sixth and ninth days); from 3 to 8 P.M. (eleventh day), [3]. ►
Drowsiness (ninth day), [3]. ► Frequent waking (first day), [1]. ►
Awakes early in the morning for several days (tenth day), [1]. [220.] ► Sleeps very little (second day), [5]. ►
Very restless night (second day), [5].
► Restless sleep (eighth day), [1]. ►
Dreams. ► Frightful dream
about dissecting one of his friends (first day), [2]. ►
Frightful dream about a monstrous black figure, which flew up to the sky
and darkened the sun (eighth day), [4].
► Dream about seeing acquaintances
walking on the water (seventh day), [4].
► Dream about going through the yards
of a great many houses and reaching the banks of the Seine, where he
sees people sporting and skating (in the summer season) with the water
up to their thighs (has not dreamt before for a year), (seventh day), [3]. ►
Dream about being sick in a filthy hospital, full of vermin, and having
a copious discharge of water from the nose (sixth day), [4]. ► Dream
about being left to die by famine in a dungeon, whence he escapes by
crawling out (sixth day), [1]. ► Dreams about conspiracies and
insurrections, then amorous dreams, with a pollution (tenth day), [1]. [230.]
► Dream about enormous lice (ninth
day), [4]. ►
Pleasant dreams (sixth day), [5]. ► Dream about being very friendly, then
amorous (eleventh day), [1]. ► Confused dreams about being pursued
(eighth day), [1].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness and shuddering (second day), [5].
► Chilliness all over (ninth day), [3]. ►
Coldness, shivering, and trembling, for a quarter of an hour, at 5 P.M.
(eleventh day), [3]. ► Coldness, with rigors and trembling, at 5
P.M. (ninth day), [3]. ► Cold hands, with heat of the face, at
noon (ninth day), [3]. ► Fever (second day), [5]. [240.] ► Rigors; great heat and dryness of the
extremities (first day), [2]. ► Heat of the skin (third day), [2]. ►
Heat in the head and hands, at 8 P.M. (second day), [5]. ► Heat of
the head (first day), [5]. ► Head burning hot, with bright-red face
(ninth day), [5]. ► Heat and deep redness of the face, all
the afternoon (sixth day), [1]. ► Heat of the face (fifth and thirteenth
days), [3]. ►
Great heat of the hands (fifth day), [5].
► Sweat of the face (first day), [5]. ►
Sweat of the feet, followed by great coldness (thirteenth to thirtieth
day), [2]. [250.] ►
Cold sweat of the feet, followed by great coldness, at 10 P.M. (twelfth
day), [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), On rising, confusion of the head;
beating in right temple; dull pain in head; pressure and throbbing in
brain; 8 A.M., scraping in throat; pimples on nape of neck;
sleeplessness. ► (Forenoon), 7 A.M., headache; 10 A.M.,
headache and pressure in nasal protuberance; 11 A.M., headache, with
dizziness and nausea, frontal headache; 9 P.M., dizziness, faintness,
horripilation in left half of scalp; itching, redness, and swelling of
the veins of the hands. ► (Noon), Cold hands, with heat of face. ► (Afternoon),
3 P.M., merry mood; 5 to 7 P.M., headache; 1.30 P.M., weakness of sight;
4 P.M., heat in ear; 3 P.M., heat and redness of cheeks; 4 to 6 P.M.,
suffocating feeling in chest; 4 P.M. till evening, weariness of knee and
leg; 5 P.M., itching on nape of neck, chilliness, coldness; 3 to 8 P.M.,
yawning. ► (Evening),
Merry mood; writes rapidly; 9 P.M., itching of scalp; 8 P.M., roaring in
ears; lips black and cracked; sore throat; nausea; 9 P.M., colic;
diarrhœa; pain in uterus; after eating, sensation of strangulation; 8
P.M., suffocating feeling in chest; 9 P.M., pain in chest; when sitting
or lying, jerks and startings; miliary eruption on calves; when lying
down, itching in concha of left ear; itching of forearm; 10 P.M.,
itching of left wrist; itching on calves; itching all over; 6 P.M.,
pricking face and eruption; 8 to 11 P.M., pricking all over; 8 P.M.,
heat in head and hands; 10 P.M., cold sweat of feet; coldness. ► (Night),
Dizziness; itching. ► (After dinner), Colic; diarrhœa. ► (Eating),
Cracking in right ear. ► (Putting feet in hot water), Red pimples on
feet. ► (Sitting),
Itching all over. ► (Standing), Pain in loins; weariness of knees;
weariness. ► (Stooping), Headache; Lancinations in head. ► (Swallowing),
Scraping in tonsils. ► (Walking), Headache; lancinations in forehead;
dimness of sight; ganglion painful under foot; itching all over. ► (Whistling),
Whizzing in ears.® 2000
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