RHUS VENENATA.
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa, with pain at umbilicus (third day); with pain in bowels
(fourth day), [22]. ► Every morning, from 2 to 5 o’clock, I was
compelled to rise and go to stool, and a diarrhœa then continued more
or less severe till about twelve o’clock. The color of the stools was
uniformly light, or nearly white,
varying in consistency, sometimes very thin, and sometimes very
papescent, [12]. ► *Large watery stool, passed with great force and
attended with violent colicky pains, at 4 A.M.; during the next two
hours had three more profuse stools of this character, and
from that time the pain and stools ceased (ninth day), [14]. [200.] ► Stools lighter in color, and partly
undigested (eighth day); black as pitch and hard; no unusual smell
(thirty-fourth day); black as before, soft, and rather putrid; bowels
move twice (thirty-sixth day), [20].
► Stool at 2 A.M., loose, which is
unusual; had a stool early in the morning, rather loose, with pain in
the bowels before the discharge (third day); diarrhœa at 3 o’clock, a
copious stool of a lighter color than that of the night previous;
another stool at 7 A.M., not as copious, and again at 9 o’clock (fifth
day); diarrhœa more severe and stools of a dark-brown color. (This was
the only time they were of this color, although attended with the same
pain in the hypogastrium, which accompanied the lighter-colored stools),
(sixth day), [12]. ► Stools about natural consistence, but of
a very dark color, [15]. ► Stools dark, and partly undigested
(seventh day), [20]. ► Fæces dark, hard, and small in quantity,
[19b]. ►
No movement of the bowels (tenth day), [14].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
*Burning in the urethra, [19b].
► Desire to void urine often, but in
small quantities, [19b]. ► Augmentation of urine, [19]. ► There
was no particular effect upon the urinary organs, excepting a slight
increase of urine after I had ceased to take the remedy, [15].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. [210.] ► Groins and penis were affected, in the
morning, [6]. ► Glans penis is much swollen and very
sore; cuticle of penis and scrotum peels off in patches as large as a
sixpence (sixth day), [12]. ► Prepuce slightly swollen (second day), [10]. ►
The prepuce is much swollen and very red (third day); same symptoms,
with increased violence (fourth day), [10].
► The scrotum is red, swollen, and
much corrugated (third day); same symptoms, with increased violence
(fourth day), [10]. ► Scrotum swollen as large as his two
fists, could not walk, [15].
[Observed in a patient.] ► Female.
► The menses, which were near at
hand, came on immediately, in very large clots, like pieces of meat, [7].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► *Dryness and pain in the larynx
(thirteenth day), [14]. ► *Hoarseness (thirteenth day), [14]. ►
*Harsh dry cough, continuing for more than two weeks (after
thirteen days), [14]. [220.] ►
Sense of oppression, as if the air was too heavy (first night), [10].
CHEST.
►
Violent stitches in the left lung, causing anxiety, especially on
breathing, as in inflammation of the lungs (twelfth day), [13]. ►
Violent stitches in the lungs (twenty-first day), [13]. ► Sudden
violent stitches through the lungs (after ten minutes), [7]. ► Sudden
sharp stitches through the lungs, waking from sleep, [7]. ►
Stitches in the upper part of both lungs (fifteenth day), [13]. ►
Stitches in the apices of the lungs (eleventh day), [13]. ► Rush
of blood to the chest, with anxiety (twenty-first day), [13]. ►
Stricture in the chest, continuing more than two weeks (after thirteen
days), [14]. ►
Pain over the sternum for more than two weeks (after thirteen days), [14]. [230.]
► Transient, shooting pains in the
sternum and chest (twelfth day), [14].
► Slight lancinating pain in sternum
and right leg (eighth day), [22]. ► Drawing pain in lower part of the left
side (sixth day), [22].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Stitches in the heart (second day), [13].
► Palpitation, with stitches in the
heart (seventh and twenty-first days), [13].
► Palpitation (fourteenth day), [13]. ►
During the first five days my pulses were increased from ten to twenty
strokes in the minute, [3]. ► Pulse 78, and regular (third day), [20a]. ►
Pulse 72, rather weak (fourth day); 82; when sitting at 3 P.M., it was
normal, 68 to 70 (sixth day), [20].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Constant dull pains in the cervical, dorsal, and lumbar regions, [15]. [240.]
► Stiff neck, or crick in the neck, [12]. ►
Back is very stiff, [13]. ► With the rumbling of flatus in the
bowels, pain in the back, extending from the lumbar region to the
umbilicus, [19b]. ► Pain in the back, [19b]. ► Sharp
pain under the left scapula, extending through to the ribs, [19b]. ►
Rheumatic pain between the shoulder-blades, [12]. ► Dull
heavy pains in the lumbar region, aggravated by stooping down or
walking, [15]. ► The small of the back feels paralyzed
(ninth day), [13]. ► Drawing in the lumbar muscles, extending
into the hips (ninth day), [13]. ► Drawing in the left loin (tenth day), [13]. [250.]
► Dull, aching pain and weakness
across the loins (third day), [10].
► A little pain in sacrum (sixth
day), [22].
EXTREMITIES.
►
*Trembling of all my limbs, with twitching of my muscles, [12]. ►
*Trembling of my limbs, [15].
► Hands, arms, legs, and face began
to swell, accompanied by slight redness of the skin and thirst (after
one hour); great swelling of the face, arms, and legs; some slight
swelling and redness over the chest, but the trunk of the body is
generally not much affected; swelling continued to increase till the
evening (second day); the swelling took about twenty-eight hours to
reach its height, was about ten hours stationary, and two days
declining; the attack having lasted altogether four days, during which
time his appetite was the same as in health, and he kept his bed only on
account of the swelling, which rendered him unable to bend his knees or
tow move his legs, [8]. ► Violent drawing pains in the upper and
lower extremities and in the head (twenty-first day), [13]. ►
Drawing in the right ankle and wrist, extending to the knee and elbow
(twelfth day), [13]. ► My wrists, ankles, and feet ached so
severely I could not sleep, [15].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► The pains in the upper extremities, and
more especially those of the chest, were of a sharp darting character, [19b]. ►
Tearing in the left arm, extending upward from the elbow; a sensation as
if the bone would break (ninth day), [13].
[260.] ►
Drawing in the left arm and in the forearm and in the three last fingers
of the left hand; the arm feels paralyzed (seventh day), [13]. ►
Jerking pain in the muscles of both arms (twelfth day), [13]. ► *Paralytic
drawing in the right arm, especially in the wrist, extending to the tips
of the fingers (fifteenth day), [13]. ►
Sensation of crawling in the left arm, especially when resting it upon
anything (seventh day), [13]. ► Elbow. ►
Severe pains in the left elbow-joint for half an hour, could not move
it, the pain was so great, [15]. ► Rheumatic pains in the left elbow and
shoulder-joints, worse on motion, [7].
► Drawing-pressive pain in the left
elbow and left ankle, also at intervals in the pes anserinus (second
day), [13]. ► Forearm. ►
Drawing pains in the forearms, [13].
► Sharp pain in both arms, from the
elbow to the index fingers and thumbs, [19b].
► Wrist. ►
Dull pains in the wrist and fingers, with drawing pains, [15]. [270.] ► The wrists and fingers are very stiff, [15]. ►
Drawing-pressive pain in the right wrist, extending through the bones to
the elbow (second day), [13]. ► Pressive drawing in the right wrist
(eleventh day), [13]. ► Drawing in the right wrist (seventh and
ninth days), [13]. ► Hand. ►
Right hand swelled very much, without redness, itching, or other
symptoms, this increased for about twenty-four hours, then declined for
about the same time, and on the third day the swelling was gone, [9]. ►
Constant aching distress in the hands and fingers, [15]. ► Fingers.
► Blue finger-nails (fourth day), [22]. ►
Drawing pain in the fingers of the right hand (twelfth day), [13]. ►
Drawing in the right little finger and thumb (eighth day), [13].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Very violent bruised pain, especially in
the legs (twelfth day), [13]. [280.] ►
*Paralyzed and bruised sensation in the legs (second day), [13]. ►
*Paralytic drawing, with pains in the bones of the left leg
(fourth day), [13]. ► Very violent drawing pains in both legs,
as if beaten, becoming seated in the ankles and knees, almost like a
pressive-cutting pain, and as such extending along the tendons on the
back of the foot to the toes, also in the wrists, extending into the
tips of the fingers, especially in the left index finger; in the evening
(eleventh day), [13]. ► Jerklike drawing in the leg (seventh
day), [13]. ►
Drawing in the left leg (fifth and eighth days), [13]. ► Slight
lancinating pain in right leg and sternum (eighth day), [22]. ► Hip and
Thigh. ► Pain as if
dislocated in the right hip (relieved by Nitric acid), [7]. ►
Wandering-drawing pains in the thighs, legs, and left arm (fourteenth
day), [13]. ►
Drawing cramplike pain in the left thigh (third day), [13]. ► Aching
pains in the thighs, from the hips to the knees; pain worse at the knees
and on the left side, [19b]. ► Knee. [290.]
► *Great weakness of the knees and ankles,
[15]. ►
*Knees and ankles ache constantly, [15]. ► Dull
drawing pains and distress in the knees, ankles, feet, and toes, [15]. ►
Drawing-pressive pain in the right knee-joint, extending downward
(second morning), [13]. ► Drawing in the left knee-joint (second
and ninth days), [13]. ► Leg. ►
Cramplike pain in the calves, and crawling as if asleep (twelfth day), [13]. ►
Drawing in the muscles of the calves (ninth day), [13]. ►
Drawing pain in the right calf, with a paralyzed pain in the hollow of
the nee, as after exertion (eleventh day), [13]. ►
Drawing in the left calf (tenth day), [13].
► Cramplike tension in the right calf
(eighth day), [13]. [300.] ►
Severe cramp in the calf of the leg at night, followed by great soreness
of the calf of the leg the next day, [15].
► Drawing in the left leg, shooting
from the ankle up through the bones to the knee, which was also affected
by it (seventh day), [13]. ► Ankle. ►
My ankles and feet ached so severely, for eight weeks after taking the
medicine, that it was very painful for me to either stand or walk,
especially in the afternoon; I was compelled to lie down every
afternoon, [15]. ► Pressive drawing in the right, afterwards
in the left ankle, then in the right wrist and right malar bone (eighth
day), [13]. ►
Pressive drawing in the right ankle (eleventh day), [13]. ►
Drawing in the right ankle (ninth day), [13].
► Sudden violent cramp by the right
malleolus, as if pinched, [7]. ► Tension like an ulcerative pain in the
left malleolus, as if suppurating, on stepping on the foot (twelfth
day), [13]. ► Foot. ►
Drawing in both feet (fifteenth day), [13].
► Throbbing in both feet, as if
distended by blood (eleventh day), [13].
[310.] ►
Jerklike drawing in the right foot, extending from the ankle to the heel
and shooting upwards, with pains in the bone (fifth day), [13]. ► A
peculiar sensation of tension, with a noise like cracking in the right
foot below the ankle (second day), [13].
► A peculiar sensation of crawling,
as if the foot would fall asleep, in the right ankle, extending into the
os calcis; when it was most violent there was a sensation like a
cracking in the foot; while the pains disappeared suddenly this
sensation was almost constant, with only short intervals (seventh day), [13]. ►
Crawling and cracking sensation in the right foot (eleventh day), [13]. ►
Drawing pains on the back of the right foot (third day), [13]. ► Cramp
on the back of the right foot, [7].
► Cramp on the back of the left foot
(tenth day), [13]. ► Stitches in the sole of the left foot
(fourteenth day), [13]. ► Stitches in the sole of the right foot
(fifteenth day), [13]. ► Pulsation in the vessels of the right
foot (fourteenth day), [13].
GENERALITIES.
[320.]
► Intumescence of the entire body and
lower extremities, attended with intolerable pain and irritation,
confined him to bed for several days; nor was it until weeks after that
he was able to resume his duties. For several years after he was subject
to a periodical recurrence of the erysipelatous inflammation which marks
this particular poison, [25]. ► Swollen to such a degree that “he
was stiff as a log of wood, and could only be turned about it
sheets,” [1]. ► The head and body were swollen to a
prodigious degree, so as to occasion the loss of sight for some time, [2]. ►
Somewhat emaciated, [11]. ► *Great restlessness, [19b]. ► Rose
feeling weak and as though I had taken a drastic cathartic (ninth
morning), [14]. ► *Very weak and languid, [15]; (third morning), [10]. ► A
feeling of general malaise (sixth day), [12].
► *General feeling of lassitude,
[19b]. ►
*Lassitude, [19]. [330.] ►
Languid feeling (sixth day), [20].
► Feel rather languid (fourth day), [20]. ►
*Feels tired and weary (fifth day), [20]. ►
*Stretching and tired feeling (fourth day), [22]. ► Felt
heavy and unrefreshed (second morning), [10].
► Previous to proving or taking this
remedy was never subject to Rhus poisoning; could pull up the Rhus
radicans and other poisonous vines without observing any effect, but now
is very susceptible to their influence, and poisons very readily, [20c]. ►
I was tormented day and night for more than two weeks, and I think I was
not free from perceptible effects of this poison for six or eight weeks,
[14]. ►
Bruised feeling in the body, especially in the limbs, as after great
exertion, with weariness and pale face and general sick feeling (eighth
day), [13]. ►
Lameness and soreness of the muscles came on, and I could hardly walk
(twelfth day); lameness continued more than two weeks, [14]. ► All my
muscles seemed stiff, those of the posterior part of the right leg being
most affected, so much so that after remaining crooked for a little
while, it was painful to straighten them. This stiffness and soreness
still remain in some degree, [12].
[340.] ►
Rheumatic pains lasting nearly two months after the proving, though the
prover had never before suffered from them; on taking cold, after about
two months, they became so violent that the patient was obliged to take
Ranunculus, which gave relief, [13].
► The pains come and go suddenly and
wander about, [13]. ► The pains are worse before the stools,
but continue for several hours after, [15].
► Feels worse when the weather is
very hot (sixth day), [20]. ► All the symptoms were increased on a damp
day, [19b]. ►
The pains seem to be aggravated during rest, they wander about,
extending from a single point upward and downward along the periosteum
(sixth day), [13]. ► Pains always worse during rest (tenth
day), [13]. ►
Uniformly through the whole proving the symptoms were aggravated by rest
and relieved by moderate exercise in the open air, [12]. ► Mental
labor increases the pains, even the recording of these aggravates them
(fifth day), [12]. ► Hot bath relieved the symptoms (sixth
morning), [10]. [350.] ►
During the proving it was noticed that coffee had no effect upon the
action of the drug, [13].® 2000
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