The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
SYPHILINUM.
Authorities :
Drs. Sam’l Swan, I. C. Boardman, Thomas Wildes, E. A. Ballard, Wm.
Eggert, Laura Morgan, H. I. Ostrom, Wm. Bradshaw, Thomas Skinner, R.
M. Theobald, S. Morrison, D. W. Clauson, C. F. Nichols, E. W.
Berridge, Francis Burritt, S. W. Jackson, R. N. Foster, E. B. Nash.,
Julius Schmidt, C. W. Boyce, W. A. Hawley, D. B. Morrow, J. R. Haynes,
H. H. Carr, H. C. Allen, J. T. Kent.
Dr. Swan’s provers : Miss Eva Spalding, Miss Hays, Mrs. Mary
B. Pitts, Mrs. S. S., Mr. Brown, a lady, a woman, five provers (names
and sex unknown). Dr. Morrison’s prover : Mrs. —. Dr.
Berridge’s prover : Mrs. W. Heitts. Dr. H. B. Carr’s
provers : Dr.—, Mrs. Henry Hake, Mrs. Kelt. Copland’s
Dictionary.
Dr. Fellger said it was absurd to claim that any disease could be
cured by its nosode, for after potentizing the nosode, we cannot be
satisfied that it is in the same condition as when first taken from
the diseased individual. Thus the syphilitic poison is composed of
molecules of atoms. When the poison is potentized the essential
character of the molecules is undoubtedly lost, and hence it is not
the same substance any longer. Therefore, there can be no certainty
that the potentized preparation is the same poison. But it, for
argument, we allow that the molecules of the poison can be potentized
without change of character, we still are not relieved of the dilemma,
for primary syphilis in any one person will make a different set of
symptoms from syphilis in another person. The variations are endless.
Hence, we must then have a potentization of each one of these
different kinds of syphilis, which would be impossible. Mercury is a
staple substance, always unchanged ; it might then be expected to
produce identical sets of symptoms on any number of the most different
people. Yet its action is different upon every person to whom it is
given. How much more, then, must be the individual variations in the
case of the poison of syphilis, and if mercury requires so many
different remedies to antidote it, how much more, then, must syphilis
need a variety of remedies to treat it. It is folly, then, to expect
to treat symptoms with its nosode, and the folly is the more apparent
when we realize that the character of this nosode is essentially
changed in the process of potentizing. The only way, therefore, to use
a nosode is to prove it on the
healthy like any other drug, and note its symptoms in the regular way.
Characteristics :
Pains from darkness to daylight ; begins with twilight and
ends with daylight (Merc., Phyt.).
Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.) ; shifting and
require frequent change of position.
All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.) ; from sundown to
sunrise.
Eruptions : dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue
when getting cold.
Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.).
Heart : lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from
apex to base, Med.) ; from base to clavicle, or shoulder,
(Spig.).
Loss of memory : cannot remember names of books, persons or
places ; arithmetical calculations difficult.
Sensations : as if going insane ; as if about to be
paralysed ; of apathy and indifference.
Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical
exhaustion on awakening ; it is intolerable, death is preferable.
Fears the terrible suffering from exhaustion on awakening (Lach.).
Leucorrhea : profuse, soaking
through the napkins and running down to the heels (Alum.).
Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and
delirium at night ; commencing at 4 P. M. ; worse from 10 to
11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 P. M., Lyc.) ;
falling of the hair.
Acute ophthalmia neonatorum ; lids swollen, adhere during
sleep ; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 A. M. ; pus
profuse ; > by cold bathing.
Ptosis : paralysis of superior oblique ; sleepy look
from drooping lids (Caust., Graph.).
Diplopia, one image seen below the other.
Teeth : decay at edge of gum and break off ; are cupped,
edges serrated ; dwarfed in size, converge at their tips
(Staph.).
Craving alcohol, in any form.
Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Sar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph.,
Sulph. ac.).
Obstinate constipation for years ; rectum seems tied up with
strictures ; when enemata were used the agony of passage was like
labor (Lac. d., Tub.).
Fissures in anus and rectum (Thuja) ; prolapse of
rectum ; obstinate cases with syphilitic history.
Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, <
from raising arm laterally (Rhus – right shoulder, Sang. left, Fer.).
When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently
improve in syphilitic affections.
Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local
means, and as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for
years, are nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of
treatment unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.
Relations : antidote ; Nux vomica, for over-action or
excess of action in sensitive organizations, or too frequent
repetition of the remedy, especially in the higher potencies.
Compare : Aur., Asaf., Kali iod., Mer., Phyt., Nit. ac. in
diseases of bone and syphilitic affections. Ech., Lac can., Med. in
dysmenorrhea. Calc., Tub., headache deep in the brain. Plat., Stan.,
pains increase and decrease slowly. Alum., Kali bi., Puls., Psor.,
Sep., Teuc., post-nasal catarrh, or ozćna, with offensive plugs or
clinkers. Hepar, Sil., Psor., tendency to successive abscesses
(succession of boils, Anthr.). Aur., Lac can., Lach., Mer. iod.,
syphilitic stomatitis. Calc. fl., Fluor. ac., Kali bi., Kali iod.,
Mang., Mer., syphilitic nodes. Abrot., Iod., Tub., progressive
emaciation. Med., lancinating pains in heart (from apex to base).
Spig. (from base to clavicle or shoulder). Syph. (from base to apex).
Lach., fear of exhaustion on awakening. Caust., Gels., Graph.,
paralysis of upper lids. Asar., Med., Psor., Sul., Tub., hereditary
tendency to alcoholism. Lac. d., Tub., paralytic weakness of rectum
with labor-like pains. Nat. mur., Sanic., Thuya, fissure ani. Kreos.,
Mer., troubles during dentition, especially if hereditary syphilis be
suspected. Phos. X-ray, bad effects of thunder-storms.
Aggravation :
Motion, touch, hot or cold things, warm or damp weather, seaside,
electric storms, winter, raising arms laterally, at night (in common
with all anti-syphilitics).
Amelioration :
Cold bathing, in the mountains, warmth, walking.
Mind :
Loss of memory.
Loses remembrance of passing occurrences, names, dates, etc.,
while all occurrences previous to inception of disease are remembered
as distinctly as ever, almost without effort.
Very nervous, weeping without cause.
Cross, irritable, peevish.
Irritable, excited, walking much of the time, does not want to be
soothed, violent on being opposed, has tremors, seems on the verge of
convulsions, dazed, absent-minded, always washing her hands.
Periodical neuralgia in head.
Very despondent, does not think he will
ever get better.
Feeling as if going insane, or about to be paralysed.
A far-away feeling, with apathy and indifference to future.
Crying infants, who begin immediately after birth.
Difficulty in making arithmetical calculations.
Terrible dread of night, not on account
of cough so much as on account of mental and physical exhaustion when
she awakes ; it is intolerable, death is preferable ; she
fears to prepare for night and is positively in abject fear of
suffering, in form of exhaustion on awakening ; it is < by
cough, but it is quite independent of cough as she wakes in this awful
state ; always < at night approaches ; leaves her about
daylight, which she prays for.
Spring cough.
Had had a dose of Syphilinum cm., twenty-four hours before ;
on third night her anxiety and cough returned, though very much less.
Another dose of Syphilinum cm., next morning, removed all
symptoms, including aphonia, and exhaustion requiring brandy.
Great difficulty, and sometimes impossibility, of concentrating
the thoughts on particular subject ; yet at the same time can
recollect consecutive events and details which occurred 25 or 30 years
previously in the order of occurrence, almost within effort.
Cannot remember names of persons, books or places.
Head :
Vertigo on looking up, seems to be caused by heat.
Headache : linear, from or near one
eye backward ; lateral ; frontal ; from temple to
temple ; deep into brain from vertex ; as from pressure on
vertex ; in either temple, extending into or from eye > by
warmth ; in bones of head ; < by heat of sun ; after
sunstroke.
Sick headache, pains intolerable, arteries of head full and
pulsating violently ; high fever, frequent retching on trying to
vomit ; menses regular, but very scanty.
Lancinating pain in occiput, <
invariably at night, and causing sleeplessness, but always ceasing
with the coming light of morning.
Headache and great debility.
Neuralgic headache causing sleeplessness
or delirium at night, always commencing about 4 P. M. ; < at
from 10 to 11 P. M., and ceasing at daylight.
Bursting sensation in vertex as from severe cold.
Pain from eyes through to occiput, with sensation of weight in
occiput drawing head back ; or as if it were pulled back ;
eyes aches and smart.
Constant linear headache, commencing at both angles of forehead
and extending in parallel lines backward a precursor of epileptic
attack.
Heavy, crushing, cutting pain across base of cerebellum.
Heavy, clouded dull feeling in base of brain.
Headache through temples, thence
vertically like an inverted letter T.
Coronal headache.
Headaches accompanied by great
restlessness, sleeplessness and general nervous erethism.
Syphilitic headache for many months,
piercing, pressing excruciating over right eye extending deep into
brain ; losing continuity of thought and memory ; makes
repeated mistakes in figures.
Suffusion and full feeling in face, throat and head, with
innumerable small enlarged cervical glands.
Sore, one and a half inches in diameter, on occipital bone,
covered with a thick, yellow-white scab.
Dirty eruption on scalp.
Great loss of hair.
Nervous chills preceded by aching pains
in head, especially in occipital and integuments thereof, head feeling
heavy, sore, congested ; also frontal headache about one-half or
two-thirds inches wide across forehead under eyebrows ; aching
pains below waist, in pelvis and extremities, especially in tibia,
which is sensitive to touch ; pains commence about 4 P. M.,
culminate about midnight in delirium, and cease entirely at daylight.
Syphilitic cephalalgia in occiput,
intolerable, extending to nervous ganglia of neck, causing hardening
of cords ; attacks at irregular intervals, especially after
excitement.
Cephalalgia in nerves of scalp, invariably worse at night and
better after daybreak.
Eyes :
Red papulous eruption round left inner
canthus, with isolated pimples on side of nose, cheek and
eyebrow ; these pimples were red, with depressed centre,
circumscribed areola, became confluent where they were most
dense ; pimples bleed when scabs come off ; agglutination of
lids.
Sensation of heat with a little pain in outer half of left lids.
Myopia.
Sharp, pulsating pain, occasionally at outer end of superior
border of right orbit, apparently in periosteum.
Upper lids swollen.
Ptosis : paralytica ; eyes look
sleepy from lowering of upper lid.
Diplopia, one image seen lower than the other.
Strabismus paralytica, eye turning inward, and pupil can only be
turned outward as far as median line.
Chronic recurrent phlyctenular
inflammation of cornea ; successive crops of phlyctenules and
abrasion of epithelial layer of cornea ; intense
photophobia ; profuse lachrymation ; redness and pain well
marked ; delicate, scrofulous children, especially if any trace
of hereditary syphilis remains.
Left eyeball covered with fungus-like
growth, pain intense < at night.
Acute ophthalmia neonatorum.
Redness and swelling of outer half of
both lower tarsal edges.
Syphilitic iritis, intense pain steadily
increasing night after night ; < between 2 and 5 A. M., coming
almost at the minute and ceasing same way.
Pain in right inner canthus as if blood
went there and could go no further, also in right temple.
Both eyes glued in morning ;
conjunctiva injected ; photophobia, constantly wears a shade.
Eyes dull.
Infantile syphilis.
Ophthalmic pains, < at night, > by
cold water.
Right eye alone affected, congestion of
conjunctiva and sclerotica, with some chemosis ; lids inflamed,
esp. at outer canthus ; sensation of sand in eyes ; lids
agglutinated in morning ; great photophobia (hereditary
syphilis).
Neuralgia every night, beginning about 8
or 9 P. M., gradually increasing in severity until it reached its
height about 3 or 4 A. M., and after continuing thus for two or three
hours, gradually decreased and finally ceased about 10 A. M. ;
attacks gradually get more severe and last longer ; first feels
cold all over, almost a shiver ; then soreness as if beaten in
right half of head, extending a little beyond middle line on
vertex ; in about thirty minutes scalding lachrymation from right
eye, with shooting backward therein ; eye is very red and closes,
with photophobia ; gnawing pains extend down right side of face
and whole of nose ; head is worst when eye is bad ; during
paroxysm right eye feels as if lids were open wide, and cold air
blowing on exposed eye ; she perceives a horizontal band across
pupil of right eye hindering sight ; this came on soon after
paroxysms commenced ; eye > by placing handkerchief on head
and letting it hang over eyes, also by gentle pressure, though she
cannot bear much pressure ; it is more painful when lying on
right (affected) side when also right side of head feels sore ;
right eye red, and red vessels run all over it, converging towards
iris ; right pupil horizontally oval ; right iris looks dull
and there is a slight brown hue around pupil left eye normal ;
attacks seem to have originated from sitting at window in a cold
draft, right eye being next window.
During sleep lids adhere ; in
infantile syphilis.
Paralysis of superior oblique.
Chronic recurrent phlyctenular
inflammation of cornea ; successive crops of phlyctenules and
abrasion of epethelial layer of cornea ; intense
photophobia ; profuse lachrymation ; redness and pain well
marked ; delicate scrofulous children, especially if any trace of
hereditary syphilis remains.
Interstitial keratitis.
Photophobia, black spots, shreds or veils before sight.
Itching of left inner canthus.
Eyes very red and inflamed.
Acute ophthalmia neonatorum.
Eyes swollen and closed with syphilitic
ophthalmia, pus running out of them.
Acute left conjunctivitis, with
considerable pain in eyeball, photophobia and lachrymation, followed
by iritis ; nocturnal aching in eyeball, pain extremely violent
from 2 to 5 A. M. ; sight impaired.
Iritis with photophobia, congestion of conjunctiva and sclerotica,
with puffiness of conjunctival mucous membrane ; chemosis, pupil
immovable, diminution of sight ; supraorbital pain.
Pain in right inner canthus as if blood
went there and could go no further, also in right temple.
At 1 P. M. scalding lachrymation of right
eye with shooting therein, followed by shooting from around eye into
eye ; eye red and closed ; this lasted about an hour, then
decreased, ceasing about 3 P. M. ; recurred for two successive
days and again four days afterwards in a slighter degree, but at same
hour.
On turning eye to left feels momentary
coldness in inner half of right eye.
On waking, gum in right canthus.
On walking across room, right eye
sensitive to air, aches on using it.
Left eye closed, upper lid swollen as
large as half an English walnut ; deep red, not much pain, with
oozing of purulent matter from between lids.
Strabismus paralyticus, the rectus internus being involved, and
the eye turning outward.
Left eyeball covered with a fungus-like growth, pain intense,
worse at night.
Ears :
Intense earache in right ear, incisive
pains thrusting into ear ; purulent watery discharge from ear
with pain.
Gathering in left ear which discharges a
great quantity of pus (hereditary syphilis in a child).
Deafness gradually increasing until she
could scarcely hear at all.
Complete deafness ; nothing abnormal
to be seen.
Catarrhal or nerve deafness with marked
cachexia.
Calcareous deposit on tympanum.
Small, acrid, watery discharge
occasionally from ears, no deafness (ozćna).Nose :
Left side of nose, inside ala, itching.
Nose stuffed up and burning.
Attacks of fluent coryza.
Offensive, thick yellow-green nasal
discharge ; during sleep dry scabs form in both nostrils ;
following an application of salve for sore eyes ; left
submaxillary gland, which had been swollen and indurated softens,
discharges, and, after forty-five days, begins to heal slowly.
Ozćna syphilitica.
(Syph. brought out an eruption of sores with a fiery-red base on
nose over frontal sinuses).
Left side of nose inside and out very
sore, likewise lips and chin ; sores itching and scabbing
over ; after Syphilinum 1 m. much better in twelve hours, many
drying up and scabs falling off leaving skin beneath of a dull-reddish
copper color.
Itching in nostrils.
Face :
Face drawn to one side, difficulty of speaking, masticating,
blowing.
Spasmodic twitching of many muscles, esp.
in face (paralysis agitans), with great melancholy and depression of
spirits.
Facial paralysis right side, thick
speech, hemicrania, jactitation of right eye and lid.
An old gentleman has had for some years cancer on right malar
bone ; no rest, his agony excruciating in extreme (relieved).
Face pale.
Itching, scabby, eczematous eruptions
singly or in clusters, looking like herpes.
Nose and cheeks covered with eruptions
and scabs in layers rising to a point.
Dark purple lines between alć nasi and
cheeks.
Lips and teeth covered with bloody mucus.
Sores on lips and chin, esp. left side, scabbing over.
A boy, aged 20 months, fretful, peevish,
cross and crying, tossing in his sleep, grinding his teeth, face
dotted with papules filled with a watery yellowish matter, most on
edges of lids ; teeth irregular, arms and legs emaciated, very
tottery on his feet, very nervous.
Left submaxillary gland which had been swollen and indurated,
softens and discharges, and after forty-five days begins to heal
slowly.
Teeth :
Single small lunć cleft in upper incisors, permanent set, which
incisors are dwarfed in their general dimensions, and converge at
their tips ; inherited syphilis.
Children’s teeth are cupped.
Teeth decaying at edge of gum and breaking off.
Felt like a worm in tooth, could not tell
which tooth.
Singular feeling as if teeth had all got out of place, and on
closing jaws teeth do not come well together.
First central upper incisors serrated, permanent teeth point
towards each other, inner side concave ; edges serrated.
Medorrhinum.
Pain in right upper jaw, as if from teeth, with swelling of face.
Painless fluttering occasionally in teeth, very peculiar, as if
something alive, cannot detect which tooth it is.
Mouth :
Tongue red and thick ; two deep cracks running lengthwise in
it ; one on each side of median line.
Aphasia, difficulty of finding
words ; debility.
Tongue feels as if paralysed.
Fetid breath.
Tongue coated white, edges indented by
teeth.
Tongue turns to one side when protruded ; difficulty in
mastication, cannot turn food with tongue so readily from right to
left as in other direction.
Putrid taste in mouth before epileptic
fit.
Tongue very red and thick ; covered
with herpetic eruption, two deep cracks running lengthwise on each
side of median line, making it difficult to swallow.
Tongue thickly coated, dirty, edges indented or serrated by teeth.
Twenty ulcers in mouth, every part
involved, top and under side of tongue, lips, buccal cavity, fauces
and nose.
Two large ulcers, one on each side near apex of tongue, were very
much swollen, and the one on right side had a gangrenous center, the
rest lardaceous bottoms with bright fiery red edges, and were cut down
as with a knife, and left hard like an indurated chancre.
Septum of nose threatened, both alć nasi very painful, smarting
with burning as if on fire ; pains and burning prevented
sleep ; hungry but could eat nothing but fluids, as mastication
was impossible ; tongue heavily coated white, large quantities of
stringy, viscid saliva running from mouth, of a sweetish taste ;
a putrid sickening odor filled whole house ; all symptoms <
toward night.
This attack excited by exposure to rain.
Herpetic eruption in mouth, tonsils, hard
palate and fauces, completely covering inside of mouth and throat,
making it difficult to swallow even liquids.
Syphilitic destruction of hard and soft
palates.
Chancre on hard palate exposing the bones of roof of mouth.
Throat :
Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils.
Chancrous ulcer extending across velum
palati to left pillar of pharynx, which was congested and thickened,
interfering very much with his speech ; voice husky.
Acute pharyngitis.
Sore throat.
Deglutition painful, especially with liquids.
Excoriation of throat when swallowing.
Sore throat with granulations.
Chancrous ulcers in pharynx.
Herpetic eruption in mouth, tonsils, hard palate and fauces,
completely covering inside of mouth and throat, making it very
difficult to swallow even liquids.
Appetite :
Appetite indifferent and capricious.
Total loss of appetite for months, little
or nothing satisfies him ; formerly was generally ravenous.
Loss of appetite.
Thirst.
Appetite good again ; ravenous desire for food even after a
meal.
Tendency to heavy drinking ;
alcoholism.
Aversion to meat.
Dyspepsia ; flatulence, belching of
wind ; nervous dyspepsia.
Stomach :
Nausea.
Heartburn with pain and rawness from
stomach to throat pit, often with cough.
Vomiting for weeks or months due to
erosion from superficial ulceration of lining of viscus, herpetic, of
syphilitic origin.Abdomen :
Pain or distress deep in abdomen as if in omentum.
Feeling of heat internally in hypogastric region.
Pain in right groin followed by swelling of glands.
Large painless bubo in right groin opened
and discharged freely.
Slight lancinating pain in one groin, < at night.
Inguinal bubo.
Stool and Anus :
Bowels torpid for five weeks.
Obstinate constipation for many
years ; rectum seemed tied up with stricture, when injections
were given agony of passage was like child-bearing.
Chronic constipation, with fetid breath,
earthy complexion, gaunt appearance.
Stools very dark and offensive.
Stools too light-colored.
Bilious diarrhea at seashore, painless,
driving her out of bed about 5 A. M. ; stools during day ;
later causing excoriation ; face red, suffers from heat ;
occasional painless, whitish diarrhea when at home, > always by
going to mountains.
Obstinate cases of cholera infantum.
Fissures in anus and rectum.
Two indurated ulcers at mouth of anus
somewhat sore ; slight itching of anus.
Lower portion of rectum hanging out like
a ruffle, looking like a full-blown rose fully three inches in
diameter, and sensitive ; constant weak dragging sensation in
rectum, extending as far as sacrum.Urinary Organs :
Itching in orifice of urethra.
A sensation, in morning on going to urinate, as if male urethra
were stuffed up or clogged, about an inch from orifice.
Scalding urine.
Urination difficult and very slow ;
no pain, but a want of power, so that he has to strain.
Urine infrequent, not oftener than once
in twenty-four hours, scanty, of a golden-yellow color ; after
Syphilinum, woke next morning with great distention of abdomen and
pain in region of kidneys ; rising she passed a large quantity of
normal colored urine, after which the distention and pain were
relieved ; next day regular urination, watery.
Profuse urination after chill ;
passed during night nearly a chamberful.
Rich lemon-yellow scanty urine.
Frequent urging to urinate all night, at
least from 7 P. M. until 5 A. M., or sunset to sunrise.Male Sexual Organs :
Chancre on prepuce.
Buboes.
Burning in chancre ; ulcer size of a split pea, on prepuce
above corona glands ; edges raised, bottom covered with
lardaceous deposit ; no pain or sensation in it.
Glans purple, on left side covered by an exudation.
Chancre on penis, third in two years, all
on same spot.
Aching of genitals, could not sit still for over a month.
After suppressed chancre, disease
attacked testes, and scrotum, which became painful and swollen ;
this was supposed to be cured, but ever since, every few weeks, if
exposed to damp weather would be seized with pain as if in kidneys,
seemingly traversing ureters, but instead of passing into bladder
followed spermatic cord, down groins and into testes ; pain
agonizing, chiefly in cord, in present attack in right ; pricking
in chancre, as though punctured by pins.
Chancroid, phagedenic, spreading
rapidly ; buboes commencing in each groin.
Inflammation and induration of spermatic
cord.
Constant pain in anterior part of right
thigh, < while standing, painful all night, preventing sleep ;
bubo in left inguinal region size of a pigeon’s egg, purple,
fluctuating ; night sweats.
Bubo, purple, pointing in left groin, size of pigeon’s egg ;
accompanied with night sweats, and constant pain in anterior portion
of right thigh, < at night.
Female Sexual Organs :
Uterine and all surrounding parts loose,
soft and flabby ; profuse, thick, yellow leucorrhea ;
constant pain across small of back.
Slight whitish leucorrhea.
Yellow offensive leucorrhea, watery or
not, so profuse it daily soaks through napkins and runs to heels of
stockings if much on her feet.
Profuse yellow leucorrhea < at
night ; in sickly, nervous children.
Soreness of genitals, and muco-purulent
discharge, in a child.
Acrid discharge causing violent itching
and inflammation of external organs < at night from warmth of bed,
parts very tender ; itching and inflammation > during menses.
Nocturnal < of right ovarian pain,
preventing sleep.
Sore on right labium majus, extending to
left
Intense itching of vulva on rising in morning, continuing until 10
o’clock.
Menstruation painful, two weeks too soon ; pink-red, bright,
profuse, running free for some days ; napkins wash easily.
Menses returned in 28 days, painless.
Painful menstruation.
The usually painful menstruation with all its concomitants, was
very easy and the best for years.
Sensitiveness of os uteri, < to intolerable pain at menses, or
on introduction of finger or penis ; frequently causes abortion.
Sharp zigzag shooting pains in region of uterus.
Ovaries congested and inflamed ;
tendency to ovarian tumors.
Sore aching in left ovarian region, extending to right with
darting pains.
Left Ovary swollen, during coitus, at moment of organism, a sharp
cutting pain like a knife, and twice there was smarting as of a
sore ; ovary swelled so much that its size and shape could easily
be felt through abdominal walls (caused by Buboin).
Uterine and ovarian diseases with
pronounced nervous disorders, esp. in married women.
Mamma sensitive to touch, feeling sore, during menses, and at
other times.
Respiratory Organs :
Hoarse, almost complete aphonia, day before menses.
Diseased cartilages of larynx.
Pain and oppression at bifurcation of bronchia and in larynx, it
hurts her to breathe.
Attacks of spasmodic bronchial asthma for
twenty-five years ; they come on only at night after lying down
or during a thunderstorm, producing most intense nervous insomnia,
entirely preventing sleep for days and nights.
Violent attacks of dyspnśa, wheezing and
rattling of mucus, from 1 to 4 A. M.
Cough :
Hard cough < at night, when it is continuous preventing sleep.
Hard, constant cough with thick, yellow, tasteless expectoration.
Dry, racking cough, with thick, purulent
expectoration, caused by a sensation of rasping or scraping in throat,
always < at night.
Whooping-cough with terrible vomiting.
Cannot lie on right side, as it causes a
dry cough.
Muco-purulent expectoration, greyish,
greenish, greenish-yellow, tasteless.
Expectoration without cough, quite clear,
white, feels like a round ball and rushes into mouth.
Cough and dyspnśa come on after midday dinner, has to fight for
breath, feels as if she would be suffocated ; symptoms last all
night, > at daybreak (improved).
Expectoration of white phlegm.
Dry, sharp, hacking cough without
expectoration, but with rawness, scraping and burning from fauces to
stomach pit ; with a whoop in inspiration and a choking sensation
from fauces to bifurcation of bronchia, great mental distress.
Hard cough, < at night, when it is continuous, preventing
sleep ; white phlegm expectorated.
Cough < on lying on right side.
Hoarse, almost complete aphonia, the day before menses ; no
catarrh or sore throat.
Chest :
Chronic asthma ; in Summer,
especially when weather was warm and damp ; most frequently in
evening, passing off at daybreak ; soreness of chest, with great
anguish and inability to retain a recumbent position ; in Winter
severe bronchial cough succeeded by asthmatic attacks ; a regular
type of chills and fever developed ; suffered from this many
years before.
Within 24 hours after taking the character of the asthma changed,
during the night it disappeared, and the hour which had been that of
relief, now became that of aggravation.
The attacks only lasted a few minutes, and gradually becoming less
severe, did not return for several months.
Oppression of chest to such an extent as to almost arrest
breathing ; asthma caused by sensation as if sternum were being
gradually drawn towards dorsal vertebra ; expansion of chest
difficult ; confusion of mind, as if unconsciousness might
follow.
Attack lasted about ten minutes, followed by general weariness
which passed off in a few hours.
Rattling in chest and throat.
Pain in centre of chest as if skin were drawn up, on drawing the
head back.
Lack of sleep produces sudden faintness and sinking sensation in
chest ; three spells succeeded each other during a single night.
Sensation of pressure under upper part of sternum.
Pain and pressure behind sternum.
Angina ; ptosis left eye ;
facial paralysis left side, slight aphasia ; impotence
(relieved).
Eczematous herpetic eruptions on chest.
A lady, 78 years of age, had suffered from attacks of spasmodic
bronchial asthma for 25 years. The attack would come on only at night after lying down, or during a
thunder-storm, and produces the most intense insomnia,
entirely preventing sleep for days and nights together. Under
allopathic treatment full doses of Morphine brought relief for twenty
months.
Ars., Amb., Bell., Ipecac, Nux, Phos., Sul., Op. high and other
apparently well selected remedies entirely failed. Syphilinum cm.
cured.
Heart :
Lancinating pain in heart at night, from base to apex (Medor. has
reverse).
Valvular disease of the heart.
Neck and Back :
Heavy aching and stiffness from base of neck up
through muscles and cords into brain.Great pain in back in region of kidneys,
< after urinating.
Pain in coccyx at its junction with sacrum, sometimes in lower
sacral vertebrć ; < on sitting, with a sensation as if
swollen, though it is not.
Pains commencing in sacral regions internally, and apparently
coming around to uterus.
Caries of cervical spine with great
curvature in same region, directly forward, occiput sinking down to a
level with it and resting on protuberance of curvature ; often
nearly a teaspoonful of calcareous matter would be discharged at a
time and on evaporating it a quantity of dry powder, looking like
phosphate of lime, would be left ; pain in curvature always <
at night (no proof of syphilis).
Rigidity of muscles.
A heavy, dragging, dull feeling in lumbar region, with stiffness
and want of elasticity.
Caries or dorsal vertebrć with acute
curvature, numerous cloacć communicating with diseased bone, one much
larger than the rest, exuding a sanious, offensive pus, and surrounded
with proud flesh ; great thickening and induration of surrounding
parts from effusion of lymph ; percussion or pressure not
endurable ; two abscesses in groins, left having been opened a
year before right about a month ago ; least motion gave him great
pain by day ; and terrific pain by night ; for five months,
every night most intense neuralgic pains, commencing generally from 5
to 7 P. M. and never terminating till about daylight or about 5 A.
M. ; pains in muscles of loins, generally in left, sharp, cutting
spasms, terrible to bear, preventing sleep and forcing him to cry
out ; < at least motion, and slightly > by warm poultices.
Psoas abscess first left then right
latter discharged more than a quart of offensive greenish pus when
opened ; severe nocturnal pains, affecting upper sacral, lower
dorsal and left cervicofacial regions, steadily increasing ; they
occurred twice, each time twenty-one days after either psoas abscess
had been opened.
Enlargement of cervical glands and a
number of pedunculated pin-head warts on neck ; cured by syco-syphilinum.
Enlargement of glands in different parts of the body, particularly
abundant about the neck ; indurated and slightly painful causing
a sensation of uncomfortable fullness and suffusion in face, throat
and head.
Nocturnal aggravation of pains in back,
hips and thighs.
Enormous swelling of glands in head
neck ; no relief from any remedy.
Cured with Buboin syphilitica cm.
Syphilitic sores on back near spine on hip.
Pains commencing in sacral region internally, and apparently
coming around to uterus.
Indurated lumps between muscles of the neck.
Aching pains in limbs like growing pains.
Upper Limbs :
Rheumatism of shoulder-joint or at
insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally.
Can only raise arms to a right angle with axilla ; trying to
force them higher causes muscles to suddenly become paralysed and they
drop pendant.
Lameness and pain of arm on motion < on raising arm up in front
as if reaching ; pain located about insertion deltoid in upper
third of humerus, not painful to pressure.
Fingers and thumbs have runarounds
(infantile syphilis).
Always washing the hands.
Hands badly ulcerated on backs.
Right second finger is swollen and stiffened.
Lower Limbs :
Swelling of legs from knees down, soles painful when standing on
them ; swelling goes down in morning, comes back at night.
Pains in lower extremities, excruciating, completely banish
sleep ; < from hot fomentations ; > pouring cold water
on them > for an hour, after which the pains returned.
Cannot sit in a low chair, or squat down, owing to loss of control
over knee and hip-joints.
Pains in long bones of lower extremities, also on joints.
Dull pains over back of feet to toes, began soon after getting
into bed, lasting until 4 or 5 A. M.
For two or three winters intense cold
pain in both legs, < in left, came on every night on lying down,
lasting all night ; > by getting up and walking, and in warm
weather.
Pain in three toes of right foot as if disjointed.
Slight contraction of tendons beneath
right knee.
Tearing pains in hip and thighs, < at night > about
daybreak, < by walking, not affected by weather (improved).
Redness and rawness with terrible itching
between toes.
Bubo with pain in spot on middle of right
thigh in front, only when standing and on deep pressure, which seemed
to touch spot, which was apparently on periosteum.
Two ulcers larger than a crown piece,
dirty stinking, sloughing, with jagged, elevated edges, one on thigh
above patella, another on head of tibia ; two large pieces of
bone came away from head of tibia.
Osteosarcoma in centre of right tibia the
size of half an ostrich egg, pains agonizing at night, growth
irregular, spongy, partly laminated, very hard.
Contracted, painful feeling in soles, as
if tendons were too short.
Aching pains in limbs, like growing pains.
Bone pains in knees and feet.
Gradual rigidity of all joints after eruption ; flexors seem
contracted.
Rheumatic swelling of left wrist and big
toe, bluish-red, with pains as if somebody sawed at his bones with a
dull saw ; > by heat of stove ; < from sundown to
sunrise ; no appetite ; has lasted two weeks.
Feeling of numbness in palms and soles, at times a prickly
sensation as if numb parts were punctured by a great number of
needles.
Excruciating arthritis ; swelling,
heat, and redness intense.
Rheumatism, muscles are caked in hard
knots or lumps.
Severe attacks of aching in lower limbs.
Sharp rheumatic pain, burning like fire,
in left side of right instep and below inner malleolus, prevents her
from moving foot < when toe is pointed inward ; < in
evening, continuing during night, waking her up suddenly every two or
three hours, worst from 1:30 to 3:30 A. M., < toward daybreak
(improved).
An old doctor residing here had been troubled for two or three
winters with an intense cold pain
in both legs, left one worse.
It came on every night on lying down and lasted all night, only
relief was by getting up and walking, and everything had failed to
help.
Magnetic leggings had afforded most relief.
The trouble ceased in warm weather.
He happened to speak of it one day, and I told him when it
returned in a milder form, and he received one dose of Syphilinum
cmm., and he has never had it since.
Went all winter without pain.
But he said the second powder made his genitals ache so that he
couldn’t sit still, and this continued for over a month.
Skin :
Pustular eruption on different parts of body ; in patches on
certain places, particularly on wrists and shins, where bones are
nearest cuticle, and isolated other large pustules on other parts,
these break, discharging an ichorous fluid for one or two days, then
heal, leaving characteristic pockmark cicatrice ; patches take
longer to heal, discharging same fluid till healing process commences.
After healing of chancre a fresh pustular eruption appears on
different parts of body, which when pustules have discharged an
ichorous liquid and healed up, leaves fresh coppery pockmarks ;
Medorr. removed it permanently, causing it to turn yellow-brown, dry
at edges and scales off, leaving skin permanently clear and free.
Biting sensation in different parts of
body, as if bitten by bugs, at night only.
Syphilitic rash, very prominent on
forehead, chin, arms and front of thorax, an abundance of fine scales
peeling off ; large prominent spot on centre of forehead, filled
with fluid, as also are some smaller patches.
Syphilitic bulla discharging freely on
cheeks, under chin, on back of shoulders, on scalp and other parts of
body (infantile syphilis).
Macula : copper-colored ; from
crown of head to sole of foot.
Pemphigus, looking like a pock, often
confluent and persistently reappears.
Skin bluish.
Macula over back, chest, abdomen, arms
and legs, but not on any uncovered part of body.
Several elevated spots on arm, stomach,
leg and finger ; has them habitually on face, chiefly on left
cheek.
A blood-boil on arm ; face broken
out with a lumpy fiery rash.
Eruption over whole body not elevated,
but could be distinctly felt by passing hand over skin ; after
Syphilinum eruption came rapidly to surface ; at same time a
disagreeable odor began to be developed ; eruption reddish-brown
like small-pox pustules, without central depression ; body
covered with it, except scrotum and penis ; increased, completely
covering inside of mouth and throat, making it difficult to swallow
even liquids ; eyes also covered, making him completely
blind ; intolerable smell from body ; tips of pimples became
filled with pus ; < from warmth of bed ; fetid
breath ; eruption developed still more, a great quantity of pus,
with intolerable itching, yet could not scratch as it was extremely
sore ; eruption left skin of entire body covered with dull,
reddish, copper-colored spots, which in cold, looked blue.Sleep :
Great restlessness at night, impossible to keep long in one
position.
Absolute sleeplessness (vies with Sul. in
producing quiet, refreshing sleep).
Wakes soon after midnight and cannot sleep again till 6 A. M.
During the whole 24 hours can only rest from 8 to 10 A. M.
Total loss of sleep for 22 successive days and nights.
Fever :
Great pains in head, whole body extremely
cold, looked blue ; wanted to be covered with blankets or
couldn’t get warm ; no appetite ; sleeping almost
continually, could not be aroused.
Nervous chills preceded by pains in head,
esp. occiput and scalp of that part ; pains below waist, in
pelvis, legs, esp. tibia, which is sensitive to touch ; bowels
torpid ; cross, irritable, peevish ; pains begin every day
at 4 P. M., culminate at midnight, disappear at daylight.
After retiring nerve chill beginning in anus, running down legs
with spasmodic sensation ; desire for stool ; > by
profuse urination and by eructations.
Fever : dry, hot, shortly after going to bed, parched lips,
great thirst ; during fever intensely hot, wants to throw off
covering, puts feet out of bed and against wall to cool them ;
high fever in middle of day, heat being intense, with sensation as if
burning up, thirst for large quantities often, sensation of burning
internal heat very marked ; fever preceded by slight chill and
followed by sweat and great debility.
Sweat : profuse at night, sleepless
and restless ; esp. between scapulć and down to waist, with
excessive general debility.
Fever from 11 to 1 P. M. daily ;
perspires when she begins to get over fever ; pain in back, <
between shoulders, no ambition or desire to move.
Excessive general debility and continued
night sweats, latter being most marked between scapulć and down to
waist.
Generalities :
Utter prostration and debility in morning.
Epilepsy.
Dwarfed, shriveled-up, old-looking babies and children.
Epileptic convulsions after menses.
Body, extremities and face covered with
syphilides ; a sticking soreness begins in throat every evening
between 6 and 7 o’clock and continues to grow < during night ;
exceedingly restless until 4 P. M. ; then a restless sleep for a
few hours ; can scarcely swallow ; when throbbing in throat,
< from cold and hot drinks, and < lying down ; throbbing in
temples and ears, boring in ears meeting in centre of brain ;
sensation as if top of head were coming off ; drawing pain in
eyes < from lamplight ; teeth pain when eating, also when
taking anything hot or cold, feel as if they were loose, > pressing
teeth together and pressing throat with hands ; excessive flow of
saliva, it runs out of mouth when sleeping, severe pain in neck ;
bending back head, > pain in neck ; aching pain in shoulders
and knees ; rending, tearing pains throughout body, > moving
about slowly ; had his wife hide his revolver lest in a fit of
desperation he might kill himself, as was his desire during extreme
paroxysms of pain ; strikes wall with fist and beats head against
wall for relief ; stools hard, dry like sheep dung ; desire
for stool three or four times a day, but only a little scentless wind
passes which gives relief ; sitting at stool, > pain in
head ; is easily offended, gets desperate, cannot bear to be
alone, great anxiety about getting well ; at night no position
suits him, walks floor or goes into street and moves about
slowly ; sleepy all the time but cannot sleep ; dreams about
his disease ; < in open air ; frequent urination with
sudden desire ; discharges large quantities of muddy urine.
Shifting pains of a rheumatic character obliging a repeated change
of position and posture.
Lancinating rheumatic pains, slightly relieved by a change of
position at times, and sometimes relieved by motion.
Pains commence at 2 P. M., gradually increasing till they reach
their acme at 9 P. M., continuing exceedingly acute till 3 or 4 A. M.,
subsiding with daybreak.
Pains more particularly < in, or confined to, the muscles and
joints of lower limbs, for four or five weeks, then they seemed to go
to the periosteum and bone itself, consequently becoming deeper and
more profound.
The pains produce two sensations, an external one which seems to
lie in muscles and joints, and an internal one which is deeper and
much more unbearable, so much so that it seems by its profound nature
to control the external ones and to cause those pains to disappear,
afterward reappearing intensified in the external sensation.
Pains in all the limbs every night after midnight, weary, tired
pains, making rest impossible, as he could lie nowhere without
suffering in the part on which he rested.
Pains worse in lower limbs, much perspiration which partly >.
Rheumatic neuralgic pains in all the muscles, even in cremaster, not in joints ; darting pains in
irregular attacks, sometimes lasting a week or two.
The pains gradually increase and decrease ; they are worse in
damp and especially in frosty weather ; they get worse at 4 or 5
P. M., attain their height at 2 or 3 A. M., ceasing about 8 A. M.
Never contracted syphilis very much improved by dm.
Rheumatism with sweating of hands, wrists and legs below the
knees, and feet, with great soreness of soles, all < at night.
Extreme emaciation.
Hardly able to lift hand.
Feels < mornings utter prostration and debility in morning.
Weak, emaciated.
Though 17 looked 12, was so reduced and dwarfed ; great
attenuation of soft parts throughout, spare and hollow ; confined
to couch for about three years, and for one year was scarcely ever off
back.
After the disappearance of the pustular eruption, a gradual
rigidity of all the joints ensues, and all the flexors seem to become
contracted and shortened ; this causes inability to close the
fingers on a knife, fork or spoon, and a partial inability to lift the
foot in order to step up-stairs, except with great difficulty by using
a cane, and only a step up or down at a time. (Note. This is not the
case where the pustular eruption is a curative effect of the
Syphilinum high. – Swan).
Feeling of numbness in palms and sole, which have also at times a
prickly sensation as if the numb were punctured by a great number of
needles.
Slight rigidity of joints.
Rheumatic swelling of left wrist and left great toe which is
bluish-red, with pains like sawing off his bones with a dull
saw ; better from heat of stove, worse from sundown, to
sunrise ; no appetite.
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