The Materia
Medica of the Nosodes.
By Henry Clay ALLEN, M. D.
Presented and arranged by Dr Robert Séror.
SYPHILINUM.
Authorities
Drs. Sam’l Swan, I. C. Boardman, Thomas Wildes, E. A. Ballard, Wm.
Eggert, Laura Morgan, H. T. 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:
the 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 if, 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 toprove
it on the
healthy, like any other drug, and note its symptoms in the regular
way.Characteristics (Syphilinum)
Acute ophthalmia
neonatorum
; lids swollen,
adhere during sleep ;
pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 A. M. ; pus profuse ; >
by cold bathing.All symptoms are worse at night
(Merc.)
;
from sundown to sunrise.Craving alcohol,
in
any form.
Diplopia, one image seen below the other.
Eruptions
:
dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting cold.Extreme emaciation of entire body
(Abrot.,
Iod.).Fears the terrible suffering from exhaustion on awakening
(Lach.).
Fissures in anus and rectum
(Thuja)
;
prolapse of rectum ;
obstinate cases with a syphilitic history.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.Heart
:
lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from
apex to base, Med.)
;
from base to clavicle, or shoulder, (Spig.).Hereditary tendency to alcoholism
(Sar.,
Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac.).Leucorrhea
:
profuse, soaking–
through the napkins and
running down to the heels (Alum.).Loss of memory
:
cannot remember names of books, persons or places ;
arithmetical calculations difficult.Obstinate constipation for years
;
rectum seems tied up with strictures ;
when enemata were used the agony of passage was like labor (Lac
d., Tub.).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.Ptosis
:
paralysis of superior oblique ;
sleepy look from drooping lids (Caust.,
Graph.).Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid,
< from raising arm laterally (Rhus-r. shoulder, Sang. ; left, Fer.).
Sensations
:
as if going insane ;
as if about to be paralyzed ;
of apathy and indifference.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.Teeth
:
decay at edge of guns and break off ;
are cupped, edges serrated ;
dwarfed in size, converge at their tips (Staph.).Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical
exhaustion on awakening;
it is intolerable, death is preferable.When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently
improve in syphilitic affections.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 dysmenorrhoea. 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 ozena, with offensive plugs or clinkers. Hepar,
Sil., Psor., tendency to successive abscesses (succession
of boils, Anthr.).
Aur., Lac can., Lach., Ater. 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, Thuja, fissure ani. Kreos.,
Mer., troubles during detention, especially if hereditary syphilis be
suspected. Phos., N-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 (Syphilinum)
II
Cross,
irritable, peevish.II
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 awaking ;
it is < by cough, but it is quite independent of cough as she wakes in this awful state ; always < as night approaches ; leaves her about daylight, which she prays for. Spring cough. 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.II
Very
despondent, does not think he will ever get better.A far-away feeling, with apathy and indifference to future.
Cannot remember names of persons, books or places.
Crying infants, who begin immediately after birth.
Difficulty in making arithmetical calculations.
Feeling as if going insane, or about to be paralyzed.
Great difficulty, and sometimes impossibility, of concentrating the
thoughts on particular subjects;
yet at the same time can recollect consecutive events and details
which occurred 25
or 30
years previously in the order of occurrence, almost without effort.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.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.Loss of memory.
Periodical neuralgia in head.
Very nervous, weeping without cause.
Head (Syphilinum)
II
Coronal
headache.II
Dirty
eruption on scalp.II
Lancinating
pain in occiput, < invariably at night, and causing sleeplessness, but always ceasing with the coming light of morning.II
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.II
Syphilitic
cephalalgia in occiput, intolerable, extending to nervous ganglia of
neck, causing hardening of cords ;
attacks at irregular intervals, especially after excitement.II
Syphilitic
headache for many months, piercing, pressing excruciating over r. eye ;
extending deep into brain ;
losing continuity of thought and memory ;
makes repeated mistakes in figures.I
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.I
Headache
through temples, thence vertically like an inverted letter T.I
Headaches
accompanied by great restlessness, sleeplessness and general nervous
erethism.I
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.
Cephalalgia in nerves of scalp, invariably worse at night and
better after daybreak.Constant linear headache, commencing at both angles of forehead and
extending in parallel lines backward-a precursor of epileptic attack.Great loss of hair.
Headache and great debility.
Heavy, crushing, cutting pain across base of cerebellum. Heavy,
clouded, dull feeling in base of brain.Pain from eyes through to occiput, with sensation of weight in
occiput drawing head back;
or as if it were pulled back ;
eyes ache and smart.Sick headache, pains intolerable, arteries of head full and
pulsating violently;
high fever, frequent retching on trying to vomit ;
menses regular, but very scanty.Sore, one and a half inches in diameter, on occipital bone, covered
with a thick, yellow-white scab.Suffusion and full feeling in face, throat and head, with
innumerable small enlarged cervical glands.Vertigo on looking up, seems to be caused by heat,
Eyes (Syphilinum)
II
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.II
At 1
P. M. scalding lachrymation of r. 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.II
Both eyes
glued in morning ;
conjunctiva injected ;
photophobia, constantly wears a shade.II
Eyes dull.
II
Eyes swollen
and closed with syphilitic ophthalmia, pus running out of them.II
Eyes very red
and inflamed.II
L. eyeball
covered with fungus-like growth, pain intense < at night.II
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.II
Neuralgia
every night, beginning about 8
or 9
P. M., gradually increasing in severity until it reached its height
about 3
or 4
A. .d., 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 r. half of head, extending a little
beyond middle line on vertex ;
in about thirty minutes scalding lachrymation from r. eye, with
shooting backward therein ;
eye is very red and closes, with photophobia ;
gnawing pains extend down r. side of face and whole of nose ;
head is worst when eye is bad ;
during paroxysm r. eve feels as if lids were open wide, and cold air
blowing on exposed eye ;
she perceives a horizontal band across pupil of r. 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 r. (affected)
side when also r. side of head feels sore ;
r. eye red, and red vessels run all over it, converging towards iris ;
r. pupil horizontally oval ;
r. iris looks dull and there is a slight brown hue around pupil ;
left eye normal ;
attacks seem to have originated from sitting at a window in a cold
draft, r. eye being next window.II
On turning
eye to left feels momentary coldness in inner half of r. eye.II
On waking,
gum in r. canthus.II
On walking
across room, r. eye sensitive to air, aches on using it.II
Ophthalmic
pains, < at night, >
by cold water.II
Pain in r.
inner canthus as if blood went there and could go no farther, also in
r. temple.II
Pain in r.
inner canthus as if blood went there and could go no further, also in
r. temple.II
R. 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).II
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.II
Redness and
swelling of outer half of both lower tarsal edges.II
Syphilitic
iritis, intense pain steadily increasing night after night ;
< between 2 and 5 A. M., coming almost at the minute and ceasing same way.I
Acute
ophthalmia neonatorum.I
Acute
ophthalmia neonatorum.I
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.I
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.I
During sleep
lids adhere ;
in infantile syphilis.I
Paralysis of
superior oblique.I
Upper lids
swollen.Diplopia, one image seen lower than the other.
Infantile syphilis.
Interstitial keratitis.
Iritis with photophobia, congestion of conjunctiva and sclerotica,
with puffiness of conjunctival mucous membrane;
chemosis, pupil immovable, diminution of sight ;
supraorbital pain.Left eyeball covered with a fungus-like growth, pain intense, worse
at night.Myopia.
Photophobia, black spots, shreds or veils before sight. Itching of
left inner canthus.Ptosis
:
paralytica ;
eyes look sleepy from lowering of upper lid.Sensation of heat with a little pain in outer half of left lids.
Sharp, pulsating pain, occasionally at outer end of superior border
of r. orbit, apparently in periosteum.Strabismus paralytica, eye turning inward, and pupil can only be
turned outward as far as median line.Strabismus paralyticus, the rectus internus being–involved,
and the eye turning outward.Ears (Syphilinum)
II
Calcareous
deposit on tympanum.II
Catarrhal or
nerve deafness with marked cachexia.II
Complete
deafness ;
nothing abnormal to be seen.II
Deafness
gradually increasing until she could scarcely hear at all.II
Gathering in
left ear which discharges a great quantity of pus (hereditary
syphilis in a child).II
Intense
earache in r. ear, incisive pains thrusting into ear ;
purulent watery discharge from ear with pain.II
Small, acrid,
watery discharge occasionally from ears, no deafness (ozaena).Nose (Syphilinum)
II
L. side of
nose inside and out very sore, likewise lips and chin ;
sores itching and scabbing over ;
after Syphilinum lm. much better in twelve hours, many drying up and
scabs falling off, leaving skin beneath of a dull-reddish copper
color.II
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.II
Ozaena
syphilitica. (Syph.
brought out an eruption of sores with a fiery-red base on nose over
frontal sinuses.)I
Attacks of
fluent coryza.I
Itching in
nostrils.L. side of nose, inside ala, itching.
Nose stuffed up and burning.
Face (Syphilinum)
II
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.II
Face pale.
II
Facial
paralysis r. side., thick speech, hemicrania, jactitation of r. eye
and lid.II
Lips and
teeth covered with bloody mucus.II
Nose and
cheeks covered with eruptions and scabs in layers rising to a point.II
Spasmodic
twitching of many muscles, esp. in faces (paralysis
agitans),
with great melancholy and depression of spirits.I
Dark purple
lines between ala :
nasi and cheeks.I
Itching,
scabby, eczematous eruptions singly or in clusters, looking like
herpes.An old gentleman has had for some years cancer on r. malar bone
;
no rest, his agony excruciating in extreme (relieved).Face drawn to one side, difficulty of speaking, masticating,
blowing.Left submaxillary gland which had been swollen and indurated,
softens and discharges, and after forty-five days begins to heal
slowly.Sores on lips and chin, esp. left side, scabbing over
Teeth (Syphilinum)
II
Felt like a
worm in tooth, could not tell which tooth.Children’s teeth are cupped.
First central upper incisors serrated, permanent teeth point
towards each other, inner side concave;
edges serrated. Medorrhinum.Pain in r. 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.Single small lunae cleft in upper incisors, permanent set, which
incisors are dwarfed in their general dimensions, and converge at
their tips;
inherited syphilis.Singular feeling as if teeth had all got out of place, and on
closing jaws teeth do not come well together.Teeth decaying at edge of gum and breaking off.
Mouth (Syphilinum)
II
Aphasia,
difficulty of finding words ;
debility.II
Fetid breath.
II
Putrid taste
in mouth before epileptic fit.II
Syphilitic
destruction of hard and soft palates.II
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.II
Twenty ulcers
in mouth, every part involved, top and under side of tongue, lips,
buccal cavity, fauces and nose.I
Herpetic
eruption in mouth, tonsils, hard palate and fauces, completely
covering inside of mouth and throat, making it difficult to swallow
even liquids.I
Tongue coated
white, edges indented by teeth.Chancre on hard palate exposing the bones of roof of mouth.
Septum of nose threatened, both alae 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.Tongue feels as if paralyzed.
Tongue red and thick
;
two deep cracks running lengthwise in it ;
one on each side of median line.Tongue thickly coated, dirty, edges indented or serrated by teeth.
Tongue turns to one side when protruded
;
difficulty in mastication, cannot turn food with tongue so readily
from r. to left as in other direction.Two large ulcers, one on each side near apex of tongue, were very
much swollen, and the one on r. side had a gangrenous center, the rest
lardaceous bottoms with bright fiery red edges, and were cut down as
with a knife, and felt hard like an indurated chancre.Throat (Syphilinum)
II
Chancrous
ulcer extending across velum palati to left pillar of pharynx, which
was congested and thickened, interfering very much with his speech ;
voice husky.II
Chronic
hypertrophy of tonsils.I
Acute
pharyngitis.Chancrous ulcers in pharynx.
Deglutition painful, especially with liquids.
Excoriation of throat when swallowing.
Herpetic eruption in mouth, tonsils, hard palate and fauces,
completely covering inside of mouth and throat, making it very
difficult to swallow even liquids.Sore throat with granulations.
Sore throat.
Appetite (Syphilinum)
II
Appetite
indifferent and capricious.II
Total loss of
appetite for months, little or nothing satisfies him ;
formerly was generally ravenous.I
Aversion to
meat.I
Dyspepsia ;
flatulence, belching of wind ;
nervous dyspepsia.I
Loss of
appetite.I
Tendency to
heavy drinking ;
alcoholism.Appetite good again
;
ravenous desire for food even after a meal.Thirst.
Stomach (Syphilinum)
II
Vomiting for
weeks or months due to erosion from superficial ulceration of lining
of viscus, herpetic, of syphilitic origin.I
Heartburn with
pain and rawness from stomach to throat pit, often with cough.Nausea.
Abdomen (Syphilinum)
II
Large
painless bubo in r. groin opened and discharged freely.I
Inguinal bubo.
Feeling of heat internally in hypogastric region.
Pain in r. groin followed by swelling of glands.
Pain or distress deep in abdomen as if in omentum.
Slight lancinating pain in one groin,
< at night.
Stool and Anus (Syphilinum)
II
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.II
Bowels torpid
for five weeks.II
Fissures in
anus and rectum.II
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.II
Obstinate
constipation for many years ;
rectum seemed tied up with strictures, when injections were given
agony of passage was like child-bearing.II
Stools too
light-colored.II
Stools very
dark and offensive.II
Two indurated
ulcers at mouth of anus somewhat sore ;
slight itching of anus.I
Chronic
constipation, with fetid breath, earthy complexion, gaunt appearance.I
Obstinate
cases of cholera infantum.Urinary Organs (Syphilinum)
II
Frequent
urging to urinate all night, at least from 7
P. M. until 5
A. M., or sunset to sunrise.II
Profuse
urination after chill ;
passed during night nearly a chamberful.II
Rich
lemon-yellow scanty urine.II
Urination
difficult and very slow ;
no pain, but a want of power, so that he has to strain.I
Urine
infrequent, not oftener than once in twenty-four hours, scanty, of a
golden-yellow color ;
after Syphilinum lm., 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.A sensation, in morning on going to urinate, as if male urethra
were stuffed up or clogged, about an inch from orifice.Itching in orifice of urethra.
Scalding urine.
Male Sexual Organs (Syphilinum)
II
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 r. ;
pricking in chancre, as though punctured by pins.II
Chancroid,
phagedenic, spreading rapidly ;
buboes commencing in each groin.II
Constant pain
in anterior part of r. thigh, < while standing, painful all night, preventing sleep ; bubo in left inguinal region size of a pigeon's egg, purple, fluctuating ; night sweats.I
Buboes.
I
Chancre on
penis, third in two years, all on same spot.I
Chancre on
prepuce.I
Inflammation
and induration of spermatic cord.Aching of genitals, could not sit still for over a month.
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.Burning in chancre
;
ulcer size of a split pea, on prepuce above corona glandis ;
edges raised, bottom covered with lardaceous deposit ;
no pain or sensation in it.Glans purple, on left side covered by an exudation.
Female Sexual Organs (Syphilinum)
II
Acrid
discharge causing violent itching and inflammation of external organs < at night from warmth of bed, parts very tender ; itching and inflammation >
during menses.II
Nocturnal < of r. ovarian pain, preventing sleep.
II
Painful
menstruation.II
Sore on r.
labium majus, extending to leftII
Soreness of
genitals, and muco-purulent discharge, in a child.II
Uterine and
all surrounding parts loose, soft and flabby ;
profuse, thick, yellow leucorrhea ;
constant pain across small of back.I
Ovaries
congested and inflamed ;
tendency to ovarian tumors.I
Profuse yellow
leucorrhea < at night ; in sickly, nervous children.I
Uterine and
ovarian diseases with pronounced nervous disorders, esp. in married
women.I
Yellow
offensive leucorrhea, watery or not, so profuse it daily soaks through
napkins and runs to heels of stockings if much on her feet.Intense itching of vulva on rising in morning, continuing until
10
o’clock.L. 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).
Mamma sensitive to touch, feeling sore
;
during menses, and at other times.Menses returned in
28
days, painless.Menstruation painful, two weeks too soon
;
pink-red, bright, profuse, running free for some days ;
napkins wash easily.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.
Slight whitish leucorrhea.
Sore aching in l. ovarian region, extending to r. with darting
pains.The usually painful menstruation with all its concomitants, was
very easy and the best for years.Respiratory Organs (Syphilinum)
II
Attacks of
spasmodic bronchial asthma for twenty-five years ;
they come on only at night after lying down or during a thunder-storm,
producing most intense nervous insomnia, entirely preventing sleep for
days and nights.I
Diseased
cartilages of larynx.I
Violent
attacks of dyspnea, wheezing and rattling of mucus, from 1
to 4
A. M.Hoarse, almost complete aphonia, day before menses.
Pain and oppression at bifurcation of bronchia and in larynx, it
hurts her to breathe.Cough (Syphilinum)
II
Cannot lie on
r. side, as it causes a dry cough.II
Dry, racking
cough, with thick, purulent expectoration, caused by a sensation of
rasping or scraping in throat, always < at night.II
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.II
Expectoration
without cough, quite clear, white, feels like a round ball and rushes
into mouth.II
Muco-purulent
expectoration, greyish, greenish, greenish yellow, tasteless.II
Whooping-cough with terrible vomiting.
Cough
< on lying on right side.
Cough and dyspnea 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.
Hard cough
< at night, when it is continuous preventing sleep.
Hard cough,
< at night, when it is continuous, preventing sleep ; white phlegm expectorated.
Hard, constant cough with thick, yellow, tasteless expectoration.
Hoarse, almost complete aphonia, the day before menses
;
no catarrh or gore throat.Chest (Syphilinum)
II
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 1m.
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.II
Rattling in
chest and throat.I
Angina ;
ptosis left eye ;
facial paralysis left side, slight aphasia ;
impotence (relieved).I
Eczematous
herpetic eruptions on chest.I
Pain and
pressure behind sternum.Lack of sleep produces sudden faintness and sinking sensation in
chest;
three spells succeeded each other during a single night.Oppression of chest to such an extent as to almost arrest breathing
;
asthma caused by sensation as if sternum were being gradually drawn
toward 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.Pain in centre of chest as if skin were drawn up, on drawing the
head back.Sensation of pressure under upper part of sternum.
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 (Syphilinum)
Lancinating pain in heart at night, from base to apex
(Medor.
has reverse).Valvular disease of the heart.
Neck And Back (Syphilinum)
II
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).II
Caries or
dorsal vertebrae with acute curvature, numerous cloacae 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 r.
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.II
Enlargement
of cervical glands and a number of pedunculated pin-head warts on neck
;
cured by syco-syphilinum.
II
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.II
Enormous
swelling of glands in head and neck ;
no relief from any remedy. Cured with Buboin syphilitica cm.II
Great pain in
back in region of kidneys, < after urinating.II
Nocturnal aggravation
of pains in back, hips and thighs.II
Psoas abscess
first left then r., latter discharged more than a quart of offensive
greenish pus when opened ;
severe nocturnal pains, affecting upper sacral, lower dorsal and left
cervico facial regions, steadily increasing ;
they occurred twice, each time twenty-one days after either psoas
abscess had been opened.I
Heavy aching
and stiffness from base of neck up through muscles and cords into
brain.A heavy, dragging, dull feeling in lumbar region, with stiffness
and want of elasticity.Aching pains in limbs like growing pains.
Indurated lumps between muscles of the neck.
Pain in coccyx at its junction with sacrum, sometimes in lower
sacral vertebrae;
< on sitting, with a sensation as if swollen, though it is not.Pains commencing in sacral region internally, and apparently coming
around to uterus.Pains commencing in sacral regions internally, and apparently
coming around to uterus.Rigidity off muscles.
Syphilitic sores on back near spine on hip.
Upper Limbs (Syphilinum)
II
Fingers and
thumbs have runarounds (infantile
syphilis).II
Hands badly
ulcerated on backs.II
R. second
finger is swollen and stiffened.I
Rheumatism of
shoulder-joint or at insertion of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally.Always washing the hands.
Can only raise arms to a right angle with axilla
;
trying to force them higher causes muscles to suddenly become
paralyzed 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.
Lower Limbs (Syphilinum)
II
Bubo with
pain in spot on middle of r. thigh in front, only when standing and on
deep pressure, which seemed to touch spot, which was apparently on
periosteum.II
For two or
three winters intense cold pain in both legs, < in l., came on every night on lying down, lasting all night ; >
by getting up and walking, and in warm weather.II
Osteosarcoma
in centre of r. tibia the size of half an ostrich egg, pains agonizing
at night, growth irregular, spongy, partly laminated, very hard.II
Redness and
rawness with terrible itching between toes.II
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.II
Severe
attacks of aching in lower limbs.II
Sharp
rheumatic pain, burning like fire, in 1,
side of r. 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).II
Slight
contraction of tendons beneath r. knee.II
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.I
Contracted,
painful feeling in soles, as if tendons were too short.I
Excruciating
arthritis ;
swelling, heat, and redness intense.I
Rheumatism,
muscles are caked in hard knots or lumps.Aching pains in limbs, like growing pains.
Bone pains in knees and feet.
Cannot sit in a low chair, or squat down, owing to loss of control
over knee and hip-joints.Dull pains over back of feet to toes, began soon after getting into
bed, lasting until4
or 5
A. M.Feeling of numbness in palms and soles, at times a prickly
sensation as if numb parts were punctured by a great number of
needles.Gradual rigidity of all joints after eruption
;
flexors seem contracted.Pain in three toes of r. foot as if disjointed.
Pains in long bones of lower extremities, also on joints.
Pains in lower extremities, excruciating, completely banish sleep
;
< from hot fomentations ; >
pouring cold water on them >
for an hour, after which the pains returned.Swelling of legs from knees down, soles painful when standing on
them;
swelling goes down in morning, comes back at night.Tearing pains in hip and thighs,
< at night >
about daybreak, < by walking, not affected by weather (improved).An old doctor residing here had been troubled for two or three
winters with anintense
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 I
would stop it. As he wanted to try it, I
gave him one dose of Syphilinum mm., dry. He lost his pain for six or
eight weeks, 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 (Syphilinum)
II
A blood-boil
on arm :
face broken out with a lumpy fiery rash.II
Biting
sensation in different parts of body, as if bitten by bugs, at night
only.II
Eruption over
whole body not elevated, but could be distinctly felt by passing hand
over skin ;
after Syphilinum im. eruption came rapidly to surface ;
at same time a disagreeable odor began to be developed ;
eruption reddish-brown like smallpox 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.II
Macula ;
copper-colored ;
from crown of head to sole of foot.II
Macula over
back, chest, abdomen, arms and legs, but not on any uncovered part of
body.II
Several
elevated spots on arm, stomach, leg and finger ;
has them habitually on face, chiefly on left cheek.II
Syphilitic
bulla discharging freely on cheeks, under chin, on back of shoulders,
on scalp and other parts of body (infantile
syphilis).II
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.I
Pemphigus,
looking like a pock, often confluent and persistently reappears.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 scale off, leaving skin permanently clear and free.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,
them heal, leaving characteristic pockmark cicatrice ;
patches take longer to heal, discharging same fluid till healing
process commences.Skin bluish.
Sleep (Syphilinum)
I
Absolute
sleeplessness (vies
with Sul. in producing quiet, refreshing sleep).Absolute sleeplessness for
11
to 14
days and nights.During the whole
24
hours can only rest from 8
to 10
A. M.Great restlessness at night, impossible to keep long in one
position.Total loss of sleep for
22
successive days and nights.Wakes soon after midnight and cannot sleep again till
6
A. M.Fever (Syphilinum)
II
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.II
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.II
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.II
Sweat :
profuse at night, sleepless and restless ;
esp. between scapula and down to waist, with excessive general
debility.I
Excessive
general debility and continued night sweats, latter being most marked
between scapula and down to waist .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.Generalities (Syphilinum)
II
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 A. M. ; then a restless sleep for a few hours ; can scarcely swallow ; when swallowing a sensation as of throat tearing to pieces ; continual 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.Utter prostration and debility in morning.
Epilepsy.
Dwarfed, shrivelled-up, old-looking babies and children.
Epileptic convulsions after menses.
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 din.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 parts 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.Copyright
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