CANTHARIS.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Genitals inflamed, [96].
► Feeling of weakness in the genitals (first hours), [1a]. ► Burning heat and
itching of the genitals, [56]. ►
Pressing pain from the lower abdomen toward the genitals, in the afternoon, [6]. ► Fatal gangrene of the penis,
[55]. [1000.]
► The penis is swollen, [1a].
► Swelling and heat of the penis, without erection, and
without sexual desire, [90]. ►
*Swelling of the glans, which is very painful, even to external pressure, [6]. ► About the corona
glandis, a brown, cheesy mass accumulates, without any special sensation, in the morning, [9]. ► A tumefaction of
the prepuce, of red, hot, and diaphanous nature, with phimosis; there issues from beneath it
a purulent secretion (after three weeks), [98]. ► Swelling of the frænum of the prepuce, [1a]. ► Total absence of the usual
smegma preputii, [109]. ►
Blood passes out of the rigid penis and from the anus, [41].
► Instead of semen, blood flows, [33]. ► Erections, [67]. [1010.] ► Erection and involuntary emission (from smelling the powder),
[27]. ► *A strong and
persistent erection of the penis, painless, and without voluptuous sensation, [49]. ► Very persistent
erection every morning, immediately on rising, [109]. ► Continued erection of the penis, with some painful sensation,
for three hours, [2]. ►
Difficult erection of the penis, [41]. ► *Severe erections at night, during which there is contraction and
sore pain in the whole of the urethra, [1a].
► Painful erections, [25],
[26], [29]. ► Painful erection, lasting fifteen minutes (one case), [101]. ► Very painful
erections, [59]. ►
Nightly erections, [1a]. [1020.]
►► *Priapism, [35],
[50], etc. ►
Priapism occasionally, [81], [87]. ► Traces of priapism at
times, [94]. ►
Priapism, with pain about bladder, and wild delirium (third day), [99]. ► Severe priapism, with
swollen genitals, [96]. ►
*Painful priapism, [86]. ► Painful, obstinate priapism, [96].
► Most violent priapism, with fearful pain, [34]. ► Penis lax (second
day), [92]. ► Penis
lax and drooping, with total absence of erections, [102].
[1030.] ► Constant
pain in the penis, [102]. ►
Severe burning pain in the penis, especially at the tip of the glans, with frequent urging
to urinate, [101]. ►
A drawing pain in the penis, and in the back and thighs, relieved by passing flatus upward
and downward (after seventy-two hours), [1a]. ► Pruritus of glans penis, [96].
► Pruritus of the glans penis, with desire to urinate and
ardor urinæ (three hours after a meal); the desire for micturition continued two to four
hours, and then gradually ceased, leaving some irritation in the urethra, [83]. ► Burning in the excretory ducts
of the vesiculæ seminales in the urethra, during and after coition (after
twenty-four hours), [11a]. ►
A drawing pain in the spermatic cord while urinating (after three to six hours), [1a]. ► Painful swelling
of the right testicle (after nine hours), [6]. ► Excitement of the genital organs, [60]. ► *Sexual desire disturbed sleep
at night, [67]. [1040.]
► Satyriasis, [996].
► Satyriasis, and desire for coition, so that he forgot
all modesty and reason, [83]. ►
Violent satyriasis, with overpowering, insatiable desire for coition, making him furious, [85]. [Followed by death.] ►
Sexual desire entirely absent (second day), [92]. ► Emission of semen; in the morning while lying in bed awake,
discharged from the relaxed penis, and almost without sensation, a considerable quantity of
semen, of natural character (in a strong young man), this attacks was repeated, after
twenty-four hours, exactly in the same manner, [8]. ► A slight emission in the night (third night), [109]. ► Nightly emissions, [1a]. ► Emission very
profuse, without dreams and without waking (fourth night), [109].
► A copious emission seemed to have taken place during
the second night, although one had happened but two nights previously; the next morning an
uncommon weariness, so that I lay down again immediately after rising, and fell into a
restless, unrefreshing slumber, [106]. ► Female. ► Swelling of
the neck of the uterus; burning in the bladder; abdominal pains; continued vomiting and hot
fever (in a woman from a fly-blister), [4]. [1050.] ► Great swelling of
the neck of the womb, with much tenesmus, [54]. ► A woman, who had not conceived in fourteen years, became
pregnant within four months after the use of an essence, which consisted mainly of
Cantharides, [23]. ►
Miscarriage, after symptoms of irritation in bowels and urinary organs, [51]. ► Abortion, [73], [96]. ► *Swelling and irritation of vulva (second day), [97]. ► Burning in the
female genitals, [6]. ►
Bloody, mucous discharge from the vagina, for three days after the menses, [1a]. ► Burning in the vagina,
with a thick, white discharge, [68]. ► Intolerable itching in the vagina, [27]. ► Menstruation appears four
days too soon, with great nausea and colic (she usually had colic), [9]. [1060.] ► The menses appear three days later than usual (eighth day), [6]. ► Menstruation,
which had ceased one day, reappeared, with pain (in the forenoon), and lasted till noon
(fourth day), [6]. ►
Menstruation somewhat increased and painful (ninth day), [6].
► More profuse flow of the menses, [6]. ► Menstruation, which
appeared the night before taking Cantharis, is more profuse than usual, but without pain
(after one hour and a half), [6]. ► Menstruation appears too early, but scanty (third day), [6]. ► Black blood with
the menses (this was often the case), [6]. ► Menstruation ceased almost altogether on the second day (it
usually lasted three to four days), [6]. ► Menstruation ceased on the third day, [6]. ► Menstruation entirely
ceased during the illness, although it had occurred on three occasions previously. It was
not re-established till seven months, [97].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx
and Trachea. [1070.] ►
Hawking of tenacious mucus from the larynx (after half an hour), [8]. ► Intense pain in larynx (one
case), (third day), [53]. ►
Burning in the larynx and stomach, [27]. ► Tickling, provoking cough, [8].
► Contraction of the trachea, [2]. ► Voice. ► Rough voice (second day), [94].
► Hoarse voice, [87].
► Hoarseness in the chest, [1a].
► Voice feeble, [50].
► *Speech very low, with sensation of weakness of the vocal
organs (twelfth day), [6]. [1080.] ► On deep respiration,
and a speaking, she feels as if she dare not exert herself, on account of extraordinary
weakness of the respiratory organs; she therefore speaks only in a weak and frightened tone,
[6]. ► Inability to
speak (sexton), [86]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ► Cough, with pain in
the abdomen, [1a]. ►
Hacking cough, frequently (second day), [6]. ► Frequent dry hacking cough (fifteenth day), [6]. ► Several short paroxysms of
dry cough, caused by irritation in the larynx, with more rapid respiration and a sort of
tightness in the chest (immediately after taking), [2].
► Cough in the morning on rising, with difficult
expectoration, [1a]. ►
Sputa frothy and bloody, [96]. ►
Bloody expectoration after short cough (eighth day), [6].
► Respiration. ►
Hurried breathing (soon after), [76]. [1090.] ► Respiration hurried,
[76]. ► Hurried
respiration (after one hour), [99]. ► Hurried and difficult respiration, [60]. ► Difficult respiration, [25]. ► Respiration
becomes difficult, [29]. ►
Difficult and oppressed respiration, partly, as it appears, on account of contraction of the
larynx and the trachea, partly also on account of dryness of the nose (soon after), [8]. ► Respiration
labored, [96]. ►
Breathing laborious, [50]. ►
Gasps for breath, [96]. ►
On ascending a mountain he gets out of breath; it catches him in the chest; he becomes
nauseated (third day), [14]. [1100.] ► Oppression of
breathing (second day), [6]. ►
Threatening suffocation (sexton), [86].
CHEST.
► Pneumonia, [96]. ► (Is drawn
together at times when coughing; the lungs themselves are contracted), [1a]. ► The side of the diaphragm
is inflamed, [21]. ►
Feeling of dryness in the chest, for several days, [1a].
► Burning in the chest, [2].
► Burning on the chest like fire; an again a small clot
of blood in the mouth, in the morning (seventeenth day), [6].
► Hot burning on the chest, and pinching in the abdomen,
with constipation (fifteenth afternoon), [6]. ► Violent burning, with stitches over the whole chest,
externally and internally, as if in the bones, [6]. [1110.] ► Sensation of fulness
in the chest, stomach, and abdomen, after coffee (fourteenth day), [6]. ► Pressure on the chest for a
long time, [6]. ►
*Sticking in the chest, from one side to the other, [9]. ► Slight stitches in the
chest, which do not affect respiration (after three hours), [5].
► *A fine stitch extending from the right axilla into the
chest (after one hour), [6]. ► Several fine needlelike stitches, deep in the left lower
ribs, in the afternoon, [6]. ►
Tearing in the thorax, especially in the region of the heart (after half an hour), [3]. ► Extreme
sensitiveness of the chest to touch (tenth, eleventh, and twelfth days), [6]. ► Relief of habitual
oppression of chest (one prover), [4]. ► Front. ► Burning on
the sternum (after eight hours), [9]. [1120.] ► Squeezing and
contraction in the forepart of the chest, with impeded respiration, stitching in the whole
chest, from 11 A.M. till 8 P.M.; relieved on lying, but returning again (third day), [6]. ► Pressure on the
sternum, [9]. ►
Pressure from the heart toward the sternum, toward evening, increased by speaking and deep
respiration, [9]. ►
On the right side of the sternum, deep internally, a pressing, with stitching from within
outward (after four hours), [6]. ►
Stitching in the centre of the sternum (third evening), [6].
► Frequent stitching in the forepart of the chest,
especially on inspiration, [6]. ►
Several acute stitches in succession in the sternum, so that she screamed with pain, in the
afternoon, [6]. ►
Many fine needlelike stitches in succession, in the lower part of the sternum (after
three-quarters of an hour), [6]. ► *Pain in the chest, like a shooting, from the front toward the back,
which impedes respiration, [9]. ► Sides. ► In the
morning in bed, a violent pressure in the side of the chest, which disappears on rising, [9]. [1130.] ► *Stitching pain in the forepart of the right chest; it then passes
downward into the right lower ribs (after one hour and a half), [6]. ► *Stitching in the right side of
the thorax, [3]. ►
*Stitching in the right side of the chest (after two hours and a half), [6]. ► *Stitching in the
lower part of the right chest, extending toward the middle of the sternum (after
eight hours), [6]. ►
Stitching in the right side of the chest, on each inspiration, after midnight, and also on
the following day, [6]. ►
Stitching in the right costal region, after dinner, [6].
► Stitching in the right false ribs (after seven hours), [6]. ► Very fine
stitching in the right chest, more in the upper part; immediately afterward in the left
side; three-quarters of an hour after dinner, [6]. ► Stitching in the left chest (after two hours and a half), [6]. ► Stitching in the
left side of the chest, more externally on the ribs (after ten hours), [6]. [1140.] ► Stitching in the left chest, after dinner, [6]. ► Stitching, inward, below
the left breast, extending up under the axilla (after half an hour), [6]. ► Stitching in the lowest
left ribs, extending toward the back, [6]. ► She cannot lie on the left side, on account of stitching on
inspiration (midnight), (third night), [6]. ► Acute stitching in the left side of the chest under the arm,
extending to the middle of the sternum, [6]. ► Acute stitching in the left lower ribs, followed by a tearing
near the right wrist, and then acute stitching in the left upper arm, [6]. ► Very painful stitching in
the left chest, and immediately afterward below the right breast, [6]. ► During slight, somewhat
sudden, turning of the body, violent stitching in the left side, below the arm, on
inspiration, extending through the whole body, just as if some one violently pierced him
with a fine spear, with a jerk, so that it arrested the breathing for a moment; it occurred
but once on the other side with the same violence, and less violently during rest, but not
at all on respiration or motion (second day), [7]. ► (Stitches in the sides, during motion and rest), [1a]. ► A violent,
stitchlike pain in the left side of the chest in the region of the heart, or in the heart
itself (after five hours), [8]. [1150.] ► After the stitching
in the sternum, several similar stitches in the last right false rib, [6]. ► Fine stitches in the left
side of the chest, below the axilla (after four hours), [6].
► A few fine stitches in the middle of the right clavicle
(after four hours), [6]. ►
Several fine stitches in the right lower ribs, in the afternoon, [6]. ► Many fine stitches in the
region of the left axilla on the side of the chest (second morning), [6]. ► Painful, acute stitches in
the right costal region below the arm, frequently repeated, in the afternoon, [6]. ► A stitch under the right
arm extending into the chest, [9]. ► In the right lower false ribs a painful stitch, while yawning
(after four hours), [6]. ►
A pointed stitch in the right side of the chest; then tearing between the shoulder-blades;
then acute stitching in the right shoulder; then stitching in the right shoulder-blade,
whence it then passes into the right hypochondria region, in the afternoon, [6].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Anxiety
in the præcordium, [27]. [1160.]
► Extreme præcordial anxiety, [94]. ► Anxiety about the heart in
the afternoon, [6]. ►
Pain in the heart, [35]. ►
Drawing pain in the region of the heart, [3]. ► Stitch in the heart, followed by a crawling sensation, [9]. ► Heart’s Action.
► Violent jerking of the heart, that runs quite to the
head (after three weeks), [98]. ►
Palpitation of the heart, [4]. ►
Violent palpitation, toward evening, [9]. ► Violent palpitation of the heart, for several minutes (soon
after taking), [8]. ►
Habitual palpitation of the heart entirely ceased (one prover), [4]. ► Pulse. [1170.] ► Uneasy beating of
the pulse in the whole body, so that the limbs tremble, several days, [7]. ► Hard full pulse, as in
inflammatory fevers, [45]. ►
Pulse contracted, [50]. ►
Pulse thready (second day), [94]. ► Weak pulse, [2]. ► Pulse feeble, and scarcely perceptible (after two days), [78]. ► Pulse scarcely
perceptible, [97]. ►
Scarcely perceptible pulse (second day), [78]. ► Pulse imperceptible, [96].
► Pulse scarcely changed during the chill, [6]. [1180.] ► Rapid pulse, [41]. ► Hard, rapid pulse, [27].
► Pulse full, hard and rapid, as in inflammatory fever, [84]. ► Pulse rapid,
full, tense (second day), [92]. ►
Pulse weak, trembling, rapid, [93]. ► Pulse quick and hard, [96].
► Small, quick pulse (after one hour), [99]. ► Pulse quickened by two
beats (two provers), [4]. ►
Pulse quickened by two beats, but evidently softer (two provers), [4]. ► Pulse increased, fuller,
after disappearance of the pains, in the morning (fourth day), [6]. [1190.] ► Pulse accelerated, full (third day), [107]. ► Pulse accelerated twenty
beats per minute (third day), [96]. ► Frequent and small pulse, [58].
► Frequent, small, and weak pulse, [101]. ► Small frequent pulse, [93]. ► Pulse weak,
compressible, frequent (110), [102]. ► Pulse full, 80, [93]. ► Pulse 98, full and soft (third day), [96]. ► Pulse 100 (two cases), 80
(one case), (second day), [53]. ►
Pulse more than 100 to the minute, [42]. [1200.] ►
Pulse 104, full and regular (third day), [53], [96]. ► Pulse 130, weak
and tremulous, [96]. ►
Pulse slightly diminished (in some), (after two hours), [4].
► Progressive diminution of the pulse; the maximum of
this diminution was twenty-two beats, [4]. ► Pulse remarkably diminished (after three hours), [4]. ► Remarkable diminution of pulse (five to sixteen beats), (after two hours), [4]. ► Pulse slow and
full (after two hours), [6]. ►
Pulse slower, by from two to forty beats (eight provers), (after two hours), [4]. ► Pulse fell five beats, [104]. ► The pulse, after
violent action, lost seven beats in a minutes, [104]. [1210.] ► Pulse fell to about
fifty per minute, [100]. ►
Pulse 45 (after vomiting), [4]. ►
Pulse 35, small and intermittent, [4]. ► Pulse 20 and small (second day), [53]. ► Pulse irregular and
intermittent, [49]. ►
Small, hard, intermitting pulse, [47]. ► Pulse 130, weak and paroxysmal, [81].
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck.
► Thick neck, [45].
► Twitching in the left cervical muscles, [6]. ► Stiffness in the neck, with
tensive pain on stooping, [1a]. [1220.] ► Fine but sharply
drawing pain in a narrow line extending downward, deep in the right cervical muscles (after
two hours), [8]. ►
Several dull stitches in the left cervical muscles, in the afternoon, [6]. ► Tearing in the left
cervical muscles, with headache, like a heaviness, on walking (second day), [6]. ► Tearing in the nape of the
neck, extending upward toward the vertex (sixth day, A.M.), [6].
► Tearing in the nape of the neck and stitching in the
right cervical muscles, on moving the head, whence it extends into the upper part of the
head (after six hours), [6]. ►
Swollen cervical glands painful to touch, [9]. ► Back. ► Pain in the
back, in the vertebral column, [87]. ► Pains in the back and limbs, [29].
► Violent pain in the back, [23]. ► Dragging in the back, as
if about to be “unwell,” which period she had passed about ten days before; slight
show, but the pains the same, [111]. [1230.] ► Sticking-cutting
pain through the back and abdomen, which speedily passes off (after nine hours), [8]. ► Tearing pain in
the back, [1]. ►
Tearing pain in the back, especially in the morning, [1a]. ► Dorsal. ► A stitch inward, below the right shoulder-blade (after four
hours), [6]. ►
Several violent dull stitches in the upper part of the right shoulder-blade, with burning on
the skin in the same place, in the afternoon, [6]. ► Extremely violent acute stitches in the right shoulder-blade,
in the evening, [6]. ►
Tearing in the shoulder-blade (after one hour), [3]. ► Tearing and stitching in the right shoulder-blade, in the
upper part (after three hours), [6]. ► Pain between shoulders (after half an hour), [97]. ► Continued stitching
between the shoulders on every motion, as if the parts were sprained, [1a]. [1240.] ► Tearing between the shoulder-blades (after two hours and on
the third day), [6]. ►
A throbbing sensation on the right side of the spine, near the eleventh and twelfth dorsal
vertebræ, disappearing for a few moments, and returning again, increased by every motion,
extending by single jerks downward to the right thigh, at 11 P.M. (sixth day), [106]. ► Lumbar. ► Pain in lumbar region, [96].
► Dull pain in the lumbar region and hypochondria,
increased by pressure, [93]. ►
Dull heavy pain in the lumbar region, increased by pressure, [81].
► Large pointed stitches in the left lumbar region, with
the cutting in the abdomen, [6]. ►
A stitch extending into the right lumbar region (after four hours and a half), [6]. ► In the right
lumbar region painful stitching, then tearing in the left hypochondriac region internally,
unchanged on rubbing (after a quarter of an hour), [6].
► Pains in the region of the loins and the lower abdomen,
[26]. ► *Pain in the
loins, kidneys, and in the whole abdomen, with such pain on urinating that he could not pass
a single drop without moaning and screaming (from a fly-blister on the
knee-joint), [41]. [1250.]
► *Pain in the loins, with incessant desire to urinate; he
passes only a small quantity, [96]. ► Intolerable pains in the loins, kidneys, and the whole
abdomen, [20]. ►
Boring pains in the loins (after one hour), [103]. ► Cutting pain in both loins, which extends to beneath the
shoulders, where it becomes stitching (third afternoon), [6].
► Great weariness in the small of the back, with a
peculiar pressing pain in the region of the last rib, in the back, while sitting (second
day), [108]. ► Pain
across the small of the back, on motion, as if he had injured himself (first days), [1a]. ► Pressing pain in
the small of the back for two days, [3]. ► Almost constant cutting pain in the small of the back,
especially on sitting (first day), [7]. ► Stitching in the small of the back, after rising from sitting
or on walking, [6]. ►
Pain like biting in the small of the back (the whole second day), [6]. [1260.] ► Biting and gnawing in the small of the back (third day), [6]. ► Tearing, with
stitching, in the small of the back (after one hour), [6].
► Sacral. ►
Gnawing in the sacrum. in the evening (second day), [6].
► Stitching and gnawing on the right side of the sacrum,
as if in the bone (after two hours and a half), [6]. ► A stitch and a tearing in the coccyx, so that she was
frightened; frequently repeated, [6].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Objective. ► Great weakness of limbs (second
day), [92]. ► In
the morning, laxness and lassitude in all the limbs, so that he remains in bed much longer
than usual (second day), [3]. ►
Weariness in the hands and feet (fourth day), [6]. ► Collapse of limbs, [4].
► Trembling of the limbs, [4],
[87]. [1270.] ► Trembling of the limbs, [87].
► Trembling and weakness of the limbs, lasting a long
time, [94]. ►
Trembling of the hands and feet, during the chill, in the evening, [6]. ► Unconscious tossing about
of the limbs, [64]. ►
Convulsions in all the limbs, [93]. ► Numbness of arms and legs (after three weeks), [98]. ► Subjective. ► A feeling of dryness in the joints of the arms and limbs, for
twelve days, [1a]. ►
Pain and stiffness of limbs (after three weeks), [96].
► Contracting, almost paralytic, pain in the limbs, [1]. ► Drawings in the
extremities, [87]. [1280.]
► Drawing, almost paralytic, pain in the limbs, [1a]. ► The forearms and
lower legs feel bruised (third, fourth, fifth and sixth days), [6].® 2000
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