GRAPHITES.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► *Emaciation,
[1]. ►
Trembling in the morning, [1]. ► Slight jerkings at night, during sleep, [1]. ►
Loss of inclination to work, [1]. ► Great indolence of the whole body, which
disappeared after a long walk, [1].
► Weariness and falling asleep, after
dinner, [1]. ►
Great weariness and sleepiness, in the forenoon and towards evening,
with much yawning, [1]. ► Great weariness, while walking in the
open air, [1]. ► Amazingly weary and sleepy (after a
few hours), [1]. [960.] ►
Weakness after coition (after fourteen days), [1]. ► Great
weakness, especially of the limbs, which he is scarcely able to move,
with constant weariness, [1]. ► *Sudden sinking of strength, [1]. ►
Exhaustion even to sinking down, with retching and nausea, during and
after walking in the open air, [1].
► *Weak exhaustion of the whole body,
as from catarrh, [1]. ► Faintlike exhaustion, as if beginning in
the abdomen, while walking in the open air, [1]. ► Attacks
of faintness (after eight days), [1].
► Constant tossing about at night,
without weariness, [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Sensitiveness to every draft of air, with hoarseness, chilliness,
dryness of the nose and anxiety, in the evening, [1]. ► Takes
cold easily, and has headache therefrom, [1].
[970.] ►
He takes cold easily, is obliged to avoid drafts, [1]. ►
Sensation as from loss of sleep, in the morning; it is very difficult to
get out of bed, [1]. ► Malaise, though free in the head, [1]. ►
Indisposed, frightened (nervous), [1].
► General sick feeling; he is obliged
to groan without knowing for what pain, [1].
► A momentary pain here and there at
times, followed by soreness of the part, [1].
► Painful drawing tension of the
whole body, during rest and motion, especially of the arms and trunk, [1]. ►
Cramp like sensation from time to time in various parts, arms, neck,
fingers, feet, whereupon the parts are swollen for a few days, become
red, indurated, and sensitive to external touch, [1]. ► Drawing
pain in the whole body, as in intermittent fever, in the
morning, after rising, [1]. ► Pain rather pressive than drawing in the
periosteum of all the bones, only for a moment, now here, now there,
during rest, especially on falling asleep, [1]. [980.] ► Stitches shoot like lightning through the
whole body from above downward, [1].
► Stitches as from needles, here and
there, in the whole body, [4]. ► Prickings, now here, now there, in the
whole body, [1]. ► Bruised pain of the whole side of the
body upon which he lies, in the midday nap; and the arm is asleep, [1]. ►
*Violent pulsation of the blood in the whole body, especially
at the heart, aggravated by every motion, [1].
► Violent beating of blood at the
heart, and in the rest of the body, on every slight motion, [1]. ►
Tremulous sensation through the whole body, [1]. ► Shocks
at times through the whole body, as from fright or an electric shock,
during rest or motion, [1]. ► Dread of the open air, in the morning, [1]. ►
Pains return on beginning to walk, [1].
[990.] ►
The symptoms disappear while walking in the open air, [1].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Unhealthy
skin; every small injury suppurates, [1].
► Numerous red, itching spots over
the whole body, especially on the calves, lasting seven days
(twenty-fifth day), [4]. ►► *The skin of the hands is hard and
cracked in several places, [1].
► Spots here and there on the body,
like fleabites, [1]. ► *Cracking of the lower lip, [1]. ►
Eruptions, Dry. ► Small
pimples without sensation break out over the whole body at night, and
disappear in the morning, [4]. ► Red spot on the thigh, without any pain, [1]. ► *A
red, raw spot like a tetter on the upper part of the thigh, opposite the
scrotum, usually itching somewhat in the morning, [1]. ►
Eruption on the lip, [1]. [1000.] ►► *Eruption in the corner of the mouth,
[1]. ►
*Chin covered with eruption, [1].
► *Eruption on the penis, [1]. ►
Gritty eruption on the fingers, [1].
► Numerous red pimples on the thighs,
which, however, only itch a little, [1].
► Small white pimples on the upper
lip, [1]. ►
Hard white pimples on a red base, with some itching in both corners of
the mouth under the lips, [1]. ► Hard pimples painful to pressure behind
the right ear, for many days, [2].
►► *Itching pimples on the face,
becoming moist after scratching, [1]. ►
Papulous eruption on the upper lip, which first itches and then burns, [1]. [1010.]
► Papulous eruption in the left
nostril, which at first itches and then burns, [1]. ►
Papulous eruption on the nates, painful to touch, [1]. ►
Papulous eruption on the pudenda, with some itching, [1]. ► Eruptions,
Moist. ► *Vesicular eruption
on the prepuce, [1]. ► Vesicular eruption beneath the malleoli, [1]. ►
A scattered eruption, consisting of deeply seated pimples, painful to
pressure, which rapidly formed vesicles; these pimples appeared
exclusively on the posterior surface of the thighs and legs (after one
month), [6]. ►
A vesicle on the upper lip, with cutting pain, [1]. ► *A vesicle
on the little finger itches, suppurates, and discharges much matter,
with burning and sticking, which, like the suppuration, continued a long
time, [1]. ► A white blister on one toe, [4]. ►►
*Itching eruption full of corrosive water in many parts of the body,
for twelve hours, [4]. [1020.] ►
Some small pimples appear on the trunk and upper part of the thighs
(possibly caused by the warm weather, a not unusual symptom with me);
after three days, however, this eruption assumed a peculiar appearance,
the pimples increased to the size of a pin’s head, and became filled
with fluid at the tip, and were brownish yellow (during the latter part
of the proving), [6]. ► Much moist papulous eruption on the nose,
[1]. ►►
*Itching and moist eruption on the scrotum, [1]. ►
Erysipelas of the hands, [1]. ► *Erysipelas of both sides of the face,
burning-sticking pain, followed by catarrh, for one day, with
sticking in the gum (seventh and fourteenth days), [1]. ► A
tetter becomes an inflamed swelling for four days, [1]. ► (The
tetter behind the ears desquamates and becomes better), [2]. ► (A
tetter on the leg disappears), [2].
► *Numerous small red itching pimples
tipped with pus, which burn after scratching, and disappear
the next day, [4]. ► Small pustules on the chin and chest, [4]. [1030.]
► Large pustules, with sticking pains
on both little toes, [1]. ► Suppuration of the margins of both great
toes, [1]. ►
Several small boils on the neck, back, and arms, [1]. ► A boil
on the nates (after four days), [1].
► An ulcer on the fourth toe, [1]. ►
Scaly ulcer upon the tibia, with red inflamed border, and surrounded by
swelling; it is so sensitive that at night the bed-covering cannot be
endured, [1]. ► *Proud flesh in ulcers, [1]. ►
Offensive odor from an ulcer (after twenty days), [1]. ► The
scab of an ulcer smells like herring-brine, [1]. ►
Numerous boils on the neck, which disfigure it like a large goitre,
disappearing after some days, [1].
► Subjective. [1040.] ►
Itching of the whole body, and after scratching small pimples, which
contain water (seventeenth day), [4].
► *The itching becomes general and very
violent, even on the face and genitals, [1]. ► A
momentary, corrosive itching here and there, which provokes scratching, [1]. ►
Burning pain in old scars from ulcers, [1].
► Pressure and sticking in an ulcer
(third day), [1]. ► Itching pressure in an ulcer (after fifth
day), [1]. ►
Tearing in an ulcer (fifth day), [1].
► *Painful soreness between the pudendum
and thigh, covered with pimples, vesicles, and ulcers, [1]. ►
An ulcer becomes exceedingly sensitive, [1].
► Smarting of the limbs covered with
tetter, [1]. [1050.] ►
Painful smarting all over the hands; on moving the fingers the skin
cracks, [1]. ►
Tingling of the feet towards the toes, like a slight tearing (after
fifth day), [1]. ► Formication on the back, [1]. ► Itching
of the right temple, very violent, with burning after scratching, [2]. ►
Itching of the lobules of the ears and of the cheeks; after scratching
lymph exudes, which hardens on these places, [1]. ► *Itching
behind the ears, [1]. ► Itching of the back and arms, during the
day, [1]. ►
*Itching on the scrotum, [1].
► Itching of the balls of the left
hand, [1]. ►
Itching on the leg where the veins were swollen, [1]. [1060.] ► Itching in the swollen varices of the
limbs, [1]. ►
Itching of all the toes, [1]. ► Violent itching on the coccyx, above the
anus, with moisture and formation of a scurfy place, [1]. ►
Sticking itching on the thigh, as if an eruption would break out in the
place of a previous boil, [1]. ► Sticking itching in the right great toe, [4]. ►
Frequent sticking itching, like fleabites, transiently relieved by
rubbing, in a mole, [1].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Frequent
yawning (after one hour), [1]. ► Inclined to stretch and yawn without
being able to stretch enough (after two days), [1]. ►
Sleepiness during the day, with great weariness (after eleven days), [1]. ►
Sleepiness after the midday meal, [1]. [1070.] ► Great sleepiness during the day, so
that he must lie down, [1]. ► Very sleepy toward noon, [1]. ► Falls
asleep very early in the evening, with great weariness, [1]. ►
Sleeplessness. ► Restless
nights, with heat (after twelve days), [1].
► Restless nights, with heat of the
whole body (first week), [4]. ► Restless at night, with anxious dreams, [1]. ►
Restless night; she lies awake up to midnight, and can only fall asleep
about 2 o’clock, [4]. ► She is unable to fall asleep before 2
A.M., [4]. ►
Frequent waking at night, [4]. ► Frequent waking at night, as in slumber
(fifteenth day), [1]. [1080.] ►
Frequent waking, as from fright, [1].
► Too early waking, [1]. ► Waking
at 2 A.M., for several nights, with great uneasiness, [1]. ► She
awoke about 3 A.M.; could not fall asleep again for two hours and awoke
at 7, dizzy and tired, [1]. ► Frequent starting up in sleep, [4]. ►
Anxious talking in sleep, [1]. ► Dreams. ►
Constant dreamy nights, [4]. ► Vivid dream, remembered for a long time, [1]. ►
Very vivid dreams, [1]. ► Sleep disturbed by dreams, [1]. [1090.]
► Voluptuous dreams (third day), [4]. ►
She dreams only what she has seen and thought of during the day, [1]. ►
Numerous dreams, with distorted images, in relation to
everything which had happened to her during the last two days, [1]. ►
Dreams fatiguing the head, [1]. ► Dreams full of trouble, [1]. ► Dreams
of unpleasant things which had occurred during the day, on account of
which she awoke with anxiety, [1].
► Anxious dreams, from which
she awakes with anxiety or fright, [4].
► Anxious dreams, so that on waking
she was quite beside herself, [1].
► Very vivid, anxious dreams, [1]. ►
Anxious dreams, which took away her breath; she cried out, and lay in
perspiration, [1]. [1100.] ► Anxious dream, of numberless dogs and
cats, with loud talking (twenty-second day), [6]. ► Anxious
dreams of lethargy and loss of consciousness; afterwards very difficult
waking from deep sleep, with stiffness of the cervical muscles, [1]. ►
Peevish dreams, [1]. ► Peevish dreams, with moaning and groaning
in sleep, [1]. ► Peevish, anxious dreams, [1]. ► Frightful
dreams (fifth day), [1].
► Anxious, frightful dreams, [1]. ►
Frightful dreams, with danger from water, [4].
► Dream of fire, [1]. ► Dreams
of dead people (second night), [1];
(twenty-ninth day), [4].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. [1110.] ► Chilliness the whole day and at night; no
sleep on account of chilliness, [1].
► Chilliness in the morning in bed,
[1]. ►
Chilliness, in the morning in bed, for several mornings in succession, [1]. ►
Chilliness for several days before the midday meal, [1]. ►
Chilliness from 4 P.M. till in the evening after falling asleep
(twenty-fourth day), [4]. ► Chilliness in the evening before going to
sleep, followed by itching, [1]. ► Chilliness during the day, when lying
down to sleep, [1]. ► Chilliness during menstruation, [1]. ►
Immediately after menstruation, chilliness, cutting pain in the abdomen,
followed by diarrhœa, [1]. ► Much chilliness, with cold hands and
feet, [5]. [1120.] ►
Much chilliness and shivering, especially coldness of the hands and
feet, [1]. ►
Violent febrile chilliness, in the morning and evening, then heat,
followed by sweat, [1]. ► Coldness and shivering over the whole
body after breakfast, [1]. ► Coldness of the whole body, after 5 P.M.,
with icy-cold feet, [1]. ► The child complained of coldness for half
an hour every evening, [1]. ► Sudden coldness all over, [1]. ► Feeling
of coldness, as from want of blood, [1].
► Feeling of coldness and chilliness,
with ringing in the ears (after a quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Cold
shivers before and after eating, then anxious hoarseness in the evening
for an hour and a half, [1]. ► Febrile shivers in the evening, with
sticking pain in the temples, left ear, and teeth, followed by sweat at
night, [1]. [1130.] ►
Violent fever; he was unable to get warm, even in the evening, in the
warm bed; violent thirst the whole evening and night; after midnight,
profuse perspiration, lasting till morning; with the chilliness in the
evening, headache and tearing in all the limbs, with coated tongue
(thirty-sixth hour), [1]. ► Daily intermittent fever, shaking chill
in the evening, followed after an hour by heat of the face and cold
feet, without subsequent sweat, [1].
► At night, chilliness and drawing
pain in the limb, which awoke him, followed by sticking pain above the
left breast and in the left side on every inspiration, [1]. ► Cold
hands and feet, the whole day, in warm weather, [5]. ► Cold
hands and feet, in the evening, with heat of the face (sixth day), [5]. ►
Cold feet (after a few hours), [1].
► The legs become suddenly cold after
coition, [1]. ► Icy-cold feet the whole morning, [1]. ►
Sometimes her feet are icy cold, again quite
burning, [8]. ► Shivering in the back, in the forenoon,
with frequent yawning and inclination to sleep, [1]. [1140.] ► Shivering in the right limb after the
midday meal, [1]. ► Feverish shivers in the back several
evenings, [1]. ► Heat. ►
At night heat, and in the morning, on waking, orgasm of blood, [1]. ►
He was unable to remain in bed at night on account of heat (fifth day), [1]. ►
Is unable to sleep before midnight, on account of heat and anxiety, [1]. ►
Becomes heated from riding in a wagon, [1].
► Heat while sitting, frequently
attacking him suddenly, sometimes with anxiety (seventeenth day), [1]. ►
The whole body became burning hot, and he perspired all over,
immediately after coition, [1]. ► Dry heat of the whole body, in the
evening, lasting a quarter of an hour, [4].
► Dry heat every evening and through
the night till morning, with headache on the vertex and in the nape of
the neck, lasting till noon (seventeenth day), [1]. [1150.] ► Hot hands, and heat and burning of the
soles of the feet, so that she was almost unable to step, immediately, [1]. ►
Sweat. ► Perspiration all
over from an earnest conversation (after seven days), [1]. ►
Perspiration, even on slight motion, in a person who usually
never perspired (after four days), [1].
► Perspiration, even after a short
walk, which colors the linen yellow, with exhaustion, [1]. ► Sweat
some mornings in bed, [1]. ► Night-sweat for several nights (removed
by wine), [1]. ► Perspiration while eating, [1]. ► Profuse
perspiration (thirty-fifth night); this perspiration seemed to occur
without any cause, and although I was frequently awakened by cramps in
the calves, it continued so great that in the morning not only the hair
of the head, but the bed along the whole length of the body, was
decidedly moist, [6]. ► Sour-smelling perspiration, [1]. ►
She perspires much, a very sour, offensive sweat at night, [8].
[1160.] ►
*Very offensive exhalations from the body, [1]. ► Sweat
of the head while falling asleep, [1].
► Perspiration on the sternum every
morning, [1]. ► Sweat of the feet, most profuse in the
afternoon and evening, [1]. ► Sweat of the feet, in the evening,
with tearing in the feet and hands (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Profuse
sweat on the feet; they begin to smell, [1]. ► Profuse
sweat of the feet; they become sore, especially between the toes, so
that he frequently does not know what to do with himself on account of
the pain, [1]. ► Profuse sweat of the feet, when walking a
little distance, which makes the toes sore, [1].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Irritable, etc.; confusion of head; on waking, vertigo; stupid in head; on waking, headache; tearing in head; in bed,
while half asleep, dull headache; in bed, pain in temple; in bed,
one-sided headache; burning in eyes; after waking, beating in ear; small
in nose; after rising, swelling of sides of face; on stooping, saliva runs from mouth; after eating or
drinking, water comes into the mouth; mucus in mouth; after rising,
taste in mouth; on rising, pain in throat; thirst; after rising,
hiccough; during menstruation, nausea, immediately after rising, nausea;
after rising, nausea, etc.; qualmishness, etc.; pressure in pit of
stomach; immediately after rising, stitches in hypochondrium; in bed,
and for some time after rising, rumbling in abdomen; colic; in bed,
cutting in anus; in bed, urging to urinate; after rising from bed,
leucorrhœa; on rising, especially on inspiration, oppression of chest;
in bed, pulsation in heart; on rising, backache; tearing in thigh; in
bed, pain in knees; in bed, cramp in calves; during first hours after
rising, pain in malleoli; burning of the heels; trembling; after rising,
pain in whole body; dread of open
air; in bed, chilliness; after
breakfast, coldness; cold feet; in bed, sweat; sweat on sternum. ► (Forenoon),
Pain in forehead; pain in stomach; chilliness; shivering in back, etc. ► (Noon),
Nausea, etc. ► (Afternoon), Hypochondriac; bitter taste in
mouth; nausea, etc., tearing in thighs; sweat of feet. ► (Evening),
Anxiety; depressed mood; while walking, reeling, etc.; during
menstruation, headache; pain in head; after eating, stitches in ear;
when eating cracking in ear; in bed, screaming in ears; nosebleed; in
bed, tearing in zygoma; while sitting, leaning backward, toothache;
swelling of the gum; hiccough; in bed, nausea; fulness, etc.; in
abdomen; in bed, tickling in larynx; hoarseness; on lying down, cough;
dyspnœa; after lying down, when lying on left side, throbbing in region
of heart; jerking in the limbs; in bed, jerkings in the arms; before
going to sleep, chilliness; after 5 o’clock, coldness; shaking chill;
cold hands, etc.; shivers in back; dry heat. ►
(Night), Raving; anxiety; after
lying down, thoughts full of care; headache; roaring
in ears, etc., nosebleed; smell in nose; toothache; pain in
teeth, etc.; dryness of mouth, etc.; eructations; waterbrash;
inclination to vomit; pressure in pit of stomach; on waking, beating
beneath short ribs; pain in abdomen; fulness, etc., in lower abdomen;
frequent micturition; dragging to urinate, etc.; attacks of suffocation;
sticking in shoulder, etc.; in bed, sticking in thigh; pain in knees;
cramp in calves; during sleep, jerkings; pimply eruption; chilliness,
etc.; heat; sweat. ► (Open air),
Lachrymation; stitches in back
tooth; pains in lower extremity. ► (Walking in open air), Cutting colic;
dyspnœa; pressure in chest; pain in ankle; exhaustion. ► (Ascending),
Pains in chest, etc. ► (Blowing nose), Stitches in leg. ► (After breakfast),
Acidity in mouth. ► (Candlelight), Burning in eyes. ► (Chewing),
Toothache. ► (At commencement of coition), Cramp in calf. ► (During coition),
Noise in ears. ► (After coition), Weakness; coldness of legs;
heat, etc. ► (After dinner), Warmth in head; hiccough;
weakness. ► (After
drinking), Rumbling in abdomen. ►
(Eating), Headache; beating in ear;
pain in teeth; pain in stomach; pressure in stomach; distension in
abdomen; colic; stiffness, etc., in sore foot; perspiration. ► (After eating
and drinking), Sour taste; gnawing in stomach. ► (Inspiration),
Pain in lower abdomen; throbbing in left chest. ►
(Looking up), Vertigo. ► (Lying down in
bed), Pain in teeth. ► (Lying down to sleep in daytime), Chilliness. ► (Lying on right
side), Pain in right chest. ►
(After meals), Hiccough; heartburn;
qualmishness, etc. ► (After midday meal), Sleepiness;
shivering in limb. ► (Motion), Pressure in forehead; stitches in
hypochondrium; pains in side; pulsation all over; beating of blood at
heart, etc. ► (Moving head), Headache. ►
(Moving arm), Tearing in
shoulder-joint. ► (Rest), Drawing in elbow-joint; tearing in
thumb-joint; especially when falling asleep, pain in bones. ► (Riding),
Headache. ► (Riding
horseback), Pains in chest. ►
(Rising), Drawing in calves. ► (Rising from
sitting), Pain in thigh. ►
(Sitting), Burning in hypochondrium;
jerkings in pelvic muscles; pain in chest; pressure on left chest; stiff
feeling in knees. ► (Stepping), Pain in side of lower abdomen. ► (After stool),
Tympanites. ► (Stooping), Vertigo, etc.; beating in ear;
bubbling in ear. ► (Stretching out body), Pain in inguinal
region. ► (Touch),
Pressure in teeth; pain in small of back. ►
(Walking), Pain in occiput; colic;
pain in knee-joint; burning of soles of feet; tearing in ball of foot. ► (Walking in wind),
Pain in back teeth. ► (Warmth), Pain in all teeth. ► (Yawning),
Pains in chest. ► Amelioration.
► (Night),
Cough. ► (Walking
in open air), Uneasiness; indolence; the symptoms. ► (Drinking),
Pain in stomach. ► (Eating), Pain in stomach. ► (Lying),
Pain in occiput; in bed, pressure on left chest. ►
(Motion), Burning in hypochondrium;
pain in back, during menstruation; backache. ►
(Pressure), Colic. ► (Riding in wagon),
Hardness of hearing. ► (In room), Pain in ankle. ► (Standing),
Pressure on left chest. ► (Stooping), Pain in inguinal regions. ► (External warmth),
Tearing in shoulder. ► (Lying in warm bed), Pressure in stomach.® 2000
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