HAMAMELIS.
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Had my teeth
examined by a dentist; he could not find any decayed, or gums inflamed
(fifth day), [15]. ► Pain along the teeth on the right side
(seventh day), [15]. ► Pain in right molar teeth of upper jaw
(fifteenth day), [14]. ► Sharp lancinating pain along the molar
teeth, extending up to the malar bone, also into the region of the
temporal (sixth day), [15]. ► Severe stinging and throbbing pain in
right molar teeth, experienced before commencing the proving, has been
much worse since taking the medicine (fourth day); pain continued,
aggravated by going into a warm room, or on getting warm in bed; the
pain became so intense that he took Belladonna, [200] to relieve it, without avail; Pulsatilla [200] ameliorated the pain (fifth day), [22]. ►
Some soreness about the upper wisdom tooth of the right side (eighth
day), [15]. ► Gums. ►
Gums bleed easily (eleventh day), [12].
[200.] ►
Soreness of gums of upper jaw at 10 P.M. (tenth day), [14]. ► Gums
sore and swollen (fifteenth day), [14].
► For the past week his gum has been
very sore and painful from the pushing through of last molar tooth on
lower right jaw, which had stopped, apparently, for some time, without
making any headway (thirty-first day), [13].
► Very painful canker sore at median
line of upper jaw where the lips join it (thirteenth day), [14]. ►
Tongue. ► Papillæ on
tongue much enlarged, especially near the root (ninth day), [14]. ►
Tongue coated, and a “brassy” taste in mouth (fourteenth day),
[14]. ►
Tongue coated with brownish-white mucus at 8 A.M. (tenth and eleventh
days), [14]. ►
Tongue coated white (fifteenth day), [14].
► Tongue coated white in the morning
(fourth day), [15]. ► Tongue coated slightly with a whitish fur
(twenty-first day), [14]. [210.] ►
Tongue clean, but not so red in middle as usual (fourth day), [11]. ►
Tongue clean and pale (fifteenth day), [14].
► Tongue paler than usual (twelfth
day), [11]; (sixteenth day), [13]. ►
Tongue is perhaps paler than usual (eighth day), [14]. ► The
tongue has two blisters on the right side; they are very troublesome
(fifth and sixth days), [9a]. ► Canker spots near end of tongue (eighth
day), [14]. ►
Scalding sensation on tongue, just beyond the tip, continuing until
retiring (second and third day); remaining (fourth day), [13]. ► Taste.
► Flat, rough taste (sixth day), [9a]. ►
Bad taste in the mouth (fourth day), [15].
► Putrid taste (sixth day), [24]. [220.]
► Taste of what has been eaten rising
up to the pharynx three or four hours after eating (seventeenth day), [13].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Throat and
tongue reddened, but flabby, in the evening (twenty-second day), [14]. ►
Hawks up considerable (ninth day), [11].
► Raised some mucus from throat
(twelfth day), [14]. ► Still has coryza; for the last four or
five days, been hawking up from throat matter which should come from
nostrils (eighth day), [11]. ► Subjective. ►
Dryness of throat, with thirst, causing him to drink large quantities of
water at short intervals (third day), [21].
► Great dryness of throat and lips
(twenty-third day), [14]. ► Great desire to drink water from
excessive dryness of throat (second day), [14].
► Dry feeling in throat at 9 P.M.
(second day); momentarily relieved by cold water in the evening; more
severe than yesterday (third day); after 8 P.M. (fourth day); also
(fifth and sixth days), [13]. ► Throat begins to feel dry at 3 P.M.;
throat dryer, and slight burning, at 4 P.M., increasing in extent till
midnight. uvula fallen; difficulty in talking (third day); hoarse on
arising; dry feeling remaining; burning feeling almost gone (fourth
day), [12]. [230.] ►
Throat dry, rendering it necessary to drink large quantities of water to
assist in deglutition, in the morning (eleventh day), [14]. ► Dry,
thirst feeling of the throat, which water would not relieve, lasting
full twenty-four hours, [7]. ► Throat very dry all night, with a feeling
as if something had lodged there; compelled to swallow every few
minutes, which produced dull pains in the tonsils (fourth night); very
painful when swallowing food; fauces very much congested, and the
tonsils slightly swollen, in the morning (fifth day), [9a]. ► Every
inhalation seems to dry up mucous membrane of throat and fauces (fifth
day), [24]. ►
Throat very painful (fifth day), [9a].
► Sore throat; worse on the right
side (after two months), [28]. ► Throat sore in the evening (twenty-second
day), [14]. ►
Throat slightly sore, causing pain in effort of swallowing, about 10
A.M., continuing all day (second day); increased at 8.30 A.M. (third
day); slight better on rising; almost entirely disappearing by evening
(fourth day), [21]. ► Throat slightly sore; tonsils swollen and
inflamed, the left more than the right (eighth day); tonsils swollen,
but not so red as last night, right swollen more than left, swollen
enough to cause a slight feeling of rawness on swallowing (ninth day), [14]. ►
Throat feels very sore (fourth day), [24].
[240.] ►
Very sore throat, particularly fauces (fifth day), [24]. ►
Rawness in the throat (third day), [15].
► Rawness in the throat and fauces in
the evening (first day), [15]. ► Her throat gives her more trouble in the
morning and evening (after more than two months), [18]. ► Uvula and
Tonsils. ► Severe stinging
pain in uvula, as if it would break off, every time he coughs (sixth
day), [24]. ►
Tonsils much reddened, and veins and vessels on surface enlarged;
several spots as of ulceration on left tonsil; at 8 A.M. (tenth day), [14]. ►
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ►
Severe congestion of the fauces and tonsils; deglutition is very painful
(sixth day), [9a]. ► Dryness of the fauces (fourth day), [9a]. ►
During the day dryness of the fauces, with increased thirst, and
corresponding desire to urinate (fifth day), [14]. ► Fauces
dry and inflamed (fifteenth day), [14].
[250.] ►
Feeling all day as if something had lodged in the fauces, which produced
a constant inclination to swallow (fourth day), [9a]. ►
Rawness of the fauces (first day); better (second day), [16]. ►
Feeling of rawness in the fauces, immediately, [17]. ►
Disagreeable sensations in pharynx and œsophagus, extending to the
stomach, with feeling of distress (twenty-eighth day), [13]. ► Dull
pressive distress in the pharynx, and roughness of the fauces (after
nine hours, third day), [9a]. ► Slight pain on swallowing at 10 P.M.
(eleventh day), [14]. ► External Throat. ► Slight pain in right side of neck, along
the course of the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle; worse in morning and
when moving it (second day), [20].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► During all
this time appetite good and health averaging better than usual
(forty-ninth day), [27]. ► Increased desire to smoke; wants to do
nothing but smoke and to be along (third day), [24]. ► The
desire for smoking is increased, but smoking greatly aggravates all the
symptoms (third day), [24]. [260.] ►
Little appetite at breakfast, but drank large quantities of water (ninth
day), [14]. ►
No appetite for breakfast (twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third
days), [14]. ► Thirst. ►
More thirsty than usual, about 6 P.M. (eighth day), [21]. ►
Thirst, towards evening (second day), [20].
► Thirst in evening (twenty-seventh
day), [13]. ►
Considerable thirst (seventh day); increased but not satisfied by drink
(eighth day), [14]. ► Considerable thirst, but relieved by
drinking small quantities of water (twenty-first day), [14]. ► Thirst
great (tenth and twelfth days), [14].
► Very thirsty, drinking large
quantities of water, at 7 P.M. (fourteenth and fifteenth days); very
thirsty in afternoon and evening (seventeenth day); in evening
(nineteenth day), [13]. ► No thirst during entire time, [24]. [270.]
► Aversion to water; makes him sick
to think of it (sixth day), [18]. ► Eructations and Hiccough. ► Eructations (twenty-eighth day), [13]. ►
Eructations, two hours after eating (twentieth day), [12]. ►
Eructations in the evening (twenty-seventh day), [12]. ►
Eructations three or four hours after meals, at night (twenty-sixth
day), [12]. ►
Eructations after tea (seventh and eighth days), [13]. ►
Frequent eructations, lasting some time (twenty-seventh day), [13]. ►
Spasmodic eructations and hiccoughs (twenty-first day), [13]. ►
Eructations tasting of what had been eaten (third day), [13]. ►
Unusual taste of eructations in morning (twenty-ninth day), [12]. [280.]
► Belchings of wind, [30]. ►
Hiccoughs, [30]. ► Violent hiccough at 6 P.M., four hours
after eating (second day), [13]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea, [30].
► Nausea for two hours after taking, [28]. ►
Woke up with a nauseous feeling and severe headache in frontal bone
(thirteenth day), [13]. ► Nausea, after eating (twenty-sixth day), [13]. ►
Nausea, after eating; must keep quiet after eating (twenty-first day), [13]. ►
Nausea after eating, has to keep very quiet to prevent vomiting up what
has just been eaten (ninth day); qualmishness after eating (tenth day);
very qualmish after eating pork; eructations and a constant dread of
vomiting (eleventh day); nausea after eating, in less than half an hour
(twelfth day); qualmish feeling; tendency to vomit after every meal
(thirteenth day), [11]. ► Nausea and feeling as if he was going to
vomit, at 9.30 A.M., one hour after eating, and lasting an hour (second
day), [12]. [290.] ►
Nausea and eructations after dinner; has to remain quiet for two hours
without even reading, to avoid vomiting; even then has eructations and
heartburn (twenty-third day); nausea after eating (twenty-fourth day);
nausea and eructations after (twenty-fifth day), [12]. ► After
eating pork for dinner, nausea, eructations, and violent hiccough;
afterwards burning pain in stomach and œsophagus, and two hours after
cramp pains in stomach and chest (nineteenth day), [12]. ► Nausea
and inclination to vomit, at 11 P.M. (sixth day), [11]. ► Nausea
and vertigo, compelling him to lie down to avoid falling; immediately
(twelfth day), [13]. ► Slight nausea (sixth day), [24]. ► Sick
at her stomach, with dizziness and desire to lie down (second day), [29]. ►
Desire to vomit (fourteenth day); at 8 P.M. (twelfth day), [14]. ►
Ate some plums for supper; they soured on my stomach and I had to vomit
them up before midnight (second day), [9].
► Stomach. ► Distension of stomach by wind, [30]. ►
Gastric troubles, [30]. [300.] ►
Stomach disordered (forty-ninth day), [27].
► Empty gone feeling at pit of
stomach, on rising at 8.30 P.M. (eighteenth day), [13]. ► Pains
from injudicious eating (forty-ninth day), [27]. ►
Constant burning distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and
umbilicus, lasting four hours (first day), [9a]. ► Cramps
in stomach and transverse colon for a few minutes, two hours after a
hearty dinner, but eating no unusual food (twenty-ninth day), [12]. ►
Cramp-pains in stomach, [30]. ► Cramp-pains in stomach and stitches in
lower part of lungs, after eating, the day after taking the medicine, [27]. ►
Sensation of heaviness back of the stomach, but not so severe as in the
former proving, [25]. ► Sensation of heavy weight at back of
stomach (second day); increased (fourth day), [24]. ► Sharp
pains in the stomach (fifth day), [9a].
[310.] ►
Violent throbbings in stomach, [30].
► His dyspepsia is better (was put
upon a plain diet during proving); had never been so well, nor took so
few colds in winter before (after eighty days), [27].
ABDOMEN.
►
Umbilical. ► Distress in
the umbilicus, lasting all day (after one hour, first day), [9]. ►
Cramp pain in umbilical region (thirty-third day), [13]. ► Cramp
pains in umbilical region, continuing a short time after rising
(twenty-third day), [13]. ► Griping pain in umbilical region slightly
felt, at 7 A.M. (twelfth day), [13].
► Slight griping in umbilical region
just before dinner (fourth day); at 10 P.M. (eleventh day), [13]. ►
General Abdomen. ► A great
deal of flatulence, with tenderness of the abdomen, not increased by
pressure, in the evening (fifth day), [14].
► Discharge of flatulence (second
day), [22]. ►
Distress in the bowels (sixth day), [9a].
[320.] ►
Slight distress in the bowels (third morning), [9a]. ► Pain
in abdomen, morning and evening (twenty-fifth day), [13]. ► Slight
pain in the bowels (fourth day), [9a].
► Slight griping after breakfast
(twelfth day), [11]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ► Dull pains in the right hypogastrium
(after nine hours, third day), [9a].
► Pain in the groin, [30]. ►
Drawing pains in the groins, passing down to the testicles (fifth day), [9a].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Pulsations in rectum, as if piles would protrude (twenty-third day), [13]. ►
Pulsations in rectum, when lying in a half recumbent position
(twenty-sixth day), [12]. ► Pulsations in rectum and penis plainly
felt, and synchronous with radial pulse (twenty-ninth day), [13]. [330.]
► Spasmodic contraction of sphincter
ani (seventh day), [24]. ► Itching at anus (twenty-seventh day), [13]. ►
Slight itching of the anus (sixth day), [14].
► Urging to stool (twentieth day), [13]; at 7.30 A.M. (fifth day); at 7.30
A.M. and the afternoon (sixth day), [11].
► Urging to stool, with much
flatulence, at 8.30 P.M. (ninth day), [14].
► Urging to stool at 5.30 and 8 A.M.
and 1.30 and 6.30 P.M., with stool at 6 A.M. and 1.30 P.M. (seventeenth
day), [13]. ►
Urging to stool, with easy passage of large stool in morning afternoon
(fifteenth day), [13]. ► Desire for stool, but cannot accomplish
it with the greatest effort (after four hours, first day), [9a]. ►
A constant desire to evacuate the bowels, together with peculiar
sensations around the anus, as in piles (sixth day); similar desire to
evacuate the bowels, but on endeavoring to have a passage was
unsuccessful (seventh day), [14].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa,
lasting two days, probably caused by change of water (twenty-first day),
[26]. [340.]
► Soft stool (first night), [9]. ►
Soft stool covered with slimy mucus, with distress in the bowels, at 6
A.M. (fourth day), [9a]. ► Stool natural, consistent, but covered
with mucus (third morning), [9a]. ► Stool slightly covered with mucus (fifth
day), [11]. ► Constipation. ►
Bowels slightly constipated, no passage (third day), [11]. ► Bowels
costive (fifth day), [18]. ► Operation at 9 P.M., costive, fæces dark
(tenth day), [14]. ► Bowels rather costive (twenty-first day),
[14]. ►
Operation rather costive, twenty-first day and at 10 P.M. (eighth day), [14]. ►
Bowels rather costive fæces dark and slimy, at 8.30 P.M. (ninth day), [14].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. [350.] ► Great desire to urinate (twenty-first
day), [14]. ►
Great desire to urinate, but pass but little water; it comes away in
drops (third day), [18]. ► (When putting up medicine a great desire
to urinate was felt, but if the prover sat down, or turned his attention
to something else, the desire passed away, to return as soon as he again
poured out medicine or anything liquid (eighth and ninth days); the
desire to urinate caused by pouring water should not be attributed to
the proving, as the prover was informed that his predecessor experienced
the same feeling when dispensing medicine, but the desire was
undoubtedly aggravated by the medicine), [14].
► Frequent inclination to urinate
(seventh day), [9a]. ► Frequent urination during the day
(nineteenth and twentieth days), [13].
► Micturition. ► Increased urination; urine pale (first
night and second day), [15]. ► Urinates too often, with continual desire
to pass water (second day), [23]. ► Urine clear and copious (seventeenth
day), [13]. ►
Flow of large quantities of urine, with frequent desire to urinate
(second day), [19]. ► Acts upon the kidneys more when lying
down, compelling her to rise fifteen to thirty minutes afterwards to
pass urine in large quantities, [30].
[360.] ►
Profuse urination, but only little at a time; seems that bladder fills
up very quickly; urine light-colored (fifth day), [24]. ► Urine
very profuse; notice also in vessel greasy deposit, which sinks to
bottom of vessel, rising to top when shaken, looking like laudable pus;
urine light in color (seventh day), [24].
► Urine clear, saltish (fourth day), [11].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Erections continue
(fifteenth day), [18]. ► Erection, but no emission (second and
fifth nights), [15]. ► Stitching in glans penis (twenty-seventh
day), [13]. ►
Pulsations in glans penis felt several times in course of day (twentieth
day), [13]. ►
Tingling in glans penis (seventeenth day), [13]. ► *Severe
dull pains in the testicles a number of times through the
day, with distress in the bowels (sixth day), [9a]. ► *Frequent
dull pains in the testicles all day (seventh day), [9a]. [370.]
► *Dull aching pains in both testicles
(after three hours, second day), [9a].
► *Severe drawing pains in both testicles
(after three hours, second day), [9a].
► *Such excruciating pains in the
testicles that I was compelled to stop the evening, [9b]. ►►
*Some pain running down the spermatic cords into the testes
(fifth night), [15]. ► Great desire for an embrace (fifth day), [18]. ►
Sexual dream, with an emission (third night), [9a]. ► Sexual
dream, with and involuntary emission, followed by great weariness and
severe dull pain in the loins (first night), [9]. ► Sexual
dream, but no emission (first night), [9a].
► An emission (fourth night), [18]. ►
Nocturnal emission and dreams; emission caused by dreams (second night),
[27]. [380.]
► Emission while dreaming (fourteenth
night); at night (thirty-fifth, fortieth, forty-second, and forty-ninth
days); lass frequently (after eighty days); when well would have had an
emission every five or six weeks; during the proving oftener than once a
week on an average, [27]. ► Seminal emission without erection, with
consciousness (twenty-seventh day), [13].
► Seminal emission without sensual
dreams during night (fourth day), [22].
► Seminal emission, but not conscious
of the fact at the time (first night), [14].
► Seminal emission during night,
without being aware of it, or amorous dreams (sixth night), [12]. ►
Seminal emission without dreams (fourth and fifth nights), of which he
was unconscious till morning, [21].
► Has an erection without desire, on
retiring (twenty-ninth night); but on awakening in morning discovered he
had an emission, [13]. ► Two emissions, with an incessant desire
for an embrace; erections quite frequent; continues off and on all day
(twelfth night); an other emission (thirteenth night), [18]. ► Female.
►► *Active uterine hæmorrhage,
which alarmed her very much, but which ceased in a few hours after
discontinuing the medicine, [4]. ► *She had been flowing considerably for
twenty-four hours and had lost over a quart of blood, bright and fresh,
not coagulable, unlike her usual catamenia discharge, which
was dark and coagulated generally (after two days); this happened about
midway between two menstrual periods; gave Sacch. lac., and the
hæmorrhage ceased in a few hours, [2].® 2000
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