Thuja.
Thuja occidentalis. Arbor Vitć. N. O. Coniferć (Tribe, Cupressineć).
Tincture of the fresh green twigs.Clinical.─
Abdomen,
distended. Abortion. Angina pectoris. Anus, fistula in; fissure of. Asthma.
Balanitis. Cancer. Catalepsy. Chorea. Clavus. Condylomata. Constipation. Convulsions. Coxalgia. Diarrhśa.
Disparunia. Dysmenorrhśa. Ear, polypus of. Enuresis.
Epilepsy. Epulis. Eyes, tumours of; granular inflammation of.
Fatty tumours. Feet, fetid. Flatus, incarcerated. Frontal sinuses, catarrh of. Ganglion. Gleet. Gonorrhśa. Hćmorrhage. Hćmorrhoids. Hair, affections
of. Headache. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Ichthyosis.
Intussusception. Jaws, growth on. Joints, cracking in.
Levitation. Morvan’s disease. Mucous patches. Muscć
volitantes. Myopia. Nćvus. Neck, cracking in. Onanism. Ovary, left, pain in. Ozćna.
Neuralgia. Nose, chronic catarrh of; polypus of. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Polypus. Post-nasal catarrh. Pregnancy, imaginary. Prostate, disease of. Ptosis. Ranula.
Rheumatism, gonorrhśal. Rickets. Sciatica. Seminal emissions, nocturnal.
Sycosis. Syphilis. Tea, effects of. Teeth, caries of.
Tongue, ulcers of; biting of. Toothache. Tumours. Vaccination.
Vaccinosis. Vaginismus. Warts. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.─
The American Arbor Vitć is a
“spiry evergreen attaining a height of from 20 to 50 feet, though generally not above
40, and a diameter of about 10 to 20 feet through the greatest breadth of foliage.” It
abounds in the upper zones of North America, from Pennsylvania northwards, where it
“often forms what are commonly known as cedar-swamps. It grows upon the rocky banks of
rivers, and in low, swampy spots, blossoming from May until June and maturing its fruit in
autumn. The Arbor Vitć assumes a conical form with such true lines as to appear ‘clipped,’
thus forming one of our most valued high-hedge trees” (Millspaugh). Thuja was introduced to France from Canada in the reign of
Francis I. of France, and it has now an honoured place in most of our gardens and
shrubberies. The native habitat of Thuja is not without
its importance in relation to therapeutics. It loves swamps; it is Hahnemann’s typical
antisycotic and Grauvogl’s hydrogenoid. Thuja is one of
Hahnemann’s discoveries. Most of the remedies of his materia medica had been known in a
fashion before his time. Of the therapeutic properties of Thuja
practically nothing was known till Hahnemann proved it. Subsequent observers have only
confirmed or added to Hahnemann’s pathogenesis. Hahnemann found in Thuja
the antidote to the miasm of the condition which he termed Sycosis,
meaning thereby the constitutional disease resulting from constitutional gonorrhśa, and
having as its characteristic manifestation excrescences, sometimes dry in the form of warts,
more frequently soft, spongy, emitting a fetid fluid with a sweetish odour something like
herring brine, bleeding readily and having the coxcomb or cauliflower form. Teste remarks
that in the period when the doctrine of Signatures prevailed the “resinous callosities
of the stems and leaves of Thuja occ. might have seemed
an indication that the plant was the specific for sycosis and warts.” Teste dismisses
this idea, but he asks whether resinous substances which have the power of modifying
vegetable juices in a peculiar way may not affect the animal fluids in the same manner. He
includes Castor. in his Thuja
group, and gives an instance in which it acted on fig-warts. Castor.
is the product of an animal which subsists on the bark of resinous trees.─Hering
gives this as the action of Thuja (1) on the fluids: “dissolution of fluids of the body, which
become acrid, probably caused by Thuja perverting
lymphatic secretions; disturbs digestion and sanguification”; and this (2) in the vegetative sphere: “A surplus of producing life;
nearly unlimited proliferation of pathological vegetations, condylomata, warty sycotic
excrescences, spongy tumours, and spongy pock exudates [which] organise hastily; all morbid
manifestations are excessive, but appear quietly, so that the beginning of the diseased
state is scarcely known.” Bśnninghausen found Thuja
both preventive and curative in an epidemic of small-pox. It aborted the process and
prevented pitting. In veterinary practice Thuja has
proved curative in farcy and in “grease.” These facts open up another great branch
of Thuja’s homśopathicity─its
anti-vaccinal action. This extension was made by Kunkel and Goullon following on
Bśnninghausen’s experience with small-pox. On this subject no one has written more forcibly
or lucidly than Burnett (Vaccinosis and its Cure by Thuja).
“Arbor Vitć: nomen omen,” says Burnett on his
title-page. And in his hands Thuja has proved indeed a
tree of life to numberless sufferers from the vaccinal taint. By “vaccinosis”
Burnett means the disease known as vaccinia, the result of vaccination, plus “that profound and often long-lasting morbid
constitutional state engendered by the vaccine virus.” To this state Thuja is homśopathic, and therefore curative and preventive of
it. Burnett makes the profound observation, which I can confirm, that the vaccine virus does
not need to “take” (that is, to set up vaccinia) in order to produce the vaccinal
dyscrasia: that “not a few persons date their ill-health from a so-called unsuccessful
vaccination.” So that vaccinosis may exist apart from vaccinia. The antivaccinal action
of Thuja is part of its antisycotic action: vaccinia is
a sycotic disease. Burnett gives the case of an infant ten weeks old, whom he was called to
see as it was supposed to be dying. He found it ghastly white and in collapse. There was
nothing to account for this except that the baby had had its wet-nurse changed two or three
days before. The wet-nurse was questioned and declared herself quite well and looked it; but
“her arm was a little painful.” She had been revaccinated in the Marylebone
Workhouse the day before she took charge of the patient. Burnett found the vaccine eruption
just turning into the pustular stage. He concluded that the infant was sucking the vaccinal
poison with its nurse’s milk. He gave Thuja 6 to both
infant and nurse. The baby gradually improved the same day, and next morning was, though
still pale, practically well, and the vaccinal vesicles on the nurse’s arm had withered.
Burnett quotes a case of vaccinal rash in an infant following the vaccination of its mother,
who was nursing it. The effects of chronic vaccinosis are protean. Prominent among them are
neuralgias (of which Burnett gives many examples), morbid skin disorders, indigestion, and
constipation; warts and new growths of many kinds. In these effects a favourite method of
Burnett’s was to give a course of twenty-four numbered powders, only three or four of them
medicated with Thuja 30; one to be taken at bedtime.
With the same prescription he cured many cases of paralysis, his indications being: Left
side of body; very chilly; < in morning, in wet
weather, and in cold: with these indications present he also found enlargements of the
spleen to dissolve. In 1889 I was consulted by Mr. A., 38, about a lump, or rather two
lumps, in the right breast, which was like that of a girl approaching puberty, the left
breast being quite flat and normal. There was a hard, not sharply defined lump to the right
of the nipple, and a smaller one to the left of it, but freely movable, the larger somewhat
tender and irritated by the pressure of the brace. The tumours had existed eighteen months
and came on at a time of much anxiety when his wife died of consumption. His paternal
grandmother and two aunts had died of cancer. He had been twice vaccinated, but on the
second occasion the arm did not “rise.” As a small boy his hands were covered with
warts.─At eight he had shingles. On August 15th Thuja
10m F. C. was given. October 21th.─If anything tumours a little less. Thuja 10m continued at intervals. February 4, 1890.─Tumours
can only be felt with difficulty. No pain. The medicine was repeated and when next seen some
time later the patient was absolutely well. A very much vaccinated lady developed at the
climacteric indurations in both breasts, especially the right. Menses were accompanied by
severe neuralgic pains. Thuja was given in 1m, 10m, and
cm F. C. potencies. The last set up attacks of angina pectoris of such intensity that I did
not repeat it. The indurations disappeared, but in the course of the cure an eruption
closely resembling small-pox developed over her breasts on more than one occasion. The first
case I treated homśopathically was one of new growths─a cluster of
small warts on the forehead of a boy which had lasted eighteen months and followed the
scratch of a cat. Thuja Ř in fractional doses and Thuja Ř painted on cured permanently in three weeks. A
gentleman, about 50, consulted me recently about a wart on the right side of his head. He
was bald, and the wart was black and unsightly. It had been growing some months, and he was
somewhat anxious about it as his father had had a similar wart develop in the same locality
at the same age, and it had never left him. My patient had been twice vaccinated. Thuja 30, twenty-eight powders, one in seven medicated, one at
bedtime. In one month there was much reduction; Thuja
was repeated, and in little over two months the wart was gone. Burnett says Thuja is the remedy for fatty tumours, which he regards as
sycotic in nature. Thuja not only produces symptoms of
the secondary stage of gonorrhśal and vaccinal affections, it also produces urethritis and
a variolous eruption. Dudgeon has reported acute urethritis with yellow discharge lasting
altogether a fortnight as the result of chewing a Thuja
cone. Mersch (H. M., xxx. 686) gave Thuja 3 to a patient as a prophylactic against small-pox. This
patient and another who took it for the same purpose developed simple urethritis. Mersch
proved Thuja Ř on himself and some others: (1) M. N. had rose-coloured blotches on the back, and several days
after leaving off the medicine had warts develop on the outer side of the root of the thumb.
These were still present three years after, though smaller and softer. (2) Mersch himself, who took Thuja
for fifteen days, had heavy sensation in the head on waking, an eruption of desquamative
annular blotches, and from the twelfth day a tearing along the right arm which compelled him
to keep the arm flexed for eight days, < attempting
to extend the arm; slightly > by heat. A small soft
wart appeared at the external portion of right middle finger. This disappeared a month after
the proving was ended. (“< By extension” is
a characteristic of Thuja; it =
cracking in joints. The arm symptoms are also < when
the limb hangs down, which is also an extension.) Apropos
of the annular scaly blotches, I had a case of psoriasis of the legs in a youth which was
benefited by Thuja more than by any other remedy, though
the Thuja was given for some other affection. A patient
came to Raue (H. R., ii. 162) complaining that his semen
had a very offensive smell. Raue did not know of a remedy producing the symptom, but
selected Thuja. Two doses of the 200th and one of the
15th were taken. The man was at the time in the hands of an eminent dentist for his teeth,
which for five years had been a great trouble to him on account of their extreme
sensitiveness to cold; the gums were in a deplorable state and the teeth were encrusted with
tartar. After receiving the Thuja the extreme
sensitiveness of the teeth disappeared in one night; then the offensive odour of the semen.
In four days the patient again saw the dentist, who was amazed to find his gums quite sound.
Moreover, the patient had lost an oppression of the chest which had been troubling him some
time. Goullon (Leip. Pop. Zeit. f. H., translated Rev. H. Belge, September, 1895) relates the cure of a mental
state by Thuja 30x. He remarks that, following the
advice of Kunkel, he gives only a single dose of Thuja,
one or two drops of the tincture on sugar or milk, at bedtime. When he has given a second
dose the following night he has observed new symptoms “Thuja
in fact has a very marked action on sleep, and its symptoms appear by preference at night─the
headache, for example.” This is the case: Miss R., 40; complained of her head,
especially at certain moments, when ideas which did not concern her in the least came to her
as if some one else was thinking by her side. Thuja produces a confusion in the thoughts which patients cannot
rid themselves of on account of great weakness and pain in the head. This patient had for
months been attending on a paralysed sister, frequently getting up in the night and worrying
herself about numberless things. Her nervous system was very impressionable, and for weeks
had reached a point of extreme over-excitement. She could no longer calm herself, and in
addition she sneezed and coughed much. The problem was to give her sleep and take away the
pain in the head. Even when she was not obliged to getup she could not get sleep. Her eyes
were also very much irritated. The patient afterwards described her condition thus: “I
felt in the anterior part of the head, principally the forehead, a sensation as if lead were
compressing my eyes; these were inflamed, < by light,
> in open air. Before going to sleep I felt a
congestion in the head with headache; at the same time queer, confused ideas which changed
like a flash and fell upon the most odd things. These were >
when I opened my eyes or sat up. Before my eyes images and statues arranged themselves. If I
wished to think of something sensible, in the twinkling of an eye I lost the thread of my
ideas. All this happened at night; during the day the wicked sprites did not appear. My head
and eyes pained me when there was much movement, as when several people were speaking at
once.” The effect of the dose she described thus After having taken the Thuja I tasted a sweet repose; the next morning a complete
transformation had taken place in the head, the weight was gone, the eyes were more fresh,
the brain free.” Goullon cured a lady who had had headache for a year; on waking felt
as if a tight hoop enclosed forehead, not passing away till noon. Eyelids
heavy as lead. Thuja 10x, one close at bedtime, permanently cured. A. W. Holcombe
(Med. Vis., xii. 225) relates experiences bearing on the
sleep and dreams of Thuja. (1)
Mrs. E., 48, had a growth, wart-like, about the size of a sixpence, on left temple. It began
as a slight roughness and itched at times. Also growth about the same size on a hard palate
(left), very sore. Much headache, on left side of the head, throbbing in left temple, and
the pains extend into left ear. Cannot sleet after 3 a.m. Dreams
much of falling. Feels smothering in a warm room. Thirsty, < noon and afternoon. Feet sweat much, offensive; sweats much
about groins. Thuja cm was given on October 25th. By
November 15th the growths and all the rest of the symptoms had disappeared. (2) Led by this same symptom, “almost every night, dreams of
falling from a height,” Holcombe cured a man, 30, of tertian fever with Thuja cm when a large number of other seemingly well-indicated
remedies had failed. Robert Farley (quoted A. H., xxiii.
446) relates the case of two children, ćt. 5, who had what he graphically terms
“urinary tantrums.” Two hours after being put to bed they would wake kicking,
crying, and refusing to answer a question. This lasted an hour or more. Asked if they wanted
to urinate they would refuse to answer, strike at attendant, or even say “No.”
Finally it was found that if they were taken up and put on the closet they would urinate and
then go to sleep readily. One of the children developed signs of incipient inflammation of
the left hip-joint. The totality led to the selection of Thuja,
which was given in the 200th. After the first night there were no more “tantrums,”
and in two months the child was perfectly well. This child’s father had had gonorrhśa,
treated by injection, some years before the patient was born. But the other child’s father
had not had gonorrhśa. In the latter case, which was exactly like the former, the cure was
immediate; in the former case relief occurred on the second night. C. W. Roberts (H. R., xii. 137) found Thuja
Ř, in five- to seven-drop doses at bedtime, control nocturnal seminal emissions better than
any other remedy. “Nocturnal seminal emission” is an emphasised symptom in M. M. P. Epulis is probably a malignant kind of sycotic
hyperplasia. Percy Wilde (H. W., xxi. 199) records the
case of a young married lady who had a large epulis on the lower jaw, rapidly increasing in
size, ulcerating on the surface, very painful, and filling the mouth with an ill-smelling
secretion. The entire tumour was removed by operation, and also the subjoined bone. Three
weeks later the tumour was as large as before and increased daily. Thuja
1x was now given. The growth stopped immediately; ulceration ceased; the pain disappeared.
In three weeks the gum was healthy and remained so permanently. Villers (quoted A. H., xxi. 421) relates a case of scalp tumour in a youth of
seventeen. The tumour had existed two years, and had somewhat the appearance of a bean. It
was situated about the posterior edge of the parietal bone, was devoid of sensation, and the
hair had disappeared from it, making it very conspicuous. Thuja
30 was given, a dose every twenty days. In four months the youth was almost cured, in five
months entirely so, the hair having grown again completely over the spot. George Royal
(quoted A. H., xxiii. 387) relates a case of persistent
cough cured with Thuja. Miss X., 19, fair, had for three
months a painless, dry cough. The irritation was only in the throat. There were six small
growths at the back of the throat, and one near the vocal cord. She never had a cough
before. Has leucorrhśa green and excoriating; menses a little too early. Thuja 30 cured the growths and the cough in about three weeks.
Old-school observers (N. A. J. H., xv. 63) have found in
Thuja an efficient hćmostatic, locally applied,
especially after tooth extraction. R. B. Johnstone (H. P.,
ix. 257) gives some indications for Thuja in hernia: (1) Women of sycotic history who have a tendency to left-side inguinal hernia after labour (Thuja,
high). (2) When babies cry much the umbilicus protrudes,
growing red and sore; especially when the father has a sycotic history. (3) Left inguinal hernia in infants; child cries all the time, and
is only quiet when the left inguinal region is relieved from pressure, or the thigh is
flexed on the abdomen. Bśnninghausen observed this symptom of Thuja,
which bears on the action of Thuja on the sides and roots of teeth (a sycotic symptom), rather than on the crowns:
“on blowing nose, a pressing pain in the hollow tooth, at the side of it.” The
left ovarian pains of Thuja are remarkable. They are
severe, sometimes burning, extend down thigh, any attempt at exercise and especially walking <; they occur with
every menstrual period, and are generally < before
and during the flow. The pain compels the patient to lie down; but lying on left side <. A keynote of Thuja is:
“Frequent micturition accompanying pains.” For example: “In evening, when in
bed, terrible hammering and tearing in the ear, accompanied with
micturition every half-hour and coldness of the legs up to the knees. The desire
of Thuja is sudden and urgent, it seems impossible to
reach the vessel or make the necessary preparations, but the patient can control it if compelled. There is severe cutting as with a
knife at the end of micturition after the last drop has passed. Thuja
also has chronic incontinence from paralysis of sphincter vesicć. This is related to the
general paretic weakness of Thuja. The patient feels she
“could not go on exerting any longer.” Burnett (H. W.,
xxv. 487) records a case of lichen urticatus in a boy of fourteen, which came into his hands
after a long course of treatment, external, internal, and dietetic, at the hands of
allopathic specialists without result. The rash came periodically in warm weather; patient
literally tore himself because of the irritation. The rash was <
on the left (vaccinated side). Thuja 30 was given in
infrequent doses. The spots continued to appear for a week and then disappeared. The skin
remained clear in spite of the patient indulging in all kinds of previously forbidden foods.
Among the skin effects of Thuja the marks and stains
must be borne in mind. The skin is mottled and discoloured; brown or red mottled spots;
discoloration of the backs of the hands and feet.─Villers (J. of Hcs., iv. 408) treated a girl of twelve, who had had
headaches going from front to occiput and sometimes in temples. Pains mostly came towards
night, and were accompanied with an awful state of fear. The only account she could give of
her fear was that she saw green stripes. Alone or in
company, in the dark or in a well-lighted room the dread was always the same. Three years
before, the child had had an abortive attack of scarlatina, treated with cold compresses.
The urine had been abnormal all through the illness, but contained no albumen. Thuja 200, every tenth day. No more headache, nor fear. Patient
slept well from the first dose, and in a few days the urine became clear. “Floating
stripes” before the vision is a symptom of Thuja. Peculiar
Sensations are: As if a strange person were at her side. As if soul and body were
separated. As if under the influence of a superior power. As if whole body were very thin
and delicate; as if its continuity would be dissolved; as if frail and easily broken; as if
made of glass. As if a nail were pressing into vertex. As if vertex were pressed with a
needle. As if a nail were driven from within outward in vertex. As if a nail were driven
into right parietal bone and left frontal eminence. Lightning-like headache. As if a convex
button were pressed on left ear. As if head were screwed asunder. As if forehead would fall
out. As if bones of head were being knocked to pieces. Forehead, ears, and eyes as if
stabbed. As if knives went tearing around in brain. Scalp as if beaten. As if insects on
occiput and temples. As if eyes were swollen and would be pressed out of head. As of fine
sand in eyes. As if a cold stream of air were blowing through eyes. As if a foreign body in
eye. As if flesh were being torn from bones in left side and back. As if abdominal muscles
were being pushed out by arm of a child. As if a living animal were in abdomen. Sudden
bounding in right iliac region as if something alive. As if blood could not circulate in
back opposite pit of stomach. As if boiling lead were passed through rectum. As if anus
would fly to pieces during stool. As if skin of anus were cracked and chapped. Bladder as if
paralysed. As if moisture running in urethra. As if a tape prevented urination. As of a
single drop running along urethra. As if testicles moved. As if something were grown fast in
region of left lower ribs. As of falling drops in chest. Legs as if made of wood when
walking. As if lower limbs were elongated. As if muscles of thigh would break down.
Lightness in body when walking. As if flesh were beaten from bones. As if skin were pricked
with needles. As from fleabites. A keynote of Cooper’s for Thuja
is, “its pains keep extending from their original site.” Another indication of his
is, “pains > by wrapping up.” Thuja is Suited to: (1)
Hydrogenoid constitutions (possessing “an increased capacity to contain water; hence
rain, cold, damp weather, beds, and food that increase the number of molecules of water in
the system < the symptoms”). (2) Strumous and sycotic persons. (3)
Lax muscles; light hair; children. (4) Lymphatic
temperament, in very fleshy persons, dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin. (5) Ailments from vaccination or from suppressed or maltreated
gonorrhśa. Thuja is a strongly left-sided medicine (the
left arm is usually vaccinated). The symptoms are: < By touch (scalp; vertex; eruption; anus; condylomata; = fingers to bleed); but >
pain in eyebrow and in left malar bone. Pressure >.
Rubbing >. Scratching >.
Closing eyes <. Fall =
wart-like growth ill labium. Overlifting < headache.
Rest > headache. Bending head backward > headache. Lying on left side =
anxious dreams. Lying on affected side > asthma.
Motion <. Extension <.
Letting arms hang down <. Walking <. Looking up >
headache. Throwing head back > headache. Talking < asthma. Ascending =
palpitation. Riding = incontinence of urine; < pain in ovary. < 3
a.m.; early morning (the sycotic time). < Night. < Cold water; cold: damp weather: change; draught;
overheating; sun’s rays. < Bright light. < Warmth of bed. Warmth <.
Cold > rheumatism. <
After breakfast, after eating; after tea; coffee; fat food; onions. <
By coitus. < Blowing nose (pain in side of teeth). < Increasing moon. <
Sun; bright light.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Cham. (nightly toothache): Coccul. (fever); Camph., Merc., Puls., Sul. Teste found Colch.
the best antidote in his experience. Antidote to: Merc.,
Sul., Iod., Nux. Complementary: Med., Sabi., Sil.; Nat.
s. in sycosis. Compatible: Nit. ac., Sabi. Follows well: Med., Merc., Nit. ac. Followed
well by: Merc., Sul. (these follow best.─H. N. G.); also
Calc., Ign., Lyc., K. ca., Puls., Sil., Vacc. Compare:
Constitutional polychrests, Med. Syph., Pso., Sul., Merc. Bad effect of vaccination, Apis,
Ant. t., Vacc., Var. Aversion to touch or approach, Ant. c. (Thuja on account of fixed
ideas). Illusions of shape, Bapt., Petr., Stram. Imaginary conditions (Saba., imaginary
diseases). Ozśna with thick green discharge; gleet; gonorrhśal rheumatism; orchitis;
prostatitis; Puls. (the discharge of Puls. is thicker than that of Thuja). Ozćna in
sycotics, K. bi. Condylomata, balanorrhśa, greenish leucorrhśa, Nit. ac. (Nit. ac. has
more aching in bones, especially when not covered with muscles). Long filiform condylomata,
Staph. (Staph., especially after Mercury, system generally depressed). Balanorrhśa, Jacar.
Red chancroid sores, Coral. Iritis; green discharges; rheumatism; sweating, Merc. (Merc. < warmth of bed; sweating more excessive; Thuja, sweat on
uncovered parts only). Condylomata, Sabi. (itch and burn, especially in women). Condylomata
large, like cock’s-comb, Euphras. Syphilis and sycosis, fig-warts fan-shaped, much Aching,
especially about joints, Cinnab. (“Cinnab. is preferable for warts on prepuce.”.─H.
C. Allen). Sycotic eruptions, Sars. Ciliary neuralgia, Spi. (Spi. pains radiate downward;
Thuja, upward and backward). Nails grow soft, Fl. ac. (rapidly). Diarrhśa, &c., after
vaccination, Sil. Affections of tea-drinkers, Sep. Urinary affections, Canth. Effects of fat
food, Ipec., Carb. v., Puls. Fissure about anus, Nit. to. Graph. Dry, whitish scales on
skin, Ars., Calc., Dulc., Lyc., Sep., Sil. Vaginismus, extreme sensitiveness, Sil. Hissing
or singing of kettle in right ear, Lyc. Violent movements of fśtus, Op., Croc., Sil., Sul.
Sense of levitation, Calc., Can. i., Con., Gels., Sil., Sti. p., Tic douloureux, Spi.,
Coccin. Phimosis, Cann. s., Merc., Sul., Nit. ac., Sep., Rhus, Sabi. Left ovarian pains,
Colo., Bry., Phos. Yellow-staining leucorrhśa, Agn. c., Carb. a., Chel., Kre., Nit. ac.,
Nux, Pru. s., Sep. Tongue: Ulcer on right border, Sil. (on left, Apis); semilateral swelling
of, Calc., Sil., Lauro. (Lauro, left half with loss of speech), Semp. t. Piles < sitting, Lyc. Ph. ac. (>
Ign.). Vertigo when closing eyes, Lach., Ther. Headache as if a nail being driven in, Coff.,
Ign. Headache from tea, Sel. Teeth decay at roots, Mez. (on edges, Staph.). Teeth crumble,
turn yellow, Syph. Ranula, varicose veins on tongue, Amb. “On blowing nose, a pressing
pain in the hollow tooth or at the side of it” (Culex, vertigo every time he blows his
nose). Abdomen protrudes here and there as from the arm of a fśtus, Croc., Nux m., Sul.
Left ovarian pain when walking or riding, must sit or lie down. Croc., Ust. (Thuja, < at each menstrual nisus). Stool recedes after being partly
expelled, Sanic., Sel. Early-morning diarrhśa expelled forcibly with much flatus, Alo.
Coition prevented by extreme sensitiveness of vagina, Plat. (by dryness, Lyc., Hdfb., Na.
m.). Large, seedy, pedunculated warts, Staph. Feeling as if flesh beaten off bones, Phyt.
(scraped off, Rhus). Severe cutting at close of urination, Sars. Sweat: all over except head
(opp. Sel.); when he sleeps, stops when he wakes (opp. Samb.). Nails deformed, brittle, Ant.
c. > Bending head back, Seneg. (Thuja, headache;
Seneg., eye symptoms > bending heard back and closing
eyes; Thuja has < closing eyes). Fluids roll audibly
into stomach, Cup. Enuresis when coughing, Caust. Desires cold things, Pho. Swelling and
sensitiveness of breasts at menstrual period, Con. Calc. <
Walking, Ćsc. h. Discoloured skin, Adren. Cracking in cervical vertebrć (K. iod.,
grating). Cretinism, Bac., Thyr.
Causation.─
Vaccination. Gonorrhśa, badly treated
or suppressed. Sunstroke. Sexual excess. Tea. Coffee. Beer. Sweets. Tobacco. Fat meat.
Onions. Sulphur. Mercury.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Fixed ideas: as if a strange person were
at his side; as if the soul were separated from the body; as if the body, esp. the limbs,
were of glass and would break easily; as if a living animal were in the abdomen.─Sensation
as if whole body very thin and delicate and could not resist least attack; as if continuity
of body would be dissolved.─Insane women will not be touched or
approached.─Imbecility after vaccination, restless, drivelling.─Mental
dejection.─Anxious apprehensions respecting the future.─Disquiet,
which renders everything troublesome and repugnant.─The merest trifle
occasions pensiveness.─Music causes him to weep, with trembling of the
feet.─Hurried, with ill-humour, talks hastily.─Indisposition
to any kind of intellectual labour.─Mental depression after childbirth.─Very
depressed, sad, irritable.─Scrupulous about small things.─Feels
she cannot exist any longer; quiet, shunning every body.─Aversion to
life.─Moroseness and peevishness.─Overexcited,
quarrelsome; easily angered about trifles.─The child is excessively
obstinate.─In reading and writing he uses wrong expressions.─Talks
hastily and swallows words.─Thoughtlessness; forgetfulness.─Slowness
of speech and of reflection; seeking for words when in conversation.─Incapacity
for reflection.─Cretinism.
2. Head.─
Head feels empty, as in intoxication,
esp. in morning, with nausea.─Weakness and confusion of head, as from
torpor, or paralysis of brain.─Vertigo, as from motion of a swing.─Vertigo
when rising from a seat, or when lying down, or else when looking into the air.─Vertigo
on closing the eyes, disappears as soon as he opens them; or on stooping; or on looking
upwards or sideways.─Headache in morning, as after stooping, or after
too profound a sleep, with redness of the face.─The headache is > from looking upwards, and when turning the head backwards.─Headache:
< from sexual excess, overheating, overlifting; > exercising in open air.─Dull,
stupefying, headache.─Headache, <
by stooping, > by bending head backwards.─Heaviness
of head, esp. in morning on waking; in occiput (cerebellum), with ill-humour and dislike to
conversation.─Headache, as if forehead would split, with internal
shivering, > by walking in open air.─Pressive
headache, with shocks in forehead and temples.─Compressive headache,
esp. in temples.─Pain as if a tight hoop encircled forehead, on waking.─(Headache,
as if a tight hoop encircled forehead up till noon; eyelids heavy as lead.─Goullon.).─Pain
in head as if a nail were driven into vertex (afternoon and 3 a.m.; <
when at rest, > after perspiration).─As
if a nail driven in r. parietal bone and l. frontal eminence.─Boring
pressing in head.─Headache on l. side as if a convex button were pressed
on part.─Neuralgia going from before backward.─Nervous,
sycotic, or syphilitic headaches.─Meningitis of sycotic children.─Sunstroke:
everything seemed jumping, < from sitting up, or from
talking a long time, or closing eyes.─Semilateral tearing in the
sinciput and face, extending into zygomatic process, principally morning and evening.─Tearing
jerking in occiput.─Lancinations across brain.─Congestion
of blood in head.─Pulsation in temples.─Excessively
painful tenderness of l. side of head, and also of the hair, at night, when lying down, and
when touched.─Hair becomes hard, dry, and lustreless, and falls out.─Hair
thin, grows slowly, splits; brittle, looks crimped.─Pressive drawing in
the temporal muscles, esp. during mastication.─Shootings in temples.─Swelling
of veins in temples.─He wants to have head (and face) wrapped up warm.─Itching
and gnawing in scalp.─The scalp is very painful to the touch, and the
parts on which one lies.─Cannot bear a bat on his head (agg.─R.
T. C.).─Dry herpes on the head, extending to eyebrows; dandruff.─White,
scaly, peeling-off eruption over the scalp, extending over the forehead, temples, ears, and
neck.─(Flat black wart on r. parietal region.─J. H.
C.).─Tingling-biting, stinging-itching on the scalp, > by scratching.─Perspiration, smelling of
honey (sweetish), on uncovered parts of head (face and hands), with dryness of the covered
parts, and of those on which one lies, mostly when first going to sleep; > after rising.─(Pityriasis affecting
forehead, face, ears and neck, < after washing in
warm water.─R. T. C.).─Eczema comes out on glabella
(after Thuja 30).─R. T. C.).
3. Eyes.─
Pressure in eyes, and smarting, as if
sand were in them.─Tearing in eyebrows.─Shootings in
eyes, in a bright light, or in a keen air.─Painful stitch through centre
of l. eye, commencing in centre of brain.─Malignant balanorrhśa.─Wart-like
excrescence on iris.─Inflammation of cornea.─Vascular
tumour of cornea.─Small brown spots on cornea.─Episcleritis;
sclero-choroiditis; staphyloma.─Ophthalmia neonatorum.─Phlyctenular
conjunctivitis.─(Conjunctivitis of l. eye, with violent pain across
forehead and in outer side of eyeball, constantly recurrent from childhood and due to
suppressed eruption.─R. T. C.).─Fungous tumour in
orbit.─Burning sensation in eyes.─Sclerotica
inflamed, and red like blood.─Pupils dilated.─Inflammatory
swelling of lids, with hardness.─Burning eruption on lids.─Granular
lids with wart-like granulations.─Epithelioma of l. lower lid.─Feeling
as if lids swollen, and a foreign body in eye.─Ptosis; lids fall down
several times a day.─Lids heavy as lead.─Inflammatory
softening of inner surface of lids.─Red and painful nodosities on
margins of lids.─(Tinea ciliaris; dry and branny lids.─R.
T. C.).─Styes; tarsal tumours; chalazć; thick and hard knots.─Verrucć
and tumours like condylomata.─Purulent and itching pimples between
eyebrows.─Condylomata in eyebrows.─Sensation of heat
and of dryness in external canthi.─Lachrymation, esp. in l. eye, when
walking in open air (the tears do not run off, but remain standing in the eye).─The
eye must be warmly covered, when uncovered it pains at once, and it feels as if cold air
were streaming out of the head through the eye.─Nocturnal agglutination
of the lids.─Weakness of the eyes; obscure sight.─Clouded
sight, when reading, with sensation of drowsiness.─Sight confused as if
directed through a veil.─Diplopia.─Myopia.─Black
dancing specks before the eyes.─Floating stripes.─(Sees
green stripes which frighten her.).─Flames of light, mostly yellow;
looking into light of day sees spots like bottles of water moving; a luminous disc shining
like a firefly.─Sensation of dryness in eyes.─In the
dark it seems as if falling down of luminous lights or sparks alongside of the eye, during
the day and in the light it is as if dark drops were falling down.─The
objects appear smaller before the r. eye.─Short-sighted.
4. Ears.─
Otalgia, with squeezing compression and
violent shootings, esp. in evening.─Stitches into ear from the neck.─Sensation
as if inner ear were swollen, with increased difficulty of hearing.─(Vascular
deafness with scurfy head.─R. T. C.).─Oozing from
the r. ear, smelling like putrid meat.─Spasmodic pain in external ear.─Noise
in the ear as from boiling water.─Roaring in l. ear, with cracking when
swallowing saliva.─Hammering and tearing in ear, in evening, in bed,
with frequent emission of urine, and coldness in legs and feet.─Pressive
pain behind ears.─Orifice of l. meatus blocked up by a polypus, of
raspberry-cellular vessels; pale red, bleeding readily when touched; muco-purulent
discharge; deafness; shooting pains.
5. Nose.─
Nose red and hot.─Red
eruption on nose, at times humid.─Swelling in the alć nasi, with
hardness and tension.─Drawing tension in bones of nose.─Painful
scabs in nose.─Painful pressure at root of nose.─Blowing
of blood from nose.─Frequent epistaxis, esp. after being overheated.─Dry
coryza, which becomes fluent in open air, with continued headache.─Fluent
coryza, with cough and hoarseness.─Greenish and fetid discharge from the
nose.─Blowing from the nose of a large quantity of thick green mucus,
mixed with pus and blood; later of dry, brown scales, with mucus, which conies from the
frontal sinuses and firmly adheres to the swollen upper portion of the nostrils.─Accumulation
of mucus in posterior nares.─Chronic catarrh after measles, scarlatina,
variola.─(Ozćna.─Ussher.).─Warts
on the nose.─Smell in nose as from brine of fish, or of fermenting beer.
6. Face.─
Heat in face, sometimes only transient,
or else with burning redness.─Heat and redness of whole face, with fine
nets of veins, as if marbled.─Circumscribed burning redness of cheeks.─Dropsically
bloated face.─Śdematous erysipelas of face.─Greasy
skin of face.─Light-brown blotches (freckles) on face.─Faceache,
originating in l. cheek-bone near the ear, extending through teeth to nose, through eyes to
temples into head; the painful spots burn like fire, and are very sensitive to the rays of
the sun.─Neuralgia of trigeminus after suppressed gonorrhśa or eruption
on ear.─Facial pains tending to spread to neck and head, chiefly l. side
(many cases cured.─R. T. C.).─Large, hard, dark wart
with large base.─Perspiration on face (esp. on side on which he does not
lie).─Scabious, itching eruption on face.─Red and
painful nodosities on temples.─Boring and digging pain in cheek-bones, > by touch.─Twitching of the lips.─Jerking
sensation in upper lip, near corner of mouth.─Upper lip sensitive.─Wart
on upper lip.─Thick upper lip with pea-sized tumour on its parenchyma,
enlarging when taking cold.─Lips pale, swollen, peeling.─Flat
ulcers on insides of lips and corners of mouth.─Eruption of pimples on
lips and chin.─Shootings in lower jaw, which seem to pass outwards
through the ear.─Cracking of articulation of jaw.─Fungus
on l. lower jaw, more angry in damp weather.─Swelling of submaxillary
glands.
7. Teeth.─
Toothache after drinking tea, with
pressive pain extending into jaw.─Toothache with acute drawing pains,
esp. during mastication.─The roots of the teeth become carious; or the
teeth become carious from the side; the crown of the tooth remains sound.─On
blowing nose, a pressing pain in hollow tooth at the side of it.─The
teeth crumble off.─Teeth crusted with tartar; extremely sensitive to
cold water.─Dirty-yellow teeth.─Gnawing in (carious)
teeth, with painful sensibility of whole side of head, greatly <
by contact with cold things, or by mastication.─Gums swollen (inflamed,
with dark red streaks on them), with pain of excoriation.─Alveolar
periostitis where the pains come and go suddenly at short intervals (R. T. C.).─Epulis.
8. Mouth.─
Flat, white ulcers on the inside of the
lips, and on the corners of the mouth.─Aphthć in mouth (ulcers; mouth
feels as if burnt).─Considerable swelling of salivary glands, with
increased saliva in mouth.─Sanguineous, or bitter saliva.─Pain
as of excoriation in tip of tongue, when touched.─Swelling of tongue
(esp. on r. side; bites tongue frequently), painful when touched.─Condylomata
under tongue.─Varicose veins under tongue.─Ranula,
on both sides of tongue, transparent, bluish red, grey, and, as it were, gelatinous.─Ranula
and epulis with excess of venosity everywhere (Ussher).─Taste in mouth
sweet as sugar, with gonorrhśa.─Slowness of speech.
9. Throat.─
Roughness and scraping in throat.─Pressure
and pain as from excoriation, in throat and palate, during deglutition.─A
feeling of upward pressure in soft palate.─Necessity to swallow.─Shootings
from gullet to ears.─Swelling of tonsils and throat.─Ulcers
in throat and mouth, like chancres.─Accumulation of a large quantity of
tenacious mucus in mouth, which is hawked up with difficulty.─Painful
swallowing, esp. empty swallowing, or that of saliva.─Throat feels raw,
dry, as from a plug, or as if it were constricted when swallowing.─Hawking
up of mucus of red colour, like blood.─(Exophthalmic goître.─C.
Sargent, of Chicago.)
10. Appetite.─
Mawkish and sweetish taste in the
mouth, in the evening, and after a meal.─Taste: sweet; of rotten eggs,
mornings.─Bread has a dry and bitter taste.─Craves
salt.─Food never seems sufficiently salt.─Thirst
only at night, and in morning.─Appetite for cold drinks and food.─Unable
to eat breakfast (a keynote of Burnett’s).─Aversion to fresh meat and
potatoes.─Speedy satiety, when eating.─Disagreeable
sensations after eating fat food or onions.─While masticating food mouth
becomes very dry.─After a meal great indolence, or dejection, with
anguish, and palpitation of the heart, or great inflation and sufferings from flatulence.
11. Stomach.─
Risings of food, after a meal.─Bitter
or putrid risings.─Continuous eructations of air while eating.─Vomiting
of mucus or of greasy substances.─Induration of stomach.─Swelling
of pit of stomach.─The fluid which he drinks falls into the stomach with
a gurgling noise.─Rancid risings, esp. after fat food.─Nausea
and uneasiness in region of stomach.─Vomiting of acid serum and of food.─Cramp
in stomach, with excessive < towards evening.─Pressure
in scrobiculus after a meal, with pain when touched.─Throbbing in
scrobiculus.─Anguish in scrobiculus, which extends upwards into head.
12. Abdomen.─
Painful pressure in hepatic region.─After
a dose of 30th headache comes on, and he feels on stooping forward as if liver over-lapped
the ribs (agg.─J. C. B.).─(Old rheumatism attacking
bowels, liver, and kidneys.─R. T. C.).─Pressure in
lumbar region.─(Soreness with swelling in hepatic region and violent
pain under r. shoulder going through to breast and down to elbow <
on getting out of bed in morning.─R. T. C.).─inflation
of abdomen, often with contractive and spasmodic pains.─Flatulence, as
if an animal were crying in the abdomen.─Pot-belly.─Constrictive
tension in abdomen.─Induration in abdomen.─The upper
part of abdomen is drawn in.─Soreness of navel.─Pressive
pains in abdomen, esp. towards the side (before evacuation).─Stitches in
the hypochondria.─Sensation as if something alive were in hypogastrium
(as if the abdominal muscles were pushed outward by the arm of a fśtus, but painless).─Soreness
of navel.─Pain in abdomen, as from constriction of the intestines.─Grumbling
and borborygmi in the abdomen.─Depressing pain in groins.─Drawings
in groins, when walking and standing, with shootings along thighs when sitting.─Painful
swelling of inguinal glands, sometimes with drawing as far as knee.─Intussusception
of intestines.─Yellow or brownish spots on abdomen.─Zona.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Constipation which continues
several days (obstinate, as from inactivity or from intussusception of the intestines),
sometimes after pollutions.─Tenesmus, with rigidity of the penis.─Stool
in hard balls.─Difficult evacuation of hard, large fćces, covered with
blood.─Discharge of blood, during the evacuation.─Diarrhśa:
pale-yellow water is forcibly expelled, with much noisy discharge of wind; with colic; < after eating; watery, painless; bright yellow, watery;
streaming out with much gas, as if the cork were pulled out of a full jug, excessively
exhausting, short and difficult breathing, anxiety, intermitting pulse, acute pressive pain
in back opposite pit of stomach, with feeling as if no blood could circulate there, rapid
disappearance of fat.─In morning (after breakfast), periodically
returning diarrhśa, always at the same hour.─Stools oily or greasy.─With
stools, sensations in rectum as if boiling lead were passing through.─Burning
soreness in anus, lasting all day.─Much flatus hard to expel, anus feels
constricted, incarcerated flatus behind r. side of diaphragm.─Pains in
anus < from motion.─Painful
contraction of anus, during the evacuation.─Burning sensation in anus,
and between buttocks.─Condylomata at anus.─Hćmorrhoidal
tumours swollen, paining worse while sitting.─Swelling of hćmorrhoidal
veins.─Pressing, itching, and burning in the hćmorrhoidal vessels, with
dragging.─Offensive perspiration at anus and in perinćum.─Fistula
in ano.─Fissure of anus.─Tearings along rectum.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Kidneys inflamed; feet
swollen.─Diabetes.─Stitch to bladder from rectum.─Violent
burning in fundus of bladder.─Urging to urinate frequent and hasty.─Stream
interrupted.─Frequent want to urinate, with profuse emission of a watery
urine, also at night.─The urine foams; the foam remains long on the
urine.─Involuntary secretion, of urine; at night; when coughing; in
drops after having urinated.─The bladder (and rectum) feels paralysed,
having no power to expel.─Sediment of brown mucus.─The
urine contains sugar.─Boring in region of bladder, with painful drawing
up of testes.─Urine yellowish or wine-coloured.─Orifice
of urethra agglutinated by mucus.─Cloudy sediment in urine.─Bloody
urine.─Prolonged trickling of urine, after having urinated.─Sensation
as if a drop were flowing into urethra, after emission of urine, and at other times.─Burning
sensation in urethra, esp. in morning and during day; also after and during emission of
urine.─Shootings in urethra, during emission of urine, and at other
times.─Jerking, voluptuous formication in fossa navicularis.─Smarting
in sexual part of females, during emission of urine.─Itching in urethra.─Stream
small and split, next day yellowish discharge from urethra, with chordee.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Venereal diseases.─Affections
in general appearing in male or female genital organs, particularly on the external organs;
affections on l. side particularly.─Profuse perspiration on genitals,
esp. scrotum; sweet-smelling, like honey; staining linen yellow.─(Relaxed
scrotum with sexual weakness and lethargy; unfit for strain.─R. T. C.).─Pseudo-gonorrhśa.─Painful
spermatic cords from suppressed gonorrhśa.─Feeling in testes as if they
moved.─Condylomata on glans and prepuce, moist, itching and suppurating,
esp. while the moon is increasing.─Ulcers, like chancres, on prepuce.─Swelling
of prepuce.─Red excrescence on inner side of prepuce; like fig-warts.─Smooth,
red excrescence behind glans.─Many red pedunculated condylomata
surrounding glans.─Round, unclean, elevated ulcers with red margins,
moist and painful.─Sycotic cauliflower excrescences; fig-warts smelling
like old cheese or herring brine.─Shootings in scrotum, in penis, and
along spermatic cord, as far as navel.─Drawing in testes, with
retraction of one of them (l.).─Continued painful erections, esp. night
and morning, with lancinations in urethra.─Nightly painful erections
causing sleeplessness.─Irresistible inclination to onanism even during
sleep.─Nocturnal emissions; wake him; followed by heaviness and
ill-humour.─Pollutions with sensation of stricture in urethra.─Seminal
emissions cured with 5-drop doses of Ř (C. W. Roberts).─The semen has
an offensive smell.─Flow of prostatic fluid.─Prostatic
affections from suppressed or badly-treated gonorrhśa.─Blenorrhśa
along with otorrhśa; penis constantly erect and prepuce inflamed (cured in boy, 12.─R.
T. C.).─Gonorrhśa: scalding when urinating, urethra swollen; urinal
stream forked; discharge yellow; green; watery; with warts; red erosions on glans; subacute
and chronic cases, esp. when injections have been used and prostate is involved.─Gonorrhśa
with a soft lump having an abrasion on it on l. side of frćnum prćputić, lump small and
painless.─Profuse and watery discharge from penis.─Renewed
gonorrhśa after coitus.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Affections appearing on
external organs, esp. l. side.─Warts, condylomata, and other
excrescences about vulva.─Ulcers on internal surface of vulva; vulva has
a sore, smarting feeling.─Itching and burning smarting, as from
excoriation, in genital organs.─Burning and biting in vagina.─Vagina
extremely sensitive during coition.─Recto-vaginal fistula (cured.─J.
C. B.).─Pressure on genital organs.─Contractive and
spasmodic pain in genital organs, extending to hypogastrium.─Ovaries,
affections of.─Swelling and excoriation of labia.─Warts
on orifice of uterus, with shootings and burning sensation when urinating.─Uterine
polypus.─Cauliflower excrescences.─Prolapse.─L.
ovary inflamed, < at each menstrual nisus;
distressing pain, burning when walking or riding; must lie down; pain extends through l.
iliac region into groin, and sometimes into l. leg, pain sometimes burning.─Cutting,
squeezing, shooting pains in region of l. ovary.─Pain, located in
ovaries or duct, from over-physiological action.─Menses: too early and
too short; scanty, with terrible distressing pain in l. ovarian and iliac region.─Before
menses: excitement and pulsation of arteries, back of head, headache and toothache;
labour-like abdominal pains, tenesmus and fainting; much perspiration.─During
menses: tiredness, palpitation, spasmodic weeping; restlessness in legs; retching, pressing
in stomach, distension, pain in abdomen and back; bearing down out of genital organs;
burning in varicose veins of genitals; sensitiveness and swelling of breasts; general
coldness.─After menses: tiredness; rush of blood upward; toothache;
sleeplessness; nightmare.─Bleeding fungus of breast (completed cure
after Phos.).─Sycotic excrescences; moist, bleeding and offensive.─Leucorrhśa:
mucous; is almost green.─Abortion at end of third month, commencing with
a scanty discharge of blood for five days, then more and more profuse.─Bright
red or clotted blood with bearing down in third month of pregnancy (cured with Thujopsis dolabrata.─R. T. C.).─During
pregnancy child moves so violently it wakens her, causing cutting in bladder with urging to
urinate; pains in l. sacro-iliac articulation, running into groin.─Labour:
pains weak or ceasing; contractibility hindered by sycotic complications; pains in
sacro-iliac articulation running into l. groin; pain from walking, insupportable, must lie
down.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Voice low.─Sensation
of a skin in the larynx.─Polypus of vocal cord.─Condylomata.─Hoarseness,
as from contraction of larynx.─Shortness of breath from mucus in
trachea.─Shortness of breathing from fulness and constriction in
hypochondria and upper abdomen.─Asthma <
at night, with red face; coughing spells, with sensation of adhesion of lungs.─Asthma
with gonorrhśa, without having been exposed to contagion.─Asthma with
little cough, but with sensation of something growing fast In region of l. lower ribs.─Asthma
of sycotic children (Goullon).─Respiration short and quick, < from deep inspiration and talking; >
from lying on affected side, but pains compel him to lie on back.─Convulsive
asthma.─Shooting and tingling in trachea.─Cough in
morning, excited by a tickling in trachea.─Cough, excited by a choking
sensation.─Sputa: green; taste like old cheese.─Expectoration
of small grey, yellow, or green gobbets, when coughing.─Cough, with
expectoration of yellow mucus, and pains in scrobiculus in afternoon.─Cough
only during day, or in morning after rising, and in evening after lying down.─Cough
as soon as one eats.─During evening cough after lying down, the
expectoration becomes loose; easier when he turns from l. to r. side.
18. Chest.─
Obstructed respiration, with violent
thirst for water, and great anxiety.─Spasms of lungs from drinking cold
water.─Stitching in chest, from drinking anything cold.─Hot
rising into chest.─Pain in l. pectoral region extending to innominate
bone.─Dyspnśa, with need to take full inspirations.─Oppression,
at one time of l. side of chest, at another, of l. hypochondrium, with irritation which
excites coughing.─Pain in chest, as from internal adhesion.─Pressure
on chest, sometimes after a meal.─Agitation, and sensation of swelling
in chest.─Hćmorrhage from lungs; quantity very great and terribly
offensive.─Blue colour of skin round clavicles.─Brown
spots on chest.
19. Heart.─
Cramp in heart.─Ebullition
of blood in chest, and violent and audible palpitation of heart, esp. when going up stairs.─Palpitation
of heart, with nausea.─Painful sensibility in region of heart.─Anxious
palpitation of heart when waking in the morning.─Visible palpitation
without anxiety.─Stitches in region of heart.─Pulse
slow and weak in morning, in evening accelerated and full.─In evening
violent pulsations.─Swelling of the veins.
20. Neck and Back.─
Uneasiness in nape of neck and
chest.─Tension in skin on nape when moving head.─Greasy
brown skin on neck.─Tension and stiffness of nape and l. side of neck.─Cracking
in cervical vertebrć on making certain movements with head.─Small red
pimples on neck close together.─Swelling of glands of neck.─Swelling
of veins of neck.─Spinal curvature.─Boils on back.─Steatomatous
tumours.─Pressing pain in region of kidneys.─Burning
extending from the small of the back to between shoulder-blades.─(Pains
from middle to lower back with tenderness of muscles on each side.─R. T.
C.).─Painful drawing in sacrum, coccyx, and thighs, while sitting; after
long sitting prevents standing erect.─Pain, as of a fracture, and
stiffness in loins, back, and nape, esp. in morning, after rising.─(Weakness
from injury to lower back followed by abscess, vesical weakness, enuresis with a clear gleet
and balanitis.─R. T. C.).─Drawing in back and loins,
when seated.─Boring in back.─Pulsation in spine.─Furunculi
on back.─Violent stitch between coccyx and anus 7 p.m. when walking.─Itching
burning in hollow below coccyx.
21. Limbs.─
Cracking of joints when extended.─Trembling
of hands and feet.─Limbs go to sleep.─Frozen limbs.─One-sided
complaints; paralysis.─Rheumatism with numb feeling; < in warmth and on moving; >
from cold and after sweating.─Nails crippled; brittle or soft.─Hangnails.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Profuse perspiration under
axillć.─Brown spots under the arms, like nćvus maternus.─Throbbing
in shoulder-joint.─Sticking in shoulders.─Involuntary
jerking of arm during day.─Atrophy of r. arm after revaccination.─Pain,
as of ulceration, tearing, and throbbing, from shoulder to ends of fingers.─Wrenching
pain in shoulder and arm, with cracking.─Digging drawing in arms, as if
in bones or periosteum.─Sensation of coldness in arms at night.─Lancinations
in arms and joints.─Cracking in elbow-joint when stretching arms.─Tearing
pain along r. arm compelling him to keep it flexed.─Herpes on elbow.─Red
marbled spots on forearm.─Wrist and elbow of r. arm feel as if gripped
by a hand (agg.─Thujopsis dol.─R.
T. C.).─Trembling of hand and arms, when writing.─Ganglion
of wrist (cured by local use.─R. T. C.).─Sensation
of dryness in skin of hands.─Brown colour on back of hand.─White
scaly herpes on back of hand and on finger.─Perspiration on hands.─Swollen
veins in hands.─Warts on hands; very numerous, esp. on dorsa; horny,
painful.─Brown colour of dorsum of hand.─Coldness
torpor, and paleness in fingers and finger-tips, extending sometimes to forearms.─(Erysipelatous
swelling and) tingling and shootings in finger-tips.─Red and painful
swelling in finger-tips.─Nails are crippled, discoloured, crumbling off.─Suppuration
of finger-nails.─The pains in the arms are <
when hanging down, or when exposed to heat; they are >
by movement, cold, and after perspiration.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Lower limbs feel like wood when
walking in open air.─Tension from hip-joint to groin, and along back of
thigh to knee.─Sciatica, l. side, leg atrophied.─Paresis
and atrophy of r. leg with coldness.─Drawings in legs.─The
hip-joint feels as if it were relaxed.─Coxalgia, the leg becomes
elongated.─Brown skin on legs, esp. on inside of thigh.─Enlarged
nćvus on thigh of child, ćt. five months.─Shootings in legs and
joints.─Great weakness and lassitude in legs, esp. when going up stairs.─Heaviness
and stiffness of legs, when walking (they feel as if made of wood).─Profuse
perspiration on thighs and genital organs.─Itching in thighs.─Eruption
of pimples on buttocks, thighs, and knees.─Ulcers on thighs.─Cracking
in joints of knees and feet, when stretching them.─Suppurating pustules
on knees.─Gonorrhśal rheumatism in fibrous part of knee-joint.─Pains
in feet and ankles after suppressed gonorrhśa, could not walk.─Pain in
heel as if gone to sleep.─Stitches above heel in tendo Achillis.─White
nodosities, with violent itching in toes.─Inflammatory red swelling in
ends of toes or instep, with pain and tension when treading, and during movement.─Numbness
of l. foot.─Nets of veins, as if marbled, on soles of feet.─Red,
marbled spots on instep.─Perspiration (fetid) on feet, esp. toes.─Suppressed
foot-sweat.─Chilblains on toes.
24. Generalities.─
Emaciation and deadness of
affected parts.─All manifestations excessive; their advent insidious.─Shootings
in limbs (outer parts), and joints.─Burning darting pain.─Drawing
in the blood-vessels.─Cracking in joints on stretching limbs.─Swelling
of the veins in the skin.─Jerking of some of the limbs and of some of
the muscles.─The flesh feels as if beaten off the bones.─Sensation
of lightness of the body when walking.─Śdema about the joints; affects
prominently epithelia, first causing hardening, hypertrophy; then softening.─Stitches
in various parts, changing to burning.─Tearing and pulsative pains, as
if the parts affected were ulcerated.─Inflammatory swellings, with
redness.─Sufferings after being overheated, drinking tea, or eating fat
meat, or onions.─Bad effects from beer, fat food acids, sweets, tobacco,
and wine; from the abuse of Sulphur and Mercury.─One-sided complaints-paralysis.─St.
Vitus’ dance.─Trembling of some of the limbs.─Easy
benumbing of limbs, esp. at night, on waking.─Symptoms generally < in afternoon, or in night, towards 3 a.m.; they hinder sleep
in evening.─Many of the symptoms are <
during repose and by heat, esp. by that of the bed; they are >
by movement, cold, and perspiration.─Many of the symptoms manifest
themselves chiefly on l. side.─Affections of the r. abdominal ring;
wings of the nose; loins; inguinal glands; fingers, tips of fingers; toes.─(Glandular
cervical enlargements.─R. T. C.).─Stiffness and
general heaviness over whole body, esp. in shoulders and thighs.─Physical
weakness, with sustained mental powers.─Frequent jerking of upper part
of body.─Violent ebullition of blood in evening, with pulsation in all
the arteries, < by movement, >
on sitting down.─Aneurism by anastamosis; swelling of the blood-vessels.─Dreams
anxious, esp. of dead persons; of falling; of accidents.─Flushes of
heat.─< In the afternoon; after
midnight; while chewing; stretching the affected limb; while urinating.─> While drawing up the limb.
25. Skin.─
Painful sensitiveness of skin.─Itching
shootings in skin, esp. in evening and at night.─Purulent pimples, like
variola.─Warts on any part of the body, with little necks, called
fig-warts, tubular warts, same size all the way out; “mother’s marks.”.─Warts,
hard, cleft, and seedy.─Black sessile warts; on scalp.─Pustules.─Small-pox.─Eruptions
only on covered parts.─The eruptions burn violently after scratching.─Universal
psoriasis.─Sycotic excrescences, smelling like old cheese, or like the
brine of fish.─White, scaly, dry, mealy herpes.─Sycosis
of beard cured with single doses of Ř after failure of much other treatment (R. T. C.).─Condylomata
(large, seedy, frequently on a pedicle).─Flat ulcers, with a
bluish-white bottom.─Zona.─Corns burning.─Crippled
nails on fingers and toes.─Furunculi.─Chilblains.─Dirty-brownish
colour of the skin.─Brown or red (or brown-white) mottled spots on the
skin.─The majority of cutaneous symptoms are >
by touch.
26. Sleep.─
Urgent inclination to sleep in
evening.─Sleep retarded, in consequence of agitation and dry heat.─Nocturnal
sleeplessness, with agitation and coldness of body.─Unrefreshing
nocturnal sleep.─Distressing, anxious dreams, of dangers and death, of
falling from a height, soon after falling asleep, or else with starts and cries, esp. when
lying on l. side.─When half asleep it suddenly seems as if a chair were
standing in the middle of the bed; tries to move it but cannot stir, cannot utter a sound.─Continuous
sleeplessness, with painfulness of the parts on which he lies.─Sleeplessness
with apparitions as soon as he closes his eyes; they disappear on opening them.─Goes
to sleep late on account of heat and restlessness.─Lascivious dreams,
without emission of semen, with painful erections on waking.
27. Fever.─
Shivering, with yawning, after
midnight.─The warm air seems cold, and the sun has no power to warm him.─Shivering,
every morning, without thirst.─Shivering and shaking, with internal and
external coldness (and thirst), followed immediately by perspiration.─Chilliness
in attacks at various times in the day, but mostly in the evening.─Chilliness
on l. side, which feels cold to the touch.─Chill without thirst after
midnight and in morning.─Shivering every evening (at six o’clock), with
external heat, dryness of the mouth, and thirst.─Heat in the evening,
esp. in the face.─Dry heat of the covered parts.─Burning
in the face without redness.─Perspiration at the commencement of sleep.─Perspiration
on parts uncovered, with dry heat of covered parts.─Anxious, at times
cold, sweat.─Perspiration after the chill, without any intervening heat.─Perspiration,
at times oily (staining the clothes yellow), or fetid, or smelling sweet like honey.─General
perspiration, but not on the head.─When walking in morning profuse
perspiration; the most profuse on the head.─Perspiration only during
sleep, disappearing at once as soon as he awakens.® 2000
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