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AURUM. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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AURUM.

THROAT.

► Frequently,
phlegm in the throat, which can be hawked up, but prevents a full inspiration (after two
hours), [2]. [230.]
► Much phlegm in the throat, for several days, [1]. ► Pain in the
parotid glands, [15]. ►
*The parotid gland is painful to the touch, as if pressed or contused
, [1]. ► Lumpy state of the
throat; she wakes at night and desires to moisten it (200th), [17].
► Burning, stitching, and itching in the throat, worse on
swallowing, [15]. ►
Drawing and scraping in the throat, [15]. ► *Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland
below the angle of the lower jaw
, [1]. ► Throat feels pricked with needles (200th), [17]. ► Swallowing food causes a
stinging sensation in the throat (200th), [17]. ► *Stinging soreness in the throat, only during deglutition,
[1]. [240.] ► Painful obstacle to deglutition in the left side of the
pharynx, [1]. ►
Attacks of distension of the pharynx, as in vomiting, but without nausea, [1].

STOMACH.

► He relishes his
meal, but his appetite is not appeased; he could have eaten again, shortly after, [1]. ► He is forced to
eat hastily, especially at the beginning of the meal, [1].
► Has no appetite for anything; can only eat bread and
milk, [1]. ►
Repugnance to meat, [1]. ►
Much thirst for six days, [4]. ►
Burning thirst; desire for cold drinks, [15]. ► Desire for spirituous liquors, [15].
► Great longing for coffee, [1]. [250.] ►
Watery eructations, [15]. ►
Eructations tasting of the drink (beer), [1]. ► Hiccough, [15]. ► Nausea, [15]. ► Nausea in the stomach and throat, [6]. ► Mental labor causes nausea,
with affects his whole being, [1]. ► Sensation of nausea; discomfort from the stomach and in the
abdomen, [1]. ►
Inclination to vomit after eating, sometimes even while eating, [15]. ► Regurgitations as if the
person would vomit; with pressure in the abdomen, [4].
► Pain at the stomach, as of hunger, [1]. [260.] ►
Burning at the stomach, and hot eructations (12th), [17].
► Burning, drawing, and cutting pain in the stomach, [15]. ► *Pressure in the
region of the stomach, at noon, [1]. ► *Pressure on the left side, near the pit of the stomach,
below the cartilages of the upper false ribs; more violent during an expiration (after seven
days), [6].

ABDOMEN.

► *Burning heat and
cutting pain in the right hypochondrium
, [15].
► Continual pressure in the hypochondria, as from
flatulence, especially after food or drink, often increased by motion and walking; goes off
without flatus, [1]. ►
Stitches in the left hypochondrium, like stitches in the spleen, [1]. ► Painful stitch in the left
hypochondrium, [15]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen
, [1]. ► Rumbling in the bowels (after one hour), [6]. [270.] ►
At night, painful accumulation of flatulence, especially in the left hypochondrium, [1]. ► Emission of much
flatulence (first day), [1]. ►
Emission of much fetid flatulence (after eight hours), [6].
► He is much troubled with flatulency; it becomes
incarcerated under the left ribs, with lancinating pain
, [1]. ► Discomfort in the abdomen,
with sensation as if he should go to stool, especially after dinner (after thirty-six
hours), [6]. ►
Pains in the abdomen, as from labor, as if the menses would make their appearance, [1]. ► Heat and drawing
in the abdomen, [15]. ►
Pinching pain, here and there, in the abdomen (after twelve hours), [6]. ► Dull pinching and cutting
in the abdomen, then diarrhœa, and after the diarrhœa, distended abdomen, [1]. ► Painful feeling of
contraction in the abdomen, [1]. [280.] ► Heaviness in the
abdomen, with icy-cold hands and feet, [1]. ► Pressure in the abdomen, [1].
► Tensive pressure in the abdomen and the lumbar regions,
with desire for stool (after six days), [6]. ► Tensive pressure in the abdomen, just below the navel, and on
both sides in the lumbar regions, with feeling of fulness (after fifty-three hours), [6]. ► Single tearings in
the right side of the abdomen, extending as high up as below the ribs, as if everything
there was shattered; forces him to bend crooked, when sitting (after thirty-six hours), [2]. ► Cutting pain,
heat, and scraping sensation in the groins, [15]. ► Twisting pain in the abdomen, before and during stool, [15]. ► Colic, [15]. ► Colic in the
abdomen, [14]. ►
Flatulent colic, shortly after the lightest and most moderate meals, [1]. [290.] ►
Flatulent colic, after midnight; much flatus rapidly accumulates which does not pass, and
therefore causes painful pressure, squeezing and anxiety; both when at rest and in motion, [1]. ► The abdomen is
tender to the touch, [15]. ►
Protrusion of an inguinal hernia, with great cramplike pain; flatus seems to get into the
hernia, [1]. ►
Rumbling in the lower abdomen, [1]. ► Heat and sensitiveness of the hypogastrium, [15]. ► Pinching pain on the inner
side of the ischiatic bones, [11]. ► Weight on the pubis, [15].
► Jerking twinges in the left side of the pelvis, causing
him to jump or start, [11]. ►
Weakness in the groin, [1]. ►
Want of flexibility and painful stiffness in the bends of the groin and the tendons of the
lumbar muscles, when walking or spreading the legs, as after a long journey on foot (after
three and a half hours), [1]. ►
Pain in the groin, as from a swollen gland, [1]. [300.] ► Burning pain in the
abdominal ring, which is otherwise healthy, [1]. ► Drawing from the groin into the thighs, [1]. ► Pressing in the right
abdominal ring, as if a hernia would protrude when sitting and stretching the body; goes off
when rising, [2]. ►
Cutting thrusts in both groins, forcing him to draw the abdomen in and the feet up, [11]. ► Bruised pain in
the right iliac region, when sitting; goes of when rising and drawing up the thigh (after
twenty-four hours), [2].

STOOL AND ANUS.

► Sharp
stitches in the rectum and anus, [6]. ► External hæmorrhoids, bleeding during stool, [13]. ► The border of the anus is
painfully swollen, [1]. ►
Burning heat and tearing pains at the anus, [15]. ► Heat and dull pain at the perineum, [15]. [310.] ► Diarrhœa, [4]. ► Diarrhœa day and night; green stools, [13]. ► Frequent diarrhœa,
especially at night, with grayish-yellow stools, [13].
► Nightly diarrhœa, with much burning in the rectum, [1]. ► (White-yellowish
stool), [1]. ►
Copious, but normal stool (after sixteen hours), [6]. ► Unusually copious stool, in the evening (after ten hours), [1]. ► Soft stool every
morning, with a little pinching, [1]. ► Stool very large; passed with difficulty, [1]. ► *Very hard, knotty stool
every day, [1]. [320.]
► Constipation for three days, [3].

URINARY ORGANS.

► Sharp
stitches, when breathing, apparently in the side of the bladder, [1]. ► Burning, stitching, and
smarting in the urethra, [15]. ►
Dull tearing in the urethra, [6]. ► Tearing stitches at the glans, when obliged to urinate (after
three hours), [11]. ►
Dysuria, [15]. ►
Constant desire for micturition, with scanty but natural urine, [3]. ► He passes more urine than
corresponds to the quantity he drinks, [1]. ► Urine greatly diminished, [15].
► Infrequent discharge of scanty, yellowish urine, [15]. [330.] ► Turbid urine, like buttermilk, with mush sediment of
mucus, [1]. ► Thick
urine, having a strong ammoniacal odor, and decomposing rapidly, [15]. ► Hot, red urine, containing
sand, [15].

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Male.
► Moisture around the glans, [15]. ► Painful twitches in the
penis, from before backwards, [1]. ► Painful erections, [15].
► Nightly erections, without emissions (first night), [11]. ► Erections many
nights in succession, [1]. ►
Prickings, as from pins, at the extremity of the glans; every single pricking is followed by
a similar one above the navel, towards the pit of the stomach (after three hours), [11]. ► Itching of the
scrotum
, [1]. [340.]
►► *Swelling of the right testicle, with pressive pain when touching or rubbing it; this symptom came on for
several evenings at 6 o’clock, and ceased towards 11 o’clock
(after five days), [6]. ►► *Pressive and
tensive pain in the right testicle
, as from contusion
(after three and a half hours), [7]. ► The sexual desire, which had been dormant in him for a long
time, is roused, [1]. ►
Much desire for coition, early, after rising, with violent erections, [1]. ► He was unable to sleep the
whole night, on account of his sexual desire being roused; he finally had to satisfy it by
coition (first night), [1]. ►
For two nights he is full of lewd fancies, the penis being small and relaxed (second and
third night), [1]. ►
Pollutions at night (the first nights), [11]. ► Nightly pollutions, with voluptuous dreams (after seven
days), [6]. ► Nightly
erections and pollutions
, [3]. ► Prostatic juice comes out of the penis, which is relaxed, [1]. [350.] ► Pollutions three nights in succession, without subsequent
weakness, [1]. ►
Female.
► Drawing pain in the mons veneris, [1]. ► Heat, pricking,
and smarting of the vulva, [15]. ►
Redness and swelling of the labia majora, [15]. ► Burning and pricking in the vagina, [15]. ► Thick white leucorrhœa, [15]. ► Retarded
menstruation, [15].

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.

►
Husky voice (12th), [17]. ►
Cough, [4]. ►
Infrequent short dry cough, [15]. [360.] ► Frequent severe and
racking cough, [15]. ►
Cough at night, on account of want of breath, [6]. ► Splitting cough at night, [13].
► Phlegm deep in the lungs, which is easily thrown up in
large quantity; this is succeeded by free and expansive breathing, whereas generally he was
asthmatic, [1]. ►
Difficulty of raising phlegm (12th), [17]. ► Adhesive phlegm in the larynx, difficult to hawk up, [1]. ► Frequently, phlegm
deep in the larynx, which he does not succeed in coughing up, even with the greatest effort,
[3]. ► Frequent deep
breathing
, [1]. ►
Difficult breathing, [15]. ►
Difficulty of breathing, [1]. [370.]
► Severe dyspnœa, [1].
► *Dyspnœa, also when at rest, which cannot he
relieved by any position; he constantly takes deep breath, and
cannot inspire air enough
, [3]. ► Severe dyspnœa when walking in the open air, [1]. ► Dyspnœa when laughing or
walking fast, as if the chest were too tight for breathing and too flat in front (after
forty-four hours), [3]. ►
Dyspnœa, with dull stitches in the chest, when inspiring
, [6]. ► Excessive dyspnœa, with
difficulty of breathing at night
, [6]. ► Sense of suffocation soon after eating, [15].

CHEST.

► During an
expiration, râles in the upper part of the chest, descending into the abdomen and groin,
succeeded by quick beatings of the heart, with weakness and apprehension; then slumber, [1]. ► Persistent dry
catarrh on the chest, early in the morning, on waking; it is with great trouble he succeeds
in hawking up a little phlegm, and even this only after rising from bed (after sixteen
hours), [1]. ►
Burning, stitching, and pricking in the chest, [15]. [380.] ► Tightness of the
thorax, with anxiety (after three days), [6]. ► Drawing in left side of chest, below nipple, [16]. ► Oppression of chest and
abdomen when coughing, [1]. ►
A few very violent stitches in the chest, over the heart (after seventy-two hours), [1]. ► Intensely painful
stitches under the ribs when breathing deeply (and yawning); they prevent breathing and
yawning; cease on going to bed, [1]. ► Shuddering in the right chest, when yawning, [1]. ► Pressure in left wall of
thorax, [16]. ►
Pressure on the right side of the chest, with extreme anguish, [2]. ► Dull cutting pain on the
left side, near the sternum; more violent during an inspiration (after nine days), [6]. ► Stitches in the
left chest when breathing, [1]. [390.] ► Stitches under the
left ribs when coughing, [1]. ►
Fine tearing stitches on the right side, near the lumbar vertebræ, going off by pressure, [6]. ► Dull painful
stitches and lancinations on the right side, near the sternum, under the last true ribs, [6]. ► Dull oppressive
stitches under the cartilages of the first three ribs on the right side; they sometimes
continue as a sensation of a plug inserted there; sometimes they are slowly intermittent and
little felt in walking; externally, the place is red (after sixteen hours), [3]. ► Dull stitches on both sides
of the chest, with heat in the chest and dyspnœa; increased by inspiration, [11]. ► Pressure on the sternum,
with busy demeanor, as if something very agreeable were about to happen, [2]. ► Pressure on the sternum, as
of something hard, with drawing tearings towards the shoulders, [2]. ► Sharp stitches in sternum
(after two hours), [11]. ►
Swelling of the præcordial region and the whole upper part of the abdomen, with a painful
stitch when pressing upon it or lacing it tightly, [1].

HEART AND PULSE.

► When
walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose, [2].
[400.] ► Sometimes,
one single very violent beat of the heart, [1]. ► Strong irregular beating of the heart, [13]. ► *Palpitation of the heart
(after half an hour), [1]. ►
*Violent palpitation of the heart
(after four days), [6]. ► Palpitation when lying on
the back, [15]. ►
*Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, and tremulous fearfulness
, [13]. ► Heat and itching
at the heart, [15]. ►
Drawings and cutting pains at the heart, [15].

NECK AND BACK.

► Difficulty
in turning the head, as in torticollis, [15]. ► Tension in the neck, as if a muscle were too short, even when
rest, but more violent when stooping (after ten hours), [11].
[410.] ► Drawing in
nape of neck towards left clavicle, [16]. ► Drawing in left side of nape of neck, [16]. ► Tearing pressure in the
lower part of the right side of the neck (after fourteen days), [6]. ► Jerking, tearing stitches
in the left external muscles of the neck (after seven days), [1].
► Tearing pain on the inner side of the scapula and below
it, when bending the body backwards and to the left (after eleven hours), [6]. ► Early in the morning, such
a severe pain in the spine that he was unable to move a limb, [1].
► Heat, pricking, and itching in the back, [15]. ► Pain in the small of the
back, as from fatigue (after three hours), [1]. ► Drawing in the muscles of the back, [16]. ► Burning heat, which seems
to start from the kidneys and extend to the bladder, [15].
[420.] ► Cutting over
the small of the back when sitting, as if from pressure with a sharp instrument, [2]. ► Heat in the loins,
[15]. ► Sharp
piercing pain in the right loin, only during inspiration, [1].
► Bruised pain in the loins, [15].

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.

►
Going to sleep, numbness and insensibility of the arms and legs, early on waking, more when
lying still than in motion, [1]. ►
Shooting and drawing pains in arms and legs occasionally, [10].

UPPER EXTREMITIES.

►
Fatigue in the arms, [15]. ►
Difficult movement of the arms, [15]. ► Burning, stitching, and pricking in the arms, [15]. ► Heat in the axillæ, [15]. [430.] ► Tearing tension under the axilla, [11]. ► Boring in left shoulder, [16]. ► Boring in left
shoulder, when sitting, [16]. ►
Stitching in left axilla, [16]. ►
Fine stitches upon the shoulder, [11]. ► Soreness of the shoulders, even when not touched or moved, [2]. ► Burning in skin of
right upper arm, [16]. ►
Drawing in skin of left upper arm, [16]. ► Drawing pain down the left arm, on the bone, going off by
motion, [2]. ►
Pressure on the upper surface and in the middle of the right upper arm, [6]. [440.] ►
Pressure in the left upper arm, near the periosteum (after forty-eight days), [6]. ► Tearing pressure in the
anterior surface of both upper arms (after fifteen days), [6].
► Fine tearings in the left upper arm, most severe on
uncovering it (after three hours), [11]. ► Severe bone-pains in the right elbow (200th), [17]. ► Boring in right
elbow-joints, [16]. ►
Cramplike tearing in the right elbow-joint, [3]. ► The forearms feel heavy when at rest, but not in motion
(after twelve hours), [11]. ►
Boring in right forearm, [16]. ►
Pressure on the external side of the right forearm (after twelve days), [6]. ► Pressure on the anterior
surface of the forearm, [6]. [450.]
► Intermittent tearing pressure on the inner side of the
left forearm, [6]. ►
Tearing in the bones of the wrist-joint (after eight hours), [6].
► Cramplike tearing in the bones of both wrists,
deep in the interior, from the upper to the lower row of the carpus, especially at night,
but also by day, [3]. ►
Stitching and pressure in wrists, [16]. ► Cramplike pain in the metacarpal bones of the left hand,
especially the thumb, without interfering with motion, [3].
► Tearing in the metacarpal bones, [6]. ► Tension in roots of right
fingers, [16]. ►
Boring in finger-joints, [16]. ►
Drawing in the finger-joints, [5]. ► Pressure in the last joint of the left little finger, and in
the right thumb-joint, during rest, [16]. [460.] ► Dull tearing in the
joints of all the fingers, often spreading into the phalanges (after five days), [6]. ► Fine tearing in
the right fingers, [6]. ►
Fine tearing in the anterior joint of the right thumb, [6].
► Tearing in the last joint of the left little finger, [6]. ► Tearing in the
lowest joints of the right fingers (after four days), [6].
► Acute pain in the finger-joints, [15].

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