BAPTISIA.
Baptisia tinctoria, R. Br. Natural Order,
Leguminosæ.
Authorities.
1, Dr. Wm. L.
Thompson, N. A. J. of Hom., 5, 547 (dose not given); 2,
Dr. J. S. Douglass, N. A. J. of Hom., 6, 230 (took repeated doses of 1 to 3 drops of
tincture); 3, Dr. S. R. Beckwith (ibid.); 4, W. Rowley, ibid.; 5, L. W.
Sapp, ibid.; 6, J. E. Smith, ibid.; 7, T. B. Hoyt, ibid.; 8, Dr.
Hadley, Trans. of N. Y. St. Hom. Med. Soc., 3, 325 (took 10 to 25 drops of tinct.); 9, Miss Hadley, ibid. (took 15 drops of tinct.); 10, Dr. Burt, Hale’s New Remedies (took 10 to 200 drops of
tinct., and 30 grains of bark subcutaneously); 11, Dr.
Burt, ibid. (took 4 to 14 grains of Baptisin); 12, Dr.
Wallace, Med. Investigator, 1873 (three provings with the one-tenth).[Note: Corrections by D. C. J. Douglas, N. Am. Jour. of Hom., 7, 228.
Add: “Inability to make any mental or physical effort.”
“Tongue dry, on rubbing it against the roof of mouth smarted and felt sore as if
burnt.”]
MIND.
► The brain a little
stimulated, [2]. ►
Febrile excitement of the brain, like a beginning febrile delirium in a greater degree, [2]. ► A sort of
excitement of the brain which is the preliminary, or rather the beginning, of delirium; with
him it never fails to take place if the fever continues, and increases to considerable
intensity, [2]. ►
Disposition to talk, [2]. ►
Low spirits (third day), [4]. ►
Unhappy (second day), [2]. ►
Felt very gloomy for several days (third day), [11]. ► *Cannot confine his mind; sort of wild, wandering feeling,
[7]. ► Mind seemed
weak, rather than confused (second day), [2]. [10.] ► Inactive mind, [3]. ► *Indisposed to think;
want of power to think (second day), [2]. ► Dull, stupid feeling after breakfast, [5]. ► Very distinct recollection
of what he had been reading, [2]. ► Inability to memorize as usual, [6].
HEAD.
► Confused feeling in
the head, [1]. ►
Slightly confused feeling of the brain, [2]. ► Dulness in the head, [1].
► A little dulness of the head (second day), [2]. [20.] ► Slight dulness in brain all day (second day), [6]. ► Dull, stupid feeling all
over the head, with severe pain at the occiput, [7]. ► Morning, after rising, dull heavy feeling of head, and
headache, [5]. ►
Head feels very heavy, [10]. ►
Head feels heavy, as though he could not sit up, [7]. ► Head feels very heavy, with pain in occiput (after one hour),
[12]. ► Swimming
sensation, very like that experienced before the operation of an emetic, [1]. ► Slight dizziness and
languor, [3]. ►
Vertigo. ►► Vertigo, [7]. ► *Vertigo, and
sensation of weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees,
[1]. [30.] ► Headache day and night, causing a sensation of wildness, [7]. ► Pain in base of
brain, with lameness and drawing pain in cervical muscles (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Heavy pain at
base of brain (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Slight pain of head, with bruised feeling of forehead (third
day), [6]. ► Head
felt large, [2]. ►
Head feels large and heavy (after twenty minutes), [12].
► Fulness of the external vessels of the head and face, [2]. ► Head full, and
feels heavy (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Hard, dull headache, very much worse by moving (30 grains
crude bark), (second day), [10]. ► *Dull, heavy headache (second day), [11]. [40.] ► *Dull, heavy, pressive headache, [10]. ► Slight pressive headache
and dull pain in loins (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops), [10]. ► Soreness of brain, worse
when stooping, [5]. ►
Noise increases the headache, [7]. ► Severe headache in front (third day), [4]. ► Forehead. ► Pain in the whole anterior part of the head and in the forehead, [9]. ► Some headache in front, afterwards passing to the back part, [4]. ► In morning,
headache in front part of brain, [6]. ► Frontal headache, with feeling of fulness and tightness of
the whole head (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► *Frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose (after
twenty minutes), [12]. [50.]
► Severe frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose
(after one hour), [12]. ►
Slight pain in the frontal sinuses, mostly in the right side, [8].
► Slight pain in the right frontal sinus, [8]. ► Severe pain in frontal
sinuses, followed by sneezing, [9]. ► Heat in forehead (second morning), [5]. ► Skin of forehead feels very
much contracted, [10]. ►
Feeling of tightness across forehead, with pain over right eye (after two hours), [10]. ► Skin of forehead
feeling very tight, with sharp pain in temples, [10]. ► Skin of the forehead feels as if drawn very tightly over the
forehead, with sharp pain over right eye (immediately), [10].
► Skin of forehead felt as if it would be pulled to the
back part of the head, with numb feeling of forehead and face (from subcutaneous injection
of 10 drops, after ten minutes), [10]. [60.] ► Dull pain in front
part of head, [7]. ►
Dull pain in forehead, [10]. ►
In the afternoon, dull pain in the anterior lobes of the brain and in the right frontal
sinus, [8]. ► Dull,
heavy pain in forehead, [10]. ►
All the evening, dull frontal headache, with smarting of the eyes and a drawing pain down
nose, [11]. ►
Constant dull frontal headache, and dull pain in bowels all the evening, [11]. ► Pressive pain in forehead,
[10]. ► Dull
pressive pain in the forehead (after three hours), [10].
► Feeling as if the forehead would be pressed in (from
subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after half an hour), [10].
► In evening, soreness in the front part of the head on
moving the eyes or turning them upward, [5]. Temples. [70.] ► Frequent pains in right temple,
[11]. ► Dull pain
in both temples, growing more and more intense, [7]. ► Sharp pains in both temples (after three hours), [10]. ► Sharp pains in
temples, very often (30 grains crude bark), (second day), [10].
► Sharp pains by spells in right and left temples,
[10]. ► Burning on
top of head and soreness of scalp, [12]. ► Dull feeling, especially in the occiput, where there was
slight pain and fulness (after one and a half hours), [2].
► Dull pressure in occiput (second morning), [5]. ► Soreness of scalp
(after one hour), [12].
EYES.
► Eyes shining, [2]. [80.] ► Congestion of the vessels of the eye; they look red and
inflamed, [7]. ►
Eyes feel swollen, with burning and slight lachrymation, [7].
► Eyes feel as if being pressed into head, with great
confusion of sight; cannot place anything until she looks at it a few seconds; everything
appears to be moving, [11]. ►
Eyes smart and ache severely, [11]. ► Frequent pressive pain over right eye, [10]. ► Sharp pain over right eye,
then over left, [7]. ►
Partial paralysis of the eyelids; it is very difficult to keep them open, [11]. ► Lachrymation on going into
the open air (third day), [6]. ►
Walking in open air produced continual and profuse lachrymation (third day), [2]. ► *Soreness of eyeballs,
[7]. [90.] ► *Eyeballs feel sore and lame on moving them (after twenty
minutes), [12].
EARS.
► Dulness of hearing,
[7].
NOSE.
► Sneezing, and
feeling as after taking a severe cold (after twenty minutes), [12].
► Catarrh, [7]. ► Thick mucous discharge from nose, [1]. ► Dull pain at root of nose, [7]. ► Severe pressure at
root of nose (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Soreness extends to posterior nares (after twenty minutes), [12].
FACE.
► Sallow appearance
of countenance, [5]. ►
*Hot and perceptibly flushed face, [2]. [100.] ► Face feels flushed
and very hot, [7]. ►
Cheeks burn, [7]. ►
Burning and prickling of left side of face and head, [12].
MOUTH.
► Teeth and gums
have been very sore for two days; by pressing on them with the finger, large quantities of
blood ooze from the gums (third day), [11]. ► Tongue coated whitish, and slightly congested (second
morning), [5]. ►
Slight yellow coat on tongue, [5]. ► *Tongue coated yellow, [10],
[11]. ► *Tongue coated
yellow along the centre (second day), [10],
[11]. ► *Tongue coated
at first white, with reddish papillæ here and there, followed by a yellowish-brown coating
in the centre, the edges being red and shining, [7].
► Tongue coated yellow, with flat, bitter taste (second
day), [11]. [110.]
► On waking, tongue dry, with the same burnt feeling
(second day), [2]. ►
Tongue feels thick and swollen, [7]. ► Tongue feels as though it had been scraped, [1]. ► Numb pricking sensation of
the tongue, [7]. ►
*Well-developed ulcers in the mouth, [1]. ► Long-continued flow of saliva, [1].
► *Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid and flat tasting,
[2]. ► Profuse flow
of sweetish-bitter saliva, followed by a dryish or glutinous substance; lips stick together,
[7]. ► In the
morning, increased flow of saliva of a pleasant taste, [8].
► Increased flow of saliva in the evening, [8]. [120.] ►
A most copious flow of saliva, followed by sore throat, with scraping and burning, [1]. ► In a short time,
an increased secretion of saliva, followed by slight pain in the right lung, [8]. ► Taste of food not quite
natural, [2]. ►
Flat taste in mouth (9 A.M., second day), [10]. ► Flat, bitter taste in mouth, [11]. ► Bad taste in mouth, [7]. ► Filthy taste, with
flow of saliva, [3].
THROAT.
► In the afternoon,
fulness of the throat, [9]. ►
Slight angina; throat feels swollen or full, with oppressed respiration, [7]. ► *Constrictive feeling in
throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition, [1].
[130.] ► Sore throat,
extending to the posterior nares (after one hour), [12].
► Throat sore, and feels contracted (after twenty
minutes), [12]. ►
Sore throat, with scraping and burning, preceded by a most copious flow of saliva, [1]. ► Tickling in the
throat, constantly provoking to cough, [1]. ► Tonsils and soft palate look very red, but are not
painful (second day), [11]. ►
Tonsils congested, [11]. ►
Tonsils and soft palate congested (second and third days), [11]. ► Tonsils very much
congested, with frequent inclination to swallow, which produces pain in the root of the
tongue, [11]. ►
Fauces and tonsils very much congested, [11]. ► Scraped sensation extends through the fauces, [1]. [140.] ►
Dryness and roughness of the pharynx, extending to the nares, with a stringent sensation,
followed after a little by an increased secretion from the parts, especially the pharynx, [8]. ► Raw sensation in
pharynx, with a large amount of viscid mucus, [1]. ► Pricking sensation in upper part of pharynx, [1].
STOMACH.
► Loss of appetite,
[3], [5]. ► Thirst, [5]. ► Constant desire for water, [7].
► Frequent gulping up of air (from subcutaneous injection
of 10 drops), [10]. ►
Frequent eructations of flatus, [1]. ► Nausea, [1], [4]. ► Slight nausea and
want of appetite, [7]. [150.]
► Slight nausea, with increased heat, [3]. ► Feeling as though it would
be a relief to vomit, [1]. ►
Feeling as if he would vomit, but no nausea, with severe shooting pain in the left kidney
and left side of the umbilicus (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after fifteen
minutes), [10]. ►
Gone, empty feeling at stomach, [2]. ► Pains in the stomach, and feeling as if there was a hard
substance in it, [5]. ►
Severe pain every few minutes in the cardiac portion of stomach (after five hours), [10]. ► A good deal of
pain in epigastric region all night, [10]. ► Slight pain all day in stomach and right hypochondriac
region; pain in right side very severe when walking, [10].
► Slight pain in stomach and right hypochondriac region
and umbilical (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after half an hour), [10]. ► Pain in stomach, abdomen,
and right hypochondrium, passing down to right iliac region (third day), [4]. [160.] ►
Constant pain in stomach and liver, quite sharp at times, [10].
► Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondriac
region, [10]. ►
Constant pain, of a drawing character, in the epigastric and right hypochondriac regions,
very severe when walking, [10]. ►
Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondrium of a dull, aching character, and extending
to the spine; very much worse by motion, [10]. ► At night, frequent pain in the epigastric region, very much
worse by turning over, which he had to do all the time, [10].
► Great distress in epigastric and umbilical regions,
with great rumbling, [11]. ►
Great distress in stomach and bowels all the forenoon, with desire to vomit, [11]. ► Constant burning distress
in the epigastrium, with severe colicky pains in the umbilical, and especially in the
hypogastric region, every few seconds, with rumbling in the bowels and desire to vomit, but
no nausea (30 grains crude bark), [10]. ► In evening, cramp in the stomach, [5]. ► Heavy aching pain in
stomach and liver, with very hot sensation in those parts, [10].
[170.] ► Constant
aching distress in the stomach and umbilical region, with a great deal of pain in region of
gall-bladder, [11]. ►
Constant dull aching pain in the stomach and liver, [10].
► Dull pain in the epigastric region, [10]. ► Dull pain at the pit of
the stomach, and constriction of the diaphragm, [8]. ► Pressure at stomach, with belching of large quantities of
flatus, [12]. ►
Stitching pain in cardiac extremity of stomach, [6].
ABDOMEN.
► Pains in liver
(third day), [6]. ►
Dull pain in right hypochondriac region (after three hours), [10].
► *The pain in the liver extends from the right lateral
ligament to the gall-bladder; it is almost impossible to walk, it makes the pain so severe
in the region of the gall-bladder, [10]. ► Suffered constantly and severely all day with pain in the
liver and stomach; the pain caused a numb feeling to pass all over the body, [10]. [180.] ► Good deal of dull pain in liver, stomach, and umbilical
region (second day), [10]. ►
Soreness in region of liver, [5]. ► *Constant dull pain in region of the gall-bladder; very severe on
walking, [10]. ►
*Severe pain in region of gall-bladder; lasted one hour, [11]. ► Good deal of distress in
the umbilical region all day (second day), [11]. ► Constant dull pain in the umbilical region, [11]. ► Constant aching pains in
umbilical region (30 grains crude bark, second day), [10].
► Constant slight pain in the umbilical region, [11]. ► Constant dull
pain in the umbilical and hypogastric regions; by spells the pain in hypogastric region very
sharp, [11]. ►
Constant dull aching pains in umbilical region, aggravated by a full inspiration (second
day), [10]. [190.]
► All day, constant pain in umbilical region, with slight
rumbling of bowels (second day), [10]. ► *Fulness of abdomen, [7].
► *Distension of abdomen, [1]. ► Flatulence, [7]. ► Loud borborygmi (third
day), [6]. ►
Rumbling in the intestines, [1]. ►
Slight rumbling in the bowels, [10]. ► Rumbling, with desire for stool, [11]. ► Slight rumbling in the
bowels, with a mushy stool (after three hours), [10]. ► Dull aching distress in bowels (second day), [11]. [200.] ► Dull pain in abdomen on pressure, [5]. ► Quite a number of times
there have been sharp shooting pains all through the bowels, [10].
► Soreness of abdominal muscles, as if from cold or
coughing severely, [7]. ►
Pain in hypogastrium, [7]. ►
Glands of left groin very much swollen, one of them as large as a common-sized hickory-nut;
very painful when walking (second day), [11]. ► Dull drawing pain in right groin, [10]. ► Severe drawing pains in
right groin and testicle and right foot, [10].
STOOL AND ANUS.
► Bowels
loose next morning (very uncommon), [6]. ► *Diarrhœa (third day), [6].
► *Diarrhœic stools dark, [3]. [210.] ► Soft stools (first and second days), [10]. ► Soft mushy stool, [11]. ► Soft papescent
stool (second day), [11]. ►
*Stool papescent, with a large quantity of mucus, but no real pain, [11]. ► Bowels costive, [2]. ► Bowels costive for
two days, [5]. ►
Constipation (fourth day), [6], [7]. ► Constipation
throughout the period of proving (eight days), [2]. ► Constipation severe, with hæmorrhoids in the afternoon;
quite troublesome (fifth day), [6].
URINARY ORGANS.
► *A sort of
burning when urinating, [7]. [220.] ► Urine is of a whitish
color, does not change blue litmus, and has no effect on red paper (second day), [11]. ► Urine
high-colored, [5]. ►
*Urine not very copious, but of dark-red color, [7].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
► In
morning, swelling of the epiglottis, [5]. ► Increased secretion from the bronchial tubes and fauces, with
expectoration of mucus, [8]. ►
Hoarseness to such an extent as to require the utmost effort to be understood, [1]. ► In afternoon,
disposition to cough quite troublesome, [9]. ► Lungs feel easier and stronger than usual (curative
reaction), [9]. ►
She was cured by this proving of a troublesome cough of long standing, [°], [9]. ► Constant want to take a full breath, [2]. [230.] ►
In the afternoon, difficulty of breathing, [9]. ► At 6 P.M., oppressed breathing, with cough, soreness of right
lung, and sneezing, [8]. ►
*Awoke with great difficulty of breathing; the lungs felt tight and compressed;
could not get a full breath; felt obliged to open the window to get his face to fresh air,
with the same burning heat of surface, dry tongue, increased pulsations of the heart, and
accelerated pulse, and the same peculiar feeling of the brain as on first night. An hour
passed before he could breathe easily and felt comfortably cool, [2]. ► *On lying down, difficulty
of breathing, in half an hour becoming so great that he was obliged to rise; afraid to go to
sleep from a feeling of certainty that he should immediately have nightmare and
suffocations. ► This difficulty of breathing is not so
much from constriction of the chest as from a feeling of want of power in the respiratory
apparatus, such as he had only felt during a fever, [2].
CHEST.
► Constriction and
oppression of the chest, [3]. ►
Tightness of chest and desire to take a deep inspiration (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► In the afternoon,
tightness of the chest, [9]. ►
Oppression of chest and difficult breathing, [11]. ► Sharp pains in chest when taking a long breath, [7]. ► Pain through left
of chest, [12]. [240.]
► Pain in the right lung, continuing some time; less pain
in the left lung, with some soreness, [8]. ► Rheumatic pains in right side, [5].
► Dull pain in the sternum, [8]. ► In the afternoon, sensation
of weight and oppression in the præcordial regions, with a feeling of unsatisfied
breathing, [8].
HEART AND PULSE.
► Feeling
of greatly increased compass and frequency of the pulsations of the heart; pulsations seem
to fill the chest, [2]. ►
Throbbing in heart, so as to be distinctly heard, [6].
► Pulse, at first accelerated, afterwards became very low
and faint, [7]. ►
Pulse slow and weak (third day), [4]. ► Slow, round, full pulse, [3].
► The pulse (usually but little over 70) I judged to be
90 or over, full and soft, [2]. [250.] ► Pulse 70, rising,
about 2 o’clock P.M., to 100, [5].
NECK AND BACK.
► Neck stiff
and lame (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► *Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles (after one
hour), [12]. ► Pain
in neck, unbearable on moving head (after twenty minutes), [12].
► Soreness of muscles of neck, [5]. ► Twitching in latissimus
dorsi of left side (third day), [6]. ► Lameness of muscles of back and chest, especially when moving
the head (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► *Back and hips are very stiff, and ache severely (second
day), [11]. ► Pain
in back extending to sacrum, [3]. ► Slight backache (third day), [11].
[260.] ► Back aches
severely, aggravated by walking (second day), [11]. ► Dull heavy aching in lumbar region on going to bed at night, [5]. ► Dull aching pain
in lumbar region; very severe when walking (second day), [10].
► Dull pain in small of back (after three hours), [10]. ► *Dull pain of the
sacrum, compounded of a feeling as from pressure, and fatigue from long stooping, and soon
extending around hips and down right leg, [2].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
►
Wandering pains in all the limbs, with dizziness, [12].
► *Aching in limbs, [3].
► *Drawing pains in arms and legs, [10]. ► At times, drawing pain in
right wrist and left ankle, [11]. ► Prickling of hands and feet, with numbness; worse on motion, [12]. [270.] ► Peculiar thrilling sensation through both hands and feet,
somewhat like going to sleep or a want of circulation, [2].
UPPER EXTREMITIES.
►
Constant twitching in left deltoid muscle (since taking first dose), [6]. ► Pain in left shoulder and
arm (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Pain in left shoulder, extending down the arm (after one
hour), [12]. ►
Drawing pain in shoulder and arms, more in the left (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Feel sore and stiff about
shoulders and chest (second day), [12]. ► Numbness of left hand and forearm, with prickling (after one
hour), [12]. ► Numb
prickling pain of hand and arm, worse by movement; sharp darting pain through the fingers
(after twenty minutes), [12]. ►
The hands felt large and were tremulous, [2].
LOWER EXTREMITIES.
► Lower
limbs, on walking, feel weak and vacillating, [2]. [280.] ► Pain in hips and
legs, with numbness (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► Drawing pains in the left hip (second day), [11]. ► Drawing pains in right hip
and both calves (30 grains crude bark), [10]. ► Soreness in anterior part of thighs, worse after sitting
awhile (third day), [6]. ►
Darting pain in left knee and malleolus of left side (third day), [6]. ► Drawing pains in legs, [11]. ► Legs ache, [10]. ► Cramps in calves
of legs whenever he moves them, [11]. ► Drawing pain in calves of legs, [10]. ► Severe drawing pain in
both calves, [10]. [290.]
► Frequent drawing pain in calves (second day), [11]. ► Drawing pains in
the legs (after three hours), [10]. ► Foot and leg prickly, and can move but little, [12]. ► Left foot numb, and prickles
(after twenty minutes), [12].
GENERALITIES.
► *Restless,
[3]. ►►
*Restless; does not sleep quietly; wants to get up, and
yet does not want to, [7]. ► *During the evening, uneasy, restless; could confine himself to
nothing; wanted to be moving from place to place (second day), [2]. ► No disposition to move, [3]. ► On going to bed,
feeling of inability to make either physical or mental exertion, [2]. ► *Great languor, [5]. [300.] ► Feels weary and obliged to lie down (after twenty minutes), [12]. ► After walking,
feeling of rather painful weariness of back and lower limbs, especially the right, and the
right shoulder and arm, [2]. ►
Painful weariness of the whole left side of body (after one hour), [12]. ► *General tired, bruised, sick
feeling in all parts of the body, yet does not feel very badly (third day), [6]. ► Debility, [3]. ► Muscular debility,
[3]. ► Through the
day, rather weak (second day), [2]. ► *Feel rather weak and tremulous, as though recovering from a fit of
sickness, and as yet incapable of vigorous mental or physical exertion (third
day), [2]. ►
Feeling very weak, and trembling a good deal, [10]. ► Very weak and faint, [11].
[310.] ► *Sensation of
weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees and vertigo,
[1]. ► Prostration
(third day), [4]. ►
Feeling of great prostration, with flashes of heat from small of back in all directions, [4]. ► Prostration and
increased perspiration upon the least exertion, [9]. ► Felt stronger on walking in open air (third day), [2]. ► Very faint and
weak; legs tremble and ache, [11]. ► Paralysis of whole left side; left arm and hand entirely
numb and powerless, [12]. ►
General feeling of having slept too long and too hard, with a bloated feeling of the eyes
(third day), [2]. ►
Feel as though had taken cold; throat sore, and sneezed several times, [12]. ► *Indescribable sick feeling
all over, [5]. [320.]
► Rheumatic pains and soreness all over the body, [7]. ► Stiffness of all
the joints, as though strained, [7]. ► Feel stiff and sore all over; dread to move, [12]. ► Each time after waking
from the nightmare, the parts on which he lay soon became exceedingly painful, especially
the sacral region and hips. After lying for not more than ten minutes upon the back, the
sacral region became intolerably painful, as though he had lain on the bare-floor all night,
and inducing the conviction that a short continuance of the position would produce bedsores.
When turning on the either side, the same sensation was produced on the hips, obliging him
at last to turn on his face to relieve these parts, [2].
► Intolerance of pressure on all parts on which pressure
was made; could not rest back against chair without pain from the pressure; obliged to
change sitting posture every few minutes from same cause; even the feet became equally
painful from resting on the floor, [2]. ► Slight erratic pains in various parts (fourth day), [6].
SKIN.
► Livid spots appear
all over the body and limbs; size of pea to three-cent piece; thickest on body; without
sensation; not elevated, and irregular in shape (after six weeks), [12].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Drowsiness; disposition to have eyes half closed (third day), [4].
► Feel drowsy, and must sleep (after three hours), [12]. ► Drowsy, stupid,
tired feeling, [3]. [330.]
► Unusual sound sleep, [5].
► Deep sleep till 3 A.M., [5].
► Slept profoundly all night, and was not even waked in
the morning by the breakfast-bell, a very unusual occurrence (second day), [2]. ► Slept well until midnight,
then could not sleep any more, [10]. ► *Slept very well until 2 A.M., then very restless till morning,
[10]. ► Slept until
2 A.M., then could not sleep any more, [10]. ► *Slept until 3 A.M.; could not sleep any more, but had to toss about
constantly (30 grains crude bark, second day), [10].
► Slept well until 1 A.M.; awoke with severe cutting
pains in hypogastric region, with loud rumbling of the bowels; very
restless after (second day), [11]. ► Slept two or three hours, and waked from a troublesome dream,
with difficult breathing, a sort of nightmare; felt on waking as if the room was
insufferably hot and close, hindering respiration, [2].
► After sleeping about two hours, had nightmare, from
which he seemed to be a long time in rousing himself by violent efforts, to move and to make
a noise. The anxiety continued some time after waking. (Has never had nightmare for many
years, except when sleeping on back, or, very rarely, on left side. In all the instances
recorded, was sleeping in usual position, on right side), [2].
[340.] ► Lay down and
slept an hour, waking from a sort of nightmare with moderate tightness of the chest and
correspondingly difficult breathing, which was soon over (after one and a half hours), [2]. ► Slept well the
remainder of the night, after having, for a short time, slight febrile chilly horripilations
over the lower limbs and back, [2]. ► Had a very restless night (second day), [11]. ► At night, sleepless,
disturbed, [6]. ►
Restless night, with frightful dreams, [10].
► Dreams at night, [5].
► When asleep, continual dreaming, [6]. ► Dreamed all night; in
dreams triumphed over all opposition, [6]. ► Dreams about fighting and disputations, but always comes off
best, [7]. ► Frightful
dreams, [10], [11]. [350.] ► Dreamed of being bound down with a chain across the mouth, [10]. ► At night, slept
two or three hours, and dreamed of laboring hard in deep snow, suffering with heat from the
exertion, and finally being smothered in the snow, [2].
FEVER.
► Surface of body
chilly, [1]. ►
Slight chill about 11 o’clock A.M., [5]. ► Forenoon, chill over back while sitting by a hot fire, [5]. ► In evening, great
chilliness on going into open air, [5]. ► Slight chilliness in the lower limbs and back (very soon
after taking), [2]. ►
In evening, chills over back, [5]. ► Most uncomfortable burning heat of the whole surface,
especially the face; it compelled him to move to a cool part of the bed, and finally to rise
and open a window and wash his face and hands; with these symptoms there was a peculiar
feeling of the head, which is never felt except during the presence of fever, [2]. ► On waking at 3 A.M.,
flashes of heat and feeling as if perspiration would break out, [5]. [360.] ►
General heat after going to bed, [5]. ► Burning sensation over the whole body, followed by
perspiration, vomiting, and diarrhœa, [3]. ► Heat of the face (after a few minutes), [2]. ► Flashes of heat over face, [5]. ► At night, heat and
burning in lower extremities so intense as to prevent sleep much of the night, [6]. ► Chill all day,
with fever at night, [7]. ►
Whole surface of body feels hot and dry, with occasional chill, principally up and down the
back, as if ague were coming on, [7]. ► Extremities feel hot, except the feet, which are cold, [7].
CONDITIONS.
► Aggravation.
► (Morning), After
rising, dull feeling of head, etc.; frontal headache; increased saliva; swelling of
epiglottis; on waking, 3 A.M., flashes of heat, etc. ► (Forenoon), Distress in stomach, etc.; chill over back; about 11
A.M., slight chill. ► (Afternoon),
Pain in anterior lobes of brain, etc.; fulness of throat; disposition to cough; difficulty
of breathing; 6 P.M., oppressed breathing, etc.; tightness of chest; sensation of weight,
etc., in præcordial regions. ► (Evening),
Frontal headache, etc.; on moving eyes, soreness in
front of head; increased saliva; cramp in stomach; uneasy, etc.; chilliness; chills over
back. ► (Night), Pain
in epigastric region; difficulty of breathing; on going to bed, pain in lumbar region; heat,
etc., in lower extremities. ► (Going
into open air), Lachrymation. ► (Walking in open air), Lachrymation. ►
(After going to bed), General heat. ► (Beer), All symptoms. ► (After breakfast), Dull
feeling. ► (Full inspiration),
Pains in umbilical region; sharp pains in chest. ► (Lying down), Difficulty of breathing. ►
(Motion), Headache; pain in stomach, etc.; prickling of
hands, etc.; numb pain of hand, etc. ► (Moving head), Pain in neck; lameness of muscles of back, etc. ► (On moving legs), Cramp
in calves. ► (Noise),
Headache. ► (After sitting),
Soreness of thighs. ► (Stooping),
Soreness of brain. ► (Turning
over), Pain in epigastric region. ► (On waking), Tongue dry. ► (Walking), Pain in right side; pain in epigastric, etc., regions; pain in gall-bladder; pain in glands of groin; backache; pain in
lumbar region; weakness in lower limbs, etc. ► (After walking), Weariness of back, etc. ►
Amelioration. ► (Walking
in open air), Felt stronger.
SUPPLEMENT: BAPTISIA.
Authority.
13, C.
Wesselhoeft, M.D., Trans. Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iii, 1875, p, 457, took 3 drops of the
5th dil.►
In five minutes to half an hour, aching pain of occiput,
extending from ear to ear, and from nape of neck to vertex (first day), [13]. ► Immediately after taking
medicine, aching pressure over whole occiput, from ear to ear, and from vertex to nape of
neck (fourth day), [13]. [370.]
► For two days, severe sleepiness, dulness and drowsiness
of memory; fall asleep easily while sitting or writing (second and third days). Great
sleepiness all day while sitting still; irresistible desire to sleep in carriage; was so
exhausted and sleepy after a light dinner, at 3 P.M., as to be unable to sit up any longer.
Refreshed after an hour of imperfect sleep, but felt sleepy and tired all the evening
(fourth day); Immediately after breakfast, great sleepiness, would like to lie down and
sleep, though I slept well all night. Head dull and heavy; mental work costs great exertion;
great disinclination to exert the mind in any manner. Excessively sleepy all day; gaping
while conversing with people; fall asleep in the horse cars; and can scarcely keep awake
while driving. Sleep after dinner refreshed me somewhat, but sleepiness returned in the
evening with nausea (fifth day), [13].® 2000
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