HYDRASTIS.
Hydrastis Canadensis, Linn.
Natural order
, Ranunculaceæ. Common names, Orange-root, Yellow Puccoon.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
(1–16, Lippe’s class
provings, Hahn. Month., 2, 260) 1,
Aug. Korndœrfer, one dose of 30th dil.; [I have been subject for years
to a congestion of blood to the head, which causes vertigo, flickering
before the eyes, sensation as if the cranium was too small and would
burst; an excruciating pain in the eyes, in the temporal region, and
across the top of the head, accompanied with nausea. These are the
symptoms in the worst attacks, of which I have from four to six every
year; after these severe attacks, I have a dull pain in my head,
generally for weeks, the greater part of the time. Am generally
constipated, which constipation, has not been affected by the medicine, [1].] 2,
“A.,” aged 31, took one drop of 30th dil.; 3, W. S. Virgin, aged 24, took 5 drops of
tincture; 4, same, took 10 drops 3d
dil.; 5, W. McGeorge took 30th dil.,
repeated on fifth and seventh days; 6,
A. G. Lille took a drop of —?; 7,
Henry Keusel aged 33, took 30th dil.; |Having cold in the head.]; 8, William D. Hall took 1 drop 30th; 9, C. B. Dreber took tincture, 1 drop first
day, 5 drops fourth day; [Rather dyspeptic.]; 10,
Miss S., aged 30, took 1 drop 30th first day, and 1 drop of 8th dil.
“on Wed. and Sat.;” 11, J.
J. H., aged 20, took 1 drop of 30th; 12,
Augustine Thompson, aged 30, [Has had chronic inflammation and much
bleeding at lungs, which terminated in an abcess, which was cured by
homœopathic remedies; since then the lungs have been very susceptible
to morbid impressions; was well when proving began.] took 1 drop of 6th
dil.; 13, Miss M., aged 28, took 1
drop of 30th; 14, Miss V., aged 20,
took 1 drop of 30th; 15, H. M., aged
36, took 2 drops 30th; 16, M. M.
Walker, aged 21, took 1 drop 15th dil.; 17,
Dr. W. N. Whitesides, Am. Hom. Obs., 1866, p. 516, took tincture of
dried root for eighteen days, doses from 30 to 300 drops; 18, Dr. C. H. Weaver, Am. Hom. Obs., 1866, p.
518, gave N. F. 1st dec. dil., “pellets four times a day;” 19, Dr. Weaver’s proving on himself, ibid.; 20, Dr. Bayer, Hom. Obs., 1, 189, poisoning
of a woman, aged 75, with 60 drops of tincture; 21,
H. N. Martin, Hahn. Month., 6, p. 124, took one dose of the 10m dil.; 22, poisoning of a lady by application of an
infusion of Hydrastis to a sore mouth and throat, “a whole
tumblerful was used in five hours as a gargle, and applied with a cloth
over mouth and chin,” Am. Hom. Obs., 1866, p. 266.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Affections
active, [10]. ► Exhilaration of spirits and a feeling of
lightness and happiness (second day), [13].
► Felt high-spirited and good-natured
(nineteenth day), [5]. ► In high spirits; everything looked
bright; felt happy, and wanted to sing (third day), [7]. ► During
proving, more cheerful than usual, [10].
► Felt cheerful on getting up (second
day), [5]. ►
Unusual cheerfulness and hopefulness, several days, [15]. ► Felt
very cheerful and good-natured (second day), [5]. ► Very
sanguine and contented (second day), [5].
[10.] ►
Unusual buoyancy (second day), [5].
► Very good-humored (second day), [2]. ►
Felt despondent; better after “quiz,” in the evening (seventh
day), [5]. ►
Began to grow gloomy, taciturn, and disagreeable towards his
acquaintances, at 10 A.M. (second day), [2].
► Felt fretful and low-spirited
(fifth day), [5]. ► Ill-humor; vindictiveness; at 8 A.M.
(second day), [4]. ► Spiteful, angry disposition, with desire
to snub any one who differed in anything with me; lasting all day (third
day), [4]. ►
Spitefulness and disposition to hit and knock things in general;
disappeared towards evening (second day), [4].
► Intellectual. ► Dislike to go out, to read, to write, to
do anything (fifth day), [5]. ► Aversion to mental occupation (second
day), [4]. [20.] ►
Constant aversion to the application of the mind (fourth day), [12]. ►
Aversion to study (third day), [3].
► Absent-minded (fourteenth day), [1]. ►
In writing, make wrong letters; have never been so absent-minded before
(fourteenth day), [1]. ► Memory seems deficient (fourth day), [12]. ►
Dulness of memory (second day), [4].
► Forgetfulness (while writing); if I
want anything and raise my hand to pick it up, or go after it, will
forget, for a few seconds, what was wanted which would make me very
angry and feel like damning and cursing everything and anybody who
bothered me in the least (second day), [4].
► While reading, forget what I am
reading about (third day), [3]. ► Very forgetful, losing myself in a
conversation repeatedly; cannot keep a steady train of thought
(fourteenth day), [1].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Head confused (fourth day), [12]. [30.] ►
Feeling as if intoxicated (second morning), [19]. ► General
Head. ► Immediate feeling
as if the brain was partially narcotized, soon followed by sharp cutting
pain darting through the temples (after 1st dose), [19]. ► Head
feeling very hot, but cold to touch (fifth day), [1]. ►
Remarkable heat and confusion in the head, with a loss of memory of
recent things; palliation of the heat and confusion by pressing the cool
hand across the forehead (second day), [12].
► Head ached severely till I went to
sleep (eleventh day), [11]. ► Headache on rising (fourth day), [5]. ►
Headache all the afternoon (fifth day), [1].
► After breakfast, head commenced to
ache; first it felt extremely full, then dull pain in temples; on every
step or sudden movement of body, felt pain more (eleventh day), [11]. ►
Headache of a nervous, gastric character up to 12 M. (second day), [19]. ►
Dull headache (fifth day), [1]. [40.] ►
Dull headache, with some sharp stitches through the temples (third day);
headache increased (fourth day); did not feel quite easy for a week, [19]. ►
Dull pain in head on getting up (second day), [6]. ► Head
feels full (fourth day), [1]. ► On going upstairs, or on sudden stooping,
seems as though head would burst; coughing makes head worse (eleventh
day), [11]. ►
Dull, heavy feeling in the head, amounting to pressure over root of nose
(second day), [4]. ► Headache bounding and throbbing (fourth
day), [2]. ► Forehead. ►
Heaviness and sensation of fulness in forehead, most over left eye;
constant in warm room; passed off after walking in open air; at 9 A.M.
(second day), [3]. ► Severe pain in forehead and stinging
pains in chest, lasting some time, at 8.30 A.M. (sixth day), [3]. ►
Sensation of fulness on the forepart of the head, lasting perhaps ten
minutes; pressing the temples removes the sensation momentarily (second
day), [1]. ►
Sneezing caused fulness of head between temples and forehead at 11 A.M.
and 7 P.M. (I seldom ever sneeze when I have a cold, and I can scarcely
attribute this to anything but the medicine), (third day), [1]. [50.]
► Bursting feeling in head on waking
at 9 A.M., very severe and almost stupefying; the pain was in the
frontal part; ameliorated by pressing the skin towards the temporal
bone, on pressing in the forehead, and on wearing a light hat or a loose
hat drawn tightly; rather better while in motion and while the mind was
engaged (fifth day), [5]. ► A little headache across forehead on
getting up at 6.30 A.M. (third day), [5].
► Severe frontal headache (fifth
day), [3]. ►
Headache, with sensation of the brain being pressed against the frontal
bones, after breakfast (second day), [8].
► Soreness in forehead at 9 A.M.
(fifth day), [9]. ► Head began to ache right across frontal
sinuses, the pain being dull and lazy, and slightly throbbing (second
day); at night, head continued to ache all over forehead and into
temples (third day), [2]. ► Temples. ►
Pain in temporal region, both sides, and also pain over top of head
(seventh day), [1]. ► Pain in left temple, extending into left
nostril, 8 A.M. (fifth day), [3]. ► Pain in temple over left eye, lasting
some time, at 11 A.M. (third day), [3].
► Slight headache, lasting only a few
moments, first on right side, mainly in the temporal region, then
passing to the left temporal region; leaving the left, returning to the
right, at 8.45 A.M. (second day), [1].
[60.] ►
Severe headache in temples, relieved by pressure; on going into the open
air about an hour afterwards, this headache disappeared; seemed to have
been excited by emotion; about 9 P.M. (eighth day), [11]. ► Sharp,
cutting pains through the temples, with dimness of vision, [18]. ►
Stinging, sharp pains in the temples, but dull in the vertex and over
the eyes (after first dose), [10].
► Constant throbbing headache all day
in both sides of the head in the anterior temporal region (third day), [2]. ►
Vertex. ► *Headache; dull,
pressing pain on top of head, pressing outward from ears, at 10.30 A.M.
(eighth day), [1]. ► Parietals. ►
Dulness of right side of head (second day), [16]. ►
Heaviness of right side of head, with drowsiness (first day), [16]. ►
Pain from centre of brain, extending to parietal protuberance on right
side, [16]. ►
Pain in right parietal protuberance, while going upstairs, at 8.30 A.M.
(fourth day), [3]. ► Unusual dull, heavy aching in left side
of head all day (fourth day), [12].
[70.] ►
Pressing pain over the protuberance of the left parietal bone; the pain
was confined to a spot about three inches in circumference; lasted but a
few minutes; at 12 M. (second day), [8].
► Severe neuralgic pain in the right
side of the head, extending from the occiput to the temple over the ear;
it undulates, or comes and goes; never had such a pain before; at 4 P.M.
(second day), [21]. ► Occiput. ►
Pain, dull and heavy, in left occipital region, with pale face, much
heat in the head, and pressing from within outwards in region of
temporal fossa; relieved by the pressure of a cool hand and cool open
air (third day), [12]. ► Aching pain in cerebellum, first in
right, later in left side (second day), [4].
EYE.
► Brow
and Orbit. ► Pain over
left eye, at 9 A.M.; ceasing on walking into open air (fifth day), [9]. ►
Pain above left eye, which appeared several times, but was always
relieved by laying the hand on the part, at 10 A.M. (second day), [4]. ►
Pain in both supraorbital regions at 8 A.M. (fourth day), [3]. ► Lids.
► Eyes somewhat agglutinated (unusual), (second day). On waking in morning,
eyes considerably agglutinated (third day). Both eyes completely stuck
together; has no cold, and knows of no cause that would produce it,
except the remedy (fourth day), [2].
► Lachrymal Apparatus. ► Burning sensation in lachrymal duct, on
right side, at 3 P.M. (fourth day), [1].
► Vision. ► Flickering before the eyes in
bright-yellow light; streaks in squares, always making three sides of a
square, at 7 P.M. (seventh day), [1].
[80.] ►
Sneezing in the sun caused flickering before the eyes at 11 A.M. (I have
been troubled with this flickering for many years, when exerting myself
or standing long in the sun), (second day), [1].
EAR.
►
Partial stoppage of Eustachian tube, [10].
► Left ear feels as if it had cotton
in it, impeding hearing, at 9 A.M. (Am not sure that this was the effect
of the medicine, as my ear had a little wax in it, but this feeling did
not go off for some minutes after the wax was extracted), (second day), [16]. ►
Pain in right ear; when that disappeared, it was immediately followed by
fulness in the forehead and pain over left eye, immediately after
supper, at 6.30 P.M. (third day), [9].
► Transient tensive aching in right
ear, once in morning and once in afternoon (second day), [15]. ► Sharp
pain behind right ear for one moment (in mastoid process of temporal
bone), passing down to right shoulder, back of clavicle, about midway
between arm and neck; the entire symptom lasted only a few moments;
pain, however, very severe; at 9.30 A.M. (third day), [1]. ► Hearing.
► A noise in the ears (after five
minutes, seventeenth day), [17]. ► Noise in the ears on waking at night, and
trembling in the bowels (twelfth and thirteenth nights), [17]. ►
Roaring in the ears at 9 P.M. (eleventh day), [17]. ►
Roaring in the ears like a partridge on waking in the night (ninth
night); the waking is habitual, [17].
[90.] ►
Ringing in the ears, with slight pain in the anus (fourteenth day), [17]. ►
Noise in ears, as from the turning of a machine in a machine shop, at 2
P.M. (seventh day), [1]. ► A noise in the ears as of cog-wheels
(tenth and fourteenth nights), [17].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► Continual
snuffing and occasional sneezing through the day (second day), [19]. ►
Sneezing (fifth day), [1]. ► Sneezing constant for twenty minutes
(third day), [19]. ► Sneezing once at 7 P.M. (fourth day), [3]. ►
Sneezing every time he woke up (fourth day), [2]. ►
Sneezing after breakfast, from tickling in right nostril, left stopped
up, at 7 A.M. (second day), [3]. ► Sneezing, jarring the whole chest,
causing sore feeling, particularly on right side above nipple, at 10.15
A.M. (fourth day), [1]. [100.] ►
While sitting in warm room, suddenly seized with sneezing, succeeded by
excoriating watery discharge from nose, and retires to bed very sick, at
8 P.M. (fourth day), [2]. ► Cold worse in morning; very much better
in evening (second day), [7]. ► Slight cold in nose in afternoon (third
day); catarrh bad, nose stopped up (fifth day), [5]. ► Coryza
in right nostril, with constant inclination to sneeze, from 7 A.M. to 1
P.M. (second day), [12]. ► Coryza; in the morning, when walking, the
nose felt quite dry; on going into the open air, discharge of water,
which ceases in the room, and the nose feels sore when breathing through
it (seventh day), [9]. ► Coryza, watery, not very profuse, mostly
from right nostril (fourth day), [1].
► On walking into the open air, a
watery coryza set in, which stopped again in room (fifth day), [9]. ►
Continued flow of watery coryza; disappears in warm room; much
aggravated in open air; at 10.15 A.M. (fourth day), [1]. ► Watery
coryza on right side at 3 P.M. (fourth day), [1]. ►
*Discharge of thick yellow matter from nose (sixth day), [3]. [110.] ► Awoke at 7 A.M. and blew plug of soft
mucus out of right nostril (after six hours), [16]. ►
Discharge of mucus from the nose very profuse, almost incessant for ten
days; the bronchia being also affected in a similar manner, but less
severe; it felt and acted like a severe attack of catarrh with
influenza, and had I ever been affected in a like manner before, I
should have thought it the result of a severe cold, [19]. ► While
walking in cold open air, discharge of watery mucus from nose, causing
frequent blowing (second and third days), [3].
► Blowing of blood and yellow mucus
from nose (second day), [4]. ► A little blood and dry coryza from left
nostril (fifth day); bleeding quite profuse (sixth day), [1]. ► Slight
bleeding of nose after dinner; blood bright-red; at 2.30 P.M. (fourth
day), [3]. ►
Nose bled immediately after rising; dark blood for about ten minutes
(seventh day), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Observed tendency to take cold easily at 12 M. (second day), [5]. ►
Felt cold coming on (after three hours); it kept increasing for two or
three days, with discharge of thin mucus, excoriating upper lip,
afterwards turning thicker, [10]. ► Feeling as if something burst, suddenly
followed by a copious discharge of watery coryza (fourth day), [1]. [120.]
► Sensation as of a screen or curtain
in right nostril, which would open and shut during inspiration; this
gradually passed over to the left, leaving the right stopped up (second
day), [3]. ►
Nose dry (second day), [4]. ► Nose dry and stopped up, mostly right
(fourth day), [3]. ► Dryness and stoppage of nose, with scabs
in nose (fourth day), [3]. ► Burning feeling in right nostril (sixth
day), [1]. ►
Burning sensation in nose; disappears in warm room; much aggravated in
open air; the burning in exhalation is almost insupportable, while
inhalation ameliorates (fourth day), [1].
► Fulness at root of nose (fourth
day), [1]. ►
Fulness across bridge of nose and at root of nose (fourth day), [1]. ►
Nose stopped up apparently (fourth day), [5].
► Stopped up feeling in nose; no
discharge from nose (nineteenth day), [5].
[130.] ►
Stoppage of nose in morning, [10].
► Right nostril stopped up (fifth
day), [19]. ►
Stuffed-up, smarting sensation in the posterior nares, as from a recent
cold; increased secretion of nasal mucus (after second dose), [19]. ►
Continual stuffed-up feeling in the posterior nares and nasal sinuses,
with discharge of thin, clear mucus (second day), [19]. ► Nose
feels as if there was a plug in it under nasal bones, at 10.15 P.M.
(fourth day), [1]. ► Internal edge of right ala nasi very sore
and thickened; left stopped up; right dry and painful (in room), (third
day), [3]. ►
Soreness of inside of nose; air is felt painfully and cold while
inhaling with hawking of mucus from throat and posterior nares; at 3.30
P.M. (third day), [3]. ► The air seemed cold to upper inner left
nostril while inhaling, with pain, extending deep into the head,
seemingly from the posterior nares, with pressure in and over left eye;
at 9 A.M. and at 2 P.M., while going from college to boarding-house
(third day), [3]. ► Nose sore for some days, in right
nostril, on cartilage of septum; bleeds on being touched (fourteenth
day), [1]. ►
Sharp, raw, excoriating feeling in both nares, with constant inclination
to empty the nose; the discharge of nasal mucus is very free (third
day), [19]. [140.] ►
Nostril burns very much, as if raw; also itching somewhat (seventh day),
[1]. ►
Tingling in right nostril, causing sneezing, at 4.30 P.M. (first day), [16]. ►
Sensation of tingling running down right nostril, immediately followed
by a few drops of arterial blood; stopped it with cold water; at 3.30
P.M. (first day), [16]. ► After sneezing, constant tickling
sensation in back part of nostril (second day), [12]. ►
Tickling, like a hair in upper right nostril; left stopped up (second
day), [3]. ►
Sensation of a hair in right nostril under the nasal bone, at its lower
border; this symptom I have had at least three times distinctly
(fourteenth day), [1]. ► Nose itched a great deal after bleeding
(sixth day), [1]. ► Intense itching in right nostril from 6
A.M. to 1 P.M.; always relieved in cool air (third day), [12].
FACE.
►
Pale face (fourth day), [10]. ► An aphtha on the under lip (seventeenth
day), [17]. [150.] ►
Small fever blisters on right corner of lower lip (fifth day), [2]. ►
Feeling of tightness of the skin around mouth, the corners of which
seemed drawn down, as usual when sick (fourth day), [10].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Dull pain at
roots of teeth in upper maxilla (fourth day), [1]. ► Dull
ache from right temporal region down to last molar tooth (upper),
lasting only a couple of minutes, at 12.30 P.M. (third day), [1]. ►
Sharp pain in last molar tooth (lower), passing up to the head on left
side, and spreading to the right; a sharp, penetrating pain as from an
exposed nerve; lasted about fifteen minutes, at 9.30 P.M. (third day), [1]. ►
Edges of teeth painfully sensitive to a draft of cold air (second day), [8]. ►
Tongue. ► Tongue seems
large and marked by the teeth (eleventh day), [17]. ► Yellow
coat on the tongue (fifteenth day), [17].
► Broad yellow stripe on the tongue,
and bad taste (twelfth day), [17].
► Aphthæ on the tongue, and the one
on the lip quite large and sore (seventeenth day), [17]. [160.] ► Sensation of dryness at root of tongue
(sixth day), [3]. ► Tongue felt as if scalded by hot coffee;
aggravated by smoking; on rising in morning (third day), [8]. ► Point
of tongue feels scalded and smarts continually; grows worse; spreads all
over anterior half of tongue, and there is a small burning painful
vesicle on left side of tip of tongue where the scalded-sensation first
started (fourth day), [12]. ► General Mouth. ►
Sticky mucus around the palate, and bad taste (second day), [17]. ►
Mouth sticky, with a light fur on the tongue and a little aphthæ on the
upper lip (fourteenth day), [17].
[There were aphthæ on the under lip when I commenced the proving, which
soon disappeared.] ► Burning
sensation in back part of roof of mouth, on right side; at 3 P.M.
(fourth day), [1]. ► Roof of mouth, a short distance back of
the incisors, sore and smooth as if burnt (third day), [1]. ► Twice
felt a slight smarting pain in the left side of palate, in morning
(second day), [11]. ► Tickling sensation on roof of mouth,
right side, back part; between 7 and 9.30 A.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
Taste. ► Bad taste, in the
morning (sixteenth day), [17]. [170.] ►
Peppery taste in the mouth (first day), [19].
► Acid peppery taste in the forward
half of the tongue (after second dose), [19].
► Food tastes strangely (fourth day),
[5].
THROAT.
►
Objective. ► Increased
secretion of mucus in throat, inducing cough, or rather hawking (seventh
day), [11]. ►
Unusual clearing of the throat while singing (eighth day), [17]. ►
Subjective. ► Throat dry
and sore (fourth day), [12]. ► Dryness in throat, with an apparent
swelling in uvula, and an accumulation of mucus about the posterior
nares, which clogged the throat. ►
Throat seemed raw, and swallowing scraped it; at 4 P.M. (third day), [10]. ►
Sore throat (fifth day), [1]. ► Sore and raw feeling in the throat,
especially around the epiglottis, with hoarseness (after second dose), [19]. ►
Throat very sore in morning on waking (thirteenth day); felt most on
coughing or swallowing (fourteenth day), [11].
[180.] ►
Sensation of roughness and soreness of throat, on waking in morning;
worse on swallowing (seventh day), [11].
► Fauces and Pharynx. ► A little mucus in the fauces, which I
cannot swallow (tenth day), [17]. ► Sticky mucus around the fauces (ninth
day), [17]. ►
Feeling of lump in lower part of pharynx, inducing constant deglutition;
at times this lump seems to rise, almost suffocating me; by drawing as
long breaths as possible through my mouth this feeling of suffocation is
removed (eleventh day), [11]. ► Upper part of right side of pharynx sore;
worse during dry swallowing, better on swallowing fluids (eighth day), [11]. ►
Constant tickling low down in pharynx, after lighting a match the fumes
of which passed into mouth; coughing and drinking relieved it
momentarily; 6 P.M. (tenth day); desire to cough increased to nausea at
times (eleventh day), [11]. ► External Throat. ► Pain in neck, extending from left mastoid
process to scapula, at 9 P.M. (third day), [3].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Desire for
bread and tea (fifth day), [5]. ► Had a desire for eggs; generally, do not
eat them or like them (fifth day), [5].
► Poor appetite (fourth and fifth
days), [5]. [190.] ►
Diminished appetite for breakfast (second day), [4]. ► Dislike
for meat and vegetables (fifth day), [5].
► Thirst. ► Thirst, at 4.30 P.M. (third day), [1]. ►
Eructation. ► Some
eructations (unusual), (first day), [21].
► Occasional belching of wind all day
(sixth day), [9]. ► Occasional loud belching of wind during
afternoon (second day), [9]. ► Heartburn in afternoon, which he had not
had before for almost a year (second day), [6]. ► Nausea.
► Slight tendency to nausea (first
day), [21]. ►
*Nausea (third day), [19]. ► Constantly, a feeling of nausea in the
stomach, accompanied by belching up of wind; feeling of emptiness in
stomach, and visible sinking in the region of the stomach, lasting about
thirty minutes; at 11 A.M. (second day), [9].
► Stomach. [200.] ►
Painless gurgling in the stomach (twentieth day), [17]. ► Sinking at
epigastrium and palpitation of heart have been previously
noticed by self and others after use of Hydrastis in low dilutions or
massive doses, [20]. ► Great sense of sinking and prostration at
epigastrium, in morning (second day), [20].
► Empty, gone feeling in stomach, as
though he had been suffering from a long-continued attack of diarrhœa,
and had been unable to eat anything for several days; the abdomen
presented a scooped-out appearance; with this, slight nausea and heavy,
white-coated tongue, on rising in morning (second day), [8]. ► Feeling
of emptiness and dull pain in stomach, for one hour, at 11 A.M. (sixth
day), [9]. ►
Some pain in the stomach (thirteenth day), [17]. ► Severe
dull pain in region of stomach, relieved by belching up wind, at 12 M.
(third day), [9]. ► Weight in the stomach (third day), [17]. ►
While lying on stomach in bed, feeling as of something turning and
twisting in it, lasting about a minute (after four hours and a half), [9]. ►
*Acute, distressing pain in the stomach (second day), [19]. [210.] ► Cutting in the region of the stomach,
lasting five minutes, immediately after eating, at 3 P.M. (second day), [9].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Cutting
pain in left hypochondrium and stomach, after dinner (sixth day), [9]. ►
Severe cutting pain in left hypochondrium (fifth day), [3]. ► Sharp
pain in right side in region of liver, extending to shoulder-blade, not
constant, nor coming on at stated times, but mostly in morning between 8
and 2 o’clock, [14]. ► Umbilical. ►
Some pain in the umbilical region and anus (fifteenth day), [17]. ►
General Abdomen. ►
Rumbling in abdomen as if diarrhœa was coming on (after fifteen
minutes), (fourth day), [9]. ► Rumbling and gurgling in left side of
abdomen, at 12 M. (second day), [4].
► Flatus fetid (eleventh day), [17]. ►
Sensation as if the bowels would be moved, but nothing but wind passes,
with urging to urinate (first day), [21].
► Heavy pain in the abdomen, as if
full of gas, and sensation as if dysentery was approaching (after half
an hour), [21]. [220.] ►
Uneasy burning sensation in abdomen (second day), [4]. ►
Cramplike pains through abdomen, with flatulency (these cramplike pains
in the abdomen I have very often, arising, I think, from constipation);
at 1.30 P.M. (sixth day), [1]. ► Griping in the bowels and soreness over
the surface of the abdomen (second day), [19].
► Griping in the bowels, with several
light, somewhat acrid stools (after second dose), [19]. ►
Griping in the bowels, with profuse light-colored diarrhœa, so
prostrating that he was obliged to discontinue the proving, [18]. ►
Cutting pain in upper right side of abdomen (second day), [3]. ► Cutting
pain in bowels before and after dinner, resembling those before an
attack of dysentery, two years ago (third day), [3]. ► Cutting
pain in bowels, extending to anus, relieved by passing a small quantity
of flatus while lying; at 10 A.M. (second day), [3]. ► Cutting
pain in the sigmoid flexure of the colon, at 2.15 P.M. (sixth day), [9]. ►
During breakfast, cutting pains in bowels; soon after, desire for stool,
with passage of some wind before evacuating; first part of stool seemed
natural, last part soft and dark-brown (second day), [3]. [230.] ► Slight cutting pain in abdomen (fifth
day), [3]. ►
After breakfast, slight cutting pain in abdomen, relieved by passing
wind (second day), [4]. ► Colicky pain in abdomen, with passage of
wind and pressure to stool, at 9 A.M. (sixth day), [3]. ► Slight
colicky pain in upper part of abdomen (fourth day), [3]. ► Slight
colicky pains, with rumbling and gurgling in left side of abdomen, high
up (after quarter of an hour), [4].
► On rising in morning, soreness in
upper part of abdomen, while inhaling (fifth day), [3]. ►
Trembling in the bowels (twelfth and thirteenth night), [17]. ►
Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. ►
Cutting pain extending from umbilicus to penis, at 5 P.M. (eighth day), [3]. ►
Severe cutting pain in (hypogastrium) pit of abdomen, accompanied with a
looseness of the bowels; a desire to go to stool about once every half
hour; it lasted seven hours, with uneasiness. The cutting pain preceded
each evacuation, which relieved it. The evacuations were not thin, but
scanty, and accompanied by tenesmus in the rectum, which caused a
dragging bruised feeling in the ovarian region (fourth day), [10]. ►
Slight pain in right groin while walking, at 2 P.M. (third day), [3]. [240.]
► For several days, have had a dull,
dragging pain in both groins; commences in the right groin, descending
to the right testicle; sometimes passes over to the left testicle, and
from it to the left groin, passing down the right side and up the left.
The pains on the left side I have noticed more in the evening, those on
the right side day and night repeatedly, lasting from one half hour to
two hours. I have a constant sensation in both groins, as if I strained
myself from taking a very long step. It is aggravated by anything
touching the groin; even my clothes are uncomfortable (fourteenth day), [1]. ►
The pain, which lasted four hours in right groin, at different periods,
changed to left; at 8 A.M. (third day), [8].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Heavy pressing distress in rectum (fourth day), [2]. ►
Sensation all day as if hæmorrhage might be repeated, and was, as a
consequence, squeezing the sphincter ani all the time (second day), [2].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa
driving him out of bed, about 7 A.M. (eighth day), [11]. ►
Diarrhœa preceded and followed by much tenesmus. Before stool,
sensation of weakness and trembling; after stool felt better, though
weak, at 10 A.M. (ninth day), [11].
► Diarrhœa; painful feeling over
whole body (fifth day), [1]. ► Diarrhœic stool, preceded by much
tenesmus and slight nausea, followed by some tenesmus for a few minutes;
about 10 A.M. (seventh day), [11].
► Three loose, greenish stools, with
pain in bowels, as after a drastic purge (third day), [20]. ► Two
normal stools (fourth day), [12]. [250.] ►
Half an hour after breakfast, bowels moved more profusely than on the
previous morning, which was followed by hæmorrhage, as on the day
before. The prover had no operation from the bowels for three days,
before taking the medicine (third, fourth, and fifth day), [2]. ►
Stool, almost entirely of yellow water, at 12 M. (eighth day), [11]. ►
Very copious, mushy, light-colored stool (third day), [19]. ► Stools
a little softer than usual all through the proving, and of smaller
diameter, [17]. ► Stool of natural size, but excoriating
the anus, as though covered with sand (sixth day), [3]. ► Stool
tinged with blood (ninth day), [5].
► Observed in passing a natural large
stool that it was tinged with blood, no pain nor straining (third day), [5]. ►
Stools covered with blood, no pain in passing them (fourth day), [5]. ►
Half an hour after breakfast, had an operation of the bowels not
differing from that of any former occasion, but followed by profuse
discharge of bright-red arterial blood, lasting for about a minute, and
occasioning some anxiety (second day), [2].
► The discharge of blood with each
stool continued all the time till the evening of the seventeenth day, Lycopodium 10m, was then given, when this
symptom ceased suddenly; the liver remained enlarged, and gave a dull
sound on percussion; the distress above stated became worse after the
lapse of ten days, when Lycopodium
41m, was administered; a slight improvement followed, and then all the
former symptoms were relieved. Four days after the enlargement and
induration of the liver had entirely disappeared, [2]. ►
Constipation. [260.] ► Have been constipated for two days (third
day), [12]. ►
Scanty stool, in morning (tenth day), [11].
► No discharge from bowels since
yesterday morning; no desire; passed some flatus during day (third day),
[3].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Slight tickling
in urethra several times, generally low down, but once just at orifice
of urethra, in evening (second day), [11].
► Micturition. ► Urging to urinate, and sensation as if
the bowels would be moved, but nothing but wind passes (first day), [21]. ►
Urine seemed to be diminished in quantity, and paler than usual (third
day), [3]. ►
Passed considerable limpid urine frequently (second day), [19]. ► Less
ability to retain the urine; have to urinate more frequently, but I
think not more copiously (fourth day), [17].
► Frequently when eructating, a
little urine escapes into the urethra (fifth day), [17]. ► Urine.
► Secretion of urine diminished, and
smells strong (seventh day), [9]. [270.] ►
Urine smelling a little decomposed (thirteenth day), [17]. ► Urine
has an unusual odor (seventeenth day), [17].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
After urinating, pain at root of penis, just as the flow stopped, at 6
A.M. (sixth day), [3]. ► During and just after stool, aching pain
in glans penis (ninth day), [11]. ► Voluptuous itching of the scrotum,
compelling him to rub it, which relieved, at 8.30 A.M. (third day), [8]. ►
While lying in bed, sharp cutting pain from right iliac region into
right testicle, which left the parts above Poupart’s ligament very sore
and tender, with pain extending into root of penis while pressing upon
it, at 11 P.M. (fifth day), [3]. ► Increased desire for sexual intercourse
(fifth day), [8]. ► During the first embrace, there was no
emission; during the second, the emission was too late, and very scanty
(fifth day), [8].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
Very sharp acrid feeling near the epiglottis, with hoarseness (after
first dose), [19]. ► Voice. ►
Hoarseness (second day), [19]. [280.] ►
Increased hoarseness (third day), [19].
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Pressure with fingers on trachea causes
cough (eleventh day), [11]. ► Short, dry cough at first, turning to a
loose cough, [10]. ► Expectoration of slimy mucus at 5 P.M.
(fourth day), [1]. ► Expectoration of cough sweetish
(fourteenth day), [11]. ► Respiration. ►
Constantly want to draw long breath (eleventh day), [11]. ►
Shortness of breath, [18]. ► Oppressed for breath (eleventh day), [11].
CHEST.
►
The catarrh has descended into the chest, causing distress and
difficulty of breathing; he wants to take long breaths all the time
(sixth day), [2]. ► Pain and rawness in chest (fifth day), [1]. [290.]
► Burning, stinging pain in chest,
most in region of heart, from time to time during the whole day. (These
pains are similar to those I had some two or three years ago, resulting,
I believe, from adhesions, following pleurisy and pericarditis, but had
entirely disappeared, only returning when I took a violent cold (fourth
day), [3]. ►
Spasmodic pain, commencing under right clavicle, and extending down to
right side of chest and back; felt the pain twice severely when
laughing; could not finish the laugh; in morning (second day), [13]. ►
Violent retching pain in lobe of left lung, from the front through to
the back, with a congestive sensation and feeling such as precedes
bleeding at the lungs, lasting four hours, at 9 A.M. (fourth day), [12]. ►
Soreness of chest (sixth day), [1].
► Sore feeling through chest at 4.30
P.M. (fourth day), [1]. ► Soreness of chest, mainly the superficial
muscles, between 7 and 9.30 A.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
Sensation of soreness through chest and upper part of abdomen when
drawing long breath; later, soreness in both mammary regions, and great
disposition to stretch the body backwards, arms upwards, with yawning
(fourth day), [3]. ► Front. ►
Constriction in chest at middle of sternum (second day), [19]. ►
Constrictive, pressive feeling about the sternum, [19]. ► Pain,
as from excoriation, under upper part of sternum, at every cough; though
there is a constant desire to cough, I dread to, so severe is this
sensation (eleventh day), [11]. ► Sides. [300.]
► Aching of superficial muscles on
right side of chest, passing to left side, at 11.30 A.M. (sixth day), [1]. ►
Mammæ. ► Felt a vertical
drawing streak on muscles of left breast, half way between nipple and
sternum; this came quickly; about twelve inches long; seemed to spread,
like a feather, each way from the median line; it went as quickly as it
came (first day), [16]. ► Sneezing generally causes sharp pain in
right breast, between third and fourth ribs to right arm, down arm and
forearm, half way to wrist, at 9 A.M. (fourth day), [1].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Heart’s Action. ► While
attending lectures, heart became agitated, and continued so for about
five minutes, at 5 P.M. (second day), [2].
► *Violent and long-continued
palpitation of heart in morning (second day), [20]. ► Pulse.
► Pulse slow and labored (second
day), [19]. ►
Pulse 56 (eleventh day); 52 at 9 A.M. (thirteenth day); 66 (seventeenth
day); 76 at 1 P.M. (nineteenth day), [17].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Pain in left side
of neck to shoulder, relieved by laying the hand on it (second day), [4]. ►
Pain in back part of neck, extending to right shoulder, with heavy pain
in right shoulder (fourth day), [3].
► Great soreness and harshness of the
muscles of the neck (second day), [19].
► Back. [310.] ►
Slight pain under left scapula all day (fourth day), [12]. ►
Sensation as if draught of cold air was being thrown on the right lumbar
region, and on the right nates, lasting for fifteen minutes, at 11 A.M.
(second day), [8]. ► Slight pain in back below the kidneys
(first day), [21]. ► Painful, tired feeling across small of
back and waist and lower limbs (fifth and sixth days), [1]. ► Pain
across small of back and in knees (fifth day), [1]. ► Sore
pain in small of back, and region of kidney, lasting all day, at 9 A.M.
(third day), [8].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Pain as if tired in all limbs (fourth
day), [1]. ►
Excruciating pain in all the limbs and chest; at 8.30 P.M., pains mostly
in the joints; lasted all the evening (fifth day), [1]. ►
Stinging rheumatic pains in the elbows, forearms, and knees (second
morning), [19].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Soreness of the muscles of the arm when
moving them (fourth day), [3]. ► Shoulder. [320.]
► Heavy pain in left shoulder (fifth
day), [3]. ►
Aching pain in right shoulder and left elbow and knee-joints (fourth
day), [3]. ►
Aching pain in both shoulders (deep in), most severe in the left, with
pain extending from head to shoulder, for a few seconds very severe
(fourth day), [3]. ► Sharp aching pains in the shoulders,
arms, and especially in the first finger of the left hand (third day), [19]. ►
Stinging pain in the right shoulder (second day), [19]. ► Arm.
► Sharp, shifting pain, first in
right arm, above the elbow, then in right side of thorax, above and to
the right of the nipple about one inch, then down to the right thigh, at
11.30 A.M. (fifth day), [1]. ► Elbow. ►
Contusive lameness in the elbows and biceps muscle (after first dose), [19]. ►
Aching pain in left elbow, with snapping in shoulder-joint, when
rotating arm (fourth day), [3]. ► Sharp cutting pains in the elbows and
biceps muscle (after first dose), [19].
► Crick in the right elbow and
phalanges of the left hand, quite painful (tenth night), [17]. ► Forearm.
[330.] ►
Drawing pain from wrist towards elbow on left radial side at 11.30 A.M.
(sixth day), [9].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Weak pains down the legs (first day), [21]. ►
Sharp, shifting pain in left leg, from middle of thigh down to middle of
lower leg, at 11.45 A.M. (fifth day), [1].
► Hip. ►
While walking, pain in right hip-joint, which passed to the knee and
disappeared (second day), [3]. ► Thigh. ►
Rheumatic pains in both thighs, extending later to the hip and
knee-joints; the pain is worse when first sitting down after walking
(eighth day), [9]. ► Sharp pain from right hip-joint to knee,
making it impossible to stand or bear any weight on the right limb, at
6.15 P.M. (fifth day), [1]. ► Knee. ►
Stiffness of the knee-joints, made worse by going upstairs (second day),
[8]. ►
While walking, severe pain in outer
part of left knee, causing limping; at the same time, pressure in left
shoulder (second day), [3]. ► Aching pain in outer part of left knee
while sitting and walking (fourth day), [3].
► Leg. ►
Dull, shooting pain on posterior part of left leg; pain runs down to os
calcis; pain lasted about five minutes; at 10.30 A.M. (second day), [8]. ►
Foot. [340.] ► Pain in left foot, extending from
metatarsus to knee, very painful, at 5.30 P.M. (fourth day), [1]. ►
Troublesome aching in the sole of the left foot, for an hour or two, at
7 A.M. (fourteenth day), [17].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► *Languor
(fourth day), [10]. ► Less languor from fatigue than usual
(second day), [13]. ► Great ennui and lassitude (fifth day), [17]. [The weather is like spring, (in
November).] ► Almost constant
weakness, so increased towards evening, with terrible headache and
giddiness, that I was obliged to cling to my horse for support in the
saddle; fell two or three times in walking to my room, but after a cup
of warm tea, and a little Nux vomica,
I was able to get about (third day), [19].
► Subjective. ► Felt refreshed and like studying or
working all night; 12 P.M. went to bed, not tired (second day), [5]. ►
Felt unrefreshed and dull (second day), [4].
► Disposition to lie down (second
day), [4]. ►
Arose feeling weak (third morning), [19].
[350.] ►
Began to feel very weak at 4 P.M. (second day), [19]. ►
General feeling of dulness (second day), [4].
► Fell dull; want to lie down (eighth
day), [11]. ►
General feeling of malaise (third day), [3].
► Fears he will become sick all over
(fourth day), [2]. ► Feeling of sickness and languor, with
depressed spirits, sad manner, lasting a whole week, [14]. ► Had
pain at night, violent, but too sleepy to notice where (first day), [13]. ►
Occasional darting pain in long muscles (third day), [12]. ►
Headache and all symptoms worse in warm room, while sitting and resting,
especially while thinking of the symptoms, [12]. ► Fresh
air very agreeable, and always brought relief (third day), [12]. [360.]
► All symptoms, except the gone
feeling, disappeared after dinner, and did not return again (second
day), [8].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► A yellow
appearance of the skin, particularly around mouth and neck, [14]. ►
Eruptions. ► Erysipelatoid
rash, covering face, neck, palms of hands, and joints of fingers and
wrists. Irritation maddening, with intense burning heat (third day).
Symptoms continued four days, when the skin exfoliated. Irritation
remained in a slighter form some days; always worse at night, [20]. ►
The mouth, lips, and nose were very much swollen, and pimples made their
appearance during the day around the mouth and chin, resembling the
early stage of small-pox or varioloid (second day); on the next day they
began vesicating; I should have pronounced it small-pox if I had not
known the previous history of the case; the pustules began to sink in
the centre and turn black (fifth day); then commenced drying, went
through the various stages of small-pox or varioloid, and scaled off on
the ninth day, [22]. ► Subjective. ►
Troubled less on elbow and scrotum (had been troubled during summer with
a vesicular in upper and lower extremities and on scrotum, for which had
taken Crot. tig. 200; this removed the eruption and also the intense
itching on the tips of the elbows and scrotum, in which place the
itching was as bad as ever), (second day), [5]. ► Sleep
disturbed after 1 A.M. by an irritation of skin and pudendum, compelling
scratching, which relieved (second day), [10].
► Felt at different times during day
spasmodic attacks of itching in various parts of the body, particularly
in the scalp. No eruption visible. No return of irritation during night
(second day), [10].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Sleepy;
could not pay proper attention to lectures; at 10 A.M. (second day), [4]. ►
Found it almost impossible to keep from sleeping; missed one lecture for
purposes of sleep, and returned to the college, all his symptoms being
much worse; at 11 A.M. (second day), [2].
► Sleep natural; feeling of lassitude
after rising (fourth day), [3]. [370.] ►
Slept well all night; felt refreshed in morning (third day), [3], [4].
► Slept well all night; felt quite
refreshed in morning. On waking, no desire for further rest, and had to
get out of bed. (Sleep usually unrefreshing; when he awakes in morning
has no disposition to get out of bed; wants to sleep and rest more, but
feels much better a short time after getting up), (second day), [2]. ►
Slept well. In the morning on rising, the usual bitter taste in mouth is
absent, and an unusual feeling of good health (second day), [9]. ►
Slept unusually soundly in the morning; hard to awaken (second day), [3]. ►
Sleep unusually sound in morning; hard to be awakened, which was never
the case before (second day), [4].
► Sleeplessness. ► Sleep uneasy; dreamed during night; awoke
early (fifth day), [1]. ► Restless night (first day), [20]. ►
Sleep restless all night, tossing about, seeking cool positions (second
day), [2]. ►
Restless sleep all night (fourth day), [2].
► Night restless and full of dreams
(had studied hard), (second day), [12].
[380.] ►
Very restless all night; woke up every half hour; upon each occasion
sought a new position, in order to gain rest (third day), [2]. ► Very
restless night; troubled with frightful dreams and fancies (first
night), [19]. ► Awakened once or twice through the night;
thought it was time to rise, but immediately fell asleep again (first
day), [4]. ► Dreams. ►
Sleep disturbed by vague unremembered lewd dreams (eighth day), [11]. ►
Troubled and lascivious dreams, with profuse involuntary emissions of
seminal fluid, [19]. ► During the night, sleep disturbed by
dreams, troublesome, worrying dreams; travelling about, always in
motion; sleep was refreshing withal (second and third days), [1]. ►
During the night, dreams of being pursued by wild beasts (unusual),
(first day), [12]. ► Dream of monsters (fifteenth night), [17].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Chilliness
at 9 A.M. (thirteenth day), [17]. ► Slight chill, on undressing at night
(eleventh day), [11]. [390.] ►
Chilly feeling around shoulders and chest, at 9 P.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
Slight chilly sensation in back and thighs, followed in a short time by
an agreeable sensation of heat in these parts, while walking in open
air, at 11 A.M. (second day), [4].
► Heat. ►
Considerable heat of the skin (second day), [19]. ► Great
heat of whole body, at 10 P.M. (fifth day), [1]. ►
Feverish, with moist mouth and tongue (third day), [1]. ►
Somewhat feverish, with intense itching in various parts of the body
(second day), [19]. ► Flushes of heat over face, neck, and
hands (third day), [20]. ► Sweat. ►
The genital organs perspire freely, particularly the scrotum, and emit
so offensive an odor that everything in the pantaloons pockets, and even
the hands when put into them, partook of it; and under the prepuce the
perspiration is excoriating (fifth day), [2].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Cold in head; stoppage of nose; on
waking, sore throat; sense of sinking, etc., at epigastrium; on rising,
empty feeling in stomach; between 8 and 2 o’clock, pain in region of
liver; on rising, while inhaling, soreness in upper abdomen; pain in
chest; palpitation of heart; at 9 o’clock, chilly. ►
(Forenoon), At 11 o’clock chilly
sensation in back, etc. ► (Evening), Pain in groin; at 9 o’clock, chilly
feeling around shoulders, etc. ► (Night), Irritation of skin; on undressing,
chill; at 10 o’clock, heat of body. ►
(Open air), Watery coryza; burning
in nose. ► (Ascending
stairs), Fulness in head; pain in parietal protuberance;
stiffness of knee-joint. ► (Coughing), Headache. ►
(After dinner), Pain in
hypochondrium, etc. ► (After eating), Immediately, cutting in
gastric region. ► (Sitting and resting), Especially while
thinking of the symptoms, headache, and all symptoms. ► (First sitting
down after walking), Pains in thighs. ►
(Sudden stooping), Fulness in head. ► (Dry swallowing),
Soreness of upper pharynx. ► (While walking), Pain in groin; pain in
hip-joint; pain in knee, etc. ►
Amelioration. ► (Evening), Cold in head. ►
(Open air), The symptoms; heaviness,
etc., in forehead; headache in temples; pain over eye. ► (Cool air),
Pain in occipital region; itching in nostril. ►
(Cool hand), Pain in occipital
region. ► (After
dinner), All symptom except gone feeling. ► (Laying on of
hand), Pain above eye. ► (Mental occupation), Feeling in head. ► (Motion),
Feeling in head. ► (Pressure), Feeling in forehead; headache in
temples. ► (In
room), Watery coryza. ► (Swallowing fluids), Soreness of pharynx. ► (In warm room),
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