LACTIC ACID.
Lactic acid, C3H6O3.
Preparation for use
, Dilutions.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. S. Swan, proving with the 15th dil., obtained from Dr. Reisig (Note: The preparation was doubtless, sour
milk, and not pure lactic acid), drop doses every hour for ten hours, N.
Am. J. of Hom., 1871, p. 569; 2,
same, effects of 30th, in a lady-patient, reported by Dr. B. Fincke; 3, same, effects of 30th, in Dr. B. Fincke (Nos. 4 to 18, provings by T. F. Allen, with pure acid, N. Y. J. of Hom.,
1, p. 337); 4, J. H. Buffum, two
doses of 30th dil.; 5, W. H. T.,
30th dil.; 6, F. R., 30th dil.; 7, R. S. M., 30th dil.; 8, C. A. S., 30th dil.; 9, J. P. W., 30th dil.; 10, J. R. P., 30th dil.; 11, B. W., 30th dil.; 12, A. B. C., 30th dil.; 13, D. A. Babcock, 30th dil.; 14, Dr. Simmons, Jr., 30th dil.; 15, A. W. J., two provings, each, with one
dose of 30th dil.; 16, F. R.,
several doses of 1st dil.; 17,
Blanck, several doses of 1st dil.; 17a, same, second proving; 18, Dr. S., one dose of the 1/10th; 19, Miss Sarah Tremper, proving with 200th
dil., drop dose every hour till effects appeared, from MS. by Dr. Swan.,
N. Y. J. of Hom., 1, 337; 19a, same, proving with several doses of 1m;
19b,
same, several doses of 10m; 20, a
man suffering from diabetes took 15 drops four times a day; doses
doubled next day; after three days, repeated the experiment; from
Foster’s Clinical Med., 1874, “the production of acute rheumatism
by lactic acid;” 20a, same, effect of 75 drops in course of
twenty-four hours; 20b, same, 30 drops in one forenoon; 21, effects in another case of diabetes; from
Foster.
MIND.
►
Exalted condition of the brain and special sense; memory improved (third
day), [7]. ►
Mind clear; everything seems very distinct (morning of second and fourth
days), [9]. ►
Almost impossible to write correctly; drops out words and misspells
(second day), [4]. ► Memory seems affected; cannot remember
anything an hour after it has happened; unusual (fifth day), [19a].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo at 8
P.M. (second day), [10]. ► Vertigo when turning the head; suddenly;
fulness of the head (second day), [1].
► Vertigo, with heat in the head
(third day), [10]. ► Vertigo and nausea on rising (third day),
[10]. ►
Vertigo, and sleepless at night (first day), [19a]. ► General
Head. [10.] ► Rush of blood quickly to the head on
rising from a seat at 11 A.M.; everything turned black before the eyes,
and she nearly fell down (sixteenth day), [19b].
► Congestion of the head (thirteenth
and fourteenth days), [19b]. ► Congestion of the head, painless, with
strong pulsation of the vessels of the neck (5 P.M., third day), [7]. ►
Sensation as if all the blood was trickling down from the front to the
back of the head (tenth day), [19].
► Lightness of head (twelfth day), [19]. ►
Head dull all day, very nervous about it (seventh day), [19b]. ► Head
dull and heavy, with occasional pain in the forehead and eyes (second
day), [19b]. ►
Great pain in the head, worse on the left side, at 7 P.M. (second day), [10]. ►
Heavy, dull pain in the head at 8 P.M. (second day), [10]. ►
Fulness in the head, it feels too heavy, at 8 P.M. (third hour), [10]. [20.]
► Fulness, as if the top of the head
would rise off (fourth hour), [10].
► Fulness of the head all day; on
stooping, it seemed as if the blood would spurt from the nose; relieved
at 10 P.M. (twelfth day), [19]. ► Headache at the base of the brain,
extending up and over to the vertex; relieved by pressing the head
behind the orbits; with flushed face and rheumatic pains in the bones;
aggravated by motion (fourth day), [7].
► Head began to ache at 11 A.M.;
increased till 3 P.M., when it seemed as if it would burst (fifth day), [19a]. ►
Slight headache during the evening; a dull pain on both sides of the
forehead, with a sensation of fulness (second day), [14]. ► Forehead.
► Slight pain in the forehead, and
head is sore to the touch (fourth day), [19].
► Slight pain in the forehead just
over the eyes; the pain increased during the day, and at 8 P.M. it was
felt all over the head and eyes; the rush of blood to the head and face
caused a distressing fulness (ninth day), [19b].
► Sensation of fulness in the
forehead, as if the brain were too large, during the day (second day), [16]. ►
Congestion, as if the blood would burst out of the forehead and eyes;
and at 11 A.M., while sitting in church, felt as if the blood would
spurt from the nose, and as if it were impossible to sit another minute
(seventh day), [19b]. ► Dull pain in the forehead, with desire to
close the eyes (second day), [1]. [30.] ►
Dull, heavy pain across the forehead, extends into the left eye, as if
behind the pupil (third day), [19a].
► Pain in the forehead above the
eyes; increased and became very severe at noon; head dull from 12 to 3
P.M., less severe after 1 P.M.; pain in the head grew worse, and seemed
to go all through the head and eyes (fourth day), [19a]. ► Pain
in the forehead just over the eyes, dull and heavy, from 12 to 4; it is
sharp and severe, and extends into the left eye; ceased at 4 P.M. (first
and second days), [19b]. ► Sharp pain across forehead, painful to
touch, with nausea (eighth day), [19b].
► Sharp pain in the forehead just
above the eyes; appeared in the evening, after the second dose, and
lasted all night, [19a]. ► Headache in the forehead on waking, worse
at 8 A.M.; continues at intervals all day (sixth day), [19]. ►
Headache across the forehead, worse on the left side (sixth day), [19]. ►
Headache in forehead over the eyes at 10 A.M. (tenth day), [19]. ►
Slight headache across the forehead and eyes at various times during the
day (first day), [19b]. ► Dull headache across forehead and eyes on
waking, worse in the left eye (third, fourth, and fifth days), [19b]. ►
Temples. [40.] ► Pain extending from the ear to the
temples and the top of the head (fourth hour), [10]. ►
Throbbing in the temples, evening (second day), [10]. ► Vertex.
► Full feeling across the top of the
head at 10 A.M. increasing till 11 A.M., as if all the blood in the body
were in the head and face; at 12.25 P.M. it was very severe, and
extended into the eyes, worse on the left side; ceased at 10 P.M.
(second day), [19]. ► Top of the head feels as if it would
burst at 10 A.M. (fifth day), [19].
► Sharp pain across the top of the
head; it is sore to touch; the soreness did not continue long, but the
head ached from 1 till 5 P.M. (fifth day), [19]. ► Parietals.
► Pain in the left side of the head,
and a lifting, as if the top were rising off (third day), [10]. ► Pain
extending from the temple to the occiput, on the left side, on rising in
the morning, with a feeling of weakness; soreness of the scalp; it
smarts and burns (third day), [11].
► Occiput. ► Woke at 2 A.M., with pain at the base of
the occiput and over the eyes; very restless till rising at 6 A.M.; mind
clear, everything seemed very distinct (eighth hour), [9]. ► Slight
pain in the back of the head, extending from the occiput to the top of
the head, with roughness and constriction in the throat (sixth hour), [9]. ►
Dull, weighty pain in the occiput (first hour); on lying down for bed,
the pain left the occiput and seated itself in the forehead, so severe
as to keep him awake nearly two hours; on waking in the morning, the
same pain in the forehead, with a tendency to close the eyes; at 2 P.M.,
the pain changed back to the occiput, the eyes still heavy; this
continued in the occiput till lying down for bed, when it again changed
to the forehead; next morning, well; on repeating the drug at 5 P.M. the
pain returned in the occiput in two hours, and on lying down again,
changed to the forehead; next morning, well; this was subsequently twice
repeated, [13]. [50.] ►
Severe headache in the left mastoid bone, extending obliquely across, by
way of the occiput, to over the right ear (fourth day), [7]. ►
Occasional slight darting pains, which start from the centre of the
brain and move backward in straight lines to the centre of the occipital
protuberance, aggravated by motion (first day, first and second
provings), [15].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Marked
protrusion of the eyes, with dilated pupils (fourth day), [1]. ► Subjective.
► Dull, heavy feeling in eyes, with
tendency to close them, with the headache, [13]. ► Pain
in the left eye and brow, extending across the forehead, continuing from
2 P.M., the rest of the day (fourth day), [19].
► Pain in the eyes, worse on closing
them, but nearly as severe on opening them (fourth day), [19a]. ►
Sensation of fulness in the eyes, and a confused, bursting-out feeling
on looking steadily at any object, especially a bright light; relieved
by closing the lids; pupils dilated (first day), [15]. ► Eyes
feel as if they would burst open or burst out of the head, worse on
turning the head; lasted, very severe, all night (fifth day), [19a]. ►
Congestion, as if the blood were forcing its way out of the eyes (second
day), [19b]. ►
Sharp pain in left eye, more while reading, with photophobia (fifth
day), [19]. ► Lids. [60.]
► Peculiar twitching across the right
upper lid, about 10 A.M., transient; in the left eye at 11 A.M. (second
day), [19]. ►
Jerking of the left upper lid (third day), [11]. ► Ball.
► Pressure on the cornea is very
painful (fourth day), [19a]. ► Pupil. ►
Pupils somewhat enlarged, with slight pain in the balls (fourth day), [5]. ►
Pupils dilated (fourth day), [7];
(first day), [15], [10]. ► Pupils
much dilated, attract attention, 6 P.M. (fifth day), [13]. ► Pupils
dilated more afternoons and mornings, [15].
► Vision. ► Smoky appearance of the room (second
day), [10]. ►
Dark clouds pass before the eyes, cannot see the letters on the
blackboard (second day), [10]. ► Feels for another step when at the bottom
of the stairs (second day), [10].
EAR.
[70.]
► Cold spot over the right ear, it
feels like a stone, evening (second day), [10].
► Pain extends into the ear from the
parotid glands, [10]. ► Hearing. ►
Singing and snapping in left ear (second day), [10]. ►
Roaring in left ear on rising and in afternoon (third day), [10].
NOSE.
►
Objective. ► A sore, like
a cold-sore, inside the nostrils (fourth day), [9]. ►
Discharge (from nose) white and frothy, a little thicker than water
(thirteenth day), [19]. ► Catarrhus nasi, with copious thick,
yellow mucous discharge, [2]. ► Nose bled a little at 8 P.M. (fourteenth
day), [19b]. ►
Bloody discharge from nose several times (seventeenth day), [19]. ►
Subjective. ► Nose stopped
during morning (twelfth day), [19].
[80.] ►
Nose very dry and burning (second day), [4].
► Feeling as if blood would spurt
from the nose (twelfth day), [19].
FACE.
►
Face flushed with the headache (fourth day), [7]. ► Rush of
blood to face and head (ninth day), [19b].
► Pain extends from the left eye to
the eye-tooth, like neuralgia (fourteenth day), [19a].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue. ► Tongue coated
thick white (first to sixth day), [19].
► Tongue coated thick yellow
(fourteenth day), [19], [19a]; (third day), [19b]. ►
Tongue bright red on the edges, with a sore, raw sensation on the right
side (fifth day), [5]. ► Tongue feels large is coated white (third
day), [15a]. ►
Tongue sore on the left side, raw, and red, [17a]. ► General
Mouth. [90.] ► Mouth dry (third day), [15a]. ► Mouth
dry and tastes like copper (third day), [15].
► Roof of mouth dry; cannot keep the
tongue from constantly moving over the roof of the mouth; sensibility
increased; felt burnt (first hour), [4].
► Mouth and fauces feel dry; constant
inclination to swallow; not relieved by drinking (first hour), [4]. ►
Great dryness in the mouth and throat (first hour), [19]. ► Mouth
hot; the tongue seems to fill it up (fourth day), [15a]. ► Saliva.
► Commenced soon to secrete large
quantities of saliva, which in the morning was found to contain grayish
lumps, afterwards the expectoration was yellowish, and tasted salty;
this appeared to be secreted just inside the glottis (sixth day), [1]. ►
Mouth constantly full of water, worse after each eructation, [18]. ►
Saliva salt, like brine, continued several days, [18]. ► Taste.
► Bad taste in the mouth (fifth day),
[19]; (sixth day), [19a]. [100.]
► Taste fetid (third day), [10]. ►
Peculiar taste on the tongue posteriorly, extending into the throat,
with immediate accumulation of saliva, [3].
► Taste acrid, with nausea, like
copper (first hour), [10]. ► Taste metallic (first day), [15a]. ►
Sour, metallic taste, lasts fifteen minutes after a dose, repeatedly, [14]. ►
Taste like copper (third day), [15].
► Taste like Lobelia or tobacco
(first hour), [10].
THROAT.
►
Sense of a plug in the throat, with scraping and dryness a feeling like
that from tobacco (second hour), [10].
► Fulness in the throat, which keeps
him swallowing frothy mucus; the lump or fulness feels like a small
puff-ball; not relieved by swallowing (morning of fifth day); this
returns in the evening after another dose, and is repeated after
subsequent doses, [14]. ► Constriction and soreness of the throat,
with difficulty of swallowing solids, at 5 P.M. (third day), [7]. [110.]
► Throat constricted and dry
(“similar to Lachesis”), (second day), [9]. ► Throat
constricted and rough, with pain in occiput, etc. (sixth hour), [9]. ►
Constricted feeling low down in the throat, with slight nausea, causing
a severe paroxysm of coughing (first hour), [8]. ► Neck
feels too short by two inches (second and third days), [1]. ► Uvula.
► Elongation of uvula (fifth day), [1]. ►
Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ►
Mucous membrane of fauces dry, red, and congested (third hour), [4]. ►
Dryness of posterior fauces, with hawking of mucus from posterior nares
(second day), [1]. ► Intense burning in the œsophagus after
an eructation, with a qualmish feeling, and an increase of saliva, [18]. ►
Fulness of the fauces, with intense burning in the throat, fauces, and
œsophagus, [18]. ► Constriction in the fauces, with dull
pressure; acrid taste, with nausea; mouth tastes like copper (first
hour), [10]. [120.] ►
Rawness of pharynx from posterior nares, left side, down to œsophagus,
with sensation of a quantity of mucus lodged in the nares and larynx,
causing hawking; hawking does not seem to relieve it entirely, a portion
only of clear viscid mucus coming away (third and fourth days), [1]. ►
Swallowing. ► Swallowing
solid food very difficult; it is almost impossible to force solid food
into the œsophagus, semifluids more easily, and fluids easily swallowed
(evening, second day), [12]. ► External Throat. ► Pain in the submaxillary and parotid
glands, a stiff feeling in the parotids, and a pain extending from them
into the ear, at 8 P.M. (third hour), [10].
► Strong pulsation of the vessels of
the neck, with painless congestion of the head, at 5 P.M. (third day), [7].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Appetite not
very good, and apparent indifference to food; very little satisfies;
what is eaten seems to sour on the stomach, with eructations and a great
deal of flatus (fourth day), [9]. ► No appetite for supper (second day), [10]. ►
No desire for breakfast; the stomach seems to come almost up into the
mouth; worse on sitting still (fourth day), [15]. ► Thirst.
► Thirst but slightly relieved by
drinking, in the evening (second day), [12].
► Eructation. ► Constant desire to eructate, which he
dreads on account of the burning; worse from smoking, [18]. ►
*Eructations of hot, acrid fluid, which burns from the stomach to the
throat, [18]. [130.] ►
*Eructations of burning hot gas from the stomach, causing a profuse
secretion of tenacious mucus, which must be constantly hawked up;
aggravated by smoking tobacco, [18].
► Belching, with taste of ingesta
(third and fourth day), [1]. ► Nausea. ►
*Nausea (third day), [9].
► Nausea all the morning, and till 3
P.M. (first day), [19]. ► Nausea on awaking, with a sensation of
weight low down in the stomach, with pains in the head darting from the
centre of the brain in straight likes to the occiput; pains predominate
in the back of the head (second day), [15].
► Nausea continues till 10 A.M.
(fourth day), [15]. ► Woke suddenly at 5.30 A.M., with very
much nausea, which increased till he vomits a thin, colorless, watery
stuff; somewhat relieved after getting out of bed (fourth day), [15a]. ►
Nausea, especially at 6 A.M., before rising; a faint, gone feeling low
down in the stomach (first day), [15a].
► Nausea on rising in the morning,
with vertigo (third day), [10]. ► Nausea on rising in the morning; after
eating, sick feeling, not amounting to nausea, with taste of food (third
and fourth day), [1]. [140.] ►
Nausea shortly after rising, lasts till 10 A.M.; it returned from 3 to 5
P.M., and again in the evening half an hour after eating (fifth day), [17]. ►
Nausea, shortly after rising; relieved by breakfast; returned and lasted
till 10 A.M. (sixth day), [17]. ► *Nausea came on half an hour after
breakfast, not severe enough to cause vomiting, but
every persistent; relief for an hour in the afternoon, but
returned at 2 P.M., and continued till he fell asleep, at midnight
(third day), [17]. ► Nausea at 10.30 A.M. (third day), [19a]. ►
Nausea continues till 11 A.M., when it gradually wears away (fourth
day), [15a]. ►
Nausea during afternoon and evening (first day), [19b]. ►
Nausea all the afternoon, but could not vomit (fourth day), [19a]. ►
Nausea, with retching and waterbrash, after eating (second day), [1]. ►
Nausea; unable to eat the usual breakfast, food seems loathsome;
sickness, almost to vomiting; relieved after eating (third day), [15]. ►
Nausea relieved by eating breakfast (third day), [19b]. [150.]
► Nausea, stinging pain in the
stomach, whirling around at the pit of the stomach, with feeling of
pressure (third day), [10]. ► Nausea and faint feeling, with a paroxysm
of coughing as before (half an hour after another dose), [8]. ► *Constant
nausea all through the proving, [17a]. ►
Constant nausea after 9 A.M., not affected by eating; appetite good
(second day), [17]. ► Slight nausea, some flatus, and pain in
the umbilical region (fourth hour), [9].
► Slight nausea and a constricted
feeling low down in the throat, causing a severe paroxysm of coughing
(first hour), [8]. ► Nausea continues, and is aggravated by
motion, especially on getting up in the morning, at 8 A.M. (second day),
[8]. ►
Stomach. ► Faintness in
the stomach, lasted about an hour, then gradually passed off, leaving
nausea, at 2 P.M., one half-hour after a dose (second day), [8]. ►
Heat in the stomach; gradually disappeared in a few minutes, [12]. ►
Burning and weight in the stomach, aggravated by smoking, [16]. [160.] ► Fulness and heat at the pit of the
stomach, with nausea and pain around the umbilicus (second day), [10].
ABDOMEN.
►
Umbilical and Sides. ►
Pain around the umbilicus (second day), [10].
► Stinging pain in left side of
abdomen, running into the spermatic cord, in the morning (third day), [10]. ►
General Abdomen. ►
Bearing-down pain in the upper part of the abdomen (second day), [19a]. ►
Jerking and sharp cutting pain in the muscles of the abdomen; waked from
sleep, with a scream, at midnight (second day), [10]. ►
Stinging pain in the muscles of the abdomen, at 4 P.M. (second day), [10]. ►
Hypogastrium. ► Pain
across lower part of bowels on the right side (fourth day), [19]. ►
Colic in the lower part of the abdomen, which nothing seemed to relieve;
stool normal (second day), [4].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Protrusion of piles after a stool, very painful; had to sit down two or
three times; could not walk (thirteenth day), [19b]. ►
Severe aching pain in the anus, waking out of sleep; relieved by stool,
at 2.30 A.M. (fourth day), [5]. [170.] ►
Tenesmus (third day), [10].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa preceded by sharp pain across the lower abdomen (second day), [19a]. ►
Diarrhœic stool, hurrying to the closet, without pain in the rectum, [17]. ►
Loose bowels, with transient pain in the abdomen after the stool (fifth
day), [19]. ►
Soft stool, with hard lumps, in the evening (second day), [10]. ► Soft,
mushy stool at 9 A.M., again at 2 P.M. and 6 P.M.; had hardly time to
get to the closet (second day), [5].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Bladder. ► Bladder feels
sore, as though it had been overtaxed or strained; must keep bent
forward to take off the pressure, in which position he feels much more
comfortable (third day), [14]. ► Micturition. ►
Desire to urinate oftener than usual, but did not pass much at a time;
urine high-colored, [17], [17a]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate (tenth day), [19].
► Urine passed frequently and in
large quantities (repeated through two provings), [14]. [180.] ► *Urinates frequently, day and night; the attempt
to retain it causes pain, [14].
► Called out of bed at 3 A.M. to
urinate; urine profuse and pale; urinated again at 8 A.M.; copious,
light lemon-color (sixth day), [13].
► Rises four times in one night to
urinate; urine light straw-color (third day), [14]. ► Seemed
to be fast turning to urine, and running away through his penis; had to
stop proving; a renewal of the proving brings it on again, with the sore
stretched feeling in the bladder, [14].
► Before proving, troubled with a
desire to urinate every half hour; since taking the drug, has urinated
only four or five times in twenty-four hours, [11]. ► Urine.
► Urine white and thick, in the
morning (second day), [19b]. ► Urine high-colored, but clear (tenth
day), [19]. ►
Urine light-reddish, but clear (second day), [19]; (third day), [19b].
► Urine somewhat increased; passed
with difficulty (fourth day), [9].
► Urine scanty and high-colored
(second and third day), [10]. [190.] ►
Urine normal in color and quantity, but has a greasy pellicle on the
surface (first day), [4]. ► Urine cloudy and dark (first day), [4].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Menses more profuse than usual; two days too early, [19a]. ►
Menses scanty, seventeen days too late; in the morning had pain across
the small of the back, and in the lower part of the abdomen; menses
appeared at 11 A.M.; with a very distressed feeling across the lower
part of the abdomen; back pained all day and night; flow scanty and
pale, [19].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
Dryness and burning of larynx (after twelve hours, second day), [1]. ►
Dryness and rawness, extending to larynx, the rim of the glottis being
particularly affected (fifth day), [1].
► Rawness and swelling increased,
with spasm of the glottis, awaking me from sleep and causing severe pain
and suffocation (fourth night), [1].
► Voice. ►
For an hour and a half after rising, my voice was entirely without control, whispering and
speaking when expecting to speak loud; croaking and deep voice; this
continued more or less through the day (sixth day); and with the other
symptoms gradually disappeared the day after, [1]. ► Some
hoarseness; sensitive to the cold air; (here followed a cold, for which
other remedies were taken), (second day), [9].
► Cough and Expectoration. ► Severe paroxysm of coughing, with slight
nausea, caused by a constricted feeling low down in the throat (first
hour), [8]. [200.] ►
Spasmodic, ringing cough, caused by irritation of the throat from hot
eructations, aggravated by smoking tobacco, [18]. ► Dry
cough all day (twelfth to fourteenth day), [19]. ►
Secretion of and a hemming up of small lumps of tough mucus of grayish
color (fifth day), [1]. ► Respiration. ►
Sawlike, rasping sound of respiration (fifth day), (took Bell. 1m), [1].
CHEST.
►
Left lung and back of the breast sore all day, but did not pain (fifth
day), [19]. ►
Pain in the lower part of the left side, extended around to the back,
soon passed off, after eating, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), [19a]. ► Woke
at midnight with a scream, and pain and cramp in the muscles of the left
side, with jerking and sharp cutting pain in the muscles of the abdomen
(second day), [10]. ► Sharp transient pain in the lower part of
the left side, at 10.30 P.M. (second day), [19]. ► At 9
A.M., a severe, sharp, cutting or sticking pain in the upper third of
the right side; worse from motion; most relief from folding the arms
across the chest; it becomes so severe that he is obliged to take
Bryonia, which relieves him, but the side remains very sore; after
another dose of Lactic acid, the pain and soreness returned; is
compelled to keep the arm close to the side to avoid pain; it is very
difficult to put his coat on or off; repeated in subsequent proving, [14]. ►
Pain in the back part of right breast at intervals during the morning,
till 11 A.M., when the pain extended to the axilla, which feels sore to
the touch (fourth day), [19]. [210.] ►
Pain in the back of the left breast, two or three times during the day
(sixth day), [19]. ► Sharp pain in right breast at 11 A.M.
(sixth day), [19]. ► Sharp pain darted through the lower part
of the right breast at 1 P.M., and continued at intervals during the
afternoon (fourth day), [19]. ► Sharp pain in back part of the left
breast during the afternoon; at 6 P.M., a similar pain in the right
breast, after which is felt sore to the touch; soon passed away (second
day), [19].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► The
heart-sounds were clear (sixth day), [20a].
► Slight depression and constriction
in the cardiac region; relieved by bending the chest forward; in the
forenoon (second day) and repeated, [12].
► Sharp pain around the heart,
causing palpitation, a few minutes after 11.30 A.M.; lasts till 2 P.M.
(second day), [19]. ► Pulse. ►
The pulse rose 12 beats (after three days), [20a]. ► The
pulse was 102 (sixth day), [20a]. ► Pulse 98, full and soft, [20b]. [220.]
► Pulse 96, full and soft, [21]. ►
Pulse 90 and full (third day), [20].
► Pulse 90, feverish (third day), [15]. ►
Pulse 62, small and feeble (second day, half an hour after a dose), [10].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Rheumatic pain in the right side of the neck and right breast, worse
from stooping the head; continued about an hour (sixth day), [18]. ►
Great distress in the region of the kidneys (tenth day), [19]. ► Pain
in the lower part of the back and head all night; the pain extended to
the shoulders, especially the right, [19].
► Pain in the small of the back at 11
A.M.; extends up the left shoulder and side of the neck; did not last
long in the neck and shoulder, but continued in the back all day (second
day), [19]. ►
Pain in the small of the back about noon; continued all night (fourth
and fifth day), [19b]. ► Pain in the small of the back all night,
could hardly lie in bed (first and second day); extends to the shoulders
(third day), [19a]. [230.] ►
Pain in the region of the kidneys, from 11 to 12 A.M. (fourth day), [19]. ►
On retiring, a severe pain in the left lumbar region, more a weak
feeling, which is relieved by turning on to the side (first and second
day), [4]. ►
Aching in the lower part of the back, from 3 to 10 P.M. (first day), [19]. ►
Sharp pain across the small of the back and shoulders, worse when
walking (fifth day), [19]. ► Sore pain across the lower part of the
back all day (second day), [19b].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► The attempt to take the acid was always
followed by pains in the joints, [21].
► Pains in the joints, in the evening
(second day), [30]. ► Severe pain in various joints, [21]. ►
Acute pains in the joints and flying pains about the limbs, [20]. ►
After taking it for a week in May, he was laid up with such severe joint
pains that I was called to visit him and found him in bed with pains in
his elbows, shoulders, ankles, knees, and, as he said, all over him, [21]. [240.]
► He had a bad night from pains in
the joints, which disturbed him very much, and which came on suddenly
after midnight (fifth night); the next morning the metacarpo-phalangeal
and first phalangeal articulations of the first and second fingers of
each hand were found to be red, swollen, hot, and painful; the slightest
movement aggravated the pain, and he could not on this account pick up
anything with his fingers; the acid mixture was stopped, and in the
evening the pain in the knuckles was less, and the redness was
diminished; they were, however, still stiff; no other joints were
affected (sixth day), [20a]. ► Elbows and knees painful and stiff, [20b].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Shoulder. ►
Pain in the shoulder on moving the arm, with soreness in the side (third
day), [14]. ►
Rheumatic pains in both shoulders, running up the muscles of the neck to
the mastoid process, and into the ears, [17a].
► Wrist. ►
Slight rheumatic pains in the wrist-joint (half an hour), [8]. ► Flying
pains about the joints for four days, after which he was disturbed at
night be severe pain in the right wrist, which in the morning was red,
swollen, painful, and hot, and was a typical specimen of a rheumatic
joints, [20b]. ► Hand. ►
Small joints of both hands, wrists, and in the last degree the elbows
are red, swollen, and painful; they seem typical symptoms of acute
rheumatic arthritis; in the evening both wrists, the small joints of the
fingers and the elbows are all red, hot, swollen, tender, and painful
(third day). Lactic acid was discontinued, the next day the joints were
better, [20]. ► Pains returned in the knuckles in the
evening; they were swollen, red, and tender, [20b]. ► Fingers.
► Pain in the second joint of the
right thumb, at 1 P.M., for an hour (second day), [19]. ► Index
finger, right, swollen, two bright red spots on it, one between first
and second, the other between second and third joints; the last itched
once or twice during the day; from 2 to 10 P.M., it itched and burned
like a bee-sting; on the fifth day it was sore between the first and
second joints, but not red; between the second and third joints red, but
not sore; the red spot looked like a blister, [19]. [250.] ► Right index finger felt sore between the
first and second and also between the second and third joints; these
pains continued during the proving, alternately appearing and
disappearing, [19].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Thigh. ►
Pain in the thigh, and stinging in the sartorius muscle (third day), [10]. ►
Soreness to touch along the track of the right sciatic nerve, on getting
out of bed; lasts all day, pulsating constantly, but slightly (fourth
day), [17]. ► Knee. ►
A swelling or redness of the knees or other joints, [21]. ► None
of the joints were swollen except the right knee, which was faintly red,
decidedly swollen, and very tender and painful; the other joints were
simply stiff and painful on movement, [21].
► Weakness of the knees, and stinging
in the joints (third day), [10]. ► Great weakness in the knees on going
downstairs; feels for another step at the bottom, with vertigo (third
day), [10]. ►
He complained a good deal of pain in the knees, which had hitherto
escaped (fourth day), [20]. ► Pain in the knees when walking; they
cripple forward (evening, second day), [10].
► Pain in the knee-joints similar to
neuralgic pains, at times extending to the toes, with a thrilling
sensation as if one’s foot had been asleep (third day), [9]. [260.] ► Pain in the patella (third day), [10]. ►
Rheumatic pains, dull yet sharp, in the knee-joint on moving the leg, at
7 P.M. (third day), [8]. ► Sharp pain in the right knee, rendering
the joint stiff and walking painful (fourth day), [21]. ►
Stinging pain in the knees, and inside the thighs (fourth day), [10]. ►
Leg. ► Cramp in the calf
of the leg early in the morning, before leaving the bed, also after
rising a feeling of soreness in the part (third day), [9]. ► Foot.
► Sensation as though the feet were
perspiring, and the stockings soaked full, [17a].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Great jerking
of the muscles, and rigor all over the body, in evening (second day), [10]. ►
Spasm of different muscles; it is difficult to eat or write (second
day), [10]. ►
Weakness on rising in the morning, with pain in the head (third day), [11]. ►
Subjective. ► Sensitive to
cold air, hoarse, etc. (second day), [9].
[270.] ►
Very tired, felt as if he had walked a long distance, during and after
motion (fourth day), [7]. ► Felt weak during the morning (fifth day),
[19]. ►
Felt sick all over; relieved by eating lunch, at noon (third day), [19a]. ►
Rheumatic pains in the bones, worse on motion (fourth day), [7].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Red spots on
the left arm, left hip, left hand, in the morning (third day); on the
scrotum, with itching (third day), [10].
► Several distinct bright-red
blotches (as large as a raspberry) on the anterior portion of the lower
third of the left leg, with slight burning, but not itching, relieved by
cold, and by passing quickly from warm to cold, or cold to warm; the
eruption is brightest at 8 A.M., fades in the middle of the day, and
grew lighter again during the evening; brighter, on pressure (first and
following days); eruption fades away from the periphery towards the
centre; the centre remains bright till the fifth day, when it
disappeared, [15]; in the second
proving, these deep-red blotches reappear on both legs, and extend
almost over the thighs and lower limbs, to which they are confined, [15a]. ►
Elevations on the back like hives, with itching; also itching and
redness on other portions of the body (eighth day), [6]. ►
Eruptions on right arm and left leg, itch and burn, [11]. ►
Papular eruption on the face and hands (fourth day), [9]. ► Small
blisters on the hands, [11]. [280.] ►
Erysipelatous redness of left cheek and left side of nose, with small
sore vesicles on nose, in the morning (third and fourth day), [1]. ►
Subjective. ► Itching of
the body on going to bed, on account of cold from the clothes (third
day), [10]. ►
Itching and burning on going out into cold air, with creeping and
stinging in left half of body, left arm, hand, and leg, in the evening
(second day), [10]. ► Itching is aggravated by scratching, [15]. ►
Itching of the skin, relieved by scratching, [6]. ► Itching
on different parts, chest, back, abdomen, and extremities (eighth day), [6]. ►
Itching and redness, not on exposed parts of the body, [6].
SLEEP.
►
Sleepless, with vertigo (first day), [19a].
► Restless all night, could neither
lie still nor sleep, [19]. ► Does not sleep well; restless; backache
all night (sixth day), [19]. [290.] ►
Did not sleep well; restless; seemed to have had dreams but did not
remember them; tired on waking (fifth day), [19b]. ► Very
restless at night (first day), [9].
► Very tired on waking, with aching
of the limbs, as if she had not slept any (second day), [19b].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Cold and
chilly at noon; transient (third and sixth days), [19a]. ►
Shivering in the muscles, with burning and stinging in the left half of
the body (third day), [10]. ► Rigor all over, with jerking of the
muscles; cold feet; right hand cold, left hand hot; in the evening
(second day), [10]. ► Feet cold, in the evening (second day), [10]. ►
Heat. ► The temperature
showed no marked change until four or five days, when it remained
steadily at 99°, instead of varying as it had done for some time
previous (after third day), [20a].
► Temperature 99.2°, [20a]. ► The
temperature, which on the previous evening had been 98.2°, had risen to
99.4° (sixth day), [20a]. [300.] ►
Temperature in morning, 100°; in the evening, 101° (third day), [20]. ►
Flashes of heat over the whole body; feverish (third day), [15]. ►
Fever, with severe headache, from 1 to 4 P.M. (sixth day), [19a]. ►
Slight fever, at 6 P.M. (fourth day), [19a].
► Heat of the head excessive (fourth
hour), [10]. ►
Left side excessively hot, trembling in all the muscles, with nausea and
vertigo, general sickness all over; he thinks he is proving tobacco, in
the evening (second day), [10]. ► Sweat. ►
The skin was freely perspiring, [21].
► Copious acid perspiration, [20b]. ►
Sweating of hands and feet, [11]. ► Unusual perspiration of the feet, not
offensive, so that by 6 P.M. he needed to dry his stockings; this was
repeated for several days, beginning at noon, [6].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Morning), Nausea; weakness. ► (Forenoon),
Depression, etc., in cardiac region. ►
(Noon), Coldness. ► (Afternoon),
Fulness in top of head; dilatation of pupils. ►
(Evening), Dilatation of pupils;
rigor, etc.; feet cold. ► (Motion), Headache at base of brain; pain
darting to occiput; especially getting up in morning, nausea; rheumatic
pains in bones. ► (Reading), Pain in eyes. ►
(Sitting still), Feeling in stomach.
► (Tobacco-smoking).
Burning eructations; burning, etc., in stomach. ►
Amelioration. ► (Bathing), Headache, [19]. ► (Eating), The symptoms, [15]; nausea.® 2000
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