LILIUM TIGRINUM.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Seminal emission
toward morning (extremely rare), (sixteenth day), [13]. ► Female.
► The most marked effect was
exhibited by the reproductive and mental organs, [16]. ► *On
examination the uterus was found low down, the fundus tilted forwards,
and the os uteri pressing backwards upon the rectum, allowing but a
difficult passage of the index finger between the os and the rectum
(forty-eight day), [5]. ► *On introducing the finger into the vagina, she
finds the os, which is usually so high as to be almost out of reach, now
so low as to be only a half-finger high, the os much tilted back and
pressing against the rectum, the fundus pressing on the bladder
(sixty-ninth day), [7]. ► *Extreme pain and bearing down in the uterine
region, constant distress as from approaching menstruation, [16]. ►
Aching in the pelvis between the promontory of the sacrum and the pubes;
it feels to her as if the aching were not in the uterus but around it; she feels constantly the two spots
corresponding in position to the ovaries, which ache and feel like
little coals of fire (twenty-third day); the pain in the right ovary
increased, until at last it seemed as if a knife were inserted into the
ovary and ripped down the groin and the anterior part of the thigh; the
pain extended over the lumbo-sacral region, and she must cry herself to
sleep; the pain extended up to the right hypochondrium; somewhat
relieved by pressure on the ovary (twenty-sixth day), [7]. ►►
*Bearing down, with sensation of heavy weight and pressure in the region
of the womb, as if the whole contents would press out through the vagina
(eighteenth day), [6]. ►► *Great bearing down in the uterine
region, and a feeling when on the feet as if the whole pelvic contents
would issue through the vagina, if not prevented by pressure upward with
the hand, as the vulva, or by sitting down (twenty-ninth
day), [6]. ►
Severe neuralgic pain (I think) in my uterus, so severe that I could not
bear to be touched or moved, and even the jar of any one against the bed
was torture to me; I could hot bear the weight of my clothes upon the
pelvic region, this never lasted more than an hour and a half at a time
and passed off without leaving any lameness; upon the recurrence of the
symptoms I found by examination that the womb was anteverted; this is
something that never took place before in my experience, [12]. [320.] ► While attending a lecture much irritation
in the womb and desire to hit the lecturer; and in the evening, desirous
of swearing and damning the fire and things generally, and to think and
speak of obscene things; disposed to strike and hit persons; as these
feelings came the uterine pains passed away (forty-third day), [7]. ►
While sitting at a lecture felt much irritation in the womb
(forty-second day); feeling of irritation inside the uterus (forty-third
day), [7]. ► Ovaries. ►
When walking, pain in both ovaries, worse in the left, extending down the anterior and inner
aspect of the left thigh, as if it would be impossible to take another
step; as soon as she extended the limb she must immediately flex it
again, and then, because of a restless feeling, must again extend it; at
length she went to sleep on the back with knees and thighs flexed
(twenty-first day); she cannot tell which pelvic region is the worse,
that in the back or that in the pubic region; the whole contents of the
pelvis seem to drag downwards and forwards and quite from the stomach
(twenty-second day), [7]. ► Pain in right ovary and some backache
(twenty-eighth day), [7]. ► Grasping pain in the left ovarian and
inguinal regions, with pain in the right hip, extending down the thigh,
continuing throughout the day (twentieth day), [6]. ► Dull,
drawing pain in the left ovarian region, relieved by gentle pressure on
the part with the hand, disappeared about 10 o’clock A.M. (thirteenth
day), [6]. ►
Pains in the right ovarian region, a gnawing, dragging sensation, worse
on walking, a feeling as if something were shaking loose in that region
whenever the right foot was planted firmly (fourth and fifth day), [9]. ►►
*Sharp pain in the ovarian region (after six hours, fifteenth
day), [6]. ►
Shooting pains in the left ovarian region, bearing down when standing,
mitigated by sitting down (twenty-seventh day), [6]. ► Sharp
cutting pains in the left ovarian region, extending across the lower
part of the abdomen, relieved somewhat by gentle rubbing with the warm
hand, in the evening and at night (nineteenth day), [6]. [330.] ► Stinging, darting pains in the ovarian
region throughout the day (eighteenth day), [6]. ► The
left ovarian region, becomes sore to pressure the pain grasping, and
extending across the lower part of the abdomen; the pain was mitigated
by rubbing and moderate pressure; the bearing down was so great that the
parts had to be sustained by pressing upwards with the hand at the vulva
(twenty-seventh day), [6]. ► Somewhat tender on pressure in the region
of the ovaries, especially the right
(twenty-second day), [7]. ► Constant feeling of irritation in the
ovaries (seventy-fifth day), [7]. ► Vagina. ►
*Leucorrhœa (a thin, acrid discharge, leaving a brown stain;
she thought it was the menses, which had ceased the week before); she
never had any such trouble before; worse in the afternoon and evening
till midnight (thirty-ninth day); the next day it had ceased and she
felt better in the morning; but in the afternoon it returned and
continued all night, and was more excoriating than before producing a
rash and a little swelling (fortieth day); acrid as before (forty-second
day), [7]. ►
Discharge of bright-red blood from the vagina (for the first time in two
years), with dull heavy pain, and great weakness in the small of the
back and loins, continued four following days (after twenty-four days), [5]. ►
A feeling as if the internal sexual organs were swollen; smarting and
irritation of the labia, with heat as though the parts were inflamed;
great tenderness about the whole sexual organs; very uncomfortable
pressure downward, and an irresistible desire to sustain the parts by
pressing upward with the hand (thirty-third day), [6]. ► Severe
pressing or bearing-down sensation in the sexual organs, with the
feeling as if the whole internal parts were being pulled outward or
downward from the breasts and umbilical region, through the vagina, with
an irresistible desire to press the hands against the vulva to prevent
the part from escaping (thirty-first day), [6]. ► A
sensation of pressure in the vagina and a pain at the top of the sacrum
extending to the hips (seventh day), [7].
► Bearing down in the vagina, or
rather a dread of it (twenty-fifth day), [7].
[340.] ►
Itching and smarting of the labia, with great uneasiness of the parts;
sharp pain extending up the vagina (after six hours, fifteenth day), [6]. ►
Menses. ► Menses came at
the regular time, more free than usual; relieving headache; after
flowing twenty-four hours, ceased twelve, and then recurred, [7]. ►
A change in menstruation; the flow not one-fourth as much as usual, but
followed by profuse bright-yellow leucorrhœa, so acrid as to excoriate
the whole perineum, a new symptom for me, [12].
► Menses recurred, after an interval
of only two weeks; a slight, dark, thick discharge, smelling like lochia
(forty-fifth day), [7]. ► The first month after taking the Lilium,
menses anticipated five days; the second month delayed one day; the
third month anticipated one day, [8].
► Menses appeared more than a month
too late; scanty and of short duration (second day after 12 drops), [10]. ►
Menses occurred as usual, and regularly, and continued normal as long as
she kept moving, but as soon as she ceased moving, the flowing ceased
(twenty-seventh day); none this morning (twenty-eighth day), [7]. ►
Increased sexual instinct (first four days), [7]. ► Sexual
instincts strong now, whereas formerly she was very free from such
feelings; she says the conjugal instinct is strongly developed
(thirty-second day), [7]. [350.] ►
Rousing of sexual desire, which had been dormant for years (curative?),
(tenth day), [13]. ► *The sexual desire, dormant hitherto, was
so strongly aroused that the prover said, “I am afraid of myself, I
seem possessed of a demon;” this excitement continued almost three
weeks, increasing in intensity, until an orgasm beyond the control of
the prover would suddenly terminate it; during these attacks there was a
constant urging to unusual physical exertion, walking, etc., in hope of
relief, the mitigation afforded by this, however, ceasing with the
effort; there was in this state a constant hurried feeling, as of
imperative duties and utter inability to perform them; for about ten
days following this excitement, there was a profound mental depression;
to the prover, “the heavens seemed brass, and the earth iron;”
although convinced that the sexual desire resulted from drug action and
beyond her control, an apprehension of moral obliquity weighed
grievously upon her; with the sudden passing off of this condition would
as suddenly recur the excitement, and this alternation continued for
more than four months after the proving, [6].
► In the first stage of its action,
or stage of excitement, a condition of amorous excitement comes on
suddenly and anywhere; a disposition to use obscene language, a kind of
nymphomania; this stage gives place to sluggishness and despondency, and
this to a hurried feeling of being impelled to work without herself
desiring to work; it is not herself but her excited nervous system,
which drives her to exertion, [7].
► Passionate excitement, aching and
burning pain in the ovaries (worse in the right), which organs are
distinctly defined to her sensation (sixty-fifth day), [7]. ► The
passional excitement, which has abated, returns; this was so great that
I gave Platina 200, every three hours until relieved (sixty-ninth day), [7].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Voice much affected when attempting to sing, could not control it (third
day), [13]. ►
A single, dry cough (thirty-second day), [7].
► Dry, hacking cough in the evening,
better in the open air (sixth day), [15].
► Desire to take a long breath, with
frequent sighing, which seemed to come from the lower part of the bowels
(thirty-first day), [6]. ► Frequent inclination to sigh, and short
breathing, in the evening and night (nineteenth day), [6]. ► Hard
breathing; frequent desire to take a long breath; sighing (fourteenth
night), [6]. [360.] ►
Short breathing, [6]. ► Short breathing, oppression (after 2
P.M., twenty-fourth day), [8].
CHEST.
►
Sensation of great fulness of the chest and abdomen (thirty-third day), [4]. ►
Tight feeling of the chest (twenty-seventh day), [6]. ► Hot
congested sensation in the chest (first day), [13]. ► If the
desire to urinate is not attended to, there is a congested feeling in
the chest (tenth day), [13]. ► Congested and constricted feeling of the
chest, as if too narrow, and might be relieved by letting out some of
the blood; with the chills (fourteenth day), [13]. ► Severe
congestion of the chest, in the afternoon, continuing two hours, and
gradually subsiding (twenty-fourth day), [13].
► Contracted feeling of the chest
(twenty-ninth day), [6]. ► Constricted feeling in lower third of
chest, with oppressed breathing, worse towards morning (ninth and
eleventh night), [6]. [370.] ►
Compressive sensation in the chest, with a choked feeling, as if he
would suffocate, but would be relieved if the blood could be discharged,
which seems shut up in the heart; slight relief by deep sighing (eighth
day), [13]. ►
Oppression and heat of chest, a kind of ebullition; must go into the
fresh air for relief; at 8 A.M. (seventh day), [13]. ►
Oppressive and congestive feeling in the chest, increased in the evening
(seventh day), [13]. ► Oppression of the chest relieved by
sighing (twenty-third day), [13]. ► Oppressed feeling in the lower third of
the chest, with oppressed breathing toward morning (eighth night), [6]. ►
Front. ► Feeling of lump
under breast-bone, moving up and down by swallowing, [14]. ► Dull,
pressive pain under the sternum, towards the middle lobe of the right
lung, relieved by sighing, and pressure with the hands (fifteenth day), [13]. ►
Sides. ► Tightness of the
left side of the chest, in the evening (thirtieth day), [6]. ►
Constriction in the left side of the chest, at 6 P.M., increasing after
lying down (twentieth day), [6]. ► Constricted feeling in the left side of
the chest, under the floating ribs, extending thence up to the neck, and
left shoulder-blade (after eight hours, twenty-first day), [6]. [380.]
► A feeling of constriction in the
left side of the chest about the breadth of the hand below the left
mamma (thirty-third day), [6]. ► At two o’clock in the morning a feeling
of stricture in the left side of the chest, extending across to the
other side, and sharp pains running up to the throat, clavicle, and to
the left armpit, ameliorated by change of position, but continued till
after rising in the morning (sixteenth day), [6]. ► Dull
pain in the left side of the chest and at the shoulder (after six hours,
fifteenth day), [6]. ►► *Dull pressive pain in the left side,
apparently about the heart (after one hour and a half), [2]. ►
*Constant feeling of load or weight in left chest, [14]. ►
Fine pains, sometimes gnawing, in the right side of the chest, with a
feeling of lameness and soreness of the muscles, and a desire to stretch
the parts; the lameness extended through to the shoulder-blade of that
side (second day); the gnawing sensation in the right side of the chest,
together with the fine pains increased, and extended over to the side
(third day); the lameness and fine pains continued (fourth day); but had
disappeared, in the morning (fifth day); the same pains returned in the
right side of the chest, with pressure, and a sensation as if a weight
pressed heavily upon the chest (after fifteen minutes, sixth day), [15]. ►►
*Sharp and quick pain in left side of chest, with fluttering of the
heart (one hour after second dose, third day), [5a]. ► *Quick,
sharp pain in left chest very frequently, [14]. ► Sharp
twinges, followed by a dull, drawing sensation in the left side of the
chest, extending upwards to the collar-bone, in the morning (thirteenth
day), [6]. ► Mammæ. ►
Pain in the left mamma, in the
morning (thirteenth day), [6]. [390.] ►
Left mamma painful, with drawing sensation in the left armpit and
shoulder (thirty-first day), [6]. ► Severe pain and feeling of heaviness of
the left mamma, a sensation of grasping of the part, extending backwards
to the left shoulder-blade and down that side to the lumbar region, at
10 P.M., after lying on the left side for awhile (eleventh day), [6]. ►
Pain in left mammary gland, passing around under the shoulder-blade to
the spine, [6]. ► Dull pain and constricted feeling in the
left mamma and side, with oppressed breathing, worse upon lying down
(seventeenth day), [6]. ► Crampy pain in left
mamma and shoulder (twenty-fifth day), [6]. ► Dull
aching in left mammary gland, and under the left shoulder-blade,
continues in the evening and night (nineteenth day), [6]. ► Sharp,
cutting pains in both mammary glands, extending from the left mamma to
the left shoulder-blade, and to the spine, ameliorated by changing
position (fourteenth night), [6]. ► Severe cutting pain in the left mamma,
extending through to the left shoulder-blade, increased by lying on that
side (eighth and ninth night), [6].
► Frequent stitching pains in left
mamma, and a drawing sensation, extending to the shoulder and neck; the
pain became more severe at 2 P.M., extending to the neck (twenty-fourth
day); the pains in the left mamma
and side and about the left shoulder-blade have been most troublesome,
and have continued longest, indeed have not yet wholly disappeared
(after two months), [6].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Constant
heavy feeling in left side, in region of the heart, all the afternoon
(second day), [3]. [400.] ►
Suddenly aroused from sleep by pain in the left side, as if the heart
were violently grasped, and the grasp gradually relaxed, interrupting the pulsations of the heart, and the
breathing, relieved by rubbing and pressure, [2]. ► Heart
symptoms really troubled her about walking; short of breath, especially
on going upstairs, and was obliged to stop and repose (thirty-second
day), [7]. ►
Heaviness and pressure about the heart after eating; this symptom has
increased very much and is sometimes almost unendurable, [14]. ► Heart
feels heavy (eighth day), [13]. ► Pain in the region of the heart all the
time, but increased by stooping, leaning forward, or lying down, [14]. ►
Dull, heavy, or pressive pain in region of the heart, [3]. ►
Heaviness in region of heart, and palpitation when lying on the left
side, worse in bed, at night (fourth night): the heart symptoms became
so troublesome that I was obliged to discontinue further use of the drug
(fifth day), [3]. ► The dull pressive pain in the left side,
coldness of the outer side of the left leg, and pressure in the right
side of the head, gradually increased for about six hours, then
gradually abated, when I felt into a sleep which continued for about
four hours, from which I was suddenly aroused by pain in the left side,
as if the heart were violently grasped, [2].
► Pain in the region of the heart,
worse when stooping, leaning forward or bowing, in the afternoon, and more particularly when lying down at night;
better in the morning and forenoon; the pain in the heart continued for
more than two weeks, gradually abating, and at last, could be felt only
when leaning forward, stooping or bowing; the pain was so persistent and
annoying that I abandoned further trial, [2].
► Awakened by distressing pain and
pressure, with fluttering of the heart; the pain was not acute, but a
pressure (first night), [14]. [410.] ►
Twice a sharp pain in the apex of the heart (thirtieth day), [7]. ►
An occasional quick pain about the heart was felt, with labored
breathing when walking rapidly or ascending a flight of stairs, [16]. ►
Slight momentary spasmodic twitchings around the heart in the forenoon
(fifth day), [13]. ► Noticed some heart symptoms, not very
definite (twenty-ninth day); a sudden fluttering sensation in the heart,
after walking; this like other symptoms is less felt if she can busy herself much
(thirtieth day), [7]. ► Very violent feeling of fluttering in the
heart; frequently waking up in the night with it; not relieved by
changing position, [14]. ► A hurried, forcing feeling about the
heart, with faintness and fluttering as though she could do nothing, but
must put by her work and sit still; relieved by repose; feels hurried as
though she must breathe quickly, yet does not (thirtieth day), [7]. ►
Heart’s Action. ► Violent beating of the heart, and
throbbing of the carotids, preventing sleep, when lying on either side
of the body; after the creeping chills down the back; lasting a month
(after two weeks), [8]. ► Palpitation of heart, and beating of the
arteries, felt only when lying in bed, or during a siesta (sixteenth
day), [13]. ►
Frequent attacks of palpitation of the heart (fifth day), [3a]. ►
Violent palpitation very frequent, [14].
[420.] ►
Fluttering of the heart, with sharp and quick pain in left side of chest
(one hour after second dose, third day), [5a].
► Weak beating of the heart,
continuing two hours and gradually subsiding, in the afternoon
(twenty-fourth day), [13]. ► The heart’s action was intermittent;
every intermission was followed by a violent throb, causing and
involuntary catching of the breath, at the same time the blood rushed up
through the carotids, to the head, producing great heat, and a crowded
feeling of the head and face; these symptoms followed me for more than a
month, indeed, so constant were they that I became alarmed, fearing I
might have misjudged the case, and, instead of medicinal symptoms, I was
really suffering from an organic disease of the heart; but a physical
examination of the heart’s action put my mind at rest; at the prevent
time I have no trouble (after fifty days), [3]. ► Pulse.
► Pulse small and weak, as if the
blood did not reach the radial artery in the usual quantity (eighth
day), [13]. ►
Pulse 76 (before taking); 88 (four hours after first dose, and two hours
after second dose, first day); 72 (fifteen minutes after first dose,
second day), [3].® 2000
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