NATRUM MURIATICUM.
GENERALITIES.
►
Objective. [2360.] ► He has become remarkably fat and
well-looking during the last few days (fifth day), [24b].►
Analysis of Blood, [55].
During usual diet.
During salt diet.
Water,
Blood-corpuscles,
Albumen,
Fibrin,
Fatty matters,
Extractive and salts,779.9
180.1
77.4
2.1
1.1
9.3767.6
143.0
74.0
2.3
1.3
11.8
► *Every motion excites the circulation
,
[1]. ►
*Began to lose flesh and strength; after about six months the face was
tolerably plump, but the body thin, [48]. ►►
*Emaciation, [1]. ► She was emaciated during the proving,
looked pale and sunken, especially in the morning, and after dinner
(fourteenth day), [25]. ►► *Became greatly emaciated, [30c]. ►
*She becomes remarkably emaciated (twelfth day), [25]. ►
Very awkward; on taking up a small article it fell from his hand; he
knocked against things (second day), [5].
► Starts up violently at every
trifle, towards evening; also ill-humored and indolent, in the forenoon;
he would rather not speak at all (tenth day), [5]. [2370.] ► Pulsation in the whole body, so that all
parts frequently moved, [1]. ► *Trembling of the whole body
(thirty-first), [25]. ► Trembling of the whole body, especially
of the hands and feet (eightieth day), [25].
► Trembling over the whole body in
the evening (ninth day), [25]. ► Muscular jerkings, here and there, [1]. ►
Jerking in the upper part of the body, in the afternoon while lying
down, when awake, [1]. ► Stiffness of the scapulæ, hips, and
small of the back, [1]. ► Indolent, weak and sleepy (sixteenth
day), [25]. ►
Very indolent, and without desire to work, [1]. ►►
*Easily fatigued, [28b].
[2380.] ►
Excessive languor during the rigors, [56].
► *Weariness, [31]. ►
*Weariness, only while sitting (after 21st dil.), [53]. ►
Weariness and flatulence all day (second day), [31a]. ►
*Unusual weariness, especially of the thighs, upper arms, and
shoulder-joints (second day), [29a].
► *Great weariness all day
(fourth day), [32]. ► Great weariness, daily, and constant
yawning, [1]. ► Weary, tremulous, and prostrated,
immediately after the midday nap, [1].
► Very weary and prostrated,
especially on rising from bed (eight and ninth days), [28]. ► *General
weakness (thirty-first day), [26].
[2390.] ►
*Weakness all day, [24a].
► Weakness in the evening (after 3d
trit), [12]. ► *Weakness of the whole body (second
day), [5a]. ► *Weakness of the whole body; the feet are heavy
and become very weary while standing, with great painful sensitiveness
of the skin to the slightest touch, mostly on the loins; better while
walking, riding in a wagon, sitting, and lying, [1]. ►
Weakness of the whole body, for example, on moving the arm, [1]. ►
Weakness of body, with the hunger, [47].
► *General weakness, with trembling of
the hands and feet (nineteenth day), [25]. ► *Great
weakness (after 1 1/2 drachms), [17]; (sixth day), [1];
especially of the feet, [24a]. ► *Great weakness, obliging her to lie down
(after 40 grains), [18]. ► Great weakness, with dulness of the head,
in the afternoon (ninth day), [32].
[2400.] ► Great weakness, with a suffering
expression and sadness, the day after a restless night (after twelve
hours), [1]. ►
Remarkable weakness the whole forenoon (twenty-seventh day), [28]. ►
*Remarkable weakness and prostration of the body (was not in
a condition to make my usual calls on foot), [30c]. ►
Extraordinary weakness of the upper part of the body, less of the feet
(fifth day), [28c]. ► Extreme weakness after dinner, as after
great physical exertion, only noticed while sitting (after the proving),
[33b]. ►
Weak, prostrated, and ill-humored (second morning), [9]. ► So weak
in the afternoon that she could not carry a basket of wood (eighteenth
day), [25]. ►
Standing was so difficult on account of weakness that she was obliged to
sit down (second day), [5a]. ► She was weakest in the morning in bed and
while sitting; while walking, she complained of no weakness, [1]. ►
*Mental and physical exhaustion, [1]. [2410.] ► *Exhaustion of mind and body, with
increased appetite, [1]. ► Great exhaustion of mind and body, in the
evening (first day), [22b]. ► Great exhaustion and sleepiness, so that
he was obliged to go to bed earlier than usual, [24a]. ► *Great
physical exhaustion; his strength is not sufficient for his work,
for several weeks, [1]. ► Very much exhausted after a short walk
(second day), [1]. ► Completely exhausted for two hours after
eating, and obliged to lie down, [1].
► She did not dare to make any
exertion with the lower extremities in walking, because she became
completely exhausted and nauseated on account of weakness, [1]. ►
Prostration of the whole body, for a long time after the proving, [28c]. ►
Prostration and weakness, with trembling of the limbs, [27]. ►►
*Great prostration, in the evening (first day), [30b]. [2420.]
► Faintness, for half an hour, [1]. ►
Uneasiness of the whole body, so that he could not remain long in any
place, [24a]. ► Subjective. ►
*Takes cold easily (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Dread
of the open air (after twelve hours), [1].
► Takes cold very easily, and thereby
coughs and is hoarse, [1]. ► Tickling weary pain, [1]. ►
Sensation of weakness, [9]. ► Sensation of weakness, while sitting, [1]. ►
Feeling of weakness over the whole body, in the evening; the longer she
remains up the weaker she becomes (fifth day), [25]. ►
Feeling of great weakness, in the morning before rising from bed,
disappearing after rising, during the first part of the proving, but at
last continuing all day (after 1st trit.), [18]. [2430.]
► Feeling of prostration, in the
morning on waking, [9]. ► Sensation of an epileptic attack for some
time, [1]. ► *On motion all the muscles are painful,
especially those of the thighs and upper arms, as if the flesh were
loose, [1]. ► Gnawing pressure, by paroxysms, now in
the pit of the stomach, now about the navel, now in the chest, in the
evening, [15]. ► A lightning-like sticking cutting,
extremely violent pain, beginning in the anterior superior spine of the
right ilium, extending partly down over the trochanter towards the
anterior and outer surface of the thigh, partly upwards across the back
to the vicinity of the scapula, shaking the whole body, while sitting
(third day); the next morning after waking, a similar cutting pain
starting from the left hip, [22b].
► Stitches, here and there, [1]. ►
Fine stitches in various parts of the body, especially in the lips and
along the whole urethra (second day), [24].
► Fine stitches in various part of
the body, especially in the tip of the right thumb, in the left side of
the umbilical region, and in the thighs (seventh day), [24]. ► Fine
transient stitches in various parts of the body (third day), [24b]. ►
Fine stitches in various parts of the body, very transient, [24a]. [2440.]
► Sensitiveness of the body to touch,
[27]. ►
Sensitiveness of the whole body; wherever she was touched, she felt as
if she had received a bruise; worse about the loins (second day), [5a]. ►
Violent electric shocks through the right half of the body, on
attempting to fall asleep (after 10th dil.), [22a]. ► An
attack; it runs from the stiff nape into the head, the eyes hurt, she
becomes very sick at the stomach; with chilliness and loss of senses
(eighth day), [1]. ► Attack of great excitement, followed with
great anxiety by crawling, beginning in the tips of the fingers, the
hands, and arms; the arm falls asleep as if dead, and the crawling
mounts into the throat, lips, and tongue, which seem to become stiff,
with boring in a tooth; followed by weakness of the head with impaired
vision; even the lower extremity falls asleep and the joints seem dead;
all mostly towards evening, [1]. ► An attack like epilepsy; it extends from
the left shoulder to the head, then presses in the temples, as if the
head would burst; the brain pained as if sore and beaten, with constant
drawing pain from the shoulder to the head, and constant inclination to
vomit, as if coming from the stomach; she was obliged to lie down, with
chilliness and heat in the face (eighth day), [1]. ► Riding
horseback affected him more and more from time to time (third day), [1].
SKIN.
►
Skin pale, dry, but elastic to the feel (after about six months), [48]. ►
Brown spots on the back of the hand, as if she had been bruised there,
though without pain (twenty-sixth to twenty-eighth day), [5a]. ► Small
red swelling, with sore pain on pressure, in the sides of the nails of
the left third and fourth fingers (in the places where the hangnails had
been cut), (twelfth day), [5]. [2450.] ►
A white spot, as large as a dime, on the sole of the left foot, towards
the middle toe, not elevated above the skin, very painful when stepping
upon it (third day), [28]. ► The skin of the lip cracks and bleeds
easily (tenth day), [32]. ► Cracking of the skin of the lip, after
the scab formed on the vesicles began to dry; burning of the lips, that
bleed easily (eighth day), [32]. ► Peeling of the skin on the red margin of
the upper lip, [1]. ► The lower lip becomes dry and desquamates in the
evening; it becomes extremely painful, and on sneezing cracks in the
middle, [1]. ► A small prick in the finger began again
to bleed, for several days in succession, [1].
► Left side of face felt rough, as if
from the remains of pimples, in the morning (thirteenth day), [49]. ►
Eruptions, Dry. ► *Red spots
as large as the head of a pin over the whole body, preceded by a
sensation of heat in the face, on the abdomen, arms, and
lower extremities; these spots itched, and the whole body was red after
rubbing, for half an hour, [1]. ► Pimples and small ulcers, here and there,
on the body, [1]. ► *Eruption over the whole body causing violent
itching; on the neck and arms it was as large as
millet-seeds, on the abdomen, nates, and thighs as large as small peas;
she was obliged to scratch violently, which relieved the itching for a
short time; at first the eruption could only be felt as a pimple, but on
scratching it became red and hard; the itching prevented falling asleep
(tenth day), [5a]. [2460.] ►
*Nettlerash eruption over the whole body, with stitches in the skin,
[1]. ►
Itching in various parts of the body, especially the left knee; after
scratching, a nettlerash eruption, with also soon disappeared, [35]. ►
*Large and red hives, with violent itching over the whole body and on
the neck, [1]. ► Urticaria, itching for an hour, after
violent motion (second day), [1]. ► Scurfy, [57].
► A dark-red, mottled spot by the
nail of the left third finger, [1].
► (Red, somewhat elevated spots on
the glans penis), (seventh day), [5].
► Three elevated red spots as large
as peas, on inner side of right forearm, that itch violently and
disappear in twenty-four hours (fifth day), [5a]. ►
Eruptions in the corners of the mouth (thirty-second day), [5a]. ►
Eruption on the forehead, like millet-seeds, only noticed when touched
(sixteenth day), [5]. [2470.] ►
*Eruption, with smarting pain on the red of the lips, [1]. ►►
*Itching eruption on the margin on the hair at nape of the neck,
temples, and also in the eyebrows, [1]. ►
Itching, gritty rash behind the ear for several days (twenty-first day),
[1]. ►
Itching, gritty eruption on the chin, for several days, [1]. ►
Itching, gritty eruption on the knee, lasting several days (after
twenty-nine days), [5a]. ► Small pimples behind the left ear
(sixteenth day), [1]. ► Small pimples on the abdomen and lower
extremities, [1]. ► A small hard pimple in the middle of the
forehead, and one on the nape of the neck, with burning pain when
touched, [1]. ► A small painful pimple on the upper lip,
below the septum of the nose (second day), [1]. ► Very
many more pimples on face than usual, especially left side (first day); two pimples on right
cheek, with some burning (second day); large pimple on back of (right)
hand; yesterday, face covered with pimples, three being very large ones;
to-day not so many (third day); yesterday, pimples on chin and forehead;
a few to-day; yesterday they left burning; to-day and yesterday they
were more violent after washing in cold water (seventh day); after
washing face with cold water, pimples could be plainly seen under skin
of face (eighth day), [51]. [2480.] ►
Red pimples over face, especially on left
side; face itching, burning, and red in patches, especially on left
side; in centre of forehead is a red circle, with a white patch in
centre, and at the same place a number of pimples, burning and itching,
the itching being only momentarily relieved by rubbing; in afternoon,
all symptoms of head and face better (seventh day); woke with same head
and face symptoms, but less; in afternoon they decreased still further
(eighth day); still less (ninth day); large pimple on dorsum of right foot, stinging, pricking, itching, and
burning; lasted three days; dying away the fourth day (fifteenth day);
pimple on edge of right ear, burning
like fire, pricking and itching; itching relieved by touch; after
rubbing it bled freely (seventeenth day); much itching of the ear,
relieved by touch (eighteenth day); the same symptoms of right ear, but less; worse in morning; no
bleeding; in morning, a pimple in corresponding part of left ear,
burning, pricking, and itching; the itching momentarily relieved by
touch; no bleeding; a pimple inside left external ear; on dorsum of left foot, a pimple like the one on right
foot, and in the corresponding place (nineteenth day); one or two
pimples inside left external ear and
on the edge, stinging, itching, and burning like the former ones
(twentieth day); pimples on foot gone; more pimples on face than before,
chiefly on left side, resembling the
former ones (twenty-first day), [50].
► A number of small red pimples on
face, one on right upper eyelid, one larger one on right side of neck,
at 12.30 P.M.; appearing again in the evening (third day); pimples on
face better in afternoon (fourth day); pimples as before (fifth day);
one large pimple on right cheek, in the morning, left cheek covered with
red pimples in the evening (tenth day); also in the morning (eleventh
day), [49]. ►
White pimples about the nose, [1].
► Small burning pimples beneath the
septum of the nose, with a sensation as if an acrid matter were running
from the nose (fourth day), [1]. ► On the legs, eruption in various groups,
with corrosive itching, especially when touched, [3]. ► *Papular
eruption on the face, [1].
► Papular eruption on the forehead
and nose (seventh day), [1]. ► Papular eruption on the mons veneris, [1]. ►
Eruption of finely granular rash on the outer side of the calves,
extending up over the thighs, [1].
► *Whitish itching hives on the arms and
hands, becoming red after rubbing, with violent itching, [1]. [2490.]
► Warts on the palms, with pain on
pressure, [1]. ► Eruptions, Moist. ► Violent itching in the skin; with
appearance of small vesicles after scratching, [34]. ► Herpes
circinatus over the whole body (six weeks after the proving), [19]. ►
*Herpes circinatus developed in various parts of the body
(did not entirely disappear for a month after the proving), [21]. ►
Biting and itching in various part of the skin; on several parts of the
body some herpes circinatus (after 12th dil.); the tetter usually
disappeared with desquamation in from eight to twelve days, only to give
place to another tetter; this continued during the whole proving, [20]. ►
*A large blister on the red of the upper lip began to dry towards
evening (fifth day), [32].
► *A blister as large as a pea, filled
with bloody serum, on the nape of the neck, near the hair, [28b]. ►
A white spot on the sole of the left foot was noticed on the third day;
it had entirely disappeared on the fifth; but farther forward a blister
as large as a pea formed and discharged bloody serum, [28]. ► Small
blisters behind the left ear, that do not itch (twenty-first day), [5a]. ►
Numerous blisters that burn and smart when moistened, on the red of the
lower lip, [1]. [2500.] ► Itching on the inner margin of the wrist;
after scratching, vesicles appeared, [1].
► Vesicles on the forehead and nose
(after twelve days), [5a]. ► Vesicles becoming covered with scabs, on
the red of the lower lip, [1]. ► Small red vesicles, with itching, here
and there, on the arm (thirtieth day), [5a].
► Swelling around the lips, with
large vesicles on it; the red of the lip was sore and ulcerated, and the
tongue covered with smarting vesicles, [1].
► On the hands, many small vesicles
that gradually desiccate, when the skin desquamates, [1]. ►► *A
small painful vesicle on the upper lip, below the septum of the nose
(fourth day); *small vesicles on the upper lip,
below the septum of the nose, which burn, it seems as though she had a moist nose
(fifth day); *the vesicles on the upper lip,
beneath the septum of the nose, became confluent and covered with a
scab, that fell off after several days and left a red spot, that lasted
two weeks (after eleven days), [5a].
► Itching vesicles, as if a tetter
would form, on the left wrist and both hands, [1]. ► Itching
vesicle on the little finger, [1].
► Many smarting vesicles on the root
of the nose; they becomes covered with scabs, [1]. [2510.] ► Small red spots on the skin in the
epigastric region, with fine sticking when touched, obliging rubbing;
afterwards becoming itching vesicles, [3].
► A small ulcerating vesicles in the
right corner of the mouth, very painful to touch (fifth day), [5a]. ►
A second vesicle containing much lymph on the under lip (seventh day), [32]. ►
Tetter on the anus, [1]. ► Tetter above the left knee and on the
left leg (like that on the right leg), (thirteenth day), [5]. ► Tetter
as large as a pea, with dark-red areola, on the left thigh, cutting
itching, and on scratching painfully sore (twelfth day), [5]. ► *Red tetter
in the hollows of the knees, [1].
► Many round itching spots of tetter
on the arms, [1]. ► Violent itching on the lower extremity of
the inner surface of the left forearm, with the appearance of two red
tetter-like spots as large as small peas; next morning one of the spots
had disappeared; the other, when examined under the glass, seemed to
consist of ruptured vesicles, so that the spot had a general raw look to
the unaided eye; after two days this also entirely disappeared (fifth to
ninth day), [11a]. [2520.] ►
*About the mouth, small vesicles, forming a kind of tetter,
and becoming covered with a scab that after some days desquamates, but a
red spot remains for two weeks (after six days), [1]. ► An
itching, moist tetter, sharply circumscribed, on the scrotum and
opposite on the thigh, [1]. ► A tetter on the hands which she usually
had became very much worse, with great biting and burning (after 9th
dil.), [18]. ► Eruptions, Pustular. ► In the right corner of the out a small
suppurating pimple that pains most on touch (third day), [1]. ► A
somewhat denuded spot in the skin of the right hand became inflamed and
formed a blister, under which pus collected (eighth day), [5]. ► Itching
on the back, where he notices some pustules (fifteenth day), [5]. ►
A somewhat elevated spot that inflames and becomes a pustule, on the
hand, [1]. ►
(A kind of ringworm on the legs, abdomen, and arms, about as large as a
quarter of a dollar), (2d trit.), [18].
► Many boils on the body (after
fourteen days), [1]. ► Appearance of numerous boils on the back,
lasting during the proving, [39]. [2530.] ►
A boil that discharges much matter, above the eye, [1]. ► A boil
on the lobule of the left ear; it is very painful, and discharges matter
and blood, after six days (after eight days), [24b]. ► A
boil on the left cheek, [1]. ► A boil on the neck, [1]. ► A boil
on the knee, [1]. ► Corner of the mouth ulcerated, [1]. ►
On the chin, a red itching spot that becomes ulcerated after rubbing, [1]. ►
Sensations. ► The skin is
very sensitive; even a slight blow or bruise is very painful, [1]. ►
Stitches in the skin in various parts of the body, [24a]. ► Fine
stitches, here and there, in the skin (second day), [22b]. [2540.]
► Fine stitches in the skin,
especially of the lips, under the shoulder, in the chest (third day), [24b]. ►
Fine stitches in various parts of the skin, especially on the chest, pit
of the stomach, both wrists, and on the thighs (twenty-first day), [25]. ►
Frequent fine stitches, here and there, in the skin, as if nettlerash
would break out (after 5th trit.), [22].
► Sudden fine stitches in various
parts of the skin, with itching, obliging him to scratch, especially in
the toes, right index finger, lips, glans penis, and prepuce and axilla,
all day (first day), [24b]. ► Transient fine stitches, as with needles,
in the skin, in various parts of the whole body (twenty-third day), [24]. ►
Fine transient stitches, as from electric sparks, here and there, in the
skin, especially in the middle of the anterior surface of the right
thigh; leaving behind a disagreeable cold sensation (after twenty-five
days), [22a]. ► Itching stitches, here and there, in the
skin, with internal creeping heat, without redness of the face, [1]. ►
Fine itching stitches in the skin, in the evening in bed, [1]. ► Sudden
voluptuous irritation, while sitting, disappearing on walking about
(eleventh day), [5]. ► *Itching over the whole body (first
three weeks), [1]. [2550.] ►
Itching over the body, in the evening in bed (twelfth day), [5]. ►
Itching over the whole body, especially on the head, [38]. ►
Itching, especially on the left side of the chest, on the head, arms,
neck, and thigh; in the latter there was a sensation as though the flesh
were loosened from the bone (seventeenth day), [25]. ►
Itching, here and there, in the skin, especially on the calves; on this
spot there appeared, after fourteen days, three herpetic eruptions
(after repeated provings of the dilutions), [33]. ►
Extremely unpleasant itching over the whole body, especially in the
evening, so that he could not rest, [36].
► He walked the floor barefoot in
agony; his feet felt swollen, but no swelling was perceptible to the
eye; this intense suffering lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour,
when the irritation went off, leaving him comparatively comfortable; he
had slight itching of the body during the night (fifth day); soon after
breakfast he began to feel the same irritation experienced the day
previous, and in like manner it increased and spread over his entire
body; the itching and burning were not severe until after tea again,
when it came on, if possible, worse than on the preceding evening; the
soles of his feet were again the seat of extreme suffering; it lasted
three-quarters of an hour, and passed off gradually as before (sixth
day); he suffered in like manner, but much less in degree, each day,
however, experiencing an aggravation of the symptoms after tea (seventh
and eighth days), [44]. ► Pain and redness in an old scar, [1]. ►
A sore became much more painful and inflamed, and began to suppurate
profusely, with great swelling, and very depressed irritable
disposition, so that the sore could not be touched without weeping, [1]. ►
Itching burning, as from nettles, on the left hand, [1]. ► Fine
stitches beneath the skin in the hepatic region, in the morning (second
day), [22b]. [2560.] ►
Soreness of the thigh near the scrotum, [1].
► It becomes sore between the nates, [1]. ►
Smarting pain in the old warts, [1].
► Itching gnawing, obliging rubbing,
in the tip of the right thumb (after 3d trit.), [22]. ►
(Biting and itching on the palm of the left hand, as from fleabites; was
obliged to scratch it for more than half an hour), (ninth day), [5]. ►
Prickling with a painful fallen asleep sensation of the hands all day,
on putting them into the pockets, [24a].
► Prickling in the fingers,
especially in their tips, [1]. ► Itching in the skin on the middle of the
forehead, where she parted the hair, also itching in both eyebrows, so
that she was obliged to scratch these places all day, mostly in the
morning (sixteenth day), [25]. ► Itching behind the right ear, followed by
long burning, [3]. ► Itching on the lobules of the ears, [1]. [2570.]
► Itching on the left wing of the
nose, [1]. ►
Itching in the beard, obliging scratching (ninth day), [5]. ► Itching
on the lower abdomen, for five minutes (second day), [11a]. ► After
rising from bed, itching and burning of face, both in patches; most on
left side; worse when near fire; the itching is temporarily relieved by
rubbing (ninth day); left cheek itched very much, relieved by rubbing
(tenth day), [49]. ► Itching on the pubis, in the evening
(seventeenth day), [28]. ► Itching in the glans penis and region of
the frænum (eleventh day), [5]. ► Itching on the tip of the glans penis
provoking scratching (fifth day), [5].
► Itching on the scrotum and prepuce
(after the crude), [17]. ► Itching on the scrotum or between the
scrotum and thigh, obliging scratching (1st trit.), [17]. ►
Itching and fine stitches between the scrotum and left thigh (seventh
day), [22c]. [2580.] ►
Itching on the female mons veneris, [1].
► Itching on the chest, especially in
the open air, [1]. ► Itching on the back and thighs; he was
obliged to scratch, [1]. ► Itching on the small of the back,
extending to the abdominal and hepatic regions and to the thighs, [40]. ►
Itching in the palm of the right hand, in the afternoon (fifth day), [28]. ►
Itching and crawling on the first phalanx of the left third finger
(third day), [22b]. ► Itching and biting on the lower
extremities, as after a mustard bath, in the evening (fourth day), [28c]. ►
Itching internally in the hips, [1].
► Itching on the left leg, obliging
scratching, at night (fourth day), [28].
► Itching in both calves, as if they
had fallen asleep, obliging scratching (after the proving), [33b]. [2590.]
► Itching on the feet, and especially
on the inner side of the calves, [32c].
► Itching on the back of the foot, [1]. ►
Itching on the toes, [1]. ► Transient itching on the right calf, and
after a quarter of an hour on the left inner malleolus, then for a few
minutes in the left calf (third day), [11].
► Much itching on the lower
extremities, [1]. ► Violent itching externally on the chest, [1]. ►
Violent itching on and under the scrotum, and on the left
thigh, in a red inflamed spot, [1].
► Violent itching on the small of the
back that obliges scratching, in the evening in bed (fourth day), [5]. ►
Violent itching of the fingers, in the evening in bed, preventing
falling asleep, [1]. ► In the morning, shortly after taking his
dose, he noticed slight itching of the skin about his neck and under his
chin, felt mostly, however, on each side of his neck; he found that
scratching did not relieve him, but the itching rather grew worse, so
that he imagined himself to have been bitten by some insect; upon
examining the parts affected, he perceived a faint flush of red and very
trifling swelling, but no distinct eruption; he now began to experience
considerable burning of the skin accompanying the itching, and during
the day the irritation extended down his breast upon his arms, then down
his body to his lower extremities, and finally his legs and feet also
became the seat of great itching and burning; after tea (he uses black)
tea) the itching began again with ten fold violence; it seemed to him as
if he could not longer endure the intolerable itching and burning; it
began in the neck, and passed down the body, as during the day, to the
soles of the feet, where he experienced the most suffering; to use his
own words, “I could not have suffered more if I had been walking
upon red-hot coals of fire,” [44].
[2600.] ► Sticking itching of the margin of the
lower jaw (fourth day), [22b]. ► Sticking itching on the back of the right
index finger, and on the lower margin of the right orbit, in the evening
(fifth day), [22c]. ► Stitch like itching in the tip of the
right index finger (after 10th dil.), [22a].
► Intolerable biting itching near the
genitals, with smarting pain after rubbing, for several weeks (after
twenty-four hours), [1].® 2000
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