RUMEX CRISPUS.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Appetite much increased; feels hungry even after a full meal (fifteenth
day), [2]. ►
Less appetite than usual (seventh day), [2].
► Anorexia (eighth and twelfth days),
[9]. ►
Loss of appetite and nausea, [4b].
► At 7.30 P.M. was very thirsty,
though this is unusual to him (fourth day), [2]. ► Thirsty
during evening (eighth day), [2]. ► Eructations. ►
Belching of wind accompanied the pain in the lungs, [1c]. [150.] ► Eructation, empty, [7b]. ►
Eructation (within half an hour), [7c].
► Eructation and sensation of
distension in the stomach; the feeling of distension subsides with
motion of wind in the bowels, [7b].
► Eructation of wind (after ten
minutes), [7a]. ► Frequent forcible eructation of tasteless
flatus, in the evening (fifth day), [8a].
► Eructation of much tasteless
flatus, with a sensation of distension in the scrobiculus cordis (a
quarter of an hour after second dose, second day), [8]. ► Hiccough.
► Hiccough (after one hour), [7c]. ►
Pyrosis after dinner (sixth day), [9].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea and loss of appetite (sixth day), [4b]. ►
In the evening nausea, relieved by eructations, with sensation of
fulness in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa was forming (fifth day), [5]. [160.]
► Nausea; fulness of the stomach,
with eructations with the taste of what had been eaten, on going to bed
(ninth day), [5]. ► In the morning, on awaking, felt
nauseated, with moving in the intestines as from a cathartic (second
day), [4]. ►
Slight nausea (eighth day), [2b]. ► Slight nausea while dressing, in the
morning, and vertigo, compelling to lie down again (tenth day), [2]. ►
Stomach. ► Awoke with an
acid stomach and eructations of acid flatus (fifth morning), [4b]. ►
Weight in the stomach, like that which is produced by the pressure of
undigested food, with a pressing sensation as far upwards as the
throat-pit; this sensation continued for one hour until falling asleep
(after ten minutes, first day), [4].
► Weight in the epigastrium like that
of the previous night, but not so great, though no food had been taken
(after ten minutes, second day), [4].
► For two hours after first dose
experienced a sensation as of a hard substance
in pit of stomach (third day), [3d].
► *For several days an unusual sensation
of heaviness in the epigastrium; it occurs immediately after eating,
and disappears in the course of half an hour, [3e]. ► *Feeling
in the stomach of repletion and as if one had eaten spice,
with the feeling of dryness of the tongue (seventh day), [5]. [170.] ► Fasted all day until evening, feeling
empty and sunken, but without appetite (tenth day), [2]. ►
Previous sensation of undigested food returned (after three hours, first
day); same pressure in stomach continued through afternoon, but
disappeared in the night (first day), [4b].
► Sensation of undigested food in the
stomach, with upward pressure to the throat-pit; every empty swallowing
carried it downward towards the stomach, but it immediately returned
(after fifteen minutes, second day), [4a].
► Sensation as of a hard body,
somewhat increased after food, and continued for four hours (second
day); same sensation as of a hard body in the stomach, ascending upwards
to the throat-pit; the sensation at the throat-pit descended towards the
stomach upon every empty swallowing, but immediately returned; continued
for two hours, but gradually abated; returned after dinner and continued
for two hours or more (after eight minutes, fifth day), [4]. ► Severe
pain in the digestive organs on waking, in the morning, and frequent
(fifth day), [9]. ► Pains severe in the gastric region (third
day), [9]. ►
Pain dull and heavy toward the cardiac orifice (fourth day), [9]. ►
Pains severe in the stomach (eighth day), [9].
► Pain in stomach on waking (eleventh
day), [9]. ►
Two hours after breakfast felt as though his food had not digested
(second and third days), [2]. [180.] ►
Pain in the stomach accompanied the pain in the lungs, [1c]. ► Dull
pains in stomach (seventh day), [2a].
► A burning pain in the pit of the
stomach, for a short time (soon after first dose), [3b]. ► During
the day a burning pain in the stomach and abdomen (fourth day), [3a]. ►
A cutting pain in pit of stomach, for five minutes, while riding in the
open air (half an hour after first dose), [3].
► Acute momentary pain in the pit of
the stomach (fourth day), [3a].
ABDOMEN.
►
Pain above umbilicus (within half an hour), [7c]. ►
Sensation of distension in the scrobiculus cordis, with eructation of
much tasteless flatus (a quarter of an hour after second dose, second
day), [8]. ►
Dull pain and sensation of fulness, as if from flatus, in the left side
of the abdomen, about midway between the umbilicus and crest of the
ilium, while riding; continued two hours (after three hours and a half,
second day), [8]. ► Frequent passages of small quantities of
fetid flatus (seventh night), [3c].
[190.] ►
Much flatus moving about in the abdomen, during the night (twenty-second
day), [3c]. ►
Borborygmus (within half an hour), [7c].
► After meals flatulency (sixth day),
[5]. ►
Flatulency in the morning on waking, with emission of flatus, and
sensation as if the tongue and mouth were burnt, [7a]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels and colic pains above the hypogastrium (fifth
day), [4b]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels and eructation of wind, [7]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels, with yawning (after one hour and ten minutes), [7c]. ►
A relaxed sensation, with rumbling, continued for some hours, as if
another evacuation would follow, nevertheless it passed off without
another stool (fourth morning), [4b].
► Moving in the intestines, with
nauseous feeling, in the morning on awaking (second day), [4]. ►
Sensation of fulness of abdomen on going to bed (ninth day), [5]. [200.]
► Sensation of fulness in the
abdomen, as if diarrhœa was forming, with the nausea (fifth day), [5]. ►
Towards evening an aching pain commencing in the right side of the
umbilicus (tenth day), [5]. ► Dull pain in the abdomen, in the evening
(seventeenth day), [1c]. ► A dull pain in the abdomen before rising;
it continued a short time after rising, and was followed by a diarrhœic
stool (third day), [1c]. ► *Awoke the next morning with pain in the
bowels; relieved by emission of flatus, [7].
► Pain in the abdomen, about the
seventh rib, on the right side; a gone feeling and a weakness on each
side of the umbilicus; the pains about 5 P.M., [6]. ►
*Griping pain in the bowels, below the umbilicus, which is partially
relieved by discharge of very offensive flatus, after breakfast (fifth
day), [8a]. ►
Movement of bowels, as if an evacuation would occur (after one hour and
one-third), [7c]. ► In the night woke with a pain all over
the abdomen; it was excessively painful (tenth day), [5]. ► Pain
wandering over the belly (tenth day), [5].
[210.] ►
Sensation in the bowels as if diarrhœa would ensue, with aching pain in
the rectum (one hour after second dose), [8a].
► Sensation in the bowels and rectum
as if diarrhœa would ensue; continued two or three hours (twenty-two
hours after fifth dose), [8]. ► Sensation in the bowels as if diarrhœa
would ensue, with aching in the rectum (fourth day), [8a]. ► During
the day a burning pain in the abdomen and stomach (fourth day), [3a]. ►
A cutting pain in the abdomen, in the evening, followed by a diarrhœic
stool (seventh day), [1b]. ► Sharp pain in the abdomen followed the
symptoms of fever, and was increased by deep inspiration, but entirely
subsided on rising (second morning), [1a].
► Sharp pain and rumbling in the
abdomen, in the evening, followed by dull headache (twenty-fourth day), [1c]. ►
Sharp pain in the lower part of the abdomen, in the morning before
rising, followed by two diarrhœic stools, and a dull pain in the
abdomen, which lasted two or three hours (sixth day), [1c].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
On retiring at night, first became aware of the protrusion of a small hæmorrhoidal
tumor (eleventh day); troubled much all day, in all postures, by
hæmorrhoids; sensation of heat and irritation about the anus, with
sensation as of a foreign body there (twelfth day); hæmorrhoidal tumor
still exists, but is slight; itching of anus (fourteenth day); great
itching of anus (seventeenth day), [2].
► Aching in the rectum, with the
sensation as if diarrhœa would ensue (fourth day), [8a]. [220.] ► A feeling in the rectum as if a rough
stick was forced up, painful on walking, in the evening (second day), [5]. ►
Itching in the anus, [7].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Copious
diarrhœic stool, with colic pains just above the hypogastrium, and a
very disagreeable rumbling in the bowels, together with nausea and loss
of appetite. These sensations continued nearly throughout the day, with
some four or five evacuations, which poured away in a stream, as if a
large quantity would be discharged; nevertheless, each discharge was
suddenly arrested, and the inclination passed away entirely for a short
time; but on rising the urgency returned, and on returning to the
cabinet a new stream of liquid fæces poured forth as before. At short
intervals there occurred, throughout the day, inclination to go to
stool, with much rumbling of the bowels, but the urgency to stool was
not so pressing that it could not be well resisted (fifth day), [4b]. ►
*In the morning looseness of bowels, with colic some time before their
movement; stool of brown color (third day), [5]. ► At the
usual hour a very loose diarrhœic discharge from the bowels occurred
(fourth morning), [4b]. ►► *Movement of the bowels, in the morning,
watery and brown (tenth day), [5].
► *At 4 P.M. had a slight liquid motion
from bowels, the desire therefor being very urgent, and waking him from
sleep (fifteenth day), [2b].
► Motion of the intestines, with
emission of wind, [7b]. ► Fæces black (eleventh day); normally
yellow (twelfth day), [2]. ► Scanty fæces (thirteenth day), [2a]. [230.]
► Dry and hard stool (thirteenth
day), [1c]. ► Constipation. ►
Previous to the taking of this medicine the bowels were regular, but
during the proving of it they were more or less constipated, [1b]. ►
*Constipation (eighth day); third day of constipation
(eleventh day), [9]. ► Costiveness for three days (sixth day), [1c]. ►
Constipation for three days, followed by a natural stool (ninth day), [1c]. ►
Constipation for three days, followed by a small dry and hard stool
(sixteenth day), [1c]. ► Constipation for three days, followed by
a dry and hard stool (twenty-fourth day), [1c].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Constant inclination to urinate (sixth day), [9]. ►
Frequent desire to urinate during the day (seventh day), [3c]. ►
Inclination to urinate not as frequent to-day as yesterday, but an
unusual urgency with the desire to
urinate; must speedily evacuate the bladder, or there is a sensation as
if the urine could not be retained (eighth day); during the day noticed
an urgency as soon as there is an
inclination to urinate (nineteenth day); same urgency; sensation as if
the urine must be immediately voided as soon as the inclination takes
place, as if it would be impossible to retain it long; the sensation is
apparently located at the neck of the bladder (twentieth day); urgency
as soon as there is an inclination to urinate, which is rather too often
(twenty-seventh day); urging to urinate (twenty-eighth day), [3c]. [240.]
► During the day observed a frequent inclination to urinate, attended
with a sensation as if the urine could not long
be retained (fourth day), [3d].
► Copious discharge of colorless
urine (after eight hours, second day), [8].
► In afternoon urine less copious
than usual, red and turbid, with a flocculent deposit and oily surface
(eighth day); brickdust sediment in urine very marked and heavy (ninth
day), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Tendency to phimosis (twelfth day), [2a].
► During evening had feeling of
soreness and excoriation, with redness of end of prepuce (ninth day);
still soreness, with increased redness and itching (tenth day), [2a]. ►
Redness and soreness of prepuce, worse in evening and early morning
(eleventh day); itching of prepuce (twelfth day), [2a]. ►
Itching of prepuce (twelfth and fifteenth days), [2]. ► Sexual
desire diminished through the proving, [8a].
► Complete loss of sexual desire for
several days (sixth day), [8].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
*Much tough mucus in the larynx, with a constant desire to hawk and
raise it, but without relief; worse at night, but has been troublesome
all day (third day), [8].
[250.] ►
*Secretion of mucus in the larynx, removed by hawking (within
half an hour), [7c]. ► *Hawking up mucus from the larynx, [7]. ►
*Violent irritation to cough in the larynx while eating;
observed at three meals (third day), [8a].
► *Pain in the top of larynx, [7b]. ►
*Pain in larynx (after one hour and one third), [7c]. ►
*Pain in the larynx, mostly on the left side, [7c]. ► Voice.
► At 2 P.M., on these two consecutive
days, the voice suddenly rose several notes in pitch, and so continued
for about half an hour; voice sounded at 4 P.M. as though he had a cold
in his head (fourth day), [2]. ► Obstruction of voice and some coryza
(fifth day), [2]. ► Voice changed at 11 A.M. into a nasal
tone, for a short time only (second day), [2a].
► *Hoarseness (tenth day), [9]. ►
Cough. [260.] ► In three days he was attacked with a
severe and durable cough, presenting a character entirely different from
any he had ever experienced. It was a dry
spasmodic cough, assimilating an early stage of whooping-cough. It was
dry at first, came on in paroxysms, preceded by a tickling sensation in
the throat-pit, and attended with
congestion and slight pain in the head and wrenching pains in the right
side of the chest. The time of commencement of the most violent paroxysm
was a few minutes after lying down
at night, which was usually about 11
o’clock. This paroxysm lasted ten or fifteen minutes; after this he
slept all night. A less severe paroxysm occurred in bed, in the morning,
after waking, and at various times through the day. This
state continued about two weeks, when there was a commencement of expectoration of adhesive mucus in small quantities,
detached with difficulty. The whole duration was about a
month. Some medicine were taken in the latter stages, but without
obvious effects, [10]. ► *Hacking cough (after twelve
minutes), [7a]. ► Respiration. ►
*Sensation of breathlessness, as if the air did not penetrate the chest,
or like what is felt when falling or passing very rapidly through the
air, [7b].
CHEST.
►
*He has had a dull aching pain in the anterior portion of both lungs,
which has harassed him day and night, for the last five days; it was
accompanied with some headache and pain in the stomach, also with
belching of wind (thirty-fifth day), [1c]. ► Aching
pain in the anterior portion of the lungs, which disappeared and
returned several times, in the afternoon (seventeenth day), [1b]. ►
*At 3.30 P.M., while writing at the desk, experienced for a little time,
five stitches in the substance of the left lung
(sixth day), [3c]. ► Fulness in the chest, with the feeling of
languor (second day), [8]. ► Raw pain in the chest just under each
clavicle, while hawking mucus out of the throat (seventh day), [8a]. ►
*Pain in chest (fifth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh days), [9]. ►
Momentary shooting pains in various parts of the chest, during the
evening (twenty-seventh day), [3c].
[270.] ►
A deep inspiration causes stitches around the waist, at 7 A.M. (third
day), [3c]. ►
Pain in chest, on both sides (fourth day), [9]. ► Front and
Sides. ► *At one time in the
afternoon, while riding, a deep inspiration produced a very acute stitch
along the left margin of the sternum (third day), [3c]. ►
Sensation of dry heat in the middle of the chest, with the
stinging-burning pain in the back (sixth day), [8]. ► *Pain in
right side; in the left side (sixth, seventh, and eighth
days), [9]. ► *Severe pain in both sides, and felt as if in
the lungs (third day), [9].
► *Pain in right side of thoracic
region when lying down; left side, with sense
of depression in the thorax (first and second days), [9]. ►
Pain a little below and anterior to the nipple, most frequently on the
right side of the chest, [7]. ► Pain in the right side about the lower
rib, being like a bruised sensation (after one hour and fifty minutes), [5]. ►
Burning-tingling pain (similar to itching) below, and to the right of
the left nipple (after six hours, second day), [8]. [280.] ► Momentary sharp pain in right side of
chest (fifteenth day), [2]. ► Dull pain in the left side near the back,
just above the last true rib, after lying down at night (eighth and
ninth days), [8a]. ► *Observed a soreness for a few minutes in the
whole of the left side of the chest, after turning to that side
(second day), [3c]. ► *Pain in the left side of chest, [7b]. ►
*Acute lancinating pain, a little to the left of the sternum and under
the left breast (four hours and a half after second dose,
sixth day), [3c]. ► While at dinner, a momentary slight
stitch in the left side, near lower edge of the ribs (seventh day), [3a]. ►
*A sticking pain in the left thoracic region, in the morning before
rising, followed by a dull pain in the lungs (fourth day), [1c]. ►
*Raw stinging pain a little to the left of the longitudinal centre of
the sternum, which obstructs deep inspiration, at night
(seventh day), [8a]. ► *Burning-stinging pain in the left side, near
the heart, came on soon after lying down in bed; gradually moved up into
the great pectoral muscle, about two inches above and to the left of the
nipple, and continued for a long time; increased by a deep inspiration
and by lying on the back or right side; relieved by lying on the left
side (tenth day), [8a].
► *Burning-stinging pain in the whole
left side of the chest, suddenly, when taking a deep inspiration, while
in the act of lying down in bed, at night (after fourteen
hours, third day), [8]. [290.] ►
*Stinging, almost itching pain in the left side of the chest, just below
the nipple, followed and accompanied the stinging-burning pain in the
back; attended by heavy throbbing in the ears, synchronous
with the pulsations of the heart (after one hour, fourth day), [8]. ►
*Burning pain in the left side of the chest, just below the nipple,
worse when taking a deep inspiration (fifth day), [8]. ►
Sensation in the left chest, as if the heart suddenly ceased beating;
followed by a heavy throbbing through the chest; this symptom has been
felt several times since the beginning of this proving (sixth day), [8]. ►
Great pressure and sense of depression in the upper part of the breast
(third day), [9]. ► Very sharp pain in the breast, running to
the right and left (third day), [9].
► Sharp pain in the breast (sixth,
seventh, and eighth days), [9]. ► A sharp cutting pain in the left breast,
which came on at noon, and lasted an hour (third day), [1a].® 2000
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