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SEPIA. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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SEPIA.


SEXUAL ORGANS.

►
Male.
► Profuse secretion
on lower part of the glans of purulent fluid, having a sourish salt
smell, with itching, [1]. ► Strong, somewhat painful, erections,
after the morning sleep, while sitting, [5].
► Violent persistent erection, at
night, [1]. ►
Long-continued erections, at night (after sixteen hours), [1]. ► Strong
erections (second day); from the twenty-ninth day on, however, only
short, and with quick emission of semen during coition, [1]. ►
Continued erection after coition, and after nocturnal emissions, [1]. [1250.]
► After coition, first an erection,
then weakness of thought, vertigo, discouraged, relaxation of the body,
and in the evening, low-spirited and inclined to start (fourteenth day),
[1]. ►
Diminished number of erections (curative effect), (first days), [1]. ►
Coition, with insufficient erection (after twenty days), [1]. ► Want of
erections (after several days), [1].
► Continued ulceration and itching of
the prepuce, [1]. ► Red, almost sore, little indurations,
going and coming, on the inner side of the prepuce and glans, tickling
when touched, [1]. ► Glans hot, with pale red and at times
itching eruption, [1]. ► Itching inflammation of the penis
increasing the excitement during coition, [1].
► The glans is hot and itching, with
soreness of the prepuce, [1]. ► Burning in the penis during coition
(after ten days), [1]. [1260.] ►
Stitches in the penis, [1]. ► A sharp stitching pain in the prepuce and frænum
prep
.; a smarting raw feeling, causing me to examine if it
were not abraded; found only a congestion of the integument; these
symptoms are new to me (twelfth and thirteenth days), [30]. ► Heat
in the testicles, [1]. ► Rheumatic drawing in the testicles, also
along side in the thigh, [2]. ► Pinching pains in the testicle (first and
second days), [1]. ► Cutting in the testicles, [1]. ► Boring
pain in the point of the left testicle, following the pain in the chest
(sixteenth day), [34]. ► Sexual thoughts, without erections
(fourth day), [1]. ► Great increase of sexual desire (first
five days), [1]. ► Inclination for coition, with great
emission of semen, with but slight voluptuous feeling, followed by
tension in the abdomen, extending to the spermatic cords (fifth day), [1]. [1270.]
► Little pleasurable sensation during
coition (second day), [1]. ► Amative feeling quite dormant, [19]. ►
Emissions disappear (secondary effect), [1].
► Emissions weak and watery, [5]. ►
Emissions frequently seem coming on, yet suppressed every time by his
waking up (after twenty-hours), [1].
► Nightly emissions, with sexual
dreams (after twelve hours), [1]. ► On waking from a lewd dream, found my
abdomen covered with semen; it was the first time for a long while that
I had had an emission (third night); had a seminal emission, unconscious
of it until I waked; no dream; did not wake until morning (sixth night),
[27]. ►
Imperfect emission, with lascivious dreams, [2]. ►
Discharge of prostatic fluid, after micturition, [1]. ►
Discharge of prostatic fluid with every difficult stool, [1]. ► Female.
[1280.] ►
Before the menses sensation as if the genitals were dilated, [1]. ►
*Prolapsus uteri, with inclination of the fundus to the left side,
producing a numb feeling in the entire lower half of the left side of
the body, with dull aching pain constantly; also the same aching pain in
the pelvic region, somewhat relieved by the recumbent posture,
especially when lying on the right side; tenderness of the os uteri

(first and third days), [42]. ►► *Uterus congested, and a yellowish
leucorrhœa pouring from it; beginning to prolapse; slightly displaced

(fortieth day), [22]. ►► *Great dryness of the vulva and vagina,
causing a very disagreeable sensation when walking, after the cessation
of the menses
(eleventh day), [21].
► *Uterine pains very severe; the uterus
feels as if clutched and then suddenly released, causing nausea
,
at 7 P.M. (sixth day), [21]. ► *Severe pain in uterus and left ovary
(seventh day); pains in uterus very severe;
pains pass down into the vagina
(eighth day), [21]. ►
Shooting pain, beginning in the cervix and passing up to the fundus
uteri, and thence to the right ovary; pain is so severe that it causes
nausea (thirty-fourth day), [21]. ► Severe uterine cramps all night, with
only short intervals of relief, with the menses (thirty-eighth day);
uterine cramps when moving about, relieved when lying down (thirty-ninth
day), [21]. ►
Severe cramps in the uterine region, at 7 A.M.; so severe I was obliged
to leave college and go home, at 11 A.M.; menses made their appearance
at 10 P.M., but the pain continued till morning (seventy-second day), [21]. ►
Pains like knives shooting through the uterus spasmodically, [10]. [1290.]
► Lancinating pains in the uterus,
shooting upwards (fifth day), [20].
► A few sharp flashing uterine pains
(eighteenth day), [20]. ►► *In the afternoon, pressure in the
uterus, as if everything would issue through the vulva

(twenty-third day), [20]. ►► *Pressure in the uterus, causing
oppression of breathing; the pressure downward is as if everything would
fall out, accompanied with pains in the abdomen; she must cross her
limbs in order to prevent the protrusion of the vagina, yet nothing
protruded, but there was an increase of gelatinous leucorrhœa

(after ten and twenty hours), [1].
► Painful stiffness, apparently in
the region of the uterus, [1]. ► Soreness and inflamed feel of labia,
externa and interna, [10]. ► Sensation as if the vulva were enlarged
(twenty-third day), [20]. ► *Soreness and redness of the labiæ, in the
perinæum and between the thighs
, [1]. ► One
sharp darting pain in the right ovarian region, (seventeenth day); pain
in the right ovarian region, as of a thread running downward to the
uterus and drawn tightly (eighteenth day); pain in right ovary; the dull
ovarian pain is sharper on inspiration (nineteenth day); pain in right
ovary, worse in the afternoon (twentieth day); dull pain in the right
ovary, with occasional sharp shooting pains (twenty-second day); steady
pain in the right ovarian region and backache (twenty-third day); pain
in right ovary, soreness on pressure after sleep, in afternoon. Felt too
badly to move (twenty-fourth day), [20].
► Severe stitching pain through the
left ovary, at 4 P.M. (fifth day); at 4.30 P.M., through left ovary and
acetabulum, I can scarcely bear the pain (sixth day), [21]. [1300.]
► Sharp pains in each ovary and
pressure to pass water; the pains ceased after passing water; later in
the day a dull heavy pain in left ovary (first day), [22]. ► *Pressure
and heavy weight in the ovaries, and a pressure to pass water

(after one hour, eighth day); (I usually pass water twice a day, night
and morning); increased pain in the ovaries, dull and heavy (after
second dose, eighth day), [22]. ► *A dull, heavy pain in the lower part of the
ovaries, and pressure to pass water
(twelfth day), [22]. ►
*Discharge of a few drops of blood from the vagina, fifteen days before
the time of menses
(after eight days), [1]. ►
Discharge of blood from the vagina, only when walking, [1]. ► After
coition discharge of blood from the vagina, [1]. ► *Bloody
slimy discharge from the vagina
, [1]. ►
Discharge of greenish-red fluid from the vagina, during pregnancy, [1]. ►
(A leucorrhœa, from which she had suffered a very long time, left her
completely while under the proving), [8].
► Leucorrhœa of mucus, clear as
water, [1]. [1310.] ►►
*Some yellowish leucorrhœal discharge, with the bearing down in pelvic
organs, in the morning
; slightly, bloody and increased in
quantity, at 10 A.M.; more profuse, yellowish, creamy, or slightly
bloody, at 9 P.M. (ninth day); (none in the morning); slightly yellow
and somewhat bloody, offensive slightly, in the evening (tenth day);
glairy, amber-colored, slightly offensive, occasionally bloody (eleventh
day); sanguineous, in gushes, but not profuse (thirteenth day), [44a]. ►
Leucorrhœa, with stitches in the uterus (after twenty-five days), [1]. ►
*Leucorrhœa, with itching in the vagina
(after three days), [1]. ►►
*Yellow leucorrhœa
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ►
Leucorrhœa, as clear as water (after twenty-two days), [1]. ►►
*Leucorrhœa, like milk, only during the day, with burning pain and
excoriation between the thighs
, [1]. ►
*Leucorrhœa, especially profuse, after urinating
, [1]. ►
*Profuse leucorrhœa of lumpy mucus, having a fetid odor, with drawing
pain in the lower abdomen
, [1].
► *Leucorrhœa increases, when she has
frequent eructations and retching, she then becomes pale in the face
,
[1]. ►►
*Before the menses acrid leucorrhœa, with soreness of the pudendum
,
[1]. [1320.]
► *Leucorrhœa, looking like pus,
[1]. ►
Jerking in the vagina upwards, in the morning, after awaking from a
dream, [1]. ►
A few sharp shooting pains in the vaginal orifice (nineteenth and
twenty-third days), [20]. ► Darting pains in the vagina, on left
side, from below upwards (after five hours, second day), [44a]. ► Sharp
stitching pain passing up the vagina into the body of the uterus,
somewhat relieved when bending double (eleventh day), [21]. ►
Stitches in the vagina every three or four seconds, and after a quarter
of an hour a similar attack, [1]. ► Before the menses, burning in the
pudendum, [1]. ► Violent stitches in the pudendum,
extending almost up to the navel, [1].
► Stitches in the pudendum (after
three days), [1]. ► Itching in the pudendum (after twenty-one
days), [1]. [1330.] ►
Menses fourteen days too early (after a few hours), [1]. ► Menses
several days too early (after forty-eight hours), [1]. ► *Menses
eight days too early, too scanty, appearing only in the morning
,
[1]. ►
Menses began to flow one week too soon (sixth day); dark, scant, and
fetid (seventh day); menses began to flow; dark clotted blood
(thirty-eighth day); very scant all day (thirty-ninth and fortieth
days); very scant and membranous, and very painful (forty-first day);
better, but not entirely relieved (forty-second day); menses made their
appearance, with pain (seventy-second day); very scanty and pale, and
very acrid, no pain (seventy-fourth day), [21].
► *Menses came on a week too soon,
scanty, and lasting only one day
, [8]. ► Menses
seven days too early (after three days), [1].
► The menses, which had always been
very regular, came on seven days too early (after twenty days), [1]. ►
Menses six days too early (after four days), [1]. ► Menses
two days too early, [1]. ► Menses anticipated one day the first
month and two days the second month; afterwards they came at the proper
time, [24]. [1340.] ►
Menses three days too late (after nineteen days), [1]. ► *Menses
five days too late, at full moon
(after twenty-two days), [1]. ►
Menses eight days too late (the after effect), (after twenty-eight
days), [1]. ► *Menstruation regular, but scanty, and the flow
dark
(before the proving). Menses came on (second day); on
stepping out of bed I was taken unwell, the blood running down to my
feet; flowed freely all day (twentieth day); flowed all day and felt
badly (twenty-first day), [22]. ► Reappearance of menses which had been
suppressed for four months (after eighteen days), [1]. ►
Reappearance of the menses (of an elderly female), which had been absent
for several months (after twenty days), [1].
► (The menses, which were usually
accompanied by cold and aching pains in lower bowels, came on without
the least distress), [9]. ► The menses, of an elderly female, which
had been absent for two months, returned forty-eight days after taking
the medicine, accompanied with drawing from the teeth into the cheek,
which was swollen, [1]. ► Catamenia appeared the second time after
an interval of only eighteen days, instead of the customary twenty-six
days, [20].
   

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

► Larynx. ►
Accumulation of much mucus in the larynx, which is difficult to cough
up, but easy to swallow, even with deep inspiration (after twenty-four
hours), [1]. [1350.] ►
Frequent pressure in the larynx, without pain, in the morning, [1]. ►
Dryness of the larynx, in the morning, [1].
► Feeling of dryness in the trachea
(after three days), [1]. ► Voice. ►
Sudden hoarseness (after seven days), [1].
► Hoarse, this evening (third day), [37]. ►
Hoarseness, he cannot speak a loud word, [1].
► Voice like that of a person with a
cold in the head, in the evening, [33].
► Hoarseness, she cannot sing high
notes, [1]. ►
Hoarseness and fluent coryza (after four days), [1]. ►
Hoarseness, with dry cough, from tickling in the throat (after five
days), [1]. [1360.] ►
Hoarseness, and therewith weak and chilly (after a few hours), [1]. ►
Cough and Expectoration.
►
Cough when going to sleep (fourth day), [1].
► *Cough, awaking at night, [1]. ►►
*Cough, mostly in the evening, in bed
, with vomiting, [1]. ►
*Cough, day and night, pain therefrom in the pit of the stomach
,
[1]. ►
*Cough, which affects the chest and stomach greatly
, [1]. ►
Cough, with stitches in the back, [1].
► Scraping cough; it seems as if it
had settled on the chest, [1]. ► Cough, with stitches in both sides of
abdomen, upper part, [1]. ► Cough, from tickling in trachea, toward
morning, without expectoration, [1].
[1370.] ►
*Cough, from tickling in the larynx, without expectoration

(after five days), [1]. ► Cough, with coryza, every morning until
nine o’clock; he sneezes already early, while in bed, [1]. ► *Cough, in
the evening, before going to sleep, from 8 to 9 o’clock, continually,
until she expectorates, then the cough stops
, [1]. ► Severe
irritation to cough, from crawling in the chest, [1]. ► *The
irritation to cough frequently comes on so suddenly and violently that
he cannot take breath quick enough, and it produces a spasmodic
contraction of the chest
, [1].
► *Much cough, with expectoration, only
before midnight, as soon as he gets into bed, not during the day

(after fourteen days), [1]. ► After rattling of mucus in the chest,
severe cough, with expectoration, producing raw and sore pain in the
throat, felt one half hour after the cough, [1]. ►►
*Short hacking cough, in the evening, after lying down
, with
expectoration of much pure coagulated blood, once every minute (after
eight days), [4]. ► Much cough, with expectoration, day and
night; the cough wakes her at night, with sensation in the chest as if
hollow, and smarting therein as if sore, [1].
► Violent cough, with much
expectoration of white mucus, every night for one hour, for several
weeks, [1]. [1380.] ►►
*The cough is most severe in the evening, after lying down
, [1]. ►►
*Spasmodic cough
, [1]. ► *Severe cough, with little expectoration, but
mostly with bitter vomiting, yet only evenings, when lying in bed
,
[1]. ►
*Severe cough, in the evening
, [1].
►► *She cannot sleep at night on
account of incessant cough
(after forty days), [1]. ► *Sleep
disturbed through frequent cough
, and from pain in the feet, [4]. ►
Have a cold, with few but sudden coughing spells; expectoration full and
easy only in the morning, after
breakfast (twentieth day), [20]. ► Severe dry cough, with stitches in the
right chest, [1]. ► *Cough frequently dry, whooping, and choking,
with pain in the pit of the stomach, and scraping, raw, sore pain in the
larynx, which is not felt when swallowing saliva; the cough does not
awake her from sleep, but after awaking it becomes very severe and
continuous; at times there is a rattling in the trachea, resulting in
mucous expectoration
, [1].
► Tickling scraping kind of cough,
and again a loose phlegmy kind of cough, [9].
[1390.] ►
Dry cough, with vomiting of bitter fluid, even in bed, [1]. ►►
*Short dry cough, which seems to come out of stomach
, [19]. ►
*Hard, dry, concussive cough
(third day); continued four or
five days, [32]. ► *Dry short evening cough, with intermittent
stitches in the right hypochondrium for several hours
, [1]. ►
*Dry cough, as if proceeding from the stomach and abdomen, or from
constipation, or as if something remained lodged in the stomach that
would not pass off
, [1].
► Dry day cough, which necessitates
lying down, and during which it stops; at night while lying also no
cough, but dry coryza, [1]. ► *Dry cough after a meal, [1]. ►
Dry tickling cough, with a kind of spasm of chest, both passing off by
morning, [1]. ► *Loose cough, especially at night, [7]. ►
*Cough, with expectoration
, [7].
[1400.] ► *Much purulent expectoration, with severe cough,
with great oppression of the chest and rattling in throat; the slightest
motion takes away her breath, and she becomes quite exhausted

(after twenty-three days), [4]. ► Expectoration of white mucus of the size
of millet seed (after fourteen days), [4].
► Blood-streaked expectoration after
a meal, [1]. ►
Expectoration of blood when coughing, every morning, without pain in the
chest, [1]. ►
Putrid taste to the expectoration and putrid smell of the breath coming
up with it, [1]. ► Gray and yellowish expectoration from
cough, [1]. ►
Yellow expectoration, tasting like rotten eggs, [1]. ► *Very salt
tasting expectoration from chest
, [1]. ►
Expectoration from the chest, without much cough and without dyspnœa, [1]. ►
Scanty expectoration, with wheezing rattling in the chest, [1]. [1410.]
► *When she cannot expectorate with the
cough, her breath almost leaves her
, [1]. ►
Respiration.
► Loud
snoring during inspiration, [1]. ► Inclination to sigh (after two days), [28]. ►
Inclined to take a long breath (after three hours and a half, second
day), [42]. ►
Breathing difficult rather than short, [1].
► Oppression of breathing in the
evening, from pain under the right short ribs, which prevents the
slightest motion, [1]. ► Severe oppression of breathing, towards
evening from pressure over the pit of the stomach, [1]. ► Arrests
breathing when standing still, [1].
► Asthmatic, particularly during
palpitation of heart, after mental exertions, [1]. ►
Asthmatic attack at night; he lay with the head bent forward, felt
oppressed, had to take deep breath in order to get air, for one hour,
followed by cough, with expectoration of tenacious saliva (after four
days), [1]. [1420.] ►
*Short breath when walking, as if the chest were full
, [1]. ►
Breathing much shorter, [1]. ► *Short breath (immediately), [1]. ►
Shortness of breath when walking, [1].
► *Loss of breath by every, even the
slightest, motion
, [1].
► *He awakes in the morning with great
dyspnœa, and covered with sweat, lasting four hours
, [1]. ►
Dyspnœa, with mucus in the chest difficult to loosen, [1].

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