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

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RECTUM AND ANUS.

►
Rectum protrudes slightly, posteriorly, like a rim (one hundred and
eighty-first day), [3]. ► Hæmorrhoids excited, [14]. ►
Sensation as if the rectum protruded and the anus were not closed, after
the stool (twenty-fourth day), [3].
► Sensation of something moving in
rectum, at 8 P.M. (thirty-second day), [3].
► Something seems moving in rectum
near anus (one hundred and seventy-fifth day), [3]. ► Bitings
and sensation of something moving in rectum near anus, at night
(forty-eighth day), [3]. [290.] ►
Dull stitch in the lower portion of the rectum (first day), [2]. ►
Sensation of rawness in anus, with the stool; pain and uneasiness, as if
rectum protruded at anus, in the morning; uneasy dryness at anus, which
does not seem closed; painful when walking (twenty-fifth day), [3]. ►
Repeated desire for stool, [1]. ► Frequent inclination to stool, which is
likely to be loose, without stool (sixty-first day), [3]. ►
Inclination to stool, [1].
   

STOOL.

►
Diarrhœa.
► Diarrhœa, [9b], [9c].
► Serious diarrhœa, [5]. ►
Diarrhœic motions, whereas his natural habit was constipation; however,
afterwards, constipation came on and continued several days, [9c]. ►
Constipation two days; stool soft, preceded by flatus (fifth day); stool
hard (seventh day); constipation for three days; stool large, slightly
fetid (ninth day); constipation without desire to evacuate, as if from
constriction of the anus (tenth day); stool soft, paplike; stool large,
soft (eleventh day); constipation (seventeenth and eighteenth days);
constipation (for nine days) without inclination (nineteenth day);
stool, with great expulsive efforts, preceded by sickliness, commotion
of intestines, and sickly pain in left iliac and inguinal regions,
rather soft, very long, and thin, with sensations as if rectum protruded
and anus were not closed, at 6 P.M. (twenty-fourth day); stool rather
soft, passed suddenly, with sensation of rawness in anus (twenty-fifth
day); stool passed with difficulty (after six days’ constipation), in
pieces, and gritty, at 7 P.M. (thirty-second day); stool rather soft,
sudden, at 7 P.M. (thirty-fourth day); fetid, soft abundant stool, in
the afternoon (thirty-fifth day); constipation (thirty-eighth day);
stool, preceded by tremor and cold clammy sweats and forcing, at 6 P.M.
(fortieth day); stool at 2 P.M., with want from 9 A.M. (forty-third
day); stool, in afternoon (forty-fifth day); stool, at 9 A.M., bard, in
lumps (forty-seventh day); slight stool, in hard pieces, at 9 A.M.
(forty-eighth day); stool brown, rather soft, easy, with bitings in
rectum, near anus, in the evening (forty-ninth day); stool, at 9 A.M.,
rather hard, in pieces, preceded and followed by perspiration and
external heat (fifty-first day); stool hard, in lumps, at 9 A.M.
(fifty-fourth day); stool loose, very fetid, in the morning (sixty-first
day); stool hard, slight, and in lumps (one hundred and seventy-fifth
day); constipation without desire to evacuate (one hundred and
seventy-ninth day); stool, at 9 A.M., large and compact, preceded by
commotion in left lower abdomen, as of approaching diarrhœa (one
hundred and eightieth day); diarrhœa liquid, sudden, and abundant,
preceded by faintness and sickness, as if about to vomit, at 6 P.M.,
preceded and followed by constipation (after plum jam and a quick
walk?), (one hundred and ninety-second day), [3]. ► (Stool
more copious than usual, at first hard, then soft, followed at last by
some blood), [14]. [300.] ► Stool softer than usual, [1]. ► Stool
thin, with much urging, burning, and biting in the anus and rectum, with
painful tension in the tip of the penis, followed by discharge of mucus
from the anus, [1]. ► This stools, consisting at last of small
bits of mucus, scanty, with much urging, and violent cutting at the
orifice of the anus; a constant sensation as if another evacuation would
follow, with erection, dribbling of urine, and almost involuntary
contraction of the levator ani and sphincter ani, [1]. ► Thin
scanty stool, followed by burning and cutting at the anus, and frequent
chilliness through the back, with weakness, [1]. ► Stool
very scanty, thin, [1]. ► Stool small and soft, [1]. ► Stool
scanty, soft, [14]. ► Stool more scanty than usual (third day),
[2]. ►
Stool consisting of almost only empty urging, with much urine, soon
followed by urgent desire for stool, with emission of some flatus, but
no stool (first day), [2]. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation, [11]. [310.] ►
Constipation lasting three days, [6a].
► Constipation, for three days, with
very good appetite, [14]. ► Constipated for a long time, [7]. ►
Constipation; the stool became scanty and hard (after 15 drops, two
weeks after the beginning of the proving), [1]. [Probably the secondary action. -T. F. A.] ► He had a diarrhœa when he went into the
bath; this was immediately checked and his bowels became constipated for
a couple of days, [10]. ► He was suffering when he began his
proving from diarrhœa brought on by cold, which was immediately
arrested, and his bowels were constipated for two days, [8]. ► On the
day he commenced the medicine he had diarrhœa, but that ceased after
taking the Sumbul, and the contrary state, viz., constipation, came on,
and lasted two days, [6]. ► Constipation for eleven days; stool
passed with slight straining, compact, without lumps, rather soft, in
the evening (twenty-first day), [3].
   

URINARY ORGANS.

►
Urethra.
► Stitches half
an inch up urethra, in the morning (one hundred and seventy-ninth day), [3]. ►
Micturition and Urine.
►
Frequent desire to urinate (first and third days), [2]. [320.] ► Very frequent desire to urinate, even
immediately after urinating, [1]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, though
nothing had been taken, [1]. ► Constant desire to urinate (half an hour
after 20 drops), [1]. ► Constant desire to urinate and for stool,
[1]. ►
The ineffectual desire to urinate that had been almost constant for
several hours became at last a constant pressure, and the urine had to
be forcibly restrained (first day), [2].
► Frequent ineffectual efforts to
urinate, with a sensation as if a stool would soon come; cutting in the
anus and coldness in the back, [1].
► Frequent want to urinate, with
sensation of the bladder being empty or nearly so and small emission, in
the evening (fortieth day); frequent want to urinate, with small
quantity at a time; it forms a pellicle, oily, and thin; becomes thick
and muddy at bottom; deposits a tenacious rosy sediment, adhering to the
sides of the vessel (forty-second day); urine frequent, in small
quantities (forty-third day); frequent want to urinate, in small
quantities (every three of four hours), (forty-fourth day); increased
want to urinate, in small quantities; a drop can be passed into the
urethra singly, and this causes momentary relief at its extremity (one
hundred and seventy-fourth day); frequent want to urinate (one hundred
and seventy-fifth day), [3]. ► Urine increased in amount (after 15
drops), [1]. ►
Frequent evacuation of scanty turbid urine, [5]. ►
Diminished secretion of urine, [14].
[330.] ►
Urine much more scanty than usual, in the afternoon (first day), [2]. ►
Secretion of urine notably diminished, and had a strong ammoniacal odor
(first day), [6]. ► Urine passes clear, quickly, painless,
and free, bright reddish yellow; feels hot in its passage through glans;
after some time, the cloudy white floating appearance, disturbed, is
seen at bottom; urine clear when passed, with white small shreds
floating; after some hours, there forms near the bottom a white cloud
floating, easily disturbed, in which the shreds appear like white spots;
white sediment passes freely and painless, but feels hot to glans
(nineteenth day); urine clear, yellowish red; cloudy floating appearance
forms in the bottom; oily pellicle on the surface (twenty-fifth day);
urine clear, yellowish red, with small white floating shredlike
particles, which, after a time, fall into the cloudy appearance at
bottom, like white spots; whitish sediment (twenty-seventh day); urine
clear, with few white floating particles; deposits a reddish-brown
sediment thick, and muddy, with oily pellicle (twenty-eighth day); urine
clear last night, with white shreds; after standing, becomes thick and
muddy at bottom, and deposits a rosy-pink sediment, which clings to the
vessel when shaken about; oily pellicle (thirtieth day); urine clear,
deposits a whitish sediment, which adheres to the vessel when moved
about (thirty-first day); urine deposits whitish cloud, covered with
oily pellicle (thirty-third day); urine clear, plentiful; shreds few;
slight cloudy sediment (thirty-sixth day); urine clear, passed last
night; deposits a thick muddy white sediment and is thick (fortieth
day); urine clear, yellow, passed in small quantities, and deposits a
rosy sediment, which adheres to the vessel; urine thick and muddy, clear
on the surface, with thin oily pellicle (forty-fifth day); urine reddish
brown, clear; forms slight white cloud at bottom (forty-sixth day);
urine reddish brown, clear, with slight white cloud (forty-seventh day);
urine (passed last night) clear, reddish brown; white, light, cloudy
sediment; urine brownish red, with light small cloud at bottom
(forty-eighth day); urine reddish brown; forms a copious oily pellicle,
which on being moved, adheres to the side of the vessel; has a rosy
coating, and deposits a rosy sediment (fifty-first day); urine reddish
brown covered with an oily pellicle, and deposits a rosy sediment,
which, on shaking the vessel, is found adhering to its sides
(fifty-fifth day); urine become thick on standing (one hundred and
seventy-first day); urine, after standing, is thick and muddy (one
hundred and seventy-fifth day); urine passed clear, without smarting,
and deposits, after standing, a whitish thick cloud, in the evening (one
hundred and seventy-seventh day); urine, after standing, becomes cloudy,
whitish (one hundred and eighty-third day); urine clear, deep, red
becomes very muddy; urine becomes thick on standing (one hundred and
ninety-second day), [3].
   

SEXUAL ORGANS.

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Male.
► Itching in
genitals, with increased desire (fourth day), [3]. ► Itching
in prepuce (sixth day); heat and burning sensation in genitals, at 6
P.M.; at 8 P.M., chiefly in perinæum, between the thighs and glans
penis. Increased sexual desire; abundance of amorous ideas. Soreness of
extremity of penis from friction of the clothes in walking. Glans penis
and lining membrane of prepuce painful and irritable; tingling in glans
penis; left scrotum hot and inflamed; skin in places excoriated, leaving
a bright-red surface beneath. Shooting pains and sensation of great heat
in left testis, and burning pain. Erythema of scrotum on left side,
exactly to raphé, and of glans and lining membrane of prepuce;
redundant secretion of smegma behind glans, near frænum (fifteenth
day); burning tinglings in glans penis; prepuce and glans moist, with a
watery saltish-smelling fluid; excoriation of left scrotum; extremity of
prepuce thickened; phimosis; excretion of whitish curdy matter
abundantly between glans and prepuce; glans and prepuce bluish red and
swollen; testis on left side dark red, entirely excoriated; saltish
smell from genitals, and secretion of saltish-smelling fluid (sixteenth
day); shooting pains in extremity of penis; secretion of greenish-yellow
pus from excoriated surface of scrotum; voluptuous itching; tickling in
prepuce (seventeenth day); want of sexual desire; discharge from glans,
aqueous; itching in extremity of prepuce, at intervals (biting,
stinging, pleasurable sensation), in the evening (eighteenth day);
phimosis; constriction of prepuce a little above extremity (which is
swollen), retaining drops of urine (nineteenth day); tickling,
pleasurable itching in preputial extremity, at intervals, at 6 P.M.
(twentieth day); phimosis (partial), and without pain or tenderness;
tickling in extremity of prepuce, at intervals, at 6 P.M. (twenty-second
day); itching tingling in prepuce, in the evening (twenty-sixth day);
itching in prepuce, at night (thirty-second day); in the morning
(thirty-third day); tickling in lining membrane of prepuce; tingling in
extremity of prepuce, at 6 P.M. (thirty-third day); tinglings in lining
membrane of prepuce; shootings up the left side of penis and tinglings
(forty-fourth day); annoyed about 6 P.M., for some evenings, with
tinglings in prepuce, which gradually increased and at length interfered
with sleep, becoming like lancinations in glans and prepuce, with
occasional sharp twinges; small spot of white curdy matter in left
corner at root of frænum; surrounding membrane, glans prepuce, and
frænum bright red and irritable, with shooting twinges so acute as to
jerk the body about; absence of sexual desire (one hundred and
sixty-ninth day). Extremity of prepuce becomes inflamed, acutely
sensitive to touch; friction of the clothes, as in walking, painful;
slight preputial gonorrhœa (one hundred and seventy-first day). Walking
becomes very painful; prepuce inflamed, very red, and swollen; penis
painful to the least touch over surface and glans; lancinating twinges
and shootings in glans and prepuce, chiefly after 6 P.M., and especially
in bed at night, and then becoming insupportably severe, with startings
and shocks all through the body; cannot lie still; increased by
attention and the least touch (one hundred and seventy-second day).
Pains, twitchings, lancinating in prepuce, and agony in bed, at night,
causing startings in the limbs; cannot lie still; the least movement
increases them; desire for Opium to allay the sensibility; absence of
sexual desire (one hundred and seventy-third day). Prepuce swollen
considerably, projecting beyond the glans; phimosis; violent preputial
gonorrhœa; oozing pains; sensation
of melting away, as if drops were passing from the extremity of the
penis or it were becoming matter; the effort seems to be aided by the
whole body; increased by change of posture; the recumbent, with the
muscles and fascia on the stretch, is most easy; pains in penis when
pendant, relieved by being kept up (one hundred and seventy-fourth day).
Swelling of prepuce increased; it forms a thickened bluish-red lump
beyond glans, which cannot be seen; sensation of oozing increased and
more frequent; secretion curdy white, and becomes yellow on drying;
ulceration at points on the edge of prepuce, which is notched;
balanorrhœa increased; change of posture and emotion increase the
pains; contortion of the body during the pains, with writhing;
erections, without voluptuous thoughts, during the night; the expanding
glans causes acute lancinating pains in prepuce; surface of prepuce all
over glans, especially on left side, excessively tender to touch, and
red; (commenced milk and water tepid injection between glans and
prepuce, with much relief, every six hours); great secretion during the
night, with acute oozing pains (one hundred and seventy-fifth day);
pains and contortions worse to-day; on urinating this morning, smarting
lancinations in prepuce and glans, as if the orifice had been growing
together, which continues after the act; frequent and painful erections;
slight erythema of left scrotum as far as raphé; left testis hangs
down, aching extending from it up spermatic cord, whilst walking
(although it is suspended artificially); penis very tender over surface
of glans, chiefly along corona glandis and on
its left side
; smarting pains whilst urine passes through
glans and prepuce (one hundred and seventy-sixth day); smarting in glans
whilst and after urinating; cold water aggravates, warm relieves the
local symptoms; extremity of prepuce can be painlessly handled, but over
corona glandis, on left side, is still tender and painful to the touch;
it aches on contact, as if hollow,
is considerably swollen and pale; expansive pains on touching it;
aching-boring pains in the swelling when the penis is pendant; secretion
diminished, whitish, but becomes yellow as it dries, and redissolves
white; insoluble in alcohol and water; balanorrhœa, with oozing
tickling sensations, not disagreeable (one hundred and seventy-seventh
day); penis painful when pendant; expansive
pains in the swelling over the left corona glandis and great
irritability; stitches up the commencement of the urethra, at 3 P.M.;
much yellowish matter has discharged this morning, with oozing
sensations, and the swelling on left side of glans penis is greatly
diminished and so tender (one hundred and seventy-eighth day);
balanorrhœa more watery, yellowish (one hundred and seventy-ninth day);
phimosis; prepuce can be drawn now about a quarter of an inch backward,
exposing the glans; frænum red and swollen; larded-looking surface
appears on upper glans; which could not be detached by washing or
scraping, and around the margin of which were several distinct spots,
like ulcerations, which altered the detachments or separation of a
slough; [Pointed out by Mr. Wilson, to whom also are due all the
physical symptoms of auscultation, etc.] stinging itching in genitals,
chiefly in penis, after 6 P.M. (Nitr. ac.?); occasional oozing
sensations, which render it impossible to rest still; heat in the
genitals (one hundred and eightieth day); balanorrhœa considerable,
during the night, milky, and becoming yellow (one hundred and
eighty-first day); balanorrhœa of prepuce slight; no urethral discharge
could be detected; [Notwithstanding frequent minute observation both by
Mr. Wilson and myself throughout.] thickening and congestion around
urethral orifice, lasts several days (one hundred and eighty-second
day); itching in extremity of penis, at intervals (one hundred and
eighty-third day), [3]. ► Frequent erections (second day), [2]. ►
Erections easily excited and frequent, slightly painful; sexual desire
restored (one hundred and seventy-seventh day), [3]. ► Easy
erections (first day), [2]. ► Scrotum and Testicles. ► Sensation of flabbiness and rawness in
left scrotum, in morning (sixteenth day), [3].
► Lest testis became suspended
(seventh day); left testis continues suspended (fourteenth day), [3]. [340.]
► Left testis hangs down; genitals
flabby; dragging pain in left testis, along spermatic cord, and
particularly about abdominal ring (one hundred and ninety-second day), [3]. ►
Aching in left testis (nineteenth day), [2].
► Aching in left testis (though
artificially suspended), whilst walking (one hundred and eighty-first
day), [3]. ►
Tensive pulsation in left spermatic cord, when walking (fourth day), [3]. ►
Shooting in left spermatic cord, at 10 P.M. (fortieth day), [3]. ►
Desire.
► Excitation of
the sexual feeling, [9a]. ► Absence of sexual desire (since left
scrotum healed), as if from physical weakness; erections few, and
without pleasure (twenty-ninth day); desire increased; with frequent
erections; tingling, at intervals, in glans (forty-first day); increased
sexual desire (fifty-second day); absence of all sexual desire and of
erections, but the regulation of motion seems affected (one hundred and
eighty-third day); [Phrenologically this is important, confirming a
relation between the cerebellum and the co-ordination of motion.] absence of erection and of all sexual desire,
for five days (one hundred and ninety-second day), [3]. ► Female.
► Leucorrhœa white,
especially after sitting (eighteenth day); continues (twenty-fifth day),
[4]. ►
Catamenia premature (five days) and of short duration (three days), with
deficient quantity (after six days), [4].
► Retardation of the menstrual flux, [13].

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