USTILAGO.
Ustilago maidis, Corda.
Natural order
, Fungi.
Common name
, Corn smut.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Roullin, Memoir to Royal Acad. of Sci., France (Bost. Med. and Surg.
Journ., vol. ii, 1830, p. 814), effects when taken into the stomach for
a period of time. (2 to 6, W. H. Burt, M.D., Monograph on Ustilago
Maidis.) 2, Miss K. O., æt.
thirty-two, took 2d dec. trit. three weeks, and then 1st dec. three
weeks, in 2-grain doses three times a day, for a uterine tumor of
enormous size, which was reduced one-third in size and was greatly
relieved of its sensitiveness, greatest effects on skin; 3, W. H. Burt, in perfect health, took 20
grains 2d dec. trit. at 4 P.M. (first day), 20 grains at 12 M. (second
and third days); 4, same, took 20
grains 2d dec. at 11 A.M. (first day), 40 grains at 6 A.M., an hour
before eating (second day), 40 grains at 7 A.M. (third day), 50 at 7
A.M. (fourth day); 5, same, took 5
grains crude untriturated drug at 7 A.M. (first day), 10 grains (second
day), 15 grains at 7 A.M. (third day); 6,
same, subsequently feeling very well, but still having complete
prostration of the animal system, took 20 grains crude drug at 12 M.
(first day), same at 7 A.M. (sixth day), 10 grains in the morning
(seventh and eighth days). (7 to 13, T. S. Hoyne, M.D., Trans. Am. Ins. Hom.,
1872, p. 493 (six students report that they obtained no symptoms from
the drug.)); 7, E. H. Pratt, took a
powder of 1 grain 2d trit. at 10 P.M.; 8,
H. M. B., took same at 12.30 P.M.; 9,
Miss M. S. Stearns, took same; 10,
S. R. Kridler, took same at 5 P.M.; 11,
C. W. Brown, took same at 10 P.M.; 12,
R. H. Paine, took same in a spoonful of water at 11 P.M., probably
caught cold from exposure on the third day; 13,
same, having had no symptoms for a week, took 1 grain 2d trit. at night.
MIND.
►
Much depressed in spirits this afternoon (third day), [4]. ► Have
felt irritable and disinclined to talk all day; could not take hold of
anything with energy; had nothing particular to complain of (fourth
day), [12]. ►
For three days have felt irritable; almost everything goes wrong (tenth
day), [12].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Frequent
attacks of vertigo; everything before the eye whirls, sometimes
appearing double, and at times myriads of white specks come before the
eyes and blot out everything else (second day); occasional attacks of
vertigo and internal heat came on for three or four days till the end of
twelve days, [7]. ► General Head. ►
Dulness of the head (after two days), [9].
► Headache before rising, dull, from
dry cold in head; it disappeared after a bath and eating breakfast
(third day), [12]. ► Dull headache all the morning (third
day), [5]; at 7 A.M. (seventh
day), [6]. ►
Head feels heavy (fourth day), [12].
► In the morning head felt stuffed;
felt better after eating breakfast (fourth day), [12]. [10.] ► All the morning have had a feeling of
fulness of the head, with dull, pressive, frontal headache; dull frontal
headache all day, with aching distress in the eyeballs (second day), [4]. ►
Head aches most violently at noon; have been very languid to-day, with a
bursting frontal headache, 9 P.M. (third day), [5]. ► Slight
headache (fourth day), [4]; (sixth
day), [6]. ► Forehead. ►
Some headache, mostly frontal, this evening (second day), [13]. ►
Frontal headache (after half an hour), has continued ever since, with
distress in the epigastrium (after four hours); head aches severely,
aggravated by walking (after seven hours), [4]. ► Dull
frontal headache all the forenoon, with smarting of the eyes (third
day), [4]. ►
Dull frontal headache, in the morning (third day), [5]; (seventh day), [6]. ► Dull,
heavy, frontal headache, while walking in the open air, relieved on
staying in the warm room, not from hunger (seventh day), [12]. ►
Frontal headache, with erections (after three hours and a half), [8]. ►
Severe neuralgic pains in the forehead, hands, and feet (first day), [6]. [20.]
► Sharp pains in the forehead (after
one hour), [6]. ► External Head. ►
Loss of hair, [1].
EYE.
►
Occasional slight spasms of the eyes, when everything vanishes rom sight
and the head seems to whirl (fourth day), [7].
► Frequent attacks of twitching of
the eyes, and my eyes appeared to look (revolve) in circles and dart
from one object to another in quick succession (third day), [11]. ►
Eyes weak (second day), [7]. ► Aching of the eyes, with profuse
secretion of tears (second day), [4].
► Queer feeling in the eyes, smarting
or inflamed feeling (after two days), [9].
► Eyes feel hot on closing the lids
(fourth day), [7]. ► Smarting of the eyes, with the dull
frontal headache (third day), [4].
► Eyelids agglutinated together, in
the morning (seventh day), [6]. [30.] ►
Eyes weak and water much out of doors (seventh day); eyes water
profusely in the open air (ninth day), [6].
► Eyes water much in the open air
(sixth day), [6]. ► Pain in the right eyeball, with the
distress in the stomach (first day), [5].
► Aching distress in the eyeballs,
with the headache (second day), [4].
► Spots dancing to and fro before the
eyes, [8].
NOSE.
►
A small boil in the right nostril (sixteenth day), [5]. ► Thick
mucus is discharged from the nose all the forenoon (third day), [12]. ►
Profuse discharge of thick mucus from the nose, lasting an hour or two
(fourth day), [12]. ► Thick mucous discharge from the nose, not
profuse (fifth day), [12]. ► Dryness of the nostrils, with the
prickling sensation in the tongue (second day), [4]. [40.] ► All the forenoon had dryness of the
nostrils, with a dry feeling in the whole skin (third day), [3].
FACE.
►
Sudden pallor coming on while sitting and in the evening, [10]. ► Face
has a dingy-yellow look, more so than natural (fifth day), [12].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Sometimes
looseness of teeth, [1]. ► Toothache all day in upper first and
second molars; they are decayed and have ached before (sixth day);
toothache to-day the same as yesterday (seventh day), [5]. ► Tongue.
► Tongue coated in the morning, [10]. ►
A prickling sensation in the tongue, and a feeling as if something were
under the roots of the tongue pressing it upwards, with dryness of the
nostrils (second day), [4]. ► Saliva. ►
Profuse secretion of thin bitter saliva (third day); saliva profuse
(fourth day), [7]. ► Bitter saliva was secreted in abundance
(third day), [11]. ► Taste. ►
Slimy taste, with burning distress in the stomach (second day), [4]. [50.]
► Slimy coppery taste in the mouth
(fifth day); slimy taste in the mouth for a number of days after the
proving, [4]. ► Slimy coppery taste in the mouth, in the
morning (third day); slimy taste (fifth and sixth days); for a week had
slimy taste in the mouth, with a relaxed state of the sexual organs
(after seven days), [5]. ► Coppery taste in the mouth, in the
morning (sixth day); slimy coppery taste, in the morning (seventh and
eighth days); slimy taste (twelfth day), [6].
THROAT.
►
During the night was troubled with mucus in the posterior nares (third
day), [12]. ►
Throat sore and dry towards morning; upper part of throat felt filled
up; pharynx and uvula reddened; this passed off in the morning, but the
head felt stuffed (third day), [12].
► In a short time felt a sharp
lancinating pain in the right tonsil (the fauces were somewhat inflamed
when the medicine was taken), (first day); fauces hotter and more
sensitive to motion than last night; throat still sore (second day);
throat worse, very painful (sharp lancinating pains), (third day);
throat still painful (fourth day), [7].
► Left tonsil enlarged and much
congested, of a dark-reddish color, right one also quite painful on
swallowing, at 2 P.M.; left tonsil much enlarged and painful, at 9 P.M.
(seventh day); left tonsil much congested, extending to the ear along
the Eustachian tube, which produces constant dull pain in the ear, in
the morning (eighth day); tonsils more painful than yesterday (ninth
day); left tonsil still congested but not so painful (tenth day); left
still congested but not painful (eleventh days), [6]. ► Dryness
of the fauces with difficulty in swallowing, feeling as if there were a
lump behind the larynx (after half an hour); dryness of the fauces, with
a burning distress in the stomach (after one hour); frequent efforts to
swallow, with a feeling in the fauces as if something had lodged there
(after four hours); irritation of the fauces, with a feeling as if there
were a lump in the larynx when swallowing (sixth day); fauces congested
and irritated (seventh day), [6]. ► Dryness of the fauces, with a burning
dryness in the stomach (first day), [3].
► Rough feeling in the fauces (first
day), [5]. [60.] ►
Burning in the œsophagus (soon), [11].
► A burning sensation along the whole
length of the œsophagus, especially at the cardiac orifice of the
stomach; heartburn, morning, continued all day (second day), [7]. [Kali bich, always gives me the
same symptoms, but I had not taken it for two weeks previous.]
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ►
Very hungry (eighth day); craving appetite (ninth day), [6]. ►
Appetite good; craving for hearty food (fifth day), [12]. ►
Towards night felt a strong desire for acid food, and ate an apple,
which stopped this craving; at the same time had a craving for hearty
food, which left on eating the apple (fourth day), [12]. ► Poor
appetite (fifth day), [5]. ► Very thirsty (eighth day); had to get up
in the night to drink, was so thirsty (eighth night), [6]. ►
Eructations. ► Eructations
of ingesta strongly acid, with constant distress in the stomach, at 10
A.M.; frequent eructations of sour fluid, at 10.30 A.M. (second day), [4]. ►
Eructations of sour fluid from the stomach, with distress in the same
region; afterwards eructations of sour food (third day), [4]. ► Stomach.
► Distress in the stomach (second
day), [3]. [70.] ►
Distress in the epigastrium, with the headache (first day), [4]. ►
Constant distress in the stomach; frequent pains in the stomach, all the
afternoon (fourth day), [4]. ► Constant distress in the stomach all the
forenoon, with pain in the right eyeball; have had hard pains in the
stomach for the last two hours (after seven hours); severe distress this
afternoon, eating supper relieves it (second day), [5]. ►
Constant burning distress in the stomach, with slimy taste (second day),
[4]. ►
Pain in the cardiac region of a burning character, [10]. ► Dull
pains in the epigastrium, with constant severe drawing pains in the
joints of the fingers (third day), [3].
► Frequent spells of pain in the
stomach and small intestines, with dull distress in the right
hypochondrium (sixth day), [6]. ► Frequent cutting pains in the stomach,
with constant distress in the same region; had the constant severe
distress until I ate supper, which relieved it (third day), [4]. ►
Full inspiration causes a dull pain in the stomach (second day), [4]. ►
Burning dryness in the stomach, with dryness of the fauces (first day), [3].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. [80.] ► Drawing pains in the right hypochondrium
all day (sixth day), [5]. ► A great deal of pain in the right lobe of
the liver (seventh day), [5]. ► Umbilicus. ►
Have suffered constantly with dull distress in the right hypochondrium
and umbilicus (eighth day), [6]. ► For the last two hours have had fine,
sharp, cutting pains in the umbilical and hypogastric regions, lasting
about three minutes at a time, and coming on every ten and fifteen
minutes (after four hours); the colicky pains lasted until 8 P.M., when
they were relieved by a constipated stool (the first to-day), (after
eight hours); since have had constant grumbling pains in the whole of
the bowels, with severe pains in the testicles (after ten hours), [6]. ►
Dull pains in the umbilicus and right liver (seventh day), [6]. ►
Frequent pains in the umbilicus (eighth day), [6]. ► General
Abdomen. ► Pain in the
abdomen for two or three days, a very unusual symptom (after two days), [9]. ►
Occasional pains in the bowels (sixth day), [6]. ► Pain in
left inguinal region, while walking, [10].
STOOL.
►
Slight diarrhœa, with light-colored stools (second day), [8]. [90.] ► Constipated stool, at 8 P.M. (the first
to-day), (first day); natural stool, preceded by dull pains in the
umbilicus (seventh day); stool at 4 A.M., inclined to be loose, with
pain and rumbling in the bowels (ninth day); not stool (tenth day), [6]. ►
Natural stool (third day); no stool (fourth day); mushy stool before
breakfast (fifth day), [4]. ► Natural stool, at 4 A.M. (third day), [3]. ►
Natural stool (first day); rather soft stool (second day); dry, lumpy
stool (third day); black, dry, lumpy stool (fifth day), [5]. ► Bowels
constipated this morning, a very unusual thing for me (third day);
bowels have been constipated all the time (tenth day), [12].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Great desire to urinate, the urine being of a lighter color than usual, [10]. ►
Flow of urine increased (fourth day), [7].
► Urine very red and scanty,
diminished one-half (third day); urine diminished greatly to-day and
high-colored (fifth day); urine increased (sixth day); increased and
very clear (seventh day), [5]. ► Urinated 30 ounces, acid (sixth day);
urinated 24 ounces; acids have no effect upon it (seventh day); 23
ounces (eighth day); 26 ounces, high-colored (ninth day); 30 ounces,
acid, high-colored (tenth day); 28 ounces, high-colored (eleventh day), [6].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► At 4 o’clock,
erections while reading, with frontal headache, [8]. [100.] ► Frequent erections during the day and
night, [10]. ►
Relaxed state of the sexual organs, with a slimy taste in the mouth for
a week (after seven days); sexual desire was depressed during the whole
experiment, [6]. ► Scrotum greatly relaxed, with a cold
sweat upon it, in the morning (seventh and ninth days); still profound
prostration of the sexual system, with the organs greatly relaxed
(eleventh day); scrotum still greatly relaxed; sexual desire perfectly
prostrated (fifteenth day); this prostration of the sexual system lasted
a month after ceasing the proving, [6].
► With the pains in the bowels,
constant severe pains in the testicles, more in the right one (after
eight hours); 12 M., constant, severe, dull, aching pains in the
testicles, sometimes the pains would be of a sharp neuralgic character;
5 P.M., my right testicle has constantly pained me nearly all day, the
pain is of a dull, aching character, at times the distress would be in
both testicles; 9 P.M., the dull, aching distress in my testicles has
not ceased a moment, this evening (sixth day); 11 A.M., every few
minutes have had severe pains in the testicles, lasting about five
minutes at a time; the pains produced a faintish feeling; three times
had hard paroxysms of pain in the testicles, this evening (seventh day);
5 P.M., have had spells of hard pains in the testicles; 9 P.M., slight
pains in the testicles (eighth day), [6].
► Female. ► (*During these four months it produced a
constant aching distress in the womb, referred by the patient to the
mouth of the womb), [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Raise a little mucus, of a thick, sticky nature, at nearly every cough
(third day), [12]. ► Hacking, rough, and painful cough (fourth
day), [12]. ►
10 P.M., have had a cough, with thick mucous expectoration, all day, but
am getting better of the cold (fourth day), [12]. ► A very
little cough and expectoration (fifth day), [12].
CHEST.
►
Feeling of oppression in the chest, along the median line, [10]. [110.]
► In the evening the lungs were sore
on coughing (third day), [12]. ► Heat and pressure in the chest (third
day), [11]. ►
For the last hour have had a constant aching, burning distress under and
in the sternum, appears to be in the sternum and also in the stomach,
accompanied with fine neuralgic pains in the same region; this is a
prominent symptom (third day), [3].
► A sharp tearing pain in left side,
commencing at the top of the chest and passing down to the sixth or
seventh rib, increased by breathing; was present for several minutes; it
was rather spasmodic, and occurred about 3 P.M., while standing and
reading (fourth day), [13]. ► Awoke about 3 A.M. with a dull drawing
pain in the left inframammary region, which disappeared on turning on
the back from the right side (second day), [12]. ► Slight
pain in left infraclavicular region, just before rising, this morning;
passed off soon (second day); pain in left infraclavicular region (third
day), [13].
HEART.
►
Sudden flying pain from the heart to the stomach that arrested
breathing, lasted but a moment (probably myalgic), (after four hours), [6].
BACK.
►
Pain in the back, which extends to the extreme point of the spine. ► Dull backache (eighth day), [6]. ►
Dull pains in the small of the back (sixth day), [6]. [120.] ► Dull pain in the lumbar region (sixth
day), [6].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Frequent rheumatic symptoms in the arms, fingers, and legs all day;
these rheumatic symptoms lasted a week (after four days), [3].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Rheumatic pains in the muscles of the
arms, hands, fingers, and small of the back, walking aggravates the
pains in the back (fourth day); had a few rheumatic symptoms to-day
(fifth day), [4]. ► Every day, several times through the day,
for the last week, have had a numb tingling sensation in the right hand
and arm, that would last from a few minutes to an hour at a time
(sixteenth day), [5]. ► Severe rheumatic pains in the muscles of
the right shoulder (third day); had pain in the right shoulder all night
(third night), [4]. ► Dull, aching pains in the shoulder-joints
(second day), [3]. ► Dull pains in the right elbow, worse on
motion (third day), [4]. ► Sharp, cutting pains in the metacarpal
bone of the right hand and foot (after four hours), [6]. ► Fine
stitching pain along the metacarpal bone, right forefinger, every few
seconds (second day), [4]. ► All the afternoon had rheumatic drawing
pains in the finger-joints, especially in the second joint of the right
forefinger (second day), [3]. [130.] ►
Constant severe drawing pains in the joints of the fingers, with dull
pains in the epigastrium (third day), [3].
GENERALITIES.
►
At noon to-day, after walking a mile or so, my hands and whole body
trembled slightly. I was not fatigued. This passed off in a few minutes
(third day), [12]. ► In the morning rose with a tired feeling
(second day); awoke early and felt tired, yet could not rest (third
day), [7]. ►
For last three days have felt dull, as if I had not slept enough (tenth
day), [12]. ►
Very languid (third day); languid (fifth day), [5]. ► Very
languid all day (fourth day); very languid for a number of days after
the proving, [4]. ► Very languid (sixth day); called up at 4
A.M., feeling excessively languid; great languor at 2 P.M. (seventh
day), [6]. ►
Have had a number of faint spells, commencing in the epigastrium, with
small pains in the hypochondrium and bowels (seventh day), [6]. ►
At 11 A.M., felt very much as if I was going to faint; felt oppressed
for want of fresh air; this soon disappeared; was in the lecture-room,
which was warm (second day), [12].
► Symptoms of a slight cold (after
two days), [9]. [140.] ►
Felt quite well today, though not so bright as usual (fifth day), [12]. ►
No symptoms to speak of the first two days, or rather my health was
better, [9].
SKIN.
►
On the skin it spent most of its power; the scalp and chest were most
affected, but the skin of the whole body was more or less involved; the
great centre of action was on the scalp; the whole scalp became one
filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair came out, and what
was left was completely matted together; a watery serum kept constantly
oozing from the scalp so great as to keep the hair wet all the time; the
patient now cut her hair very short, and she then washed it thoroughly
with castile soap daily, and applied a cerate of Iris v. to the whole
scalp; took internally Iris v. and Sulphur for five weeks before the
scalp became well; the eruption on the body resembled the eruption of
rubeola perfectly, even in coming out, it first appeared on the neck and
chest, and gradually extended to the feet; at no time was the eruption
vesicular, but constantly of a deep red color, and about the size of a
pin’s head; the chest and joints were completely covered with this fine
red eruption, the body not so thickly; at night the eruption itched most
violently; by rubbing any part of the body in a few minutes it would
break out with the eruption; this peculiarity lasted during the whole
course of the eruption; on the neck and face it came out in patches like
ringworm (Herpes circinatus), but not vesicular, [2]. ► Two
small boils on the back of the neck (fifteenth day), [6]. ► Dry
feeling in the whole skin, with the dryness of the nostrils (third day),
[3]. ►
Skin dry and hot (fourth day); skin feeling dry (fifth day), [4]. ►
The whole skin feels congested (sixth day), [6]. ► Whole
skin felt dry, as if I had taken cold (second night), [3].
SLEEP.
►
Restless all night (second night), [3].
► Restless at night, with fever, [10]. [150.]
► Night restless and had troubled
dreams, an unusual occurrence with me (first night); sleep restless and
dreamed considerable (second night); dreams when lying down in the
daytime and at night (third day); difficulty in getting to sleep, and
when I did unpleasant dreams haunted me continually (fourth night); have
dreamed every night since taking the medicine, something unusual for me
(fourteenth day), [11]. ► Sleep troubled; tossed about much in bed,
and had gloomy and disappointing dreams (first night); troubled dreams,
with great restlessness (not natural) and internal heat (second night);
in the morning awoke early and felt tired, yet could not rest (third
day); restless sleep, full of gloomy dreams (third night); rested nearly
as well as usual, though somewhat restless yet (fourth night), [7]. ►
Slept well, but dreamed of the lectures (fourth night), [12]. ► Horrid
dreams at night, although not usually followed by dulness of the head,
in the morning, with queer feeling in the eyes, smarting or inflamed
feeling (after two days), [9]. ► Troublesome dreams at night, [10]. ►
Sexual dream, but no emission (first night); had a restless night;
sexual dream, no emission (second night); sexual dream, no emission
(fourth night); sexual dream (fifth night), [5].
FEVER.
►
Heat over the entire body, at night; I threw off the bed-clothes during
sleep, and on waking found myself exceedingly warm, [10]. ►
Internal heat, especially in the eyes, which are inflamed and sensitive
to light, and the eyeball is sore to touch (second day), [7]. ► Towards
the middle of the day was seized with great internal heat (pulse normal)
over the whole body, but especially in the eyes; in the afternoon,
internal heat gone; at night, internal heat; this feeling of general
heat seems to come and go at short intervals (two to four hours),
(second day), [7]. ► General internal heat (third day);
attacks of internal heat and vertigo, for twelve days, [7]. [160.] ► Skin feeling hot and dry (third day), [4], [5].
► Burning sensation of the face and
scalp (third day), [4].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Full inspiration), Pain in the stomach. ► (Motion),
Pain in elbow. ► (Walking), Pain in inguinal region; pain in
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