VERATRUM VIRIDE.
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Pain in both testicles (second day), worse in the left, in the morning
(fifth day), [40b]. ► At 6 P.M., pain in both testicles, worse
on left side, sometimes shoots up the cord into abdomen; continued all
the evening (first day), [40c]. ► During the proving had a severe pain in
left testicle all the time (after second day), [39a].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
In the evening had a tickling spasmodic cough coming from just above the
sternum (second day), [41]. ► Respiration (normal, 20) 18 (after one
hour); 16 (after two hours); 14 (after three hours); 12 (after four
hours); 8 (after four hours and ten minutes); 6 (after four hours and a
quarter), [7]. [240.] ►
*Difficulty of breathing, [11].
► Difficult respiration, with nausea
(second day), [41]. ► Slow and difficult respiration between
the vomiting spells, [34]. ► Breathing heavy, almost stertorous (after
seven hours), [23]. ► When a fit of retching came on, felt as
if going to be asphyxiated, [17]. ► *Convulsive breathing, almost to suffocation
(after half an hour), [24].
CHEST.
►
Stricture of the chest, [14]. ► When the vomiting ceased he complained of
severe constriction about the chest, with great anguish; for ten to
fifteen minutes, [34]. ► (Chest feels oppressed as from a heavy
load), (first and second days), [42a].
► Drawing pain in lower thoracic
region, with nausea (first day), [41].
[250.] ►
Pain most severe over the front of the chest, with occasional twitchings
of the small intestines (after five hours), [17]. ►
Feeling of dislocation in left side, while walking (right, left), for
half an hour, in the afternoon (thirty-eighth day), [31]. ►
(Complains of pain in left side in region of heart), (first and second
days), [42a]. ► Throbbing in right side of chest for five
minutes (twenty minutes after first dose, second day), [33]. ► A
steady pain of some intensity about left
nipple, in the afternoon (fifth day), [31].
► The former pain (a steady aching)
under the left nipple, but more marked than formerly (twenty-fourth
evening), [31]. ► Pain about the spot below left nipple
(after second dose, thirty-second day), [31].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Pricking
pains in the of the heart, with the headache, at 12 M. and 3 P.M. (first
day), [12]. ►
Constant burning distress in the region of the heart, at 1 P.M. (third
day), [12]. ►
Burning pain in the region of the heart, under the sternum, at 2, 3, and
6 P.M. (fourth day), [12]. [260.] ►
Dull, hot, aching pain in the region of the heart, at 3 P.M. (fourth
day), [12]. ►
Neuralgic pains in the region of the heart and cardiac portion of the
heart, at 5 P.M. (first day), [12].
► Heart’s Action. ► (Throbbing carotids), (fifth day), [42]. ►
Slowness of the heart’s action (fourth day), [39a]. ►
(Beats of heart slow and weak), (first and second day), [42a]. ► Pulse.
► Pulse as frequent but softer than
usual (first night), 58 standing (second night), [39]. ► Pulse
ranged from 72 to 80, never exceeding the latter, during the proving, [40b]. ►
Normal pulse 80; 70 and weak (fourth day); slow (seventh day), [38]. ►
Pulse immediately rose from 63 to 71, and became much more feeble; in
twenty minutes it was 60, [32]. ► Pulse rose at once from 74 to 80, and in
five minutes fell to 70, [34]. [270.] ►
Pulse 80 and irregular, ate 7.15 A.M.; normal (72 to 76) the remainder
of the day (second day); 78, full and strong (fourth day), [60a]. ►
Pulse 80, in the evening (first day); 78 at 7.30 A.M. (second day); 68,
regular at 8 A.M.; 72, irregular and soft at 9; 80, regular at 10; 84,
regular and full at 11; 83, regular and soft at 12 M.; 72, regular and
full at 2 P.M.; 76, regular and full at 3 P.M.; 83 at 4.30; 82 at 6; 85
at 9 P.M.; 76, regular at 11 P.M. (third day), [40c]. ► Pulse
70 at 8 A.M., 85 at 11, 84 at 12, 75 at 1 P.M., 80 at 2 P.M. (fourth
day), [40c]. ►
Normal pulse, 74 to 76; 72 at 9 A.M., 68 at 12 M., 58 at 1 P.M.; 76 and
full at 4.30 (first day); 90, very weak, hardly perceptible, at 9 A.M.;
72 at 12 M. (second day); normal, 74 at 7 A.M. (third day), [41]. ►
Pulse 85 (before experiment); 1 P.M. 76; 80 at 2.10 P.M.; 74 at 2.40
P.M.; 69 at 3.15 P.M.; 66 at 3.40 P.M.; 72 at 4 P.M.; 73 at 4.30 P.M.;
67 at 5.15; 68 at 5.30 P.M.; any exertion an effort, and when forced,
rapidly sending pulse up to 110, walking once or twice around the room
sufficient to do this; 70 at 6 P.M.; nearly 70, down at times to 62, at
6.15 P.M.; 66 at 6.40 P.M.; 70 at 7 P.M., [30].
► Pulse 80 (before experiment); 82
(after twenty-five minutes); 76 (after two hours and a half), [29]. ►
Pulse diminished from 75 per minute to 58-9, [8a]. ► Pulse
60, before experiment; 52 (after half an hour); 48 (after four hours), [6]. ►
Pulse 70 (before experiment); 65 (in one hour); 60 (in two hours); 50
(in four hours); 46 (in six hours and a half), [8b]. ► Pulse
70 (before experiment); with the nausea, pulse diminished both in fore
and frequency, 64 (after four hours); 40 (after five hours); 56 (after
five hours and three-quarters); natural (after nine hours), [17]. [280.]
► Pulse 74 (before the proving); 67
at 11 A.M.; 70 at 12 M.; 66 in the evening (first day); 79 in the
morning; 76 at 9.30 A.M.; 71 at 11 A.M.; 74 at 2 P.M.; 70 at 4 P.M.
(second day); 70 in the morning; 46, soft and very weak, at 1 P.M.; 44,
soft and very weak, at 2 and 4 P.M.; 46 at 5 P.M.; 61, soft and weak, at
8 P.M. (third day); 64, soft and full, in the morning; 55, soft and very
weak, at 12 M.; 44, soft and very weak, can just be felt, at 1 P.M.; 46,
sitting or lying, at 2; 57, soft and weak, at 5; 60 at 6 P.M.; 66 at 10
P.M. (fourth day), [12]. ► Natural pulse 90; before experiment 94;
87 (after one hour); 80 (after two hours); 75 (after three hours); 65
(after four hours); 50 (after four hours and ten minutes); 42 (after
four hours and a quarter), [7]. ► Pulse 80 (before experiment); 60 (in
three hours and a half); 55 (in four hours); somewhat depressed (second
day), [10]. ►
Pulse diminished about ten beats per minute, [8]. ► Pulse
rose at once from 74 to 80, and in five minutes fell to 70 (after first
dose); fell at once from 76 two or three beats (after second dose); fell
from 82 to 80 (twenty minutes after third dose, first day); rose at once
from 60 to 66, and in fifteen minutes had fallen nearly to 60 (after
first dose); rose at once from 76 to 82, and in fifteen minutes fell to
76 (after fourth dose); rose from 66 to 72, and fell in half an hour to
66 (after fifth dose, second day). Fell from 70 to 62 in thirty minutes
(after first dose, third day). Rose at once from 82 to 92, in
twenty-five minutes it was 73, in twenty minutes more it was 72 (after
first dose), arose at once from 72 to 80, and in five minutes fell to 76
(after second dose, twelfth day). Rose at once from 64 at 76. and fell
in ten minutes to 64 (after first dose); rose at once from 72 at 80, and
in seven minutes fell to 70 (after second dose, fourteenth day). Fell
from 82 to 76 while sipping the dose (fifteenth day). Rose at once from
70 to 80 (after first dose, sixteenth day). Rose at once from 64 to 76,
and in a few minutes fell to 70 (twenty-third day). Rose at once from 78
at 82, and in five minutes fell to 74 (after first dose); 92 (after a
meal, and before the dose); rose at once to 98, and in twenty minutes
was 88 (after second dose); rose at once from 68 to 70, but fell to 68
in a minute or two (after third dose, twenty-fourth day). Rose from 64
to 66, and in a minute or two fell to 64 (after first dose); rose at
once from 74 to 78, and in five minutes fell to 74 (after second dose,
twenty-fifth day). Rose at once from 82 to 98 (after first and second
doses); rose in three or four minutes from 82 to 88 (after third dose,
thirtieth day). No rise in first minutes, but in fifteen minutes fell
from 63 to 62 (after first dose); rose from 74 to 80, and in five
minutes fell to 74 (after second day); rose at once from 86 to 106, and
in five minutes fell to 82 (after third dose); rose from 72 to 78 (after
fourth dose, thirty-first day). Rose from 66 to 72 (after first dose);
rose from 66 to 68 (one or two minutes after second dose); rose from 64
to 72, and had not come down in twenty-five minutes (after third dose,
thirty-second day). Rose from 64 to 70 (after first dose); rose five or
six beats (after second and third doses); rose at once from 72 to 78
(after fourth dose, thirty-seventh day). Rose at once from 80 to 90, and
in half an hour fell to 70 (after first dose); rose six beats (after
second dose); rose from 76 to 84, and in five minutes fell to 76 (after
third dose); rose at once from 66 to 76, and fell in half an hour to 66
(after fourth dose, thirty-eighth day). Rose twenty beats (forty-third
day). Rose at once from 70 to 80 (after first dose); rose from 70 to 79,
and in two or three minutes had fallen to 78 (after second dose); rose
to 86, in twenty minutes had fallen to 68 (after third dose,
forty-fourth day). Rose from 60 to 68, and in fifteen minutes had fallen
to 60 (after first dose); 74, in ten minutes was 76, in five minutes
more was 84, afterwards 66 (after second dose); 70 (before third dose is
dissolved); 80, in half an hour 66 (after fourth dose); rose from 82 to
86, and fell in a few minutes to 76 (after fifth dose); rose from 74 to
78, and in fifteen minutes had fallen to 64 (after sixth dose,
forty-fifth day). While the globules were melting on tongue, pulse rose
from 94 to 96, and at once began to fall, and in ten minutes had sunk to
88 (after first dose); rose at once to 100, and in ten minutes was 88
(after second dose); rose at once from 78 to 86 (after third dose); rose
at once from 70 to 74 (after fourth dose, forty-sixth day), [31]. ►
Pulse small and creeping, and 34 in a minute; the ordinary frequency
ranging from 56 to 58, [3]. ► Pulse reduced from 100 to 40, [16]. ►
Pulse at the wrist 40 in the minute, scarcely perceptible, [2]. ►
Pulse very small, about 40 (after half an hour), [24]. ► Pulse
very weak, small, and soft, 34 in a minute (first day), [1]. [290.] ► Reduced pulse to 38 beats a minute, [5]. ►
(Slow pulse), (first and second days), [42a].
► Pulse slow (30) and not perceptible
at the wrist (after four hours), [25].
► Pulse reduced to 24, full and
intermitting every sixth or seventh beat, [20].
► Pulse weakened so as to be scarcely
perceptible, and reduced from 68 to 52, [15].
► Pulse scarcely perceptible in the
radial artery, [9], [11], [22].
► Pulseless for three hours; the it
could be counted; it was 36, very weak and soft, [13]. ► No
pulse could be found in the radial arteries, and but slight in the
carotids (in two persons), (after three hours), [4].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Neck. ► Neck and arms ache
severely (third day), [12]. ► Back of neck and arms ache severely;
almost impossible to hold my head up, at 1 P.M. (fourth day), [12]. [300.]
► Severe aching in the neck, very
much worse by moving, at 2 P.M. (fourth day), [12]. ► Very
severe aching in the back of the neck; very difficult to hold my head
up, at 1 P.M. (third day), [12]. ► Pain in back of neck, feels as if the
cords were loose (first day), [41].
► Pain in middle of left neck (one
hour after second dose, thirty-first day), [31]. ► A new
pain in right sterno-mastoid near the process (twenty-fourth evening), [31]. ►
Pain in right side of neck about
middle of sterno-mastoid, and afterwards an itching in same place on the
left (right-left),
(twenty-fourth night), [31]. ► Distinct pain in middle of left neck
(after third dose, thirtieth day, and one hour after second dose,
thirty-first day), [31]. ► Pain in right side of seventh vertebræ
(after fourth dose, forty-fifth day), [31].
► Pain in left side of neck about
middle (after second dose, forty-sixth day), [31]. ► Back.
► Back very weak (after five hours), [17]. [310.]
► Pain in back (half an hour after
first dose, twenty-fifth day), [31].
► Aching in right scapula (in bone)
for ten minutes, and at the same time a dart from right clavicle to
scapula (half an hour after first dose second day), [33]. ► For
the first time had a pain on right
side of dorsal spine (after second dose, thirty-second day), [31]. ►
A long-continued, steady thrilling about an inch to left of dorsal
vertebræ four inches below scapula (twenty-fourth evening), [31]. ►
The thrilling quivering sensation about an inch from spine, and about
four inches below left scapula, has been felt nearly the whole evening;
it is about the size of a half-crown in extent (after third dose,
thirty-first day), [31]. ► The thrilling in the back changed once
into a severe ache, on rising from a reclining posture (after second
dose, thirty-second day), [31]. ► Thrilling and crawling in left back
(thirty-seventh day), [31]. ► Much thrill and crawling in the spot on
left of dorsal spine, in the afternoon (thirty-eighth day); in the
evening (forty-fourth day), [31]. ► Pain at the right of the sacrum where it
unites with the pelvis (after second dose, forty-sixth day), [31].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Hands and feet shrivelled up, as if they had been in water a long time. [13]. [320.]
► Feeling of clumsiness in the limbs,
[1a]. ►
Weakness and stiffness of the limbs (after half an hour), [24]. ► Almost
entire loss of power of the gastrocnemii muscles (after two hours); all
the muscles of the forearm affected in the same manner (after five
hours), [3a]. ► Sensation of cramp in the gastrocnemii,
with inability to exert them. There was no contraction in them, but they
were for a time almost paralytic, lasting about an hour (after two
hours, second day); repeated in the gastrocnemii and muscles of the
forearm (after second dose, second day), [1].
► Several times, a sensation of cramp
in the gastrocnemii and muscles of the forearm. There was no contraction
in them, but they were for a time almost paralytic. It seemed to affect
indiscriminately those muscles that had been most affected for a short
time before, being sometimes the calf of the leg, sometimes the forearm,
sometimes the extensors of the knee, [1a].
► Slight drawing pains in the right,
elbow and calves of the legs, in the evening (first day), [12]. ► Pain
returned above left elbow, rose to
middle of humerus, and then to shoulder-joint; it was severer than last
night; it then went to left instep and outside of left ankle; it also went over to right ankle (left-right),
(half an hour after fourth dose, second day), [31]. ► Pain
in middle of right tibia; afterwards a dull steady pain in muscles of left thigh, and a similar pain in muscles
above ridge of left scapula (after first dose, third day), [31]. ►
Slight, transient pains in right and left knees, left tibia above inner
malleolus, above left elbow, the right eye, and left trochanter major
(after half an hour, twenty-third day), [31].
► Momentary pains in knees and
elbows, generally about the condyles (after first dose, twenty-fourth
day), [31]. [330.] ►
Pains in left instep and top of left shoulder above clavicle, and in
left heel; these were transitory (after second dose, twenty-fourth day),
[31]. ►
Pain in back part of second joint of right middle finger; also in second
phalanx of right great toe; had formerly similar pains in fingers and
toes, but did not record them, fearing they were not reliable; for the
same reason did not record pain in right
pisiform bone, which returned this morning (twenty-fourth day), [31]. ►
The pains during the evening severer and steadier than before, chiefly
in the condyles of legs and arms (twenty-fourth day), [31]. ► During
the day left occasionally the usual pains in the joints, especially in
outer left ankle; also felt once the
pain in second phalanx of left great toe (twenty-fifth day), [31]. ►
Pain in left elbow, in lower third of left tibia, in left ankle, worse
in inner malleolus (two hours after second dose, thirty-first day), [31]. ►
Pain in left inner malleolus, the left great trochanter, the left
shoulder, and the inner condyle of left tibia, in the forenoon
(thirty-second day), [31]. ► A return of former symptoms in left
humerus, left ulna, metacarpal bone of right little finger, middle joint
of right middle finger, last joint of right thumb, left external
malleolus, left scapula, right pisiform bone, and the thrilling and
crawling in left back; this he has felt every day for hours at a times,
ever since he took 3d dilution (thirty-seventh day), [31]. ► Pain
in right scapula, head of left fibula, inner condyle of left humerus,
upper half of right orbit, and in inner side of left thigh, just above
condyle (after first dose, thirty-eighth day), [31]. ► Pain
in outside of middle of left leg, in left radius below elbow, in middle
of left femur, in outside muscles, and in left trochanter major
(immediately after second dose, forty-fifth day), [31]. ► Pain
in middle of right tibia and right shoulder (after sixth dose,
forty-fifth day), [31]. [340.] ►
Pains in right trochanter major, external condyle of left humerus, left
radius, and ulna, middle of right tibia, left ankle externally and
internally, left side of neck about middle, left instep on stretching
the foot, and for the first time at the right of the sacrum where it
unites with the pelvis; a dull aching in left hip while sitting on it
(after second dose, forty-sixth day), [31].
► At once felt a thrilling ache in
left radius below elbow, then in inner condyle of right femur, and next
in outer condyle of left femur (at once after first dose, forty-fourth
day), [31]. ►
Two or three shudderings and momentary pains in radical condyle of left
humerus, and outer side of left ankle (after first dose, forty-fifth
day), [31].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Arms ache at 11 A.M. (third day), [12]. ►
Arms and neck ache severely at 4 P.M. (third day), [12]. ► Shoulder.
► Slight return of the aching on top
of left shoulder in muscles above the scapular ridge (twelfth night), [31]. ►
Very slight pains in left shoulder, in the forenoon (fourteenth day and
sixteenth night), [31]. ► Pain in upper part of left shoulder after
going to bed (twenty-third night), [31].
► Before going to bed noticed a pain
in left shoulder, but nearer the neck than formerly (thirtieth day), [31]. ►
Pain in left shoulder (one hour after second dose, thirty-first day), [31]. [350.]
► Pain in left shoulder and scapula
(half an hour after fourth dose, thirty-eighth day), [31]. ► Slight
aching in left shoulder (immediately after fourth dose, forty-sixth
day), [31]. ►
On waking had a great deal of slight shuddering in right and left
shoulders in succession, and afterwards in the whole chest, extending
into abdomen (twenty-fourth day), [31].
► Shuddering or thrilling throughout
the region of left shoulder (twenty-ninth morning), [31]. ► In the
first half hour, had an aching pain in left
humerus just above the elbow, which soon changed to the left breast
about the nipple; this was very slight and transient; it then returned
to the left humerus about the middle; it soon shifted to the left
shoulder-joint, and was more permanent there than elsewhere; pain in
shoulder-joint wens off on eating at 9 P.M. (first day), [31]. ► Arm.
► Pain in the humerus above the elbow
(twelfth and sixteenth nights), [31].
► The pain in outer condyle of left
humerus was protracted (twenty-fourth night), [31]. ► Pain
in outer condyle of left humerus, in the forenoon (thirty-first day), [31]. ►
Elbow. ► While riding in
omnibus had a pain in right elbow,
which went up to right scapula (after second dose, second day), [31]. ►
Felt at once a distinct transient pain at extremity of right elbow (after second dose, twelfth day),
[31]. ►
Forearm. [360.] ► This morning a steady ache for a minute
or two in middle of left ulna
(sixteenth day), [31]. ► Pain in right ulna, two inches above
wrist, in third phalanx of right index finger, in the forenoon
(thirty-first day), [31]. ► Felt at once the pains at carpal en of
right ulna (after fourth dose, thirty-eighth day), [31]. ► Hand and
Fingers. ► Pain in right
pisiform bone (twenty-fourth morning), [31].
► Severe pulsating pains in first
joint of right middle finger, of about a minute’s duration (two hours
after third dose, thirty-first day), [31].
► Before going to bed had two very
severe sudden pains at thirty minutes’ interval, in first joint of right
ring finger (forty-fifth night), [31].
► Aching in second phalanx of right
thumb, also in right scapula, in the afternoon and evening (forty-sixth
day), [31].® 2000
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