Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Sulphuricum Acidum.
It is diluted with distilled water (1 to 9) for use.
General Action :- ►
Compare Sulphur.
Generalities :- ►
Lying on back,
body and lower limbs immovable ; on right side, with knees drawn up
and body bent forward ; doubled up almost in the shape of a ball.
► Emaciation. ► Appearance as in collapsed stage of cholera,
extremities livid, cold clammy feel, pulse gone. ► Tremor. ►
Twisting about on all sides. ► Convulsions ; with falling to
the ground ; with unconsciousness ; with cramps in pharynx
preventing swallowing ; every half hour, with dyspnœa, distorted
eyes, gnashing of teeth, frothing from mouth and cold sweat on face ;
epileptiform, with rush of blood to head, unconsciousness ; clonic,
of upper limbs and dorsal muscles, convulsions of facial muscles, eyes
sunken.►
Agony, with occasional hysterical fits,
with spastic rigidity of muscles of lower jaw, loss of speech sudden
weakness, weak and fluttering pulse, pallor and dejection of countenance.
► Rheumatic, tearing and drawing in whole body. ► Pain ;
in every part ; in spots, at first increasing, then suddenly
disappearing ; intermittent, with drawing up to legs and moanings.
► Consumption. ► Symptoms of last stage of croup. ► Rush
of blood upward, with anxiety and tossing about. ► Tremulous
sensation over whole body, without trembling, amel. morning. ►
Hyperæsthesia over trunk. ► Sensation as if he would fall to one or
other side when walking. ► Restlessness ; and loud scream.
► The odor of coffee is disagreeable and causes weakness and
trembling. ► Weakness ; in
morning after taking milk ; after eating ; amel. open air, with
pain in forehead ; and marasmus. ► Collapse ; with
restlessness ; with irregular, finally suppressed pulse, cold sweat,
etc. ► Faintness. ► Paralysis, with epileptiform spasms.
► Inability to move or talk. ► Symptoms appear immediately
after dinner. ► Aggravation in open air ; A. from cold, wet and
windy weather, amelioration when warm and dry. ► Amelioration from
pressure over epigastrium.
Clinical :- ►
General
tendency to hæmorrhage in various parts.
Mind :- ►
Delirium ; at
night. ► Excitement. ► Jocose. ► Exaltation of mind and
disposition. ► Fretful ;
all day, she avoids speaking to every one ; in morning on
waking ; if his work is not done to suit,
and impatient ; and quarrelsome, averse to
answering ; and sick, so that she started at everything ; and
sad. ► Mistrustful. ► Sedate, earnest. ► Lachrymose.
► Fright. ► Melancholy and weary of life ; M. in morning.
► Despondent. ►
Apprehensive ; from morning till evening. ► Anxiety ; with
tossing about ; with burning pain and heat in stomach ; with
nausea, then vomiting of mucus. ► Averse to talking. ► Hasty
mood, she can finish nothing quickly enough though it fatigues her.
► Distraction, often gave inappropriate answers. ►
(Stupor) ; in paroxysms. ► Roused with difficulty, and when
aroused resisted, saying “Let me alone, let me die.” ►
Inclined to coma. ► Unconsciousness.
Head :- ►
Stitches here and there
when walking in open air. ► Tearing. ► Aching ; as if
shattered in morning after waking, with sleepiness ; as if it would
burst ; as if full ; drawing, in evening ; drawing, agg.
right side towards forehead. ► Drawing and tension. ►
Dullness ; in morning, with heaviness ; with burning in stomach.
► Heaviness and pain as brain as if brain fell forward and came
through ; H. fulness and necessity to hold it forward. ►
Weakness. ► Vertigo on rising ; in afternoon when sewing ;
when sitting ; amel. open air.
Forehead :- ►
Sudden jerking
beneath left eminence, suddenly disappearing ; sudden painful J.
above left eminence. ► Sticking in right side of sinciput in
evening, amel. pressure, with tearing ; S. above left orbit,
increasing, then disappearing ; deep in brain below left eminence,
suddenly increasing, then diminishing, at last suddenly
disappearing ; now right, now left side of sinciput, extending deep
into brain ; sudden, below left eminence, extending into brain ;
alternately in F. and occiput. ► Tearing in middle towards left
side. ► Pressive and burning pain, and in eyes. ► Pain as from
a blow, increasing then suddenly disappearing, in right side ; near
left eminence. ► Painful soreness above left eminence, more acute in
isolated jerks. ► Pain in right eminence on shaking head, as if
brain were loose and knocked against skull. ► Feeling as if brain
were loose and fell backward and forward. ► Constriction,
increasing, then suddenly disappearing. ► Dullness in forenoon, with
fulness.
Temples :- ►
Shooting jerks in
right. ► Sticking in right. ► Tearing in right towards
evening ; in left during breakfast. ► Wavelike burning pain as
from a bruise. ► Intermittent grumbling in bones. ► Drawing
rather externally in a spot in left. ► Pressure inward.►
Pain in vertex when standing. ►
Stupefying throbbing pain in right side on rising after stooping. ►
Screwed in sensation above left ear. ► Heaviness in left side.
► Sudden confusion as from smoke in right side when sitting. ►
Sticking in left side of occiput with pressure. ► Compressive pain
in sides of occiput, amel. holding hands towards head without touching it.
► Pain in scalp as from suppuration, with
pain on touch. ► Hair becomes gray and falls out. ►
Itching. ► Tension in left side of scalp and in left ear, more in
front of ear.
Eyes :- ►
Sparkling. ►
Lustreless and watery ; L., and pupils dilated. ► Ghastly, and
face. ► Redness, lachrymation and photophobia. ► Protruding.
► Sunken and expressive of suffering. ► Fixed, and pupils
contracted. ► Look unsteady. ► Burning ; on reading in
the commencing, twilight, with lachrymation ; with inflammation, lids
swollen, right eye looked dull and opaque, on fourth day right conjunctiva
acquired jelly-like consistence, on eighth day the cornea, which all along
had been opaque, sloughed away, giving exit to the lens and part of the
vitreous humor for more than a week this eye continued inflamed and
discharged much purulent matter, it is still suppurating and wasting
away ; biting, in left when reading during the day, with
lachrymation. ► Biting in right.►
►
Lachrymation. ► Burning pain anteriorly in ball in open
air, but in the house pain only on looking intently. ► Lids
agglutinated in morning ; mostly closed, but pupils small and
piercing ; sink down and he cannot open them ; sticking outward
above margin of right at every paroxysm of cough ; sticking itching
on lower. ► Canthus, twitching in right inner ; sensation
of a foreign body in right outer in morning when walking, amel.
in the house ; pressure in outer. ► Subcutaneous tearing on
margin of right orbit, extending towards temple. ► Photophobia.
► Twitching sensation before vision, with weakness. ► Vision
dim in morning.
Ears :- ►
Tearing in front of
left and up into temple ; in front of left, extending into cheek,
where it became a crawling ; deep in left, then crawling ;
rather externally in right, with sticking. ► Pain and in fauces.
► Drawing outward in right meatus. ► Exit of agreeable warmth
from right, then jerking in it. ► Tickling in concha. ►
Ringing in right. ► Roaring ; in evening ;
rhythmical ; as of a waterfall in left on opening mouth during
dinner. ► Diminished hearing as from a leaf before ear.
Nose :- ►
Stinging prickling in
right tibia. ► Ineffectual inclination to sneeze. ► Vapor
mounted through nose, then incessant sneezing, then stoppage of nose.
► Discharge of dark brown froth. ► Coryza, with sore
eyes ; C., with loss of smell ; fluent ; running out of
much water, with stoppage of one nostril ; dry ; dry, at times
he could get no air through one or the other nostril. ► Bleeding in
evening when sitting and standing.
Clinical :- ►
When
the discharge trickling down from nose is thin and lemon-colored (Puls.).
Face :- ►
►
Pale ; and puffy ; and sunken ; and restless,
drawn ; and hippocratic, drawn ; dingy, deathlike ; with
movement in stomach. ► Red ; and puffy ; right cheek, and
hot ; covered with red spots, which in a few hours scabbed over and
became brown. ► Dark blue. ► Cheeks livid. ► Gangrenous
look. ► Distorted ; and livid. ► Swelling of
cheeks ; left cheek ; S., with frequent changes of color, lips
swollen and sore. ► Sunken ; and anxious, the patient
frequently sprang from bed, and died in collapse, with offensive odor from
mouth and involuntary discharges. ► Expression of anxiety ; E.
of collapse. ► Jerking about left ear always on moving head,
afterwards also during rest. ► Convulsions, and of lips. ►
Sticking frequently extending upward in right cheek. ► Tearing in
left bones, then in right side of head ; here and there in lower jaw.
► Pinching in skin beneath right eye, increasing then disappearing.
► Bruised pain in left malar bone, increasing then suddenly
disappearing. ► Sensation as if cheeks were puffy and is if albumen
had dried upon skin. ► Trismus.
Lips :- ►
White, and
tongue ; and mouth and fauces ; and sodden, and tongue and mouth
as far as could be seen ; and mucous membrane thickened ; in
corners, and sore as if ulcerated ; and excoriated, and tongue, mouth
and fauces ; and shrivelled and had blisters inside, with similar
appearances on mouth and tongue ; pearly, and mouth and throat ;
inner surface and gum grayish-white, thick and wrinkled. ► Violet.
► Reddish-brown. ► Smooth, dry, brownish. ► Cracked and
scaly. ► Peeling of inner side. ► Swelling, redness and pain
on touch ; C. of inside tongue and fauces, with appearance as if
smeared with thin arrowroot ; and tongue and mouth, and covered with
white aphthous spots exuding offensive bloody ichor ; of lower lip
and tongue, the margins of which were black mucous membrane of mouth
swollen, with burning in mouth, pharynx and stomach. ► Dark grayish
sloughs across upper, descending down angles of mouth, similar but
slighter marks of forepart of neck, chest and on right arm. ►
Excoriation, and of chin. ► Sore pain in corners. ► Pressure
as with a finger above left corner.
Mouth :- ►
Teeth :- ►
Chalky white and had
lost their polish. ► Yellow and black fur, like the sordes of fever.
► Broke off and fell out in pieces. ► Tearing in left ; in
left lower in bed in evening till midnight ; in left eye-tooth all
night during menses, and in lower jaw. ► Gnawing in right lower in
evening, agg. lying down till 2 A.M. ; in molar
and incisor when biting on something hard. ► Digging in a hollow
molar during and after chewing something hard. ► Pain in left lower
in evening after lying down ; P. agg. cold, amel. warmth, preventing
sleep all night ; passing inward in right upper incisor. ►
On edge ; in afternoon.
Gum :- ►
Ulceration. ►
Swelling of right lower, when pressed pus exudes. ► Feels fuzzy and
bleeds on slightest touch.
Tongue :- ►
White ; and
thick and denuded ; and swollen, corrugated, and mouth ; and
eroded, dry ; and denuded, and mouth and throat ; T. and mouth,
with much tenacious glairy mucus, white patches on throat ; T. and
mouth, and corrugated, dry as far as lower lip, where there was a distinct
line of demarcation ; and mouth, afterwards the pellicles dropped,
the mucous membrane beneath was bright red and very sensitive ; and
mouth and fauces ; and covered with a white viscid secretion ;
covered with grayish-white crusts, tip and edges red. ► Dark.
► Very red, often bluish-red and shining. ► Swollen. ►
Shrivelled, small. ► Phlyctenæ on back and on palatine arch.
► Denuded at tip and very red, parts of it coated white. ►
Cast off its cuticle and was red, with prominent papillæ. ► (Dry).
► Insensible, dry in centre. ► Speech difficult ;
indistinct ; short, abrupt, hoarse, with at times hoarse hacking
cough ; only whispering, could scarcely open the mouth, from which
exuded a ropy mucus. ► Speechless.
Mouth in General :- ►
Swollen ; palate and pharynx, and injected,
ulcerated ; M. and fauces S. and inflamed, corners of lips
burnt, with burning in pharynx and œsophagus. ► Inflamed, and
fauces and pharynx. ► Brown, Ashy-gray. ► Bleached. ►
White and ragged. ► Coated white, and pharynx, swallowing difficult,
voice without sound ; coated white, and fauces, peeling off in parts,
leaving a raw reddish-brown surface, agg. dorsum of tongue and end of
uvula. ► Covered with a fuzzy membrane, and fauces. ►
Shrivelled and dry, and fauces. ► Aphthæ.
► Covered with fungoid blackish red masses, and fauces. ►
Vesicles on inside of left cheek. ► Superficial ulceration, with
discharge of bloody liquid. ► All parts touched by the acid from
mouth as far as could be seen covered with crusts and exuding an offensive
ichor, then aphthæ and gangrene. ► Brown, bloody liquid in it.
► Frothing, with constant retching. ► Black froth issued.
► Brownish mucus. ► Mucus often comes into it, which causes
choking, hacking, obliged to swallow it constantly ; stringy
copper-colored mucus and froth from the dependent corner of mouth. ►
Discharge of frothy, viscid, tenacious fluid, with retching caused by the
fluid irritating the fauces, the fluid ejected was reddish-brown,
contained shreds of mucous membrane and seemed to be a mixture of mucus
and saliva, reaction on test paper was neutral.►
Pain ; and heat. ► Burning
pain ; and in throat, speaking difficult and painful ; extending
along œsophagus to stomach. ► Dryness. ► Salivation ;
with nausea and constriction in stomach and abdomen ; with swelling
of parotids and constipation ; saltish, even in morning. ►
Breath offensive. ► Taste bad ; in morning, amel. after
waking ; insipid and pasty in morning, amel. rising ; bitter
like bile, to bread, bread causes pressure in stomach ; lost.
Clinical :- ►
Sore
mouth, aphthæ occurring during protracted diseases, especially in
children with marasmus, with salivation, sour vomiting, stools like
chopped eggs.
Throat :- ►
►
Swelling of submaxillary glands, with inflammation and at times
sticking. ► Pain as if swollen in
submaxillary gland, as far as into tongue, with burnt feeling in tongue.
► Painful swelling of left parotid, with suppuration. ►
Swelling ; of uvula and root of palate ; of
fauces ; of fauces, which is whitish-gray ; near cricoid, with
pain ; as if there were a lump in it.
► Redness and sensitiveness ; dark R. of pharynx. ► Tough
mucus. ► Rattling of mucus, and in chest, with difficult
respiration, restlessness, with pains in larynx and chest, then death.
► Hawking ; of mucus ; of tenacious masses of mucous
membrane ; with retching and vomiting of bloody, reddish-brown mucus,
which was so acid that it burnt holes in the linen.►
Sticking in left side of pharynx on
swallowing, also in evening, with pain externally on touch ;
paroxysmal, in T. and chest, stopping the breath, when standing and
walking, amel. open air. ► Cutting in side on swallowing. ►
Scraping. ► Rawness. ► Sensitiveness.
► Soreness in evening on swallowing, agg. left side.
► Tenderness from pharynx down to epigastrium. ► Pain ;
in fauces ; and as far as stomach, agg. swallowing, talking or
turning body. ► Constriction ;
in pharynx ; agg. right side. ► Burning pain ; in pharynx.
► Burning ; in pharynx ; fauces and gullet ; and
œsophagus to stomach, with coldness of rest of body. ► Dryness.
► Feeling of mucus. ► Acidity.
Œsophagus :- ►
Stricture ;
with frequent painful vomiting. ► Exfoliation of mucous membrane in
the form of a tube, the cast was very offensive. ► Pain ; on
pressure ; extending to umbilical and epigastric regions ;
burning in upper part. ► Heat. ►
Swallowing difficult ; from swelling opposite cricoid
cartilage extending down trachea and moving on deglutition ; as from
an obstruction in pit of throat ; of fluid, causing pain and
convulsive cough, sometimes the fluid returned through the mouth and
nares ; impossible. ► Spasmodic dysphagia.
Clinical :- ►
Tonsillitis, with tenacious, gray yellowish exudation, difficult
swallowing, salivation, extreme fetor of the mouth. ►
Diphtheria ; valuable in the worst forms, regurgitation of liquids
through the nose ; drowsiness ; characterized by a great
quantity of exudation ; diphtheritic croup, with drowsiness.
Stomach :- ►
Hunger ; and
yet she eats without appetite, discomfort in stomach after eating ;
great, but nausea after eating, so that he must stop eating before he is
satisfied ; distressing, but inability to retain any
nourishment ; ravenous, amel. eating with rumbling and gurgling in
abdomen ; desire for fresh plums. ► Appetite lost ; with
discomfort. ► Aversion to eating, amel. towards evening.
Thirst :- ►
After vomiting ;
during menses, with dry tongue ; with inability to drink ;
burning.
Eructations :- ►
►
Sour ; when walking in open air. ► Bitter ;
after dinner ; sour. ► Like onions. ► Empty ; in
morning after coughing then bitter, slimy. ► Of food ; after
coughing. ► Of water ; amel. dinner ; sweetish ;
salt, before vomiting.►
►
Hiccough ; at night ; when smoking ; agg. after
drinking, with vomiting.►
Nausea ; in morning, with
oppression of chest ; in mouth towards noon, though food and drink
are relished ; from slightest liquid, with retching ; amel.
eructations ; everything turns around in stomach and rises up, is
obliged to swallow it ; with constricting in stomach ; feeling
as if stomach were disordered ; with chilliness ; sudden, then
vomiting of clear water ; faintlike, with griping cutting and
twisting in abdomen and labor-like pain as if everything would press out.
► Retching.►
Vomiting ; after eating ; with
purging ; then shivering, then ineffectual retching ; of all
food ; of all fluid as soon as taken ; of clear water, then of
food taken the precious evening, then continued nausea ; the matter
effervescing as soon as it came in contact with the dust ; of scanty
coffee-like liquid ; of slimy substances like coffee-grounds ;
brown substances ; serous liquid, with white flakes at night ;
glairy mucus mixed with shreds of coagulated membrane ; of the color
of porter and of acid reaction ; a fluid of the consistence of
treacle and color of carbonate of lime. ► Of blood ;
convulsive ; and mucus ; mucus and black fibres ; mixed
with sour-smelling liquid, pieces of membrane ; and curdled
milk ; and dark grumous and viscid matter, afterwards
brighter-colored and mixed with patches of tough mucus ; streaks of
B., with pieces of membrane ; in clots, with watery brownish-red
liquid and pieces of membrane ; mixed with black clots of B., with
neuralgia then thin black stools. ► Black ; and glairy ;
and flocculent mass ; violent, of fluid mixed with flakes. ►
Causing distress. ► Of casts of œsophagus. ► An elongated
false membrane, evidently made up of mucous membrane of œsophagus.
► A blackish mass formed from mucous membrane of stomach (after a
fit of suffocation). ► Mixed with blood at 3 P.M.,
with pain and anxiety then V. of a wide membranous tube, a part seemed
charred, in other parts it was tinged with bile, the branching of vessels
could be seen, it was tenacious and probably a part of stomach, V. and
anxiety continued, and at 8 P.M. a tube was cast up,
consisting of mucous and nervous coats of œsophagus, a part charred and
transverse muscular fibres could be traced found one of its ends, then she
was comparatively easy and swallowed with more facility, but epigastric
was painful.►
Distention ; of epigastric region,
also with pain on touch. ► Contraction of epigastric region. ►
Sticking. ► Cutting in epigastric region ; near left side of
S., extending to back extending to hypochondria ; paroxysmal, in
region when sitting and walking, with painful morning about in it. ►
Clawing every evening, as after taking cold. ► Griping beneath pit,
and on pressure upon stomach bruised pain in it. ► Cardialgia.
► Distress, agg. eating hastily or taking indigestible food.►
Pain ; in pit ; in
region ; in epigastric region ; epigastrium on touch ; epigastric
region ; after eating, agg. hard food, with sensitiveness of S. ;
epigastric region, amel. vomiting ; epigastric region, with tension,
epigastric region, with a round hard swelling as large as a child’s
head ; with ineffectual inclination to eructate ; with feeling
as if a hard, bitter substance rose into chest, with frequent risings of
mucus, which is afterwards felt only in throat ; in pit, extending to
shoulders ; so that he must keep his body bent, supported by two
persons ; as if a stone rose up, then salivation. ►
Sensitiveness ; of epigastrium. ► Tightness as if it would
burst, after eating. ► Constriction, and in abdomen ; in
pit ; sudden anxious, in pit, preventing respiration. ►
Heaviness in pit. ► Coldness ; from
every drink unless some spirit is mixed with it ; and
relaxed feeling, with loss of appetite. ► Burning ; sudden.
Clinical :- ►
Dyspepsia, with vomiting of food and drink and craving for stimulants.
► Vomiting of drunkards. ► Vomiting of pregnancy, with
constant salivation, feeling of lump in throat, soreness in pit of
stomach, great thirst, vomiting amel. drinking hot water. ►
Vomiting of pregnancy, intolerance of the smell of coffee, vomiting when
lying on right side. ► A valuable remedy for the desire of
alcoholic drinks. ► Valuable for dyspepsia from alcohol, with
persistent sour breath ; the patient is shrivelled and cold, and
cannot eat, liver is enlarged, chronic diarrhœa, etc.
Abdomen :- ►
Distended ; and
tense ; with emission of flatus. ► Muscles hard and rigid, with
pain on pressure. ► Retraction ; with sensitiveness to
touch ; with emptiness on percussion ; painful spasmodic.
► Spasms. ► Resonant, with tenderness, agg. between umbilicus
and ensiform cartilage. ► Flatulence causes by milk. ► Short,
abrupt, difficult emission of flatus. ► Rumbling after emission of
flatus. ► Gurgling on moving body by breathing when lying.►
Stitches during menses and in vagina.
► Neuralgia. ► Griping ; in evening ; at
night ; at night, with cutting and urging to stool. ►
Pain ; on pressure ; agg. epigastric region and back ;
after eating, then digging and uneasiness in it ; amel.
pressure ; with dragging down of parietes ; with
“bilious” symptoms ; as if in uterus, with burning ;
labor-like extending into hips, then bruised sensation in small of
back ; bubbling in right side, extending almost to back. ►
Anxiety in morning in bed. ► Weak feeling
as if menses would come on. ►
Relaxed feeling in intestines after stool.
Flank :- ►
Jerking in left, with
pressure outward as with a finger. ► Sticking in left ; in left in
evening on inspiration after lying down, then sticking in left upper part
of chest. ► Griping in left. ► Burning in right, with hacking
cough.
Hypochondria :- ►
Distention of
left. ► Sticking in hepatic region near stomach ; in left on
leaning to right side in left, amel. pressure ; in left, often with
sticking in chest. ► Griping during stool. ► Burning all day
when sitting.
Umbilicus :- ►
Protruded and
abdomen for about an inch and a half above U. red, with pain on pressure
upon umbilicus or reddened part. ► Rumbling in region in evening
before lying down and next morning would occur. ► Sticking in left
side, extending into abdomen. ► Cutting in region, worse when
walking in open air than in the house ; C. and moving about. ►
Pressure. ► Sickly warmth or heartburn in region.
Hypogastrium :- ►
Sticking in
left side on movement ; S. in region of inguinal hernia. ►
Tearing in left groin when sitting. ► Cutting in region of cæcum.
► Pinching in right groin. ► Sharp jerking, almost like
intermittent jerking colic, rather superficial. ► Griping before,
during and after micturition ; G. extending into lumbar region,
causing cold sweat. ► Pain in right groin as if a hernia protruded
when walking and standing, so that he dared not cough or inspire,
afterwards a hernia protruded at times, agg. talking, with pain, it
returned on holding quietly, especially on sitting, and then he could
breathe and cough without trouble. ► Forcing out in a hernia at
abdominal ring, with pain in the ring even after reducing the
hernia ; F. in right groin as if a hernia would occur, in morning on
waking, amel. rising, frequently recurring ; suddenly in right groin
as if a hernia would occur on rising from stool, not affected by cough or
respiration. ► Throbbing in place of inguinal hernia.
Clinical :- ►
Enlarged spleen, which is painful on coughing, with hæmorrhages in
various parts. ► Sometimes indicated in inguinal hernia.
Rectum :- ►
►
Hæmorrhoids, itching ; H., with burning and sticking ; with
moisture and pain on touch. ► Pain as if it would be torn
asunder during stool. ► Rush of blood. ► Sticking on anus
before soft stool. ► Pressing in anus
during and after pasty stool. ► Ineffectual desire for
stool.
Stool :- ►
Liquid, black, fetid,
relieving the pain for a moment ; partly L.,
partly solid, offensive, with much thin mucus and streaks of blood ;
(L., green). ► Diarrhœa ;
dysenteric ; till evening, of only fermented mucus, with burning in
rectum, flatulence and rumbling. ► Soft,
then empty feeling in abdomen. ► Constipation ; with
pain in abdomen. ► Like sheep-dung. ► Hard and
infrequent ; H., delayed, painful ; and bloody ; in small
connected black lumps mixed with blood, during menses, with sticking in
anus so that she must stand up ; first part, then soft ; at
first, and bloody, then soft with burning in anus. ►
As if chopped, saffron yellow, stringy and slimy. ►
Yellowish-white. ► Colored with blood. ► Black,
mixed with, blood. ► Frequent, green,
painful. ► Large, formed. ► The child’s napkins when washed
went into holes. ► Indolent. ► Omitted ; in the primary
action, and urine retained.
Clinical :- ►
Diarrhœa,
like chopped eggs, of yellow mucus, sometimes frothy, said to be agg.
eating oysters ; often indicated in children ; the evacuations
are extremely fetid, and there is a general sour odor over the whole
body.
Urinary Organs :- ►
►
Pain in bladder if the desire to urinate is not immediately satisfied.
► Pressure upon neck of bladder as if everything would force out,
when standing, walking and sitting obliging him to press thighs together,
amel. coition. ► Frequent micturition of only a few drops. ►
Obliged to rise at night to urinate. ► Constant desire, always
before the last drops cutting in urethra for seven days, afterwards there
is every time a dragging in loins and groins. ► Frequent desire,
with pain behind symphysis and on urinating cutting, the catheter met with
an obstruction in region of neck of bladder, which was found to be a
swollen and very sensitive prostate. ► Burning in urethra after
coition. ► Burning in urethra during micturition, with diminished
urine ; with increased then diminished urine ; with micturition
only morning and evening.
Urine :- ►
Increased. ►
Diminished, thick. ► Suppressed. ► None passed in morning.
► Red and fiery ; brownish-red. ► Like water ; and
soon deposits a thin mucous sediment. ► Becomes turbid when standing
and deposits an earthy sediment. ► Has a fine pellicle on its
surface and a bloody sediment. ► White sediment. ► An ounce of
pale U., which had a powerful effect on litmus paper. ► Four ounces
of clear amber-colored U., acid reaction, sp. gr. 1030, 1000 grains of it
yielded 54 grains of solid residue, half of this residue was soluble in
alcohol, the alcoholic solution showed free Sulphuric
acid, the insoluble residue furnished 16.9 grains of sulphate
of baryta. ► Albuminous and containing much Sulphuric
acid ; A. light brown, very acid, highest sp. gr. 1038,
containing free Sulphuric acid,
afterwards pale cylinders, with fatty degeneration, copious sediment of
urate of ammonia, afterwards urine scanty, sp. gr. 1028, no
chlorides ; A., containing sulphates, pale cylinders, free
blood-corpuscles and varying amounts of urates ; and containing
casts ; and red, acid, sp. gr. 1020, containing Sulphur,
on standing many pale or yellowish granular cylinders ; with
brownish-red sediment containing hæmatin, but no blood-corpuscles ;
and containing blood, with acute nephritis, in one case fibrinous casts
and epithelia, and in the other cellular elements only, the albumen
diminished from day to day, microscopical examination of kidneys after
death showed a recent inflammatory process (granular opacity and fatty
degeneration of epithelial elements, recent cleaving of the nuclei of
interstitial tissue, especially along course of vessels).
Sexual Organs :- ►
Warmth, and
scrotum. ► Itching pain in upper margin of glans. ► Erections
during the day without amorous thoughts. ► Relaxation of scrotum.
► Emission without voluptuous sensation.
Female :- ►
Miscarriage. ►
Discharge of corroding mucus ; of bloody mucus, as if menses would
come on. ► Burning leucorrhœa. ► Transparent or milk-like
leucorrhœa without sensation. ► Menses too late ; with pain in
abdomen and small of back ; too early. ► Desire after
menses ; D. rather in external genitals, yet she was not much excited
by coition. ► Aversion to coition after menses.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
Rattling
in trachea and bronchi. ► Sticking in air-passages. ►
Bronchitis with prostration. ► Glossitis. ► Larynx, rattling
of mucus ; movements as in croup ; sticking ;
constriction ; sprained pain on talking and on external
pressure ; pain on touch ; sensitiveness ; pain talking was
irksome, as from immobility of parts. ► Hoarseness ; with
dryness and roughness in throat and larynx ; and hollow voice, almost
unintelligible ; without sound. ► Voice croaking, almost
unintelligible ; low muttering ; feeble ; weak, croupy,
then lost ; lost.►
Cough ; caused by open air ;
on walking in open air ; fatiguing ; distressing, with whistling
respiration and croupy voice ; rattling, hoarse ; rattling,
shaking, interrupted ; hacking. ► Dry C., afterwards loose with
improvement ; short D., with paroxysms of gasping ; in
paroxysms ; also in morning after rising. ► Cough in morning
with slimy expectoration ; C. from irritation in fauces, with white
frothy expectoration ; paroxysmal, with copious expectoration, at
times with vomiting, then diarrhœa, fever and night-sweats, pain in chest
offensive breath, percussion at apex of right lung was dull, expiration
prolonged vesicular and hollow, and a peculiar purring over whole chest
gradual collapse and the patient dies in slight delirium, the post mortem
showed upper lobes of lungs adherent to œsophagus and an opening from
œsophagus to a cavity which occupied nearly all of the upper and part of
the middle lobes of right lung, the cavity was filled with blackish-brown
offensive fluid with lung tissue, pleura was almost gangrenous, etc.►
Expectoration perpetual ;
copious ; offensive. ► Hæmoptysis when walking slowly.
Respiration :- ►
Suffocation ; in spasms. ► Dyspnœa ; at night, with
cough ; at night, with choking in larynx ; and larynx moved up
and down violently, child lay with head bent backward as in croup, lost
consciousness and soon dies ; with distress and pain about region of
stomach and right lower ribs ; with rattling in trachea ;
rattling ; noisy ; intermittent and breathing irregular ;
causing anxiety. ► Stertor. ► Short ; and
difficult ; and rapid. ► Rapid ; with shooting in cervical
muscles and movements in wings of nose ; and heaving, with spasmodic
motion of muscles of neck, and at each inspiration depression of lower
jaw, so as to form a sort of gasping motion. ► Slow and weak.
► Moaning ; and slow. ► Superficial and rattling.
Chest :- ►
Moist râles. ►
Rattling in evening in bed, with rapid pulse and short breath ; R. in
left lung then dullness with bronchial respiration and pneumonia ; at
base of lungs without dullness on percussion, with rapid pulse, cough
tenacious sputa, afterwards pallor with circumscribed redness of cheeks,
next day oppression of chest, bronchial respiration, in right side some
râles, on left side moist and rattling râles, respiration 40, headache,
next day pallor, clammy sweat and death. ► Dullness at base of right
lung then pneumonia, collapse and death. ► Painful spasms.►
Stitches ; in right breast ;
in left side of sternum costal cartilage ; in front of and beneath
right axilla ; in front of left axilla on putting down a heavy
weight, then bruised pain over a large part of sternum ; in right
costal region during menses, agg. inspiration ; in left side when
walking, agg. inspiration and cough, amel. rest ; deep in left side
with arrest of breathing, then sensitiveness in a spot to left and above
ensiform cartilage ; in right breast, extending deeper upon
pressure ; in sternum extending to other side of chest in evening on
entering house ; sudden in left upper part, extending next day to
tract of lumbar nerves, with hyperæsthesia of skin extending over hole
body, with rest in no position ; paroxysmal in right lower part, agg.
deep inspiration, with pain near spine between fourth and tenth vertebræ
and along axillary line from fifth to tenth intercostal space and at union
of ribs with their cartilages, hyperæsthesia of skin between linea-axilla
mammillaris.►
Neuralgia in intercostal nerves, between
right tenth and sixth ribs, paroxysmal, from deep inspiration, agg. night.
► Cutting in from of left axilla. ► Scraping deep in middle
with burning and tearing. ► Pain along sternum ; P. on
inspiration ; in middle of sternum, as from thrust ; acute
drawing, in middle, preventing deep inspiration ; pulsating bubbling,
beneath left ribs. ► Pressure on left side
and in pit of stomach ; inward in right ribs, worse at
intervals. ► Drawing tension in left side. ► Oppression ;
from catarrh in morning on waking, with irritation to cough without
anything to be loosened after several hours easy expectoration of mucus.
► Constriction. ► Fulness. ► Burning pain, extending
down behind sternum, causing anxiety. ► Burning in left side in
attacks ; B. in left outer part, as from boiling water, worse at
intervals. ► Weakness so that talking is difficult.
Heart :- ►
Stitches through it,
then sore pain. ► Pain in præcordial region. ► Anxiety in
præcordial region extending over whole chest. ► Palpitation ;
when upper part of body is pressed forward resting upon arms, with
inclination to take a deep breath. ► Best of H. and arteries
scarcely perceptible.
Pulse :- ►
Rapid ; and
tense, full ; and small ; and feeble ; and
contracted ; and intermittent. ► Slow ; and large ;
and small ; and feeble. ► Hard and full ; H. and tense.
► Small ; and thready ; irregular, tremulous ; and
tremulous, with coldness ; and weak ; and weak, trembling ;
and scarcely perceptible, at times intermittent ; and irregular and
irregular, scarcely perceptible ; and contracted, irregular, almost
convulsive and tremulous, sometimes rapid, sometimes intermittent. ►
Thready ; and almost imperceptible. ► Weak ; in humeral
arteries, could not be felt at wrists and temples.
Neck :- ►
Swollen. ► Pain
in left side on pressure ; as from a weight between side left
shoulder. ► Drawing beneath right ear.
Back :- ►
Sticking in spine and
left side of nape. ► Pain ; as if sore and beaten ;
drawing, on motion and on stooping. ► Stiffness in morning, amel.
during the day on motion. ► Lumbar pain ;
bruised, when sitting and standing ; on movement, like a soreness or
like a spasmodic drawing ; burning. ► Weakness in lumbar region
and lower limbs so that he could scarcely stand alone.
Extremities :- ►
Livid. ►
Swelling of wrists and other large joints, with pain. ► Convulsive
movements of arms and legs. ► (Twitching of tendons.). ►
Inclination to cramps in hands and feet. ► Tearing during menses,
agg. evening. ► Pain in joints during sleep. ► Sensitiveness.
Upper Extremities :- ►
Pain as
from an ulcer in left ; axilla, extending into chest, agg. ascending
stairs and walking, forcing her to sit down. ► Left axillary glands
sensitive. ► Shoulder, jerking in right on writing ; stitches
on raising arm ; sticking tearing in ; cutting, with burning, as
if it could cut through ; intermittent, tremulous sensation in left.
► Arm, stitches in joint ; intermittent drawing and spasmodic
constrictive, paralytic pain in right when writing ; heaviness.
► Tearing posteriorly beneath right shoulder-joint and extending up
about it. ► Cutting extending down left arm. ► Tensive pain in
elbows. ► Smarting as if bruised on outer side of left elbow.
► Sudden bruised pain in left ulna close to wrist every three
seconds, extending up into arm. ► Drawing in wrist, with weariness.
Hand :- ►
Jerking in metacarpal
bone of right index extending into arm ; painful, in joint of
metacarpal bone of thumb, extending into wrist and at times into arm.
► Tensive pain in right metacarpus when walking in open air with arm
hanging down, with heaviness as if blood accumulated in it. ►
Painful beatings in metacarpal bone of right index.
Fingers :- ►
Stitches in middle
of joints ; burning or smarting S. on right side of middle. ►
Tearing in first joint of right thumb ; beneath nail of index, as in
a whitlow, agg. cold water ; jerking, extending from right thumb to
chest when sitting. ► Jerking pain in tips ; through right
thumb, starting from tip. ► Burning stinging crawling as if asleep
in tip of little and a spot on middle.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Staggering
and falling in the street, then collapse. ► Stretching. ►
Heaviness. ► Right inclined to numbness. ► Cramp in right hip.
Thigh :- ►
Sticking, externally
in middle of left tearing in various veins of T. and leg in morning in
bed ; T. up and down in left, amel. rubbing. ► Cutting. ►
Intermittent pinching in a spot on inner side of left. ► Acute pain
as from a blow obliquely above left knee in wavelike intervals. ►
Pain in left near knee, feeling as if it would soon become cutting.
► Intermittent pressure on upper and inner part of right. ►
Constriction low down, extending at intervals into leg. ► Spasmodic
constrictive paralytic pain in right T. and leg.
Knee :- ►
Stitches like thrusts
in middle of right when sitting, then pain ; prickling S. in hollow
of left ; burning, in left. ► Painful jerks like thrusts in inner
side of left. ► Burning pain in hollow of right. ► Painful
weakness when standing, with jerking in them.►
Prickling stitches in left
tendo-achillis. ► Pain in calves more when sitting than when
walking. ► Crawling in left tibia ; in calves when walking,
with cramp. ► Falling asleep of left leg when sitting still, agg.
walking. ► Intermittent pain like thrusts or jerks beneath left
outer malleolus. ► Stiffness of malleoli when walking. ►
Stitches in a corn ; burning S. in heels. ► Tearing in left
heel in morning on waking ; T. in a corn, forcing him a draw up the
foot. ► Bruised pain on left sole, at first increasing, then
jerking, then suddenly disappearing. ► Acute pressure in right
instep, increasing and decreasing. ► Falling asleep on left foot in
evening when sitting. ► Prickling stitches beneath great toe.
► Intermittent jerking griping in toes.
Skin :- ►
Jaundice. ► Pale,
cold and covered with sweat. ► Livid, dry and desquamating in small
scales. ► Bluish spots on forearms as from settling of blood.
► Lower lip, cheeks, back of hand and forearm swollen, red and
painful as after a scald, next day, cuticle of hands, etc. black, dry and
tough on third day the pellicles of tongue, lips and cheeks had fallen
off, all mucous membranes of mouth bright red. ► Red patches on
forearms, amel. pressure, but returning immediately on its removal.
► Eruption on head, face and nape ; an hands and between
fingers, itching agg. after midnight. ► Children on fingers, with
acute pain.►
Pimples on forehead and side of nose.
► Burning itching red spots on tibia with a pimple in the middle,
after scratching the part swells, after the swelling ceases the itching
begins again. ► Skin of left side of face partially removed and the
whole presented a white disorganized appearance, eyelids inflamed and
swollen, left eyeball involved inside of lips white and swollen, white
excoriated streaks on back of left hand and between fingers the white
marks turned brown, pain in left eye extending in head, bursting of cornea
and discharge of a aqueous humor and crystalline lens, towards the close
of the fifth day a shivering fit, next morning acute pain in bend of right
arm where he had been bled, inflammation around the orifice, swelling of
arm, afterwards febrile symptoms, difficult breathing and other signs of
pulmonary inflammation, death on the thirteenth morning. ► Sloughs
on right buttock close to anus, a probe passed some distance into pelvic
cavity and towards gluteal region. ► Dark red elevations on back of
hand, with a scab, under which there seems to be matter. ► Boils on
back. ► Ulcer on hands and feet.►
Stitches in the scar of a burn ; S.
as from woolen clothing. ► Intermittent burning cutting crawling
like a corrosive soreness. ► Corroding sensation in an ulcer.
► Itching, appearing in another spot on scratching.
Clinical :- ►
Purpura
hæmorrhagica. ► Itching over whole body was cured by Sul.
ac.
Sleep :- ►
Yawning after dinner. ►
Sleepiness ; in morning after waking. ► Wakeful all
night. ► Falls asleep late ;
and wakes easily ; and sleeps uneasily wakes often. ► Wide
awake after two hours, as if he had slept enough. ► Wakes after
midnight ; with heat, dryness of throat, thirst, intolerance of being
uncovered. ► Sleep light and seldom. ► Restless. ►
Frequent starting from sound sleep. ► Jerking, causing starting up,
and salivation ; J. together of fingers and doubling up of then, so
that he started up. ► Dreams unremembered ; anxious, even to
crying out ; anxious, of fire, dead persons and danger ; by a
woman that she has coition twice, and orgasm twice ; by a woman of
desire for coition and on waking a tumultuous desire therefor, which was
especially seated in the clitoris. ► Nightmare as if a weight were
lying upon her or as if some one were holding her by the throat she could
not speak, she woke in perspiration, two days before menses.
Fever :- ►
Chilliness ; all
day ; in morning, amel. open air ; external, with internal heat
and prostrating ; alternating with heat. ► Shivering, with
gooseflesh ; internal, through trunk ; down trunk, without
chilliness. ► Cold skin ; agg. limbs. ► Cold face and
limbs ; face and hands ; limbs ; limbs, and livid
nails ; limbs, and cyanotic ; hands, with transient warmth of
body ; hands and feet ; feet and forehead.►
Heat ; in evening after lying
down ; during or after dinner ; with delirium and
excitement ; with small, rapid pulse ; with small, rapid, hard
pulse ; with full, hard pulse, then fever with raving, then pulse
soft and small, then rapid, skin covered with cold sweat in attacks ;
dry, in evening after a journey of eight hours, till 8 P.M.,
with thirst, burning in eyes and once creeping chilliness ; in
skin ; extending from throat along back ; cool burning in left
cheek.►
Sweat ; during the day ; in
morning ; on every motion ; when sitting, agg. upper part of
body ; with scarcely perceptible pulse ; sour, in morning, then
hoarseness. ► Cold sweat ; after taking anything warm, agg.
face and forehead ; and clammy ; on forehead. ► Skin dry,
forehead covered with drops of sweat. ► Skin hot and dry.
Clinical :- ►
Typhoid
fever, with phosphoric-acid symptoms of great drowsiness and slow
answering desire for stimulants, which give relief, vomiting of food,
sour discharges. ► Typhoids, with hæmorrhages, rapid sinking,
deathly paleness of the face, thick soft pulse, sense of general
trembling.
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