Kreosotum.
Kreasote or Creasote. A product of distillation of Wood Tar. C8 H10 O2. Solution in Rectified
Spirit. [J. Meredith makes dilutions of “the first heavy distillate of hard green
wood,” which he has named Carbo Pyroligneus.]Clinical.─
Acne. Amenorrhśa. Cancer. Carbuncle. Change of life. Cholera infantum.
Coccygodynia. Congenital syphilis. Constipation. Consumption.
Dentition. Diarrhśa. Ear, affections of. Enuresis. Epithelioma. Eructations.
Eruptions. Flushings. Gastromalachia. Glossitis. Hćmorrhages. Hćmorrhagic diathesis.
Herpes. Hysterical vomiting. Irritation. Leucorrhśa.
Lip, epithelioma of. Lupus. Menstruation, disorders of.
Neuralgia. Ovary, affections of. Prostate, irritation of. Pregnancy,
vomiting of. Pustules. Rheumatism. Seasickness. Stomach,
affections of. Syphilis. Syphilitic deafness. Teeth,
caries of. Toothache. Ulcers. Urine, incontinence of.
Uterus, affections of. Vomiting. Whooping-cough. Yawning.
Characteristics.─
Kreosote,
a product of the distillation of pyroligneous acid and of tar, the preservative principle of
the smoke, used for smoking meats and fish, was discovered by Reichenbach, a Moravian
chemist, early in the nineteenth century. The second edition of his work, published in 1835,
supplies many of our data, but independently Kre, has
been well proved. Its name, derived from the Greek, means “flesh-preserver”; and
Teste includes it with Arsen., Merc. cor., Plumb., Stan., Nit. ac.,
Sul. ac., Crocus, and Arg. met., in his Merc. Sol. group. He remarks that several members of this group,
whilst preserving dead organic matter from decomposition, have just the opposite effect on
living tissues. The entire group have these characters: Suppressed or more frequently
increased secretions with putridity. Foul breath.
Bloating. Caries of teeth and bones. Cadaverous coldness. Predominant
left-sidedness. Deep, nervous and mental derangement. Violent oscillation of
symptoms-ravenous hunger to anorexia, &c. All favour the production of intestinal
parasites and all are therefore anthelmintic. Excessive indulgence in smoked meats and fish
is very injurious to the health. The principal observed effects are: Scorbutic condition of
gums, falling out and decay of teeth, foul breath, costiveness, malaise. (Salt, another great preservative, also produces scurvy.) Kermes,
of Weinsberg, has collected 135 cases in which death has occurred apparently from eating
smoked foods. The leading symptoms in all were: Burning pain at epigastrium, bloody
vomiting, meteorism, violent colic with constipation, slow breathing, sinking of pulse and
dilatation of pupils. (Teste.) Reichenbach not only discovered Kre.,
he also introduced it into medical practice, and there was, as usual, a rush for the new
remedy, which for a short time was a panacea; and then, except among homśopaths, fell into
neglect. Teste observed that it acted particularly well
on infants in the cradle, and congenital syphilis was a very strong indication for it. The
marked action of Kre. on the teeth and dentition
confirms this. [Cooper cured with Kre. 30 a case of
auditory vertigo in a patient with pegged teeth. No other medicine would touch the case.]
But it is also frequently called for in acquired syphilis, especially in the skin
manifestations. Nash confirms the action on children and especially during dentition. The
teeth decay almost as soon as they appear. Gums dark red or blue and very painful; incessant
vomiting; cadaverous-smelling stools. The urinary symptoms are also marked, and Kre. is one of the most important remedies in enuresis. The chief
urinary features are: (1) Copious pale urine. (2) Sudden; great urging; the patient cannot go quick enough. (3) The child wets the bed during the first sleep which is very
profound. J. Meredith (“Agricola”) proved on himself (H.
W., xxviii. 84) “the first heavy distillate from hard green wood,”
obtained at charcoal works, in the 4x attenuation. The symptoms observed were so like those
of pure Kre. that I do not think they need be separated.
Among them were: Great thirst in evening. Enormous appetite. Stabbings here and there. Eyes
feel as if in a woody smoke. Sneezing. Spleen pain. Nasal pus. [Teste emphasises a discharge
“of fetid pus from nostrils.”] At 7 a.m. sitting up in bed, pain and stiffness
across hips and sacrum, which continued during the day. Prostate
and bladder irritation, during night frequently rises to pass a very little
urine, coming away like spray. It cured at the same time constipation of ten to twelve days’
duration. Meredith cured with it a girl, ćt. 17, of intense urethral scalding after urination (H. W., xxx.
83). Kre. is no less suited to women than it is to
children; and especially to the leucophlegmatic temperament. Grauvogl cured with Kre. 3x a girl of 20 of suppression of menses, with a concomitant
state of imbecility. (In another woman who had suppressed menses with tertian intermittent
fever, the intermittent was cured with Chi. sul., one
grain four times a day, and then Grauvogl, hearing for the first time of the suppression of
the menses, gave Kre. 3x, with the result that the fever
returned in full force. Quinine was again given, and the
fever again disappeared. Before the next period, as the patient was of the Nux type, that remedy was given and the period was
re-established. According to Grauvogl Kre. has a short
period of action, one or two days, Chi. sul. having two
or three weeks; and he quotes the case to illustrate the law of incompatibility; in
intermittents Chi. may be given after Kre., but not Kre. after Chi.) Guernsey summarises the action of Kre.
on women thus: “Lencorrhśa putrid, with
accompanying complaints., leucorrhśa in general, especially if very fetid and exhausting.
Female genitals in general. Complaints after menstruation; of females at change of
life.” According to the same authority Kre. affects
especially the inner temples, external ears and lobe of the ear. It is suited to very severe old neuralgias with tearing pains sensations
affecting upper jaw; upper teeth; inner navel region shoulder-blades. Dry-peeling lips are a
characteristic: and Kre. has cured a tumour of lower
lip, supposed to be epithelioma, with dry, cracked skin. In my own experience Kre. (3 and 30) meets a very large proportion of toothache cases
where the teeth are decayed, especially if the gums are scorbutic. Its nearest rivals are Staphisagria with blackened
teeth, and Mercurius with suppurating gumboil. The
scapular pain is illustrated by a case of Lutze’s. A lady had a pain under left scapula, < by motion, excruciatingly <
by riding in a carriage; > by pressure, by lying with
that shoulder on something hard, and by warmth. A long succession of homśopathic remedies
was given in vain. Then the old school had a trial with Antipyrine
and Morphia, with no better success. Long after, Lutze
met the patient casually, and she mentioned that she had pains in the left thumb. This led him to Kre.,
under which he found the other symptoms of the case. He asked the patient to let him give
her one other dose. She consented. Kre. 200 was given
and completely cured the patient, who had become nervous and worn out by the suffering she
had endured (J. of Homśopathics, May, 1890). In the
same number of the same journal a case is recorded by Jean. I. Mackay in which Kre. 45m., twice repeated at long intervals, wrought a cure: Mrs.
L., 28, fair, nervous. Has one child, ćt. 9. Six years before Mackay saw her had an
abortion and since then health had been failing. Her chief complaint was of hćmorrhage from
the uterus, brought on by lifting, over-exertion, and always
followed coitus. No pain during coitus. Menses regular but profuse and clotted.
Constant dull aching pain in back. The day after the flow has a terrible left-sided headache
> by hot water applied to head. Annoying itching in
genitals at times. Os eroded, speculum soon filling with clotted blood. “Coitus
followed by flow of blood the next day” is a keynote for Kre.
W. P. Wesselhśft (Hahn. Ad., xxxviii. 23) confirms
these symptoms: Coarse, red elevated acne pimples, especially in blonde
women. Nocturnal enuresis from too profound sleep; child cannot be awakened when
taken up. Giving out of knee-joint with annoying cracking (in a large, fat blonde woman). Large purulent blisters on concha of both ears,
with a red base, like small-pox pustules. Chronic headache accompanied with great
drowsiness, during which the patient would sleep most of the time, and groan in his sleep.
Relief was followed by the appearance of a great number of small warts on scalp. [Hering
mentions these constitutions as suited to Kre: Dark
complexion, slight, lean. Complexion livid, disposition sad, irritable. Old women. Torpid,
leuco-phlegmatic temperament. Old-looking children, hard to awaken. Blondes.] The following
case of coccygodynia was reported in Amer. Hom. Miss A.
complains of unbearable burning pains in sacrum extending down to coccyx, with feeling there
when sitting as if an electric battery were attached with needles which were pricking
through the skin. > Rising from seat. Attended with
milky leucorrhśa. Kre. cured in three days. James H.
Freer (N. A. J. H., xliv. 489) cured a lady over 80 who
suffered from incontinence of urine on the occurrence of a bronchial attack which compelled
her to keep her bed. Villers has reported a case of incontinence <
when lying down cured by Kre.,
and this led Freer to the remedy, which rapidly cleared up the case, bronchitis and all. (In
Villers’ case Kre. 30 was given for “incontinence
of urine when lying down” because he had cured with it many cases of uterine hćmorrhage
occurring only in, or < by, the horizontal position.─H. R., x. 24.) Freer also cured incontinence in a case of
locomotor ataxy (man, 74) with Kre. 6. An allopathic
authority, Vladimir de Holstein, of Paris (Amer. Hom.,
xxiv. 93), accidentally cured with 6-drop doses of Kre.,
given in beer or milk, aggravated constipation in a chlorotic girl. He gave it with the sole
idea of “disinfecting” the intestines. The vomiting of Kre.
is noteworthy. The most characteristic form is that due to weakness of stomach, which cannot
digest, and which rejects a meal undigested some hours after it was eaten. Vomiting of
pregnancy, sweetish water with ptyalism; of cholera infantum; incessant vomiting with
cadaverous stools; in malignant disease of stomach. Gentry has recorded the following: Lady,
45, on visiting a friend ill with dysentery, was struck with the odour, went home, commenced
to vomit, and vomited all food or drink and continued, without ceasing, vomiting or retching
for three weeks, being fed by the rectum all the time. She had to be held up by the nurse.
She was greatly emaciated. Kre. 200, one dose given. In
twenty minutes the retching ceased. The patient fell asleep, had no more vomiting, and
rapidly recovered. Up to this time she had been under allopaths, who advised that homśopathy
should be tried, as they could do no more. Harmar Smith (H. W.,
xxiii. 496) cured a girl of 10 of very frequent and violent eructation; she was apparently
healthy in other respects. Bell. and Puls. did no good. Arg. n. aggravated. Kre.
2x at once did good and cured in a few days. A fatal case of poisoning with eighteen drops
of Kre. has been recorded (H. W.,
xxix. 344) and brings out many of the symptoms in the cases above quoted. A woman, 52, was
given for a pulmonary affection Kre. six drops in milk
three times a day. After the third day she had: Dysphagia, gastric pain, vomiting,
diarrhśa, and a distressing tendency to cough. On admission to hospital twenty-four hours
later the breath smelt of Kre. Skin and mucous membranes
pale; lips blue; dysphagia marked. Mucous membrane of mouth of a dull white colour in parts.
Paralysis and anćsthesia of palate, paralysis of larynx, analgesia of left arm and part of
left leg. Later, albumen and casts in urine. After four days, some stupor, and weakness more
marked. Next day collapse and death. After death two large erosions were found on upper part
of śsophagus and others about pylorus. Stomach red and congested. Kidneys acutely inflamed.
Cloudy swelling of liver.─Burning pains are a marked feature of Kre. (lupus of nose with burning pains. Chronic pneumonia with
pain like red-hot coals in chest); and stitches are even more characteristic. Itching is
intense. Among the peculiar sensations are: As if a
board was across forehead. As if brain would force through forehead. As if something
floating before eyes. As if a hard twisted ball was lying in umbilical region. During
defecation children struggle and scream and seem as if they would go into fits. Burning as
of hot coals deep in pelvis. As if something coming out of vagina. As if a load was resting
on pelvis. As if sternum being crushed in. As of a heavy burden on crest of ilium. As if
small of back would break. As if scapulć and other parts bruised. As if tendon of
elbow-joint too short. As if small of back would break. As if hip dislocated. As if leg too
long when standing. There is general sensitiveness to touch and contact. Marked periodicity
is apparent. Intermittent fevers. Prostration and restlessness. Fretful, irritable,
apprehensive. Music makes him weep. Weak-minded with suppressed menses. Sufferings from the
non-appearance of menses─hence at change of life. The symptoms are < after menstruation; during leucorrhśa; when yawning. < In open air; cold weather; when growing cold; from cold
washing or bathing. < At rest and especially when
lying. Leucorrhśa is > sitting, < standing and walking. Cough compels sitting up all night.
Touch <. Pressure >.
General > from warmth. <
By coitus and after coitus. Hoarseness is > by
sneezing. Coughing = involuntary micturition. Drawing in
limbs alternates with sufferings in the eyes.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Acon. (vascular erethism), Nux (violent pulsations in every part of body); according to
Teste, Fer. met. is the best antidote, especially for over-action of Kre. in lively,
sanguine, and vigorous children. Incompatible: Carb. v.;
also after Chi. Followed well by: Sul., Ars. (in
malignant disease); Bell., Calc., K. ca., Lyc., Nit. ac., Rhus., Sep. Compare: Eupion and Kre., as might be expected, have many
identical symptoms, notably hćmorrhages, pulsations, and menstrual disorders. The Carbons
and Carbol. ac. are closely related to Kre., and Carb. v. so closely as to be inimical with
it. Pix. compares in phthisis. K. ca. (product of burning wood; stitches; < after coitus). Sep. (intermittent menses; outward pressure
in genitals; painful coitus; vomiting of pregnancy; red sand in urine, turbid, offensive:
but Kre. has menses usually copious, accompanied with difficult hearing, noises and humming
and roaring in head, dragging in back > by motion─Sep.
< from motion─and leucorrhśa is
more irritating, even excoriating, smells like green corn; Sep. has not the acridity or the
malignancy); Murex (passes copious pale urine at night; wakes with a start and violent
desire; Kre. cannot get out of bed quickly enough, urine offensive); Lil. t. (bearing down);
Bell. (enuresis, dentition, child worries all night, must be petted and tossed about, teeth
decay rapidly; bearing down < lying, > standing─Kre. <
rest, > motion); Calc. (cholera infantum); Nux
(irritable weakness of stomach, food cannot be digested: but Kre. retains food several hours
and vomits it undigested); Pho. (vomiting; but Pho. vomits food or drink as soon as it
becomes warm in stomach): Plat. (vaginismus; but Kre. has flow of blood after coitus); Arg.
n. (inflammation of eyelids in children or adults; but Kre. has discharge of scalding tears
early in morning); Ars. (neuralgia with burning pains); Staph. (teeth; < after coitus); Bry. (neuralgia of sound teeth, severe pains < by motion, > by
pressing head hard on pillow, and by cold applications: Kre., neuralgia of face, burning
pains, in nervous, irritable people, < by motion and
talking, teeth decay rapidly); Cham., Carb. v., Bell. and Ars. (menses offensive). Agn. c.,
Carb. a., Chel., Nit. ac., Nux, Pru. sp., Sep., and Thuj. (leucorrhśa staining yellow).
Lach. (change of life); Phos. (hćmorrhagic diathesis; dark, slight, lean, ill-developed,
ill-nourished, overgrown patients); Abrot. (children old-looking, wrinkled); Iod.
(scrofulous, psoric affections; rapid emaciation; inordinate appetite; wasting of mammć);
Ham. (dark, oozing hćmorrhage); Ol. anim. (stitches in breasts: Ol. an., “shooting out of nipple”); Bapt. (effects of bad smells).
Causation.─
Bad smells. Sprains.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Restlessness when seated, with
shivering, and frequent want to draw a long breath, which, however, is impossible.─Music
and other emotional causes impel him to weep.─Lachrymose humour,
sometimes with moroseness or melancholy.─Continual excitement, with
obstinacy, and disposition to be angry.─Ill-humour.─Mental
dejection, and despair of being cured, towards evening.─Mild melancholy,
with desire for death.─Easy loss of ideas.─Weakness
of memory.─Frequent absence of mind, and a sort of stupidity.
2. Head.─
Vertigo, which causes falling, sometimes
in morning in open air.─Headache, like that which results from
intoxication.─Headache caused by mental emotions.─Headache
with inclination to sleep, and drawing in eyelids, or redness of face, lassitude (esp. in
legs), bitter taste, ill-humour, and tendency to shed tears.─Sensation
of tension, of heaviness and of fulness in head, sometimes as if everything were going to
protrude through forehead, < on stooping.─Sensation
of a weight in occiput, as if the head were going to fall backwards.─Painful
pressure and compression, esp. in the vertex, temples, and forehead (when awaking in
morning), with heat in face.─Pulsative pain and throbbing in the head,
esp. the forehead.─Drawing pains, acute pullings and shootings in the
head, sometimes extending to the jaws and teeth.─The headaches sometimes
commence on waking in morning.─Shootings in side of head, with loss of
ideas.─Buzzing in head.─Soreness of scalp on being
touched.─Falling off of hair.─Miliary pimples on
forehead.─Pimples on forehead, like those seen in drunkards.
3. Eyes.─
Eyes red and moist, as after weeping.─Eyes
dull and sunken.─Itching in eyes with soreness after scratching them,
inflammatory redness of the sclerotica, and pressure as from sand.─Continual
heat, and burning sensation in eyes, and frequent lachrymation, even on waking in morning,
and esp. on beholding light of day.─Eyes constantly, as it were, bathed
in tears.─Burning and corrosive tears.─The tears are
like salt water.─Interstitial keratitis, with pegged teeth.─Nocturnal
agglutination of eyelids.─Redness and swelling of eyelids, and their
margins.─Furfuraceous tetter on eyelids.─Quivering
of eyelids (uncontrollable).─Sight confused as when looking through a
veil, or as if there were down before eyes.─Sensation as if something
were floating before eyes, obliging one to wipe them constantly.
4. Ears.─
Heat and burning in ears.─Inflammatory
swelling of the ear, with tensive, burning pains, or else with painful stiffness of neck, on
side affected, with swelling of the cervical glands and livid grey complexion; pains
extending to shoulders and arm, heat in forehead, and pressure above eyes.─Inflammation
of (l.) outer ear, red, hot, swollen, burning, proceeding from a pimple in the concha, with
stiffness and pain in l. side of neck, shoulder, and arm.─Pullings and
shootings in ears, or cramp-like, pressive, and expansive pains.─Deafness,
or aural vertigo, with signs of hereditary syphilis.─Buzzing in ears,
with hardness of hearing, alternately with tingling and whistling in head.─Roaring
in head; also humming and difficulty of hearing before and during menses.─Humid
tetters on ears.─Itching in ears (and soles of feet).
5. Nose.─
Offensive and fetid smell before nose,
sometimes with want of appetite.─Bad smell before nose (on waking).─Nose
constantly moist.─Bleeding of nose, even in morning; blood bright red
and thin, or thick and black.─Frequent sneezing, esp. in the morning.─Fluent
coryza, with painful sensibility of the nasal fossć, on breathing the air.─Coryza,
with sensation of erosion under sternum.─Dry coryza, with frequent
sneezing.─Chronic catarrh with old people.
6. Face.─
Frequent, and even constant heat in face
(during siesta), sometimes with throbbing in cheeks and forehead, and with a deep red colour
of whole face, frequent want to make water.─Acne.─Face
pale green with swelling of cervical glands.─Greyish, earthy colour of
the face.─Furfuraceous tetters on cheeks, on eyelids, and round mouth.─Acute
drawing pain in r. side of face, from jaw to temple.─Dryness of lips
(with peeling off), as if caused by internal heat.─Burning pains; < talking or exertion; >
lying on unaffected side.─Pustulous pimples on chin and cheek, which are
covered with yellowish scabs.
7. Teeth.─
Drawing pains and successive pullings
in teeth, even on waking in morning, and sometimes with pains in diseased side of face,
extending to temple.─Elongation of teeth.─Drawing,
throbbing, jerking pains in teeth.─Bad odour from decayed teeth.─Teeth
wedge-shaped (syphilitic deafness).─Dentition, great restlessness, wants
to be constantly in motion, screaming all night.─Teeth show dark specks
and begin to decay as soon as they appear.─After extraction, oozing of
dark, slightly coagulated blood.─Inflammatory redness of gums (l. upper
side).─Gums bluish red, soft; spongy.─Protruding
gums infiltrated with dark watery fluid.─Gums bleed readily; scorbutic,
spongy, and ulcerated.─Absorption of gums and alveolar processes.
8. Mouth.─
Putrid odour from mouth.─Anćsthesia
and paralysis of palate.─Tongue pale and flabby, with an accumulation of
thin saliva in mouth.
9. Throat.─
Continual dryness in throat, with
burning and frequent thirst.─Scraping and roughness in throat with
dryness and pain as of excoriation or pressure in throat on swallowing.─Painful
sensation of choking at bottom of gullet, extending to chest and back.─Upper
śsophagus eroded.
10. Appetite.─
Greedy drinking followed by
vomiting; great thirst.─Keen appetite, esp. for meat; craves smoked
meats.─Cold food <; warm food >.─Dares not remain fasting (< fasting).─Bitter taste, esp. in throat,
and when swallowing food.─Water after it is swallowed tastes bitter.─Sickly
taste in mouth.─Entire loss of appetite, sometimes with pale and flaccid
tongue, accumulation of saliva in mouth, and burning thirst.
11. Stomach.─
Risings of flatus and sour
regurgitations.─Frequent and violent eructations.─Nausea,
with inclination to vomit, salivation, and shivering over whole body, or with a burning
sensation in mouth.─Retching, esp. when fasting in morning, as during
pregnancy, and sometimes with vomiting of water and of mucus, dryness of nose, heat and
pressive pain in forehead, thirst, and coldness in hands and feet.─Vomiting
of sweetish water, when fasting in morning.─Vomiting; with dreadful
burning at chest.─Stomach weak, cannot digest, food is immediately
rejected, or vomited undigested some hours after eating.─Oppression of
stomach, and of epigastrium, which renders the pressure of clothing insupportable.─Hardness
in epigastric region, with painful sensibility to touch.─Cancer of
stomach.─Pulsation in region of stomach, extending to all the upper part
of body, esp. when in motion.
12. Abdomen.─
Shooting and pressive pains in
hepatic region.─Sensation of fulness, and pain as from contusion, in
liver.─Pressure in region of spleen; the spot is painful to external
pressure, esp. when sitting down soon after rising from bed in morning.─Pain,
as from ulceration, in abdomen, when breathing and moving; the pains sometimes hinder sleep
during night.─Painful sensation of coldness in abdomen, with too scanty
emission of urine.─Inflation and tension of abdomen (as after a copious
meal), sometimes with shortness of breath.─Contractive pain in abdomen,
even at night, towards morning, with a sensation as if there were a hard compact mass in
umbilical region.─Shootings in abdomen, sometimes extending to sexual
parts.─Colic, resembling labour pains, sometimes with frequent want to
make water (which is finally emitted in small quantities and hot), ill-humour and
irascibility, shiverings after the attack, and sometimes also a milky discharge from the
vagina.─(Obstinate flatus in old abdominal disease.)
13. Stool and Anus.─
Stools: watery; papescent;
dark brown; watery, putrid, containing undigested food; greyish or white; chipped, very
fetid; frequent, greenish, watery; cadaverous-smelling.─Ineffectual
painful urging.─Children struggle and scream during act of defecation,
and scream as if they would go into fits.─Evacuations hard, dry,
difficult, and only every third or fourth day.─Several evacuations
daily.─Pulling, acute drawing pains, and cramp-like pains in rectum
(towards the l. groin).
14. Urinary Organs.─
Diminished or excessively
increased secretion of urine (also, he drinks much, with frequent desire to micturate,
passing but little at a time).─Frequent and urgent want to make water,
even at night.─(Relieves thirst in diabetes.).─Frequent
urging with copious pale discharge; at night cannot get out of bed quick enough.─Wets
bed at night; dreams he is urinating properly.─Urine spurts from her
during each cough.─Can only urinate when lying.─Incontinence
< lying down.─Urine of a chestnut
colour, or turbid.─Urine fetid and colourless.─Reddish,
or whitish sediment in the urine.─Burning corrosive urine.─Before
urinating, discharge of bland leucorrhśa.─During micturition, burning
between the labia.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Burning in genitals
(during coition) and impotence.─Prepuce bluish black with hćmorrhages
and gangrene.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Premature catamenia, of
too long continuance, and too copious, with a discharge of black blood.─During
an embrace, burning in the parts, followed next day by menstrual discharge of dark blood.─Appearance
of menses in third month of pregnancy (blood black, flows in a stream).─Before
the catamenia, abdominal spasms, leucorrhśa, irritation, and inquietude, vomiting of mucus
or frothy risings, and inflation of the abdomen.─During menses: Hardness
of hearing; discharge of fetid wind, constipation, and incarceration of flatus; buzzing and
roaring in head; with pressive pains, colic, cuttings, sacral pains, constant shivering, or
sweat on the back, and on the chest.─After menses: Abdominal spasms;
pressure in the genitals; leucorrhśa; and many other sufferings.─Pains
during menses, but < after.─Menses
flow only when lying down; cease on sitting. or walking about.─Metrorrhagia
< lying, >
getting up and walking about.─Metrorrhagia; in fungoid disease of
endometrium.─Leucorrhśa, corrosive or mild, and sometimes followed by
exhaustion and fatigue, esp. in legs.─Leucorrhśa of a yellow colour,
staining linen yellow, with great weakness in legs.─White leucorrhśa,
having odour of green corn.─Nausea during pregnancy; ptyalism;
excoriating lochia.─Dwindling away of mammć, with small, hard, painful
lumps in them.─Leucorrhśa putrid, with accompanying complaints;
leucorrhśa in general, esp. if very fetid and exhausting.─Complaints of
females at change of life.─Cramp-like pains in external genitals.─Excoriation,
with smarting pains between genitals and thighs.─Shootings in vagina, as
if produced by electricity.─Voluptuous itching in vagina.─Itching
in vagina, inducing rubbing in evening, succeeded by smarting, swelling, heat, and
induration of external parts, with soreness in vagina when urinating.─Desire
for coition, in females, esp. in morning.─After coition, pain, as of
excoriation, and hard knottiness in neck of uterus, or swelling of the genital parts (both
male and female) with burning pains (worse in morning than in evening).─After
coition discharge of dark blood the next day.─Prolapsus vaginć.─Prolapsus
uteri.─Pulling, stitches, and shootings in the mammary glands.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Scraping and roughness in
throat, with roughness and hoarseness of voice (> by
sneezing in morning).─Paralysis of palate.─Dry
cough, excited by a scraping in throat, or by a tickling in bronchia.─Dry,
wheezing cough.─Cough, with shortness of breath.─Cough
in evening, in bed, caused by crawling below larynx, with involuntary micturition.─Constant
cough, with sleep and shiverings, followed by dry heat.─Convulsive
cough, with retching, esp. in morning.─Continual hoarse and hollow
cough, excited by an accumulation of mucus in throat, with easy expectoration of whitish, or
of yellowish and thick mucus.─Cough, with pain in chest and sternum,
compelling to press the hand on it; stitches and soreness in chest.─The
mucus which is expectorated has sometimes a sweetish taste.─Involuntary
emission of urine, and concussion in abdomen on coughing.
18. Chest.─
Shortness of breath, sometimes with a
sensation of heaviness in chest, and desire to make a deep inspiration, or with pain, as of
a bruise, in chest (esp. sternum), when breathing.─Difficult and anxious
respiration.─Frequent blood-spitting; afternoon fever and morning sweat.─Violent
shootings in chest, in region of heart, in ribs, and in intercostal muscles, sometimes when
breathing, or with suspended respiration; these shootings manifest themselves also at night.─Burning
pain in chest, as after drinking brandy; the pain extends from centre of chest to throat and
tongue, and is accompanied by heat, redness, and tension in face.─Terrible
burning at chest, as from hot coals. Stitches in chest above heart, with oppression of
breathing; in r. side, extending under scapula, arresting breathing.
19. Heart.─
Stitches in heart.─Pulsation
in all arteries when at rest.
20. Neck and Back.─
Glands of neck swollen.─Pain
in back; great sleepiness and profound sleep.─Pain as if small of back
would break; < at rest; >
from motion.─Pain in back at night; <
when lying.─Scapulć feel as if bruised.─Pain under
(l.) shoulder-blade; > hard pressure and by warmth; < riding in carriage and by any motion.─Pains
in small of back, like spasmodic pains of labour, with urgent want to make water, and to
evacuate, or with leucorrhśa.─Pains, as of ulceration, in the lumbar
vertebrć.─Nocturnal pains in back, more violent during repose.─Continuous
burning in small of back.─Drawing pain along coccyx to rectum and
vagina, where a spasmodic, contractive pain is felt.
21. Limbs.─
Analgesia of l. arm and part of l.
leg.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Shootings in muscles and joints
of shoulders.─Pain, as from contusion, in arms.─Pain
in shoulders as if they had been uncovered all night.─Painful paralytic
sensation in fore-arms and fingers.─Cramp-like pains in elbows and
fore-arms.─Stiffness of hands, with cracked skin.─Pimples
on hand, with violent itching, esp. in evening in bed.─Tetters on elbow,
hands, and fingers.─Pain, as from dislocation, in thumbs.─L.
thumb pains as if sprained and stiff.─Fingers dead; they grow pale and
insensible, early in morning, when rising, with tingling.─Numbness of
fingers.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Pain, as from fatigue, in hips
and legs.─Bruised pain on crest of ilium, as if from a heavy burden or
after running; stitches from same through abdomen; pain in same and in lumbar vertebrć, in
morning, as if tired.─Drawing and shooting pains in thighs, < by movement.─Pains, as of a bruise, and
bluish spots on thighs.─Pains in hams, as from contraction of tendons.─Heaviness
in legs.─Drawing and shooting pains in limbs, alternately with
sufferings in eyes.─Pain, as from dislocation, in joints of knees and
feet.─Skin in ham red and rough, like herpes.─Tension
and cramps in calves.─Pain, as of ulceration, and burning (itching)
sensation in soles.─Śdematous (white) swelling of the feet, from toes
to calves.─Coldness (and heaviness) of feet.─Sweat
on feet.─Tetters on ankles.
24. Generalities.─
Pain, as from excoriation and
ulceration; painful paralytic sensation; pulling and shooting pains.─Hćmorrhages;
small wounds bleed much.─Putrid ulcers of any kind; putrid diarrhśa.─Glossitis.─Exanthema
on face; on cheeks; around mouth; on upper lip; on forehead; burning urine; erethism of
blood; yawning in general; complaints accompanying yawning.─Pulse
changed in general.─Pinching pains, and shootings, esp. in joints.─Lassitude,
heaviness, and painful weariness in all limbs, esp. in legs.─Shocks in
limbs, esp. when asleep at night.─Nocturnal pains.─Fainting
fits on waking in morning.─Fainting (in morning, when rising too early).─Disposition
to faint in a warm room, with heat of face and shortness of breath.─Numbness;
loss of sensation.─Rapid emaciation.─Attacks of
stupor, with paleness and coldness of several parts, which seem then as if dead.─Pains,
as from a bruise or contusion.─Excessive excitement of whole body.─Restlessness
in whole-body, < during repose.─Pains
< during repose.
25. Skin.─
Soft, unnatural feel of skin, with
pegged teeth.─Violent itching all over body, esp. towards evening, and
with burning sensation in arms and legs, after scratching.─Burning
itching at night, and heat over whole body.─Nettle-rash.─Eruption,
like bug-bites, with violent itching esp. in evening.─Large,
greasy-looking, pox-shaped pustules over whole body.─Mealy and pustular,
dry or humid tetters (on backs of hands and fingers, in palms, on ears, elbows, knuckles,
and malleoli), with violent itching in almost every part of body.
26. Sleep.─
Great inclination to sleep, with
frequent yawnings; sometimes with putrid taste in mouth, and want of appetite.─Fits
of yawning, with shivering, weeping, pressive pains in forehead, or lassitude.─Constant
inclination to sleep.─Difficulty in going to sleep, caused by
restlessness over whole body, or a sensation of fatigue, with pains in all limbs.─Disturbed
sleep, with tossing.─Frequent waking during night.─Unrefreshing
sleep, with paralytic sensation in all limbs on waking.─At night, pains
in loins, internal shiverings, pulsations in head, restlessness over whole body, pressive
and burning pains in eyes, agglutination of the lids, &c.─Starting
from sleep in a fright.─Frequent, anxious dreams; dreams of snow, of
falling, pursuits, poisoning, emaciation, fire, of erections and of wanting to make water,
of foul and disgusting linen, &c.
27. Fever.─
Feverish sensation over whole body,
with good appetite.─Predominance of cold, tendency to shiver, and
frequent shiverings, sometimes with heat in face, redness of cheeks, coldness of feet,
sensation of heaviness in arms, and excessive ill-humour; or with epistaxis, or pain in
loins, head, and eyes, distressing cough, &c.─Chilliness
predominating while at rest.─Chill, with great bodily restlessness.─Flushes
of heat, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks.─Perspiration only
during morning, with heat and redness of cheeks.─Thirst after the
shiverings.─Feverish heat, with red cheeks; then sweat, followed by
sacral pains.─Throbbing all over body <
when at rest.─Pulse small and suppressed.® 2000
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