Lycopodium.
Lycopodium clavatum. Muscus terrestris repens. Pes ursinus. Clubmoss.
Wolf’s-claw. (Hilly pastures and heaths in Central and Northern Europe, Russian Asia, and
North America. Common in Great Britain, especially the North.) N. O. Lycopodiaceć.
Trituration of spores. Tincture of spores. Tincture of fresh plant. Etherial tincture of
spores (ether dissolves the spore cases).Clinical.─
Abdomen,
distended. Abortion. Albuminuria. Aneurism.
Angina pectoris. Aphasia. Asthma. Axilla, offensive perspiration of. Biliousness. Borborygmi.
Bright’s disease. Cancer. Cataract. Constipation. Consumption. Corns. Cough. Cramps. Cystitis.
Debility. Diphtheria. Distension.
Dropsies. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhśa. Dyspepsia. Ear,
eczema behind. Eczema. Ephelis. Epistaxis. Epithelioma. Excoriation. Eye, inflammation of; polypus of
canthus. Face, eruption on. Feet, perspiring. Fibroma. Flatulence. Gall-stone colic. Glands, swelling of. Goître. Gout. Gravel. Hćmaturia. Hćmorrhoids. Hair, falling out. Hands,
chapped. Heartburn. Heart, diseases of. Hemiopia. Hernia. Hydropericardium. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria.
Impotence. Influenza. Intermittents. Intertrigo. Irritation.
Labour-pains, abnormal. Lip, cancer of. Liver, derangement of.
Liver-spots. Locomotor ataxy. Lungs, affections of. Menstruation, disorders of.
Metrorrhagia. Nćvus. Nymphomania. Otorrhśa. Panaritium. Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Peritonitis. Phlegmasia dolens. Physometra. Plica polonica. Pneumonia. Polypus, of eye; of ear; of nose.
Proctalgia. Prostatitis. Pylorus, affections of. Quinsy. Renal colic. Rheumatism. Rhagades. Sciatica. Sleep,
abnormal. Speech, disordered; stammering. Strains. Sunstroke. Taste, abnormal. Throat, sore. Tongue, coated; cramp in. Typhoid
fever. Urine, abnormal. Varicosis. Warts. Water-brash. Whooping-cough. Worms.
Yawning.
Characteristics.─
Lycopodium
is one of the pivotal remedies of the materia medica, and an intimate acquaintance with its
properties and relations is essential to a proper understanding of the materia medica as a
whole. The spores from which the attenuations are made have been called “vegetable
sulphur” (probably on account of their use for producing stage-lightning at theatres),
and Lyc. ranks with Sulphur
and Calcarea in the central trio around which all the
rest of the materia medica can be grouped. The Lycopodiums
stand between the mosses and the ferns, and in past eras occupied a most important place in
the world’s vegetation as fossils show. In the old school the function of Lyc. has dwindled into its use as an “inert” coating
for pills and an “inert” powder for dusting on excoriated surfaces. Earlier
practitioners did not consider it as by any means inert. Teste mentions that it is recorded
of a decoction of the plant that it has caused vomiting. The use of the powder in intertrigo
was not regarded as a physical one but as medicinal. It was praised by Wedel, Lantilius,
Gesner, and others in (1) cardialgia and flatulent colic
of children and young girls; (2) diseases of children; (3) nephritic colic and calculi─which is about
as much as some homśopathists know about it at the present day. But Mérat and de Lens
speak of its internal use in: Rheumatism; retention of urine; nephritis; epilepsy; and
pulmonary diseases. In Poland it is used for powdering the hair in “plica
polonica,” a decoction being used internally and also externally at the same time. The
comparative fruitfulness of the two schools of medicine may be accurately measured in the
history of this drug: in the old school it has dwindled into an “inert” powder; in
homśopathy, by means of the scientific methods of developing and investigating drug action
it possesses, all the old virtues of Lyc. have been
confirmed and precisionised, and a new world of medicinal action added to them. Teste puts Lyc. at the head of a group containing Nat.
m., Viol. tric., and Ant. c. Among the common
characters he attributed to them are: Primary action on digestive organs and adjoining
glands; on liver and larger intestines rather than stomach. Aversion to bread and < from eating bread and foods made of fermented and
fermentable dough. Frequent and painful eructations. Sour eructations; vomiting; distension;
alternate diarrhśa and constipation. Pale, whitish, cloudy, mucous urine, often fetid.
Premature and profuse menses. Peevishness. Rush of blood to head. Falling of hair; with
crusty scalp eruption. Inflammation of eyes and lids. Deficiency of vital heat. Contraction
of tendons, especially hamstrings. These are general features common to the group. Lyc. acts profoundly on the entire organism, on solids and
fluids. It causes paralysis and paralytic weakness of limbs, of brain, suppurative
conditions, even gangrene. It is particularly suited to:
Persons of keen intellect, but feebler muscular development; upper part of body wasted,
lower semi-dropsical; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic conditions; herpetic and
scrofulous constitutions; hypochondriacs subject to skin diseases; lithic acid diathesis,
much red sediment in urine, urine itself transparent; sallow people with cold extremities,
haughty disposition, when sick, mistrustful, slow of comprehension, weak memory; weak
children with well-developed heads but puny, sickly bodies, irritable, nervous, and
unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross, pushing every one away angrily; old women and
children. In my experience it has been more indicated in persons of dry temperament and dark
complexion; but this is not by any means exclusive. Undernourished states suggest it. But it
is impossible to get the best therapeutic results for this great remedy without an intimate
knowledge of certain leading characteristics. Lyc. will
cure any case in which the totality of symptoms correspond with symptoms of the remedy; but
it will be found that in a large proportion of cases in which this is the case, there will
be present some symptoms which are peculiarly characteristic of the remedy, constituting
what are called keynotes. Practice on keynote symptoms alone is an absurdity; but the right
use of keynote symptoms is an immense saving of labour. The Lyc.
keynotes are very pronounced, and though I cannot say that one is more important than
another, I give them in this order. (1) < From 4 to 8 p.m. [In one case cured by Lyc. it was: “Bad from 4 to 6; better at 8; gone at
9.”] In any case, when the symptoms are < from 4
to 8 p.m., the chances are very great that the rest of the case will correspond to Lyc., no matter what the disease may be. The times may not be
accurately at these hours, and still Lyc. may be the
remedy. < At 4 p.m. or from 4 to 6; and the condition
may continue into the night without the 8 p.m. alleviation. But the grand characteristic is
4 to 8. (2) The second keynote is in direction, right to left. Any affection commencing on the right
side and spreading to the left is likely to require Lyc.,
whether it be headache, sore throat, chest affection, abdominal affection, pains in ovaries─if
the affection begins on the right side and spreads to the left Lyc.
must be studied. Cutting pains shooting from right to left in any part indicate Lyc. In this it is complementary to Lach.,
which has just as characteristically the opposite direction. Lyc.
is a right-side medicine; but right-sidedness is not so characteristic as the direction
right to left. These two features are perhaps the most valuable keynotes, in the materia
medica. After them in importance, and scarcely less important, come others. (3) > From uncovering. This
is general, but it applies to Sufferings in the head more particularly. If a patient
complains of headache, no matter of what kind, and if the headache is distinctly > by taking off the hat or other covering, Lyc. will probably be the remedy. This is the great dividing line
between this remedy and Sil., another great headache
medicine: in Sil. cases the patient must wrap up the
head. > From loosening the garments is in the same
category. (4) The next characteristic is somewhat of an
opposite kind: > From warm drinks; < from cold food and drink. This does not refer to gastric
complaints alone, but to headache, sore throat, and any other condition. (5) Fan-like movement of alć nasi occurring in cerebral,
pulmonary, and abdominal complaints. The movements are usually rapid, never slow, and are
not synchronous with the breathing. In the same order with this are spasmodic movements of
facial muscles: angles of mouth alternately drawn up and relaxed; and spasmodic movements of
tongue, it cannot be protruded; rolls from side to side like a pendulum. One prover had a
kind of cramp in the tongue when speaking, cutting off the end of every sentence. Nodding
and side to side movement of the head. Loosvelt (H. W.,
xiv. 396) has found that “half-open condition of the eyes during sleep” is a
strong indication for Lyc., and has led him to make
cures in cases of bronchitis, pneumonia, and typhoid when other remedies have failed. The
“fan-like movement” of the alć nasi led Halbert to the cure of a case of nervous
asthma (H. W., xxxiii. 545): Mrs. S., 28, had periodic
attacks of spasmodic asthma, always ushered in by unusual excitement and attended by
peculiar mental depression. The attack for which Halbert saw her was induced by a violent
fit of anger, and persisted longer than usual. Extreme despondency and melancholy, would
have nothing to do with her friends. Fan-like motion of alć nasi. Constriction of throat,
like globus, but always induced by regurgitation of food. Excessive appetite easily
satisfied. Fulness of abdomen with flatulence. Constipation, dry, hard stools. Dyspnśa.
Slight cough with chest constriction; > in open air.
All symptoms < 4 to 8 p.m. Lyc.
6x trit. cured. (6) Suddenness; sudden flashes of heat,
lightning-like pains; sudden satiety. Pains and symptoms come and go suddenly, as with Bell. (7) Sensation as if a
hand were in the body clutching the entrails (also as with Bell.).
(8) Restlessness >
by motion. (9) Right foot hot, left foot cold. (10) Burning pains > by
heat; burning like hot coals between scapulć. Burning stinging in breasts. (11) Dryness of parts: of mucous membranes; of vagina; of skin,
especially palms. Prominent among mental symptoms is Fear:
of being alone; of men; of his Own shadow. Apprehensiveness:
susceptible to natural causes of fear which make a profound impression on bodily organs, as
the liver; mental states resulting from fear. Profound sadness and inclination to weep.
Peevish. Forgetful. Avaricious. Imperiousness. Lyc. is a
remedy for misers. The headaches are in great variety, but the modalities will generally
decide: < 4 to 8 p.m.; from eating; from warmth of
bed; from becoming heated during a walk; from heat in general; from mental exertion; > in open air; in cool place; by uncovering. Hair falls out.
Ophthalmia: conjunctiva looks like red flesh. Lyc. has
cured desperate cases of facial neuralgia with the general characteristics of the drug. The
facial appearance is pale and yellow; deeply furrowed; looks elongated. Sordes in teeth. Lyc. is in the front rank among flatulent remedies. Incarcerated
flatulence; more in intestines than stomach; painful with >
by eructations. There is the sinking sensation at epigastrium; and it is < in the night, waking up the patient; or < in afternoon. This sensation becomes translated into canine
hunger, but as soon as a morsel of food is swallowed there is distension and fulness to the
throat, preventing him eating any more. Sour stomach, sour taste, sour vomiting. Thirst for
little and often, but drinking cold water = nausea.
Great weakness with the vomiting. Cord-like tension across hypochondria. Flatulence
incarcerated, pressing outward, sensation as if something moving up and down in bowels.
Great sensitiveness in liver region. [This sensitiveness is a characteristic of Lyc., as it is of its complementary remedies, Lach., Kali iod., and Iod. It
has led me to cure many cases of sciatica having this characteristic: cannot bear to lie on
painful side it is so sensitive. Especially in case of right-side sciatica of this
description. Gums, epigastrium, abdomen, right side of chest, eruption round anus, all soft
parts are sensitive. Touch and pressure < all these;
only > tearing in head.] The flatulence presses on
rectum and bladder. There is out-pushing also in right inguinal ring; and Lyc. has cured many cases of right inguinal hernia, especially in
children. Lyc. is one of the great remedies for
constipation where purgatives have been abused. Spasmodic constriction of rectum.
Constipation of infants. The urinary symptoms present no less important characteristics than
the gastric. Renal colic, with stinging, tearing, digging pain in right ureter to bladder,
as if some small calculus was tearing its way to bladder. Aching in back before micturition.
Child cries before micturating; red sand is found on diaper. Aching in kidneys < before > after
urinating. The catamenia are too early and too profuse. Extreme sadness and irritability
before, ceasing with the flow. Cutting pain right to left. Left leg colder than right.
Borborygmi under left ribs in front. Ill-humour. Bearing-down pains and headache.
Intolerance of tight clothing. Sensation as if a hand were in body clutching the entrails.
Though a right-side remedy, it must not be supposed that Lyc.
is exclusively so. It has cured left ovarian pain, dull aching, <
on raising the limb or turning in bed. It is of great service in pregnancy (nausea; varices;
excessive fśtal movements); and in labour (unsatisfactory pains). The “burning”
of Lyc. is exemplified in the cure of a case of
puerperal fever having these symptoms: Feels as though hot balls dropped from each breast
through to back, rolling down back, along each leg, and dropping off heels; this alternated
with sensation as if balls of ice followed same course. Phlegmasia dolens. Lyc. has a very large range in respiratory affections. Salt
sputa; milky; greenish yellow; thick yellow muco-pus. Dry burning catarrh of nose, larynx,
throat, chest. A very characteristic cough of Lyc.,
which I have verified, is this: “Dry teasing cough in emaciated boys”. The cough
of Lyc. is provoked by: Irritation from deep breathing;
stretching out throat; and by empty swallowing. A patient of mine to whom I gave Lyc. 30 developed this symptom: “Pain under sternum as if
food lodged there and she could not breathe through it.” Cough,<
on waking. All the blood-vessels from the heart to the capillaries are affected by Lyc. It has cured both nćvus and aneurism, and relieved many
conditions of disordered heart. It is also one of the most important remedies in varicosis.
Excessive sensitiveness is a note of Lyc.: Cannot bear
any strong smells. Cannot endure noise. Sensitiveness to sound has a curious development in
this symptom: In the evening she continues to hear the music she has heard during the day.
“Heaviness of the arm” is a special feature among the general paralysing effects
of Lyc. Skinner cured with Lyc.
c.m. this case: A lady had burning in right arm with paralysis, preventing her grasping
anything with the right hand. Had had much worry. Irritability before menstrual period, > by the flow. < From 6
to 7 p.m. With the burning was a sharp pain shooting up the arm; but it was not the pain
which caused the paresis. Nash mentions that the sphere of Lyc.
in impotence is considerable. It covers the case of old men who marry again and find
themselves impotent; and the case of young men who have become impotent from masturbation or
sexual excess. The desire is strong but the power is absent; penis small, cold, relaxed. P.
C. Majumdar records (Ind. Hom. Rev., x. 1) the case of a
boy, 14, who had general dropsy and anasarca consequent on the subsidence of an enlarged
spleen under allopathic medication. There was afternoon fever (<
4 to 8 p.m.), slight chilliness, but no thirst; difficult breathing on lying down, urine
scanty and high coloured, bowels constipated, heart’s action weak but regular. Apis caused the urine to be more free, but a troublesome diarrhśa
set in. Apocy. 6x removed the diarrhśa, but had no
effect on the dropsy. Lyc. 30 was now given purely on
the symptoms, and quickly cleared up the case. S. A. Jones (Amer.
Hom., xx. 283) calls attention to the irritability of Lyc.,
and instances the cure of a boy of typhoid with excessive tympanites when the case seemed
almost hopeless, the guiding symptoms being: “When awake exceedingly cross, irritable,
scolding, screaming, behaving disagreeably,” which was quite different from his usual
nature. Lyc. 30 was given. The same writer (H. R., xi. 351) relates an involuntary proving of Lyc. from inhalation of the fumes in the course of chemical
experiment, Lyc. powder being added to a boiling mass.
The writer (apparently a medical man) had at times whilst engaged in the experiments:
Frightful headaches (occiput, vertex, and through right eye), always > by Mag. phos. In
addition he discovered 12.5 per cent. of albumen in his urine, which had been tested a short
time previously and found normal. Other characteristic symptoms of Lyc. were present, and
all disappeared, including albuminuria, when the experiments were abandoned. H. Goullon (H. R., vi. 155) cured this case of cystitis: A man, 55, subject
to attacks of enteralgia, was seized two days after such an attack with a severe cystitis,
with fever and palpitation of the heart. The calls to micturate were increased, and he could
hardly reach the vessel quick enough to prevent premature escape of the urine, so severe and
sudden was the urging. During and sometimes after the passage there was intense burning
pain, “as if molten lead were flowing through the urethra.” During the height of
the pain he grasped the penis to obtain relief. The urine, which was discharged in very
scanty quantities, looked turbid, almost loamy, had a dirty brownish-red colour, and a
peculiar odour of malt. Lyc. 12 was given, six drops in
half a wineglassful of water: a teaspoonful every three hours. Cured in twenty-four hours.
J. E. Winans (Med. Adv., xix. 499) points out the
appropriateness of Lyc. to the effects of chewing
tobacco. Allen records under Tabac. this symptom:
Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of muscles of back of neck; constantly recurring rigid tetanic spasms, muscles of back being
principally affected, till death a week after he chewed the tobacco.” Winans had a very
similar case from the same cause-clonic, opisthotonic spasms as of cerebro-spinal meningitis─which
he cured with Lyc. c.m. and m.m. given after each
tetanic seizure. Other Lyc. symptoms verified by him
are: “Forehead cold, but becomes
warm if lightly covered” (Sil.); and, in
pernicious intermittents “a long-lasting chill coming on 9 a.m., and generally passing
off without subsequent heat or sweat.” Drysdale has
recorded (B. J. H., xlii. 203) the cure of a young woman
whose hands were covered with warts. One 2 gr. tablet of Lyc.
6 trituration was given at bedtime. The warts soon began to shrivel, and in less than six
weeks were all gone. The sphere of Lyc. in metrorrhagia
is illustrated by a case of Waszily’s (quoted H. W.,
xxviii. 320): Mrs. O., 44, menses after being absent eight months had come on and lasted
fourteen days. She felt particularly well, and had walked out, when a violent flooding came
on, and she had to be taken home in a carriage and put to bed. Dark blood with large clots
flowed from her, < every movement; no pain. Previous
day had much flatulent distress. Lyc. 30, two globules
on the tongue. After that one large clot passed and nothing more. Rapid recovery followed.
Among the peculiar sensations of Lyc. are: As if everything was turning round. As if temples being
screwed together. As if brain vacillating to and fro. As if head would burst. As if head
opened. Pain in head as if caused by wrong position. As if eyes too large. As if hot blood
rushed into ears. As if sulphur vapour in throat. Front teeth as if too long. Vesicles on
tip of tongue as if scalded and raw. As if a ball rose up in throat. As if hard body lodged
in back of throat. As if everything eaten was rising up. As if śsophagus was being clutched
and twisted. As if steam rising from stomach to head. As if something were moving up and
down in stomach. As if suspensor ligament of liver would tear. As if stomach would fall
down. As if drops of water were falling down. As if heart hung by a thread. As if gimlets
were running into spine. As if dogs with sharp teeth were gnawing her. Tension as from a
cord in diaphragm. As if chest constricted with tight waistcoat. (Cramps in chest
accompanying stomach affections is a strong indication for Lyc.)
Burning as of hot coals between scapulć. As if hot balls dropped from each breast through
to back, rolling down back, along each leg and dropping off heels; alternating with balls of
ice. As if water spurted on back. As if lying on ice. The symptoms are < by touch, pressure, weight of clothing. Riding in carriage = nausea. < Morning on
waking; < afternoon, 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 4 to 6 p.m., 4
to 8 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m.; < evening before midnight.
< After eating, even if ever so little. < Wrapping up head, even wearing hat or bonnet. < In warm room. <
Getting warm by exercise. Warmth of bed < headache
and irritation of skin, but > toothache, rheumatism,
and other symptoms. Great desire for open air. > In
open air; by uncovering. Must be fanned, especially wants to be fanned on the back (burning
between shoulders). > By warm, < by cold food and drink. <
By wet weather; by stormy weather; especially by wind. <
From moistening diseased parts. Rest <; motion >. Lying down >
headache; pain in epigastrium. Lying on back > cough.
< Lying on right side in liver affection. < Lying on painful side (sciatica). <
Lying on left side. < By rising from a seat; > after. < From
lamplight; from looking fixedly at any point. < From
eating cabbage; vegetables, beans and peas, with husks; bread, especially rye bread and
pastry. < From wine. <
From milk. < Before menstruation. < From suppressed menstruation. [Lyc.
is very prone to cause aggravations, especially when highly attenuated, and hence it is
necessary to give it with caution. Unless the indications are quite clear it is better to
start a case on an allied remedy. I gave Miss E. Lyc. 30
for constipation. Soon after taking it she had pains in upper abdomen in all directions;
urging to stool without ability to pass it; much flatus which could neither be got up nor
down. Lyc. 1m. was now given, a few globules dissolved
in water, a teaspoonful at bedtime. All symptoms vanished. On rising a second teaspoonful
was taken, and after this the bowels were well relieved. On another occasion she took Lyc. 1m. in the evening, and immediately felt her throat tight
and uncomfortable; but this passed off and she went to bed. At 5 a.m. she woke with choking;
had the greatest difficulty in getting her breath. She managed to reach a bottle of Bell. 3, and a dose of this relieved her at once.─A
patient for whom Lyc. 5 had, to her great delight
reduced the gouty swellings about her finger-joints, till she could get rings on she had not
been able to wear for years, was obliged to discontinue it on account of the distressing
headaches it caused.─Mr. W. had every Sunday afternoon attacks of pain
like biliary colic. They came on at 5 p.m. and lasted till 1 a.m. The pain started from
right of gall bladder, travelled to middle line, and then passed downwards. In the attack he
was cold and yet sweated. Bowels constipated. Lyc. 1m.,
one dose every alternate day. A powder of the same was, given to be dissolved in water, of
which a teaspoonful was to be taken every twenty minutes in the event of an attack. During
the week he felt better, but on the next Sunday he had the worst attack he had ever had, and
the Lyc. given to be taken frequently did not relieve at
all. Nux 30 was next given night and morning. The next
Sunday was passed without any pain, and he felt much better generally. Cases of this kind
could be multiplied indefinitely, and I have known some very good prescribers almost abandon
this remedy on account of unexpected aggravations.]
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Aco., Camph., Caust., Cham., Coff., Graph., Nux, Puls., Coffee. It
antidotes: Chi. (yellow face, liver and spleen swollen, flatulence, tension under
short ribs < right side, pressure in stomach and
constipation); Merc.; Chlorine (effects of the fumes when they cause impotence). Compatible: Bell., Bry., Carb. v. (a dose of Carb. v. every
eighth day facilitates action of Lyc.); Calc. c. (predisposition to constipation, hard
stools evacuated with difficulty, or urging ineffective); Graph., Hyo., Lach., Led., Pho.,
Puls., Sep., Sil., Stram., Sul., Ver. Follows well:
Sul., Calc., Lach. Is followed well by: Graph., Lach.,
Led., Pho., Sil. Incompatible: Coffee. Complementary: Iod., Chel. (K. iod., Lach., Ign., Puls.); Ipec.
in capillary bronchitis, < right side, sputa yellow
and thick. “Unless undoubtedly indicated the treatment of chronic diseases should not
be commenced with Lyc., it is best to give first another antipsoric remedy.” Compare: Desires fresh air, desire to be uncovered, Sul., Pul.
Terrible sadness during menses, Nat. m., Nit. ac., Sep. Action on veins, Puls., Sep. Thirst
for little and often, Ars. (wants it cold and vomits it immediately); Ant. t. Sinking at
epigastrium < at night preventing sleep, Ign.; (Sul. < 11 a.m., also 8-9 a.m. and 1-2 p.m.). Hot flushes in
afternoon, Sul. Nausea fasting, Pul., Calc., Sil. Moth spots or liver spots, Thuj. Canine
hunger, especially at night, Ign., Chi. Hungry but cannot get food down, Sil. < Every other day, Chi. Fan-like motion of alć nasi, Chlorof.
(slow); Gadus and Kreas. (rapid). Apprehension of losing senses, Calc., Nux, Sul.
Acquisitiveness, Ars., Pul. Fear of being alone, K. ca., Lil. (Ars., Bism., fear and
forgetfulness when alone; Pho., fears something is going to happen when alone in room,
especially at night; Arg. n., fears to remain alone lest he should harm himself; anxiety
compels moving about; fears to go on a lofty place lest he should throw himself down─Anac.
also). Fear of darkness, Calc., Stram. Imperiousness, Plat. (haughtiness). Cursing, Anac.,
Iod., jug. r. Nervous before undertaking anything, Ars., Arg. n. Shaking head, Ant. t.,
Ars., Aur. sul., Can. i., Eupion., Nux m., Sep., Tarent. Head drawn to one side, Camph.;
spasmodically to right side in diphtheria, Lachn. Burning pains >
by heat, Ars., Caps., Alumina. Bloody sweat, Calc., Lach., Lyc., Nux m., Nux, Arn.
Hoarseness 4 to 6 or 8 p.m., Hell. (Coloc. and Pul. at 4 p.m., Col. and Mag. p. 4 to 9 p.m.,
Carb. v. 3 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.). Constipation when from home (when on journey, Plat.).
Laughs at serious things, Pho., Anac., Nat. m., Plat. Laughs and cries alternately, Aur.,
Pul., Alm., Stram., Bov., Caps., Graph., Pho., Sep., Sul., Ver. Globus hystericus, Ign.,
Lach., Pul. < Ascending, Ars., Sul. Restlessness > by motion, Rhus (Rhus generally in recent Lyc. in old
cases), Puls. > slow motion. Emaciation from above
down, Nat. m. Burning as if hot coals between scapulć, Glo. (burning as if hot water whole
length of spine), Pho. Head symptoms > cold, Ars.
(Ars. has general > by warmth, Lyc. < by warmth). Flashes of heat, Lach., Sep., Sul. Feet cold and
damp to knees, Calc. Sore throat right to left (Lach. left to right) less sensitive than it
looks (Lach. more); < cold drink (Lach. >) Inguinal hernia, Nux (Nux more left, Lyc. more right).
Piles, Ćsc., Nux, Caust., Alo., Sul. Child screams before passing urine, just as it begins
to pass > by flow, red sand (Sarsa. cries before and
during flow, grey sand). Sufferings of widowers from unsatisfied desire, &c., Con., Pic.
ac., Plat., Calc. Physometra, Bro., Lac c., Nux, Sang. Burning in vagina during coitus,
Kre., Sul. Dryness of vagina with painful coitus, Bel., Fer., Nat. m., Sep. Burning and
stinging in breasts, Apis, Carb. a., Pho., Lauro. Milk in breasts when it should not be
there, Cycl., Pul., Pho.; (unhealthy milk, Cham., Phyt., Acet. ac., Calc., Lach., Pul.) > Fanning (Carb. v. and Sul. in collapse; Lyc. wants the back
fanned). Acid dyspepsia, Mag. c., Robin. > By warm
drink and food (Pul. and Phos. > by cold food).
Catarrh of chest after badly treated pneumonia, Sul. Chest rattling, full of mucus, Ant. t.
Child sleeps with eyes half-open, Sul. Black boils, Lach. Distress in stomach immediately
after eating (Nux some time after). In labour and threatened miscarriage, pains fly from
right to left (Act. r. from side to side; Ip. from left to right with nausea). Ordinary
amount of food causes full sensation, Ars. Diphtheria, nose obstructed, excoriating
discharge, patient picks and bores nose, Ar. t. (but Lyc. has right to left; < after sleep, even a short nap; irritable and peevish; urine
stains red). Large tonsils studded with small indurated ulcers, Bar. c. Aneurism, Bar. c.,
Carb. an., K. iod. Nćvus, Fl. ac., Arn., Thuj., Vacc. Tympanites, Carb. v. (Carb. v. rancid
belching; Lyc. sour). Fan-like motion of alć nasi; one foot hot, one cold, Chel. (Lyc. and
Chel. are much alike and complementary; Lyc. favours dark, Chel. fair people; Lyc. pains
more dull, Chel. lancinating; Lyc. rumbling of flatus in left hypochondrium, sour taste;
Chel. bitter). Distension after eating with great accumulation of flatus, Graph. (Graph. has
rancid or putrid eructations, Lyc. has not; Lyc. has constriction, Graph. none).
Intermittent fever; syphilis; ulcers; flatulent dyspepsia; <
after sleep, Lach. Ulcers on instep (Nat. c. ulcers on heel). Half sight, Nat. m., Titan.,
Aur., Lith. c. Dyspepsia with thick urine; Sep. (Lyc. repletion after eating, Sep. emptiness
of epigastrium); ball in anus, Sep. Yellow-brown spots, Sep., Nux, Curar., Sul. Cough
excited by talking, Sil. Impotence, Tab. (Lyc. cured impotence caused by indulgence in
tobacco). Ailments from fright, anger, or mortification with reserved displeasure, Staph.
Nose stopped at night, Am. c., Nux, Samb. Red sand on child’s diaper, Pho. Cries before
urinating, Bor. Dryness of vagina, Hdrfb. One foot hot, the other cold, Chi., Dig., Ip.
Waking at night hungry, Cin., Pso. Enforced sexual abstinence, Con. Proctalgia, Pho. Craving
for sweets, Arg. n., Sul. Pain in head during stool, Indium. Fulness after a meal, Chi.
(Chi. after a full meal; Lyc. after ever so little. The Lyc. fulness is full right up into
the throat). Colic, &c., > bending over, Coloc.
Crampy pains, < night. Nux. After-effects of fevers,
Pso.
Causation.─
Fear. Fright. Chagrin. Anger.
Vexation. Anxiety. Fevers. Over-lifting. Masturbation. Riding in carriage. Tobacco-chewing.
Wine.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Silent, melancholy, and peevish humour;
despair of eternal salvation.─Desponding, grieving mood.─Sadness
when hearing distant music.─Anguish, esp. in region of epigastrium, with
melancholy and disposition to weep; esp. after a fit of anger, or on the approach of other
persons.─Sensitive disposition.─Dread of men;
desires to be alone, or else aversion to solitude.─Excitement after a
glass of wine, almost mischievous.─Must laugh if any one looks at her to
say anything serious.─Inclined to laugh and cry at same time.─Irritability
and susceptibility, with tears.─Irascibility.─Obstinacy.─Estrangement
and frenzy, which manifest themselves by envy, reproaches, arrogance, and overbearing
conduct.─Disposition to be very haughty when sick; mistrustful; does not
understand anything one says to them; memory weak.─Avaricious.─Character,
mild and submissive.─Complete indifference.─Aversion
to speaking.─Fatigue from intellectual exertion, and incapability of
devotion to mental labour.─Giddiness.─Inability to
express oneself correctly; misapplication of words and syllables.─Confused
speech.─Confusion about everyday things, but rational talking on
abstract subjects.─Inability to remember what is read.─Stupefaction.─Dulness.
2. Head.─
Dizziness and vertigo, as from
intoxication.─As soon as she sees anything turning about she feels as if
her body were turning about.─Whirling vertigo, esp. when stooping, or in
a warm room, with inclination to vomit.─Headache from vexation.─Headache,
with disposition to faint, and great uneasiness.─Headache with vertigo.─Heaviness
of the head.─Headache when shaking or turning head, and also at every
step on walking.─Cephalalgia above eyes, immediately after breakfast.─Semi-lateral
headache in evening, < beyond endurance by
intellectual labour.─Aching as if head would be forced asunder and as if
brain were swashing to and fro, < walking, ascending
steps, and rising from stooping; could not work and could scarcely step without vertigo.─Throbbing
after every paroxysm of cough.─Pressive headache sometimes as if a nail
were being driven into the head, or with tension, which is <
by lying down; < at night when lying in bed, and on
getting warm while walking in open air; > when
walking slowly in open air, from cold, and when uncovering head.─Stitches
in temples, mostly on r. side, from within to without; <
in evening and at night when lying in bed, from heat and exertion of the mind; > from cold and in open air.─Thrust in
temples during difficult stool.─Pain at vertex during moderate pressure
at stool.─Headache after breakfast.─Tearing, boring,
and sensation of scraping on external head, during night.─Screwing
together in forehead, during menses.─Jerking in r. frontal bone
extending to root of nose and eyebrows.─Tearing headache, esp. in
afternoon or at night, principally in the (r.) forehead, but often also in whole head, in
eyes and nose, extending to teeth, with inclination to lie down.─Stupefying
headache, with heat in temples and ears; dryness of mouth and lips; <
from 4 to 8 p.m., when rising up, and on lying down.─Pressing headache
on vertex < from 4 to 8 p.m.; from stooping, lying
down, exertion of the mind, and followed by great weakness.─Tearing in
forehead or in r. side of head, extending down to neck, with tearing in face, eyes, and
teeth; < on raising oneself up, > on lying down and in the open air.─Shooting
headache.─Throbbing in brain on leaning head backward.─Throbbing
in head after lying down in evening.─Congestion in head, with heat,
sometimes in morning on rising up in bed.─Shaking and resonance in brain
at every step.─Boring, scraping, and tearing in scalp, esp. at night.─Involuntary
movements and convulsive trembling of head.─Head turned involuntarily to
l.─Involuntary nodding: now to r., now to l.; slow at first then
constantly more rapid.─Involuntary shaking makes him dizzy.─Shaking
head on stepping hard.─Great tendency to take cold by the head.─Eruption
on the head, with abundant and fetid suppuration, sometimes with obstruction of the glands
of the nape and neck.─The hair becomes grey early.─Baldness;
the hair falls out, first on the vertex, later on the temples (after diseases of the
abdominal viscera; after parturition), with violent burning, scalding, itching of the scalp,
esp. on getting warm from exercise during the day.─Scurf over whole
scalp, child scratches it raw in night and then it bleeds.─Contracted
sensation with feeling as if the hair would be pulled up.─Hair falls off
scalp, but increases on other parts of body.
3. Eyes.─
Aching in the eyes.─Gnawing,
burning, and shooting pains in eyes (and lids), esp. in evening, by candle-light.─Smarting
in eyes.─Sensation of coldness in eyes, evening.─Dryness
of eyes; and lids; as if dust in them; difficult to open.─Smarting and
burning.─Swelling and painfulness of lids.─Inflammation
of the eyes and lids.─Stye.─Styes on the internal
canthus.─Agglutination of eyelids, esp. at night, and lachrymation, < by day, and in a cold wind.─Twitching of
the eyelids.─Troubled sight, as from feather-down before the eyes.─Photophobia.─Itching
in canthi.─Dim, hot eyes.─The eyes are wide open,
insensible to light, fixed.─Dryness of eyes, in evening.─Sparks
before the eyes, in the dark.─Must wipe mucus from eye in order to see
clearly.─Purulent mucus.─Myopia or presbyopia.─Hemiopia
perpendicularis (sees only l. half of objects, esp. with r. eye).─The
characters are confused when reading.─Obscurity, black spots,
glittering, and sparks before eyes.─Eyes dazzled and irritated by
candle-light in evening.
4. Ears.─
Otalgia in open air.─Congestion
in the ears.─Ulceration of the ears.─Discharge from
the ears.─Hearing excessively sensitive to least noise; music occasions
fatigue.─Tinkling and buzzing in ears.─Roaring,
humming, and whizzing in ears.─Sensation as if hot blood rushed into
ears.─Congestion of blood in ears.─Singing in the
ears as from boiling water.─Ringing in r. ear; every noise has peculiar
echo deep in ear.─Hears in evening music she heard played during day.─Hardness
of hearing.─Moist scabs on and behind ears.─Has
improved deaf-mutism (Cooper).
5. Nose.─
Scurf in nose; crusts and elastic plugs.─Nostrils
ulcerated, scabby, obstructed by mucus at night.─Swelling of nose, with
acrid, fetid, and corrosive discharge.─The ichorous discharge from the
nose begins in r. nostril; scarlatina or diphtheria.─(Patient bores and
picks nose.─Convulsive movements of muscles of nose.─Fan-like
motion of the nostrils in pneumonia.─Bleeding from nose, on blowing it,
and epistaxis, principally in afternoon.─(Nose-bleed in morning from r.
nostril.).─Excessive acuteness of smell.─Coryza with
acrid discharge, making the upper lips sore.─Coryza of almost all kinds.─Dry
coryza, with obstruction of the nose, confusion in head, and burning pain in forehead.─Dryness
of the posterior nares.─Obstruction of nostrils, esp. at night, and
which prevents respiration except through the mouth.─Stoppage: towards
morning; in evening; child’s breath often stopped in sleep for fifteen seconds even when
mouth is open.
6. Face.─
Paleness of face, < in evening.─Face yellow and earthy, with
deep wrinkles, blue circles round eyes, lips bluish.─Circumscribed
redness of the cheeks.─Face red and bloated, with eruptions and red
spots.─Swelling and tension of face.─Tearing in
bones of face.─Painful sensation of coldness in face.─Twitching
and convulsive movements in muscles of face.─At first l. angle of mouth
drawn outward, then r.─Muscles of lips and cheeks drawn together making
mouth pointed, followed by broad distension of mouth.─Frequent attacks
of transient heat in face.─Eruption on face, sometimes with itching.─Ephelis.─Tetters
on face, which are furfuraceous, and yellow at the base.─Lips pale and
bluish.─Soreness of corners of mouth.─Swelling of
upper lip.─Eruption and excoriations on the lips and their commissures.─Eruptions
on face, humid and suppurating.─The lower jaw hangs down.─Ulcers
on the red part of the lower lip.─Itching eruption round the chin.─Swelling
of the submaxillary glands.
7. Teeth.─
Odontalgia only at night, > by hot drinks, and by heat of bed.─Dull
pains in teeth, with swelling of the cheeks and gums.─The teeth ache as
if suppurating; are excessively painful on touching them; and when chewing; front teeth
loose or too long.─Cramp-like drawing, tearing, and jerking, or
pulsations in teeth, esp. during or after a meal.─Grinding of teeth.─Yellowness
of the teeth.─(Fistula in the gums.).─The gums bleed
violently on being touched; when cleaning teeth.─Gumboils.─Swelling
of gums, with shocks, tearings, and shootings.─Ulcers in the gums.
8. Mouth.─
Dryness of the mouth, without thirst,
with tension of the parts, the tongue heavy, and speech indistinct.─Torpor
of the interior of mouth and tongue.─Exhalation of a putrid odour from
the mouth, esp. in morning when awaking.─Buccal hćmorrhage.─Tongue
foul and coated.─Involuntary movements of the tongue.─In
talking, all the words of a sentence were spoken completely and distinctly except the last,
which was stammered; it seemed as though the tongue were affected by a peculiar cramp; no
amount of attention to this was of any avail; it lasted four weeks and gradually disappeared
of itself.─Stiffness of the tongue; vesicles on tip of tongue; they feel
scalded and raw.─Soreness of tongue.─Ulcers on and
under tongue (from tobacco).─Convulsions of the tongue.─The
tongue is painful and swollen in different places (tubercles on the tongue).─The
saliva becomes dry on the palate and lips and is converted into tough mucus.─The
posterior part of the mouth is covered by tough mucus.─Dry and bitter
mouth (in the morning).─Tongue dry; becomes black and cracked.─Tongue
is darted out and oscillates to and fro; in sore throat.─Tongue
distended, giving patient silly expression; in angina or diphtheria.
9. Throat.─
Sensation of constriction in throat,
with obstructed deglutition.─Dryness of throat.─Pain,
as from excoriation, in throat.─Burning pain in throat, with nocturnal
thirst.─Sensation in throat, as if a ball were ascending from the pit of
the stomach.─Feeling on l. side of a lump moving up and down.─Inflammation
of throat and palate, with shooting pain, which obstructs deglutition.─Swelling
and suppuration of tonsils.─The ulceration of the tonsils begins on r.
side.─The pharynx feels contracted, nothing can be swallowed.─Hawking
of hard greenish-yellow masses; granular; of bloody mucus.─Sticking in
region of r. parotid.─Sticking in throat during cough.─Sticking
preventing sneezing.─Sensitiveness of the submaxillary glands.─Ulcers,
like chancres, in the tonsils.─Goître.
10. Appetite.─
Loss of appetite.─Mouth
clammy or bitter, esp. in morning, often with nausea.─Nausea in pharynx
and stomach.─Nausea in morning and when riding in a carriage.─Sourness
in mouth, esp. in morning, or sour taste of food.─Absence of thirst, or
burning thirst.─Nocturnal thirst.─Loss of appetite,
sometimes with the first mouthful.─Sudden satiety.─Immoderate
hunger.─Bulimy.─Aversion to: cooked or warm food;
rye-bread; meat; coffee; tobacco smoke.─Craving for sweet things.─Inability
to digest heavy food.─After a meal: hepatic pains, oppression and
fulness in chest and abdomen, nausea, heat in head, redness of face, pulsation and trembling
over whole body, hands hot, palpitation of heart, colic, &c.─Sourness
and diarrhśa after taking milk.
11. Stomach.─
Violent risings in afternoon.─Incomplete
eructations, burning, rising only into pharynx, where they cause burning.─Sour
eructations, the taste of which does not remain in mouth, but the acid gnaws in the stomach.─Burning,
sour, greasy or bitter risings.─Sour regurgitation of food, esp. of
milk.─Pyrosis, esp. after a meal.─Violent hiccough
by fits, esp. after a meal.─Nausea when in a room, which disappears in
open air, and vice versâ.─Frequent
continued nausea, esp. in morning, with bitter taste in mouth.─Nausea,
caused by the motion of a carriage.─Sensation of nausea in stomach in
morning.─Heartburn.─Cancer of the stomach.─Water-brash,
sometimes every second day, with flow of bitter water.─Vomiting of food
and bile, esp. at night, or when fasting in the morning.─Vomiting of
bitter, greenish matter.─Vomiting of blood.─Vomiting
between the chill and heat in intermittent fever.─Vomiting after a meal
with salivation; during menses.─Gnawing, griping sensation in region of
the stomach.─Slow digestion.─Pains in stomach, with
shivering and deadness of the hands after a slight chill.─Periodical
pains in stomach, > by heat of bed.─Aching
in stomach, in evening, and after every meal, sometimes with a bitter taste in mouth.─Compressive
or contractive pains in stomach.─The pains in the stomach manifest
themselves principally in morning; in open air; after a meal; or after drinking wine; they
are sometimes > in evening, and are often accompanied
by cramps in chest and difficulty of respiration.─Swelling of
epigastrium with painful sensibility to the touch.─The clothes round the
stomach cause uneasiness.─Stitches in l. side of pit of stomach,
apparently externally.─Pain in epigastrium caused by cough.
12. Abdomen.─
Tension round hypochondria, as from
the pressure of a hoop.─Pressure and tension in liver; esp. on
satisfying one’s appetite.─Cramp-like pain in diaphragm, and contusive
pain in liver, on stooping.─Pain when walking in upper part of r.
hypochondrium, as if the suspensor ligament of the liver would tear.─Pressive
pain in r. hypochondrium, at times took away the breath, became a sticking.─Pain
in liver as from a blow, < by touch.─Violent
gall-stone colic.─Sharp pain in dorsal hepatic region, in r. shoulder
and arm.─Liver region sensitive.─Griping; and
rumbling in splenic flexure.─Inflammation and induration of the liver.─Immediately
after a (light) meal the abdomen is bloated, full, distended.─Has a
great appetite, but a small quantity of food fills him up and he feels bloated.─Aching
pains in abdomen.─Fulness and distension of stomach and abdomen.─Weight
in the abdomen.─Sensation of something heavy lying on l. side of
abdomen.─Brown spots on abdomen.─Hardness in the
abdomen.─Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.─Contractive
cramp-like pains in the abdomen, which is distended.─Tearing, drawing,
tension, and pinching in abdomen and sides of abdomen.─Clawing in
hypogastrium, with suspended respiration.─Cutting pains, esp. above the
navel.─Pain above the navel, on touching the part.─Burning
pain in the abdomen.─Hernia on the r. side.─Tearing
shootings, pulsation, and pressure in the inguinal ring, as if hernia were on the point of
protruding.─Cramp-like pains in abdominal muscles, esp. at night.─Incarcerated
flatus.─Imperfect expulsion of flatus.─The
flatulence cannot pass and causes much pain.─Great deal of noisy
flatulence in the abdomen, or particularly in the r. hypochondriac region; there seems to be
a constant fermentation in the abdomen, which produces a loud croaking sound.─Sometimes
much rumbling of wind in l. hypochondriac region.─Dyspepsia with loud
croaking in the abdomen.─Affections of the inner lower belly.─Full,
distended abdomen with cold feet.─Gurgling and borborygmi in abdomen,
esp. on l. side.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Constipation of long
standing.─Hard stools with ineffectual desire to evacuate.─Desire
for stool followed by painful constriction of rectum or anus.─Small
stool, with the sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful
accumulations of flatulence.─Hćmorrhage from rectum, even after a soft
stool.─Feeling of fulness in rectum continues after a copious stool.─Contractive
pain in perinćum, after scanty, hard stool.─Stitches in the rectum.─Diarrhśa
(during pregnancy), with earthy colour of the face.─During stool:
burning and biting at anus; pressure; tenesmus; ringing in ears; headache; pain in back as
if broken; hćmorrhage.─After stool: flatulent distension.─Constriction
of the abdomen, sometimes with ineffectual want to evacuate, and difficult evacuation.─Constipation
or diarrhśa in pregnant women.─Fćces: pale and of a putrid odour; thin
brown; pale green mixed with hard lumps; thin yellow or reddish-yellow fluid; shaggy reddish
mucus (urethral tenesmus, dysentery); green, stringy, odourless mucus.─Discharge
of mucus, or of blood, during evacuation.─Lumbrici.─Pains
in the anus after a meal and after an evacuation.─Itching and tension in
the anus.─Incisive pains, shootings and pain as from excoriation in the
rectum.─Spasms in rectum.─Contraction of rectum so
that it protrudes during a hard stool.─Piles swollen, protruding,
burning sticking, protruding during soft stool, painful on touch and when sitting.─Hćmorrhoidal
excrescences in anus and in rectum, with prolapsus recti.─Itching
eruption in anus.─Itching and tension at the anus (evening in bed).─Painful
closing of anus.─Protrusion of the varices.─Distension
of the varices of the rectum.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Urgent want to urinate, with
too frequent emission, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine.─Frequent
micturition by night, with scanty and rare discharges by day.─Dark urine
with diminished discharge.─Greasy pellicle on the urine.─Involuntary
micturition.─Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless.─Old
thickening of bladder with irritable urethra.─Foamy urine.─Urine
deep coloured, with yellow or reddish sediment.─Clear, transparent
urine, having a heavy, red, crystallised sediment in the bottom of the chamber.─In
typhus fever, where the patient is in a very low state, and cannot retain the urine, we may
see this sediment on the sheets; also in colic of babies, with much sediment of this kind on
the diaper.─A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before
urinating; causing patient to cry out; retention of urine; patients will get into position
to urinate, but wait a great while before the water comes, accompanied by the characteristic
pain in the back, which ceases when the urine flows; children often cry out with pain before
urinating.─Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive purulent sediment;
dull pressure in region of bladder and abdomen; disposition to calculi; cystitis.─Hćmaturia
from gravel or chronic catarrh.─Renal calculus and gravel.─Emission
of blood instead of water, sometimes with paralysis of the legs, and constipation.─Incontinence
of urine.─Smarting when urinating.─Itching in
urethra during and after emission of urine.─Shooting pinchings and
incisive pains in the bladder and urethra.─Stitches in the bladder.─Stitches
in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time.─Burning in
urethra and glans.─Urine burning hot, like molten lead.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Shooting, drawing, and
incisive pain in the glans.─Bastard gonorrhśa, with a deep red and
smarting pustule behind the glans.─Excoriation between scrotum and
thighs.─Dropsical swelling of genital organs.─Immoderate
excitement, or absence of sexual desire.─Repugnance to coition, or
disposition to be too easily excited to it.─Impotence of long standing.─Weakness
or total absence of erections.─Penis small, cold, relaxed.─Itching
of the internal surface of the prepuce.─Excessive pollutions, or absence
of pollutions.─Emission too speedy or too tardy during coition.─Falling
asleep during coition.─Lassitude, after coition or pollutions.─Flow
of prostatic fluid, without an erection.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Nymphomania with
terrible teasing desire in external organs.─Itching, burning, and
gnawing in vulva.─Pressure towards the outside, above the vulva, and
extending as far as the vagina, when stooping.─Expulsion of wind from
the vagina.─Chronic dryness of vagina.─Shooting
pains in labia, when lying down.─Excoriation between the thighs, and at
the vulva.─Burning pain in the vagina, during and after coition.─Catamenia
(too early) too profuse, and of too long duration.─Catamenia suppressed
readily, and for a long time, by fright.─Before menses: shivering,
sadness, melancholy; bloatedness of the abdomen.─During menses:
delirium, with tears; headache; sourness in the mouth; pain in loins; swelling of feet;
fainting; vomiting of sour matter; cuttings, colic; and pains in the back.─Menstruation
too late; lasts too long; sometimes suppression of; profuse, protracted; flow partly black,
clotted, partly bright red or partly serum; with labour-like pains followed by swooning;
with sadness; suppressed by fright.─May find females at change of life
with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied.─Fśtus appears to be
turning summersaults.─Metrorrhagia; at menopause; dark blood with large
clots pour from her.─A rumbling begins in upper abdomen and descends to
lower, when a flow of blood follows, and so on successively.─Leucorrhśa:
milky, yellowish, reddish, and corrosive; sometimes preceded by cuttings in abdomen.─Varices
on the genitals.─Disposition to miscarriages.─Swelling
of the breasts with nodosities.─Excoriation and moist scabs on nipples.─Stinging
in nipples.─Milk in breasts without being pregnant.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Crawling scraping in
trachea, at night.─Hoarseness, with roughness, and pain as from
excoriation in chest, after speaking.─(Voice feeble and husky.).─Whizzing
breathing in daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in chest; loud rattling.─Voice
weak and dull.─Cough after drinking.─Obstinate dry
cough in morning.─Nocturnal cough, <
before sunrise, which affects the head, diaphragm, and stomach.─Dry
cough, day and night.─Cough excited by a tickling, or as if produced by
the vapour of sulphur, or by taking a deep inspiration, generally with a yellowish grey and
saltish expectoration, sometimes with great weakness of stomach, fever, nocturnal sweat, and
emaciation.─Cough with expectoration through the day and without
expectoration during the night.─Whooping-cough from irritation in
trachea as from fumes of sulphur, in the morning and during the day, with expectoration of
fetid pus or of mucus streaked with blood.─Cough < from 4 to 6 p.m., frequently on alternate days, from
exertion, from stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on l. side, from
eating and drinking cold things, in the wind, or in warm room.─Cough
(morning), with copious expectoration of greenish matter.─Copious
expectoration of pus, when coughing.─Cough, with expectoration of blood.─When
coughing, shocks in the head, shortness of breath, smarting and concussion in chest, or
pains in region of stomach.
18. Chest.─
Short respiration during almost every
effort, also in children, esp. during sleep.─Continued oppression of the
chest, < by walking in open air.─Rattling
of mucus and stertorous respiration.─When breathing, twitching and
shooting in chest and sides of chest.─Pain as if from a bruise in the
chest.─Constant pressure in the chest (it feels raw internally).─Weight
in the chest.─Tension in anterior part of chest.─Lancinations
in the chest, esp. on l. side, and principally when sneezing or coughing, on laughing, or on
the slightest movement, sometimes with inability to remain lying on affected side, and
difficult respiration.─Pain as from excoriation in the chest, esp. after
speaking.─Stitches in the l. side of chest, also during an inspiration.─Typhoid
and neglected pneumonias.─Hepatisation of the lungs.─Paralysis
of the lungs.─Hydrothorax.─Itching on the chest.─Stitches
in the side, alternately with toothache and pains in the limbs.─Painful
eruption and maculć hepaticć on the chest.
19. Heart.─
Palpitation of the heart, esp. during
digestion, or in bed in evening, sometimes attended with anxiety and trembling.─Accelerated
pulse, with cold face and feet.─Palpitation of the heart with flapping
of the wings of the nose; enlargement of the heart; hypertrophy in general.─Cramp
and constriction, dyspnśa, stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of back and
shoulders; sharp pains shooting into heart, sensation of stoppage of circulation at night,
with fright and then sweat, pulse quick and unsteady (angina pectoris).─Dyspnśa,
cyanosis, hasty eating and drinking (heart disease).─Beating of temporal
arteries and carotids.─Heart sounds heard loudly on lying down at night,
keeping patient awake.─(Hypertrophy.).─(Aneurism.).─(Hydropericardium.).
20. Neck and Back.─
Traction and contraction from
the nape of the neck to the occiput.─Rigidity of the nape of the neck,
sometimes caused by lifting a weight.─Maculć hepaticć in the nape of
the neck.─Tetters on nape of neck and under armpits.─Furunculi
under armpits.─Stiffness, swelling, and induration of one side of neck.─Painful
stiffness of l. side of neck.─Burning as of red-hot coals between
scapulć.─Swelling of glands of neck and of the shoulder, with shooting
pain.─Weakness and paralysis of muscles of neck.─Painful
eruption on neck.─Large clusters of red pimples around neck, with
violent itching.─Soreness of the neck.─Goître.─Violent
sacral pains, which do not permit sitting upright.─Pains in the back and
loins, esp. when moving, stooping, and lifting anything, often accompanied by constrictive
pains in abdomen.─Shootings in loins on rising up after stooping.─Drawing,
tearing, and shooting pains in back and loins, with difficult respiration, chiefly when
seated, and also at night.─Pain in back and r. side, from congestion of
the liver.─Stitches in region of kidneys, <
from pressure; extending into rectum.─Distortion of the spine.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Tearings and shootings in the
joints of shoulder and elbow.─Rheumatic tension in r. shoulder-joint.─Pain
in bones of arms at night.─Weakness of arms when at work.─Difficulty
in moving arms as if rheumatism were creeping on, with nodes on fingers.─Pain
as from a sprain in r. wrist-joint.─Swelling of axillary glands.─Nocturnal
aching pains, in the arms and elbow.─Drawing pain in arms.─Jerking
in shoulders and arms, also during it siesta.─Paralytic weakness of
arms.─Arms and fingers easily benumbed, even at night, or only when
raising them.─Biting, itching, and maculć hepaticć in the arms.─Arthritic
stiffness of the elbow and wrist.─Tetters on the arms.─Erysipelatous
inflammation in the forearm, with suppuration.─Dryness of the skin of
the hands.─Burning sensation in the palms.─Red and
painless swelling of the hands.─Warts on the hands and fingers.─Deadness
of fingers and hands.─Involuntary trembling of the hands.─Red
swelling and arthritic tearing in joints of fingers.─Arthritic
nodosities and stiffness in fingers.─Stiffness of the fingers during
labour.─Itching pimples between the fingers.─Panaritum.─Contraction
and twitches in the fingers.─Chilblains.─Gouty
contraction of palmar fascia: sudden pain runs down arm (l.?) causing fingers to stiffen and
draw away from each other and to draw towards hand, as though palmar fascia were contracting
(Cooper).
23. Lower Limbs.─
Rheumatic tension in l. hip.─Pain
as from a sprain in hip.─Periodical pains, from coxo-femoral joint to
foot, every fourth day.─Tearing: beneath r. hip; in l. hip-joint.─Drawing
along sciatic nerves to feet, evening, in bed.─Pain in muscles about
joints, on pressure, sitting or lying.─Pain in r. hip > walking in open air.─Pain from r.
hip-joint to feet when walking, he must limp.─Tearing in legs and knees,
extending to tibia and instep, esp. in evening and at night.─Soreness in
inner side of l. thigh, with biting itching extending to genitals.─Brown
spots on inner side of thighs, inflamed with burning pain.─Uneasiness,
shocks, and trembling in legs and feet, esp. in evening and at night.─Involuntary
shaking in legs, or alternate separation and bringing together again of the thighs.─Burning
and biting itching in the legs, esp. in the hams.─Curvature and
stiffness of the knees.─Swelling (and stiffness) of the knees.─Swelling
of the knee, with perspiration.─Swelling of the legs, with large, red,
burning spots, and pains which prevent walking.─Paralysis of the legs,
with emission of blood instead of urine, and constipation.─Tetters on
the legs and calves of the legs.─White swelling in the knee.─Cramps
and cramp-like pains in the calves, esp. when walking, and at night.─Burning
pain in legs.─Ulcers in the legs, with nocturnal tearing, itching, and
burning heat.─Pain in the soles when walking.─Cramps
in the feet and toes.─Swelling of the feet and of the malleoli, or of
the soles (with shooting pain).─Coldness of the feet.─One
foot (r.) hot the other cold.─Cold sweat on feet, sometimes copious, and
with excoriation of the skin.─Stitches in r. big toe (evening).─Rhagades
in the heel.─Cramp in the toes.─Bending of the toes
when walking.─Contraction of the toes.─Corns on the
feet, sometimes with shooting pain.
24. Generalities.─
Affections in general of r.
eye; r. side of face; r. hypochondrium; r. abdominal ring; l. chest; l. lower extremity;
general symptoms r. side (though they may spread to the l.); hair of head; rectum; bladder;
hands; fingers; finger-joints; back part in the lumbar region, and ankles.─Hard
hearing; smell too sensitive.─Deep furrows on the face; same on
forehead; sensations in the temples.─Collection of water in the mouth,
i.e., “mouth waters.”.─Pains in different parts as from
flatus: over r. hip; below chest; in lower abdomen, &c.─Obstructed
evacuation; painless diarrhśa.─Anything running from r. to l.─Apoplexia;
erethism of blood accompanied with flashes of heat; chlorosis.─Consumption
resulting from badly treated pneumonia.─Crooked legs; ankles weak;
painless paralysis; old sprains; tension, tightness of the joints.─Enlargement
of the bones.─Drawing and tearing in extremities, < at night and during repose; sometimes also in the afternoon;
every second day, and esp. in windy and rainy weather, >
by heat.─Shooting pains, internal and external.─Painful
stiffness of muscles and joints, often with torpor and insensibility of the extremities.─Numbness
of the limbs.─Great liability to strain the back, which, when it occurs,
is often followed by stiffness in nape of neck.─Cramps and contraction
of limbs.─Alternate spasmodic and involuntary extension and retraction
of some of the muscles, or some of the extremities.─Shocks and jerks in
some of the limbs or throughout the body, during sleep and on waking.─Cramps,
internal and external, < at night.─Attacks
of epilepsy, sometimes with cries, foam at the mouth (loss of consciousness, throws the arms
and limbs about), and great anguish of heart (imagined he would have to die).─Dropsical
and inflammatory swellings.─Varices.─Arthritic
nodosities.─Swelling of the glands.─Inflammation of
the bones, with nocturnal pains.─Distortion and softening of the bones.─Ulceration
of the bones.─The symptoms are frequently <
towards 4 p.m., and begin to abate towards 8 p.m., the weakness excepted.─Periodical
sufferings.─The whole body feels bruised.─Ebullition
of blood throughout the body, esp. in the evening, with inquietude and trembling.─Sensation,
as if the circulation of the blood were suspended.─Internal weakness.─Great
nervous excitability.─Weakness and lassitude in limbs, < during repose, or on waking in morning.─Fatigue,
esp. in the legs, after a very short walk, accompanied by a burning sensation in the feet.─Fear
of movement, with constant desire to remain lying down.─Total
prostration of strength, with falling of the lower jaw, eyes cloudy and half closed, and
slow respiration through the mouth.─Great emaciation, also with
children.─Fainting fits, esp. in evening, and sometimes also on lying
down, with loss of consciousness, cloudiness of sight, and great listlessness.─Trembling
of limbs.─Want of vital heat.─Great desire for, or
marked repugnance to fresh air, with excessive sensitiveness to cool air.─Great
tendency to take cold.─< From east
winds.
25. Skin.─
Gnawing and itching in daytime, on
getting heated, or in evening, before lying down.─Tendency of the skin
to become chapped.─Painful eruptions.─Nettle-rash
(chronic).─Large red spots on skin.─Itching maculć
hepaticć.─Abundant ephelis.─Insensible tetters, of
a yellowish brown, wrinkled or moist, purulent, full of deep cracks and thick scabs.─Large
furunculi, which return periodically.─Mercurial ulcers. Bleeding ulcers,
with shooting pain, which burn while being dressed, or with nocturnal tearing and itching.─Fistulous
ulcers, with callous, red edges, reversed and shining, sometimes with inflammation and
swelling of the part affected.─Excoriated places on the skin of
children; the sore places are humid.─Intertrigo; raw places bleeding
easily.─Skin unhealthy, corrosive vesicles.─Nćvus
maternus.─Vascular tumours.─Warts.─Corns
which are very sensitive, or with tearing pains.─Exanthema in general,
particularly with biting sensation; moist; scurfy; tearing and painful.─Want
of action of the skin.─Itch, burning; creeping.─Skin
scurfy; sticky; clammy.─Brown mortification.─Pale
swelling.─Salt rheum.─Varices suppurating.─Chilblains.─Great
dryness of the skin.
26. Sleep.─
Frequent, and sometimes interrupted,
yawning.─Inclination to sleep during day and early in evening, with
sleep retarded by mental activity and excessive nervous excitement.─Disturbed
and restless sleep, with anxious and frightful dreams, and frequent waking with fright.─Loud
coughing during sleep; screaming while asleep.─Sopor.─Hunger
at night when waking.─Unrefreshing sleep.─Soporous
sleep in typhoid and exanthematous fevers.─Voluptuous, vivid, mournful
dreams; dreams of murder or of the occupations of the day, &c.─Anxious
dreams of fatal accidents.─Jerks, cries, starts with fright, or bursts
of laughter, or tears and groans during sleep.─(Sleeps with eyes
half-opened,).─Sleeps with mouth open.─At night,
jerking and restlessness in the legs, headache, anguish, nightmare, ebullition of blood and
palpitation of heart, stomach-ache, colic, asthmatic sufferings, &c.─Lying
on l. side is difficult on account of the palpitation of heart and stitches.─It
is impossible to remain lying down at night on account of every position being uneasy.─Child
sleeps all day and cries all night.
27. Fever.─
Shivering in evening, sometimes only
on one side; or every second day, with heat, or followed by sweat without heat.─Chilliness
in the afternoon from 4 to 8, with sensation as of numbness in hands and feet.─Chilliness
in evening in bed, preventing sleep.─One-sided chilliness, mostly on the
l. side.─Chills and heat alternating.─Want of vital
heat.─Tertian fever, with sour vomiting and bloatedness of the face and
hands after the shivering.─Transient heat.─Burning
heat, with short respiration.─Flashes of heat over whole body, mostly
towards evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time; constipation and
increased micturition.─The perspiration is frequently cold, smelling
sour, or offensive, or smelling like onions, or bloody.─Intermittent
fever.─Nausea and vomiting and then chilliness, followed by perspiration
(without previous heat).─Chilliness in the evening till midnight, this
is followed by heat, in the morning sour-smelling perspiration.─Great
heat and redness of the cheeks, alternating with chilliness.─Shaking
chill 7 p.m., and great coldness as if lying in ice, with traction through whole body, upon
waking up from sleep, which is full of dreams, covered with perspiration, perspiration is
followed by violent thirst.─Typhus fever (with threatening paralysis of
the brain).─Malignant fever, with malevolence and ill-humour on waking,
or with nervous excitability, without heat of the head or redness of the face, red spots on
the cheeks, great weakness, sweat without any mitigation, tongue red and dry, and
constipation.─Slow fever, with viscid sweat, at night.─Fever,
with total prostration of strength, lower jaw hanging down, eyes clouded and half-closed,
and respiration slow, with the mouth open.─Sweat principally in face,
easily excited during the day by slight exercise.─Febrile sweat by day.─Nocturnal
sweat, often fetid or viscid, principally on chest and back.─Pulse only
accelerated in the evening and afternoon.─Sensation as if circulation
stood still.® 2000
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