Mezereum.
Daphne mezereum. Chamćlia germanica. Mezereon, Spurge Olive. (Hilly woods
over nearly whole of Europe and Russian Asia.) N. O. Thymelaceć. Tincture of fresh bark
gathered just before the plant flowers in February and March.Clinical.─
Bones,
affections of. Coccygodynia. Constipation. Contraction of tendons. Crusta lactea.
Ear, affections of; sensitive to air. Erythema. Exostoses. Eyes, affections of. Glands enlarged. Gleet.
Gonorrhśa. Hćmaturia. Hernia. Herpes zoster. Impetigo. Irritation.
Leucorrhśa. Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Osteoma.
Pediculosis. Pityriasis. Prolapsus ani. Pruritus
senilis. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis. Teeth, affections of.
Tinea capitis. Tinea versicolor. Tongue, affections of;
swelling of. Ulcers. Vaccination.
Characteristics.─
An idea of the virulence of this
poison may be gathered from a case reported in Allen’s Appendix:
A pale girl, 14, having been advised to use Mezereum leaves to make her fat and rosy, went
into the woods and used them freely on her cheeks and surrounding parts. Burning soon set
in, the whole face swelled enormously, especially nose, eyelids, and hairy scalp. Severe and
painful sneezing set in, delirium, dull, unbearable, pressing pains in forehead, a nauseous
dryness in throat and constant irritation to dry cough. The face soon showed the appearance
of erysipelas bullosum; nostrils closed, she could only breathe through mouth; febrile
pulse, burning urine. Oil and compresses were applied, and after the second day desquamation
occurred in large pieces. But health did not return. Debility, loss of vitality, mental
depression bordering on idiocy followed; then typhoid fever, lasting fully three months, to
which she finally succumbed. Poisoning has also been observed from the effects of the
berries: dryness and burning of throat and stomach; intense thirst; narcotism, coma,
convulsions of eyes and upper limbs were observed. In a child of four, poisoned with the
berries, these symptoms occurred: Swollen lips; tongue furred and swollen, protruding,
swallowing difficult. The tongue remained quite raw when other symptoms had passed away (H. W., xxii. 466). Hahnemann records this: A robust man took
Mezereum bark for some ailment, and continued it after the ailment disappeared. Soon,
unbearable itching set in all over body, could not sleep a moment. Thirty-six hours after
discontinuing it the itching was still increasing, then a few grains of Camphor removed it. Mezereum
is the vegetable analogue of, and is one of the most important antidotes to, Mercurius. Merc. and Mez. antidote one another. Mind, skin, eyes, mucous membranes and
bones are affected in much the same way by both; they have the same sensitiveness to damp,
cold, and warmth, and the same nightly aggravations. Nash mentions an exception to the < by warmth. In a man whom he cured with Mez. of obstinate facial neuralgia, the pains were brought on or
greatly < by eating,
and the only relief the man could get was by holding the painful side close to a hot stove. Only radiated heat
was of any use, hot cloths, wet or dry, gave no relief whatever. Mez.
affects the long bones more markedly than others, and the least touch is intolerable; but it
has, like Merc., a strong affinity for the facial bones
and teeth. With Mez. the decay attacks the roots or
sides rather than the crowns (which Merc. attacks). The
toothache is < at night, <
by touch, even with the tongue, and is > by holding
the mouth open and drawing in air. Neuralgia about the eyes; the pains radiate and shoot
downward, and if there is in addition a sensation in the eye itself as if a cold wind were
blowing in it the indications will be very strong. Mez.
is one of Hahnemann’s anti-psorics, and it meets many psoric manifestations. Carroll Dunham
has recorded (Science of Therapeutics, 462) a notable
case of deafness, due to suppressed psora. A Youth, 17, deaf since four, and incapacitated
thereby, secludes himself and broods over his trouble. Membranes thickened. At the age of
three he had an eruption of thick, whitish scabs, hard, almost horny, covering the whole
scalp. There were fissures through which exuded on pressure a thick, yellowish pus, often
very offensive. Much itching and disposition to tear off the scabs with the finger-nails, < at night. The treatment (allopathic) was vigorous: A tar cap
was placed on the head, and when firmly adherent to the scabs was violently tom off, scabs
and all, leaving the whole scalp raw. This was painted with a saturated solution of Arg. nit. The eruption did not reappear, but from that time the
child was deaf. The eruption was the very counterpart of an eruption observed in a proving
by Wehle. Mez. 30, three globules in a powder of sugar
of milk, was given on each of these dates─February 3, March 1, and
September 28, 1857, and January 26, 1858. Improvement set in slowly after the first dose,
which was only repeated when the effect of each preceding dose seemed to be exhausted.
Finally the hearing was for all practical purposes completely restored. The action of Mez. in catarrhal cases is illustrated in another case (Amer. Hom., xxi. 417). Miss M. R., 39, brunette, had chronic
catarrh. The left ear had long been deaf, and the right had begun to fail. There were noises
in the ears. Drum membranes retracted and scarred. The symptoms were: Excessive
sensitiveness to the air, even of a fan, and occasionally a sensation as if air went through
to the throat. Mucous membrane of naso-pharynx granular and irritable. A dose of Mez. given before each meal entirely relieved the symptoms. The
ulcers of Mez. have thick, yellowish, white scabs.
Vesicles appear now and then, and itch and burn. Lint dressings stick to them, and when they
are torn away bleeding occurs. Burning vesicles on the sides of the fingers; and ulcers on
finger-joints. With eczema there is intolerable itching, <
in bed and from touch. Vaccinal eczemas are frequently of the Mez.
type. Mez. is often of great service in herpes zoster,
both during the eruption and for the neuralgia remaining after, especially if the pains are
burning. In a lecture on Mez. by T. S. Hoyne (Med. Vis., xiii. 65) are collected many cases illustrating the
action of the remedy. Here is a mental case (in a woman) treated by W. E. Payne: No rest
when alone; wants company. Ideas vanish while talking; cannot repeat what has been learned
by heart. Looks through the window for hours without being
conscious of objects around. Does not know what she is about; forgets what she is
about to utter; looks ill-humoured, pale, wretched, fallen away. Apprehensiveness
at pit of stomach, as when expecting some very unpleasant intelligence. All
symptoms relieved in a single night by Mez. 20. (I give
the italics as in the original.) Among neuralgic cases are the following: (1) Man, 28, violent neuralgia, boring pain in left lower
jaw-bone, extending to temple and ear. < Night, > from pressure. Mez. 3
relieved in two hours (S. R. Geiser). (2) H. G., stout,
healthy-looking negro, left supra-orbital neuralgia recurring daily at 9 a.m., increasing
till noon, declining till 4 p.m., when it entirely departed leaving no soreness behind. Pain
= flow of tears. Mez.
1 cured permanently after other remedies had failed Q. W. Vance). (3)
Mrs. X. had pain in right eye-tooth, daily increasing. Felt too long. Pains much < by pressure on crown and outside root. Mez. 2 cured (Oehme). (4)
Toothache in incisor tooth in lady. Tooth feels elongated, loose, excessively sensitive,
with sensation as if being raised out of its socket. Upper part of tooth excessively
painful. Mez. 200 cured in a few hours (Hempel). (5) The fastenings of a hammock broke, and a lady on it fell,
striking the sacrum and coccyx on the stump of a tree. She suffered excruciating pain. Arn. was applied locally. In a few weeks she came home, and the
coccyx was still so tender she could not sit─only lie or stand. Arn. internally and externally for two weeks had no influence. Mez. 2 cured in five days (Oehme).─“Constipation
after confinement” has proved a good indication for Mez.:
“My stools are as hard as stone, and as large as my arm. I feel as if they would split
me open. They come in sections like mouthfuls, and I become much exhausted and tremble with
weakness. Every stool is immediately preceded by chills, and followed by long stitches up
rectum.” Mez. 12 produced a natural stool in twelve
hours (H. Noah Martin). Green discharges according to
Cooper strongly indicate Mez. It has cured a case of dry
crust on scalp and falling out of hair, accompanied with short sight. Daphne laureola, the British representative of the genus, has
cured scald-head when Mez. failed. The symptoms in this
case were < by day, whereas Mez.
has < at night. The pains of D.
laureola come on in the morning and affect the entire head or whole left side: Guaiac. pains are also <
by day and > by warmth (Cooper). Cooper gives me the
following cases: (1) Woman, 48, had rheumatism which
came on ten years before in hands from wearing wet gloves, and extended later to arms and
knees; stiffness on walking with loss of muscular power, <
in hot weather, “pins and needles” in fingers on elevating arms, cannot grasp
things, sometimes one hand burns when other is cold, climacteric flushings. Great relief
from Mez. Ř. (2)
Girl, 18, getting thin, with headache across forehead, temples, and eyes, a throbbing with
sickness of stomach and water-brash, always < by
movement; bowels very confined; menses never appeared. Mez.
cured; (3) Pimples on ankles and backs of feet, horrid
taste and clamminess of mouth in morning, pimples >
by hard scratching, sluggish bowels. Mez. cured. H. B.
Esmond (H. R., vii. 41) cured with Mez. 3x a youth, 17, who had been afflicted with “salt
rheum” as long as he could remember. It was absent in summer, but every autumn, as soon
as cold weather came, face, neck, hands, and forearms would break out and continue sore till
warm weather returned. Another indication for Mez. is
hypersensitiveness of the ear to air. It has cured a case in which there was a feeling as if
air went through the ear to the throat. The rectum and anus are the seat of many
characteristic symptoms, stitches, burning itching. During stool the rectum prolapses and
the sphincter closes upon the protruded part. This constricting tendency is noticed in the
throat and stomach, and also in the tendons. The leg is shortened with pain in hip. Tension
in muscles of chest. Pain and stiffness in muscles of neck. Cramp-like contraction over
chest and back; and across front of chest. Sensations
are: Head as if drunk; as if everything in the head would press asunder; as if skull would
split; as if top of head gone; as if head bruised; as if head was in an ants’ nest. Eyes as
if too large; as if drawn back into head. Ears as if too open; as if air pouring into them;
as if tympanum was exposed to cold air; as if air was distending right external meatus.
Teeth feel too long. Hard palate, feels as if made of wood. Throat as if narrowing. As if
food remained a long time in stomach. Stools feel as if they would split anus. Chest feels
too tight. Limbs feel shortened. As if fire darting through muscles. As if millions of
insects were crawling on him. Sensation of lightness of body. Bones are very sore and feel
distended. Diseased parts wither. Mez. is suited to: Light-haired persons; phlegmatic temperament;
irresolute. The plant flowers in very early spring, even when snow is on the ground, and it
is suited to complaints which come on in the earliest months of the year. < From cold; damp; cold winds; sudden changes of weather;
heat; warm food. Head pains are > wrapping up head.
Prosopalgia > by heat of stove (not by other heat).
Drawing in air > toothache. <
From touch or pressure. < From motion. Lying down < itching of scalp. Stooping >
headache. < Evening and night. < During menses (burning itching inner side of throat).
Affections go from above downward; from within outward; and from right to left.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:─Aco.,
Bry., Calc. (headache), K. iod., Merc., Nux. It antidotes:
Merc., Nit. ac., Phos., Alcohol. Compatible: Calc.,
Caust., Ign., Lyc., Merc., Nux, Pho., Puls. Compare: In
ciliary neuralgia, Spi. (Mez. pains radiate and shoot down, cold feeling in eye; Spi.,
stabbing pains in or radiating from eye, eyeballs feel swollen), Thuj., Ced., Ars., Merc.
Protruded and constricted rectum, Lach. Eczema, Rhus, Anac. Ulcers on finger-joints, Bor.,
Sep. Feeling of cold wind blowing in eye, Croc. (across eye), Med., Syph., Thuj. (out of
eye). Blinking, Mercurialis. Nausea in throat, Cycl., Phos. ac., Stan., Val. (in rectum,
Ruta; in hypogastrium, Puls.). Stitch in rectum, Ign., Pho. Long bones, Angust. Carious
teeth, Kre. Vesicles appear round ulcers and itch, Hep. Pains in periosteum < at night, Phyt., Merc. Rheumatism and skin, Guaiac., Anac.,
Rhus.
Causation.─
Anger. Mercury. Vaccination.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Hypochondriacal humour, with sadness and
tears.─(Fearful depression, miserable feeling).─Anguish
and inquietude, esp. in solitude, with wish for society.─Indifference
about everything and everybody around him.─Aversion to talk. it seems to
him to be hard work to utter one word.─Disposed to reproach others or to
quarrel.─Irresolute.─Everything seems dead and
nothing makes a vivid impression.─Peevishness.─Passion.─Unfitness
for labour.─Weak memory (mind is easily confused).─Mental
torpor.─Slow conception.─Ideas are frequently lost.
2. Head.─
Stupefying confusion in head, as from
intoxication, or immoderate pollutions.─Vertigo, which causes falling on
one side, with sparkling before eyes.─Headache, with shuddering and
shivering, < in open air.─(Splitting
headaches: head throbs on movement, begins in frontal sinuses, patient gets rapidly thin,
and brings up water from stomach with straining; feels low and weak.).─Pressive
and stunning headache, on one side only of brain.─Headache in temples
and sides of head after an exertion and from talking much.─Violent
headache and great sensitiveness to least contact after a slight anger.─Compressive
or cramp-like pain, as if head were being severed.─Violent, pulsative,
and pressive pains in whole head, forehead, nose, and teeth, <
by the slightest movement.─Thrilling headache, with vomiting of mucus.─Sensation
of torpor, with drawing pains in one side of head.─Pains in bones of
cranium, < by touch.─Painful
sensitiveness of scalp and of hair to touch.─Gnawing itching in scalp.─Itching
eruption on head, sometimes moist.─Head covered with a thick
leather-like crust, under which thick and white pus collects here and there, and the hair is
glued together.─On head great elevated white scabs, under which ichor
collects in great quantity, and which begins to be offensive and breed vermin.─The
scabs on head look chalky and extend to eyebrows and nape of neck.─Burning,
biting itching on scalp, principally on vertex, when scratching the locality changes but the
itching becomes <; this is followed by very sore
boils and humid eruptions, < at night and when lying
down.─(Hard scabs on head six months, no irritation, much oozing with
weakness and trembling of ankles.).─Pains in bones of scalp (on both
sides) with swelling and caries, great sensitiveness to contact, cold, motion, < in evening.─Numbness of scalp, with
drawing pain in it, generally only on one side; <
from cold contact and in evening.─> By
heat.─Dandruff, white, dry.
3. Eyes.─
Inclination to wink with eyes.─Dryness
in eyes, with pressure in them.─Twitching of muscles around eyes.─Lachrymation,
with smarting in eyes.─Staring at one spot.─Pain, as
if balls of eyes were too large, with aching.─Sensation as if eyes drawn
back into head.─Eyes feel strained.─Smarting in
internal canthi.─Inflammation of eyes; conjunctiva injected, dirty red.─Three
days after one dose Mez. Ř eyes became bloodshot, first
one then the other, with cramp in both feet and l. upper limb, <
night. (R. T. C.).─Myopia, or presbyopia.─Sparks
before eyes.─Obstinate twitching of the muscles of the l. upper lid.─Pupils
contracted.
4. Ears.─
Otalgia, with drawing and acute
pullings.─Itching and oozing eruption behind ears (scratching causes
small elevations, they are scratched off and feel sore).─Hardness of
hearing.─Sensation of stoppage of ears.─Ears feel as
if they were too open, and as if air were pouring into them, or as if the tympanum were
exposed to the cold air, with a desire to bore with fingers into ear.─Sensation
as though air were distending the r. external meatus; afterward in l.; as if roaring would
occur.─Tinkling in ears, sometimes with drowsiness.─[Cooper
supplies the following additions]: Deafness with headache all over head, < on vertex, as if the bone were breaking, a splitting
headache with tenderness of scalp, begins across root of nose and eyes and is < at night, also a sick feeling after food (cured).─Bursting
sensation in r. ear with neuralgia of whole side of head (cured).─A
rumbling in ears, with feeling of fulness and pressure and dimness of sight (produced).─Swelling
of r. ear and itching as if a boil were forcing itself through concha (produced).─Adenoids,
post nasal; deafness < when eating, slight otorrhśa,
stuffiness of l. nostril with ozćna.─Very deaf, both membranes highly
vascular following cold and acute headache of r. side of head; deafness had lasted 2 1/2
months (cured).─Heavy dulness in l. ear with itching in both eyelids,
could scratch them to pieces (cured).
5. Nose.─
Twitching (visible) on root of nose.─Excoriation
of interior of nose.─Diminution of smell, with sensation of dryness in
nose, and sometimes ineffectual desire to sneeze.─Frequent sneezings,
accompanied by pain of excoriation in chest.─Fluent coryza, with
secretion of liquid and yellow (thin, at times bloody) mucus, excoriation and burning in
nose, and eruption on lips, and burning of upper lip.─(Ozćna, 15 years,
in woman, 35, < l. nostril: Mez.
3x irritated nostril, was then omitted and discharge ceased; this occurred several times,
till quite cured.─After Mez. Ř,
sneezes many times for twenty-four hours, then gets darting pains from head to foot and is
hardly able to bear anything to touch her for three days.─R. T. C.)
6. Face.─
Grey, earthy complexion.─Face
and forehead hot and red, with great restlessness and peevishness.─Paleness
of face.─Cramp-like and stunning pressure on cheek-bone, sometimes only
on one side (r.), and extending to eye, temple, ear, teeth, neck, and into shoulder.─Drawings
in jaw-bones.─Continued and painful twitching in cheeks and eyelids.─Frequent
troublesome twitching of muscles in middle of r. cheek.─Furunculi on
face.─Child scratches its face constantly; it becomes covered with
blood.─In night child scratches its face so that the bed is covered with
blood in morning; face is covered with a scab, which the child keeps constantly tearing off
anew, and on the spots thus left raw large, fat pustules form.─The ichor
from scratched face excoriates other parts.─A honey-like scab around
mouth.─Skin of face is of a deep inflammatory redness, the eruption is
humid and fat.─Excoriation and burning in lips and commissures.─Lips
swollen and cracked, with exfoliation; swelling of lower lip with rhagades.─Upper
lip ulcerated, with burning pain when touched.─Shootings in submaxillary
glands.
7. Teeth.─
Pains in carious teeth.─The
hollow teeth decay suddenly.─Drawing, burning, or boring shootings in
teeth, and into cheek-bones, and temples.─Jerking and tearing pains in
teeth.─Sensation as if teeth were set on edge, and too long.─Toothache
< by touch and by movement, as well as during the
shiverings in evening.─Teeth pain when touched by the tongue.─Ebullition
of blood to the head, shiverings and constipation, during toothache.─Teeth
coated with fetid mucus.─Teeth speedily become carious.─Burning
vesicles in gums.
8. Mouth.─
Burning vesicles in mouth and on
tongue.─Tongue swollen, protruding.─Tongue quite
raw.─Constant burning in mouth.─Burning in the mouth
and throat.─Impeded speech.
9. Throat.─
Pressive pain in throat on swallowing.─Roughness,
excoriation, smarting scraping, and lancinating in throat and palate.─Burning
in throat (pharynx) and in śsophagus.─Inflammation of throat.─Constriction
and contraction of pharynx; the food presses on the part during deglutition.
10. Appetite.─
Beer has a bitter taste, and is
thrown up when taken.─Increased hunger at noon.─Great
hunger or loss of appetite.─Violent hunger in afternoon and evening.─Unusual
longing for ham fat.─Burning in the stomach, mouth, and throat, > by eating (swallowing the food).─Repugnance
to food.
11. Stomach.─
Frequent and empty risings, esp.
after drinking.─Sensation of nausea in throat.─Sensation
as if posterior part of throat were full of mucus, same after hawking.─Nausea,
with accumulation of water in mouth, shuddering and trembling of whole body.─Violent
vomitings of greenish and bitter mucus, accompanied by headache.─Vomiting
of blood.─Aching in stomach.─Burning, and sensation
of heat in stomach.─Inflammation of stomach.─Contraction
of diaphragm.
12. Abdomen.─
Abdomen hard and tense.─Chronic,
cramp-like, acute, pulling, pressive, constrictive, and shooting pains in abdomen.─Stitches
in l. hypochondrium.─Dull pain in region of spleen.─Heaviness
in abdomen.─Sensation of heat, and burning in abdomen.─Inflammation
of intestines.─Expansive pressure in inguinal ring.─Drawing
in inguinal glands.─Flatulent colic, with rumbling and borborygmi in
abdomen, difficult respiration, and shivering.─Many short, fetid,
flatulent discharges, esp. before the stool.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Difficult stools, of the
consistence of thick pap, with urgent want to evacuate.─Constipation.─Constipation,
stool dark brown, in knots, very hard balls, with great straining, but not painful.─Stools
soft, brown, smelling sour.─Soft stool in evening, fermented stool, not
fully digested, smelling very offensive or sour.─Excessive diarrhśa
(small stools) with intolerable colic.─Brown fćces, containing some
white, glistening bodies.─Scanty, soft, frequent evacuations.─Violent
diarrhśa, with insupportable pains in abdomen.─[Passes large quantities
of blood by bowel with diarrhśa and sickness; is bilious (cured).─Mez. often relieves constipation, esp. with hepatic and uterine
inertia.─R. T. C.].─During (or after) stool,
prolapse of rectum with constriction of anus, which makes it very difficult to replace; sore
and painful to touch.─Before and after stool, creeping in rectum as from
ascarides.─Stitch in rectum; upwards (in afternoon).─Biting,
sore pain in anus on walking, and a burning in rectum.─Pain in anus and
anterior part of penis.─Pinching in anus and near anus l. side.─Crawling
in anus; much itching.─Tenesmus, tearing and drawing in anus and perinćum,
and through whole urethra.─Coldness and shuddering, before, and after
the evacuation.
14. Urinary Organs.─
Diminished secretion of
urine.─In morning and forenoon, frequent discharges of large quantities
of pale urine.─Flock-like cloudiness, and reddish sediment in urine.─Hćmaturia.─Sticking
in kidney, and pain as if torn.─Pain, as from excoriation, in urethra.─Discharge
of mucus from urethra.─Discharge of a few drops of blood after
urinating.─Biting burning in forepart of urethra at close of
micturition.─After micturition, itching at prepuce.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Tearing, jerking, and
lancination, in penis.─Tearing and burning lancinations in the end of
the glans.─Heat and swelling of penis.─Violent
erections and increased sexual desire.─Swelling of testicles.─Fine
pricking stitches in penis and tip of glans.─Abundant secretion of
smegma behind glans, like gonorrhśa balani.─Swelling (painless) of
scrotum.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Chronic leucorrhśa,
like white of eggs (malignant, corroding), sometimes also serous.─Menses:
too frequent and lasting too long; scanty with leucorrhśa and prosopalgia; suppressed.─During
pregnancy, diarrhśa and prolapsus recti.─After confinement,
constipation, burning and stitches in rectum.─(Climacteric flushings
remain away for several months.)
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Hoarseness, with burning
and dryness in throat, irritation which excites coughing, rawness in chest, and difficult
respiration.─Violent cough, when lying down.─Dry
cough, with retching and vomiting, in evening, and at night.─Desire to
draw a long breath.─Spasmodic, violent whooping-cough, caused by an
irritation in larynx, extending to chest, expectoration in morning, of a yellow, albuminous,
tough mucus, tasting salt.─The cough is <
in evening till midnight; or day and night, with tension over thorax; when eating or
drinking anything hot (has to cough till the food is vomited up); from drinking beer.─Violent
inclination to cough low down in trachea; cannot loosen anything by the cough.
18. Chest.─
Difficult respiration.─Pain
in chest, during inspiration, as if there were adhesions in lungs, and the cavity of the
chest were too narrow.─Aching in chest.─Painful
tension of muscles of chest.─The chest feels too tight on stooping.─Pain,
as from excoriation and burning in sternum.─Stitches in chest, < during inspiration; in (r.) side of chest, < from drawing a long breath.
19. Pulse.─
Pulse intermittent; full, tense, hard.
20. Neck and Back.─
Painful rigidity of nape of
neck, and of neck and external muscles; in r. side of neck and throat, < on motion.─Tearing jerking in sides of
neck.─Rheumatic pains in muscles of shoulder-blade; they feel tense and
swollen, and prevent motion.─Shootings in back.─Contractive
and tensive pain in back, extending to sacrum.─Sacral pains.─(Coccyx
tender and sore, from a fall).
22. Upper Limbs.─
Dislocating pain in
shoulder-joint.─R. arm feels sprained on top of shoulder.─Pain,
as from excoriation, in axillć (r.).─R. hand cold (while writing), l.
warm (in a warm room).─Cold hands.─Trembling in r.
hand.─Tips of fingers powerless, cannot hold anything.─The
hands (and feet) go to sleep continually.─Drawing and rheumatic tension
in arms, with paralytic weakness.─Paralysis of flexors.─Jerking
pains in shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers.─Swelling and heat of arm
and hand, with twitching and pricking in muscles.─Ulcers on
finger-joints.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Jerking in hip-joint, as far as
knee.─Contraction of leg.─R. hip-joint feels
sprained on walking.─Twitching of whole of r. leg.─Pain
in hip, the leg is shortened.─Whole leg covered with elevated white
scabs.─(Ulcer on leg with intense itching in surrounding skin and in
scalp, much < in warmth; with slight diarrhśa.).─Cracking
in r. knee when rising in morning.─Legs and feet go to sleep.─Stitches
in toes of r. foot.─Pain in periosteum of the long bones, esp. the
tibia, < at night in bed, and then the least touch is
intolerable.─Pains in bones of thighs and legs.─Tearing,
drawing, and tension in thighs, legs, feet, and toes.─Tension and
stiffness in knees.─Jerking, and pressive pain in tibia.─Hard
swelling of calves of legs.─Jerking pain in toes.─Violent
pains in bones of feet; in bones of instep, < when
walking.─Pain in ball of little toe.
24. Generalities.─
[This remedy is often useful in
cases of very violent neuralgic pains about the teeth or face, particularly if the pain be
in the l. bone, running toward ear; also neuralgic pains at night in teeth.─Affections
of any kind appearing on external head, principally r. side; teeth in l. side; forehead;
shin-bone.─Collection of water in mouth, i.e.,
“mouth waters.”.─Urine with real flakes, which float about on
the top.─Subsultus tendinum, as in typhoid fever, &c., when by
putting the fingers on the wrist or on other parts of the body the tendons are felt to jump
and jerk.─Burning, darting sensation in the muscles like fire darting
through them.─H. N. G.].─Drawing, rheumatic tearing,
and tension in the limbs, with paralytic weakness.─Thrilling pains,
which leave a distressing sensation behind them, for a long time.─Drawing,
pains in one side of body, with shivering.─Pains, accompanied by
shivering and shuddering.─Gnawing pains, as from excoriation in mucous
membranes.─Burning in the organs of digestion.─Burning
of internal parts, with external chilliness.─Inflammation and swelling
of bones; esp. shafts of cylindrical bones; caries, after abuse of Mercury.─Ulceration
of bones.─Tension in muscles.─Hot, jerking stitches
in various parts of body.─Jerking and quivering of muscles.─Drawings
and sensation of weakness in joints; joints feel bruised and weary, as if they would give
way.─Contusive pain, and heaviness in all limbs.─Heaviness
and indolence of body.─Feeling of great lightness of body.─General
sick feeling.─Bending of body in walking.─Emaciation
or bloatedness of body and face, with enlargement of abdomen in children.─Pain
in the glands.─Abscesses of fibrous parts or tendons.─Predominance
of sufferings on one side of the body.─Symptoms <
in the evening; < on touching part affected; and on
movement.─Great susceptibility to cold air.─Sensitiveness
to washing with cold water in morning.
25. Skin.─
Sensitiveness to touch.─General
desquamation of skin of body; usual liver spots on chest and arms become dark and
desquamate.─Red rash, itching violently; <
in bed, from touch; burning and change of place after scratching.─Cutaneous
ulcers form over bony protuberances.─Ulcers with thick, whitish, yellow
scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects.─Skin covered with
elevated white scabs.─Itching, esp. at night (when in bed), more violent
and painful (and changed to burning) after scratching the parts, and sometimes with swelling
of the part that has been scratched.─Gnawing itching as from vermin.─Miliary
eruptions, sometimes chronic.─Furunculi.─Inflamed
ulcers, with burning and shooting, or with gnawing pain of excoriation.─Inflammation
and swelling of the bones, rachitis, caries.─Ulcers: with an areola,
sensitive and easily bleeding when removing the linen, which sticks, painful at night, the
pus tends to form an adherent scab, under which a quantity of pus collects, burning and
stinging with inflammation.─Vesicles around the ulcers, itching
violently and burning, like fire.─Suppuration after inflammation.
26. Sleep.─
Great sleepiness by day, with agitated
and unrefreshing sleep, at night.─Shocks in body during sleep.─Waking
early (towards 2 or 3 a.m.) in consequence of nightmare.
27. Fever.─
Pulse full and hard; in the evening
accelerated; intermitting at times.─Chilliness, shiverings, and coldness
of whole body, esp. in hands and feet, with violent thirst, and sometimes without a desire
for warmth.─Chill predominates even in warm room.─Chill
with thirst and desire for heat.─Chill from upper arms, extending to
back and legs.─Heat in bed, mostly in the head.─Intermittent
fever; chill over the whole body accompanied by asthmatic contraction and tightness of
chest, in front and back.─During cold stage, a peculiar thirst; dryness
in back of mouth, with accumulation of saliva in fore part without any desire to drink.─During
cold stage, drowsiness in the warm room.─Sleep, with sweat, after the
shiverings (without previous heat).─Fever, accompanied by headache, and
paleness of face, the splenetic region painful, swollen, and hard, weakness and great
susceptibility to cold air; tertian fever.─Violent inflammatory fever.® 2000
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