Zincum

Zinc. The element.

Introduced by Franz.

Provings by Hahnemann, Franz, von Gersdorff, Hartlaub, Hartmann, Haubold, Lesquereux, Nenning, Ruckert, Eummell, Schwickert, Stapf, Chronische Krank- heiten, vol. 5, p. 428; Fianz, Archiv fiir Horn., 6, 2, p. 188; Schreter, Neues Archiv fiir Horn., vol. 3, p. 187 ; Wernek, Hygea, vol. 14, p. 481 ; Berridge, Am. Jour. Horn. Mat. Med., N. S , vol. 4, p. 125.

Numerous toxicological reports, see Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 10, p. 176.

Clinical Authorities Insanity, Schmid, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 66 ;

In- viluntary fits of laughter, Altschul, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol.4, p. 600; Headache, Scliulz, Ruck.

Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 212 ; Kafka, Ruck. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 95 ; Stearns, Ames- bury, T. A. I.

H., 1888, p. 260; Chlorotie headache, Newton, Horn. Rev., vol. 15, p. 213; Hydrocephalus acutus, Lilienthal, N.

A. J. H., vol.2, p. 424; Hydro- cephalus, Gushing, T.

A. I. H., 1888, p. 263; Forbes, T.

A. I. H., 1888, p. 261 ; Barrows, N.

E. M. G., vol. 5, p. 80 ; Affection of the brain, Gonllon, Riick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 70; Craig, A. H.

O., vol. 4, p. 442; Hale, T. A. I.

H., 1888, p. 266; Keratitis, Allen, U. S. M. & S.

J., July, 1870 ; Pterygium, Allen, U. S. M. & S.

J., July, 1870; Dunham, Fahnestock, T. A. I.

H, 1888, p. 249 ; B. J. H., vol. 23, p. 495 ;

Syphilitic iritis, Allen, U. S. M. & S. J., July, 1870 ;

Affection of eyes, Berridge, Org., vol. 3, p. 221 ; Swelling of nose, Hartmann, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 399 ;

Prosopalgia, Perry, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 436; Usein facial neuralgia, Mohr, H.

M., vol. 14, p, 18; Affection of throat, Knorr, Riick, Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 543; Gastric disorder, Eaer, Org., vol. 3, p. 106 ;

Affection of liver, Hg., A. J. H. M.

M., vol. 3, p. 29 ; Pain in abdomen, Berridge, A. J, H. M.

M., vol. 4, p 108 ; Colic, Schwarze, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 765 ;

Diarrhoea, Korndoerfer, H. M., vol. 8, p. 442; Dysentery, Houghton, T. A.

I. H., 1888, p. 263; Cholera infantum, Patton, T. A.

I. H , 1888, p. 263 ; Constipation, Berridge, A. J.

H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 108 ; Hmnaiurla, Heichelheiin, Riick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 35; Paralysis of bladder, New-

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comb, T. A. I. H., 1888, p. 263;

Urinary difficulty, Heath, Horn. Pliys., vol. 6, p. 233; Affection of ovaries, Mohr, T. A.

I. H., 1888, p. 267 ; Dysmenorrhoea, Lippe, Med. Adv., Jan., 1889, p. 35;

Menstrual disorders, Hahnemann, Hartmann, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol.2, p. 259; Use during childbed, Hartmann, Riick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 456; Asthma, Nankivell, Hom. Rev., vol. 11, p. 332 ;

Pertussis, B., Ruck. Kl. Erf., vol. o, p. 732; Bronchitis, Linnell, T.

A. I.H., 1888, p. 262; McNeil, Horn. Phys., vol. 9, p. 97 ;

Use in aortic insufficiency, Klosterman, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 863 ; Intercostal neuralgia, A.

H. Z , vol. 115, No. 25; Spinal irritation, Bingham, T. H.

M. S. Pa., 1885, p. 181 ; Pain in back, Nankivell, Hom.

Rev., vol. 11, p. 334; Excoriation of thighs, Morgan, A J. H. M.

M., vol. 3, p. 356 ; Convulsions, Swain, T. A. I.

H., 1888, p. 262; Sircar, Calcutta, M. J., vol. 2, p. 452 ; McGeorge, H.

M., vol. 11, p. 395 ; Epilepsy, Garrison, N. E. M.

G., vol. 11, p. 16 ; Typhoid fever, Hirschel, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 797 ;

Rheumatism, Med. Inv., Sept., 1877; p. 244, Scarlet ftver, Elb, Meyer, Loeb, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4,- p. 68;

Korndoerfer, A. J. H. M.

M., vol. 4, p. 129; Hoag, T. A. I.

II., 1888, p. 268 ; Meyer, N. A. J.

H , vol. 4, p. 546 ; Measles, Linnell, T. A. I.

H., 1888, p. 263.

'Mind. 1 Unconscious; signs of effusion into brain; feet constantly moving; often from undeveloped eruptions.

I Weak memory, with stinging pains in head.

I Great forgetfulness ; forgetful of what has been accom- plished during day.

I Mental operations very difficult; difficult to grasp ideas and to co-ordinate thoughts.

■ Repeats all questions before answering them.

I I Loss of thought and a soporous condition of mind.

■ Stares as if frightened on waking, head rolls from side

to side. Imaginative power lively and excited; attacks of great

loquacity. Fanciful illusions when holding head down, as if she had

a large goitre which she could not see over. Anxiety on account of thieves or horrible apparitions,

while awake, like a feverish fancy. Apprehensive and lachrymose mood, which disappears in

evening. Apprehension and ennui, she seeks society. Anxious mood as from a misfortune. Very uneasy mood as if he had committed a crime. I I Anxiety: makes her restless in morning; during

■ Thinks of death calmly; hypochondriacal, with gastric

symptoms ; pressure in spine and fear of death.

■ Low-spirited at noon; lively in evening, or vice versa.

■ ■Sensitive to others talking and to noise.

Talking or listening is distressing; much talking of other people, even of those of whom he is fond, affects his nerves and makes him morose and impatient.

Mood uneasy, unsteady.

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Irritable, startled.

At noon irritable, peevish, terrified ; > in evening.

Fretful, morose; for several days inclined to have a secret grudge, and to vexation; quiet; it frets him to be obliged to speak a word.

1 I Fretful, despondent mood, especially in evening.

iChild cross toward evening; brain affected.

Very impatient, but not bad- humored.

I I Easily angered and very much affected thereby.

He wishes that he might get hold of some one on whom he might vent his anger.

I llracible, impatient; sad, weeps frequently; despairs of her recovery; is querulous; objects to noise, or talk- ing of others; dislikes work, cannot or will not walk.

Morose in morning, afternoon and evening

Answers were slow, and he spoke as if in a bad temper.

I I Sobbing on account of vexation, without obvious reason, with pressive pain in top of head.

Ill-humored and sad.

She looks very morose, gloomy and disturbed, even in morning.

Peevish and lachrymose during menses.

Indifferent ; despondent ; disinclination to work.

Overpowering sadness.

Quiet thoughts of death in afternoon, with weakness.

Hypochondriacal mood three hours after dinner, with pressure under short ribs, especially of r. side, with aversion to work and discomfort over whole body.

Extremely variable mood; alternately fretful, irritable, quarrelsome, despondent and depressed.

He is frequently able to laugh excessively over a trifle, but is just as easily vexed.

I Delirium, with attempts to get out of bed ; staring eyes; constant trembling of hands and coldness of extremities.

I I Great fear, as if persecuted b}' men or the devil, on ac- count of crimes which he has never done; is .afraid of becoming imprisoned, or poisoned, or shot, or buried alive, with great excitation, pappy taste, whitish-coated tongue, eructations, loss of appetite, retarded stool, vertigo and heat in head and face. ^Delirium tremens.

1 I After an attack of typhoid fever, repeated over and over again, in a singing tone, any question put to him, until interrupted by a second question, which he repeated as the first, and so on.

I I A teacher of leuco-phlegmatic habit, frequently vertigo, for several months an involuntary, periodically ap- pearing fit of laughing, which he cannot suppress; fits appear several times a clay and cause severe convulsions

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of chest and abdomen, rush of blood to head and brain; a tendency to constipation and apoplexy.

I I A woman in her climacteric years suffered from delu- sions caused by grief and anger; believed herself to be called before court on account of her wicked actions; at night she could not sleep, and during day sleep was light and not refreshing ; believes the devil is after her; face and head feel hot, features sunken, moderate heat alternates with chill all over body; vertigo, gait tottering, loss of appetite, constipation ; muddy urine, with brickdust sediment; after waking up feels languid and cannot rouse herself; is very sen- sitive, weeps easily ; pulse not frequent, but irregular in strength of beats.

I I A gracile, delicate, but healthy girl of 23, who made her living by embroidery, nursed her old father during a long and tedious sickness, and then felt mentally and bodily exhausted ; after recovery of her parent she re- turned to her usual labors, but a sleepiness, without any other morbid symptom, set in, with loss of appetite, though her tongue was perfectly clean ; when sitting at her embroidery or at her sewing table she heaved a deep sigh, needle fell from her hand, she fell back in her chair, and slept with eyelids spasmodically closed and eye whirled around in circle ; after sleeping from five to fifteen minutes, she began to weep, or to sing, or to speak incoherently, waked up then, after a few mo- ments to fall again asleep, in a quarter of an hour to awake again in a similar manner. ^ Sensormm. ■ Vertigo : violent, after stooping, as if every- thing were whirling round, with buzzing in head, in morning ; as if he would have apoplexy, with anxiety and fear of falling headlong; he could scarcely stand; in morning on waking, as if head were moving up and down, with a similar floating of images of his fancy, all during semi-consciousness ; after dinner; as if he saw through a mist, after eating; in occiput, in evening while sitting and smoking, with desire for stool; in whole brain, especially in occiput, as if he would fall over; in occiput as if he would fall to left, while walk- ing; with headache, in morning; while sitting up in bed, as if bed were constantly swaying back and forth ; while sitting and standing, disappears on walking; when standing on a height, as if he would fall to riglit; with weakness of head and abdomen, she is obliged to lie down ; from morning till noon, it fre- quently seems as if she would fall ; with flushing heat.

Dizzy, nauseating weakness on remaining up rather late in evening, as after smoking too strong tobacco.

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I Frequent attacks of vertigo, preceded by sharp pressure at root of nose, and a sensation of drawing together of eyes, as if by a cord, followed immediately by excessive menses, faintness, and trembling of hands.

Fainting. ^ Inner Head. Dulness of head: on waking; after a meal.

Heaviness of head, as if it would fall down.

Inability to support head in evening.

Head heavy, dizzy and confused in morning, as from loss of sleep.

Weak feeling in head, especially in eyes.

Head oppressed; stupefied and dizzy at noon.

Dizzy stupefaction in short paroxysms, with blackness be- fore eyes and general weakness, especially in forenoon and evening.

Stupefying headache, as from coal gas, all morning.

Pressure in head, with dulness.

Intense pain in brain, almost driving one mad, followed by excessive vomiting of bile and trembling.

Pain as from a tearing in. whole brain.

Sticking and tearing in head and cutting in abdomen, with yawning during and after dinner.

IB Headache from drinking even small quantities of wine.

Painful raging here and there in head.

Tingling and resounding in head, when speaking loud.

Violent throbbing and tearing in whole head, especially in r. frontal region, from morning until evening, after lying down.

Headache in region of 1. frontal eminence after dinner.

■ Pressure on root of nose, as if it would be pressed into head.

Continual dull pain across frontal sinuses, with extreme sensibility of cartilages of ear and nose.

In forehead : constant dull pain ; heaviness during menses, with a feeling as if head would be drawn backward in evening ; pressing headache every morning ; pressing in r, frontal eminence; pressure with dulness, makes thought difficult; a sharp pressure in morning on wak- ing, afterward becomes a simple pressure in temples; sensation as if air forced itself into frontal sinuses ; ex- treme sensitiveness ; tension and pressure ; pressing headache, with dulness in head, sleepiness and pain in eyes in forenoon ; sharp pressure upon a small spot in middle, in evening; pressing tearing in frontal emi- nence, after dinner; drawing; throbbing; sticking;

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tearing ; tearing and crawling, during supper ; sticking tearing, with violent ineffectual inclination to sneeze; sticking, with a tearing as if head would burst; a dull boring stitch above r. frontal eminence ; gnawing as from worms.

In temples : sharp, pinching pressure in 1. ; transient tear- ing; tearing in r.; jerking tearing above 1. ; sticking tearing; dull stitches in r. from time to time; stitches as with needles in 1.; sense of tightness; cramplike tear- ing; tearing, after dinner, with stitches in r. ear; a persistent aching and pressure; dull, cramplike press- ure; pressure in r. suddenly shooting inward ; pressure in 1.

In vertex : drawing, pressing, throbbing tearing ; press- ing tearing near r. side; sharp tearing, also in 1. parietal bone; fine burning stitches, in middle; dulness and heaviness; tense and dull pain; pressure, < after dinner.

iHemicrania, < after dinner; tearing and stinging.

In r. side of head: tearing and sticking, alter dinner; painful boring and pressure; pulsating pressing, and twinging; boring in parietal bone, with a sensation of bursting, in evening, while standing; throbbing pain, in evening.

In 1. side of head : dull pain ; pressing, drawing, boring, after dinner; boring in parietal bone ; drawing tearing.

Frequent screwing-together pain in both sides of head, in evening.

In occiput: dulness and acute heaviness; a pressing asun- der in r. side; pressure, for several hours after walking in open air; drawing; drawing in 1. side; painful forc- ing asunder, in 1. side, close to cervical vertebrae; gnaw- ing in r. occipital protuberance as by a mouse; con- tinual gnawing in upper part; bruised pain; boring; painful raging like beating of waves, with a feeling of heat in a spot on r. side, extending up over vertex, in evening; tearing in r. and 1. sides; tearing in r. side, with dull stitches on top of head ; tearing in r. side when laughing; dull sticking pressure in a small spot.

Periodic attacks of cephalalgia, with impairment of vision, as if a thick fog lay before eyes, cannot distinguish even large objects; pressure in vertex and forehead from without inward; great confusion of head; face pale; loss of appetite ; despondency^; irritability; pains grow more severe as day advances, and are very severe in evening; at times vomiting; with appearance of pain, amblyopia, < as pain increases; on cessation of pain, sight normal ; attacks every ten to fourteen days, last

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two to three days with varying intensity ; stool every two to three days.

I I A girl, set. 24, robust and regularly menstruating, suf- fered for four years from pressing tearing pains in occi- put ; stitches in r. eye and tearing-stitching in ears, sometimes in teeth; pains steadily increase from year to year, till her mind begins to suffer {Bellad. 30 relieved stitches in eye).

I I A man, set. 34, suffered for years from severe paroxysms of vertigo, fell down several times a day without losing consciousness; dull pressing frontal headache and at vertex ; loss of memory, pains in back ; obstinate con- stipation, sometimes bright-red blood passed with stool; intestinal gurgling, followed by flatus and heat in rec- tum; urine pale; deep, not refreshing sleep, with rest- less dreams, felt sleepy all day ; very irritable.

I I Headache; pain began in forehead, ran to vertex, then down to occiput, then settled on top of head, and while it lasted seemed intolerable ; > by squeezing both hands upon sides of head.

I I Chronic occipital headache; pain at times extending to eyes, makes her feel weak and good for nothing ; sensa- tion of heavy weight on top of head; scalp and hair feel sore (bruised feeling) ; a feeling in occiput as if stunned ; stupid feeling during pain ; pain lasts all day.

I I Occipital headache; great dulness; indescribable heavy "dragging pain in occiput ; sensation as if scalp wrinkled up and kept tightening and remained so ; sometimes as if insects were crawling from occiput to forehead ; scalp felt sore, even to touch the hair; pain always came on when the gas was lighted and continued till he retired ; could not keep still, had to keep moving; < from liquors.

I iChlorotic cephalalgia for two years; pressure on top of head and in forehead, gradually increasing in intensity after dinner; frequently dizzy, followed by nausea and vomiting of bile; face pale; pulse quick and small; tongue coated ; anorexia and constipation, stools hard, small and dry; menses absent two years; well-marked cerebral depression.

IChlorotic headaches, especially in patients whose blood has been saturated with iron.

■ Cerebral and nervous exhaustion ; chronic sick-headache, with great weakness of sight; fidgety feeling in legs and feet.

I Brain-fag from anaemia of brain.

iGreat cerebral and nervous depression, with melancholy.

I I Headache in morning from overstudy ; temperature

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105°; skin cold, particularly on head; pulse slow and soft; wanted to be in a dark room, did not want to be annoyed or touched, simply said she was sleepy and had headache.

I t Constant slumber, with occiput deeply pressed into pil- low; eyes half open, with dilated and upward-drawn pupils; squinting, staring, rolling of eyeballs: features peculiarly changed, collapsed, pale, cold, or alternating with heat and redness of cheeks; frequent, penetrating, loud screaming, with trembling, continuous moaning; pulling at dry fissured lips, or boring with fingers in nose till it bleeds; automatic motions with head and hands; respiration irregular; short, dry, spasmodic cough; pulse small, frequent, very changeable ; wants to drink hastily ; does not want to nurse ; abdomen hot, dry, sunken in, with constipation ; involuntary mictu- rition; child lies in perfect apathy, is restless during motion, which aggravates cough and vomiturition.

I I Epidemic meningitis cerebro-spinalis ; short breathing, anguish, pressure in chest, and frequently returning dry tussiculation, pulse remarkably slow ; pulse small, fre- quent, very changeable, breathing irregular; short, dry, spasmodic cough ; mental disturbance.

■ Threatening paralysis of brain; complete unconscious-

ness; child lies motionless, or jerking of whole body and twitchings of single limbs ; grating of teeth ; shrill, frightful screams, with altered voice; cannot speak; occiput very hot; forehead cold, covered with cold per- spiration ; white, pale, distorted face; breathing short and quick, but no rattling; discharge from bowels and bladder involuntary; limbs icy-cold, and whole body cool; bluish-red all over; pulse threadlike, scarcely countable; convulsions, followed by stupor; occiput hotter than forehead ; screams before spasms ; trembling of muscles; constant motion of feet between attacks; urine scanty, bloody. /^Scarlatina. I I Concussion of brain, resulting in inflammation after a fall ; did not fully recover, but after a few weeks began to lose appetite, complained of constant pain in head, < walking or riding; pale, languid, indisposed to move, dragged her feet, especially r., when walking.

■ Meningitis, stage of irritation [Bellad. does not act).

■ Hydrocephalus following gastro-enteritis; comatose from

narcotic convulsions, had been frequent the past twenty- four hours.

■ Hydrocephalus ; child has its feet in constant motion ; dis-

tension of abdomen; constipation, with hard and dry feces ; on awaking child gives evidence of fear, and rolls

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■ Forehead cool, base of brain hot. Itching pimples on scalp.

■ Sensitive to light; brain affected.

■ Amaurosis: during severe headache, passing away with

headache; with contracted pupils.

■ Eyes dim, watery; brain affections.

■ Sees luminous bodies; after operations.

When looking up, a dark, diagonal line before 1. eye, di- rectly upward and to r , about six feet in length.

Yellow, blue and green rings before eyes, with a suffering look and sleepiness.

Objects apparently elongated and at times double.

Flickering before eyes.

Fiery flakes float in large circles in front of eyes, when looking at sky.

Dimness and mistiness of vision in morning after waking.

Vanishing of vision : with absence of mind ; with lachry- mation and burning, after dinner and frequently when writing.

Diplopia: 1. eye more affected than r.; increased, and de- cided strabismus developed.

Pupils alternately dilated and contracted, usually dilated.

Profuse moisture of eyes during day, agglutinated lids in morning.

Lachrymation in morning on waking, also in open air.

Eyes turned outward.

Weak, sick feeling in eyes.

Eyes feel as if she had wept much.

Pain in eyes as if pressed inward.

Great uneasiness and intolerable pain in 1. eye, frequently with great weakness of head.

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Pressure: on ej^es, also toward evening; tensive, in r. eye

like rheumatism; violent in r. eye, and in temples;

violent in 1. eye while walking in open air; and tearing

in 1. eye ; constant in 1. eye, in evening. Tearing stitch above 1. eye, at same time in umbilical

region. Prickling biting in lower portion of 1. eye, and below it

■ Constant burning in eyes in afternoon.

iMuch burning in eyes and lids, in morning and evening,

with feeling of dryness and pressure in them. I I Burning and biting, with photophobia of eye, which

waters, especially in evening, and is agglutinated in

in r. eye.

■ Itching of eyes.

■ Agglutination of inner canthus, in morning, with a

pressing sore feeling. I I Burning of 1. lid, as if too dry.

■ Feeling of soreness in inner canthi.

I (Pressure on margin of 1. lower lid, near inner canthus.

I I Soreness and almost constant itching in inner canthus of r. eye; also of itching in other portions of body, back, hands and arms ; all symptoms < toward night ; r. lower lid literally filled with small tumors, in upper lid several making their appearance; caruncle swollen and bright-red, ocular conjunctiva congested toward inner canthus ; margin of lower lid thickened, indu- rated, bright-red, somewhat everted. ^Tarsal tumors.

I I Painful pressure in r. inner canthus, with redness of conjunctiva.

Biting in r. inner canthus > by rubbing.

■ Itching and sticking pain in inner angles of eyes, with

cloudiness of sight.

■ Feeling of dryness in eyeball.

I I Kerato- iritis with severe night pains, especially in inner angle of eye.

I I Attacks of amblyopia came on suddenly, with severe pressure in vertex and forehead, from without inward, < in afternoon and evening; amblyopia appeared as a thick cloud, grew worse until she became completely blind, and then disappeared with the pain; face pale, appetite poor, very irritable.

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I I Syphilitic iritis; pains did not come on until he lay down at night, then profuse, hot, scalding lachrymation; pains dull, involved balls and brows ; cannot sleep over ten minutes ; must wake with eyes full of burning water; no discharge of mucus or pus, rather dryness of con- junctiva, ball and lids very much inflamed ; < on lying down.

I I Keratitis pustulosa {Euphrasia relieved); a persistent redness of conjunctiva remained, without any discharge ; < toward evening and in cool air.

I I Pterygium covered one-half of pupil and growingrapidly; much conjunctival injection, lachrymation 'in evening, discharge and photophobia, especially by artificial light, pricking pain and soreness, < in inner angle and in evening ; great pressure across root of nose and supraor- bital region.

I I Pterygium ; in r. eye just encroaching on cornea ; in 1. eye extending to pupil from internal canthus; had a breadth of one and a half lines, and was thick and vas- cular; interior portion of conjunctiva much injected; inner surface of lids contracted, lashes inclined to turn in, though they do not rest against ball ; external canthi sore and cracked ; eyes feel sore and hot on going into cold air, > in warm room ; at night itching, heat and profuse lachrymation ; she sees a green halo around even- ing light with 1. eye ; only counts fingers at ten feet ; attacks of rush of blood to head and over face, followed by perspiration over body.

I 1 Redness with intense burning and smarting as from salt in 1. eye, especially upper part, and intolerable itch- ing, especially in lower part; scalding lachrymation from eye ; 1. lids adhere on waking, either in night or in morning, with yellow discharge; conjunctiva of 1. eye, and that of inner surface of 1. lower lid, is red, and there is a pink zone around 1. cornea, which is dim ; aching over 1. eye; photophobia, especially to sunlight, even light falling on sound eye causes pain in diseased one; blisters form on eyeball, with intense burning throbbing pain, like a whitlow, they break and discharge a white gummy matter, eye gets well next day; with the attacks, discharge from 1. nostril ; pressure > pains and itching; burning and smarting are < from application of cold water ;

> by warm water ; < by lying on back or r„ (unpainful) side ; > by lying on 1. (painful) side; burn- ing after 8pm.; attacks always come in the night, sometimes waking her; all symptoms < at night.

Inflammation and redness of conjunctiva of r. eye; sup- puration in inner canthus ; eyes most painful in even-

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ingand night, as from sand, with frequent lachrymation; even upper lid toward inner canthus is red and swollen.

I I Inflammation of eyes during menses.

I I Persistent redness, especially at inner angle, < in even- ing and in open air, remaining after pustular keratitis. ^Phlyctenular ophthalmia.

I Conjunctivitis, pains < at night; inflammation more- in inner canthus.

I I Inflammation and redness of conjunctiva of r. eye, and matter in inner canthus; eye pains most evening and night, as from sand in it; frequent lachrymation; upper lid red and swollen toward inner canthus.

Jerking in 1. eyebrow.

Pressure above r. eye sudden and painful, with a pressing- down sensation in lids.

Fine sticking tearing in and above 1. brow.

Twitching of 1. lower lid.

Falling of upper lid and oedema of lower.

Feeling of soreness in r. upper lid.

Soreness of outer canthus with biting pain.

A pressing burning, especially in 1. eyelid, when reading.

Fine sticking as with needles in r. lower and 1. upper lids.

Itching in margin of 1. upper lid.

■ Intense burning after operations. iStrabismus.

■ Upper lids heavy, as if paralyzed ; ptosis.

■ Granular lids; after ophthalmia neonatorum. ® Hearing and Ears. Loss of hearing.

Noise in ears : continuous during night ; dull whizzing, in evening pulsating, very annoying while writing; whizzing in front of r. ear; ringing; violent roaring; ringing in r. ear at night ; cracking and beating in ear after breakfast ; a crash as from breaking of a pane of glass, on falling asleep.

I I Tearing in ears.

I I Frequent persistent cutting-tearing stitches deep in r. ear, near drum.

Otalgia, with tearing stitches and external swelling, espe- cially with children.

■ Neuralgia of middle ear, pains tearing and cutting, often

with suppuration.

■ Earache of children, especially boys.

■ Otorrhoea of fetid pus.

Much purulent discharge from 1. ear day and night ; ori- fice swollen and hot, with l.-sided headache.

Offensive moisture from 1. ear.

Increase of earwax in 1. ear thinner than usual, impeded hearing ; beating of pulse very distinct, causes roaring in ear.

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Extreme sensibility of cartilages of ear and nose, with pain across frontal sinuses, least friction or bending of ear or nasal cartilages causes acute pain.

Violent cramplike pain in lobule of 1. ear, extending into neck, on boring finger into ear.

Pain as after a blow, on touch, beneath and in front of r. ear, in bone.

Tearing in bone in front of 1. ear.

Pressive constrictive pain in bone beneath and in front of r. ear, with dulness in forehead.

Pinching drawing behind 1. ear, extending into lower jaw.

Earache jerklike, from mouth along eustachian tube.

Tearing in ears at various times, at times with itching, or in morning with crawling, in evening with burning.

Sticking and tearing in 1. ear close to lobule.

A kind of pinching jerking within ear.

Tickling in 1. ear not > by rubbing.

Itching in r. ear, > by boring into it.

Itching in 1. ear, with a feeling on putting finger into it as if fleas were jumping about. ^ Smell and Nose. iNose dry; brain affected.

Frequent blowing of blood from nose.

Nosebleed for a short time on blowing nose, after dinner, followed by stupefaction in forehead as from a stroke of apoplexy, with swimming of objects before eyes.

I I Sneezing: preceded by cutting crawling in nose, in morning and afternoon; after a meal; frequent, without coryza.

iCoryza : with hoarseness and burning in chest ; with sore sensitiveness of nostrils; with feeling of stoppage; fluent, with crawling in nose and frequent sneezing ; profuse, with a raw throat; fluent, toward evening, with press- ure in r. tonsil on swallowing and yawning; violent, dry, all day, with pain in back, especially while sitting; sudden, in evening after lying down ; fluent, alternat- ing with dryness, especially in evening.

■ Stoppage of nose.

iNose feels sore internally.

■ Swelling of one side of nose, with loss of smell.

■ Boring of fingers into nose, or pulling at dry lips.

I I Feeling of soreness high up in nostrils, a tearing in r. nostril.

Sharp cutting on inner margin of 1. wing of nose.

Swelling and painfalness of 1. wing of nose.

Itching in 1. nostril, followed by frequent sneezing, suc- ceeded b}^ profuse nosebleed, stopped by cold water.

Itching in r. nostril.

Drawing and tearing in r. nostril after dinner.

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Sticking pain in septum of nose when touched.

Fine tearing in r. side of nose externally.

Swelling on r. side of nose.

Pinching in root of nose: with dulness in forehead; ex- tending into eye; with stitches in jaws.

■ Pressure upon root of nose, as if it would be pressed into head, almost intolerable.

iRedness of nose, remaining after freezing; tip of nose is easily frosted. ' Upper Face. Face : vacant ; apathetic ; irritable ; cadaver- ous; pinched; unnatural; earthy, as after a long ill- ness ; cachectic complexion, bluish-white ; flushed ; pale, alternately red, in brain affections and with vertigo ; earthy, with wandering expression ; waxy, white or yellow, in typhus ; pale, in chronic diseases, with much emaciation ; pewterlike hue, with scirrhous tumors.

I I Tearing in malar bone, extending into upper jaw.

I I A sudden pressing stitch from r. zygoma to upper mar- gin of orbit, deep in bone, followed by great sensitive-, ness of spot, in evening.

Spasmodic twitching of musculi risores, with constant inclination to laugh.

Contraction and spasmodic twitching of muscles of face, with nausea and incessant vomiting.

Bruised pain in bones of face and orbit.

Jerklike stitches as from needles in face.

Swelling and itching of 1. cheek.

Pressing pain in upper jaw near 1. wing of nose.

Tearing in 1. cheek.

Tearing in r. malar bone, with bruised pain in that spot on pressure.

Neuralgia of fifth pair, < from touch and in evenings.

I I Severe burning, lancinations and lightning-like shocks and jerks from foramen infraorbitale over r. side of head to occiput and mandibula ; face on r. side swollen, tense and hot, eye smaller and retracted into orbit, eyelids bluish, a sensation in teeth as if they would be pulled out, tongue numb, throat constricted, secretion of saliva increased ; attacks mostly after eating (between 5 and 7 p.m), lasted one to three hours, and during that time patient could not bear least touch of head, and screamed from severity of pain.

I I A scirrhous lump on r. cheek, size of a walnut, cold sweat on forehead. ' Lower Face. Swelling of lips ; dry, cracked.

Thick viscid humor on lips, without odor or taste.

Dryness of lips.

Upper lip : violent muscular twitches in 1. side ; sore,

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■alcerating in middle ; a jerking tearing in r. side ; a transient stitch ; fine stitches.

Lower lip: tensive, painful smarting; burning smarting on inner surface.

I Lips and corners of mouth cracked, with yellowish ulcer- ation.

Cramplike tearing here and there in lower jaw, especially in chin.

Tearing stitches which pass into one another, in chin and throat.

Sticking pain in articulation of jaw, beneath and in front of 1. ear, on moving jaw backward and biting strongly, and on pressing finger upon joint.

Redness and itching eruption on chin. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Teeth feel on edge.

Toothache: painful jerking; jerking, violent tearing in last lower molars ; jerking in r. lower molars in even- ing, after lying down ; jerking in 1. teeth from time to time; jerking stitches in 1. lower molars, also in even- ing after falling asleep, suddenly waking from sleep; sharp, jerklike drawing, suddenly in all incisors ; tear- ing in roots of r. upper teeth ; tearing, in 1. upper mo- lars ; tearing extending from root of r. upper tooth toward temple, in evening after lying down ; tearing in a hollow molar, on sucking it blood comes, and on press- ure pain is for a time < ; tearing in last lower 1. molars in evening; tearing in 1. last molars above and below, then in cheek, extending to temple and forehead ; tear- ing and drawing in 1. lower teeth, especially in incisors; sticking in roots of 1. upper canine and adjacent incis- ors; sticking in 1. lower molars, constantly in evening; stitches in 1. row of teeth and jaw, extending into neck; drawing in 1. upper incisors; drawing, now in r., then in 1. side of lower back teeth ; drawing, or smarting and stinging in roots of (upper) front teeth and in hard pal- ate; pressing drawing in r. lower back teeth; drawing in roots of upper front teeth, and at same time in pharynx, extending into cervical muscles; throbbing in a hollow tooth after eating or after becoming heated and getting cold ; throbbing drawing alternately of back teeth of r. and 1. sides; painful burning in front teeth, with biting on lower surface of tongue.

■ Sensation of soreness of teeth.

■ Teeth feel long and loose, with swelling of submaxillary

■ Grits teeth.

Picking and prickling in sound teeth, with drawing pains in jaws.

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Ulcer at root of a bad tooth, sensitive to touch, with an elongated feeling in tooth ; when pressing upon it blood comes.

Water seemed to come from r. last lower back tooth; when she touched it with tongue there was a violent sticking in it.

Gums: white; swollen ; sore, painful; cannot chew; white pellicles ; biting and itching on inner surface ; inner side painful, as if sore; and separated from teeth; painful while eating, ulcerated, white, bleed easily; bleed on slightest touch. ^' Taste and Tongue. Taste : sweetish; metallic ; like spoiled cheese; bloody; bitter, in fauces; flat; of a sweetish ' powder, in throat ; sweet, beneath forepart of tongue ; of blood in mouth, and a disagreeable sweet rising from stomach ; of blood, with a feeling of dryness in throat, and sensation of soreness rising from chest ; of bad cheese in forepart of mouth, disappearing on swallow- ing, to which he is impelled on account of mucus in throat; bitter, slimy, in morning on waking; coppery; clammy; saltish, with dryness in throat; as after eat- ' ing raw peas.

Tongue : dry, does not want to talk ; coated at root, and dry (brain diseases); swollen on 1. side, hindering talk- ing; covered with vesicles; white, or yellowish-white; white, as from cheese, without taste; dirty, moist; dry; painful as if sore ; covered with white mucus ; blistered, painful on eating.

I I Echo speech; patients repeat in a monotonous, sing-

' ing way words and sentences of their neighbors without being conscious of it.

I I Weakness of organs of speech when reading. ^^ Inner Mouth, l ' Sticking biting on palate close to and in roots of incisors.

I I Increased flow of saliva, with crawling in inner surface

of cheeks.

Collection of sour, bitter water in mouth.

Accumulation of saliva : with qualmishness; with a me- tallic taste ; with inclination to vomit ; with stitches in tip of tongue ; with tingling on inside of cheek.

Swelling of palate and cavity just behind incisors, with pain on touch.

Inflammation of palate.

Yellow ulcers on inner surface, lower lip, and 1. cheek, especially painful in morning.

Fetid breath.

Pain in palate and velum palati, especially on yawning.

I I Tetters on tonsils, soft palate, and root of tongue; whit-

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- ish, somewhat elevated, ulcerated spots in mouth, sequelae to gonorrhoea.

Herpes (yellowish) in mouth from sea-bathing.

Swelling of submaxillary glands. ^^ Throat. Dryness of throat: in evening; with accumulation of mucus in larynx, and constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus, which soon again collects and causes irritation ; when swallowing, or when not, after dinner; mucus collects from posterior nares.

Soreness in throat; tearing in posterior fauces, more be- tween acts of empty deglutition or after eating.

Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx frequently and at various times, especially in morning or after dinner, compelling to hawk or cough, at times disappearing after food.

Hoarseness and rawness in throat, could scarcely breathe.

Sore throat, swelling and ulceration of tonsils.

Anxious, sore feeling in throat, especially at night.

Sore pain in throat and a feeling of fulness in oesophagus.

Pain in throat on swallowing, with swelling of throat ex- ternally and in tonsils.

I I Pain in throat as from an internal swelling, also on empty swallowing.

Violent pain in throat and at angle of jaw and laryngeal region.

Spasmodic and cramplike feeling in pit of throat or upper part of oesophagus, like a pressure from below upward, or as when swallowing.

■ Constriction and spasm in throat.

Feeling of constriction in throat on swallowing, with de- sire to swallow frequently.

Swelling and painfulness of tonsils, especially on swallow- ing, she could not even swallow mucus without pain.

Pressing pain in tonsils on swallowing, in evening and through night.

Frequent biting scraping posteriorly in fauces, as in vio- lent coryza.

Dryness posteriorly in fauces, in morning on waking, and also afterward with thirst.

Pressure from pharynx down into abdomen, as if a hard body were opposing from below.

After dinner food seemed to remain sticking in pharynx.

Acrid rising up into pharynx after eating sweets, which caused a distressing scraping in larynx, like heartburn.

Scraping rawness in pharynx toward evening.

Sharp jerking tearing extending from pharynx into 1. cervical muscles.

Raising of much black, clotted blood, preceded by rawness

501 ZINCUM.

and dryness in throat, and hawking of mucus in morn- ing while walking, with sore pain low down in throat, followed all day by sweet taste in mouth, dryness in throat and bloody saliva.

Large lumps of white mucus pass through posterior nares into mouth without hawking.

Greenish mucus low down in throat, is expectorated, with sore pain in upper part of chest.

Something like blood with a sweetish taste comes into throat, in evening after lying down.

A peculiar and persistent inflammation of throat, with extensive ulceration of pharynx and tonsils ; ulcers round, sharply defined, with red, everted edges; they gradually coalesce ; were filled with yellowish- white matter.

Burning in throat; like heartburn, even on swallowing; a hot vapor rises.

Sensation of choking in r. side of throat, only when not deglutition.

I I Dryness in throat; speaking difficult, had to clear his

throat constantly.

II Pain in throat as from an internal swelling.

I Tearing- drawing sore throat posteriorly in both sides of pharynx, more when not swallowing than on empty swallowing.

I Cramplike, strangling pain externally in muscles of throat when swallowing.

I Pain in posterior part of hard palate and in velum palati, especially when yawning.

I I Bitter taste in fauces, mostly at night and when belch- ing, with liver complaint.

iHerpetic-like eruption on tonsils, soft palate and root of tongue; whitish, somewhat elevated ulcerated spots in mouth. /^Sequelae to gonorrhoea. '* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Hunger : raven- ous, especially about 11 or 12 a.m., with weakness of legs and trembling; scarcely to be satisfied ; greediness and hasty swallowing; insatiable, but no appetite for breakfast, with hurried deglutition ; insatiable at noon and in evening; after eating, a feeling of full disten- sion ; desire to eat, in pharynx, even after a ineal, after satisfying it an overloaded feeling in stomach, and press- ure in head.

I Loss of appetite.

I I Loss of appetite, with a perfectly clean tongue. ^Som- nambulism.

I Thirst: from forenoon until evening; with heat in palms, in afternoon; burning; extreme; in evening until lying

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down, with increased warmth of body; in afternoon, dur- ing menses ; with hasty drinking ; for beer, in evening. Aversion : to meat, fish and sweet things ; to cooked or warm things; to veal. ^^ Eating and Drinking. Worse from : sugar (heartburn) ; wine (nearly all symptoms) ; milk (sour eructation). ■ Hasty eating. ^* Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. 1 1 Hic- cough : especially after breakfast ; for half an hour ; vio- lent in evening; disappearing after eructations of bile.

Eructations : frequent, empty; after drinking, or after din- ner; with pressure in middle of spine; sour, especially after drinking milk ; gaseous; at first empty, afterward tasting of fat eaten ; frequent, loud, with at times rapid, at times weak, slow pulse; bitter; bitter, of yellow water and bile, after eating, followed by vomiting ; sweetish ; acid ; at night, of food eaten at noon ; tasting of milk, in afternoon ; tasting of meat eaten ; inefi'ectual. . Pyrosis.

■ Heartburn : with swollen feet and varicose veins (during

pregnancy) ; after taking sweetish things.

■ Sweetish rising into throat, with sweet taste in mouth,

or taste of blood.

Nausea : continual ; and retching ; with eructations, sali- vation ; and colic; and perspiration; with trembling and weariness ; in morning; during breakfast; during day; was obliged to sit down, would vomit, but could not, with eructations and desire for stool ; with general sick feeling in head and chest ; with a dreadful sensa- tion in stomach ; renewed by least motion.

Nausea, with retching and vomiting of bitter, slimy liquid, and at last of food, with shocks of coughing, with a feel- ing of warmth, especially in abdomen, perspiration, chilliness over arms, shuddering of body, empty eruc- tations, hiccough, rumbling and griping in abdomen; nausea, > by sitting bent over; on sitting erect, on moving and on pressure on abdomen nausea and vom- iting immediately return.

Qualmishness: after breakfast and dinner; in morning in bed, disappearing after rising.

■ Nausea and headache, < from taking even a small sip

of wine.

■ Retching of bloody mucus.

1 I Vomiting: as soon as first spoonful of liquid reaches stomach ; of pregnancy ; of blood or of sanguineous mucus, with effort; of mucus; first of mucus then bile; easy, of watery bile, followed by great relief; of almost all food immediately after swallowing it; acrid, caus-

503 ZINCUM.

ing burning on face and rawness in throat; almost con- tinuous. '' Scrobiculum and Stomach. In epigastrium : burning, when pressing thereon, in evening; burning, before breakfast, extending into oesophagus; burning, when fasting; dull pain, and on r. side of umbilicus; pain, during inspiration ; pain, caused by excitement and spasmodic pressure; cramplike pain; cramplike drag- ging ; sharp pains ; oppression ; pressure ; griping deep in, < by deep breathing; sensation like a worm creep- ing up into throat, causing coughing ; screwing-together sensation; frequent pinching; drawing; tearing and sharp sticking, frequently repeated; sudden tightness and oppression during menses, everything must be loosened.

I Patient has sudden oppression at stomach, has to un- fasten her dress; tendency to clonic spasms in children.

In stomach: burning; stitches from both sides; tearing and sharp sticking ; constriction from both sides, with anxiety and increased warmth ; pressure, with pain in abdomen ; pressure, after eating, in evening ; pressure, afterward sticking in prsecordial region, in morning after rising ; pressure, and a feeling of coldness, at noon ; pain, as if stomach were compressed, in morning, fast- ing; aching, as from emptiness, with nausea; heavy pains; oppression and pain; disgust, distension and qualmishness after dinner and supper, with inclination to eructate; gurgling and rumbling while yawning, at noon, also in evening ; motion, with feeling of coldness, at noon ; fulness, with heaving ; feeling of emptiness, soon after eating; feeling of uneasiness, with shudder- ing of body on washing, and while sitting down after stooping; tenderness to pressure; deathly sinking, for hours after eating anything acid; disagreeable feeling in cardiac orifice, extending upward along oesophagus ; burning, with qualmish eructations.

Stomach considerably dilated as far down as navel, its peristaltic movement at times appreciable through ab- dominal wall ; pylorus hypertrophied, sunken and mov- able, formed a tumor sensible to touch, sometimes to r., sometimes to 1. of umbilicus ; under r. false ribs another hard tumor, slightly indented, not well defined, but pain- ful when pressed, giving rise to idea that a new growth depended from liver; its size was variable, prolonged pressure of fingers caused its gradual disappearance, it was most evident during violent gastric crises; it was caused by contraction of hypertrophied muscle, on r. side, resting on a solid surface formed by increased mass of liver.

ZINCUM. 504

I I Spasm of stomach and hypochondria, and a constriction in oesophagus, with dyspnoea and increased heat of body ; < during inspiration.

I I Very irritable stomach, with constant burning, nausea, and a sweetish rising, with a sensation of worms creep- ing in oesophagus; downward pressure on bladder, rec- tum and uterus, compelling her to sit cross-legged, and trembling ; bloody, mucous and corroding leucorrhoea.

I I After supper gastralgia, with nausea; a tensive pain in sides of abdomen.

I I Before appearance of scanty and irregular menses pal- pitation, dyspnoea, pains in back and spasmodic con- striction in gastric region ; every afternoon between 3 and 4, severe stitching pain in stomach, with nau- sea, vomiturition, sometimes vomiting of tough phlegm and pain in 1. hypochondrium ; tongue clean, appetite normal ; after a meal for two hours pressure over stom- ach, hardy food is more easily digested; constipation and lassitude. ^Cardialgia.

I I A lady of delicate constitution, set. 52, having passed her climaxis, complained for the last two years of palpi- tations, anxious respiration, pains in head and back, tension in abdomen, pain in pit of stomach, nausea, sometimes vomiting and a sensation as if cold water were poured down her back; tongue clean, appetite good, but after eating, especially sweet things, severe pressure in stomach, constipation ; looks weak, pale and ema- ciated.

iHsematemesis. '* Hypochondria. In 1. hypochondrium : pressure with stitches; stitches, also in evening while walking and standing; slow pulsating sore feeling; pressing pinching.

In r. hypochondrium : jerklike tearing-drawing and press- ure, as from incarcerated flatus, < by motion; sticking during sour eructations, and on inspiration ; pressure in a small spot.

In hepatic region : intermittent tearing; sharp jerking stitches, after supper ; sticking, also in r. hip ; pinch- ing griping pressure in a small spot; cramp-pains, with dyspnoea and hypochondriasis after eating.

Heaviness and pain in hypochondria and loins, followed by prostration.

Feeling of a heavy weight in hypochondria.

I I Cramplike pains in h3''pochondria, alternating with

oppression of chest and difficult breathing.

I I Pressure under short ribs, after eating, with depression of spirits.

I I Dull sticking in region of spleen.

505 ZINCUM.

I I Liver hard, enlarged, sore to touch, could be felt much more to left and above navel as a small hard lump ; several hard lumps in abdomen; abdomen enlarged, soft as mush, softest around navel ; sore pains all over belly, most around navel ; hectic fever, unquenchable thirst; when swallowing he feels a small hard lump in throat, sometimes like a worm creeping up from pit of stomach into throat, which makes him cough; frequent gagging and vomiting of a little bloody phlegm or thin blood, sometimes pus, of a saltish taste, particularly with coughing; cough < at night, with a shooting in scro- biculum, a kind of a weak but very deep cough, has to cough until he raises ; stool either in little lumps or frothy; rumbling in bowels; cannot lie on 1. side; dur- ing night a dull moaning, feels so weak that he talks with difficulty; feet commence to swell and swelling rises gradually upward.

Fulness in abdomen, immediately after eating, as if filled with flatus.

Heaviness, pressure and tension in abdomen.

Pressure and gurgling in upper abdomen after eating.

I I Severe stabbing pains.

I I Pressure and aching in pubic region.

Aching pressure and griping in sides of abdomen and umbilical region, with feeling as if abdominal walls were retracting against spine.

I I Hard pressure as from flatulence in sides of abdomen, hypochondria and back, even in morning in bed, < by walking, without emission of flatus; only somewhat > after a stool, and again renewed on moving about when walking.

Pressure in r. side of abdomen close to hip.

Dull stitches from an internal ulcer on a small spot on r. side above navel, < by touch and motion.

Stitches in r. side of abdomen.

Sudden violent stitches in 1. side of abdomen, < by breath- ing and by pressure.

I I Rumbling and gurgling in whole abdomen, followed by painful retraction, with a feeling as if stool would occur.

I I Rumbling and rolling in abdomen : in morning; with frequent emission of flatus in evening ; with cutting in lower abdomen after dinner; violent and frequent, with- out pain ; in 1. side of abdomen in evening.

Flatus causes biting pain in abdomen, extending toward chest.

Flatus: frequent emission, hot, very offensive ; frequently

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after dinner till night; much in abdomen, which is not passed, afterward pressing flatulent colic ; incarcerated ; presses out hemorrhoids, which are then very painful, especially when lying down; moves about in abdomen ; hot, loud and soft, in evening; noisy, offensive, in evening.

Violent pain in abdomen, head and eyes, in evening on lying down.

Pressure in middle of abdomen soon after a moderate supper.

Cramplike drawing in middle of abdomen, with dull colic.

Dragging pains and rumbling in abdomen.

Acute drawing and crawling from abdomen into urethra.

I I Severe stabbing pains in abdomen, without diarrhoea or constipation, continuing several hours and returning periodically every seven days, or once in three weeks.

Cutting: in upper abdomen, also while eating; from even- ing after lying down until morning; transversely through abdomen, below navel ; violent after milk, with rumbling and frequent emission of flatus.

Griping : here and there in abdomen ; in upper abdo- men, after soup and during dinner; as far as stom- ach, where it is a constriction; is obliged to bend up in evening; with profuse emission of flatus, and with itching over hips in evening; tensive, followed by dull sticking toward pit of stomach, < from ajar or on re- tracting abdomen ; or cutting, followed by soft or diar- rhoea-like stools.

Twisting pain in abdomen before emission of flatus, in morning in bed.

Pains in diaphragm and between shoulders, extending to sacrum.

Stitches in abdomen with distension.

Sticking pain in abdomen after a natural stool.

Sharp sticking in abdomen as if intestines were pierced with fine needles.

Sticking pains in diaphragm and between shoulders.

Burning stitches in abdomen.

Feeling of coldness within abdomen.

Occasional soothing pain in hypogastrium on rising.

Pressing feeling low down in lower abdomen, with crawl- ing extending to beginning of urethra.

Constrictive pain in 1. side of lower abdomen, on walking and on pressure; disappears while sitting, after dinner.

Bruised sensation in r. side of lower abdomen, as if a spot there were diseased.

Dull tearing low down in r. lower abdomen, extending into groin.

507 ZINCUM.

Dull tearing deep in 1, side of lower abdomen, beginning in region of hip.

Stitches in 1. side of lower abdomen.

Violent penetrating stitch through r. ilium, from above downward, on bending body over, with a hard abdomen.

Colic: constrictive; takes away breath ; violent, constricts whole abdomen, even while lying down after midnight, still more on rising; below navel, tearing from one side to other; below navel as from flatus, while walking; dull, above and below navel ; tensive, in 1. side of ab- domen, > by eructations; awoke at night with it, fol- lowed by thick leucorrhoea ; and repugnance to food, and wine and brandy; violent, at times with nausea and running of water from mouth, often accompanied by offensive mucus, which took away her appetite; after a copious stool ; as if diarrhoea would come on ; with every stool and emission of flatus; severe, rolled on floor; in an aggravated form, was confined to bed for about a month on account of exhaustion produced by want of sleep and almost total anorexia; about the navel.

I I Dull pressure on a small spot beneath navel, as from internal induration, < from external pressure and by drawing in abdomen.

Sharp pressure between pit of stom.ach and navel, espe- cially < by drawing in abdomen, but > by eructations caused thereby.

Tearing stitches in umbilical region.

Cutting stitch transversely across umbilical region.

I 'Griping in abdomen, at various times, sometimes when yawning, or after breakfast, or with cutting pain after dinner.

M Great distension of abdomen.

I I Flatulency : before setting in of catamenia, menstrual spasms ; for several years, frequent noises and gurgling in abdomen, especially below navel and in 1. hypochon- drium, accompanied by pressing pain ; neither food nor drink, nor passing flatus, made any diff'erence, only firm lacing moderated it.

■ Oppressive wind colic after supper, or later, after mid-

night.

■ Flatulent colic, < from wine, toward evening or dur-

ing night, and at rest; loud rumbling and rolling;

retraction of abdomen ; hot, moist, fetid flatus, passing

off without relief ; lead-colic. I I Violent bearing down in abdomen after a difficult scanty

pregnant woman.

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I Inguinal hernia.

Jerking from groin toward penis.

Painful pressing in 1. groin, as if hernia would occur.

Screwing-together sensation in 1. inguinal region, extend- ing up into chest.

Jerking pressure in r. inguinal region.

Sticking pressure somewhat above inguinal region.

Violent pinching in r. groin and inguinal region, as in retention of urine during rest and motion, and renewed on rising from seat.

Drawing pain in 1. inguinal region while sitting.

Drawing and pressure in groin and pubic region.

Prickling, alternating with drawing, in 1. groin, at night, disturbing sleep.

Stitches in 1. groin in morning after waking.

A hernia presses downward forcibly.

Feeling as if an inguinal gland were swollen.

I Buboes, syphilitic or otherwise, in 1 inguinal region. ^ Stool and Rectum. Stool: frequent, small, sometimes in- voluntary; profuse; soft, papescent, or thin, with pale or bright-red, foamy blood; difficult; hard, dry, insuf- ficient, expelled with much pressure; bilious; blood}'' ; offensive, diarrhoeic, alternating with constipation; pasty, without pain, onl}'^ some straining after a stool as if more were to pass; diarrhoea-like, followed by leucorrhoea; involuntary, thin, in morning on waking; loose, with griping and tenesmus in anus, at night; soft, mushy, enveloped in bright-red, frothy blood, preceded by colic; soft, difficult to evacuate, with emission of prostatic flaid; light-colored, first part large and hard, last part soft; scanty, hard, preceded by soft and small evacua- tions; at first solid, then liquid; in morning hard, with- out pressure; immediately after dinner very soft, accom- panied and followed by vertigo and roaring in head ; scanty, tenacious, followed by straining and heat and burning in anus ; tenacious, light-yellow, with sticking in anus.

Diarrhoea in evening, with griping in abdomen.

I Diarrhoeic stools, involuntary, with stupor. ^Typhus.

I I Frequent small discharges from anus, sometimes invol- untary; either like pitch, or dry, brittle and granulous.

I I Diarrhoea, with stupor, seeming to call for Opium, which failed.

iLater stages of diarrhoea or dysentery, when cerebral symptoms indicate approaching hydrocephaloid ; de^ ficient nerve power, convulsions, pale face, without any increase of temperature.

Before stool : colic.

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During stool : painful tenesmus ; burning at anus ; pro- longed desire, which is only satisfied atter great efforts, although materials are soft; emission of prostatic fluid; slight discharge of blood (with hard stool) ; pressure and clawing in anus.

After stool : tenesmus ; burning at anus.

■ Nervous diarrhoea from de])ression of nerve-centres.

I Cholera morbus: feet constantl}' fidgety; on waking child appears frightened, head rolls from side to side; during sleep it cries out, starts and jumps; painless papescent diarrhcea for many days, some colic after stool ; emis- sion of flatulence; hydrocephaloid.

I I Frequent discharges of green mucus from bowels, little or no fecal matter, pain and tenesmus; face pinched, contracted ; face and head cool ; eyes staring, pupils contracted, head thrown back and rolling on pillow, crying out, starting in sleep, sleeping with eyes half- closed, at times strabismus, throwing its limbs around, urine high-colored and passed at long intervals and rarely. ^Dysentery.

I I Child, 8 months old, bottle-fed; head cold, with slight alternations of heat, rest of body fairly warm ; continued rolling of head and eyes, violent crying out during sleep, frequent spasms of facial muscles, less frequently of muscles of extremities; pulse maintained a high rate ; temperature 105° to 107°, with slight fluctuations; com- atose. ^Cholera infantum.

Desire for stool: with movement in abdomen; morning and after eating.

Ineffectual desire : long urging, at last follows soft, with great effort.

■ Constipated stool: stool large in size, evacuated only

with great effort of abdominal muscles ; stool dry, un- satisfactory; hard, often crumbling, and in pieces, with pressure and clawing in anus ; hard, small, rather dry, with much pressure and rumbling in abdomen, in even- ing ; dry, hard, insufficient, difficult ; dry, brittle, gran- ulous.

■ Unusual dryness of stool, with difficult defecation, lol-

lowed by involuntary urination.

■ Constipation due to spasmodic action of intestines.

■ Constipation of the newborn.

I I For two and a half hours violent bearing down in abdo- men, after a difficult, scanty stool; > by passage of flatus up or down.

Heaviness in rectum while standing, disappearing on emission of flatus.

Soreness in rectum.

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Pressing and boring from rectum into abdomen, on ac- count of which she could not sit down.

Rectum seems pressed by flatus, though none passes.

A feeling in rectum as if flatus were pressing against coccyx, by which it was retained.

Drawing pain in rectum extending into abdomen.

Cutting and smarting in rectum.

Jerking stitches extending from rectum into root of penis.

Itching in rectum.

■ Burning in anus; also during or after a stool. I 1 Crawling, as from worms, in anus.

I I Violent itching in anus.

I I Soreness and itching at anus.

Tingling at anus, as from ascarides.

■ Chronic dysentery; extreme emaciation; thin, pale,

bloody stools, with painful tenesmus; great desire for food, which fails to be assimilated.

Jerklike cutting ; tearing in anus.

Burning sticking in anus, in evening while walking.

Stitches in anus.

A twinging stitch, like lightning, from anus into rectum, causing him to start.

Itching in anus, ending in a dull pain.

Itching in anus and oozing of corrosive moisture.

Itching in anus after a soft stool.

Protrusion of hemorrhoids, with smarting.

Discharge of blood from anus. *' Urinary Organs. In region of both kidneys : pain ; pinch- ing; sticking pressure ; sore pain in 1.; pressure in 1., at times violent pinching ; 1. sensitive to touch ; sharp intermittent tearing in 1. ; tearing in r., at times stick- ing ; stitches, extending toward chest ; dull stitches in r. ; stitches in 1. at intervals ; sticking and bruised pain in 1., while standing and walking; cutting tearing, at times drawing pressure in r.

I I Very acute drawing in forepart of urethra and penis.

Burning micturition during menses.

Flow of blood from urethra after painful micturition.

Much blood flows from urethra.

Profuse emission of prostatic fluid without apparent cause.

Sore pain in forepart of urethra when not urinating.

Burning in urethra before, during and after micturition.

Tearing burning in urethra.

Drawing and tearing in forepart of urethra.

Cutting in orifice of urethra, in evening while sitting.

Biting in orifice of urethra after urinating.

Tearing and biting in forepart of urethra, when not uri- nating.

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Sharp tearing cutting in middle of urethra, extending forward.

Stitches in orifice and through urethra.

Twinging stitch, like lightning, from- before backward in urethra.

Itching in urethra.

Feeling of cramp in bladder, preceded by colic.

Pressure upon bladder, but not to urinate.

Urine in bladder presses her greatly.

Frequent urging to urinate, at night, with scanty discharge.

Urging to urinate after urinating, every evening on lying down, but only three or four drops pass each time, but without pain.

Excessive desire to urinate; very much urine is passed.

Frequent and rather increased micturition of a watery or lemon-yellow color.

Frequent micturition, not very copious, very light urine, after midnight.

■ Involuntary urination while walking, blowing nose, coughing and sneezing.

Emission of urine very slow and in a thin stream.

Dribbling discharge of urine in evening.

I I Violent pressure of urine on bladder; sits with legs

crossed, and though bladder feels full, none passes. I I Can only pass water while sitting bent backward; much

Diminished secretion of urine approaching at one time entire suppression.

Urine: dark and turbid ; scanty, not unnatural ; reddish; deposits a flocculent sediment ; scanty, becomes turbid like clay water ; very yellow, deposits white flakes on standing a long time; yellow, deposits a mealy sedi- ment. I i Paralysis of bladder, with pruritis ; leucorrhoea with much itching; pain in 1. ovary > by flow; nervous insomnia with intolerable itching of skin at night without eruption ; no itching in daytime ; headache, with nervous, fidgety feet, has to cross feet to keep them still. I I Paretic condition of sphincter vesicae, with frequent micturition of pale-yellow urine; hsematuria, or a dis- charge of blood per anum (vicarious menstruation) ; constant desire to urinate, but urine can only be passed while sitting, bent backward. ■Sitting with legs crossed, bending forward, and cannot

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make water, or but very little, and feels as if his bladder

would burst. I I A man, set. about 45, cannot pass his water standing,

can only do so when sitting down, brought on or < by

any kind of worry. I I Atony of cervix.

■ Vesical irritability from nephritic irritation.

■ Vesical neuralgia, especially if vesical symptoms are pre-

ceded by nephralgia.

I I Vicarious bleeding through urethra in consequence of suppressed menstruation, with pain in bowels, diarrhoea, and night-cough' with expectoration of mucus. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Tearing in tip of glans penis.

Excoriation on upper surface of glans penis near tip just to 1. of mesial line, sore to touch ; it healed next day, but scab remains on it till to-day.

Dull stitches in glans penis coming up from scrotum.

Tearing drawing in root of penis, preceded by dull stick- ing in lower abdomen near genitals.

Painful jerking in root of penis.

Penis painfully sensitive when walking, as if shirt were rough and rubbed it.

I I Persistent, strong erections with pain, also pressure in abdomen.

■ Easily excited; emission during an embrace too rapid,

or difficult and almost impossible. ■Spermatorrhoea: emissions without dreams; face pale, sunken, blue rings around eyes.

■ Copious discharge of prostatic juice, without any cause. Prickling, drawing pain in testicles, mostly while sitting

and stooping, at times extending up along spermatic cord.

Drawing pain in 1., afterward in r. testicle.

I I Drawing up of r. or 1. testicle, with some pain and swelling.

Transient pressing stitches in 1. testicle during rest.

I 1 Orchitis from a bruise, with drawing and retraction of one or other testicle, goes from r. to 1. ^After checked otorrhoea.

A farmer, of sanguineous temperament, injured his testi- cle, and complained of pain, with periodical aggrava- tion ; < from walking ; it feels as if testicles were too tight, compressed and drawn upward ; stitches when making a wrong step; in inguinal region, sensation of increased heat; during micturition, a peculiar sensa- tion in urethra ; when he answers call immediately, urine flows freely, but when he delays, he feels a con- stant pressure downward ; feels breathing and cough- ing down into testes.

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Atrophy of testicles.

Shrivelling of scrotum.

Pain in r. side of scrotum, especially when touched.

Sore sensation in sides of scrotum and contiguous parts of

thighs. I Hair falls off from genitals. iRemoves buboes, syphilitic or otherwise, in 1. inguinal

region. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, i Irresistible sexual desire at

night; desire for onanism. I I Complete loss of sexual desire. ■ Nymphomania caused by onanism, menses which were

suppressed suddenly appear, with alternate redness and

paleness of face, severe pains and pressing in abdomen

and back.

I I Boring pain in 1. ovarian region, > from pressure, en-

tirely relieved during menstrual flow. Ovarian tumor ; a sensation as of boring in tumor, which requires pressure and shaking of part for relief.

I I Ovarian neuralgia, particularly of 1. ovary, in women who have had overwork ; tenderness along spinal cord ; when walking any distance they become very tired ; stooping, or descending stairs will cause legs to give out; < from using sewing machine; pains are boring, burning, felt between menstrual periods, > when flow sets in.

lOvarian pains are> by excessive flow; heaviness and tremulous weakness of lower extremities; trembles as if chilly and is easily frightened ; we find a constant drawing in knees, as if they would be twisted off; pain so severe in limbs that she cannot keep them still, but moves them constantly.

I lA maiden lady, set. 42, ovarian difficulties; obstinate constipation, stools quite small, passed with pain; digi- tal examination discovered a tumor, which involved rectum; severe pains in rectum, urging similar to that of Nux vom.; fidgety feet, preventing sleep.

I I Miss , £et. 30, had been healthy up to her seventeenth

year, at which time she was caught in a rainstorm during her menstrual period ; suffered greatly at each period ; menses very profuse, long lasting and light-colored ; neuralgia through face and brain continually, < at menstrual period, was obliged to lie with her head hanging over side of bed, her body in a prone position ; the only nourishment she had taken for two years was a crust of dry bread and a cup of clear tea three times a day ; the thought of food made her sick, the sight of meat or anything oily nauseates her ; eats ice cream

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occasionally ; whole length of spine burned and pained, sharp pains > by lying on back ; tender in epigastric region, slightest touch causes pain ; in middle of Sum- mer requires six blankets over her, and four hot water bottles before she would be comfortable; hands and feet icy-cold, clammy; eyes bright; clear complexion and red cheeks; least noise makes her frantic; every morning about 6 o'clock, had a sensation as if a web were drawn across throat, > by drinking hot tea or hot water; whenever a stranger came into ward a jerking of r. limb commenced, which she was powerless to control. I Ulceration of uterus, discharge bloody, acrid, but ulcers are rather destitute of feeling.

■ Varicose veins of external genitals, wnth fidgety feet.

■ Pruritus vulvae causes masturbation; irresistible sexual

desire at night.

I I A very severe and obstinate pain in brain accompanies uterine ulcer, and is of an intermitting character.

• Uterine cancer ; sleeplessness and pain ; fidgety feet.

iHysteralgia; flow of menses relieves all her sufferings, but they return after cessation of menses; boring pain in 1. ovary ; fidgety feet.

Menses : too early and too profuse, lumps of coagulated blood pass away mostly when walking; flow most pro- fuse at night; preceded by toothache in a hollow tooth ; with alternation of paleness and redness of face ; with violent cutting and dragging in abdomen and small of back ; with sticking biting and itching in pudenda, and a feeling as if swollen ; too early, painful, with bloating of abdomen.

■ After menses, discharge of bloody mucus, causes itching

on pudenda.

■ Dysmenorrhoea, when during menses limbs feel heavy,

with violent drawing about knees, as if they would be twisted off; sudden oppression of stomach, has to loosen her dress; chilliness; sore eyes; soreness of vulva and mammae ; pale face ; weakness of memory.

■ Coughing during catamenia.

■ Amenorrhoea, with alternately red and paleface; great

weakness in hands and feet, with cramp in hypochon- dria and knees, especially at noon, when she is hungry; sensation of goneness at pit of stotnach at 11 a.m.; ano- rexia, with constipation, hard, small and dry stools; with painfulness of breasts and genitals.

■ Leucorrhoea: preceded by cutting colic ; of thick mucus;

of bloody mucus after menses, causing itching of vulva; of thick mucus, three days before and after menses; acrid, with burning in pudenda; slimy, with griping in upper

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abdomen ; of thick mucus, especially in morning and evening; also before and during menses; especially after stool ; thick, slimy, with great sensitiveness of sex- ual parts, cutting and pressing in abdomen, bloatedness of abdomen; acrid and excoriating; instead of menses; discharge white or yellowish.

I I White ulcer inside of labia majora, first causing a pain as if sore when touching it, afterward smarting,

1 I Smarting pain in pudendum, as if parts were sore, espe- cially during micturition.

Stinging in pudendum when walking.

I Itching of vulva during menses.

I Pruritus vulvae causes masturbation.

■ Varicose veins of external genitals, with fidgety feet.

■ Mammge swollen and sore to touch ; sore nipples; cata-

menia suppressed.

Pressure on pudenda and rectum.

Pressure toward pudenda, with cutting pain about navel.

Terrible heartburn after taking sweetish things ; great greediness when eating, cannot eat fast enough, from canine hunger ; aversion to meat ; much nausea and vomiting; fidgety feet; swollen feet and varicose veins.

I I Cutting upward in 1. iliac region, in paroxysms, in a pregnant woman.

■ Sensation of stagnation of blood in 1. leg; varices during

■ Tendency to miscarry.

I I Puerperal convulsions if an eruption (especially a chronic one) has recently disappeared.

■ Nymphomania, lochia suppressed, scanty secretion of

milk, painful sensitiveness of internal and external genital organs.

■ Mammae swollen and sore to touch; catamenia sup-

pressed.

■ Soreness of nipples.

of vocal organs while talking loud. I I Hoarseness ; with burning in trachea ; as if chest were

filled with mucus. Accumulation of mucus in larynx and posterior nares,

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"^Respiration. iRespiration : oppressed and difficult; very heav}'^ and deep; through nose, impeded, with appre- hension and oppression ; difficult, especially in 1. lung.

Spasmodic oppression of breathing.

Shortness of breath from flatulence after eating.

I Tight breathing and oppression, especially in evening.

Severe croupy condition, with symptoms of paralysis of cervical muscles.

■ Asthma, evening after eating, from flatus, with increase of dyspnoea when expectoration stops, decreasing when it recommences

I I Asthma for several years; fits of dyspnoea, very severe at night, but is never quite free even during day. ^' Cough. Cough: with stitciies in head; all night, with dull pains in chest; violent; Ispasmodic, child puts hands to genitals; with varicose veins on legs; with shooting in scrobiculum, leaving when sputum is raised; < after eating sweets, I lor taking wine;

I during menses ; does not permit him to sleep all night, with sticking in chest and slight thirst; hacking, but seldom, with persistent rawness in throat, in evening; tickling, very fatiguing during day, < at night ; short, caused by tickling be- neath sternum; frequent, dry hacking, without pain; dry, in evening, with heaviness in chest, which disap- pears after lying down, in evening; dry, frequently wakes her at night, during menses; dry, with violent stitches in chest, and a feeling as if it would burst, could only breathe and talk with difficulty ; suffocative, a tickling irritation takes away breath; and oppres- sion ; troublesome, as soon as he brings up something he feels much relieved; spasmodic, with such as have large varicosities on legs, disposed to burst and bleed.

Incessant tendency to cough and spit.

Bloody expectoration, with dry cough, with burning and sore pain in chest, morning and evening, always before and during menses. I I Frequent short cough; abundant easy expectoration of frothy mucus ; cough < at night and in recumbent posi- tion, could not go to bed, sat in chair whole night, cough almost incessant. ^Bronchitis.

I I For last three months frightful cough, so constant as to leave him but little sleep, took away his appetite ; much reduced in flesh and strength ; irritation to cough, a constant tickling in upper third of chest on both sides; dyspnoea, anxiety ; coughed a long time and then raised a little mucus; some soreness in chest; has a hernia, every cough presses down on sac and testicles.

I Whooping cough: exhausting, spasmodic, exerted by

517 ZINCUM.

a tickling in larynx and trachea and as far down as middle of chest; in evening and at night without ex- pectoration, in morning and during day with expecto- ration of a yellow, purulent, blood-streaked, tenacious mucus, having a repulsive, sweetish, putrid or metallic taste, or of bright blood ; children grasp genitals when coughing.

iSputa: yellow, purulent; blood-streaked; bloody; tena- cious; sweetish; putrid; metallic tasting; pure blood, morning and during day ; raises a large amount of mu- cus of a milky color; of tenacious mucus like old catarrh, with cough, after expectoration a sensation as if hollow and cold in chest.

Expectoration of bloody mucus when coughing, preceded by stitches in side. ^' Inner Chest and Lungs. il Roughness and rawness in chest, with heat and sweat at night.

I I Anxiety in chest; angina; oppression, pressure, tight- ness.

Tightness in chest on walking in open air, as if constricted by a band transversely across it.

Tightness like a constriction about chest, with a pain as if cut to pieces.

Tensive pains in chest.

Pressure: upon chest; in whole thorax; here and thereupon chest and back; cramplike, 'in chest and pit of stomach; as from rheumatism and incarcerated flatus; in morn- ing, at r. extremity of 1. clavicle; coming up from pit of stomach, > by eructations; extending into throat, as if a foreign substance were rising up ; like a rheu- matic drawing just beneath clavicle near shoulder joint; intermittent, outward, with drawing tension, here and there in 1. chest; sharp, in r. chest near axilla; in 1. side, or here and there over whole chest; on 1. clavicle; and sticking in 1. side of chest ; tearing, in lower portion of 1. chest.

Pain in chest as if beaten, while riding in a carriage.

Pain in chest, especially in r. side, as if blood were forc- ing its way into finest vessels in lungs.

Pain in a small spot in upper part of chest, as if internally there were a sore bruised spot.

Sensation of cramp in chest, extending to stomach and abdomen, 7 to 8 p.m.

Pinching and twinging pain in chest, from time to time.

Pinching pain in chest at intervals, with qualmishness, in morning.

Dull tearing pain in chest above pit of stomach.

Tearing stitches in chest beneath axilla, followed by a sore feeling.

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Dull pressing sticking and tension in chest beneath r. axilla.

Violent stitches in chest when walking in open air, ex- tending to 1. side of neck, with difficult breathing.

Sticking in one spot in chest on deep breathing.

Chest symptoms < by motion, or when she lifts or takes hold of anything with hands.

A feeling of weakness and burning in sternum.

Tightness in middle of chest, beneath sternum, in evening.

Tightness of chest, with dull sticking and pressure in middle of sternum, with small, rapid pulse.

■ Burning in chest.

I Dull stitches in r. side of chest.

• Sticking pain in a spot in 1. side of chest as large as a hand, with a feeling as if part were corroded and bruised.

■ Convulsive tightness of chest.

I Chest is loaded with mucus, fails to hawk up mucus for some time, becomes dyspnoeic, without anguish, passes off as soon as mucus is expectorated.

Coldness in chest.

Stitches in 1. chest and in heart at every beat.

Sensation of emptiness behind sternum.

Tension in sternum.

Pressure upon upper part of sternum or lower portion of chest after eating.

Sticking pain in sternum.

Sticking and tightness in middle of chest during and after inspiration.

Stitches in middle of sternum, at times, on stooping, so severe that he cried out, at times followed by painful pressure deep internally, extending up into throat.

A stitch in upper part of sternum, extending into 1. lum- bar region, with a fear of stooping.

Dull stitch beneath sternum while eating.

Pain in 1. pectoral muscles as if beaten or sore.

Ribs of whole 1. thorax painful and sensitive to touch.

Burning in a small spot in r. side of chest, near pit of stomach, also above 1. nipple.

Tension, bruised pain, and stitches in whole r. side of chest.

Tension and drawing in 1. clavicle.

Tearing: in r. upper ribs near back; in r. chest; in 1. chest beneath axilla.

Pinching pain in forepart of r. chest, followed by stitches in hypochondrium, extending to praBcordial region, with long-remaining bruised pain in part.

Stitches: in r. side of chest, at times on turning body to r. or after dinner, followed by pressure, or alternating with stitches in r. groin and side of abdomen ; constant,

519 ZINCUM.

pressing, in r. side of chest, especially < by violent ex- piration; sharp, deep within r. chest; dull, in r. short ribs; beneath r. nipple; in 1. chest, at times very vio- lent; in side, at night; in region of 1. ribs opposite pit of stomach, with ulcerative pain; in 1. side of chest on moving arm ; in 1. chest, in evening, while standing, with bruised pain in spot; dull, in upper part of 1. chest; beneath heart, pleuritic, in evening; violent, in 1. side, < by breathing, > on stretching out ; acute, in 1. clav- icle.

Sticking in 1. thorax, with painful sensation in 1. nipple.

Sharp sticking tearing in 1. chest.

Painful pulsating throbbing in 1. chest, near axilla.

I I Left chest; painfulness of 1. nipple; spasmodic sensa- tion in lungs and heart; cough lasting all night, with shooting pains passing to stomach ; spitting of blood after a hard coughing spell, followed by burning and soreness in chest; sputa sometimes yellow, purulent, tenacious or sweetish, with a metallic taste; jerking of body during sleep ; cramps in external muscles of neck when swallowing. /^Phthisis.

I 1 A young, delicate girl, set. 19, with a very fine skin and constantly ailing, passed through three attacks of pneu- monia, treated antiphlogistically ; attacked anew with pneumonia; on sixth day both lungs implicated, a stitching pain in trachea, increased by pressure, by breathing and by continuous short cough; lies on her back, does not stir, every motion increases pain; an- swers only by signs, every word spoken and every move- ment causes excruciating, tearing pain in occiput and from there to forehead, as if it would tear it asunder; bruised sensation in trachea and above manubrium sterni; respiratio nasalis ; burning hot, dry skin ; pulse full and exceedingly rapid ; cold hands, with sensation of numbness, < at night; segophony and mucous rales on r. side. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Severe pain in region of heart, with a slight swelling externally; great tender- ness over cardiac region.

Pressure, spasmodic tension, and heaviness in heart.

Cramplike feeling in heart and lungs.

Stitches above heart in evening.

Sharp stitches in prsecordial region, < by violent expiration.

I 1 Tension and stitches in prsecordial region.

First cardiac sound hoarse and rather prolonged.

Palpitation : and a stitch with every beat of heart ; fre- quent; momentary; with anguish, irregular spasmodic

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movements of heart; beat of heart so strong that it takes breath away ; beat of heart intermits. 1 I Feels as if a cap were over heart; spine affected.

■ Irregular, spasmodic action of heart; occasionally one

violent thump. I I Man subject to rheumatism and suffering from aortic insufficiency and albuminuria; legs, scrotum and ab- domen enormously swollen ; heart's action very irreg- ular ; fearful attacks of dyspnoea.

iViolent pulsations in bloodvessels, during heat.

Pulse : irregular; small and frequent evenings, slow morn- ings ; increased by wine ; scarcely perceptible ; tense, accelerated, irregular, hard ; small and hard ; slow, easily compressed ; slow, very feeble ; 40 and intermit- ting ; wiry and irregular. ^^ Outer Chest. ' l Left-sided intercostal neuralgia, < on mo- tion and on becoming tired, at times with palpitation.

Burning on r. chest as if in skin, extending to back.

Pressure beneath 1. nipple.

Fine sharp drawing about 1. nipple, with sore pain when touched ; soon becomes pulsating.

A stitch beneath r. mamma.

Sticking beneath 1. breast.

Stitches in 1. mamma, dull and painful in morning.

Feeling of distension in 1. mamma.

Left nipple very painful and sensitive.

Violent pressing pain in r. mamma.

Pressing sore pain about r. nipple. ^^ Neck and Back. ■ Nape of neck feels weary and tired from writing or any exertion.

■ Stiffness and tension in neck. Tearing pains in neck.

■Stiffness and pain in cervical and upper dorsal muscles,

in neck and back. • I Pain in cervical muscles, at night, as if head had been

held in an uncomfortable position, even felt during

I I Σπαραγμός στο δεξί πλάγιο του αυχένα. Πόνος στο πλάγιο του αυχένα που εκτείνεται προς τον ώμο, με ακαμψία

της περιοχής, αρκετά πρωινά στο κρεβάτι, που υποχωρεί κατά τη

Σπαραγμένες σουβλιές που διαδέχονται η μία την άλλη στον αυχένα και στο πηγούνι.

I I Σπαραγμός στο δεξί πλάγιο του αυχένα οπισθίως, επίσης ακριβώς κάτω από τη

σιαγόνα, και πίσω και κάτω από το αυτί.

Σπαραγμός στο αριστερό πλάγιο του αυχένα, που εκτείνεται πίσω από το αριστερό αυτί.

Συχνοί βίαιοι σπαραγμοί στο αριστερό πλάγιο του αυχένα, που πάντα υποχωρούν με πίεση, το πρωί.

Κεντούσας σπαραγμός οπισθίως και κάτω, σε ένα μικρό σημείο στο δεξί πλάγιο του αυχένα.

Σουβλιές στους αυχενικούς μύες.

Πόνος στην πλάτη, περισσότερο ενώ κάθεται.

Μωλωπισμένος πόνος στην πλάτη ενώ περπατά σε ανοιχτό αέρα.

Καυστική πίεση επί της σπονδυλικής στήλης, κάπως πάνω από τη μέση

1 1 1 •

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■ Καύσος κατά μήκους όλης της σπονδυλικής στήλης, < με το κάθισμα.

I Πόνος στη μέση, όταν κάθεται, ή όταν είναι στο σημείο να καθίσει· ελαττώνεται με συνεχές περπάτημα. I Πόνος στον τελευταίο θωρακικό σπόνδυλο.

I I Βίαιος μωλωπισμένος πόνος στην πλάτη, ενώ περπατά σε ανοιχτό αέρα, με αδυναμία.

I I Βίαιος πόνος στη μέση, όταν περπατά, αναγκαζόταν συχνά να σταματήσει, αν και ανακουφιζόταν σταθερά συνεχίζοντας να περπατά.

I I Συνεχής πόνος, νύχτα και ημέρα· είτε στην πλάτη είτε στη μέση· έντονοι πόνοι τώρα εδώ, τώρα εκεί. ^Νευραλγία.

■ Βίαιος, μακρά διαρκής, πόνος αλγούντας γύρω από τον τελευταίο οσφυϊκό σπόνδυλο.

I Οι ασθενείς δεν μπορούν καθόλου να καθίσουν· επιδεινώνονται τόσο πολύ από το κάθισμα, ιδίως η οσφυαλγία· καύσος κατά μήκους όλης της σπονδυλικής στήλης.

I I Παθήσεις του νωτιαίου μυελού.

■ Ωθούμενος, αλγούντας, ή ενίοτε σφιγκτικός πόνος στον κόκκυγα· διαπεραστικός πόνος στο ιερό οστό· πίεση, τάση και αδυναμία στις οσφυϊκές και ιεικές περιοχές. I I Μούδιασμα και μυρμήγκιασμα στα κάτω άκρα· ερεθισμός του νωτιαίου μυελού, με μεγάλη εξάντληση της δύναμης.

523 ZINCUM.

I I Η σεξουαλική δύναμη χάθηκε.

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Θαμπός πόνος στον δ. άνω βραχίονα.

Μωλωπισμένος πόνος στο οστό του δ. άνω βραχίονα.

Σύρσιμο στον αρ. άνω βραχίονα κοντά στον αγκώνα.

Σπαραγμός και στους δύο άνω βραχίονες κοντά στους αγκώνες.

Εξάντληση και των δύο χεριών με τάση.

Απώλεια δύναμης στο χέρι και πόνος στον καρπό.

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■ Σπαραγμός στο νώτο του αρ. χεριού.

■ Σπασμωδική τάση του δ. χεριού.

■ Αδυναμία και τρέμουλο των χεριών ενώ γράφει.

■ Τρέμουλο των χεριών κατά την έμμηνο ρύση.

■ Αδυναμία και νεκρότητα των χεριών· φαίνουν γαλαζωπά. Τρέμουλο του χεριού, περισσότερο όταν το ακουμπά ήρεμα πάνω στο τραπέζι παρά όταν στηρίζεται στον αγκώνα.

Δυσκαμψία του νώτου του χεριού και αίσθημα κράμπας στους εκτείνοντες μύες του αντίχειρα, ενώ παίζει πιάνο.

Ακαμψία των χεριών, κυρίως του δ. χεριού.

Τάση στο μετακάρπιο οστό του μικρού δαχτύλου, εκτεινόμενη προς τον καρπό.

I I Σπασμωδική τάση του δ. χεριού· ήταν αρκετά μπλε, πτώματικο, βαρύ και αναίσθητο, με μικρό, λεπτό και μόλις αισθητό σφυγμό

Τα χέρια κοιμούνται το πρωί με το ξύπνημα.

Πίεση στη βάση του αρ. χεριού.

Καύσος σε μικρό σημείο του αρ. χεριού.

Σφιγκτή ή μωλωπισμένη κεντητή αίσθηση στη βάση του αρ. χεριού, πάνω από το μικρό δάχτυλο, πολύ επώδυνη.

Σπαραγμός στο χέρι εκτεινόμενος από τον καρπό στην πρώτη φάλαγγα του αντίχειρα, ενώ οδηγείται σε άμαξα.

Κεντητό σπαραγμό στο δ. χέρι στη γωνία του καρπού, και στην παλάμη κοντά στο μικρό δάχτυλο.

Οξύς σπαραγμός στο δ. χέρι ακριβώς κάτω από τις αρθρώσεις.

Πιεστικός σπαραγμός στη ρίζα του χεριού κοντά στην περιοχή του πισιόμορφου οστού.

Σπαραγμός στο νώτο του δ. χεριού, στα τέταρτο και πέμπτο μετακάρπια οστά και στον καρπό.

Τεντωτικός σπαραγμός στη δ. παλάμη.

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■ Ραγισμένο και ξηρό δέρμα των χεριών, ακόμη και σε ήπιο καιρό.

■ Οι χειμωνιάσεις φαγουρίζουν και πρήζονται.

'^ Κάτω άκρα. Σπαραγμός εμπρός στην ακρολωρίδα του λαγονίου ενώ κάθεται.

Κεντητό σπαραγμό στη δ. γλουτιαία περιοχή κάτω από το ισχίο.

Σπαραγμός στη γλουτιαία περιοχή κάτω από το αρ. ισχίο.

Παλμός στην αρ. γλουτιαία περιοχή.

Ανεβοκατέβασμα στη δ. γλουτιαία περιοχή.

Πιεστικό σύρσιμο ακριβώς πάνω από τη δ. γλουτιαία περιοχή.

Πόνος σύρωντας στους γλουτιαίους μετά από πόσιμο κρασιού.

Μωλωπισμένος πόνος στους γλουτιαίους και οπίσθιους μηριαίους μύες.

Κεντητό στην οπίσθια επιφάνεια του μηρού με το χασμουριέται, το βράδυ.

Σπαραγμός ακριβώς κάτω από τα δύο ισχία, και οπίσθια στο δ. ισχίο.

Πιεστικό σύρσιμο στο οπίσθιο τμήμα του μηρού, ώστε να μην μπορούσε να καθίσει· όταν περπατούσε εξαφανιζόταν σταδιακά.

Μωλωπισμένος πόνος με σφίξιμο, θερμότητα και καύσωμα στην περιοχή του αρ. ισχίου, εκτεινόμενος στο μέσο του μηρού, με αδυναμία του ποδιού, και επίμονη ευαισθησία στο ισχίο, ενώ περπατά και στέκεται, ο πόνος εξαφανίζεται ενώ κάθεται.

Μωλωπισμένος πόνος στην άρθρωση του ισχίου, σαν η σάρκα να είχε ξεκολλήσει από το οστό.

Βίαιος πόνος στις αρθρώσεις των ισχίων, σαν να έχει ξυλοκοπηθεί, τάση και πόνος με την κίνηση.

Το αριστερό ισχίο επώδυνο οπίσθια.

Θαμπή πίεση πάνω από το δ. ισχίο.

Σύρσιμο, σπαραγμός και καύσος οπίσθια στο αρ. ισχίο.

Πιεστικός σπαραγμός στο αρ. ισχίο.

Επώδυνη αίσθηση βαρύτητας και αδυναμίας στο δ. μηρό ενώ περπατά.

Βαρύτητα και παραλυτικός πόνος στο αρ. μηρό, πάνω από το γόνατο, πολύ βίαιος ενώ περπατά, στέκεται και κάθεται, το βράδυ.

Παραλυτικός πόνος στο δ. μηρό, πρώτα στο άνω μέρος, μετά εκτεινόμενος κάτω προς το γόνατο, ενώ στέκεται, > με το κάθισμα, το βράδυ.

Μωλωπισμένος πόνος στην πρόσθια επιφάνεια του αρ. μηρού, τρυφερό με την πίεση.

■ Ρευματικό σύρσιμο στους μηρούς. ■Σπαραγμός στους μηρούς.

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Πόνος σύρωντας στην έσω πλευρά του δ. μηρού.

Σύρσιμο επώδυνο στους έξω μύες του μηρού.

Θαμπός νευρώδης πόνος στην έσω πλευρά του μηρού.

I I Σπαραγμός στους μηρούς, ιδίως στα παχιά τους τμήματα, βίαιος και επίμονος.

Βίαιος σπαραγμός στην έξω πλευρά του μηρού σαν μέσα στο οστό, εκτεινόμενος από το ισχίο κάτω στο μέσο του μηρού, ενώ κάθεται.

Επώδυνος σπαραγμός στον αρ. μηρό, εκτεινόμενος προς τα πάνω από το γόνατο στο μέσο.

Σπαραγμός στην έσω πλευρά του αρ. μηρού, εξαφανιζόμενος με την κίνηση.

Σπαραγτικές σουβλιές στον μηρό ενώ περπατά και ξαπλώνει.

I I Σοβαρές, εκτεταμένες, αλλά επιφανειακές υγρές εκδορές των έσω και άνω τμημάτων των μηρών.

I I Φαγούρα στους μηρούς και στις κοιλότητες των γονάτων, το βράδυ.

■ Κιρσοί στον μηρό, εκτεινόμενοι στα μικρά χείλη. . Μούδιασμα του δ. ποδιού, μέχρι το γόνατο, τη νύχτα.

Μεγάλη αδυναμία στις κοιλότητες των γονάτων και στη μέση, ενώ περπατά.

Θαμπός πόνος στο γόνατο σταδιακά αυξανόμενος και ελαττούμενος.

Ενώ περπατά, αίσθημα πόνου στη γωνία του γόνατος, σαν οι μύες να ήταν πολύ κοντοί.

Πόνος στον δ. σύνδεσμο της επιγονατίδας με την πίεση ή το περπάτημα, ιδίως με το ανεβαίνει ή κατεβαίνει.

Πόνος στις αρθρώσεις των γονάτων και των αστραγάλων.

Βίαιοι πόνοι, πρώτα στις δ., μετά στις αρ. επιγονατίδες και στη φτέρνα, το βράδυ και τη νύχτα.

Μωλωπισμένη αίσθηση στις αρθρώσεις των γονάτων.

Συγκελλισμός και τρυπάνισμα στο αρ. γόνατο, με τάση στο άνω μέρος της γάμπας, ανανεούμενο μετά το κάθισμα.

Συχνός θαμπός πόνος τρυπάνισμα στα γόνατα.

Επώδυνο τρυπάνισμα στα γόνατα, ιδίως στο δ., το βράδυ.

Επώδυνη τάση στις κοιλότητες των γονάτων ενώ περπατά σε ανοιχτό αέρα.

Τάση, μετά καύσος, ακριβώς κάτω από το δ. γόνατο, στο άνω μέρος της κνήμης.

Τεντωτικός πόνος στην άρθρωση του δ. γόνατος ενώ περπατά.

Πόνος σύρωντας στο γόνατο τη νύχτα.

Ρευματικό σύρσιμο στο δ. γόνατο, και προς τα κάτω στην κνήμη.

Σπαραγμός και μωλωπισμένος πόνος στις γωνίες των γονάτων, < ενώ περπατά, > ενώ κάθεται, το πρωί.

Σπαραγμός στο δ. γόνατο και επίσης στο έξω χείλος της γωνίας του γόνατος, εκτεινόμενος στη γάμπα.

Σπαραγμός στο δ. γόνατο εξαφανιζόμενος με τρίψιμο.

Σπαραγμός στην έξω πλευρά της αρ. επιγονατίδας.

Σπαραγμός και συγκελλισμός στο αρ. γόνατο, εκτεινόμενος προς τα πάνω και προς τα κάτω.

Σπαραγμός και συστολή στο αρ. γόνατο, σαν μέσα στο οστό, πολύ επώδυνος σε ηρεμία και σε κίνηση.

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Σπαραγμός στην άρθρωση του αρ. γόνατος ή από το γόνατο προς τα πάνω, με μωλωπισμένο πόνο στο σημείο.

Πιεστική σουβλιά στην έσω πλευρά του δ. γόνατος σε ηρεμία.

Σουβλιές στο γόνατο.

Σουβλιά σαν δάγκωμα ψύλλου στην έσω πλευρά του δ. γόνατος.

Παλμός στα γόνατα ενώ κάθεται μετά από σύντομο περίπατο.

Συχνό σέρνισμα στην άρθρωση του αρ. γόνατος.

I I Βίαιη φαγούρα στην άρθρωση του δ. γόνατος.

Σφιξίματα και δυσκαμψία των μυών της γάμπας ενώ περπατά.

Τάση και πίεση στο πόδι κάτω κατά μήκος της κνήμης.

Τεντωτικός πόνος στο αρ. πόδι.

Τάση και σύρσιμο στις γάμπες.

Εναλλασσόμενη πίεση και σύρσιμο και στα δύο οστά του δ. ποδιού.

Πίεση ακολουθούμενη από σπαραγμό στην έσω πλευρά του αρ. ποδιού, μεταξύ αστραγάλου και γάμπας.

Κράμπα στο πόδι το πρωί στο κρεβάτι τραβώντας το πάνω.

I I Σπαραγμός στις γάμπες.

Σπαραγμός προς τα κάτω στην κνήμη στο νώτο του ποδιού.

I I Διαπεραστικές σουβλιές στην κνήμη.

I Καυστικός πόνος στην κνήμη.

Κράμπα στις γάμπες απειλεί με το αναποδίζει.

Κραμποειδής πόνος στη γάμπα και στο αρ. πόδι, επίσης τη νύχτα.

Νευρώδεις συσπάσεις στην αρ. γάμπα.

Πόνος σύρωντας στα πόδια το βράδυ.

Ρευματικό σύρσιμο και τάση στη δ. κνήμη.

Πόνος σύρωντας στη δ. κνήμη και κάτω και στις δύο γάμπες.

Σπαραγμός στο δ. πόδι κάτω από το γόνατο ακολουθούμενος από μωλωπισμένο πόνο.

Σπαραγμός στο αρ. πόδι μεταξύ κνήμης και αστραγάλου.

Σπαραγμός στη γάμπα εκτεινόμενος στους αστραγάλους.

Σπαραγμός στο κάτω άκρο της δ. κνήμης.

Κεντητός πόνος και στις δύο κνήμες ενώ περπατά.

Πρήξιμο γύρω από τους αστραγάλους του ποδιού που είχε προηγουμένως νοσήσει.

Ρευματική τάση στον αρ. αστράγαλο σε ηρεμία.

Πόνος σαν διαστρεμμένος στον αστράγαλο με το κινεί το πόδι.

Πιεστικός πόνος κάτω από τον έξω αστράγαλο.

Σπαραγμός κάτω από τον δ. έσω αστράγαλο, εκτεινόμενος στη φτέρνα το βράδυ ενώ κάθεται.

Σπαραγμός στη γωνία του αστραγάλου και επίσης στο χείλος και στο νώτο του αρ. ποδιού.

Σπαραγμός στον δ. έξω αστράγαλο εξαφανιζόμενος με τρίψιμο.

Παλλόμενος σπαραγμός και στους δύο τένοντες του Αχιλλέα.

Καύσος κάτω από τον δ. έσω αστράγαλο.

Βίαιο φλεγμονώδες πρήξιμο του ποδιού.

Τρέμουλο των ποδιών· με το σηκώνει τα ενώ κάθεται.

Τρέμουλο των ποδιών και δυσκολία στο να τα σηκώσει, με συχνά σκόνταφτα.

Κατά την έμμηνο ρύση αδυναμία και τρέμουλο των ποδιών.

Καύσος κάτω από τη δ. φτέρνα, < περισσότερο όταν πατά και περπατά παρά ενώ κάθεται, το βράδυ.

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Καύσος και ελκώδης πόνος και στις δύο πατούσες, το πρωί.

Πόνος στο έξω χείλος του ποδιού σαν να θα σπάσει το οστό ενώ περπατά, με το σηκώνει το πόδι, επίσης με το κρατά το πλάγια και με το ακουμπά στην άκρη.

Πόνος στις πατούσες όταν πατά πάνω τους, φαίνουν πρησμένες, με αίσθημα σαν να έχουν ξυστεί από οδοντωτό όργανο.

Συχνό οξύ μούδιασμα των ποδιών κατά τη διάρκεια της βραδιάς.

Παραλυτικό αίσθημα σε όλο το δ. πόδι.

Τάση στο δ. πόδι, σαν το πόδι να είχε διαστρεφτεί ή οι μύες να ήταν πολύ κοντοί.

Τάση στη δ. πατούσα, σαν οι τένοντες να ήταν πολύ κοντοί, ενώ πατά ή περπατά, το βράδυ.

Σύρσιμο στα οστά του αρ. ποδιού.

Σύρσιμο σπαραγτικό στο δ. πόδι εκτεινόμενο στους αστραγάλους, με αίσθημα βαρύτητας σε ηρεμία.

I I Σύρσιμο σπαραγτικό γύρω από τους δύο αστραγάλους, και στους τένοντες του Αχιλλέα.

Σπαραγμός στο έξω χείλος του δ. ποδιού προς τα δάχτυλα, εξαφανιζόμενος με τρίψιμο.

Σπαραγμός και σέρνισμα στο νώτο του αρ. ποδιού, με αίσθημα μούδιασμα στις πατούσες, εξαφανιζόμενο με το περπάτημα.

Σπαραγμός και πόνος στις φτέρνες, τα πόδια φαίνονται ξυλοκοπημένα από το σώμα.

Σπαραγμός και στις δύο πατούσες.

Κεντητό σπαραγμό στις πατούσες, στη γωνία των αρθρώσεων του δ. μικρού δαχτύλου.

Σουβλιά πάνω από το δ. πόδι ενώ τρέχει.

Καυστικές σουβλιές στα οστά του νώτου του ποδιού, εδώ κι εκεί.

Σουβλιές στη φτέρνα.

Διαπεραστικές σουβλιές στη βάση του ποδιού.

Τα δάχτυλα επώδυνα, σαν τρυφερά μετά το περπάτημα.

Ελκώδης πόνος στο δ. μεγάλο δάχτυλο, το βράδυ. " Πόνος, σαν εξύπνωση στο νύχι του μεγάλου δαχτύλου, όταν αγγίζεται.

Αίσθημα σαν να υπήρχαν φουσκάλες στο δάχτυλο, όπως μετά από περπάτημα.

Σύρσιμο, σπαραγμός, κεντητό στα δάχτυλα και στο εμπρόσθιο μέρος του ποδιού.

Σπαραγμός στο κάτω τμήμα των δύο πρώτων δ. δαχτύλων.

Σπαραγμός επώδυνος στην άκρη του μεγάλου δαχτύλου και κάτω από το νύχι.

I I Πόνος διαστρεμτικός στη γωνία της πρώτης άρθρωσης των δαχτύλων.

I I Πόδια ιδρωμένα και τρυφερά γύρω από τα δάχτυλα· δύσοσμος κατασταλμένος ιδρώτας των ποδιών, με πολλή νευρική διέγερση.

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1 1 Χειμωνιάσεις, < από τρίψιμο· επώδυνες.

■ Σπαραγμός και τάση στα χείλη του δ. ποδιού.

■ Κιρσοί στα πόδια, με ανήσυχα πόδια.

■ Δυσκαμψία του ποδιού, δεν μπορούσε να περπατήσει.

■ Μεγάλη αδυναμία των άκρων· μυρμήγκιασμα και κρύα πόδια τη νύχτα· χρόνια νευρασθένεια.

■ Ξαφνική αίσθηση αδυναμίας στα άκρα, με λυκόπεινα.

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πόνοι· στρίψιμο στα προσβεβλημένα άκρα και συχνές νευρώδεις συσπάσεις όλου του σώματος κατά τον ύπνο· < από υπερθέρμανση και από κόπο. Διαπεραστικό κεντητό στις αρθρώσεις.

Οξύς πόνος διαπερνώμενος μέσα από τις αρθρώσεις, ιδίως στους αστραγάλους, τα γόνατα και τους αγκώνες, με μούδιασμα των γειτονικών μερών και εξαντλημένη, παραλυτική αίσθηση στους μύες των άνω βραχιόνων και των μηρών, < στη δ. πλευρά.

Position. Motion. Rest: stitch in r. knee; rheu- matic tension in 1. ankle; heaviness in r. foot; stitches in 1. testicle; puerperal convulsions <; crawling and formication in calves extending into toes. Lying: vertigo > ; on back, conjunctivitis < ; on painful side, conjunctivitis >; on 1. side, pain in liver <; hem- orrhoids painful from pressure of flatus; with head hanging over side of bed, body prone, dysmenorrhoea ; on back, > pain in spine ; bronchial cough < ; feels numb all over; on back typhoid.

Sitting: in bed, as if bed were swaying; backache, with coryza; nausea >; > constrictive pain in 1. side of lower abdomen; drawing in 1. inguinal region; pre- vented by pressing and boring in rectum ; cutting in orifice of urethra; can only pass water while sitting bent backward; pain in back <; pain in small of back; tension and weakness in small of back ; drawing and painful weakness in small of back; burning alono- spine ; pain in small of back ; backache < ; burning in spine < ; could not ; pressing drawing on posterior portion of thigh ; sensitiveness of hip disappears ; tear-

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ing anteriorly on crest of ilium ; heaviness and para- lytic pain in femur; paralytic pain in r. thigh >; pain in bends of knees >; beating in knee; tearing beneath r. inner malleolus; prickling drawing in testicles; stick- ing and tearing in limbs; burning in small places.

Sits with legs crossed ; pressure of urine on bladder, none passes.

Holding head down : illusion as if she had a large goitre.

Stooping: vertigo; after, while sitting, uneasiness in stom- ach ; stitches in sternum ; pain in small of back and loins; drawing and painful weakness in small of back; prickling drawing in testicles.

Standing : vertigo ; stitches in 1. hypochondrium ; heavi- ness in rectum ; sticking and bruised pain in region of 1. kidney; sensitiveness of hip ; heaviness and paralytic pain in femur ; paralytic pain in r. thigh.

Inclination to stretch.

I I Sliding down in bed. ^Typhoid.

Motion : nausea < ; pain in r. hypochondrium < ; < stitches in internal ulcer above navel ; chest symptoms < ; intercostal neuralgia < ; stiffness in dorsal muscles <; slightest, causes cutting from small of back into calves and feet ; knee painful ; constant, of feet ; crawl- ing and formication in both calves, extending into toes.

Turning in bed : pain in small of back.

Blowing nose, coughing or sneezing : involuntary urina- tion.

Writing : neck weary and tired ; chilliness.

Playing piano : stiffness in back of hand; cramp in exten- sor muscles of thumb.

Yawning: sticking and tension in r. elbow joint; sticking in posterior; surface of thigh.

Eating: neuralgia <; gums painful.

Laughing: tearing in r. side of occiput.

Moving arm : burning in forearm above r. wrist.

Raising arm: pain in deltoids <.

Rising: shooting in hypogastrium ; from a seat, pinching in r. groin ; from a seat, sere wed-in sensation in small of back ; from a seat, weakness of lower extremities, especially calves.

Stepping: upon feet, pain in soles; tension in sole.

Walking: vertigo in occiput; headache <; stitches in 1. hypochondrium; flatulent colic <; constrictive pain in l.side of lower abdomen ; burning sticking in anus ; sticking and bruised pain in region of 1. kidney; invol- untary urination; lumps of coagulated blood during menses; in open air, tightness of chest; in open air, stitches in chest ; bruised pain in back ; cracking in

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small of back ; weakness in small of back and legs on beginning; pain in small of back; pain in small of back > ; pressing drawing in posterior portion of thigh gradually disappeared ; sensitiveness of hip; heaviness and lameness in r. thigh; heaviness and paralytic pain in femur ; pain in bend of knee ; pain in r. ligamentum patellae ; painful tension in hollows of knees ; tensive pain in r. knee joint ; pain in bends of knees < ; stiff- ness of calf; stickingin tibise ; burning beneath heel; pain in outer margin of foot, as if bone would break; tension in sole; after, toes painful as if sore; ulcerative pain in heels < ; on beginning, paralytic weakness and heaviness in lower extremities ; penis sensitive; weak- ness in lumbar region and bends of knees; tearing in limbs ; sweat ; stinging pain in bunion on 1. little toe and ball of foot.

Running : stitch over r. foot.

Exertion: neck feels weary and tired; rheumatism <; tearing in limbs. -

Lifting: chest symptoms <.

Trembling of feet on raising them. ^^ Nerves. General internal discomfort.

Every slight emotional excitement causes trembling.

Sensation of general trembling without trembling.

Frequent fainting several times daily, followed by pros- tration and general numbness.

Faintness, unconsciousness, almost without pulse.

Sudden faintlike weakness while standing, so that she could scarcely reach a chair.

AVeariness, frequent yawning, great exhaustion in whole body ; heaviness and weariness in morning in bed.

Lassitude, prostration and pains in limbs.

Feeling of languor, with aching in lumbar region.

Body weak and prostrate, especially after dinner, at times with tremulousness and heaviness of head.

General lassitude and sensation all over, as if beaten.

General exhaustion, sleepiness, aversion to noise, and yet difficult hearing, a dreamy condition, as after a sleepless night, with shivering and cold creepings.

On waking in morning, inability to move head and limbs, with extreme sensibility to contact over whole surface ; after about an hour this paralytic state improved enough to permit walking, but with a staggering uncertain gait, and a marked tendency to fall to I. side.

Decrease of sensibility to touch ; tickling, on contrary, was more quickly responded to than in normal state.

When he lies down feels numb all over ; fears apoplexy.

Great inclination to stretch body and limbs.

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Uncomfortable feeling of pressure and pressing upon inner walls of trunk, as if whole body would be forced asun- der, without trace of flatulence, rather caused by nerves, < in r. than in 1. side.

Cramplike pain here and there in muscles.

Sensation of swelling.

I Hands tremble; grasps at flocks, or slides down in bed. Much visible twitching of body and face.

Twitching and jerking in various muscles.

I I Fidgety feet; must move them constantly. • Jerking through whole body during sleep.

iSpasms; child cross before attack, body hot, restless at night, cries out in sleep, looks afraid and anxious on awakening; involuntary or more frequent urination; body very hot; rolls head anxiously from side to side; child has been cross and irritable for days previous, with hurried motions, distended abdomen ; fidgety feet, r. side twitches; pale children during teething; with hydrocephaloid after cholera infantum, great emacia- tion and prostration ; after disappearance of old erup- tions ; coma from cerebral exhaustion ; loss of sensation of whole body ; with mania from mental excitement ; somnambulism.

I I Puerperal convulsions after Phos., apparently indicated, had failed ; cerebral epilepsy ; symptoms felt mostly during rest; < after dinner and toward evening; twitch- ing in various muscles ; whole body jerks during sleep.

■ Convulsions during dentition, with pale face and no heat, except in occiput; ushered in with twitching of single muscles, fidgety feet or loud screams; gnashing of teeth; rolling of eyes ; sharp cries, caused by pain in head ; automatic motion of hands and head, or of one hand and head; coma, pulse coming in long waves; sleep restless, with starting, jumping, screaming out, twitch- ing of muscles and jerking through whole body, wakes frightened, stares, rolls head from side to side,

I I A young mulatto girl, eet. 18, in good health until a few months ago, when she hurt her leg, and had a running sore, which was dried up ; at next menstrual period she had convulsion, which lasted several hours; Zincum 200, in water, every two hours, for two days; it stopped spasms, but was followed by suppression of urine last- ing two weeks.

I I A young lady, set. 21, small, slender, and a brunette, from injuries received three years ago, had a very weak and tender spine ; touching her on spine would give her pain, and a child slapping her on back threw her into a tonic spasm which lasted several hours ; Zincum 200

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in four months (a powder once in two weeks) cured weakness of back, but almost invariably produced sup- pression of urine for two or three days.

I I After sitting in spiritual circles, shocks in upper and lower limbs; gradually they became more and more threatening, and two months later he received nervous shocks in hands and legs, during prayer and sleep at night, sometimes at other hours ; felt great heat in head ; peace of mind forsook him ; heard voices speaking from within him in abusive and filthy language; felt depres- sion of spirits ; it seemed that small balls coursing along hands and legs caused the shocks ; Nux vom. did some good, lessened heat of head, but mesmerizing made him <, as if nerves were violently torn ; as if fire were cours- ing through body, running from 1. foot to head, burning forehead, eyebrows, ears and eyes; constant desire to put an end to his life ; always restless ; feels < in morn- ing, > in evening; sleep disturbed; peace of mind gone ; prejudices and superstitious beliefs began to trou- ble him; shocks convulsed him frightfully; vicious and abominable thoughts, chiefly lustful, trouble him ; sometimes workings of limbs ludicrous, sometimes grave; had to laugh or cry against his will; sensation of creeping, warm, throbbing, shifting, running, encircling, in all parts of his body ; visions of living and dead ; did not speak, suff'ering continually his shocks ; sometimes falling down as if paralyzed ; walks with heavy steps, or runs as if in fright ; utters in agony the loudest lam- entations and cries ; would not eat unless forced to; pale and emaciated, suffering, distracted countenance; after Zmcum a small abscess a little below middle of r. clavicle.

I I After spending weeks with friends, on returning could remember nothing she had said or done ; Zincwm 30, followed by cure of epilepsy of more than three years' standing.

■ Neuralgia after herpes zoster.

Sensation of soreness in internal and external parts. Violent throbbing through whole body.

■ Neuralgic pains between skin and muscle, in subcuta-

neous cellular tissue ; great weakness of limbs ; defi- ciency of vital power.

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I I Nervous insomnia, with intolerable itching of skin at night without eruption.

I Weakness, numbness and tremor of hands when writing.

Paralysis after suppressed foot sweat. ^^ Sleep. Sleeplessness.

Falling asleep prevented by mental activity.

Loud screaming out at night in sleep without knowing it.

Child cries out during sleep, if awakened, expresses fear, and rolls its head anxiously from side to side.

In evening immediately after lying down, rises up in bed, talks unintelligibly, with short, tremulous respiration.

I I Starting from sleep with involuntary jerking in 1. lower extremity.

I I Unconscious starting during night's sleep, during menses.

Frequent waking at night on account of anxiety.

Woke frequently at night, could not sleep after 5 a.m.

Sleep very restless, full of dreams.

Frequent waking at night, with difficult falling asleep; anxious dreams toward morning.

Very restless sleep, full of fantasies and thoughts upon which he was obliged to reflect.

Sleep at night frequently interrupted; nights seem very long.

Restless night ; awoke screaming as if delirious, as if geese were biting him.

Uneasiness during sleep after midnight; awoke much too early, with great weariness and a feeling as if eyes lay deep in head.

Waking about midnight from vivid dreams, with a feel- ing of great heat over whole body, without being warm, without sweat, with a feeling of dryness and without thirst, is obliged to uncover arms and limbs.

Sleep disturbed by violent headaches and painful cramps in calves of legs.

Sleep agitated and unrefreshing, with occasional nightly sweat,

1 I Could not go to sleep for three or four hours after retir- ing, because of a sensation as if bugs were crawling from her feet to her knees, extending later to thighs ; this sensation would also rouse her from sleep.

Constant yawning.

Drowsiness: with frequent gaping; yet cannot sleep, head feels so light; in morning; immediately after dinner; with dulness of head, without being able to sleep ; at her work, > in open air.

Deep exhausting sleep with many dreams.

I I Awoke frequently, with violent palpitation and scream- ing, from anxious dreams of thieves.

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Reveries during sleep.

Dreams: anxious; anxiety continued after waking; with mental excitement, talking about midnight about his dreams ; vexatious ; quarrelsome ; sad ; as if she were being strangled, in morning, fear lest the man who strangled her would return; disgusting, of being smeared with human excrement; of- corpses and horses which changed into dogs under him ; vivid, feeling weary in morning on waking; anxious, of water and of drown- ing; of fire; of fleeing, followed by sweat.

During sleep: cries out, awakes with fear; limbs and body jerk; nightmare. ^^Time. Toward morning: anxious dreams ; sweat.

After 5 a.m. : could not sleep.

Morning: anxious restlessness ; morose; vertigo; head- ache; head heavy, dizzy and confused; headache as from coal gas ; pressing headache ; dimness of vision ; lids agglutinated; lachrymation ; burning in eyes and lids; inner canthus agglutinated; crawling in ears; sneezing; bitter, slimy taste; pain in ulcer on inner sur- face of 1. cheek < ; rawness and dryness in throat; dry- ness in fauces ; hawking of mucus ; nausea ; burning from epigastrium into oesophagus ; pressure in stomach ; sticking in prsecordial region ; rumbling and rolling in abdomen ; twisting pain in abdomen ; stitches in 1. groin ; involuntary diarrhoea; hard stool; expectoration; press- ure on clavicle ; pinching in chest, with qualmishness ; pulse slow; stitches in 1. mamma; stiffness in cervical and upper dorsal muscles ; burning drawing in back ; sticking in r. upper arm ; during sleep, twitching of 1. arm ; tearing in r. elbow joint; cramp in leg; burning and ulcerative pain in soles; in bed, weakness of feet; in bed, cannot allow one leg to be bent; bruised pain in limbs; heaviness and weariness; inability to move head and limbs; morning in bed, chilliness;

Forenoon: headache with pain in eyes; until evening, thirst; chilliness; febrile paroxysms; hot face, cool body.

11 or 12 A.M.: ravenous hunger, with weakness of legs and trembling.

Noon: low-spirited, lively in evening; irritable, peevish, terrified, stupefied and dizzy; insatiable; pressure and coldness in stomach ; gurgling and rumbling in stomach ; motion with feeling of coldness in stomach.

After dinner: sticking and burning in anterior surface of 1. upper arm.

Afternoon: morose; quiet thoughts of death ; dizzy stupe- faction; burning in eyes ; sneezing; thirst, with heat

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in palate; during menses, thirst; eructations; paralytic weakness and heaviness in lower extremities; sensitive to open air ; as if sweat would break out.

Toward evening: child cross; pressure on eyes; biting in eye ; keratitis pustulosa < ; fluid coryza ; flatulent colic ; puerperal convulsions <.

3 to 4 P.M.: cardialgia.

During day: moisture of eyes; nausea.

All day : frontal headache; dry coryza; sweet taste.

Night and day : pain in back and loins.

From 4 to 8 p.m.: chill.

Evening : low-spirited, lively at noon ; soreness in vertex; fretful, despondent, morose; vertigo in occiput; inability to support head ; dizzy stupefaction ; heaviness in fore- head ; pressure upon a small spot in forehead ; throb- bing in head ; screwing together in sides of head ; pain- ful raging in r. side of occiput; pressure in 1. eye; burning in eyes and lids ; photophobia and lachryma- tion ; pterj^gium <; green halo around light; feeling of sand in eye; pulsating in ears; burning in ears; sudden coryza ; alternate fluent and dry coryza ; neu- ralgia of fifth pair <; toothache; pressing pain in ton- sils; sweetish blood in mouth ; insatiable thirst; thirst for beer; violent hiccough; burning in epigastrium ; pressing in stomach ; stitches in 1. hypochondrium ; frequent emissions of flatus; rumbling in 1. side of abdomen; offensive flatus; pain in abdomen, head and eyes; diarrhoea with griping; burning sticking in anus ; cutting in orifice of urethra ; urging to urinate ; dribbling of urine; asthma; hacking cough ; no expec- toration ; stitches above heart; pulse small and frequent; stitches in 1. axilla and down on forepart of chest, arrest- ing breathing; sticking and tension in elbow joint ; jerking tearing from first finger joints of 1. hand toward tips; sticking on posterior surface of thigh; heaviness and paralytic pain in femur; paralytic pain in r. thigh, fierce in upper part, then extending down toward knee; pain in patellae and heels; painful boring in knees; drawing in leg§ ; tearing beneath r. inner malleolus; tension in sole ; ulcerative pain in r. great toe; tearing in little toe; sensitive to open air; cold feet; could not get warm in bed ; chills ; coldness in abdomen ; hot head and cheeks; burning in soles; coldness of forehead"; itching on face ; itching on scrotum ; itching between scapulae; itching of thighs and hollows of knees, as if toes had been frozen ; violent sticking itching in anterior ball of great toe; sticking, pricking, itching on forehead, thigh, malleoli, feet and other parts of skin, in bed; sudden itching here and there.

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After 8 p.m.: burning in eye <.

Night: headache; pain of kerato-iritis <; sypliilitic iritis < ; itching and heat in pterygium < ; ophthalmia < ; noise in ears ; an anxious sore feeling in throat ; bitter taste in fauces; eructations; cough with indurated liver < ; dull moaning, indurated liver; cutting in abdomen, colic followed by thick leucorrhoea; prickling and draw- ing in 1. groin; loose stool with griping and tenesmus; frequent urging to urinate ; irresistible sexual desire in women; fits of dyspnoea; cough prevents sleep ; tickling cough <; heat and sweat; stiffness in dorsal muscles < ; falling asleep of r. leg as far as knee ; pains in patellae and heels; drawing in knee ; cramplike pain in calf; coldness of feet; uneasiness in lower extremities; restless, fidgety feet ; unconscious starting ; frequent waking; sweats; nightmare; chill; sense of heat with- out heat; itching as from flea-bites; itching of soles, and calves and thighs ; twitching of limbs, shocks through whole body, violent screaming, scarlatina ; skin hot and dry; muttering during sleep; threatened convulsions; scarlatina.

About midnight: talks about her dreams.

After midnight: wind colic; frequent micturition; un- easiness during sleep. ^^Temperature and Weather. Wants to uncover: during sweat.

Overheating: rheumatism <.

After becoming heated and getting cold : throbbing in hollow tooth.

Warm room : headache <.

Warm water: conjunctivitis >.

Open air: headache >; after walking, pressure in occiput; lachrymation ; violent pressure in eye while walking ; painful tension in hollows of knees while walking; drowsiness > ; sensitive ; chills ; sweat.

Draft: sensitiveness.

Cold : tips of fingers and feet sensitive ; touching anything causes chill ; dry rhagades on hands.

Cold air: eyes feel sore and hot, pterygium; conjunc- tivitis <.

Cold water : headache > ; stopped nosebleed.

Washing: uneasiness in stomach and shuddering.

Sea-bathing : herpes in mouth.

Cold weather: roughness and irritation on back of r. hand.

Approach of a storm : chills. *^ Fever. Sensitiveness to open air in afternoon and evening.

Great sensitiveness to cold, especially in tips of fingers and in feet.

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Cold nose, hands and feet.

Cold feet: awaken at night; in evening, lasting a long time, in bed.

Frequent febrile shivering down back.

I I Violent trembling of limbs.

Rigors, trembling of limbs.

Chilliness: and coldness of whole body; in forenoon; fol- lowed by febrile symptoms, over whole body, with chilly creeping and drawing through back ; with nausea; for a quarter of an hour while writing, with a sensation as if a foreign stony hard substance were in throat, with constant yawning; over upper and lower abdomen ; dur- ing menses; constant, with increased internal warmth ; with general sick feeling; on waking in morning in bed.

Shivering: with intense headache; with shuddering nau- sea; on scrotum, with shrivelling and gooseflesh on it and neighboring parts ; in evening, could not get warm in bed for a long time; in open air, in evening ; from penetrating wind, not from cold ; with discomfort, like premonition of a storm ; followed by cold sweats.

Febrile paroxysms several times a day, recurring in fore- noon and afterward ; chilliness and shivering, flushes of heat over whole body, violent trembling of all limbs, extreme sickness, even to faintness, qualmish taste, with loathing of morsels of food in mouth, feeling of empti- ness in stomach, violent throbbing through whole body, with short hot breath, with very dry mouth, hot, dry hands.

Chills:, begin after eating dinner; in open air; on ap- proach of a storm ; run down back ; alternate with heat; external, with increased internal warmth ; from touch- ing anything cold; in evening; followed by nausea, eructations, and accumulation of sour water ; from 4 to 8 P.M., on lying down, with subsequent heat and sweat.

Shaking chill with pale, sunken face, weak, rapid and irregular pulse, often with nausea and vomiting ; at last pulse became large and full, with general heat, red face, skin swollen, followed by restless sleep, with distressing dreams and exhaustion, at last copious sweat; attack usually lasted from eight to ten hours, began at end of a day's work, continued through night and ceased in morning.

I I Violent throbbing through whole body, with short, hot breath.

Increased warmth of whole body; only a feeling of coldness in abdomen in evening; except of feet, as if sweat would break out, in afternoon; with sweat in axillae.

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Flushes of heat.

Febrile flushes, with sudden crying out to be fanned, and thirst. :

Heat: internal, with cold sensation in abdomen and on feet; anxious sensation of heat, without any external heat, during night ; of face, with cool body, in forenoon ; in flushes, with violent trembling, and short, hot breath ; with redness of face in • after n on ; in head, in evening- wdth redness and increased warmth indieeks; in head, eyes burned; especially in back; of fingers, followed by heat about throat and in face, with redness of face, fol- lowed by a sensation of coldness in nape of. neck ; almost burning, in various small places, while sitting, for example between thigh and abdomen, on sides of lower abdomen; and burning in soles in evening; with cold- ness of forehead in evening; and thirst with cold skin, over almost M'hole body ; in evening; in evening after lying down, with anxiety all night; followed by cold sweat.

Sweat: profuse all night, wants to uncover; easy, during day, from exercise ; offensive ; sour-smelling ; sour, with fine sticking itching over whole body ; very profuse; profuse on feet; on exercising; on head and hands; toward morning; while walking in open air,

I Night sweat.

I Hands very sweaty.

I Profuse sweat on feet, of a bad odor; he walks feet sore.

Night sweat, especially on low^er extremities; all night, with heat, cannot tolerate any covering.

■ Typhoid: staring eyes; delirium with attempts to get out of bed ; complete unconsciousness ; lying on back and sliding down in bed; grasping at flocks; subsultus tendinum ; constant trembling of hands and coldness of extremities; relaxation of muscles of face ; hippocratic face; pale, waxy complexion of face; decubitus on sac- rum and trochanter; impending paralysis of brain; constant restlessness, tosses about, throws limbs about, slides down in bed; automatic convulsive motions of hands and feet, as in hydrocephalus; utters inarticulate sounds and cries of pain; head hot; lids ulcerated, half closed; pupils fixed, do not react to light; tongue reddish-brown, cracked ; lips and nose sooty ; fluids swallowed eagerly but with difficulty; involuntary stool and urination; stools contain threads of epithe- lium ; pulse very rapid, weak, irregular, or small, intermittent, scarcely perceptible ; upper extremities cool, often covered with cold, clammy sweat.

I 'r Typhus in a man set. 32, second stage ; stupefaction with

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staring eyes ; spoke unconnectedly, with a kind of half- smiling garrulity ; pneumonic symptoms, painful cough, sero-sanguineous sputa, quick superficial breathing, lim- ited pneumonic exudation, frequent involuntary stools, eyes set, facial muscles relaxed, nearly hippocratic, features looked waxy; subsultus tendinura, continuous trembling of hands and coldness of extremities, perfect unconsciousness, murmuring deliria, with desire to leave bed; small, frequent filiform pulse; decubitus. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Periodic attacks: cephalalgia, witli impaired vision.

At intervals: stitches in region of 1. kidney; pressing pain in first phalanx of r. index finger.

Intermittent : tearing in 1. kidney ; pain in brain ; press- ure in 1. chest ; action of heart ; tearing in middle of inner side of 1. upper arm.

Alternating: prickling and drawing in 1. groin; chills and heat.

Every morning, 6 a.m. : sensation as if a web were drawn across throat.

As day advances : headache grows <.

For half an hour : hiccough.

Three hours after dinner: hypochondriac mood.

Every seven days: stabbing pains in abdomen.

Every ten to fourteen days : cephalalgia with amblyopia.

Once in three weeks: stabbing pains in abdomen. " Locality and Direction. Left : as if he would fall to, ver- tigo ; frontal headache ; pressing tearing in frontal eminence; pressure in temple; jerking tearing above temple; stitches in temple; pressure in temple; sharp tearing in parietal bone ; dull pain in head ; pressing, drawing, boring in head; boring in parietal bone; draw- ing tearing in head; drawing in occiput; forcing asun- der in occiput; a dark diagonal line before eye; diplo- pia < ; intolerable pain in eye ; violent pressure in eye; tearing in eye; tearing stitch above e3''e; prickling biting in lower part of eye and on cheek ; twitching in eyeball ; itching of eye ; burning of lid ; pressure on margin of lower lid near inner canthus; green halo around light; burning and smarting in eye; scalding lachrymation; lids adhere on waking; jerking in eye- brow; sticking tearing in and above brow; twitching of lower lid ; pressing burning in lid ; sticking as with needles in upper lid ; itching in margin of upper lid ; purulent discharge from ear; offensive moisture from ear; cramplike pain in lobule of ear; tearing in bone in front of ear; pinching drawing behind ear; sticking tearing in ear; tickling in ear; itching in ear; cutting

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in wing of nose; swelling and painfulness of wing of nose ; itching in nostril ; swelling and itching of cheek ; pressing pain in upper jaw; tearing in cheek; muscu- lar twitches in upper lip; jerking in teeth ; stitches m lower molars ; tearing in upper molars ; tearing ni mo- lars, cheek and temple ; tearing and drawing in lower incisors ; sticking in roots of upper canines and incisors ; sticking in lower molars ; stitches in teeth and jaw to neck ; drawing in upper incisors ; tongue swollen ; ulcer on inner surface of cheek ; pressure and stitches in hypo- chondrium; stitches in abdomen; rumbling in abdo- men ; constrictive pain in lower abdomen ; pain in lower abdomen beginning in region of hip ; stitches in lower abdomen ; tensive pain in abdomen ; as if hernia would occur in groin ; screwing-together sensation in inguinal region; drawing in inguinal region; prickling and draw- ing in groin ; stitches in groin ; soreness in region of kidney ; tearing in region of kidney ; stitches in region of kidney; bruised pain in region of kidney ; boring in ovarian region ; pressure on clavicle ; a spot as large as a hand in chest feels corroded and bruised ; soreness as if beaten in pectoral muscles ; ribs painful ; burning above nipple; pressure, drawing tension in chest; pressure and sticking in chest; tearing in lower chest; tearing beneath axilla; stitches in ribs opposite pit of stomach; dull stitches in upper part of chest ; sticking tearing in chest ; pain in nipple; stitch in clavicle; pulsating near axilla; intercostal neuralgia ; pressure beneath nipple ; draw- ing about nipple, pulsating; sticking beneath breast; stitches in mamma ; feeling of distension in mamma; cramplike stiffness in neck ; tearing in neck ; burning in side and scapula; pressure beneath scapula, sticking in margin of scapula to axilla ; sticking beneath scap- ula; jerking beneath scapula; throbbing under lower third of scapula; burning in axilla; sticking in axilla; stitches in shoulder ; bruised pain in arm ; bruised pain in scapula; rheumatic tension in head of humerus; tearing pressure in shoulder; tearing, extending into axilla beneath arm ; tearing in anterior surface of upper arm; intermittent tearing in middle of inner side of upper arm ; tearing in upper arm near shoulder ; stick- ing and burning in anterior surface of upper arm ; bub- bling in upper arm ; burning in forearm ; drawing in upper arm close to elbow ; twitching of arm in morn- ing ; constant painful heaviness, as if paralyzed, in bend of elbow; tearing up and down in elbow ; sharp tear- ing in forearm ; rheumatic tension above wrist ; tearing in bend of wrist, with tearing stitches on back of hand ;

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tearing and painful throbbing in thumb toward tip; tearing drawing in last phalanges of middle and ring fingers; jerking tearing from first finger joints toward tips; needle stitches through first phalanx of thumb; crawling and throbbing in thumb ; tearing in back of hand ; pressure in ball of hand ; burning in a small spot in hand ; pinching or bruised sticking in ball of hand above little finger; tearing on back of hand; tear- ing drawing in palm of hand between thumb and index finger ; tearing in nates beneath hip ; pulsation in nates ; bruised pain with pinching, heat and burning in hip

. to middle of thigh; hip painful posteriorly; drawing, tearing and burning on hip ; pressing tearing in hip ; heaviness and paralytic pain in femur ; bruised pain on anterior surface of thigh ; painful tearing in thigh ; tear- ing on inner side of thigh ; gnawing and boring in knee; tearing in patella and knee; contraction in knee ; crawl- ing in knee joint ; tensive pain in leg ; pressure between ankle and calf; cramp in calf and foot ; jerking in calf; tearing. in leg; rheumatic tension in ankle; tearing in ankle and back of foot ; drawing in bones of foot ; tear- ing and crawling in back of foot; jerking tearing in outer side of calf; prickling stitches in great toe; feel- ing of congestion of blood in leg ; stitches in testicle ; buboes; involuntary jerking in leg, waking from sleep; pimples on third toe; swelling on wing of nose; furun- cle in pubic region ; boil on upper arm ; biting burning in skin of upper arm posteriorly; painful burning cracks between two fingers; sticking itching in a small spot on fourth finger ; bunion on little toe and ball of foot.

Right: frontal headache; pressing in frontal eminence; dull boring stitch above frontal eminence; tearing in temple; stitches in temple; stitches in ear ; pressure in temple shooting inward ; pressing tearing near Vertex; tearing and sticking in head; boring and pressure in head ; pulsating, pressing and twinging in head ; burst- ing sensation in head; throbbing pain in head; press- ing asunder in Occiput; gnawing in occipital protuber- ance; painful raging in a spot in occiput; tearing in occiput; tensive pressure in e3'e; violent pressure in eye and temple; cutting, pressing stitch in eye'; tick- ling in eye ; biting in eye ; soreness and itching in inner canthus; painful pressure in inner canthus and redness of conjunctiva; biting in inner canthus; conjunctivitis; pressure above eye; pressing down in lids; soreness in upper lid ; sticking as with needles in lower lid ; whiz- zing in front of ear ; ringing in ear ; stitches in ear ; pain

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beneath and in front of ear; itching in ear; pressure in tonsil; tearing in nostril; itching in nostril; drawing in nostril; tearing in nose externally; nose swollen; pressing stitch from zygoma to upper margin of orbit ; tearing bruised pain in malar bone ; neuralgia in head ; face swollen; eye smaller and retracted with neuralgia; scirrhous lump on cheek ; jerking tearing in upper lip ; jerking tearing in lower molars ; tearing in upper teeth ; tearing from tooth to temple ; pressing drawing in lower back teeth; phantom tumor in region of liver; jerkliko tearing drawing and pressure in hypochondrium ; press- ure in abdomen close to hip; stitches in abdomen; bruised sensation in lower abdomen; dull tearing from lower abdomen into groin ; jerking pressure in inguinal region ; pinching in groin ; tearing in region of kidney ; dull stitches in region of kidney; cutting, tearing or drawing pressure in region of kidney ; stitches in chest; burning in chest near pit of stomach ; tensive, bruised pain and stitches in side of chest; pressure, sharp near axilla; tearing in upper ribs and chest; stitches in short ribs; stitch beneath nipple; burning in skin of chest; stitch beneath mamma; pressing pain in mamma; sore pain about nipple ; pressure as with finger on neck when talking; tearing in neck; pressure near scapula; pressure near middle of spine, and below scapula; ten- sion near inner margin of scapula; stitches beneath scapula ; tearing in neck ; dull sticking tearing in axilla; sticking tearing on top of shoulder; dull stitches be- neath shoulder; jerking in shoulder; tearing deep in shoulder; sticking in upper arm ; dull pain in upper arm ; bruised pain in bone of upper arm; tearing in elbow joint; bruised sensation in bend of arm; rheumatic draw- ing in elbow; sticking and tension in elbow joint; dull bubbling tearing in muscles of inner side of forearm, not far from elbow; burning in forearm above wrist; tension in wrist; drawing pain in wrist; rheumatic drawing and tearing in wrist; tearing in middle of wrist; burning pain in wrist and ball of hand ; drawing tearing in thumb; sharp sticking tearing in last joint of thumb; jerking in first joint of thumb ; tearing in thumb, above it and in two adjacent fingers ; tearing beneath nail of thumb; pressing pain in middle joint of index finger, and at intervals in its first phalanx; spasmodic tension of hand ; sticking tearing in hand in bend of wrist, and in palm near little finger ; sharp tearing in hand beneath joints; tearing on back of hand, in fourth and fifth meta- carpal bones and in wrist; tensive tearing in palm; tearing in palm near fingers; sdcking tearing in natis VOL X.— 35.

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below hip; bubbling in natis; tearing posteriorly on hip ; pressing drawing above natis ; dull pressure above hip; heaviness and lameness in thigh; paralytic pain in thigh, first in upper part, then down toward knee; drawing pain in inner side of thigh ; falling asleep of leg as far as knee ; pain in ligamentum patellse; pain- ful boring in knee < ; tension, then burning beneath knee, in upper part of tibia; tensive pain in knee joint; drawing in knee; tearing in knee; stitch in knee; itch- ing in knee joint; pressure and drawing in bones of leg; drawing in tibia; tearing in leg; tearing in end of tibia; tearing beneath inner malleolus; tearing in outer malleolus ; burning beneath inner malleolus ; burning beneath heel; paralyzed feeling in foot; ten- sion in foot; tension in sole; drawing tearing in foot extending into malleoli ; tearing in outer margin of foot toward toes ; sticking tearing in bend of joints of little toe; stitch above foot; ulcerative pain in great toe; tearing in lower portion of two first toes; sticking tearing in first joint of great toe ; sticking tearing in bends of first joints of first two toes; tearing in great toe ; tearing in little toe ; pulsating sticking in tip of great toe ; tearing and tension in margins of foot ; draw- ing and contraction in tendo-Achillis; pain in scrotum; pimple on neck; burning in skin of scapula; eruption and fissure on hand ; burning in skin on margin of hand ; roughness of skin on back of hand ; itching burning on outer side of thigh above knee; burning in skin of lower portion of calf; ulcerative blisters on back of foot; as if toes had been frozen; itching on sole. • Left, then r. : drawing pain in testicles.

Right to 1.: drawing in lower back teeth; sticking in scap- ula; drawing and retraction of testicle. Alternately r. and 1.: throbbing drawing in back teeth; pains in patella and heel. *^ Sensations. As if she had a large goitre which she could not see over; as if hair bristled; uneasy, as if he had committed a crime; as if he would have apoplexy, vertigo ; as if scalp were drawn together ; as if head were moving up and down, with a similar floating of images of his fancy ; as if he saw through a mist ; as if he would fall over to other side ; as if bed were swaying back and forth ; nauseating weakness, as after smoking too strong tobacco ; as if eyes were drawn together by a cord ; stupefying headache, as from coal gas; as if root of nose would be pressed into head ; as if head would be drawn backward; as if air forced itself into frontal sinuses; as if head would burst; asif stunned in occi-

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put; as if scalp wrinkled up and kept tightening; as if insects were crawling from occiput to forehead : pain like beating of waves in a spot on r. side of occiput to outer; as if she had wept much, feeling in eyes ; as from 1. eye, smarting; like a whitlow, burning and throbbing in eye; as from sand in eyes; as if upper lids were paralyzed ; as if teeth would be pulled out, with neu- ralgia; as if teeth were long and loose; as if a hard body were opposing pressure from pharynx into abdo- men ; as if food remained sticking in pharynx after dinner; as if choking in r. side of throat; as of a worm creeping up throat from stomach ; as if stomach were compressed or empty ; disagreeable feeling in cardiac orifice of stomach extending upward ; as if cold water were poured down her back; as of a heavy weight in hypochondria; as if tilled with flatus; as if abdominal walls were retracting against spine ; as if intestines were pierced with fine needles; as if hernia would occur in 1. groin ; as if inguinal gland were swollen ; as if flatus were pressing against coccyx ; as from worms crawling in anus; trembling, as if chilly; as if knees would be twisted off; as if a web were drawn across throat; as if pudenda were swollen ; goneness at pit of stomach at 11 A.M.; as if chest would burst, cough and stitches; as if chest were hollow and cold ; as if chest were constricted by a band ; as if chest were cut to pieces ; as if a foreign substance were rising up throat ; as if beaten in chest ; as of blood forcing its way into finest vessels in lungs; as if there were a sore braised spot in upper chest ; as if corroded and bruised in a spot as large as a hand in 1. chest; emptiness behind sternum ; as if a cap were over heart; as of finger pressed on r. side of neck when talk- ing ; as if shoulder joint were asleep ; as from an ad- hesive plaster near inner margin of r. scapula ; as if weary and beaten in neck and back; as if head had been held in an uncomfortable position, pain in cervical muscles; as ]f one had been l3'ing in an uncomfortable position, pain in small of back; as if muscles in r. wrist were too short ; as if sprained in r. wrist ; as if flesh were loosened from bone in hip joint; as if muscles iu bend of knee were too short, contraction in 1. knee, as if in bone; stitch like a flea-bite, on inner side of r. knee; ankle as if sprained ; as if bone on outer margin of foot would break ; as if soles were swollen and scratched by a toothed instrument ; as if foot had been sprained ; as if tendons in r. sole were too short ; as if feet were beaten from body ; as if toes were sore from walking ; as if there were blisters on toe ; as if toes were sprained ; as if

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ball of great toe bad been frozen ; as of congestion of blood in 1. leg; as if shirt were rough and rubbed penis when walking; as if testicles were tightly compressed and drawn upward; as if body would be forced asunder from pressure upon inner walls of trunk ; as of swelling; as if eyes lay deep in head ; as if a foreign, stony, hard sub- stance were in throat; irritation of skin on back of r. hand, when rubbed seems to go through whole body; as if toes had been frozen ; as if covered with ants.

Intolerable pain : in 1. eye.

Violent pain: in throat; at angle of jaw; in laryngeal region ; in patella and heel.

Severe pain: in region of heart.

Sharp pain: in stomach and pit of stomach.

Heavy pressure: in stomach.

Painful raging: in head, from r. side of occiput over vertex. ; Lightning-like shocks and jerks: neuralgia in r. side of head.

Boring: above r. frontal eminence; in r, side of head; in 1. side of head; in occiput; from rectum into abdomen; in 1. ovarian region ; in knee; in heel.

Lancinations : burning, from foramen infraorbitalis, over r. side of head to occiput; in sacrum; in suppurating herpes.

Stabbing: in abdomen.

Stitches: above r. frontal eminence; in temples; in r, ear; burning, in middle of vertex ; dull, on top of head ; in r. eye ; in ears ; in jaw ; from r. zygoma to upper margin of orbit; in face; in upper lip; fine, in upper lip; in 1. lower molars; from 1. teeth into neck; in 1. liypochon- drium ; in spleen ; dull, from an internal ulcer on r. side above navel ; in r. side of abdomen ; in lower ab- domen; through r. ilium; in umbilical region; in groins; in glans penis; in 1. testicle ; from rectum into root of penis ; in anus ; like lightning, from anus into rectum ; in region of kidneys toward chest; dull, in region of r. kidney; in region of 1. kidney; in urethra; beneath axilla; in r. side of chest; in 1. chest and heart; in middle of sternum ; in upper part of sternum to lumbar region ; beneath sternum ; from r. hypochondrium to prsecordial region; deep in r. chest; dull, in r. short ribs; beneath r. nipple; in region of 1. ribs opposite pit of stomach; in upper part of 1. chest; beneath heart; in 1. clavicle; in trachea; above heart, in prsecordial region; beneath r. mamma; in 1. mamma; in neck and chin; in cervical muscle; beneath r. scapula; close to upper part of r. scapula; in middle of spine; beneath 1.

549 ZINCUM.

scapula; in 1. axilla; dull, beneath r. shoulder; in 1. shoulder; on back of 1. hand; in fingers; in middle joints of last three fingers; in tips of thumbs; through first phalanx of 1, thumb; in thigh; in knee; on inner side of r. knee ; in tibia ; above r. foot ; in bones of back of foot ; in ball of foot ; in heel ; in 1. great toe. Sticking: in head, above 1. eyebrow; in forehead; in temples; in r. side of head ; in a small spot in occiput; in eyes and head; in inner angles of eyes; above_ 1. brow ; in eyelids ; in 1. ear ; in septum of nose ; in artic- ulation of jaw ; beneath and in front of 1. ear; in roots of 1. upper canine and adjacent molars; in 1. lower mo- lars; in palate; in pit of stomach; in prsecordial region ; in r. hypochondrium ; dull, in region of spleen ; in dia- phragm ; in abdomen ; between shoulders ; above in- guinal region; in anus; in region of kidneys; in pu- denda; in larynx; beneath r. axilla; in middle of sternum ; in sternum ; in middle of chest ; in 1. thorax ; beneath 1. breast; from r. to 1. scapula; in margin of 1. SL-a|)ula to axilla; beneath 1. scapula; in r. axilla; on toi)'ofr. shoulder; in r. upper arm ; in anterior surface of 1. upper arm; in r elbow joint; in last joint of r. thumb ; in ball of 1. hand ; in bend of r. wrist and palm near little finger; in r. natis below hip; on back of thigh; in tibiae; insoles; in toes; in first joint of r. great toe ; in bends of first joints of first two r. toes ; in ball of great toe; in top of r. great toe; in joints; in limbs; in a small spot in 1. fourth finger, followed by a red pustule; in anterior ball of great toe.

Darting: through joints.

Stinging: in head; in roots of upper front teeth and in hard palate; in pudenda; in bunion; nettlerash.

Cutting: in abdomen ; in r. eye; in r. ear; in nose ; in 1. ala nasi ; across umbilical region ; in rectum ; in anus ; in region of kidney; in urethra; in abdomen during menses; in small of back during menses; upward in 1. iliac region during [)regnancy ; in small of back to calves and feet; in tips of thumbs.

Shooting: in r. temple; in hypogastrium.

Prickling : in 1. eye and cheek ; in pterygium ; in sound teeth; in 1. groin ; in 1. great toe; in testicles.

Picking: in sound teeth.

Jerking: above 1. temple ; earache; in upper lip ; tooth- ache ; in last lower r. molars ; tearing, from pharynx into 1.- cervical muscles; in r. hypochondrium; from groin toward penis; in r. inguinal region ; from rectum into root of penis; in anus; beneath 1. scapula : in r. shoulder; in elbow joint; from first finger joints of 1.

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hand toward tips; in first joint of r. thumb; dull, on inner side of thigh ; in 1. calf; in root of penis. Tearing: in brain; in head, above 1. eyebrow; in 1. frontal eminence; in forehead; in temples; above 1. temple; cramplike in temples; in vertex; in 1. parietal bone ; in r. side of head ; in r. side of occiput; in ears ; in 1. eye ; stitch above 1. eye and in umbilical region ; in eyes and head ; above 1. brow; in ears ; in front of 1. ear ; in 1. ear close to lobule ; in r. nostril ; in 1. cheek ; in r. malar bone; in upper lip; craraplike in lower jaw, especially chin; stitches in chin and throat; in roots of r. upper teeth ; in 1. upper molars; from root of r. upper tooth toward temple; in a hollow molar ; in last lower 1. mo- lars ; in posterior fauces ; in pharynx ; in pit of stom- acli ; in r. hypochondrium; from r. lower abdomen into groin ; in 1. side of lower abdomen, beginning in region of hip; in umbilical region; in anus; in region of 1. kidney; in region of r. kidney; in urethra; above pit of stomach; beneath axilla; in r. upper ribs near back; in r. chest; in 1. chest; in neck and chin ; in r. side of neck and below jaw; in neck behind 1. ear ; between spine and r. scapula ; in r. side of neck ; in r. axilla ; on top of r. shoulder; in shoulder joints; arthritic, in shoulder joint to fingers; deep in r. shoulder; in 1. shoul- der; in shoulder joint deep in bone; in 1. axilla; in upper arms from deltoid down ; in anterior surface of 1. upper arm near elbow; in r. arm near shoulder; in middle of innersideofl. upper arm; in 1. upper arm near shoulder; inarmsclosetoelbow; in r.elbow joint; in bend of elbows; in thick portion of forearm ; dull bubbling, in muscles of inner side of r. forearm near elbow ; in 1. forearm ; in r. wrist toward backs of fingers; in bend of 1. wrist; in 1. thumb toward tip ; in tips of fingers ; in last phalanges of 1. middle and ring finger; in r. thumb; in last joint of r. thumb ; in fingers; in middle joints of last three fingers; beneath nail of r. thumb; in metacarpal bones of index fingers; in first joints and phalanges of fingers; in back of 1. hand ; from wrist to first phalanx of thumb ; in bend of r. wrist and palm near little finger; in r. hand ; at root of hand ; on back of r. hand and in wrist; in r. palm; in back of 1. hand; in 1. palm; in nates below hips; on back of r. hip; posteriorly in 1. hip; on crest of ilium ; in thighs; in thick portions of thighs; on outer side of thigh as if in bone; in 1. thigh upward from knee; in inner side of 1. thigh ; in bends of knees; in r. knee; in r. calf; in outer side of 1. patella; in 1. knee; on inner side of 1. leg, between ankle and calf; in ' calves; in tibia to back of foot; in r. leg beneath knee;

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in 1. leg between tibia and ankle ; in calf to malleoli ; in lower end of r. tibia; in r. outer malleolus ; beneath r. inner malleolus to heel ; in bend of ankle ; on margin and on back of 1. foot ; in tendons Achillis ; in r. foot and malleoli ; in inner malleoli ; in outer margin of r. foot; on back of 1. foot; in heels; in soles; in toes; m tip of great toe and beneath nail ; in first joint of r. great toe ; in bends of first joints of first two r. toes ; in r. great toe ; in r. little toe ; in margins of r. foot ; in tip of glans penis; in root of penis; in limbs; in middles of bones of limbs. Drawing: in forehead ; in vertex ; in 1. side of head ; m r. parietal bone ; in r. occiput ; in 1. side of occiput ; behind 1. ear; in r. nostril; jerklike in incisors; in 1. lower teeth; in 1. upper incisors; in lower back teeth; in roots of upper front teeth and in hard palace ; in r. lower back teeth ; alternately of back teeth of r. and 1. sides; in jaws; in pharynx; in pit of stomach; in r. hypochondrium; cramplike in middle of abdomen; from abdomen into urethra; in 1. inguinal region; in groin and pubic regions; in 1. groin; from rectum into abdomen ; in region of r. kidney ; acute, in fore- part of urethra and penis; rheumatic, beneath clav- icle ; tension here and there in 1. chest; about 1. nipple; in r. side of neck; in cervical muscles; in back; from top of shoulder down arms; in 1. upper arm close to elbow ; from tips of fingers up arm ; rheumatic, m r. elbow; in bone of forearm; cramplike, in forearm and fingers; in r. wrist; rheumatic, in r. wrist; in I. pha- langes of 1. middle and ring fingers ; in r. thumb ; in 1. palm ; in nates ; above r. natis ; on posterior portion of thigh ; posteriorly in 1. hip ; in thighs ; in inner side of r. thigh; in outer muscles of thigh ; in r. knee ; in calves; in bones of r. leg ; in legs; inr. tibia; in bones of 1. foot; in r. foot and malleoli ; in inner malleoli and tendons Achillis; in toes; in root of penis; in testicles; in sper- matic cord ; in middles of bones of limbs.

Twinging: in r. side of head ; stitch like lightning in urethra; in chest.

Twisting pain: in abdomen.

Gnawing: as from worms in forehead; in r. occipital pro- tuberances; in upper part of occiput; in 1. knee.

Pinching: behind 1. ear ; in ear ; in root of nose ; m pit of stomach ; in hepatic region ; in 1. hypochondrium ; in r. groin; in region of kidneys; in chest; in forepart of r. chest; in both sides of neck near trunk; in small spots in back ; in coccyx ; in region of 1. hip ; in ball of 1. hand.

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Screwing-together sensation: in sides of head ; in pit of stomach ; in 1. inguinal region.

Screwed-in sensation : in small of back.

Griping : deep in epigastrium ; in hepatic region ; in sides of abdomen and umbilical region ; in abdomen.

Cramplike pain: in lobule of 1. ear; in pit of throat; in muscles of throat externally when swallowing; in pit of stomach; in hepatic region; in hypochondria; in bladder; inchest to stomach and abdomen; in heart and lungs; in leg; in calves; in calf and 1. foot; in muscles.

Cramplike dragging : in pit of stomach and epigastric . region.

Tensive pain : in sides of abdomen; inchest; in spine; between shoulders; in lumbar region and shoulders; in hip joints; in hollow of knee; in r. knee joint; in 1. leg.

Distension : in 1. mamma.

Bursting : in r. parietal bone.

Pressure: on top of head; under short ribs, especially r. side ; at root of nose ; and dulness in head ; on root of nose ; upon a small spot on forehead ; on forehead ; in r. frontal eminence ; in 1. frontal eminence ; in 1. temple; in temples; cramplike, in temples; in r. side of head ; in 1. side of head ; in occiput ; in a small spot in occi- put; eyes as if pressed inward ; tensive, in r. eye; in r. eye and in temples; in 1. eye while walking in open air; in eyes and lids ; in margin of 1. lower lid near inner canthus; across root of nose; above r. eye; in r. tonsil ; in upper jaw ; in r. lower back teeth ; from below up- ward in oesophagus ; in tonsils ; from pharynx down into abdomen ; in middle of spine with eructation ; in pit of stomach ; in stomach ; downward on bladder, rectum and uterus; in 1. hypochondrium ; in r. hypo- chondrium; under short ribs; in abdomen ; in pubic region ; in sides of abdomen and umbilical region ; in r. side of abdomen close to hip ; low down in abdomen ; between pit of stomach and navel ; in r. inguinal region ; in groin and pubic region ; from rectum into abdomen; in region of kidneys; upon bladder; on pudenda ; upon chest ; in thorax ; cramplike, in chest and pit of stom- ach ; at r. extremity of 1. clavicle; beneath r. axilla; in middle of sternum ; on upper part of sternum ; sharp, near r. axilla; here and there, over whole chest; on 1. clavicle; in 1. side of chest; tearing, in lower 1. chest; in heart; beneath 1. nipple; in r. mamma; sore, about r. nipple; as with finger, on r. side of neck, when talking; in spine; upon small spot on back, near r. scapula; r.

553 ZINCUM.

side, near middle of spine; beneath 1. scapula; close to r. scapula ; in lower portion of spine; beneath r. scapula ; in lumbar and sacral regions; in shoulders; in middle of upper arm; in 1. shoulder; rheumatic, in elbows; in middle joint and first phalanx of r. index finger ; in ball of 1. hand ; at root of hand ; above r. natis ; on posterior portion of thigh; dull, above r. hip ; along tibia; in bones of r. leg ; on inner side of leg, between ankle and calf; beneath outer malleolus; upon inner walls of trunk.

Pressing asunder: in r. side of occiput; in 1. side of oc- ciput.

Bearing down : in abdomen after stool.

Pushing pain : in coccyx.

Dragging pain: in abdomen; in occiput; in abdomen and small of back, during menses.

Bruised pain: in occiput; in bones of face and orbit; in r. malar bone; in r. side of lower abdomen ; in region of 1. kidney ; in r. side of chest; in back ; in 1. arm and deltoid; in a small spot in axilla; in 1. scapula; iiibone of r. upper arm ; in bend of r. arm ; in forearm ; in ball of 1. hand; in region of 1. hip; in hip joint; in gluteal and posterior femoral muscles ; on anterior surface of 1. thigh; in knee joints ; in bends of knees; in 1. knee; in limbs.

Biting: in 1. eye and cheek; in eye; in r. inner canthus; in outer canthus; on lower surface of tongue; on inner surface of gums; in palate; from flatus; on abdomen toward chest; in orifice of urethra; in pudenda; in skin of 1. upper arm posteriorly ; on back of r. hand ; in ulcer.

Burning: in 1. side and scapula; in back and small of back; along whole spine ; in shoulder blades; in 1. ax- illa; in anterior surface of 1. upper arm; in 1. forearm ; above r. wrist; in r. wrist and ball of hand ; in a small spot in 1. hand ; in region of 1. hip'; posteriorly in 1. hip ; below r. knee; in tibia; beneath r. inner malleolus; be- neath r. heel ; in soles ; in bones of back of foot ; in ball of great toe; in small places; insoles; in skin of r. scap- ula; in skin of 1. upper arm posteriorly; in skin on margin of r. hand; in cracks between fingers of 1. hand; in pustule on 1. fourth finger; on flexor surface of fingers; on outer side of r. thigh above knee ; in skin of lower r. calf; in ulcer.

Soreness : in head ; in vertex ; of scalp and hair ; in r. inner canthus; in pterygium; iii r. upper lid ; of outer canthus; in nose; of teeth; in inner side of gums; of tongue; in upper part of chest; in 1. hypochondriura ; in rectum ; at anus ; in region of 1. kidney ; in forepart

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of urethra ; as if beaten, in 1. pectoral muscles ; in chest; in a small spot in axilla; in outer muscles of thigh; in sides of scrotum and thigh ; in pimples.

Rawness: in throat; in pharynx; inchest.

Scraping : in larynx ; in pharynx.

Aching : in temples ; in stomach ; in pubic region ; in sides of abdomen and umbilical region ; in lumbar region ; about last lumbar vertebrse ; in coccyx.

Smarting: in 1. eye; in lower lip; on inner surface of lower lip ; in roots of upper front teeth and in hard palate ; in rectum; in hemorrhoids; in pudenda.

Dull pain : across frontal sinuses ; in forehead ; in vertex ; in. 1. side of head ; in epigastrium and r. side of umbil- icus ; in r. upper arm ; in knee.

Throbbing: in head; in r. frontal region; in forehead; in vertex; in r. side of head; in eye; in a hollow tooth; alternately of back teeth of r. and 1. sides ; near 1. ax- illa ; under lower third of 1. scapula ; in 1. thumb toward tip ; in knees ; through whole body ; in pustule on 1. fourth finger.

Pulsating : in 1. hypochondriuni ; in 1. nipple; in 1. natis ; in tendons Achillis ; in tip of r. great toe.

Suppurative pain : in scalp ; in nail of great toe.

Ulcerative pain : in soles ; in r. great toe ; in heels ; in pimple on neck.

Neuralgic pains: in subcutaneous cellular tissue; follow- ing herpes zoster.

Rheumatic pain: in spine; inlumbar region and shoulders; in deltoids.

Paralytic pain : in small of back ; in 1. femur ; in r, thigh.

Contraction : in r. tendo- Achillis.

Constriction: in throat; in oesophagus; in 1. side of lower abdomen.

Tightness: in temples; in vertex; in muscles of calf; in pit of stomach during menses ; in chest ; beneath sternum.

Tension : in abdomen ; beneath r. axilla ; in sternum ; in r. side of chest ; here and there in 1. chest ; spasmodic in' heart ; in neck ; in r. side of neck ; in cervical muscles; beneath r. scapula; in small of back; in lumbar and sacral region; between shoulders; in shoulder joints; rheumatic, in head of 1. humerus; in both arms ; in r. elbow joint ; in r. wrist ; rheu- matic above 1. wrist; in hand; in metacarpal bone of little finger; below r. knee; along tibia; in calves; in r. tibia ; in 1. ankle ; in r. foot ; in r. sole ; in margins of r. foot.

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Stiffness: in neck ; in cervical and upper dorsal muscles; of muscles of calf ; of legs.

Dulness : in forehead ; in occiput.

Lightness : in head.

Heaviness: of head ; in forehead ; in vertex; in occiput; in hypochondria and loins; in abdomen; in rectum; in heart; in shoulders; in bend of 1. elbow ; in r. thigh ; in 1. femur ; in r. foot and malleoli ; in legs.

Fulness : in oesophagus ; in abdomen.

Uneasiness : in legs.

Bubbling : in 1. upper arm ; in r. natis.

Formication : in calves and toes.

Tickling : in r. eye as from dust ; in 1. ear ; in larynx ; beneath sternum ; in trachea and middle of chest ; in upper third of chest, both sides.

Crawling: in forehead; in ears; in nose; from abdomen into urethra ; in anus; in 1. thumb; in 1. knee joints ; of back of 1. foot ; in calves to toes ; in skin of whole body.

Tingling : in head ; inside of cheek ; at anus.

Itching: of eyes ; in r. inner canthus ; in inner angles of eyes ; in margin of 1. upper lid ; in ears ; in nostrils ; of 1. cheek ; on inner surface of gums ; in rectum ; in anus; in urethra; in pudenda; of vulva; of thighs and hollows of knees; on r. knee joint; in joints and bends of joints ; as from flea-bites on back and abdomen ; on scrotum ; -about nipples ; between scapulse ; spots on back; papular eruption on forearm; points in skin; on outer side of r. thigh above knee; on thigh above "knee; of thighs and liollows of knee ; pimples on legs; on r. toes ; of great toe as if frozen ; on anterior ball of great toe; in r. sole; in soles ; on flexor surface of joints; nettlerash.

Roughness : in chest.

Weakness: in head and eyes ; in hands and feet; in ster- num ; in small of back and legs ; in lumbar and sacral regions ; in arms ; of hands ; in hollows of knees ; of limbs.

Numbness: of tongue; of shoulder joint ; in 1. thumb; of r. leg ; of feet ; in soles.

Lameness : of hands ; in r. thigh.

Deadness : of hands.

Paralyzed feeling: in small of back and hips; in arms; in bend of 1. elbow ; in r. foot.

Fidgety feeling : in legs and feet.

Heat: in eye; in palate ; in 1. thumb ; in region of 1. hip.

Coldness: in stomach ; within abdomen; in chest; in nape of neck.

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Dryness: in eyes and lids; in eyeballs; of lips; in throat; *' Tissues. Cerebral exhaustion.

Emaciation; feeble appearance, face wrinkled and bluish.

Paleness of mucous surfaces, with disappearance of sub- cutaneous cellular tissue, and atrophy of muscular system.

Weak digestion, depressed function of nutrition, with cerebral affections; constipation, with affections of liver or flatulent colic ; gastric troubles during pregnancy.

Anaemia; brain exhausted; notable to develop exanthe- mata.

Drops}'', with uneasiness in renal region.

A state of the blood which in its qualitative analysis ap- proaches chlorosis ; want of vitality, as we find it after physical and psychical depression; heaviness and weak- ness in all organs, as we see in suppressed catamenia, but when menses flow it relieves all her suflerings; cough harassing and troublesome, strength is wanting for expectoration ; feels as if his bladder would burst, still there is not energy enough to pass a good stream, small quantities only are discharged ; stools scanty, dry, brittle, granulous.

Dyspeptic symptoms; subdued nausea, with a universal tremulous feeling; irregular spasmodic action of heart.

Clonic spasms, as well as following coma, find their cause in cerebral exhaustion.

General articular rheumatism, with tearing pain, lame- ness, trembling and crampy pain ; twisting in affected limbs, frequent jerking of whole body during sleep, < from being overheated and from exertion.

I I Rheumatism affecting muscles of sacrum, coccyx, ilium and 1. hip joint, and leg of 1. side; soreness of })arts upon pressure by ends of fingers, and sore pains from any movement requiring exercise of muscles; when sitting or lying down little or no pain ; < rising from chair, from stooping, turning body or bending it ba<'k- ward, drawing a long breath, coughing or sneezing; pains in hip joint and knee, occasionally passing along course of great ischiatic nerve to foot.

Ulcers: old; indolent; herpetic; bleeding and burning; destitute of feeling; redness of surrounding skin, with sensation of tenseness; pus bloody and corroding.

A large abscess on 1. heel matured more quickly after Ziitcum 30.

QEdema and general anasarca of cellular tissue ; dropsies following scarlet fever.

Dropsical effusions of all serous cavities.

Relief of thoracic symptoms by expectoration; relief of

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cystic symptoms by urination; in male, relief of back- ache by seminal emission, and in female, general ame- lioration from menstrual flow. ^' Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Touch: scalp feels sore ; pain as after a blow beneath and in front of r. ear ; neuralgia fifth pair < ; ulcer at root of a bad tooth sen- sitive; gums bleed; swelling of palate painful; enlarged liver sore;

< stitches in internal ulcer above navel ; 1. kidney sensitive; mammse swollen and sore; ribs of 1. thorax painful ; tenderness over cardiac region ; 1. nip- ple sore; spine sensitive; bruised pain in forearm; sore- ness of glans penis ; r. side of scrotum painful ; decrease of sensibility ; soreness of pimples ; tetter on back pain- ful ; itching here and there in skin >.

Contact: itching >.

Pressure: conjunctivitis > ; bruised pain in r. malar bone; pain in hollow molar < ; in abdomen, nausea and vom- iting; tenderness over stomach; stitches in spleen <; stitches in 1. side of abdomen < ; constrictive pain in lower abdomen; pain in 1. ovarian region >; stitches in trachea < ; 1. thigh sore; pain in r. ligamentum pa- tellse ; soreness and pricking pains in joints.

Squeezing hands upon sides of head: headache >.

Must unfasten dress: during menses.

Rubbing : > biting in 1. eye ; biting in r. inner canthus

> ; tearing in r. elbow joint > ; tearing in r. knee > ; tearing in r. outer malleolus > ; skin on back of r. hand sends irritation through whole body; feeling as if toes had been frozen < ; stinging itching in skin, with net- tlerash ; general formication >.

Scratching: soreness of vertex > ; tearing in r. shoulder

> ; causes itching to appear in another place; urtica- ria-like eruption on thighs and hollows of knees; "> itching in pimples on thigh; feeling as if toes had been frozen <.

Jarring: pain in abdomen <.

Riding : headache < ; tearing in hand from wrist to first phalanx of thumb.

Bruise : orchitis.

After operation to eye: sees luminous bodies; intense burning. *' Skin. Skin dry.

Pains, seemingly between skin and flesh.

Itching: of skin; in bends of joints; sudden, here and there, especially in evening in bed, goes off by contact; as from lice at night, after scratching it appears in an- other place.

Pimples on forehead, back and third 1. toe, with sore, pressing pain when touched.

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Small white pimples with some moisture, on upper lip, chin and forehead after moderate wine drinking.

Papular eruption on face.

Crusty eruption on face.

Itching on face in evening.

A red, hard, painful swelling on 1. wing of nose, painful to pressure.

Clear water blisters or suppurated pimples on upper lip.

Papular eruption on upper lip.

Flat red pimples in middle of upper lip, in margin pain- ful to touch.

Itching on upper lip, chin and about mouth without eruption.

Very itching pimples almost in middle of chin.

Violent itching and redness over whole protruding por- tion of chin.

Many small pustules near together beneath chin, with vio- lent itching.

Large, yellowish-white itching pimples on lower lip.

Frequent violent itching as from numerous flea-bites, at night, especially on back and abdomen.

A red, finally a dark-red furuncle, with a hard areola, containing a dark-yellow pus developed on pubic region, somewhat to 1. side.

Itching on scrotum violent, almost sore, not > by scratch- ing, several evenings in succession.

A small, red, painfully sore pimple at root of hair on scrotum.

Red pimples on chest and face.

Itching about nipples, she constantly wanted to scratch.

A pimple with ulcerative pain on pressure on r. side of neck.

Small pimples like boils on both shoulders.

Itching between scapulae in evening, with much eruption.

Burning on skin of r. scapula.

Small boils on back and between scapulae.

Itching spots on back ; tetter painful to touch.

A large boil on 1. upper arm.

Biting burning posteriorly in upper part of skin of 1. arm.

Eruption of rash in bend of elbow.

Papular eruption on forearm, itching violently during day.

Right hand very much broken out with well-marked ten- dency to formation of painful fissures.

Itching pimple on back of hand.

Biting on back of r. hand, extending above wrist, as if an eruption would appear.

Some itching points in skin, especially on hands, without external redness or elevations.

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Small round red spots on hands and fingers.

A pimple beneath skin of bend of last joint of ring finger.

Burning in skin on margin of r. hand.

Koughness of skin on back of r. hand, accompanied by

very intense irritation when rubbed, seems to go through

whole body; discharging vesicles; < when he takes

in succession, with pimples which are easily scratched off. ■ Itching of thighs and hollows of knees in evening, very

as if they had been frozen, in evening; < rubbing and

evening. Bunion on 1. little toe and ball of foot, with stinging pain

intolerable at night. Sticking, pricking, itching in evening in bed, on forehead,

thigh, malleoli, feet and other parts of skin. Sudden itching here and there, especially in evening in

bed, immediately disappearing on touch.

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Itching over whole body without eruption.

Fine sticking itching over whole body, with sour sweat.

Crawling in skin of whole body.

Stinging itching in skin, with nettlerash after rubbing.

General formication as if covered with ants, > only by rubbing.

Slight injury of skin bleeds very profusely.

Biting and burning pain in an ulcer.

I Dry herpes over whole body.

Suppurating herpes; with lancinating pains.

■ Neuralgia, following herpes zoster.

I After disappearance of old eruptions: coma from cere- bral exhaustion ; loss of sensation of whole body ; mania; somnambulism.

lExanthematic fevers, brain exhausted; not able to de- velop eruption; fever in flashes, or violent convulsions from suppressed eruptions.

I I Lies unconscious and motionless; pulse weak, cannot be counted ; limbs icy-cold ; skin of body bluish-red, ex- cept about eyes, forehead and chin, which were white; eruption very scanty. ^Scarlatina.

I I Scarlet fever eruption appeared two days ago, now of a ■ dark-brownish or purple look ; skin flabby ; cold ; child lying unconscious, having neither feeling, sight nor hearing; remained quiet, apparently having no power of motion ; involuntary urination and defecation ; one pupil contracted, the other dilated, acting feebly and slowly to light; face puffed and red.

I I A child, set. 2|, somewhat scrofulous; in night twitch- ing of limbs, shocks through whole body, violent screaming, face pale and sunken, forehead cold, covered with clammy perspiration ; skin cool and dry, pulse small, quick, easily compressed, breathing short and quick, stool involuntary. ^Scarlatina.

I I During desquamation took cold, following night skin hot and dry, muttering during sleep ; symptoms of convulsions, urine scanty, brown ; face oedematous. ^Scarlatina.

I I Child, set. 4, scrofulous, overfed ; does not move, pulse filiform; perfect unconsciousness ; extremities icy-cold, body cool, skin everywhere livid except parts around eyes, forehead and chin, which were white; exanthera here and there.

I I While suffering with scarlatina, witli the eruption fully out, ran out of doors during his delirium ; eruption rapidly disappeared; was soon seized with convulsions; collapse.

MA woman set. 34, slight eruption on neck and upper

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part of chest ; head and face swollen like a case of con- fluent smallpox, all the same color, brown mahogany ; high fever; hoarse, croupy cough; conscious but con- vulsed ; it was with great difflculty hands, especially thumbs, could be moved ; wrists and arms stiff, numb and dead. ^Measles.

Retrocession of eruption ; child lies motionless and un- conscious ; involuntary jerking and twitching of mus- cles ; grinding of teeth ; screaming spells ; loss of speech ; occiput very hot and forehead covered with cold perspiration; face distorted; body and limbs cold and of a bluish-red hue; pulse threadlike and difficult to count. ^Scarlet fever. *' Stages of Life, Constitution. Girl, set. 2|, well nourished, scrofulous; scarlet fever.

Girl, 8et. 3; meningitis.

Boy, set. 3, blonde, well nourished, ill ten days; typhoid fever.

Boy, set. 4, tall, strong, scrofulous ; scarlet fever.

Boy, set. 4, after an attack of typhoid ; affection of brain.

Child, set. 4 ; scarlet fever.

Girl, set. 16, blonde; hsematuria.

Girl, set. 18, mulatto; spasms.

Miss, set. 21, small, slender, brunette; spasms.

Miss, set. 24, robust, suffering four years ; headache.

Miss, set. 24, tall, suffers with dysmenorrhoea ; colic.

Miss B,, set. 24, suffering two years; chlorotic headache.

Miss T., set. 30, caught cold when 17 years old, during menstruation, since then suffering; neuralgia, dysmen- orrhoea, etc.

Man, set. 32, sanguine-choleric temperament ; typhoid fever.

Woman, set. 34, dark-skinned, had taken arsenic for an eruption on face ; measles.

Miss, set. 37 ; affection of eyes.

Woman, set. 38, brunette, thin, nervous, gentle disposition; prosopalgia.

Woman, set. 40; pterygium.

AVoman, set. 40, suffering several years ; asthma.

Woman, set. 40, strong, suffering two years; headache.

Miss, set. 42 ; ovarian difficulty.

Man, set. 45 ; urinary difficulty.

Man, set. 48, sandy hair, blue eyes; tarsal tumors.

Woman, set. 48, suffering three years; epilepsy.

Captain Erickson, set. 50, sailor, after great exposure ; bronchitis.

Woman, set. 55; pain in back.

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Pulsat. και Lycop. σε κολικούς· Plumb. και Podoph. σε κοιλιακά συμπτώματα· Kohalt. και Sepia σε σπονδυλικούς πόνους· Argent. nitr. σε τρόμους.