Caladium Seguinum

Caladium seguinum. Araceoe.

Δοκιμάστηκε (proving) στο Σουρινάμ, όπου αποτελεί συνηθισμένο δηλητήριο, το 1830, και δημοσιεύτηκε στα Stapfs Archives το 1832. Άλλη μια δοκιμασία, από τον Schreter, έναν από τους καλύτερους δικούς μας, ακολούθησε το 1842. Η τελευταία και καλύτερη δοκιμασία όλων είναι του E. W. Berridge.

^ Νους. B Απώλεια συνείδησης ή κώμα. ^Typhus.

Μωλωπισμένη πίεση στο δεξιό κρόταφο, στα μάτια και στο μέτωπο.

I Ανοίγει τα μάτια της και ρωτά: Πού είμαι; τι θέλετε όλοι εσείς γύρω μου; Λίγες στιγμές μετά, Calad.'^^ ^Typhus. Πολύ λησμονικός· δεν μπορεί να θυμηθεί αν όσα έπρεπε να έχει κάνει και να έχει γράψει κατά τη διάρκεια της ημέρας έχουν πράγματι ολοκληρωθεί, μέχρι να πείσει τον εαυτό του γι' αυτό. Απρόσεκτος, αφηρημένος.

I Παραλήρημα, ακατανόητο μουρμούρισμα. ^Typhus. Δυνατές κραυγές για μια αρρώστια, σαν παιδί, με ασυνάρτητο φλυάρισμα.

I I Τόσο αντίθετος με το φάρμακο, ώστε χρειαζόταν απελπιστική προσπάθεια για να το ξεπεράσει. Πριν το μεσημέρι ανήσυχος και απρόθυμος για δουλειά, κατόπιν πολύ απασχολημένος, αλλά λησμονικός. I Καταθλιπμένος νους, ανικανότητα. Άγχος, πριν τον ύπνο. I 1 Πολύ προσεκτικός για την υγεία του· με άγχος. Φόβος ότι θα κολλήσει οστρακιά όταν παρακολουθεί μια περίπτωση· ένας φόβος που δεν είχε ποτέ πριν. Φόβος ότι θα κόψει τον εαυτό του ενώ ξυρίζεται. ■ Ασέλγες ιδέες. ^Gleet. ^Impotence. Θάρρος.

Γκρινιάρης και νυσταγμένος το πρωί. Εξοργίζεται εύκολα με τα πάντα. Νευρικότητα.

Ανήσυχος, δεν μπορεί να ελέγξει τον εαυτό του μετά το κάπνισμα. Ακραία διέγερση.

Αδυναμία, λιποθυμία κατά το σηκωμα, ή μετά από πνευματική κόπωση. ^ Κέντρο αισθήσεων. Βαριά αίσθηση στο κεφάλι και νυσταγμός μετά το πρωινό. Το κεφάλι μπερδεμένο σαν από ένα βαρύ φορτίο. Βλ. 18. Αίσθηση μουδιάσματος.

Σύγχυση και στροβιλισμοί στο κεφάλι, με ναυτία. Λίγο ζαλισμένος μετά το περπάτημα.

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I 1 Αίσθηση λίκνισης και ζάλης αφού ξαπλώσει και κλείσει τα μάτια, που εμποδίζει τον ύπνο.

I I Ίλιγγος και ναυτία, το πρωί, με σουβλιές στο βάθος του στομαχιού.

Αίσθηση σπασμού μεταξύ των ώμων και στον εγκέφαλο ενώ περπατά, σαν να θα έπεφτε. ^ Εσωτερικό του κεφαλιού. Κεφαλαλγία, αριστερή πλευρά, κυρίως στο μέτωπο και στο ινίο.

Μέτωπο: πίεση μετά το κάπνισμα· εκρηκτικός πόνος· διάτρηση.

Σουβλιά στο δεξιό κρόταφο, ιδίως στο δεξιό μάτι.

Διάτρηση και σουβλιά στο αριστερό κρόταφο, ανακουφίζεται με πίεση.

Τσίμπημα στο δεξιό κρόταφο και στο μάτι.

Πίεση στην αριστερή πλευρά πάνω στην οποία είχε ξαπλώσει· εξαφανίζεται όταν κάθεται.

Τεντωμένος πόνος στους κροτάφους, με νυσταγμό.

Τράβηγμα στο ινίο· τραβηγμένο σπάσιμο, προς τα πάνω μέσα στο κεφάλι.

Κεφαλαλγία σαν από βαρύ φορτίο. Βλ. 2 και 18.

Κεφαλαλγία, με πόνο στον ώμο.

Βαριά πιεστική κεφαλαλγία μετά τη μεσημεριανή ανάπαυση.

Κατά το ξύπνημα, μωλωπισμένη πίεση στο δεξιό κρόταφο.

Θερμότητα ανεβαίνει από κάτω προς το κεφάλι και γίνεται μια εσωτερική καυτή θερμότητα.

Περιστασιακή θερμότητα στο κεφάλι. * Εξωτερικό του κεφαλιού. Το αριστερό μισό του κεφαλιού νιώθει σαν κοιμισμένο.

Σουβλιές σαν με καρφίτσες στο δέρμα της μπροστινής части του κεφαλιού.

Σπυράκια στο τριχωτό πίσω από το αυτί, ευαίσθητα στην αφή. ® Όραση και Μάτια. Καύση στα μάτια.

Σουβλιές στα μάτια.

I I Σουβλιές στο δεξιό μάτι και σφύξιμο στο αριστερό γόνατο.

I I Σουβλιές στο αριστερό μάτι και σε ένα corn.

Ευαίσθητη, μωλωπισμένη πίεση στα μάτια και στο μέτωπο, με θερμότητα στο πρόσωπο, και ανησυχία που μόλις που μπορεί να ελέγξει, ενώ καπνίζει· ακολουθεί πολύ ξερόβηχας βλέννας και γλοιώδης εμετός, με ώθηση για κόπρανα.

Πίεση στους οφθαλμικούς βολβούς, με επώδυνη ευαισθησία όταν αγγίζονται.

Τα μάτια νιώθουν πολύ μεγάλα και είναι φλεγμονισμένα.

I I Τα μάτια κλείνουν, ακόμη και ενώ περπατά σε ανοιχτό αέρα, με νυσταγμό πριν το δείπνο, και τάση στους κροτάφους.

Κατά το κλείσιμο των ματιών: ίλιγγος. ® Ακοή και Αυτιά. Ευαίσθητος στον θόρυβο.

I Ακραία ευαισθησία στον θόρυβο, ιδίως αν θέλει να κοιμηθεί.

I I Όταν πρόκειται να κοιμηθεί ξυπνά από το δίπλωμα του χαρτιού· είναι ευαίσθητος σε αυτό.

■ Ο ελάχιστος θόρυβος την ξαφνιάζει από τον ύπνο. ^Typhus.

Κελαηδισμός στα αυτιά.

Βουητό στα αυτιά, συχνά κατά τη διάρκεια της ημέρας.

I Κάτι φαίνεται να τοποθετείται μπροστά στα αυτιά, ακόμη και μπροστά στο κουφό, ώστε να μην μπορεί να ακούσει για λίγο.

Δυνατός πόνος στο αυτί κατά τον πυρετό.

Σουβλιές στο αριστερό αυτί, με διάτρητο πονόδοντο.

CALADIUM. 106 n Σφύξιμο στο δεξιό αυτί, και μια αίσθηση γύρω του σαν ζεστό νερό να κυκλοφορεί γύρω του σε κύκλο.

Σφύξιμο με μια αίσθηση γύρω από το δεξιό αυτί σαν να ήταν κοιμισμένο.

Σφύξιμο και μυρμήγκιασμα γύρω από το δεξιό αυτί.

Καύση στο εξωτερικό άνω χείλος των αυτιών, χωρίς ερυθρότητα ή θερμότητα.

Γαργάλημα και φαγούρα στο δεξιό αυτί, τα βράδια.

Σπυράκια πάνω και πίσω από το αριστερό αυτί. ^ Όσφρηση και Μύτη, ' l Έκκριση αίματος και βλέννας όταν φυσά τη μύτη.

Απότομη καύση στο άνω μέρος της μύτης, κατόπιν ένα μακροχρόνιο ερεθισμό για φτέρνισμα σαν από πιπέρι· και τέλος βίαιο, σύντομο φτέρνισμα, ακολουθούμενο από ρευστή ρινίτιδα.

Εξισθμανούσα καύση στη μύτη.

Επώδυνα σπυράκια στη δεξιά πλευρά του ρινικού διαφράγματος. ^ Άνω Πρόσωπο, Σουβλιές στο δέρμα του μετώπου σαν με βελόνες.

Δαγκωτική-καυτή σουβλιά στα μάγουλα· σουβλιές σαν με βελόνες.

I I Θερμότητα στο πρόσωπο· κόκκινο, φλογισμένο πρόσωπο.

Αίσθηση σαν ιστοί αράχνης να κολλάνε εδώ κι εκεί, ή σαν μια μύγα να σέρνεται στο πρόσωπο.

II Οι μύγες κάθονται πιο συχνά στο πρόσωπο και στο κεφάλι του. Βλ. 40. ^ Κάτω Πρόσωπο, l Ξαπλωμένος με το στόμα μισάνοιχτο σε κώμα. ^Typhus.

Στεγνά χείλη, με δίψα, τον ξυπνούν τη νύχτα.

Στόμα, χείλη και γλώσσα πρησμένα.

Αδένες στην κάτω γνάθο πρησμένοι, μετά από πυρετό. ^° Δόντια και Ούλα, Μετά από διαβρωτικό, όξινο εμετό, τα δόντια νιώθουν πολύ μακριά.

Τράβηγμα στους αριστερούς γομφίους από πάνω προς τα κάτω· από το δεξιό αυτί προς

morning. ^^ Taste and Tongue. Insipid taste on tongue, herbaceous, with

quantities of albuminous saliva. ^^ Inner Mouth. Diminished saliva.

Saliva like white of eggs, running out in large quantities ; t.

Mouth is sticky and herby.

Sensation in mouth as if burnt with kreosote.

Burning in mouth and fauces.

I I Mucous membrane of mouth uniformly very red; curtains

of palate exceedingly red, but not swollen ; uvula slightly

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Fauces and pharjnx dry, not mouth.

i 1 Scratchy sensation in throat as of something sharp, or with a dry sensation and much hawking.

I I Hawking phlegm and vomiting after smoking.

Dryness in fauces and pharynx, not in mouth, without thirst, and with aversion to cold water.

I I Complained of dryness and burning in throat. ^Typhoid. Tickling in throat, with cough (after one hour), often renewed

during day.

Evenings, after theatre, he is hungry, contrary to custom, but eats nothing; nausea, in morning, while half asleep, with a sensation of faintness, as if he had over-eaten and must vomit; when fully awake this sensation ceased.

After vomit from smoking, eats bread and butter with relish.

Eats only because stomach feels hollow, but very hastily, and is soon satisfied.

I Eats, but without hunger. ^Impotence.

Thirst with dry lips wakes him at night.

■ Wakens wants drink and swallows it with greatest haste. /^Typhus.

I Desire to drink without thirst.

I Thirst and want of appetite before coma. ^Typhus.

After eating he drinks, but only because there is something very dry lying in stomach.

I I Thirstless with fever.

I Does not drink at all for many days ; he wants beer, but is not thirsty ; he could not have taken a drop.

Does not drink the whole day.

Dry fauces and pharynx without thirst and with aversion to cold water.

I Thirstless, even aversion to cold water ; he drinks only warm drinks. ^Impotence.

Milk tasted sour and was repugnant.

Longing for beer, without decided thirst; he was not able to drink water throughout proving.

Desire to smoke, which disagrees. ^^ Eating and Drinking, Before dinner : sleepy. •- Hasty eating.

Takes his breakfast with hunger and relish, but is hardly satis- fied when he becomes ill-humored and uncomfortable ; head exceedingly confused, and he grows sleepy.

After eating : oppression of chest; sensation as if food lay dry in stomach ; wants to drink.

From smoking : headache ; pressure in eyes ; nausea ; vomit-

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ing of slime ; urging to stool ; cramp in soles ; when lying down, itching of fingers.

Vinegar and all acids disagree. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Long con- tinuing hiccough.

I I Incomplete eructations, because they are hindered by burn- ing pressure in abdomen.

■ Frequent eructations of very little wind, as if stomach were full of dry food. t'Asthma.

I I Nausea : with confusion in head ; with vertigo ; with stitches in pit of stomach ; with hollowness in stomach ; with faint- ing feeling during morning slumber.

After, and while smoking his accustomed tobacco : nausea and inclination to vomit.

While smoking a cigar : sudden inclination to vomit ; he must stop smoking ; at same time urgency to stool, so that he thought he could scarcely retain it, yet is obliged to strain hard to get rid of pappy yellow stool.

Corroding sour vomit with phlegm, after smoking.

Acrid sour vomit, makes teeth feel too long. ^"^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pressure in pit of stomach im- pedes respiration and causes cough.

Stitches in pit of stomach, which is drawn inward with every stitch ; < when sitting ; it makes him weak and nauseated.

Stitches, as with needles, deep in pit of stomach.

Cutting through epigastrium and 1. flank, as with glass, after midnight, and preventing sleep.

Cutting in umbilical region.

Throbbing in pit of stomach, after walking ; it makes him very tired.

Pain deep, internally, when pressing on pit of stomach.

Constant sensation as if a bird were fluttering in stomach and trying to escape, causing nausea in stomach, but without retching, from morning till afternoon.

Pressure, extending upward-; at last it is like a gnawing in orifice of stomach, preventing deep inhalation and belching.

I I Burning in stomach, which is not relieved by drinking; it continues the whole evening, after drinking tea and choc- olate.

Dull internal burning in stomach and upper part of abdomen ; at last it becomes a very severe pressure, extending upward under breast, and then a gnawing in orifice of stomach, which prevents deep breathing and eructations.

Empty hollow feeling in stomach. ^^Hypochondria. Stitches, jerkings, and pressure in region of

spleen. ^^ Abdomen. BFelt, three or four times, a sensation as if a long

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worm were writhing in region of transverse colon or duo- denum.

Spasmodic cutting in abdomen, at navel ; must bend himself double.

Sudden twisting pain in abdomen, in evening.

Violent throbbing, mostly above, to right of navel ; throbbing with inner heat, much prostrating heaviness in epigastrium.

Violent pulsating or burning in upper part of abdomen.

Strong pulsation in epigastrium ; each throb gives him a jerk.

Burning-pressing in abdomen.

Burning in abdomen leaves a dull ache.

Coldness from abdomen to feet.

Warmth in abdomen ; heat at night.

I Burning. ^Typhlitis.

I Burning in hypogastric region. ^Cystitis.

Pain deep in abdomen when exerting pressure in epigastrium.

Abdomen is painful to touch, especially region of bladder.

Abdomen sore to touch, as if beaten, after cough.

Abdomen very hard, distended, painful to. pressure.

If pain extends into abdomen it leaves behind a dull pressure.

Speechless ; he touches his belly as seat of pain ; t. ^° Stool and Rectum. Escape of small quantities of flatus. ,

Evacuations of consistence of pap and in small quantity.

Stool omits the first day, with a feeling of diarrhoea, in evening.

Urgency to stool; passage of noisy flatus at first; is compelled to strain hard to eject soft pappy stool.

Noisy flatus before soft stool, with much efibrt.

After breakfast a second stool; after much urging a little lump of phlegm, covered with blood, passes.

Frequent urging for a soft, pasty, yellow stool.

Stools at first watery, afterward thicker.

I I Very scanty, pasty stool.

Soft stool, yellow, pasty ; he was scarcely dressed after move- ment before he was obliged to go again,

I I Stools soft, afterward passage of thin red blood.

Soft stool, after one hour, followed by passage of blood ; later, moving about, and burrowing in abdomen; hsemorrhoidal symptoms, an hour after a second stool, with passage of blood after evacuation.

After stool thin red blood passes in considerable quantities.

Mucus passes after stool, and later, a thin fluid flows from anus.

Obstruction of bowels, with fever heat.

I Stool omitted before and with coma. ^Typhus.

I Stool has been retained since beginning of disease, which be- gan with chill. ^Typhoid.

Stitches as of knives in rectum.

Stitches in rectum soon after stool.

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Boring, digging in anus and sacrum. 21 Urinary Organs. I Sensation of fullness in bladder; region of

bladder sore to pressure. ^Cjistitis. Region of bladder painful to touch ; without desire to urinate,

bladder seems as if full, followed by moderate urination. Spasmodic drawing sidewise, from bladder towards penis, or

E I Urine oflFensive, with sediment. ^Impotence. ^Gleet.

I Scanty, putrid smelling urine, in evening. ^Impotence.

^^ Male Sesual Organs. I Sexual desire with relaxed penis, or

painful erections without desire. ■ Impotence, with mental depression. Impotency ; penis remains relaxed during excitement and

sexual desire. Erections, when half asleep, mornings, that ceased when fully

awake. An erection in morning and cohabits, but suddenly his desire

ceased, and he did not know if there was an emission or not. No erection, even after amorous caresses.

Painful erections, without sexual desire; it alternates one morn- ing with desire, with relaxed penis. Incomplete erection ; it seems as though it were broken, with

cause a desire to rub it; prepuce is very much swollen along

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I I Prepuce very much swollen along its margin, sore and very

■ painful, biting on urinating. After coition painful erection.

Sexual organs seem larger, as if puffed, relaxed and sweating ;

scaly. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Pain in abdomen, with pressure on

uterus. I Itching followed three months later by a mucous discharge

and a very troublesome eruption of pimples around genitals.

■ Frequently returning itching over genitals, finally with volup-

tuousness.

■ Violent itching on external genitals compelled her to scratch

in spite of punishment ; reduced her in body and mind.

I BPruritis vaginae ; induces onanism ; during pregnancy.

Onanism, with mucous discharge, and pimples around parts. ^'Pregnancy. iPruritis vaginee.

Larynx and trachea seem to be constricted; deep breathing impeded.

Unable to speak a word on account of vocal chords being swol- len, and from continual cough.

Epiglottis and adjacent parts decidedly swollen, and exceed- ingly painful to pressure.

When asked where he suffered, he pointed to his larynx, then to his mouth, and lastly to his stomach.

Cough, on attempting to speak.

I I Wheezing when taking a deep, breath, and irritation to cough felt above larynx.

Oppression of chest, with burning in stomach ; oppression also continues afterwards.

Larynx feels constricted with wheezing respiration.

Panting-breathing at night, with fever. See 40.

Fever with chilliness and thirst ; wheezing in chest ; coryza : throbbing in chest.

■ Breathes in sighing jerks, during unconsciousness and great

heat. ^Typhus. Respiration very incomplete, inspiration catching ; sinking in

his hand every moment.

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Asthma : great oppression, could scarcely get his breath ; feels as if mucus would cause suffocation, but without anxiety ; attacks after eating, or after siesta ; when rash on forearm disappears ; in alternation with rash on chest.

■ Asthmatic complaints. ^^ Cough. Sudden and involuntary cough, caused by an irritation high up in throat; it is a half cough, half moan.

Pressure in pit of stomach causes cough ; later heaviness there prevents his cough.

Cough was not spasmodic, was without expectoration, and ag- gravated if he attempted to speak a word.

Incessant cough of a hoarse sound.

Cough, no sputa, but wheezing.

He desires to cough, but heaviness in pit of stomach will not permit it.

Weak, toneless cough ; at night, prevents sleep ; continues next morning.

Weak, but continuous cough ; raises little hard lumps ; chest then feels hollow or empty.

Cough in slight, weak, sensitive paroxysms, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus.

Cough, lasting from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Cough at first prevents sleep at night, later also in morning; weeks after seldom, but more violent; throbbing in chest and coryza after fever. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Stitches in chest, in evening.

Dull sticking in r. side of chest, with oppression ; < on 1., > when lying on r. side, evenings, in bed.

Stitches as with needles on a small spot between 1. nipple and axilla, very deep inside, neither breathing nor moving in- fluences it.

Pressive sticking in 1. side of chest, near sternum.

Throbbing in chest, with night fever.

Hollowness and emptiness in chest after expectoration. ^' Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Pulse: hard and bounding in intermittents ; very frequent, hardly to be felt in typhus.

Peculiar throbbing below heart, not palpitation, only perceptible on applying hand. See 31.

Pulse small and frequent ; t.

I Pulse hard and bounding. ^Intermittent.

Hard, full, jerking pulse.

Small pulse with cold sweat.

B Pulse was rapid, but scarcely perceptible. ^Typhoid. ^^ Outer Chest. Fluttering sensation below cardiac region.

On straightening up, cracking below last ribs, as if one rib had been dislocated and snapped back again.

Ribs and small of back feel as if beaten when rising in morning.

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Itching, burning rash on forearm and chest, alternating with

asthma. ^^ Neck and Back. Between shoulders, rheumatic pain ; can

hardly turn in bed ; feels beating of pulse when lying down. Between shoulders a spasmodic sensation in walking as if he

not suflicient strength in sacrum ; stitches during certain

when ulnar nerve is struck, or, by some people, when look- ing down from a height ; felt towards evening and lasted till

sleep, causing her to rub them hard. Left thumb numb and as if asleep ; also little finger, with

crawls. All fingers felt very large, like sausages ; she could not use

them well ; they felt as if they were going to be paralyzed ;

When standing, his knees feel weak and tremble ; is obliged to

sit down. Left knee : throbbing pain when lying, evenings ; as if being

fatigued and ill-humored.

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I Lying in bed with mouth partly open ; 4th day. ^Typhus. Sitting : headache disappears ; pressing in side > ; stitches at

pit of stomach <; ; furuncle on buttocks painful.

Rising : faintness.

Standing : knees weak, trembling and painful.

Turning : rheumatic pain between shoulders <C.

Bending: cutting in abdomen >.

Straightening up : cracking below last rib.

Walking : dizziness ; cramping between shoulders and in brain ; discomfort after pickled fish in evening > ; throbbing in umbilical region ; spasm between shoulders ; stitches in sacrum ; cracking in knees and aching ; tires ; has to take hold of something to prevent falling.

Motion : faintness after writing.

I I Aversion to motion; dreads it; I wants to lie down all the time, but, making an effort, he is strong enough.

^® Nerves. Frequent startings during sleep.

■ Lies entirely unconscious; single shocks convulsed her body

from time to time ; 9 p.m. the 7th day. ^Typhus.

I Tremors and fear of having an attack. ^Epileptic patient.

Heaviness in morning and all forenoon.

Weakening stitches.

Prostrated by throbbing in abdomen.

Must lie down and close eyes, when it seemed as if he were rocked.

Debility obliging him to lie down.

Faintness after writing, when reflecting, lying, and on rising up, or with nausea. ^^ Sleep. Grows sleepy and fretful again at 7 in morning, and would like to return to bed.

Sleepy in morning, after rising ; his eyes close while walking in open air, with nausea and qualmishness in stomach, where a sensation of emptiness is felt, with weakness and prostra- tion in knees.

Sleepy before dinner, must close his eyes ; sleepy in early evening, cannot keep awake.

■ Sank back upon her pillow again (after drinking) and im-

he shivers, and is dizzy. Everything disturbs him in sleep, I I most noises, even rattling

of paper ; cough ; cannot get asleep till 1 o'clock at night. I Starting in sleep, moaning and groaning.

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A sort of slumber (light sleep) ; nausea ; faintness ; heat, in

morning ; erections. During a confused slumber, everything comes to his mind,

which he had forgotten while awake. I Coma after the crawls. ^Typhus.

■ Unconsciousness and coma. ^Typhus.

Excessive erections, at 4 a.m., without desire ; deep sleep towards 6 a.m., so that he can scarcely rouse himself, with vivid dreams of persons, whom he has not seen for years.

Restless night, with heat ; is obliged to uncover, with light slumber.

During sleep : internal fever disappears.

Pie groans and moans anxiously in sleep, so that he wakes neighbors several times in night, and for several nights.

Everything troubles him in sleep.

Sleep at night restless, with confused dreams.

Restless, anxious dreams.

Very clear, vivid dreams.

Dreams of dead persons, and events of past years, so vivid that when he awakes, he falls asleep again directly, and con- tinues to dream of them.

■ Started from her slumber at slightest noise. ^Typhus.

lit seem-ed uncertain whether she was always aroused by a noise, or whether she was not often aroused by thirst ; each time she was aroused, she asked for water. ^Typhus.

A nap during day lessens all symptoms. 'After siesta: headache; oppression of chest.

On awaking : headache, also after siesta ; still sleepy, fretful ; thirst, with dry lips ; arms asleep. ^^ Time. Night: awakened by dry lips and thirst; heat in ab- domen; itching of scrotum < ; tickling cough <; panting breath; toneless weak cough; cough from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.; cramp in soles ; restless and hot ; corrosive burning of skin on cheek, nose, toes.

Midnight : cutting in pit of stomach.

After midnight : stitches through epigastrium and 1. flank ; chill ; abdomen cold, feet hot.

Morning: vertigo, nausea, with stitches at pit of stomach; on waking, stupefying pressure in r. temple ; toothache ; nausea while half asleep ; during slumber, faintness ; nau- seating fluttering in stomach ; after breakfast, second stool ; erections when half asleep; has erection and cohabits, desire suddenly ceases ; erection without desire ; cough continues ; ribs and small of back as if beaten ; sacral region and back feel bruised ; pain in sacrum ; arms asleep, can hardly move them ; heaviness of limbs ; limbs weak, fatigued ; 7 a.m., sleepy and fretful ; emptiness at stomach ; weakness of

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knees ; excessive erections, 4 a.m. ; deep sleep at 6 a.m. ; 9 A.M., burning sensation.

Afternoon : heaviness.

During day : roaring in ears ; tickling cough ; does not drink ; must lie down.

Evening : tickling and itching in r. ear ; toothache ; burn- ing in stomach ; twisting in abdomen ; urine scanty and putrid ; feeling of diarrhoea ; stitches in urethra ; dull stitches in r. chest; itching of fingers; throbbing in 1. knee ; convulsed by shocks ; sleepy ; cold until midnight ; chilly ; cold from abdomen to feet ; heat and thirst till midnight ; burning sensation, 7 P M. ; hands, face and abdomen hot, feet cold till midnight ; 9 p.m., sweet odor of sweat ; sweat with prostration ; itching of skin. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Worse from warmth, warm air, warm bed ; most complaints during the heat of day (tropics).

Has to uncover during fever heat.

Better in doors.

Open air : sweat followed by chill.

Cold water lessens the burning.

■ Result of catching cold. ^Typhoid.

Cold : aversion to cold water ; water, corrosive itching of skin >. ^^ Fever. ' ' Coldness of single parts, sometimes with crawling.

Cold, in evening till midnight, with thirst, panting, beating in chest ; coryza.

Chilliness over back and whole body, with drawing pains in 1. little finger, that feels as if full and gone to sleep, besides a pulled, stretched sensation in whole body. ..

Chilly, in evening, without thirst ; coldness extends from ab- domen to feet; they are icy-cold, as also are fingers.

1 1 Began with a chill, thirst and loss of appetite. ^Typhoid.

Heat before midnight, during sleep, passing off quickly on awaking.

Fever after seven days; heat with thirst; violent pain in ear; swollen submaxillary glands, and constipation.

Fever the ninth day ; heat with thirst, in evening, till mid- night; it again wakes him, when it disappears.

Fever on twelfth and thirteenth days; in evening, till raid- night, coldness with thirst, catching in chest, therewith he feels sleepy ; it wakes him again about midnight, and then disappears, together with throbbing in chest and coryza.

I In morning at 9 and in evening at 7 o'clock a burning sensa- tion, during which patient often started up and mumbled un- intelligible words. ^Typhoid.

Heat only internal, with throbbing in body.

Heat rises up in head.

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Internal feverish, heat, exhausting sweat, as from oppressive heat.

Heat with drowsiness.

Internal fever disappears during sleep.

llFalls asleep during evening fever, and wakes when it. stops.

Heat after midday sleep, then sweat, then chill in open air.

Heat before midnight, chill after.

Heat of hands, face, and abdomen, with cold feet before mid- night ; after midnight, abdomen is cold, feet hot, without thirst.

■ Sweat attracts flies, which bother him very much.

■ She perspired at times, and her sweat had quite a sweetish

odor. ^Typhus.

I Sweet odor of sweat, especially when she appeared to be dy- ing, at 9 P.M., 7th day.

Sweats easily.

Scanty sweat.

Gentle sweat with internal heat and prostration.

Cold sweat all over.

Sweat with earache ; with drowsiness.

Sweat toward evening, with prostration, yawning, and sleepi- ness.

Sweat relieved all symptoms.

After siesta : heat, then sweat followed by chill in open air.

Catarrhal fever with chilliness, thirst, and throbbing in chest. Locality and Direction. Right: sticking in temple and eye ; stinging in temple and eye ; stupefying pressure in temple on waking ; stitches in eye ; throbbing in ear and feeling of warm water around it ; throbbing, formication and feeling as if ear asleep; tickling and itching in ear; pimples on septufn of nose ; drawing from ear to teeth ; beside navel, throbbing; dull stitches in chest.

Left: boring and sticking in temple; pressing in side from ly- ing ; side of head as if asleep ; throbbing in knee ; stitches in eye ; stitches in ear ; pimples on and behind ear ; draw- ing in molars ; stitches through flank as with glass ; stinging and drawing in ureter ; stitches between nipple and axilla ; sticking near sternum ; throbbing in knee ; stitches in a corn on little toe.

Left to right : headache ; pressure in temples ; boring stitches in temples.

Above down : drawing in 1. molars.

Below up : heat ascends into head ; burning in abdomen to breast.

Behind forward : drawing from bladder to penis. ** Sensations. Sensations in 1. half of head as if asleep.

Sensation of something before ear preventing hearing ; sensa- tion as if r. ear asleep ; sensation of something dry lying in

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stomach; sensation as of diarrhoea, in evening; in palms like

pins and needles. Sensitiveness: of pimples behind ear; of eyeballs; of abdomen

to touch and pressure; of bladder to touch and pressure; to ' pressure of epiglottis and adjacent parts. Cutting : through epigastrium and 1. flank ; in umbilical

eyes ; in r. eye ; in 1. eye ; in 1. ear ; in ear ; on cheek ; in

splenic region ; knife-like, in rectum ; in urethra; in penis;

in chest ; between 1. nipple and axilla ; in back ; in sacrum

when walking. Sticking : in r. temple and eye ; in 1. temple ; in chest near

sternum, 1. side ; in corn of 1. little toe; in fresh wounds. Stinging : in r. temple and eye ; deep in hypogastrium ; in 1.

ureter. Boring : in forehead ; in 1. temple ; in teeth ; in anus and

bladder towards penis ; in 1. ureter ; in arms ; in 1. little

nose ; stitches, on cheek ; in mouth and fauces ; in throat ;

in abdomen ; in stomach ; in hypogastrium ; in urethra ;

and itching rash on forearm and chest ; corroding, on toes ;

stupefying, in r. temple ; in eyes ; in abdomen ; in pit of

stomach ; in splenic region ; on uterus. Pain : headache in forehead and occiput ; headache as from a

load ; pressing headache ; in pimples on r. side of nasal sep-

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turn ; headache from smoking ; at pit of stomach ; deep in abdomen ; in region of bladder ; during urination ; sore and corrosive pain of prepuce after coition ; rheumatic, between shoulders ; backache ; in sacrum ; in shoulders ; between bones of forearm.

Discomfort : in evening, after pickled fish.

Largeness : of eyes ; of fingers.

Beating : in chest.

Fluttering : in stomach ; below cardiac region.

Throbbing : in 1. knee ; in r. ear ; in pit of stomach ; to right of navel; inchest; below heart; of body with internal heat.

Pulsating : in upper abdomen ; in epigastrium.

Tension : in temples.

Contraction : of larynx and trachea.

Twittering : in ears.

Dullness : in head.

Oppression : of chest.

Heaviness : in epigastrium ; in pit of stomach prevents cough ; in nervous system.

Fullness : in bladder ; in little finger.

Hollowness : in stomach ; in chest.

Faintness : in morning ; in morning during slumber ; after writing.

Weakness : in sacrum ; of knees when standing ; of limbs.

Warmth : as of water around r. ear ; in abdomen.

Coldness : from abdomen to feet.

Spasm : sensation like, between shoulders.

Numbness : in head ; in 1. thumb and little finger.

Formication : around r. ear.

Itching : in r. ear ; of fingers when lying ; eruption on scro- tum ; of female genitals ; and burning eruption on inner forearm.

Tickling : in r. ear ; in throat causes cough.

Crawling : as of a fly over face, or spider-webs sticking here and there.

Cracking : below last ribs on straightening body ; in 1. knee when stepping.

Dryness ; inflammation of mucous membranes.

Soft parts retracted.

Glands swollen.

Joints crack ; pain like dislocation.

Bruised feeling in joints.

Phthisis ; typhus ; prurigo.

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hind ear sensitive ; sensitiveness of eye-balls ; abdomen painful, especially near bladder ; must touch the part.

Pricking in palms, like from pins and needles, has to rub them hard, toward evening, lasting till sleep.

Pressure : boring and sticking in temple > ; abdomen pain- ful ; soreness near bladder.

Riding : discomfort in evening, after pickled fish.

I Mosquito-bites burn, itch intensely. ^^ Skin. Frequent attacks of violent and corrosive burning in small places of skin on cheek, nose, toes and other places, at night, obliging him to rub.

Crawling.

On skin, especially in face, frequent sensation, as if a fly were crawling there.

Stitches like needles.

Itching, evening, after going to bed ; has to scratch.

Violent corrosive itching, burning; must touch parts, but can- not scratch there ; feeling as from splinters of glass ; no swelling, but much heat ; bright red spots on face, eyes, throat, arms ; >> from cold water.

Fly-bites burn and itch severely.

Kash, with white vesicles, on wrist, forearm and elbow ; it itches from heat at night, burns internally after scratching.

Nettle-rash on inner side of forearm, consisting of very red pimples, which itch and burn very much, after three to four days, when it disappears ; immediately great oppression of chest, so that he could scarcely get breath, as if mucus would suffocate him, without anxiety ; especially after eat- ing, and after midday nap.

White, suppurating pimples, with red areolag, appear here and there on body, with an itching sensation, sore to touch.

Pimples : scalp ; ear ; nose ; mons veneris.

Painful pimples on septum of nose, r. side.

A furuncle had formed on buttock, that pained him severely, when sitting. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitutiono Lax phlegmatic temperament.

Girl, set. four ; irresistable itching on genitals. 6 drops of tincture in 3 ounces of water, every 3 hours.

I Girl, set. 20; suddenly attacked with genital itching after 3 months. 8 drops of tincture in 6 ounces of water, every 3 hours a tablespoonful.

I A widow, upwards of 40, mother of a large family. ^Typhus. *® Relations. Family relations : Aimm draeon., Arum mac.^ Arum tripli.

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the fever; Qarh. veg. removed the rash, Hyosc. lessened the

night cough, Zingiber the asthma. Mercur. relieved the

and Ipec. in typhoid, Caldd. cured completely.

Nitr. ac Compare: the ^racgte generally ; II Aeon., iBryon., it Caustic.,

Carh. veg., Canthar., llCapsic., Hyosc, \Ignat., iLycop.,

iMercur., \Nitr. ac, llNux vom., tJPhosphor., llPulsat.,

I Sepia, I Sulphur, Zingih.