Graphites

Plumbago; black lead. Carbon, amorphous.

The purified Graphite prepared by trituration and potentized. Introduced by Hahnemann. See Chronische Krankheiten. Proved by Hahnemann and his provers. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 467.

Clinical Authorities Headache, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 197 ; Her- petic eruption on scalp, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 98 ; Tinea capitis, A.

H. O., vol. 4, p. 436 ; Eczema capitis (4 cases), Arcularius, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 63 ; Goul- lon, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 55;

Eruption on head, Edgar, Organon, vol. 3, p. 98; Keratitis, Norton, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 47 ; Herpes cornea, Payr, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 71 ; Pustule on cornea, Allen, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 58;

Chronic pustular inflam- mation of cornea, Norton, Oph. Therap., p. 9.0 ; Conjunctivitis, Kreuss, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 233; Affections of eye, Cooper, Horn. Eev., vol. 13, p. 675; Goullon, Hah.

Mo., vol. 7, p. 273; Ophthalmia, Goullon, Eaue's Eec , 1873, p. 66; Scrofu- lous inflammation of eyes, Hirschel, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 124 ; Blepharitis ciliaris, Cooper, Hughes' Pharm., p. 383; Styes, Klinert, Eiick. Kl.

Erf, vol. 5, p. 106; Cystic tumors of eyelids, Eaue's Eec , 1875, p. 39 ; Wens of eyelids (several cases), "VVesselhoeft, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 71 ; Deafness, Macfarlan, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 64;

Hardness of hearing, Eentsch, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 1, p. 364; Catarrh nf Eus- tachian tube, G.

M. O., Med. Adv., vol. 3, p. 213; Soreness in nose, Hirsch, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 102;

Inflammation of nose, Eosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 172; Nasal catarrh, Eosenberg, Eiick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 166; Ozcena, Kafka, Eosenberg, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 123; Martin, A.

J. H. M. M., vol 2, p. 274;

Crusts about nostrils, Bayes, Hughes' Pharm., p. 383 ; Cracked lips, Plirsch, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p.81; Gaslrodynia, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 134; Cardialgia, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 5 ;

Hah. Mo., vol. 7, p. 274 ; Gastrulgia, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 142; Cramp instomach, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 112;

Gastric catarrh, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 117; Burning in hypochondrium, Morgan, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 4; A. J.

H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 126; Colic, Eing, A.

J. H. M. M., vol. 2, p. 262;

Gastro-inteslinal affection itdth erythema of face, Bernard and Strong, p. 46; Ascites, Miller, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 163; Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 163;

Diarrhoea, Morgan, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 4; Williamson, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 188; Constipa- tion, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 129, and 1875, p. 160; Hcemorrhoids, Preston, Organon, vol. 3, p. 359;

Morgan, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 4; Smith, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 132 ; Gillet, Eiick. Kl.

Erf, vol. 1, p. 998; Fissures of anus, Dunham, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 217; Marston, Horn. Eev., vol. 13, p. 760;

Tcenia, Goullon, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 503;

Seminal emissions (4 cases), Neidhard, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 242; Stricture of urethra, Morgan, A. J. H.

M. M., vol. 4, p. 75 ; Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 4; Gleet, Gardiner, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 170;

Hydrocele, Hughes' Pharm., p. 383 ; Nunez, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 219 ; Miiller, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 169; Muller, Eiick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 585 ; Black, B. J.

H., vol. 7, p. 526 ; Ovarian tumors.

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Dudgeon, B. J. H., vol. 31, p. 183; Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 229 ;

Ovarian tumor; uterine hemorrhage, Ussher, Organon, vol. 3, pi 89; Cancer uteri, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 175; Dysmenorrhcea, Neidliard, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 254; Raue's Rec, 1875, p, 181;

Lobeth, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 232; Amenorrhea, Hocking, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 233 ;

Goullon, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 178 ; Knorr, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 232;

Goullon, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 232 ; Wesselhceft, Times Retros., 1876, p. 11;

Menstrual disturbance, Stens, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 178; Goullon, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 180; Pruritus vagince, Holcombe, Raue's Rec, 1873, p. 175; Leucorrhcea, Neidhard, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 247;

Molin, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 362; Eaue's Rec, 1875, p. 173;

Suffocative paroxysms, Landesmann, Raue's Rec, 1873, p. 109; Whooping-cough, Morgan, Raue's Eec, 1872, p. 114; Induration and cicatriza- tion of mammce, Whittier, Times Retros., 1876, p. 12; Cicatrices after mammary ab- scess, Guernsey, Raue's Rec, 1871, p. 4;

Mammary cancer, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 181 ; Glandular swellings of neck, Hirsch, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 87 ; Eruption on neck, Goullon, Raue's Rec, 1871. p. 211; Psoriasis palmaris, Bayes, Hughes' Pharm., p. 382 ;

Eczema of hand, Goullon, Raue's Eec, 1871, p. 210 ; Affection of finger, Kreuss, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 559 ;

Disease of finger-nail, Hasbrouck, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 255 ; Ulcers on feet, Kretschman, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 283 ;

(Edema pedum, Miiller, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 169; Hypertrophy of nail, Hirsch, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 206; Neuralgia, Bojanus, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 183; Hysteria, Goullon, Eaue's Rec, 1873, p. 203;

Spasms, Goullon, Hah. Mo., vol. 7, i). 274; Convulsions, Vil- liers, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 4, p. 562; Paralysis, Neidhard, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 367 ; Chlorosis, Kapper, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 603 ; Scrofulosis, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 259 ; Goullon, N. A.

J. H., vol. 23, p. 223 ; Meniagra (3 cases), Biihr, Hughes' Pharm., p. 382; Dropsy, Weber, B.

J. H., vol. 34, p. 708; Prurigo, Wes- selhceft, Times Eetros., 1875, p. 135 ; Miiller, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 295 ;

Erysipelas, Payne, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 134; Goullon, Kretschmar, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 4, p. 142;

Bojanus, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 66; Lippe, Times Eetros., 1877, p. 25; Effects of vaccination, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 254; Phus poisoning, Morgan, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 85;

McNeil, Times Eetros., 1877, p. 25; Eczema, Hirsch, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 293; Eczema squamosum, Hirsch, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 291 ; Eczema impe- tiginoides, Hirsch, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 292 ;

Hale, Hughes' Pharm., p. 382 ; Ec- zema chronica, Goullon, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 293; Herpetic eruption on scalp; on nape of neck, Goullon, Raue's Eec, 1873, p. 64; Herpes zoster.

Miller, Times Eet- ros., 1876, p. 11; Zona, Lobethal, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 160;

Miller, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 291 ; Afi'ections of skin, Kretschmar, Diez, Hirschel, Dudgeon, Hirsch, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 240;

Eruption, Morgan, A. J, H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 121 ;

Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 4; Chronic eruption, Ji'mg, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 293; Fis- sures, Gilchrist, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 212.

* Mind. iForgetfulness; dim recollection of recent events. • Weakness in head, can scarcely think.

■ Slow in thought; absent minded. I Dread of work.

Mood: changeable; forlorn; depressed; dejected.

■ iSadness, with thoughts of nothing but death.

llSad, despondent; she must weep; music makes her

weep. I I Oppression.

441 GRAPHITES.

1 1 Feels miserable, unhappy.

I Grief about slightest occurrences, even to despair. llApprehensiveness, with inclination to weep, in frequent attacks.

■ Extreme apprehensiveness, so that she did not know how

to overcome it.

■ It frequently seemed to him as though his end was near,

or the greatest misfortunes were impending.

■ Full of fear in the mornings.

■ Solicitude concerning spiritual welfare.

■ Great anxiety.

■ ■Fidgety while sitting at work.

■ Desperate state of mind. ^Ophthalmia after syphilis._

■ Extreme hesitation; she is unable to make up her mind

about anything ; timidity.

■ Irritability. (/Gastrodynia.

■ Fretful; ill-humored; easily vexed; irritable.

■ Extremely fretful; everything angers and offends him.

■ Impudent, teasing, laughs at reprimands. ^Cough after

pertussis. I I Very easily excited ; hot hands even from speaking.

■ Scientific labor fatigues him.

■ Thoughts of many things at night prevent sleep.

■ Ailments from grief (or fright).

^ Sensormm. i i Weakness of head down to neck.

■ Desolate, empty feeling in head.

■ Dulness of head.

■ Beclouded feeling in forehead.

I i Confusion of head, in morning, with nausea and sour vomiting.

■ Feels as if drunken when rising from bed in morning.

■ Attacks of dizziness, with inclination to fall forward.

■ Vertigo : during and after stooping ; on looking upwards ;

in the morning on awaking ; in evening ; was obliged to lie down ; with inclination to fall forward ; venous stagnation.

■ Rush of blood with feeling of heat in head.

I I Congestion to head with roaring in ears, in young people. I I Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses.

■ Forehead ; pressure deep in ; drawing ; tearing ; bursting.

Lancinating pain in right temple, with flickering before eyes and lassitude ; heaviness of eyelids.

■Transient stitches in 1. temple.

I I Stinging or stitching pains in temples.

■ Pain from 1. temple down side of face to shoulder; face

distorted ; 1. corner of mouth drawn inward and down- ward. JPeriodical, unilateral headache; numbness in 1. side of

GRAPHITES. 442.

head ; violent nausea with straining and retching ; ob- stinate constipation. ^Amenorrhoea.

I I Semilateral headache, early in morning, in bed, with in- clination to vomit.

■Tearing pain in one side of head, in teeth and glands of throat.

■ Throbbing in sides of head.

I I Oppressive headache on top of head. iPressive pain: in vertex; in occiput.

I I Pain as if constricted, especially in occiput, extending to- nape of neck, which pains on looking up, as if broken.

1 1 Pain as if head were numb and pithy. iPressive pain in head.

■ Violent headache, with eructations and nausea, during

menstruation.

■ Frequent congestions to head and chest, dark red cheeks,,

oppression and anguish when lying down. ^Amenor- rhoea. I 1 Headache, in morning on waking. * Outer Head. ■ Sensation as if skin of forehead was drawn into folds.

■ Scalp feels bruised, i 1 Coldness of scalp.

■ ■Itching on scalp.

■ Sweat on head when walking in open air.

■ ■ Burning round spot on top of head.

I 1 Lumpy patches on vertex, red and painful.

■ ■Humid eruption on vertex, painful to touch.

■ ■Scurfy spots on vertex, with violent sore pain when

touched.

■ ■Much scaliness on head, causing distressing itching, be-

comes scurf, which disappears on washing, and is then humid.

■ Humid eruption on head, pains as if suppurating, only

when touched.

■ Intolerable itching all over body, followed by a moist

eruption behind r. ear ; crept gradually upwards on r. side of scalp, forming pustules, which discharged an acrid, sticky fluid, by which hair sjtuck together, and finally fell off, leaving a bare spot behind, covered with a mealy dust and small crusts ; felt < after washing ; is very sensitive to cold air ; has chronic lachrymation and fluor albus.

■ ■Eczema capitis, of entire scalp, forming massive, dirty

crusts, which mat the hair together; painful and sore to touch.

■ Fissured eruption back of and above ears, on cheeks, and

about region of posterior fontanelle, exuding a glutinous

443 GRAPHITES..

secretion, forming a scab, and cracking open, itching a. little all the time, but excessively before a storm ; per- fectly indifferent to any one touching the sore places. I Tinea capitis ; eruption dry and scabby, large and conflu^ ent, color dark ; cervical glands swollen and hard.

I Eczema capitis in scrofulous child, infesting entire hairy

scalp, and forming massive, dirty crusts, which mat the hair together.

I I Falling out of hair of scalp.

I Bald places on head perfectly smooth and shining.

I I Circumscribed bald spot on front of head covered with herpes.

iPorrigo decalvans.

I Hair falls out, even on sides of head. ^ Sight and Eyes, i Photophobia ; great sensitiveness of eyes to day-light ; more than gas-light.

iPhotophobia usually intense and lachrymation profuse; child cannot open eyes before 9 or 10 a.m. ; redness of eye generally marked ; muco-puruleut discharges, con- stant, thin and excoriating ; pains sticking, burning,, aching or itching.

■ Light blinds or dazzles the eyes.

■ Eyes very sensitive to sun-light; it causes lachrymation. I I Sun-light causes lancinating pains in eyes. iHypersesthesia of eyes; venous stagnation; constipation;.

incarceration of flatus.

I From overexertion of eyes by reading, sewing, etc. ^Ver- tigo.

I I Weakness of eyes.

I Short-sightedness.

8 Letters : appear double when writing ; run together when reading.

iSees fiery zigzags around outside of field of vision, in eve- ning, with open eyes.

■ Flickering before ej^es. ^Headache.

■ Sees as through a mist.

lEverything turns black before eyes when stooping.

■ During menstruation sight vanishes; blackness before

eyes ; 1. hand becomes numb and dead ; with crawling in it extending up arm, and also with crawling in lips.

■ Tiredness of eyes.

I I Pressing pain in eyes, morning and evening.

■ Drawing, extending from eyes up into head.

■Stitches from temple through eye to inner canthus, on.

looking at anything white or red, or at sun. ■Smarting in eyes, with heat in them.

■ Biting in eyes.

■Burning and aching in eyes.

GRAPHITES. 444

I Burning pain around eyes.

I Ulcer on cornea: with a few small vessels running into it ; with moist fissured eczematous eruptions.

■ Pustules on cornea and conjunctiva, with much lachry-

mation. Pustule on cornea, of reddish appearance, with white halo

around it ; corners of lids raw and bleed easily. ■Arthritic ophthalmia, with contraction and irregularity

of pupils.

■ Deep ulcers on cornea, even with hypopyon; more par-

ticularly adapted to superficial ulcerations, especially if resulting from pustules, often with considerable vascu- larity of cornea; pustules on cornea or conjunctiva, es- pecially on former; attacks may be acute or chronic, but it is particularly called for in chronic recurrent forms. i Chronic pustular inflammation of cornea ; recovery from one attack quickly followed by another; great photo- phobia, could not open eyes to see his way, profuse lach- rymation, burning and aching in eyes, sneezing upon opening them, external canthi cracked and easily bleeding, both corneae pannused, thin, acrid discharge from eyes, nose sore and surrounded by thick, moist scabs.

■ Keratitis pustulosa in children, who cry whenever light

comes to eye, so must be kept in a dark room, corners of eyes cracked and bleed easily, eruption on face.

■ Conjunctivitis pustulosa and ciliary blepharitis, with

cracks behind ears.

i Keratitis pustulosa, corners of lids crack and bleed easily, great photophobia and lachrymation, with some yellow- ish discharge.

1 Superficial keratitis with pustules of r. eye and pustules on lower borders of corner of 1. eye, outer canthi cracked, also cracks behind ears and eruption on face.

■ Pustule on conjunctiva of a child, nose sore and exco-

riated, prickly heat.

■ Pustular conjunctivitis with old, ciliary blepharitis after

measles ; thick, heavy scabs on lashes.

■ Old, recurrent pustular keratitis with no pain or photo-

phobia.

■ Recurrent pustular keratitis, no photophobia or pain, eye

some red and agglutinated in morning, lids red and margin covered with scurfs.

■ Small pu.stules on edge of cornea, photophobia and red-

ness, and characteristic eruption behind ears and on face.

■ Pustule on cornea of a reddish appearance and with a

white halo around it, canthi cracked, great photophobia and lachrymation.

445 GRAPHITES.

I Keratitis pustulosa with vascular cornea and pannus. I I Pustules on cornea and conjunctiva, much lachrymation,

slight photophobia, and the child acts as if it had pain,.

which is < about noon and in afternoon.

■ Herpes cornese, when combined with a chronic eczema,

which covers face and eyelids like a mask.

■ Frequent lachrymation of eyes.

■ Lachrymation: in open air; chronic.

■ Thin, acrid discharge from eyes.

■ Pus-like discharge from eyes.

■ Internal canthi: itching; burning; stitches; sore.

■ ■External canthi: sore and fissured; fissured and bleed

easily.

■ Stillicidium lachrymarum,from obstruction of nasal duct.

■ Right eye waters constantly, especially in damp, sultry

weather, and skin underneath inner half of lower eyelid sore and excoriated, from constant irritation of tears trickling over it ; projection underneath inner canthus (mucocele), arising from obstruction to duct ; lachrymal sac not much inflamed.

■ Catarrhal or scrofulous ophthalmia, characterized by

ulcers and pustules.

■ Intense photophobia, with nightly sticking together of

lids; obstinate constipation; rhagadic places running like radii towards corners of mouth ; outside on cheek an infiltrated spot covered with dry scales. ■Syndesmitis exanthematica, especially with crusta lactea.

■ Conjunctiva swollen and red, puffed about edge of cor-

nea; constant purulent discharge, with agglutination of lids at night; great photophobia; burning pain about region of eyes ; sensation of foreign body in throat on swallowing, as if ulcerated ; constipation ; despairing mood.

■ Redness of whites of eyes, lachrymation and photophobia.

■ Heat in eyes and about lids.

■ Heat in eyes and some pus in canthi.

■ Swelling of eyeli-ds and lachrymal gland.

■ Red, painful inflammation of lower lid and inner canthus.

■ Sensation of dryness in lids and pressure.

■ Heaviness of eyelids ; cannot open his eyes. ^Hemicrania.

■ ■Edges of lids much inflamed.

■ Chronic ciliary blepharitis; edges of lids slightly swollen,

and of a pale red color; inflammation may be confined to canthi (blepharitis angularis), especially to outer, which have a great tendency to crack, and bleed easily upon any attempt to open lids ; margins ulcerated ; dry scurfs on cilise; burning and dryness in lids, and biting and itching, which cause a constant desire to rub the eyes.

GRAPHITES. 446

1 1 Eczema of lids, eruption moist and fissured, margins of lids covered with scales or crusts.

I Agglutination of lids: at night; in morning.

I I Lids red and margins covered with scurfs.

I I Left lower lid hangs down.

■ Inverted lids (margins), wild hairs.

■ Slight roughness of integument of lids, in-tense itching.

I I Dry mucus in lashes.

I Styes on lower lid, with drawing pain.

■ Prevents recurrence of successive crops of styes.

■ Cystic tumors of ej^elids; wens on lids.

■ On both eyes hordeolse and chalazonai in all stages. I I Coldness over eyes.

I I Twitchings beneath eyes. "^Hearing and Ears. ■Music makes her weep.

■ lieverberations in ear, even his own words and every step.

■ Humming, hissing, ringing, rushing, roaring, cracking,

or clucking sounds in ears.

■ Violent nocturnal roaring, ears feel stuffed at times (dur-

ing full moon).

■ Thundering, rolling sound before ears.

■ Cracking in ear: when eating in evening; on moving

jaw, but only in morning while lying in bed; when sneezing.

■ Snapping in ear after every eructation, as if air penetrated

the Eustachian tube. I I A sound in vertex like the ticking of a watch. Sensation as if 1. ear were filled with water.

■ Sensation as if skin were before the ear.

■ Loss of hearing, with dryness of ears.

■ Deafness, with dry external meatus.

■ Deafness after scarlet fever ; cannot hear watch held close

to ear, nor ordinary conversation ; thin, watery, offensive discharge from both ears; mucous membrane of meatus red and excoriated; moist eczematous rash on face; tympani not perforated, but appear covered with a white coating.

■ ■ Hears better when in a noise ; when riding in a carriage.

■ Acute pressure in inner ear, like otalgia.

■ Stitches in ears.

■ Distended capillaries on membrane of r. drum.

■ Both tympani covered with a white coating, but not per-

forated.

■ Moisture in ears.

■ Gluey, sticky discharge at external meatus. '

■ Pus runs out of ear.

■ Bloody discharge from ear. • ■Bad odor from ear.

447 GRAPHITES.

I I Copper-colored nodes on ears.

llSwelling of both ears, with moist eruption behind ears.

I I Behind the ears: moisture; fissures; sore places; scabs; itching.

I Eczema impetiginoides ; began at first as a moisture be- hind 1. ear, spread over cheeks and neck; child moved continually on account of severe itching.

■ Sensation as if a hard body as large as an egg were be-

hind ear. iSwelling of glands beneath ears, with tensive pain. Affections of 1. ear, particularly if r. ear becomes affected;

generally spreads from 1. to r. 'Smell and Nose. llSmell abnormally acute ; she cannot

tolerate flowers. iLoss of smell: with dryness of nose; with coryza.

■ Nosebleed: in evening, preceding afternoon rush of blood

to head and heat of face; at night; in morning; with running coryza.

■ Bloody mucous discharge from nose.

■ Blowing of blood from nose.

■ Offensive purulent discharge from nose.

■ Frequent discharge of thick, yellowish, fetid mucus from

■ Discharge of bloody, fetid slime or purulent secretion ;

bad smell from nose, as from burnt hair or sulphur vapors; ulcerative nostrils covered with crusts ; herpetic eruption. dOzsena.. lOzsena; discharge more offensive during menstruation; eruption about anus and genitals; takes cold very readily.

■ Chronic nasal catarrh.

■ ■Dryness of nose, sometimes painful.

■ ■Sore sensation in nose on blowing it.

■ Soreness of mucous membrane of nose; injections of

iodine in water had made it worse, and caused obstruc- tion of nose and an erysipelatous redness upon 1. cheek. 1 I Violent stopped catarrh, with great nausea and head- ache, without vomiting; was obliged to lie down.

■ ■Sneezing: on opening eyes; with very dry nose or run-

ning coryza.

■ Periodical attacks of fluent coryza of short duration with

continual stoppage and breathing through mouth; dul- ness with heat in head and face, especially nose; sore- ness and roughness of larynx with tickling cough ; smell in nose as from an old cold ; hawking up of phlegm ; nausea; < in cold and in open air. * ■Stoppage of nose, with secretion of tough, badly-smell- ing: mucus.

GRAPHITES. 448

I Thin, acrid discharge from nose accompanying oph- thahiiia.

I 1 Coryza on getting cold.

I I Excoriation of nose.

I Mucus often forms hard masses or crusts in coryza.

I I Dry scabs in nose, with sore, cracked and ulcerated nostrils.

I Swelling of nose. llNose painful internally. I Red nose, with black pores.

I I Black, watery pores on nose.

■ Ulcerated nostrils covered with scurf.

I I Nose sore, surrounded by thick, moist scabs.

- Upper Face. iFace: pale and haggard; pale and bloated; pale and yellow; chlorotic; flushed; eyes sunken. 1 1 Flushes of heat in face.

I iDulness with heat in face and head, especially of nose.

I I Constant sensation as of a cobweb on face.

I Itching blotches on face and other parts of body.

I I Itching pimples on face, becoming moist after scratching.

■ Scabs on face, skin dry; constipated, large stools. Il^loist eczema on face.

I Eczema sciuamosum on face of fifteen years' duration; applications had caused the external eruption to recede, the patient suffered with headache, vertigo and a general feeling of debility and loss of appetite.

I I Whole surface of forehead and cheeks red and scurfy;

after vaccination in a child eighteen months old. iRhagades on cheek, running like radii toward corners of mouth; an infiltrated spot on cheek, is covered with dry scales.

■ Annular raised sj^ots on face.

■ Erysipelas, eruption appearing on cheeks, preceded by

chills and heat alternating; constrictive headache, espe- cially in occiput; burning, stinging and itching of parts.

I I Erysipelas: of both sides of face, with burning, stinging pain; of cheeks, preceded by alternating chills and heat; of left cheek, after mal-application of lodum for sore of inner nose; of face, from smell of wood; commencing on r. side and going to left.

■ Freckles.

■ Very painful tearing in 1. zygoma, so that she had to cry

out, in evening in bed. I Pain from 1. temple down 1. side of face to 1. shoulder; face distorted; 1. corner of mouth drawn inward and downward, and 1. lower eyelid hangs down; after catch- ing cold.

■ Muscles on one side of face contracted; speech difficult.

449 GRAPHITES.

I Rheumatic, peripheric paralysis of face. I Hair of whiskers or beard falls out. ^ Lower Face, i Upper lip: twitching; stinging; swollen; painful pimples.

■ Heaviness in lower lip.

I I Formication in lips during menses.

I Dryness of lips, with constant burning ; they crack.

I I Soreness and cracking of lips and nostrils as from cold.

■ Lips chap; corners of mouth ulcerate and are the seat

■ Painful nodules on lower jaw.

■ Indurated swelling of submaxillary glands, painful to^

touch. ^^ Teeth and Gums. ■Pressing pain in teeth, < from toucK or biting.

■ Stinging toothache after cold drinks.

■ Toothache, < at night, wath heat in face.

■ Ulcerations on inside of lips.

■ Painful soreness on inner side of gums.

■ Swelling of gums and dryness of mouth.

■ Gums bleed readily when rubbing them.

■ Fetid odor from gums and mouth.

^^ Taste and Tongue. ' ' Sour taste after a meal.

■ Bitter taste in mouth, wath sour eructations.

■ Salty taste.

■ ■Taste in mouth as of rotten eggs every morning, which

nauseates her.

■ Tongue coated white.

I I The tongue after a meal is rough, raw and scraping; the papillae are very sensitive, as if they were rubbed against the teeth. Sore pain on 1. side of tongue when moving it.

■ Whitish, painful ulcer on lower surface of tongue.

■ ■ Burning blisters on lower side and tip of tongue.

■ Painful vesicles and tubercles on back part of tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. ■Rotten odor from mouth and gums.

■ Acid, foul odor from mouth.

■ Breath smells like urine.

I I Saliva increased, much spitting.

I I Saliva runs from mouth in morning on stooping.

■ Dryness of mouth in morning. ^^ Throat. Palate: feels sore.

■ Palate and fauces somewhat reddened. ^Deafness.

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■ Violent catarrh in fauces, with sensation as though food

had to pass over a lump in throat; roughness and raw- ness in throat; hoarseness in evening. ^Ozsena scrofu- losa.

■ Swelling of tonsils, with pain when swallowing.

■ Ulcerative pain in throat. ■Roughness and rawness in throat.

■ Hawking of phlegm; throat seems full of gurgling mucus.

■ Sensation on 1. side of throat as though he had to swallow

over an elevation, with scraping in it.

■ On swallowing sensation of lump in throat, and especially

on empty swallowing a constrictive retching from oesoph- agus up to larynx.

■ Constant spasm in throat, obliging him to swallow as if

he were choking, as if food would not go down. J I Constant cramp in throat, causing him to retch, as if the

food would .not go down. 1 Nightly pains in throat like a plug, as if the food filled him to the top. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ■■Excessive hunger.

■ Canine hunger with acidity of stomach.

■ Appetite excessive or wanting, with much thirst, or with

fulness of abdomen. ■Violent thirst, early in morning.

■ Desire for drink to cool one's self internally, without thirst.

■ ■Aversion: to animal food, when thinking of it; to fish;

to cooked food.

■ Great aversion to salt.

■ ■ Sweet things are disgusting and nauseous. *^ Eating and Drinking. Worse when hungry.

■ Food will not go down.

■ ■Pains in stomach necessitate eating.

■ Is obliged to eat on account of burning in stomach.

■ Must quickly eat a piece of bread, to > suffocative par-

■ Eructations: sour; bitter or sour green water; putrid;

tasting of the food eaten ; > pressure in stomach ; con- stant; ineffectual; while walking.

■ Cramp in stomach, with nausea, collection of water in

mouth in such quantities that she cannot speak, but has to keep the mouth open ; vertigo, at times has neuralgia of face (region of os zygomaticum), and intense head- ache (clavus) ; during first day of menses cramp-pain in legs, costiveness, cold feet.

451 GRAPHITES.

iRancid heartburn, particularly after eating.

I Qualmishness, as from abdomen, with contractive pain below umbilicus, and much mucus in throat, especially in morning, and for several hours after a meal.

■ Nausea: and vertigo ; and sweat, with anxiety ; like faint-

ness, preventing sleep ; with spasm in throat ; with eruc- tations; with headache; with inclination to vomit; and sour vomiting; in morning; after eating.

I Nausea, in morning, with weakness and trembling during day, during menstruation.

B Vomiting: of all food taken; with pressure in stomach ; sour ; of food.

a Vomiting, purging, and icy-cold sweat, with headache. " Scrobiculum and Stomach. « Sickening, painful feeling at pit of stomach.

Ilnsipid and "spoiled" sensation in stomach, though a good appetite.

■ Pressure in pit of stomach: whole forenoon, > by eructa-

tion; night and morning.

■ Binding, constricting pain in gastric region.

■ ■Constrictive pain in stomach.

■Sensation of lump in stomach, with constant beating, as of two hammers. ^Hysteria.

■ Pain in stomach: necessitates eating; > from warm

milk, < from boiled meat and cold drinks.

■ Nightly pinching pain in stomach and rooting pain in

chest, i Griping in stomach, with flatulency.

■ Griping in stomach, with nausea; she was constantly

obliged to spit, as in water-brash.

■ Fulness in stomach and abdomen.

■ Burning in stomach, causing hunger.

■ Crampy, spasmodic, or clawing pains, or pressure, with

vomiting of ingesta, > by lying down, and warmth of bed, returning when rising, with vomiting; acidity; constipation; pain in hepatic region; > from warm food or drinks; nervous cardialgia, with anaemia ; chlo- rotic color of face ; dysmenorrhoea; herpetic constitution.

■ Gastralgia a few hours after dinner; < by cold drinks

and boiled meats ; > by warm milk ; furry taste ; pain is to 1. of stomach and of great severity, with absence of usual gastric symptoms as acidity, water-brash, nausea, vomiting; constant yawning with bloatedness of gastric region. ^Chlorosis.

■ Periodical gastralgia with vomiting of food immediately after eating; the pains are burning and radiate into ab- domen. ■■Gastrodynia with anaemia; chlorotic color of face; dys- menorrhoea ; constipation ; irritability.

GRAPHITES. 452

iCardialgia or gastric catarrh ; in women during climac- teric period.

■ Chronic catarrh of stomach, with frequent eructations;

frequently feels faint with partial loss of senses.

I Chronic gastritis, with thirst, especially after abuse of

alcoholic drinks. ^^ Hypochondria, l Stitches in both hypochondria.

I I Hardness in region of liver.

I Burning in 1. hypochondrium, internally, < when lying- on it.

■ Cannot bear tight clothing around hypochondria.

■ Cutting, bearing down pains in hypochondria and hips. ^^ Abdomen. ■■Pain in upper abdomen, as if everything

would be torn to pieces during menstruation.

■ Cramp in lower abdomen. ^Dysmenorrhoea.

■ ■Pain below navel, as if intestines were torn.

1 ■Burning pains radiating through abdomen. ^Gastralgia. I I Burning in a small spot on 1. side of abdomen.

■ Pain in belly, in 1. side, when lying on r., and vice versa. ■Stitches in 1. side of abdomen.

■ ■Colic immediately after eating.

■ Griping, digging pains in abdomen.

■ Zona; large blisters on raised ground, from umbilicus to

spine ; all blisters opened by scratching ; excruciating burning. I I Rumbling in abdomen.

■ Croaking, as of frogs, in abdomen.

■ Cannot endure anything tight about abdomen after eating.

■ ■Heaviness in abdomen.

■ Distension of abdomen, with rush of blood to head, heav-

iness of head, vertigo and confusion.

■ ■Great distension of abdomen, with dulness and heaviness

of head.

■ Distended abdomen: after eating; with diarrhoea.

■ Abdomen tense, with menses delaying, scanty and pale.

■ Abdomen distended, tense, hard.

■ Hardness in lower part of abdomen.

■ ■Full abdomen, as from accumulation and incarceration

of flatus; she cannot bear anything tight about hypo- chondria.

■ Incarcerated flatus, painfully pressing towards groins and

anus.

■ First two weeks after birth, colic, arising from excessive

accumulation of inodorous gas; during paroxysm of pain, which occurs mostly in evening, child throws itself back and straightens body.

■ Flatulence suddenly appears and presses painfully to-

wards abdominal ring.

453 GRAPHITES.

■ Passage of much offensive flatus, which constantly col-

lects anew.

I Griping in abdomen every time before passage of flatus.

I (Edema of external abdomen.

■Ascites progressing steadily and apparently to a fatal ter- mination; great accumulation of serum in abdominal cavity, and great oedema of extremities, chiefly lower, which were elephantine in size ; profuse and constant watery exudation from skin below knees ; epidermis ex- foliated ; exudation glutinous in character.

■ Ascites in conjunction with moist tetter, with glutinous

exudation. 6'Herpes zoster.

■ Itching of abdomen.

■ Pain in inguinal regions.

■ Swelling and great sensitiveness of one inguinal gland.

■ ■Herpetic eruption in groins.

■ Glandular swellings in groins.

^^ Stool and Rectum. ■ ■ Excessive discharge of flatus.

■ Frequent discharge of offensive flatus, with distension of

■ ■Stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances,

and of an intolerable fetor.

■ Thin, scalding stools, light brown.

■ Diarrhoea, almost without colic, followed by great pros-

tration, of short duration.

■ Watery stools.

■ Mucous diarrhoea.

■ Continuous soft stools of too small a size.

■ Chronic softness of stool.

■ Stool pasty, like mud, adhering to vessel.

■ A c[uantity of white mucus is expelled with the stool, or

the hard feces are covered with slime.

■ ■Stools knotty, the lumps being united by mucous

threads; even after stool there is still mucus coming from anus.

■ Much inclination to stool; though not hard, still it is

evacuated with much exertion, on account of total inac- tivity of rectum.

■ ■Constipation; stool large, knotty.

■ Feces very large and difficult of passage.

■ ■Hard stool, with much urging and sticking in anus.

1 Obstipation from hardened stool or from inactivity of bowels; stools knotty and large.

■ ■Obstinate constipation and delayed menstruation occur

together.

■ Hard, lumpy stool, with slime and blood. ^Hemorrhoids.

■ Sensation of heaviness in abdomen; chronic constipation

with hardness in region of liver ; hard, knotty stool, with

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pain in hemorrhoids and discharge of mucus and blood ; prolapsus of rectum without any urging to stool, as if anus were paralyzed ; menses late ; thin, watery leucor- rhoea.

I Constipation with dryness of mucous membrane of rec- tum and fissure of anus.

I Constipation in women who are inclined to erysipelatous inflammation and ulcerative processes of lower extremi- ties on a rheumatic basis, and who are of a timid, mo- rose and dejected disposition.

■Constipation in subjects of herpetic diathesis or with scrofulous cachexia; in hypochondriacal subjects with marked abdominal symptoms.

I Constipation ; menses irregular; a cough and a fixed pain in 1. side, just above cardiac region ; she was dejected and had lost her natural vivacity and spirits.

Stools : rarely diarrhoeic and then usually painless ; purg- ing and vomiting, with icy-cold sweat; insufficient; hard, lumpy, with slime and blood.

I Sour-smelling stool with burning at rectum.

iStools very thin, like a roundworm.

During stool: burning in rectum ; tenesmus.

■ With the stool discharge of a little blood ; of tape-worm. After stool: smarting and soreness in anus; much mucus

remains about anus ; great but transient prostration.

■ Prolapsus of rectum with its hemorrhoids, even without.

urging to stool, as if anus had lost its contractility and was paralyzed.

lEasy prolapse of rectum, as though parts had lost their tonicity; it becomes prolapsed without even a desire for stool.

llDischarge of mucus from rectum.

iPiles of twelve years' duration, with frequent attacks of hemorrhage, which caused anaemia; she was daily get- ting weaker from loss of blood and restless nights ; pulse low and feeble; rectum partially prolapsed with two fil- bert-shaped piles, as large as little finger, knotty and fis- sured, from which a sanious fluid oozed witli an odor like that which is characteristic of cancer.

I iHemorrhoids of rectum, with burning rhagades at anus.

■ Hemorrhoids, with pain on sitting down, or on taking a

wide step as if sj^lit with a knife, also violent itching^ and very sore to touch.

■ Varices feel very sore after an evacuation; painful burn-

ing fissures between varices.

■ Large hemorrhoidal tumors.

■ Fissura ani; severe, sharp, cutting pain daring stool, fol-

lowed by constriction and aching for several hours, < at night.

455 GRAPHITES.

I Severe pain during evacuation, sharp, cutting, followed by constriction and aching for several hours, and espe- cially severe at night. ^Fissures of anus.

I Burning and bleeding during stool; pressure and burn- ing and sharp, cutting stitches in anus; soreness at anus, and smarting on contact; bleeding from rectum, with sharp, stitching pains; prolapsus ani, with sensa- tion as though sphincter had lost its contractile power and was paralyzed. ^Fissures of anus.

I Hemorrhoids in anus, causing burning.

I Swelling of anus.

I Cutting and stitches in anus.

I I Smarting, sore pain in anus on wiping it. Hitching of anus.

I Tape- worm. ^^ Urinary Organs. Cutting and downward pressure in both kidneys before urinating.

Anxious pressure in bladder, with sudden desire to uri- nate, but scanty emission.

■ Frequent urination, particularly at night.

■ Urging to urinate, with scanty discharge.

■ Urging to urinate, with dribbling after the usual dis-

charge.

■ Urine clear, but after four or five hours, covered with an

iridescent film.

■ ■Urine becomes turbid and deposits a white sediment.

■ Urine becomes very turbid after two hours, with reddish

sediment; biting in urethra while passing it.

■ Urine: dark brown; fetid; sour.

■ Stitches or smarting in urethra when urinating. Urinary troubles, with burning in urethra between acts

of micturition.

■ Very thin stream of urine, as if urethra were contracted. Pain in sacrum or coccygis when urinating.

■ Nocturnal enuresis.

^^Male Sexual Organs. ■Uncontrollable sexual excitement; violent erections.

■ Voluptuous irritability of genitals.

I I Tension and lascivious feeling in genitals. I I Revival of sexual desire and fantasies.

■ Pollutions with weakness and pain in sacrum; neuralgic

pains in back of neck.

■ Seminal emissions at night, with flaccid penis ; they wake

him, but no voluptuous feelings; sensation of great weakness in genitals ; costiveness ; from previous sexual abuse.

■ Emissions with amorous dreams.

■ Sexual weaknesses, consisting of lively desire with incom-

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plete erection and too rapid or too early discharge of semen, such as sometimes follows the habit of mastur- bation, acquired in boyhood and abandoned early.

I lAlmost involuntary emission, without much erection,

during an embrace.

I I Sexual debility from sexual abuse. llDecided aversion to coition.

■ Impotence, with dislike to coition.

I Want of proper sensation during coition.

■ Painful cramps in calves during an embrace.

■ No ejaculation follows coition in spite of every exertion.

■ After an embrace coldness of legs, exhaustion, heat of

body and perspiration. 1 I Dropsical swelling of prepuce and scrotum.

■ Herpetic eruptions on penis.

■ Prepuce swells to a large water blister without pain.

■ Vesicular eruf)tion on j)repuce.

■ Testes swollen.

■ Hydrocele (1. side), herpetic eruption on scrotum, in

groins, or on lower extremities either preceding or ac- companying the disease, or when arising from suppres- sion of cutaneous disease.

■ ■Itching and moist eruption on scrotum.

■ Itching on scrotum. I I Gonorrhoea.

■Stricture of urethra with sudden arrest of flow, then oozing of snuff-colored slime in a long thread, or, in- stead, a few drops of bloody water; after micturition sudden peremptory urging near glans, or seems to run back when costive.

■ Gluey, sticky discharge at meatus urinarius, blocking up

urethra. ^Gleet. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■Great aversion to coitus.

■ Enlarged ovaries, which become more tender and more

enlarged every time she takes cold or gets her feet damp,

■ Swelling and hardness of ovaries after menses.

I I Tearing, grinding, twisting pains in r. ovar}^, as if it would burst, before or during menses.

■ The indurated left ovary swells and becomes very hard;

violent pains on touch, respiration or hawking, when violent stitches shoot into it; profuse general sweat; continual loss of sleep.

■ Tumor, size of an orange, in r. iliac fossa, also similar one

ink; both hard, round, slightly movable; not painful to pressure, nor producing inconvenience from weight.

■ Bearing down pain in uterus to back, with weakness and

sickness. ^Dysmenorrhcea.

■ Pain in uterus when reaching high with arms.

457 GRAPHITES.

I Os uteri standing backwards, can only be readied with difficulty.

iCaulifiower excrescences; cancer uteri; severe lancin- ating, stitching pains through uterus down to lower extremities ; heaviness of abdomen with increased pain when standing.

■ Hot and painful vagina ; swelling of lymphatic vessels

and mucous follicles; neck of uterus harcl and swollen, with tuberculous nodes and cauliflower excrescences ; great weight in abdomen on rising, with fainting sort of weakness and < of pains ; delaying menses, with < of pains shortly before and at appearance of menses ; dis- charge of black, lumpy, fetid blood ; stitches shooting through abdomen as far as thighs ; burning and stitch- ing pains; constipation; livid complexion; sad and anxious mood. ^Cancer uteri.

■ Bearing down pain in womb, with weakness and sinking;

pain over eyes; pain in middle of breast, with cough, scraping, rawness and soreness. ^Dysmenorrhcea.

1 Retarded, deficient menstruation ; discharge watery, thin, and in small quantities; pulse thin ; constitution feeble; sick headache, with pain over eyes and numb pain froni sacrum down legs; cold hands and feet ; acne solare in face. ^Dysmenorrhoea.

lAfter mental trouble during menstruation suffered for five years from dysmenorrhoea.

^ I Great emaciation'^with paleness of face; terrible pain in small of back and abdomen, which compel her to stay in bed ; for next five days constant discharge of coagula with continuous cramps, so severe that she cries out aloud with pain; want of appetite; stools scanty and painful; spasmodic urination.

1 Dysmenorrhoea with severe and obstinate megrim.

■Menses delayed, scanty, thick and dark, or else serous pale blood, with griping and abdominal spasms, head- ache, nausea and pain in chest.

i Occasional show of menses which are very pale ancl very scanty, with abdominal pains and pains in limbs; swelling of hands and feet.

iMenses: too scanty and too pale; too late, with violent colic; irregular, lasting only for a few days ; blood dark; delayed from getting feet wet.

I Menses very irregular, appear after 8 or 10 weeks, are very scanty and last but a short time ; discharge pitchy black; constant pressing headache; cutting, bearing down pains in hypochondria and hips ; backache ; swell- ing of abdomen and of upper and lower limbs, with sen- sation of numbness, crawhng and stitching, as if they

GRAPHITES. 458.

were asleep ; chilliness ; coldness of hands and particu- larly of feet ; rapid obesity.

■ Sensation of lassitude, heaviness and tiredness; small^

round, red, itching, herpetic patches on forearms, neck and throat.

■ Menses too late and scanty, sometimes black, often pale,,

with stitches, burning and dryness of vagina.

■ Scanty menses with congestion to brain.

■ Scanty catamenia preceded by menstrual colic. ^Gas-

tralgia.

■ Menses keep postponing, discharge scanty and pale.

■ Menses suppressed, with weight in arms and legs.

■ Suppression of menses, with heaviness of limbs and con-

gestion of blood to head.

■ Eruptions appear during menses.

■ Non-appearance of menses for five months; severe con-

gestion to head and chest, with dark redness of cheeks,, anxiety and oppression of chest when lying down.

■ Tendency to spasms; menses have not appeared for six

months; chronic catarrh of stomach, with frequent eructations; frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses; os uteri standing backwards, and can only be reached with difficulty.

■Young woman, chlorotic, irregular menses; became preg- nant, recovery after labor very slow; oedema of eye- lids, vulva and abdominal walls ; menses very late, pale and scanty; yellowish tint of skin; vagina cold; ab- dominal walls thick, doughy, pitting on pressure; great aversion to coitus.

■Lassitude and heaviness in lower extremities, and chronic hoarseness, a forerunner of tuberculosis ; no menses for three months.

I iMenostasis.

■ Aneemia, with dryness of vagina.

■ First menses delayed.

■ Instead of regular period has leucorrhoea and suffers

with constipation ; has grown very fat ; as a child had tettery eruption on both forearms, of which, however, no trace is left. iQildema pedum from amenorrhoea.

■ Before and during menstruation fatiguing cough.

I I Before and during menses cough throughout day, fatiguing chest; no cough at night.

■ ■Leucorrhreic discharge occurs in gushes day or night.

■ Pain in epigastrium during catamenia, as if everything

would be torn to j>ieces, with labor-like pains ; persistent and stinging toothache. ^Dysmenorrhoea.

■ During menses: dry cough and profuse sweats, morning

459 GRAPHITES.

sickness, swelling of feet and painless swelling of face ;. hoarseness, violent coryza and catarrhal fever; colic; violent headache with nausea ; morning sickness ; chaf- ing between legs ; swelling of feet; chilliness; pain in varices; hoarseness with dry cough, headache evenings; painless swelling of cheeks; colic-like labor pains; back- ache; heat in abdomen; urging, pressing, like labor pains; itching in abdomen; weakness in feet, that she cannot walk; pain in abdomen; growing dark before eyes. After menses, jerking in arms ; at other times, pain below navel, as if intestines were torn; lying upon r. side, pain is in 1., and vice versa; reaching with arms high, pain in region of womb ; constipation.

■ Lassitude and weakness with the catamenia. iMorning sickness of pregnancy or during menses.

■ Vagina cold. ^Chlorosis.

■ Biting or smarting in vagina.

I I Vesicles or excoriations in vagina. ^Pruritus. Hitching, smarting, painful vesicle on vulva; itching

pimples on vulva. I I Itching vesicles and pimples on labia, which smart and

are painful; painless pimples on inside of labia.

■ Painful pressure towards pudenda.

■ ■ Itching of pudenda before menstruation.

■ Excoriations in perineum, vulva and between thighs. ■Soreness between thighs, near pudenda, during menstru- ation.

■ Feeling of external irritation at genitals as if the parts

were swollen.

■ Qi^dema of pudenda. ^Chlorosis.

■ ■Acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea, in gushes, day and night,,

before and after menses.

■ Profuse leucorrhoea, with weakness of back and sacrum,.

when walking and sitting.

■ Yellowish-white leucorrhoea, excoriating skin ; uterus in-

durated, swollen and sore; straining in anus, with pro- truding piles, and bearing down in bowels long after an evacuation.

■ ■Leucorrhoea; profuse, perfectly white, especially on ris-

ing in morning; weakness of back when walking or sit- ting, with distension of abdomen, and painful pressure towards pudenda; discharges occur in gushes day and night; turbid urine; frequent micturition, especially at night ; difficult stool ; great lassitude.

■ Copious, thin leucorrhoea, causing a biting, smarting sen-

sation in vagina.

■ ■ During climaxis : cardialgia ; gastric catarrh.

GRAPHITES. 460

■ Labor pains weak or have ceased entirely. I Nipples painful and cracked.

I Sore nipples of nursing women, end of nipple cracked and

fissured, exuding a limpid serum. II Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, re- tarding flow of milk.

I I Cancer of mammse, from old cicatrices, which had re- mained after repeated abscesses.

^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, i Voice: impaired; not clear, in singing; cracked, in singing.

■ Hoarseness in evening. ^Coryza.

■ Chronic hoarseness.'

I I Soreness and roughness of larynx, with tickling cough.

■ Laryngeal region sensitive to touch.

^^ Respiration. ■Respiration has a dry sound.

■ Constriction of chest, as if about to suffocate when falling

asleep.

■ ■Constriction of the chest, as if too narrow.

■ Suffocative paroxysm at night, awakens him out of sleep,

usually after midnight, must quickly jump out of bed, hold himself finnly to something, and quickly eats wdiatever is on hand, which gives relief; very hoarse cough. ^Asthma spasmodicum.

■ Cough, caused by taking a deep inspiration in evening

and at night. ^ Cough. Cough : caused by deep inspiration ; loose, from tickling deep in chest.

■ ■Cough at night.

■ Whooping-cough with strangling, red face, watery eyes ;

strains all over; sometimes wind comes from anus; raises phlegm; morning much hard coughing, throat feels full of gurgling mucus; impudent, teasing; laughs at reprimands ; several hard straining small stools daily.

■ Expectoration: salty; day and evening.

^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■Cramps of chest.

■ Pains in chest.

■ Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping, rawness

and soreness.

■ Raw pain in chest, like raw flesh.

■ Stitching pains in chest.

■Stitches in chest and palpitation of heart from least ex- ercise. ^'^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Region of heart : constric- tion; pressure; stitches.

461 GRAPHITES.

iSensation like an electric shock, from heart toward front of neck.

■ Strong pulsation of blood in whole body, but especially

about heart, < by every motion.

■ Palpitation of heart: with anxiety; with nosebleed.

■ Pulse full and hard, somewhat accelerated in morning,,

slow during day and evening ^ Outer Chest. ■ Stinging in fleshy part of chest.

■ Pimples and herpes on chest.

■ Zona on 1. side, with pain in thoracic muscles on motion.

■ Itching vesicles and restlessness at night.

■ Perspiration on sternum every morning.

■ Nipples painful and cracked.

;rAching soreness and bleeding of male nipples.

■ Soreness of nipples, with small, corrosive blisters or ulcers,

oozing a limpid serum, or a thick, glutinous fluid, which forms a crust that is removed by nursing, when the same formation again occurs, and so on ; disposition to fissure and crack. ■Small bluish blisters on nipple, with fluid discharge.

■ Threatened suppuration, when breasts are marked with

many cicatrices from former ulcerations.

■ ■Hard scars remaining after mammary abscesses.

■ Mammary cancer developed from old cicatrices formed

from repeated abscesses in mammse. ^^ Neck and Back. ■ Pain in nape of neck.

I I Stiffness of back of neck ; also with headache.

■ Glands on side of neck down to shoulder, swollen and

painful when bending neck to one side, or lying upon it; as if tense and stiff.

■ Glandular swellings on 1. side of neck.

■ ■Painless sw^ollen glands on side of neck. ■Small boils on neck, back and arms.

■ Eruption on nape of neck dry, peeling in fine, mealy

scales, without itching.

■ Chronic eruption on scalp and nape of neck; falling out

of hair; dandruff; terrible itching and burning; skin on nape of neck hard, nodulous and rough ; habitual constipation ; in a woman past climacteric age.

■ Small of back aches, as if bruised or broken.

■ Pain in small of back, as if broken, especially on touch-

ing; pressing,, grasping and twitching, with sensation in arms and feet as if they were turned outward.

■ Tabes dorsalis, especially in women, with great weakness.

in legs and back, palpitation ; dulness of sense ; numb- ness or torpor of genital organs and pains in chest.

■ Contracting pains in back.

■Weakness in back and loins on walking ; back aches.

•GRAPHITES. 462

■ Violent itching of coccygeal region, the part becoming

■ Violent sticking in 1. shoulder.

■ Burning pressure beneath armpit.

I I Right upper arm sore, tender and swollen.

■ Arms feel " asleep."

■ Jerking in arms.

■ Herpes circinatus hard to touch and wrinkled looking,

itching terribly, in bend of elbow.

■ Cramp in hand.

I I Tearing in hands like rheumatism.

■ Left hand numb and dead, with formication extending

up arm.

■ Horny callosities in hands.

■ I Skin of hands hard and cracked.

■ Eczema upon back of 1. hand; commencing in a small

place with vesicles ; spreads, forms crusts, and finally fissures, especially upon knuckles of first phalanges.

■ Gouty swellings of fingers ; in joints. ■Raw, moist places between fingers.

■ Constant chafed soreness between fingers.

■ Pain in thumb-joint, as if sprained.

■ Rheumatic pressive tearing in first joint of r. thumb.

■ Vesicle on little finger itches, suppurates and discharges

much matter, with burning and sticking, which, like the suppuration, continues a long time.

■ Finger-nails black and rough, matrix inflamed, with sore-

ness, throbbing and numbness, no suppuration ; < from water.

I I Finger-nails become thick.

■^' Lower Limbs. ■ iSmarting soreness between nates.

■ Eruption over nates and posterior part of thighs ; no dif-

fused redness, but numerous small, brown scabs, with slight moisture ; occasional paroxysms of itching ; trou- blesome at night; some small, red, itching sj)ots on arms.

■ Painful soreness between pudendum and thigh, covered

with pimples, vesicles and ulcers.

■ Red, raw spot like a tetter on upper part of thigh, oppo-

site scrotum, itching somewhat in morning.

■ Painful soreness between upper part of thighs near

genitals.

463 GRAPHITES.

I I Pains extending from pudenda to thighs.

I I Soreness high up between thighs, during and after walking.

■ Tearing or bruised pains in thighs.

■ Numbness of thighs.

■ Ulcers on lower limbs, with acrid pus, dryness of skin

and constipation.

■ Restlessness in legs.

■ Heaviness of legs.

■ Legs and feet heavy and swollen; she thought her feet

must burst. I 1 Swelling of legs, even while lying in bed.

■ Great oedema of limbs, chiefly lower, which are very large,

with profuse, constant, watery exudation from skin below

knees, epidermis exfoliated. ^Ascites. I I Bruised pain in knees. ■Stiff feeling in hollow of knee, as if tendons were too

short.

■ ■Tetters in hollow of knee.

I I Jerking in all the muscles of 1. calf.

■ Cramp in calves.

■ Weakness of feet, cannot walk.

I I Sometimes feet are icy-cold, again quite burning.

■ I Cold feet in evening in bed. I I Coldness of dorsum of foot.

■ Feet sweat profusely (not so offensive as under Silica), but

moderate walking causes soreness between toes, so that the parts become raw. I I Profuse sweat on feet; they begin to smell.

■ Ulcers on feet, form purulent pustules, always inflamed

and very painful.

■ Callous ulcers of the feet.

■Qj^dema pedum, with solitary itching papulae; erysipela- tous redness of face; menses scanty.

■ ■Qlldema pedum from amenorrhoea.

■ Rheumatic tearing in feet and toes.

■ Burning of heels with crawling, especially in morning in

bed. ■Stitches in heel, when putting it down.

■ Gouty tearing in toes.

■ Stiffness and contraction of toes.

B Ulcers, or spreading blisters on toes.

■ Horny skin on toes.

■ Sore pains of corns. ^Lung disease.

■ Thick and crippled toe-nails.

iHypertrophied nail of 1. big toe; it was formed almost like a horn, and so hard, that onl}^ by repeated and long- continued oi3erations with a file, it could be diminished.

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I Pain in nail of great toe.

■ Ingrowing toe-nail.

^ Limbs in General, i Drawing pains in limbs.

■ Tearing pain in feet and hands; in all the limbs.

■ Falling asleep of arms and legs while sitting; while

walking, crawling in them.

■ Limbs go "to sleep."

■ Weakness of all the limbs.

■ Startings of hands and feet.

■ Heaviness in limbs.

■ Paralyzed sensation of all the limbs. I I Hands and feet either hot or cold.

Limbs drawn together, crooked, from bones being bent.

■ Back of both forearms and dorsum of hand covered with

corroding, herpetic exanthema, consisting partly of a kind of cortical crusts, partly of red fissures, looking- like raw meat, partly of elevated islets ; the exanthem was spreading and painfully itching, especially at night; discharge of turbid matter and acrid water; lips and skin of fingers fissured; upper arm nearly free; on lower extremities flexors are affected, and especially bend of knee and external surface, with same discharge and same burning itching, which becomes < when eruption is dry ; < during fall; > during summer ; pale, slightly oedematous face; sluggishness of all secretions and ex- cretions; spontaneous fissures in skin; cannot bear damp atmosphere; when a youth had measles, and in consequence of bathing too soon had paralysis of face; mouth drawn sideways; cannot close 1. eye, which looks smaller than right.

■ Eczema chronica on dorsal region of both forearms and

Pains in back compel her to stay in bed.

Inclination to sit down.

Lying in bed: swelling of legs, soreness from.

Lying down: > crampy, spasmodic, clawing pain in stomach; on 1. hypochondrium, pain < ; anxiety and oppression of chest.

Lying on neck: causes pain.

■ Lying: on r. side, pain in belly, in 1.; lying upon L

pain in r. side. 6'Between catamenial periods.

465 GRAPHITES.

While sitting: falling asleep of arms and legs.

Sitting down : pain in hemorrhoids ; profuse leucorrhoea ;

weakness of back. Stooping: during and after, vertigo; everything turns

back and loins; soreness high up between thighs during

I I Amazingly weary and sleepy.

Debility, without pain, compelling him to groan. Frequently feels faint, with partial loss of senses.

I I Weak exhaustion of whole body. ■Sudden sinking of strength.

■ Binding, constricting pain in different parts, especially

in gastric region ; sensation of lump in stomach, with constant beating as of two hammers; great desire to vomit ; feels so tired that death would be a relief ; hates to be addressed, or to work, feels indifferent to everybody and everything; constant chilliness as if skin were tightened over body; great anguish before menses; ob- stinate constipation. I Full of spasms. ^Amenorrhoea.

■ Contractions of muscles.

■ After local treatment of erysipelas, twitching of eyelids,

which gradually spread to muscles of 1. side of face, and in course of tw^o years developed into general convul- sions of whole 1. side; any motion during eating, talk- ing, laughing or yawning, brought on an attack which often lasted a quarter of an hour.

■ ■Cataleptic condition; conscious, but without power to

move or speak.

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1 1 Numbness and deadness, with coldness of fingers of both hands, extending as far as middle of upper arm; cold- ness and numbness of face, < 1. side ; great vertigo and blindness, with prostration of strength ; face pale and haggard ; much emaciation without perceptible cause ; both kidneys sore, with ischuria. ^Paralysis. ^^ Sleep. 1 1 Constant yawning, with bloatedness of gastric re- gion.

I Inclination to stretch, without being able to satisfy it suf- ficiently.

■ Excessively tired and sleepy.

I I Sleepiness : during day, must lie down ; after dinner.

I I Perspiration about head, when falling asleep.

I Night-sweat.

I I Constant talking during sleep.

■Wetting the bed at night while asleep.

■ Wakens at night with a suffocative attack, i I Bleeding from nose at night.

I Light slumber or unrefreshing sleep; starting; wander- ing fancies.

!l Nightly pains felt in sleep.

ilStupid morning sleep.

il Cannot go to sleep till late.

I Unable to fall asleep before midnight on account of a fixed idea.

■Sleeplessness.

I Great sleepiness by day, goes to sleep early in evening,

but during night there is wakefulness, tossing about, heat^and anxiety; dreams anxious and terrifying; at last sinks into a profound and dull morning sleep.

■ Great agitation at night; anxious, frightful dreams. il I Sleep disturbed by dreams.

'\ I Numerous dreams, with distorted images.

II Disturbed sleep.

1 1 Dreams: vivid; anxious; horrible; vexatious; about fatal accidents. ^ Time. Morning: full of fear; confusion in head; feels as if drunken when rising from bed; vertigo; semilateral headache; headache; pressing pain in eyes; eye red and agglutinated; lying in bed cracking in ear; nose- bleed; saliva runs from mouth; dryness of mouth; vio- lent thirst; qualmishness; much mucus in throat; nau- sea; pressure at pit of stomach; much hard coughing; accelerated pulse; perspiration on sternum; itching in spots on thigh; burning of heels with crawling; stupid sleep; chilliness.

9 or 10 A.M. : child cannot open eyes.

Till noon: headache on vertex and nape of neck.

467 GRAPHITES.

Forenoon: pressure in pit of stomach. Afternoon: child acts as if it had pain; rush of blood to head.

4 P.M. till evening: chill.

5 P.M. : chilliness and coldness of whole body.

During day: trembling; cough; leucorrhoea; salty expec- toration; slow pulse; must lie down; great sleepiness.

Evening: vertigo; sees fiery zigzags around outside of field of vision; pressing pain in eyes; cracking in ears when eating; nosebleed in bed; had to cry out on ac- count of tearing in zygoma; hoarseness; paroxysms of pain from accumulation of gas; headache; cough; salty expectoration; slow pulse; dull drawing in coccyx; cold feet in bed ; goes to sleep early ; heat.

Night: thoughts prevent sleep; agglutination of lids; nosebleed; toothache <; pains in throat like a plug; pressure at pit of stomach; pain in fissura ani; after an evacuation sharp cutting followed by constriction and aching for several hours; frequent urination; seminal emissions; leucorrhoeic discharge; frequent micturition; suffocating paroxysm; cough; itching vesicles and restlessness at night; itching troublesome; painful itching of exanthema on back of forearms and dorsum of hand; wakens with a suffocating attack; pains felt in sleep; unable to fall asleep before midnight; wakefulness ; great agitation ; heat, with scrofulous affec- tions of bones.

After midnight : profuse perspiration lasting till morning ; dry heat. ^^ Temperature and "Weather. Open air : sweat on head when walking; lachrymation; fluent coryza < ; chill >.

Warmth of bed : < itching.

Warm drinks: pain in stomach >; pain in hepatic re- gion >.

Wind : while walking, drawing pain in molars.

Water: inflamed matrix <.

Bathing after measles: paralysis of face.

Washing: scurf disappears ; feels < after.

Wet feet: delayed menses.

Damp, wet atmosphere : < symptoms.

Cold drinks: stinging toothache; pain in stomach <.

Cold air: very sensitive to; fluent coryza < ; scrofulous affections of bones <. ■*" Fever. I l Chilliness in morning, in bed.

Shaking chill every day, in evening ; after an hour, hot face and cold feet without subsequent sweat.

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Chill in evening, with headache and tearing in limbs, great thirst and profuse perspiration after midnight, lasting till morning.

I Chill and chilliness, most in evening.

Chill from 4 p.m. till evening.

Chilliness and coldness of whole body at 5 p.m., with icy- cold feet.

1 Chill < after meals, > after drinking, > in open air.

I I Sometimes feet are icy-cold, again quite burning.

■Flushes of heat.

Violent febrile chilliness morning and evening, the heat followed by sweat.

Dry heat every evening and night, lasting till morning, with headache on vertex and in nape of neck till noon.

Heat evening and night; with restlessness; unable to sleep, or remain in bed on account of it.

I Hands and soles of feet hot and burning.

Heat when riding in a carriage.

■ Sweats from slightest motion.

■ Sweat often on front of body only.

■ Sweat on front of body and centre of chest (sternum).

■ Sweat stains yellow, is sour and offensive smelling, and

■ Profuse night-sweat.

■ Entire inability to sweat.

Type : quotidian ; double quotidian.

6 or 7 a.m. ; morning in bed ; afternoon, 4, 5, 6, 7,

8 P.M.

I I Glands are affected, along with hectic ; discharge gluey ;

chills and fever (p.m); cold feet; hot, red face or pale face;

sweat absent, or else offensive. ^Irritative fever. ^ Attacks, Periodicity. Recovery from one attack quickly

continual stoppage and breathing through mouth. Daily: small stools.

Every morning: violent febrile chilliness. Every evening: shaking chill ; chill with headache and

tearing in limbs; violent febrile chilliness; dry heat._ Every night: eyelids stick together; violent roaring in

469 GRAPHITES.

One hour after chill : hot face, cold feet.

For several hours after a meal : qualmishness.

For five days : constant discharge of coagula.

Eight or ten weeks : menses appear.

Five months : non-appearance of menses.

Six months : menses have not appeared.

In two years : twitching of face developed into convulsions of whole 1. side.

Five years : dysmenorrhoea.

Twelve years' duration : piles.

Fifteen years' duration : eczema squamosum. *^ Locality and Direction. Right: lancinating pain in temple ; moist eruption behind ear crept gradually up- wards on side of scalp ; pustules of eye ;_ tearing, grind- ing, twisting pains in ovary ; tumor in iliac fossa ; lying upon r. side pain is in 1. ; upper arm sore ; rheumatic pressive tearing in first joint of thumb.

Left : stitches in temple ; pain from temple down side of face to shoulder ; corner of mouth drawn inward and downward ; numbness on side of head ; hand becomes numb ; crawling into arm ; pustules on lower borders of corner of eye ; lower lid hangs down ; as if ear was filled with water; moisture behind ear ; erysipelatous red- ness upon cheek ; tearing in zygoma; pain from temple down side of face to shoulder ; corner of mouth drawn downward and inward ; lower eyelid hangs down ; sore pain on side of tongue when moving it; as tliough he had to swallow over an elevation on side of throat, with scraping in it; pain is to 1. of stomach; burning in hypo- chondrium; burning in small spot on side of abdomen ; pain in side of belly ; stitches in side of abdomen ; fixed pain in side just above cardiac region; hydrocele (1. side); herpetic eruption on scrotum; tumor in iliac fossa ; lying upon 1. side pain in r. ; zona on side; glandular swell- ings on side of neck ; tearing in shoulder-joint ; rheu- matic pain or burning in shoulder ; violent sticking in shoulder ; hand numb and dead ; eczema on back of hand ; jerking in all muscles of calf; hypertrophied nail of great toe; cannot close eye on account of paralysis; twitching of muscles of side of face; convulsions of whole side; coldness and numbness of face < on side; circular herpes at bend of elbow. ^^ Sensations. Great sensitiveness of internal parts. Numbness in various parts. 1 1 Drawing pain in whole body.

As if drunken when rising from bed ; pain as if constricted in occiput extending to nape of neck, which pains as if broken; as if head were numb and pithy; as if skin of

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forehead was drawn into folds ; humid eruption as if suppurating; sensation of foreign body in throat ; throat feels as if ulcerated; as if air penetrated Eustachian tube ; a sound in vertigo like ticking of a watch ; as if 1. ear were filled with water ; as if a skin were before ear ; as if hard body as large as an egg were behind ear ; as of a cobweb over face ; papillte of tongue sensitive as. if it were rubbed against teeth; as though food had to pass over a lump in throat; throat as if full of gurgliug mucus ; sensation on 1. side of throat as though he had to swallow over an elevation, as if he were choking;, as if food would not go down; as if food filled him to the top ; sensation of lump in stomach with beating as of two hammers; as if everything would be torn to pieces during menstruation; as if intestines were torn;, croaking, as of frogs, in abdomen; full abdomen as from accumulation of wind; incarceration of flatus; as if arms w^ere paralyzed; hemorrhoids as if split with a knife; as if sphincter had lost its contractile power and was paralyzed ; as if urethra were contracted; as if r. ovary would burst; as if everything would be torn to pieces during catamenia; as if genitals were- swollen ; constriction of chest as if about to suflbcate ; chest as if too narrow; like an electric shock from heart to front of neck ; glands of neck tense and stiff; small of back aches as if bruised or broken ; in arm& and feet as if they were turned outward ; arm feels '' asleep;" pain in thumb-joint as if sprained; she thought her feet must burst; as if tendons of knees were too short; sensation of lump in stomach ; as if skin were tightened over body; itching as though fecal matter would pass through skin; nails as if ulcerated ; itching as if she must tear with her nails. Pain : from 1. temple down side of face to shoulder ; in head; in lumpy patches on vertex; in eczema; from 1. temple down 1. side of face to 1. shoulder; in ulcer on lower surface of tongue; in vesicles; in nodules on lower jaw; "when swallowing; in throat; in stomach; in hej)atic region; on 1. of stomach ; in upper abdomen ;, below navel; in belly; in inguinal region; in hemor- rhoids; in sacrum; in coccyx; in uterus when reaching high Muth arms; over eyes; in middle of breast; in chest; in limbs; in epigastrium; in varices; in pim- ples and vesicles, on vulva; in nipples; in chest; in thoracic muscles; in nape of neck; in glands of neck ; OS coccygis while urinating; in shoulder and neck; in thumb-joint; in ulcers on feet; in nail of great toes, in periosteum. '

471 GRAPHITES.

Terrible pain in small of back and abdomen.

Violent pain in head ; in 1. ovary.

Intense headache.

Great anguish before menses.

Very painful tearing in 1. zygoma.

Tearing: in forehead; in one side of head; in teeth;

glands of throat ; in teeth and gums ; in r. ovary; inl.

shoulder-joint; in hands; pains in thighs, in limbs ; in

ears; in both hypochondria; in 1. side of abdomen; in

urethra; in 1. ovary; shooting through abdomen; in

down to lower extremities; through abdomen; in chest;

in fleshy part of chest. Stitching pains: in eyes; in teeth; in gums; in 1. shoulder;

in vesicle on little finger. Stinging pains : in temples ; on cheeks ; both sides of

face; in upper lip; in teeth; in old ulcers. Violent colic.

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Drawing pain: in molars; in limbs; in thigh bones; in forehead ; from eyes up into head.

Tensive pain : beneath ears.

Fixed pain: in 1. side, just above cardiac region.

Twitching: in arms; in feet; in eyelids; of muscles of 1. side of face.

Starting : of hands and feet.

Throbbing: in sides of head ; in matrix.

Grasping: in arms and feet.

Bursting: in forehead.

Burning: round spot on top of head; in eyes; around e3^es; on cheeks; both sides of face; of lips; in blisters on lower side and tip of tongue; in stomach; in 1. h3^po- chondrium ; ina small spot on 1. sideof abdomen ; through abdomen; of vagina; of scalp and nape of neck; in vesi- cles on little finger; of heels, hands and soles of feet; in small red pimples; in fissures between varices; in shoulder; in old cicatrices.

Burning pressure: beneath armpit.

Rheumatic pressive tearing: in first joint of r. thumb; in feet and toes.

Binding, constrictive pain: in gastric region; in different parts.

Constrictive headache: in occiput; pain in stomach.

Constrictive pain: below umbilicus; in back.

Aching: in eyes; in male nipples.

Pressive pain: in vertex; in occiput; in head; in eyes; in teeth ; from incarcerated flatus towards groins and anus ; in head.

Pressure: deep in forehead; in lids; in stomach; in pit of stomach; in anus; in both kidneys; in bladder tow- ards pudenda; in region of heart; in abdomen; in arms and feet.

Raw pain: in chest.

Numb pain: from sacrum down legs.

Sickening, painful feeling: at pit of stomach.

Violent sore pain: in spots on vertex.

Painful soreness: between pudenda and thigh; between upper part of thighs near genitals; of corns.

Soreness: of larynx; of lips; on 1. side of tongue; in arms; of breast; between thighs; of male nipples; of r. upper arm; between fingers; of matrix; between nates; be- tween toes; in both kidneys; in nose.

Smarting: in eyes; in urethra; between nates; in vagina.

Biting: in eyes; in eyelids; in urethra while urinating; in vagina.

Bruised feeling: in scalp; in thighs; in knees.

Sensitiveness: of one inguinal gland.

473 GRAPHITES.

Oppressive headache: on top of head.

Constriction : in region of heart.

Beating: in stomach.

Fulness: of abdomen; in stomach.

Hardness: in lower part of abdomen.

Irritation: of genitals.

Jerking: inarms; in all muscles of 1. calf. -

Constant spasm: in throat.

Heat: in head; in eyes; in abdomen.

" Spoiled," insipid sensation in stomach.

Rawness : of mouth ; of breast.

Scraping : of tongue ; of breast.

Roughness : of larynx ; of tongue ; of mouth.

Dryness : in lids ; of ears ; of nose ; of lips ; of mouth ; of mucous membrane of rectum ; of vagina.

Urging: in abdomen.

Straining: in anus.

Weakness: of head down to neck; in back; in legs.

Sinking feeling: in back.

Torpor: of genital organs.

Stiff feeling: in hollow of knees.

.Stiffness: of neck; of toes.

Tremulous sensation through whole body.

Flickering: before eyes.

Tiredness: of eyes; of forearms.

Heaviness: of eyelids; in lower lij); in abdomen; of head; of limbs; of legs.

Desolate, empty feeling : in head.

Numbness: in 1. side of head; of 1. hand; of matrix; in various parts.

Dulness: of head; in face; in head.

Beclouded feeling : in head.

Confusion of head.

Paralyzed sensation : of all limbs.

Restlessness : of legs.

Tickling: deep in chest.

Crawling: in 1. hand and arm; in lips; in upper and lower limbs; in sacrum; in heels.

Formication: in lips; in hand extending up arm.

Itching: on scalp; all over body; in eyes; of eyelids; in ears; blotches on face and other parts of body; pimples on face; on cheeks; of abdomen; violent itching in hemorrhoids; on arms; on scrotum ; of small herpetic patches on forearms, neck and throat; vesicles on vulva; pimples on vulva; vesicles on labia; of jDudenda; of scalp and nape of neck; violent itching of coccygeal region; herpes circinatus, itching terribly in bend of elbow; in eruption over nates; small spots on arms; of

GRAPHITES. 474

red spot on upper part of thigh ; papulae ; on various parts of body ; violent on face and genitals.

Coldness : of scalp ; of legs. *^ Tissues. Contraction of muscles.

Hemorrhages, blood light red.

■ Anaemia; chlorosis. ^Gastrodynia. ^Gastralgia. ^Amen-

orrhoea. Pain in periosteum ; gnawing pains in bones of forearm -^

drawing pain in thigh bones ; malleoli painful to touch ;

exostosis and osteo-sarcoma ; scrofulous affections of

bones; < at night and from cold draught of air; >

from warmth. Soreness from lying in bed, ■Very offensive exhalations from body.

■ Dyscrasise, especially when caused by a suppression of

habitual secretions and excretions. ■Scrofulosis; swelling and induration of glands.

■ Tumors in persons of herpetic dyscrasia; wens, smooth

and shining, on scalp ; sebaceous cysts, particularly when atheromatous ; pus scanty and smelling like her- ring-brine.

■ Emaciation.

■ 1 Emaciation of suffering parts.

■ Burning pain in old cicatrices.

■ General dropsy after an acute exanthem; was so swollen

that he looked like a corpse about to be decomposed ; could not move a limb, and did not even emit a groan ;. large round blister that seemed about to burst, on pre- puce; legs and scrotum shone like a mirror.

■ (Edematous complaints.

Cannot bear tight clothing around hypochondria.

Rubbing makes gums bleed.

When riding in carriage : hears better ; heat.

■ lOverlifting, easily.

^® Skin. I Itching over various parts of body.

■ Itching becomes general and very violent, even on face

and genitals. I I Great itching, as though foreign matter would pass through skin.

■ Continual itching, < at night; nothing visible upon skin

before scratching, which produces nodules and long, welts.

■ A^'iolent itching and burning, with eruptions.

475 GRAPHITES..

1 1 Nightly heat. ^Keratitis.

I Prurigo in children, with sore, raw places on skin.

I Long-lasting want of proper transpiration.

I Harsh, rough skin, disposed to chafing.

I Skin dr}^, inclined to crack.

■ Excoriation of skin, especially in children.

■ Raw, moist places between fingers and on face.

I I Unhealthy skin; every injury suppurates. iSkin is not inclined to heal, ulcerates readily.

1 1 Cracks or fissures of ends of fingers and nipples, labial commissures, of anus, between toes, etc.

■ Irregular fissures about half an inch in length and one-

eighth of an inch deep, looking like cuts with the edges closely in apposition; no discharge; on separating the edges a little a dirty, yellowish-white slough was seen looking like a piece of tape. 1 1 Itching eruption full of corrosive water in many parts, of body.

■ Itching blotches on various j^arts of body, from which

oozes a watery, sticky fluid. ^Uterine complaints.

■ Erysipelas beginning in face and gradually spreading

over whole body ; high fever.

■ Erysipelas in women and young girls at time of, or in-

stead of, menses.

■ Erysipelas beginning on forehead and spreading thence

to hairy scalp and neck; vesicles also form which be- come dry. ■Erysipelas; eruption assumes a vesicular appearance, or it exudes a transparent, glutinous fluid ; or assumes a chronic form.

■ Erysipelatous inflammation, running in streaks.

■ ■ Erysipelas in face commencing on r. side and extending

to left.

■ Sumach poisoning; abdomen and knees affected.

■ Varicosities itch very much, and have little pimples on

surface of integument.

■ ■ Eruption behind ears, on various parts, from which ooze

a watery, transparent, sticky fluid ; nails brittle, crum- bling, deformed, painful and sore, as if ulcerated.

■ ■Eczema, with profuse serous exudations; in blondes in-

clined to obesity.

■ Numerous small, red, itching pimples, tipped with pus,

which burn after scratching.

■ Eruption first like very light-colored elevations under

skin, increasing without areola; becoming pitted like early vaccine scab ; then itching and gets larger; picked forms ulcerous scab; ceases itching and dries up.

■ Eruption of red spots, one inch in diameter, little ele-

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vated, but having milky, bluish-white vesicles, appa- rently papillary, one line in diameter, and not very high; constantly tormented by violent itching and burning ; felt as if she must tear it with her nails, but only rubbed it, followed by such an aggravation that she wept ; face warm and flushed ; menses late, having been checked near end of last period by getting feet w^et. 1 1 Herpes exuding a sticky matter.

■ Circular herpes feels hard to touch and wrinkled, situ-

ated in bend of 1. elbow, wdiich itched terribly. Obstinate lupus of cheeks (improved).

■ Leprous spots, coppery, annular, raised on face, ears, but-

tocks, legs and feet ; ulcers on toes, obduration of nose, crusts in nostrils.

■ Callous ulcers of feet, originating from corroding blisters.

■ Crusty and scabby ulcers; pus bloody, watery, acrid and

corroding, smelling like herring-brine. ■Sensitive, sore, spongy ulcers, with a salty discharge. _

■ Old ulcers, with fetid pus, proud flesh, itching, stinging.

■ ■Old hard scars.

Adenitis; boils; dandruff; phlegmonous and vesicular erysipelas; encysted tumors; erythema; eczema; felons; freckles; falling off of hair; zona; herpes; intertrigo; lichen agrius; prurigo; nodosities; scrofulosis; scald head; ulcers. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. ■ Scrofulous habitus with lymphatic oedema, blonde hair, pale face, low spirits.

■ ■Adapted to women inclined to obesity, wdio suffer from

habitual constipation, and whose history reveals a ten- dency to delaying menstruation.

Child, set. 8 mos., tinea capitis of four months' standing.

Girl, set. 13 mos., had an eruption which was suppressed by mercurial ointment, followed by a bloody mucous diarrhcea; fissures.

Girl, £et. 4, health generally good ; chronic eruiDtion.

Girl, set. 5, third attack ; erysipelas.

Boy, set. 5, after suppression of anacuteexanthem; dropsy.

Boy, set. 8 ; hydrocele.

Boy, set. 8, scrofulous; inflammation of eyes.

;Miss S., set. 15, large, well built ; headaches.

Boy, set. 15 ; zona.

Young, chlorotic woman, ^t. 16, menses appeared, lasting, however, but a short time, and finally not coming at all ; at 18 married and gave birth to a child, four months after which menses again appeared, but were extremely pale and scanty ; three months after their disappearance became pregnant ; chlorosis.

477 GRAPHITES.

Man, set. 20; chronic eczema.

Girl, get. 20, after mental trouble ; dysmenorrhoea.

Girl, set. 20, pale complexion, not clear ; amenorrhoea.

Girl, set. 20 ; dysmenorrhoea.

Girl, has suffered for seven years ; disease of finger-nail.

Young lady, fine complexion, skin and other organs of sense rather sensitive, manners and character impres- sible; eruption.

Man, set. 21, after scarlet fever, seven years ago; deafness.

Mrs. S., blonde ; leucorrhoea.

Woman, every eight days, for half a j^ear ; erysipelas.

Woman, who had been exposed to wet for a good while, twelve years ago ; herpetic eruption on scalp.

Man, set. 24, after catching cold ; styes.

Man, set. 25, robust, confined three weeks after catching cold ; neuralgia.

Miss AV., set. 34, menstruation only twice a year ; leucor- rhoea instead of menses.

Man, set. 40, had syphilis; conjunctivitis.

Woman, set. 45 ; hysteria.

Woman, set. 56, since 15 years; eczema squamosum of face.

Woman, set. 56, robust and healthy until climaxis, which occurred at age of 51, when she had erysipelas of face, which was treated locally ; convulsions.

Man, set. 58, subject to hemorrhoids and cramps in stomach ; hardness of hearing.

Woman, set. 65, mother had died of paralysis ; paralysis.

Man, set. 70, every night for seventeen years; suffocative paroxysms.

It antidotes: Arsen., lodum, Rhus tox.

Caustic, Hepar, Lycop.

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