Hamamelis Virginica

Witch-Hazel. Haniamelacex.

A shrub growing in all parts of the United States, in damp woods or along streams ; flowers in the Fall, the seeds ripen the year following.

The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark of the twigs and root.

Introduced by C. Hering, in 1850.

Provings by Preston, Burt and McGeorge. See Allen's Eacyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 528.

Clinical Authorities Intraocular hemorrhage ; ophthalmia, Norton's Ophth. Therap., p. 91 ; Traumatic ophthalmia, Newton, Raue's Eec, 1872, p. 67 ;

Trau- matic conjunctivitis, Holcombe, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 107 ; Blepharitis, conjunctivi- tis, Hendricks, Allg.

Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Ectropion, Searle, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 65; Inflamed eyes, Mann, Bragdon, Med.

Inv., vol. 11, p. 236; Epistaxis, Burritt, Hom. Eev., vol. 1, p. 513; Kenyon, Hom.

Eev., vol. 2, p. 412; Belcher, N. A. J.

H., vol. 3, p. 462; (2 cases) Belcher, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 176;

Van- derveer, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 419 ; Preston, Hale's Therap., p. 280 ; Hemorrhage -after extraction of teeth.

Knight, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 138 ; Throat affection, Hen- dricks, Allg. Hom. Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183 ;

Ucematemesis, Bennett, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 115; Burritt, Hom. Eev., vol. 1, p. 511 ; Belcher, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 264; Angioleucitis, Blake, A. H.

O., vol. 9, p. 410 ; Dysentery, Lee, B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 332;

Spiuney, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 215 ; Mekena, Belcher, Eiick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 493; Hemorrhage from bowels, Pratt, B. J.

H., vol. 17, p. 527; Discharge of blood from anus, Guernsey, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 62; Hemorrhage from bowels, in typhoid. Spinney, A.

H. O., vol. 3, p. 215; Seward, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 283; Hemorrhoids, Hunt, T.

A. I. H., 1874, p. 880; Hughes, B.

J. H. vol. 25, p. 429; Okie, B. J.

H., vol. 15, p. 168; A. E., Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 219; Harper, Times Eetros., vol. 3, p. 26;

Jousset, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 332; Fissure ani, Koch, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 123 ;

Spermatorrhoea (3 cases), Allen, T. A. I. H., 1874, p. 880;

Hcematuria, Harper, Times Eetros., vol. 3, p. 26; Orchitis, Jaeger, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 583;

Vari- cocele, J. A. B., Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 168; Morgan, B.

J. H., vol. 30, p. 411 ; Phimo- sis, Gatchell, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 144; Ovarian disease (2 cases), Burt, B.

J. H., vol. 23, p. 614; Amenorrhcea (2 cases), Burritt, Hom. Eev., vol. 1, p. 512;

Metror- ■rhagia. Brown, Hom. Eev., vol. 14, p. 476-7 ; Menorrhagia, Brown, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 155;

Hai'per, Times Eetros., vol. 3, p. 26; Uterine hemorrhage (6 cases), Brown, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 27 ; Iszard, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 420 ;

Preston, B. J. H., vol. 15, p. 168; Ludlam, N.

A. J. H., vol. 7, p. 479; Inflammation of internal genitals after a blow, Thomas, B.

J. H.,'Vol. 16, p. 174; Vaginismus (2 cases), .McGeorge, Trans. Am.

Inst. Hom., 1874, p. 881 ; Chronic parenchymatous metritis (2 cases), Hendricks, Allg. Hom.

Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Threatened abortion [S •cases), Brown, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 162; (4 cases) Brown, Hom. Eev., vol. 14, p. 473;

Phlegmasia alba dolens, Holcombe, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 195; (2 cases) Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 174;

Sore nipples, McGeorge, Trans. Am. Inst. Horn.,

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1874, p. SSI; Affection of vocal cord, Hendricks, AUg. Horn.

Ztg., vol. 103, p. 183; Bronchial hemorrhages, Lippincott, Trans. Am. Inst.

Horn., 1874, p. 881; Dia- phragmitis, Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 174 ;

Affection of I. leg, Burritt, Hom. Kev., vol. 1, p. 514; Inflammation of femoral vein, Thomas, B. J.

H., vol. 16, p. 174; Typho- malarial fever, Goodno, Organon, vol. 3, p. 369 ; Passive congestions of skin and mucotts membranes, Blake, Kane's Rec, 1873, p. 29; Venous hemorrhages, Palmer, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 27 ;

Hemorrhages, Wilson, Gardner, T. A. I. H., 1874, p. 880 ;

Phlebitis, Eobinson, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc, N.

Y., 1865, p. 185 ; Bennett, T. A. I.

H., 1874, p. 880 ; Purpura hemorrhagica, Thomas, B. J. H., vol. 16, p. 175 ;

Varices and hemorrhoids, Preston, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5., p. 493 ; Varicose veins, Baething, Eaue's Eec., 1870, p. 262 ;

Burritt, Hom. Eev., vol. 1, p. 513 ; Muscular rheumatism, McGeorge, Trans. Am.

Inst. Horn., 1874, p. 881 ; Wounds (4 cases), Hamisfar, A. H.

O., vol. 5, p. 524; Burns, Burritt, Hom. Eev., vol. 1, p. 511;, Dissecting ivound, Coxe, MSS. ; Ulcers, Fischer, Windleband, B.

J. H., vol. 33, p. 548 ; Chilblains, Blake, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 29.

^ Mind. I Forgetful, especially of words when talking.

I No desire to study or work; ideas confused, could not. compose.

■ Depressed in mind; also after emissions, with regretful

I Σtupor, κεφαλαλγία, πιεστική πληρότητα στο κεφάλι και τον αυχένα^ επίσης στο μέτωπο.

■ Γενικό σtupor.

^ Εσωτερικό κεφάλι. l Πληρότητα στο μέτωπο, με πίεση στη ρίζα

της γλώσσας. ■Σφυροκόπημα πάνω από το αριστερό μάτι, σαν να επρόκειτο να βγει από το

I Feeling as if a bolt was passing from temple to temple,,

and tightly screwed. Sharp pains in temples.

head feels as if it would burst; face flushed.

■ Bursting headache on awaking, insupportable on bend-

ing downward.

■ Headache after an emission; depressed in mind. I I Headache on rising.

Congestive headaches with cool skin.

Headaches accompanying venous congestion of brain,

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lungs, portal or general venous systems; especially if

followed by epistaxis. Passive congestion or venous stagnation. * Outer Head. ■ After injury of head and face, great ecchy-

mosis, with disposition to loose bowels and uneasy

stomach ; fainting on walking. ^ Sight and Eyes. lEyes feel weak; painful weakness of

■ Headache from straining the eyes.

I Feeling as if both eyes would be forced out of head, > by pressing them with fingers, but < a few moments afterwards.

I Sore pain in eyes; eyes painful under slight pressure.

■Traumatic iritis with hemorrhage into iris.

I After injury to 1. eye, abrasion of cornea, some blood in anterior chamber, vitreous so dark from hemorrhage that fundus could not be illuminated; there was only perception of light.

I Inflammation and ulceration of conjunctiva and cornea, if caused by a blow or burn.

I Traumatic conjunctivitis from burn of a flame; excruciat- ing pain, great photophobia, constant acrid lachryma- tion and great vascularity of conjunctiva.

I Conjunctivitis traumatica from a piece of splinter under upper lid.

■ Eyes inflamed; vessels greatly injected; intense sore-

ness caused by a foreign substance.

I Eyes inflamed and burning, from being on the water fish- ing, in the hot sun.

I Traumatic ophthalmia, caused by a drop of boiling sugar getting into eye.

I Extravasations in whooping-cough, eyeball congested from violence of concussion, and small vessels are rujD- tured.

■Swelling of eyeballs and lids, with bloodshot appearance of eye.

■ Excessive congestion of conjunctiva.

■ Painful inflammation of eyes.

■ Spontaneous eversion of upper lid during course of severe

conjunctivitis.

■ Blepharitis granulosa; catarrhal conjunctivitis with great

pain and hypersemia.

■ Black eye from a bruise.

® Hearing and Ears. ■Deafness in r. ear, passes off" by noon.

■ Bleeding at r. ear, also nosebleed, which clears her head,.

relieving her. I I Buzzing, ringing in ears. ' Smell and Nose. ■Oversensitive smell.

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I Bad odor from nose.

I I Sneezing spells, watery, excoriating, burning discharge.

I Nose feels stopped up.

I I Profuse epistaxis.

1 1 Epistaxis, flow passive, non-coagulable.

■ Bleeding of nose, which clears her head, and affords

great relief. I Nosebleed > headache and tightness across bridge of nose.

■ Idiopathic or vicarious epistaxis.

■ Epistaxis; bleeding commenced on 1. side; child weak

from loss of blood.

■ ■Epistaxis in morning, with feeling of tightness of bridge

of nose, and considerable crowding pressure in forehead between eyes, and a benumbed sensation over whole os frontis.

■ Epistaxis occurring in a strong man suffering from a

fever, with a miliary eruption ; hemorrhage dark ; pulse Cjuick ; respiration ojDpressed ; lijDS and mouth dry ; con- junctivitis,

■ Epistaxis at irregular intervals of from six to twenty-four

hours; pale, enfeebled. ■Oozing of very dark blood from nose of hemiplegic old man.

■ Epistaxis of childhood, passive, venous. ^ Upper Face. ' l Burning in right cheek.

■ Occasional shooting pains along r. superior maxillar}^ to

malar bone ; muscles feel sore and stiff. ® Lower Face, i iLips dry; sore, cracked. Teeth, and Gums. ■Sharp lancinating along molar teeth, extending to malar bone; also in temporal region.

■ Teeth ache, yet not decayed ; can scarcely sleep ; pains <

in warm room.

■ Gums: sore, painful, swollen; bleed easily; passive, dark

fluid bleeding; hemorrhage after extraction of teeth.

■ Bleeding and spongy gums.

■ Scalding sensation on tongue; feels as if burnt.

■ Blisters on sides of tongue; canker spots near tip.

■ Burns of tongue and lips.

'' Inner Mouth. Dryness of mouth.

I I Scalding of tongue and mucous membrane of mouth and fauces. ^ Throat, i ' Severe stinging in uvula, as if it would break, when he coughs. I I Dryness of lips and fauces; must drink large quantities of water to assist deglutition.

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I I Dryness of throat not > by water.

I I Feeling as if something had lodged in fauces.

I Tonsils and fauces congested.

iChronic inflammation of throat; deglutition painful, even empty swallowing; nasal voice; dry, short cough with sensation of dryness in throat; mucous membrane of pharynx very red and permeated by enlarged blood- vessels; great swelling and redness of tonsils; catarrh of upper part of larynx and vocal cords.

iVaricosis of throat, the parts look bluish from distended veins, and there is more or less discomfort, with pain on swallowing, and hawking of mucus with blood.

I Sore throat in those predisposed to fulness of veins; < in warm, moist air.

I Sore throat, < r. side; r. tonsil more swollen, reddened^ and veins enlarged, varicose.

I I Sore throat, preventing sleep.

IVaricosis of throat in gouty subjects.

I Hemorrhage from throat and fauces.

I I Hawks considerably. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. iNo appetite for breakfast ; considerable thirst, > by small quantities of water.

I Great thirst.

1 1 Very thirsty, afternoon and evening ; throat dry.

i I Averse to water, makes him sick to think of it. ^^ Eating and Drinking. After eating : nausea, must keep quiet, eructations; hiccough.

I I Pork nauseates. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Eructa- tions after a meal tasting of food.

I I Nausea, eructations and violent hiccough after pork, followed by burning in stomach and cesophagus ; later, cramp pains in stomach and chest.

1 I Nausea and vertigo, must lie still to prevent vomiting.

I I Nausea; with headache in frontal bone on awaking.

I I Nausea and inclination to vomit after a meal.

I Nausea, from pain in testicles.

■ Painful, bloody vomiting.

■After fulness and constant pains in abdomen with irreg- ular chills, sudden vomiting of blood and hemorrhage from bowels; great prostration; profuse cold sweat; weak, quick pulse; restlessness; fulness and gurgling in abdomen.

I iHsematemesis. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, l l Burning in epigastrium ; sharp pains in stomach.

■Violent throbbing in stomach.

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I 1 Heaviness and pain back of stomach, along spinal

stomach, or fulness and gurgling in abdomen ; feverish

by spells; restless; weak, cold ; quick pulse; profuse sweat. I H^matemesis, very profuse, dark, clotted; slight bloody

discharge from bowels. ^^ Hypochondria. Dull pain in hypochondriac region.

Sharp pains in 1. hypochondrium, in region of spleen. ^^ Abdomen, i i Flatulence.

Constant distress or drawing pains in umbilicus.

• Burning in epigastrium and umbilicus.

I Cramps in stomach and transverse colon two hours after

a hearty dinner.

■ Soreness of abdomen.

I Angioleucitis, surface of abdomen covered with distended

lymphatic sacculi, filled with amber fluid, varying in size from pin's head to Spanish nut ; inguinal glands tender and enlarged.

■ I Varicose veins of abdomen.

■ From 12 to 15 stools every day with violent tenesmus,

must often get up at night, stool of blood mixed with masses of mucus, entirely scentless, violent colicky pains ; some fecal lumps in stools ; only region of anus and rec- tum painful; great loss of spirit. ^Hemorrhoidal affec- tion. iDj^sentery consisting of profuse flow of clear blood, amounting almost to a hemorrhage, with no pain or tenesmus.

II Dysentery; when amount of blood is unusual in quan- tity and amounts to an actual hemorrhage, generally of dark blood ; or when there are clots or patches of blood scattered through the mucus; soreness of abdomen.

I Every fifteen minutes discharge of pure blood, with severe tenesmus; crampy pain around umbilicus before stool; no appetite; great thirst; tongue coated brown and parched; hippocratic countenance; emaciation; desire for sour pickles. ^Dysentery.

■ Hemorrhoidal dysentery.

I Stools: costive; hard, coated with mucus; hard, dry, dark colored.

■ Discharge of blood from anus in large quantities, of a tar-

like consistency.

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I Hemorrhage from ulceration of bowels.

I Profuse hemorrhage of dark, grumous blood from bowels.

■ Dark, fetid diarrhoea, large, hemorrhagic discharges of

black, grumous, fetid blood; rapid sinking; pale" and excited; slight delirium; fearful of death. I Fulness in hypochondriac region followed by diarrhoea ; great weakness ; pale, dark red face ; thirst ; quick pulse ; every three or four hours, thin, dark, rose-colored, offen- sive passages. ^Melsena.

I Hemorrhage from bowels of fluid, dark, fetid blood.

I I Hemorrhage from portal congestion.

■ Pulsation in rectum, as if piles would protrude.

■ Before stool difficult to defecate, anus spasmodically

closed ; great pains in anus during stool ; after passage in- tense burning at orifice ; at times, when he had no stool for several days, heavy frontal headache, low-spirited ; thinks constantly of his ailment; nausea after eating. ^Fissure ani. 1 I Hemorrhage from piles, in which the loss of a small quantity of blood was followed by prostration out of proportion to the loss.

■ Hemorrhoids, with hemorrhage, more or less profuse,

occurring with every evacuation for months or years, with other symptoms of piles.

■ Bleeding hemorrhoids in which the blood flows with

a certain regularity and without much expulsive effort.

■ ■Piles: bleeding profusely; with burning soreness, ful-

ness and weight ; back as if it would break ; urging to stool.

■ Congestion of liver, with bleeding piles; pale from con-

stant daily loss of blood.

■ Tumid hemorrhoidal veins of bluish color, the anus sur-

rounded with red erythematous circle.

■ Protrusion of varices, anus feels sore as if raw.

■ Itching at anus.

'^^ Urinary Organs. Hsematuria ; passive congestion of kid- neys ; dull pain in renal region.

■ Hemorrhoids of bladder; passive congestions. I I Vesical catarrh.

■ Scanty, high-colored urine.

■ Irritation of urethra, followed by a discharge and ardor

urinee.

■ Catarrh of urethra, with disease of prostate gland.

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I Much urging to urinate, violent pains, thick mucous

urine, discharge of blood from bladder, either in drops

or in lumps, by the half-pint. iHeematuria, after blow in r. iliac region; blood bright

red; face pale; pulse feeble; partial shock. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Amorous dreams, with emissions,

followed by lassitude, gloomy, depressing mood, dull

pain in lumbar region. Sexual dreams, with emissions ; feels in morning as if he

had not slept.

■ Emissions at night, without being aware of it; headache,

depression of mind. 1 I Erections; great desire for an embrace.

I Great prostration of animal passions.

a Impotence, organs greatly relaxed and constantly sweating.

I I Pain running down spermatic cords into testes.

■ Enlargement of 1. spermatic vein, first noticed after vio-

lent exercise ; four years previously tumor, from that time constantly increasing in size; dull aching pain in groin, sometimes extending into back, < horseback riding. ^Varicocele. I For three months drawing pain in 1. spermatic cord,, which is painful, swollen and inflamed ; 1. testicle pain- ful, swollen and hard.

■ Dull aching; severe drawing or excruciating pains in

testicles. Drawing pains in testicles day and night, extending from groins.

■ Severe dull pains in testicles.

■ Enlargement of r. testicle; hot and painful; following

gonorrhoea.

■ Severe neuralgic pains in testicles, suddenly shifting to^

bowels, causing iiausea and faintness; profuse cold sweat on scrotum ; capillary stasis.

■ Severe neuralgic pains in testicles, pains dart from testi-

cles to stomach, < nights and during rainj^ weather. Awoke at 3 a.m. with severe neuralgic pains in testicles,

preventing further sleep. Pain in testicles < after midnight, until morning.

■ Orchitis; intense soreness and swelling; gonorrhoeal

orchitis.

■ Gonorrhoeal epididymitis, especially in those cases where

the disease partakes of a congestive or sub-acute charac- ter rather than the inflammatory.

■ Varicocele; circocele.

■ A^aricosis of spermatic veins.

■ Fluid blood in hsematocele.

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I Urethritis, with discharge of transparent mucus, with pain.

I Phimosis.

Profuse cold sweat of scrotum at night. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. Congestion, inflammation and neuralgia of ovaries, with cutting, tearing pains in ovary,, which is swollen and very tender.

Ovarian affections with swelling and tenderness, < at menses ; retention of urine.

I Ovarian soreness and painfulness.

I Paroxysm of pain in r. groin ; pain commences in region of r. ovary and passes down broad ligament to uterus,, resembling labor pains; swelling in r. groin half as- large as a hen's egg, very tender to pressure ; pain in epigastrium and lumbar region; no appetite; tongue furred white ; quite weak ; confined to bed ; constipation ; pale, chlorotic appearance.

■ After a blow, ovary swollen; diffuse, agonizing soreness

over whole abdomen ; menses irregular, very painful, with exacerbation of all sufferings at catamenial epoch ; retention of urine.

■ Frequent paroxysm of pain in 1. ovary, passing down to

uterus, with ansemia ; every clay or tw^o ovarian region becomes much swollen.

■ Ovaritis, 1. side, following miscarriage.

■Subacute ovaritis incident to j^regnancy and menstrua- tion.

I I Congestion and inflammation of internal genitals, after blow in region of 1. ovary.

■ Vicarious menstruation from ovarian irritation. I iGonofrhcBal ovaritis.

■ Chronic parenchymatous metritis after subinvolution,

with lumbo-abdominal neuralgia and painful sensation of heaviness in lower abdomen when standing and walk- ing; uterus hypertrophied, anteverted, prolapsed and immovable; vaginal portion blue, hard and hypertro- phied with oedematous, pouting lips ; debility. ■Uterine disturbance and tenderness, with retention of urine, tumefaction of os uteri, and diffused agonized soreness over whole abdomen, after violent blow in ova- rian region.

■ ■Menses very dark and profuse, with soreness in abdo-

men.

■ Dysmenorrhoea: from ovarian irritation; inflammatory

or neuralgic.

■ ■ Amenorrhoea ; vicarious bleeding from nose or stomach ;

costive ; varices on legs, ■Severe pains in lumbar and hypogastric regions and down

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legs when menses should have appeared ; fulness of bowels and brain, with severe pain through whole head, resulting in stupor and deep sleep lasting 12 to 36 hours, from which it was impossible to arouse her, ^Amen- orrhcea.

lAmenorrhoea in a girl, set. 18; has never menstruated, but had suffered instead with hsematemesis, constant constipation and varices on legs.

iVicarious menstruation

1 1 Active or passive uterine hemorrhage.

■ Profuse, bright arterial hemorrhage ; face and extremi-

ties cold and clammy ; skin shrivelled and blue, as in collapse of cholera ; said her tongue was cold, and that it felt like her hands and feet, as though it were dead ; pulse feeble, thread-like, almost imperceptible, respira- tion slightly labored.

■ Bright red uterine hemorrhage, no clots ; bearing-down

pain in back. I Uterine hemorrhage, had been flowing for twenty-four

hours, and lost over a quart of blood, bright and fresh,

and not coagulable. a Uterine hemorrhage, with aching, boring pain in back,

and sensation of bearing-down pain in either ovarian

region. '■Menorrhagia; feels very weak ; ''weak" pain in back;

pain in 1. ovarian region.

■ Uterine hemorrhage in an unmarried woman, brought

on by jolting while riding in a heavy wagon over rough road.

■ Active uterine hemorrhage caused by fall.

■ Uterine hemorrhage; menses regular up to three weeks

ago, since when the discharge has not left her. ■Menorrhagia, profuse discharge of dark-colored blood ;

ceases at night, occurring only in daytime. I Metrorrhagia, passive flow; antemia.

■ Uterine hemorrhage, flow steady and slow; blood dark

colored, no uterine pains.

■ Acute vaginitis with si^asmodic action and pain, fulness

of vagina.

■ Great tenderness of vagina, causing pain during coition;

leucorrhoea. I I Vaginismus, intense soreness ; prurigo of vulva. ■Pruritus. ■Profuse, persistent leucorrhoea, with great sensitiveness of

parts ; vagina raw and sore during an embrace ; vulva

itches; vaginitis.

■ Leucorrhoea, with much relaxation of vaginal walls;

profuse fluor albus, constituting a drain on system as severe as a bleeding.

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I In threatened abortion when the hemorrhage continues after uterine pains have been controlled by other reme- dies.

■ Hemorrhage of lying-in women.

I Painful stiffness and sensation of swelling and weakness in 1. leg during pregnancy.

■ Varicose veins on both legs during pregnancy so pain-

ful that she could neither stand nor walk ; veins of feet appeared as if blood were dried up.

■ During pregnancy, varicose enlargement of veins of

lower limbs with cramping pains at night, preventing sleep ; cannot move about ; three days after labor, three hemorrhoids forming a tumor as large as a child's head, of dark leaden color, painful, and very sensitive to touch, i Milk-leg, with swelling of 1. labium, groin and thigh; difficulty of moving leg ; painful but benumbed sensa- tion of limb ; swelling white and opaque, extending downwards, and in three days occupying whole of 1. leg.

■ Milk -leg, swelling commencing in ankle, with difficult

motion of limb from stiffness and pain in 1. hip. ■Two weeks after confinement, feverish, thirsty, sleepless, very weak, intensely nervous; pain in r. groin, about Poupart's ligament; next day upper part of thigh swollen, hard, white, very painful on pressure, especially along tract of femoral vein ; the breast-milk left a faint pink stain upon a napkin. ^Phlegmasia alba dolens.

■ Hemorrhoids after confinement ; also after miscarriage,

painful, but not bleeding; great prostration from small loss of blood.

■ Bleeding nipples, with great soreness. I I Sore nipples.

■ Long-lasting affections of vocal cords.

■ Granulations and redness of 1. vocal cord with varicose

enlargement of blood-vessels. Tickling in larynx, with constant inclination to cough,

■ Catarrh of upper part of larynx and vocal cords. ^^Respiration. ■Labored inspiration; oppressive tightness of

lower part of thorax, with inability to take a deep and full inspiration ; breathing impossible in recumbent posture ; crowded fulness in neck and head ; sensation

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of suffocation so as to prevent him lying down; cannot take a deep inspiration when standing up. ^Dia- phragmitis.

I When lying, felt a smothering sensation. ^ Cough. I Tickling cough, tastes of blood on awaking. _

I I Dry cough, severe in uvula, as if it would break ; stitch- ing.

■ Slight hacking cough, with blood-spitting.

I Cough ; haemoptysis, with dull frontal headache ; taste

putrid.

■ Spitting of blood by day without cough, with great re-

laxation of nerves, and weariness.

■ Hfemoptysis, active or passive, blood venous and comes

up into mouth without coughing or scarcely any effort.

■ HEemoptysis in consumption.

■ Hemorrhages; blood venous, raised with little effort, like

a simple, warm current, established from within out- wards.

■ Hemorrhages from lungs, sometimes every month, for

over twenty years. ^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■ ■ Hsemoptysis, tickling cough, with taste of blood or of sulphur; dull frontal headache; tightness of chest; cannot lie down, because of diffi- cult breathing from congestion; fulness in head ; mind calm. I I Sensation of constriction across chest, increased by a long

■ Pricking pain in region of heart and superficial veins of

both arms. Femoral pulse beats faster than radial. ^° Outer Chest. ' ' Dull aching pain constantly in muscles of

1. chest, < using arms, afternoon and evening. ^^ Neck and Back. iSore pain down cervical vertebrae.

Fulness in neck ; had to sleep with neck free of any cov- ering.

■ Small of back feels as if it would break ; tearing pains. After sensation of heat, tearing pains across small of back,

with fulness of joints of legs, extending to all parts of body.

■ Severe headache all day, after an emission.

■ Dull, dragging pain in lumbar region.

■ Severe pains in lumbar and hypogastric regions, extend-

ing down legs.

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Dull pains in sacrum and hips. ^^ Upper Limbs, i Bruised feeling in upper arms and shoul- ders, < from motion.

■ Stiffness in arms and shoulders.

■ Soreness in head of humerus extending down arm to

elbow-joint; continuing for days. ^Rheumatism.

Sore pain in head of r. humerus (glenoid cavity), contin- uing for hours.

I I Tenderness of r. biceps, increased by pressure.

I I Dull pains in r. elbow-joint.

I I Stiffness of elbow-joint.

I I Rheumatic pain, constant aching in 1. arm.

Severe drawing pains in flexor muscles, wrists, hands and fingers.

1 I Lancinating in 1. WTist-joint.

I I Prickling pain from wrist to shoulder, along superficial veins.

I 1 Violent pain in back of r. hand to shoulder-joint.

Palms of hands hot and dry.

I I Hands chapped.

Stiffness in hands and fingers.

I I Thumb-nail becomes sore, pus discharges after a slight knock. ^^ Lower Limbs. ■ Intense aching and soreness in thighs. ^Muscular rheumatism.

■Sore pain in r. femur ; muscles of thighs sore as if bruised.

■ Soreness in femoral vessels to middle of thigh.

■ Inflammation of femoral vein, with erysipelatous spot near

groin and over the vein, spreading over nearly one- half of thigh with flexure of leg ; swelling of entire leg and foot, with tension; heat and pale appearance of limb ; scanty urine, stiffening the linen ; tympanitis ; oedema of whole body, limbs and face.

■ Great pain and swelling in r. leg from knee to hip,

very sensitive to touch ; cutaneous veins hard, swollen, knotty and painful, finally involving veins of abdomen ; skin erysipelatous; pulse 120, small and wiry; great thirst ; no appetite ; constipation ; urine red and scanty, later suppressed; pain in kidneys, < from motion; great debility. ^Phlebitis.

I 1 Varicose veins above knee.

I I Weakness of knees, afternoon.

I I Forcing feeling in varices ; veins sensitive ; dilated.

■ Varicose veins, very lame, great pain, can scarcely move

about.

■ ■Varicose veins of legs; varicose ulcers. Dull, dragging pains in legs.

Dull, heavy, drawing pains in feet and toes.

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^ Limbs in General, i Tired feeling in arms and legs.

I Painful fulness of joints of legs, as if they would burst, which soon extends to all the joints of body.

■ Great soreness of affected parts, especially muscles;

bruised feeling in muscles of upper and lower extremi- ties ; < from motion.

I 1 Rheumatism, with great soreness of muscles.

Rising: swimming sensation ; headache; hoarseness.

Lying down: urine more copious; felt a smothering sensa- tion ; at night sweats freely.

Recumbent position: makes breathing impossible.

Desire to lie down.

Standing: painful heaviness of abdomen; cannot take a deep inspiration.

Stooping: vertigo; insupportable headache.

Motion: bruised feeling in upper arms and shoulders < ; 23ains in kidneys <.

Violent exercise: caused enlargement of 1. spermatic vein.

Horseback riding: < dull aching pain in groin.

Walking: fainting caused by; painful heaviness of abdo- men.

Using arms: pains in muscles of 1. chest <.

Can scarcely move about: on account of painfulness of lower limbs; from varicose veins in limbs.

Can neither walk nor stand: legs so painful during preg- nancy. ^ Nerves, l General lassitude and feeling of weariness.

■ Easily becomes tired.

1 i Prostration out of proportion to loss of blood. ^Bleeding piles. ^" Sleep. Restlessness at night.

■ Uneasy, restless morning sleep.

■ Emissions of semen during sleep.

^^ Time. Morning: epistaxis; feels as if he had not slept; restless sleep.

After 3 a.m.: severe pain in testicles.

Noon: deafness passed off.

Day: drawing pain in testicles ; discharge of blood ; spit- ting of blood; severe headache.

Afternoon: very thirsty; throat dry; dull aching pain in muscles of 1. chest < ; weakness of knees.

Evening: very thirsty; throat dry; dull aching pain in muscles of 1. chest <.

Night: stools of blood mixed with mucus; emissions; drawing pain in testicles; pains dart from testicle to

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stomach < ; profuse cold sweat of scrotum ; discharge of blood ceases; cramping pains in lower limbs; restless- ness; whole body dry and hot; fever; sweats freely.

After midnight: pain in testicles.

24 hours: uterine hemorrhage flowing.

12 to 36 hours: slept. ^^ Temperature and Weather, i Takes cold easily from every exposure, but especially to warm, moist air; subject to varicose veins.

I I Cold creeps in open air, chills run up legs, head stopped up, dull pain over orbit.

Rainy weather: pains in testicles <. *" Fever, i Chilly on going to bed ; dreaded an attack of fever.

I Chilliness over back and hips, extending down extremities.

Whole body dry and hot, at night.

Fever at night ; hands hot, burning in eyelids on closing them.

Sweats freely at night, after lying down.

Pulse accelerated ; fever.

Pulse 60 to 70 and full.

iTypho-malarial fever; seventeenth day bloody stools, on twentieth day, profuse stool, consisting almost entirely of black, partly coagulated, offensive blood ; six profuse hemorrhages occurred on this day and night ; tempera- ture fell ; respiration hurried ; surface circulation poor ; skin cool, pulse weak, 140; anxious look on face; bruised sore feeling in abdomen and hips.

■ Hemorrhagic variola; blood dark, venous; oozing of dark blood from nose; bleeding gums, hsematemesis, bloody stools; uterine hemorrhage, petechiee; tearing pains across small of back, with fulness of joints of legs; typhoid condition.

Every fifteen minutes: discharge of pure blood.

Two hours after a hearty meal: cramps in stomach.

Every three or four hours: thin, dark, rose-colored, offen- sive stools.

For hours: severe pain in head of r. humerus.

Every day: from 10 to 15 stools; ovarian region becomes swollen.

For days: soreness in head of humerus, extending down arms to elbow-joint.

In three days: swelling spread from thigh to whole 1. leg.

Seventeenth day: typhoid malarial fever; bloody stools.

Twentieth day: profuse stools; six profuse hemorrhages occurred.

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Two weeks after confinement: feverish, thirsty, sleepless.

Every month for twenty years: hemorrhage from lungs.

For months or years: hemorrhoids with hemorrhage with every evacuation.

For three months: drawing pain in 1. spermatic cord. ^ Locality and Direction. Right: deafness in ear; bleeding at ear; burning in cheek; shooting along superior max- illary to malar bone; sore throat r. side; tonsil more swollen; enlargement of testicle; paroxysm of pain in groin; pain commences in region of ovar}^; swelling in groin; pain in groin; severe pain in head of humerus; tenderness of r. biceps; dull pains in elbow-joint; vio- lent pain in back of hand to shoulder-joint; sore pain in femur and muscles of thigh; great pain and swelling in leg from knee to hip.

Left: hammering over eye; after injury to eye abrasion of cornea; bleeding of nose commenced in side of nose; sharp pains in hypochondrium; enlargement of sper- matic vein; drawing pain in spermatic cord; testicle painful; paroxysms of pain in ovary; ovaritis; stiffness and weakness of leg; swelling of labium, groin and thigh, then of whole leg; pain in hip; granulations and redness of vocal cord; dull aching pain in muscles of chest; rheumatic pains in arm; lancinating in wrist- joint.

From w^ithin outwards: blood venous, raised with little effort, like a simple warm current. *^ Sensations, n Prickling stinging: veins, muscles, skin.

1 1 Bruised, soreness.

Felt as if he were going out of his mind; as if a bolt were passing from temple to temple and tightly screwed; as if head would burst; as if both eyes would be forced out of head; tongue feels as if burnt; as if uvula would break when he coughs; feeling as if something had lodged in fauces; as if piles would protrude; back as if it w^ould break; anus as if raw; as if he had not slept; tongue as though dead; veins of feet appeared as though blood was dried up; the muscles of thighs sore as if bruised; legs feel full as if they would burst.

Pains: in teeth in warm room; on swallowing; in testicles; back of stomach; running down spermatic cords into testes; in 1. testicle; dart from testicles to stomach; in r. groin; in epigastrium; in lumbar region; in 1. ova- rian region; in hemorrhoids; in 1. hip; in r. groin; in kidneys.

Excruciating pain: in eyes; in testicles.

Violent pain: in back of r. hand to shoulder-joint: at bladder.

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Severe pain : in head ; in lumbar and hypogastric region ;

fingers. Drawing pains: about umbilicus; in 1. spermatic cord;

in epigastrium ; in umbilicus ; at orifice of anus ; of

piles; of eyelids. •Sore pain: in eyes; in gums; down cervical vertebra3; in

r. femur and muscles of thighs. Soreness: of abdomen; of anus; of nipples; in head of

humerus; of thumb-nail; in femoral vessels ; of affected

parts; of skin. Scalding sensation: on tongue.

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Dull i^aiii : in hypochondriac region ; in renal region ; in lumbar region ; in testicles ; in sacrum ; in hips ; in r. elbow-joint.

Dull aching pain: in muscles of 1. chest.

Painful fulness: of joints; of legs.

Painful weakness : of eyes.

Constant pains: in abdomen.

Painful sensation of heaviness: in lower abdomen.

Painful but benumbed sensation of limb.

Weak pain: in back.

Sore, stiff feeling: in muscles.

Stiffness: in arms and shoulders; of hands and fingers.

Crowding fulness: in head, in neck, in forehead.

Fulness: in head; in hypochondriac region; of vagina; in neck; of joints of legs.

Forcing feeling : in varices.

Stopped up feeling: in nose.

Tightness: across bridge of nose; across lower part of tho- rax; of chest.

Dulness: in head.

Tired feeling : in arms and legs.

Hammering: over 1. eye.

Pulsation: in rectum.

Trembling: in stomach.

Benumbed sensation: over whole os frontis.

Tickling : in larynx.

Itching: at anus; of vulva. ** Tissues. 1 1 Venous congestions; hemorrhages.

■ Passive congestion, or venous stagnation of skin and

mucous membranes.

I Venous congestion, hemorrhoids, conjunctival vascu- larity, ciliary neuralgia, photophobia, l^chrymation.

Hemorrhages from all mucous membranes.

Hemorrhages with asthenia or aneemia.

Profuse discharges, which simulate a hemorrhage, and constitute a drain upon system as severe as a loss of blood.

Evil effects from loss of blood.

Phlegmasia alba dolens.

■ Hemorrhagic purpura.

I Phlebitis; prickling pains.

Varices, knotted appearance, extreme thinness of skin,, blueness, almost blackness of pouches, parts feel soft and fluctuating.

I I Varicose veins and ulcers with stinging or pricking. Varicose ulcers deep, circular, flat; ulcers that are very

dark, almost black at base ; surrounding skin bluish- black ; oozing of blood ; Vjurning, stinging, or biting in

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ulcer ; edges sharp cut and on level with surrounding skin ; pus thin, watery, bad smelling.

iVery sensitive varices,

■ Purpura hemorrhagica with epistaxis and congestion of conjunctiva.

Articular and muscular rheumatism.

Rheumatism with great soreness of affected parts.

Ilncised, lacerated or contused wounds; checks hemor- rhage, removes pain and soreness and promotes healing.

Dissecting wounds.

Touch: hemorrhoids very sensitive; swollen leg sensitive.

Had to sleep with neck free from all covering.

Pressure: swelling in r. groin tender; upper part of thigh very painful; tenderness of r. biceps <.

Slight pressure : sore pain in eyes.

Pressing eyes with fingers : > feeling of being pushed out for a few moments.

Jolting while riding in a heavy wagon over a rough road- brought on uterine hemorrhage.

After a slight knock: thumb-nail becomes sore; pus dis- charges.

After injury of head and face: great ecchymosis.

Blow or burn : inflammation and ulceration of conjunc- tiva and cornea.

Blow: r. iliac region caused hsematuria; ovary swollen.

Bruise: causes black eye.

Caused by a fall: active uterine hemorrhage.

After a fall: threatened abortion. *^ Skin. Soreness and smarting on small spots, not very sen- sitive to touch.

Ulcers with very thin and watery pus, bad smelling; more an ichor than^ pus.

Carbuncles; boils ; abscesses ; injuries resulting from falls.

I Chilblains always bluish. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Hemorrhages in patients of nervo-sanguine temperament.

Boy, £et. 14, growing rapidly ; epistaxis.

Boy, after a blow ; htematuria.

Colored boy, after injury ; intraocular hemorrhage.

Irish girl, «t. 18 ; amenorrhoea.

Man, set. 21, light complexioned, in good health; varicocele.

Young married woman ; vaginismus.

Miss S., set. 28 ; uterine hemorrhage.

Man, set. 30, scrofulous ; orchitis.

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Woman, set. 30, bilious-lymphatic temperament, nursing a babe ; ovarian disease.

AYoman, set. 30, six months pregnant; varicose veins.

Man, set. 30, well built, strong ; hsematemesis.

Colored woman, set. 35 ; amenorrhoea.

Woman, had miscarriage during typhoid fever, subinvo- lution of uterus probably present ; angioleucitis.

Married woman, whose menses have always been profuse, has been suffering from dysenteric diarrhoea for day or two ; uterine hemorrhage.

Woman, plethoric habit; epistaxis.

Married woman, mother of two children ; vaginismus.

Middle-aged man, with congested liver ; bleeding piles.

Man, set. 40, thin ; melsena.

Woman, set. 40, mother of six children ; varices and hem- orrhoids.

Woman, set. 60, hemorrhages for over twenty years. .Woman, set. 60, nervous temperament, was taken suddenly with a severe chill followed by fever ; phlebitis.

Complementary: to Ferrum (hemorrhages).

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