Hydrastis Canadensis

Golden Seal; Oravge Root. Ranunculacese.

Grows in most parts of the United States, in rich woodlands, most abundantly in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.

Tlie tinc^ture is ])re]>arod from the fresli root.

This plant was lirst mentioned by Linna'us, in 17r);?. The first provingswere made under Hale, by Nichols, Kurt and others. (8ee Hale's New Rem.) About tiie year KSdt), j)rovings were made by Whitesides, Weaver and others (see Am. llom. Obs.), and a year or two later Hydrastis was proved under Lippe by a class of students of the Hahnemann College of I'hiladelphia, with diflerent dilutions, mostly the 30th.

A monograph on Hydrastis, by Chas. Mohr, was printed in the Hah. Mo., November, 188G.

Clinical Authorities Ophthalmia, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 467;

Nasal catarrh, Palmer, Raue's Ree., 1871, p. 05 ; Webster, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 84 ; Moore, Times Retros., 1877, p. 26 ; Diphtheritic deposit in nose and vagina, Smith, A.

H. O., vol. 3, p. 469; Epithelial cancer of lip, Blake, Horn. Rev., vol. 18, p. 491 ;

Cancerous tumor of hard palate, Nankivell, Raue's Rec, 1873, p. 24f^; Sore mouth, Morgan, Hom. C'liuics, vol. 3, ]). 131 ; Williamson, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 106;

Mercurial salivation, Lodge, II ale's Therap., p. 320; Affection of mouth and throat. Hale, Hale's Therap., p. 319 ; Use in, diphtheria, Oehme, Therapeutics, p. 38 ;

Epigastric tumor with inaras- nuis. La Rrunnc, Hale's Therap., p. 322 ; [Veakness of digest ion, Smedley, A. II.O., vol. 4, p. 29 ; Dyspepsia, McClatchey, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 141 ;

Rradshaw, B. J. II., vol.19, p. 592; Cancer of stomach, Hendricks, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 137;

Sub- acute inflammation of liver, Bradshaw, B. J. II., vol. 19, p. 591 ; Jaundice, Albertson, A.

II. ()., vol. 3, p. 462; Constipation (3 eases), Rogerson, B. J.

H., vol. 18, p. 526 ; Hughes, B. J. II., vol. 23, p. 257;

Ilibbard, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 201; Hale, TInle's Therap., p. 325; Brown, A. H. 0., vol. 3, p. 466;

Martin, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc Pa., 1882, p. 204;

GonstipaHon of infants, Hibbard, A. H. O., vol. 10, p. 254; Constipation and hemon-hoids, Clark, A.

II. ()., vol. 3, p. 465 ; Brown, A. II.

()., vol. 3, p. 464; Hemorrhoids, Hunt, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 202; Brown, Bernhard

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:m(i Strong; Bradsljaw, B. J. IT., vol. 11), p. 595;

Ulceration of rectum, Mitcluill, U. S. M. and 8. J , July, 1871;

Fidula ani, Morgan, liauc'H Kw;., 1.S70, p. 219; (7o?io?T/t«;a, Brown, A. H. ()., vol. 8, p. 4G7 ;

ProlapHm uteri, Jloyr.e, Itauc'H Jiw;., 1870, p. 248 ; Uterine affection, Wigand, A. H. ()., vol. 2, ji). 2;52 ;

Uterine hemorrhage, Hale, Times Retros., 1877, p. 20; MemsLrual disturbances, affections of uterus, Kelialz, Allg. Horn. Ztg., vol. 109, p. 24 ;

Tumor in breast, Freeman, B. J, II., vol. 20, p. 8 ; Scirrhous of breast, Maelimont and Marston, B. J.

II., vol. 21, p, G39 ; Mansion, Hughes Pliarm., p. 409 ; Mammary cancer, Bayes, B. J. 11., vol. 19, p. 150 ;

B. J. i 1., vol. 20, p. 4 ; Coucjh, Small, Hale's Tlierap., p. 329 ; Di^iease of heart, Sinedley, A.

H. O., vol. 4, p. 21 ; Ulcers on leg, (jjlchrist, A. II.

()., vol. 3, p. 465, Scrofulous ■ulcers on leg, Eadon, A. II. O., vol. 8, p. 409; Typhoid fever, Molir, Organon, vol. 3, p. 374;

General marasmus, liebslier, liaue's Itec, 1870, p. 312; Serofidous inpmmia- lion of glands, Bradshaw, B. J. II., vol. 19, p. 590;

Cwto, burns, intertrigo, Saxton, Hale's Therap., p. 315 ; Cancer, Bradshaw, B. J. H., vol. 19, p. 588;

Epithelioma, Blake, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 299 ; Erysipelas, Woodvine, N. E. M.

G., 1874, p. 28 ; Smallpox (3 cases), Cleveland, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 204 ;

Eczema, Cooper, Ratio's Rec, 1872, p. 250; Ulcers (3 cases), Hastings, N. A. J.

H., vol. 13, p. 450.

'Mind. I Forgetful; cannot remember what he is reading or talking about. I Irritable; disposed to bo spiteful.

■ Moaning, with occasional outcries from pain. I Despondency.

■ Depression of spirits, sure of death and desires it.

^ Sensorium. ■Foeliugas if intoxicated; headache; weakness. ^ Inner Head. ■Dull, heavy frontal headache over eyes; catarrhal.

■ Dull frontal headache, with dull pain in hypogastrium

and small of back. I I Severe frontal headache.

■ Sharp cutting in temples and over eyes; < over left; >

from pressing with hand.

I I Dull, pressing pain on top of head, pressing outward from ears, at 10.30 a.m.

I I Vertex headache in paroxysms, every other day, com- mencing about 11 A.M., with excessive nausea, retching and anguish.

■ Headache of a nervous gastric character, almost constant.

■ Frontal headaches; headaches arising from catarrh,

gastric difficulties, indigestion, dyspepsia, acidity of stomach, as well as from bilious disorder, constipation, piles, uterine disorder, etc. ^ Outer Head. ■Myalgic headache, in integuments of scalp and muscles of neck.

■ Weeping eruj)tion on forehead along margin of hair, after

taking cold; < from warmth of room after having been in cold air; itching when warm; < washing. ^Eczema.

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I Scalp and face covered with thick crusts, which upon re- moval, expose red, raw and infiltrated patches. ^Eczema.

I Scalp caked over with a thick, sebaceous secretion; hair dry and lustreless; debility and insufficient nourish- ment after typhoid fever. t/Seborrhoea sicca.

iLaceration of scalp above 1. temple, several inches in length, crescentic in shape; wound suppurated and be- came a troublesome sore. ^ Sight and Eyes. iDark greenish yellow colored con- junctiva.

IJaundiced eyes.

I Lack of accommodative power of eyes and asthenopia.

• Opacity of cornea; scrofulous ophthalmia, with or with- out ulceration ; thick mucous discharge.

I Profuse secretion of tears; smarting of eyes; burning of eyes and lids.

I Pain and burning in eyes.

Unflammation and ulceration of conjunctiva.

lAcute catarrhal ophthalmia, the result of daily exposure to harsh dry winds; inflammation nearly extended to border of iris; lids greatly swollen and excoriated ; pro- fuse catarrhal secretion.

llOphthalmia: catarrhal; scrofulous; thick mucous dis- charge.

B Chronic inflammation of eyes.

iMucous membrane of eyelids much congested ; profuse, thick, white mucous discharge.

■ Discharge of matter from eyes, resulting from catarrhal

inflammation.

■ Conjunctivitis siccus with sensation of dryness and

scratching, and feeling of weight and heaviness of upper lids.

■ Blepharitis marginalis. Large painful stye on 1. lid.

^ Hearing and Ears. ■ Deafness.

■ Roaring in ears, like from machinery.

■ Tinnitus aurium, from catarrh of inner ear.

■ Membrana tympani purplish and bulging.

■ Perforation of membrani tympani.

■ Mucous membrane of middle ear eroded, granular and

exuberant with polypoid growths.

■ Purulent inflammation of middle ear, with thick, tenacious

discharge, more mucus than pus.

■ Bland mucous discharge, associated with dropping in

posterior nares.

■ Thick, offensive, irritating catarrhal and purulent dis-

charges from external auditory meatus.

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lOtorrhoea, thick mucous discharge.

I Ears red, thickened and covered with scales; skin back of each pinna red, thickened and fissured at their con- nection with side of head. ^ Smell and Nose, l ' Tickling, like a hair, in r. nostril.

I The air feels cold in nose.

■ Stuffed up, smarting sensation in posterior nares, with

discharge of thin, clear mucus. I Stuffiness of nares, and discharge of thick, white or yellow tenacious and stringy mucus, or freciuent dropping down of mucus from posterior nares into throat.

■ Sharp, raw, excoriated feeling in both nares, with con-

stant inclination to blow nose ; hoarseness.

■ Posterior nares clogged with mucus.

■ Secretion, more from posterior nares, thick, tenacious.

I I Sneezing, with fulness over eyes, dull frontal headache, pain in t. breast and down arms.

■ Coryza watery, excoriating; burning in nose, more r.

nostril; discharge scanty in room, profuse out of doors; rawness in throat and chest

■ Coryza, with copious secretion of white mucus and tears.

■ Fluent coryza, followed by thick catarrhal discharge.

■ Bloody purulent discharge from nose.

■ Influenza in cold, weak, debilitated persons, i Catarrhal influenza.

■Secretions so profuse as to be removed in long tenacious shreds or pieces.

■ Constant thick white mucous discharge, with frontal

headache ; discharge of yellowish stringy mucus into throat.

■ Constant discharge of thick white mucus from nose;

coryza with frontal headache. ^Nasal catarrh

■ Discharge of thick white mucus from nose; lachryma-

tion ; thickening of membrane of posterior nares ; swell- ing of turbinated bones; large crusts forming in nasal fossae; occasional thin mucous discharge; raw, smart- ing sensation in nostrils; pains in ears. ^Nasal catarrh.

■ Profuse discharge of thick, yellowish, stringy mucus from

nasal passages. I I Discharge of thick yellow matter from nose.

■ Chronic nasal catarrh.

■ Ozsena, with bloody, purulent discharge.

■ Obstruction of nasal passages.

■ Soreness of cartilaginous septum, bleeding when touched;

inner edge of r. ala sore and thickened.

■ Nosebleed, 1. nostril, with burning rawness; followed by

itching. ■After apparent recovery from diphtheria, formation of a

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. diphtheritic membrane in 1. nostril and in vagina, the

former being completely plugged up. I Diphtheritic affections of nose. ^ Upper Face, l Expression weary, dull, skin pale, or yellow- white.

■ Pale face, worn, wearj'^ expression. I Yellow complexion.

■ Erysipelatous eruption following flushes of heat.

I Chills passing down back, followed by burning fever; pulse 120; headache in supraorbital region, excruciat- ing pain in lumbar region; face red, 1. side of nose swollen; great tenderness of cervical glands, urine high colored ; inflammation passed from 1. side of nose to r. ear, eye, scalp and whole face, r. eye being closed; ex- treme restlessness, disturbed by least noise ; urine sup- pressed for twenty-four hours; delirium. ^Erysipelas erratica.

iLeft cheek swollen; 1. eye closed; pain and burning, chills, flushes; pulse 100. ^Erysipelas.

■ Forehead, cheeks and nose slightly red and very greasy;

follicles plugged with comedones; skin dirty in patches. ^Seborrhoea oleosa.

■ Forehead, cheeks and chin covered with small red eleva-

tions with black points — acne punctata — and papulo- pustules; digestion feeble, bowels torpid. lUlcer on nose and eyelid; base of ulcer of a dingy, red- dish-yellow color, dry, glazed and free from granula- tions, and discharge but slight.

■ Itching, tingling and swelling of face. ^Smallpox. ^ Lower Face. ■Aphthae on lips; tongue swollen.

I I Pimples about mouth and chin.

■ Epithelial cancer of lip.

■ Tenacious mucus hangs in shreds from mouth. ^^ Teeth and Gums. iGums dark red and swollen.

" Taste and Tongue. Taste: flat; peppery; bitter or saltish.

■ Tongue and lips parched, red and dry.

■ Dryness of tongue, with sensation as if it had been

burned.

■ Tongue as if burned or scalded, later a vesicle on tip.

■ Tongue coated yellowish-white.

■Tongue foul and coated with thick white fur.

■ Large, flabby, slimy looking tongue.

■ Tongue large and flabby, showing imprint of teeth.

^Stomatitis.

■ Tongue: swollen, showing marks of teeth; coated white,

or with a yellow stripe.

■ Tongue raw, dark red, with raised papillae.

■ Cancerous affections of tongue.

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^^ Inner Mouth. i Excessive secretion of thick, tenacious mucus. .

I Gums and mucous membrane of mouth dark red and swollen; uvula relaxed and sore; hawking of large quantities of yellow tenacious mucus from throat, leav- ing a sensation of rawness.

iMucous membrane of fauces studded with round, protu- berant spots of a red color, as if injected with blood, < from least exposure to cold.

■ Soreness and rawness of mouth, with raised papillse and

dark red appearance of mucous membranes.

■ Follicular and catarrhal ulcers with exceedingly tena-

cious mucus in mouth. ,

llStomatitis: after mercury or chlorate of potash; in nursing women or weakly children; with peppery taste; tongue as if burned, or raw, with dark red appearance and raised papillae ; during course of eruptive fevers.

■ Aphthous sore mouth.

IJaws set; liquids swallowed with difficulty; power of ar- ticulation lost; ulceration of mouth. ^Mercurial sali- vation.

■ Gangrenous sore mouth after abuse of mercury and

chlorate of potash. ■Syphilitic affections of mouth, throat and nares.

■ Syphilitic angina.

■ Dense, irregular tumor in hard palate, painful to touch,

and somewhat elastic, disposed to bleed and to discharge offensive matter; climacteric. ^Cancer. 13 Throat. ■ Uvula sore and relaxed.

■ Hawking of yellow tenacious mucus from posterior nares

and fauces; rawness of fauces; ulcers in throat; after

mercury and chlorate of potash. I I Pain on swallowing as from excoriation. ■Sensation of rawness in throat, after hawking up large

quantities of tenacious mucus. 1 I Tingling and smarting in throat. ■Soreness of neck and throat, with relaxation of palate. I I Great swelling, redness and itching, and great soreness

of throat.

■ Sore throat arising from irritation of stomach and lower

portion of oesophagus.

■ Sore throat from gastric derangement.

■ Ulcerated sore throat: with putrid odor; from sahvation

by mercury or after chlorate of potash.

■ Angina with ulceration, accompanying scarlatina.

■ Chronic angina, with round, protuberant red spots m

throat, with sensation of roughness and stiffness when swallowing.

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I I Chilliness although well covered; headache of a beating or darting character, and not confined to any one locality; stools consist entirely of blood; epistaxis. ^Diphtheria.

I Pseudo-membranes, or tenacious mucous secretions, re-

. sembling dipthheria, with or without ulceration.

I Diphtheritic sore throat.

I I Syphilitic angina.

I Syphilitic sore throat.

■ Results of mercurial salivation.

■ Chronic catarrhal affections of throat. I Follicular pharyngitis.

^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Anorexia.

I Poor appetite, with constipation of seven or eight weexs'

standing. I Little thirst, with loathing of food. '^ Eating and Drinking. i Indigestion from atony of

I Bread, or vegetables cause acidity, weakness, indigestion. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Eructa- tions putrid, or more commonly sour. iVomits all she eats, except milk and water. '^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, i i Sinking at epigastrium

and palpitation of heart. iV^iolent pulsations in epigastrium, and palpitation of

heart, with heavy, dull, hard thumping, fulness of chest

and dyspnoea. I Even slight pressure of hand reveals strong pulsations in

vomiting of all food save milk and water. ^Cancer

of stomach.

■ Pains in stomach five or six years, then loss of strength,

great sensitiveness of epigastric region, in which pulsa- tions isochronous with pulse were perceived, and a flat- tened, resistant tumor of some two inches in diameter; in a few months pains became insufferable, loss of appetite and sleep alarming, frequent vomiting and great anguish about heart almost permanent; tumor pronounced scirrhous. ^Epigastric tumor with maras- mus.

■ Flat, resistant tumor, two inches in diametet in epigas-

trium, sensitive to pressure, pulsations synchronous with pulse, insufferable pains, frequent vomiting, loss of ap- petite, anguish about heart, sleeplessness, loss of strength. ^Cancer.

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iFaintness at stomach; sinking, gone feeling, with con- tinued violent palpitation of heart.

■ Dull, aching pain in stomach, which causes a very weak

faintish feeling, goneness in epigastric region ; acidity;

"gone" feeling, more or less constant, < by a meal. iFood seems to lie heavy in stomach. iPain in pit of stomach. I Acute, distressing, cutting pains in stomach.

■ Weakness of digestion, with heavy, dull, hard, thumping

fulness of chest and dysjDUoea.

■ Weakness of digestion, pale tongue, fulness and uneasi-

ness in stomach after eating, weakness of body and limbs, with depression of spirits.

■ Weakness of digestion with debility, particularly in dis-

eases from exhaustion, and in latter stages of nervous fevers.

■ ■Indigestion from an atonic state of stomach, with

debility.

■ Indigestion, with acidity and general w^eakness.

■ Constant acid mucous vomitings; obstinate constipation ;

wretched nights; tongue coated ; looks ill and pale; is thin and hysterical; pulse quiet; faintings every day from exhaustion; appetite good, but nearly all food re- turning intensely acid; no actual disease could be de- tected about her; has taken great quantities of acid and alkaline mixtures and has habitually used purgatives. ^Mucous irritation et morbus medicinalis. ■Sympathetic affections of digestive organs arising from uterine disease.

■ Gastric disorders of intemperate people.

■ Flatulency, distension and painful digestion of dyspeptics.

■ Chronic gastric catarrh; chronic dyspepsia.

■ Gastro-duodenal catarrh; sense of sinking and prostra-

tion at epigastrium, wdth violent and continued palpi- tation of heart.

■ Chronic ulceration of mucous membrane of stomach.

■ Chronic affections of stomach, especially of mucous mem-

brane.

■ Chronic inflammation of stomach.

I I Carcinoma, with emaciation ; goneness. '' Hypochondria. ' ' Fulness and dull aching in r. hypochon- drium.

■ Torpor of liver, with pale, scanty stools.

■ Jaundice, with catarrh of stomach and duodenum.

■ Skin very yellow; stools w^hite and frequent; urine very

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dark; skin hot; tongue coated; great weariness and depression; legs anasarcous; bad nights; no appetite; slight difficulty of breathing; much fulness and tender- ness over hepatic region; great aching in shoulder- blades. ^Subacute inflammation of liver.

■Severe pain in stomach and bowels; skin and eyes dark, greenish-yellow; urine very dark; feces light colored; great debility. ^Jaundice.

i Jaundice from structural disease of liver.

■ Catarrhal inflammation of mucous lining of gall bladder

and biliary ducts.

■ Functional disorders of liver in connection with inter-

mittent fever.

■ Chronic derangement of liver.

I I Liver enlarged, indurated, nodulated, and sensitive to pressure; tumor in epigastrium as large as a hen's egg, doughy in consistency, and in centre a small spot as if filled with fluid; after eating, vomiting of food in- corporated with sour, putrid mucus; thirst, loss of ap- petite, diarrhoea, weakness, emaciation, sleeplessness.

■Liver atrophied. ^Marasmus.

■Sharp pain in region of spleen, with constant dull pain in stomach and bowels, with hot, burning sensation.

■ Severe cutting pains in splenic and csecal regions, and in

hypogastrium. ^^ Abdomen. Burning in region of navel, with goneness and faintness in epigastrium. ■Severe cutting pain in hypogastric region, extending into testicle, occurring after stool, with faint feeling.

■ Sense of constriction in hypogastric region.

I I Loud rumbling, with dull aching in hypogastrium and small of back; < moving.

■ Flatulent colic, accompanied by faintness.

■ Flatulent colic; sensation of a lump of the size of a hen's

egg, rising and falling in r. iliac and lumbar regions; sharp pains around umbilicus extending to 1. ovarian and splenic regions; moaning with occasional outcries; very restless, no sleep; abdominal walls pahiful on pressure; discharge of flatulency, sounding like the report of a pistol; tongue and lips parched and dry; little thirst and loathing of food ; constipation of bowels ; offensive pus-like discharge from vagina; great tender- ness of OS uteri; countenance pale and haggard; hic- cough ; hectic fever; cold sweats and bedsores.

■ Cutting, colicky pains, with heat and faintness; constipa-

tion; > after passing flatus.

■ Colicky pains, with fainting turns and heat in bowels,

following constipation.

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■ Griping, with profuse light colored diarrhoea.

■ Griping, with light acrid stools.

■ Sharp pain in region of spleen, with dull pain and burn-

ing in stomach and bowels. Pain in large intestines and rectum.

■ Sharp pain in csecal region.

■ Sensation of great fulness in 1. iliac region.

■ Dull dragging in groins, cutting pains extending into

testicles.

■ Pains in groin, as if he had strained himself; clothing

uncomfortable.

■ Intestinal catarrh, followed bj'- ulceration. I I Blenorrhoea of the intestines.

■ Chronic intestinal catarrh.

■ Chronic catarrhal or croupous enteritis.

^^ Stool and Rectum. ' l Urging to urinate, and sensation as if bowels would move, but only wind passes.

■ Discharge of flatus with great noise.

■ Fetid flatus.

■Stools loose, soft, light colored, with flatus.

■ Soft stool, followed by severe cutting pain in hypogas-

trium, with dull aching in testicles and faintness.

■Slimy, tenacious discharges with tenesmus; or when feces are in form of hard balls coated over with yel- lowish, tough mucus. ^Chronic enteritis

■Stool: light colored, soft; acrid; greenish; lumpy, cov- ered with mucus; hard, knotty.

■Stools hard and nodulated, of a gray or browm color.

■ Constipation; feces like bullets.

■ One or two stools a week, very hard but of natural color. ■Scanty stools occasionally, alternating with discharge of

membranous casts.

■ Torpidity and want of desire for stool.

■ Constipation more from sluggish state of bowels than

from diseased condition of system.

■ Obstinate constipation where catarrhal indigestion is co-

incident.

■ Obstinate constipation and its attendant dull headache

in forehead; weak feeling in epigastric region; sour eructations and " dyspeptic cough," with copious expec- toration of thick mucus.

■ Constipation of long standing, aggravated by cathartic

medicines; patients weak and feeble; complexion sal- low; tongue foul; pain in lower bowels and rectum; indigestion; stools hard and nodulated.

■ Constipation, one or two stools a week for eight years,

and then only after use of purgatives; continual pain in head, especially in morning; bad taste in mouth with

HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. G4

coated tongue; pain in back and shoulders; sensation ' of constriction in hypogastric region, > only by purga-

tion; yellow or rather bilious tint of face, skin smooth and dry ; severe pain after each stool, which is hard and knotty, and of a brown color.

■ Constipation: headache and piles; after stools, for hours

severe pain in rectum and anus; colic pains with faint- ing turns and heat in bowels; anaemia; remittent fever; after purgative medicines. I Three weeks after confinement was seized, while at stool, with severe burning, stinging pains in rectum and anus, lasting six to eight hours after each evacuation; and ac- companied with a sensation of heat in intestines, colic pains and fainting; every week one or two very hard, but natural colored stools.

■ Sore neck, sore throat which is much relaxed and in-

flamed; headache; cough and expectoration; pain in side while stooj)ing and rising from recumbent position ; foul breath; tongue foul and coated with a thick white fur; appetite poor; constipated; after purgatives.

■ Constipation and hemorrhoids during pregnancy, with

severe pain during stool, no hemorrhage.

■ Constipated habit since birth, after failure of cathartics

and enemas. SI Constipation: Avith piles; of hepatic origin; following

rheumatic fever; the cause of other ailments. After stool: long lasting pain in rectum; hemorrhoids

and fainting; exhaustion.

■ Smarting, burning pains in rectum, during and after

each stool.

■ Proctitis.

■ Ulceration of rectum, after bad cases of dysentery.

■ Prolapsus of rectum; simple prolapsus in children, with

congestion and swelling of mucous membrane, and marked constipation. I Fistula ani with constipation, piles and ulceration.

■ Fissures and excoriations of anus.

■ Hemorrhoids, when a small loss of blood is followed by

excessive weakness.

■ Painful hemorrhoids, with paroxysms of headache and

constipation; severe burning, smarting pains in rectum, before and after each stool; colic pains, with attacks of faintness and heat in intestines, often follow evacuations, after a constipation of several days. I i Hemorrhoidal swellings which bleed profusely at times; much prolapsus recti; offensive, dirty-looking, hemor- rhoidal discharge from anus, obliging him to wear a bandage.

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I Piles and headache with constipation. '' Urinary Organs. iDull aching in region of kidneys.

I Catarrh of bladder, with thick, ropy, mucous sediment in urine.

■ Chronic cystitis; diabetes; gravel.

■ Symptoms of ulceration of bladder.

■ Difficulty in making water.

■ Suppression of urine.

■ Incontinence of urine.

Urine increased and of neutral reaction. High colored urine which deposits a cloudy sediment while standing.

■ Urine smells as if decomposed.

^^ Male Sexual Organs. ■Debility, after spermatorrhoea.

■ Spermatorrhoea, incipient stricture, chronic gonorrhoea,

gleet, inflammation and ulceration of whole internal coat of bladder.

■ Gonorrhoea, second stage, thick, yellow discharge.

■ Long lasting gonorrhoea, accompanied by great moral

and physical depression. ■Acute or chronic gonorrhoea; feeling of debility and faint- ness after each passage from bowels.

■ Catarrh of urethra; after acute gonorrhoea, a gleety dis-

charge remains; copious, painless, urethral discharge; spurious gonorrhoea; relaxation of urethral mucous membrane, and a consequent weeping, the discharge being almost watery in character.

■ Gleet with debility; copious, painless, sometimes thick

discharge.

■ Dragging in r. groin to testicle, thence to 1. testicle, thence

to 1. groin. ^ Female Sexual Organs. ■Aching pains in small of back at change of life; uterine affections, accompanied by de- bility and disorder of digestive functions.

■ Offensive, pus-like discharges from vagina.

■ Great tenderness of os uteri.

■ Discharge of tough, stringy mucus from os uteri. ■Mucous leucorrhoea; uterine and vaginal catarrh.

■ Epithelial abrasion of os and cervix uteri and vagina,

with superficial ulceration of parts.

■ Cervix uteri swollen, indurated and eroded.

■ Ulcerationof OS, cervix and vagina; leucorrhoea; debility;

prolapsus uteri.

■ Hot, watery discharge from uterus.

■ Uterine diseases with sympathetic affections of digestive

organs.

■ Uterine hemorrhage, menorrhagic form; bleeding ex-

cessive for ten days during each period, attended with

vol;. VI. — 5.

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pain and ansemia; hemorrhage from fibroid tumor; congestive dysmenorrhoea; subinvolution of uterus; metritis; endometritis; menopause.

I Metrorrhagia: consequent upon fibroid tumors; in girls fifteen to eighteen years of age; puerperal hemorrhages; endometritis.

■ Profuse menses for a year, flowing ten days or more; dysmenorrhoea; great prostration and ansemia.

lAfter catching cold by getting feet wet during menstrua- tion, severe pains in bowels and uterine region, "it felt like wind;" a lump, size of a hen's egg, rises and falls in r. iliac and lumbar regions; sharp pains around um- bilicus, extending to 1. ovarian and splenic region ; con- tinual moaning and distressing outcries; very restless; sleepless; abdominal walls painful to pressure; dis- charge of flatus which sounds like report of pistol.

Tongue and lips parched and dry; little thirst; loathing of food; constipation; injections per anum followed by bullet-shaped feces; offensive, pus-like discharge from vagina; great tenderness of os uteri ; pale and haggard ; hiccough; hectic fever; cold sweats; bedsores. ^Uter- ine affections.

I Regurgitation of food by mouthful, without nausea, which, however, affords relief; despondent and gloomy; when food is retained suffers from headache, palpitation of heart and nervousness, or restlessness; bad taste in throat from breath ; mouth very dry in morning, and tongue thickly coated ; sour risings from stomach ; great quantities of wind m stomach causing distress until dis- charged; after eating must keep quiet or she becomes feverish and distressed ; pain in bowels three or four hours after eating with inclination to stool; pain and soreness of liver; after dinner nervous and irritable, cannot bear to be spoken to; becomes so nervous that to hear any one speak is unbearable and head aches in- tensely; on closing eyes sees sparks and light spots; pain in and over eyeballs; pain on opening eyes; can- not sleep until after midnight; epigastric region very tender to touch ; sensation as of a tight band around waist, < at night; constant coldness of hands, feet and limbs while head is hot; constipation, feces at first dry and lumpy, afterwards like white of egg; great strain- ing at stool; nosebleed before menses; menses delayed, preceded and accompanied by severe pains in back and headache; constant, acrid, corroding leucorrhoea < ten days after menses cease; when standing feels as if every- thing would fall out; very tender about vulva; dis- charge like white of egg, coming on immediately after

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menses cease, lasting ten days or longer, profuse and de- bilitating; severe pain in small of back and in back part of legs ; pain in inside of legs above knees ; coition very painful, with almost constant desire, especially dur- ing the time she has " white of egg " discharge, amount- ing to furor uterinus; after coition prostration and dis- tress in stomach ; commences at once to spit up the last meal, or has taste of it in mouth; the "white of egg" discharge usually becomes red, bloody fluid, and soon as it ceases she becomes irritable and angry with every one, and cannot endure idea of coition, any reference to it making her angry ; constant desire to pass water, and when a little is passed she is relieved, and it seems to her that if she could pass a great quantity of water she Vi^ould feel still better; in morning this desire is less; at times, discharges of hot water from womb, which is so profuse as to wet bed and all her clothes; uterus pro- lapsed; OS indurated and congested; all symptoms > by lifting womb into- place and holding it there; > in recumbent posture.

1 1 Tenacious, viscid teucorrhoea, uterine or vaginal.

■Mucous leucorrhoea, discharge hanging from os in long viscid strings.

■ Yellow, tenacious leucorrhoea, long threads or pieces in

it; sometimes offensive.

■ ■ Leucorrhoea tenacious, ropy, thick, yellow.

■ Leucorrhoea complicated with hepatic derangement and

constipation.

■ Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea; sexual excite-

ment.

■ Lancinating pain in breast, extending up to shoulder and

down arms.

■ Pain in 1. breast, so bad as to prevent all rest at night.

■ Pain in breast, almost unbearable, causing a worn and

haggard appearance of countenance.

■ Pains accompanying cancer in breast.

■Scirrhous tumor of 1. breast; hard, heavy and adherent to skin, which is dark, mottled and vei^ much puck- ered, the nipple being retracted; pains like knives thrust into the part; cachectic appearance of face.

■ Stony hard, nodulated tumor in 1. breast, unattached to

skin, perfectly movable and as large as a filbert; lan- cinating pains.

■ Cancer of 1. breast as large as a small egg, with retraction

of nipple.

■ Hard, irregular enlargement of 1. breast; nipple retracted,

and glands of 1. axilla enlarged and painful; mother had died of cancer of tongue. ^Cancer.

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llrregular nodule of scirrhus of mamma, with retraction of nipple; enlargement of axillary glands; health poor; sallow complexion.

■ Epithelioma of mamma.

In a case of open cancer of 1. breast, which had been ulcer- ated for four or five years, it diminished the ulcerated surface, which was as large as half crown, to a size not as large as a pea.

I Abraded, cracked and sore nipples of nursing women. ^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. iScraping in larynx.

I Cough, with rawness of larynx; tingling and smarting in throat; hawks up tenacious, yellow or white mucus; pain on swallowing as if throat were excoriated; cough rough, harsh and rattling, and continued day and night; abdominal congestion. ^Laryngo-tracheitis. ^Bronchitis.

■ Bronchial catarrh of old people, with debility, loss of ap-

petite, and a general cachectic condition.

■ Catarrhal cough of long standing, with febrile symptoms

in evening and night, with debility in children.

■Rough, harsh and rattling cough, day and night. ^' Cough. 'Dry, harsh cough, from tickling in larj'nx.

■Chronic catarrhal cough, with febrile paroxysms in eve- ning and night, with debility; cough rough, harsh and rattling, continued day and night.

■Chronic cough, accompanied by febrile paroxysms eve- nings and night, and excessive prostration ; sputa thick, yellowish, very tenacious, stringy and profuse.

■ Old man's cough; senile catarrh.

^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■Rawness, soreness and burn- ing in chest.

■ Bronchitis of old, exhausted people; thick, yellow, tena-

cious, stringy sputa.

■ Phthisis, to relieve goneness in stomach, emaciation, loss

of appetite. I I Cancer of r. lung, with nodules in external walls of chest (relieved). ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. ■Palpitation, with faint- ness.

■ Dyspnoea, with heavy beating of heart.

■ Intermittent pulsation of heart.

■ Palpitation of heart, with heavy, dull, hard, thumping

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fulness of chest and dyspnoea, in connection with dys- pepsia.

■ Palpitation, pain shooting from chest to 1. shoulder, with

numbness of arm ; irregular, and at times labored action of heart; cannot lie on either side; feeling of immediate suffocation on attempting to lie on 1. side; unable from weakness and dizziness to sit in erect posture; sounds of chest dull on percussion; heart has a muffled sound, as if laboring in a sac of water; a blowing and rushing sound in under portion, and peculiar noise at each stroke, like striking knuckle against a hard substance; swelling of abdomen, particularly upper portion; oedema of legs; urine scanty and turbid; constipation; tongue yellowish-white; no appetite; food causes nau- sea; frequent sinking spells. ^Heart disease. I Pulse slow, during the chill.

^ Outer Chest* l ' Pain in r. breast and down arm. I Thoracic or intercostal myalgia.

^^ Neck and Back. I Ulcers under r. and 1. inferior maxilla from broken down lymphatic glands.

■ Chronic suppuration and swelling of cervical glands;

■ Pain in back and shoulders.

■ Aching pain in small of back in women, at change of life.

■ Debility and weakness in back and lower limbs, > by

walking about.

■ Tired aching across small of back and in limbs; knees

ache. ■Stiffness in muscles of lumbar region while bending over for a short time, causing great difficulty when assuming an erect posture; dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiff- ness of back, especially across lumbar region, necessitat- ing use of arms to rise from a seat; must walk about some time before being able to straighten up. ^^ Upper Limbs. iPain from head to shoulders, with aching in both, more the left.

■ Rheumatic pains in elbow, forearms, right shoulder and

first finger of 1. hand.

■ Right arm, from tips of fingers to shoulder, greatly

swollen, and one mass of sores, discharging fetid pus; glands in axilla tender and swollen; elbow enlarged and full of sores; exceedingly weak and nervous, owing to severe pain and constant loss of sleep; emaciation. Small boils, two or three inches apart on hands, arms and shoulders, some papular with inflamed area, others pus- tular.

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I Ulcer from a burn, on back of hand, greatly inflamed and very painful; could hardly move wrist. ^ Lower Limbs. < Pain from r. hip to knee, while walking ; cannot stand or bear one's weight.

I Legs feel weak ; knees weak; aching.

I Outer part of 1. knee aches while sitting, < when w-alking.

■ Erysipelas of lower extremities.

I Bright efflorescence from patella to bend of foot; scaly skin slightly broken here and there, having in some places a jagged and cracked appearance; slight serous moisture; intolerable itching.

■ Irritable and indolent ulcers on legs. I Atonic old ulcers on legs. ■Scrofulous ulcers on leg and foot.

■ Ulcers on both legs resulting from injuries.

■Dry, superficial, angry looking ulcers on legs; covered by a yellow scab; stinging burning pain; areola inflamed, and covered by pimples, which frequently degenerate into ulcers; faint fetid odor; circular shape with flat edges; one of ulcers had high and thick edges; no pus; < at night also from warmth of bed, on motion, or on touching them ; 1. side.

■ Three large ulcers each one of which seems to belong to

a separate class, around r. ankle; one in front is circular with high elevated edges slightly rounded, surrounded by inflamed skin; irregular base, bleeds readily and discharges a thin corrosive ichor; one on outside is cir- cular, with clean, sharp cut edges, deep, smooth, shining base, but with ichorous discharge; inside one is largest, ragged, irregular and deep; rough base; high, rounded and swollen edges at upper part, well defined at the lower; discharge of grayish, putrid, thick pus and has one or two patches of large, flabby, pale granulations; pain from motion and from warmth of bed; on stepping on ground pricking sensation in sores, apd on sitting down to rest after motion, shooting or lancinating ain in ulcers. I Extensive oedema of foot and ankle.

■ Aching in sole of 1. foot; no > from change of position.

■ Dorsal surface of feet red, infiltrated, especially about toes,

between which are deep fissures; aggravations from ointments; poor digestion; constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

■ Hard, nodulated tumor as large as a walnut on dorsum

of foot; occasionally painful.

■ Scrofulous ulcers in hollow of sole of foot, and over tarsal

and metatarsal bones, discharging pus and sanious mat- ter; loss of appetite ; paleface; melancholia.

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^* Limbs in General. iLimbs tired and aching. ^Coryza.

across lumbar region, necessitating use of arms to rise

from a seat; must walk about some time before being

hip and knee; outer part of 1. knee aches. Moving: < rumbling in abdomen with dull aching in

hypogastrium and small of back; can hardly move

wrist on account of ulcers; ulcers on legs <. ^® Nerves. ■ Frequent sudden attacks of fainty spells, with

profuse cold sweat all over. ^Cancerous ulcers on 1.

side of throat, inside. iCachectic condition with loss of appetite and fainting. I After measles, great emaciation, depression of spirits;

easily excited to anger; liver reduced in size; urine

scanty and high colored. ^Marasmus.

■ General debility.

I Debility from gastric, bilious and typhoid fevers.

> Faintness, goneness, great weakness and physical pros- tration. ^^ Sleep. I Awakened by backache and dull pains in navel and hypogastric region.

■ Dreams worrisome; restless sleep, i I Difficulty in awaking.

^ Time. Morning: continual pain in head; mouth very dry; desire to pass water > ; chill.

10.30 A.M.: dull, piercing pain on top of head, outward from ears.

Day: cough.

Evening: febrile symptoms; chill; dull, burning pain.

10 P.M.: great heat of whole body.

Night: feeling of tight band around waist <; cannot sleep on account of pain in 1. breast; cough ; febrile symp- toms; ulcers on legs <; chilliness; delirium; erysipe- latous rash; pains <,

Before midnight: cannot sleep. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Warmth : < weeping erup-

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tion on forehead after having been in cold air; causes

back or thighs, with aching, or around shoulders and

chest; pulse slow. I Chilliness at night.

debility.

■ Profuse, offensive sweat of genitals.

I Gastric, bilious or typhoid forms of fever, with gastric disturbances, jaundice and great debility following.

■Fevers which do not reach a high grade of inflammatory action, but wdiich are attended with gastric and bilious disturbances, or complicated with jaundice, and the del- eterious eff'ects of mercury or quinine.

■ Intermittent fever: cachectic subjects; gastric and he-

patic symptoms, showing atony and torpor; vertex headache in paroxysms every other day, commencing at 11 A.M., with excessive nausea, retching and anguish.

■ Quotidian fevers, with gastric disturbance; jaundice.

■ Catarrhal symptoms which frequently precede measles;

also favors development of eruption.

■ Typhoid fever with characteristic temperature; for days

before attack feeling of entire goneness in pit of stomach, with no desire for food ; abdominal tenderness, gurgling in ileo-csecal region, with bloated abdomen; delirium at night; a feeling that he could not recover.

■ Typhoid fever; retarded convalescence; will eat nothing;

tongue large, flabby, thickly coated, and shows imprint of teeth; bowels constipated; urine scanty; copious sweats; sleeplessness.

■ Hectic fever.

goneness in pit of stomach. For ten days: excessive bleeding, uterine hemorrhage;

after menses leucorrhoea <.

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Three weeks after confinement: seized after stool with severe burning, stinging pains in rectum and anus, lasting six or eight hours after each evacuation.

For a year: profuse menses flowing for ten days.

For four or five years: open cancer of 1. breast.

For eight years: one or two stools a week. *^ Locality and Direction. Right : tickling like a hair in nostril; pain in breast; burning in nostril; inner edge of ala nasi sore and thickened; inflammation in ear; eye closed from inflammation ; dragging in groin to testicle ; lump rising and falling in iliac and lumbar region; fulness and dull aching in hypochondrium ; open can- cer of mamma; cancer of lung; pain in breast and down arms; ulcer under inferior maxilla; rheumatic pains in shoulder; arm greatly swollen; pain from hip to knee; three large ulcers around ankle ; shifting pains in leg and arm.

Left : sharp cutting over eyes < ; laceration of scalp above temple; stye on lid; nosebleed 1. nostril; formation of diphtheritic membrane in nostril; side of nose swollen; inflammation from nostril to r. ear; dragging in testicle to groin; sharp pain extending to ovarian region; ful- ness in iliac region; scirrhous tumor of breast; stony hard nodulated tumor in breast; cancer of breast; hard, irregular enlargement of breast; glands of axilla en- larged and painful; open cancer of breast; pain shoot- ing from chest to shoulder; ulcer under inferior maxilla; aching in shoulder; rheumatic pains in first finger of hand; outer part of knee aches; ulcers on legs; aching ,in sole of foot; cancerous ulcer on side of throat.

Shifting pains from r. leg to left. *^ Sensations. As if intoxicated ; tickling like a hair in r. nos- tril; as if tongue had been burned; pain on swallowing as from excoriation ; food seems to lie heavy on stomach ; small spot in epigastric tumor as if filled with fluid ; as if a lump of size of a hen's egg rising and falling on r. iliac and lumbar regions; pains in groins as if he had strained himself; pain in uterine region felt like wind; as of a tight band around waist; as if everything would fall out when standing ; as if knives were thrust into breast; as if throat was excoriated.

Pain: in eyes; over eyeballs; in r. breast and down arms; in ears; at pit of stomach; in large intestines; in rec- tum; in groin; in back; in shoulders; in bowels; in liver; on opening eyes; in 1. breast; from head to shoulders; from r. hip to knee.

Insupportable pains: in epigastric region.

Excruciating pain: in lumbar region.

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Intense pain: in head.

Severe pain: in forehead; in stomach and bowels; in ab- domen after stool; in rectum and anus; in uterine re- gion ; in back ; in small of back ; in back part of legs.

Lancinating pain : in breast extending up to shoulder and down arms; in ulcers.

Cutting pains : from groins into testicles.

Acute, distressing, cutting pains: in stomach.

Sharp cutting: in temples; in splenic and csecal regions;* in hypogastric region, extending into testicle; in lower bowels and rectum; on inside of legs above knees.

Cutting, colicky pains: in abdomen.

Sharp pains : in region of spleen ; around umbilicus ; ex- tending to 1. ovarian and splenic regions; in csecal re- gion; around umbilicus.

Great anguish : about heart.

Shooting pains: from chest to 1. shoulder; in ulcers.

Darting pain : in head.

Griping: in abdomen.

Beating pain: in head.

Stinging pains: in rectum and anus; in ulcers on legs.

Severe burning pain: in rectum.

Pricking pains: in ulcers.

Rheumatic pains: in elbow, forearm, r. shoulder and first finger of 1. hand.

Shifting pains: in r. arm and leg, then 1. leg.

Continual pain : in head.

Tired aching: across small of back; in limbs.

Aching: in shoulder-blades; in small of back; in knees; in head and shoulders; in outer part of 1. knee; in soles of 1. foot.

Dull dragging: in groins; from groin to r. then to 1. testi- cles across lumbar region.

Dull, aching pains: at stomach; in r. hypogastrium; in hypogastrium and small of back; in region of kidneys.

Dull, burning pains: all over body.

Dull, heavy frontal headache.

Dull pain in hypogastrium; in small of back; on top of head; in stomach and bow^els; in navel.

Fulness: over eyes; of chest; of stomach; of r. hypogas- trium; in hepatic region; in 1. iliac region.

Great sensitiveness: of epigastric region.

Tenderness: of cervical glands; over hepatic region; of os uteri; of abdomen.

Soreness: of cartilaginous septum ; of inner edge of r. ala ; of uvula; of mouth; of neck and throat; of liver; of nipple; in chest.

Pricking sensation : in ears.

Burning heat: of skin.

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Burning: of eyes and lids; in nose; in r. nostril; 1. nostril; in stomach; in bowels; in region of navel; in rectum and anus; in chest; in ulcers; on legs.

Heat: in intestines; of whole body.

Smarting: of eyes: in posterior nares; in nostrils; in throat; in rectum.

Sharp, raw, excoriated feeling: in both nares.

Sensation of roughness and stiffness : on swallowing.

Scraping: in larynx.

Rawness: in nares; in throat and chest; of 1. nostril; of mouth ; of fauces ; of larynx ; in chest.

Tickling: in r. nostril.

Tingling: of throat.

Dryness : of upper lids ; of tongue.

Constriction: in hypogastric region.

Stuffed up sensation : in posterior nares.

Heaviness: of upper lids.

Weight: in stomach and epigastrium.

Roaring: in ears.

Stiffness : in muscles of lumbar region.

Numbness: of arm.

Faintness: at stomach; in hypogastrium.

Goneness: at epigastrium; in pit of stomach.

Debility: in back and lower limbs.

Weakness: of body and limbs.

Itching: of 1. nostril; of face; of throat; of foot; of skin. ** Tissues. I Great emaciation; weight reduced 70 pounds; very moody and depressed in mind; averse to conversing; at times so excited as to curse his mother for the least thing, and throwing food or medicine across room; liver atrophied, not more than two-thirds the natural size; kidneys affected, urine scanty and high colored. ^Gen- eral marasmus.

B Small wounds bleed much.

■General anasarca; great difficillty in passing water, which is high colored and deposits a cloudy sediment on stand- ing; constipation.

Mucous membranes: secretions inc];eased, tenacious, ropy; erosions.

■ Catarrhal affections: in patients of a cachectic habit.

■ ■Muscles greatly weakened; atony.

■ Marasmus; scrofula; cancer cachexia.

■ Cancers: hard, adherent, skin mottled, puckered; cutting

like knives; in mammae.

In cancer it removes the pain, modifies the discharge, de- priving it of its offensiveness, and improves the general health in a marked degree.

In early stage of scirrhus, and chiefly when its situation is in a gland or in the immediate vicinity of a gland.

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Pressure: cutting over eyes >; abdominal walls painful; liver sensitive; of hand > head; clothing feels un- comfortable about groins. ■'*' Skin. iSkin jaundiced, of a dark greenish -yellow^ color.

BSkin of a dark purplish hue, with heat and tingling, < from motion.

I Hot, dry skin, with fever.

I I Burning heat and itching of skin.

■ Itching in small-pox.

I Yellowish looking vesicles, filled with a limpid fluid. iHyperidrosis; excessive sweat of axillse or about genitals; offensive.

■ Obstinate excoriations of skin, intertrigo, in children. Nettlerash from head to foot, next day face affected, and

through scratching became much swollen; lids puffed; itching, burning and stinging, < at night; rash resem- bled scarlatina, both in color and in disappearing a long time on pressure. lErysipelatoid rash on face, neck, palms, joints of fingers and wTist, with maddening, burning heat, later skin exfoliates; pains < at night.

■ Fissures around mucous outlets, as on lips, about anus,

or on flexor surfaces, and between fingers and toes of syphilitic subjects, who have used too much mercury or iodide of potash; debilitated subjects, broken down by excessive use of alcohol.

■ Margins around anus thickened and fissured, fissures

extending into mucous membrane.

■ Ulcers with indolent granulations; unhealthy and scanty

pus; scrofulous or cachectic persons.

■ Chronic ulcers arising from contusions, incised and lace-

rated wounds, burns, scalds, or some disease of skin.

■ Ulcers following removal of tumors, pricking pain on

motion of part.

■ Bedsores.

■Small-pox; itching; tingling of skin ; great redness, sw^ell- ing and aching of skin; very sore throat; intense ach- ing in small of back and legs ; pustules dark ; ulcers in mouth and fauces; sleeplessness.

■Variola, itching tingling of eruption : face swollen ; throat raw ; pustules dark ; great prostration.

■ Face greatly swollen, eyes closed, nose enormously large

and entirely stopped up; throat very sore; pustules dark ; almost unconscious, having no hope of recovery ^Small-pox.

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I Face covered with a fine rash which subsequently, proved to be confluent small-pox; face greatly swollen, eyes closed ; throat sore.

In small-pox it relieves the irritation almost instantly, removes the swelling, diminishes the odor, obviates sec- ondary fever, prevents pitting to very great degree, and destroys the contagious character of the disease.

I Lupus; lupus exedens and ulcerative stage of leprosy. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Weakened, debilitated sub- jects, with mucous discharges.

Cachectic persons, with marked disturbance of gastric and hepatic functions.

■Scrofulous diathesis.

■ Old people.

Child, set. 1 ; constipation.

Boy, get. 6, light complexion, light curly hair, had not been vaccinated ; small-pox.

Girl, set. 8, after a fall ; lacerated wound of scalp.

Little girl, after burn ; ulcer on back of hand.

Girl, set. 14, as she was about recovering from an attack of diphtheria ; diphtheritic deposit in nose and vagina.

Man, set. 18, cachectic, consumptive appearance; scrofu- lous ulcers on leg.

Woman, set. 20, brunette, black eyes, delicate features, but strong and energetic, two months pregnant with third child ; constipation and hemorrhoids.

Woman, set. 21, mother of one child, nervous tempera- ment, blue .eyes, light hair, has prolapsus uteri and leucorrhoea of several 3^ears standing ; uterine affection.

Unmarried woman, set. 22 ; cancer of breast.

Man, set. 22, after measles two and one-half years ago ; marasmus.

Miss , set. 25, a teacher, was given up by the old

school ; cancer of stomach.

Married woman, set. 26, light hair, pale complexion, feeble constitution, tea drinker, has suffered for twelve years; headache and constipation.

Young unmarried woman, for two years under allopathic treatment ; cancer of breast.

Sanguine young lady, after confinement ; sore mouth.

Unmarried woman ; erysipelas.

Man, suffering from itch, for which corrosive sublimate was used ; salivation.

Man, set. 28, blue eyes, light hair, unmarried, of dissipated habits, has had three epileptic seizures, has had gonor- rhoea three times ; gonorrhoea.

Man, set. 29, after habitual use of purgatives; constipation.

Woman, set. 29, mother of two children, habitually takes castor oil and senna; constipation.

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Colored woman, set. 30, next day after confinement; small- pox.

Woman, set. 32, blue eyes, light hair, delicate skin, mother of two children, has used tea and coffee for fifteen years; suffering for three years; hemorrhoids.

Man, set. 32, mason, three years ago fell from a scaffold and injured r. arm; ulceration of arm.

Man, set. 35, mill operator, habits moderately temperate; ulcers on leg.

Mrs. J., set. 37, laundress, health good; tumor in 1. breast.

Woman, set 38, bilous temperament, dark hair, suffering eight years, has taken much purgative medicine- con- stipation.

Man, set. 40 ; jaundice.

Man, set. 40, railroad engineer; small-pox.

Woman, set. 45 ; cancerous tumor.

Man, set. 46, during Crimean campaign was attacked with rheumatic fever, consequent upon exposure; anasarca and constipation.

Woman, set 50, has suffered many years; cancer (improved).

Woman, single, set. 52, of phthisical family, ill fourteen years, but always delicate; dyspepsia.

Mrs. D., set. 55, suffering two years ; tumor on foot.

Woman, set 60, widow, seven children, previously stout and healthy, after getting wet one year ago, affection of liver for which she was leeched, blistered and salivated, since which she has not been well; subacute inflamma- tion of liver.

Woman, set. 70 ; sore leg.

Man, set. 70; epigastric tumor. *^ Relations. Antidoted by: Sulphur (head symptoms and sciatic pains).

It antidotes: Mercur. and chlorate of potash.

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