Petroleum

Rock or Coal Oil. Anthracite.

Introduced by Hahnemann and proved by himself and Froissac, Chronische Krankheiten, vol. 4 ; Benson, Trans. Horn. Med. Soc. N. Y. State, 1868, p. 297 ; Schelling, A. H. Z., vol. 83, p. 189 ; Berridge, N. A. J. H., N. S., vol. 2, p. 51.

Clinical Authorities Mental disturbance, Knorre, Eiick, Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 39 ; Analyt.

Ther., vol. 1, p. 115 ; Hnynel, Analyt. Ther., vol. 1, p. 292 ; 3Iental disturbance after confinement, Berridge, Hom. CI., vol. 4, p. 109 ;

Vertigo, Paj'ne, H. M., vol. 5, p. 199; Drake, H. M., vol. 10, p. 406;

Headache, Stens, Kane's Kec, ■1872, p. 215, from A. H. Z., vol. 83, p. 135; Miyraine, Stens, A.

II. Z., 1871, p. 91, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 723 ;

Times Eet., 1875', p. 114; Occipital headache, Farrington, T. H. M.

S. Pa., 1884, p. 316; Eczema capitis, Taylor, H. M., vol. 15, p. 700 ;

Scrofulous ophthalmia, Knorre, B. J. H., vol. 6, p. 611, from A. H.

Z , vol. 5, p. 306; Fistula lachrymcdis (30 cases reported cured), Kirsch, Eaue's Rec, 1870, p. 101 ; Hardness of hearing, Lobethal, Hahnemann, Tietze, Eiick. Kl.

Erf, vol. 1, p. 375 ; Rheumatic dysecoia, Battmann, Z. H. K., vol. 0, IS'o. 15, from Times Eet., 1876, p. 68, B.

J. H., vol. 34, p. 022 ; Intertrigo behind ears, Blake, H. M., vol. 10, p. 375;

Times Eet., 1875, p. 27 ;.€orpa,. Kafka, Eaue's Rec, 1870, p. 129 ; Use

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after Teplliz in erysipelatous eruption on cheek, Berridge, H, M., vol. 10, p. 75 ; Abscess at root of tooth, Berridge, Horn. CI., vol. 4, p. 54; Sore throat, II.

M., Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 638; Diphtheria, Sclimitt, Horn.

Phys., vol. 6, p. 253 ; Sea- sickness, Hayes, Horn. Rev., vol. 13, p. 265; (several cases), Gilchrist, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 113, from Med.

Inv., vol. 7, p. 281 ; Cardialyia, Meyer, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 306, B.

J. H., vol. 18, p. 268 ; Reis, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 207, from Hom. Kl., 1869, p. 12;

Atonic dyspepsia, Bayes, Hom. Rev., vol. 13, p. 266; Ulcerated umbilicus (Kerosene and olive oils), Searle, A. H.

O., vol. 6, p. 225 ; Diarrhoea, Kraizell, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 210, from A. H. Z., vol. 78, p. 159 ;

Chronic diarrhcei, Reis, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 210; Lobetlial, Riickert, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 841 ;

Diarrhcea and dysentery, Benson, H. M., vol. 3, p. 409, Raue's. Rec, 1870, p. 210; Hemorrhoids, Gilchrist, Gilch.

Surg., p. 456; Piles and fissures of anus, Gehme, N. E. M.

G., vol. 5, p. 146 ; Herpes on perineum, Cochran, H. M., vol. 4, p. 401 ; Chronic hcematuria, Houard, H.

M., vol. 15, p. 146 ; Dribbling of urine, Martin, T. H. M.

S. Pa., 1883, p. 60 ; Zhe in gonorrhoea, Attomyr, Riick Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 91 ;

Oleet, A. H. Z., vol. 90, p. 92, from Times Ret., 1875, p. 90 ; Herpes on scrotum, Angell, Hom.

CI., vol. 3, p. 15 ; Vomiting of pregnancy, Bayes, Horn. Rev., vol. 13, p. 267 ; Cough and melancholia.

Small, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 113, from U. S. M. S.

J., April, 1871 ; Palpitation of heart. Gross, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 3, p. 461 ; Pain in back and tonic contraction of muscles, Baylies, Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 42; Pain in coccyx, Stoaks, Hom.

Phys., vol. 8, p. 438 ; Salt rheum on arm and hands, Cochran, H. M., vol. 4, p. 401 ; Skin affection of hands, Stens, Raue's Rec, 1873, p. 249, from A.

H. Z., vol. 85, p. 170; Chilblains on hand^, Gross, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 3, p. 461 ; • Fissures on tips of fingers, Hatch, Hom. CI., vol. 1, p. 31 ; Sciatica, Neidhard, B. J.

H., vol. 27, p. 554 ; Sore and lams leg, Cochran, H. M., vol. 4, p. 400 ; Ulcers on toes, on fingers, O., Ruck.

Kl. Erf, vol. 4, p. 222; Ague, Stens, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 245, from A. H.

Z., vol. 83, p. 135; Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 275, from A. H. Z., vol. 89, p. 156 ;

Curative action during Summer of 1872 (see chap. 44), Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 9; Catarrhal complaints, Hiller, Times Ret., 1877, p. 37, fi-om M. I., vol. 5, p. 330 ; Secondary syphilis.

Bell, H. M, vol. 4, p. 402; Affections of skin, Hahnemann, Wahle, Jahr, Ruramel, Riick. Kl.

Erf , vol. 4, p. 253; Chapping and cracking of skin, H.Sirtiiannn,'Ruck. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 176;

Eczema (5 cases), Closson, Waters, T. H. M. S.

Pa., 1887, p. 41; Zona, Raue's Rec, 1871, p. 210, from A. H. Z., vol. 81, p. 22 ;

Burns (locally), Jones, Raue's Rec, 1870^ p. 345; Chilblains, Hahnemann, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 176;

Exuberant granulations (Kercvene and olive oil), Searle, A. H. a, vol. 6, p. 224.

^ Mind. I I Loss of consciousness.

I I Very forgetful and disinclined to think.

I Did not know where she was in the street.

■ I Delirium ; thinks another person lies alongside of him,

or that one limb is double. I i Since confinement two weeks ago when in bed, in dark

room, at night, delusion that there is another baby in

bed, which requires attention, also that she has a third

leg which would not remain quiet. lExcitable, irritable, with inclination to be angry and to

scold; anxious and irresolute.

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1 Violent, irritable, offended at trifles.

I I Irritable, vexed, always quiet, sad thoughts, turned to himself, no ambition to work ; heaviness, heat and pain in head in morning; backache; spasmodic eructation; thin, slimy stool, with cutting in abdomen; pale and emaciated; profuse night and morning sw^eats.

I Ailments from vexation, with fright.

■ Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep. BMelancholy mood, imagines but little time is left him to

make his will. ^Cough.

■ Sensation as if there were a cold stone in heart. ■Towards evening anxiety and apprehension about his

family, wdiich he left behind wdiile going on a short journey; the anxiety increases until he becomes incon- solable.

■ Great fearfulness.

^ Sensorium. ■ Vertigo: on stooping; on rising, in occiput; as if intoxicated ; like seasickness ; with bilious vomit- ing; frequent, when walking ; commencing at dinner ; as if she would fall forward, especially when raising eyeballs; with nausea in evening in bed, especially when head lies low ; obliging him to stoop, with pale face and nausea ; more violent when standing than when sitting, going off when lying, attended with eructations, yawning, want of appetite, pressure in abdomen, and slow pulse; when rising from recumbent position, with heat in face when lying; in back of head and in 1. side of occiput like a whirling in head; it seems to go all over him, making him feel numb and stiff.

I I Brain feels as if wrapped in a fog; cannot bear noise of people; sad and discouraged.

1 I After eating a little, head seems befogged, dizzy and confused. ' Inner Head, Headache in forehead ; every mental exer- tion makes him quite stupid.

Frontal headache, at times quite severe, but < while nausea remains.

Sensation as if everything in head were alive.

Head feels numb, as if made of wood, or as if bruised.

Heaviness of head in morning, with headache.

• I I Pinching headache.

Pleadache when stooping or rising from bed.

Headache from anger.

Pressing stinging in cerebellum.

■ 1 tieaviness like lead in occiput.

■ Pressure and sticking pressure in occiput in morning.

■ Pinching or dull pulsating pain in occiput.

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B Circumscribed pain in occiput, < on shaking head.

I I Occipital headache with general spasms and screaming; loss of appetite; constipation; slightest touch aggra- vates pain which usually lasts ten days.

I I Migraine since girlhood, at first every four weeks, after- guards every fortnight, and in last years almost every day ; after any great exertion or mental excitement must go to bed for several days; retching and vomiting of bile; aching, throbbing pain chiefly in forehead; attack commences in occiput then spreads to front of head and as it reaches its climax occiput is free.

I Pain from occiput over head to forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness; he gets stiff; loses consciousness. * Outer Head. ■ Falling off of hair.

Sensation as of a cold breeze blowing on head.

Numbness of outer part of head as if made of wood.

Scalp very sore to touch, followed by numbness ; < morn- ings and on becoming heated.

Bitching on scalp ; after scratching, a pain as if sore.

Pimples on head and nape of neck.

Soft tumors on hairy scalp ; crusts.

I Moist eczema, sore after scratching.; tinea capitis.

■ Nearly whole head covered with thick, yellow, eczema-

tous crusts; hair glued together by exudation, crusts • being entangled in hair and very difficult to remove ; intense itching; scratching readily induced bleeding.

■ Thick, greenish-yellow crusts; burning and itching;

redness, rawness and moisture ; soreness and swelling of scalp; cracks bleeding easily; thick, yellowish exudation.

■ Moist eczema, acute and chronic, worse on occiput.

* Sight and Eyes. Far-sighted, cannot read fine print with- out glasses. Floating black figures and fiery dots in field of vision.

■ Eyes dim, as of a veil before them ; visual power weak.

■ Cannot open eyes mornings; sight misty.

I I Pressing pain as of sand in eyes; < evening and by candlelight; stitches in eyes ; lachrymation ; dull pul- sating pain in occiput ^Syphilitic iritis. - ■Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.

I I Trachoma with pannus, especially when scrofulous ; con- siderable white discharge from eyes and roughness of cheek.

Aching in eyes, < in evening and from light.

■ Burning, itching and sticking in eyes, and pressure with

dimness on exerting them.

■ ■Conjunctivitis pustulosa, with acute inflammation of

lids; lids red, inflam.ed and covered wdth scabs or

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scurfs; surrounding skin rough; blennorrhoea of lachry- mal sac; pain in occiput.

I I Pain at root of nose, lids swollen, purulent discharge

from eyes and nose.

■ Scrofulous ophthalmia; great difficulty in opening eyes

in morning; skin deeply cracked and slowly healing.

I I Inflammation of lachrymal canal, when suppuration has commenced and a fistula has formed.

I Blennorrhoea of lachrymal sac.

I I An inflamed swelling as large as a pi<^eon's egss; in inner

canthus ; like an incipient fistula ; dryness of r. side of

■ Ciliary blepharitis from conjunctivitis granulosa or from

smallpox, with sticking and smarting in inner canthus. llnflammation of lids from conjunctivitis granulosa ; pain in back of head ; rough skin.

■ Itching and dryness of lids.

'^ Hearing and Ears. iiSounds: roaring as of wind; as of rushing water ; ringing as of bells ; cracking.

■ Deafness : with noises in ears ; of old people ; of 1. ear, in

a subject treated with large doses of mercury for syphilis, noise as of murmuring water, with tearing pains at night; paralytic, in old people or in arthritic subjects; in those addicted to sexual excesses or drunkenness; ex- ternal ear pale, cold to touch, cartilaginous portion dry, parchment-like and covered w^ith small scales; no ear- wax, or a quantity of soft, thin cerumen and many hairs; constant roaring or clear bell-like sounds in ears; having the stamp of nervous afTection ; progressive form ; preceded by subjective noises ; rheumatic, with humming, consequent upon a chill. I I Frequent pains in head and toothache accompanied by diminution of hearing; could not hear ticking of clock unless very near, and at ten paces off not at all ; con- stant roaring and cracking noises in ears ; meatus filled with thick cerumen, upon removal of which hearing was not improved ; pustular eruption upon chest.

■ ■Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing, roaring,

cracking, with hardness of hearing.

■ Dryness or disagreeable sensation of dryness in ear. - Pol3'pus ; wax increased, thick or thin.

■ Inflamed and painful swelling of meatus; diffuse, with

oozing of moisture.

■ Ear painful externally.

■ Discharge of blood and pus from ear.

■ Redness, rawness, soreness and moisture behind ears;

ear and surrounding parts sore to touch ; surface bleeds easily; intense itching; great pain about ear; swelling; fissures. ^Eczema, intertrigo, etc.

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"^ Smell and Nose. Slight epistaxis relieving headache.

Dry feeling in nose, frequent sneezing; adherent phlegm, blown out in small lumps ; thick phlegm in posterior nares, < mornings. I I Fluent coryza, with hoarseness.

■ Sneezing; spasmodic cough, < at night after lying

down, and at 2, 4, or 6 a.m., lasting from four to six hours, each spell with rapid sinking of strength ; violent coryza; expectoration; great weakness; chills alternating with flashes of heat in face from coughing; violent cutting pain under sternum and in back ; pa- tients seem to contract new colds daily, which cause excessive secretions of glairy mucus, accompanied by rawness and soreness of chest. ^Catarrhal complaints.

lOzsena; scabs and purulent mucus discharged from nose; nose sore ; nostrils cracked ; post-nasal space filled with purulent mucus causing hawking,

I Ulcerated nostrils; pustules.

■ Swelling of nose with pain at its root; purulent dis-

charge.

I Itching of tip of nose. * Upper Face. iFace pale or yellow ; hot after eating.

I I Facial paralysis, especially when this seems to be owing to constriction of nerve in canal of Fallopius, constric- tion being produced by inflammatory products.

■ Eczema; heavy, greenish-yellow crusts; skin cracked,

stooping. ■Swelling of submaxillary glands.

■ Scurfs around mouth.

I I Papular eruption at corner of mouth. '" Teeth and Gums. Sensation of coldness in teeth.

Toothache from contact with fresh, open air, at night,

with swelling of cheek. Numbness of teeth ; they pain when biting on them.

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Swelling of gums, with stinging, burning pain.

I I Swelling externally on 1. lower jaw opposite to decayed wasdom tooth; swelling painful to touch and on stoop- ing. ^Abscess at root of tooth.

Bleeding of gums.

iTongue: white; white in centre, with dark streak along edges ; inflamed, with fetid salivation. ^^ Inner Mouth, i l Smell from mouth : fetid ; like garlic.

Oftensive smelling saliva; putrid, slimy mouth.

I I Copious collection of slime in fauces, with feeling of dr3^ness.

Great dryness of mouth and throat in morning with thirst.

I iSore mouth, offensive saliva, < in morning, with thirst.

II Mucous surface of cheek covered with ulcers; putrid flat taste ; white coated tongue : garliclike odor from mouth; canine hunger; violent thirst, especially for beer ; waterbrash ; empty, weak sensation in stomach ; nausea and vomiting, former especially when riding in a carriage. ^Stomatitis.

I I Ulcers on inner cheek, painful when closing teeth. 13 TJij-oat. When swallowing, food enters into posterior nares.

I I Induration and hypertrophy of tonsils.

Throat feels swollen and raw.

Feeling of great dryness in throat, with accumulation of mucus.

■ Severe stitching, burning pains in throat below and pos-

terior to larynx, especially on swallowing, when stitches shoot into ears and there is a burning in nape of neck; indescribable suff"ering on taking least quantity

. of food or drink; on examination nothing abnormal detected except a slight redness of uvula and velum palati ; speech muffled and nasal ; great thirst ; consti- pation.

I Inflammation of pharynx, dry or catarrhal.

■ Hawking of tough, disagreeably tasting phlegm, morn-

ings.

■ Diphtheritic membrane commenced on 1. side, then

spread to r., then to uvula; tongue pointed and purple; mucous membrane of throat dark-red and glistening ; exudation white like china; then followed a bland dis- charge from r. nostril, then from 1.; diphtheritic mem- brane in nose grey ; fetid odor from mouth ; stitch in 1. ear when opening mouth ; soreness of bridge of nose, cannot bear slightest touch from the very beginning ; later, slight swelling of iipper eyelids; discharge from inner canthus; desire for beer and brandy in water.

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I I Ravenous hunger; frequently awakened by it at night; easily satisfied, with repugnance to meat, fats, cooked or hot food ; desire only for dainties, which are eaten with avidity. ^Tabes mesenterica.

Loss of appetite.

Drinks all the time and passes water often.

Violent thirst for beer. ^^ Eating and Drinking, i After eating: giddiness; heat in face; cutting in abdomen; gastralgia >.

I I After eating, nausea, colic and eructations, general languor, drowsiness and uneasiness. ^Tabes mesen- terica. '^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i ' Heart- burn towards evening; waterbrash.

Eructations sour or bitter ; hot, sharp ; like rotten eggs.

I i Nausea : and qualmishness all day ; every morning, after

waking ; she could not eat breakfast ; in morning with accumulation of water in mouth ; sudden, on walking, with accumulation of water in mouth ; from riding in a carriage ; all day, often so violent that it takes away the breath, without vomiting; violent, with cold sweat; in- cessant ; with vertigo and vomiting.

■ Vomiting : of bitter, green substances; < from riding in

a carriage; during pregnancy and in morning; violent, of bile and blood.

I I Seasickness.

^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, i Empty, weak sensation in stomach.

Sensation of repletion after a little food.

Sensation of fulness or swelling of pit of stomach, with soreness when touched.

Pain in pit of stomach as if something were tearing off.

I Gastralgia with pressing drawing pains, > from eating.

I I Violent pain in stomach, extending up into chest, with sweat and nausea; pain came at night, in morning, after getting up, before dinner, and in afternoon about 5 o'clock ; after moderate eating it did not come on ; on contrary, if stomach was empty and he felt it coming on, the taking of some food prevented its outbreak. ^Cardialgia.

■ Gastralgia whenever stomach becomes empty. Weakness of digestion.

■ Dyspepsia relieved by taking food.

■ Atonic dyspepsia with a tendency to diarrhoea or to vom-

iting, with pains and tenderness in epigastrium, occa- sional pyrosis and chilly, cold abdomen; much colic and diarrhoea.

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I I Obstinate indigestion ; cold feeling about heart. ^^ Abdomen, l l Distension of abdomen with offensive flatus; rumbling.

■ Sensation of coldness, weakness and faintness in abdomen. I I Disagreeable itching in abdomen.

Going to sleep and tingling in abdominal muscles.

I I Bloating and distension of abdomen with pains, < after eating or drinking, from accumulation of gas, lying down and in afternoon ; distension and pain in bowels awakens child at night; cold sensation in abdomen. (^Tabes mesenterica.

■ Violent colic, with efforts to vomit.

■ Cutting : late in evening; in abdomen soon after eating;

in upper abdomen, with nausea and diarrhoea; as from taking cold, followed by diarrhoea with pressure.

Awakes in morning with pinching colic, > from bending double.

I I Ulcerated umbilicus in an infant. (Kerosene and olive oil equal parts, locally.)

Inguinal liernia. ^" Stool and Rectum. Awakened early morning by urgent desire for stool, which is gushing, watery; sharp, cutting, colicky pains below navel; rumbling.

Stools: of a fetid, camphor-like odor; yellowish; watery ; brownisli-yellow, pasty ; brown, watery ; bloody mucus ; watery and bloody, containing scrapings of intestines; mucous; green, slimy; profuse, gushing; slimy, pre- ceded by colic ; < only during day ; of bloody mucus ; often profuse ; weak feeling in bowels and rectum ; slimy, with pain in bowels and palpitation of heart.

■ Diarrhoea: stools offensive and watery, often containing

undigested food ; with cutting colic ; with disordered stomach, < from cabbage, sauerkraut, cold-slaw; stool offensive, with great flatulence and belching of gas tasting of cabbage ; after riding in a carriage ; early in morning, also during day ; with emaciation ; with hun- ger immediately after stool from weak, empty feeling in bowels, but quickly satisfied.

■ Weakness in rectum with pain more or less sharp and

cutting in bowels, principally below umbilicus, and a desire for frequent movements between passages; dis- charges light-yellow and watery ; bloody and slimy. ^Diarrhoea. ^Dysentery.

Before stool : colic; cutting and pinching; sudden urging.

During stool: colic; tenesmus.

After stool : great weakness and dizziness; canine hunger; urging ; much pressing as if large quantities were yet to be expelled.

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I I Diarrhoea with violent pain in bowels, day and night, since several months.

I I Dysentery.

Stool insufficient, hard, in lumps.

a Hemorrhoids internal, with puffy, tender sw^elling at posterior verge of anus; intense itching from coccyx upward, also in nates on either side; attacks preceded by weeks of intense itching-biting of anus and perineum with wide-spread redness around anus, margin sur- rounded by herpetic eruption, scaling off; itching changing to burning, with moisture after scratching ; at night after getting into bed itching is intolerable for hours, with great moisture of perineum and dis- charge of mucus from anus ; itching changes place on rubbing or scratching; < at night, from heat, heat of bed and rubbing or scratching ; > from cold, cold water and pinching parts.

I I Hemorrhoids with itching about anus which compels her to scratch and rub until parts are raw and sore; a moisture constantly oozes from vulva, with violent itching.

iPiles and fissures of anus; great itching; scurf on bor- ders of anus and on perineum.

B Excrescences on and in anus moist, irregular.

I I Membranous shreds about anus.

I I Obstinate itching herpes on perineum.

^' Urinary Organs. ' i Chronic albuminuria, with symptoms of indigestion.

I I Chronic hsematuria due to renal hemorrhage; urine contained slender, cylindrical pieces of fibrin, these little coagula being of whitish color, looking like mag- gots or small worms; constant pain in back, extending down both sides of abdomen to groins ; pain sharp, heavy, and pressing downward to bladder ; constant desire to urinate, voiding about a cupful at a time, after much exertion, causing trembling of whole body, with a creeping chill; frequent violent headache, mostly on top of head, as if it would burst ; oedema of feet ; every exertion, walking, lifting, riding, or mental emotions bring on hemorrhage; excessively nervous, especially while urinating.

Burning in neck of bladder when urinating.

Very violent contraction in region of bladder.

I I In voluntary micturition at night in bed.

■ Dribbling of urine after micturition.

I I Frequent micturition, with scanty, brown, fetid urine.

lUrine : passes slowly ; white or red sediment, at same time covered with a shining pellicle; dark-brown flocks.

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Itching ill meatus urinarius (female) during micturition,

■ Chronic inflammation of pars prostatia urethras, with

frequent emissions and imperfect erections.

I Chronic urethritis accompanying stricture. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire decreased in morning.

Erections and pollutions with sexual excitement; eczema.

I I Burning pain in urethra.

I Gonorrhoea; chronic cases, with urethral itching; pros- tatitis; gleet.

■ Discharge of blood in semen.

lEruptions-on glans; reddish; itching herpes preputialis.

ilHerpetic itching, redness and moisture on scrotum; skin cracked, rough and bleeding ; extending to peri- neum and thighs.

I Obstinate, dry eruption on genitals and perineum.

■Small pimples or vesicles between scrotum and thigh.

■ Sweat and moisture of external genitals of both sexes.

■ Prolapsus uteri, in patients reduced by chronic diarrhoea

during day.

■ Menses: too late and scanty ; early and profuse; men-

strual blood causes itching.

■ Before menses : throbbing in head.

■ During menses : sad, inclined to weep ; singing and roar-

ing in ears ; lassitude ; heat in palms and soles ; tearing in thighs and spots on legs painful to touch ; painful pruritus ; herpetic eruption here and there ; dysmenor- rhoea. Burning in genital organs, with some discharge of blood.

■ Vulva very sore, with burning in vagina; discharge of

mucus ; leucorrhoea acrid, excoriating and exhausting.

■ Leucorrhcea : like albumen, profuse every day,- or with

nightly lascivious dreams.

■ Labise perspire and itch excessively ; vulvitis.

■ Chronic gonorrhoea, discharges very acrid.

■ Gastric troubles of pregnant women, especially when

head symptoms are prominent. I I During pregnancy, diarrhoea and vomiting, < riding.

■ Imagines she has two babies and is very concerned as to

how she is to take care of them.

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I I After confinement imagines there is another baby in

Oppression of chest at night. ^ Cough, i Cough: at night; with oppression of chest; dry, teasing, coming on when lying down at night, fre- quently in children ; dry at night, coming deep from chest, caused by a scratching in throat; with stitches under sternum. I I Melancholy mood, imagines that but little time is allowed to make his will. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs, i Oppression of chest; < from cold air. I I Phthisis, first stages, especially tuberculous variety ; not much expectoration ; there may be frothy, yellow sputa, and rattling without much expectoration; ulceraiion of nostrils and mouth; great hoarseness; pressing digging in chest; exhaustion; low pulse and high temperature. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation.

Cold feeling about heart ; as if there were a cold stone in heart. I 1 Severe palpitation, could be detected through clothing;

painful chilblains upon hands. Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on heart and

palpitation. 1 I Angina pectoris; pressing pain, < between shoulder- blades. Pulse: accelerated by every motion ; slow during rest. ^" Outer Chest, i i Herpes on chest.

^' Neck and Eack. Il-Ieaviness or very painful distressing drawing in nape of neck, extending to occiput. iStiff neck; it cracks when moved.

■ Unable to bend head forward or to turn it on account of pain caused by abscesses on nape of neck, associated with moist eruption on margin of hair, like eczema. iHerpes or impetigo on neck and occiput.

I iPapulated eczematous eruption affecting shoulders and

presenting an enormous, ulcerated surface, papulated and quite superficial ; severe itching ; exudation of serous fluid on scratching; fissures causing great pain and bleeding ; enuresis.

I I Sharp pains shooting up dorsal spine into occiput. ^/Confinement.

I Pain in spine and pain all over body with sciatica.

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M Catching pain in back and diaphragm, with gasping; cannot breathe without pain ; after exposure to a draught or too much exertion in walking, portions of rectus abdominis, of external oblique or lumbar muscles affected with contractions, hard to touch.

Pain in back which does not allow him to move or stand.

Rheumatic pains in back < morning before rising.

Weakness and stiffness in back and small of back.

Great uneasiness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx in evening.

I Pain and sensitiveness in coccyx while sitting. ^^ Upper Limbs, i Fetid sweat in axillse.

Tumor in axilla.

B Great weakness in arms.

Salt rheum on 1. arm for nine years, extending from elbow to hand, red, raw and moist at times, at others covered with a thick scab or crust ; unable to work.

Erysipelas on arms, or brown or yellow spots.

Wrists feel sprained.

iSkin of hands cracked and rough.

iDeep, bloody rhagades on hands, thick crusts; worse during Winter.

I I Psoriasis palmaria, affecting whole palm of hand ; itch- ing and burning so that it was impossible to do any work ; thick scales of epidermis through which run moist fissures ; red herpetic, also papular eruption, on dorsum of hand, with tensive pain extending up arm ; eruption on scrotum and in hollow of knee.

■ Burning in palms of hands.

■ Salt rheum affecting both hands, which are completely raw

from wrists to ends of fingers, which smart and burn ; constant watery oozing ; can do no work on account of soreness of hands. llPainful chilblains on hands.

I I Drawing in fingers.

Rigidity tirst of one finger, then of others, extending up

arm, with inclination to faint. Arthritic stiffness of finger joints.

I I Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured ; sticking, cutting pain.

■ Swelling of 1. leg from knee to ankle joint, twice natural

size; purplish color; constant oozing of a watery sub- stance, which when dried became large scales or scabs, easily detached, leaving raw and tender surface ; intol- erable itching, leg burns like fire.

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I On both legs crusts form, with copious exudation beneath, surface exposed being moist and very much reddened ; severe itching, causing him to rub skin off with a rough towel ; smarting pains ; skin cracked and bleeding ; swelling of limbs ; ver}^ restless at night with disagreeable dreams ; nervous ; palpitation. ^Eczema.

Spots on legs are painful to touch.

Spreading, sloughing ulceration of leg.

■Stiffness in legs, knees and ankles.

I I Stitches in knees.

A cold spot on knee from which a cold current pervades limb.

■ Herpes on knees and ankles. Large red spot on 1. knee.

I I Cramp in calves, thighs and feet all day.

TrSore, almost crampy pain in r. calf, so much worse

■ Feet swollen; cold.

I I Tenderness of feet when they are bathed.

■ Feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture. I I Cramp in soles at night.

■ Hot swelling of soles with burning.

■ Stitches as from a splinter in heel.

■ Blisters on heel.

■ Heel painfully swollen and red; chilblains.

■ Obstinate ulcers on toes, originating in corroding blis-

ters ; high callous edges ; moist, flat, red base.

■ Eruption between toes.

■ Burning or stitches in corns.

BiChilblains; especially where they itch a good deal and are moist; itching and burning like fire; inflammation sets in with cold weather. '* Limbs in GeneraL ■Upper and lower extremities seem stiff and without joints in morning after rising.

■ Limbs go to sleep and become stiff.

I Rheumatic stiffness of joints, with cracking when moved. I I Rheumatic stiffness oi shoulders and ankles. ^Syphilis.

■ Cracking of joints; inflexibility.

■ Heat in soles of feet and palms of hands.

■ Chilblains on hands and feet.

Lying down: vertigo goes off; vertigo with heat in face;

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Sitting : pain in coccyx.

Standing: vertigo < ; impossible from pain in back.

Stooping: vertigo; headache; swelling on jaw painful.

Rising: vertigo; from bed, headache.

Constant changing position in bed or in arms of nurse.

Every exertion : causes hemorrhage.

Motion : of neck causes cracking ; impossible from pain

causes hemorrhage ; with too much exertion causes

catching pain in back ; thighs stiff and heavy ; increases

crampy pain in r. calf Riding : causes hemorrhage. ^^ Nerves. ' i Very weary in morning in bed.

■ Violent trembling of limbs; weak unto faintness. Inward trembling with overexcitement.

■ General debility with a sensation of heaviness in legs;

great weakness, trembling, uneasiness; emaciation with marked appetite ; aversion to going into air, which causes chilliness.

■ Much prostration of arms and legs ; excessive languor.

■ Fainting with ebullitions, heat, pressing on heart and

palpitation.

I I Takes cold easily.

Twitching in limbs ; epileptic attacks.

Catalepsy; tonic spasms.

Left-sided paralysis. ^'^ Sleep. M Somnolency in daytime, especially in afternoon, with insomnia at night and constant changing of posi- tion in bed or in arms of nurse ; does not sleep longer than fifteen minutes at a time; imagines another child is sleeping in bed with it, and will not be convinced to the contrary, talks continually about it and becomes angry when contradicted ; frequent and sometimes involuntary urination at night.

Sleep restless and full of distressing, frightful dreams.

■ Restless sleep; awakens often and imagines another per-

son lies sick in same bed. ^^ Time. Morning : heat and pain in head ; heaviness of head; pressure in occiput; scalp sensitive; cannot open eyes ; thick phlegm in posterior nares ; easily dislocated jaw; great dryness of mouth and throat; sore mouth with offensive saliva, < ; hawking of a tough, disagreeably tasting phlegm ; nausea with accu- mulation in mouth ; vomiting < ; pain in stomach ;

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awakes with pinching colic ; awakes with urgent desire for stool ; sexual desire decreased ; rheumatic pains in back < ; upper and lower extremities seem stiff and without joints; very weary in bed; heat; sweats.

In afternoon : pain in stomach ; distension of abdomen ; somnolency.

All day: nausea and qualmishness; cramp in calves, thighs and feet.

Only during day : stools; chronic diarrhoea.

At 6 P.M.: chilliness, with blue nails.

Evening: vertigo with nausea; pain in eyes <; towards, heartburn; cutting in abdomen; weakness and stiff- ness in small of back and coccyx ; heat with cold feet ; paroxysms of ague.

Day and night : diarrhoea with violent pain in bowels ; somnolency ; frequent attacks of heat.

Night : sweats ; tearing pains in ears ; spasmodic cough < ; toothache; awakened by hunger; pain in stomach; diarrhoea; pain in bowels wakes child; itching of hemorrhoids intolerable ; involuntary micturition ; oppression of chest ; cough dry ; very restless from eczema on legs; cramp in soles; insomnia; bedclothes intolerable.

After 12 p.m.: heat. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Many ailments are worse before and during a thunderstorm.

Amelioration from warmth, warm air.

After getting into bed : itching of hemorrhoids intolerable.

Open air: toothache; inflammation in chilblains sets in; aversion to ; causes chilliness ; after a walk flushes of heat; ecthyma, <.

Exposure to draft : causes catching pain in back.

Cold air: causes oppressed feeling in chest; ulcers <; chilblains <.

Winter: deep blood rhagades on hands <; ulcers < ; chilblains.

Bathing : causes tenderness of feet. ^^ Fever. iChilliness: through body followed by violent itching of skin ; with aversion to open air; with trem- bling, face cold, cheeks, fingers and nails blue; with dryness of mouth ; at 6 p.m., with blue nails.

I Chill : with headache and excessively cold face and hands ; shaking every evening at 7 p.m., then sweat in face and later all over except on legs, which are cold ; especially towards evening, often with heat at same time.

IPIeat: of face and head; over whole body with violent burning of skin; at night, bedclothes intolerable; in

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evening after clnll, with cold feet; after 12 p.m., and in morning in bed ; in soles of feet and palms of hands.

■ Flushes of heat all over in frequent attacks during day.

I 1 After a walk in open air, or after a slight fit of anger, flushes of heat, ebullitions and perspiration.

■ Sweat: of single parts at difi'erent times, as hands, palms,

head, back, chest, axilla, arms, legs, feet, etc. ; on fore- arms and lower legs; offensive, in axillse and on soles of feet; on genitals; profuse every night or immediately after chill.

I I Paroxysm occurring every day ; pain from occiput over head to front and eyes, with transitory blindness ; gets stiff, loses consciousness and gets blind ; spleen enlarged and painful ; belching ; nausea ; constipation. ^Ague.

I I Pain in occiput commencing with chill and attended with pain in spleen ; pain in some cases extends to front of head. ^Ague.

I I Evening paroxysm predominant.

I I Typhoid fever, slight delirium. ^' Attacks, Periodicity. Alternately : chills and flashes of heat in face.

Fifteen minutes at a time : sleeps.

At 2, 4 and G a.xNl: cough <.

Every morning: nausea.

Every evening at 7 : shaking chill.

I I Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly.

Daily : new colds ; profuse leucorrhoea ; paroxysms of ague.

Nightly : lascivious dreams ; profuse sweat.

Almost every day : migraine.

Ten days: pain in head lasts.

Since several months: diarrhoea and pain in bowels.

For nine years: salt rheum on 1. arm. ^^ Locality and Direction. Right: dryness of side of nose; pain in scapula; sore, almost crampy pain in calf.

Left: vertigo in side of occiput ; deafness; erysipelatous spot on cheek; external swelling on lower jaw; stitch in ear; salt rheum on arm; swelling of leg; large red spot on knee.

From 1. to r. : diphtheritic membrane. *^ Sensations. Brain as if wrapped in a fog; as if everything in head were alive ; head as if made of wood or as if bruised ; as if a cold breeze were blowing on head ; as of a veil before eyes; as of sand in eyes; as if skin over bridge of nose were drawn stiff and tight ; as if some- thing were tearing off from pit of stomach ; as if head would burst; as if there were a cold stone at heart; as of a splinter in heel; upper and lower extremities as if stiff and without joints.

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Pain: in head; in back; in occiput; at root of nose; in

back of head; in ear and teeth; in r. scapula; in jaw;

in pit of stomach; in epigastrium; in bowels; from

back down sides of abdomen to groins towards bladder ;

in spine and all over body ; in coccyx ; from occiput

in heel; in corns. Sticking: in eyes; in inner canthus; in finger tips; in

Pressure: in occiput; in abdomen; in chest; on heart. Soreness: of scalp; behind ears; of chest; of face; of

Oppressive feeling: in chest.

Stiffness : of small of back ; in coccyx ; of finger joints ; of thighs; in legs, knees and ankles; of shoulders and ankles ; of neck.

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Heaviness: in head ; of thighs; of feet; in legs.

.Fuhiess : in pit of stomach.

Sprained feeling: in wrists.

Weak feeling: in stomach; in abdomen; in bowels and rectum ; in anus.

Tingling : in abdominal muscles.

Scratching: in throat.

Dryness : of r. side of nose ; of lids ; of ears ; in nose ; in fauces; in mouth and throat; of pharynx ; in larynx.

Numbness : of outer head ; of teeth.

Itching- biting: of anus and perineum.

Itching : on scalp ; in eyes ; of lids ; behind ears; of tip of nose ; in abdomen ; intense from coccyx upward, also in nates; in vulva; of herpes on perineum ; in meatus; of urethra ; of labise ; of labia majora ; of nipples ; of papulated eruption on shoulders ; of psoriasis palmaria ; of eczema on leg ; of chilblains ; violent, of skin ; of hands; of pustules.

Coldness: in teeth; of abdomen; about heart ; of feet; of face; of hands; of legs. "Tissues. M Emaciation, irritability ; child vehement; sus- ceptible to electric changes ; sudden urging in morning; followed by profuse watery stool ; eczema, excoriations, cracked, bleeding rhagades ; diarrhoea only during day, colic, arising from sleep in morning, > bending double ; hunger after stool ; gushing stool. ^Atrophy of infants.

I Cured promptly during Summer of 1872 various forms of diseases, in all of which the following symptoms were prominent: great chilliness with occasional flushes of heat ; coldness of legs ; vertigo ; violent pressing pain in forepart of head; whizzing and ringing in ears; hardness of hearing ; unpleasant bitter taste ; loss of appetite ; diarrhoea only during day, not at night, or at least < during day.

'Congestions; hemorrhages, blood light red, from internal organs.

lllncreased secretion from mucous membranes.

I Chronic catarrhs, urethral, uterine, intestinal, bronchial.

1 Sprains of joints, especiall}^ in old rheumatic patients.

■ Rheumatism; knees stiff, with sharp sticking pains; stiffness of neck and cracking sound when moving head.

Easy dislocations of jaw, etc.

Swelling and induration of glands ; also after contusions.

Scrofulosis and rachitis; protracted ill-treated cases, with hectic fever and profuse fetid suppuration ; unhealthy skin, small wounds ulcerate and spread.

Extensive varix, quite painful, with numbness or sticking itching in skin.

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■ After severe burn, here and there upon dorsum of hand

arose bunches of pale and unhealthy granulations, quar- ter of an inch high and exquisitely sensitive (Kerosene and olive oils, equal parts, locally).

I Brown spots on arms, neck, chest and lower limbs;

falling off of hair ; rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and ankles. ^Secondary syphilis.

I I Chilblains.

a ship. Touch: slightest, < pain in head; scalp very sore; ear

and surrounding parts sore; swelling on jaw painful ;

slightest touch unbearable; pit of stomach sore; legs

painful; finger nails painful; spots on legs painful;

must rub eruption on legs with rough towel till skin

comes off. Scratching: on scalp causes a pain; causes burning with

moisture in hemorrhoids; causes itching to change

slight wounds suppurate and spread; general tendency

to fester, skin is slow to heal. iRliagades, particularl}' when occurring in Winter; hands

oozing pus; skin harsh and dry; deep cracks and fis- sures which bleed and suppurate.

■ Herpes on malleolus, on chest, nape of neck, perineum

and knee.

■ Itching herpes, followed by ulcers.

I I External hard pressure is not painful, but a soft touch, the contact of the shirt, is unbearable. ^Zona.

I I Itching and burning pustules, with great weakness on exertion; great lassitude; < in fresh air. ^Ecthyma.

■ Many furuncles on neck and arms, with ulceration of ears.

■ I Boils; fissures.

■ Porrigo and tinea favosa,

■ Burns (locally).

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llPainful chilblains and chaps.

I Ulcers with stinging pain and proud flesh; often deep, with raised edges ; sensitive, spongy ; deep fistulous ulcers; discharges very offensive; redness of areola; hard to heal; pus scanty, acrid, corroding; sanious and watery; < from cold and in Winter; chronic.

I iSores produced by lying in bed ; decubitus. *' Stages of Life, Constitution. 1 1 Light hair and skin.

Especially suitable for lean, slender persons.

D. C, set. 8 months ; eczema.

M. B., set. 6; eczema.

Girl, set. 7; eczema.

Boy, set. 8 ; eczema.

K. J., set. 11 ; disease of eighteen months standing and continually growing worse, zinc ointment and other ap- palictions without benefit ; eczema.

Man, set. 29, suffering for a year ; hardness of hearing.

Man, set. 29, strong, sanguine, choleric temperament, suffer- ing four years; diarrhoea.

Mrs. G., set. 37 ; pain in coccyx.

Lady, set. 45, robust constitution, choleric, sanguine tem- perament, suffering since girlhood; mother subject to similar attacks ; migraine.

Man, set. 46, suffering five weeks; sore throat.

Man, set. 50, plethoric, corpulent, suffering several months; mental disturbance.

Woman,, set. 50; suffering for years ; headache.

Man, set. 61 ; cough and melancholia.

Man, set. 68; suffering eight years ; sore and lame leg.

Woman, set. 72 ; suffering nineteen years ; hsematuria.

Old lady, feeble constitution ; vertigo.

Strong healthy peasant, after a chill four months pre- • viously ; rheumatic dysecoia.

Man, suffering nearly a year; piles and fissure of anus.

Man, mulatto; herpes of scrotum.

Mrs. G., suffering nine years ; salt rheum on 1. arm.

Man, suffering six years ; salt rheum affecting hands.

Man, robust; psoriasis palmaris.

Girl, suffering three years ; eruption on hands.

Man, suffering for last ten or fifteen 3^ears ; cracking of finger tips.

Lady, contracted disease from husband ; secondary syphilis. ^^ Relations. Antidoted by: CoccuL, Nux vom.

It antidotes : lead-poisoning.

Compatible: Bryon., Cole, ost., Lycop., Nitr. ac, Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Silica, Sulphur.

Compare: the Carbons, and especially Graphit. and Sulphur ; also Colchic. and Tabac.

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