Theridion Curassavicum

(A graall Spider found on orange ireeg in the West Indies.) Opficih AL Pbkp All A.TI0H8.— Triturations .

Analoodbs. — Acomle, Belladonna, Cakarea, QrapMfee, Ignatia, Lgeopo- dium, Spigetia, Bepia, Solanum.

Mental Sphere, Despair; want of self-confidence.

Very joyous; he sings, although the head is internally hot. Aversion to professional labor.

Thinking is hard for him when it is of a comparative nature, but not when it is creative; he can easily write out a case or problem, but finds it difficult to select remedies; writes a treatise with facility, but finds it hard to classify and determine places in systems.

* Attacks of vertigo and vomiting, with cold sweat, were

changed in such a manner by Theridion, that the nausea, always occasioned by closing the eyes, now appears on opening them, so that she must keep her eyes constantly closed. {Ueringi.)

* Vertigo, together witli blindness, cansed by pain in the eyes,

* The headache is such that she cannot describe it, and cannot

make it clear to herself. Headaclie like a pi-essing band in the root of the nose, and over and around the ears.

* Pains principally in region of eyes, with starting in right

eye. {Ifeidhard.)

* Suddenly in the morning, pi-eesing pain over left eye, aggra-

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vated by the Blightest motion, taUdiig; at the same time, sickness of stomach, with retching; better from drinking warm water; bowels open, witJi colic and flatnlency, after which the head is worse.

* Throbbing over left eye, and across the forehead, also in a

slight degree in the right eye, with sick stomach, particu- larly on rising from a reclining position — like sea-sickness — the pain was at first aggravated from the medicine, but disappears entirely in one hour.

Headache is the beginning of every motion,

' Violent frontal headache, with throbbing extending into occiput.

° The least motion of the head while lying increased headache and nausea.

^ The walking ofjjersons over the floor increases the headache.

■^ The least noise aggravates the headache,

' Headache of the worst kind, with nausea and vomiting, like sea- sickness, and with shaking chills. In several cases of women in the climacteric year, {^eidhard.)

^ Sunstroke, {Mering.)

* Hard, heavy, dull pressure behind the eyeballs. ( Wells.) She lost her vision; everything seemed very far, as a veil was

drawn before her; it blazed and flickered before her eyes;

she was obliged to lie down. Even when closing the eyes

flickering continued. Thereupon she became very weak,'

and the head was much aifected. "i'or many years, flickering before the eyes, in frequent

paroxysms. ° Flickering before the eyes in hysterical subjects. "Sensitiveness to light; when she is in the light she experi--

ences a "dark sparkling" before her eyes; everything

appears double, and through this "fluttering" nausea is

created, accompanied by cold hands. Long afterwards

she dare not stoop. " On dosing the eyes, nausea and vomiting, {Hering^ When her eyes closed (with weariness or sleep) the dizziness

and nausea reappeared.

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*' Rushing like a waterfall in botli ears.

" The least noise aggravates the headache.

" Itching behind the ears, so that she would Jite to scratch

them o£F.

In the morning, on awakening, and soraetimes at other times

of the day, the lower jaw is immovable; but then opens,

of blowing the nose; thereupon heaviness deep above in

the nose.

Tongue seems as if burnt; it is so rnmb that she can tell

nothing properly. Mouth so impure, as if the teeth were full of slime, must

Appetite for acidulous fruits.

* Nausea and vomiting, like sea-sickness, with headache.

* Nausea called forth by the sparkling before the eyes.

* Nausea and vomiting when closing the eyes, and on motion

"feels thick in the head." {^Tiering.) " A woman having had (in childbed) a violent spell of sickness at the end of the first week, and apparently recovered, was, in the third week, after washing clothes, suddenly attacked by nausea and vomiting; after it, very pale, and Bick at the stomach as soon as she closed her eyes, with

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" Nausea always increased when he closed his eyes.

"Nausea increased when he gazed, steadfastly at an object.

Nausea on moving,

" Talking creates nausea and vomiting.

" Naneea created by fast riding in a carnage, in^ hepatic diseaBes.

" Sensitiveness of the region of the stomach and epigastrium.

* Violent burning pain in hepatic region, which grows still more painful when being touched; during the pains, retelling, vomiting, finally bringing up bile.

" In abscess of the liver, Theridion relieves vertigo and nausea.

*A cow was tied to a stake, in the heat.of snrnmer, suddenly

became restless, wild, and her whole body swelled visibly;

and bellowing, she tried to break the chain; after a dose

of Theridion, she recovered witliin one hour. (?!) {III.)

Scanty discharge, with much urging (tenesmus).

Diarrh<Ba, without colic, with the vomiting and vertigo at night.

° Bowels open twice, with colic and flatulency, after which the headache is worse.

The anus protrudes and is painful, especiallj' while sitting, without hemorrhoidal bunches, which be usually has frequently; this passes off, returns again later, and the hemorrhoidal tumors appear.

(A spasmodic contraction of rectum and anus returns again.)

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TTrine.

Mncb urination with a young man disposed to it. Increased urination in an elderly woman not disposed to it.

Generative Organs.

(Upon the glans little red spots.) Scrotum very much shrivelled. The excessive sexual desire is immediately lessened, but the

usual morning erections appear. Sexual desire appears to have vanished, nor will erections take

weeks, in a woman in the climacteric /ears, but who in

fainting.

Night cough. Violent stitches up high in the chest, beneath the left shoulder,

even up into the throat.

* Anxiety about the heart. {Bf'ann.) ° Slow pulse, with vertigo. ( Wells.)

asunder. Heaviness in ail limbs before the chill

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She 18 BO weak that she cannot stand long; she becomes trem- ulous and perspires.

° Weakness, that all the limhs tremble.

Great inclination to be startled, with many provers.

'' Hysteria.

Sleepy after breakfast, before the chill; sleeps throughont the whole day.

Long and dreamful mid-day sleep; dreams of journeys in dis- tant regions, and riding on horses; a person who scarcely ever sat upon a horse.

Wliile sleeping he often bites into the point of his tongue, so that it is sore the following day; occurs frequently, even after the lapse of weeks.

* Paroxysm She awakes after a short sleep, at 11 o'clock; already in sleeping she felt the vertigo, and was awaliened thereby; could not remain lying; tried to reach the chamber-pot, but fell down as if in a swoon ; cold sweat broke out; she strains to vomit, till this takes place, and is repeated every quarter of an hour; during which icy perspiration breaks out all over her; at tlie same time she has several attacks of diarrhcea, without abdominal pain. At first she vomited acid, slimy water, almost preventing her from regaining her breath.

At length she felt entirely empty at the stomach. The least motion again brought on vertigo and vomiting; she dares not to stir, and, when her eyes dozed, the lids feeling as it were from being tired, vertigo and nausea immediately returned. In the morning, on rising, the nausea came again, and she vom- ited bile.

Chill Fever and Sweat.

Violent shaking cliill, during which foam appears at the mouth, after the bite.

Shaking chill diiring headache, with vomiting.

After breakfast, heaviness in every limb; he must lie down, grows sleepy; he is attacked by a severe internal chill, so that lie trembles (from the 30c).

Pain in all the bones, as if every part would fall asmider-

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feels as if broken from head to foot; tlierenpon violent

eolduees, so that nothing would warm her; without thirst,

after the bite. Being internally cold, it draws from the hip to below the

vomiting at night.

Itching on the head, behind the ears, on the nose, on the hack

of the neck, on. the edge of the ahoiilders, on the back, on