Natrum Sulfuricum

Sodium Sulphate ; Glauber Salts. Na OSO^-\-10Aq.

Since its discovery by Glauber, in 1658 (de natura salium), it was called Sal Mirabile by himself, and afterwards Sal Glauberi. It has been used as a laxative in so-called inflammatory affections, or employed as a purgative (Comp. Pereira, ed. by Carson). The Chinese use it for the same purpose, according to Scherzer (Austrian Expedition).

It is rarely given in smaller doses, largely diluted, as an aperient and diuretic (American Dispensatory). It was proved in still smaller doses by Dr. Schreter, in Lemberg, Galicia; the proving published in 1832, in Hartlaub's Annalen, vol. Ill, No. 4, and by the zealous and meritorious Nenning in Bohemia, by himself, and several women and girls , published in 1833, in the same journal, vol. 4, No. 4.

In Grauvogl's works, Grundgesetze, 1858, Das Homoopathische Aehnlichkeits- gesetz, 1861, Diatetik und Prophylaxis, 1862, Lehrbuch der Homoopathie, 1866, it is recommended as a polychrest in the " hydrogenoid constitution," Sycosis, Leucaemia and Thrombosis.

Long before this it had been used in the 30th centesimal to prevent the develop- ment of some forms of consumption by Hering, was given in important cases of sickness by Jeanes, in abdominal disorders and chronic diarrhoea by Lippe, and in the second potency with prompt result in some forms of sciatica by Raue and Hering, according to symptoms of Nenning.

For complete collection of symptoms see Hering's Monograph, Am. Jour. Horn. Mat. Med.

Sulphate of soda is contained in a great many springs, used and abused as medi- cines. It predominates in the warm springs of Karlsbad (Sprudel), of Bristol (hot well), and in the cold springs of the Isle of Wight, and of Piillna, Said- schiitz, Marienbad, Bilin, and Franzensbad, in Bohemia. — CHg.

Introduced by Schreter, proved by him and Nenning (Hartlaub and Trink's Annalen, vol. 4, p. 487), Lembke (N. Zeit. fiir Hom. Klinik, 1866, vol. 11, p. 97).

Clinical Authorities Periodical headaches, Schtissler's Tissue Eemedies ; Headache with malarial symptoms, Knerr, MSS. ; Ozcena, Terry, N.

A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 309 ; Posterior nasal catarrh, Miller, Hom.

Times, 1876, p. 69 ; Toothache, Landes- mann, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 83 ; Gastric derangement, Schiissler's Tissue Eemedies; Sensitiveness in region of liver, Paine, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 29 ;

Affection of liver, Paine, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 11; Hah. Mo., vol. 5, p. 200; Bilious colic, Schiissler's Tissue Eemedies, p. 117 ;

Dian-hoea, Lippe, Organon, vol. 3, p. 337 ; Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 190; Stillman, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 146 ;

Sulzer, Hom. Times, 1875, p. 76 ; Norton, C. E.

Med. Inv., 1870, p. 390 ; Chronic diarrhoea, Pratt, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 138 ; H.

M., Sept., 1871, p. 96; Diabetes mellitus, Aegidi, Eaue's Path., p. 649; Gonorrhoea, sycosis (with Thuya), 6 cases, Bojanus, Eaue's Eec, 1871, pp. 139-41; Leucorrhcea, Miiller, B.

J. H., voL 23, p. 370; Herpes vulvae, Heinigke, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 160 ; Phlegmasia alba dolens, Burnett, B.

J. H., vol. 33, p. 731 ; Asthma, Guernsey, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 129 ;

Leonard, Schiissler's

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Tissue Eemedies ; Spinal meningitis, Kent, Schiissler's Tissue Eemedies, B. and D. ; Soreness in spine and neck, Pulsifer, Hah. Mo., vol. 5, p. 195 ;

Swelling of cervical glands, Grauvogl, Text-book, p. 360 ; Paronychia, Grauvogl, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 913;

Panaritium, Bell, Raue's Eec, 1870, p. 327 ; Heat of feet, Berridge, Horn. Times, 1875, p. 23; Locomotor ataxia (with Thuya), Grauvogl, B.

J. H., vol. 26, p. 639 ; Spasms after injury to head, Kent, Horn. Phys., vol. 6, p. 279 ;

Chronic fistu- lous abscesses, Grauvogl ; Sycosis, Kent, Horn. Phys., vol. 6, p. 275.

^ Mind. I I Inability to think.

I I Cheerfulness, happy mood ; after loose stools. iPepressed; tearful; lively music makes her sad. I Satiety of life; must use all self-control to prevent shoot- ing himself.

■ Irritable, < mornings ; dislikes to speak or to be spoken to. I 1 Great anxiety caused by pressure of swelling of throat

on windpipe.

iSpirits low, extremely timid and anxious; mind en- feebled.

I I Jaundice after anger.

Mental troubles arising from a fall or other injuries to head.

i Melancholy with periodical attacks of mania. ^ Sensorium. i Vertigo: after dinner; then heat from body towards head, becoming more violent until sweat breaks out on forehead ; > after forehead becomes moist ; with dulness of head ; frequent yawning and vomiting of sour mucus ; from gastric derangements, excess of bile, with bilious coating on tongue or bitter taste in mouth.

■ Muddled feeling, dulness.

^ Inner Head. l Pressure in forehead, particularly after meals ; as if forehead would burst. I I Periodical attacks in r. side of forehead. I I Pain as if forehead would burst after a meal.

• Pressure in forehead and coronal region after sunset,

with heat on top of head ; > by pressure of hand ; during quiet and while lying down ; < when thinking.

I I Beating pain in both temples when walking.

I I Periodically returning headaches ; pain concentrated in r. temple, of a boring nature, as if a screw was being driven in, preceded by burning sensation in pit of stomach, bitter taste and lassitude, only felt at night or in morning ; vomiting of bile follows.

Indescribable pain on top of head, as if it would split.

Pressure and heat in vertex during menses.

• Hot feeling on top of head.

Heavy and dull in head, especially in morning; looks

pale and sickly. I I Heaviness in head, with bleeding of nose, without relief.

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Congestion of blood to head ; pulsating headache.

I I Headache while reading, made him feel hot, and sweat.

I Brain feels loose, when stooping, as if it fell towards 1.

temple. I Jerk in head, throwing it towards r. side.

■ Headache: with giddiness; bitter taste; vomiting of

bile ; bilious diarrhoea ; colicky pain. I Dull headache, with malarial symptoms. I 1 Occipital headache. I I Violent pains at base of brain, as if crushed in a vise,

or something gnawing there.

■ Violent pains in head, especially at base of brain and

back of neck. ^After injuries to head.

■ Irritation of brain after lesions of head. * Outer Head. ■ Creeping in scalp of vertex.

I Scalp is sensitive; hair is painful on combing it. I I Burning in top of head.

■ Chronic effects from injuries upon skull ; simple concus-

sions that have resulted from a considerable shock, and injuries without organic affections. ° Sight and Eyes. ■Sight dim; eyes weak; watering.

■ Sensitiveness of eyes to light, with headache. Yellowness of conjunctivae.

■ Large, blisterlike granulations, with burning tears.

■ Burning in r. eye, burning lachrymation, dim sight; <

near fire, also morning and evening ; burning of edges of lids.

■ Crawling sensation in eyes ; great dryness and burning

of eyes; < from afternoon to evening; seemed as if her eyeballs were hot.

■ Granulous blisters on eyes.

■ Conjunctivitis granulosa, granulations appear like small

blisters {Ihuya).

■ Photophobia in scrofulous ophthalmia; lids aggluti-

nated.

■ Suffusion with burning of edges of lids.

■ Chronic conjunctivitis, with granular lids, green pus,

terrible photophobia.

■ Lids heavy as if leaden, pressing in eyes while reading

in evening.

■ Burning or itching of edges of lids in morning. ^ Hearing and Ears. ■Ringing in ears, as of bells.

I I Pressing in ears as if tympanum was pressed out.

■ Earache as if something was forcing its way out.

■ Piercing pain in r. ear inward ; sharp, lightning-like

stitches in ear ; < going from cold air into warm room, < in damp weather, living on wet ground, etc.

■ Otalgia.

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I Heat in r. ear, in evening. I 1 Irritable mucous membrane of ears and nose. ^ Smell and Nose, l Nosebleed: before menses; during menses, stops and returns often ; in afternoon. BStutiiug up of nose; great dryness and burning. iSneezing and fluent coryza.

■ Catarrhal discharge, yellowish-green ; becomes green on

exposure to light. I Accumulation of mucus, particularly at night, with salty

expectoration in morning. ^Posterior nasal catarrh. I Watery discharge becomes yellow and copious; nostrils

sore; discharge thick, yellow and mostly from anterior

nares. ^Chronic nasal catarrh.

■ Thick, yellowish discharge from nose; sometimes a

greenish-looking scab is blown from nose in morning with some blood and offensive smell; scab seems to come from an ulcer in Schneiderian membrane ; pain in root of nose, feels stopped up; hawking up during day and in morning of pieces of starchlike greyish phlegm, with a salty taste; oppression in middle and upper part of chest, as of a weight in chest, < at night, in morning and in damp weather ; sometimes pain in 1. lower side of chest ; wart on r. ring finger. (^Ozsena.

lOzsena syphilitica beginning with ulcers in fauces, no fetor.

I Itching of wings of nose, inducing rubbing. * Upper Face. Face : pale, wan ; sallow or jaundiced with biliousness.

I I Vesicles and pimples on face.

I I Smooth erysipelas of face.

• Itching of face.

^ Lower Face, l i Burning pain in corner of mouth at night; lips burn like pepper. I Upper lip dry, skin peels off.

• Vesicles on lower lip.

I I Vesicular eruption around mouth and chin.

I Pimple on chin, burns when touched. *° Teeth and Gums, l Throbbing toothache, with great rest- lessness; < from warm, but intolerable to hot drink.

I Toothache: > taking cold water into mouth; > by cool air or tobacco smoke.

I Gums burn like fire.

I I Blister on upper gums, suppurating, then drying up.

I I Painless, movable tumor on lower gums. "Taste and Tongue. iTaste: bitter; unpleasant; slimy, tongue coated with mucus.

I No taste, mornings; mouth feels dry, numb.

I I Dirty, greenish-grey or greenish-brown coating on root of tongue.

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iTongue: coated greenish, with malarial symptoms; slimy ; red ; burning tip.

■ Blisters with burning pain, on tip of tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. iRoof of mouth sore to touch.

■ Burning of palate as if sore and raw, during menses.

■ Blisters on palate, which increased daily; palate became

so sensitive that she could hardly eat; > taking any- thing cold into mouth.

■ Burning in mouth, as from pepper; mouth dry, thirst,

gums red. Dryness with redness of gums and thirst. Feeling of numbness and roughness in mouth.

■ Bitter taste, full of slime, thick and tenacious, white,

must hawk it up constantly from oesophagus, trachea and stomach.

■ Accumulation of very thin saliva in mouth; copious

after meals. ^^ Throat. ■ Dryness of throat, no thirst; extends to oesophagus.

■ Throat sore, feeling of contraction when swallowing

saliva ; soreness < by talking, or when swallowing

solids. I I Sore throat, feeling of a lump on swallowing. Frequent constriction of throat when walking.

■ Inflammation of tonsils and uvula, with painful deglu-

tition and urging to swallow saliva. I I Ulcers on tonsils; tearing pain down throat.

■ Mucus in throat, at night ; hawks salt mucus in morning. 1 lln diphtheria when green vomiting occurs.

^^ Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ■Loss of appetite : with great thirst; with malarial symptoms.

■ Thirst: in evening; for something very cold.

■ Great desire for ice or ice-cold water.

■ Disgust for bread, of which she was formerly fond. I i Aversion to meat.

^^ Eating and Drinking. ■A^egetables, fruit, pastry, cold food or drink and farinaceous food cause diarrhoea. Before meals : qualmishness in stomach. After eating: headache; perspiration in face. Hot drinks: toothache <. ^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough : in evening; after eating bread and butter.

■ Constant rising or gulping up of sour water ; heartburn.

■ Qualmishness before eating. Constant nausea.

■ Nausea, sometimes vomiting first of sour, then bitter

fluid. ^Hepatitis.

■ Vomiting: of bile ; very sour mucus or preceded by ver-

tigo; of saltish sour water; of bile with bitter sour

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taste, giddiness and headache ; of greenish water ; with colic. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, i Stomach feels distended and heavy. I Full feeling in stomach and chest, difficult breathing, evening in bed.

I i Beating pain in stomach, with slight nausea.

Boring in stomach as if it would be perforated ; or burn- ing-pinching in morning after rising ; > after break- fast.

I I Gastric complaints with acidity.

■ Constant taste of bile; tongue covered with a curdy^

bitter coating; during day, especially after food, bitter or tasteless eructations ; complexion yellow ; appetite very slight; no thirst; beer is distasteful; inclined to shiver; faint; pressure over one eye; stools normal, but scanty. ^Gastric derangement. '* Hypochondria, l Cannot bear tight clothing about waist. I I Attacks of hepatitis from which she recovered very

slowly. I Liver swollen and sore to touch.

■ Stitches in region of liver, sensitiveness when walking

in open air.

■ When taking a deep breath, sharp, violent stitch in r.

side of abdomen, as if in liver; as if it would burst open there, while sitting, unchanged by pressure, at 4 p.m. I Biliousness, excess of bile, vomiting of bitter fluids, greenish-brown or greenish-grey tongue.

■ Jaundice arising from vexation.

■ Irritable liver sometimes after excessive study or mental

work.

■ Liver engorged, < lying on 1. side.

■ Pain in 1. hypochondriac region or above, on last ribs;

cough with purulent expectoration.

■ Stitches in 1. hypochondrium while walking in open air. ^^ Abdomen. ■Dead heavy pain going from abdomen to back.

■ Burning in abdomen; bruised pain in bowels; griping

> by kneading abdomen.

■ Pinching in bowels: with pain in forehead; with sensa-

tion as if bowels were distended ; with rumbling, shift- ing pain and subsequent diarrhoea. I 1 Painful digging in abdomen during menses, in evening, followed by thirst.

■ Contractive pain in abdomen, extending to chest, with

tightness of breath, and subsequent diarrhoea. Violent colic and pain in small of back as if bruised, awakens her at 2 a.m.; > lying on side.

■ Bellyache in morning before breakfast.

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I Constant uneasiness in bowels and urging to stool.

I Feeling of fulness.

I I Abdominal flatulency: much rolling and rumbling; incarcerated, especially in r. side; collects at night, causing great pain; grumbling and rolling with sudden pinches, as after a purgative, then diarrhoea; loud rumbling followed by emission of very fetid flatus: after confinement; with cutting pains and congestion of liver; at night; tearing pain around umbilicus; < before breakfast when stomach is empty.

I Colic pain in region of r. groin, extending over belly. llBilious colic; excruciating pains; vomiting of bile;

bitter taste. I Lead colic.

I iHeat in lower bowels with green bilious discbarges. I Typhlitis.

I Piercing pain in r. flank, with nausea. I Pain in r. flank, as if distended. I I Stitch from 1. groin to axilla.

■ Tympanites in bilious fevers. I I Tuberculosis abdominalis.

^° Stool and Rectum, l Morning diarrhoea, on rising; sud- den urging, gushing, accompanied with flatulence; stools spatter all over vessel; prostration.

I Loose morning stools, particularly after a spell of wet weather.

iGreen evacuations, sallow skin, j^ellow eyeballs.

I Stool: dark bilious .or of green bile; yellowish-green; gushing; scanty, slimy, light, red or bloody; forcibly or suddenly expelled; half liquid, with tenesmus; painless, occasionally involuntary while passing flatus or urine, or during sleep; yellow, fluid, soon after rising in morning ; in a gush ; watery, with much flatus ; clay- colored (hepatitis) ; flatulent colic; wind incarcerated, r. side ; soft but difficult to expel.

■ Before stool: contractive pain in abdomen, extending

into chest ; pinching pains in groins and hypogastrium ;

violent colic and rumbling. iDuring stool: slight tenesmus and burning in anus;

profuse emission of flatus; voluptuous feeling. I After stool: cheerfulness, happy mood; burning in

anus ; relief of colic.

■ Diarrhoea: < in wet weather ; in morning; after farina-

ceous food ; in cold evening air ; from vegetables, fruit, pastry, cold food or drink ; alternating with constipa- tion ; comes on regularly in morning and returns quite regularly each day. . I Diarrhoea at 9 a.m., preceded by passage of much bad-

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smelling flatus ; painless ; stools thin, yellowish and scanty ; onl}' one passage daily.

I Sudden urging to stool ; stool scanty, at times slimy, bloody, of offensive odor, containing bright red blood ; involuntary, occur during micturition, during sleep, or during expulsion of flatus ; flatulent colic < on r. side ; < in damp weather or during a storm ; < eating dishes made of flour, pastry, fruits ; occurs particularly between 2 or 3 A.M. and 2 p.m. ; > lying on side and discharge of flatus; sensitiveness of hypochondriac regions; in- tolerant of tight clothing ; pain and heavy sensation in stomach ; loss of appetite ; aversion to bread ; great thirst ; chilliness ; burning in abdomen ; sleeplessness ; prostration ; eruption about anus and between thighs. ^Chronic diarrhoea.

I Attacks come on suddenly, stools scanty, slimy, light red, sometimes blood}^ forcible and sudden, sometimes offen- sive; movements are frequent and occasionally invol- untary stool occurs while passing flatus or urine, or dur- ing sleep ; discharges attended with pain; < from eating vegetables, fruit or pastry, from 2 or 3 a.m. to 2 p.m., in a warm room, in winter, when taking cold, at night, from cold food or drinks, after eating, in damp weather, and from exercise ; pain > by lying down and from passing flatus; cannot bear clothing tight about waist; pain is of a dead heavy character and goes through from abdomen to back ; much wind in bowels, and sickness at stomach; appetite very poor, much thirst; inclined to be chilly; burning in abdomen accompanying pain; does not sleep well at night ; after an attack feels very tired and sore across bowels, sides and back ; is very weak ; has a disgust for bread, of which she was form- erly fond ; subject to rheumatism ; and has had at times a discharge from 1. ear of a yellow color. ^Chronic diarrhoea.

■ Diarrhoea of three years' standing ; bruised pain in in-

testines, much passing of wind. Chronic diarrhoea with frequent involuntary discharges, since rupture of perineum.

■ Hard knotty stools, streaked with blood, accompanied

and preceded by smarting in anus ; often with scanty menses. I Emission of fetid flatus ; in large quantities ; in morn- ing ; after meals ; with loose stools.

■ Constant uneasiness in bowels and urging to stool. I Chronic diarrhoea; tuberculosis abdominalis.

■ Itching of anus; as from worms.

■ Knotty, wartlike eruption on anus and between thighs ;

condylomata ; sycosis.

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^^ Urinary Organs, ii Nephritis scarlatinosa.

I Diabetes after a cliill and an attack of rheumatic fever brought on by getting wet year previous ; extreme emaciation, face sunken, chest flattened, ribs projecting, muscles of extremities soft and flabby, little but skin and bone ; tongue and gums bright red, the latter re- ceding from teeth; epigastrium distended and very sensitive ; liver hypertrophied ; bowels confined, feces grey, skin flaccid, chest covered with erythema ; dull pain in region of r. kidney on pressure ; urine enor- mously increased, 10 to 18 pounds daily; urine pale, almost like water, at same time something like whey, viscid, frothy on being passed, with sour reaction, specific gravity 1103, quantity of sugar in it about 5| per cent.; appetite and thirst inordinate; sleep dis- turbed by frequent calls to urinate; spirits low, ex- tremely timid and anxious; mind enfeebled, thinking- faculty impaired ; felt weary, powerless, walking and all bodily movements difficult; pain in ankle joints; heaviness of feet ; in morning fatigue and powerlessness ; all ailments < during rest; thirst most all forenoon, with internal chilliness, confusion of head, pressive pain in forehead, especially after every meal ; noises in ears, sometimes vertigo, followed by nausea and difficulty of swallowing.

I Polyuria simplex, excessive secretion of urine, especially if diabetic.

I I Copious micturition, with brickdust sediment.

Piercing in both groins, with urging to urinate, afternoon while walking out-doors.

I I Pinching around navel while sitting, with urging to urinate, pain going into groin.

1 I More urine than usual, with burning sensation when passing it ; < at night, obliged to rise twice.

I Urine burns when passing; it passes in small quantities.

I Burning during and after micturition, or with pain in small of back on retaining urine.

■ Urine loaded with bile.

I Sediment yellow red; in morning yellow white. iLithic deposits in urine, brickdust-like coloring matter

in water, often associated with gout. I Gravel, sandy deposit in urine. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire excited in evening ;

also morning with erections.

■ Enlarged prostate, pus and mucus in urine.

■ Gonorrhoea, yellowish-greenish discharge of thick con-

sistency ; little pain.

■ ■Gonorrhoea; sycosis.

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I Chronic gonorrhoea; suppressed.

I Condylomata, soft fleshy excrescences of sycotic origin, with greenish discharges.

I Preputial and scrotal oedema.

I Itching: of genitals; of glans or penis, obliging one to rub ; of scrotum, with burning after scratching ; of perineum and mons veneris. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, i Before menses, nosebleed.

I Menses : profuse, acrid, corrosive, with colic and constipa- tion, or morning diarrhoea and chilliness; acrid, corro- sive and flowing profusely first days, last days discharge of coagula ; scanty, with knotty stools, streaked with blood; too late, acrid, making thighs sore; flow freely when walking; retarded, scanty, with colic; with diarrhoea.

iLeucorrhcea: acrid corrosive, or vulvitis ; parts inflamed, swollen, covered with vesicles of size of lentils, filled with purulent matter. ^After parturition. ^^ Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Vomiting in pregnancy, with bitter taste.

I Whole 1. leg greatly swollen, does not pit, but least press- ure causes great pain ; intolerable pain starting from 1. temple, goes across forehead to r. vertex, to r. side of occiput ; begins in morning as soon as she puts foot to floor, lasts all day until 4 or 5 p.m., affected parts remain sore; affected leg smarts like nettles; very nervous, cold chills come on suddenly; begins to shake as soon as she gets into bed, lasts greater part of night, followed by heat, no sweat; always chilly, "starved to death;" < in wet weather; urine pale and scanty; pain in small of back; menses suppressed; leucorrhoea profuse, yellowish, purulent; radial pulse weak; unable to walk, but manages to get across room with help of stick, ^Phlegmasia alba dolens.

I Six weeks after confinement, violent fever, follow^ed by vulvitis with herpes; great prostration; restlessness and sleeplessness; loss of appetite; bad taste; great thirst ; red tongue ; constipation ; headache and sensi- tiveness of eyes to light ; vesicles size of lentils, filled with purulent matter ; hydrogenoid constitution. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia, i Hoarse- ness ; with fluor albus. ^^ Respiration. Constant desire to take a deep, long breath.

I Short breath when walking, gradually > by rest; later want of breath continues while sitting.

I Short breath, with piercing pain in 1. side of chest. I I When taking a deep breath a sharp stitch in r. side of chest, later also on inspiration, in 1. side.

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1 1 Great dyspnoea, desire to take deep breath during damp, cloudy weather.

I Attacks of hay asthma, which patient dreads very much, causing great prostration and forcing her to remain in bed ; sneezing, hard breathing, cannot lie down, breath- ing < upon least motion, accompanied by arching out between scapulae.

I For years attacks of asthmatic breathing so marked as to herald his approach at some distance, and coming on after any unusual exertion ; during remission coarse rales along larger bronchi.

I Humid asthma, rattling of mucus.

■ Violent attack of asthma; greenish, purulent expectora-

tion ; loose evacuation immediately on rising.

■ Asthmatic attacks for years; expectoration greenish and

remarkably copious. I Asthma with young people from a general bronchial

catarrh ; afterwards with every change to damp weather. I Asthma about 4 or 5 a.m., with cough and raising of

glairy slime, and vomiting after eating ; always < in

damp, rainy weather. I Catarrh which has become chronic.

■ Offensive breath, with malarial symptoms.

^'^ Cough. I Cough: dry, with soreness in chest, rough feeling in throat, particularly at night ; had to sit up and hold chest with both hands ; loose, from tickling in throat; morning; with purulent sputum and pain about last ribs, 1. side; frequent, with some sputum ; if he coughs while standing, feels a sharp stitch in 1. side of chest, with shortness of breath ; with thick, ropy, greenish, puslike expectoration. I Coughing up blood, in hydrogenoid constitutions.

^® Inner Chest and Lungs. After sunset, oppressed feeling in chest, and feeling of a ball in throat, with tendency to cry ; like hysteria.

■ Pressure on chest, as of a heavy load; oppression in

morning on awaking. I I Sensation of all-goneness in chest. I Stitches: in 1. side of chest when sitting, when yawning,

during an inspiration ; running up from abdomen to

1. side of chest. I Soreness of chest w^hen coughing, > from pressure. I Constitutional condition in children that results in chest

catarrhs and asthmatic complaints. I A kind of phthisis, not a true tuberculosis, in those* of a

sycotic or hydrogenoid constitution; cough, attended

with muco-purulent expectoration, loud rales through

chest, and seat of inflammation seems to be the

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lower lobe of 1. lung ; pain about ninth or tenth rib on 1. side.

I Phthisis pulmonum of old people; phthisis mucosa; cough, with muco-purulent sputa.

iSycotic pneumonia, inexpressible agony ; slowly coagu- lating blood. ^^ Outer Chest. Swelling of ribs near sternum.

Spasmodic motions of muscles, < 1. side.

iSycotic exanthema every Spring. ^^Neck and Back, l Violent pains in back of neck and head; drawing back of neck, and spasms of back, to- gether with mental irritability and delirium; violent determination of blood to head. ^Spinal meningitis.

I Chronic swelling of cervical glands.

I Goitre.

I I Stitches in nape of neck (at night).

iPiercing: as from knives, between scapulse, while sitting in evening ; in middle of sacrum.

I I Soreness up and down spine and neck.

I Bruised pain in small of back and sacrum.

Violent suppurative pain in small of back at night, so that she can only lie on her r. side ; > in morning after getting up.

■ Pressure in 1. side, near lumbar region, < from motion

of body p.nd pressure. I I Itching on back when undressing. I iPain in sacrum, cannot lie on either side. ^^ Upper Limbs. l Swelling and suppuration of axillary

I IPiercing in 1. axilla, on humerus, back of hand, palm

of" r. hand, fingers, under nails. 1 I Tingling in arms and hands ; they feel as if paralyzed. iFuruncles on r. forearm and near armpit. I No strength in hands; flexors pain when grasping

anything. I Hands tremble on awaking; later, when writing.

■ Eruption on vola of each hand, some on dorsum and

pains suddenly go to heart, urine dark red.

■ Paronychia; patient pale and feeble in morning, heavy

feeling in head, loss of appetite ; in evening, chills and heat; after a blister, filled with water, which came on last phalanx, swollen all around, very red and painful; matter around root of nail ; pain more bearable out- doors than in room, damp walls (cellar).

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1 1 Panaritium, pain more bearable out-doors.

I Inflammation and suppuration around roots of nails.

■ Tingling, ulcerative pain under nail; in tips of fingers. ^^ Lower Limbs. ' l Pain in r. hip joint ; < from stooping,

motion, rising from a seat, or moving in bed.

■ While walking, suddenly a stitch in 1. hip, which makes

it impossible to walk on, as foot no longer serves as a support ; pain so violent that it could not be borne for a minute, indescribable, as though he would lose his senses and fall down; disappears after two or three seconds as suddenly as it came.

I Pain in 1. hip joint, as after lying in a bad position; makes it difficult to ascend, also to sit down or get up ; awakes him at night ; can bear any one position only for a short time; joint pains so from some movements that he can hardly help screaming ; at times one spot is sensitive to pressure, then again it is not,

I I Piercing pain in 1. hip, belly and small of back, only during rest.

I I Stitches in 1. hip, trembling of hands, languor and oedema of feet.

I 1 Stabbing pain in 1. hip after a fall.

I Pain in hip, extending to knee.

■ Sciatica when getting up from sitting, or turning in bed ;

no relief in any position. I I Pain in hip > in certain positions, but compels one to

move again after a short time, causing intense suffering. I Brown spots on inner surface of both thighs after

syphilis. I Ulcers on outer side of thigh.

■ Stiffness of knees and cracking of joints.

I I Legs and thighs feel weary and exhausted.

I Legs hot, burn to knees, evening and next morning.

■ Piercing in soles, in heels; ulcerative pain. I I Burning in soles extending to knees.

■ Dry heat in feet at night.

I Itching on or between toes, after undressing. iQEdema of feet.

■ Podagra, gout in feet, acute and chronic cases.

^* Limbs in General, i i Trembling or twitching of hands

and languor of feet. Twitching of hands and feet during sleep, more after

midnight. I Pains in limbs, making him change his position often to

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I Can hardly find a position where the pain in hip and loins is tolerable, and the relief by changing position does not last long.

I Patient is obliged to lie on back.

• Turning or twisting the body very painful.

Lying down : > pressure in head.

Lying on side: violent colic >.

Lying on 1. side: engorged liver <.

Can only lie on r. side: violent pain in small of back.

Cannot "lie down : hay asthma.

Cannot lie on either side : pain in sacrum.

Stooping: brain feels loose; pain in r. hip joint <.

Sitting: stitch in abdomen; pinching around navel; want of breath ; stitches in 1. side of chest ; piercing be- tween scapulse.

Had to sit up and hold chest with both hands: cough.

Standing : coughing causes stitch in 1. side of chest.

After lying in a bad position: pain in 1. hip joint.

Can bear any one position only for a short time.

No relief in any position : sciatica.

Change of position : compelled by pain in limbs.

Motion : pressure in 1. side < ; pain in r. hip joint < ; sometimes causes unbearable pain in joints.

Exercise : diarrhoea < ; difficult, from weakness.

Moving in bed : pain in r. hip joint.

Walking : beating pain in temples ; frequent constriction of throat ; difficult, from weakness ; piercing in both groins with urging to urinate; menses flow freely; short breath ; stitch in 1. hip, cannot walk on.

Swallowing: throat <.

Talking: soreness of throat <.

Writing : hands tremble.

Grasping anything : flexors pain.

Rising from a seat : pain in r. hip joint < ; sciatica.

Least motion: breathing <. ^^ Nerves. iWhen lying long in one position, the restless de- sire to move compels a change which is very painful, and it is very difficult to find a new position which gives relief.

iProstration; tired, weary, especially knees,

■ Weak and languid, with malarial symptoms.

■ Exhaustion, with colic.

■ Debility and dyspepsia of drunkards.

■ Trembling of whole body; of hands on waking and

when writing.

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I I Twitching of hands and feet during sleep.

I After striking head, fits driving liim to distraction, never knew when they were coming on, epileptiform ; very- irritable, wanted to die ; constant pain in head ; much photophobia.

I Chorea, with retarded stools, tetanus of 1. side ; trembling of r., gesticulating convulsively every afternoon.

I I Locomotor ataxia. ^" Sleep. iDrowsiness: in forenoon, especially when reading or writing; precursor of jaundice.

I Soon after falling asleep, starting as in a fright.

I Restless, sleepless.

I He may lie down earlier or later, after four or five hours he erets awake with an attack of asthma.

lis awakened by pain from flatulency.

1 Heavy, anxious, frightful dreams; frequent waking from

unpleasant, fantastic dreams. ^ Time. At 2 a.m. : violent colic.

Many symptoms < in morning, > after breakfast and in open air.

Between 2 and 3 a.m. : flatulent colic.

4 or 5 A.M. : asthma.

Mornings: irritable; bitter taste and lassitude; heavy and dull in head; burning in r. eye <; burning or itching of edges of lids ; salty expectoration ; greenish scab blown from nose ; hawking up of starchlike phlegm; oppression on chest <; no taste; burning pinching in stomach ; bellyache ; diarrhoea; loose stools ; emissions of flatus; fatigue and powerlessness ; yellow- white sediment in urine ; sexual desire with erections ; cough ; oppression on chest ; pain in back > on getting up ; patient pale and feeble ; legs hot, burn to knees ;

Before breakfast : tearing pain in belly.

After breakfast; pain in stomach >.

At 9 A.M. : diarrhoea.

Forenoon : thirst ; drowsiness.

During day : hawking up of starchlike phlegm ; bitter coating on tongue.

After dinner : vertigo.

Afternoon : nosebleed ; piercing in both groins with urging to urinate ; dry heat.

2 P.M. : flatulent colic.

At 4 P.M. : stitch in abdomen.

After sunset: pressure in forehead; oppression in chest

and feeling of ball in throat. From afternoon to evening: burning and crawling in

eyes <.

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Evening : burning in r. eye < ; while reading pressing in eyes ; heat in r. ear ; thirst for something very cold ; hiccough ; difficult breathing (in bed) ; painful digging in abdomen ; sexual desire excited ; piercing between scapulEe; chills and heat; legs hot, burn to knees; towards, chilliness ; chilly and feverish ; towards, sudden flashes of heat.

Night : bitter taste and lassitude ; accumulation of mucus ; oppression on chest < ; burning pain in corner of mouth ; flatus collects, causing great pain ; diarrhoea < ; does not sleep well ; more urine than usual ; rough feel- ing in throat < ; stitches in nape of neck ; violent pain in small of back ; pain in hip wakes him ; dry heat in feet ; could not get warm in bed ; waking with anguish and thirst ; sweat.

After midnight : twitching of hands and feet during sleep. ^^ Temperature and Weather, i Ailments which are < or dependent upon dampness of weather, or dwelling in damp houses.

I Every Spring, eruption on chest.

Open air: sensitiveness of liver when walking in; while walking stitches in 1. hypochondrium ; piercing pain in groins with urging to urinate; pain more bearable; panaritium more bearable.

Warm room : diarrhoea <.

In bed : chilly, and shaking chills out of it.

Near fire: burning in eye <.

Hot drink : toothache intolerable.

Undressing : itching .of skin.

Cool air: toothache >.

From cold air into warm room : pain in ear <.

Cold evening air: diarrhoea <.

Cold water : in mouth > toothache ; blisters on palate > ; thirst for.

Cold food or drink : diarrhoea <.

Ice and ice-cold water : great desire for.

Moist atmosphere at seashore: ague <.

Damp weather: earache < ; oppression on chest < ; loose stools; diarrhoea < ; desire to take deep breath ; asthma < ; ague always <.

Every change to damp weather : asthma.

Living on wet ground : earache <.

Damp walls: increased pain.

Getting wet : caused rheumatic fever.

During storm: flatulent colic <. *" Fever, l Internal coldness, with yawning and stretching.

I Chills: with icy coldness and gooseflesh, 4 to 8 p.m. during catamenia, towards evening, without thirst;

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evening in bed, could not get warm all night; up back, with chattering of teeth and shaking, without external coldness; waking at night with anguish and thirst.

I Chilly in bed and shaking chills out of it, thirst in- creased, pulse verj^ rapid.

Chilly and feverish in evening.

I 1 Chilliness with warmth of forehead and hands.

1 I Dry heat in afternoon.

I Hot feeling on top of head ; sudden flashes towards even- ing; increased warmth of body and restlessness.

I I Violent fever after confinement.

iSweat: without thirst; at night; in face; on scrotum.

Perspiration in morning.

I Chill and icy coldness, without thirst, followed by vio- lent fever and sweat without thirst; attacks come on suddenly.

I Chills on several successive days followed by heat and sweat. /^Hepatitis.

iMalarial symptoms; alternately creeps and fever.

I I Ague: with bilious vomiting; brought on or always made < by damp weather or moist atmosphere at sea- shore.

■ Remittent bilious fever, or yellow fever assuming this form ; greenish-yellow vomit, brown or black. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Alternate : diarrhoea with con- stipation.

Periodical : returning headaches.

Attacks : of sudden stool.

Every morning : diarrhoea.

Every day : diarrhoea.

Every afternoon : gesticulating convulsively.

Begins in morning, lasts till 4 or 5 p.m.: intolerable pain in head.

After every meal : pressive pain in forehead.

4 to 8 P.M. : chilliness and gooseflesh.

Four or five hours after lying down : is awakened by at- tack of asthma.

Several successive days: chills followed by heat and sweat.

During catamenia : chilliness.

Every Spring : sycotic exanthema.

For three years : diarrhoea.

For years : attacks of asthma.

Of years standing: fistulous abscesses.

Locality and Direction. Right: periodical attacks of

pain in side of forehead ; pain concentrated in temple;

head jerked to side; burning in eye; piercing pain in

ear; heat in ear; wart on ring finger; violent stitch in

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side of abdomen ; incarcerated flatulency in side ; colic pain in region of groin ; piercing pain in flank'; dull pani m region of kidney; pain on side of occiput; stitch m chest ; piercing in palm of hand ; furuncles on forearm and near armpit; pain in hip joint; trembling of side ; between scrotum and thigh small itching scabs.

Left:_ as if brain would fall to temple when stooping; pain in lower side of chest ; lying on side liver engorged < ; pain in hypochondrium ; stitches in hypochon- drium; stitch from groin to axilla; discharge from ear; leg greatly swollen; intolerable pain starting from' temple to r. temple; pain about last ribs; spasmodic motion of muscles of side ; pressure in side near lumbar region ; piercing in axilla ; stitch in hips ; pain in hip joint; pain in hip; stabbing pain in 1. hip; tetanus of side ; red, knotty eruption on side of nape of neck.

Inward : piercing pain in r. ear. *^ Sensations. As if forehead would burst ; as if a screw was being driven in ; as if top of head would split ; as if brain was loose and fell to 1. temple ; as if brain was crushed in a vise, or something gnawing there; as if eyes were hot; lids heavy as if leaden; as of bells ringing in ears; as if tympanum was pressed out; as if something was forcing its way out of ears ; as of a weight in chest; palate as if sore and raw; burning as if from pepper in mouth; as of a lump in throat when swal- lowing; as if stomach would be perforated: stitch as if in liver, as if it would burst open there ; as if bowels were distended; small of back as if bruised; r. flank as if distended; as of a ball in throat; as of a heavy load on chest ; piercing as from knives between scapulae.

Sore across bowels, sides and back.

Pain : in ear ; in root of nose ; in 1. lower side ; with vom- iting of bile; in chest; in 1. hypochondriac region; in small of back ; in belly ; in r. flank ; in stomach ; in ankle joint ; about last 1. ribs; in sacrum ; in hip joints ; in hip to knee ; in bones.

Intolerable pain : from 1. temple to vertex and r. temple ; in r. occiput.

Excruciating pain : in abdomen.

Violent pains : at base of brain ; in head and back of neck.

Indescribable pain: on top of head; in 1. hip joint.

Tearing pain : down throat ; around umbilicus.

Piercing pain : in r. ear ; between scapula? and in middle of sacrum; in 1. axilla; on humerus; back of hand; in palm of r. hand; fingers under nails; in r. flank; in both groins; in 1. side of chest; in 1. hip joint; belly and small of back ; in soles ; in heels.

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Violent pulsating pain : on top of head.

Beating pain : in both temples ; in stomach.

Throbbing pain : in teeth.

Sharp, lightning-like stitches: in ear.

Sharp, violent stitch : jn r. side of abdomen.

Sharp stitch : in r. side of chest.

Stitches: in region of liver; in 1. hypochondrium ; from

1. groin to axilla ; in 1. side of chest ; from abdomen to

Dead heavy pain : going from abdomen to back. Burning: in top of head; in r. eye; of edges of lids; of

in r. ear ; in lower bowels ; in feet. ■Sensitiveness : of scalp ; of eyes. Pressure : in forehead ; on coronal region ; on vertex ;

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Creeping : in scalp of vertex.

Crawling : in eyes.

Sensation of all-goneness: in chest.

Itching : of edges of lids ; of wings of nose ; of face ; of

anus ; of genitals ; of glans or penis ; of perineum and

after scarlatina. I Sycosis, hydrsemia or leucaemia, thrombosis in hydro-

genoid constitutions, particularly with affections of

I Morbid ferments in blood, also in gonorrhoea.

■ Cracking of joints; knees stiff ; pain in bones; sycosis. I Consumption, in some forms, to prevent development.

■ Fistulous abscesses.

Touch: hair pains on combing; causes burning of pimple on chin ; mouth sore ; liver sore.

Pressure : of hand > pressure in head ; does not > stitch in abdomen ; causes pain in region of r. kidney ; causes great pain in swollen 1. leg ; > soreness of chest; press- ure in 1. side <.

Cannot bear tight clothing about waist.

Scratching : causes burning on scrotum ; > itching of small scabs between scrotum and r. thigh.

Kneading: > griping in abdomen.

Injuries: cause mental troubles; violent pain at base of brain and back of neck.

After a fall : mental troubles; stabbing pain in 1. hip. ^^ Skin. I Jaundice: after anger; itching of skin while un- dressing; with malarial symptoms; with hepatitis.

I 1 Chafing of skin in children with bilious symptoms. •

■ Fistulous abscesses of years standing, discharging watery

pus, surrounded by a broad, bluish line, burrowing.

■ Eczema moist and oozing profusely; secretion more

watery than viscid.

■ Pemphigus, watery vesicles or blebs over body, wheals

■ Moist skin affections with bilious symptoms, I iCEdematous inflammation of skin.

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I I Erysipelas, smooth, red, shiny ; tingling or painful

swelling of skin. iSycotic excrescences ; wartlike, red lumps all over body.

■ Between scrotum and r. thigh small scabs, itching, > by

scratching; also on forehead, scalp, 1. neck, chest; sycosis.

I Red, knotty eruption on head above ears ; on forehead

and 1. side of nape of neck ; in middle of chest.

■ Chronic cutaneous eruptions.

^^ Stages of Life, Constitution, i Sycosis.

I I Hydrogenoid constitution; feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water ; feels best on a dry day ; a constitu- tion in which the gonorrhoeal poison is most pernicious.

Girl, set. 16, suffering for years ; headache.

Woman, set. 20, mother of one child ; ozsena.

Woman, set. 24 ; diarrhoea.

Woman, set. 34, blue eyes, brown hair, mother of six chil- dren, last labor very difficult, twelve weeks in bed after it with wdiite leg; first 1. leg became affected then r. ; phlegmasia alba dolens.

Woman, ^t. 36, married ; asthma.

Woman, set. 42, married, suffering for years; asthma.

Man, set. 43, middle height, father of two healthy children, blonde hair, grey eyes, gonorrhoeal cachexy, hydro- genoid constitution ; diabetes.

Man, set. 44; gastric derangement.

Young man after striking head by being hurled from truck in fire department; epileptiform spasms.

Man, tall, strong, narrow-chested, but no family histor}'' of lung trouble, suffering for years ; asthma.

Woman, married, during past year under treatment for chronic bronchitis and other troubles; third annual attack ; hay asthma.

Old lady, hereditarily disposed; chronic diarrhoea. *® Relations. Compatible : after Ferr. pJios. in polyuria ; after Natr. mur. in skin diseases; followed by Arsen. in herpes vulvse ; acts well with Tliuya in sycosis and hydrogenoid constitutions; useful in alternation with Bellad. in oophoritis.

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