Provings by Hahnemann, Gersdorff, GouIIon, Hartlaub, Kenning, Eummell and Robinson, See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 5, p. 281. CxiNicAL Authorities. — Conjunctivitis and leucoma, Terry, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 308 ; Blepharitis, Schelling, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 66 ; CEderaa of lids, Norton's Opth. Therap., p. 103; Toothache, Schelling, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 97; Parotitis, Hering, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 53 ; Affection of favxxs, Wesseihoeft, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 41 ; Affection of throat, Schelling, Hool Clin., vol. 4, p. 89 ; Cardialgia, Schelling, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 115; Gastralgia, Kunkel, Horn. Phys., vol. G, p. 222; AUg. Horn. Ztg., vol. 112, p. 50; Gastric disturbance, Schelling, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 94; Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 136; Affection of stonmch, Curtis, N. A. J. H., vol. 8, p. 15; Schelling, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 93 ; (2 cases) Schelling, B. J. H., vol. 32, p. 688; Pfander, Allg. Horn. Ztg., vol. 113, p. 203; Hofrichter, Riick. KL Erf., vol. 5, p. 312; Hepatitis, Houghton, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 156 ; Stitches in liver and lumbar region, Houghton, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 59 ; Disease of liver, Martin, Horn. Clin., vol. 1, p. 191 ; Affection of liver, Emmerich, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 697 ; Constipation, Bernard and Strong, Stens, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 150; Hemorrhoids, McNeil, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 437 ; Smith, B. J. H., vol. 30, p. 394; Bonninghausen, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 494; Gillet, Riick. Ki. Erf., vol. 1, p. 999 ; Uterine affection, Hartmann, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 353 ; Uterine hemorrhages, Goullon, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 129 ; Menorrhagia, Goullon, B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 683; Menstrucd affections, Goullon, Hom. Clia., vol. 3, p. 130; Menstrual disturbances, Goullon, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 591 ; Scanty menses, Suppressed menses, Amenon-hfea, Dysmenoi^rhcea, Hahnemann, Riickert, Rummel, Jahr, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 235 ; Nausea during pregnancy, Wood, Raue's Rec, 1871, p. 161 ; Abortion, Goullon, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 314; Sickness during pregnaoicy, Wood, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 93 ; Bronchitis, Meyer, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 684 ; Asthma (2 cases), Schelling, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 112, Hom. Clin., vol. 4, p. 94 ; Cough, Berridge, Hom. Phys., vol. 6, p. 207; Martin, Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Pa., 1880, p. 242, Horn. Clin., vol. 1, p. 192; Schelling, Hom. Clin., vol. 4, p. 90; Stens, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, pp. 685, 722 ; Whooping cough, Hering, Becker, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 81 ; Suffocative catarrh, Schelling, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 144 ; Catarrh of chest, Schelling, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. Ill ; Chronic catarrh. Skinner, Hom. Phys., vol. 5, p. 150; Pleurisy, Schelling, Raue's Rec, 1872, p. 122; Miller, Cin. Med. Adv., vol. 3, p. 380 ; Pneumonia, Goullon, Gross, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 298 ; Hydrotlwrax, Dropsy, Heimann, Weber, B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 706 ; Pneu- monia, Eidherr, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 821 ; Lippe, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 120 ; Sum, Raue's Rec, 1871, p. 100; Phthisis, Smith, Raue's P., p. 401 ; Stens, Raue's Rec, 1870, p. 193 ; Consumption, Lobethal, Kirschmann, Schelling, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 372 ; Lumbago (2 cases), Farrington, Raue's Rec, 1874, p. 254; Backache; Proctalgia during pregnancy, Goullon, Riick. Kh Erf., vol. 2, p. 383 ; Affection of hips, Miiller, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 915 ; Morbus coxarius (8 cases), McNeil, Cin, Med. Adv., vol. 6, p. 349, Organ on, vol. 2, p. 238; Spasmodic affections, Emmerich, 877 KALI CARBONICUM. Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p, 575 ; Paresis, Hartmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 488 ; Febrile attacks, Schelling, Horn. Clin., vol. 4, p. 89 ; Catarrhal fever, Schelling, Raue's Eec, 1872, p. 234; Ague, Lippe, Hah. Mo., vol. 1, p. 122; Schelling, A. H. Z., 1869, p. 82; Typhoid affection, Goullon, Horn. Clin., vol. 3, p. 130, Kane's Eec, 1871, p. 199 ; Puerperal fever, Guernsey, Trans. Horn. Med. Soc. Pa., 1874, p. 399, and Obs., p. 633 ; Dropsy, Weber, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, 349 ; Urticaria, Eummel, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, 199 ; Erysipelas, Eaue, Horn. Clin., vol. 3, p. 7-8. ^ Mind. 1 Sudden attack of unconsciousness. I I Cannot express herself; seems at a loss to know how to begin to say or do what she wishes. ^Puerperal mania. I Absentminded. ■ Dull, confused, stupid, as after intoxication. Imagines seeing birds flying in room; he tries to catch them. I I Great aversion to being alone. I Dread of labor. - I Weeps much. ■ Alternating mood, atone time good and quiet, at another excited and angry at trifles ; constantly in antagonism with herself; frequently hopeful, frequently despondent; frets about everything; peevish, impatient, contented with nothing. ^Melancholia. I I Timid and apprehensive of future and about her disease. iFear of being alone; fears she will die. I Anxiety with fear. ■ Despondency in open air; disappears on entering house. ■ Peevish, irritable; noise is disagreeable; easily startled, especially if touched ; intolerance of human voice. ■ Irascible and passionate. ■ Very easily frightened ; shrieks about imaginary appear- ances ; starts when touched. ■ Is frightened and cries out whenever he is touched lightly on his feet. ■ Delirium in the night. ^Pleurisy. ^ Sensorium. ■ Giddiness, nausea, pressure in stomach. ■ Vertigo: when rapidly turning head or body ; evening and morning ; on turning around ; as if proceeding from stomach ; loss of consciousness ; frequent dulness of head as after intoxication, and as if ears .were stopped up, with nausea almost unto vomiting; when walking; as if head was too light, must take hold on something ; and vomiting ; after eating, with heat in head, red face, darkness before eyes ; sometimes one cheek hot the other cold ; must lie down as soon as attack comes on, other- wise he is thrown down; before he falls he has stitching pain in forehead, root of nose and in eyes ; attacks sev- eral times a day. KALI CARBONICUM. 378 ^ Inner Head. I Pressure and drawing tearing in forehead, extending into eyes and root of nose. ■ Pressure in forehead, with photopliobia. I I Pressive headache in forehead, in afternoon, while walk- ing, with peevishness. TiSensation in forehead as of a hot body having descended into it when stooping, I 1 Drawing in forehead, in forenoon and at midnight. I I Pressure and tension in forehead and eyes. ■ Pressing in front of head and temples, extending into eyes, with heat in face and head. ^Sick headache. ^Blepharitis. ^Catarrhal fever. ■ Stitches in forehead and temples, < stooping, moving head, eyes or jaw ; > raising head and from heat. ■ Stitches into eyes and root of nose: with catarrh; before falling down with vertigo. I I Pinching and tearing pain in 1. temple at intervals. I One-sided headache, with nausea. I I Tearing drawing in 1. half of head. I I Constant sensation of something loose in head, turning and twisting toward forehead. ■ Congestion to head, with throbbing and humming. I I Congestion of blood to head, with intoxication arising from it. ■ Congestive and catarrhal headaches, with dry, hard cough. ■ Pressive headache. ■ Headache : from riding in a carriage; from coughing or sneezing; on awaking from sleep; from coryza; with nausea; with toothache; with backache; with inter- mittent ; with great heaviness during menses. ■ Jerking in head from behind forward; dark before eyes, unconscious; > from drink of cold water; remains weak and nauseated. ■ Pressing pain in back of head. ■ Aching in occiput, toward nape of neck, > in open air, ■ Morning headache with vertigo, aching and stitches in occiput, felt only during motion ; sharp, shooting pains from upper dorsal spine into occiput. TrViolent pressure over whole skull, down nape of neck, throbbing in head and whole body < by slightest con- tact, and increasing in paroxysms with violent nausea and vomiting of bile. ^ Outer Head. ■ Liability of head to take cold from a draft, after being heated causing headache or toothache. ■ Painful tumors on scalp, like blood boils; < from press- ure and motion, > from heat ; itching as if in bones. ■ Wens on scalp. ■ Hair dry, brittle, falling off, mostly from temples, eye- S79 KALI CARBONICUM. • brows and beard ; scalp itches and burns morning and evening ; oozes if scratched. ^Brain disease of children. I Great dryness of hair after nervous fevers. ■ Perspiration on forehead in morning. ^ Sight and Eyes. I Bright sparks, blue or green spots be- fore eyes. ■While reading or looking at a bright light: muscse voli- tantes ; sharj) stitches ; fog before eyes. I Weakness of vision. I I Eyes weak : after coition ; after abortion ; after measles. ' I Inclination to stare. I I Painful sensitiveness of eyes to daylight; photophobia. I I Lachrymation, shunning light ; pain deep in eyes. I I Small round ulcers on cornea with no photophobia. I iPannus, always < after a seminal emission. I I Asthenopia with sticking and drawing together of lids upon looking steadily at any object ; burning, pressing pain in eyes ; borders of lids red and swollen ; palpebral fissure narrowed and palpebral conjunctiva hypersemic; constant photophobia, compelled to keep eyes closed most of the time; < after using; slight rheumatism. ■Milky, whitish spot near middle of r. cornea ; vessels of conjunctiva injected ; sees with r. eye as if through fog or smoke ; when looking toward light lachrymation ; dizziness when stooping ; cannot fix sight of any object steadily without water running from eyes and feeling of dizziness ; artificial light appears to have rays all around it; eye symptoms < morning; bloating after meals ; flatulency ; obstinate constipation and stools too large in size ; cracking now and then in r. ear ; expec- toration of phlegm in morning with a salty taste. ^Con- • junctivitis and leucoma. I I Redness of white of eyes, with many vessels in it. ■ Smarting, burning, biting, stitching pain in eye. I I Sharp tearing in r. orbit and eye at night. I I Stitches in middle of eye. I I Pressure in and above eyes. ■ Eyes painful on reading, as if pressed inward. ■ Corners of eyes ulcerate. ■Soreness of external canthus, with burning pain. ■ Eyelids swollen; edges and canthi red; caruncula red and swollen ; lachrymation and pain from bright light; pressing pain in front of head and temples into eyes, with heat in face and head ; loss of appetite ; after eat- ing pressure in stomach; belching; nausea and empti- ness in stomach; gagging and vomiting up slime; pressure and anxious feeling in chest; chilliness; cold feet ; evening fever, with thirst ; weariness and heavi- KALI CARBONICUM. 380 ness in limbs ; face pale, dirty grey ; restless sleep ; great deal of yawning through day. ^Blepharitis. iLids swollen and inflamed; agglutinated, especially mornings. ■ Lids red, swollen,; tarsi worse. I Eyelids swollen, also left cheek and upper lip. I Lids of r. eye inflamed, pain in eyes and inability to read. llPuffiness; swelling between eyebrows and lids, like a sac. I Enormous bag-like swellings under eyes. ^Erysipelas. Iffidema of lids, especially if accompanied by sticking pains and heart indications. ■ Eyes sunken. I Sensation of coldness in lids. ® Hearing and Ears, i i Ringing, roaring, whizzifig, singing, cracking noises in ears. ■ Headache with noises in ear after a cold drink. ■ Hearing impaired, dull. fi'Rheumatism. I I Tearing in ears. 1 Stitches from within outward ; also with drawing behind ears ; otitis. ■ Face pale, sometimes flushed ; head and r. ear hot ; pain stitch-like, drawing, especially behind ear; cheek swol- len ; little appetite ; mouth dry ; high fever with dizzi- ness; chilliness, shuddering, some thirst but little desire to drink; anxiety in chest; pulse accelerated, uneven; weary in all the limbs. 1 I Violent itching or tickling in ears. I I Redness and heat of outer ear. ■ Right ear hot, left pale and cold. ^Gastritis. ■ Discharge of yellow liquid cerumen or pus. ■ Parotids, especially right, inflamed, swollen, hard. ^ Smell and Nose. ■Dull sense of smell, especially from catarrh. ■ Fluent cor3^za ; excessive sneezing; pain in back, head- ache and lassitude. I I Violent fluent coryza in evening, with frequent sneez- ing and headache, rough voice. ■ Dry coryza, with loss of voice or hoarseness; mucus in throat, or sensation of a lump. ■ Dryness or stoppage of nose. ■ Obstruction of nose, making breathing through nostrils impossible; > w^hen w^alking in open air, returns in room; itching in nose; fetid, yellow green discharge from one nostril. ■ Coryza: thick yellowish discharge with great lassitude; purulent, fetid discharge from one nostril; yellow, green or bloody mucus; sore, crusty nostrils ; complete closure of nostrils. 881 KALI CARBONTCUM. I Burning in nose ; ulcerated nostrils; bloody, red nostrils every morning; external nose red, swollen; stinging pains. iSore nose ; mucous membrane swollen, covered with pim- ples and brown crusts; tip and wings red, swollen, with sore, stinging pain; headache; pain in stomach ; nausea; belching; pulsation in abdomen ; pain in limbs. I Nose thick and red. I I Nose swollen, hard, red from tip to root. I I Alae nasi red, swollen, suppurating, covered with yellow andgrey crusts; burning pain. ^Stricture of oesophagus. B Frequent bleeding of nose. ■ Nosebleed: when washing face ; every morning at 9. I I Itching in nose. ^ Upper Face. ' l Paleness of face after a meal. Face: red and hot; one cheek hot, the other cold ; purple, bloated ; dark red during cough, otherwise pale ; pale, with weakness ; sickly ; with pale lips ; sallow ; grey ; yellow ; bloated, in morning. II Swelling of face, especially over eyes. ■ Stinging in cheeks; tearing stitches from a molar into forehead, eyes and temples. ■ Drawing pain in face. I I Pimples on face and ej^ebrows, with redness and swelling. ■ Freckles; light brown spots; old warts; impulous erup- tions. ^ Lower Face. ■ Upper lip swollen; bleeding rhagades. I I Scurf upon upper lip. I I Dry lips. ^Sick headache. ■ Lips: peel, chap, swell or ulcerate. I I Itching on chin. ■ Hard swelling of submaxillary glands. ■Swelling of lower jaw, with looseness of teeth and en- larged submaxillary glands. '"Teeth and Gums. ■Toothache, tearing, lancinating, with pains in facial bones. ■Stitch pain and tearing from new molar into temple, front of head and eye; dizzy heaviness of head; bad alkaline smell from mouth; constant chilliness; dry skin, can't perspire; < from chewing. /^Toothache. ■ Stitches in teeth, with swelling of cheeks. ■ Pressive toothache in root of last hollow back tooth in evening. ■ Drawing toothache as soon as she gets into bed in eve- ning, not during day. ■ Boring, pressive toothache, always after dinner, as if something got into tooth. ■ Toothache only when eating; throbbing; < when touched by anything cold or warm. KALI CAKBONICUM. 382 I Teeth are loose. iBad smell from teeth. "Taste and Tongue, i Taste bitter ; flat. iToDgue: white, with bad taste ; after cold drinks; pale, greyish, in dyspepsia; coated grey, with sick headache. I Tongue swollen, covered with vesicles, tip burns as if raw, frsenum sore. I Burning on tip of tongue, as if it was raw or covered with blisters. ■Soreness of tip of tongue. ■ Painful pimple on tip of tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. iBad alkaline smell from mouth (tooth- ache) ; smell like old cheese (scarlatina). iFoul taste in mouth; very slimy mouth. I I Much saliva constantly in mouth. I Mouth dry: with increased saliva, in otitis; with stric- ture of oesophagus ; in gastritis. ■ Dryness in mouth, without thirst, in evening. ■ Vesicles, painful, burning, all over inner mouth. I I Sticking and biting in posterior portion of palate. ■ Chronic catarrhal inflammation of mouth and fauces. ^^ Throat. ■ ■ Sticking pain in pharynx, as if a fish bone was sticking in it, if he becomes cold. ■Much mucus in fauces, which she is constantly obliged to remove by hawking; sharp stitches in eyes while read- ing and sewing. ■Tenacious mucus in fauces and posterior of pharynx, mornings; difficult to hawk up; sensation as of a lump. I I Scraping in throat, it feels dry, parched and rough. I I Throat rough, with cough. ■ Crawling in throat, causing hemming and coughing, and a feeling of tightly adhering phlegm. Throat feels as if squeezed, as if lungs came into throat. ■ Sensation as if a stick extended from throat to 1. side of abdomen, as if stick had a ball on each end. ■ ■Difficult swallowing; food descends oesophagus slowly and small particles of food easily get into windpipe. ■Stinging when swallowing; frequent desire to swallow saliva, but frequently cannot, causing a choking. ■ Pain in back when swallowing. ■ When swallowing, food remains half way, with gagging and vomiting. ^Stricture of oesophagus. ■ Pain in throat; dryness and sensation of something hard in swallowing; pain extended to stomach, burning, stitching, but only felt during deglutition; finally pain concentrated in centre of chest, where, in a small space, deglutition of food found an impediment, and remained fast, till it passed after a while with excruciating pain, 383 KALI CARBONICUM. followed by rush of blood to head, vomituritio and nau- sea; when swallowing fluid, but especially solid food, pressing, tensive pain at a point of chest, with sen- sation of a hard body preventing food from reach- ing stomach; simultaneously, burning, stitching pain in back; three corresponding vertebrEe always painful, and patient shrieks when even slightly touched there ; cannot sleep on back during night; restless sleep, after midnight; dry lips; dry mouth and throat; tongue coated whitish grey ; severe habitual headache ; pressing as of a stone, in forehead and vertex, every morning, with vertigo. B Pointed, greyish yellow complexion ; dull eyes, lids glued together in morning; sweUing of nose, hard, red, from top to root, on tip, red, elevated; ulcerated nostrils, cov- ered with yellowish brown crusts, with burning pains. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. "No appetite; dis- gust for food, or ravenous appetite. I Intense thirst. I Desire: for acids; for sugar and sweets. a Aversion to food, especially meat; it has a good taste wlien he eats, yet he does not eat much. ■ Aversion to rye bread. '"Eating and Drinking. iWhen eating: particles of food easily get into windpipe; toothache. ■ Eating or drinking: < cough after measles. ■ During eating: sleepy. After eating: burning from stomach to throat; colic re- newed; abdomen, distended; pressure and fulness in stomach ; stomach replete, especially after soup or coffee ; sour eructations; nausea, faintness, pressure in stomach and gagging, with palpitation. ■ Wants to eat frequently on account of gone feeling in stomach, but least food oppresses her. ^Sick headache. ■ When hungry, feels anxious, nauseated, nervous, tingling; cough and palpitation > after breakfast. Milk and warm food disagree. '^Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. ■ Eructa- tions sour; frequent in morning. ■ Uprisings of food and acids, following great uneasiness starting from pit of stomach. ■ Uprising of water from stomach, much of which she ex- pectorates. ■ Nausea: and loathing; from emotions; with anxiety and faintness ; after a meal; on every inward emotion; during pregnancy. ■ Sick during a walk, no vomiting, feels as if she must lie down and die ; pregnancy. KALI CARBONICUM. 384 iRetching, vomiting of ingesta and slime; sour. I Vomiting of food and acids, with nausea. " Scrobiculum and Stomach, n Great sensitiveness of epi- gastric region externally. I Throbbing in epigastric region, which is painful to touch. ■ Throbbing in pit of stomach, like a violent palpitation. • Emptiness ancf gone feeling in pit of stomach. ■ Stitches in pit of stomach ; anxiety. iPit of stomach swollen, tense, sensitive to touch. ■ Swollen feeling about whole epigastric region. ■ Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach, and after eat- ing ever so little great feeling of fulness and pressure, which soon gives way to sensation of goneness ; burning after eating, and rising from stomach to throat. ■ ■Stomach distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst; excessive flatulency; everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas. ■ Swelling of stomach and abdomen. ■ I Constant feeling as if stomach was full of water. ■ Pressure in stomach like a heaviness, after eating. ■Attacks of pressure in stomach, extending up into chest. ■Burning acidity rising from stomach, with some spas- modic constriction. ■ A feeling in stomach as if cut to pieces. ■ Violent throbbing and cutting in stomach. I 1 Digging in stomach. ■ Pain in great cul de sac radiating to chest, to back and extremities ; pains in back and legs after eating. ■ Pressing, tensive pain, awakens at 2 a.m. ■ Stomach sore externally to pressure. ■Severe cutting, lancinating pains in pit of stomach, < night, and especially after midnight; must lean for- ward ; mouth, throat and lips dry at night ; rhagades on lips; thirst off and on; pulse 100; constipation, dis- charges painful, or diarrhcea; sensitive spot in gastric region on pressure. ^Gastralgia. ■Pain in stomach, < stooping; pit of stomach bloated, tense, hard and sensitive to touch ; eats little, and even this causes pressure in stomach; stool dry; urine red, three times in night, the more the pressure the less it flows ; chilliness all the time ; cold hands and feet, and paleness of face. ^Gastricism. ■ Severe cardialgia, stomach not tolerating least amount of food; vomiting and fainting; continual severe pressure, bloatedness of stomach, in pit and around lower edge or ribs, < from motion ; pressure from tea and milk, which is the only food she can take; eructations; vomituri- tion; pressure in the chest and back; pains in the 885 KALI CARBONICUM. sacrum; horripilations; constant inclination to urinate; no sleep. ■ Headache, pressing, tense, from occiput to forehead, be- ginning in morning after a restless sleep full of dreams, continuing more or less during day, with congestion to head; dim eyes and blue eyelids; at same time much nausea; pressure in stomach, < after eating; aversion to food; sensation of bloatedness and fulness of abdomen; beating in epigastrium; a few mouthfuls satisfy her, food causing fulness and bloatedness, with yawning; eructations; congestions; tongue coated white; urine pale, yellow, muddy; chilliness; malaise; cold feet; melancholia; buzzing in ears; stitches in chest and back ; headache < during menses. ^Cardialgia and headache. I After sleepless night headache with vertigo ; pressure, ten- sion in forehead and eyes ; greyish coated tongue ; thirst, dry lips, and total aversion to food ; fulness in stomach and nausea; respiration difficult, anxious; features pale, pointed; eyes sunken; horripilations and chilliness; sometimes heat in head; no sleep; sensitive and irrit- able ; hands and feet cold. ■ Emptiness in stomach with desire to eat; after eating lightest kind of food, nausea, gagging and vomiting; throbbing in pit of stomach, almost taking her breath, with constant yawning; stool dry; stomach bloated, tense and painful to pressure; awakens early in morn- ing with headache and dizziness, and feels nauseated at sight of food. ■ Pit of stomach swollen, tense, sensitive to touch ; deep in that region is felt a lump as large as a fist, quite sensi- tive to pressure ; feet cold and oedematous ; loss of appe- tite; cough with anxiousness ; feels empty, gone in pit of stomach, but eating causes fulness, heaviness, tension in pit of stomach with difficult breathing; nausea with yawning, and throbbing in prtecordial region; stool torpid, dry; palpitation of heart, ebullition with heat from abdomen to head; pulse weak and uneven, now quick, now slow; pain in back and small of back; weary in limbs; chilliness all day ; restless sleep. ■ Pressure and heaviness in stomach and chest, < in damp weather; desire to eat frequently, on account of sensa- tion of goneness in stomach, but least food oppresses her, and the first morsel produces nausea, vomiturition and vomiting, followed again by sensation of emptiness and goneness in stomach; palpitations which nearly take her breath away ; must yawn continually, so that tears run from eyes; stool dry; must get up several times during night to pass urine, which is pale, but muddy, VOL. VI. — 25. KALI CARBONICUM. 386 as if mixed with dust ; abdomen bloated, especially at pit, and painful to pressure, so that she hardly can bear pressure of clothing ; takes a long while, in evening, to fall asleep, but then sleeps quietly ; in morning, awakes with headache, vertigo, and even sight of food produces nausea. iBurning, pressure and aching in pit of stomach, extend- ing over chest to pit of throat; after eating, cutting in 1. side of stomach, and very painful grasping, extending over chest; in middle of chest feeling of a hard ball, with great pressure, extending to back; gulping up of phlegm relieves, but pain soon returns, with heavy beat- ing in pit of stomach; frequent stitch pains and tearing in limbs ; heat and ebullitions towards head ; frequent chilliness and shuddering; cough < evening and morn- ing, with greyish, greenish, lumpy expectoration; pulse small. ■Everything she eats produces continual pressure; ten- sion in stomach and pit of stomach; small portions of coffee or weak soup fill her up, with eructations; nausea and vomiturition; frequent headache and toothache; hot flashes, with abdominal pulsations; vertigo; con- tinual chilliness; cold feet; internal chilliness, with constant inclination to micturate, but urine flows slowly and causes a burning sensation ; stool dry, re- tarded ; epigastrium bloated, tense, at pit hard and pain- ful to least touch; respiration heavy, oppressed, espe- cially when walking ; when stooping, pain at pit of stomach <, respiration more oppressed ; pain frequently moves to back; features pale, oedematous around eyes; sleep restless and dreamy ; skin dry ; is obliged to keep in bed. I Woman, set. 35, after childbed, pressing, tensive pain in pit of stomach, wakening out of sleep about two or three o'clock A.M. ; empty feeling in stomach ; little eating or drinking causes fulness and pressure in stomach; latho- ing, gagging, vomiting; pressure spreads to 1. ribs, to liver and into back ; is attended with belching, nausea, pressing pain in forepart of head into eyes, and chilli- ness and shuddering; face pale; eyelids swollen; tongue pale greyish ; stomach bloated and hard, painful to pressure; pulse weak, uneven. iBoy, set. 16, has gradually lost his appetite ; all food he likes causes nausea; frequently, empty gone feeling in stomach; dryness of mouth; dry stool; turbid urine; face pale; eyes dim; pressure in front of head and eyes, with heat in head and flashes of heat; r. ear hot; 1. ear pale and cold ; after washing in cold water, red spots on 387 KALI CARBONICUM. face ; evening and morning dry cough with burning in chest ; feels week and constantly chilly, now and then stitch pains in limbs and about ribs; eruption of vesi- cles on back and thighs, which itch greatly in evening; weakness of sight since measles ; a fog before eyes when reading. I A boy, set. 11, vertigo, nausea, vomiting; after every meal has vertigo, pain in forehead, heat of head, redness of face, dimness of vision ; cheeks, ears and forehead red, eyes surrounded by rings and sunk in ; one cheek often hot, the other cold ; if he does not at once lie down he gets such severe vertigo that everything seems to be whirling round, and even if he catches hold of some- thing he falls to the ground, where he lies with staring eyes, and objects seem distorted; before he falls has shooting pain in forehead, root of nose and eyes ; vertigo chiefly when walking, stooping at work and on exertion, also sometimes at night; had frequently to be carried home from his work in fields; after attack, stupefaction, loss of consciousness, sopor sometimes with delirium and followed by exhaustion; pale, greyish yellow complex- ion, with dim, dull eyes, and grey, furred tongue; appe- tite not deficient, but nothing tastes good ; after least morsel feels too full, and can eat no more ; pressive pains in stomach and scrobiculus ; rumbling in bowels, much thirst, frequent yawning, urine scalds and is fetid; scro- biculus cordis distended, painful when pressed ; at night frequent desire to pass urine; diarrhoea; chilliness in evening, often cough with much muco-purulent expec- toration; difficult, anxious breathing, especially when walking; sleep disturbed, full of dreams; in morning exhausted, fetid smell from mouth, also noticed by day. ■ After drinking cold water while overheated, difficult res- piration, formication, pressure in stomach, nausea and vertigo ; since then gastric derangement, vertigo, head- ache, noise in ears, rumbling in bowels, bellyache, eruc- tations, empty feeling in stomach, debility; bad taste, white tongue; feeling as if stomach was full of water, wabbling when moving or stooping; staggering and sensation of unsteadiness of heart when walking or driv- ing, nausea, yawning, deep inspirations, fulness in scro- biculus cordis and beating there; frequent desire to urinate, urine light yellow and turbid ; sleep good, sleepy by day; eyes red, constant chilliness, cannot get warm even at his work; difficulty of perspiring; very weak. ■ Pyrosis after eating or drinking (especially cold water), also at night ; fluid regurgitated, tasted saltish, and often like lime water; aching in epigastrium ; pain in 1. hypo- KALI CARBONICUM. 388 chondrium, sharp aching or shooting, or with sense of dragging or weight, < at night; dragging or creeping in r. side, extending to shoulder; after eating, distension of stomach and abdomen ; often throws up tliick acid mucus; < from animal, and almost all vegetable food, except bread stuffs ; frequent stinging burning aphthae upon tongue, cheeks and inside of lips; sluggish bow- els; hemorrhoids, often bleeding, with burning and tenesmus, and sore, swollen abdomen; head heavy and confused; rheumatic gnawing pains about shoulders and joints at night, < in damp and windy weather; has been in habit of taking enormous doses of magnesia. iBloatednessof stomach, headache, chilliness, heat, nausea, thirst, bitter taste, gagging, vomiting; pressure in front of head and eyes; grey yellowish tongue; thirst; after eating, pressure and fulness of stomach, and loathing ; breathing heavy ; anxious; face pale; heat in head ; no sleep. ■ Pressure in region of stomach, < in r. hypochondrium ; pain < after meals, > after eating a very small quan- tity of food ; pains generally < in morning, not extend- ing very far and rarely going to back, mostly spreading over half of sternum when there occurs also oppression of breathing; marked relief of pain when assuming a straight .position or when bending backward; sensitive to pressure in r. hypochondrium over region of stom- ach ; every three to four days scanty, hard, lumpy stool; menses have not appeared for several months, leucor- rhoeal discharge every four weeks ; emaciation. ^Per- forating ulcer. II Dyspepsia of aged persons rather inclined to obesity, or after great loss of vitalitj^ ; repugnance to all food ; con- stant chilliness, cold hands and feet; no sweat however great the heat. ^® Hypochondria. ■ Feeling of heat, burning, pinching stick- ing in hepatic region. ■Wrenching pain in liver on stooping. I Pains in liver through to back. ^Keratitis. I I Pressure extending towards liver, as if starting from r. breast, with throbbing in epigastric region, which is painful to touch. ■ Painful stitches in r. lumbar and region of liver, with tension across abdomen; stitches < on motion; must sit stooped forward, with elbows on knees, and face in palms of hands; when walking stooped forward with hands on knees. ^Hepatitis. ■Stitch pain in r. side of chest through to shoulder; press- ive, sprained pain in liver; can lie only on r. side ; com- plete exhaustion ; neither thirst nor appetite. ^Icterus. 389 KALI CARBONICUM. ■ Pain in lower extremities; on lying down, cannot get her breath; stitching pain in r. side, commencing in back, and going through chest, < at night, wli ether lying down or rising; < in cold air; stitching pains in knee, wdiich sometimes swell; stitching pain through r. shoulder and shoulder blade; appetite poor; stitching ])ains re-appear every year about time frost sets in ; ex- ternal warm applications cause the pains to move to other places. dDisease of liver with hydrothorax. ■ Painful stitches in r. lumbar region and region of liver, with tension across abdomen ; stitches < on motion or deep inspiration, and particularly from any unguarded motion ; > sitting stooped forward, elbows on knees and face resting on palms of hands ; in moving about room stooped forward, steadying body by placing hands on knees to guard against any sudden motion. ^After acute hepatitis. i Swelling of liver ; abscess. B Icterus, biliary colic. ^^ Abdomen. iShooting and stitching pains in abdomen. ^Phlegmasia dolens. B Epigastrium swollen, hard, sensitive ; pulsations therein ; pains in hepatic and umbilical region, also on both sides of inferior parts of stomach, down into bladder and testes. ■ Cutting, shooting, darting stitching all over abdomen. ■ I Stitch pain in r. side of abdomen, < from motion. ■ Frequent, slight cutting about umbilicus. ■ iCutting pain in 1. side of upper abdomen, extending from lower portion of 1. chest, where there is a sticking at same time. ■ Cutting in abdomen, as if torn to pieces. ■ Cutting in intestines violent; must sit bent over, pressing with both hands, or lean far back for relief; cannot sit upright. ■ Cutting and drawing in abdomen, like false labor pains. ■ Frequent cutting in abdomen, as before diarrhoea. ■ Laborlike colic, with pain in back. ■ Colic, as if intestinal canal was full of water, ■ Throbbing in abdomen. I I Heaviness and unrest in abdomen. ■ Feeling of coldness in abdomen, as if cold fluid passed through intestines, during menses. ■ ■Fulness, heat and great distension in abdomen, imme- diately after eating a little. ■ Tension across abdomen; heaviness, inactivity, coldness. ■Hard distension of abdomen, with painfulness of umbili- cal region to touch. KALI CARBONICUM. 390 1 1 Abdomen distended with wind, after eating. I Incarceration of flatus with colic. I Feeling of tension of lower abdomen, and sensation of heaviness in it, while sitting and walking. I I Pressure in lower part of abdomen on stooping. I I Stitches in lower abdomen. ■ Abdominal muscles painful to touch. ■ Stitches and painful bloatedness in groins. ■ Swelling of inguinal glands. ^Nephritis. ■ Yellow scaly spots on abdomen and about nipples, be- coming moist when scratched. ■ Ascites. ^■^ Stool and Rectum. ' ' Discharge of much flatus. ■ Diarrhoea: painless, with rumbling in abdomen and burning at anus; only by day ; chronic cases, with puf- finess under eyebrows; chronic, of dyspeptics; alternat- ing with constipation. ;rSudden, vehement desire for stool as in diarrhoea, al- though stool is hard, with colic. ■ Insufiicient soft stool; after much pressure most of it remains. ■ Ineffectual urging to stool, with a feeling as if rectum was too weak to expel it. ■ Constipation: in women whose abdominal organs are weak, in consequence of frequent miscarriages or mul- tiple and difficult labors ; cardiac palpitations ; feeling of distension in breast; night sweats. ■ Stools: every eight to ten days, of large lumps; dry, too . large in size; rectum inactive; feels distressed an hour or two before a passage; like sheep dung, passed with pain and exertion; light grey; frequent, soft, pale; yel- lowish or brownish, fecal; corrosive; soft, bloody; tough, dark, soft. ■ Blood with stool. ■ Before stool: anxiety, distressed feeling; white mucous discharge; sudden and violent urging; colic; pinching deep in abdomen ; rumbling ; stitches in anus. ■ During stool: paleness of face; cramps of stomach, nausea, eructation; pinching abdominal pain ; colic; smarting at anus; nausea; rectum feels too weak to expel feces; painful straining extending into genitals ; protrusion and distension of hemorrhoids, with pricking and burning. ■ After stool : itching about anus ; anus feels as if lacerated; burning at anus; pinching pains; stinging, burning, tearing, screwing, biting. ■ Aggravation: at night; at 3 or 4 a.m.; during day; in evening; day and night; after milk. ^Diarrhoea. 391 KALI CARBONICUM. iHemorrhoids; constipation due to inactivity of rectum ; stool difficult, too large in size, accompanied by swelling and bleeding of hemorrhoids ; discharge of blood from hemorrhoids during micturition. ■Sensation as if anus was fissured ; can scarcely convince patient to contrary : stinging, burning, tearing, screw- ing, itching, biting following even natural stool, setting patient almost crazy; walks floor back and forth for relief; cannot sleep at night on account of intolerable suffering ; passage of feces difficult, owing to their great bulk. ^Hemorrhoids. ■ Feels as if red hot poker was being thrust up rectum; temporarily > by sitting in cold water, and by sitting on foot so as to press on anus ; bowels loose ; profuse discharge of blood. ^^Hemorrhoids. I I Burning and griping in rectum. ■ Large painful hemorrhoids; > after riding. ■ Large discharge of blood from swollen hemorrhoids, with natural stool. ■ Protrusion of hemorrhoids during diarrhoealike stool, with needlelike stitches and burning for many hours. ■Sore pain in hemorrhoids. ■ ilnflammation, soreness, stitches and tingling, as from ascarides, in the varices. ■ Pain in hemorrhoids during cough. ■ Proctitis, with violent stitching pain. In anus : lancinations ; stitches ; sticking ; tearing ; cut- ting; stitches; soreness; itching; crawling; burning. ■ Violent itching in anus and scrotum. Ulcerated pimples at anus. ■ BAnal fistula. I I Ascarides. ^Infantile catarrh.