A salt from a product of Psora. A Nosode. The sero-purulent matter contained in the scabies vesicle was used for Hahne- mann's provings. The product of "Psora sicca" (epidermoid efflorescence of pityriasis) was used for the provings of Gross. The salt from a product of Psora was used by Hering. Clinical Authorities. — Melancholy, Brenfleck, Analy. Therap., vol. 1, p. 294 from Hygea, vol. 6, p. 131 ; Religious melancholy and epilepsy, Tietze, Analy. Therap. p. 248; Mental disturbance, Gross, Analy. Therap., vol. 1, p. 84; Hypochondriasis, I'.ell, N. E. M. G., vol. 6, p. 532; Eruption on head, Attomyr, MSS. ; Haynel MSS. ; Affection of scalp. Small, MSS. ; Partial canities, Swan, Organon, vol. 2, p, 446 ; Plica, Rosenberg, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 317 ; Necrosis of temporal bone. Houghton, MSS. ; Amaurosis, Hendrichs, MSS., from A. H. Z., vol. 44, p. 69 ; Se- rous choroiditis, Norton, Ophth. Therap., p. 147 ; Pustular keratitis, Searle, A. H. O. vol. 9, p. 571 ; Inflammation of eyes, Eberhard, MSS. ; Scrofulous inflammation of eyes. Stapf, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 276 ; Otorrhoia, Gale, Hom. Phys., vol. 2, p. 469 Houghton, MSS. ; Hay fever, Kent, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 375 ; Chronic catarrh of nose, Ockford, Times Eet., 1877, p. 73 ; Eruption on face, Attomyr, A. H. Z, vol. 4, p. 13; Toothache, Liedbeck, Hygea, vol. 6, p. 4; Gastric disturbance McGeorge, Hah. Mo., vol. 12, p. 268 ; Diarrhoea, Bell, Hah. Mo., vol. 4, p. 399 Ockford, Raue's Eec, 1875, p. 146, from H. W., vol. 9, p. 198 ; Gurnsey, Times Eet., 1876, p. 22, from Bib. Hom., vol. 8, p. 30 ; Bounds, Times Eet., 1877, p. 69 Martin, Hom. CI., vol. 4, p. 43 ; Morgan, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1880, p. 232 ; Diar- rhcea and cough, Swan, MSS. ; Chronic diarrhoea, Pirtle, Times Eet., 1876, p. 92, from M. I., vol. 3, p. 70 ; Cholera infantum. Smith, Times Eet. 1876, p. 22 ; Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 143, from M. I., vol. 9, p. 7; Constipation, AXihev, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 818 ; Gonorrhoea, Bullard, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, 286 ; Chronic blennorrhcea of urethra (2 cases). Ilka, Gross, Archiv., vol. 15, p. 183 ; Condylomata on prepuce, Attomyr, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 166 ; Inguinal hernia, Goullon, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 792 ; Hydrocele, Goullon, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 215; Amenorrhea and pediculi cor- poris, Simpson, Hom. Eec, vol. 3, p. 122; Affection of breasts, Hartmann, A. H. Z., vol. 4, p. 69 ; Asthma and cough, Hering, MSS. ; Dyspnoea of heart disease, Landesmann, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 112, from A. H. Z., vol. 85, p. 145; Cough, Kretschmar, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 22; Berridge, Hom. Phys., vol. 6, p. 307; Schiiler, MSS. ; Pain in chest, Eberhard, MSS. ; Pneumonia, Greenleaf, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 154 ; Hydrothorax, Lobethal, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 358 ; Phthisis, Emmerich, Baertl, Griessel, Brenfleck, Liedbeck, Fielitz, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p, 390 ; Affection of chest, Eberhardt, MSS. ; Rheumatic carditis. Weld, N. A. J. H., vol. 24, p. 190 ; Boil on hand, Schron, A. H. Z., vol. 3, P- 116 ; Sensation as if foot were pulled inward, Berridge, Hom. Phys., vol. 6, p. 210 ; Debility, Bell, Hah. Mo., vol. 4, 398 ; Sleeplessness, Guernsey, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 62 ; Morbid sweats, Miller Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 164; Ussher, Organon, vol. 2, p. 347 ; Night siveats. 539 PSORINUM. Bell, Hah. Mo., vol. 4, p. 399; Skin diseases, Hartmann, Attomyr, Sturm, Dilz, Schiller, Tietze, Gauwerky, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 254; Affections of skin, Korn- doerfer, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 365 ; Eczematous eruption, Griessel, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 201 ; Eczema, Hawley, Horn. Phys., vol. 8, p. 269; Houghton, MSS. ; Impetigo, Williamson, MSS. ; Dark spots on body, Schluter, A. H. Z., vol. 6, p. 221, Psoriasis, Preston, A, J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 104; Itch, Loheth, Gross, Alt- miiller, Attomyr, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 212. ^ Mind. Thoughts vanish after overlifting. Memory weak, cannot remember ; does not even know his room. Thoughts which he cannot get rid of constantly reappear in his dreams. Dull all forenoon, disinclined to work. Dull, stupid, foggy, as after a debauch, on awaking in night ; dizziness, he falls down. As if stupid in 1. half of head, morning. Mental labor causes : fulness in head ; intense headache ; throbbing in brain ; pain in 1. temple. I Very disagreeable tnood ; impatient; extremely ill- humored. ■ Irritable, peevish, passionate, noisy; nervous, easily startled ; restless, hands tremble. I ' Intolerably self-willed, annoys those about him ; a boy, suffering from an eruption. ■ She is very irritable, easily angered; always thinks of dying. I Vacillating, fearful; mania. I Anxiety, with oppression of chest. I I Anxious, full of fear, melancholic; evil forebodings. I Great fear of death; anxiety about heart and dyspnoea, with attacks of pain in chest. I I Believes the stitches in heart will kill him if they do not cease. ■ Restlessness: with eruption, in a child; with oppression of chest. ■ Sentimental; full of spleen, very low-spirited. ■ Discouragement. ■ His ideas are sad and joyless. ■ ■Very depressed, sad, suicidal thoughts. I I Depressed in spirits and hopeless. ■ Melancholy, sorrowful, depairing. ■ Despairing mood; fears he will fail in business. I I Much depressed on account of an eruption on dorsum of hand which appeared over night. ■ Greatest despondency, making his own life and those about him intolerable ; dry cough ; evening fever. ■ Is so downhearted she could commit suicide, then is full of phantasms. PSORINUM. 540 ■ Great depression of mind during climaxis, with chronic abdominal disorders. ■ Hypochondriasis, with hemorrhage from rectum. ■ Religious melancholy. ■ Despairs of recovery; thinks he will die; hopeless; espe- cially after typhus, > from nosebleed. I I Melancholy after suppressed itch; emaciated, pale, earthy complexion, weakness of limbs; flushes of heat and palpitation prevent sleep ; sleep comes towards morning; would like to stay in bed until midday; aversion to work, indifference, weeping ; seeks solitude, despairs of recovery ; she is irritable and forgetful. I I Feels the greatest anguish in head, with a whirling be- fore eyes every day, from 5 a.m. until 5 p.m., since two 3^ears ; walks up and down his room wringing his hands and moaning continually, " Oh, such anguish ! oh, such anguish!" only when he takes his meals he ceases moaning; appetite is good, I I Has been nervous about nine months; was obliged to abandon all business; has taken much quinine and other drugs ; a very disagreeable feeling about head ; mental depression ; thinks he will not recover; has lost all hope ; cannot apply his mind to business ; confusion of senses, he cannot reckon ; attacks of numbness of leg and arms, 1. side < ; < on going to bed; formica- tion and crawling, with pricking and smarting on scalp, and some on extremities ; tongue white. ■ ■Driven to despair with excessive itching. Every moral emotion causes trembling. Severe ailments from even slight emotions. ^ Sensorium. ■Vertigo : mornings ; objects seem to go round with him ; with headache ; eyes feel pressed outward ; with confusion and drawing in forehead, with roaring in ears. Great dulness of head ; he fears inflammation of brain ; nosebleed relieves. Fulness and heaviness in head. ' Inner Head. Frontal headache, with sensation of weak- ness in forehead. Pain as if brain had not room enough in forehead, when rising in morning, a forcing outward ; > after washing and eating. Pressing headache in small spots in forehead and tem- ples, < 1. side ; feels intoxicated, stupid. Morning headache, with pressing in forehead ; stupefac- tion, staggering ; eyes feel sore. Sensation as from a heavy blow received on forehead awakens him ; 1 a.m. 541 PSORINUM. I I Surging, drawing and digging in forehead with vertigo. I I Pain begins over 1. eye and goes to r. ; < from hour to hour, then diarrhoea and nausea, finally bloody vom- iting ; dizziness, obliges her to lie down ; blur, and blue stars before eyes; veins of temples much distended; day before headache inordinate appetite ; also during first hours of pain ; < and brought on by change of weather, so that even in middle of night she is awakened by pain and always knows there has been a change; soreness of stomach, sensitive to touch and pressure of clothes; catamenia regular. ^Chronic cephalalgia. I Headache preceded by : flickering before eyes ; dimness of sight or spots ; spectres; objects dancing before eyes, black spots or rings. ■ Headache from repelled eruption. Pressing headache, especially unilateral. Cramplike contractive headache. Like hammers striking head from within outward; all through head as from a hammer. Fulness of head during mental labor. Fulness in vertex as if brain would burst, with formi- cation in head, followed by heavy sleep. Pain in back of head as if sprained ; pressure in r. side of occiput as if luxated. Peculiar pain in occiput, as if a piece of wood were lying across back of head, from r. to left. I lis always very hungry during headaches. I I Congestion of blood to head immediately after dinner. ■ Great congestion of brain, relieved by nosebleed. Congestion to head, heat ; awakened at night stupefied ; could not recollect ; after sitting still awhile had to rise to collect his senses. ' I Congestion to head, cheeks and nose red and hot; erup- tion oh face reddens; great anxiety ever}' afternoon after dinner. /^Fifth month of pregnancy. * Outer Head. iHair: dry, lustreless ; tangles easily; glues together ; must comb it continually. I 1 A man, set. 28, dark complexion, dark brown hair, had a spot on 1. frontal region, commencing at edge of hair and extending upward three-fourths of an inch ; the skin covering spot was many shades whiter than the surrounding skin, and the lock of hair growing on it had turned perfectly white ; after Psor. hair and spot became of natural color. I I Sensation as if head were separated from body. Averse to having head uncovered ; wears a fur cap in hot weather. PSORINUM. 542 Viscid sweat about head. Whole head burns. Pustules, boils on head, mostly scalp, which looks dirty and emits an offensive odor. llMoist, suppurating, fetid, also dry eruptions on scalp. iScurfy eruption of children ; large yellow vesicles around and between scabs. ■ Profusely suppurating fetid eruption on head; rawness and soreness behind ears. I Large humid blotches on head, with scabby eruptions on face. I Pustules and boils on head, containing large quantities of pus; severe itching, causing child to scratch vio- lently so that blood flows ; formation of thick, dirty yellow scabs, which when removed show a raw surface from which a yellow lymph exudes, which makes the linen stiff; after removal new scabs form; eruption spreads over nape of neck, scalp and most of forehead ; the eruption is of very offensive odor ; such large quan- tity of lymph is exuded that head seems to stick to pil- low; child very restless, scratches head violently, and if prevented becomes irritable and screams ; large pustules on arms and body, which show no tendency to heal. ■ Eruption on head, particularly on occiput, completely hiding scalp from view ; profuse exudation, soiling pillow at night and causing excoriation of skin of nape of neck ; offensive smelling ; innumerable lice. I Humid, scabby itching; offensive smellmg eruption on head, full of lice ; glandular swellings. I Head so covered with eruptions that no part of scalp was visible. ■ Eruption on head: with swelling of glands; with urticaria. I I Tinea capitis et faciei. iCrusta serpiginosa. ^ Sight and Eyes. Aversion to light. I I Great photophobia, walks with eyes bent upon ground ; scurfy eruption on face. ■ Photophobia: when walking in open air; with inflam- mation of lids. ■ Fiery sparks before eyes. ■ Objects seem to tremble for a few moments and get dark, ■ Confusedness before eyes after anxiety. ■ Vision blurred; black spots before eyes; flickering; dancing about of objects. ■ Darkness before eyes and ringing in ears. ■ Amaurosis, with scabby eruption on occiput and ears. I I Serous choroiditis ; some ciliary congestion and great 543 PSORINUM. haziness of vitreous, so that optic nerve was only dis- cerned with great difficulty and then was found decid- edly hypera^inic, as was the whole fundus; headache, - especially in morning; constant profuse sweating of palms of hands. I I Lids spasmodically closed; intense photophobia and profuse flow of hot tears ; much pustular eruption on face ; large brown scab on r. eye, from beneath which pus pours forth abundantly when touched ; bowels cos- tive; appetite poor and only for dainties. ^Pustular keratitis. ■ Recurrent pustular inflammation of cornea and conjunc- tiva ; chronic form ; scrofulous basis. Pterygium. Eyes feel tired in evening. ■ Lachrymation. Stitches in eyes. Soreness of eyes and burning, must close them frequently. Heat and redness of eyes with pressing pains. Burning, pressing pains in eyes. I Heat, redness and pressure in eyes; tendency to catar- rhal inflammation; lids slightly agglutinated during morning. I Inflammation of eyes with burning. Eyes water, inflamed ; hurt so she can scarcely open them; pains over eyebrows, down nose, also back of head ; complained mostly of head. Right eye inflamed, pressure as from foreign body when lids are closed. ■ Ophthalmia, with pressing pains, as if sand were in eyes. I I Right eye red, internally and externally ; vesicles on cornea ; eruption on head. ■ Acute ciliary blepharitis; internal surface of lid chiefly aflected ; photophobia ; strumous diathesis, with un- healthy, offensive discharges. ■ Ciliary blepharitis r. to 1., < morning and during day; chronic cases ; subject to exacerbations. ■ Scrofulous inflammation of eyes; ulceration of cornea. ■ Rheumatic, chronic and blepharophthalmia. ■ Eyes become gummy. ■ Inflammation of lids, internal surface much congested; great photophobia, cannot open eyes, lies on face. ■ Eyelids: swollen; inflamed; bloated; child rubs eyes; . puffy ; greatly swollen, closely pressed together ; thick- ened ; tendency to styes ; itching, especially in canthi ; herpetic eruption; scrofulous inflammation, covered with thick crusts, whole body covered with branlike tetter. PSORINUM. 544 ^Hearing and Ears. iSinging, cracking, humming, buzzing and ringing in ears with hardness of hearing. Sensation as if he heard with ears not his own. Severe pain in ear, confined him to bed for four days; ear swollen ; thought pain would drive him crazy. I Discharge of reddish earwax or fetid pus. llOtorrhoea : with headache; thin, ichorous and horribly offensive, like rotten meat ; very offensive, purulent (watery, stinking diarrhoea) ; brown, offensive, from 1. ear, for almost four years ; chronic cases following scarlet fever. I Ulceration of membrana tympani. I Itching in ears; child can hardly be kept from picking or boring in meatus. ■ Meatus externus scabby. ■ External ears raw, red, oozing, scabby; sore pain be- hind ears. I Soreness of whole external ear, with abundant yellow, offensive-smelling discharge; severe itching < in even- ing and lasting till midnight, preventing sleep and nearly driving him crazy ; loss of appetite ; great despondency. I Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks; at times throws off innumerable scales; at others shows painful rha- gades with yellow discharge, forming scurfs ; fetid hu- mor; itching intolerable. ' I Right ear a mass of crusts and pus, the crusts extended behind auricle to occiput upward upon parietal bone nearly to vertex, forward to r. ear and over cheek; upon edge of region involved small vesicles filled with clear fluid, which became yellow, then crusted, and pus flowed from beneath crusts. I I Humid soreness behind ear. I iScurfs on ears, and humid scurfs behind ear. ;rScabby eczema behind r. ear came out, curing child's old dry deafness. iPustules: on and behind concha; behind 1. ear. '' Smell and Nose. Loss of smell ; with coryza. Smell of blood. Soreness of nose ; nose sensitive when inhaling air. Boring, stinging in r. nostril, followed by excessive sneezing. Burning followed by thin nasal discharge, which relieves. I I Dry coryza with stoppage of nose. I I Septum narium inflamed, with white, suppurating pustules. Tough mucus in nose ; feels like a plug there; it nauseates him ; > when stooping. 545 PSORINUM. Catarrh, with cough and expectoration of yellow-green mucus. I 1 Bloody, purulent discharge from nose. I I Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares, so as to awaken him at night; hawking quantities of lumpy mucus gave temporary relief from feeling of fulness ; mucus in nose would dry like white of egg, needed to be forcibly removed. 1 I Pain in liver, < from sneezing. I Acne rosacea. ® Upper Face. Face : pale, yellow, sickly ; broad blue rings around eyes ; bluish appearance ; burning heat and redness; swollen, with eruption. 1 I Painful tension and pressure in ,r. zygoma, towards ear. Cheek bones pain as if ulcerated. I I Pain as if lame in condyle of jaw. I I Sweat efface with general heat. I Much roughness of skin of face; eruption on forehead between eyes ; stools very offensive. ^Eczema. ^Scrof- ulous ophthalmia. I Scabby face; especially cheeks from ears; lips and eye- lids swollen, sore about eyes. iCrusta lactea on face and scalp, especially over either ear and cheek, exfoliating numerous scabs, or it cracks and discharges a yellow, fetid humor. i I Moist scab behind ears with dry tetter on back of head, on both cheeks extending upward to eyes and down- ward to corners of mouth, reddish, very closely packed, millet-seedlike, itching, dry pimples, with frequent loose stools ; a child one and half years old. I I An offensive-smelling, crusty eruption extending over whole face for three months, had completely closed eyes. I I Eruption on face of a child ; whole face covered with a crust, lips and eyelids swollen, aversion to light, large moisteniDg spots on head and behind ears. I Humid eruptions on face; whole face covered with hu- mid scurfs or crusts, with swelling of lips and eyelids and humid soreness behind ears. Pimples on forehead. Red, small pimples on face, especially on nose, chin and middle of cheeks. ■ Closely packed, itching pimples on both cheeks from eyes to corners of mouth. 1 Ulcers in face. ■ Coppery eruption on face. • Tinea faciei. ^ Lower Face. iLips: painful; swollen, particularly upper; VOL. VIII. — 35. PSORINUM. 546 dry ; burning ; brown and black, dry ; ulcerated ; swol- len and covered with scurfs. ■ Corners of mouth sore, often ulcerated; sycotic condy- lomata. Soreness of jaw, r. side, around ear; could not open wide enough to admit fingers. Submaxillary and lingual glands swollen, sore to touch ; at same time suppurating pustules on same place. ^" Teeth and Gums. Stitching in teeth from one side to other, radiating to head, with burning in r. cheek, which is swollen. Sensation of soreness of teeth. Stinging in teeth (while eating). I I Looseness of teeth ; they feel so loose, fears they may fall out, < from touch, especially front teeth. ■ Toothache : < at night and from cold ; > from warmth. I Gums: ulcerated: bleeding. ^' Taste and Tongue. iLoss of taste with coryza. I Taste: bitter, goes off when eating or drinking; foul, much mucus in mouth ; > in fresh air ; bitter with yellow-coated tongue ; fiat, sticky, dinner tastes oily. ■ Tongue: dry; tip feels burnt as far as middle, he has hardly any taste ; tip very dry, as if burnt, painful ; white; yellow ; thickly coated with whitish-yellow slime; ulcerated. '^ Inner Mouth. Adhesion of tough mucus to posterior sur- face of soft palate, necessitating hawking. Tough mucus in mouth of a foul, nauseous taste, teeth stick togethe]" as if glued. ■ Dryness of mouth ; burning. Tickling, burning ; mouth inflamed, sore, < from warm food; not annoyed by cold food. Blisters inside lower lips ; burning jDainful. ■ Ulcers in mouth. 13 Throat. ■Accumulation of mucus in throat and mouth. ■ Tough mucus in throat, hawking. ^Typhoid. ■ ■Sensation of a plug or lump in throat impeding hawking. ■ Dryness in throat with thirstlessness. ■ Dryness; scraping sensation in throat. I I Throat burns, feels scalded. 1 I Tension and swollen feeling in throat. ■ Difficult swallowing, throat feels swollen. Pain when swallowing saliva. I I Cutting tearing pain in throat on swallowing. I I Steam arising from fat causes immediate constriction of throat and chest. Severe angina ; on r. side an ulcer, with a sore pain deep inside and burning in fauces. 547 PSORINUM. Tonsillitis ; submaxillary glands swollen ; fetid otorrhoea. Ulcerated sore throat. Ulcers on r. side, with deep-seated pains and burning in fauces. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Good appetite, with daily attacks of anxiety, easily satisfied ; great hunger, even after a hearty meal ; canine hunger pre- ceding attacks (diarrhoea). I Diminished appetite : after typhus ; but great thirst ; during convalescence. I I Thirst: during dinner; with dryness of throat; espe- cially for beer, mouth feels so dry. Desire for acids. Loathing of pork. '® Eating and Drinking, i i While eating, ceases complaining. I i Immediately after dinner, congestion of blood to head. I I Pain in chest extending to shoulder, < after cold drinks. ■ Drinking causes cough. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. ■ Eruc- tations : sour, rancid ; tasting and smelling like rotten eggs ; room is filled wdth an offensive odor. I I Waterbrash when lying down, > on getting up. iNausea: with poor appetite; in morning; with backache, after suppressed itch ; morning with pain in small of back ; all day, with vomiting. Vomituritio, followed by vomiting, first of blood, then of sour, slim}^ fluid. Constant nausea during day, with inclination to vomit ; a kind of vomiting of sweet mucus every morning at ten and in evening. Vomiting of sour mucus in morning before eating. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Stitching pain in pit of stomach. I I Weakness of stomach. I I Frequent oppression of stomach, especially after eating. Cramps in stomach. ■ Dyspepsia; eructations, flatus and stools like spoiled eggs. I I Gastric bilious affections. ^^Hypochondria, l i Deep-seated stitching, pressing pain in region of liver, < from external pressure and lying on r. side ; pain hinders sneezing, laughing, yawning, cough- ing, deep inspiration and walking. Stinging, sharp pain in region of liver and spleen. ■ Chronic hepatitis. Stitches in spleen, > when standing ; < when moving, and continuing when again at rest. ■ Chronic indurations of spleen. PSORINUM. 548 '^Abdomen, l Bloated abdomen. I I Flatulency with disorders of liver. ■ Constant feeling of emptiness and looseness in abdomen; sensation as if intestines were hanging down. I Pains in abdomen after eating; flatulency and tendency to diarrhoea ; > when flatus passes. Pain in abdomen while riding. Cutting pains in intestines. I I Colic : removed by eating ; > passing fetid flatus. Painful bearing down, with painful burning micturition. Stinging, sharp pains in inguinal glands. Pain through r. groin when walking. Lumps in r. groin, preventing stooping. ■ Inguinal hernia; hernial sac infiltrated. ■ Chronic abdominal affections. ■ Abdominal affections during climaxis, with a high de- gree of ill-humor. ^"^ Stool and Rectum. Emission of hot, fetid, sulphurous flatus ; smelling like rotten eggs. Griping and desire for stool while riding. ■ Diarrhoea, preceded by colic. ■ Frequent thin stool, with eruption on head. Green bilious diarrhoea, mixed with mucus. ■ Stool: dark brown, very fluid and foul-smelling; having the smell of rotten eggs ; mostly in children in their first or second summer; green mucus, or bloody mucus; smells like carrion, < at night ; frequent, liquid ; in- voluntary ; nearly painless. llSemiliquid, brownish, indelible, insuff'erably nasty; passed during sleep, at 1 and 4 a.m., with undigested food. ^Infantile diarrhoea. I I Horribly offensive, nearly painless, almost involun- tary, dark and watery stool ; only at night and most towards morning. I I Involuntary stool during sleep. I I Boy, set. 4 months, whitish bad-smelling diarrhoea; constantly crying, with drawing up of knees as if in pain ; rattling cough, cries all night ; kcts as if he had earache in 1. ear, from which was a slight discharge ; seldom urinates; after second dose, sixteen hours after first, broke out all over his head and face, with a small pimply eruption, a vesicle at the apex of each pimple, which exuded lymph which dried in a thick brown scab, which gradually fell off" in a day or two, and in two weeks left the skin perfectly clean. ■ Diarrhoea: after severe acute disease ; at night; early in morning; when rising in morning; in childbed; when weather changes (general condition). Before stool : griping pains about navel. 549 PSORINUM. iCases which do not respond promptly to the indicated remedy, the children having dirt}^ yellow, greasy skin, with a partially developed eruption on forehead and chest, with constant fretting and worrying. iLienteria. I Chronic diarrhoea ; offensive stools. , I Cholera infantum; stools dark brown, watery, of an in- tolerably offensive odor; liquid, mucous or bloody and excessively fetid. I Cholera infantum in Summer; nervous and restless at night, awake at night as if frightened, or cry out during sleep ; then, two or three nights afterwards, they begin with diarrhoea; stools are profuse and watery, dark brown or even black in color, very offensive, almost pu- trid in odor, < at night. ■ Cholera. I Soft stool: passed w^th difficulty; from weakness. ■ Obstinate constipation: with coryza and obstruction of nose ; pain in small of back ; blood from rectum; due to torpor of rectum ; lasting three or four days, due to in- activity of rectum ; stool on third or fourth day was ac- companied by severe pains which induced patient to withhold effort as much as possible. I I Sensitive hemorrhoidal pain in rectum. ■ Unpleasant burning in rectum. Soreness in rectum and anus while riding. 1 I Hemorrhage from rectum; in old women large quanti- ties of blood discharged at once, with constipation and hypochondriasis. Burning hemorrhoidal tumors. ^^ Urinary Organs, i i Involuntary urine, cannot hold it ; vesical paresis. ^Typhus. ■ Enuresis: wets bed at night; again during full moon ; obstinate cases. I I Scanty urination nearly every half hour, with burning in urethra and in condylomata. ■ Urine: dark brown, with reddish sediment; frequent, scanty ; burning and cutting in urethra ; thick whitish ; turbid; red deposit; cuticle forms on surface; profuse. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Excessive, uncontrollable sexual instinct. ■ Aversion to coition; impotence; want of emission during coitus. ■ Absence of erections ; parts flabby, torpid. Prostatic fluid discharged before urinating. Drawing pains in testicles and spermatic cords. Inflamed ulcer on glans, with swelling and heaviness of testicles. I I After suppressed gonorrhoea ; rheumatism, lameness; PSORINUM. 550 conjunctivitis, with granulations; intense photophobia; pain darting around, through head ; other eye sensitive to light. I Chronic painless discharge from urethra, leaving yellow stain upon linen. I I Gleet of twelve years duration. I I Seven large, moist, itching, occasionally burning condy- lomata on prepuce; every night nocturnal enuresis; during day must urinate nearly every half hour; urination scanty and accompanied by burning in urethra and condylomata; lips ulcerated, particularly at corners of mouth ; in several localities, but particu- larly in popliteal spaces, dry, herpetic eruption, not itching. I I Sycotic excrescence on edges of prepuce, with itching and burning. I I Boy, set. 7, suffering since birth; r.-sided inguinal hernia, about three inches of intestine descending to testicle through widely opened inguinal canal; upon applying a bandage severe inflammation of tunica vag- inalis occurred, which yielded to Pulsat., but returned every time bandage was applied ; child gradually grew miserable and thin and lost all appetite; fever set in, and a large amount of water collected in tunica vagi- nalis ; as the case improved a painful, burning, itching excoriation with acrid discharge appeared upon inner surface of prepuce and upon corona glandis. I Hydrocele. I I Hydrocele, caused by repeated inflammation, in conse- quence of pressure from a truss. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, i ' Left ovary indurated after a violent knock ; followed by itching eruption on body and face. I I Knotty lump above r. groin ; even a bandage hurts. Pinching in pubic region in women. Cutting in 1. loin ; cannot walk without assistance. I 1 Metrorrhagia. Menses delayed and scanty. I Amenorrhoea: in psoric subjects when tetter is covered by thick scurfs ; with phthisis. I I D3'Smenorrhoea near climaxis. I I Menstrual disorders during climaxis. I I Leucorrhoea, large lumps, unbearable in odor ; violent pains in sacrum and r. loin ; great debility. ■ Ulcers of the labia. ^* Parturition. Pregnancy. Lactation. i During preg- nancy : congestions ; foetus moves too violently ; abdo- men tympanitic ; nausea; vomiting; obstinate cases. 551 PSORINUM. I I Mammge swollen, painful ; redness of nipples, burning around them. 1 I Pimples itching violently, about nipples ; oozing a fluid. (^Second month of pregnancy. I I Mammary cancer. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. • Hoarse- ness ; when talking, phlegm sticks in larynx. ■ Talking is very fatiguing. 1 I Voice weak, trembling. I Suffocating and crawling sensation in larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough. Tickling, throat as if narrowing, must cough to relieve it. I I For eleven years hay fever, coming on about 20th of August. ^•^Respiration, l Short breath or want of breath. I I Convalescents go out for a walk, instead of being invig- orated return home in order to get breath or to lie down so they can breathe more easily, feel < instead of > from being in open air. I Chest expands with great diSiculty ; cannot get breath. I Anxious dyspnoea, with palpitation and pain in cardiac region. ■ Dyspnoea: < when sitting up to write, > when lying down, congestion to head after dinner, great despond- ency ; < the nearer arms are brought to body. 1 Asthma, as if he would die ; precursor of hydrothorax. Stitches from behind forward, in chest and back, when breathing. " Cough. 1 Cough : from tickling in larynx ; dry, hard, caused by tickling in trachea ; in evening with pains in chest and throat, passing off when she is quiet ; produced by talking; with sensation of weakness in chest; dry, with sensation of heaviness on chest; dry, with soreness under sternum ; with stitches in chest ; dry, with con- stricting pain in chest; < mornings when awaking and evenings on lying down ; coughs a long time before expectorating ; periodic attacks ; chronic, spasmodic ; of twenty -five years duration. 1 I Severe, dry cough with oppression of chest and pain as if everything in chest were raw and scratched ; fever in evening ; great depression of spirits, making life bur- densome to him. I I Cough, causing tearing from centre of chest to throat, all on r. side; cough < at night; urine escapes when coughing. TcAn old, dull cough, palpitation and a fixed pain in chest disappear, the entire feeling is better, only the lower white of eye turns red and ulcers form on it, eye waters, without pain, with photophobia, > in fresh air. PSORINUM. 552 I 1 Dry cough, pain in chest for last three months, a con- stricting pressure at fourth and fifth ribs near sternum, excessive irritability and ill-humor. I I Cough with expectoration ; asthma, thinks he will die. I Cough with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like matter; especially in morning when waking and in evening when lying down, with nausea; it sticks firml}" and he can only expectorate with difficulty. I I Cough with salty-tasting, green and yellow expectora- tion ; oppression of chest ; gradual loss of strength ; after suppressed itch. ■ Expectoration: of blood with hot sensation in chest; yel- lowish-green. ■ Chronic blennorrhoea of lungs, threatening phthisis. ■ Drinking causes cough. I I Cough aggravates pain in liver and pain in chest ex- tending to shoulder. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Oppression : in chest ; anxious, every morning ; with cough. Pressure on chest. Burning pressing pain in chest. Pain in chest, great anxiety by spells. I [Constriction of chest when inhaling steam from fat. Excruciating pains in chest. Cutting as of knives in chest. Feels as if everything were torn in chest. Whole chest feels sore. At times bruised, suppurative pain through whole chest, extending towards r. shoulder and becoming fixed there; < after frequent coughing; after cold drinks. I I Pain in chest, as if raw, as from subcutaneous ulcer- ation. Ulcerative pain in chest under sternum. I I Stitches : in sternum, with backache; from behind for- ward in chest and back when breathing ; in r. side of chest when breathing ; in chest (1. side). Sharp pain, r. side, opposite tenth rib. I I Fixed pain. in r. side of chest. Pains in r. side of chest < from motion, laughing, cough- ing, with sweat. I I Chest pains from coughing. I I Pains in chest grow more severe two or three times a day, begin with chilliness and trembling, followed by heat one hour in duration ; great anxiety of heart and mind with fear of death, dyspnoea and restlessness; at- tacks pass off" with sour, clammy sweat and chilliness; sweat however occurs every night independent of attack. I I Hot sensation in chest. 553 PSORINUM. I I Tedious recovery in pneumonia. I I Dull pressure in r. side of chest, extending thence over whole chest, < bending forward in writing, not by mo- tion or deep inspiration ; dry cough with expectoration of small lumps of mucus; speaking affects him very much ; great prostration after preaching, so that he must rest a long time to recuperate ; voice is not husky, but it requires all his strength to get through with his work; chest narrow, shoulders projecting. ^Phthisis. I I Pain in chest comes by fits ; great anxiety ; a feeling of ulceration under sternum ; chest inflates only with much exertion ; coughs a long time before beginning to expectorate. ^Phthisis pulmonalis. ■ Suppuration of lungs. /^Phthisis pulmonalis. I Chronic blennorrhoea of lungs. iHydrothorax. Chest symptoms > when lying down. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. 1 1 Stitches in cardiac re- gion, low gurgling extending towards heart, for a mo- ment breathing is impossible. I Pain in heart > when lying down, thinks the stitches will kill him if they continue. I I Gurgling (gluckern) in region of heart, particularly noticeable when lying. ■ Palpitation: with anxiety; mental disquietude, dislike for work; from coughing; in those suffering from hepatic disorders. ■ Dyspnoea: with palpitation; with pain in cardiac region. Sounds of heart indistinct; bellows' murmur with first sound. I 1 Stenosis of 1. osteum venosum ; purring in region of apex ; cyanotic lips ; dyspnoea and shortness of breath when walking in open air ; > lying down. I 1 Rheumatic pericarditis; pulse 144; skin dry; pain in head and limbs, but more particularly in shoulder; dyspnoea, with pain in region of heart; effusion, indis- tinct heart sounds; bellows' murmur with first sound; inability to lie down. ■ Pericarditis of psoric origin ; > lying quietly. Pulse : weak, feeble ; irritable, indicating return of ab- scesses on neck. " Neck and Back. Painful stiffness of neck, soreness and : tearing on bending backward. Glands of neck swollen on both sides, painful to touch, as if bruised; pain extends to head. 1 I Herpetic eruption on side of neck extending from cheek. I I Nape of neck excoriated by discharge from eczema capitis. PSORITnIUM. 554 Tearing and stitches between scapulae. Weakness and pain in small of back ; < from motion. i I Constant pressing pain in small of back, < from motion. • Excessive backache. When breathing, frequent stitches from back towards