Provings by Hahnemann, Gross, Hornburg, Eiickert, Teuthorn, etc. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 8, p. 303. Clinical Atjthokities. — Headache, Fuller, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 539 ; Diffi- cult dentition, Tuller, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 538 ; Renal affections, Tuller, Hah. Mo., vol. 20, p. 542 ; Diarrhcea, Hartmann, Tietze, Weigel, Kiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 846; Kirsch, Miiller, Hartmann, Kafka, Weber, Kiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 430; Smalls, Eaue's Kec, 1873, p. 122, from U. S. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. 7, p. 428 ; Dysentery, Gauwerky, Kiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 447. ^ Mind. 1 1 Child impatiently and vehemently desires many things and cries ; dislikes even its favorite playthings. II Screaming of children, with urging and sour stools. Not inclined to talk much ; indolent ; taciturn ; morose. Restless, with weeping. ' Sensorium. Vertigo and heaviness, with beating in head ; < while standing. Sensation as if brain moved, when standing. ^ Inner Head. Beating headache. Dull, light, dizzy sort of headache, extending over whole brain. Dull, stupefying headache, with bloated eyes. Heaviness of head ; heat rising up to it. 29 RHEUM. Pulsation in head, ascending from abdomen. Pulsative, crampy headache. Sensation as if brain moved when stooping. I I Headache due to gastric derangement ; pain on top of head ; sour, flat, slimy taste in mouth ; bitter taste of food ; hunger, but great repugnance to food after eating a little. * Outer Head, l Sweat on hairy scaljD, constant and very profuse ; whether asleep or awake, in motion or quiet, the hair is always sopping wet; sweat may or may not be sour. * Sight and Eyes. Weak and dull, especially when looking intently at any object. Swimming eyes full of water, especially in open air. Pupils dilated, with pressing headache; later contracted, with inward restlessness. Contracted pupils. Pulsation in eyes. Convulsive twitching of eyelids. Granulated upper lids. ^ Smell and Nose. Stupefying drawing in root of nose, ex- tending to tip, where it tingles. ^Tipper Face. Pale; one cheek red, the other pale. Muscles of forehead are drawn together and wrinkled. Tension of skin of face. Cool sweat on face, most around nose and mouth. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Painful sensation of coldness in teeth, with accumulation of much saliva. I I Difficult dentition ; restlessness and irritability; child is nervous, with temporary satisfaction after its whims are gratified ; pallor of face ; occasional twitching of eyelids, corners of mouth, lips and fingers ; the child smells sour. "Taste and Tongue, i Taste: sour; flat, slimy; insipid or nauseous ; bitter only of food, even of sweet things. Tongue numb, insensible. ^^ Inner Mouth, l l Salivation with colic or diarrhoea. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Desire for va- rious kinds of food, which become repugnant as soon as a little is eaten. ^^ Eating and Drinking. After eating prunes, colic. After a meal, loose stool ; colic, which is worse standing. *^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, as from stomach or abdomen, with colic. " Scrobiculum and Stomach, i Fulness in stomach, as after eating too much. Throbbing in pit of stomach. ■ Disordered stomach in children; nervous, irritable, de- RHEUM. 30 siring many things, with repugnance to food, pale face, sour-smelling breath, nightly restlessness and crying during sleep. ^^ Hypochondria, l Jaundice, in consequence of eating un- ripe fruit, accompanied by white diarrhoea. I I Duodenal catarrh and catarrh of biliary ducts, with jaundice; stools whitish, pasty, or clay-colored; skin, earthy, jaundiced. ^^ Abdomen, l l Sensation of nausea in abdomen. I Abdomen bloated, tense; wind seems to rise into chest. I I Like a lump around navel. ■ Cutting and rumbling as from flatulence. ■ Griping with great urging to stool. ■ Cutting in umlDilical region. I I Colic : violent pain with cutting ; must lie doubled up ; < when standing ; immediately before stool, not > by stool ; before and during stool, > after ; a quarter of an hour after dinner; ■■with very sour stools, acid chil- dren; in children made < at once by uncovering an arm or a leg, child smells sour ; < by eating plums. "^^ Stool and Rectum. ■ Frequent urging and ineffectual straining ; < on motion and walking. ■ Colicky; ineffectual urging ; altered fecal stools. ■ Desire for stool after a meal. ■ Stool: brown, slimy; loose, thin, curdled, sour-smelling, fermented ; corroding anus ; mucous and fecal ; pasty ; thin, brownish, fecal; whitish, curdy, turning green on diaper on exposure to air ; of a pea-green ; feces mixed with green slime ; fetid ; frothy. ■ Before stool : urging; ineffectual urging to urinate ; cut- ting colic. ■ During stool: colic; chilliness, cutting and constricting pains in abdomen ; pale face ; salivation ; screaming (teething infants), with drawing up of limbs or stiffen- ing body. ■ After stool: tenesmus; renewed urging (when moving) ; constrictive cutting colic, < from motion. I Aggravation : when moving about; in infants and chil- dren; after eating; during dentition; in childbed; during inflammatory rheumatism ; in hot weather ; when uncovering (pains). ■ Amelioration : by bending double (colic). ■ Diarrhoea, with sour, slimy stool and tenesmus after abuse of Magnesia. ■ Almost immediately after nursing child has a loose stool, which is sour-smelling, accompanied by colic. ■ Liquid slimy stools, as if fermented, with pale face, ptyalism, colic, crying and restlessness; child draws up legs, smells sour despite all washing. 51 RHEUM. 1 I Very severe diarrhoea, with colic and tenesmus; alter- nate chilliness and heat ; great thirst ; general sweat ; great prostration, restlessness, fear of death. iDiarrhcea of teething children during Summer; extreme emaciation. I Diarrhoea of children who have not cut any teeth ; evacua- tions fluid, greenish, sour-smelling, as if fermented, ac- companied by colic, with flexing of thighs upon abdo- men ; tossing about; paleness of face ; ptyalism. I Sour, fetid discharge during dentition ; always some congestion about head; fever and dark-colored, smarting urine and dysuria. I Dysentery ; after bloody stools have ceased, tenesmus, with brown, mushlike, slimy, sour stools. I I During phthisis, greenish diarrhoea, of sour smell, containing much mucus, accompanied by colic and tenesmus. I I Diarrhoea during inflammatory rheumatism. I Chronic diarrhoea, sour, frothy; with moist tongue, thirst, loss of appetite. ^' Urinary Organs. Burning in kidneys and bladder, before and during urination. Bladder weak, must press hard to urinate. Urine : increased ; red or greenish-yellow. I I Abdomen distended; urine scanty, burning, reddish, with a pink sediment; face pale and bloated; disposi- tion irritable ; very nervous ; constant disposition to sweat upon slightest motion ; hair wet all the time ; severe cutting drawing in 1. loin below short ribs, with a drawing, aching, burning sensation in 1. ovarian region, sometimes agonizing. ^Ascites. I I Child lay in a stupor, from which he frequently roused and screamed ; face pale and covered with cool sweat, forehead and hair sopping wet; lips, eyelids and fingers twitching; urine scanty, hot, with slimy shreds and strings of blood on diaper ; renal region tender on press- ure, causing child to wince and cry. I I Eight months pregnant ; face and eyes bloated ; great pallor of countenance, irritable, nervous, easily startled by noises and apprehensive, twitching of facial muscles ; great disposition to sweat on slightest motion; cool sweat on forehead; hair constantly wet; urine scanty and fragrant, high-colored. " Female Sexual Organs. Bearing down in uterine region, while standing. ^* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation. 1 1 After abortus, urinary complaints. I Milk of nursing women yellow and bitter ; infant re- fused breast.' RHEUM. 32 ■ Diarrhoea in first days after confinement, with colic, tenesmus, prostration, restlessness ; fear of death ; stools watery, offensive. I Stitches in nipples. ^^ Respiration. Dyspnoea, as from a load on upper part of