belching of wind ; loss of appetite ; mouth dry, pappy ; dirty white coating on tongue; abdomen distended, painful, very sensitive to pressure; stitches below r. ribs on inspiration; pain < on eating; on fourth night re- currence of chill ; unquenchable thirst ; skin burning hot and dry ; pulse rapid, small and hard ; pain in limbs as if constricted ; feet and ankles numb, as if asleep; eyes dull; face pale, pointed, expressive of suffering. I I Enteritis ; tearing, stitching, burning pains ; grass-green vomiting; cannot tolerate least touch; whitish stools containing pus ; burning fever, < 1 p.m. ; burning in and beneath eyes; dryness of gums; throbbing in tem- ples; tickling in throat; gurgling in abdomen followed by stools which are not fecal ; difficult urination ; ex- tremely sensitive spot, r. side, one inch below navel, which when touched causes nausea. I I Enteritis or peritonitis, with typhoid symptoms ; invol- untary stools. ■ Incarcerated hernia. I Inflammatory swelling of inguinal glands. ^° Stool and Rectum. iStools: watery, mucous and bloody, with nausea, tearing down thighs, and much tenesmus ; frothy; white; painless and undigested ; bloody water like washings of beef; yellowish brown, blood}^, cada- verous smelling and involuntary at night [typhoid] ; dark, yellow, watery ; thin, mucous, red or yellow ; jelly- like, streaked white and yellow ; greenish, mucous, with jelly-like globules or flakes; lumps of transparent mucus; yellowish white, fecal; yellow, fluid; dark red [brick-colored] fluid ; otter-colored fluid [typhoid] ; profuse, yellow, watery ; scanty, frequent bloody water ; alternating with constipation ; involuntary (at night while sleeping) ; fetid ; frothy and painless [yellow fluid] ; very offensive [dark yellow, watery] ; odorless [bloody, watery or yellow fluid]. I Before stool : constant urging, with nausea and tearing colic ; cutting colic. 1 During stool : cutting colic ; nausea ; urging ; tenesmus ; tearing pains down thighs ; shortness of breath. I After stool: remission of pains and urging ; tenesmus. ■ Nightly diarrhoea, with violent pain in abdomen, > after stool or while lying prone. I I Diarrhoea after marching through moist ground with bare feet. I I Dark brown, thin, and very fetid stools eight or ten times daily, especially in early morning and between 4 and 6 p.m. ; stools often contained mucus, occasionally 67 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. pus and frequently lentil-shaped clots of blood ; very weak, could not sit up, except in bed, because hanging down feet always brought on urging to stool, with in- voluntary evacuation if not at once responded to. /? Chronic diarrhoea. I I Intestinal catarrh during subsidence of cholera epidem- ica ; twenty to thirty motions in twelve hours ; vomit- ing frequent; cyanosis of hands and face; corpselike coldness of forearms, forehead and cheeks; bowels emitted a splashing sound when pressed, showing an admixture of fluid and wind; asphyxia; prostration of strength; apathy of mind; liquid stools mixed with some firmer lumps, strong smelling ; vomiting of whit- ish fluid, with a shade of green, with a sickly smell and mixed with mucus; headache; incessant thirst; frequent sighing; tenesmus; bowels distended with wind ; sickly taste in mouth. I I In voluntary stools, with great exhaustion. i^Typhoid fever. ^Gastro-enteritis. ■ Cholera infantum, typhoid t3^pe; very restless at night, has to be moved often to get relief. ■ Dysentery; tenesmus, with nausea, tearing and pinching in abdomen ; tenesmic stools, followed by involuntary discharges from bowels. ■ Dysenteric discharges since early in morning; extremely severe and constant tenesmus ; great chilliness ; constant restlessness. ■ Hemorrhage of black blood from bowels. ^Typhoid. ■ Sense of constriction in rectum as if one side had grown up. ■ Shooting pain up rectum. I I Fissure of anus, with periodical profuse bleeding. ■ Hemorrhoids: sore, blind; protruding after stool, with pressing in rectum, as if everything would come out. ^^ Urinary Organs. "Tearing pain in region of kidneys; oedema ; after exposure to wet. I I In a miner exposed to much dampness, oedema of face and feet developing into a general anasarca ; urine full of albumen. ^Bright's disease. I I Severe tearing pains in small of back; urine contains blood and albumen; anasarca; in a man exposed to heat. ^Bright's disease. ■ Urine: hot; white; muddy; pale, with white sediment; dark, becoming turbid ; high-colored, scanty and irritat- ing; turbid when passed ; red and scanty ; snow-white sediment [urate of ammonia] ; bloody, discharged drop by drop, with straining; diminished, though he drinks much ; passes in a divided stream. RHUS TOXICODENDRON. ' 68 ■ Tenesmus vesicse; discharges a few drops of blood-red