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An invention of the alchemists, very popular with them, forbidden by the French Academy, finally introduced and much used and abused by the Old School.

Proved by Hahnemann and some of his students. Published by Stapf, in 1844, and proved since by many others. We have made use of the mas- terly monograph of Dr. R. Hencke, from 1874, who collected all poisonings, provings and cures.

^ Mind. Unconsciousness, but rarely. Stupefaction, with numbness of head. I I Stupid and sleepy ; stupefying meningitis. See 3. Confusion of the head ; with feeling as if he ought to sleep. Dullness of mind, imbecility.

Apathy and indifference to everything, even death would have been welcome.

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Delirium, with pleasurable expression. /? Bronchial catarrh.

Contradiction between mind and will.

The child must be carried, it cries if touched.

Anxious face. See 8.

Moaning and groaning, with oppression on chest.

Crying, with the cough.

I Pitiful whining before and during the attacks. ^Infantile

catarrh. ■ Continual crying and whining of a child for three days, gets

only little sleeps of 15 or 30 minutes, d Summer complaint. Child cries on attempting to take the breast. Child clings to those around, calls for help in a hoarse voice

with cough. See 27. '

The child will not allow itself to be touched without whining and crying. °

Fear and dread of being alone.

Indolence ; aversion to all work. See 19.

Uneasiness of mind, indisposed to work, apparently proceeding from the abdomen.

IB Bad humor. ^ Bronchial catarrh.

Dejection.

Despondent and apprehensive that he would not recover ; t.

Hopelessness, I I despondency.

Hopeless mood, d Colic.

Hopeless and despairing when awake. 6 Intermittent.

I I Despondent, hypochondriacal ; inclined to violence.

I Melancholic. /^Chronic metritis.

I Complains about his numerous symptoms, d Pneumonia.

■ Despairs of his recovery. ^Pneumonia. Depression of mind and fear he will never get well. Apprehensive and restless.

Great concern about future with beating in stomach. See 17. Anxiety and restlessness.

■ Anxiety during the paroxysm, often lasting 2 to 3 hours.

d Pregnancy, Anxiety with nausea.

■ Indescribable anxiety and oppression of the chest, d Cholera Anxiety, d Intermittent.

Despair and hopelessness, with lethargy, with cold sweat.

After attacks, in good humor, playing. 6 Catarrhal croup.

During the day hilarity, in the evening anxious, timid.

Wild gaiety toward evening.

Merry all day, in the evening anxious and full of fear.

Gaiety, wild mirthfulness, with subsequent ill-humor and' anx- iety for the future.

By day an unusual wild gaiety, less noticeable by herself than by others ; toward evening this disappeared, and on the other hand there was peevishness, irritability, and anxious thoughts

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about the future ; she feared she must remain in this con- dition.

Boldness.

Desire to bite.

I I Excessively peevish and quarrelsome (a boy set. 3).

Peevishness. 6 Laryngo-tracheitis.

The children get angry, weep and cry. ^Whooping cough.

Mental excitement.

Frightened at every trifle.

Highest degree of mental restlessness. See 19.

Consequences of anger or vexation.

Worse after getting angry, d Cough. See 27.

Strong emotion followed by amblyopia, d During pregnancy. ^ Sensorium. Heaviness of the head.

Stupefying dullness with unconquerable drowsiness.

Felt giddy and sick ; immediately.

Dizziness, with the cough.

Vertigo with alternate drowsiness.

Vertigo : on closing the eyes ; on walking ; when lifting the head, must lie down, with nausea.

■ Pressing pain in forehead with vertigo, stupor and dullness of

head, slightly delirious, drowsiness but cannot sleep. 6 In- fluenza. iVertigo with flickering before the eyes, d Rheumatism.

■ Vertigo with dimness of vision and a pressing headache.

d Pneumonia. Vertigo and violent chills running through the body with a

sudden shock. Fainting, with sweat on forehead.

■ Child gets insensible, limbs cold, pulse weak, almost imper-

ceptible ; recovery after brandy and water. Fainting after a cold feeling in scrobiculum, followed by sleep. Asphyxia; t. After vomiting once, a heavy asphyxia, and when coming to

herself again, violent colic.

■ Asphyxia from drowning.

^ Inner Head. ' ' Cerebral congestion. Arachnoid membrane too opaque ; t.

■ Dull head, like a strong pressure, more in r. forehead, with

boring, sharp shooting tearing deep in brain, d Rheumatism. Violent pain in forehead and giddiness.

■ Headache, as from a band compressing the forehead. Tensive pain in forehead and one side of head, as if the brain

were in one lump, with drowsiness, <C evening, after eating and sitting bent ; > sitting up, lying high with head and in the cold. Pressing headache, as if brain were put together in lumps.

■ Feels as if the brain was pressed together ; stupid and sleepy ;

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more when resting ; in the evenings and at night ; better when moving about, or after washing the head.

I I Heavy pain in the forehead like waves increasing and de- creasing.

Reverberation of pulse- in the head. See 29.

Very sensible pressure on vertex with violent pulsation in the temples.

■ Throbbing in r. forehead, < evenings, sitting bent, from

warmth and >> sitting up and in the cold. Pressive pains in forehead ; stitching extending downwards into

left eye. Painful drawing in right temple, extending down to the zygoma

and upper jaw. Tearing pains in head.

Stitches in left parietal bone on stooping, extend forwards. Headache and feeling as if paralyzed, d Pneumonia. I I Stupefying headache, d Meningitis. Occiput heavy, requires support.

On stooping, feeling in occiput as if something fell forward. Headache with vomiting.

■ Headache. ^Variola.

Headache with sensitiveness of region of stomach.

■ Violent headache during the heat, d Tertian.

■ Headache also in the apyrexia. ^Intermittent.

■ Inflammation of brain. See 43.

■ Apoplexia nervosa and serosa.

<C evening ; lying down ; getting warm in bed ;

after eating ; sitting bent ; in rest ; >> sitting upright ; in

the cold ; lying high with head ; moving about ; and after

washing the head. ^ Outer Head. ' Head very hot. d Rheumatism.

Head dull, forehead warm, less strength, and displeased with

■ Tinea.

■ Plica polonica.

Scalp very sensitive, with heaviness of head.

Chronic trembling of head, most after coughing, with sense of

inner trembling, chattering of teeth and great desire to

■ Head hot and sweaty. ^Atelectasis pulmonum. ^During

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Sees only as through a thick veil. Vanishing of sight.

6 Rheumatism. iGonorrhoeal ophthalmia. 8 1 Ophthalmia rheumatica or arthritica. ® Hearing and Ears. Roaring in ears.

Fluttering before left ear, as from a large bird ; at same time,

warmth of ear. Twitching, tearing in right concha ; evening on lying down ;

disappears in bed. '^ Smell and Nose. I ' Uncontrollable epistaxis with spongy

gums, as in scurvy. iNose dry. d Rheumatism. Sneezing, fluent coryza and chilliness, with loss of taste and

smell, and a feeble voice. See 25.'

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Stoppage of nose, alternating with fluent coryza.

Nosebleed, followed by fluent coryza with sneezing.

Stupefying tension over root of nose, as from a band.

Well-marked motion of alse nasi with a child, d Pertussis.

Nostrils widely dilated. See 26.

I I Nose pointed.

Nostrils dark, sooty and dilated.

iNostrils black, smoky, inflated and moving rapidly, like wings.

d Pneumonia. ^ Face. Face animated, tongue red, moderate thirst, region of

d With cough. See 27. 81 Tearing pain in the whole side of face, even the head and

neck of that side, d Rheumatic toothache. Burning heat of face.

I Face red, pufied. ^Bronchial croup.

■ Face red, bloated, anxious. ^Pneumonia.

Despairing, anxious look, face cool, pale and earthy ; nostrils

I I Pallor. ^Bronchial catarrh. Face pale and anxious.

d Cholera. BFace pale, nose pointed, eyes sunken with blue margins; lips

scars. Bif the ulcers last awhile on limbs, ulcers also appear on the

6 Leprosy. ^ Lower Part of Face. Mouth closed spasmodically.

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When gaping he cannot open the mouth fully. 6 Intermittent. I Mouth remained open after gaping, he could not shut it for a

■ Eruption around the mouth, of rheumatic origin. ^Tertian.

I Aphthae around the mouth. ^Influenza. Burning, as from hot coal, on right side of chin.

I I Rheumatic toothache of intermitting type. Gums bleed as if scorbutic.

Gums red.

■ Bitter taste in mouth, especially all night, d Dyspepsia, Speechlessness ; speech difficult, tongue is swollen. Difficult even painful, to move the tongue.

I Tongue very thinly white, with reddened papillae, red edges.

I I Tongue very red, dry in the middle. 1 1 Tongue red, in streaks.

Tongue dry and red.

Tongue cold, pale, covered with a thin, white, slimy fur. d Cholera.

I Coated tongue, bitter taste in mouth and nausea. Slimy furred tongue.

I I Tongue covered with a thick, white, pasty coat.

■ Tongue has a thick white fur. d Rheumatism.

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I Thick, white or bilious fur on tongue, with retching of phlegm, nausea and vomiting, d Influenza.

Tongue furred, yellowish-brown, dry ; later thirst relieved by sugar water.

I Tongue brown, dry. ^Pneumonia.

Tongue is covered with a flocculent, tough coat.

Tongue covered with a false membrane. See 13.

Imprints of the teeth on the border of tongue.

Small round ulcers with lard-like borders, on tongue. ^^ Mouth, Much heat in the mouth with the eruption ; t.

Mucous membrane of cavity of mouth and pharynx covered with a soft, gray, false membrane not continuous.

Tongue moist and yellow in the middle.

Mouth so sore can scarcely swallow, morning after rising.

I Small, circular patches, like small-pox pustules, in and upon the mouth and tongue, d Diphtheria.

Blisters and pustular eruptions on the mucous membrane of the whole cavity of the mouth.

Salivation, d During pregnancy. See 24.

Mouth and lips swollen and excoriated as from salivation with mercury.

Ptyalism with buccal eruptions ; t.

Copious salivation with nausea.

Copious salivation, he spits all the time.

Sensation of soreness on posterior part of palate when not swal- lowing.

Soft palate and upper part of pharynx very red and full of little blisters, and so much swollen that he could not swallow any thing, even some fluid ; it interferes with his breathing.

Soft palate and throat deep red, covered with small vesicles ; surrounding parts swollen and coated with mucus.

Lips, tongue, hard and soft palate covered with a score of vesi- cles or pustules, of a yellowish-white color, flattened, de- pressed in the centre, and filled with a purulent liquid, of a milk-white color ; t.

Back of pharynx covered with mucus.

Mouth, tongue and pharynx covered with a soft, pale, discon- nected false membrane ; mucous membrane beneath is red- dened, or covered with gray, sometimes transparent, flakes.

Fauces covered with pustules, which spread over the body and limbs on the two following days.

Burning in fauces. See 14.

Rapid swelling of tonsils and cervical glands.

I Acute angina.

Saltish rising in throat. See 16.

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IB Much mucus in throat with short breathing.

Roughness in throat, with sensation as if a small leaf obstructed the windpipe on hawking.

Throat full of phlegm, with cough. See 27.

Heat and constriction in throat.

In throat, mouth and tongue a sensation of tension, with some pain and a well marked metallic taste.

(Esophagus dry.

Erythematous sore throat ; t.

Mucous membrane of digestive tube, from mouth to cardia, shows traces of pustular or pseudo membranous inflamma- tion ; t.

Phlegmasia of a portion of the intestinal canal with false mem- brane, completely tubular, obstructing oesophagus ; t.

Intercurrent pseudo-membranous sore throat.

All along the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal innu- merable small conical pustules filled with serum ; membrane pale ; t.

Difficulty in swallowing.

Violent irritation in the throat with difiicult swallowing.

Swelling of tonsils and highly reddened pharynx.

Canine hunger on walking in the open air.

Appetite diminished.

I Less appetite in apyrexia. d Tertian intermittent.

Loss of appetite, anorexia.

I Loss of appetite, without much thirst. ^Influenza.

■ Weariness, with no appetite; in apyrexia. ^Tertian, . Disgust for food during pregnancy.

I I Disgust for food, frequent nausea and relief by vomiting. 6 Gastric derangement.

No appetite at noon.

■ Little thirst, no appetite. ^Rheumatism.

■ Not much appetite, no thirst. 6 Pregnancy.

■ No appetite, great thirst. ^Rheumatism. ^Pneumonia.

■ Very little thirst. ^ Acute catarrh.

■ Thirstlessness. ^Diarrhoea. ^Bronchial catarrh. I I Great thirst.

Eager desire for water with vomiting the smallest quantity. See 16.

■ Greedy desire for water, d Summer complaint.

■ Irresistible thirst for cold water. 6 Catarrhal diarrhoea. ' I I Much thirst ; drinks little and often.

Thirst with burning sensation in fauces, stomach and abdomen.

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Thirst after stool.

pressure in the abdomen. After eating : cough with vomiting of the food and of mucus ;

— sleeps ; uncomfortable feeling ; toothache ; squeamishness ;

B After eating he vomits ingesta but without relief. 6 Pertussis. B Eating sour food or drinking tart wine brings on the attack.

d Asthma. B After every drink nausea and pressure in pit of stomach.

^Pneumonia. B Febrile motion after every meal, with pungent heat in face.

d Pregnancy. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Violent

hiccough without vomiting. Frequent retching with eructations tasting of the food, bitter or

BBNausea causes great anxiety. ^Diarrhoea. BB Continuous anxious nausea, straining to vomit, with sweat on

night.

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I Long-continued tormenting nausea. ^Yellow fever.

I I Nausea and incessant vomitino; all nio-ht.

I BNausea, vomiting and want of appetite. 6 Intermittent.

In the morning, nausea and vomiting of slime, followed by

sweat. I Nausea with frequent vomiting of bitter-sour substances.

mushy substance and bilious fluid, with very great exertion

of chest and abdomen, and breaking out of anxious sweat. Nausea and vomiting of phlegm, with increase of pulse from 62

to 75 beats, which frequently continues into the night. Nausea and vomiting with constipation, d Pneumonia of

a nursing infant, after the wet nurse had taken the remedy.

■ Copious vomiting. ^Cholera. Vomits at every motion.

I Vomits even the smallest quantity of drink, with eager desire

for water, d Summer complaint. Vomiting immediately after taking a cup of broth.

I I Vomits food and drink, even before the attack. ^Pertussis. All food immediately ejected from the stomach.

I I Violent retching and vomiting food with cough.

iVomituritio with diarrhoea, great masses of phlegm brought

up. 6 Pertussis. Vomiting of large quantities of mucus. 6 Pregnancy.

■ Vomits tenacious mucus. ^Diphtheria. Vomiting of slime and bile.

Vomiting of tough, watery mucus, then pasty food, then fluid,

mixed with bile. Vomiting of bilious masses with great violence.

■ Gastric and bilious vomiting with bitter taste in mouth, vomit-

ing bitter-sour. Vomiting of bitter, mushy and fluid matter of a bad odor, and

acid reaction. Violent painful vomiting of much mucus and bile, with some

blood next day. Vomits matter tinged with blood ; bloody foaming fluid.

■ Vomiting bloody mucus. ^Pneumonia in children.

■ Hasmoptysis. ^ Delirium tremens.

Vomiting: in any position, except lying on right side; Biwith headache and trembling of the hands.

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During efforts of vomiting, head hot and sweaty, d Pertussis.

Vomiting until he faints away.

Vomiting and fainting. 6 Meningitis.

Pressure on the stomach causes vomiting.

Vomiting with pain in belly and purging.

I Vomiting and diarrhoea in August, with a child set. 3 months.

IB Vomiting is followed by great languor, drowsiness, loathing, desire for cooling things, d Diarrhoea.

I In the morning vomiting and cramps in arms and legs, after diarrhoea all night, d Cholera.

I Retching, then vomiting, followed by great prostration, chilli- ness and sleepiness.

Vomiting returning after sleep. ^^ Stomach. Pressure in pit of stomach, dullness of head, and anxious difficult breathing.

I Tingling and pinching in pit of stomach, with violent, sudden beats of heart, d Pleurisy.

Violent tickling in pit of stomach (and trachea) irritating to cough.

Beating and throbbing, particularly in pit of stomach or abdo- men, with great concern about the future.

I Pit of stomach sensitive, with meteorism, nausea and vomiting. d Pneumonia of drunkards.

Coldness in pit of stomach with fainting.

iNo pain in pit of stomach or abdomen, d Cholera.

I Sensation of emptiness in stomach. ^Influenza. Stomach feels empty after the nausea.

Pressing in stomach with belching ; diminished appetite.

Pressure in stomach after eating.

Violent pains in region of stomach, constantly increasing un- til they cause fainting.

Cramps in stomach.

Unpleasant feeling of warmth in region of stomach, followed by violent pain in forehead and in back part of throat ; t.

Unpleasant feeling of warmth in region of stomach, gradually increasing until it is a painful burning, and causes great rest- lessness.

Burning heat in region of stomach.

Stomach very sensitive, no appetite.

Irritation in stomach with nausea.

Sensation as if stomach had been overloaded ; eructations fre- quent, like foul eggs ; sleep restless. *^ Hypochondria. Violent pains at the epigastrium, which was tense; t.

Burning heat and pain in epigastric region.

Burning under sternum.

Retraction of epigastrium with cough.

I I Great prsecordial anxiety with vomiting of mucus and bile.

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B Pressure in hypochondria with distension, most in region of

the bowels of watery matter. I Most violent pain in abdomen, sacral and coccygeal region and

in loins, d Chronic metritis. Burning in abdomen.

of mental restlessness and aversion to all work ; toward

across the groins, through thighs down to knees. I Pain in groins and cold creeps before menses. ^ Dysmenor-

rhoea. Violent pain at epigastrium and through the whole abdomen,

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Sensitiveness of the external abdomen, with pinching and ten- sion inwardly.

Sensitive abdomen with mushy stools.

• Ascites. ^^ Rectum and Stool. Stitches in the rectum.

Sudden violent stitch from hypogastrium down through the rec- tum.

■ Burning at anus, after loose stool.

Desire for stool ineffectual, though the bowels seem full and

■ Tenesmus during and after loose stools. Stool, after much rumbling in intestines.

■Violent shifting of flatulence without distension of abdomen,

before stool, d Diarrhoea. At first cutting pains in the limbs, then purging.

■ Relief of pains after loose stools. Copious alvine evacuations.

Soft, semi-fluid stool, with much discharge of urine, forenoon and evening.

■ Frequent, profuse, loose stools.

■ Mucous diarrhoea with colic and restlessness.

■ Small, slimy, diarrhoeic stools. ^Pneumonia.

■ At times pituitous not copious diarrhoea. 6 Influenza.

The diarrhoea was slimy and of the appearance of yeast, with a marked cadaverous smell.

■ Watery, mucous, bloody diarrhoea.

Watery, slimy stools, with noise in bowels and urging, and now and then some nausea.

■ Watery, sometimes slimy and greenish diarrhoea, increased

each time after taking the breast.

■ Stools as green as grass, slimy, d Summer complaint. Diarrhoea with grass-green, slimy stools and collapse.

■ Evening, a few watery stools, thirty or forty during the night.

■ Cholera when the vomiting is copious and there is coldness,

and thread-like or trembling pulse.

Constant involuntary stools ; profuse, copious diarrhoea.

Involuntary discharge with much phlegm and dead ascarides.

Involuntary stools, d Meningitis.

Stools : yellowish-brown ; thin, bilious, mucous ; liquid green- ish, with heat at the anus ; slimy, appearing like yeast and of cadaverous smell.

■ Light brownish-yellow, fecal discharges. ^Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea with flatulency.

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Colliquative diarrhoea, with meteorism.

Purging with colic.

Thin fluid stools, with very acute drawing pain in bowels, con- stant sickness and nausea, uncomfortable feeling, now chill, now heat, and after frequent drinking of sugar water frequent emission of pale urine.

■ Diarrhoea in pneumonia, small-pox, and other eruptive dis-

eases, especially if the eruption is suppressed.

■ Diarrhoea of drunkards.

Stool seldom, somewhat hard, with tenesmus, d Rheumatism.

iCostiveness for several days. ^ Acute catarrh.

Constipation with nausea and vomiting, d Pregnancy.

iNo stool. ^Pneumonia.

After stool, tenesmus, thirst ; burning at the anus ; colic less. ^' Urinary Organs. Sharp stitches in region of kidneys on mov- ing arms.

Stricture of urethra.

Burning from rectum through the urethra.

I Spasm of bladder, urine scanty and red. ^Pneumonia.

Painful urging, with .scanty, dark red, frequently at last bloody urine ; violent pains in bladder.

More frequent urination.

Urine albuminous.

1 Urine dark brownish-red, turbid, of strong odor; or, becomes cloudy and deposits a violet-colored earthy sediment.

Urine acid.

Urine profuse ; also at night.

Urine deposits bloody, red filaments on standing.

■ Highly reddened urine. ^Pneumonia.

Urine at first clear, then it deposits a flour-like sediment. I Urine scanty, dark, with a brick-dust sediment. ^Rheuma- tism.

■ Violent tension in perineum, especially on walking, with

strong inclination to urinate. Violent and painful urging to urinate, with scanty or bloody

discharge, d Diarrhoea. Urinary discharge interrupted during the whole time ; only in

the evening, on third day, scanty dark urine, d Catarrhal

croup. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Excitation of the sexual system.

I Pain in the testicles ; after checked gonorrhoea. ^Orchitis. I Secondary orchitis.

I Warts behind the glans penis, with ulcers elsewhere. ^Sy-

cosis.

I I Pustules on the genitals and thighs. • Syphilis.

^^ Female Sexual Organs, l Sensation as if a heavy weight was tugging at the coccyx. 6 Chronic metritis.

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■ Severe bearing down in the vagina, d Diarrhoea. Menses too early, weak, and only for two days.

Before menses : pains in the groins and cold creepings. 6 Dysmenorrhoea.

Leucorrhoea of watery blood, worse when sitting; comes in paroxysms.

Pustules on external genitals.

I Violent itching of the pudenda, d Diarrhoea.

Itching in vulva. 24 Pregnancy. I Gastric derangements; vomiting of mucus ; belch- ing ; disgust for food ; salivation ; nausea with faintness ; amblyopia after colic or strong emotions.

I Puerperal-like convulsions continuing after the birth of the foetus ; breathing short, difficult ; oppression of the chest ; loose rattling cough, no sputa ; suffocative fits ; face dark purple ; great jactitation of the muscles.

IB Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping, although the cord still pulsates, d Asphyxia neonatorum.

I Feeble voice, burning under the sternum, cough and sneezing.

Voice weak, soundless; indescribable anxiety and oppression on the chest, with moaning and groaning.

I He cannot speak a loud word. 6 Bronchial croup.

I Unable to speak a word. ^ Acute oedema of lungs.

I Groaning and moaning with a weak, hollow, soundless voice. 6 Cholera.

d Croup.

I I Rattling of mucus when coughing or breathing. 1 1 Rattling originates in the upper bronchi and can be heard at

a great distance. 6 Bronchial catarrh. I Great rattling in larynx extending down to the trachea, neither cough nor vomiting brought up the phlegm.

I I Tracheal stertor, bronchial rhonci.

I I Much rattling of mucus in the trachea; cannot get it up. Comp. 26.

■ Catarrhal (not membranaceous) croup: Bcroup of adults. Obviates paralysis in croup.

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^^ E,espiration. Breathing short ; t.

I I Quick breathing.

■ Breathing quick, short, trembling as it were. (9 Pneumonia.

■ Breathing frequent. ^Bronchial croup.

■ Breathing short, frequent. ^ Acute catarrh. ^Pertussis.

■ Children breathe more quickly when lying down than when

■ I Shortness of breath from suppressed expectoration, especially

■ During sleep, frequent attacks of unequal, intermittent breath-

ing.

■ ■The unequal breathing, now shorter then longer, is much

more frequent in lying down, >> when child is carried up- right. 6 Bronchial catarrh.

■ Breath panting, more depending on abdominal muscles than

■ Gasping inhalation. ^Asthma.

■ Gasps for air at the beginning of every coughing spell. Gasping. 6 Child after birth.

Breathing with a moaning sound, and raising the shoulders. 6 Catarrhal croup.

■ Child expels the air with a kind of bellowing, d Pneumonia. Air expelled with a crowing, almost barking sound.

■ The noise of breathing became more sharp and rough, a con-

tinued whistling and purring could be heard in the chest. 6 Bronchial catarrh.

■ Sawing respiration. ^ Bronchial croup. See 25.

■ Breathing from fifth to seventh rib (r. side behind) indistinct,

but bronchial consoning rattling, d Pneumonia.

■ Such rattling that it threatens to suffocate the child, d Pneu-

monia.

II Respiration with great rattling of mucus.

Breathing impeded on account of a swelling of upper part of throat and accumulation of tough mucus in that region ; with it fever and delirium.

Breathing obstructed. See 12.

Difficulty of breathing, rattling, etc., in convulsions.

Great difficulty in breathing, shoulders raised, eyes turned up- wards, face congested.

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y Child cannot nurse, but ends each attempt "with crying.

d Broncho-pneumonia, etc. I Great difficulty in breathing, d Convulsions, d Bronchial

catarrh. 6 Pneumonia.

■ Oppression of breathing, BIrelieved by expectoration. ^In-

I Asthma.

I Every night suiFocating attacks. ^Asthma. I If the attack of difficult breathing is very violent at night,

all next day the breathing is impeded, d Asthma. I Must be supported in a sitting posture in bed. d Orthopnoea.

■ Dyspnoea in croup; nostrils widely dilated, thorax elevated,

■ Extreme want of breath. 6 Pneumonia.

■ Danger of sufibcation with rattling of phlegm, always comes on

suddenly. 6 Asthma.

■ Great orthopnoea. 6 Acute oedema of lungs, d Dilatation of

■ ■Suff'ocated and oppressed about 3 a.m., must sit up to get

■ Suffocative attacks with heat about the heart.

■ Spells of suffocation. ^Pneumonia. ^Puerperal convul-

sions. Spells of choking, in the evening, in bed ; with constriction.

d Pneumonia. Child is breathless after birth.

■ Asphyxia: from mechanical causes, as apparent death from

drowning ; from pneumonia, capillary bronchitis, atelectasis ; from accumulation of mucus which cannot be expectorated ; neonatorum (see 24) ; from emphysema, acute oedema pul- monum with hydrothorax ; with impending paralysis of lungs; accompanied by ■■ drowsiness or coma; pale or dark red face ; blue lips ; delirium, muscular twitchings ; thread- like pulse.

■ Relieves the "death-rattle."

"Cough. iFrequent little cough, without expectoration. ^Pneu- monia.

■ Cough day and night, returning at short intervals, no sputa.

d Acute catarrh. : Whooping-cough.

■ Whooping-cough : preceded by the child crying, after eating

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or drinking, or when getting warm in bed; after the attack, somnolency. I Cough with the peculiar sound of whooping-cough.

I Cough in attacks, with a hissing hoarseness, raises hand to

the larynx, which is sensitive to the touch, d Catarrhal croup.

I I Short cough with a shrill sound. ^Bronchial catarrh.

I Tormented from time to time by painful coughs of a shriek-

ing; sound, d Catarrh of a child.

I I Cough compels the patient to sit up, is moist and rattling, but without expectoration. ^Bronchial catarrh.

1 1 When the child coughs there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the bronchial tubes, and it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up.

1 1 Rattling cough, sounding as if it were moist, without really being so.

I Great rattling but little expectoration. ^Pertussis.

Loose rattling cough, no sputa. ^Puerperal convulsions.

Cough with dentition of children, in which the rales are so loud that they can be heard at a distance ; disappearing as soon as children finish their bout of coughing.

■ Between the coughs faint or loud cries for help, d Catarrhal

croup.

Cough, accompanied by crying out ; dizziness ; trembling of head ; drowsiness ; cold sweat on head and hands.

Pale face ; retraction of the epigastrium ; retching and vomit- ing of food.

■ Violent cough after each meal, ending with vomiting of the

food. 6 Bronchial catarrh. 1 Cough hollow, excites to vomiting accompanied by great pain.

d Pneumonia. Tickling cough, with violent eructations and retching, even

vomiting of watery, tough slime ; with it a running coryza.

■ Uninterrupted cough with frequent vomiting of bloody, frothy,

■ Distracting cough day and night, with short breath and rat-

tling in chest, d Catarrh of a child.

■ Child springs up, clings to those around; calls for help in a

hoarse voice, or bends backwards and grasps at its larynx. Cough with rattling of large bubbles and purring in the chest.

■ Every cough causes unbearable pains in the sides of chest or in

6 Pneumonia.

■ Every attempt to cough increases the torture. ^Pneumonia.

■ Pain in chest when coughing. ^Intermittent.

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Cough with weak, quick, trembling pulse ; restlessness ; hot body but cold limbs.

■ Cough in variola.

1 1 Coughing and gaping consecutively, particularly children ;

with crying or dozing, and twitching in the face. I Much fatiguing cough, most nights, shaking the whole chest

and causing headache most in forehead. ^Influenza. I Cough dry, breathing sawing, face red, puffed up, look anxious,

could not talk, d Croup.

■ Rattling or hollow cough, worse at night, with suffocation,

throat full of phlegm, sweat on forehead, vomiting food. The sputum caused by the proving was always white and frothy ; expectoration at times abundant.

■ Constant irritation to cough with brown expectoration of

sero-albuminous kind, d Influenza.

■ ■Profuse mucus with feeble expulsive power. (9 Bronchitis

of infants and old people.

■ Difficult expectoration, continual shooting pain in 1. side of

■ Sputa thick and yellow. ^Bronchial catarrh.

■ Expectoration tough, foamy, mixed with blood, d Pneumonia.

■ Frequent cough, with frothy, sanguineous sputa.

■ Blood-spitting when after the attack there remains for a long

time, a bloody, slimy expectoration. Scraping cough, with a great deal of pus-like expectoration ;

after shaking chills, copious sweating, with chilliness at every

■ After the cough lasts a while, it gets loose and relieves the

contraction of chest. 6 Asthma.

■ After suffocative fits at night cough with increase of asthma.

■ ■Cough grows less frequent, patient shows signs of "carbon-

ized blood."

Better : sitting upright ; carrying the child in an upright po- sition ; > from expectoration.

Worse : after midnight ; after eating ; after getting angry ; sleeping in damp cellars ; getting warm in bed.

■ At 11 P.M. sudden violent cough. ^ Acute oedema of lungs.

■ Cough worse every morning, d Bronchial catarrh.

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■ Oppression before eruption appears. 6 Small-pox. I Velvety feeling in the chest, d Heart disease.

I Anxious, with oppression of the chest and warm rising from the heart.

I Heat in chest with dyspnoea.

I Pain dull, pressing and burning extending to the sternum. 6 Pneumonia.

I Burning in the chest extending towards the throat.

Stitches in the left chest and oppressed breathing in the eve- ning.

I Shooting in the chest, d Influenza.

■ Violent pains from chest to shoulder, lancinating and tearing.

d Pleuritis rheumatica. I During 5 hours had at least 6 pounds of fluid evacuated, and

still both lungs were filled with a fluid secretion. 6 Acute

pulmonary oedema. I Motion of chest very quick but heavy, like under a heavy

load with suffocative anxiety and stertorous rattling of phlegm.

d Pneumonia.

■ Slight motion of the chest; principally abdominal breathing.

6 Pneumonia.

Rattling in chest.

I Mucous and subcrepitant rales and dull percussion over sum- mit of r. lung.

Rattling of large bubbles with purring in the chest, d With cough. See 27.

■ Constant rattling, can be heard at a distance, mostly on the

right side, d Acute catarrh.

■ Rattling of phlegm in bronchia very audible, with increased

irritation to cough, d Bronchial catarrh.

■ ■Rattling of phlegm on chest, > when carried in an upright

position, < lying down ; with oppression. 6 Bronchial catarrh, 6 Croup.

■ After pneumonia rattling continuing, with much cough and

copious, white, frothy expectoration, d Pneumonia. Rales heard over the hepatized parts ; too weak to expectorate.

■ On the upper right side and the whole left side, numerous fine

rales, d Pneumonia, d CEdema of lungs.

■ ■Inflammation of respiratory mucous membrane.

■ ■Grippe; ■■acute pneumonia; ■■broncho-pneumonia; ■pleuro-

pneumonia.

■ ■ Sputa blood-streaked, rust-colored, adhering like glue to the

vessel, d Pleuro-pneumonia.

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I Gastric or bilious pneumonia.

I Rheumatic affections of pleura or peritoneum. ^Pneumonia.

I Strong bronchial breathing in front, r. side, above and behind;

crepitation in 1. lung ; expiratory murmur. 6 Pneumonia. Coarse and fine rales; very Aveak vesicular breathing, d CEdema

■ Percussion sound tympanitic, d Qildema of lungs.

■ Percussion behind and below, r. side, up to the 3d rib, empty

tympanitic. 6 Pneumonia.

I (Atelectasis, with the symptoms of asphyxia belonging to the

remedy ; with oedema of the unhepatized portions of the lungs; breathing labored, orthopnoea; mucous rales. 6 Pneumonia.

I I (Edema of the lungs.

■ Frequent vomiting of a bloody, foamy fluid.

• Tuberculosis (palliative).

■ ■Impending paralysis of lungs, i^ Typhus pneumonia, etc.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation, Heat about the heart and warmth rising up from it,

■ So warm about the heart that she must let the arms sink down,

with great general weakness. 6 Dilatation of heart.

More frequent and shorter beat of the heart and general in- crease of bodily temperature.

Violent sudden beats of heart. 0 Pleurisy.

Beat of heart is felt in the head.

Palpitation of the heart, without anxiety.

■ Palpitation of heart with loose stools.

■ Pericarditis with pleuro-pneumonia.

■ Dilatation of the heart from rheumatism with feeling as if the

heart was strained ; velvety feeling in the chest ; warmth

■ Cyanosis. ^ Dilatation of heart. Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels.

■ Pulse frequent. ^ Summer complaint.

Pulse increases from 62 to 75 beats, and remains frequent un- til night, d Rheumatism. Frequent and full pulse with quicker breathing.

■ Pulse frequent but not quick. ^Bronchial croup.

■ Pulse frequent and strong.

■ Pulse very frequent and unequal, d Catarrh of a child. Somewhat irritated pulse with slight sensation of chills.

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iPulse 132, small, hard. ^Pneumonia.

Pulse free and hard, skin warmer.

iPulse hard and quick, in old people.

iPulse 112. ^Pneumonia.

I Pulse 120 with a child. ^Pneumonia.

I IPulse hard, full and strong; sometimes trembling; very much accelerated by every motion ; when the fever abates it is often slow and imperceptible.

Pulse is sometimes accelerated, sometimes retarded, in the same person.

Pulse almost ceases or is violent, reverberating in the head. d Dilatation of heart.

I I Pulse small and contracted ; t.

I Pulse small. ^Influenza.

I Pulse quick and small. 6 Diarrhoea of a child.

iPulse small, hard, very quick, intermitting. ^Pneumonia.

I IPulse weak, quick and trembling. ^Bronchial catarrh.

I Threadlike or trembling pulse, d Cholera.

I Small threadlike pulse, d Meningitis.

IPulse small, threadlike, 120, with very little increased tempe- rature ; girl get. 11. d Acute catarrh.

I Pulse confused, cannot be counted or estimated. 6 Pneumonia.

Pulse diflScult to be felt, now quick, then slow ; t.

Beats of pulse much retarded with the indifference. See 1.

Cramp in muscles of neck.

Pain in back as from fatigue, especially after eating and while sitting.

I Stiff neck, d Influenza.

iNeck stretched out, head bent back, d Catarrhal croup.

■ Backache with the chill. ^Intermittent.

■ Drawing down the back, heaviness in limbs ; before a leprous

I I Violent pain in sacro-lunibar region; the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold clammy sweat. 6 Lumbago.

iPain in sacrum with sensation of lameness, d Pneumonia.

■ Sensation as if a heavy load was hanging on the end of the

■ Most violent pain like dislocation in left arm, as if the flesh

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were torn from the bones, from axilla down to the tips of fingers, d Rheumatism.

8 Could not move the arm unless assisted by the other, d Rheu- matism.

Right arm and hand are cold to the touch.

■ Twitching of the muscles.

■ Pain in wrists, knees and ankles.

Tremor of the hands and picking of bed clothes or anything

■ Dampness in palms of hands. ^Pregnancy.

■ Fingers are contracted, flexors bent inward. ^Leprosy. Itchlike eruption on the wrist, which itches violently ; itching

disappears after scratching. ^^ Lower Limbs. Rheumatic pains about the hips, thighs and

■ Dropsy of the 1. knee-joint.

■ Pains in the foot extending to the other articulations. Weariness in the feet.

Feet feel as if beaten.

Feet go "to sleep " immediately after sitting down.

Numbness and coldness of the feet.

Cold feet.

Veins of the feet distended.

Some swelling in the knuckles of the r. foot and stiffness of the

foot. The big toes of both feet feel cold when touched.

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^* Limbs in General, n Heaviness in the limbs followed by a leprous eruption.

Soreness in the calves of the legs and shoulder-blades.

iLimbs overfatigued ; a sensation coming from the back. 6 Influenza.

Weakness, insensibility and coldness of the limbs.

Rheumatic and bruised sensation in the limbs, on and shortly before rising.

Rheumatic pains with sweat, which does not relieve ; pains are tearing, beating, stinging.

Right arm and hand and the great toes of each foot were cold to the touch.

I Jerking up of limbs during sleep with loose stools.

I Tonic spasms in arms and legs, most in forearms and calves. d Cholera.

Sitting bent forward : colic <.

Child bends backward : with cough.

After sitting down : feet go to sleep.

While sitting : pain in back.

Sitting erect : headache >■: cough >-.

Can only breathe when sitting up. 6 Pleurisy.

I Has to sit up and supported by a servant he moves continually to and fro. d Acute oedema of lungs.

I Had to sit on a chair and lay the head on the table, to be re- lieved, d Asthma.

Sitting posture in bed. See 26.

Lying down: earache <.

Lying on right side: vomiting ^.

I I Could lie on his r. side only ; any change from his position was sure to induce vomiting ; t.

Lying down : quick breathing.

I Cannot lie on the side affected. ^Pneumonia.

I Child lies with head bent back. ^Pneumonia.

Lies on her back, somewhat to the left, doubled up. d Acute catarrh.

On walking : vertigo.

Worse on walking : tension in perineum ; in hamstrings.

Walking, sitting and lying is equally unbearable, d Chronic metritis.

Constant inclination to stretch.

On rising : bruised sensation. See 34.

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I Tossing about with great restlessness. ^Meningitis.

■ Child tosses about with anxiety. ^Pneumonia.

I I Great restlessness. ^Bronchial catarrh.

■ Child throws its arms about all the time. ^Pneumonia, Unusual volubility and activity.

■ Jactitation of the muscles.

■ Trembling: of whole body; internal; of head and paralytic

trembling of hands on every motion ; of drunkards.

■ Chorea.

Convulsive motions and loss of consciousness ; t.

Convulsions with loss of consciousness.

Clonic spasms, d Meningitis.

Convulsions partial or general. 6 Meningitis.

Violent convulsions and spasms. See 8.

Convulsions from repelled or non-appearing eruptions ; skin

pale, cold, great difficulty in breathing. Constant spasmodic contraction of the muscles, particularly of

upper limbs.

■ Enormous weakness. ^Cholera. ^Pneumonia.

■ Great loss of strength, slipping down in bed. ^Pneumonia.

6 Acute catarrh. I ■Great prostration and sluggishness of the body with -bad

humor. Complete prostration from frequent vomiting.

■ ■Prostration and collapse. ^Summer complaint.

■ Great apathy, alternating with restlessness in the night.

6 Influenza.

■ Lies comatose with half-closed eyes, when spoken to he is

fully conscious, d Cholera.

■ Very much weakened and exhausted, falls in a kind of coma

and can hardly be awakened, only a new coughing attack in- terrupts it. 6 Pertussis. I Attacks of fainting with coldness in pit of stomach.

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Insensibility ; he lies motionless , paralysis ; t. ^^ Sleep. Frequent incomplete gaping. 6 Bronchial croup.

I Drowsiness, with loose stools, d Diarrhoea of a child. See 2.

Unconquerable sleepiness.

lYawning.

llGrreat sleepiness; irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all affections.

Somnolency after cough. See 27.

Sleepiness with the sweat, d Intermittent.

I I Sopor, especially from imperfectly oxygenized blood.

Sopor, with starting, d Pneumonia. 6 Hydrothorax.

Coma with pale, puffed face, d Bronchitis.

Stupor with coma.

I With muttering delirium she fell into a stupid sleep, d Pneu- monia.

Deep sopor, d Meningitis.

I Even in a sopor, as if suffocating. ^Bronchial catarrh.

I I Coma. ^ Bronchial catarrh.

I Child lies in a stupid sleep, starting sometimes, d Pneumonia. Stupor and drowsiness, evening and night, •< in rest, >- from

motion and washing the head. Had scarcely fallen asleep when he was seized with shocks and

jerks, all of which came from the abdomen. During sleep jerks through the body.

I I Sleep at night full of dreams, in the morning dull head.

■ Very little sleep on account of pain, d Chronic metritis.

■ Sleeplessness. ^Pneumonia.

■Nightly sleeplessness on account of the violent pains in head and arm. 6 Rheumatism.

1 1 Cannot sleep till towards morning, a few hours, d Rheuma- tic toothache.

Restless all night with anxious tossing about ; in the morning pressure in forehead and occiput.

Morning awakening with a dizzy head, heaviness and feeling very uncomfortable.

I Awakens with dyspnoea.

I I Vomiting returns after sleep.

After the sleep very great weariness but otherwise better.

■ When awake, hopeless, despairing, d Chill and fever.

■ During the night much worse, d Catarrhal diarrhoea.

■ ■Worse at night, and sleepless. 6 Bronchial catarrh.

At night : lips chapped ; belching like rotten eggs ; nausea and vomiting ; profuse urine ; cough < ; profuse sweat.

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3 A.M. : oppression.

After midnight : cough.

Morning : the head dizzy and dull ; toothache ; mouth sore ; hoarseness ; expectoration.

During the day : expectoration.

Toward evening : bellyache.

Evening : headache ; earache ; voice weak ; choking ; drowsi- ness.

I Morning 9 o'clock : heavy rigor with shaking, d Intermittent.

I Every afternoon some chills followed by great heat, with thirst and sweat, heat lasted all night. 6 Intermittent.

I I Considerable aggravation towards evening continuing all

d Whooping cough. After washing the head: headache >>.

■ Keeping warm lessens the pain, d Rheumatism.

I I Warmth aggravates, even getting warm in bed. d Rheuma- tic toothache.

I After taking cold: rheumatism of joints. I After taking cold in summer: diarrhoea.

I After getting cold feet : asthma.

■ High degree of sensitiveness to every change of weather.-

d Rheumatism.

I I In Spring and Fall when damp weather commences: rheu- matic toothache.

1 1 Cold water lessens, d Rheumatic toothache.

■ After a change in temperature during the Fall : coughs with

children get worse. ^^ Fever. Sudden fall of temperature, d Meningitis.

Slight chilly feeling.

Chill predominating.

Chill spreading from within and from the vertebras over abdo- men and limbs, with retching, belching and a drawing tensive pain in the lower limbs.

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Great debility of the limbs, feeling of fullness in chest, tearing in the joints, with chilly feeling.

Chill and sensation of heaviness in the limbs and some tremb- ling, cannot get warm.

I Chill, with external coldness, coming on at all times of the day, with somnolency ; mostly with trembling and shaking ; frequently as if cold water was poured over one.

Rigor with shuddering and cold skin all over, remaining long- est on the hands, with it headache, small contracted pulse, thirst, restless excited mood and drowsiness.

Cold skin.

I The whole body very cold, d Cholera.

Insensibility and coldness of limbs, with a weak, scarcely per- ceptible pulse ; without vomiting (child).

I Skin of whole body, in spite of many covers, icy cold, covered with colliquative sweat, great thirst, pulse frequent (cannot be counted), like a thread.

Violent palpitation and great anxiety, d (Edema of lungs.

Cold, pulseless, speechless and apparently insensible.

Shivering over the whole body, nausea, retching and cold sweat.

Violent crawls fly through the body, with vertigo ; t.

Crawls over the whole body, cold sweat.

Nausea, retching and inclination to vomit.

I Skin chilly with very copious sweats, which do not relieve. ^Influenza.

Chill and heat alternating during the day.

I Chilliness as if water was poured over him, with gooseflesh, gaping, want of thirst; drowsiness, following heat with dull- ness in head, d Intermittent.

I Chill lasting 45 minutes followed by vomiting, headache, heat and thirst ; after drinking, retching. 6 Intermittent.

I I Violent but not long-lasting heat succeeding a long chill, aggravated by every motion.

i Long-lasting heat, after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on the forehead.

! Temperature increased. ^Pneumonia. ^Rheumatism.

General warmth over the whole body.

Heat about the heart. See 28.

Skin dry and warm.

Violent fever in delirium.

Sudden flushes over the face.

I Heat, does not want to nurse, and is costive. 6 Catarrh of a child.

S Feverish heat, body hot and di-y. d Rheumatism.

Thirst not constant during the hot stage, but marked between heat and sweat.

I Skin burning hot, only somewhat moist in scrobiculum and upon the chest. 6 Pneumonia.

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Heat long and great with much sweat, intense thirst and de- lirium. 6 Tertian,

Hot and sweaty head. See 4.

Copious sweat.

I Profuse sweat all over, also at night. ^Intermittent.

I I Profuse night sweats.

I Pains and night sweat make restless and sleepless, d Rheu- matism.

■ The sweat follows long after, in the afternoon during the

sleep, d Intermittent. The affected parts sweat most profusely.

■ I Skin covered with a running, sticky sweat. ^Bronchial ca-

■ Bilious fever and profuse haemoptysis.

Remitting type of fever; nausea and vomiting, drowsiness;

freedom between the attacks. Attacks antepone several hours, d Tertian.

■ Every two months an attack lasting two weeks, d Bronchial

catarrh. ^^ Locality and Direction. Rheumatic pains first in right hand then through both legs from above downwards, especially in the knees.

Right : temple, headache ; tearing in ear ; burning of chin ; lying on r. side, > vomiting ; soreness in groin ; lung in- flamed ; shoulder as if dislocated ; arm and hand and great toe cold.

Left : parietal bone, headache ; fluttering before ear ; tooth- ache ; mamma, crawling ; pain in elbow.

Down into left eye : headache.

Extending down to zygoma and upper jaw : headache.

From above downwards : bellyache.

Downwards : to rectum. See 20.

From chest towards throat : burning.

Extending forward : headache.

As of something falling forward from occiput.

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^^ Sensations. Insensibility, sensation of numbness (not want of irritability).

Sensitiveness in internal, numb sensation in external parts.

Sensation of coldness in the veins.

Tearing, drawing pains in belly and all the limbs, several days later.

Beating and throbbing through the whole body, particularly in belly or pit of stomach.

Sensation as if brain were in one lump, or as if it were pressed together.

Pain in forehead like waves increasing and decreasing.

Sensation of band compressing forehead.

As if something fell forward in occiput when stooping.

Sense of inner trembling with trembling of head.

Tired feeling in eyes.

Twitching tearing in r. concha.

Fluttering before 1. ear.

As if abdomen were stuffed full of stones.

As if bowels would be cut to pieces. 6 Colic.

Spasmodic contraction of abdominal muscles.

Sensation as if a small leaf obstructed windpipe. See 13.

As of weight tugging at coccyx. See 23.

As if flesh were torn from the bones : left arm.

Feeling as if paralyzed. See 3.

Pain : violent, in forehead ; in teeth ; in stomach ; at epigas- trium ; in abdomen ; in groins ; in bladder ; in testicles ; in back, as from fatigue ; in sacro-lumbar region.

Stitches : in 1. parietal bone ; from forehead into 1. eye ; in 1. chest ; in rectum ; in region of kidneys ; in upper limbs.

Lancinating : from chest to shoulder.

Shooting : in chest.

Cutting : in bowels ; through groins and thigh to knee.

Boring : in brain.

Tearing pain : deep in brain ; in head ; in eyes ; in side of face, head and neck ; in roots of teeth ; in upper limbs.

Burning : in eyes and canthi ; heat of face ; as from hot coal on r. side of chin ; in fauces ; in chest, to throat ; in stomach ; under sternum ; in abdomen ; soreness in r. groin ; at anus ; from rectum through urethra ; in back.

Smarting : in eyes and canthi.

Soreness : on posterior palate.

Bearing down : in vagina.

Pressing pain : in forehead ; in vertex ; in stomach ; in hypo- chondria ; in hypogastrium.

Drawing : in r. temple to zygoma ; in bowels ; in the back ; in lower limbs.

Constriction : in throat ; of chest.

Cramp : in stomach ; in muscles of neck ; in legs.

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As if beaten : feet feel so.

Pain as from dislocation : in r. shoulder ; in 1. arm.

Tingling and pinching : in pit of stomach.

Rheumatic pains : in chest ; in 1. elbow ; about hips, thighs

over root of nose ; in throat and mouth ; in perineum ; in

■ Phlebitis.

I I Signs of poisoning of the blood with carbonic acid.

Where the gastric membrane was most inflamed there were two

or three white spots, size of a split pea, appearing under the

glass as spots of commencing ulceration ; t. Inflammation of mucous membranes of stomach and intestinal

canal. Jejunum studded with a considerable number of pale, hypertro-

phied follicles; t. Muscular relaxation.

■ Acute arthrodynia.

■ Dropsy of synovial membranes.

■ ■ Collection of synovia in joint, d Hydrarthrosis.

■ Pain in joints, going from one joint to another.

Joints somewhat swollen, reddened, hot ; very painful at every

attempt to move them, d Rheumatism. • Shifting rheumatism.

■ Acute articular rheumatism.

■ ■Mucous membranes : catarrhal inflammation ; conjunctivitis ;

gastritis, enteritis; laryngitis, trachitis, bronchitis, extend- ing even into the air-cells ; cystitis.

■ ■Pustular eruption: on the conjunctiva; face; mouth and

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■ Asphyxia from drowning.

■ Pains when being touched. ^Pneumonia. ^^Skin. Skin pale.

■ Skin slightly icteric. ^Pneumonia.

■ Skin shrivelled, dry. ^ Acute catarrh. Skin dry, wilted ; cool.

Skin as if dead.

iSkin dry, on chest and hands burning hot, on feet cool. 6 Pneumonia.

Ecthyma on face and hands, and after a scratch on hand a large flat ulcer on the side of it ; better after Rhus. ; rash increased.

■ Red itching rash over the body ; with the fever.

Rash mixed with phlyctense and furunculi ; after vaccination. Erythema infantum.

■ Itching pustules, which soon dry up.

Blisters filled with serum and erysipelatous tension of skin.-

■ Vesicular eruption over the body.

Morphsea; crusta lactea; vitiligo; prurigo; scabies; obstinate pustules ; pustular impetigo ; desquamation of cuticle.

■ ■Variola: backache, headache; cough and crushing weight

on the chest before or at the beginning of the eruptive stage ; diarrhoea, etc. ; also when the eruption fails.

I 1 The breast and anterior surface of the upper arms, wrists, hypogastrium and inner surface of the thighs, were thickly covered with an eruption of bright-red, small, conical, hard pimples, having an inflamed base resembling lichen, itching intolerably. This eruption began to show itself after the 5th day of taking four grains daily, and abated about the 3d day after its discontinuance ; t.

Skin gets hot, bright red ; small, isolated nodules are developed, with a red halo, between them the skin somewhat swollen, soon they get larger and fill with lymph, etc., very similar to small-pox.

■ ■ Chest, anterior surface of upper arms, wrists, abdomen and

inner side of thighs covered with closely set, bright red.

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small, conic, hard pustules, with an inflamed, tetter-like base, itching intolerably. Vesicles over the whole body, filling quickly with pus, very

painful, soon drying up and forming crusts. Pustules and vesicles first on face and forearms, next on the back, fill up with pus in a few days, and form crusts.

Eruption of small papulae and vesicles which rapidly enlarge and fill with pus, and of a dark red color at the base, so _ as to resemble mature variolous pustules, and were very painful; in a few days they were dry and crusted over. Eruption appeared first on inner side of forearm, then over the whole back, where the pustules were partly solitary, partly grouped.

If the use of Ant. tart, was continued after it had produced an eruption like small-pox, the pustules got large, full of pus, deepened in the centre and became confluent ; with great pain, crusts were formed, leaving deep scars.

■ Pustular eruptions all over; pustules size of peas, some cov- ered with brown crusts.

1 1 Pustular eruption leaves bluish-red marks on face; also simi- lar eruption on genitals, thighs, etc. ; painful. See 44.

H Eruption fails to appear and convulsions set in; varicella, etc. See 36.

Torpid, phlegmatic constitutions.

Women : suppressed lochia ; chlorosis, hysteria, etc.

Woman in 5th month of pregnancy, good constitution, d Feb- rile motions.

When the new born child is pale and breathless, although the cord may still pulsate.

Infancy and childhood: hydrocephalus; asthma Millari; whooping-cough; capillary bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia; *croup ; spasms ; cyanosis ; asphyxia, etc.

Teething children with rattling cough. See 27.

A sickly lean child, looking pale and bluish. 6 Diarrhoea.

Constitutions worn out by vomiting, in metastasis of hydroce- phalus.

I A girl, set. 6 months, d Catarrhal cough.

A weakly girl, jet. 1, after fever and cough, catarrh in larynx ; next day in bronchia.

■ Child, aet. 18 months, after febrile catarrh and spasms. 0 Pneumonia.

* Many cases were treated by the lower and soon got well, but what the re^Dorters never mentioned, the children remain liable to returns which IS not apt to be tlie case after cures with the higher doses of Hepar, Spongla, Phosphor, or Arsen.

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I A boy, set. 2, short build, large head, blonde, subject to ca- tarrh. 6 Catarrhal croup.

A boy, set. 2 years. ^Bronchial inflammation.

iBoy, get. 3 years. ^Whooping-cough.

I Boy, set. 10. ^Bronchial croup.

I Girl, set. 11 years. ^ Acute catarrh.

I Girl, set. 18, fever, oppression on chest and prostration, 8 days. 6 Inflammation of lungs.

A man, set. 27, of a weakly constitution, d Asthma.

A man, set. 27, weakly ; oedema pulmonum. 2 grs. every hour, cured in one day.

Woman, set. 40, weak and nervous, d Pneumonia.

I Man, set. 52. ^Periodically returning asthma.

Often suitable for spasmodic whooping-cough of adults.

Old a^e : orthopnoea ; bronchitis ; trembling ; paralysis.

Man, set. 30, habitual alcohol drinker, got 4 grains of Tart, emet. daily in his liquor ; in 15 days he was poisoned.

Effects of vaccination when Thuja fails, and Silic. is not in- dicated.

With Phosphor.., hydrocephaloid in worn-out constitutions; also similar in laryngitis, pneumonia, etc.

Follow with Silic. for dyspnoea from foreign substances in the windpipe.

Pulsat. in gonorrhoea] suppression.

Tereh. in symptoms from damp cellars.

Conium cures pustules on the genitals caused by Ant. tart.

Camphor., Ipec, Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur follow Ant. tart. well.

Ant. tart, follows well after Baryt. carh., Pulsat., Camphor, and Caustic.

Antidotes to Ant. tart. : Asaf., Ginchon., Coccul., Ipec, Lauroc, Opium, Pulsat. and Sepia.

Ant. tart, antidotes : Sepia.

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• Opium in large doses is the best antidote in poisoning.

Kali sulph. increased the symptoms.

Mercur. and Ant. tart, always differ by Mercur. acting only indirectly on the mouth, while Ant. tart, exercises a pure local action, similar to its action on the skin.

In diarrhoea similar to Veratr.

Useful after Bryon. and Caustic, in dyspepsia.

I After Pulsat. did not relieve. ^Rheumatic toothache.

I The 25th part of a grain, every half hour, in all half a grain. d Cholera,

i First trituration, as much as lies on the point of a knife, in two table-spoonfuls of water, a teaspoonful every hour, d Sum- mer complaint.

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