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soft in the vertex, with drawing in the vertex and occiput,

and tearing towards the temples. Heaviness in middle of brain. Pressure and confusion of the head. Feels like a heavy weight in head.

■ Feeling of weight in the head and on making any exertion,

sensation as if a liquid was fluctuating in the brain, on the

day following an attack, d Chronic cephalalgia. I Feeling at upper part of head as though the brain was sore

and tender. lOversensitiveness of the whole brain, or in diflFerent parts of it.

d Megrim.

■ Burning in the brain, with natural heat of the body, night

and morning ; worse from motion, better at rest.

Congestive and gastric headaches.

Bad effects from falls or blows on the head.

llMechanical injuries; especially with stupor from concus- sion ; fractures of the skull, or even compression (apply ex- ternally warm cloths saturated with dilute tincture from the root ; give also internally).

■ Headache > from motion on the pillow. ^Pneumonia.

■ Early in the morning he durst not set about reading, nor

working on first getting out of bed without incurring an attack, d Megrim.

Headache : violent on waking ; in the morning, stupifying ; from 3 to 8 p.m., pressive ; on walking in open air, press- ing ; with cough, stitch in forehead ; on moving head, stitches in head ; on rising or sitting up in bed ; on reading or re- flecting, pressure in forehead ; on stooping ; on walking, pressure in forehead ; on walking up stairs, pressing in fore- head.

Headache with vertigo.

■ Pain as if a knife were drawn through the head transversely

from the left side ; this is immediately followed by internal coldness of the head, which causes the hair to stand on end.

■ Brain affected, d Diarrhoea and dysentery.

Violent headache on waking in the morning, which reached such a point at 8 A.M. that while walking in open air he fell from dizziness ; disappeared at 10 a.m.

■ ■Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries, such as

concussions, bruises, falling, concussion of brain, etc., when suspecting exudation of blood, fibrine or pus. In such cases we find great sopor and partial paralysis of the tongue, the oculomotors, the iris or the limbs.

■ ■Meningitis after lesion or concussion, provided there is no

complete want of reaction.

■ Meningitis granulosa with the characteristic inclination to

vomit.

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I Serous or bloody exudation. ^Meningitis infantum.

I Apoplexy, loss of consciousness, with involuntary evacuations

from bowels and bladder, paralysis (left sided) ; pulse full,

strong ; stertor ; sighing, muttering. llApoplexia sanguinea. I No headache. ^ Apoplexia sanguinea. * Outer Head. ■ iHead feels too large.

SCold sensation in a small spot on the forehead as if some one

touched him with a cold thumb. Unbearable feeling as from ice on top of head ; after breakfast.

■ Burning or hot spots on top of head, d Prolapsus ani.

I Head hot, rest of body cool. ^Iritis. ^ Prolapsus uteri.

Pain in occiput as if hair was pulled out or as from severe elec- tric shocks.

I A pressure in the forehead as if these parts were crushed by a violent concussion ; this feeling extends over the face into both cheek-bones.

I Better by lying low with the head. 6 Iritis.

I Boring head deep in pillows. 6 Meningitis infantum.

I I Pressive headache over the eyes extending toward the tem- ples, with sensation as if integuments of forehead were spas- modically contracted.

■ Carries the head forward or to the right. ^ After injury to

left eye.

Recurring boils on scalp. '^ Sight and Eyes. B Photophobia. ^Apoplexy.

I Early in the morning fullness of head, soon followed by flick- ering before the eyes, which was increased by reading or writing. ^Headache occurring once or twice a week for twelve years.

Diplopia after injuring the eye.

If she attempts to read the eyes pain and the print seems to dance in a fog and vanish, so she must rub the eyes.

Muscse volitantes.

■ Cork from a bottle struck right eye seventeen days before,

eye swollen for four days ; sees through a mist, pupil moder- ately dilated and immovable without a trace of exudation.

■ All turns black before the eyes. ^Meningitis infantum. Loss of sight after a violent blow.

• Darkness before the eye and loss of vision with the headache. 6 Prolapsus ani.

■ Feeling of great weight and heaviness in the eyes, with in-

tense headache. Pressive pinching pain in the inner half of the right eyeball,

gradually ceasing on motion in the open air. I I Drawing pain in r. eye. I I Stitches in the eyes. ■ Shooting tearing pains in both eyes and surrounding parts;

< in bed and by warmth, d Ophthalmia. I 1 Burning in the eyes. I Insufficiency of the superior oblique muscle of the left eye.

■ Traumatic muscular paralysis in a robust man twenty-five

years old.

■ Double vision and vertigo on looking downward, carries his

head somewhat forward and turned to the right, d Trau- matic muscular paralysis.

■ All high objects appear to lean forward and about to fall

upon him. d Traumatic muscular paralysis. Pupils first contracted, twenty-four hours later dilated.

■ Contraction of pupils with cloudiness of head.

■ Dilated pupils, with sensitiveness to light.

I I Right eye projects from head and looks larger than the left. Eyes protrude, staring, denoting anguish. I I Eyes sunken.

■ Eyes dull, expression stupid. ^Typhus.

■ Congestion to eyes; balls blood-shot.

■ Eyes very red. ^Pneumonia.

■ Eyeball resembled a piece of raw flesh.

■ Conjunctiva much reddened; photophobia. ^Rheumatic

■ ■Inflammation of eyes, with suggillations after mechanical

injuries.

■ Subconjunctival ecchymosis, resulting from whooping-cough

■ ■Retinal hemorrhage; expedites absorption of clots. I I Amblyopia after a blow on the head.

■ Relaxed condition of blood-vessels and too fluid condition of

blood predisposing to hemorrhages. 6 Whooping-cough.

■ Traumatic ulceration, with much hemorrhage into the anterior

chamber.

■ Lachrymation, shooting and tearing pains in both eyes and in

the surrounding parts ; < in bed and by warmth.

■ Considerable lachrymation. d Ophthalmia. I I Sharp fine stitches in the inner canthi.

I I Itching in the canthi.

■ Severe ciliary neuralgia; head hot, body cool. ^Iritis.

I Sensation of oppression and drooping in eyelids as if they

could not be raised. Difficult and painful motion of eyelids, they are swollen, and

balls feel as if excoriated ; eyes and lids red ; < closing,

>> opening the eyes.

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I (Edema of dry, hot, inflamed lids, with much subconjunctival

suggillation. 6 Iritis. Margin of upper lids painful when lids are moved, as if they

were dry and slightly sore. llA variety of eye troubles resulting from blows and various

injuries ; sometimes applied locally (tincture diluted with

water) and sometimes given internally.

■ Bruised iris after cataract operations.

■ Traumatic mydriasis.

Traumatic ulceration, with much hemorrhage into the anterior

pressure. I I Cramp-like pressive pricking under the left eye on the nasal

bone, extending over the eyeball. ® Hearing and Ears. Great sensitiveness to loud sounds, with

pain in ears. I Noises in the ear caused by rush of blood to the head ; with

great sensitiveness to sound.

■ Buzzing and humming before the ears with difficult hearing.

6 Meningitis infantum ; sequel. llHard hearing from concussions.

■ Deafness after typhus.

Rushing in ears with deafness of r., and stitches through 1. ear. Pain internally in cartilage of 1. ear, as if the parts had been bruised or contused.

■ Bruised pain in ears, stitches in and behind ears; ears very

dry. Feeling of heat externally in left ear and cheek.

■ Suppurating otitis with stupor.

■ After suppuration of internal ears, d Typhus. Discharge of blood from the ear.

■ Swelling of parotid gland. ^Measles. ^ Smell and Nose. ■ Swelling of the nose.

■ Sneezes twenty or thirty times with a violent slinging motion

of the head, until sinking on the bed exhausted ; hardly hav- ing recovered his breath another attack follows. I I Nose pains from above down as after a violent fall on it.

■ ■Epistaxis.

■ ■Nosebleed: preceded by tingling; ■copious after every

exertion; ■■from mechanical causes; ■after washing the face; ■■whooping-cough; ■■typhus; ■blowing nose.

■ Ulcerated nostrils.

Nose cold but internally hot ; or with dry heat of the face.

■ End of nose cold. ^Pneumonia. Pain in glabella, over the root of nose. ■Discharge of several drops of thin blood from nose on first blowing it in morning.

■ Frequent blowing of nose viith. traces of blood.

^ Face. ■Right cheek hanging, mouth drawn to the left side. d Apoplexy.

■ When breathing, cheek blown up, expanded. ^Apoplexy. Countenance much sunken.

■ Face rather pale and a sense of chilliness rather than of heat.

d Chronic headache.

■ Pale, sunken ; sallow. 6 Cholera infantum.

■ Complexion earthy, looks unhealthy. /? Diarrhoea.

Dry heat in face toward evening, extending as far as behind ears, without any thirst, nose being quite cold.

■ Redness and burning in one cheek, otherwise cool or at any

rate not hot.

■ Face deep red, almost as red as mahogany, d Typhus.

■ Face hot and red, with cold legs. 6 Meningitis infantum.

■ Face and forehead hot. 6 Apoplexy.

■ The puffed cheeks are highly reddened. ^Apoplexy. ^ Swollen cheeks, with throbbing and stinging pain.

Red swelling of right cheek, with throbbing and pinching pain ; swollen lips and great heat in the head, with cold body. ^ Lower Part of Face. Lips burn ; are swollen and cracked.

■ Lower lip trembles, d Typhus.

Bruised pain in (right) articulation of jaw, from motion, early

in morning. Lower jaw hanging.

Swollen lips with heat in head. ^o Teeth and Gums. ■ ■Toothache after operation, plugging, etc. Excruciating pains, cutting, tearing in all teeth of right upper

jaw, radiating to ear ; worse from external warmth or from

inhaling fresh air. Tooth feels as if forced out of its socket ; throbbing toothache.

■ Gums sore, swollen. ^Teething children.

■ Beating and tingling in the gums, d Toothache. Toothache as if the teeth had been bitten out, sprained, were

■ Dry tongue and disinclination to talk. ^Typhus.

■ Dry almost black tongue. ^Typhus.

■ Tongue coated yellow with bitter taste.

■ In morning taste of rotten eggs. '

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Biting sensation on the tongue, with soreness, burning, and

stinging in the back part of the throat. Violent burning from the fauces through the oesophagus to the

I Tongue: coated white; 8 dry, with a brown streak down the

■ Spits sometimes a little blood. ^Typhus. I Mouth dry, with much thirst.

I I Burning scraping in mouth and oesophagus ; increased saliva. ^^ Palate and Throat. Stinging in back of throat between acts

of deglutition. I Chronic pains in fauces and larynx, worse for a long time

there ; afternoon, lying down. I I Scraping burning from throat to stomach, which became a

would not go down.

^* Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions, i Appetite disturbed,

eating increases the pain, d Chronic attacks of headache.

■ Appetite lessened. ^Diarrhoea. ^Myalgia.

Loss of appetite and sourness of stomach of brandy drinkers, and creates a disgust for brandy.

■ Total want of appetite for ten days, loathing the very sight of

of dilatation.

■ Constant desire for drinks, but knows not for what, as all

drinks are offensive, d Diarrhoea. Longing for vinegar or sour things ; for alcoholic drinks. ^^ Eating and Drinking. ■After eating, distress in epigastrium.

■ Vomiting of food, obstinate constipation and restless, sleepless

nights, d Concussion.

During dinner, one cheek hot.

After eating : feels worse ; distress in epigastrium (after a blow) ; repletion, and colic-like pressure in several places in abdomen and sides ; fullness in pit of stomach ; pressure on a little spot ; migraine ; toothache ; indolent feeling in legs.

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After too copious a meal vertigo with nausea, obscuration of

then vomits. '' Nausea and Vomiting, i Hiccough, d Meningitis.

1 1 Eructations: frequent; empty; bitter.

I Putrid eructations ^ Uterine prolapsus. ^Diarrhoea.

Eructations like rotten eggs in the morning.

I Belches after coughing.

Extreme nausea.

I Nausea in epigastrium, d Uterine prolapsus.

1 I Nausea, burning scratching in the throat ; general relaxation during forenoon.

■ Empty retching, ineffectual efforts to vomit.

Retching at night ; vomiting however does not come on ; in the pit of the stomach there is a weight as of a lump.

Vomits : the least food taken ; bitter, yellow bile ; coagulated blood. - 1 1 Vomiting of dark red coagula, mouth bitter ; general sore- ness, d After injuries. . ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomacll. ■ Stomach distended with wind ; pressure on prsecordia, oppression of chest.

Pain in stomach as if its coats were spasmodically drawn to- gether ; > by eating. i • ■ i. ^

■ Pinching, spasmodic griping in stomach. Heaviness and pressure in the stomach.

■ Pressive cutting pains in epigastrium, with nausea and retch-

ing, d After blows on stomach. Soreness in stomach with putrid eructations, like rotten eggs.

■ Feeling of repletion in stomach with loathing. ^Angina

distended ; feels worse from pressure ; ■ Ifoul belching. I I Easy and rapid transfer of cerebral irritation to the stomach,

ending in nausea, retching and vomiting. 6 Megrim. 1 I Much mucus in throat and stomach.

■ ■Dyspepsia. ^ Prolapsus ani.

1^ Hypochondria. Severe pressure at epigastrium.

Pressive cutting pains in epigastrium, with nausea and retching.

■ Sensible to pressure in region of liver. 6 Stupor.^

■ Stitches in region of liver ; painful when turning in bed.

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Pressure: in region of liver; like a stone, both during inspira- tion and expiration ; felt lying on the left side.

Pressing in region of left ribs below the heart, daj and night.

I Pain and fullness in right hypochondrium from a blow.

I Stitches in splenic region, with soreness on pressure. d Splenitis, in intermittent fevers.

I I Stitches under false ribs, left side, interrupting breathing when standing. ^^ Abdomen, Sharp thrusts through abdomen from one side to the other.

Pain around navel when moving.

I Dull, heavy pain in left hypogastrium, followed in a few hours by a copious discharge, d Dysentery.

■ Seized in the middle of the night with violent cutting and

burning pains in hypogastrium, mostly left ; pains intermit- ting, ceasing after 15 to 20 minutes, d Dysentery.

Colic resembling dysentery, a kind of grinding deep in the hypogastrium, within the hips on both sides, accompanied by nausea and slumber.

Intermittent tearing in left half of pubic eminence.

Colic with strangury.

Swashing in abdomen as of water.

I I Pains in abdomen and headache, d Angina pectoris.

Right side of abdomen hard, swollen, with pain as if cutting into a wound when touched.

lAbdomen bloated, d Diarrhoea.

I Hard swelling of right side of abdomen, with severe pain when touched ; > by escape of flatus.

■ Tympanitic distension of abdomen, frequent urging to stool. ^° Rectum and Stool. ' ' Constricting cramps in rectum while

standing. I I Painful pressure in rectum.

■ Ineffectual urging to stool.

■ Frequent urging to stool, with severe pressure at the anus.

d Dysentery.

■ Tenesmus with severe pains. ^Dysentery.

■ Inclination to evacuate bowels recurring every four or five

hours, the tenesmus being severe during stool, d Dysentery. Sensation of rumbling in the rectum for three days, not attended by the usual stools.

■ lOifensive flatus ; smelling like rotten eggs.

■ Frequent small stools. ^Dysentery.

■ Diarrhoea, stools resembling brown yeast.

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I 1 Painless stools of undigested food.

■ Involuntary discharge of feces during stupor, f/ iyphus. 6 Meningitis infantum (in later stages).

I I Stool involuntary during sleep (also urine). ^Fevers. ^Apoplexy, etc. ,i i v

Stools : of undigested food ; bloody ; purulent ; bloody, slimy mucous, with urging and violent bellyache ; dark, bloody mucous, with sore, bruised feeling in abdomen ; brown, fer- mented (like yeast); averse to food; fetid breath; very offensive, papescent, at times involuntary ; involuntary dur- ing sleep ; frequent, small, mucous ; fluid, foamy, terribly offensive, acrid. . v n

Tenesmus followed by a copious thin or pap-like sourish-smell- ing stool, giving great relief. _

I I Urging to stool every half hour, nothing but slime being

iFrequent, fluid, frothy, acrid, very fetid stools, with much flatulence ; girl, set. 2i.

■ Scanty, slimy, dark colored, bloody stools. ^Dysentery.

I Dark, bloody mucous stools, with sore, bruised feeling m abdomen. ^Dysentery.

■ Excessive pain and discharges of pure blood and mucus.

6 Dysentery.

■ Copious discharges of dark, venous blood, amounting in quan-

tity at a time to about a quart, came on at intervals of about four hours, greatly relieving pain in abdomen for an hour or two. ^Dysentery.

■ ■ Dysentery with ischuria, or tenesmus of neck of bladder with

fruitless urging.

■ ■Most marked indication is the long intervals between the

stools, namely from four to six. hours. 6 Dysentery.

■ Stool tardy. ^Apoplexy.

■ Obstinate constipation after a blow on epigastrium.

During stool: rumbling and pressure in abdomen; ■ urging,

■ Pain in the anus as if it were bruised, d Dysentery.

■ Pressive pains in anus and rectum, mostly in anus. dDjs-

enterv. , , ,

■ After "suffering much from hemorrhoids a very troublesome

and painful prolapsus of anus lasting four months.

■ After walking five or ten minutes the prolapsus protrudes and

hinders him from going any further, forces him to return home without delay.

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I During the headaches the rectum does not fall down and vice versa, d Prolapsus ani.

I A man after suifering from hemorrhoids in a weakened and re- laxed state. 6 Prolapsus ani, ^^ Urinary Organs. I Chill followed by nephritic pains, nausea and vomiting, without relief; the vomiting produces excru- ciating pain in epigastrium, extending to right hypochon- drium and down to the groin, d Nephritis.

I Piercing pains as from knives plunged into the kidneys;

chilly, inclined to vomit.

■ Agonizing pains in back and hips as from passing calculi.

d Renal colic.

I I Constant urging while urine passes involuntary in drops. 1 1 Frequent attempts to urinate.

I II Has to wait a long time for urine to pass. 1 1 Retention of urine from exertion. 1 1 Ischuria with dysentery. Spasmodic ischuria with hot hoofs, excrement in small balls

(horses). 1 1 Involuntary urination at night during sleep. ^Apoplexy.

d Typhus, etc.

I Involuntary urination when running.

I I Involuntary urination at night with a red sediment. 6 Par- ralysis.

I Urine in small quantity, staining napkin yellow-brown." d Cholera infantum.

I Urine of a very dark brown color.

I I Urine brown with lateritious sediment.

I Brown clear urine which immediately becomes whitish and

d Nephritis. I Bloody urine. llHsematuria from mechanical causes.

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1 1 Urine thick, with much pus and some blood-globules, but no tubes. ^Nephritis.

1 1 Urine very acid, with increase of specific gravity.

Before urination : agonizing pains in back and hips ; pressure in bladder. .

During urination: burning pain along perineum and dis- charge of pus from urethra. 6 After a fall on perineum.

At the'end of urination : cutting in orifice of urethra.

Violent continued erections often waking.

Feeling of weakness, relaxed testicles, as after an emission ; early in bed.

Emission of semen (day or night) during an affectionate caress.

Testes indurated, swollen and tender.

Spermatic cords painfully swollen, stitches in abdomen.

I Hydrocele caused by a bruise.

llPenis and testicles swollen purple-red; after injuries. Erysipelas of scrotum extending to the anus.

I I Phymosis from friction ; parts bruised and much swollen.

" Female Sexual Organs. ■ Pains like from spraining in ovarian region (groin) obliging her to walk bent, d Ovarian diseases.

■ Metrorrhagia after coition. ^Prolapsus uteri.

I Bruised sore feeling remains after a hurt in abdomen, cannot

walk erect. 6 Prolapsus uteri. _

I I Prolapsus uteri caused by a concussion leaving a sore, bruised feeling in uterine region, which prevents her from walking erect.

1 Ulcers of uterus with a tendency to bleed. Menses generally too soon ; nausea in epigastrium.

■ Menses too frequent and profuse, d Prolapsus uteri.

■ Bloody discharge between the menstrual periods. ^Prolap-

sus uteri.

■ Blood bright red with mixed clots. 6 Prolapsus uteri.

■ Uterine hemorrhage.

Labia painfully swollen. .

24 Pregnancy. iPain between crest of r. ilium and sacrum during pregnancy.

■ It feels as if the foetus were lying crosswise.

■ ■Threatened abortion from falls, shocks, etc.; nervous, ex-

cited ; feels bruised. Labor-pains: violent, yet they do but little good; weak, or

ceasing, wants to change position often ; feels bruised. ■Metrorrhagia after coition, d During pregnancy.

■ Constant dribbling of urine after labor.

■ ■ Soreness of parts after labor ; prevents hemorrhage.

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I Hemorrhages bright red or mixed with clots ; head hot, body

I Swelling of mammae from contusions.

Mastitis from bruises ; erysipelatous inflammation.

■ After an abscess in l;i mamma, the r. became hard and tender,

the 1. being opened instead of cured by inward medicine; the r. became swollen and red, pitted on pressure, the horrible cut with the knife brought no matter ; three days later the lancet was plunged in again, pus and blood came, but not freely ; toward night breast got painful, middle of night tre- mendously swollen. Finally the cut closed, but left an angry bright redness of surrounding skin, which changed to a malignant purple hue, the woman became greatly exhausted and shivered. Arnica lotion relieved at once, and very soon there followed a healthy discharge from the abscess.

I I Sore nipples.

■ Child is breathless, bruised ; or the mother has had a long,

painful labor. 6 Asphyxia neonatorum. Nipples of child swollen and tender, Ohamom. ; after pinching

by nurses, Arnica. *® Larynx to Bronchia. ■ Voice deep ; or low, muttering.

Hoarseness from overusing the voice ; also early in morning. Raw, scraped sensation along trachea and bronchi.

■ Tickling sensation in trachea.

When lying down, crackling sensation in trachea ; evening.

■ Hoarseness of preachers and military officers, from long

preaching and commanding, also of conductors from calling out the railway stations. 1 In throat, sound of a subdued whistle.

■ Cough is difficult, most in lying position, d Apoplexia. *® Respiration. ■Breath fetid, short, panting.

Worse on inspiration ; better expiration. See 28.

■ Inspiration quick, expiration slow.

■ Quick inspirations and expirations.

I I Short, panting breathing. ^Angina pectoris. Oppression of chest, with anguish and heat in head.

■ Anxiousness and dyspnoea; when getting awake. Dyspnoea, head hot, face red, body cool.

■ Dyspnoea from a blow on the epigastrium.

Asthma, with inclination to move about; sleepless, before mid- night; looks as if dying.

2^ Cough. Dry, short, hacking cough.

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I Cough produced by itching irritation in upper part of larynx,

during siesta. I Constant insupportable tickling in larynx and trachea, causing

cough day and night, d Pneumonia. Tickling in lower part of trachea, and dry, hacking cough,

most at night. Dry cough, with tickling in the chest.

■ Constant dry cough, which shakes the whole frame.

■ Child weak, fretful, has a frequent short cough, d Diarrhoea. Cough after screaming or crying.

I Cough excited by cries in children when accompanied by

anger and tossing about. After gaping he coughs.

■ Cough after measles. Cough at night during sleep.

■ Paroxysms of cough at night during sleep, not awaking.

d Heart disease.

■ ■Hooping cough: ■ ■ child cries before the paroxysm as though

in fear of the soreness it will cause ; cough causes blood-shot eyes, nosebleed ; expectoration of foaming blood, or clots of blood.

■ Sputa loosened with difficulty.

■ Spitting of frothy phlegm with water, d Pneumonia.

■ Expectoration: offensive, green, purulent, blood-streaked;

■ when loosened must be swallowed; day and evening scanty, difficult expectoration of transparent, glairy slime, mixed with black dots, or bloody, d Bronchitis.

■ Sputa mixed with blood.

■ Severe haemoptysis in a phthisical patient; blood darkish,

semi-fluid, and expelled after a hacking cough.

■ ■Hemorrhage after mechanical injuries; slight spitting of

black, thick, viscid blood, or bright red, frothy blood, mixed with mucus and coagula.

■ ■Haemoptysis.

During cough: scratching in throat, tickling in trachea; ■ raw- ness, stitches in chest; ■ asthma; catching of breath; con- gestions and heat; bruised feeling in ribs; ■vomiting;

■ pressure and stinging in head; prickling on the head. Cough, with stitching in the sides of the chest.

■ Oppression of chest, with anguish. ^Angina pectoris.

I Sensation of an oppressive weight at upper part of chest, with a feeling of constriction in throat.

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I Pains in right side of chest, dependent on over-exertion of

right arm. d Myalgia. I Aching pains in chest.

I Dull aching pain in 1. chest. ^Pneumonia. Chest sore when coughing, sputa blood streaked ; cannot raise

the loosened mucus.

■ Burning or rawness in the chest.

His chest feels affected, raw ; his sputa are sometimes tinged with blood, especially when walking.

I Stitches in chest (left), worse from a dry cough; < from

6 Angina pectoris.

■ Stitching pain in one side of chest, with a short cough, which

creates the pain. IB Pleurisy after mechanical injuries; must continually change position, bed feels so hard.

I I Pneumothorax from external injuries.

I Pneumonia after whooping cough, especially where there is

much soreness on coughing. I Chest sore when coughing, sputa blood streaked ; cannot raise

the loosened mucus, d Pneumonia, d Pertussis. fiAll the joints of the bones and cartilages of the chest feel

painful, as if they were sprained, bruised; during motion and

breathing.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. sPain from liver up through

left chest and down left arm ; veins on hand swollen, purplish ; sudden pain, as if heart were squeezed, or, as if it got a shock, d Angina pectoris.

■ Region of base of heart feels as if bruised. 11" Strain of the heart," from violent running.

■ Irritable cardiac action. ^Myalgia.

■ ■Fatty degeneration of heart. i Great cardiac distress.

■ Stitches in cardiac region.

■ Painful pricking in the region of the heart.

■ Stitches in heart from left to right, with fainting fits.

these parts, and coldness of the rest of the body.

■ Palpitation after almost any exertion; goes off by rest.

■ Beating of heart, more like a quivering, d Angina pectoris.

■ Motion of heart first very rapid, then suddenly slow. ^Angina

pectoris.

■ Pulse not full or rapid, temperature not increased. 6 Chronic

attacks of headache.

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■ Pulse 72, less frequent and weaker than usual. ^Apoplexy.

■ Full, hard slow pulse, d Typhus.

Pulse : accelerated, full hard ; sometimes quicker than beat of

heart; intermittent, feeble, hurried, irregular; fluttering. 1 1 Pulse, in rest, below 60, after moving, above 120. d Nephritis. When the pulse grows slow, it is weak.

■ Very low, weak, rapid pulse, d Typhus.

I Faintness, feeble, hurried variable pulse and irregular rythm of heart, horror of instant death, d With the cardiac dis- tress in the night. ^*' Outer Chest. ■ ■ Articulations and cartilaginous connections of chest feel as if beaten, when moving, breathing, or coughing.

I Violent stitches in middle of left chest.

I Pain through thorax, stitches with cough, which increased the pain.

I I Pressive pain in right chest, at a small spot which remains unaltered either by motion, contact, or breathing.

Pains in intercostal muscles.

I Pains in left side of chest, at insertion of greater and lesser pectorals ; had to lift heavy weights with the left hand. d Myalgia.

■ Severe pain in left side of chest and abdomen ; pain was not

only along the insertion of the pectorals, especially their lower portion, but also along the digitations of the external oblique abdominis and serratus magnus, from working in a constrained position.

Red sweat on the chest. ^^ Neck and Back. Weakness of cervical muscles ; they do not support the head steadily.

I Violent spinal pain, as from sudden rising after long stooping.

Her head feels so heavy, and is so movable from weak, cervi- cal muscles, that it inclines easily to all sides.

■ Great sensibility of cervical vertebrae to pressure, d Conges-

feeling of being drawn in, as if a cord was tightly drawn

■ Pain in region of lumbar vertebrae. ^Nephritis.

Small of back pains ; stitches when coughing, breathing deeply,

sometimes from continued stooping in hard work, in rising

from bed in morning.

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Pressive pain between scapulae, which seemed to extend from

posterior wall of stomach. Pain in right scapula toward the back, as after a violent blow

and cervical vertebrae, and great weakness of muscles of

neck, pain as of a bruise, and compression of chest. ^^ Upper Limbs. I l Violent twitching pain from shoulder-joint to

bend his fingers inward. I Cannot lift right arm. ^Apoplexy.

■ Sensation as if joints of arms and wrists were sprained. iPains in arms and hands, as if knocked against something

hard. Forearm and hand much swollen and red, surface covered with

vesicles. I I Slight cracking and sensation of dislocation in right wrist

with large and small vesicles, which gave skin the appear- ance of a rhinoceros hide. Drawing in right thumb.

a fine stinging pain, as if a splinter were in it. ^^ Lower Limbs. Abscess of psoas muscle.

■ Drawing pressive pains in left hip-joint, thigh being extended,

when sitting.

I Hips pain as if sprained.

I Boring, tearing pains shifting from right hip-joint to various parts ; worse at night, cannot find an easy position ; bear- able during day, and during motion, d After a sprain.

■ Formication ; lame feeling; must often change position, bed

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or chair seems so hard, d After exertion, long marches, etc.

when touched ; these spots were more numerous after

mental emotion or exertion.

■ Carbuncle on the thigh.

Large open inflamed carbuncle, red ; on inner side of 1. thigh.

I I Knee-joints suddenly bend when standing, feet numb,

insensible. Prick in the knee when touched.

■ Complains of a feeling as if the knee were dislocated, and of

a paralytic weakness of the whole limb. ^ After an injury.

I I Hygroma patellae. White swelling of knee.

■ Arthritic pains in foot, worse toward evening; fears passers

by may strike it; big' toe-joint red, feels sprained.

Want of power in ankles and feeling of a heavy weight in each

■ Feet feel tired or inflamed after a walk.

■ Hot erysipelatous inflammation and painfulness of foot.

■ ■A splinter ran deep into the sole months ago, producing a

great deal of proud flesh, came out after inner and outer use.

When walking, on raising 1. foot, and bending 1. ankle, crawl- ling in outer half of 1. sole, as if the nerve were pulled.

Tearing in left little toe.

■ Corns (pare them and apply externally).

■ Young lady subject to headache and neuralgia; when head-

ache got better, the same pain would come on in some small spot on lower extremities. ^^ Limbs in General. Heaviness in the limbs.

■ ■Paralytic pain in all joints during motion, as if bruised.

■ Limbs as if bruised at rest or in motion; painful concussion

from jolting of carriage or stepping firmly.

■ Soreness in limbs. ^Meningitis.

■ Limbs ache as if beaten. ^ Intermittents.

■ Tearing, with soreness, numbness, swelling, or tingling.

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mach < ; aching and pains in forehead < ; burning in brain ■< ; pains in chest <C ; pulse 120 ; paralytic pains in all joints < ; bruised feeling of limbs; chills <.

I In walking, feeble, as if suddenly blighted with old age.

Walking : in open air relieves pinching in right eyeball ; pres- sure in forehead ; when running, urine involuntary ; small of back pains ; thighs pain as from a blow ; crawling outer half left sole ; vertigo ; prolapsus ani ; cannot think after walk in open air.

Walks bent: prolapsus uteri.

Running : involuntary urination.

Rising : dizziness and sick stomach ■<.

Sitting : pain in left hip-joint.

■ Undisturbed horizontal posture alleviated some, and a few

hours of sleep made it to disappear, d Chronic attacks of headache.

Ascending : pressive pain in forehead.

Standing : cramps in rectum.

Must lie down : after stools ; from weakness.

Lying : dizziness and sick stomach > ; on left side, pain in re- gion of liver ; stinging in skin ; feels hot, etc. ; must lie stretched out on back; must lie down after stool ; pain in fauces as from something rough ; relieves vertigo ; must lie stretched out on back, megrim ; with head low, iritis is better.

Better when lying on the side or on the back.

At rest : burning in brain > ; pain in eyes < ; pulse 60 ; limbs feel bruised.

Turning in bed : liver painful.

IB Complaints from exertion: hoarse, overusing the voice; pal- pitation; formication, lame; paralysis; bruised feeling; sci- atica ; weary, faint ; retained urine ; nose bleed.

■ Every exertion : walking, stooping, talking, increases the pain

to an almost insufferable extent, d Chronic attacks of head- ache. Inclination for motion : asthma, etc., boring pains, better.

■ Better with the head low or in a horizontal position; worse

rising from a seat or assuming an erect position. Complaints when overhurried : urine involuntary when run- ning, etc. 36 JJerveg, Twitching of the muscles.

■ ■Head feels hot to him, body feels chilly and cold, between

frequent attacks of violent convulsions. ^ After Aeon.

■ Tired feeling, as after hard work or as if beaten, d Intermit-

tent. General weakness.

■ Great weakness. ^Apoplexy.

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■ Great weakness followed by fearful exhaustion and shivering,

after the repeated useless lancing of abscesses of mammae. I Weary, bruised, sore, great weakness, must lie down, yet bed feels too hard.

■ Weakness, weariness, sensation as of being bruised; these

■ Great prostration. /? Typhus.

■ ■General sinking of strength; he can scarcely move a limb.

d Typhus.

■ Paralysis depending on extravasation of blood in the brain. Paralysis : generally painful ; left-sided (after apoplexy) ; par- tial, from concussion of the spine or brain.

^^ Sleep. ' I Frequent yawning in evening, without sleepiness.

■ [Sleepiness ; too sleepy early in the evening.

■ Languor, drowsiness, d Cholera infantum.

■ Drowsy state. ^Meningitis infantum.

■ ■While answering, falls into a deep sleep before finishing.

d Typhus.

■ Somnolence.

Is often kept awake until 2 to 3 a.m. from heat, restlessness and constant desire to change position ; or from prickling stinging biting, now here now there on the body.

Sleep restless, frequently waked by dreams.

■ Restless sleep, t' Apoplexy.

■ Sleep at night restless and interrupted, d Diarrhoea. Unrefreshing sleep, loud blowing breathing.

Lies preferably with head low or horizontally.

■ Sleepless all night, has to lay the limb now here now there,

but no relief. 6 Caries.

■ Passes many nights sleepless. ^Prolapsus ani.

■ Cannot fall asleep, and while lying awake fantastical visions. During sleep ■loud talking, whimpering, loud blowing in and

expirations ; feces and urine pass involuntarily ; head jerked backwards.

■ Loud crying out in sleep, d Meningitis infantum. Involuntary expulsion of faeces while asleep.

I Sleep was much disturbed.

On falling asleep : starts as in fright ; is aroused by heat.

■ Frequent starting in sleep, d Meningitis infantum.

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■ Falling asleep, lying on one side, he has pleasant dreams, but

awakes with a violent pain in the shoulder-joint and arms ; hands fall asleep.

■ Falling asleep while lying on back ; awful dreams of robbers

and murderers, and of being buried alive, suffocation, etc. I Dreams: vivid; frightful, of graves, black dogs, struck by

lightning, etc ; unrefreshing, anxious, with talking, d Typhus. iMany vivid dreams. ^Meningitis infantum. 1 I Dreams repeat ; had the very same often before. 1 Awoke six or seven times, each time from dreaming that he

was dying, his bed surrounded by friends, to take their last

leave. iWhen getting awake, they stare and look about anxiously,

lEarly after getting up, he dare not at once read or work men- tally, without getting a spell, d Megrim. 38 Time. Night : retching ; urine, stool involuntary ; coughs in

sleep ; boring, tearing, right hip-joint. Night : violent, cutting pains in hypogastrium ; involuntary

m open air. I Sudden cooling after overheating, followed by a consumptive

Wants his cold feet covered.

■ Worse in damp, cold weather. ^Paralysis.

■ Temperature changeable, one time cold, and another warm.

d Diarrhoea. I All the while a longing to be in the free open country air.

■ All summer and autumn. ^Dysentery.

■Washing the whole body with cold water is the only thing that gives relief for the time, d Prolapsus ani.

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■ Violent chill, lasting six hours, succeeded by fever for eight

hours, both returning every day towards evening. 0 Dysen- tery, a Shivering over whole body and head, at same time heat in head and redness and heat in face, accompanied by a cool- ness of the hands and a feeling as of the hips, back and anterior surface of arms being bruised.

■ Chilly internally, with external heat.

1 1 Chilly, with heat and redness of one cheek.

1 1 Head feels hot to him, body chilly and cold; > between

thirst ; uncovering makes him chilly ; chilly even when

BThe exhalations smell sour; nightly sour sweat. BAll three stages, rigor, heat and sweat well marked, i Thirst great before and during the chill, less during the heat

and with the sweat almost gone. ^Intermittent after

bitter taste, aversion to meat.

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BB Traumatic fevers.

B Hectic fever, emaciation. 6 After a blow on stomach.

B Typhus or dysentery with little pain in abdomen.

BB Typhoid conditions.

BB Putrid fevers. *^ Attacks. Worse during the increase of the moon.

B Periodical attacks of megrim.

B Spasms of cough.

BBHeat in oft repeated short attacks.

Periodically repeated rheumatic pleurisy. ^^ Locality and Direction. ' ' Unilateral commencement of pains, d Megrim.

Right : pressure in half of head, especially over brow ; head- ache; carries head to r. after, injury to left eye; drawing pain in eye ; eye projects from head ; pressive pain inner half r. eyeball ; rushing in ears, deaf in r. ; cheek red, swollen ; jaw pains ; cutting in teeth right upper jaw ; pain and fullness in hypochondrium ; r. side of abdomen hard, swollen ; pains in side of chest from excessive use of right arm ; scapula painful ; sharp drawing back of hand ; wrist as if dislocated ; pressive pain joints of ring and little fingers ; pains shift from hip ; calf pains as from a blow ; malleolus pains.

Left: pain in head; stitches in frontal eminence; pain as if knife were drawn through head transversely ; pricking under eye ; stitches in ear ; cartilage as if bruised ; ear and cheek hot ; pressure in liver, lying on left side ; j)ress- ure ribs below heart ; stitches under ribs ; dull heavy pain in hypogastrium ; pain from liver to left chest and down left arm ; aching in side of chest ; stitches middle 1. chest ; 1. scapula to middle finger ; pain in abdomen ; drawing pressive pain in hip-joint ; hand dark blue ; wrist powerless ; paralysis ; cramps in fingers ; drawing in skin of little finger ; hip ; tibia burns ; foot ; little toe ; crawling in sole ; epigastrium to r. hypochondrium.

Left to right : abscess of mammae ; stitches in cardiac region ; pain as if a knife were drawn through the head.

Within outward : pressive headache. " Sensations. Peculiar sensation as if : the brain were rolled up in a lump ; head were being distended, or it feels too large ; an extravasation of blood had taken place, in forehead; integuments of forehead were spasmodically contracted ; as from a nail thrust into the temple ; a knife was drawn through head transversely from 1. side ; forehead and cheek- bones were crushed ; hair was pulled out, in occiput ; teeth were forced or pressed out; coats of stomach were spas- modically drawn together ; squeezed together, cardiac pain ;

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a cord was tightly drawn across lower part of loins ; foetus

were lying crosswise. Stitches : rapid, in 1. frontal eminence ; in forehead ; in eyes ;

in inner canthi ; through 1. ear ; in region of liver ; in

splenic region ; through abdomen ; in urethra; in abdomen;

in chest ; in cardiac region ; in small of back. Cutting : in teeth ; in epigastrium ; in hypegastrium ; like

Pricking : and tearing in forehead ; in knee. Darting : in forehead.

Splinter pain : in pimple between thumb and index finger. Tearing : towards temples ; in and around eyes ; in teeth ; in

1. half of pubic eminence ; in r. hand ; in r. hip-joint ; in

r. foot ; in 1. little toe ; in finger tips ; in limbs. Drawing : in vertex and occiput ; in r. eye ; in r. hand ; in 1.

from fauces to stomach; in stomach; in hypogastrium ;

along perineum; in chest; in cardiac region; on outside of

throat ; in stomach ; of chest ; of back ; in limbs. Aching : in forehead ; through temples to 0'3ciput ; in stomach ;

of chest. Pressure : in r. half of head over brow ; in forehead ; in

eyeball ; in stomach ; on prsecordia ; at epigastrium ; in

anus and rectum ; in bladder ; in r. chest, at a small spot ;

in lumbar region ; between scapulae ; in 1. hip-joint ; in

cartilages of chest ; in joints of arms ; in hips ; in big toe ;

of r. jaw ; in abdomen ; in anus ; in joints of chest ; base

of heart ; in r. scapula and small of back ; in whole back ;

in thighs, in arms ; in balls of thumbs ; in lower limbs.

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Twitching pain : from shoulder-joint to middle finger ; in dorsum of r. hand ; in middle finger.

Cramp-like, pressive pricking in 1. eye and nasal bone.

Dull pain : in forehead ; back and limbs ; over eyes ; in 1. hypogastrium.

Undefined pain : over root of nose ; around navel ; in abdo- men ; between crest of r. ileum and sacrum ; in r, side of chest; intercostal muscles; in lumbar vertebrae in calf of r. leg. _

Throbbing : stinging or pinching in swollen cheek ; toothache.

Fluctuating sensation in brain ; in abdomen.

Constriction in throat ; constricting cramps in rectum.

Electric shocks in occiput.

Heaviness : of the head ; in middle of brain ; in eyes ; like a weight at upper chest ; in insteps ; in limbs.

Heat : in forehead ; of head ; in 1. ear and cheek.

Coldness : in forehead ; in head, after knife-like pain ; as if - touched with a cold thumb on forehead ; like ice on top of head ; of nose.

Crawling, as if nerve were pulled, in sole of 1. foot.

Tingling : in nose ; in gums ; in back ; in lower limbs.

Tickling in trachea.

Itching in canthi ; all over. ^* Tissues. 1 1 Concussions and contusions.

I Bleeding of internal and external parts.

I Venous enlargements, varicose tumors on the lower limbs. d Dysentery.

BB Burrowing pus, not painful.

BB Prevents suppuration.

Prevents formation of pus by withdrawing water from the serum ; the watery contents of urine increase without in- creased drinking. Grauvogl.

Exudations in brain and spine.

Dropsy of internal parts.

B BHyperinosis is rather a contra-indication for Arnie.

Muscles rigid.

BBSepticsemia ; tendency to typhoid forms.

BB Myalgia; particularly after overexertion.

I IJactication of tendons.

Painful sensitiveness of all the joints and of the skin, on mak- ing the slightest motion.

BB Gout and rheumatism.

B Bones (periosteum) ache. ^Intermittent.

B Paralysis of sphincters. ^Typhus.

B B Inflammation of skin and cellular tissue ; tender on pressure.

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Painfulness of the limbs to touch.

llEverythin'g on which he lies seems too hard.

< Bed-sores; especially sacral region and hips. /? Typhus.

I Worse after riding; sick stomach from car or carriage riding.

After over-lifting, attacks of violent sneezing. See 7.

i I Sprains, with much swelling, bluish redness, intense soreness.

I Ixlfter bruises with blunt instruments, d Iritis.

II Concussions ; falls; mechanical injuries. 1 1 Contusions without laceration. Friction : phymosis.

listings of bees or wasps; splinters.

1 1 Compound fractures, and their profuse suppuration.

Pressure : aching in epigastrium <; ; liver sensitive ; spleen sore ; stitches in chest >.

llMechanical injuries: concussion of brain while there are unconsciousness, pallor, or drowsiness; weak, intermitting pulse ; cold surface, and other indications of depressed vitality from shock ; threatened abortion ; ovarian troubles ; orchitis ; mastitis, etc., etc. ^® Skin. Intense pricking or itching on the entire body.

I Skin hot and dry. ^Pneumonia,

■ Hot, red, oedematous skin. Petechige, ecchymoses.

I Phlegmonous erysipelas.

Numerous small semi-transparent vesicles with red bases, on some parts confluent, great and excessive irritation from itching. The course of the eruption was : first heat and great itching of the skin, then redness, then vesicles, increas- ing in size, with intolerable itching ; slight desquamation, followed with some redness of skin ; where irritation had been worst the skin remained for some time hard, leathery.

I I Many small boils painful, one after another; extremely sore. I Carbuncle.

I Varicose ulcers: torpid; dirty, bluish bottom; no pus, but watery, fetid secretion, half transparent crusts, like thick glue, fetid ; painful ulcers. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Dark hair, rigid muscle.

Hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl.

I I Light complexion, sandy hair, sanguine, d Whooping-cough.

I Nervous, cannot stand pain, d Prolapsus uteri.

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■ Especially suitable to those who remain long impressed by

even slight mechanical injuries.

■ Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, with red face.

d Prolapsus uteri.

■ In cases of sanguine plethoric people with lively expression,

very red face, disposed to cerebral congestion. 6 Prolapsus uteri.

Full-blooded, strong, old people.

Strong man, much dosed with quinia.

A lymphatic man leading a sedentary life, made a kind of opo- deldoc of arnica and soon got many and alarming symptoms, lasting fully a month.

Girl, set. 2|-, cured by the tincture, of diarrhoea of several weeks standing.

Man, set. 25, bilious temperament.

A woman, set. 35, nervous temperament, dysentery.

Man, set. 57, short, thick, apoplectic habit, dark red face, ac- customed to spirituous drinks, d Paralysis of r. side.

A robust man, set. 50, inflammation of eye after a cold.

Man, set. 67, acute stitches in ears followed by stupor, after an unusully cold bath. ** Relationship. Antidotes to massive doses : Camp]io7\ Ipec.

Ignat., Ipec, Seneg. It follows well after: II Aeon., Ipec, Veratr. ; after Apis, in

hydrocephalus. After it follow well : Aeon., Arsen., Bryan., Ipec, Rhus tox.,

Sulph. ac

■ Headache is most quickly and certainly removed by a cup of

coffee, d Prolapsus ani. Arnic is indicated in ailments from spirituous liquors or from

charcoal vapors. Arsen. aided Arnic in dysentery with varicose veins.

■ ■Complementary to Aeon.

Alternated successfully in cases where the change of symptoms

Sulph. ac. ; Veratr.

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