Berberis

Barlerry. Berheraeece.

Proved with groat assiduity by Dr. Hesse, and published in the journal for Materia Medica in 1834 ; translated and added in extracts to the Allentown editions of Jahr's Manual, hence frequently used in the United States. In 3843 Noak published a much better extract, no cures followed this. In 1854 Dr. J. H. Weber in Allg. Horn. Zeitung analyzed its symptoms. In 1879 H. V. Miller published cases in Lilienthal's Quarterly ; these were translated into German and printed in the Allg. Horn. Zeiiung, July, 1879.

^ Mind. Defective recollection and weak memory.

Terrifying apparitions in the twilight.

Mental labor, requiring close thinking, very difficult ; the least interruption breaks the chain of thoughts.

Melancholy, inclination to weep.

Indifference, apathy.

Indifference and pensiveness, with disinclination to speak.

Anxious and fearful.

Anxiousness while sitting, standing, or moving.

Fretful humor, with weariness of life. ^ Sensorium. ■ > Vertigo and dizziness in the head.

Vertigo: with danger of falling; when stooping and when rising ; struggling with the arms when rising ; with dizzi- ness, faintness, pressure in the forehead, succeeded by chills.

B Dullness and heaviness in head.

Tensive pain, also with pressure in temples and forehead.

Feeling of drunkenness, dizziness, vacuity, confusion, I heavi- ness in head, especially in front, with pressure in sinciput, at-

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tended with alternating chillinefs and heat from morning

till afternoon, succeeded by a nasal flux and sneezing, as if

catarrh would arise, but which does not appear. ^ Inner Head. Dullness of head like from coryza.

Heaviness in head, when stooping, as if the brain would fall

forward, with a sensation of bubbling, as if all would pro- lapse from forehead. Pressure from within outward, particularly in forehead, but

also in temples and occiput. Tensive pain, also with pressure in temples and forehead, or

with dullness of whole head. Pressing, straining, bursting headache, especially in sinciput,

chiefly in morning, increased by stooping, relieved in open

air; with weariness and exhaustion. Tearing in forehead and orbits.

Shooting, wringing, rending stitches above forehead and temples. Rending in different parts, particularly in temples and occiput,

arising from neck or extending to it; from edge of orbit

towards nose or upwards to forehead, or into orbits. I Tearing pain in whole head, now here, now there, in forehead

and temples. Stitches in forehead.

Sudden stitches from the eyes to forehead. Darting and shooting pains in head, often changing their locality. ■ A peculiar cold sensation in right temple. Heat in head after dinner, or in the afternoon, and from exertion. I A puffy sensation in whole head. I A feeling in head as if it were becoming larger. Fullness in head with sensation as if the head were enlarged. Headache aggravated by movement or stooping, relieved in

open air. Headache : accompanied by hepatic, or rheumatic arthritic

complaints ; or with aff"ections of the urinary organs ; or

with menstrual derangements. * Outer Head. In skin of head and face a tension as if it were

bloated, or covered with a cap, or benumbed, with difficulty

to move it. Tension of scalp and skin, as if swollen. Itching, with burning and stitches on scalp and face, more on

the occiput, especially in the evening, and changing its place

after scratching. Hot temples and cold cheeks. Biting, gnawing on scalp and face. Burning, pricking along the edge of hair on head. Single pimples on scalp and face, more on occiput, forehead

and temples. ^ Sight and Eyes. Shuns the light.

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Illusions ; in the twilight objects appear twice as large as natural.

Dim sight, all objects looking dark, as if through a veil, run- ning together, with itching around eyes and in face, preceded by incipient catarrh, succeeded by itching on legs.

Pressure in eyes.

Tearing in 1. eye ; also in lids.

Tearing in the forehead and orbits.

Tearing near orbits with lachrymation ; eyes and nose moist.

Painfulness of eyes.

Sudden shooting; arising from forehead and temples, or ex- tending to them.

I Violent shooting pains through eyes into brain, or from tem- ples to eyes; sometimes into arms, or from knee to eye. 6 After operation for strabismus.

Biting, burning, or itching sensation in eyes.

Dryness of eyes, with burning and redness of the conjunctiva.

Irritation in eyes, as if from sand, heat and burning, with a cloudy appearance.

Conjunctivitis, with inflamed lachrymal caruncle.

Cold feeling in eye, like from a cool wind, with lachrymation when closing eyes.

Coldness of eyes.

Eye symptoms < out-doors, < moving eyes.

Quivering of the eyelids when reading by candle-light.

Sensation of sand between lids; dryness of internal canthus and sensation as of a foreign body there.

Sticky feeling and white scum on dry eyelids, morning.

Itching, burning and smarting in lids, or in canthi, frequently only on small spots.

Red spot on left eyelid, feels like a mosquito bite, but swelling nearly closes the eye; next day other spots on face, behind the ear, and on neck; third day on chin and nose, with itching and burning; in evening covered with small vesicles, oozing watery fluid.

Itching in canthi, eyebrows, and eyelids.

Inflammation of lachrymal caruncles.

Dryness in internal canthus.

Tearing, especially in lids. ^ Hearing and Ears. Beating, and fluttering noise in ear.

Stopped up feeling in ear, with pressure.

Throbbing and roaring in ears.

Drawing, pressure, urging with stitches in ears.

Stitches in the ear.

Tearing and stitching in ears, through the membrana tympani, as if a nail were thrust through, or like from the sting of an insect.

I Shooting behind r. ear in attacks, < every evening.

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Outward piercing in ear, as if with a sharp pointed instrument.

Tearing, alternately in ear and other parts of body.

Alternating heat and coldness on external ear.

Pimples in front of ear.

Pimples; nodosities, size of hemp seed, on auricle, painful to touch.

Tumor behind ear, size of a hazel-nut. ^ Smell and Nose, Crawling, smarting, or itching in nose

Titillating irritation to sneeze.

From the left nostril a few drops of clear blood.

I iDrjfness of nose. ^Epistaxis.

Dry nose, succeeded by a chronic catarrh with an offensive discharge.

iThe nose and eyes moist, with sneezing, as if catarrh were commencing.

Indication of catarrh, succeeded by violent ophthalmic com- plaints.

During flowing catarrh, oppression on chest, particularly at night.

Catarrh of the nose, lasting for months, with catarrh of the antra Highmori and frontal cavities, with moderate secre- tion of a yellowish or greenish mucus, more copious in morning, and having a pungent smell or taste.

Chronic coryza on left side, extending to Highmorian cavity.

I Purulent yellow or greenish discharge. 6 Coryza.

I I Obstinate catarrh of left nostril, with secretion, first of yellow water, later purulent white, yellow or green mucus; empy- reumatic smell and taste, particularly in morning.

Pricking in point of nose. ^ Face. Tearing and stitches in cheek and jaw bones.

Squeezing, rending and stinging pain in facial bones, and in upper and lower jaw, as if from a blow, extending to temples.

1 Pains extending into Highmorian cavity; 1. side. ^Coryza.

Dark red, painful spot on right cheek.

Greenish face, with blue rings and the pink eyes.

For a long time has a fatigued, worn-out expression of coun- tenance.

llPale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue encircled eyes. 6 Fistula in ano.

Chilly feeling on cheek.

Sensation of chilliness, succeeded by deep red spots on the cheek, attended with heat extending over face in afternoon.

Heat and redness in face.

Heat and burning of face with red cheeks.

Dark red spot on cheek, after a chilly feeling, then spreading over whole face.

Burning and itching on the cheeks.

Cold shivering sweats on face.

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Sensation as if cold drops were spurted into face when going

into open air. Tension of scalp and skin of face, as if swollen. Bright red, inflamed pimples on cheeks and lips, ulcerated in

centres. ^ Lower Part of Face. Dingy red, bluish spot on inner side of

lower lip. Lips bluish on inside.

Formication in upper lip, around mouth and chin. Burning, itching, crawling and quivering in the lips. Lips dry, viscid, peeling off, with thin scabs. Dryness of lips, with scaling and formation of thin brown scurf

on edges. Pea-shaped vesicles on lower lip. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Scraping, gnawing pain in the teeth. The teeth as if too long, sensitive to touch and to air.

Tearing in left upper molar. Piercing pain in hollow teeth of lower jaw. Teeth as if too large. Compare Niccol.

Stitches in teeth; they feel too long or dull. Pain as if gums were torn, or tooth pulled out. Dingy red edge of gums ; small white nodules on gums. 1 I Gums bleed easily. Ulcer at an upper molar or incisor.

Sore gums during dentition. Suppurating ulcers above incisors and molars. " Taste, Speech, Tongue. Taste: of blood; bitter; sour.

Tongue smarts when touched. I Slimy furred tongue, d Hemorrhoids. Painful white blisters on tip of tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. Offensive metallic odor from mouth.

Mouth and fauces dry and sticky, especially in morning, re- lieved after eating. The mouth and fauces dry and viscid, especially in morning,

with a white tongue and frothy saliva; >- after eating. I Saliva sticky, like soapsuds. I Sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton. Ugly bluish-red spots in mouth. The under lip on the internal surface bluish-red. On the internal surface of the cheeks and lips, red, painful,

deeply suppurating pimples and watery pustules of the size

of a pea. I Aphthae. ^^ Palate and Throat. Increased redness of palate and tonsils ;

tonsils pain when speaking or swallowing; stitching like

from an awn in throat. Sensation of a plug in side of throat, with dryness, roughness

and scraping ; severe pain from empty deglutition.

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Inflammation of tonsils and pharynx, with swelling and fiery redness, and a sensation as if a lump were lodged in side of throat; expectoration of a quantity of thick, yellow, jelly- like mucus ; white, sticky tongue ; viscid saliva resembling soap-suds.

Empty swallowing hurts in throat.

A sensation of stiffness in throat, in some cases only on one side as if there were varicose veins. Compare Pulsat.

Scratching in throat, which compels hawking, especially in morning.

Scratchino; and burning as if from sand in throat.

Pain in 1. tonsil, as if a husk were sticking there, particularly when speaking and swallowing ; the interior of the throat red, the exterior very sensitive to touch and motion.

Sensation as of a lump in throat. ^^ Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions, i Great thirst, al- ternatino; with aversion to all kinds of drinks, d Jaundice.

Thirst, with dryness of mouth.

Great thirst, alternating with aversion to drink.

Appetite either increased or decreased.

I Want of appetite. 6 Hemorrhoids.

Increased appetite.

I Canine hunger, alternating with loathing of food. 6 Jaundice. ^® Eating and Drinking. Nausea before breakfast, gone after it.

Before dinner chilliness.

Heat in the head, after dinner and from exertion.

After eating solids, belching for hours, and soreness, continu- ing the whole night.

Worse after spirituous drinks.

Mouth and fauces dry and sticky, especially in morning ; relieved after eating. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Hiccough.

Frequent eructations, alternating with yawning.

Bitter eructations.

After eating solids, belching for hours, and soreness continuing the whole night.

Eructation and gaping, abating the complaints and pains.

lEructations without bad taste, or smell.

■ Frequent belching. ^Hemorrhoids.

■ Bilious eructations.

■ Violent heart-burn.

Nausea: before breakfast; after dinner. Nausea in the morning. Vomiting of the meals. ^'' Scrobiculum and Stomach. Very slow digestion.

■ Pressure in stomach. /? Hemorrhoids.

Pressure in stomach, as if it would burst, also stinging and burnino;.

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Chilliness in region of stomach, ceasing after vomiting. iViolent stinging, burning, peculiar pain in stomach, similar

to heart-burn but much worse, also extending upward into

the oesophagus. Pit of stomach puffed up. ^* Hypochondria, l Diseases of the liver. Pressure, also stitching in region of liver.

■ In hypochondriac region, near the border of the false ribs,

about three inches from the linea alba, violent sticking pains for a quarter of an hour, increased by pressure, extending across into the region of the stomach.

B Sticking, pressive pain in region of liver, increased by pres- sure, corresponding to the region of the gall-bladder, on a small spot, coming on spasmodically.

Shooting, pressing in region of gall-bladder after two hours; often later, even on the forty-sixth day.

1 1 Colic from gallstones.

iBilious colic, followed by jaundice.

lAt a point about midway between right ant. sup. spinous process and umbilicus, a sudden, sharp, severe pain, often extending towards the groin, sometimes extending upwards to r. hypochondrium, exceedingly severe, lasting 3 to 12 seconds, coming frequently, induced by exercise, e. g. walking, and more frequent and more Hevere the greater the amount of exercise; the day before the prescription was made, he had had thirty or forty attacks, having walked and stood a great deal.

■ Violent stabbing pain in region of the liver took his breath,

had to bend over.

■ Sharp, pinching pains in liver, which come suddenly and

with great severity; at times caused him to hold his breath, to bend over, and to get red in the face; pink sediment in urine; feces black, or very dark, very adhesive to the com- mode; frequent urging to urinate; feces scanty, requiring an effort to expel. Drawing-tearing in 1. hypochondrium, with sensation during inspiration, as if something were torn loose.

■ Pressure in left hypochondrium, backwards, drawing down-

wards.

■ Contracting, forcing sensation in 1. abdomen, upper part, worse

in left hypochondrium towards navel. Tearing, drawing, stinging and jerking in left hypochondrium. ;rCramp-like contraction in splenic region. TT Violent burning, like heart-burn, in 1. hypochondrium, extend- ing upward into the oesophagus. " Abdomen, Loins and Groins. Rumbling in bowels.

■ Constant troublesome bloatedness of abdomen, with occasional

forcible and noisy discharges of flatus, d Jaundice.

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Pain in colon descendens.

Colic-like pains, especially about navel.

I Pain in region about three inches to the side of the navel,

corresponding to a place in front of the kidneys, and rather

to the sides, mostly sticking, often extending to the lumbar

region or to groins, liver, spleen, or stomach. Burning pain in or under the skin of the abdomen. Shooting pains in epigastrium, particularly left side, increased

by inspiration, motion, or touching, attended with short

breath and distension of the abdomen. Periodical pressure from inside outwards, in left side, near navel. Pain on a small spot in left side. Compression and contraction in sides of abdomen, particularly

in the left one. Biliary colic, followed by jaundice. Whirling in stomach and abdomen. Visceral motions, like efforts to stool. Wandering, tearing, stinging pain in abdominal muscles. Stitching tearing or burning in skin of the abdomen, mostly

about navel. Turgid veins.

Old yellow spots around the navel peeling off. Pressure and tension in groins, as if a hernia would develop;

especially when walking and standing. Itching, or pressure in region of inguinal glands, with pain

from touch as if they would swell. In the inguinal region a pressing, squeezing tension, stinging

and cutting, extending towards the thighs, or proceeding

from the hips to the inguinal region and thighs. I Burning, smarting pain in right inguinal fold, with tension

on motion. I In the right inguinal region near the abdominal ring, some

varicose veins. ^" Rectum and Stool. Frequent ineffectual urging to stools. I Constant feeling as though she must go" to stool. I Looseness, with viscous slime. ^Hemorrhoids. Watery evacuations. ;rPainful diarrhoea with rumbling; a sensation of burning and

pain in descending colon; it burns down and out at the

anus ; never at night. Easy, soft, copious evacuation, like diarrhoea. 8 Several copious, thick mushy stools. iDiarrhoea; mushlike yellowish discharges, with rumbling and

passing of wind; squeamishness, much thirst; heat in face,

and dullness of head; afterwards in the evening, increased

Large, pappy, free stools, mostly with tenesmus before and

after.

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Scanty, thin-formed stool, hard or soft.

I Clay-colored stools ; occasional pain in big toe and leg, up to shoulder ; sometimes pain in bladder ; urine scalds.

■ Changing stool, irregular, costive or loose. 6 Hemorrhoids. Small, indurated, intermitting stool.

Hard stool, like sheep's dung, passed only after much straining.

■ Constipation.

■ Intense pain before and with stool, as from constriction in

rectum, preventing passage of feces.

■ Burning, stitching pain during, before, and after stool.

■ A long continued sensation after stool, as if one had just been

to stool, or as if one had just recovered from a pain in the anus.

■ Painful pressure in perineum ; stitches in perineum, extending

deep into (1. side) pelvis. ^Fistula in ano.

■ Smarting pain in the anus.

Soreness in anus, with burning ; pain when touched, and great

sensitiveness when sitting. Burning, stinging pain in anus, before, during, and after stool.

■ Tearing extending around anus. Bearing down in anus and in sacrum.

In anus pressure, and tenderness after evacuation, fullness, rasping and stinging, burning, itching, crawling and throb- bing.

■ Herpes around anus.

Copious discharge of black blood per anum after increased

exercise. Hemorrhoids, with itching or burning, particularly after stool,

which frequently is hard and covered with blood. Large hemorrhoidal tumors with itching and burning.

■ Fistula in ano, with itching there; short cough and chest

complaints.

■ Fistula since two or three months, with a troublesome short

cough and morbid appearance; after Berh. 18 cent., cough ceased in 48 hours, fistula improved for two weeks ; then a biliary colic which he bad not had for three years, but fre- quently before {Coloc); fistula improving; furuncle ap- peared for several weeks ; a kind of tetter on the edge of anus remained.

■ ■Fistula recti when attended with bilious symptoms. A crust formed about anus.

^^ Urinary Organs. In the lumbar and renal region a pressing straining, shooting or bruising pain, extending to the thighs, with stiffness, numbness and sensation of warmth, which prevents raising the body and rising up.

■ Pressive or tensive pain in region of loins and kidneys, some-

times on one side, sometimes on both or frequently across small of back, at times extending downward into posterior

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portion of pelvis, of thighs, and even to calves with a feeling of stiffness and lameness, or swelling of the back and lower extremities.

B Sticking or sticking-pressing pain, at times slight, at times very sensitive, in one or the other lumbar region, now in a small spot which is a simple sticking, now in a larger place, when it is chiefly pressing, either exactly in the region of the kidneys, or at times extending above or below, but espe- cially outward, so that it extends around side of abdomen in front or to region of hips, sometimes also in the spine and extending down to the small of back, and the region of blad- der and groins, sometimes fine, sometimes dull; the sticking sometimes extends from the region of kidneys straight for- ward into abdomen, and at times with a numb, paralyzed, bruised sensation, frequently returning and lasting a long time.

Tearing pain in region of both kidneys soon after rising in morning, which extends sideways and forward, both upward and downward, so that the whole region of back between pel- vis and thorax is affected.

Tearing, or tearing-sticking pain in region of loins and kidneys, usually worse on one side, frequently at same time in small of back, as if the region was crushed or bruised, with a feel- ing of stiffness, so that it was difficult for her to rise from sit- ting, so that hands must assist rising; sometimes also in- volving hip, nates, upper and posterior portion of extremi- ties ; at times also with a sensation of numbness.

I I Pressive or tensive pains in region of loins and kidneys, with a feeling of stiffness and lameness, or swelling, in back and lower limbs [Kali carh. without stiffness and lameness).

■ Tearing pulsating pain in right kidney.

;rSharp pain in right kidney, near the spine, from there down- wards into bladder.

Lancinating or tearing-pulsative pains in region of kidneys ; worse when stooping and rising again, sitting or lying ; bet- ter when standing.

Cutting pain from left kidney into bladder, urethra, and in penis.

Stitches from kidneys to bladder and urethra.

Stinging, burning, gnawing pain on a small spot near the kid- neys, increased by pressing hard upon, and moving fre- quently downwards or forwards.

Stitching or tearing in renal region and adjoining parts, with numbness and soreness, increased by hard external pressure.

I A sticking- digging, or digging-tearing pain in one or other kidney regions, as if it were suppurating ; aggravated by deep pressure.

Some stitches in one or other lumbar regions, especially in re-

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gion of kidneys, at times fine, at times dull, at times as if a nail were sticking in, and so violent and sudden that it stops the breath ; from outward within.

■ Burning and soreness in region of kidneys.

■ Burning stitches, single or several in succession, in region of

loins and kidneys.

BMuch pain, soreness and tenderness in back, in region of kid- neys, d Rheumatism of knee.

Symptoms in region of kidneys worse in stooping and getting up ; more while sitting or lying than in standing.

Pain, weakness and trembling in region of kidneys after riding.

■ Sensitiveness in region of kidneys so great that any jarring

motion, riding in a wagon, jumping from it, was intolerable. d Rheumatism. .

I After kidney complaints a foul, bitter taste, rush of blood to throat ; great appetite, hasty eating ; urine has reddish sedi- ment.

Frequently recurring, crampy, contractive pain, or aching pain, in bladder, when the bladder is full or empty.

■ Great urging, with pain in neck of bladder, with burning,

scanty urine. Pressure and contraction in vesical region when pressed upon, with burning in urethra.

■ Cutting, constrictive pain in bladder.

■ Violent, cutting, tensive pain, deeply seated in left side of

bladder, at last becoming a sticking, obliquely in the female urethra, as if in its orifice, lasting a few minutes.

■ Painful cuttings in left side of region of bladder extend into

urethra, coming from left kidney along the course of the ureter. Violent sticking pains in bladder, extending from kidneys into urethra, with urging to urinate.

■ Drawing sticking pain in one or the other side of bladder, ex-

tending down into the female urethra, often arising in lum- bar region and extending along the course of the ureters.

■ Burning pain in bladder, sometimes when it is full, sometimes

when empty, soon after urinating, several times ; frequently also in morning before urinating for the first time.

■ Pain in bladder when moving.

■ Most violent burning and shooting in orifice of urethra, after

climaxis, ?et. 50.

Urine smells like coffee.

Urine: increased and clear, with smnll slimy sediment, at be- ginning and during exacerbation of complaints.

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Greenish turbid urine, depositing mucus.

I Pale yellow urine, either with a slight transparent, gelatinous sediment, which is not deposited, or a turbid, flocculent, clay- like, copious mucous sediment, mixed with a white or whitish- gray, and later a reddish, mealy sediment.

iUrine bright yellow, with profuse mucous sediment.

Urine dark, bright yellow, or red, with sediment.

B Inflammatory red urine.

I Blood red urine, which speedily becomes turbid and deposits a thick mucous and bright red, mealy sediment, slowly be- coming clear, but always retaining its bright red color, with violent pains in kidneys.

I Urine dark, turbid with copious sediment. ^Jaundice.

I Urine contains a clear mucous sediment.

Much mucus, tough and in threads.

Urine lessened, and with copious, slimy sediment, when com- plaints abate.

Urine has a transparent, jelly-like sediment.

Copious, slimy sediment, with a white, gray, reddish furfura- ceous sediment, and yellowish-red crystals.

Passes small calculi.

Frequent urging to urinate.

In derangements of urinary or genital apparatus, with aggra- vation from slight fatigue, getting worse as fatigue increases.

Movement brings on or increases the urinary difliculties.

Constant urging, with pain in neck of bladder, mostly burning and scanty discharge.

I Urine very slow to flow, with much pain and pressure in region of bladder in front, d Rheumatism in knee.

The urine warmer, and attended with pain in lumbar and renal region.

I I Urinary symptoms are improved by rest.

During urination, burning in urethra, with pressure on the bladder.

Pain in hips while urinating.

I After urinating, a sensation in the bladder, as if one must go again soon, or as if some urine remained behind.

After urination, burning in urethra or bladder; pressure in the bladder; cutting, burning and stitches in the urethra.

Violent urging after urinating, particularly in morning.

BWith the symptoms in the urinary organs, pain in loins and hips. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Suppressed sexual desire.

Depressed sexual function with men too short, ejaculate too soon; with women, excitement too late, with cutting, shoot- ing pain.

Straining during and after ejaculation of semen.

Great prostration in the sexual parts after coition.

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During coition, too weak and too short thrill; ejection too soon and imperfect.

Weakness and insensibility of the male parts.

Sensation of weakness and unexcitabilitj in the parts, espe- cially after urinating.

Stinging, crawling, itching and throbbing in genitals.

Pain in genitals, increased by motion.

■ Burning in the urethra.

■ Smarting, burning pains in spermatic cord, with several

stitches, now on one, now on the other side.

Dragging or lancinating pains in spermatic cord, extending into testicles.

In the spermatic cord straining, burning, with stitching, draw- ing and pressure, extending to the testicles.

iSoft, pulpy swelling of the left spermatic cord, especially in the lower portions, several times when walking, with at times drawing, burning, smarting, or tearing pains; at times also when sitting, with pain extending down into the testicles, especially the epididymis.

■ Most excruciating pain extends along the urethra into bladder,

into testicle, which is drawn upon the aifected side.

■ Drawing pain in the spermatic cord of the right, frequently

of the left side, extending down into the testicles, or up into the abdominal ring.

■ Neuralgia and inflammation of spermatic cord, testicles and

in the testicles.

■ Penis hard and contracted all along the upper part, bending it

upwards, d With an old man. A hard string along the upper part of penis.

■ Burning at the very point of the penis within the canal.

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delayed thrill, and frequently cutting and stitching in parts during coition.

I Complete want of pleasurable sensation during coition, d Ova- rian disease.

Discharge too late and painful.

Coition is painful.

After coition, weakness of the parts.

Menses : scanty, of black drops or filthy slime ; too scanty and painful with pain in small of back ; consisting of gray mucus or brown blood ; fetid lumps ; too slight, of watery blood, or gray mucus ; too short.

Catamenia every three weeks.

The menses at the proper time, but too small in quantity, too short, resembling somewhat the washings of flesh.

Suppressed menstruation.

Uterine symptoms are at first intensified then relieved by ex- ertion.

For some days previous to catamenia, violent tearing in limbs, with severe pain in back.

At the beginning of menstruation, violent pain in kidneys.

The menstruation attended in the first days with pressure to- wards the parts, stitches, rasping in the vagina, burning and -soreness in the anus.

The menses succeeded by excessive lassitude and vehement shooting headache.

Pain during catamenia is often in the kidneys or down the thighs and calves of the legs, again in the head and some- times all over the body.

• Painful menstruation.

During the menses: pain in back ; pressure and tension in upper arm and shoulders, extending to the neck; vehement tearing through whole body, particularly left side; pain in kidneys; stitches in breast; vehement pressing headache; painful dis- tended abdomen ; exhaustion, faintness, shivering, very jaded countenance, irksomeness and weariness of life.

After the menses : great lassitude with tearing and stitching in the head ; pain in small of back and loins ; pressure in the mammse, especially at the nipple with sensation as if the mamma were swollen ; stitches in the left mamma.

Acrid leucorrhoea, very prostrating.

The pains in the external genitals increased by motion.

■ Violent sticking on left side of the abdomen, two fingers'

breadth from the navel, extending in long stitches into the left side of the vagina; smarting pain in the vagina; burn- ing, violent pain and soreness in the anus.

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Shooting-stinging from the perineum deep into the female parts.

■ Sensation of burning and soreness in the vagina, frequently very sensitive, especially in the anterior portion, even ex- tending to the labia.

Vagina painful to touch.

Vulva itching and burning; << walking or sitting, > lying.

Sudden lancinating in vagina, causing her to start, with sore- ness of the wall of the vagina to the touch, ■< walking.

Stitches from inside outwards, with tenderness of the vagina.

I I Intensely painful vagina ; burning, sore, as if excoriated.

Vagina reddened; uterus sunken.

Tearing in throat, upwards, particularly left side, with stiffness. ^® Respiration. Oppression, with fluent coryza, mostly at night.

Stitches affecting respiration.

With inhalation, stitching between shoulders, from back through chest.

Shortness of breath when going up stairs.

Obstruction of breath when raising the arm.

Breathing increases colic.

Pressure behind left nipple.

Rawness and soreness in chest, like during a catarrh.

Stitches in chest ; increased by deep inspiration, with short, dry cough.

Cutting contraction in chest, to abdomen, compels to bend over.

Stitches in chest (left side).

Stitches in anterior and middle of breast, particularly when deeply inspiring, attended with a dry, hacking cough.

Drawing-tearing occasioned by stretching the arm.

Tearing in chest, particularly in left side, towards shoulders and back.

Shooting pain deep in front of middle chest.

Sticking pain, or sticking pain with pressure in chest.

Violent, sudden, incisive, contractive pain, in front part of chest, extending down to abdomen, obliging him to bend double.

Lancinations from lower dorsal vertebrae through chest, arrest- ing breathing.

Deep seated, acute, lancinating pain in either iliac bone, ex tending obliquely inward and downward toward small of back.

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with bubbling stitches darting into the part to a considerable

depth. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Painful dragging-sticking

in region of heart, outward and downward. Very painful contracting urging-shooting in region of heart,

IB Pulse slow and weak, or full, hard and rapid. *" Outer Chest. Stitching, pulsating, pressing, or tensive pains in

upper arm. Tension in neck.

when lifting. Tearing between shoulders ; also between shoulders and spine,

with oppression of chest; in point of shoulder-blade, from

shoulders to loins. Drawing in shoulders ; stitches between shoulders, particularly

when breathing, below left shoulder ; from back through

Tearing, pressing ; burning and tension in back. Pressure in back, as if bones would be pressed asunder, with

heaviness, numbness, vibration and warmth, disappearing

shoulders, greatly increased whenever patient performed any

labor, d Fistula in ano. In the back as if beaten, disabled and stiff.

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Backache, worse while sitting or lying, mostly in morning, when awaking.

Sticking pain, or sticking with pressure frequently recurring, and long continued in one or the other lumbar region, at times in kidneys, at others a little above and below, extending out- ward and forward inside of abdomen, or region of hip, or dorsal spine, or small of back, into region of bladder or groin, or from kidneys straight into abdomen, with numbness and lameness, as if bruised.

Painful pressure and tension in lumbar and renal region, some- times with sensation of numbness, puffiness, warmth, stiff- ness and lameness, extending at times into lower limbs.

■ Tearing pain in posterior portion of iliac crest, usually only to one side, extending downward into gluteal muscles, or into bones.

I Deep-seated, sensitive sticking pain in ilium of one or the other side, an inch to an inch and a half from the spine, ex- tending obliquely inward toward sacrum.

I If she stooped the lower part of the back felt stiff, and it was with difficulty that she could stand up, on account of that painful stiffness ; this tearing was noticed even when sitting, more severe when standing; was relieved in the afternoon.

I A feeling of warmth in lower part of back, and in small of back, as if lumbar region were asleep, extending down into sacrum, hips, and posterior portion of thighs.

I Pressive- tensive, or pressing sensation in sacrum ; deep, inter- nal when severe, with a feeling as if bones would be forced asunder ; worse when sitting and lying.

I Violent pain in sacrum, d Hemorrhoids. Constant pulsating stitches in sacrum.

Bruised pain, with stiffness in small of'back ; rises from a seat

with difficulty. Numbness in small of back.

I I Pain in small of back ; worse when sitting and lying in the morning, when awaking, d During menstruation.

^^ Upper Limbs. Sudden stitch darting from side of neck into upper arm.

Tearing in the shoulder.

Vehement, intense pains on point and outside of shoulder-blade, towards shoulder-joint, and extending to elbow ; with a sen- sation as if beaten.

In the shoulder-joint pains as if from straining; in motion, in- creased by pressing upon.

Stretching, tearing, stinging, throbbing pains in shoulders.

Sensation of heaviness in the axilla.

Itching, smarting and burning in the axilla:

Gurgling feeling in shoulder, with sensation as if something alive in joint, especially about midnight.

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A rheumatic, paralytic-like pain in right shoulder, and some stitches over left eye.

In upper arm drawing, stinging, tearing on an isolated spot.

Sudden stitches, jerking, tearing into the bones of upper arm.

Violent pain in sinew of biceps, after lifting something, ex- tended upwards and downwards, when moving the arm.

Throbbing in the arm.

Stitches in left upper arm.

Arms pain as if bruised ; feel weak and lame.

Gurgling feeling in muscles of right upper arm.

Heaviness and lameness of the arms.

Pressure and heaviness in arm, which sinks down.

Numbness and disabledness on external side of arm ; increased when the arm hangs down.

Cold arms.

Soreness, with burning and painfulness to touch of skin about arms when sitting.

Blotches like nettle-rash on upper arm, scaling off.

Lymphatic swelling in flexors of arm, with petechia-like spots, and burning.

Dingy red marbled spots on arms, with bruised pain.

Pimple on point of each elbow, much inflamed after rubbing.

In the elbow-joint drawing, tension, tearing, stinging or burning.

Tearing from elbow-joint into ulna and hand, with heaviness and infirmity.

iPetechige, small and red, with white spots on forearm and backs' of hands.

Pressing pains in the inner side of forearm.

Lymphatic swelling of flexors of left forearm, with spots like petechige.

Tearing along the 'radius.

Stitches along the ulna.

Pressure in wrist, as if after spraining or straining.

In back of hand a pressing shooting, with vibration and sensa- tion of heaviness.

Burning pains in hands increased by friction.

Pain in the wrist after exertion with the hand.

Sensation as if drops of cold water were sprinkled on the back of the hand on going into open air.

Tearing along the metacarpal bones.

Tearing, violent stitches towards the metacarpus.

Tearing on back of fingers, chiefly in joints, frequently with stifi"ness, heaviness and swelling of joints ; increased by raov- ing and touching.

Burning stitches in the fingers.

Vibrating pain in fingers.

Stitches extending to the points of fingers.

Tearing in the points of fingers.

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Redness of the points and back of fingers, with itching ; after chilblains.

Pain under the nails, with tenderness to touch.

Small warts on the balls of hand, and on middle finger.

Small, flat, semi-transparent pimples, or rudimentary warts on fingers. ^^ Lower Limbs. B Pain in hips. ^ Kidney disease.

Drawing-stretching pain in thigh, as if it were too short.

Tearing-shooting pains in thighs.

Throbbing in thigh.

Stitches from outside inward in thighs.

Stitches at intervals in sitting or while walking, either through, across thighs, or from hip down to foot.

A peculiar, spongy sensation, as if feeling were lost in 1. thigh, from hip to knee ; cupping brought no blood ; has to limp in walking on account of the pain in left thigh.

Sensation of icy coldness on small spots of thigh.

Burning in thigh, mostly before catamenia.

Touch is painful even through her dresses, with burning of thigh.

Pain in thighs, worse from changes of weather, mostly before heavy wind.

Varices, from groins down the thighs.

Spasm in knee, extending to calf and thigh, when firmly lean- ing upon.

Spasm, with vibration and heaviness in knee.

Burning, stinging, tearing, pressing, increased by stretching feg.

Stinging in joint of knee, particularly on inner side, when walking.

Tension in bend of knee, as if tendons were too short.

Tired, bruised and lame feeling in knee.

B Sensation in knees as if palsied, weary and beaten, after walk- ing, and when arising from the seat.

BLeft knee twice the size of the other, very stiff, sore and painful, d Rheumatism.

Swollen veins in bend of knee.

Tearing, stinging, spasm and tension in calf of leg, during and after motion, attended with vibration, heaviness, stifi"ness and numbness.

Cramp in calf of leg.

Tearing pain in tibia.

Tearing and stinging in shin and tendo achillis.

In shinbone straining pressure, with vibration.

Lower limbs pain as if beaten, with heaviness ; can scarcely rise from the seat.

Twitching, as from something alive in legs.

Wasting of the lower limbs.

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Sensation as if sprained in muscles and bones of lower limbs.

Itching and swelling of legs, preceded by chill and heat.

I Great swelling, pain and stiffness, could not raise foot high

enough to walk on rough ground, would catch his toe and

and preventing motion. Lymphatic swelling of tendo achillis of left leg, with an ugly red

spot. Lymphatic swelling of tendo achillis and heels ; often tension,

drawing, rending, during or after standing or walking;

stitches in walking or sitting, pain as if overstrained. Swelling burns, itches, skin peels off; pain when lifting the

foot ; heavy and sore when stretching. In heels tearing and stinging, deep into bone, when walking

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Rending, crawling and sensation of warmth in sole of foot.

Tearing in balls of feet, with pain when stepping on them.

Stitches extending to big toe.

Stitches in the ball of big toe; in joints of toes.

At every step stinging in the big toe.

In the tip of big toe a pain, as from a blow.

Single jerks in toes, particularly in joints.

On the back of foot rending in all directions, terminating in the points of toes.

Stitches in the points of toes, chiefly outwards.

Burning-crawling ; itching ; vibration and sensation of warmth in toes.

Burning, pricking or soreness in toes, with redness, as after slight freezing ; tight shoes are intolerable.

Sitting : anxiety ; anus very sensitive ; pain in renal region

< ; pain in 1. spermatic cord ; vulvar itching and burning

< ; backache < ; skin of arms painful to touch < ; stitches in thighs ; stitches in tendo achillis and heels.

Rising from a seat : sensation in knees as if palsied.

Standing : anxiety ; pain in groins < ; pain in renal region >> ; pain 1. spermatic cord ; painful swelling of tendo achil- lis and heels ; stitches between metatarsal bones.

Lying: pain in renal region < ; vulvar burning and itching >■ ; backache ■< ; crawls.

Arm hanging down: numbness worse.

Raising arm : obstruction in breathing.

Raising foot : pain preventing flexion.

Exertion: heat in head; pain in wrist; uterine symptoms at first ■<, then > ; inclination to sweat.

Walking : pain between anterior superior spine of ileum and umbilicus < ; pains in groins ■< ; vulvar itching and burn- ing ■< ; pain in vagina < ; stitches in thighs; stinging in knee-joint ; painful swelling of tendo achillis and heels ; great weakness.

Ascending : shortness of breath.

Motion : anxiety ; headache <C ; pain in epigastrium <C ; pain in r. inguinal region < ; pain in bladder ; urinary difficulties -< ; pain in genitals < ; pain in finger-joints ; eye symp- toms <C ; pain in calf

Stooping or rising : vertigo; heaviness in head ; headache <C ; pains in renal region worse.

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36 Serves. Lame feeling all over, with warm feeling in lower part of back or sacrum.

■ General relaxation, not inclined to do anything.

Great weakness, like fainting, while walking and after a walk, with perspiration and heat on upper part of body ; cold, pale, sunken face and oppression of breathing.

Lamed all over with warm feeling in lower part of back and sacrum.

Painty feeling, with weakness and giddiness.

Faintness, with giddiiless or agitation of the blood, perspira- tion and heat of upper half of body, coldness and sallowness of face, and oppression on chest.

Lassitude, disabdity and soreness, increased by pressure; fre- quently connected with stiffness, heaviness, vibration, numb- ness and torpor, also with a sensation as if swollen.

Exhaustion so as to cause trembling and knocking together of the knees. ^^ Sleep. Gaping and eructation.

Great sleepiness during the day and after dinner.

Sleepiness by day ; feels tired, must lie down.

Sleepiness early in the evening.

When going to bed, fainty.

When lying down, crawls.

In bed, anxious feeling.

Slumber with phantasma.

Anxious dreams.

Restless, dreamful sleep, with frequent waking and congestion of blood to the head.

During night awakened by violent thirst, profuse sweat, or itching-burning stitches.

Getting awake at night, with excitement, congestion and tension in head.

Difficult awaking in morning, succeeded by pains in head and back, exhaustion and Avant of recollection.

Sleep unrefreshing.

Mind and body relaxed after sleep.

Frequent eructations, alternating with yawning. 38 Time. Morning : headache < ; sticky, dry eyelids ; catarrh more copious ; empyreumatic smell and taste ; mouth and fauces dry, sticky and viscid; scratching in throat; nau- sea; tearing pain in kidneys ; burning pain in bladder; vio- lent urging after urinating ; backache < ; difficulty in get- ting awake ; chill, with cold feet.

11 A.M : coldness of body; heat of face.

Morning until afternoon : alternating chilliness and heat.

During day : great sleepiness;

Afternoon : heat in head ; heat extends over face ; backache >> ; heat.

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Twilight: terrifying apparitions ; objects appear twice as large as natural.

Evening : itching on scalp and face ; eyelid covered with vesi- cles, oozing fluid ; shooting behind ear < ; increased appe- tite ; sleepiness early ; chill succeeded by heat and anxiety ; sweat.

Night : oppressed respiration, w^ith coryza < ; belching and soreness after eating solids ; awakened by violent thirst, pro- fuse sweat or burning stitches ; awakens with excitement ; sweat ; heat.

Midnight : gurgling feeling in shoulder, with sensation as of something alive in the joint. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Air : teeth sensitive.

Open air : headache > ; sensation as if cold drops were spurted into face ; sensation as if drops of cold water Avere sprinkled on back of hand.

Out-doors : eye symptoms worse.

Running cold, and crawls in the skin.

With the chill pressure and dullness of head.

Chill before dinner, with icy cold feet; dry, viscous mouth, without thirst.

Suffering parts chilly, in region of kidneys; accompanied by gooseflesh.

Chilliness in region of stomach, ceasing after thirst.

Heat in face, extending over whole body, which is cool, without thirst.

Chill as if in the bones, with warmth of skin.

Chills in back and backs of arms, as from cold water, evening before going to bed, afterwards warm.

Chills in back, extending to hips, as if produced by an icy cold wet handkerchief; in twenty minutes, succeeded by warmth; after a second attack swelling of the tendo achillis.

Shaking chills succeeded by heat.

Chill followed by heat with or without thirst.

Chill from the face and arms to the back and breast, succeeded by heat, with anxiety and oppression of chest, especially forenoon and evening.

Short crawl and shudder from up down through back and chest, followed by heat.

Chill in forenoon with cold feet, heat in the afternoon and sweating evening or night.

Coldness of body, with heat of face, commencing at 11 A.M.; heat and inclination to sweat at night.

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Chill either on back or on arms and legs, followed by burning heat, increasing in the night.

Cold feeling in the eye, like from a cool wind, with lachryma- tion when closing the eyes.

Chilliness, with hot face, followed by heat with perspiration ; or I burning heat in the afternoon, increasing during the night.

In morning, chilliness with cold feet, pressing headache, as if a catarrh would arise, heat in the head ; in the afternoon, general warmth and inclination to perspire.

Transient sensation of warmth at different places.

Fever heat in the afternoon.

Heat in hands and head in the afternoon.

With the heat anxiety, oppression of chest, shooting in the head, thirst and often sore throat.

Inclination to sweat with the least exercise.

i Typhoid and putrid fevers.

I Ao;ue with enlargement of spleen or pains in region of spleen. *^ Locality and Direction. Right : cold sensation in temple ; stitching behind ear; dark red, painful spot on cheek; pain at point between anterior superior spine of ileum and umbili- cus to hypochondrium ; pain and varicose veins in inguinal region ; pain in kidney ; pain from scapula to shoulder- joint ; paralytic pain in shoulder ; gurgling feeling in mus- cles of upper arm.

Left : tearing in eye ; red spot on eyelid ; chronic catarrh of nostril ; pains in Highmorian cavity of side; tearing in up- per molar ; pain in tonsil ; pressure in hypochondrium ; shooting in side of epigastrium ; pain in perineeum extends deep into side of pelvis; cutting pain in kidney; pain side of bladder ; stitch side of female urethra ; swelling sper- matic cord ; rasping-burning side of penis ; soreness side of scrotum ; tearing through whole side of body ; violent stick- ing side of abdomen ; pain in side of vagina ; tearing in side of throat; pressure behind nipple ; stitches in side of chest ; paralytic pain in eye; stitches in upper arm; pain and spongy sensation as if feeling were lost in thigh ; tearing in ankles ; itching on dorsum of foot.

Above downward : pain in spermatic cord ; pain in colon ; pain in abdomen ; pain in chest ; pain in cardiac region ; pain in shoulders ; pain in elbows ; stitches in hips.

Below upward : tearing in throat ; tearing between shoulders ; pain in sacrum ; stitches in foot.

Behind forward : stitching between shoulders. . Within outward : pressure in forehead ; stitch in 1. side female urethra ; stitches in vagina ; pain in 1. side near navel ; pain in cardiac region.

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Without inward : stitches in lumbar region ; stitches in thighs ; stitches in foot. *^ Sensations. As if brain would fall forward.

As if head were becomino; larger.

As if a cap covered head and face.

As of sand in eyes.

As of a foreign body in internal canthus.

As if a nail were thrust through membrana tympani, or like sting of an insect.

As if cold drops were spurted into face and on back of hand.

As if the teeth were too long or too large.

As if gums were torn.

As from an arm in throat (stitching).

As of a plug inside of throat.

As of sand in throat.

As of a husk sticking in 1. tonsil.

As if something were torn loose in 1. hypochondrium.

As if one had just been to stool, in anus.

As if a nail were sticking in lumbar region.

As of something alive in shoulder-joint ; in legs.

Lancinating : in region of kidneys ; in vagina ; from lower dorsal vertebra through chest.

Darting : in head.

Stabbing : in region of liver.

Stitches : above forehead and temples ; in forehead ; from eyes to forehead; in scalp and face; in ears; in cheek and jaAV bones ; in teeth ; in region of liver ; in skin of abdomen ; in rectum ; in perineum ; from kidneys to bladder and urethra ; in urethra ; in thighs ; in spermatic cord ; in female parts during coition ; In vagina ; between shoulders ; through chest; in and around clavicle; about heart; in muscles of chest ; from neck into arm ; between shoulders ; from back through breast ; in spine; in sacrum; into bones of upper arm ; in 1. upper arm ; along ulna ; toward metacarpus ; to points of fingers ; in tendo achillis ; in feet ; between meta- tarsal bones ; to big toe ; in ball of big toe.

Burning stitches : in loins and kidneys ; in foot ; in fingers.

Piercing : in ear ; in hollow tooth ; in foot.

Sticking: in lumbar region; in female urethra; in 1. side of abdomen ; in chest ; in back ; in ilium.

Sticking-digging : in region of kidneys.

Sticking-pressing : in lumbar region.

Pricking : on edge of hair ; in point of nose ; on forepart of ankle-joint ; in toes.

Stinging: in facial bones ; in stomach; in 1, hypochondrium; in abdominal muscles; in inguinal region; in anus; in leg; in knee-joint; in calf of leg; in shin and tendo achillis; in

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testicles; in penis and glans ; about heart; in shoulders; in upper arm; in elbow-joint; in heels; in feet; in big toe.

Shooting: in head; in eyes; through eyes into brain; from temples to eyes; behind r. ear; in region of gall-bladder; in epigastrium; in lumbar and renal region; in orifice of urethra; in thigh ; in chest ; in region of heart.

Shooting-stinging : from perineum into female parts.

Eending : on forepart of ankle-joint; in tendo achillis ; on dorsum of 1. foot; in sole of foot; in temples and occiput; in orbits ; in facial bones.

Cutting : in inguinal region ; from 1. kidney into bladder, urethra, and penis ; in bladder ; in testicles ; in female parts during coition ; in chest.

Tearing: in forehead and orbits; in temples; in 1. eye; in lids; in ears; in cheek and jaw bones; in 1. upper molar; in 1. hypochondrium ; in abdominal muscles ; in skin of ab- domen ; around anus ; in region of kidneys ; in r. kidney; in thigh ; in leg ; in calf of leg ; in tibia ; in tendo achillis ; in throat ; in chest ; in and between scapulae ; in spine ; in back ; in shoulders ; in upper arm ; in iliac crest ; into bones of upper arm ; in elbow-joint ; from elbow-joint into ulna and hand ; along radius ; along metacarpal bones ; on back of fingers ; in points of fingers ; in ankle-joint ; in external ankles to little toe; in heels; in foot; in balls of feet.

Tearing-pulsating : in region of kidneys.

Tearing-sticking : in loins and kidneys.

Pressure : in forehead ; in temples ; in sinciput ; in eyes ; in ears ; in stomach ; in region of liver ; in region of gall- bladder; in 1. hypochondrium; in groins ; in perineum ; in anus ; in lumbar and renal region ; in leg ; in spermatic cord ; in testicles ; behind 1. nipple ; in muscles of chest ; in back ; in sacrum ; in anus ; in inner side of forearm ; in wrist ; in ankle.

Pressing-shooting : in back of hand.

Drawing : in ears ; in 1. hypochondrium ; in spermatic cord ; in shoulders ; in upper arm ; in elbow-joint ; in tendo achilis.

Drrgging-sticking : in cardiac region.

Drawing-sticking: in bladder.

Drawing-tearing : in 1. hypochondrium.

Drawing-stretching : in thigh.

Jerking : in 1. hypochondrium ; into bones of upper arm ; in toes.

Gnawing: on scalp and face; in teeth.

Pinching: in liver.

Digging-tearing : in region of kidneys.

Biting: on scalp and face ; in eyes.

Burning: on scalp and face; along edge of hair ; in eyes ; of conjunctiva ; of lids ; of face ; on cheeks ; in lips ; in throat ;

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in stomach ; in 1. hypochondrium ; in skin of abdomen ; in descending colon ; in rectum ; in anus ; hemorrhoids ; in re- gion of kidneys ; in urethra ; in bladder ; in orifice of urethra ; in thigh ; in leg ; in spermatic cord; in testicles ; of glans and prepuce ; in female urethra ; in vagina ; in skin of chest; in back ; in axilla; of skin about arms; in elbow- joint; in hands; in foot; on dorsum of 1. foot; in toes.

Smarting: on lids; in canthi ; in nose; in anus; on chest; in axilla.

Corrosive feeling: in skin of chest.

Rawness : in chest.

Soreness : in anus ; in region of kidneys ; in 1. side of scro- tum ; through entire back ; about skin of arms ; in toes.

Aching : in bladder.

Sharp pain: in r. kidney.

Gurgling : in shoulder ; in muscles of r. upper arm.

Colic-like pains : about navel.

Bearing down : in anus and sacrum.

Tensive pain : in temples and forehead ; in region of loins and kidneys; in bladder; in muscles of chest.

Scraping : in teeth ; in throat.

Scratching : in throat.

Rasping : in anus ; in glans and prepuce ; in vagina.

Contracted feeling : of sole of foot.

Contraction : in 1. abdomen ; in splenic region ; in sides of abdomen ; in region of bladder ; of scrotum ; in chest ; in region of heart.

Constriction: in rectum ; pain in bladder; in testicles.

Cramp : in calf of leg.

Crampy pain : in bladder.

Rheumatic pain : in r. shoulder.

Bursting : headache.

Stretching pain : in shoulders.

Straining : headache ; in lumbar and renal region ; in sexual organs during ejaculation ; in spermatic cord ; in testicles ; shoulder joint pains as from straining.

Straining-pressure : in shin-bone.

Sprained feeling : in wrist ; in muscles and bones of lower limbs ; in metatarsus.

Bruised feeling : in lumbar and renal region ; in knee ; from r. scapula to shoulder-joint; in small of back ; in arms.

Beaten feeling: in back; in shoulder-blade, joint, and elbow; in lower limbs ; in tip of big toe.

Crushed feeling: in region of loins and kidneys.

Squeezing : in facial bones ; in inguinal region ; about heart ; in back.

Ulcerative pain : in heels ; under skin of feet ; in toes.

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Heaviness ; in head ; in calf of leg ; in back ; in axilla ; of

pains in shoulders ; in arm. Tension : in skin of head and face ; in groins ; in bend of

knee; in calf of leg; in neck ; in back; in elbow-joint; in

tendo achillis. Puffy sensation : in head.

Stiffness: in throat; in back ; in calf of leg; in neck. Tingling : in foot.

Whirling: in stomach and abdomen. Crawling: in nose; in lips; in anus; in testicles; in sole of

glans; in back; in sacrum, hips and thighs; on external side

of arm ; in feet. Paralyzed feeling: in region of kidneys; in knees; painful in

r. shoulder; in arms. Heat: in head; of ears; in face; in back; in sole of foot; in

small spots of thigh; in testicles; of prepuce and glans; of

scrotum; on ankle-joint; in feet. Itching : on scalp and face ; in eyes ; of lids ; in canthi ; in

eyebrows; in nose; on cheeks; in lips; in region of inguinal

glands; in anus; hemorrhoids; on scrotum ; in vagina; on

gurgling; sensation as of something alive. Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary

organs. I I Muscular rheumatism in chest, lumbar region, and upper

and lower limbs. Hepatic, arthritic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with

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Friction : burning pains in hands < ; rasping and pricking in skin worse.

Pressure : pain in liver < ; pain in renal region < ; pain in vesical region ; pain in shoulder-joint.

Lifting : tearing between shoulders to occiput worse.

Jar of riding or jumping: pain in renal region worse.

Riding in carriage causes pain in foot.

After riding : faintness.

Scratching : itching on dorsum of 1. foot < ; itching of scalp changes place.

Closing eyes : cold feeling as from cool wind, with lachryma- tion.

I After riding much pain and great sense of weakness and trembling in region of kidneys, taking a long time to get over, sometimes days. ^Rheumatism of knees. *® Skin. Jaundice, with pale, tough feces; or with profuse, acrid, watery diarrhoea.

I Old yellow spots around the navel peeling off.

In the skin much itching, biting, pricking and burning, with minute stitches, sometimes with increased sensation of warmth and with eruption.

Rasping and pricking in skin, increased by friction, and fre- quently succeeded by a red spot.

Burning, smarting, stitching or corrosive itching, which pro- vokes scratching, though it soon returns at the same or some other place.

I Red spot on left eyelid, feels like a mosquito bite, but swelling nearly closes the eye; next day other spots on face, behind the ear, on neck ; third day on chin and nose, with itching; and burning; in evening covered with small vesicles, oozing, watery fluid.

Red marbled spots: with corrosive or bruised pain; like pete.-- chia, with itching and burning.

Specks resembling nettle-rash and patches on shoulders, arms- and hands.

Efl&orescence, especially on border of hairy part of head, on. upper part of trunk and extremities.

Pimples, usually isolated, sometimes in groups.

Single, red pimples burning, itching, leaving brownl iver spots.

Red pustules, with burning, itching and stitching; sensitive to pressure; changing into brown spots.

I Furuncles. ^ Fistula in ano.

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I Herpes around the anus.

Itching or pressure in the region of the inguinal glands, with pain from touch as if they would swell.

Tumor behind the ear, size of a hazelnut.

Clusters of red pimples, with red areola and small tips, con- taining pus; changing to brown spots. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Especially suited where the renal or vesical symptoms are prominent.

Bilious diathesis.

■ Male, set. 34. For years indigestion from chronic gastritis,

reduced in weight, pale, discouraged; after improvement by Lycop. 6 Rheumatism of knee.

■ An old woman, set, 70 ; heartburn of thirty years standing. ^^Relationship. Antidotes to Berberis : Camphor., Bellad.

(cerebral and febrile symptoms).

Berberis antidotes : Aeon.

Aloes, Ant. tart., Arsen., Calc. ostr., Cale. pJiosph., Carb. veg., Qhamom., Cinclion., Lycop., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rheum.

Lycop., an occasional dose, aided Berber, in curing, d Rheu- matism of knee.

Useful after Arnic, Bryon., Kali bichr., Rhus tox., and Sulphur in rheumatism.