Bryonia Alba

White Bryony. Ciicurhitaceoe.

The juice of the fresh root before flowering. Proved by Hahnemann and pubhshed in 1816 in second part of his Materia Medica; 208 of his own symptoms, 102 from students, Mishler, Homburg, Riickert and Dr. E. Stapf and one of Nicolai.

In 1824, second volume of second edition : 537 of his own and 242 symptoms from others; additional provers are Her- mann and Fred. Hahnemann. In 1833, third edition, 781 symptoms of the former. An unnecessary reproving was made by thirty-one Austrian physicians, many taking (as they did with Aconite) another species, the dioica; further additions by 0.

Piper, Lemke, Drs. Stow and Price, and a proving of the Jenichen^™ by Berridge and some poisonings appeared in the journals.

^Mind. 1 1 Partial loss of consciousness. ^Hydrocephalus. Unconsciousness.

I Unconscious, could not speak. ^Cholera Asiatica. Stupefaction. Weak memory. I So weak in mind that his ideas disappear as if he would faint,

together with heat in face, especially on standing. Confusion of head, especially of forehead. Confusion in head with drawing in occiput, extending into

neck before going to sleep- Head confused and aching, as after a night's dissipation ; does

not wish to rise, morning on awakening.

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Difficult comprehension.

I Sees visions and faces when closing eyes. ^Typhus.

Fancies ; mental excitability.

I Nightly delirium.

Delirious talk, especially at night.

I In the morning, at daybreak, delirious.

B Delirium at night of the business of the day. ^Typhus. Delirium about his business ; worse at night, after 3 a.m.

I I Talking of the business of the day in his delirium. ^Diar- rhoea.

BThe patient desires to go home. ^Typhus.

1 1 Desire to get out of bed and go home. ^Diarrhoea.

I Desire for things that cannot be had, which are refused, or not wanted when oifered.

Prattling about business to be attended to.

I Irrational talking of his business.

Hastiness.

Taciturnity.

Weeping mood, with headache and other complaints.

Dejection ; despondency ; irritability.

Great depression and very morose mood without any cause, quite contrary to his habit.

Depression and apprehension for the future.

Great sense of insecurity, with mental depression and appre- hension for the future.

I Apprehensiveness ; fearfulness.

Apprehensive ; uneasiness and dread on account of the future.

Anxiety and restlessness.

I In the room he became very anxious, better in the open air.

■ Anxiety in the whole body which compelled him to do some-

thing constantly, and wherever he went he found no rest. IB Anxiety about the future, particularly in childbed or after,

she fears not to have wherewithal to live. Anxiety, worse in room, better in open air. BB Anxious, peevish and hasty disposition. Fea,r of death, which he thinks is near. B Fear of death. ^Pertussis. Anxious feeling referred to sternum or cardiac region; pressing

or painful sensation. Easily startled, with headache. B Despair of recovery. /^Pertussis.

■ Great despondency ; disinclined to think; exhaustion of intel-

lectual powers. Both mental and bodily quietness is required. B Irritable mood.

■ Mood at once irritable, weeping and morose. BYery irritable; inclined to fright, fear and vexation. Irritable mood ; wishes to be alone.

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BBYery irritable; inclined to be angry ; after getting angry: chilly or a red face and heat in head.

■ Peevishness. ^Diarrhoea.

I Peevishness, irritability and violence. ^Pertussis. I Morose; everything puts him out of humor.

■ Ill-humor. ^Diarrhoea.

I Very ill-humor; troubled with needless anxiety. Contradiction easily provoked anger during the whole proving. Obstinate and passionate. I Mental exhaustion.

■ Somnambulism. Restless ; wants to change.

Restlessness, with fear of the future; fear of death, which he

thinks is near. Restlessness, with nocturnal heat. I Bad effects from mortification, violence and anger. I Ailments arising from chagrin, and other conditions, when

attended with chilliness and coldness of the body. After having been angry, he is chilly ; has red face and heat

in head. As consequence of fright : painful rigidity of the limbs. ^ Sensorium. Sensorium blunted.

I I Distracted state of the sensorium.

■ Stupefaction of the head.

■ Great confusion in the head, especially in the frontal region.

■ Confusion of the head after rising from bed.

■ Confusion in head with drawing in occiput, extending into

neck before going to sleep.

■ In the morning, on waking, the head is as confused and ach-

ing as if he had dissipated and been drunk the evening pre- vious ; does not wish to rise from bed.

■ Dizzy in morning, and weak in the limbs the whole day. Dizziness on turning the head, or on stooping.

■ Giddiness, especially when rising from a seat, or from a re-

cumbent position. G-iddiness, with sensation of looseness in brain when stooping,

and when raising up the head. Swaying to and fro.

■ In the morning, on rising from bed, dizzy and whirling, as if

the head were turning in a circle.

■ ■Sensation in bed as if she was sinking deep down.

■ Tendency to run backwards.

Vertigo: as though all objects were reeling; as though the brain were turning around; as if the head were turning in a circle ; on rising ; or on raising head ; with reeling backward.

■ Slight vertigo on raising the head after inclining it forward.

■ Vertigo like whirling if he sits up in bed, with nausea in mid-

dle of chest ; as if faintness would ensue.

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I Vertigo as if one were being turned around, or as if every- thing whirled about when standing.

I I A^ertigo conjoined with headache in occiput ; •< from motion. ^ Inner Head. I Vertigo and confusion of head on slightest mo- tion.

iPressive frontal headache very much increased by stooping.

Pressing outward in frontal region and left eyeball, especially on stooping.

I iFullness and heaviness in forehead : as if brain were pressed out ; with bleeding of nose ; red, bloated face ; worse when opening or moving eyes; when stooping; in evening; from motion ; better from closing eyes ; from external pressure.

I A pressive pain in forehead, so that he can scarcely stoop.

■ Pressive pain in forehead and occiput; ■< by motion.

■ Headache, as if everything would press out at forehead. Pressive pain above left eye, followed by dull, pressive pain in

occipital protruberances, thence spreading over whole body ;

on quick motion, and after eating, pain so severe that it

seemed a distinct pulsation within the head. Great fullness and heaviness of head, with digging pressure in

direction of forehead. Tearing across forehead, then in cervical muscles, then in right

arm. Burning in forehead. Headache in forehead and temples, with pressure from within

out, and sensation when stooping as if everything would fall

out of skull. Puin in right temple ; a tensive twisting in single muscle fibres. Pain in both temples, pressing from within outwards.

■ Slight drawing in temporal bones, from above downward to-

ward the zygoma, especially on left side. Drawing, tearing pain in right temple, mostly extending to

upper molars and muscles of neck. I I Drawing and tensive headache in temporal region. Tearing in one (right) side of head, extending into cheek and

jaw-bones; worse from motion, touch and heat; >■ in rest

and from external pressure.

■ Continued stitch deep in brain, on left side, when coughing. Sensible beating in vertex, with same and fullness in cranium,

in region of cerebellum.

■ Sensation of weight pressing on the vertex. Throbbing headache on top of head, morning when waking. TrSticking, jerking, throbbing headache, from forehead back to

occiput.

Headache in occiput, extending to shoulders, while lying on back in bed, after waking in morning.

Pressive pain in occiput, drawing down into neck, relieved to- ward noon. Iln morning in bed, after "waking, while lying upon back, head- ache in occiput, which extends to shoulders, like a heaviness when pressed upon a sore spot.

■ Severe shooting pains, extending to vertex or occiput; ■< at

night or from motion of eye. Sharp pain in left occipital protuberance, coming and going

suddenly. I Violent headache, like a great w-eight in head, as if he w^ould

incline it to either side, with pressure in brain from within

outward, and great desire to lie down immediately.

■ Headache, as if something pressed the skull asunder.

■ Pressure and burning pain in head. ^Pertussis. Pressure in head, as if brain were too full and pressed outward,

mostly when sitting. Headache, as if head would burst, with dry and parched lips. Jerking, throbbing headache.

■ ■Stitches in head from forehead to occiput; on stepping hard.

■ Continued stitch, deep in brain, left side, when coughing.

■ Stitches in head. ^Pertussis. Splitting headache.

I I Great heaviness of head and pressure of brain forwards.

■ Congestive headache, as if forehead would burst open, with

epistaxis.

■ Heat in the head.

■ ■Rush of blood to the head.

■ ■Apoplexy.

■ Encephalitis. ^Metastasis of miasmatic or exanthematous

diseases.

■ Headache commences in morning, not on waking, but when

first opening eyes.

■ Headache as though the head would burst, commencing in

morning and gradually increasing till evening.

■ Headache, as from nightly revelling.

■ Headache in morning, after rising; a twitching- drawing in

molar and maxillary bones.

■ In morning, before breakfast, pain as if head were compressed,

with heaviness in it, mingled with stitches ; she could not raise eyes on account of pain, and if she stooped, she could not rise up. Headache after every meal.

■ ■Headache after washing himself with cold water when face

was sweating; in such' cases opening eyelids increases head- ache.

■ Always on coughing, motion in head like pressure.

■ ■Headache when stooping, as though all the contents of head

would issue from forehead.

■ ■Headache from ironing.

■ The headache is expanding; < by slightest motion, as the

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simple effort of opening eyes, by stooping, after eating, and when coughing, and often accompanied by nosebleed ; >■ by pressure and closing eyes, IB Headache from constipation; dull pain in forehead, and pe- culiar pressing sensation in temples.

■ Headache > by tieing up the head.

■ Obstinate headache with constipation; headache almost every

day, beginning immediately after rising in morning, and in- creasing during day ; <^ from mental exertion and from cof- fee; with frequent vomiting of a little bilious fluid; stools dry, hard, as if burnt.

■ ■Gastric, rheumatic and congestive headache, characterized

by vertigo, heaviness of head, pressure in head and rush of blood to head.

■ ■Rheumatic headache in cold, raw, wet seasons.

■ Hemicrania; hysterical headache.

^ Outer Head. A small painful spot on forehead.

Increase of pain under vertex, with soreness of scalp, just over same ; painful soreness of vertex, it feels bruised.

■ Burning on vertex near forehead.

■ Heat of head in the morning.

■ ■Heat of head: with dark-red face; with coldness of rest of

body; with much thirst and pain in limbs when moving them ; worse in evening.

■ Tension and tearing in external head; << from motion, touch,

and in a warm room ; > lyii^g quiet and on painful side.

■ ScaJp very tender to touch; child cannot bear even a soft

brush upon it. ^Dandruff.

■ Soreness in occiput and behind ears; < from touch and in

dry weather ; >■ lying on painful side and after sweat.

■ Oily, greasy, sour-smelling perspiration on head (and the

whole body) during sleep ; at night, especially towards morning.

■ The hair seems very greasy, with a cool head; the hands

become fatty while combing the hair. I I Greasiness of hair of head.

■ Dandruff; scalp rough and uneven. Burning heat or cold sweat on head.

■ Coldness on vertex; with cold hands, chilliness, inner heat

and disagreeable throbbing through whole body. ^ Sight and Eyes. ■Dread of light. ^Intermittent. Aversion to light, particularly sunlight. Optical illusions in bright or prismatic colors. Flickering before right eye, after dinner. Appearance of all the colors of the rainbow ; every object

seemed covered with these colors. Letters run together when reading. Eyes sparkling ; watering ; dull or glassy. Dim vision.

lA bluish haze appeared before the vision, (vision |J}) with severe pain over eye like a needle going through eyes and head, (compelling her to go to bed) with heat through tlie ■whole head, <^ by stooping. ^Hypersemia of the optic nerve and retina.

Very sensitive pressive pain (coming and going) in left eye- ball, especially violent on moving the ball, with a feeling as if the eye became smaller and was retracted within the orbit.

I Eyes very sore, and feel as if pressed out of the head.

I Eyeballs excessively painful, he cannot bear to have them touched.

I I Ciliary neuralgia ; the pains are very sharp and severe, even making the patients scream out ; the pains are aggravated by opening the eye and by any motion of the eyeball ; the eyes must be kept closed and at rest ; the pains are usually sharp in character, passing through eye into head or from eye downward into malar region and thence backward to occiput; the seat of pain becomes sore as a boil, and the least exertion, talking, moving or using the eyes aggravates the trouble.

Stitches in the eyes.

I The eyes feel very sore to touch, and when moving them.

I I Soreness and aching of eyes when moving them.

1 1 Pressing, crushing pain in eyes, worse on motion. Burning in eyes and edges of the eyelids. I I Sensation as if there were sand in eyes. Pressure in eyes, as if full of sand. Aching in left orbit ; pulsation in the same. Inflammation of eyes, aggravatedby heat.

■ Inflammation of eyes and lids, especially in new-born infants

and gouty subjects.

■ Inflammation of eye, redness, photophobia and at the same

time violent pains in teeth and face; < from warmth and >■ by cold.

■ Inflammation extends to choroid; opacities are present in

vitreous ; iris tremulous ; great ciliary injection ; pus in anterior chamber; eyeball sore on moving, and darting pains from left eye through head, with heaviness of head after- noons. ^Acute irido-choroiditis.

■ Rheumatic iritis, caused by cold, with steady aching pain in

back part of eye, extending through to occiput, worse at night and on motion.

■ Choroiditis uncomplicated with iritis, especially in serous or

exudative forms.

■ Eyeball feels full, as if pressed out, with sharp shooting pains

in eye and head, worse at night. ^Glaucoma.

■ Periodical inflammation of eyes, with colic.

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■ Burning redness of eyes. ^Rheumatic attack.

Painless twitching and drawing together of left upper lid, with

sensation of heaviness therein. PufEness of right upper lid.

■ Swollen eyelids, especially the upper. ^Pertussis. I I Lids swollen and puffed.

Burning in eyes and edges of eyelids.

I I Itching and burning of margin of lids.

■ Dry burning-itching tetters on the lids.

I I Scalding in corners of eyes aggravated at night. Frequent lachrymation.

Severe burning and lachrymation of right eye. Morning, agglutination and frequent lachrymation. I I Discharge of mucus from eye, obstructing visions and pus.

■ Rheumatic inflammation of eyes.

^ Hearing and Ears. Intolerance of noise. Ringing ; roaring ; humming or chirping. Roaring, humming in left ear, resembling pouring of water

over a dam. Head feels light, with constant wabbling in both ears.

■ Discharge of blood from ears. ^Vicarious menstruation. Feeling of stoppage in ears.

1 I Obstruction in external meatus.

Swelling, redness, painful sensitiveness and heat of external right ear ; at times piercing stitches deep into ear ; accom- panied by swelling and painfulness of right parotid gland, which was especially sensitive to even slight touch of the steel bows of spectacles.

I Otorrhoea following inflammation.

Complaints predominating in external ears.

I I Boil in front of ear.

■ Throating suppuration of parotid.

^ Smell and Nose. Frequent sneezing. When coughing, sneezing twice. Sneezing between coughs. Loss of smell.

■ Nosebleed in morning after rising; less frequently during

day, but sometimes during sleep.

■ Bleeding of nose, especially in morning, with suppressed men-

struation.

■ Nosebleed. ^Pertussis.

I ■ Nosebleed in morning, awaking from sleep ; blood florid. ^Vicarious menstruation. ^Scarlatina.

■ ■Epistaxis and checked menses, or in place of catamenia with

other menstrual derangements. Dry cold in head.

■ Dry nasal catarrh. ^Pertussis.

Fluid, thin, light-colored discharge from right nostril.

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Catarrh extending to frontal sinuses or into chest.

Fluent coryza, watery or greenish.

I I Fluent coryza, beginning with violent frequent sneezing ; also a stitching headache when stooping, with hoarseness.

Profuse coryza* without cough.

Swollen nose with inflamed nostrils.

Swelling of nose, with very sore pain when touched.

■ Swollen nose, with nosebleed for several days.

Inflamed and ulcerated nostrils.

I I Nose much swollen, with sharp pain ; sore to touch.

Swelling of tip of nose, with twitching pain in it, and on touch feeling as if it would ulcerate. ' Upper Face. There is a motion, more or less constant, of the jaws, as if chewing something.

Pinching pressure in articular cavity of right jaw, more vio- lent on motion.

Dull aching, in alveoli of upper jaw, right side, now jumping, and then mild.

Twitching, tearing in right malar bone up to right temple, ex- ternally, sore upon touch.

Painful pressure under right cheek-bone relieved by external pressure.

Bloatedness, or swelling of the face.

I I Face swollen, even closing eyes.

I Red, burning, hot face.

I I Red spots on face and neck.

Red, round, hot spot on cheek, over malar bone.

Face bluish-red, with diflScult inspiration.

Hot, bloated, red face.

■ Face red, hot, puffed. ^Pertussis. Yellow paleness of face, or livid color. Nodosities, indurations and boils on the face.

■ Tetters in face; after washing, red and smooth. Lower Face. Complaints predominate on lower jaw and lip.

■ Drawing and tearing pain, from temple down to malar bone

and lower jaw. Compare prosopalgia. ^Trismus. Twitching in both corners of mouth.

■ I Constant motion of mouth, as if chewing. ^Brain afi'ections

of children.

■ Upper lip and nose swollen, red, and hot.

Lower lip dry, black, thickly encrusted, everted and very sensi- tive.

■ B Lips dry, swollen, cracked. ^Diarrhoea. ^Typhus.

■ Mouth and lips very dry.

■ ■Dryness of lips and tongue, with thirst, drinking much at a

time, but not often.

■ Great dryness of lips, of tongue and of hard palate, while tip

of tongue was moist.

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llParched and dry lips, likes to moisten them often; mouth

dry; very thirsty for cold water. 1 1 Lips parched, dry and cracked. 1 1 Children pick lips. Compare Rhus tox. I Lips cracked and bleeding. ^Pertussis. •

I I Lips swollen, with a biting, burning eruption.

I I Scrofulous, swollen lips. I Ulcerated lips.

^^ Teeth and Gums. > Toothache about 3 a.m., as if an exposed nerve in a hollow tooth were paining from cold air, which becomes aggravated on lying on painless side, and then goes away if one lies on painful side.

I In evening, in bed, jerking toothache, now in upper, now in lower back teeth ; when pain is in upper teeth and they are pressed by tip of finger, pain suddenly ceases and changes to corresponding lower teeth.

I Jerking toothache when smoking.

iDrawing, at times jerking toothache in left upper back teeth, only during and after eating, when teeth seem too long and wobble back and forth.

I Pain as if a tooth were screwed in and then pulled out, which is momentarily relieved by cold water, but becomes better on walking in open air, together with tearing in cheeks and pinching in ears, at night, till 6 a.m.

I IDrawing, jumping toothache when eating, or just after eat- ing, or evening in bed ; ■< from warmth.

Darting, or flushing pain in teeth.

Toothache from an exposed nerve; sensitiveness of decayed teeth to contact of air.

Teeth seem too long.

I I Teeth feel too long and loose.

■ Tearing, stitching toothache while eating, extending to mus-

cles of neck, aggravated by warmth.

I I Toothache : shooting from one tooth to another, or into head and cheeks.

■ Worse from brushing teeth. Compare StapMs.

I Toothache on introducing anything warm into mouth.

Toothache relieved by cold water, or lying on painful side.

Toothache worse from smoking or chewing tobacco; from tak- ing anything warm into mouth.

I I Teeth and gums sore.

iPainful swelling of gums.

I Aching of gums with teething children. Similar to DoUchos.

Teeth are loose.

Toothache: shooting from one tooth to another, or into head and cheeks ; from an exposed nerve (sensitiveness of de- cayed teeth to contact of air) ; pain worse from smoking or chewing tobacco; from introducing anything warm into

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mouth; relieved, momentarily, by cold water, and when ly- ing on painful side. " Taste and Tongue. iLoss of taste.

Taste: flat, insipid, pasty, sweetish, putrid, sickly, disgusting, nauseous, I I bitter.

I She has almost no taste for food ; when not eating, the mouth is bitter.

I The bitter taste remains in posterior part of palate after dinner.

■ Everything tastes bitter; cannot swallow food. I 1 Taste bitter or putrid, with offensive breath.

I Nauseous, bitter taste in mouth in the morning.

I I Dry tongue. Trembling of tongue.

I Great dryness of tongue, mouth and lips. ^Constipation.

I Tongue dry, rough, cracked and dark brown.

Dryness of tongue, with sensation of prominent papillge.

Dryness of tongue ; tip moist.

Great dryness of lips, tongue and hard palate, while tip of tongue was moist.

I Small aphthae on tip of tongue.

Fine pricking in anterior third of tongue.

Tongue coated grayish, or thickly yellow, with lips dry and cracked.

Tongue thinly coated yellow, with sunken raphe, or longitudi- nal fissure.

White tongue with red edges.

I Tongue dry and red, brown, white or yellow. ^Diarrhoea.

I Tongue thickly coated white. ^Diphtheritis.

I Tongue coated white or yellow, especially in the middle.

I I Very much furred tongue. Dark brown colored tongue. Tongue viscous, bilious.

I Dry, white, filthy tongue. ^Rheumatic attack. '^ Inner Mouth. Offensive smell from mouth, with hawking of

offensive tough mucus, sometimes in round cheesy lumps, the

size of a pea. Bad odor from mouth, as of the monthly. I Accumulation of frothy, soap-like saliva in mouth and throat,

which, at times, almost chokes the patient. ^Typhoid.

■ Accumulation of saliva in mouth. ^'Pertussis.

■ Dryness in mouth, so that tongue sticks to palate.

■ ■Dryness in mouth, without thirst, or with thirst for large

quantities of water.

■ Dry mouth during chills. ^Intermittent.

■ Mouth and lips very dry; only momentarily relieved by

drinking. Dryness of the mouth, tongue and throat.

■ Feeling of dryness in mouth. 6'Diphtheritis.

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I Aphthae; with infantile diarrhoea ; open fontanelles. ^^ Throat. A great deal of phlegm comes down from the choanse. A kind of scraping and roughness back in throat. Back of throat seems swollen ; feels as if he had a severe

coryza, which hinders him when reading. Tough mucus in fauces, loosened by hawking.

■ Harassing, fatiguing hawking of mucus; he fears he Avill suf-

focate ; retching ; cannot sleep ; flighty ; sees faces when

closing the eyes. I 1 Sensation of pressure and fullness in throat. Pressive pain in right tonsil. Slight pain in left tonsil. 1 I Stitches in throat when swallowing. 1 I Sticking pain on swallowing on feeling of throat, and on

bending neck. Itching needle-like stitches in throat (especially if he was walk- ing rapidly), which irritate and cause scratching ; disappear

after scratching. I Stitches and scratching in throat. ^Pertussis. Constant disposition to swallow, with sharp, stinging pain in

external parts (right side), on a line with promontory of

with diarrhoea and tenesmus. Pain in throat ; throat is dry and raw on empty swallowing ;

on drinking this sensation disappears for a short time, but

soon returns ; it is worse in a warm room. I I Crawling sensation in throat; inducing a cough, followed by

or when being moved of pain everywhere ; white tongue ;

feeling of dryness in mouth without particular thirst or with

desire for large quantities. ^Diphtheria. I I Aphthous patches on mucous membrane of mouth and fauces.

■ Constitutional tendency to aphthous formations in throat.

■ Abnormal hunger; he must often eat something. Eats little and often.

Loss of appetite ; thirst for cold water.

■ Aversion to food.

■ Desires things, immediately, which when offered are refused.

■ Desire for unusual things; acids, sweets, strong coffee,

oysters, etc.

■ Desire for acids.

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I Hasty and eager drinking. ^Brain diseases.

■ Great thirst day and night.

I Great thirst (he was obliged to drink much cold water), with

internal heat without feeling hot externally. Great thirst ; desire for large quantities of cold water.

I I Thirst for large quantities at long intervals.

I Great thirst; she can and must drink a great deal at once;

drink does not distress her. Thirst during stool.

■ Violent thirst for cold water; drinks a great deal at a time.

^Pertussis. No appetite for milk ; but if he takes it, the appetite therefor returns and he begins to relish it. .

I I Desire for warm drink, and relieved by it.

I Desire for cold and acid drinks. ^Diarrhoea.

Aversion to greasy food.

I Desire for things which are not to be had, or are refused when offered. ^Diarrhoea. ^'^ Eating and Drinking. Some complaints better on an empty stomach.

A great many symptoms directly after dinner and during first half of afternoon.

Almost always aggravated after eating, particularly after a satis- fying meal,

I I After eating there is often a constricting pain in stomach, then a cutting in epigastrium and then vomiting of food ; worse from motion.

■ After eating: sensation of weight in stomach, as of a heavy

pushed to the 1. side.

■ After eating oysters or chicken-salad, tasteless eructations.

■ Sour-crout, cabbage, potatoes, and other vegetables, particu-

larly nitrogenized, disagree.

■ Incarceration of hernia after eating cold fruit.

Nausea, on assuming an erect position, after eating, with water- brash.

I I After eating : belching, tasting of food.

Gastric derangement after old sausages ; old cheese; cabbage; sour-crout ; fruit ; turnips ; salads ; milk, etc.

Stomach distended with wind after eating, especially after oysters and chicken-salad in evening.

Bitter vomiting when drinking immediately after a meal.

Distension of abdomen, especially after eating.

After meals : diarrhoea.

■ Worse after eating or drinking. ^Pertussis.

■ Spasmodic cough after drinking. ^Aphthae.

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I Headache when drinking after being heated.

Glass of wine in evening caused heartburn.

Frequent drinking of cold water relieved bitter taste and incli- nation to vomit. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. i i Hic- cough.

Hiccough after eating, and on every shock caused by it press- ure in forehead, as if brain shook from behind forwards.

■ Frequent empty eructations, mostly bitter. ^Pertussis.

I I Bitter or sour belchins; with waterbrash sour or tasteless.

I Eructations after eating, at last bitter.

Frequently, at times, sourish eructations after eating.

I Belching after meals, with taste of what has been eaten.

Shooting pain with belching.

I Pressive pain, with continuous eructations and vomiting after- ward of greenish-yellow mucus ; often by every step stomach is very sensitive.

Heartburn from wine, evenings.

Profuse waterbrash and vomiting after eating.

Gulping up of food after every meal; sometimes sour.

I Food is thrown up immediately after eating, with consti- pation ; lips dry and cracked.

■ Something bitter rises into mouth, without eructations, with

■ Nausea. ^Pertussis.

I I Nausea after meals eaten with relish. llNausea on waking in morning.

■ Nausea, increased or brought on by slightest motion; must

lie quiet.

■ Nausea, relieved by keeping quiet; desires to keep still, with

splitting headache.

■ Constant nausea and thirst. ^Constipation. Nausea, with bitter eructations.

■ Nausea when rising up and while sitting up in bed; has to lie

down again.

■ ■Nausea and fainting on sitting up. ^Diarrhoea. After nausea : canine hunger.

Ng-usea and inclination to vomit.

Nausea after eating, sometimes with vomiting of food, retained

and mucus.

■ Nausea and vomiting during heat. ^Intermittent. Empty retching, with waterbrash.

Vomiting and belching.

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B Vomiting of solid food, not of drink. ^Pertussis. A^oraiting of food, immediately after eating.

■ Vomiting after eating bread.

I I Vomiting of food and a fluid consisting of mucus and bile

taste in mouth. I Vomiting of bitter substances, or of yellow-green mucus.

■ Gulping up of phlegm during night.

■ Severe stitches in 1. side accompany vomiting.

^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pain in pit of stomach.

Pressure in pit of stomach as if there was a stone in it ; goes

■ Pressure and stitches in pit of stomach and right hypochonder.

/^Icterus.

■ Feeling as if pit of stomach were swollen. Soreness in pit of stomach when coughing.

■ Large abscess at pit of stomach after a blow. Epigastric region painful to pressure.

■ Epigastric region painful to touch; so sensitive cannot endure

■ Stitching pain in region of stomach; < from motion, espe-

when making a false step.

■ Pains in stomach. ^Pertussis.

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I Gastric derangement from talcing cold. I Stomachache associated with anxiety.

■ Burning in stomach and pit of stomach, especially when mov-

ing.

■ Stomach becomes extremely sensitive to touch or pressure.

■ Inflammation of stomach. Swelling of stomach.

I Stomach full and sensitive to pressure.

■ Sensation as though a stone lay in stomach ; epigastric region

painful to touch.

■ Grastralgia: with inclination to commit suicide; if after a

meal, or even while eating, patient complains of a pressure in pit of stomach as from a stone ; >> by eructation, <^ by motion and attended with constipation.

■ Pressure in stomach after eating, like from a stone ; makes

him fretful.

■ Pressure in stomach as soon as he has eaten, and even while

eating.

Constrictive pain in region of stomach as if that part were rol- led up into a ball ; relief was obtained by drawing legs up against abdomen.

Distention of stomach and eructations of wind.

Feeling of emptiness of stomach, with distention of abdomen.

Numbness in stomach. See 13.

■ Painful tension of stomach, with soreness when touched.

^Rheumatic attack.

■ Burning in pit of stomach. ^Rheumatic attack.

I 1 Food oppressed stomach ; felt like a wad at epigastrium ; often food regurgitated.

■ Pain excessive when in motion; perfect relief from quiet or

from eructations of wind.

■ ■Gastric affections: dry mouth, tongue and throat, without

thirst ; tongue coated more in middle ; giddy when stooping or rising; forehead heavy; face bloated or sallow, yellowish ; taste bitter ; food lies heavy, particularly bread ; pit of stomach sore to touch, constipation, etc.

■ Derangement of stomach, with gastric fever, chills and cold-

ness. All gastric symptoms easier when keeping quiet.

■ Gastric affections in young girls.

^^ Hypochondria. ■ Burning pains along anterior connection of diaphragm with ribs. I I Pressure in epigastrium ; worse after eating and when walk- ing ; sometimes extending to umbilical regions, even to blad- der and perineum.

■ Stitches and soreness in epigastrium and hypochondrium.

^Pertussis. Tensive pain in region of liver.

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1 1 Tensive, burning pain in hepatic region.

Tensive pain below false ribs in right hjpochondrium, especi- ally sensitive on deeep inspiration.

iTransient stitches in right hypochondrium, with painful sensi- tiveness of this region to hard pressure or deep inspiration.

Burning and stitching pain in hepatic region.

iStitches in liver, when touching it; when coughing and breathing. ^Inflanamation of the liver.

Congestion of liver.

■ Sticking pain in liver. ^Pertussis.

Pains in liver, mostly stinging or tensive and burning.

I Icterus.

I I Stitches most frequent in region of spleen.

I Stitching pain in spleen during chills. ^Intermittent,

■ Hard swelling of spleen; crepitation on motion of legs; pain

in 1. heel ; bronchial catarrh ; in an old man. ^® Abdomen. Tearing pain from hip through abdomen to epi- gastrium.

Nausea in abdomen.

Sudden painful cuttings in intestines, with a feeling as though one were digging him with the fingers, compelling him to bend double, relieved by profuse pasty evacuations.

Dull, griping and cutting in intestines, prior to passage of fla- tus; motion and standing increase the pains.

Griping pains about the navel.

I I Pains sticking and shooting in both sides of abdomen ; <; from motion ; changing into stitches from belly to stomach.

Stitches and other pains hinder the respiration.

I Stitches in abdomen. ^Pertussis.

Pains in abdomen flying upwards.

I Painless twitching in left side of abdomen, between navel and left flank, as of twitching in muscles of walls of abdomen, followed by sticking pains deep in left side of back.

I Pain on a limited spot in abdomen, dull, with a throbbing sen- sation. ^Enteritis.

Slight, crampy, cutting pain, with heat in right hypogastric region, increased by every inspiration.

Slight colic at time of rising and through, forenoon.

Colic worse from motion.

I Heat rising from abdomen into epigastrium and chest; with heartburn; ■< at night; with dry mouth and thirst.

Pain in abdomen, as if diarrhoea would ensue.

I During colic, must keep very still ; with stools hard and dry, as if burnt. •

All day long feeling in abdomen as though diarrhoea would set in ; the same sensation exists in anus.

Cutting pains before stool.

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■ Distension of abdomen and rumbling, especially after eating.

then continued constipation ; feels as if something lay in ab-

■ Abdomen very sensitive, as if sore. I Tenderness of abdominal walls.

■ Peritonitis, with stinging, burning pains; abdomen very sore

to touch, with constipation, especially if in a rheumatic sub- ject.

■ ■ Gastro-enteritis.

■ Hysterical spasms in abdomen.

■ Abdominal complaints from concussion or overlifting. Pressing pain toward left inguinal ring when sitting down.

■ Pain in inguinal region tensive, going down the thighs. ^Quo-

tidian fever. ^^ Stool and Rectum. A sense of pressure, heat, weight and powerlessness of sphincter ani and rectum.

■ After the attacks of colic, escape of wind. Passage of offensive flatus.

All day long, discharge of flatus.

Constant, or rather frequent, short emissions of offensive flatus. With passing of flatus, sensation as though a diarrhoeic stool would come on.

■ Constant urging to stool, without succeeding. ^Enteritis. Urging to stool, followed by copious, pasty evacuations ; with

relief of symptoms, except that confusion of head remained.

■ Griping and pinching in abdomen and in region of navel, as af-

ter taking cold, for several days, and a profuse, thin evacua- tion follows.

■ Awaking in morning with colic and urging to stool; has to

get up, stool follows. ^Intermittent.

■ Fermentation in abdomen ; almost impossible to retain stool.

^Diarrhoea.

■ Involuntary stool while asleep.

I I Diarrhoea preceded by colic, at night or early morning, after rising and walking about ; coming on so sudden, that escape is hard to prevent.

■ Slight pinching and moving in intestines, followed by watery

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ptool; -with passage of flatus ; pinchings do not disappear, but are frequently repeated during afternoon ; with a sensa- tion of soreness in intestines, together with a dragging down- ward and outward ; with two profuse watery evacuations in one hour ; followed by a slight burning in anus.

I I Diarrhoea generally painful.

B Colic with stool, like a constriction and griping with the hand, Avhich causes diarrhoea.

I Bilious diarrhoea, with lancinating pain.

■ Loose stools, painless and undigested.

■ Frequent stools.

In morning a pasty, afterward a liquid stool, of a strong odor ;

followed by burning and soreness in anus. Very oifensive, profuse stool.

■ Diarrhoea putrid, smelling like old cheese; worse (or only) in

■ Diarrhoea-like, bilious, acrid stools; with soreness in anus,

continuing eight days.

■ Bilious diarrhoea.

Stools like dirty water, with whitish granulated sediment of un- digested food.

■ Brown, thin, fecal stools.

■ Thin, bloody stools. Before stool : colic ; nausea.

■ ■Vomiting and purging during cholera season.

■ Hard stool passed with great exertion, with confusion of head. Much straining in order to get through defecation.

During stool : burning in anus ; prolapse of rectum ; motion like fermentation in abdomen ; pain in stomach ; vomiting ; coldness and rigors ; thirst; drowsiness.

■ During stool : burning in anus. ^Diarrhoea.

■ Diarrhoea-like stool followed by prickling and burning in anus.

■ Slight burning with evacuation of stool and urine.

■ A pasty evacuation with burning in anus, soon after waking;

a second fluid stool in half an hour ; urinated very often, much each time, when at stool. After stool : burning in rectum ; heat ; sleepiness.

■ Urging followed by copious pasty evacuations, with relief of

all symptoms excepting confusion of head. Almost always better after stool.

■ With diarrhoea: morning and forenoon great weakness.

^Ill-treated intermittent. Involuntary stools while asleep.

■ Diarrhoea especially at night and burning in anus with every

passage. Diarrhoea in morning, or worse in morning.

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Diarrhoea in morning, after getting up, preceded by cutting

getting up till 10 A.M. ^Ill-treated intermittent.

I Mush eaten at supper appears undigested in morning diar-

rhoea. ^Ill-treated intermittent. Diarrhoea after eating fruit or sour-crout.

I I Diarrhoea during a spell of hot weather.

I Stool pasty with much flatus, followed by hard portions, and

again by soft, so that he believed he would scarcely finish

evacuation. I Stool very unsatisfactory, only after much straining, which

caused a rush of blood to head, and a feeling of confusion

in head. I 1 Retention of stool, infrequent, large in form, solid ; passing

with difiiculty, attended by prolapsus and burning. Stools too large in size.

Hard, tough stool, with protrusion of rectum. Obstinate constipation ; stools very dry, large and hard ; only

passed after much straining.

I Dry, parched stool passed with effort in morning. Stools dry, large, hard, and very dark.

Hard, black, di'y and scanty stool.

I I Stools hard, dark and dry, as if burnt.

I Chronic constipation, often causing severe headache ; stools very hard and dry, often expelled with difiiculty.

■ Constipation of sucklings and lying-in women.

In horses : dung in small balls (hard) ; alternate lameness and swelling of hock-joints, especially if feet swell while at rest.

I Constipation ; tedious costiveness with a difiicult evacuation of small, hard stools, as if burnt. ^Rheumatic attack.

I Two pasty off"ensive evacuations in afternoon, followed by burn- ing in anus.

Sensation of plug in anus, at 6 A.M.

■ Burning pain in anus. ^Rheumatic attack. Aching hemorrhoids.

■ Mucus and blood preceded by hard stool. ^Cholera infantum. Burning at anus during stools.

■ Diarrhoea alternating with constipating. ^^ Urinary Organs. ■Nephritis.

Pain in region of kidneys.

I I copious and pale ; scanty and dark ; white, turbid ;

brown, like beer ; hot and red ; deposits white sediment ;

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Frequent urination.

■ Urging to urinate from heavy lifting. ^Dyspnoea.

■ Pressure to urinate and involuntary discharge of urine. ^Per-

■ Between 6 and 7 p.m. urinated very often, much each time,

■ Small discharge of urine; hot, of dark color; when standing

abdominal pains. Burning, pressing, drawing, and tearing in urethra.

■ Urine deposits a pinkish sediment, covering bottom of vessel.

■ During motion some drops of urine pass out of urethra with-

out sensation.

■ Urine passed through night deposited a white sediment; its

color was reddish-yellow.

■ Burning in urethra, when not urinating.

■ Gleet; burning; green discharge.

■ Red itching eruption on glans penis.

^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■Severe pain in region of right ovary, like from a sore spot, causing an irritation and drag- ging; pain extended down to thighs, while at rest; pain aggravated by touch.

■ Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration; can

hardly bear least touch on affected parts ; worse on motion.

■ Pain in r. ovary; < when touched.

■ Ovaritis with rheumatic affections and in confinement.

■ Uterine sufferings are increased by least motion.

■ Prolapsus uteri.

■ Dropsy of uterus; swelling increases during day and dimin-

ishes at night.

■ Burning pain in fundus of uterus, r. side.

Pinching and uneasiness in abdomen, as if menses should

appear. I I Hastens coming on of menses and increases the flow.

■ ■Menstruation too early and too profuse, with dark red blood;

backache, splitting headache; worse from motion.

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Suppressed menses, with frequent bleeding of nose.

Catamenia too profuse and of long duration.

B Amenorrhoea with abdominal and urinary symptoms.

■ Suppression of menses or lochia.

During menstruation : pain in back and loins ; tearing in limbs ; headache ; nausea.

■ Membranous dysmenorrhoea.

■ When menses do not appear, bleeding from ear or nose.

■ Flooding of dark blood, with pain in small of back, and

Swelling and inflammation of 1. labia majora.

■ During pregnancy : pain in abdomen and burning in uterus;

constipation ; spasmodic pains with chill, particularly after anger.

■ Threatened abortion.

■ Spasmodic labor-pains.

■ Rheumatic pains in uterus.

■ After-pains excited by least motion, even taking a deep in-

spiration.

■ Lochia too profuse, with burning pain in region of womb.'

■ Lochial discharge often very offensive.

■ ■Suppression of lochia, with sensation as if head would burst.

■ Peritonitis puerperalis.

■ Milk fever, with rheumatic pains in breast.

■ ■Puerperal fever; particularly when the breasts are distended

with milk ; deep inhalations are painful ; stitches in ab- domen ; thirst for large quantities of water ; she cannot lie upon either side ; abdomen distended.

■ Suppression of sweat during confinement and ill-effects there-

from.

■ ■Nursing women have taken cold; ache all over; head as if

it would burst ; lips dry ; parched ; breasts swollen, feel heavy ; milk suppressed.

■ Rash, especially of lying-in women and their infants.

■ Drawing or lancinating pains from hip to foot; worse from

touch or motion. ^Phlegmasia alba dolens. Excessive flow of milk.

■ Inflamed mammse.

■ Stony heaviness of breasts.

■ Breasts feel heavy, are pale, but hard and painful.

■ Breasts have a strong hardness in them; they are hot and

pain, but not very red.

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I Left mamma swollen; pains worse when lifting the arm. I Nipples very hard.

I Infant screams after nursing; wind passes ; slimy, green diar- rhcea.

■ Inflammation of mammae, with a sensation of heaviness; a

sort of stony heaviness; the mammae hard and pale (red streaks indicate Bellad.) ; suffering worse by motion (<from ajar or jolt indicates Bellad.). Ilnflammation of breasts, with suppression of flow of milk,

■ During weaning, swelling of breasts and axillary glands, par-

ticularly left. I With cows : painful swelling of udder.

■ Infant, sore mouth ; child does not like to take hold of breast,

but after mouth becomes moistened it nurses well.

■ Lumps, indurations and inflammation of mammge, with dimin-

ished or retarded secretion of milk. ^Puerperal fever.

■ Children ache from being lifted or pressed.

■ Costive infants.

■ Children do not want to be carried, but lie quiet.

■ ■First stage of mammary abscess.

■ Prevents gathered breasts in most cases during lactation and

■ Hoarseness, with inclination to sweat.

■ Hoarseness with singers.

■ Hoarseness. ^Pertussis. ^After measles.

Sensation of apple seed cell lodged in upper larynx, or rima glottidis.

■ Bronchial croup; hoarseness, with tendency to perspire; dry,

hacking, painful cough, < in going from cold into warm air; gasping for breath before a fit of coughing; after mea- sles ; also in the rheumatic diathesis.

■ Soreness in trachea. ^Pertussis.

Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only after frequent hawking.

When he goes into a warm room from open air, a sensation as if vapor were in trachea, which causes him to cough ; he feels as though he cannot inspire enough air.

Irritation to cough as though some mucus were present; after he has coughed some time, a pain is felt there mingled with pressure and soreness; the pain is worse while talking or smoking. ^® Respiration. Respiration with moist sound.

I I Breathing accelerated as though by a feeling of heat in epi- gastrium and chest.

■ Shortness of breath. ^Pertussis.

■ So weak she can scarcely speak, in the morning. ^Inter-

mittent.

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■ Worse from talking and laughing. ^Pertussis.

I Stitches from 1. to right side of chest, during inspiration. Breathing quick, difficult and anxious; caused by stitches,

principally in chest, compelling patient to sit up,

I I Shortness of breathing aggravated by the slightest motion.

■ Panting for breath. ^Pertussis.

■ I Crowing or grating breathing. ^Hydrocephalus of a child. Breathing quick, difficult and anxious; caused by stitches

most in chest, compelling to sit up. Deep, slow breathing.

■ Disposition to deep inspiration. ^Pertussis. Inclined to draw a long breath; sighing; sobbing.

■ ■Constant disposition to sigh, and sigh deeply. Tormented with a desire to take a long breath, which is hin- dered by a stitch in chest.

Frequent sighing-breathing. Deep, slow breathing.

Difficult breathing, only possible with the assistance of the ab- dominal muscles.

■ Attacks of dyspnoea and suffi9cation. ^Pertussis.

■ A suffocating feeling as from tight neckwear.

■ ■Asthma, with a feeling as if something should expand, but

would not. Paroxysms of asthma, at night, with stitching pains in abdomen.

■ Asthma and cough, with pains in middle of chest, preventing

sleep at night, cannot lie ; tongue thick white, furred. ^^ Cough. iDry cough.

Hacking dry cough from upper part of trachea.

I I Hacking cough from a definite spot in trachea, becoming sensitive; -< from talking and smoking.

I I A dry, hacking cough ; single spasmodic forcible shocks to- ward upper part of trachea, which seems to be covered with dry, tough mucus, even tobacco smoking causes it.

■ Grippe with moist cough or rheumatic pains.

Dry, spasmodic cough, after eating and drinking, with vomit- ing of food, after a crawling and tickling in epigastrium.

■ Cough excited by tickling in throat and in epigastrium.

^Pertussis. Cough excited by nausea, by eating or drinking, by creeping

or tickling in stomach, on entering a warm room. Nausea excites cough and coughing after vomiting.

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Dry cough, excited by a creeping or tickling in throat or stomach.

I Cough from tickling in throat and pit of stomach; in evening and at night without expectoration ; during day expectora- tion is yellow, or consists of coagulated brown blood, or of cold mucus of a disagreeable flat taste.

I I Cough from a sensation of vapor in trachea, preventing get- tino; enough air.

I Cough with sneezing.

■ Spasmodic cough, as from vapor of sulphur. ^Pertussis.

I I Dry, spasmodic cough, principally in night, and after drink- ing and eating, when entering a warm room, and after tak- ing a deep inspiration.

Cough worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting of what had been eaten.

lit seems to be impossible to drink without coughing. ^Per- tussis.

I I Cough on coming from open air into a warm room.

I I Cough with stitching pains in brain.

Cough and stitches in the head and chest; or pain, as if the head and chest would burst.

I I Cough with stitches in sides of chest, or with headache as if the head would fly to pieces.

iWhooping-cough with much sneezing.

I Cough with vomiting and slimy mouth.

I I Cough with gagging, without nausea.

iDry cough, as if coming from the stomach; together with a crawling and tickling in pit of stomach.

Cough, mostly dry, caused by'titillation in the throat; or spas- modic and suffocating, after eating and drinking ; with vom- iting of the food.

During cough: scratching in throat; shortness of breath; catch- ing of breath ; thoracic pains, > by pressure ; bruised feeling in hypochondriac regions, > by pressure; pressing in head; bursting pain in head and chest; stitches in head, throat and chest, sides and epigastrium, or hypochondria; pains in abdominal muscles; nausea and vomiting of food; sore pain in epigastrium; lachrymation ; toothache.

Cough: with involuntary discharge of urine; hoarseness; thirst; sneezing; stitches in chest and small of back; red

■ face; aggravated by motion, talking, laughing, eating and drinking.

I I Cough with rawness in larynx.

I I Cough with stitches in intercostal spaces and in sternum.

I I While coughing, they press with hand upon sternum as though it needed support.

I I Cough with soreness in epigastrium and abdominal muscles.

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1 1 Dry cough with pleuritic stitches; during heat. ^Inter- mittent.

I Cough compels to spring up in bed involuntarily. ^Typhoid

pneumonia, etc. B Painful cough and difficult breathing. ^Pneumonia of infants.

I I Cough shaking the whole body ; pain felt in head or in ab- dominal muscles.

Expectoration not constant; morning and evening, sometimes also during day.

I Sputa at first difficult to dislodge.

I Sputa tough and hard to separate, falling in a jelly-like lump, light in color, almost a yellow or soft brick shade. ^Pneumonia.

I Cough from a constant crawling upward in throat, followed by expectoration of mucus.

Cough with yellowish expectoration, or mucus streaked with blood.

Dry cough with brick-dust colored expectoration.

I I Sputa not frequent, scanty, tough, sometimes bloody.

I Cough evening and night, without expectoration; morning and daytime with it, of mucus yellow or mixed with coagu- lated brownish blood. ^Pertussis.

Expectoration brown, like liver.

Cough with bloody, rusty, tenacious expectoration.

1 Sputa of an unpleasant flat taste. ^Pertussis.

I Sputa often cold. ^Pertussis. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■ Constriction of chest; she felt the need of breathing deeply (as if the chest were stopped and she could get no air), and if she attempted to breathe deeply there was pain in chest, as if something were being distended which could not be completely distended.

Sensation of heaviness beneath sternum, extending towards shoulder, impeding respiration; deep inspiration was diffi- cult; oppression of r. side of chest, with very fine, extremely severe stitches in r. axillary gland.

Sense of fullness ; stuffed feeling throughout the chest.

Stitch in upper part of chest, through shoulders, on inspiring.

I I Stitching, lancinating pains are the most frequent in chest; on inspiration or on turning around in bed; situated in sides of chest or extend through from front to scapulae.

I Stitches in right side of chest between third and fourth ribs, while sitting.

Stitches in chest and sides of chest, especially when coughing or drawing a long breath, obliging one to sit up, or lie on back; < by motion.

Sharp stitching pain in chest, below r. nipple, extending out- ward, only on expiration.

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I Pricking pains below r. nipple from within outward, in cavity

of chest; felt only during inspiration.

Chest very sensitive, with stitches in 1. side of it, on inspira- tion ; whole forenoon.

Short but violent stitches in r. side of chest, so that must hold breath, could not cry out.

Tearing stitches in 1. side of chest extend from behind forward, > during rest, < during motion and on deep inspiration.

Stitching pain in region of diaphragm, < from motion or coughing.

I I Stitches in chest, when breathing or coughing.

■ Rheumatic pleurodynic pains in chest and lungs. Chill in left chest.

Burning in right half of chest.

iHeat in chest. ^Pleurisy. ^Pneumonia.

Heat and burning pain in chest.

Inflammation of first and second divisions of bronchi, with an irritative, shaking, dry cough; heat; pain and soreness behind sternum; worse daytime and by motion.

I In case of an inflammatory affection of the chest supervening

in the course of pertussis.

■ Pleuritic pains in advanced stage of phthisis.

I I Pleurisy with fluid exudation.

I iPleuritis.

I I Pleuro-pneumonia, with stabbing pains ; frequent respiration ; bloody expectoration; high fever; bursting headache; < on motion and deep inspiration.

1 1 Pneumonia.

I In pneumonia with scanty expectoration, tough, falling in a

round jelly-like lump, in color almost a yellow or soft brick

shade. I Acute, inflammatory condition in catarrh of old people. iHjdrothorax.

■ Incipient phthisis.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation., i Irritable heart; beating 54 when sitting, but on rising ever so quietly, going up to 110 or 115 and gradually subsiding again.

■ Frequent sharp pain in cardiac region.

■ On going up stairs a little rapidly, heart flutters and palpitates

so much as to put him out of breath.

■ ■Stitching pains in the sides of thorax make it almost impos-

sible to expand chest.

■ ■Stitching pain in region of heart.

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Cramp in region of heart, aggravated by walking, raising one's

■ Palpitation of heart; frequently violent, and with oppression

of chest. ^Carditis.

■ Palpitation of heart. ^Pertussis.

■ Endocarditis. Burning in veins.

Pulse: quick, full, hard, rapid and tense; at times intermit- tent, with strong orgasm of blood. Pulse frequent at night, slower during day.

■ Pulselessness. ^Cholera Asiatica.

^ Outer Chest. ■ Soreness of the ribs, as if beaten.

Painful spot, as from a bruise, on second rib, right side, ex- tending to sternum.

■ A painful spot on the second rib of the right side, extending

to sternum, as after a blow or bruise, i Pressive pain in prsecordial region. 1 I Heat only internal or on single parts of body, conjoined with

great thirst.

■ Rheumatism of muscles of chest.

■ Stitches in sternum on coughing; was obliged to hold chest

■ Painful stiffness of muscles of right side of neck, from touch

and on moving the head towards the shoulders.

■ On right side of nape of neck, toward the shoulder, painful

stiffness of muscles on moving the head.

■ Drawing and stiffness of muscles of right side of neck.

■ A pain in nape of neck near the occiput, like a pain and

weakness together, as if the head were weak. Rheumatic stiffness and tension in nape of neck and back.

■ Painful stiffness of neck. Glands on neck sore to touch.

Sharp rheumatic pain in tendon of trapezius (left) on turning

head to left. Dull stitches between scapulae, extending from behind forward,

in afternoon while lying.

■ Stitches under 1. scapula through to heart.

Alternating dull, aching and sharp pain, beneath right scapula,

extending through to epigastrium when sitting.

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Left arm and hand in a weaving motion up and down ; each time uttering a sigh.

■ Shooting stitches in back through chest.

A drawing down back when sitting, disappearing on motion. I The pain extended through thorax to lower portion of sternum

lumbar region, prevent motion and stooping; most when

difficult; as if bruised, when lying on it. Painful stiffness in small of back, compelling him to walk and

sit crookedly. Pain in small of back, like a painful stiffness, not allowing

one to stand erect. iPressive drawing pain in small of the back and loins, which

makes turning very difficult; it awoke him from sleep. iPain in small of back; «< by every motion. ^Rheumatic

attacks. ^^ Upper Limbs. Painful pressure on top of right shoulder, worse

upon touch ; on deep breathing it becomes a dull stitching,

stitching, and shining red swelling of parts. Rheumatic swelling of right shoulder and upper arm, with

and piercing. ^Rheumatic attacks. I I Arms incline to sink by one's side. !A feeling in right elbow as if the arm were broken, with a

troublesome paralytic pain; it changed afterward to a draw- ing pain; it extended to shoulder-joint and lasted all day. Swelling of elbow and hand-joints, and upper parts of hands.

■ Swelling of elbow-joint, and somewhat above and below it as M far as the middle of upper and forearm, and of soles of feet.

■ Swelling about the elbow-joints; worse in left. ^Rheumatic

attacks.

■ Swelling of right elbow-joint, with stitches.

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Swelling of arm around the elbow.

Tearing pains on inner surface of forearm, in a line from elbow to wrist.

Fine stitches in wrists, if hands become warm, and during rest; they do not disappear on motion.

Pain in wrists, as ]f wrenched or sprained, on every motion.

Swollen hands.

Complaints predominate in palm of hand.

Stitching pain in fingers when writing.

On writing or taking hold of anything, a sensation as if finger- joints were swollen and puffed; they are painful on much exertion and on touch.

Rather hot, pale swelling in last joint of little finger, with stick- ing in it on moving the finger, or on pressing it.

■ Hot, pale swelling of finger-joints and whole hand. ^Rheu-

matic attacks. ^' Lower Limbs. I Inflammation of psoas muscles.

Pains in right trochanteric and gluteal region, of an aching, cramp -like and bruised kind ; worse at every motion.

I Pains in 1. lumbar region extending to thigh; < in after- noon, when sitting up and by movement; walks with crutches. ^Sciatica.

Stabbing pain in hips.

I Shooting pains extending towards hip.

Stitches in hip-joint, extending to knee.

In morning, feels lame and bruised, particularly in right hip.

Cracking and feeling of dislocation of hip-joint, when walking.

■ Sciatica : pains < sitting up, by moving, and late in evening;

lies best on painful side ; often <^ by cold water.

I A few large stitches, like knife-stitches, in hips.

Great painfulness of right thigh ; pain comes from head of fe- mur, extends along anterior surface of thigh to knee.

■ Great weariness in thighs, he can scarcely go up steps; less

when going down steps.

■ When walking bent, sticking pain from hip into knee. Complaints predominate on front side of thigh, in patella, and

in calf of leg.

■ Stitches in knees when walking.

Pain in right knee, so that in evening he could scarcely walk, and was obliged to keep the leg very quiet ; inner side of knee very painful to touch ; next morning, while in bed, there was no pain, but after being up a while pain returned.

Painful stiff'ness of knees, with stitches, especially when moving them.

■ Synovial inflammation of knee-joints. •'

■ A feeling in right knee-cap as if he had been kneeling a long

■ Tearing pain in shins.

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I Tensive sensation in bend of knee, which afterward changed

to a drawing and wrenching along crest of fibula, lasting several minutes. Knees totter and knock together when walking.

I I Swelling of knee, with tensive pain in ligaments.

I Knee-joints swollen, red, shining, motion impossible. ^Rheu- matism. , Pinching-tearing in right calf. Tightness in calves.

■ Bruised pain on outer side of left calf, on moving and turning

foot, as also on touch ; during rest a numb sensation in this place. Tension in ankles on motion.

I The ankle feels as if dislocated, especially when walking. Tensive pain on back of feet, even when sitting.

Pain in feet as if sprained.

Hot swelling of instep, with bruised pain on stretching out

foot ; foot seems tense on stepping on it, and on touch it

pains, as if suppurating, like an abscess.

I I Feet are tense and swollen in evening.

1 1 Hot, inflammatory swelling of feet, with redness.

Gouty swelling of feet, with redness, heat and tensive pain.

■ Sensation in tendo achillis as if bruised. ^Rheumatic attack. I Horses : during distemper, hard swelling and coldness of feet,

especially of hind feet.

Stitches in soles.

Prickling in soles of feet when walking.

I I Severe pain in sole of foot, with great lameness, could not walk ; not much swelling.

I Sudden pains in balls of great toes.

Stitches in big toe.

I The legs are so weak that they will scarcely hold him, on com- mencing to walk, and even when standing.

Swelling of lower limbs.

■ Weariness and stiffness of lower limbs. Swelling of legs, down to feet.

I Putrid ulcers on lower limbs.

■ Violent pain in limbs during heat. ^Intermittent.

I Pain in limbs ; <^ by motion and during heat. ^Intermittent.

■ Rheumatic pains in tops of shoulders and in 1. knee.

■ ■Rheumatic and gouty pains in limbs, with tension ; < from

motion and contact.

■ Acute articular rheumatism, swelling pale red; pain < on

slightest motion ; fever ; pulse 130. I I Limbs move but sluggishly.

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■ Weariness and heaviness in all limbs ; feet can scarcely carry

her on account of heaviness, when walking. I All limbs seem bruised and paralyzed, as if he had lain upon a hard bed.

0 Paralysis of limbs.

1 I Limbs and joints swell, become red, and are very sensitive

■ Tearing, stinging pains, most in limbs, particularly when

Lying: on back, headache in occiput in morning; headache with pressure in brain <; ; on painful side, tension and tear- ing in head > ; on painful side, soreness in occiput and be- hind ears > ; in bed, hazy vision and sticking pain over eye > ; on painless side, toothache <C ; on painful side, toothache ^ ; on side, stitching in stomach ; asthma and cough <; ; stitching between scapulae ; stiffness ; tearing and tenderness in lumbar region >> ; pain in small of back <^ ; compelled to lie down.

Sitting : in bed, vertigo and faintness ; pressive headache ; in bed, nausea ; pain toward inguinal ring ; stitches in testicle ; stitches in chest >> ; stitches between third and fourth ribs ; stitching and jerking between scapulae to epi- gastrium ; stitching, tearing and tenderness in lumbar region << ; pain in lumbar region <C ; sciatica <C ; tensive pain on back of feet ; heat or chill <^.

Rising : reluctant to rise in morning ; giddiness ; vertigo with reeling ; to erect position after eating, nausea and water- brash ; heart beat goes from 54 to 110 ; from bed, faintness.

Standing: weak mind, faintness; vertigo and whirling; grip- ing and cutting in intestines ■< ; stiffness, tearing and tenderness in lumbar region <^ ; stands inerect from pain in back ; weakness of legs.

Stooping : or turning head, dizziness ; giddiness with looseness of brain ; fractal headache < ; pressing in frontal region and 1. eyeball < ; fullness in forehead < ; sensation of falling in head; difficulty in resuming erect position; heat in head <;

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stitching headache ; stiffness, tearing and tenderness in lum- bar region ■<.

Bending : neck, sticking pain ; drawing legs on abdomen ; constriction in epigastrium > ; turning head to left, pain in tendon of trapezius ; cutting in intestine > ; turning, pressive-drawing in back and loins < ; bending and stretch-, ing limb, swollen instep, bruised pain.

Walking : stitches from forehead to occiput, stepping hard ; stomach sensitive ; misstep, stitching in stomach << ; press- ure in epigastrium < ; ascending stairs, palpitation and breathlessness, pain in small of back <i ; crooked, from stiff- ness in back ; cracking and feeling of dislocation in hips ; bent, sticking from hip to knee ; stitches in knee ; knees totter and knock together ; feeling as of ankle dislocated ; foot feels tense ; prickling in sole of foot ; pain in sole ; weakness of legs ; weariness and heaviness ; weakness and weariness ; ■< ascending stairs, >• descending.

Motion : anxiety >> ; vertigo and headache <; ; fullness in forehead ; < moving eyes ; pressure in forehead and occi- put < ; severe pulsating pain in head ; tearing in r. side of head <C ', of eyes, shooting pains in head <C ; of eyes, in- creases headache ; expanding headache <; ; headache better closing eyes ; limbs pain ; tension and tearing in outer head <; ; of eyeball, sensitive pressure <C ', of eyes, ciliary neuralgia •< ; eyes sore and aching ; of eyes, pressing- crushing pain ■< ; rheumatic iritis and aching in back of eye to occiput <C ; pinching pressure at articulation of r. jaw ; complains of pain everywhere ; constriction and cut- ting in stomach after eating, with vomiting < ; on shock from hiccough, pressure in forehead as of brain shaking ; nausea < ; fullness and pressure at pit of stomach ■< ; burning at stomach <C ; stitching in epigastrium <C ; pain in stomach excessive ; moving legs, crepitation ; griping and cutting in intestines < ; sticking and shooting pain in abdomen < ; colic < ; urine passes involuntarily ; drib- bling of urine without sensation ; pain in ovaries < ; uterine suffering < ; backache and headache < ; after-pains brought on ; lancinating pain from hip to foot <C ; inflammation of mammae (suffering) •< ; short breath <C ', redness of face << ; stitches in chest •< ; inflammation of bronchi <C ; pleuro- pneumonia << ; cramp, in heart <C ; drawing down in back disappears ; stiffness, tearing and tenderness in lumbar region < ; sprained pain in wrist ; pain and swollen sensa- tion in finger-joints ; sticking in little finger ; aching in gluteal region •< ; pain in lumbar region << ; sciatica <C ; pain in knee < ; stiffness and stitches in knee < ; knee swollen, cannot move; bruised pain in outer calf; tension in ankles ; gouty pains < ; pain in limbs < ; rheumatic

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pains <; limbs a'Tid jaints swollen and sensitive; tearing and stinging in limbs < ; indisposed to exertion ; weariness and sweat after exertion; aching of arms and feet; faint- ness ; chills < ; sweat easily excited ; stitching about large joints ; soreness in periosteum and ligaments ; affected parts swollen, cannot move them ; stitching pain in swollen joints ; stinging in gouty swellings ; of arms, pain in 1. mamma and chest. 3s Iferves. Oversensitiveness of all the senses.

Increased bodily irritability.

I Spasm developed through repercussion of measles.

Spasmodic complaints; starting, twitching of limbs.

B Hysteric spasms.

I Clonic spasms.

lis often indicated after spasms have been controlled, and there remain fullness of pulse, abdominal tenderness and perspira- tion.

Feels lazy, and indisposed to work.

■ Weaving motion of 1. arm and leg, with sighing. Is compelled to lie down.

I Great weariness in morning and afternoon. I Loss of strength on slightest exertion.

■ Great weariness and sweat over whole body after a slight

exertion. 8 She is weak, arms and feet ache if she does any work, arms

fatigue after a long walk.

I On rising, great exhaustion and weakness, which increased

during forenoon, while walking, so that he had to drag him- self about ; on going upstairs there was excessive weakness in knees and legs.

I I Fainting in morning, getting up, or when rising up in bed. Sudden prostration, shunning all motion.

I Uncommonly wearied and prostrated.

■ General prostration.

Very tired and prostrated ; great weariness.

I Weariness, prostration in whole body.

I Great prostration and uneasiness.

I Great prostration. ^Constipation.

B iFaintiness : when rising from bed ; from slightest motion.

BOn rising from bed he was attacked with faintness, with cold

whole day.

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I Excessive gaping. ^Rheumatic attack.

Drowsiness, with half closed eyes,

I Much sleepiness during the day when alone.

I Great sleepiness and constant yawning, though he had slept

etc., yet at night no sleep on account of tumultuous course

prevented it until 12 o'clock.

■ Sleeplessness most before midnight. ^Rheumatic attack.

^Pertussis.

I Sleeplessness on account of uneasiness in the blood and anxi- ety; the thoughts crowd upon one another.

I I A concourse of anxious thoughts keeps him awake till 3 to 4 A.M.

Sleeplessness before midnight, with thirst, heat and ebullitions.

Sleeplessness, especially before midnight, owing to heat and anxiety, especially on the chest.

No sleep before midnight, on account of a frequent shivering sensation over one arm and foot, followed by sweat.

■ Sleepless night, with heat and restlessness, every other night

waking.

■ He started from an anxious dream and screamed out.

■ Dreams: about household affairs; about business of the day. Dreams of dispute and vexation.

■ Night restless, he could scarcely sleep for half an hour, and

during his slumbering was continually busy with what he had read the evening previous.

■ Sleep walking; produced and cured. Delirium at night of the business of the day.

■ Nightmare.

■ Delirium, as soon as he awakes.

■ Comatose sleep, broken by delirium.

1 i Often a prattling and muttering delirium during sleep.

During the night a bitter taste.

During sleep: masticating motions of the lower jaw; faeces

pass off; starting and jumping motion evening during sleep,

seems to aggravate sufferings. Chilliness in evening in bed, after lying down.

■ Insists on leaving the bed.

On wakening, pain in liver and kidneys.

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After the midday nap he was chilly; the head confused.

I Immediately after lying down in bed, in evening, sensation of heat, with external heat over him, without thirst through the whole night; he turned from one side to the other, did not dare to uncover any part, because it immediately caused violent pain in the abdomen, a painful griping, sticking or sticking griping, as if flatus moved spasmodically here and there, with loss of sleep from a multitude of crowding thoughts; in the morning this condition disappeared, with- out his noticing any flatulence. ^^Time. Night: delirium, < after 3 A.M.; shooting pain in head < ; toward morning, sour oily sweat on head (and body) ; rheumatic iritis and aching in back of eye to occi- put ■< ; fullness of eyeball, with shooting pain in eye and head < ; scalding in corners of eyes < ; toothache, with tearing in cheeks and pinching in ears, till 6 a.m. ; gulping up of phlegm ; heat in abdomen and heartburn ■< ; diar- rhoea preceded by colic ; involuntary stools ; urine reddish- yellow, white sediment ; dropsy of uterus > ; cough from tickling ; dry spasmodic cough ; pulse frequent ; dry heat ; sweat profuse, at 8 a.m. ; copious sour sweat.

Morning : head confused and aching ; delirium ; does not wish to rise; dizziness; head whirls and turns in circle; throbbing on top of head ; on waking pain in occiput to shoulders ; headache when first opening eyes ; bursting headache ; be- fore breakfast, compression and heaviness of head with stitches; head hot; agglutination and tears in eye; nose- bleed on awakening; toothache, 3 a.m.; nauseous, bitter taste ; nausea on waking ; nausea and vomiting ; colic and urging to stool; diarrhoea preceeded by colic; pasty stool; fluid stool; stools get thinner and thinner; dry parched stool ; sensation of plug in anus ; too weak to speak ; ex- pectoration ; lame and bruised in r. hip ; pain in knee re- turns ; weakness and exhaustion on rising ; griping with loss of sleep > ; heat in head ; sweats profuse.

Noon: pressive pain in occiput to neck <.

During day : dropsy of uterus increased ; inflammation of bronchi < ; pulse slower ; great weariness ; sleepiness ; skin dry; dropsical swellings <•

Afternoon : heaviness of head ; forepart of, many symptoms ; stitches between scapulae ; pain in lumbar region <<.

Evening : fullness in forehead < ; bursting headache < ; heat of head, coldness of body and pain in limbs < ; toothache in back teeth; drawing-jumping toothache in bed; heart- burn from wine ; nausea and vomiting ; distension in ab- domen ; frequent urination, 6 to 7 p.m. ; cough from tick- ling ; expectoration ; sciatica < ; pain in knee < ; feet tense and swollen ; starts with fright on falling asleep ;

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chilliness after lying down ; coldness and chilliness ; hot cheeks, chill all over, goose-flesh and thirst. ^^ Temperature and Weather. In-doors : very anxious ; chilli- ness <.

Warmth : tearing in r. side of head < ; tension and tearing in head < ; inflammation of eyes, with pains in teeth and face < ; drawing-jumping toothache < ; tearing-stitching toothache < ; in room, pain in throat < ; warm drinks, > ; weather, diarrhoea ; air, dry painful cough < ; air, vapor in trachea causing cough ; dry spasmodic cough < ; chills < ; stitches in wrist when hands warm ; pains in limbs and joints >.

Open air : anxiety > ; pain as of tooth screwed in and pulled out > ; decayed teeth sensitive.

Cold: headache on washing after sweating; raw and wet, rheumatic headache ; inflammation of eyes, with pains in teeth and face > ; face red and smooth after washing ; toothache as of cold air ; water, pain as of tooth screwed in and pulled out, > momentarily ; water, internal heat > ; fruit, incarceration of hernia after ; water, bitter taste and nausea > ; air, breathing > ; water, sciatica <.

Dry air: soreness in occiput and behind ears <.

I Cerebral disturbance from getting wet.

• Diarrhoea after taking cold or getting hot in summer.

I I Complaints when warm weather sets in after cold days.

I Complaints from cold drinks in hot weather.

I I Kicks the covers off. ^" Fever. 1 1 Chilliness.

More chilliness in the room than in the open air.

Chilliness and coldness of the body, also in bed.

Coldness and chilliness, mostly in the evening, and often only

on one (right) side. Chilliness during stool.

I Skin icy cold, shrivelled. ^Cholera Asiatica. I I Coldness and shivering over the whole body.

■ Before chill, vertigo and headache. ^Intermittent. Chill, with external coldness of the body.

■ Chills begin on lips, and on tips of fingers and toes; great

warm room.

I Chilly sensation about the ulcers. Chill or heat on diseased part.

I I Chilliness predominating, frequently with heat of head, red cheeks and thirst.

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I Chilliness with heat in head and red face. ^Rheumatic attack.

Chills with heat.

Shaking chill, frequently with heat in head, internal; generally with intense desire for cold drinks.

I Chills with thirst; heat of face with flushed cheeks. ^Inter- mittent.

I In evening : hot and red cheeks with chill all over, with goose-

flesh and thirst. Heat or chill lessened while sitting.

I I Fever, with dry, burning heat, mostly internal ; blood seems to burn in veins.

iHeat in head and face. I Heat in head in morning.

Blleat in head in forenoon ; feels as though it would come out at forehead.

■ Dry heat at night.

I Heat, with desire to uncover.

I Feeling of heat in face, with redness and thirst.

Fever, with bitter taste and thirst.

BHeat with thirst. ^Intermittent.

Great aggravation of sufferings during the heat.

Heat after stool.

■ Sweat in morning.

■ Unctuous, oily sweat. ^Pertussis.

■ Sweat easily excited by exercise. ^Intermittent.

I 1 Sweat on slight exertion ; even when walking in cool air.

II Sweat relieves.

■ Sweat over whole trunk and head, but not on parts aff"ected.

^Rheumatic attack.

■ Thirst only during the fever. ^Intermittent.

■ Intermittent connected with incipient tuberculosis, with pro-

ponent and recedent type.

■ B Nervous fever with pain in limbs.

■ Typhoid fevers ; accumulation of frothy, soap-like saliva in

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on single parts ; intermittent with preponent and recedent type. *^ Locality and Direction. Bight : tearing from forehead to arm ; drawing-tearing in temple ; tearing in head ; burning and lachrymation of eye ; heat and swelling of r. ear ; parotid swollen and sensitive ; thin, light discharge from nostril ; pinching pressure at articulation of jaw ; dull ach- ing in alveoli of upper jaw; twitching-tearing in malar bone to temple ; painful pressing under r. cheek bone ; sting- ing pain near larynx on swallowing ; stitches in testicle and spermatic cord ; pain in ovarian region ; burning in fundus of uterus ; oppression of chest, with stitches in axil- lary gland ; stitches between third and fourth ribs ; prick- ing pain below nipple ; burning in chest ; painful spot on second rib to sternum ; aching and sharp pain beneath scapula ; painful pressure on shoulder ; rheumatic swelling of shoulder and upper arm, with stitches ; aching pain in gluteal region ; lame and bruised in hip ; great pain in thigh ; pain in knee ; pain in knee-cap as of long kneeling ; pinch- ing-tearing in calf; coldness and chilliness of body.

Left : pressing out in eyeball ; pressure above eye ; drawing in temporal bone ; stitch in 1. side of brain when coughing ; sharp pain in occipital protuberance ; continued stitch deep in brain ; sensitive pressure in eyeball ; darting pains from eye through head ; snapping in stomach as of food pushed to I. side ; stitches in side on vomiting ; pain in heel ; twitch- ing in abdomen ; sticking in back ; heat in hypogastrium ; pain toward inguinal ring; iniiammation of labium major; mamma swollen ; swelling of breast and axillary glands dur- ing weaning ; stitches in chest ; chill in chest ; rheumatic pain in tendon of trapezius on turning head to left ; stitches under scapula to heart ; swelling in elbow-joints ; bruised pain on outer calf; rheumatic pains in knee; constant thresh- ing with arm and leg ; weaving motion in arm and leg.

Within out : headache in forehead and temples ; pressive pain in temples ; violent headache, with pressure in brain ; con- tinued stitch in brain ; stitches in head and chest ; pricking pain below r. nipple.

Above downwards : drawing from occiput into neck ; tearing in forehead, extending to r. arm ; drawing in temporal bones ; drawing-tearing in r. temple to neck ; tearing in head ex- tending into jaw-bones ; headache in occiput to shoulders ; pressive pain in occiput into neck ; drawing and tearing from temple to malar bone ; pressure in epigastrium to umbilicus and bladder ; pain in inguinal region ; drawing in intestines ; pain in ovarian region ; lancinating from hip to foot ; pain in thorax to lower part of sternum ; creeping chilliness in back; dull stitching on shoulder; tearing from elbow to

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wrist ; pain in lumbar region to thigh ; stitching in hip to knee; pain along thigh to knee; swelling of legs to feet.

Below up : twitching-tearing in r. malar bone to temple ; tear- ing in hip to epigastrium ; pains in abdomen ; heat from abdomen to chest ; drawing in elbow to shoulder ; shooting pain to hip ; chills begin at fingers and toes.

Left to right : stitches in chest during inspiration.

Right to left : painful spot on second rib to sternum.

Before back : sticking, jerking, throbbing headache from fore- head to occiput ; sharp pains in eyeballs to occiput ; darting pains from 1. eye through head ; aching from eye to occiput ; stitches through chest to scapulae ; pain in lumbar region.

Behind forwards : shaking of brain from hiccough ; stitches in 1. chest ; stitches below scapulae ; stitches and pressing between scapulae and epigastrium. *^ Sensations, Oversensitiveness of senses to external impres- sions.

Every spot in body is painful to pressure ; < mornings.

Drawing rheumatic pains in various parts of body.

Transient drawing and tension in almost all limbs and joints.

Rending: in shoulder-joints and upper arms.

Tearing : across forehead ; in cervical muscles ; in r. arm ; in r. temple ; in external head ; in r. malar bone ; in cheeks ; in teeth ; from hip to epigastrium ; in urethra ; in limbs dur- ing menstruation ; in mammae ; in lumbar muscles ; in shoul- der-joints and upper arms ; in r. upper arm ; on inner side of forearm ; in shins.

Cutting: in epigastrium ; in intestines; before stool; in urethra during urinating.

Stabbing : in chest ; in hips.

Lancinating : during diarrhoea ; from hip to foot.

Darting : through head.

Piercing: in shoulder -joints and upper arms.

Stitching : deep in brain, 1. side ; in head ; from forehead to occiput ; in eyes ; deep in ear ; in teeth ; in throat ; in 1. side ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in liver ; in spleen ; in r. testicle and cord ; in ovaries on inspiration ; in chest ; in inter- costal spaces and sternum ; in r. axillary gland ; in region of heart ; between scapulae ; under 1. scapula to heart ; in sacral region ; in shoulder-joints and upper arms; in r. elbow- joint; in wrist; in fingers when writing; in hip-joint to knee ; in knees when walking ; in soles ; in big toe ; in all serous membranes.

Shooting : extending to vertex or occiput ; in eye ; in teeth ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in back through chest ; toward hip.

Stinging : in throat ; in liver ; in abdomen.

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A prickling sensation "like pins and needles" on soles or on other parts of body, or with an eruption.

Prickling : in anterior third of tongue ; at anus ; in soles when walking ; in soles of feet ; of skin (nettle-rash).

Pinching: pressure in articulation of r. jaw; in ears; in ab- domen ; in r. calf.

Griping : in intestines ; during stool.

Digging : in forehead ; in teeth as from cold.

Aching : of head in morning ; headache, in occiput ; tensive, in temporal region ; in head when stooping ; expansive head- ache ; in eyes ; in 1. orbit ; from eye to occiput ; dull, in alveoli of upper jaw; of gums during teething; in back; beneath r. scapula; in back; in lumbar muscles; and bruised feeling in r. gluteal region.

Pressure : in cardiac region ; in frontal region ; above 1. eye ; in occipital protuberance ; outward in head ; on vertex ; in occiput ; in temples ; in 1. eyeball ; under r. cheek-bone ; in throat ; in stomach ; toward 1. inguinal ring on sitting ; in urethra ; at larynx ; over chest and sternum ; in precordial region ; on top of r. shoulder.

Burning : in forehead and temples ; in eyes ; in r. eye ; in stomach ; along diaphragm and ribs ; in liver ; in abdomen ; at anus ; with stool and urine ; in rectum ; in fundus of uterus ; in mammae ; in chest ; in veins ; spots on skin.

Scalding : in eyes.

Smarting : behind pomum adami.

Drawing : in occiput ; in temporal bones ; tearing in r. temple ; in 1. upper lid ; in back teeth ; in urethra ; from hip to foot; in muscles of neck, r. side ; in r. upper arm ; along crest of fibula.

Twisting : tensive in single muscle fibres.

Jerking : from forehead to occiput ; toothache in evening ; pressing between scapulge.

Twitching : drawing in maxillary bones ; of 1. upper lid ; in r. malar bone ; in corners of mouth ; in abdomen, 1. side.

Soreness : of nose ; of r. malar bone ; of teeth and gums ; in epigastrium; of abdomen ; in intestines ; of larynx; behind sternum ; of cervical glands. •

Rawness : in throat ; in larynx.

Tension : in temporal region ; in external head ; at stomach ; in region of liver ; down thighs ; at sphincter ani ; in mam- mae ; in nape of neck ; in r. shoulder ; in knee ; in ankles ; on back of feet.

Pain : in head ; above 1. eye ; in occiput ; in r. temple ; in both temples ; sharp, in 1. occipital protuberance ; pressive, in head ; dull, in forehead ; in small spot on forehead ; in vertex ; in limbs on motion ; like of needle through eye and head ; severe, in eye ; violent, in teeth and face ; in 1. ton-

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sil ; in throat ; constricting, in stomach ; in abdomen ; in kidneys ; in r. ovarian region ; in back and loins during menstruation; rheumatic, in uterus; in breasts; on inspir- ing ; in abdominal muscles ; in cardiac region ; in infra mammary region ; rheumatic, in chest and lungs ; in nape of neck ; in lumbar and sacral region ; in small of back ; paralytic, in r. elbow ; in wrist as if sprained ; in 1. lumbar region to thigh ; in r. thigh to knee; in left calf; in sole of foot ; in ball of great toe ; in liver and kidneys on awaken- ing.

Sensitiveness : of external r. ear ; of r. parotid ; of lower lip ; of teeth to air ; at pit of stomach ; of abdomen ; in lumbar muscles.

Scraping : and roughness in throat.

Scratching : in throat.

Tickling : in epigastrium ; in throat, exciting cough.

Crawling : in throat ; in epigastrium ; in throat, exciting cough.

Crepitation : moving legs.

Cracking: of hip-joint when walking.

Throbbing : on top of head ; throughout body.

Pulsation : in left orbit.

Beating : in vertex.

Looseness : of teeth.

Lightness : of head, with wabbling in ears.

Emptiness : of stomach.

Fullness : in forehead ; in cranium ; of eyeball ; in throat ; at stomach ; at r. hypochondrium.

Tightness : in shoulder-joints and upper arms ; in calves.

Swollen : as if, at pit of stomach ; finger-joints as if swollen when writing.

Heaviness : in forehead ; in head ; of head, in afternoon ; of 1. upper lid; in stomach ; in region of liver ; at sphincter ani; of breasts ; beneath sternum.

Plug : ears feel stopped ; at epigastrium.

Uncomfort : in abdomen as of menses.

Weakness : of thighs.

Weakness : of limbs ; in .morning and afternoon ; after slight exertion.

Faintness : mental weakness ; in morning when rising ; from slightest motion.

Trembling : of tongue.

Numbness : in stomach and oesophagus.

Coldness : after anger ; on vertex ; of hands, and chilliness ; chill in 1. chest ; chilliness in back ; chilliness in evening in bed ; chilliness during stool ; of skin ; of whole body.

Itching : at margin of lids ; in throat ; on glans ; eruption on skin ; between fingers.

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Dryness : of lips, tongue and hard palate ; of throat. '* Tissues. Plethora.

Burning sensation in veins.

I Inflammation of mucous and serous membranes. ^ Acute

catarrh. ^Pleuritis. ^Pericarditis. ^Peritonitis. Stitches in all serous membranes.

trochanter, and at knee ; all aggravated by motion, touch or

any jar or shock. I Arthritic affections.

■ Arthritic nodosities.

■ Erysipelas of joints.

Rheumatism, with redness and swelling of joints ; motion is intolerable.

I Rheumatism muscular and articular.

Soreness appears to be in sheath of tendon, but principally in periosteum and ligaments ; there does not appear to be that swelling of joints, stiffness and dread of motion that usually characterizes rheumatism ; but motion always increases pain.

Swelling (pale or red) of affected parts, with inability to move them.

I I Joints red, swollen, shining, stiff, with stitching pain from slightest motion.

■ Fixed, acute rheumatism, aggravated by motion; travels slowly

from joint to joint.

■ Violent pains in scrofulous swollen joints.

■ Gouty, red, shining swelling of single parts, with stinging

when moving them.

■ Hardness in groups of muscles affected by neuralgia.

I I Involuntary muscles seem not to be greatly embarrassed ;

■ ■Dropsical swellings increase during day and diminish dur-

ing night.

■ Dropsy. Emaciation predominates.

■ Suppuration of cellular tissue.

■ In acute abscess, promotes resorption of pus.

forehead > ; tearing in r. side of head > ; headache > ;

pressing pain under r. cheek bone > ; pain in upper teeth

changes to lower ; pit of stomach sensitive.

Touch : tearing in r. side of head < ; tension and tearing in

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outer head < ; scalp tender ; soreness in occiput and behind ears < ; eyeballs sensitive ; eyes sore ; r. parotid sensitive ; nose sore and swollen ; swelling and ulcerative pain in tip of nose ; r. malar bone sore ; lower lip sensitive ; sticking pain on feeling of throat ; pit of stomach sensitive ; stitches in liver ; abdomen sensitive ; pain in ovarian region < ; lanci- nating from hip to foot < ; chest sensitive ; soreness behind sternum ; glands of neck sore ; pressive pain on shoulder •< ; finger-joints painful ; bruised pain on outer calf ; suppurative pain in foot ; rheumatic pains < ; sensitive ; pain in limbs ; small red spots on body, sensitive, somse not sensitive ; nettle- rash, with prickling.

I Children dislike to be carried, or to be raised.

Injuries : abscess at pit of stomach after blow.

It is found, that Bryon. is rarely, if ever, indicated in dis- eases affecting the external tissues of eye ; its great sphere of usefulness being in diseases of uveal tract. ^^Skin. I Yellow skin of whole body, even efface.

Jaundice.

I A red, round, hot spot on cheek on malar bone.

I Petechias.

I I Small, red spots on various parts of body; some with sensi- bility and not disappearing on pressure ; some burning and disappearing on pressure.

■ Eruption over whole body, especially on back as far as neck,

■ White miliary eruption.

■ Rash, especially of children, and during childbed.

■ Erysipelatous inflammations, especially of joints.

■ iSlow development of rash in eruptive fevers; or, sudden re-

ceding of rash, with diflBcult respiration ; or inflammatory affection of chest.

■ After measles. ^Pertussis.

■ When scarlatinal eruption delays, or suddenly recedes.

^Dropsy, pleuritis, or meningitis.

■ Ailments from suppression of measles. ^Pertussis.

■ ■After suppression of exanthemata. ^Diarrhoea.

Febrile symptoms preceding eruption of small-pox and miliary fever ; secondary affections remaining after measles and scarlatina.

Hard knots and blotches.

■ Ulcers putrid; cold feeling in them.

■ Painless ulcers.

45 BRYONIA ALBA.

0 Black hair, dark complexion, tendency to constipation.

1 I People with choleric temperament, bilious tendency, dark hair

and complexion, with firm, fleshy fibre. Old people.

I Old women, accustomed to taking alcohol. ^Asthma. *^ Relations. Antidotedby: Aeon., Alum., Camphor., iChamom.,

Chelid., Clemat., Coffea, llgnat., Mur. ac, iNux vom.,

Pulsat., Rhus tax., Seneg. Bryon. antidotes : Alum., Chlorine, Cinchon., Frag, vesc,

Mereur., Rhus tox. Compare : the Cucurhitacece (all of which have belching, with

unaltered taste of food) ; WAcon., Ammon., I Ant. crud.

(nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea; cannot bear milk) ; Arnic,

I \ Arsen. (unlike Bryon., drinks often and little, and eats

etc., hasty speech and hasty drinking) ; I Calc. ostr., Carb.

Laches., iLycop., Mereur., Natr. sulph. (morning diarrhoea) ;

llNatr. mur., Nitr. ae., llNux vom. (digestive organs);

Opium, Petrol., I Phosphor., Podoph., Pulsat. (morning

diarrhoea) ; Ran. bulb, (pleurisy, rheumatic affections) ;

Opium, Rhus tox.; after Bryon., WAlum., Arsen., Kali

carb., Nux vom., Phosphor., Pulsat. ., Rhus tox., Sulphur. Complements : Alumina, Rhus tox.

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