Formica Rufa

The Ant. Hymenoptera.

" The name Formica was used by Linnaeus as a generic name for a large num- ber of species, all of which appear to common people to be ants. Later entomolo- gists had to separate the species and arrange them under different names, as differ- ent genera. The genus to which the old name, Formica, was left by Latrielle, is the one from which we have reports of cures, and from whicli we made our prov- ings. Ants belonging to the genus Formica, as Latrielle has it, when attacked defend themselves by biting with tlieir mandibulaj, or jaws, and bending at the same time their abdomen downward and forward, they eject from tlie anus a sharp, sour fluid towards the place which they tried to wound with their pincers.

The fluid reddens litmus paper, and contains Formyl acid (Formica or Formic acid) CH2O2."

For historical data See N. Amer. J. of H., Aug., 1870, article by C. Hering.

The tincture is prepared from crushed live ants.

The provings were principally made and conducted by Lippe and Hering. See Hering's Monograph, and Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 355. The prepara- tions used were the formic ether, formyl acid, spiritus formicarum, formica rufa and subsericea.

Clinicax, Authorities. — See Hering's Monograph.

^ Mind. I Want of memory; forgetful in evening.

Undisposed, forgetful, morose, fearful and apprehensive.

Exhilarated condition after pain in vertex had abated. ^ Sensorium. l Vertigo; all things seem to move to and fro, and reeling of body.

Inclined to be dizzy while eating; giddiness after dressing in morning or on attempting to rise; pain in 1. supra- orbital region when going to bed, with dizziness; black- ness before eyes, > by sitting down.

Giddy on attempting to rise.

Fulness in head; stupid feeling in head, with sensation of stiffness of neck.

Heaviness of head ; sensation as if brain was too heavy and large; congestion to head; pulsations in head.

Dull, sleepy feeling, with heaviness of eyelids, and inability to study.

Dull, uncomfortable feeling in forehead, with heat, fulness and pulsations.

I iDulness of head; pressure on both sides between tem- ples and ears.

■ In all kinds of apoplectic diseases.

I Strengthens the brain.

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* Inner Head. Forepart of head aches, with the cough.

Sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead, running

around 1. side of head. Dull frontal headache, with occasional shooting pains from

r. temple into head, in afternoon.

■ Headache in 1. forepart of head and temple back to

occiput, beginning earlier every day, with a sore pain over eye, increasing gradually, with cutting, extending into ear.

■ Headache with cracking in 1. ear, followed by pain in 1.

temple, then in vertex, with nausea, and abatement of

pain in forehead. ■Sick headache, with shooting, neuralgic pains in temples. Lancinating in r. temple, from within out. Dull pain in whole head, with occasional boring in r. tem- poral region. Severe pain in vertex, like a stitch from a dull instrument,

as from a pressing nail. Pain on top of head shifting from epigastrium. Headache on top of head and forehead, particularly

through temples. In morning headache in posterior upper and inner part of

head; < drinking coffee; each time during and after

washing with cold water. Tearing pain in occiput. ;rPain from neck up to back of head.

TrSensation running up into head from oody like lighmmg. When waking in morning, headache with vomiting,

stitches in r. side of chest. Headache: with nausea; < sitting up in bed; with nausea

and vomiting; in afternoon, with occasional fluttering

of heart; daily from 12 m. to 10 p.m.; < stooping; all day,

> after combing hair. ■Nervous headache. ^ Outer Head. ■ Itching of scalp and head.

■ Hair on head ceased falling out when combing.

■ Contusions of head.

^ Sight and Eyes. Pain in 1. supraorbital and 1. temporal region, the seat of pain being tender to touch; pain and aching over 1. eye; objects appear as if seen through a mist; blackness before eyes, must sit down for a few moments.

■ Dimness of sight.

;rAlthough improved, she cannot see," has flickering before eyes, and eyes are very weak.

■ Nebula; leucoma; pterygium.

■ Maculse and ulcers on cornea.

;rPain in eyes mornings when awaking, > by washing.

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1 1 Rheumatic inflammation of eyes and sequelae. Spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid of r. eye. ^ Hearing and Ears, i Ringing, buzzing in ears.

■ Cracking in 1. ear, with headache.

■ Difficult hearing; deafness.

■ Earache in both ears, morning getting up. Pressing pain in ears, with heat.

Slight stitches in 1. ear, followed by a small abscess in

external portion of meatus auditorius. TrExternal sensitiveness of r. ear and temple. ttAII the parts around ear feel swollen and uncomfortable;

slight pain in (right) deaf ear, extending up into temple,

w'ith external sensitiveness. ;rBehind the ear, pain from neck. ttAII ear symptoms, like cold in head, have been on r. side,

where ear is deaf; 1. ear occasionally sympathizing. "^ Smell and Nose. Sneezing and fluent cor3^za.

■ Catarrh.

® Upper Face. Entire 1. side of face and cheek feel as if par- alyzed. ;rAfter taking first powder, the blister on face, for which, the medicine was given, seemed rather smaller and harder; after the second, it was softer and felt sore,, and a small pimple appeared on face; the morning after the third, surface of blister was irregular.

^° Teeth and Gums. ■Grumbling in teeth during afternoon, from draught.

■ Pain in decayed last molar, 1. side.

^^ Taste and Tongue. "Watery taste in mouth, very off'eu-

sive to him. :rWater tastes badly, sweetish and insipid. -Root of tongue sore; at the tip stinging. ^^ Throat. Dry throat all night, could scarcely speak; when

she got into a position in wdiich she could sleep a little,

the dryness of throat awoke her. "In morning on rising very sore throat and earache in

both ears. ■Sore throat in morning with much mucus.

■ Sore throat < 1. side.

"Pain in neck wdien hawking and gargling. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. TrMuch thirst all

day, but water tasted badly, sweetish and insipid. ^^ Eating and Drinking. ^While eating and drinking, espe- cially when closing jaws, severe pain in neck. "After drinking tea, copious sweat. '^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. TrFrequent belching without any relief

■ Nausea and vomiting.

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I I Nausea with headache, and vomiting of yellowish, bitter

mucus. TrVomiting: with diarrhoea, in evening; with cough. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. ;rWarmth and burning in stomach, acceleration of pulse, increased urination, in- creased transpiration, excitement of sexual organs,, viscous, stinking urine, with gouty patients. Burning pain in stomach, with oppression and weight. I I Constant pressure at cardiac end of stomach, and a burning pain there. ^^ Hypochondria.

Dull pain in region of spleen. ^^ Abdomen. -Severe pain in belly, and shuddering chilliness. Sensation across abdomen as if bruised below navel, also tired feeling in back,

■ Flatulency.

I Hardening of mesenteric glands. 2° Stool and Rectum. TrAfter having a thin evacuation with

bellyache, every morning for a week, without much

relief from the eruption, there appeared in the evening,.

at 8 or 9 o'clock, violent diarrhoea and vomiting. I Diarrhoea after meals, or only during day, not at night,

or day and night, or before midnight. I I Diarrhoea, with tenesmus; pain in bowels before stool. Loose diarrhoeic stool, which left a desire for another stool,

with an uncomfortable feeling in anus, as if the passage

was not all through, and more must pass. Difficult passage of small quantities of flatus in morning;

afterwards diarrhoea-like urging in rectum.

■ Diarrhoea of children.

;rln the morning second stool. B White stools.

■ Constipation and sensation of constriction of sphincter ani.. Pressure in rectum, < evening and in bed.

Painful desire in anus and rectum for stool, which, how- ever, will not pass.

■ Tapeworm.

^^ Urinary Organs. Paralysis of bladder. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Long-lasting erections after urinat- ing in morning.

■ Seminal emissions.

■ Weakness of sexual organs.

■ Scanty ejaculation with incomplete erection.

A kind of nervous, floating and jerking pain in 1. half of penis and region of prostate, frequently repeated.

On ascending stairs feeling as if several parts had gone to^ sleep.

Itching on scrotum. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■Uterine complaints.

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Menses scanty and pale, with bearing down pain in back; 3d day; darker 4th day; crampy pain through hip- joint and pelvis. Menses appear eight days too soon. 21 Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation. iLack of milk

with nursing women. ^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. ■ Hoarse- ness wath sore throat. B Small piece of phlegm in larynx which cannot be brought up by coughing. ^' Cough. iTedious and long lasting; < at night and from motion; with an aching in forehead and a constrictive pain in chest. ■Violent attacks of cough with vomiting, day and night. ^® Inner Chest and Lungs, i Pleuritic pains. ^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation.

Uneasy pain in region of heart. Palpitation of heart; fluttering of heart. ^^ Outer Chest. . l l Violent penetrating itching at r. nipple. I I Violent prickling, pressing stitches in region of 1. nipple; later on 1. side of back, but more violent; still later, the same sensation on other parts of body. ^^ Neck and Back. TrSoreness in neck and up into head;

> by external pressure. ;rWhile eating and chewing food, especially when closing her jaws, severe pain in 1. side of neck, which extended into back of head and particularly behind ear. jrln morning, on gargling her throat, when hawking, sud- denly a violent pain in 1. side of nape of neck, extend- ing dowai 1. arm, can scarcely move it, < above elbow; > in evening in 1. arm, but it went to r., where it was < than before; on bending head back, could scarcely bring it forward again, on account of pain ; whole neck stiff, and very painful up to back of head, < from least motion ; on wishing to rise from bed, must press both hands behind ears, cries out on least motion.

Trinto the neck pain with least turn or twist. ;rAfter sitting up pain in neck < again, > by application

of a hot iron. I I Violent itching on 1. shoulder-blade.

I Pain in back.

Severe pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand, < on motion.

I I Affection of spinal cord.

"^^ Upper Limbs, i i Itching in armpits in morning.

"Pain from neck down 1. arm; in evening to r. ; could

scarcely move her arm. I 1 Severe pain above r. elbow.

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;rPain < in upper arm, above 1. elbow.

Rheumatic pain: in r, elbow-joint; in r. forearm and wrist;

along course of ulna. Pain leaves 1. arm and goes to right. ^ Lower Limbs. Severe pain through pelvis, as if from one

acetabulum to the other. Bruised pain in hips at night in bed, causing him to

change from side to side. Legs felt as if she had no power in them, sore and tired;

sensation across abdomen as if bruised below navel, also

tired feeling in back ; felt a little giddy. Lancinating pain in 1. knee-joint, waking him from sleep. Rheumatic pains in knee-joints, < walking. Cramp in both feet, especially in soles near toes. iGout; gout}^ pain in limbs.

■ Arthritis vaga.

I Chronic gout and stiffness of joints. iOld atonic gout.

■ Checked foot-sweat. ^Chorea.

^* Limbs in GeneraL Sensation as if muscles were strained and being torn from attachment.

I I Rheumatism appearing suddenly, mostly in joints, with restlessness ; patients desire motion, although it makes pain more acute ; pains > by pressure ; sweat without relief; r. side principally and more severely affected than left.

■ Old local or general rheumatic affections; internal or

external.

■ Rheumatic or gouty pains.

■ Stiffness and contraction of joints.

^^Rest. Position. Motion. Sitting: upon bed, headache with nausea <; pain in neck <.

Stooping: headache with nausea.

Sitting down: blackness before eyes >.

Bending head: could scarcely bring it forward again on account of pain.

Could get to sleep if she could get right position.

Pain in hip compels him to change from side to side.

Closing jaws: severe pain in neck.

Attempting to rise: giddiness; pain in neck.

Can scarcely move arm for pain.

Walking: pain in knee-joints.

Ascending stairs: feeling as if sexual parts had gone to sleep.

Motion : cough < ; pain in back of neck < ; pain across sacrum and dorsum of each hand < ; < pain, but pa- tient desires it. ^ Nerves. Languid feeling of whole system, with pain in all

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the limbs, accompanied by chills and horripilations along spine. Legs felt as if she had no power in them.

■ Great lassitude and prostration.

General weakness of the whole muscular system.

iFaintings.

1 Limbs lame; paralyzed.

B Paralysis.

I Spasms.

I A long, horribly maltreated chorea lessened as soon as the foot-sweat, which had been checked, was brought on again by putting feet in a bag with living ants and creating steam with hot stones.

■ Epilepsy.

■ Affections of the spinal cord.

■ Strengthens the nerves.

^' Sleep. :rAll night dry throat, woke her out of sleep.

;rDisagTeeable sweat during night, awoke with clammy

TrPassed a dreadful night ; pains suddenly return with

violence, only lessening somewhat after midnight. ;rCould get to sleep if she could get the right position.

■ Wakes up early and feels that she has had sufficient sleep.

■ When awaking in morning: headache; vomiting, with

headache ; pain in eyes ; stitches in ear. ■^^ Time. Morning: after dressing, giddiness; headache; head- ache with vomiting; pain in eyes; earache; dry throat; sore throat; difficult passage of small quantities of flatus; second stool; long-lasting erections after urinating; vio- lent pain in 1. side of neck; itching in armpits; sweat.

Day: headache; diarrhoea; cough with vomiting.

Afternoon: shooting pain in r. temple; headache with nausea and fluttering of heart; grumbling in teeth.

Evening: forgetful; vomiting with diarrhoea; pressure in rectum <; pain in arm > ; pain goes from 1. to r. arm.

Night: dry throat; diarrhoea; cough <; cough with vom- iting; bruised pain in hip.

After midnight: pains >. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Creating steam with hot stones in a bag of live ants brought back foot-sweat.

Hot iron > pain in neck.

Cold water: headache < during and when washing with cold water; renews burning pains.

■Great liability to take cold.

■ Consequences of cold and wet; cold bathing; damp

weather. ■^^ Fever. ;rShuddering chilliness with pain in belly. TrClammy skin, awaking her.

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;rDisagreeable sweat during night.

;rPerspired for about half an hour, but without slightest amelioration of pain in arm.

TrAt noon, after drinking tea, copious sweat without relief.

1 1 Sweat without relief ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Frequently repeated pains in 1. half of penis.

Attacks: of violent cough with vomiting.

Every morning: thin evacuation wdth bellyache.

Earlier every day: headache.

Daily from 12 m. to 10 p.m. : headache with nausea.

Third day: menses pale and scanty with bearing down pain in back.

Fourth day: menses darker. ^ Locality and Direction. Right : shooting pains in temple; lancinating in temple; boring in temple; stitches in side of chest; spasmodic twitching of upper eyelid sensitive- ness of ear and temple; violent penetrating itching at r. nipple; pain from neck down arm ; severe pain above elbow; rheumatic pain in elbow-joint, in forearm, in wrist, along course of ulna.

Left: pain in supraorbital region; sensation of bubble bursting in side of head; headache in forepart of head and temple; cracking in ear; pain in temple; pain and aching over eye; stitches in ear; small abscess on external portion of meatus auditorius; side of face and cheek feel as if paralyzed; pain in decayed molar; side of throat sore; a kind of nervous, floating, jerking pain in half of penis; prickling stitches at nipple; on side of back; closing jaws severe pain in neck; severe" pain down arm; violent itching of shoulder-blade; pain from neck down arm; pain in upper arm above elbow; lancinating- pain in knee-joint.

I Pains 1. then r. ; r. then left. ^ Sensations. As if brain was too heavy and large; sensation like a bubble bursting in forehead ; like a stitch from a dull instrument in vertex; as from a pressing nail in vertex; 1. side of face and cheek as if paralyzed; as if bruised below navel; as if male sexual organs had gone to sleep; as if muscles were strained and being torn from attachments; legs feel as if she had no power in them.

Pain: in 1. supraorbital region; in forepart of head; in 1. temple; in forehead; in vertex; from neck up to back of head; over 1. eye; in both ears; in r. ear extending up into temple; from neck behind ear; in decayed last molar 1. side; in neck; in bowels; down 1. arm; in back; in upper arm above 1. elbow; from 1. arm to r.; in all limbs.

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Severe pain: in vertex; in neck; in belly; across sacrum and dorsum of each hand ; above r. elbow ; through pel- vis as if from one acetabulum to the other.

Lancinating: in r. temple; in 1. knee-joint.

Tearing pain : in occiput.

■ Cutting pain: in head; into ear.

Shooting pains: from r. temple into head.

Boring: in r. temporal region.

Stitches: in r. side of chest; in 1. ear; in region of 1. nipple.

Prickling stitches: in region of 1. nipple; in 1. side of back ; on other parts of body.

Pleuritic pains: inner chest and lungs.

Crampy pain: through hip-joint and pelvis.

Cramp: in both feet; in soles.

Neuralgic pains : in temples.

Rheumatic pain: in r. elbow-joint; in r. forearm; in r. wrist; along course of ulna; in knee-joints.

Gouty pain : in limbs.

Bearing down pain : in back.

Pressing pain : in ears.

Bruised pain: in hips.

Burning pain : in stomach.

Stinging: at tip of tongue.

Sore pain: over eye.

Jerking pain : in 1. half of penis ; region of prostate.

Nervous floating pain: in 1. half of penis; in region of pros- tate.

Constrictive pain : in chest.

Dull pain : in whole head ; in region of spleen.

Uneasy j^ains : in region of heart.

Soreness: at root of tongue; of throat; in neck up into head; of legs.

Burning: of stomach.

Grumbling: in teeth.

Constriction: of sphincter ani.

Spasmodic twitching: of upper eyelid of r. eye.

Dull frontal headache.

Dull feeling: in head; in forehead.

Dulness: of head.

Fulness: in head.

Pressure: at cardiac end of stomach; in rectum.

Stupid feeling: in head.

Dryness: of throat.

Heaviness: of head; of eyelids.

Stiffness: of neck; of joints.

Fluttering: of heart.

Cracking: in 1. ear.

Buzzing: in ears.

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Ringing : in ears.

Tired feeling: in back; in legs.

Lameness: of limbs.

Itching: of scalp ; of head; on scrotum; at r. nipple; on 1. shoulder-blade; in armpits. ^ Tissues. Rheumatic affections; so-called rheumatic inflam- mation of eyes; aural affections and sequelae.

Nervous and spasmodic affections.

■ Nodes around joints, internally and externally.

■ Watery swellings; dropsy; cachexies.

■ Contusions; dislocations.

■ Atrophy after wounds.

■ Complaints from overlifting.

^'^ Skin. Itch ; cold tumors ; goitre ; leprosy.

^* Relations. Compatible: after Chamom.

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Tincture of the resinous gum obtained from a tree native to China.

Proved by Nenning, see Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 373, and Jacob Jeanes in 18-10 (not included in Allen's Encyclopaedia), also by Hering and Husmann.

^ Mind. I Irritable mood.

I I Cheerful, talkative, feeling of ease, great lightness of all

rising. Confusion of head with a feeling of reeling or motion from

side to side. 1 Heaviness in whole head, with dulness, sleepiness and

pain in back. ^ Inner Head. Pain in whole head and beating in forehead

towards nose. Oppressive headache with heaviness in forehead, > in

open air, or with heat in whole head and body. Transitory tearing in 1. temple.

evening or afternoon, > from walking in open air, but

returning in morning. Pain in 1. eye succeeded immediately by sickness of stom- ach, and dull, heavy aching and pain in tibia below in-

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sertion of tendon from patella, then by pain above patella on 1. side.

■ Violent itching of eyes in evening.

■ Itching of inner canthi, with discharge of acrid, corrosive

in one eye, with severe pain in adjoining temple, most

■ Nightly agglutination of lids, burning in morning, pho-

tophobia through day, and frequent stitching pain in eyes.

Frequent itching on skin over outer and lower edge of orbit of 1. eye. '^ Hearing and Ears. ■Ringing in 1. ear all the time; some- times hissing.

Lancination in ears.

Pain in both ears, most in 1.; also in 1. molars, afterwards in r. and in region of articulation of jaw. ^ Smell and Nose. Tendency to hemorrhages from nose and lungs.

■ Violent chronic sneezing in daytime only; feeling of

coldness in points of incisor teeth ; extremely painful

lip. Swelling of face, especially of eyelids, nose and lips; upper

lip remained swollen for twelve hours. ^° Teeth and Gums. ■ Tearing in all the right molars.

■ Sensation of coldness at edge of incisors.

" Taste and Tongue. ' i Bitter taste in mouth.

Tongue and gums sensitive.

Smarting of tongue; raw, sore feeling.

I I Burning of tongue.

Burning of anterior half or only of tip of tongue, which feels hard. ^^ Inner Mouth. ■Dryness of mouth; clammy, adhesive state of mouth.

Burning vesicles on inner side of lips.

Aphthae; deep ulcers in mouth, inner side of lips and cheek.

Raw, rough feeling in fauces and at root of tongue.

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^^ Throat. iPain as from soreness in throat.

I I Sore pain in throat, which is felt when even touching

I Thirst after dinner, and especially evenings.

^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Frequent violent empty eructations. ■Nausea from stomach, when walking in open air.

I I Nausea, inclination to vomit, accumulation of saliva in mouth; gulping up of sour water.

Nausea and vomiting, after taking drink or food. 1 1 Frightful vomiting and purging, with fainting. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, i Empty feeling in stomach and abdomen.

■ Gnawing in stomach.

■ Constant sore pain in stomach.

I I Ulcerative pain in stomach, passing off after eating.

■ Acute stitches in stomach. Cutting pain in stomach.

Sharp cutting in 1. hypochondrium. ^^ Abdomen. ■ Pinching in abdomen immediately after eating.

■ Frequent severe pinching in entire abdomen without

urging, or, with diarrhoea and burning in anus, with

■ ■Rumbling and rolling in bowels.

■ Gurgling in abdomen, as of fluid running from a bottle. I 1 Rushing sounds in abdomen as from motions of air and

fluid feces, as occurs before diarrhoeic stools.

■ Inflation and tension of abdomen, with pinching in um-

bilical region. Peculiar itching sensation in umbilicus.

■ Ileo-ccjecal region painful and sensitive to pressure.

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I I In groins sticking, tension ; pinching. Pressing pain at 1. inguinal ring. ^^ Stool and Rectum, i Profuse discharge of flatus, especially- evening and night.

■ Yellow and green diarrhoeic stool, mixed with mucus,

preceded by excessive cutting around umbilicus. Diarrhoea of watery mucus, with colicky pains in umbilicus

during stool. liProfuse watery diarrhoea, with colic and tenesmus.

I iStool expelled all at once, with a single, somewdiat pro-

longed effort.

■ iStools of dark green mucus, offensive, corrosive.

I I Stools very fetid, and come away with a gush all at once; or mucus and blood, with great tenesmus.

H Fecal diarrhoea, stools evacuated with great force.

1 1 Great relief after stool as though an irritating substance were removed from bowels.

iDiarrhoea: < forenoon, or during day; after drinking ale; > from pressing abdomen (cutting pains).

1 1 Profuse yellow watery diarrhoea in hot weather, partic- ularly old people.

•Acute and chronic diarrhoea; infantile diarrhoea; dys- entery.

■ Summer complaint.

I Bloody stools in dysentery. iLienteric stools.

IDiarrhoea, with burning pain and tenesmus of rectum protrusion of anus and constant pinching around um- bilicus, sometimes with mucous stools.

I I Burning in anus after stool; anus sore and excoriated. Diarrhoea alternating with constipation.

■ Hard, insufficient stool, with strong urging, pressing and

protrusion of rectum.

I I Hard stool, succeded by burning at anus.

Before stool: sudden urging, with hot pinching through- out abdomen; darting stitches in anus; sensation of fulness in abdomen.

During stool: strong urging, causing stool to pass quickly; much flatus; burning and heat in anus; tenesmus; pro- lapsus ani; cutting about navel; cold sweat on limbs.

After stool: great relief, thinks she is w^ell, but is soon seized with urging again and stool.

I iThin, watery, yellow stool, coming out all at once; < morning and forenoon; before and during stool some pain and urging; after stool great relief 6'Diarrhoea.

■ Stools copious, watery, yellow, or like curdled milk, of

oflensive, sickening smell, expelled with much force; vomits food undigested. ^Diarrhoea during hot weather.

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I Soon after eating irresistible desire to evacuate bowels^ which continued as long as there was anything to pass ; after these passages great pain in lower bowels, lasting an hour; emaciation; prostration; stools consist of yel- low mucus and undigested food. ^Chronic diarrhoea.

I Chronic diarrhoea consequent upon exposure; evacuations- occur principally at night, if they occur earlier they are preceded by colicky pains and much rumbling in abdomen; finds relief only after four or five passages;; stools are of a chocolate-brown color, containing lumps of mucus, often streaked with blood or mixed with un- digested food; great lassitude.

■ Constant urging to stool with colicky pains; abdomen

distended with flatus, and very painful and sensitive to- pressure, particularly in ileo-c£ecal region; food passes undigested, diarrhoea watery and often mucous; fever towards evening; night sweats; anorexia; great thirst; mind much depressed; twelve to fifteen stools occur daily. ^Chronic diarrhoea. iPainful, muco-serous, odorless diarrhoea; evacuations- occur every hour, preceded and followed by severe pains, causing him to draw up limbs and cry out ; tenesmus during each stool causes rectum to protrude about one inch, which, however, returns again in ten or fifteen minutes, after which he is free of pain for about twenty minutes and can sleep; face pale, showing evidences of suffering; skin cool; meteorism ; hypogastrium sensi- tive to pressure; during attack limbs are cool and cov- ered with cold sweat, face red, head hot. ^Diarrhoea.

■ Diarrhoea coming on at night; stools mixed with lumps

of mucus and blood. ■Watery, greenish stools mixed with mucus; griping be- fore forcible and profuse stool. //Cholera infantum.

■ Lienteria for a month; emaciated almost to a skeleton;

bowels seemed to hold nothing; stools very fetid, and come away with a gush, nearly all of stool at a time;, often gurgling sounds are heard as if water were passing through a bunghole. Dysentery with tarlike discharge; dark blood with menses;

general weakness of whole body. Itching, smarting, as from a pustule three-quarters of an inch from anus on left. ^^ Urinary Organs, i i Stitches in 1. kidney.

Increased secretion of urine, or diminished in dropsy, with

emission of a few drops at a time, i I Emission of a few drops of urine at a time, then inter- mitting, and finally returning, with burning at orifice- Urine smells like onions, scenting the room.

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^' Male Sexual Organs. Gleety discharge agglutinating orifice

sternum. I I Stitches going from both sides of chest towards each

■ Weight on chest, causing sleeplessness.

Pain about fourth and tenth dorsal vertebrae and cutting pain in r. side below edge of pectoralis major, before it leaves the thorax to pass to humerus, subsequently in nearly same situation on 1. side. ^' Neck and Back. Pain down r. side of neck.

Pain and itching between the shoulders.

Stitches in left kidney.

I I Pain in small of back, as if bruised or as if sprained.

'Pain across lumbar vertebrse.

Cutting pain across top of sacrum and in 1. hip, also in muscles just above sacro-iliac symphysis on 1. side.

■ Repeated gnawing in coccyx. ^Coccyodynia. ^^ Upper Limbs. ■Pain in shoulders; tearing.

I I Stitch on top of r. shoulder.

Pain in r. shoulder, clavicular junction.

I I Stitching pains in upper limbs, come on or are < in

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^ Lower Limbs. Severe aching pain deep in hip, and severe cutting pain about troclianter major.

Aching in and about the knees.

Sliarp cutting pain in r. shin, midlength of tibia.

Pain in r. fibula just above ankle-joint.

I I Cramp in calf, with contraction of toes.

I I Heaviness and languor of feet.

Pulsating pains in three middle toes at night in bed.

Rest: vertigo.

Cough compels him to sit up.

Pain causes him to draw up limbs.

Motion: vertigo. ^'^ Nerves. iMuch lassitude and debility; emaciation. ^" Sleep. I Sleepiness, great inclination to sleep.

■ Sleep broken by anxious dreams.

I Anxious, vexatious dreams. ^ Time. liThe conditions are especially apt to occur toward evening or at night.

Day: photophobia; chronic sneezing; diarrhoea <.

Morning: vertigo when rising; burning of eyes; sharp cut- ting in hypochondrium: thin, watery stools <.

Forenoon: diarrhoea <; thin, watery stools <.

Afternoon: burning of eyes.

From 6 to 8 p.m.: internal and external coldness lasting from a quarter to two hours.

7 P.M.: paroxysm of intermittent fever.

7 P.M. till 4 A.M.: violent shaking.

Evening: burning of eyes; itching of eyes; thirst; pro- fuse discharge of flatus towards evening; fever; stitch- ing in limbs < ; violent itching.

Night: agglutination of lids; profuse discharge of flatus; evacuations; sweats; diarrhoea comes on at night; severe cough; pulsating pains in toes in bed; biting as of ants; coldness lasting all night; shaking chill at night; par- oxysm of fever; violent itching. ^'^ Temperature and Weather. Open air: headache >; pain in vertex >; burning in eyes > ; itching of inner can- thi > ; nausea when walking.

Chilliness is accompanied by empty eructations, yawning, thirst, pain in small of back, biting as of ants over whole body (by night), excessive stitches in ears, sensation of elongation of incisors.

Internal and external coldness from 7 to 8 i'.m., lasting from a quarter to two hours, or whole night to 5 a.m.

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I Violent chill, beginning in back.

I Violent shaking at 7 p.m., beginning in back, with exter- nal coldness of whole body, continues till 4 a.m.

Sudden shaking chill at night, waking him from sleep, and as suddenly disappearing.

Chill for two hours with chattering of teeth and violent thirst ; skin is warm to touch.

i Increased heat with anxiety, flushes and perspiration.

I I Heat always slight, often wanting. ^Intermittent fever.

Sweat over whole body on awaking at 4 a.m.

I I Night-sweat all over.

Intermittent occurs while diarrhoea is prevalent; paroxysm consists almost wholly of cold stage; the others being light or wanting.

Fevers of intermittent or remittent type, consisting of chill, fever and sweat.

B Paroxysm 7 p.m. ; evening 6 to 8 p.m., lasting all night.

Every hour: evacuations.

Every day: twelve to fifteen stools.

For one hour: great pain in bowels, after stool.

For two hours: chill.

For twelve hours: upper lip swollen.

For one month : lienteria. *^ Locality and Direction. Right: sharp stitches in temple and side of head; pain in molars; dryness of nostril; smarting as of a pimple below nostril; ulceration of nostril; smarting, itching of cheek; tearing in molars; violent stitches in side of throat; stinging in side of throat; pain in clavicle; pain in side; pain below pecto- ralis major; pain down side of neck; pain in muscles just above sacro-iliac symphysis; stitch on shoulder; pain in shoulder, clavicular junctures, aching of arm; cutting pain in shin; pain in fibula.

Left: tearing in temple; coldness in temple; pain in eye; pain above patella on 1. side; itching of orbit of eye; pain in eye and temple; ringing in ear; pain in ear; pain in molars; pressing pain in inguinal ring; stitches in kidney; pain on side; cutting pain in hip; aching pain in upper joint of little finger; sticking pains in joint of great toe. "Sensations. Feeling as of reeling; vertex as if bruised; coldness in temple as from a wet cloth; as if a sore pimple existed immediately below nostril; pain as from

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soreness in throat; gurgling as of fluid running from a bottle; rushing sounds in abdomen as from motions of air and fluid feces; as if chest were raw; small of back as if bruised or sprained; biting as of ants over whole body; incisors as if elongated.

Pain: in back; in whole head; in vertex; in coronal su- ture; in 1. e3^e; in tibia; above patella on 1. side; in both eyes; in both ears; in molars; in region of articulation of jaw ; in throat; in ileo-csecal region; in chest; in r. cla- vicle; about fourth and tenth dorsal vertebrae; down r. side of neck; between shoulders; small of back; across lumbar vertebrae ; in fibulae.

Severe pain: in eyeballs; in temple; in bowels; before and after evacuations.

Lancinating: in both ears.

Cutting pain: in stomach; in 1. hypochondrium ; around umbilicus; in r. side; across top of sacrum; in 1. hip; about trochanter.

Tearing: in. temple; in r. molars; in shoulders.

Pinching: in abdomen; in groins; around umbilicus.

Darlings: in stomach.

Sharp stitches: on side of head; in temples; inchest.

Stitches: in ears; in r. side of throat; in stomach; in anus; in 1. kidney; in sternum; from both sides of chest towards each other; from ribs to axilla; on top of r. shoulder.

Stitching pain: in eyes; in mouth; in upper limbs.

Sticking pains: in region of and below cardiac orifice; in groins; in integuments over great toe.

Stinging: in r. side of throat; in ball of thumb.

Gnawing in stomach: below umbilicus.

Colicky pains: in umbilicus; before evacuations.

Griping: before stools. v

Cramp: in calf.

Ulcerative pain : in stomach.

Violent burning : of eyes.

Burning: in eyes; very painful in region of liver; ulcera- tion of r. nostril; of tongue; of anterior half or only of tip of tongue; in vesicles: on inner side of lips; in re- gion of liver; in rectum; in anus; at orifice of urethra when urinating.

Pressing pain: at 1. inguinal ring.

Dull pains: in chest.

Aching: in tibia; in r. arm; upper joint of little finger;, deep in hip; in and about knees.

Pulsating pains: in three middle toes.

Beating: m forehead.

Compressive pain: in head.

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Smarting: of eyes; below r. nostril; of r. cheek; of chin;

of upper lip; of tongue; on left of anus. Sore feeling: of tongue; in throat; at stomach; in anus;

eye; of eyes; of inner canthi; of cheek; of chin ; upper

Feeling of soreness all over body ; rheumatism. Pain as if bruised.

Congestion to head, lungs and female sexual organs. 1 1 Profuse watery diarrhoea, particularly with old people. •Anasarca; ascites.

sensitive; abdomen sensitive. Pressing abdomen: > cutting pains; abdomen sensitive

gentle friction. ■ Violent itching on various parts of body; burning after

night.

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a storm; diarrhoea. Captain, set. 46, strong, well built, after a long ride during

which he caught cold ; chronic diarrhoea of six months'

standing. ^^ Relations. Antidoted by : Camphor., Coffea, Coloc, Kali carb.,

Opium.

Aloes, Podoph., Fulsat. (cough, > sitting up;

general symptoms, > open air).

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