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harsh, with distinct croupy tone; exhaustion; pulse 140, hard and full. ^Croup.

■ Assumes a sitting posture, on account of anxiety wnicn sets in when lying down; somnolence, with restless toss- ins about; respiration snoring, hoarse, whisthng, ana often so short and oppressed that he starts from sleep with violent, dry, hoarse cough, which causes retching; grasps at larynx, in the greatest fear; begins to^cry; red face, protruding eyes, and frequent throwing back of head- after several minutes the paroxysms again return; frequent drinking; great heat; sweat; pulse quick and hard; hasty speech; frequent passages o± dark urine. ^Croup. . .

■Respiration somewhat whistling; on every inspiration great retraction of diaphragm, abdominal muscles and nbs so that a large concavity is formed; hoarse cough, occasionally croupy in tone; voice hoarse at times entirely lost; clammy sweat on head, rest of body dry and hot; color of face changing constantly; pulse hard, cannot be counted; tossing about, or sits up hastily.

■ Crourwith great dryness of larynx and respiratory pass- ages, whistling respiration, dry cough with ineffec ual ?ftching, nothing but a slight quantity of frothy saliva being discharged; cough ending with a short sneeze

■Lies upon his mother's arm with head thrown back, mouth open, bluish redness of face, protruding eyes; S)dy bathed in sweat; fearful anxiety and dyspncea;

with great dyspnoea, grasps at larynx; great thiist, r^nlse 120 • respiration anxious and noisy. ^Croup.

..group after exposure to dry, cold wind, with swening below^arynx; great sensitiveness to -f^^^^lJ^^Jl^' high fever, hoarseness and rattling of ^o^^t ^^^^'''' whkh child is unable to get rid of, but still little or no difficulty in breathing ; after midnight or towar"^^^^ ing- sensation as if there was a fishbone m throat, or ot internal swelling, when swallowing . ^^^.^ggg ^^

.CrouD- with deep, rough, barking cough, hoarseness or ""Z^of voice witlfslighlsuffocatingspasmss^^^^^^^^^^^ of mucus- with swelling below larynx; with great sen s toeness to cold air or water ; cough < before midnight, or toward morning.

■ Croupy cough, with continual hoarseness.

■ Catarrhal croup with or without fever. ^^^sinelas

■ Croup, when panaritise, angina, urticaria or erysipelas

prevail.

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■Light attacks of croup in teething children.

■ Violent attacks of croup from time to time, as if suffoca-

tion or vomiting would ensue.

■ After influenza violent attack of croup; restless; tossing

back of head; anxious, sawing, metallic cough.

■ Violent respiratory efforts, during which chest scarcely

moves; anxious throwing back of head; convulsive twitchings; irritation of gums and Schneiderian mem- brane; vomiting of mucus, mixed with portions of membrane. ^Croup.

■ Much green mucus in larynx.

■ Severe laryngeal catarrh, with roughness and pain in

upper part of throat ; sensation as of a clot of mucus or internal swelling when swallowing ; stitches and pain extending from ear to ear.

■Laryngeal catarrh, grafted on an organism of tubercular disposition; scanty, tenacious, rauco-purulent secretion, with difficulty of expectoration; hoarseness remains some time.

I Acute catarrh of larynx and bronchi with tickling and roughness in larynx, and hoarseness or aphonia; also acute catarrh of lungs with scratching, tickling sensa- tion in air tubes, pressure and heaviness under sternum, and frequent, dry, tearing cough ; rough, whistling, re- spiratory sounds, indicating a dry condition of mucous membranes; such inflammations are usually of long du- ration; constant oppression of chest and irritation to cough, which become < by long continued and fatiguing coughing, finally gasping for breath, and expectorating very little sputa ; < sitting and bending over, must lean back or get up and walk about; < breathing cool air.

■ After catching cold, cough next day, tickling and dry-

ness in air passages, followed by hoarseness and finally aphonia; redness and swelling of posterior wall of phar- ynx; rough, whistling sound in trachea, extending to large bronchi; larynx and trachea sensitive to touch; on forced inspiration stitching in larynx and cough.

■ Chronic tracheitis (the beginning of tracheal or laryngo-

tracheal phthisis) ; voice hoarse, and if exerted for any length of time accompanied by stitching pain in larynx; in morning on rising, severe cough with stitching pain in larynx and scanty expectoration of mucus; when walking, particularly against wind, and when eating warm food, stitching and burning in throat; no fever. ■Tracheal and bronchial inflammation in children, with continual fever and headache, difficult, short, anxious breathing, hoarse voice, violent, dry, painful, alternating rough and hollow sounding cough, < by eating and drinking anything cold, by cold air, talking or crying.

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"^^ Respiration. I Breathing: rattling; anxious, wheezing; fre- quent deep breaths, like after running; anxious, short, wheezing, threatening to suffocate; must bend head back and sit up. Involuntary deep inspirations.

■ Attacks of asthma, awaking patient from sleep, face be-

comes blue, saliva increased; sensation as of dust in lungs; smoking and throwing head back >; after at- tack, expectoration frothy.

B Difficult respiration, preventing sleep at night; whistling, wheezing, with copious mucous expectoration; just as he has fallen asleep is aroused and startled by -threat- ened suffocation; must get up to relieve dyspnoea; > during day. ^Asthma after suppressed eruption of skin.

1 Suffocative attacks, compelling him to raise himself up and bend the head backwards.

I I Dyspnoea. ^ Cough. I Spasmodic cough in paroxysms, with titillation in larynx and efforts of vomiting.

•Violent, deep cough, consisting of several impulses which strike painfully against larynx and occasion retching.

I Almost uninterrupted cough, from tickling in upper part of 1. side of throat, < talking and stooping, constantly getting < till late in evening, and then suddenly ceasing.

8 Titillation, as from dust in throat, inducing cough, which is deep, wheezing; expectoration only in morning of mucus, bloody or like pus, generally tasting sour or sweet.

1 Chronic laryngeal cough, very distressing, especially at night, compelling her to spring up in bed, from a feeling of choking or suffocation.

iDeep, dry cough, with obstructed breathing on inspiring, and pain in top of chest at every cough.

■ Dry cough, < taking deep inspiration, or speaking any

length of time; roughness in throat; pressure under sternum ; difficult respiration ; pressive headache.

■ Suffocative cough, simply caused by tightness of breath. I I Subdued cough from oppression of chest.

■ Dry cough wdth tightness of chest and sore throat.

■ Deep, dull, whistling cough, in evening without, in morn-

ing with expectoration of masses of mucus, purulent and bloody, sour, or of a sweet taste and offensive odor.

■ Deep, dry, wheezing, hoarse cough; bloody, pus-like, mu-

cous expectoration ; rheumatic pains in limbs and joints; pulse hard, full, acelerated, and at times intermitting; symptoms < at night and from cold air; > by wrap- ping up and keeping warm. ^Chest troubles succeed- ing repelled itch.

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■ Cough so aggravated by deep breathing that it caused

vomiting. I Troublesome hacking cough as soon as he was about to fall asleep, continuing all night, coughs even on shut- ting eyes; > during sleep; < 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. ^Ty- phoid.

I Dry, nervous cough all night.

I I Paroxysms of cough, as from taking cold, with excessive sensitiveness of nervous system, as soon as slightest por- tion of body becomes cold.

I Coughs when any part of body is uncovered.

■ Cough < from exposure to chilly night air, and from

drinking cold water.

■ Paroxysms of dry cough, in evening.

■ Hacking cough, immediately after eating.

■ The child cries when coughing.

■ Cough with expectoration during day, no expectoration

at night.

■ ■Croup or cough from exposure to dry West wind.

■ ■Croupy cough, with rattling in chest, but without expec-

toration.

■ Rattling, choking, moist cough, depending on an organic

or catarrhal basis; < towards morning and after eating.

■ Cough: croupish, hoarse; scraping, rough; suffocative;

loose and choking; with bloody expectoration; whoop- ing, croupish sound, pain in larynx, choking from mu- cus in larynx, < in morning; spasmodic; deep, wheez- ing; deep and dry; deep, dull, whistling; hacking; dry, nervous; barking, after measles.

Cough caused by : limb getting cold ; eating or drinking ; anything cold ; cold air; lying in bed; talking; crying; drinking.

During cough: stitches, burning and swelling in throat; burning in chest and stomach; catching of breath; nau- sea, retching, vomiting; reverberation in head, throb- bing in forehead and temples; dulness; sneezing; chills; anxiety and bending backwards of body in lying.

After cough: sneezing; crying.

■ ■Cough < from evening till midnight.

■ Abundant expectoration of tenacious mucus with relief

to the rattling breathing.

■ Dirty yellowish, purulent, badly smelling expectoration, ^* Inner Chest and Lungs. ■ Sensation as if hot water were

floating in chest; as of drojDs of hot water in 1. chest.

■ I Soreness in chest.

I I Shattering shocks and soreness in chest.

■ Weakness of chest; cannot talk, from weakness.

■ Spasmodic constriction of chest, after talking.

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I I Stitching pain in r. side of chest, in direction of back.

I I Tenacious mucus in chest.

■ Constant rattling of mucus in chest of infants, threaten-

ing suffocation at times.

■ Extreme emaciation, skin cadaverous and dry, counte-

nance of yellowish hue, eyes deeply sunken in sockets, dull and feverish; tongue dry and yellow in middle; thirst, disgust for food, distended epigastrium; hard stool ; urine scanty, brownish red ; night sweats ; alter- nations of rigor and heat; pulse small, 136; sleepless- ness on account of stitches in anterior, inferior and pos- terior part of chest to shoulder-blade; cough, internal uneasiness, fearful disposition; delirium of frightened character ; great inclination to cry ; lies immovable on r. side, with knees drawn up to chest; on r. hip-joint commencing bedsore; great fear of being touched, as every movement causes pain in chest, cough and dysp- noea; r. side of chest, arched like a barrel from axilla downwards; intercostal spaces prominent, motionless during respiration; dull sound to percussion; entire absence of respiratory sounds and vocal fremitus; dull sound on percussion over large surface at base of heart; heart's sounds and impulse diminished. ^Pleuritis with plastic exudation.

■ Pleurisy, croupous exudation, with a yellow or yellowish-

brown tint in face, in scrofulous and lymphatic persons.

■ Pleurisy with fibrinous exudation.

■ Diaphragmitis (after Bryon.), in fibrinosis; promotes re-

sorption.

■ 8 Bronchitis.

■ On r. side of chest in nipple line, in fifth intercostal space,

dull percussion sound and weak respiratory murmur; after coughing and profuse expectoration, there was on that place tympanitic percussion sound and bronchial breathing; other portions of chest revealed catarrhal symptoms; expectoration of dirty yellowish masses, badly smelling; respiration accelerated; no fever; cough < in morning. ^Bronchial catarrh.

■Bronchitis from repelled eruptions.

■Subacute catarrhal processes; characterized by incipient collection of glutinous, sticky mucus in air cells, giving rise to violent and suffocative paroxysms of coughing, often attended by retching preceding its expulsion.

■ ■Habitual bronchial catarrhs, with loud rattling of

mucus.

■ Chronic catarrh of scrofulous subjects, especially when

morbid process shows a tendency to invade pulmonary vesicles.

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■ Great emaciation; slight hectic fever; constantly troubled

by cough, sometimes spasmodic, with purulent and fetid expectoration, diarrhoea and loss of appetite; r. side of thorax considerably hollowed, with perfectly empty sound on percussion, and intense bronchial respiration and slight rales; 1. side abnormally bulging. ^Pleuro- pneumonia. I Pneumonia, mild suppurative stage, extending only over small part of a lung, with lentescent fever.

■ Pneumonia, during stage of resolution.

■ Chronic pneumonia, with profuse purulent expectoration.

■ iPulmonary abscess ; empyema ; pyothorax.

■ Pain in r. occipital protuberance; fluent, acrid, nasal

coryza, swelling at root of nose, upper eyelid, upper lip; white ulcers in mouth; uvula elongated, pale; appetite for fat meat and sweet food; thirst for cold water at night; stomach distended after eating; eructations of fluid, then of food; more at night; constipation alter- nating with diarrhoea; cough constant, moist; moist rales in 1. lung; feeble, vesicular respiration; upper part of 1. side of thorax dilated backward ; curvature of spine between shoulders; agonizing dyspnoea, could not lie in a recumbent position; cough constant from 12 m. till morning; sleeps with head thrown back, restless; the least exposure aggravates all the symptoms. ^Em- physema.

■ Broiichiectasia.

■ In tuberculosis when there is oppression of breathing;

periodic stitches ; cough before midnight and in morn- ing, dry at first but finally accompanied by a serous expectoration containing small flocculi; occasionally pa- tient will spring up and after coughing expectorate a mass as large as a pea which when crushed between fingers emits a carrion-like odor; in afi'ected parts (par- ticularly upper portions of chest) faint respiratory mur- mur, with percussion dulness.

■ Tubercles of lungs in herpetic patients, especially after

suppression of exanthems, in scrofulous and in hemor- rhoidal subjects. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. ■Palpitation, with fine stitches in heart and 1. half of chest. I I Anxious feeling of debility about heart with paljoitation. ^Hypertrophy.

■ Dyspnoea, pain in neck, faintness and inability to recline;

dry, nervous cough, commencing towards evening and lasting all night. t^Angina pectoris.

■ Sequelte of angina pectoris; dyspnoea after attack; dry,

nervous cough from evening all through night; pain in

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neck after attack ; faintness and inability to recline after attack. I Pulse hard, full, accelerated; at times intermitting. ^•^ Outer Chest. iTettery eruption on chest.

■ Suppurating pimples on sternum. I I Ulcer on last rib of r. side.

^' Neck and Back, i Violent pulsation of carotids.

■ Hard, glandular swellings around neck.

■ Carbuncle on back of neck; surrounding tissues highly

inflamed and extremely sensitive to touch. I Carbuncle on 1. side of back, extending from upper bor- der of scapula downward about six inches, surrounded by small pustules; pus offensive and scanty; pain in- tense, depriving him of sleep ; great weakness and pros- tration.

■ Drawing between scapulae. Great weakness in whole of spine.

■ Sensation as if bruised, in small of back and thighs.

I I Sharp pressure and pain, as from bruises; in small of back and lumbar vertebra, especially in region of sacro- iliac symphysis, extending into lower limbs; the pain is felt when sitting, standing or lying, and causes a sort of limping when walking.

■Stitches and rheumatic pains in back.

■ Blood boils on the back.

I I Red tubercle on r. buttock. I I Boil on buttock. ^^ Upper Limbs, l l Pain in shoulder as if a weight were rest- ing on it.

■ Suppuration of axillary glands.

■ Offensive sweat in axillse.

■ Tearing in arms, extending toward the suppuration in

breast. I i Pain as if bruised in os humeri.

■ Encysted tumor or steatoma at point of elbow.

■ Violent itching in bend of elbow.

I I Intensely violent itching in bends of elbows, on hands, wrists and in palms.

■ Carbuncle, size of silver half-dollar, on forearm; very

painful, with three spots, like boils, near it. Swelling of r. hand. I I Itching, with rough, dry, shrivelled or scaling skin on

hands. I I Itching in palms.

■ Red and hot swelling of joints of hands and fingers. Swelling of fingers of both hands, with stiffness, while

lying.

■ Cold perspiration of hands.

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■ Fingers as if dead. ■Tingling in tips of fingers.

■ Corrosive blister on thumb, stinging when pressed.

■ Thumb livid; violent throbbing, cutting, burning pain;

lymphatics inflamed; lump in axilla.

■ Whitlow in palmar surface of ungual phalanx of r.

thumb; skin yellow, matter could be seen and felt under it; throbbing, burning pain; cannot bear weight of poultice; pain kept her awake.

■ Inside of r. thumb swollen, livid, with beating, cutting,

burning pain, so violent that it drove her to madness.

■ Whitlow on middle finger of r. hand; severe throbbing

pain in last joint; hard, red, swollen state of pulp; lym- phatics of arm inflamed, lump in axilla; fever and irri- tation.

■ ■Whitlow; violent, throbbing, "gathering pain;" accele-

rates suppuration.

■ Whitlows occurring every winter for several years.

■ Panaritium.

■ After injury, suppuration of middle joint of r, index

finger ; whole finger involved in phlegmonous inflam- mation. ■Superficial erysipelatous inflammation around root of nail.

■ Onychia.

^^ Lower Limbs. ■Left hip pains as if sprained, when walk- ing in open air. I I Buttocks and posterior thighs painful when sitting.

■ Hip disease, suppurative stage, patient wants to be tightly

covered.

■ Caries of hip-joint.

■ Sensation of soreness in thighs.

I I Bruised pain in anterior muscles of thighs.

■ Raised, flat, purplish swelling on 1. thigh; it had a 0 doughy feel for a space larger than a silver dollar;

small openings; pus ichorous; for a considerable dis- tance around was red, swollen and painful, with two prominent, indurated and painful spots, like boils; pain intense, no sleep for several nights; when this had healed, a second carbuncle, or at least a flat, purplish and painful swelling showed itself, about six inches from first, which Hepar healed without suppuration.

■ Carbuncle of r. thigh, nearly three inches in diameter;

had it for a week; exceedingly painful and leg swollen;

no evidence of boils or pustules; several openings and

centre looking gangrenous. ■Knee pains as if bruised. ! I Swelling of knee. ■Severe pains in lower extremities; pain described as a

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terrible corroding itching " as from salt water;" both legs swollen round ankles, with watery discharge; color of legs either red or bluish.

I I Cramp in calves.

■Swelling of feet around ankles, with difficult breathing.

■ After catching cold, pains in foot as after taking a mis-

step; pains occasionally wander up to thigh; no redness nor swelling; depression of mind.

■ Tickling in soles of feet.

■ Cramps: in soles and toes.

■ Pricking in both heels.

■ I Coldness of feet.

■ Cracked skin offset.

■ Tingling in toes.

■ Burning, stinging pains m toes.

■ Violent stitch extending into great toe.

^* Limbs in General. iWeakness in limbs; they feel bruised.

■ Drawing pains in limbs, especially in morning, when

awaking.

■ Mercurial rheumatism, especially in scrofulous subjects;

tearing and shooting in limbs and joints, < at night, especially during a chill; excessive nervous excitability, so that all impressions on body or mind cause internal trembling.

■ Rheumatic pains in limbs and stitches in joints.

■ Dry, herpetic eruption in bends of joints, greatly itching.

■ Chapped skin and rhagades of hands and feet.

■ The limb upon which the ulcer has healed cannct bear

its own weight by suspension.

■ Continued dull itching of soles of feet and palms of hands. ^' Rest. Position. Motion. Rest: cold perspiration >.

Lies immovably on r. side with knees drawn up to chest. Side on which he lies becomes painfully sore, must change

his position. Lies with head thrown back to escape suffocation. Lying in bed : causes cough ; pain in back and limbs. Lies on back with r. knee drawn up. Inclination to lie down.

Inability to recline; could not lie in recumbent position. Head thrown back, sitting up >. Sitting: cannot tolerate it from tension of stomach ; acute

catarrh of larynx < ; pain in back and limbs ; buttocks

and posterior thighs pain; falls asleep. Stooping: stitches in head ; boring headache <; pressure

in head < ; cough < from tickling in throat. Standing up after sitting bent over: feeling of blindness. Rising: pressure in head >; feeling of blindness; great

difficulty from feeling of stiffness of limbs.

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Moving: pressure in eyes; headache during fever.

Shaking head: headache.

From slightest motion : sweats easily.

Every movement: causes pain in chest.

Walking: stomach painful ; stitches in region of liver; >

catarrh of larynx; against wind, itching and burning

in throat; pain in thigh, back and lower limbs; causes

limping; in open air 1. hip pains. Cannot walk up and down stairs. Exercise: cold perspiration <; attacks of debility <. Springs up in bed : from cough. Child throws itself about unconsciously. ^^ Nerves, l Disinclination for mental or bodily exertion. lOversensitiveness to pain; fainting from slight pains. Every impression upon body or mind is followed by trem-

ulousness. Nervous trembling.

■ Excessive nervousness from abuse of mercury. I Trembling weakness, after tobacco smoking.

(Daily attacks of indescribable sudden debility, com- mencing with a chilly and creeping sensation in r. leg, traveling slowly upward to chest, with profuse perspi- ration on head; suddenly and soon after a feeling of weakness, as if he was dying, with trembling of limbs so that he is unable to stand or sit ; consciousness re- tained ; attack lasts two or three hours, when strength gradually returns, coupled with a dull, pressing head- ache about vertex, which continues for some hours; < in Summer, after cooling rains, and after bodily exer- tions and walking; about every four months scabby eruption, moist at base, of yellowish color, on scalp and forehead, as far down as eyes, and sometimes on chest.

■ General exhaustion.

■ Paroxysms of fainting in evening, preceded by vertigo.

■ Coldness of head, chiefly forehead; severe headaches, with

sensation of weight at back of eyeballs, and a feeling as though eyes would be draw^n back into head; stiffness of nape of neck ; on rising from seat great difficulty from a feeling of stiffness of limbs; pain in bottom of back, around waist, also around shoulders and nape of neck; numbness of r. arm and hand; burning sensation from pit of stomach to throat and ears, > by eating; fixed coldness at pit of stomach, felt occasionally when burn- ing sensation was not present; fatigue from least exer- cise. ^Spinal irritation.

■ Cramp in 1. hand which becomes spasmodically closed,

with formication and creeping up arm, extending to throat, with sensation as if something was sticking there

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and that he would choke; face bluish red ; mouth drawn to 1. side; complete consciousness; after half-hour, another, less violent attack, accompanied by tickling in arm and paralysis of 1. side; after four weeks a very violent attack occurred followed by complete paralysis of arms and legs, so that he could not move; lameness of tongue, speech unintelligible. ^After suppressed eruption and abuse of mercury. I Traumatic convulsions, caused by excessive pressure on brain during delivery; trismus of newborn babes.

■ Paralysis from suppressed eruptions, or after mercurial

poisoning. ^^ Sleep. So sleepy and fatigued, in evening, that he falls asleep while sitting. Great, irresistible inclination to sleep in evening; must lie down immediately after supper and sleeps till morning.

■ Sleepiness during day, < toward evening, with frequent,

almost spasmodic yawning. I I Restless, soporous slumber, with head bent backwards.

■ Side on which he lies at night becomes painfully sore;

must change his position. I I Fright during sleep.

■Starts from sleep, feeling as if about to suffocate. I I Violent starts, when falling asleep, i I Loss of sleep after midnight. I I Excess of thoughts prevent sleep, after midnight. I I Wakes at night, with erection and desire to urinate.

1 I Dreams: anxious; of fire.

^^ Time. Morning: vertigo; on awakening pressure in head as from a nail ; burning and itching of scalp ; violent itching of humid eruption on head; heat in eyes on awaking; lids and angles agglutinated; lids closed; nose stopped up; heat of face; erysipelatous swelling of cheeks; putrid taste; excessive thirst from morning till evening; vomiting of bile; sensation of soreness in abdomen; chronic tracheitis; expectoration only; rat- tling, choking moist cough < ; croupy cough < ; eczema. <.

2 A.M.: chill.

Day: pressing and drawing in temples; diarrhoea; attacks of blindness ; dyspnoea > ; cough with expectoration ; sleepiness; chill; sweats easily; restless; stools <.

From 4 p.m. all night: heat, delirium, thirst.

From 4 to 8 p.m.: febrile chill.

7 P.M.: heat of face.

8 p. M.: violent chill.

Evening: great anxiety; vertigo with nausea; fainting; aching in vertex ; meditates suicide; lids swollen; pain

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in eyes; swellings on lids painful; voice almost in- audible; cough < till late; deep whistling cough; dry cough; cough < till midnight; cough commencing toward evening and lasting all night ; irresistible incli- nation to sleep.

Night: violent headache; sensation as if skull would burst wakes him; pressure in head; cold perspiration <; photophobia and lachrymation <, about 2 or 3 A.M.; lids swollen; vision of colored and dim halos around candle; eyes closed by swelling; sour smelling sweat; spasmodically closed eyelids; pain in nose lasts far into night; heat of face; toothache <; wetting bed ; difficult respiration prevents sleep; chronic laryngeal cough ; deep wheezing cough < ; dry, nervous cough ; thirst for cold water; eructations <; wakes with erec- tion and desire to urinate; febrile chill; pain <; dry heat of body; sweat; sleepless; restless; pains in tumors < ; burning and throbbing in ulcers.

Midnight: aching in forehead till morning; croup < before; cough constant from 12 m. till morning; loss of sleep after midnight; excess of thought prevents sleep; sweat before midnight. ^^ Temperature and Weather. Exquisite sensitiveness to open air. . Better from warmth; desire to be w^armly covered, even during hot weather or in a warm place; < from wrap- ping up warmly.

1 1 Cannot bear to be uncovered; coughs when any part of body is uncovered.

S I Ailments from West or Northw^est wind (dry, cold wind), or soon after it; improved by warmth.

I iGreat chilliness in open air.

s Extremely sensitive to cold air; must be wrapped up to face even in hot weather; cannot bear to be uncovered.

Warmth: cold perspiration >; pains in eyes >; ears > ; neuralgia > ; pains in malar bones > ; toothache < ; cough > ; chilliness > ; nettlerash > .

Covering head warmly: > soreness of head.

Patient with hip disease wants to be warmly covered.

Summer: attacks of debility <.

Dry weather : pain in nose > .

Air: eyes sensitive; eyes < from draught; interior of nose painful and sensitive.

Open air: lancinating headache >; neuralgia of face < ; pains in malar bones < ; 1. hip pains as if bruised when walking; sensitive to; great chilliness in open air.

Least exposure < all symptoms; chill returns.

Dampness: < throat; overfatigue or chill in damp weather brings on attacks of white frothy diarrhoea.

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On approach of rain: pains in nose <.

Damp winds: sensitive to.

After cooling rains: attacks of debility <.

Changeable weather: pain in nose <.

Cool air: acute catarrh of larynx <; cough <.

Cold: pain in eyes <; great sensitiveness; cough <; any part of body exposed causes cough; skin very sensitive; pains in tumors.

Cold air: deep, wheezing cough <; least draught causes catarrh.

Cold drink: causes toothache; cough <; causes cough.

Dry, cold wind: causes croup.

Exposure to chilly night: cough <. ^ Fever, l iSensitiveness to open air, with chilliness and fre- quent nausea.

I Great chilliness in open air; must get to warm stove;

heat feels agreeable but does not relieve.

I I Desire to be covered even in a warm room.

I Internal chill, with weariness and soreness in all the limbs.

■ Internal shivering from below upwards.

• Violent shaking chill with chattering of teeth, icy cold- ness and paleness of face, hands and feet, unconscious- ness and coma.

■Violent chill every morning, at 6 or 7 o'clock, without subsequent heat.

■ Chill during day, alternating with heat and photophobia.

■ Excessive shivering followed by feverishness.

■ Chill at 2 A.M., with febrile shivering and hot, dry skin.

■ Febrile chill from 4 to 8 p.m., or in night, could not get

warm, with aggravation of all complaints; without sub- sequent heat.

■ Pain < during febrile chill at night.

■ Nightly chill in bed, with aggravation of all complaints.

■ iNettlerash, with violent itching and stinging, disap-

pears as heat begins.

■ Burning, febrile heat, with almost unquenchable thirst,

distressing headache and slight delirium, lasting from 4 P.M. all night, without chilliness.

■ Violent fever with flushing heat in face and head.

■ Dry heat of body at night, with sweaty hands, which can-

not tolerate being uncovered.

■ Dry burning heat, with redness of face and violent thirst,

all night.

■ Fever blisters around mouth during pyrexia.

■ During heat larynx much affected, hoarse, weak voice.

I I Morning fever preceded by bitter taste in mouth, re- turning twice a day. I I Fever, without chill, 4 p.m., lasting all night.

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I Heat very slight in comparison with chill.

■ Flushes of heat, with sweat.

■ Patient sweats easily from least exertion and turns pale,

afterwards burning redness of face and heat and dryness of palms of hands. ■Sweats easily during day, from every exertion of mind or after slight motion.

■ ■Sweats easily, by every, even slight motion.

■ Frequent breaking out of sweat over body, only momen-

tary and without heat. ■Sweat on perineum, groins and inside of thighs.

■ ■ Cold, clammj^ frequently sour, offensive smelling sweat.

■ Night or morning sweat, with thirst.

■Sweats day and night, without relief; or first can't sweat at all, and then sweats profusely.

■ Profuse, sour smelling sweat at night. I I Sweat before midnight.

■ Itching nettlerash precedes paroxysm; chill of three

hours' duration followed by heat; during fever head- ache when moving; loss of consciousn nreceded b}^ vertigo; bitter taste in mouth; white coated tongue; vomiting of food ; pain and rumbling in abdomen; then follows sweat which covers whole body; thirst in all stages. ^Tertian ague.

■ Paroxysm preceded by an itching urticaria; chill; fever

with thirst, diarrhoea, rumbling in abdomen, bilious vomiting, formication in arms and dark urine; by the time fever has passed eruption has disappeared. ^Quo- tidian ague.

■ One hour before chill, thirst; after chill, fine, stinging

nettlerash, with bleeding at nose, bitter taste in mouth, and greenish diarrhoea; chill followed by heat with sweat and discharge of reddish urine; during termina- tion of latter stage eruption disappeared; during apy- rexia great debility, yellow color of face. (^Tertian in- termittent.

■ Chill generally in evening, preceded by bitter taste in

mouth; itching, stinging nettlerash before and during chill, when he constantly desires to be coveired; sweat and from the least uncovering chill again.

■ Violent chill, 8 p.m., with chattering of teeth; hands and

feet cold; followed by heat with perspiration, especially on chest and forehead, with slight thirst. ■After catching cold, heat and sweat, with thirst; pain in 1. hypochondrium and arm; sweats again at night. <9Tertian ague.

■ Pain in limbs, then sweat with thirst, followed by shak-

ing chill with thirst; after chill belching, bitter taste, yellow tongue. ^Tertian intermittent fever.

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I Chill, then thirst; one hour later, much heat, with inter- rupted sleep. ^Intermittent.

Apyrexia never clear, constitutional symptoms always present.

Type: simple, quotidian; period the same every day.

I Hectic fever with intermittent paroxysms.

■Catarrhal fever; general exhaustion, with great sensitive- ness of skin to touch and to slightest cold; constant chilliness, with sore throat, as if raw, painful on swal- lowing saliva; muscles of nape of neck, especially at sides beneath ears very painful to touch; dry cough; no appetite; no thirst; sleepless the whole night, with groaning and moaning.

■Scarlatina preceded by cerebral symptoms and parotitis; restlessness day and night; mouth could not be opened, eyes injected and half open; continuous fever; involun- tary evacuations; temperature low; child throws itself about unconsciously; dysuria; puffing under lower eyelids.

iScarle^^ '?"l' with hydrops and albumen in urine; con- vulsions, bloated face; nosebleed.

I After scarlet fever, anasarca and ascites ; urine suppressed ; tongue clean; next day convulsions followed by vomit- ing; conscious, but complains of a sensation as if a veil were hanging over eyes; urine very scanty; legs and scrotum greatly swollen; skin cool, pulse little accele- rated and pretty full; next day recurrence of convul- sions with more or less unconsciousness and complete blindness; deafness.

■ Scarlatina; sequela retarding convalescence; croupy in-

flammation of nasal -mucous membrane; swelling of parotid and submaxillary glands; early decrease of urinary secretion, with traces of albumen and cylindri- cal tubuli; fully developed dropsy from Bright's disease.

■ After scarlet fever, anasarca and convulsions.

■ Measles, characterized by croupy cough < in morning,

without expectoration and rattling in chest. *' Attacks, Periodicity. Attacks: last ten minutes then end in hoarseness; of debility last two or three hours.

After scarlet fever: anasarca and ascites, urine suppressed, tongue clean; next day convulsions and vomiting; next day recurrence of convulsions.

One hour before chill: thirst.

For three hours: chill followed by heat.

Twice a day : fever and bitter taste.

Every morning: boring headache; dull headache; vomit- ing; violent chill at six or seven o'clock.

Daily attacks: of sudden indescribable debility.

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Every night: pain in skull bones; chill.

Four weeks alter slight paralysis another attack of com- plete paralysis of arms and legs.

Every four months: scabby eruptions on head.

Every Winter: whitlows.

Spring and Autumn: bilious attacks.

For three months: 1. cornea so hazy that iris could hardly be seen.

Repeated attacks: tonsillitis. ^Locality and Direction. Right: painful throbbing in temple; headache in temple; pressive pain in occiput; cornea involved from periphery toward centre; violent pain over eyebrow; pain in eye <; scurvy formation in half of nose; acute inflammation of parotid gland; sensation in shoulder as of something creeping; large bubo, stony hard in groin; stitching pain in chest; lies immovable on side; lies on hip-joint; side of chest arched like a barrel from axilla downward; side of chest dull percussion sound; side of thorax considera- bly hollowed ; pain in occipital protuberance; ulcer on last rib; red tubercle on buttock; swelling of hand; in- side of thumb swollen, livid ; whitlow on middle finger; suppuration of middle joint of index finger; carbuncle on thigh; chilly creeping sensation in leg; numbness of arm and hand.

Left: cornea so hazy that iris could hardly be seen; severe inflammation in cornea and iris ; small ulcer on cornea ; excessive lacbrymation of eye; pupil much dilated; unpleasant sensation in side of nose; discharge of bone as large as pea from nostril; severe neuralgic pain in region of orbit; bubo in groin; upper part of side of throat tickling causing cough; as of drops of hot water in chest, side of thorax abnormally bulging; moist rales in lung; upper part of side of thorax dilated back- wards; fine stitches in half of chest; carbuncle on side of back ; hip pains as if sprained ; raised, flat, purplish swelling on thigh; cramp in hand ; mouth drawn to side; paralysis of side; pain in hypochondrium and arm.

From below upwards: internal shivering. ^■^ Sensations. I Bruised sore feeling of body, < from any motion.

I Burning, throbbing pain, with chilliness.

■ Fainting with the pains.

I Painful throbbing in different parts.

As if he could murder some one ; forehead as if bruised ; as if an abscess was forming in head; as if forehead would be torn out; as if eyes would be drawn back into

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head; as if skull would burst; as from a plug in head; wabbling as from water in brain ; sense of swashing in head; as if a nail was driven into occiput; as of sand in eye ; eyelids as if corroded ; as of a burn in eyelids ; as if eyes projected; as if eyeballs were bruised; nose as if bruised; as if blood was entering tooth; tooth as if too long; pain in throat as from an intense swelling; as of a plug in throat; sensation of water rising in cesoph- agus; as if she had eaten sour things; as of a hard body in epigastrium; as if stomach hung loose; abdomen as if bruised; as if bladder could not be emptied thor- oughly ; as if something were running or creeping in r. shoulder-blade; pain as if in bones of arms and thighs; as if there was a fishbone in throat; as of dust in lungs; nose as if bruised ; as from a splinter in throat ; as if hot water was floating in chest; as of drops of hot water in 1. chest; as if bruised in small of back and thighs; as if a weight was resting on it; pain as if bruised in os humeri; fingers as if dead; left hip pains as if sprained; knee pains as if bruised ; pain in foot as after taking a misstep; as if something w^as sticking in throat; as if he would suffocate; throat as if raw; as if a veil was hanging over eyes.

Pain: in skull bones; in tumors on head; in pimples; in eyes and head; on inside of nose; malar bones; in tooth; in tip of tongue; in throat; in abdomen ; in kid- neys; in one spot of larynx; in upper part of throat; extending from ear to ear; in top of chest; in r. occipi- tal protuberance; in neck; in small of back and lumbar vertebra; in shoulder; in bottom of back; around waist and shoulders; in abdomen; in 1. hypochondrium and arm; in limbs; in bones.

Intense pain: in throat; in carbuncle on back.

Violent pain in head; over r. eyebrow; in bony part of nose; in thumb.

Sharp pain: in head.

Severe pain : in r. tonsil ; in lower extremities.

Tearing: in arms extending toward suppuration in breast; in limbs and joints.

Cutting pain: in outer canthus; in abdomen; in thumb.

Lancinating pain: in head; in tumors.

Violent stitch : extending into great toe.

Stitches: in head; in eyes; in region of liver; in region of spleen; in urethra; extending from ear to ear; in larynx; in throat; in lungs; in heart; in back; in joints.

Pulse-like stitches : in lower portion of occiput.

Burning stinging pains: on toes.

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Stinging pain : in lids.

Stinging: of ulcers on breast; of blister on thumb.

Stitching: in head; in throat; in hepatic region; in

larynx; in r. side of chest. Severe neuralgic pains: in region of 1. orbit; of face, ex- tending in streaks into temple, ear, alse nasi, upper lip. Darting pain : in ears. Ulcerative pain : in nostril ; in throat. Drawing pain: in nose; in tooth; from region of stomach

to back; between scapulae; in limbs. Throbbing pain: in r. temple; in eyes; in ears; in tooth;

in scrotum; in thumb; in last joint of middle finger, r.

hand; in abscess. Clawing: in umbilical region. Gnawing: in stomach.

Cramp: in calves; in soles and toes; in 1. hand. Pinching: in abdomen. Burrowing: headache.

Boring: headache; at root of nose; in r. temple. Burning, bruised pain : in eye. Burning pain: in eyes; in bones above orbits; in nose; in

thumb. Burning itching: on scalp. Burning: of body; in throat; in stomach; in rectum;

prepuce and pudenda; in urethra; on edges of ulcers;

in throat; from pit of stomach to throat and ears; in

ulcers. Smarting pain: in eyelids; in pimple on upper lip; in

throat; of vulva. Pressive pain: in eyes; in lids. Aching: in forehead; in vertex; in eyes. Constriction : of chest. Contractive sensation: in abdomen. Tensive aching pain : above nose. Dull aching pain : in stomach. Rheumatic pains: in limbs and joints; in back. Acute bruised pain: in eyeballs.

Bruised pain: in anterior muscles of thighs; in limbs. Oversensitiveness to pain.

Sore pain: on dorsum of nose; in anus; in rectum. Soreness: of urethra; on genitals; of scrotum; of folds

between scrotum and thigh ; inchest; in thighs; of all

Limbs

Hammering: in head.

Throbbing: in ears; in forehead and temples.

Pulsative sensation : in ulcers on female sexual organs.

Violent pressure : in throat.

Anxious feeling: about heart.

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Pressure: in head; in eyes; in stomach; beneath larynx; under sternum; sharp in small of back and lumbar vertebrae; on brain during delivery.

Distressing headache.

Dull headache.

Empty, sinking feeling: in stomach.

8craping: in throat.

Raw feeling: in side of nose. *

Scratching: in air tubes.

Acrid feeling: in stomach.

Unpleasant sensation : in 1. side of nose.

Heaviness: in stomach.

Sensation of weight : at back of eyeballs.

Numbness : of r. arm and hand.

Stiffness: of nape of neck ; in limbs.

Pricking: in both heels; in tumors.

Tickling sensation: in back of throat; in air tubes; in soles of feet; in arm.

Tingling: in toes; in tips of fingers.

Dry heat: of body.

Dryness: of palms of hands.

Creeping: in rectum; in r. leg; from 1. hand up arm.

Formication: in arms.

Intensely violent itching: in bend of elbows; on hands, wrists and in palms; in lower extremities.

Itching: on scalp; in ears; in nose; around mouth; on spot beneath lower lip; on penis; of vulva; of nipples; in throat; of ears; violent at bend of elbow ; on hands; in palms; of eruption in bends of joints; dull itching of soles of feet and palms of hands. ^ Tissues. Child looks plump, yet the flesh is flabby, the muscles withered, digestion weak; intolerant of pressure about stomach after eating; food temporarily > the de- bility; stools green, watery, undigested, or white, sour smelling and painless; < during day; little tendency to cerebral symptoms; glands swollen and child subject to catarrhs from least draught of cold air; eczema, < morning, when it itches, burns and smarts.

■ Chlorosis with flatulent dyspepsia, delayed menses and

leucorrhoea.

I Hard, burning nodosities.

I Pains in bones; caries.

■ Caries with watery, foul smelling pus.

■ ■Rheumatic swelling, with heat, redness and sensation

as if sprained.

■ Useful in promoting suppuration when a former acute

pain suddenly ceases after a chilly feeling, and is fol- lowed by a beating pain, or throbbing, indicating forma- tion of pus.

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iStrumous patients, where suppurative process has not been arrested by Mercur., or where suppuration seems inevitable ; it hastens formation of abscess.

iFor elimination of foreign bodies by process of suppu- ration.

■ Suppuration of soft parts, of carious bones, of ulcers, of

fistulous tracts, of exanthems.

■ Lacerating and pricking pains in tumors; throbbing and

beating in abscess; skin over abscess highly inflamed, hard, hot and swelling; pus scanty, bloody, corroding, smelling like old cheese; pains < night, and by expos- ure to cold. I Felons.

■ Tendency to formation of abscesses.

■ Suppurative adenitis of armpit and of groin.

■ Suppurating buboes in inguinal and axillary regions.

■ Open buboes, which do not heal, especially after mer-

cury or iodine.

■ Glandular swellings, particularly when obstinate and

after abuse of mercury ; suppuration of axillary and in- guinal glands; strumous suppuration of joints with pro- fuse sweats day and night.

■ Absorption of old glandular swellings.

■ Anasarca with tendency to formation of boils, on hairy

scalp; tonsils and submaxillary glands enlarged; albu- minous urine. ^After scarlet fever.

■ Anasarca from Bright's disease, especially after so-called

light cases of scarlatina.

■ Preventive of dropsy after scarlet fever as soon as traces

of albumen are discovered in urine. ■The child has a sour smell, and white, fetid evacuations. ■Sour smell of the excretions.

■ ■Scrofulosis.

■ Gout with arthritis, without tophus.

■Secondary syphilis, especially after mercury and iodide of potassium. *^ Touch.

Passive Motion.

Injuries. ■■ Extreme sensitive- ness to contact; dread of contact, out of proportion to actual pain.

Touch: scalp sensitive; nodosities sore; boils on head and neck; head and eye; cornea sensitive; slightest touch acute bruised pain; swelling in lids painful; hemor- rhage from ear on slightest touch ; interior of nose sen- sitive; nose very sensitive; bones of nose sensitive; pains in malar bones <; bones of face painful; boils very sensitive; ulceration of face, intolerance of touch; great swelling of upper lip; gums and mouth very pain- ful; renal region sensitive to slightest touch ; eruption

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on male sexual organs sensitive; larynx and trachea sensitive; skin very sensitive; muscles of nape of neck sore.

Pressure: < pain in one spot in throat; on corrosive blis- ter causes stinging.

Binding head up tight: > pressure.

Has to loosen clothing.

Riding in a carriage: vertigo.

When shaking head : vertigo.

From concussion: morning headache <.

After injury: to eye violent inflammation; suppuration of middle joint of r. index finger.

"^ Skin.

Yellowness of the skin.

llConstant offensive exhalations from body.

I Child smells sour.

■ Great sensitiveness of skin to touch and to slightest cold. llUnhealthy, suppurating skin; even slight injuries mat- urate; every cut or hurt suppurates.

■ Cracking of skin and smarting of hands and feet.

■ Bruised sensation, or as of subcutaneous ulceration, < by

contact.

■Suppression of exanthems, followed by mania; melan- cholia; ophthalmia; laryngismus stridulus, with epilep- tiform convulsions.

I I Erysipelatous inflammation on external parts.

■ Suppuration of long inflamed boils on body, or on limbs,

commencing with blisters.

■ Burning itching on body, with white vesicles, after

scratching.

■ Itching rash in bend of knees and elbows.

■ ■Eczema, spreading by means of new pimples appearing

just beyond the old parts.

■ Humid soreness on genitals, scrotum and folds between

scrotum and thighs.

■ Herpes zoster, from spine around 1. side to median line;

vesicles, bullae, some containing dark pus; acute neural- gic pains in seat of eruption ; vesicles on an inflamed base, with severe itching and scratching, and nightly aggravation.

■ Dry and slightly cracked condition in both axillae, espe-

cially left; much itching, < when body becomes heated; rash generally dry; occasionally slight moisture exuded; similar eruption about mouth; severe headache, pain < back of eyeballs, which felt as if they would be drawn back into head.

■ ■Nettlerash.

■ Chronic urticaria, eruption chiefly in hands and fingers.

■ Crusta lactea; tetters; rhagades; excoriations.

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iFat, pustular and crusty itch. I Dry, pimply eruptions.

• Miliary rash in circles.

I Adenitis; acne punctata; boils; crusta lactea and serpi- ginosa; herpes; intertrigo; scurvy; encysted tumors; varices.

• Eruption after mercurialism.

• Eruptions very sensitive and sore to touch.

• Skin inclined to ulcerate; the large sore surrounded by

small pustules.

• Ulcers very sensitive to contact, easily bleeding, burning

or stinging, with corrosive pains.

• •Bleeding of an ulcer, even on slight wiping.

• Ulcers: discharge bloody pus, smelling like old cheese;

edges very sensitive, and have a pulsating sensation; discharge corroding; burning in ulcers; burning in night only; pains resembling recent excoriations; throbbing and shooting; jagged edges, and surrounded with pustules; bluish, bleeding ulcers; pus laudable, acrid or sanguineous; fetid and ichorous. •Margins of ulcers elevated and spongy, without granula- tions in centre.

• Little pimples or smooth ulcers surrounding principal

ulceration.

• Severe stitching pain in ulcers when laughing; burning

and throbbing at night.

• The ulcer itches very much.

• Stinging burning of edges of ulcers.

• •Mercurial ulcers.

• Warts become inflamed and stinging, as if ulceration

would set in.

• Scabs easily torn off, leaving a raw and bleeding surface.

" Stages of Life, Constitution.

Torpid, lymphatic consti- tutions; persons with light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft and flabby.

•Slow, torpid constitutions, with lax fibre and light hair; great sensitiveness to slightest contact of ulcers, erup- tions and parts affected.

• Figure lean, complexion bilious; pimply and subject to

erysipelatous inflammation; pallor of face when excited by movement, or very red and flushed. •Suitable to scrofulous and debilitated subjects.

• Psoric scrofulous diathesis.

• Psora of children.

•Strumous, outrageously cross children.

• Purulent diathesis, great tendency to suppuration. Child, set. 4J months; crusta lactea.

Girl, set. J year, weak, scrofulous; laryngismus stridulus.

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Boy, set. | year; croup.

Strong boy, set. 8 months, since birth has had an eczema of face and head, which five weeks ago began to get bet- ter of itself, as eruption was nearly healed, epileptiform spasms set in; laryngismus stridulus.

Boy, set. 21 months; dropsy after scarlet fever.

Boy, set. 2, had tinea capitis, for which Sabad. was given ; inflammation of eyes.

Boy, set. 2J; croup.

Boy, set. 2J; croup.

Boy, set. 3; parotitis.

Boy, set. 3; scarlet fever.

Child, set. 3|; parotitis.

Boy, set. 4; croup.

Girl, set. 4, lively temperament; croup.

Boy, set. 4|, light hair, blue eyes, pale face, of mild, mis- chievous disposition, had pneumonia when an infant; emphysema.

Boy, set. 5, healthy and strong; pleurisy.

Boy, set. 5; croup.

Boy, set. 5, weak, excitable, after a catarrh which had lasted eight days; croup.

Boy, set. 6, delicate, weak, muscles flabby, face puffed, upper lip swollen, eyes sunken, frequent swelling of glands of neck; abnormal passages from bowels. ^Oph- thalmia.

Boy, set. 6, twenty wrecks after pneumonia, treated allo- pathically; pleuro-pneumonia of r. side, with absorption of pleuritic exudation, but continued presence of pneu- monic infiltration in a state of purulent dissolution.

Boy, set. 7, scrofulous constitution; ulceration of cornea.

Boy, set. 8 ; anasarca and convulsions.

Boy, set. 12; anasarca and convulsions.

Boy, set. 13, suffering one year; ozsena.

Boy, set. 16, robust, blonde, exposed to chills and must fre- quently strain his sight; inflammation of glands of eye- lids.

Girl; whitlow.

Young girl, three months after puberty; mind affection.

Mr. K., set. 18, fast-living, German; affection of cheek.

Girl, set. 18, strong, healthy, very excitable and has been suffering three months; affection of throat.

Girl, set. 18, after catching cold; laryngitis.

Miss M., set. 18; chest troubles succeeding repelled itch.

Needle-woman, set. 19; whitlows.

Young man, while fencing, received small, scarcely visible fragment of steel in eye, which stuck into cornea; trau- matic ophthalmia.

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Housemaid, set. 22; whitlow.

Miss S., aet. 24, dark hair and eyes, pale face; angina pec- toris.

Woman, single, set. 25, menstruation scanty, suffering for three years; skin eruption.

Tenor singer, three years ago had an herpetic eruption in epigastric region which returned after the asthma had been cured; asthma.

Stonecutter, gonorrhoea one year ago, had taken much mercury, struck in eye by small piece of stone ; hypopyon.

Waiter, after catching cold when going into cellar; pains in foot.

Mr. R., had been suffering for two weeks, Arsen. and Laches. without benefit; carbuncle.

Man, after drinking iced milk while in a heated condition; sensation as if a splinter or fishbone were sticking in throat.

Woman, psoric constitution; catarrhal inflammation of eyes.

Woman, suffering for years; indigestion.

Professional man, afflicted for twenty years, has frequently taken mercury ; bilious attacks.

Sculptor, suffering for twent^'-five years, has been over- dosed with mercury; chronic tonsillitis.

Man, set. 30; kidney disease.

Man, eet. 30; syphilitic bubo.

Man, set. 30; bubo.

Woman, set. 33, suffered severely from rheumatic pains, no history of syphilis; keratitis parenchymatosa.

Man, set. 34, married, tall, slender, dark complexion, lym- phatic, torpid temperament, has epilepsy and heart dis- ease, also a recurring eruption which he treated with binoxide of mercury; attacks of debility.

Man, set. 36, phlegmatic temperament, healthy, strong con- stitution, for half a year had itch, after bodily exhaus- tion slept upon ground ; affection of brain.

Unmarried woman, set. 36, has had repeated attacks since eighteenth 3^ear; father affected same way; tonsillitis.

Man, set. 36, another set. 45; chronic tracheitis.

Miss H., set. 37, supposed she was bitten by some insect on forearm; carbuncle. , Man, set. 37, big, strong, after suppressed syphilitic erup- tion; paralysis.

Woman, set. 38, weak and flabby, scrofulous during youth, corneitis; hypopyon.

Mrs. P., set. 40; affection of nose.

Scrofulous woman, set. 40, subject to suppurating sore throat; tonsillitis.

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Mr. W., set. 40 ; carbuncle.

Woman, set. 44, has suffered for many years, has taken

large doses of quinine and mercury; hepatic and uterine

disease.

Man, set. 45; ill effects of Merc. sol.

Man, set. 47, carbuncle.

Widow, set. 52, suffering six years; spinal irritation.

Mrs.

H., set. about 60, large, fleshy woman with frequent

attacks of jaundice; carbuncle.

Patient, set. 63, sick since five years; bronchial catarrh.

Man, set. 67, has spent much of his life in foreign stations,

mercurial history; hepatogenous jaundice.

Relations

Antidoted by: Acet. ac, Bellad., Chamom., Silic. It antidotes: mercurial and other metallic preparations;

iodine, and especially the iodide of potash; cod-liver oil. Removes weakening effects of ether. Compatible: Acofi., Arnic, Bellad., Laches., Mercur., Nitr. ac,

Silic, 8pongia, Zincum.

Compare

Alumina (constipation); Calc. ost., Jodum, Kali

bich., Mercur., Rheum, Sulphur. Complementary: to Calend., in injuries.