Oleum Animale Aethereum

Dipper s Oil ; Rectified Animal Oil.

Dilutions in alcohol or trituration.

Provings by Nenning, Schreter and Trinks, Hartlaub and Trinks, E. A. M. L., vol. 2.

CLiNicAii Authorities. — Migraine, Zwingenberg, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 562; Greenish urine, etc., Dixon, A. H. O., vol. 9, p. 508, from Journal of Health, 1864, p. 180 ; Neuralgia of spermatic cord, Blakely, Eaue's Eec, 1870, p. 241, from H. M. P. H. Soc, 1859; Asthma nervosum, Zwingenberg, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 562.

^ Mind. Frequent vanishing of thought. Fretful and ill-humored or sad. Taciturn or thoughtful, absorbed in revery. ^Sensorium. Painful dizziness early in morning in bed, or

in open air, when stooping. ^ Inner Head. Numb and paralytic sensation in 1. side of head. Pressure on vertex shifting to occiput. Boring in 1. frontal protuberance.

I I Migraine always day after a party, where she usually

wore a heavy diadem ; polyuria of perfectly clear urine.

Sensation as if blood were rushing to occiput on entering

a room.

* Outer Head. ' l Itching on r. side of occiput, > from

scratching. ^ Sight and Eyes. Mistiness of sight, especially in after- noon when writing. Burning in eyes, in open air, on waking, by candlelight. Spasmodic quivering of lids. I I Frequent twitching in 1. upper lid. ^ Hearing and Ears. Sticking or boring in ears, with dry- ness in throat. ' Smell and Nose. Itching in nostrils.

Pimples on septum, with burning and oozing. Itching and burning on tip of nose. Oozing pimples on nose. ^ Upper Face. Pale, earthy complexion.

Kedness of cheeks even when skin is cold.

Cramplike pain in 1. cheek.

Itching pimples and vesicles on cheeks.

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Papulee on cheek and under skin of occiput. ^ Lower Face. Cracking in 1. articulation of jaw.

Itching of lips ; chapped lips. " Taste and Tongue, i iSour taste in mouth. ^^ Inner Mouth. Dryness: with sour taste in mouth; on waking, in morning. Greasy feeling in mouth and on palate.

I I Profuse accumulation of saliva in mouth, sometimes snow white. ^^ Throat. Dryness of throat, especially during empty deglu- tition. Roughness in throat inducing dry, hacking cough. Hawking of tenacious mucus after a meal.

Choking and constriction of throat, particularly morning and evening. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Desire for soft- boiled eggs. ^'^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting.

Frequent

empty eructations relieving nausea. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Pressure in pit of stomach, also after drinking cold water. Sensation as if stomach were full of water. Sensation of coldness in stomach. Burning and heat from stomach to chest. Stinging in stomach. Bruised pain about stomach. '^ Hypochondria. Pressure with sticking in region of liver

and spleen. '^Abdomen. Shifting of flatus in abdomen, w^ith rumbling.

Drawing from groins to testicles. ^" Stool and Rectum. Difficult stool ; after long urging ; even when natural Burning and stinging in anus and rectum. ^^ Urinary Organs. Urine: greenish, copious, clear, pale, also depositing a cloud ; greenish and smells fishy ; consti- pation; dilated pupils, and occasional rolling of eyes during sleep. Much urging to urinate, with discharge of only a few drops.

Burning during micturition. Itching in urethra. ^' Male Sexual Organs. Nocturnal erections and emissions. BLong-standing neuralgia of spermatic cord; excruciating attacks three or four times every year ; pains as if tes- ticles were seized by a hand and pulled very severely.

Both testicles are drawn up and very painful. Pressing in prostate gland.

Burning stinging about root of penis (afternoon). ^^ Female Sexual Organs. ■ Menses: too early, preceded

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and accompanied by cutting in abdomen and small of back and sticking in 1. side of head and vertex; scanty, black blood, languor of hands and feet. Leucorrhoea of thin, white mucus. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Bronchia and Trachea. 1 1 Spasmus glottidis with disturbance of abdominal organs; flat- ulency, colic or diarrhoea ; tympanitis. Hoarseness with inability to talk loud. ^^Respiration. iChronic asthma nervosum, for which no organic basis could be detected, but which was caused by repelled foot sweat. ^^ Inner Chest arid Lungs.

Rushes of blood to chest with dry heat of face. Violent stitch in upper part of chest, near sternum, as with a red hot needle burning in that spot, continuing a long time after. Darting in mamma when standing, from behind forward. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Pressure and crushing

sensation about heart. ^' Neck and Back. Cracking of vertebree on raising head. A few pointed and painful stitches from 1. scapula to

axilla. Pain in small of back when sitting. ^' Upper Limbs. Pimples in bends of elbows. Numbness of single fingers.

Drawing and digging in r. thumb as if it would ulcerate. ^^ Lower Limba. Excoriation in bends of hips. Sticking in sole of foot.

Tingling in one spot in middle of sole in evening. Cramp in toes.

Tearing in big toe, which is painful as if ulcerated, par- ticularly near nail. ^' Limbs in General. Lameness of 1. limb and 1. arm. ^^Rest. Position. Motion. Raising head: cracking of vertebrse. Standing: darting in mamma. Stooping: painful dizziness. Sitting : pain in back. ^® Nerves. Languor with indolence, inclination to sit. Fainting.

Cramplike drawing in different parts. ^^Time. Morning: painful dizziness. Choking and constriction of throat. Afternoon: mistiness when writing; burning about root

of penis. Evening : choking and constriction of throat; tingling in one spot of sole. ^^Temperature and Weather. Open air: painful dizziness; burning of eyes; walk in open air, coldness of 1. leg.

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On entering room : as if blood were rushing to occiput. *^ Fever. Shuddering from vertex to chest.

Coldness: after a walk in open air; of whole 1. lower limb.

Dry, pricking heat, particularly in face.

Perspiration during a meal. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Every year three or four attacks :

neuralgia of spermatic cord. ^^ Locality and Direction. Left: numb and paralytic sen- sation in side of head; boring in frontal protuberance; twitching in upper lid ; cramplike pain in cheek ; crack- ing in articulation of jaw ; sticking in side of head ; stitches from scapula to axilla; lameness of lower limb and arm ; coldness of lower limbs.

Right: itching on side of occiput; drawing and digging in thumb.

From behind forward: darting. " Sensations. As if blood were rushing to head ; as if stomach were full of water; as if testicles were seized by hand and pulled severely; as of red hot needles in chest; as

. if thumb would ulcerate ; as if toe would ulcerate.

Pain : in small of back.

Excruciating neuralgia : of spermatic cord.

Violent stitch : in upper part of chest.

A few pointed, painful stitches: from 1. scapula to axilla.

Tearing: in big toe.

Darting: in mamma.

Cutting : in abdomen and small of back. ' Cramplike drawing: of different parts.

Cramp : in toes.

Cramplike pain : in 1. cheek.

Drawing : from groins to testicles ; in r. thumb.

Boring : in 1. frontal protuberance ; in ears.

Digging : in r. thumb.

Bruised pain : about stomach.

Crushing sensation: about heart.

Stinging: in stomach ; in anus and rectum.

Burning stinging : about root of penis.

Burning: in eyes; of pimples on septum; of tip of nose; from stomach to chest; in anus and rectum; during micturition; in chest; of skin.

Sticking : in ears ; in region of liver and spleen ; in 1. side of head and vertex ; in sole.

Dry, pricking heat: < in face.

Heat : from stomach to chest ; of face.

Excoriations : in bends of hips.

Painfulness : of both testicles.

Tingling: in one spot in middle of sole.

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Roughness : in throat.

Dryness : in throat.

Pressure : on vertex shifting to occiput ; in pit of stomach ;

in region of liver and spleen ; in prostate gland ; about

Constriction : of throat.

diadem upon head ; migraine. ^ Relations. Antidoted by: .Camj^hor., Nux vom., Opium.

Ignat. and Gelsem. in headache and polyuria;

Agar, in twitching of eyelids; Arsen., Carbo veg. and

Phosphor, in gastric symptoms after cold water; PulsaL

in male sexual organs.

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