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General
Hamamelis Virginica, Linn.
Natural order , Hamamelaceae. Common name , Witch Hazel.
Preparation , Tincture of the leaves and twigs.
Authorities. 1 , Dr. H. C. Preston, Phil.
J. of Hom., 1, 460, provings with 10 drops of tincture, a tablespoonful, and again a tablespoonful of tincture; 2 , ibid., Pierce gave Mrs. W., suffering from slight dyspeptic symptoms, the 3d dil. three times a day; proving repeated after four days; 3 , ibid., a young man took same as last; 4 , ibid., a young lady took same as last; 5 , Pierce himself took 1 drop of the 3d dil. in morning, ibid.; 6 , Dr. Thomas, Mouth. Hom.
Rev., 1, p. 251, a man took Pond's extract for several days for acute rheumatism; 7 , Dr. Frances Burrit, Am. Hom. Rev., 1, p. 511, in applying some tinct. to burnt fingers, some was licked up with the tongue; 8 , same, effects of 1 drop of 15th dil. given to a lady for pain in hypogastric region; 9 , Dr.
Burst. Am. Hom. Obs., 1865, p. 241, took 10th dil., first and second days; 9 a , same, took large doses of 3d dil. daily for five days; 9 b , same, took fluid extract, 10 to 50-drop doses; 10 , Dr.
Davidson, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed., p. 492, gave a woman the 6th dil. for haemorrhoids; did not relieve, but produced pathogenetic effects; 11 , Dr. McGeorge, Trans. of Am. Inst. of Hom., 1874, took tinct., 1 drop on first, fourth, and twelfth days; 12 , same, took 200th dil., on first, seventh, sixteenth, and twenty-seventh days; 13 , same, took 10th dil., on first, second, third, fourth, fifth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth days; 14 , same, another prover, S. W., aged 21 took 200th dil. three different provings; 15 , same, proving on Dr.
Izard with tincture, 5-drop doses for three days; 16 , same, Dr. Izard's son, aged 13, took 3 drops of tinct.; 17 , same, Dr. Izard's daughter, aged 11, tool 1 drop of tinct.; 18 , same, proving on C. J.
Wiltbank, aged 27, with 6th dil., afterward 3d. and 12th dil.; 19 , same, proving on A. P. Hollet, aged 23, tool 2 drops of tinct.; 20 , same, C. H.
Evans, aged 22, took 2 drops of tinct.; 21 , same W. M. James. took tinct. 2 drops first day, 3 drops fourth day.; 22 , same, tool 200th dil.; 23 , same, C. J.
Cooper, took 1 drop of 6th dil.; 24 , same, J. B. Chandler, took 3d dil., first, second fourth, fifth, and seventh days; 25 , same, took 200th dil.; 26 , same, F. E.
Murphy, took 200th dil.; 27 , same, F. W. Wagner, took 1 dose 200th dil.; 28 , same, Mary McC., aged 21, took 200th dil. once a week; 29 , same, Mrs. E.
C., aged 31, took 1 dose of 6th dil.; 30 , same, Mrs. C. A. aged 58, used Pond's extract as a gargle for ulcerated throat.
Mind
Emotional. Feeling that she ought to be reverenced by all around her and have great respect paid to her opinions; lasting about an hour, [8] .
Wish to be alone; cannot settle mind on study (twelfth day); continuing (nineteenth day), [18] .
Depressed in mind (second, fortieth, and forty-ninth days), [17] .
Lowness of spirits, [30] .
Feels gloomy (fourth day), [18] .
Very gloomy (sixth day), [9a] .
Very gloomy and sad, probably caused by the nocturnal emission (second day), [9] .
Very gloomy; no disposition to move (fourth day), [9a] . Regretful in the mind for having had emissions at night (third day), [27] . [10.]
Less despondency, in the evening (fourth day), [11] .
Irritable disposition (second day), [19] .
Very cross in easily irritated, not wanting anybody to speak to him (second day), [24] .
Discontented all day (third day), [11] .
I became impatient, and resolved not to take any more of the medicine; felt as if I did not care whether I attended to my practice or not; did not want any one to call at the office for medicine (seventh day), [15] .
Was afraid to risk another dose; this mind was in a fearful condition, [18] .
Intellectual.
After the nausea, headache, and general stupor lasting two hours, had disappeared, felt clearer and brighter than before using it, [28] .
Intense thinking; unhappy in body and mind; better at 7 P.M.
(thirteenth day), [27] .
Quick perception of anything out of shape or disproportioned (thirteenth day), [12] . Desire to hear lofty, sublime conversation, attended with perfect indisposition to talk myself; after the heat, [7] . [20.]
Still finds it difficult to settle his mind; angry mood; nothing seems to suit him (twenty-third day); still continuing (thirtieth day), [18] .
Inability to concentrate the thoughts upon any subject of study; exceedingly restless and discontented (second day), [22] . No desire to work; likes to sit and think, or muse, while awake (second day), [11] .
No desire to study or read, [26] ; in the evening (first day), [15] .
Could not read or study, [17] .
Dull and spiritless all days (twelfth and fifteenth days), [14] .
Rose feeling dull (twenty-second and twenty-third days), [14] .
Felt a dulness and was somewhat stupid, in the afternoon (first day), [15] .
Dull and listless, especially in afternoon; disinclination to study (seventh day), [14] . Forgetfulness, especially of words when talking, so much so that his room-mate thinks him crazy (fourth day), [24] . [30.]
Marked weakness of memory; if he reads cannot remember important things he has been reading about (twelfth day), [18] . General stupor , for two hours after taking, [28] .
Vertigo
Vertigo, as if drunk (seventh day), [24] . Vertigo (momentarily) on rising after stooping, after lying down, while reading (sixth day), [11] .
Vertigo when stooping or bending forward (seventh day), [11] . Slight vertigo in afternoon on stooping, but it quickly passed (twenty-fifth day), [14] .
Slight vertigo towards night (fifteenth day), [14] .
Dizziness in the head, [30] . Dizzy, and sick at her stomach, with a desire to lie down (second day), [29] .
Swimming sensation in head, at 12 M. (seventh day), [11] . [40.]
Sensation as if the brain was swimming around, continuing all day (second day); on rising (third day), [23] .
General Head.
Dulness in the head (after two hours), [23] ;
(thirteenth day), [15] .
Dulness and fulness in head all day (seventh day), [11] .
Feeling in head as if she had taken cold (second day), [29] . *Headache (eighth day), [14] ;
(eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days), [12] ;
(nineteenth and twenty-second days), [13] .
Headache for two hour after taking, [28] .
Headache all day (second day), [19] ; worse by stooping (fifteenth day), [14] ; off and on (fifteenth day), [13] .
Headache in the morning; better at noon (after more than two months), [28] .
Headache on rising (sixth day), [14] ;
(tenth day), [12] ;
(ninth and fourteenth days), [13] ; at 7 A.M.
(fifth day), [12] ;
(eleventh day), [14] .
Headache; the peculiarity about the headache is, that it is worse in the morning when rising and while indoors, but better while thinking, or reading, or walking or talking (seventeenth day), [12] . [50.]
Headache during forenoon, increased in afternoon; quite severe, chiefly in forehead, at night (twenty-second day), [14] .
Headache in afternoon, with pain in both ears (tenth day), [14] .
Headache (unusual) towards evening, with dull throbbing pain over left eye (third and fourth days), [14] .
Headache towards night (tenth and twelfth days), [13] ; (twenty-sixth day), [14] .
Headache from straining at stool, at 10 P.M., with sense of fulness in head, continuing till bedtime (eighth day), [14] .
Headache and cold (thirteenth day), [14] .
Slight headache (third day), [13] ;
(thirteenth day), [11] ;
(eighteenth and twenty-fourth days), [12] ; in morning (twenty-seventh day); on waking (third day), [12] ; better at night (thirteenth day), [27] .
Slight headache, with severe distress in the pyloric portion of the stomach and umbilical region (after three hours, second day), [9a] .
Considerable headache, the same as that produced by the third potency, [25] .
Bad headache (twentieth day); all day (twenty-first day); on waking (twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth days); on rising (twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-first, and thirty-fourth days), [13] . [60.]
Severe headache (thirteenth day), [18] ;
(after two months), [28] .
Very severe headache, in afternoon (fourteenth day), [14] .
Very severe headache indeed, feeling as if the head would burst, at 8 P.M.
(twelfth day), [14] .
Instance headache on rising, in the morning (fifteenth day), [14] .
Headache (which had been very slight all day) commenced violently again, continuing all day (after three hours, sixteenth day), [12] .
Terrible headache all day, probably from sleeping in a close room, not relieved by pressure, riding, walking, or anything; better towards night, disappearing while asleep (eleventh day), [11] .
Dull headache (third morning), [9a] ; at 10 A.M. (first and second days), [15] ; lasting about an hour (first day), [6] .
Fulness in head (ninth day), [11] .
Fulness in head with occasional vertigo continued (eighth day), [11] .
Painful fulness of the head, with a feeling as if a bolt was passed from temple to temple through the head and tightly screwed; lasting about an hour, [8] . [70.]
Immediately after the heat a painful fulness of the brain, especially at the top, with a desire to hear lofty, sublime conversation, attended with perfect indisposition to talk myself, [7] . Woke up at 7 A.M., with a bursting headache, with vertigo on stooping; headache wearing off towards evening (second day), [12] .
Bursting headache, upon waking, insupportable on bending downward (ninth day), [12] .
Soreness and headache all over the head (seventh day), [24] .
Headache of a throbbing nature (twenty-first day), [14] .
Headache worse after second sleep in the morning (nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-second days), [12] .
Increasing headache, in the evening (first day), [15] .
Took another cold, which aggravated the old headache (thirty-first day), [13] .
Pains not so severe in head, in the evening (fourth day), [11] . Headache better outdoors (seventh day), [12] .
Forehead. [80.] Dull feeling in forehead at root of nose, continuing all day; aggravated for a few moments, at 11 P.M.
(second day); across the forehead, but more particularly over the eyes and at root of nose (third day), [11] .
Dull, stopped up feeling in forehead, over root of nose continually (fourth day), [11] .
Dull pain across the frontal bone, [17] .
Dull, stupefying headache over eyes and root of nose (second day), [19] .
Headache in forehead (fourth day), [12] .
Headache in front and top of head, at 10 P.M. (eleventh day), [14] .
Headache over right eye, at 9 A.M., continuing a few moments and then disappearing (second day), [22] . Headache over nose and eyes (fourteenth day), [11] .
Slight headache continually present in forehead, but not observed so much while out of doors, or busily engaged (eighth day), [12] . Slight frontal headache, with constant burning distress in the lower part of the epigastrium and umbilicus, lasting four hours, immediately (first day), [9a] . [90.]
Severe frontal headache, in the morning (thirteenth day), [13] . Very severe frontal headache (second day); intense, can hardly stand it (fourth day); terrible, worse sitting or standing up, better lying down, relieved by rubbing forehead, also by pressure (eleventh day), [24] .
*Fulness in forehead (tenth day), [11] .
Fulness of the forehead and sharp pain in the temples all day, of a severe character, with pressing sensation in the pharynx (after two hours, second day), [9] .
Great fulness of the forehead, with pressing distress in the root of the tongue, lasting all day (after one hour, first day), [9] .
Sensation as if anterior lobes of brain were too large for cranium (second day), [24] .
The old bursting headache in forehead and over eyes, and an empty, gone feeling at pit of stomach, on rising, at 8.30 A.M.; headache wears off towards night (eighteenth day), [13] .
Sense of constriction across forehead, at 10 P.M. (tenth day), [14] .
Woke up with a severe headache; pressing in frontal bone, the only part affected, continuing unabated all day (fourth day), [13] . Severe headache over the right eye, of a pressing nature; most intense when sitting or lying quiet, about 12 M.; disappearing while walking in the open air (seventh day); reappearing at 10 P.M., but not preventing his sleeping soundly (eighth day), [21] . [100.]
Sharp pain across the forehead (thirtieth day), [14] .
Lancinating pain in left frontal region, once (seventh day), [26] .
Temples.
Headache in the temples; worse in the morning (second day), [20] .
Pain through temples and heaviness of eyes, at 10 P.M.
(tenth day), [14] .
Severe pain in her temples, for three days (after two months), [28] .
A sharp pain from one temple to the other (twenty-third day), [14] .
Peculiar sensation in mastoid portion of temporal bone (ninth day), [13] .
Pain in mastoid portion of temporal bone in morning (second day), [13] .
Very severe sore pain in right mastoid portion of temporal bone (seventh day), [24] .
Shooting pain in (left) mastoid portion of temporal bone (sixteenth day), [13] . [110.]
Shooting pain in mastoid portion of temporal bone, when walking in the wind (twenty-sixth day), [12] . Sides.
Headache in whole left side of the head; most severe in parietal region; worse in morning and evening; relieved by eating (twentieth and subsequent days), [26] .
Headache dull and heavy, in left parietal region (eighteenth day), [26] .
Occiput.
Pain in occiput (twelfth day), [18] .
Dull throbbing pain in back and top of head, lasting half an hour (seventh day), [14] .
External Head.
Feeling as if vermin were crawling along the edges of the hair (sixth day), [15] .
Eye.
Objective.
Blue margins under both eyes, more under right (eighteenth day), [13] .
Blue margin at inner canthus of eyes (ninth day); blue margin round eyes (tenth day), [12] .
Dull color of sclerotic (tenth day), [12] .
Swelling of eyeballs and eyelids, with bloodshot appearance of right eye (ninth day); eyes till protrude, but right eye not so congested (tenth day), [12] . Subjective. [120.]
Painful weakness of eyes (tenth day); eyes feel weak, but are less inflamed (eleventh day), [12] .
Eyes heavy (twelfth and fifteenth days), [14] .
Eyes very heavy and painful, tender on pressure (fourteenth day), [14] .
Eyes feel as though they would melt away (after two months), [28] . Eyes painful (twenty-eighth and thirtieth days), [14] .
Eyes painful, and pain increased by pressure (twenty-first day), [14] .
Eyes very painful (fifteenth day), [14] ; at 8 P.M.
(twelfth day), [14] .
Feeling as if the both eyes would be forced out of head; relieved by pressing them in with the fingers, but worse for a few moments after removing pressure (eighteenth day); disappearing (nineteenth day), [13] .
Sore pain in eyes (seventh day), [24] .
Eyes very painful under slight pressure (ninth day), [14] . Brow and Orbit. [130.] Pain over left eye (twenty-seventh day), [26] .
Dull pain over orbits (seventh day), [12] .
Lids.
Could scarcely close her eyes for three days (after two months), [28] .
Spasmodic twitching of, first, the right upper eyelid, and two hours after the left upper eyelid (nineteenth day), [12] .
A peculiar spasmodic thrill in left upper eyelid, similar to that felt when winking rapidly, for several days (twenty-first and twenty-second days), [14] .
Vision.
Dimness before the eyes (second day), [15] .
Ear.
Bleeding at the right ear (after more than two months), [28] . Pain in both ears, with headache (tenth day), [14] .
Some burning of the right ear in the evening (first day), [15] .
Dull, burning pain in and around the right ear, relieved by pressure, about 5 P.M.
(seventh day), [14] . [140.]
Feeling of fulness in left ear at 8 A.M.
(tenth day), [14] .
Earache (forty-ninth day), [27] .
Earache, in pain extending even to her finger ends (after two months), [28] .
Itching in left ear, and the body under the clothing (eighth day), [15] .
Slight sensation in mastoid process (twenty-eighth day), [12] .
Pain in mastoid process, in afternoon and evening, when first going out in the wind, lasting a few minutes (twenty-seventh day), [12] .
Hearing.
The right ear is obstructed, so that the prover can hardly hear with it, in the evening (twenty-second day); passing off by noon (twenty-third day), [14] .
Buzzing in ears at 10 P.M. (tenth day), [14] .
Ringing in ears at 8 P.M. (twelfth day), [14] .
Nose
Objective. Nose swollen and inflamed; still painful to touch, but not so much so as yesterday (eighth day), [12] . [150.]
Septum of nose swollen and painful to touch (seventh day), [12] .
Bad smell from nose (seventh day), [11] .
Sneezing in afternoon, with eructations of wind (ninth day), [14] .
Sneezing at 12 M. (fifth and sixth days), [13] .
Sneezing spell, and running of water from nose; cold in head (fifth day); running from nose; caught a fresh cold in the evening; discharge from the nose acrid and burning, excoriating (sixth day); nose fills up readily; discharge excoriating (seventh day), [12] .
Several fits of sneezing during forenoon, after which the nasal passages seemed less obstructed (ninth day), [14] .
Cold in head, [30] . Took cold again from being exposed for a moment to a draught without a hat (eighth day); fresh cold (eleventh day), [12] .
Catarrh (nineteenth day), [12] .
Slight catarrh on waking; nasal passage much obstructed, with some soreness of nose (second day), [14] . [160.]
Coryza (second day); continuing (sixth day), [11] .
Some coryza; nasal passages almost entirely obstructed (second day); cold continues (third, fourth, and fifth days); about the same (seventh day); some cold (eighth day), [14] .
Coryza comes on at 4 P.M. each afternoon, goes away at 10 P.M.; not troubled with it in the intervals, [24] .
Fluent coryza, discharge burning and smarting every part it touches (eighth day), [24] .
Passed a tough, green plug from right nostril at 11.45 P.M.
(sixth day), [11] .
*Bleeding of the nose, which clears her head, and affords her great relief (after more than two months), [28] . *Nose began to bleed between 9 and 10 the next morning, and continued for and hour until I smelled Camphor ; with the epistaxis was a feeling of tightness of the bridge of the nose, and considerable crowding pressure in the forehead between the eyes , with a benumbed sensation over the whole os frontis ; I was at first somewhat surprised, as in the whole course of my juvenile and adult experience, I had never before been unfortunate enough to get a "Blood nose," and epistaxis is something I never knew occur in my family, [5] .
*Profuse epistaxis checked by smelling Camphor (ten hours after first dose), [3] . Subjective.
Nose feels stopped up (eighteenth day), [13] .
Stopped up condition of head (seventh day), [12] ; (eighth day), [24] . [170.]
Head feels stopped up (fourth day), [12] .
Head very much stopped up (thirty-second day), [13] .
General "stuffed" feeling in head (fourteenth day), [14] .
Considerable obstruction of the nasal passages, but no mucus was raised, on rising (second day), [14] . Nasal passages greatly obstructed (ninth day), [14] .
Left nostril less obstructed than the right (ninth and eleventh days), [14] .
Nose less obstructed in the evening (fourth day), [11] . Pain and dull feeling at the root of the nose (fourth day), [15] .
Oversensitiveness to smell (thirteenth day), [12] .
Face
Muscles of face feel very sore and stiff (seventh day), [24] . Cheeks. [180.]
Burning pain felt in right cheek, lasting five or six minutes, in afternoon (twenty-sixth day), [14] .
Burning in right cheek in the evening (twenty-second day), [14] .
Stinging pain in left cheek, for a few minutes, at 1.30 P.M. (eighth day), [14] .
Occasional shooting pain along the right superior maxillary, extending up to the malar bone (fourth day), [15] .
Lips.
Swelling of the upper lip, where the left nostril joins it, at 8 A.M.
(eleventh day), [14] .
Mucous membrane of lips much cracked at 1 P.M. (ninth day), [14] .
Dryness of the lips (sixth day), [14] .
Dryness of lips, and fauces well marked (seventh day), [14] . Very great dryness of lips (thirty-first day), [14] .
Lips dry and cracked (fifteenth day), [14] . [190.]
Lips sore at 8 A.M. (eleventh day), [14] .
Lips sore 10 P.M. (tenth day), [14] .
Lips and gums very sore (twelfth day), [14] .