Vaccininum

Crying.

Ill-humor, with restless sleep.

Nervous depression, impatient, irritable; disposition to be troubled by things.

Morbid fear of taking small-pox.

Confusion, she does not remember things at the time she wants them.

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Frontal headache.

Forehead felt as if it would split in two in median line from root of nose to top of head.

Stitches in r. temple.

Eruption like crusta lactea.

Aching and heat in whole head, especially forehead.

Stinging in both temples.

Aching in forehead the whole forenoon.

In middle of night, waked up by pain in forehead and eyes like split, and stinging in both temples.

Severe headache all over head.

Prickling in 1. temple, as if going to sleep.

Tinea tarsi and conjunctivitis in a woman, aet. 28, remaining as result of variola in infancy, conjunctiva painfully sensitive.

Weak eyes; falling out in forehead as if it were split.

Inflamed eyelids.

Redness of eyes and face, with small pimples on face and hands.

Keratitis after vaccination.

Pain in forehead and eyes as if split.

Gausy sensation before eyes in morning, cannot see well.

Puffed red face and red eyes, with small pimples on face and hands.

Soreness in inner comer of left eye.

Peculiar dull sensation at 1. lower lid.

Full feeling of head, with running of nose.

Bleeding at nose preceded by a feeling of contraction above and between eye-brows, soon after eating meat; menses rather profuse and too frequent; cured by revaccination.

Swelling of the neck under right ear (parotid gland)t with sensation like being cut.

Coolness at throat, anteriorly down the breastbone, in and outwardly.

Redness and distension of face, chill running down back, till afternoon.

Puffed red face and red eyes, with small pimples on face and hands.

Tongue coated, dryish yellow, with papilla show- ing through coat.

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Dry mouth and tongue.

Appetite gone, disgust to taste, smell, and ap- pearance of food.

Coffee tastes sour.

Good appetite.

Aching in pit of stomach, with short breath.

Bellyache.

ABDOBIEN. — A stitch in hepatic region, at margin of last lower rib, axillary line.

Stitch in splenic region.

Blown up with flatulence.

Nephritis with albuminuria, hematuria, and dropsy, developed eleven days after vaccination; child re- covered.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS.— Short breath with aching in pit of stomach, and pressure in region of heart.

Whooping-cough.

Stitch in 1. side of chest, anteriorly, under short ribs.

Stitches in r. side under short ribs in front from r. to 1. , then at corresponding place in 1. side, but from 1. to r., lasting five minutes, felt in liver and spleen.

Drawing down 1. side of chest and back.

Febrile action of heart and arteries.

Aching at heart.

Backache.

Aching pain in back, < in lumbar region, extending around waist.

Twisting pains in lower back.

Weakness in small of back coming on suddenly > by lying down.

UPPER LIMBS. — Severe pains in 1. upper arm at vaccination mark, could not raise it in the morning.

Rheumatic pains in wrists and hands.

Sensation of heat passing from dorsum of hand, as of steam.

Cheloids on re-vaccination marks.

Left upper arm feels stiff, somewhat tremulous.

Redness on left upper arm.

Slight tearing from 1. wrist into forepart of radius ante- riorly.

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Prickling in 1. fourth finger, as if going to sleep; also in 1. middle finger.

Aching of 1. fourth finger.

Drawing at 1. elbow up arm.

Left hand feels hot.

Left fourth finger bums; a warmth streams through left arm.

LOWER LIMBS.— Tearing in 1. thigh downward.

Soreness of lower extremities, as if heated or over-exerted.

Legs ached immoderately, hardly able to get about, a break-bone sensation, and a feeling as if bones were under- going process of comminution.

Twisting pains in both knees.

Skin hot and dry.

A general eruption similar to cow*pox.

Small pimples develop at point of vaccination with fourth dilution.

Red pimples or blotches in various parts, most evident when warm.

Eruption of pustules with a dark-red base and a roundish or oblong elevation, filled with pus of a greenish-yellow color, at 1. side of trunk, between shoulders, on 1. shoulder, behind r. ear, resembling varioloid, some as large as a pea, some less, without depression in the centre, coming with a round, hard feel in the skin (like a shot), very itchy.

Tingling burning in skin over whole body, most intense in skin of forehead and in lower and anterior portion of hairy scalp, which parts are tinged with a scarlet blush, or efflores* cence, similar to the immediate precursor of variolous erup- tion.

Vaccininum 6, in water, for one day with strict diet, re- peated for eight days, acted as preventive in six hundred cases.

Treated a great many cases of variola and varioloid during last eighteen years, some of them of the most desperate char- acter, and yet never lost a case when employing vaccine virus as a remedy; moreover, none of the cases so treated were ever troubled with hemorrhage, or with delirium, or secondary fevers, or were ever disfigured with pitting.

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Vaccininum 200th quickly > severer symptoms of variola occurring in a child, aet. six months; two days before appear- ance of eruption had been re-vaccinated (after an interval of eight days) on a navus near r. nipple; deglutition difficult through implication of tongue and fauces; pustules, many of large size, scattered over scalp, face, body, and limbs.

Eruption of small, red vesicles on left upper arm and chest, dying off after a few days.

Pustule filled with matter, with a depression in centre and red halo on 1. shoulder.

Pustules suddenly much depressed.

Eruption all over body of small pustules, some with a cen- tral depression, some brown.

Waked in middle of night by pain in forehead and eyes as if split, and stinging in temples.

Restless sleep.

Fever, with heat, thirst, tossing about, crying, aversion to food.

Chill with shaking. The following night she could hardly get warm.

After lying down profuse perspiration broke out, after which chill, redness, and pimples disappeared.

Restlessness.

General malaise.

Languor, lassitude.

Tired all over, with stretching, gaping feeUng; unnatural fatigue.

Child wants to be carried.

Many persons faint when being vaccinated.

Weakness.

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If Constantine Hering had never given the homeopathic profession anything but his admirable pathogenesis of Lache- sis he would have been remembered in gratitude for all time by the homeopathic world.

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If Bernhardt Fincke had never given the homeopathic pro- fession anything but his proving of the X-ray, his name, too, would be held in grateful remembrance by posterity, for its possibilities in the cure of many of the most obstinate of chronic diseases appear almost limitless.

We are indebted to Dr. John B. Campbell, one of the origi- nal provers, for the discovery of the great value of this dynamic agent in rousing the reactive vitality of the system, both mentally and physically, and thus bringing to the sur- face suppressed symptoms of persons laboring under a com- bination of dyscrasia, the miasms of Hahnemann. This is especially true of the deep-seated constitutional ailments, sycotic in character, which so often terminate in malignant disease, especially cancer.

When the sycotic or syphilitic virus is grafted on a psoric or tubercular diathesis; when from the paucity of presenting symptoms it is almost impossible to be certain of the predomi- nant diathesis, in consequence of which the best selected an- tipsoric, Calcarea, Medorrhinum, Psorinum, Sepia, Sulphur, Syphilinum, or Tuberculinum, fails to relieve or to rouse the overpowered vitality to a sufficient degree to throw off or bring to the surface the predominant toxine, the X-ray bids fair to be our curative remedy.

Every physician who has had even a limited experience in the treatment of the toxic effect of the X-rays on either a bone or soft tissue will not need any proof of its deep-seated character and the extreme difficulty under any form of treat- ment of arousing the overpowered vitality and effecting a cure. An X-ray burn, so-called, whether of the bone or skin, is almost impossible to heal, and despite the best efforts of the ablest practitioner, the best treatment known to medical science of the present day, is often fatal.

Here is a field of action in which the potentized dynamic remedy bids fair to be unrivaled, for there is no known homeo- pathic agent, either crude or potentized, that in its primary action is so deep-seated or long-acting in results. Neither is there any known agent that will more surely suppress and render incurable many chronic diseases as this, or none which better illustrates what Shakespeare said so long ago, that, ''Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," or where

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'*A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or toach not the Pyerion spring.''

There is no therapeutic agent that so often cures, and so often fails where we think it ought to cure, in its empirical use, as this. If when its empirical use has roused latent vital- ity and restored suppressed symptoms we could correctly ob- serve and interpret them, and for them find the similimum, what possibilities lie in the future ?

As maintained by Hahnemann, Hering and Fincke and demonstrated by the work of the Austrian Provers* Union, the dynamic potentized drug is the chief factor in both proving and healing. Like Magnetis Polus Australis and other im- ponderabilia, electricity and the X-ray are both capable of potentization, and the potentized dynamic remedy is just as superior to the crude drug as Aurum, Lycopodium, Silicea or Sulphur.

A very able description of the discovery of the X-ray by Professor Roentgen was given in the Homeopathic Physician (March, 1896), by Dr. Walter M. James, and concluded with the words:

** Why should not the homeopathist seek to procure a prov- ing of the effects of the X*ray upon the animal economy of the human being } An inviting field is there opened up to the experimenters of our school. May it soon be cultivated 1 "

March 27. 1897. A drachm vial filled with absolute alcohol was exposed to a Crook's tube in operation for half an hour, and then brought up to the sixth centesimal potency. With this smallest globules were moistened and the vials contain- ing them presented to the members of the Brooklyn Hahne- mannian Union, which met the same evening in regular session.

Of course everyone was curious of trying the new remedy and took a small number of globules on the tongue at once, and lo! it began to reveal its existence immediately, and dur- ing the two hours of our being together a number of symp- toms were observed, which were at once announced and taken down by our diligent Secretary. Some of the members from that time have been seriously affected, that they would not for any consideration try any more of that mysterious power.

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The following is a narrative of its action upon the several provers, being perfectly healthy up to that time, which lasted from the beginning to two months. The action reveals not only new symptoms, but also hunted up many old ones.

If it is assumed that glass is opaque to the X-ray, it was not so in our case, for the alcohol in the vial was certainly affected by it, as the result of the provings show. If the X-ray pene- trates certain tissues of the body in order to make the condi- tion of the opaque organs, such as the bones and foreign bodies contained in the body, visible, it also shows its pene- tration into that invisible interior of the human being, which is under the dominion of the life-force.

Dr. Alice B. Campbell, one of the provers, said:

''Dr. Fincke presented each of us with a bottle of the X-rays, and said: ' It is a sample, you can take a dose.' Each of us took a dose. I thought it was such a low potency that it would not have any effect, and that was the reason I took it. We did not know what it was going to do. I took just the one dose."

I was in the best of health and spirits when I began to use the X-ray; was a healthy girl, never had a doctor until preg- nancy.

Nov. 24, 1906. A lady, aged 56, hereditary cancer in her family; mother died of it at 52. For an injury of right breast, which resulted in a tumor, which would probably develop into cancer, the X-ray was used for months, reduced its size and entirely relieved the pain. Some time after a stiffening of neck on left side appeared, to which little attention was paid.

Suddenly one morning it went to right side, with intense pain, from which I have never been free for a moment since. Pain severe every night, and occurs in paroxysms dur- ing the day. Sudden ''cricks'' attack first one side, then the other < on getting cold, and turning the head nearly pro- duces convulsions. The pain is more severe behind the ears, the mastoid process.

A sickening grating is heard between the bones of the cervical spine on turning the head. Skin be- hind the ears red and sore to touch.

The grating is heard and felt in nearly all the joints, espe- cially the shoulders; toe pains are steady, but at times will

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appear in sharp "cricks," then in streaks down the course of the nerves < by moving head or neck; moving the head on pillow at night is agony. Sometimes the pain is relieved on keeping perfectly quiet» again gentle motion relieves.

Have read all the stiff neck symptoms in Lippe, Hering, Raue, T. F. Allen and other works; the indicated remedy has failed to give me slightest relief.

Dec. 1, 1906. Last three days left side of head and neck pain intensely and constantly, at times paroxysms of cramp- ing pain in cord, from left shoulder to head, and sharp shoot- ing pain in head, back and above left ear. Cords feel too short. Only relief I have is in walking the floor. Skin is so sore, cannot bear the slightest touch, though hard pressure relieves for an instant. I am nearly mad with pain. (Dr.

G has said frequently in the last month that he was afraid

that I was getting too much X-ray; I though not, although I thought it very queer he could not relieve my pain. )

Jan. 9, 1907. Have taken no X-ray treatment since Nov. 23d. Have not been out of the house for six weeks. Suffered torture for four weeks at every motion of head, neck or shoulders.

The neuralgic pains were torturing, and the best selected remedies had little or no effect. Spigelia partially relieved severity of pains, but they appeared on the right side of head and neck, yet never left the left side for an instant. Atropin relieved the right sided pain for 24 hours, but neck and shoulder are still lame. I now have no severe pain, if I lie still on left side of face and body, but am unable to lift head from pillow without taking my hands, and then only by a slow circular motion.

I can sit up or stand for 15 or 30 minutes, and then clutch- ing, shooting, aching pains begin behind 1. ear, and in muscles of left side of neck, and I must lie down on left side, and in a few minutes am free from pain. The stinging, contracting of the muscles relieved, but the pain in back of head is still per- sistent. Massage, at times, has given slight relief, at other times the slightest touch is so painful that it cannot be borne. Heat relieves the pains at times, but Arsenic does not.

Jan. 14. Improving some; yesterday could lie with a much higher pillow, first time in six weeks. Should be able to bear

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the pains could the darting, aching, clutching pain in the bone behind the left ear, which makes its appearance every time I sit up over twenty minutes, be relieved. The stinging, contracting pain is better, and notwithstanding all the suffer- ing from the last few weeks, I do not look as if I had been ill; color good and gaining weight.

The tumor in breast is softening some, and decreasing in size.

The X-ray treatment was always the very lightest possible, and never once colored the skin red, although tanning it very brown. Took it at first but once a week; the effect being so good, applied it every third or fourth day. The first pain I had was a slight stiffness of neck on left side. In March it was only felt on turning in bed at night; increased slightly and gradually until Nov. 1st; though I had one severe par- oxysm of pain in right side of neck in May, relieved by hot applications, which still give some relief at times.

Sitting in the hot sun shining on my neck gives some relief. Have suf- fered intensely of late from flushes of heat, similar to those I had during climacteric; better afternoons and evenings. The back of head at times seems perfectly well — next moment can- not bear slightest touch or lift my head from the pillow with- out great pain on both sides in muscles of neck.

1. Dr. B, L, B. B., after one dose of X-ray 6 cent.

A magnetic thrill in right hand extending up forearm, im- mediately.

No particular symptoms the next day.

Next morning awaked earlier than usual by dull aching in the left side of occiput, and immediately in left sacro-iliac region, then on posterior aspect of left thigh and calf, a dull ache. These pains extend from above downward, not severe, lasting fifteen minutes.

In afternoon suddenly a sharp ache in left side of occiput on a small area. This occurred two or three times at inter- vals of some hours without regularity.

After that in the course of two or three days a trouble which he had once before, a catarrhal condition of infiamma* tion of rectum with discharge of mucus, slightly bloody, after action of bowels.

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Corns on soles of feet more sensitive than formerly, consist- ing of thickening of cuticle, and sometimes a little pin-head depression which does not scale oS.

2. Dr. Miss Alice B. C, after one dose X-ray 6 cent.

A feeling on the external orbital margin as if it might be an ache, immediately.

Buzzing in right ear with pressure extending to temples.

Bearing down of eyelids.

Woke with headache next morning, continuing at intervals during whole day.

A pressing across forehead, with a miserable feeling gener- ally as though going to be sick.

Sleepy with headache.

Bloody mucus from nose.

No appetite for anything, only sweet pudding or cake most tolerable.

Aversion to meat.

Heaviness and fullness in lower abdomen after eating small quantity.

Uneasy feeling in lower abdomen at intervals like fomenta- tion, as though diarrhea would follow.

Most distress after midday and evening meal.

Abdomen distended with full feeling.

(Pulsatilla, which a year ago helped for months a train of symptoms, had only very slight effect.)

Drawing gnawing in the region of appendix as though in- flammation were beginning.

Sensation in right lower abdomen as though bubbles were forming and wanting to burst (relieved by Taraxacum for twenty-four hours).

Flatulence with ineffectual desire for stool.

Seven days after taking the medicine was roused out of bed at 4 A. M. with desire for stool, and complete evacuation of immense quantity followed by nausea and vomiting, profuse sweat.

Colicky pain in right lower abdomen, sometimes extending behind hip, and retained urine.

Tenesmus vesicae continuing for twelve hours to 4 p. m., when the urine came freer.

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Vomiting ceased though colic-pains remained for twelve days.

Moving aggravated pains especially on right side of abdo- men, which seemed to adhere to the walls, feeling as if being torn off. Had to keep a large towel-pad between abdomen and thigh to support abdomen and prevent the excruciating pain.

Ate nothing for three days.

Thirst for cold drinks, though nothing tastes good.

Tongue thickly coated.

Breath foul.

Only snatches of sleep during these twelve days, always fol- lowed by terrible mental depression, did not want to answer questions, did not want to see anybody nor speak to anybody, misanthropy.

Chills as soon as beginning to sleep running up back, pre- venting sleep.

Dreams of distressing nature. Recurrence of a dream that used to trouble her many years ago. This dream was re- peated at wide intervals over twenty years ago. Now it came every night for five times.

Seven days from beginning of the attack had a return of renal colic with vomiting, continuous nausea, cold sweat and retention of urine on left side. A clutching pain from kidney to bladder that never relaxed for four hours, causing the wild- est demonstration of agony, ghastly face, blue rings around sunken eyes, violent trembling, frightful restlessness, cold sweat, urine retained in ureter, giving a perfect picture of Tabacum which also relieved the symptoms. As soon as the pains in the ureter relaxed, the urine seemed to fill up the bladder and then passed without pain.

Some spasm remained and was relieved by Cantharis in five minutes. (He had something like this before, about a year ago, by all means not so severe, a mere strangury.)

Varicose veins inside of knees and legs, with swelling and soreness (after years returned).

The palms of the hands, which were rough and scaly and bleeding at times, became entirely smooth during proving. Healing action. After that the hands went back to former condition while general health improved.

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Prostration for a long time.

During the continued action of the X-ray she suffered so much that for some time she had to take medicine to counter- act it. All these symptoms have been thrown out.

3. Dr. John B. C, March 28th, 1897, took X-ray 6 cent., three doses in globules ten minutes apart.

Five minutes after second dose.

Sensation of fullness of head with slight full feeling in both ears, worse in right ear.

Feeling in head and nose as if coryza were about to com- mence, with some slight desire to sneeze.

Sense of pressive fullness starting from posterior promi- nence of vertex in a straight line to bridge of nose, followed by fullness in entire vertex extending to bridge of nose.

Tingling in both arms as of an electric current, or as if asleep.

Intermittent, slightly burning rheumatic-like pain in right carpo-metacarpal articulation extending from index-finger up outside of forearm.

Aggravation of fulness over vertex worse along centre to nose, worse stooping.

Dull pain in right sciatic nerve, worse on walking.

Wandering pains in chest, sticking in character, worse on right side.

Sticking pains in different parts of head and face.

Rheumatic pains in different parts of head and face.

Rheumatic pains in front of right thigh.

March 29th. Bad taste in forenoon.

Disagreeable fulness of head all morning, with bland coryza and stoppage of nostrils.

General tired and sick feeling.

Symptoms gradually increasing in severity after noon.

Headache gradually extending to frontal region, worse in centre of forehead.

Sense of pressure in centre of forehead.

Dull headache in morning, worse stooping and after rising.

Symptoms all intermittent in character, they have all re- turned.

Sensation of sulphur-vapor in nose, with much sneezing.

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Aching pain across top of head, coronal suture, on blowing nose and after it.

Pain in dorsal region.

Sulphur-vapor sensation in throat and nose.

Intermittent noise as of deep steam whistle in left ear, and ringing in head.

Mental processes not clear; writes wrong words in letters.

Stitching pain in right upper chest, going through to upper part of scapula.

Rheumatic pain in left wrist and forearm.

Lame and stiff in back.

Aching whole length of spine.

Chilly while undressing in warm room.

March 30. Constant ache in vertex, worse on waking, also worse coughing, sneezing, motion or head low.

Rheumatic twinge in last two phalangeal articulations of index and middle finger for a short time in forenoon.

Appetite diminished.

Nose stopped, worse on left side.

Throat painful on swallowing.

Sense of painful lump about left' tonsil, worse swallowing.

Very vivid lewd dreams repeated night after night.

Dreams of strife, busy dreams.

Sleep not unrefreshing, though apparently dreaming all night.

Remark of the Prover, This medicine resurrects old trou- bles that have been long dormant, and remedies that formerly helped have little, if any, effect against the renewed difficulty. In five provers old symptoms were brought to light. In some cases the symptoms had been absent one year, some six* twelve or even thirty years.

May 24. No appetite for breakfast (an old symptom absent for years).

Re-appearance of an old slight pimply eruption on left side of forehead.

Persistent exhaustion and languor; this last was marked and not attributable to spring.

Return of a slight eruption on outside of lower legs, burn- ing when scratched, worse after scratching (absent for months).

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Observation of the Prover, It seems this medicine might be used in three ways: 1. To develop old troubles or those which might become latent from any cause including sup- pression. 2. To develop acute symptoms already present as against its own pathogenetic phenomena. 3. As an antipsoric somewhat like Sulphur.

4. Dr, Miss C, March 27, 9 p. M., one dose X-ray 6 cent. An indescribable sensation in esophagus, immediately. Pain in right side of head above temple.

Palpitation during evening, causing cough.

Pulsations greatly diffused and violent, provoking an ex- clamation which was repressed, accompanied with a desire to walk in open air, and entirely relieved by lying down.

Before going to sleep, dull pain in upper jaw on right side.

Scraping pain in lateral incisor, aggravated by noises and jarring of cars.

March 28. After waking at daybreak next morning sensa- tion in dorsal region of spine, as if its convexity were anterior and drawn far forward, lasting but a minute, and followed by a very uncomfortable feeling in that region, lasting a much longer time.

In morning after rising and before eating, a cough caused by an irritation in larynx, accompanied by a pain in right side just above crest of ilium; eating relieved cough, but side felt bruised when bending, or jarring, or pressing it.

Red, smooth eruption on right side of face.

Sore pain in cartilage of left ear, felt when pressing it, later in right ear.

March 29. Pain darting upward in region of left ovary, when sitting, walking or standing.

March 31. After eating at noon, a sensation of a long and narrow foreign body lodged in pharynx, unmoved by swallow- ing, aggravated by swallowing. After this passed away, pharynx felt hollow and sore on deglutition.

Sharp pain at apex of heart, better by lying on left side.

Had always heat and swelling of feet in spring which is bet- ter now. Healing action.

5. Dr, St, C,y after one dose X-ray 6 cent. Threatening headache, pressure through temples, immedi- ately.

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Aching of extensor muscle of forearm, going up to shoulder.

6. Mrs, E, C, after one dose of X-ray 6 cent.

Drawing, aching discomfort in right thigh through hip and knee down through toes, immediately.

Sciatic pain in right hip.

Palpitation of heart.

In less than a week began to cough, with tearing sensation in bronchi, hoarseness, palpitation.

Chilliness on moving or from draft.

Eyeballs sore.

Lame and sore all over.

Wave-like sensation as if would break out in perspiration.

Stools green though normal in consistency.

Teeth covered with a gray-green deposit.

Menses dark green one day.

Second day of menses violent sick headache, pulsating pressure outward in forehead as if bursting, vomiting, pain relieved by hot water application.

Phlegm of greenish hue causing cough in crawling up.

7. Dr. L. M, L,, after one dose of X-ray 6 cent. Drawing in and heaviness across brow approaching nose

and resting there.

Ears more clear from ringing and from dullness of hearing than for many years. Healing action.

Rheumatic pains in right wrist and arm.

Headache across brow and a different pain in temples.

Eyelids feel sleepy and heavy.

Tingling like pins and needles in left hand.

Improvement of hearing continues.

8. Dr. F. H. L., after one dose of X-ray 6 cent. Tingling in right hand, immediately.

Pain across brow over bridge of nose.

9. Dr. Miss R. After one dose X-ray 7 cent.

Lower part of both legs asleep, tingling feeling as if from electric battery increased in right, immediately.

A feeling as if some one were drawing icy hands over the thigh downward aggravatingly slow. (Return of an old symp- tom twelve years ago after a nervous shock which did not re- turn for five years. )

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Three years ago proved Uranium nitrate. Up to that time had never missed a regular menstruation, but it has been irregular ever since. Had not menstruated for six months till after taking X-ray, when it was almost prostrating.

Three or four days previously felt from waist down as if bursting and wanting to hold herself up, with distention and weight in abdomen, relieved by flow, violent, profuse, without pain. Flow lasting seven days.

Mental condition upset, felt as if she would like to kill some- body.

Heavy pressure on vertex as from a hand (old symptom absent, a year).

10. Mr, Davis 5. took one dose X-ray 6 cent. 1897, March 28. Next day mental irritability.

Trembling all over.

Body tired and exhausted.

Pain on right side of head passing around base of brain to left ear, followed by paralytic numbness.

Nervous.

Powerlessness of limbs.

Slightly sick of stomach.

A sensation of hyperesthesia or nervous concentration in bridge of nose.

Sore feeling across loins as after a heavy cold.

Fullness in ears, worse in right ear, worse by inserting finger.

Pressing outward in ears.

Sensation as of a cool drop of sweat going down left side of spine.

Sense of contraction across middle chest.

Chills going down back, followed by paralytic feeling in right cheek.

Muscles feel soft subjectively.

Tongue felt dry, rough, sore, scraped.

Soreness in small of back.

Sleepy and unable to sleep for some hours after retiring.

On rising in morning expectoration of considerable mucus.

Generally worse in open air.

Nasal discharge thin.

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Mentally irritable.

Headache and soreness worse toward afternoon.

Mental and physical aggravation markedly pronounced toward evening.

Bitter taste.

Pain in left temple, worse at 8 p. m.

Contraction of chest at night, relieved by belching.

Slight electric current sensation in left side of tongue and face, passing over and disappearing on right side of face at 8.25 P. M.

Much expectoration of tough lumps as large as fingers' ends, whitish like gelatine, raised easily.

At first had desire for sweets.

The sleeplessness, which was getting constant and trouble- some, seemed to be relieved permanently by a bottle of Pabst Malt Extract.

May 1st. Drowsy at night when sitting up.

Drowsiness leaves the instant he lies down, so he cannot sleep.

Reappearance of many symptoms which occurred during an attack of inflammatory rheumatism, twenty-five years ago.

Painful bulging of left chest over the cardiac region.

Sensation in right eye as though bulging.

Right eye sore to touch.

On closing eye in dark sees old women's and old men's ugly faces.

A paralytic sensation extending from spine down left leg.

Twitching internally in various parts of body.

All symptoms worse towards evening and at night.

On inside of left knee sensation in different spots, painful as if hairs were being pulled out, worse on walking, better on rubbing and scratching.

Sexual desire lost.

Raising of jelly-like mucus, worse in forenoon, tenacious and tough.

Grayish expectoration.

While lying on left side, heart-sounds keep him awake.

Goes to sleep on right but wakes on left side.

Symptoms better after Bell, or Aeon, for a short time, better from ale, which puts him to sleep.

566 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

Sleepy during day.

Waking frequently at night from no apparent cause.

Spells of feverishness, perspiration and weakness.

On straining at stool, a sore sensation in nates.

Rheumatic-like fever in trunk, pain steady and dull going steadily from trunk to legs and finally to heels, worse left knee, worse stepping on heel, on underside.

Head feels empty as though scraped out, worse at night in bed.

Can't hold things in left hand, being powerless or clumsy.

All symptoms worse in bed.

Third day after taking.

Slight nose-bleed on left side at 4:30 p. M.

Sensation of swooning at times during day and night, feel- ing like dying.

Rheumatic pains in limbs (an old symptom of rheumatism resurrected even to an old soreness in heels).

Soreness worse in legs and arms and around heart, dull and constant.

No hunger, goes till he feels faint, can eat plenty but does not enjoy it.

Frequent urination, worse after getting into bed.

Testes relaxed, impotent feeling.

Pressure in small of back as from congestion about kidneys.

Sharp stabbing pain in left temple, which staggered him, followed by clearing up of mental functions— the heart im- mediately felt this impulse.

Left chest bulged out (like enlargement of heart in old rheumatism twenty-five years ago).

A sensation in left side as if fingers pressed the cartilages in, followed by sensation as though something broke inside, with temporary relief.

Sensation of drops of water trickling down on inside of chest.

Wind around heart, fiatus and flatulence as though diarrhea would commence.

Unnatural lewd or disgusting dreams, occurring on several nights, or several times in one night.

Mental irritability.

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY. 567

Clearing up of mental function after sharp stabbing pain in left temple staggering him, the heart feeling the impulse im- mediately.

Mental depression after snatches of sleep for twelve days.

Mental processes not clear, writes wrong words in letters.

Mental condition upset during profuse menstruation, would like to kill somebody.

Misanthropy during renal colic, did not want to answer questions, did not want to see anybody or to talk to anybody, being completely prostrated.

A feeling at right external orbital margin as if it might be an ache, immediately (the first symptom observed).

A pressing across forehead with a miserable feeling gener- ally as though going to be sick.

Awoke with headache next morning, continuing at intervals through whole day.

Sleepy with headache.

Headache gradually extending to frontal region, worse in centre of forehead.

Sense of pressure in centre of forehead.

Dull headache in morning, worse when stooping and after rising.

Headache and soreness, worse toward afternoon.

Head feels empty as though scraped, worse at night in bed.

Sensation of fullness of head with slight full feeling in ears, worse in right ear.

Pain in right side of head above temple.

Threatening headache, pressure through temples.

Headache across brow, and a different pain in temples.

Pain in right side of head, passing around base of brain to right ear, followed by paralytic numbness.

Pain in left temple, worse 8 p. M.

Sharp stabbing in left temple, followed by clearing up men- tal function, the heart immediately feeling the impulse.

Feeling in head and nose as if coryza would set in, with slight desire to sneeze.

Sense of pressive fulness starting from posterior prominence of vertex in a central straight line to bridge of nose, followed by fulness in entire vertex extending to bridge of nose.

568 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

Aggravation of fullness over vertex, worse along the centre to nose and when stooping over.

Disagreeable fulness of head all morning, with bland coryza and stoppage of nostrils.

Aching on top of head across along coronal suture on blow- ing nose and after it.

Constant ache in vertex, worse on awaking, also on cough- ing, sneezing, or head low.

Drawing in and across the brow approaching nose and rest- ing there, immediately.

Pain across brow over bridge of nose.

Heavy pressure on vertex as from a hand (old symptom, absent a year).

Sticking pains in different parts of head and face.

Sickening grating between the bones of the cervical spine on turning the head.

Pains steady, but at times appear in sharp ** cricks," then in streaks down the course o'f the nerves < by turning the. head or neck; moving the head on pillow at night is agony; > keeping perfectly quiet; again by gentle motion.

Pain in left side of head and neck, intensely and constantly, at times paroxysms of cramping pain in cord, from left shoul- der to head, back and above left ear. Cords feel too short.

Cannot bear slightest touch, though hard pressure relieves for an instant; > by walking the floor.

Pain > by lying on left side of face and body.

Unable to lift head from pillow without taking hands, and then by a slow circular motion.

Pain in back of head > at times by massage slightly, also by heat.

Back of head at times seems perfectly well, next moment cannot bear slightest touch or lift my head from the pillow without great pain on both sides and in muscles of neck.

Morning awaking earlier than usual with dull aching in left occiput, and immediately in left sacro-iliac region, lasting fif- teen minutes.

Suddenly sharp ache in left occiput on small area, recur- ring two or three times at intervals of some hours, without regularity.

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY. 569

Violent sick-headache second day of menses, pulsating pressure outward in forehead as if bursting, vomiting, pain relieved by hot water applications.

Neuralgic pains.

Stiffness on left side of neck, turning in bed.

Stiffness on right side of neck, with intense pain at night; occurs in paroxysms during the day > somewhat by hot ap- plications.

Sudden "cricks** attack first one side of neck, then the other, < on getting cold; turning the head nearly produces convulsions. Pains more severe behind the ears — the mastoid process.

Aching pains in left side of neck.

Clutching, shooting, aching pains begin behind left ear and in muscles of left side of neck on sitting up over twenty minutes; > by lying on left side.

Pain on both sides and in muscles of neck when lifting head from pillow.

Pain relieved on keeping perfectly quiet; sometimes by gen- tle motion.

Stinging contracting pain.

Bearing down of eyelids.

Eyeballs sore.

Sensation in right eye as if bulging.

Right eye sore to touch.

Congestion of eyes in forenoon, worse on rising.

On closing eyes in dark sees old men's and women's ugly faces.

Eyelids heavy and sleepy.

Sore pain in cartilage of left ear when pressing it, later in right ear.

Pressing outward in ears.

Buzzing in right ear with pressure extending to temples.

Fullness in ears, worse in right ear, worse by inserting finger.

Fullness in ears, more right, and fullness in head.

Intermittent noise as of deep steam-whistle in left ear, and ringing in head.

Ears more clear from ringing and dullness of hearing than

570 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

for many years, an improvement lasting up to this day. Heal- ing action.

Bloody mucus from the nose.

Sensation of sulphur-vapor in nose with much sneezing.

Sulphur-vapor sensation in throat and nose.

Congested sensation in head and nose as before coryza.

Nose stopped on left side.

On blowing nose and after it aching across top of head along coronal suture.

Sensation of hyperesthesia or nervous concentration in bridge of nose.

Nasal discharge thin.

Flowing coryza with stoppage of nostrils and fullness in head, forenoon.

Dull pain in right upper jaw.

Paralytic feeling in right cheeki preceded by chills going down back.

Slight electric current sensation in left side of tongue and face, passing over and disappearing in right side of face.

Red, smooth eruption on right side of face.

Stinging pains in different parts of head and face.

Tongue dry, rough, sore and scraped.

Scraping pain in lateral incisor, aggravated by noises and jarring of cars.

Teeth covered with a gray-green deposit.

Tongue slightly coated.

Sulphur-vapor sensation in nose and throat.

Throat painful on swallowing.

Sense of painful lump about left tonsil, worse swallowing.

Indescribable sensation in esophagus, immediately.

Foul breath.

After eating at noon, sensation of a long and narrow foreign body lodged in pharynx, removed by swallowing, aggravated by swallowing. After this passed away, pharynx felt hollow and sore on deglutition.

No appetite for anything except sweet pudding or cake.

Aversion to meat.

Ale nothing for three days.

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY, 571

No appetite for breakfast (old symptom absent for two years).

Appetite diminished.

Desire for sweets.

Most distress after midday and evening meal.

No hunger, goes till he feels faint.

Can eat plenty but does not enjoy it.

More thirst than usual.

Thirst for cold drinks, though nothing tastes good.

Bad taste in forenoon.

Bitter taste.

NAUSEA, VOMITING. — Nausea and vomiting with profuse sweat after immense stool at 4 a. m. , seven days after taking.

Slightly sick at stomach.

Vomiting ceased, though colic pain remained in lower ab- domen for twelve days.

Abdomen distended with full feeling. (Pulsa- tilla, which a year ago helped for months a train of symptoms^ had only very slight effect. )

Flatulence with ineffectual desire for stool.

Heaviness and fullness in lower abdomen after eating small quantity.

Uneasy feeling in lower abdomen at intervals like fomenta- tion, as though diarrhea would follow.

Wind around heart, flatus and flatulence as though diarrhea would commence.

Drawing gnawing in region of appendix, as though inflam- mation were beginning.

Sensation in right lower abdomen, as though bubbles were forming and wanting to burst (relieved by Taraxacum for twenty-four hours).

Flatulence with ineffectual desire for stool.

Colicky pains in right lower abdomen, sometimes extending behind the hip, and retained urine.

Moving aggravates the colic pains, especially on right of abdomen, which seemed adhered to walls, feeling as if torn off. Had to keep a large towel pad between abdomen and thigh to support abdomen and prevent the excruciating pain.

Pain in right side just above crest of ilium, with an irrita-

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tion in larynx causing: cough in morning after rising, and before eating; eating relieved cough, but the side felt bruised when bending, or jarring, or pressing it.

Catarrhal inflammation of rectum, with discharge of mucus slightly bloody after action of bowels* in course of two or three days (a trouble he had once before).

Seven- days after taking medicine roused out of bed at 4 A. M. with desire for stool and complete evacuation of im- mense quantity, followed by nausea and vomiting, profuse sweat, pain in right lower abdomen, retained urine, vesical tenesmus continuing for twelve hours, till 4 p. m., after which urine became freer, vomiting ceased; colic pains remained for twelve days.

Stools green, though normal in consistency.

On straining at stool a sore sensation in nates.

Ineffectual urging to stool, with flatulence.

Retained urine, vesical tenesmus after enormous evacuation, vomiting for twelve hours to 4 p. m.

Seven days from beginning of attack return of renal colic with vomiting, continuous nausea and retention of urine on left side. A clutching pain from left kidney to bladder that never relaxed for two hours, causing the wildest demonstra- tion of agony, ghastly face, blue rings around sunken eyes, cold sweat with trembling, frightful restlessness, urine re- tained in ureter (giving a perfect picture of Tabacum which relieved at once). As soon as the pain in ureter relaxed after it, urine was filling up the bladder and then passed without pain.

Some spasm remained and was relieved by Cantharis in five minutes. (She had something of a like trouble a year ago, but not so severe as this, only a strangury. )

Great prostration followed this attack,

Frequent urination, worse after getting into bed.

Pressure as from congestion about kidneys.

MALE SEXUAL ORGANS.— Sexual desire lost in man.

Testes relaxed, impotent feeling.

Unnatural or disgusting, lewd dreams on several nights, or several times in one night.

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS.— Menses dark green one day.

Pain darting upward in region of left ovary when sitting, walking or standing.

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY. 573

Second day of menses a violent sick headache, pulsating pressure outward in forehead as If bursting, vomiting (pain relieved by hot water application).

After cessation of menstruation for six months it reappeared again, violent, profuse, without pain but prostrating, the flow lasting several days.

Flushes of heat; better afternoons and evenings.

AIR PASSAGES. — Cough caused by palpitation during even- ing.

In morning after rising and before eating, a cough caused by irritation in larynx, accompanied a pain in right side just above the crest of ilium, eating relieved cough, but side felt bruised when bending, jarring or pressing it.

In less than a week a cough with tearing sensation in bronchi, hoarseness, palpitation.

Phlegm of greenish hue causing cough in crawling up.

On rising in morning expectoration of considerable white mucus.

Much expectoration of tough mucus as large as Angers* ends, whitish like gelatine, raised easily.

Raising of jelly-like mucus, worse in forenoon, tenacious and tough.

Grayish expectoration.

In two cases of gonorrhea, obstinate in character, deficient in symptoms, on which to make an accurate prescription, due, probably, to the deep sycotic diathesis, the X-ray not only developed all the acute symptoms of original attack but revealed the remedy (Merc, cor.) which promptly and per- manently cured the disease and an old catarrhal deafness as well.

In two other cases, which had resisted the best of treat- ment for months, the remedy developed numerous sycotic ex- crescences on glans and the symptoms calling for the simil-

574 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

imum were sharply indicated, and it cured permanently. The physical and mental incubus, which for months had made one patient's life a burden, was immediately removed on the re- appearance of the condylomata, which had followed suppres- sion by injections and were subsequently disbursed by cauter- ization.

Wandering sticking pains in chest, worse on right side.

Stitching pain in right upper chest going through to upper part of scapula.

Sense of contraction across middle chest.

Contraction of chest at night relieved by belching.

Left chest bulged out like enlargement of heart (old symp- tom of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).

Sensation of drops of water trickling down on inside of chest.

Sensation in left side as if fingers pressed costal cartilages in, followed by sensation as if something broke inside, with temporary relief.

Palpitation during evening causing cough.

Pulsations greatly diffused and violent, provoking an ex- clamation, which was suppressed, accompanied with a desire to wilk in open air, and entirely relieved by lying down.

Sharp pain at apex of heart, better by lying on left side.

Palpitation with a cough with tearing sensation in bronchi and hoarseness.

Painful bulging of left chest over cardiac region (old symp- tom of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).

Heart's sounds keep him awake while lying on left side.

Dull and constant soreness around heart, and worse in legs and arms.

Wind around heart; flatus and flatulence as though diarrhea would begin.

Awakened earlier than usual by dull aching in left occiput, and immediately in left sacro-iliac region, then pos- terior thigh and calf for fifteen minutes.

Pain in dorsal region.

Lame and stiff in back.

Aching whole length of spine.

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY. 575

After waking at daybreak next morning, sensations in dorsal regnion of spine as if its convexity were interior and drawn far forward, lasting but a minute, and followed by a very uncomfortable feeling in that region, lasting a much longer time.

Sore feeling across loins as after a heavy cold.

Sensation as if a cool drop of sweat going down left side of spine.

Soreness in small of back.

A paralytic sensation extending from spine down left leg.

Rheumatic-like fever in trunk, steady dull pain going steadily from trunk to legs, and finally to heels, worse in left knee, worse stepping on heel, on underside of heel (old symptom of inflammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).

Pressure in small of back as from congestion about kidney.

UPPER EXTREMITIES.— Magnetic thrill in right hand, ex- tending up forearm.

Tingling in both arms as of electric current, or as if asleep.

Intermittent, slightly burning, rheumatic-like pain in right carpo-metacarpal articulation, extending from index finger up outside of right forearm.

Rheumatic pain in left wrist and forearm.

Rheumatic twinge in last two phalangeal articulations of index and middle fingers for a short time in forenoon.

Grating heard in shoulder joints, as well as nearly all other joints of the body.

Aching extensor muscles of right forearm going up to shoulder.

Rheumatic pain in right wrist and arm.

Tingling like pins and needles in left hand.

Tingling in right hand.

Can't hold things in left hand, powerless or clumsy.

LOWER EXTREMITIES.— Lower part of both legs asleep, tingling, as if from electric battery more in right, immediately.

Sciatic pain in right hip.

576 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

Rheumatic pains in limbs.

Dull aching posterior aspect of thigh and calf in morning, from above downward.

Pain in right sciatic nerve on walking.

Rheumatic pains in front of right thigh.

Drawing aching discomfort in right thigh through hip and knees down through toes, immediately.

Feeling as if somebody were drawing icy hands over thigh downward, aggravatingly slow. (This occurred first twelve years ago after a nervous shock and did not return for five years, )

Varicose veins inside of knees and legs, with swelling and soreness (returned after years).

Had always heat and swelling of feet in spring, which is better now, although it is spring. Healing action.

On inside of left knee sensation in different spots painful as if hairs were being pulled, worse walking, better rubbing or scratching.

Rheumatic-like fever in trunk, steady dull pain going stead- ily down to legs and finally to heels, worse in left knee, worse stepping on heel, on underside of heel (old symptoms of in- flammatory rheumatism twenty-five years ago).

Chills as soon as beginning to sleep, running up back, preventing sleep.

Chilly whilst undressing in warm room.

Chilliness on moving or from draft.

Chill going down back, followed by paralytic feeling in right cheek.

Wave-like sensation as if it would break out in perspiration.

Profuse perspiration on getting into bed, keeping him awake.

Spells of feverishness, perspiration and weakness.

Kept awake by heart's sound while lying on left side.

Sleepy with headache.

Only snatches of sleep during these twelve days, always followed by mental depression, during suffering from ne- phralgia.

As soon as she begins to sleep, chills running up back pre- venting sleep.

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY. 577

Sleepy, but unable to sleep for some hours after retiring.

Sleeplessness constant and troublesome (relieved perma- nently by a bottle of Pabst Malt Extract).

Drowsy all night while sitting up.

Drowsiness leaves the instant when lying down, so cannot sleep.

Goes to sleep on right side, but wakes on left side.

Symptoms worse when getting into bed, worse after sunset.

Profuse perspiration on getting into bed, keeping him awake.

Sleepy during day.

Waking frequently at night from no apparent cause.

All symptoms worse in bed.

Frequent urination, worse after getting in bed.

(Symptoms better after Bell, or Aeon, for a short time; better from ale, which puts him to sleep.)

Dreams of distressing nature.

Sleep not unrefreshing, though apparently dreaming all night.

Awaking with a headache lasting all day.

Recurrence of a dream which used to trouble her many years ago. (This dream* was repeated at wide intervals over twenty years ago; now it came every night for five times.)

Dreams of strife, busy dreams.

Very vivid lewd dreams, repeated night after night.

Unnatural lewd and disgusting dreams, occurring on several nights and several times in one night.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.— General tired and sick feeling.

Persistent exhaustion and languor, not attributable to spring.

Lame and sore all over.

Trembling all over.

Reappearance of an old, slight, pimply eruption on left side of forehead.

Return of a slight eruption on outside of lower legs, burn- ing when scratched, worse after scratching.

August 28, I took a dose of a few globules of X-ray 45m. for some urinary trouble, which ameliorated without being re- moved. September 13 I felt a stinging and smarting on a

578 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

This reminds me of a similar experience observed from re- peated action of the X-rays upon the skin, resulting in a denudation of the tibia for the space of about six inches, as far as the leg was exposed to the rays, because it would not heal from an ulcer consequent upon an injury.

**In a weeping eczema the exudation disappears after one to four exposures, and does not return."

"In pruriginous eczema the itching often ceases after a single application."

PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY. 579

**On dry eczema the effect of the rays is most marked." A single application is frequently sufficient. '* It is in the more obstinate, chronic, and recurring types that they are the most useful."

To quote now from Dr. Hall-Edwards:

580 PROVINGS OF THE X-RAY.

to the slightest touch, hot and cold waves and flashes, warmth, tingling, pricking, throbbing, stinging, crawling, boring, and horning sensations, as if the parts were on fire and contained bugs and other living things; feelings as if the anatomical structures were being removed from one position to another; all of these sensations are proportionate to the depth of the inflammatory process."

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.— General tired and sick feeling.

Persistent exhaustion and languor, not attributable to spring.

Lame and s.ore all over.

Trembling all oyer.

Body tired and exhausted.

Nervous powerlessness in limbs.

Sensation of swooning at times during day and night, feel- ing like dying.

Prostrated for a long time.

All symptoms worse in bed.

All symptoms worse toward evening and at night.

Mental and physical aggravation markedly pronounced toward evening.

Symptoms intermittent in character, the first observed symptoms have all returned at irregular intervals.

Muscles feel soft objectively.

Generally worse in open air.

Twitching internally in various parts.

Symptoms gradually increasing in severity after noon.

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