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Gold. Au., the element.
Gold, the common metal, proved and introduced by Hahnemann in 1818, in Materia Medica, Vol. IV (95 and 138) ; 2d ed., 1825 (151 and 201) ; in Chro- nic Diseases, 2d edition, 1835, 404 symptoms. The last proving was made by J. C. Burnett, in 1879. No preparation ought to be used except such as has been made from the precipitate,
^ Mind. Active memory.
I Weak memory. ^Puerperal mania. ^Neuralgia of face.
Loss of memory. .
I Absence of mind, forgetfulness. d Ozsena.
Mental dullness.
Feels stupid. See 35.
Inability to reflect.
I She thinks she feels depression of spirits in the chest. 6 In-
duration of uterus.
II Looks on the dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide; desperate, desires to jump from a height, d Prolap- sus or induration of uterus, d Pregnancy.
Imagines he is neglectful and deserves reproach in consequence. Imagines he cannot succeed in anything, and he does everything
wrong ; he is in disunion with himself. Imagines to see obstacles in his way everywhere, occasioned
partly by contrary fate, partly by himself; makes him feel
desponding. He imagines he is not fit for this world and longs for death,
thinking of death gives him intense joy. I He imagines he has lost the affection of his friends ; this makes
him sad even to tears. Delirium. I Inclined to be delirious. 6 Headache.
■ Violent, gay, loquacious delirium, with exaltation of strength.
d Typhus. Insanity more frequent than imbecility.
■ Suicidal mania or melancholia, tedium vitae, with genital
Symptoms
I Religious mania ; prays all the time.
Desire to be active, to move about.
Thoughts of suicide, with feeling of desperation, which inclines
one to jump from a height; to throw himself down in bed
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violently ; to dash himself down into a chair, d Induration,
prolapse, or other disordered condition of the uterus, and in
Pregnancy
Longing for death. I Mind constantly turns toward suicide. ^Prolapsus uteri.
d Childbed. 6 Amennorrhoea.
■ Disposition to commit suicide, d Chronic hepatitis. 6 Headache.
■ Hysterical mood, laughing one minute and crying the next.
■ Constant complaining. ^Adiposis. Inclined to weep.
■ Weeping and praying, d Melancholy.
■ She howls and screams and imagines herself irretrievably lost.
■ Sudden screaming from earache, d Ozsena.
Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity ; cannot do things fast enough.
Taciturnity.
Desire for solitude.
Mood changing, cheerful or despondent ; irritable ; no uncon- sciousness.
■ Remarkable changeability of mind, now impulsive, rash, now
very merry, now sad, anxious longing to die, soon after laughing loud. 6 Hysteria. , Lachrymose mood, d Heart disease.
■ Very sad, could cry all the time. 6 Hemiopia. Melancholy, disposed to weep ; imagines he is unfit for this
world, that he never can succeed.
■ ■Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome; anxious palpita-
tion and desire to commit suicide.
■ Great depression of spirits, accompanied by sterility.
■ Great depression of spirits, d Old age.
■ Melancholic mood, disposed to shun people; if meeting some
one it gives him a nervous trembling and has to weep.
■ All the time a dark, hopeless mood, frequently anxiety and
despair ; life is a burden to him.
■ ■Terrible melancholy after abuse of mercury ; patient pining
away on account of bodily and mental anxiety.
■ Is very unhappy ; continued thought of suicide, d Puerperal
mania.
■ ■Hopelessness.
■ Hopeless and despondent. 6 Headache.
■ Hypochondriasis, with longing for death.
A kind of hypochondriacal drunkenness ; the head feels full of compressed air, especially toward the nape of the neck.
Apprehensiveness, full of fear ; a mere noise at the door makes him anxious.
■ Fearfulness, a longing for death, d Hypersemia of brain. Dread of men.
■ Anxiety and dread. ^Valvular heart disease.
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I Anguish of mind and great grief, d Headache. Excessive anguish even to self destruction.
Great anguish increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic
contraction of the abdomen. Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, with trembling
fearfulness. Excessive anguish with palpitation of the heart, weariness in
all the limbs and sleepiness.
■ Great anguish coming from the prsecordial region, and driving
him from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere.
d Palpitation.
Despondency.
Despair of self and others.
I I Weary of life; especially in the evening, with longing for death.
■ Disappointed love with weeping and inclination to commit sui-
cide.
I Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none; this makes her unhappy.
Sensitiveness of disposition.
Extreme disposition to be oifended; he was extremely affected and provoked by the least circumstance which had the ap- pearance of hurting his feelings.
Choleric and quarrelsome.
■ Disposed to grumble and quarrel. 6 Headache.
I Quarrelsome disposition when displeased, d Prolapsus uteri. d Amenorrhoea.
■ Alternately peevish and cheerful.
■ Whining mood. ^Obesity.
■ Peevish and vehement, the least contradiction excites his
wrath ; he trembles when he cannot satisfy his anger.
■ Suffers constant vexation and torment, d Jaundice. Becomes angry at absent persons while thinking of them.' Chagrin, violent anger and vehemence.
■ Vehement and disposed to fly into a passion, d Headache. Contradiction excites wrath.
Distrust.
I Very sensitive, easily frightened, especially when falling asleep.
d Hysteria.
Prostration of soul and body.
Better from entertainment.
Worse from mental exertion.
■ ■Mental labor fatigues ; headache from least mental exertion. Feels weary and exhausted from performing mental labor.
■ Worse after emotion. ^Palpitation.
■ ■Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
Ailments from fright, anger, contradiction, mortification, or vexation with dread, fear, reserved displeasure, or vehemence.
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I Pain makes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of the window, or dash herself down, d Parturition. ^ Sensorium. ■ l Vertigo. 6 Syphilis.
I Head giddy, full, hot. ^Melancholy.
Vertigo
I when stooping, as if turning in a circle ; goes off on rising ; las if drunk, when walking in the open air ; feels as if he would fall to left side ; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on the slightest motion.
I Feels stupid, a dazed feeling in the head, d Chronic hepatitis. ^ Inner Head. ■ Congestion of blood to head.
I Rushes of blood to head with violent palpitation, great anxiety and fainting.
Uncomfortable feeling in forehead.
■ Violent pain in left forehead and eye. ^Melancholy. Pressure in 1. temple, < on being touched.
■ Severe frontal headache. 6 Corjza. Heat of head with cold hands and feet.
Rush of blood to head with tumult and waving of the head. I I Tearing headache deep in brain, in forehead, temples and vertex, abating in open air.
■ Rush of blood to head ; sparks before eyes, and glossy, bloated
face ; worse from mental exertion.
■ Bruised pain, especially early in morning or during mental
labor, ideas become confused ; roaring in head. Megrim, stitching burning pains, beating in one side of fore- head ; nausea, even bilious vomiting.
■ Fine tearing from right side of occiput through brain to fore-
head ; worse during motion.
One-sided boring, severe throbbing ; begins on awaking morn- ings.
Tearing in head, teeth and ears ; worse left side, d Heart dis- ease.
Headache as from incipient cold.
Sensation as if a current of air was rushing through the head, if not kept warm. * Outer Head. Pricking as from pins in forehead externally.
Boring in 1. side of frontal bone.
Pressive pains in 1. temple externally.
Pains in bones of head on lying down, affecting vital energy.
Pains in bones of skull, morning in bed.
■ Syphilitic exostoses on skull.
■ Skull bones painful, as if broken ; worse lying down. Severe, constant burning heat on top of head.
■ Exostoses on skull ; boring pains; worse from touch. Caries of mastoid process,
■ Tinea capitis.
Eruption of small white pimples all over the hairy scalp, with heat and itching.
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■ Portions of frontal bone had exfoliated, d Syphilis with mer-
curialization. II Falling out of hair, especially in syphilis. ' Sight and Eyes- l Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening eyes ; eyes very sensitive to touch.
■ Photophobia ; lids cannot be even forcibly opened. I Weak sight and eyes.
■Vision gro"' ^^^^^ Aurunf° ■^, and in eight weeks more,
■g^^. d Tumor in eye. ■By gas-light, a number of bright, floating specks and dots are
seen.
■ Eyes better by moonlight, and after active muscular exercise.
■ Objects seem smaller and more distant, d Hemiopia.
■ Sees a little better on looking intensely and steadily on an
object, though he sees no trace of the upper half of an object.
■ Large letters cannot be distinguished, seems only something
blank upon a white ground.
■ Yellow, crescent-shaped bodies floating obliquely upwards in
the field of vision. Fiery sparks before eyes ; optical illusions in bright colors.
■ Everything looks blue.
■ Color of the optic nerve-entrances of a greenish hue, except
round the periphery, which was yellowish-white, with a slight trace of pigmentary deposit on lower outer edge of optic disc in left eye.
■ Fog or smoke before his eyes, to this, at a later period, black
spots were added, and for the last few weeks he can only see upper half of objects, their lower half seems to be covered by a black veil. 6 Hemiopia.
■ Black spots floating before eyes, d Hemiopia.
■ Tension in eyes ; sees things double or mixed up.
■ Objects as if divided horizontally ; sees only half of an object,
other half as if covered with a dark body.
■ In upper dark section of field of vision occasional showers of
bright, star-like bodies, the lower half looks lighter, and he can distinguish color, light or dark.
■ Hemiopia of 1. eye; 2" cured.
■ Could not see the upper half of a room or any large object,
though the lower half was clear, with the left eye. I 1 Hemiopia from straining the eyes.
■ Strong pressure from within outward and from above down-
ward in both eyeballs, accompanied by dull, heavy aching deep in both globes.
■ Pressing in eyes as from acrid dust, d Hysteria. Cutting pain through eyes.
Pains in eyes > by blowing the nose.
I On using the eyes, sensation of violent heat in them.
■ Central portion of retinal vessels strongly pulsating.
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iChorio-retinitis chronica, with an accumulation of fluid beneath the retina, which settled to the lower portion of 1. eye, causing a large detachment of retina, d Hemiopia.
■ Large black subchoroidal tumor behind the lens in the fundus,
growing from the inner side.
Iris blackish-brown mixed with blood-red, in place of the pu- pil, and encroaching upon the iris a nodular new growth of a mixed black and red color, filling the whole anterior cham- ber, without, however, displacing the cornea, on which formed a vesicle discharging fluid ; the sclerotica sprinkled with blackish spots ; the conjunctiva pale-red and swollen ; slight lachrymation ; pressing and slight burning in and about the eye; later drawing in the surrounding bones. d Melanotic tumor.
I Vitreous hazy from infiltration. ^Hemiopia.
■ Anterior chamber contracted.
■ Protruding eyes. ^Headache.
■ Staring, dreary look. /? Melancholy.
■ On pressure eyeball more tense and firm than usual. Interstitial keratitis and kerato-iritis, even in atonic cases, with
infiltrated cornea and fine interstitial vascularity.
■ ■Cornea opaque; leukoma; gray or yellow spots, always
marked by a network of enlarged blood-vessels around ; after keratitis, syphilitic or scrofulous cases.
■ Iritis marked by much pain around the eye, which seems to
be deep in the bone, extends from without inward, and is
aggravated by touch, d Mercuric-syphilis.
Pupils generally contracted.
Amaurosis.
■ Pupils irregularly dilated; cornea dull, with loss of usual
lustre.
■ Macula cornese.
■ Red sclerotica; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at in-
ner canthus.
■ ■Scrofulous ophthalmia, with great photophobia.
■ Twitching in upper lid. ^Hemiopia.
■ Pains of a burning or dull character, compelling one to close
the lids ; >< in the morning and > by the application of cold water, d Trachoma. 1 I Eyelids red, suppurating; stinging, pricking, itching; ag- glutination in morning ; cilia fall out. d Mercurio-syphilis.
■ Pannus, with ulceration of the cornea ; pains from without
in ; worse from pressure.
■ Large bony tumor on left eye, with boring, aching pains,
worse at night. Little blisters turning into crusts on edges of lids, with some trichiasis.
■ Bones around the eye feel bruised.
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I Styes on eyelids. ^ Hearing and Ears. iHummiDg, buzzing and rushing in ears. d Hysteria.
I Roaring in ears. 6 Cerebral hypersemia.
I I Oversensitive to noises ; but music relieves.
I I Annoying dryness in ears and nose, with diflBcult hearing.
I I Caries of the mastoid process ; obstinate otorrhoea ; burning, pricking, itching ; boring pain behind left ear.
■ Congestion to the ears.
1 1 Fetid otorrhoea; especially with caries of the ossicula. ^Af- ter scarlatina.
I Parotids swollen, painful to touch, as if pressed or contused. ' Smell and Nose.
Nosebleed.
■ Excessively foetid discharge from nose, d Ozsena.
■ Scrofulous and syphilitic affections of bones of nose and face.
■ Caries of bones of nose and palate.
■ Complaints caused by strong odors.
■ Sensitive smell; everything smells too strong.
■ Putrid smell when blowing the nose.
■ Want of smell. Pain in nasal bones.
■ Boring pain in nasal bones, d Ozaena.
■ ■Nasal catarrh, with melancholy, or even suicidal mood.
■ ■Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe
through the nose.
■ ■Crusts in the nose, d Ozaena.
■Nose feels obstructed, as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely.
■ ■ Ozaena, excessively fetid discharge ; severe frontal headache.
d Scrofula, d Mercurio-syphilis.
■ Coryza, thick discharge, like white of egg ; frequent sneezing.
■ ■Caries of nasal bones; right nasal bone and adjoining parts
of upper jaw painful to touch. ■Nose sunken in. d Caries of nose.
■ Boring in left side of nasal bone, toward maxilla.
■ Burning, itching, stitching, smarting; feeling of soreness in
nose, especially when touched.
■ Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning.
■ Brown-red spots on the nose; nostrils chapped.
■ Yellow, thick discharge from the nose, or dry, firm pieces are
blown out, always of an offensive odor.
■ Tip of nose "knobby," red.
■ ■Nose red, swollen, d Scrofula. 6 Abuse of mercury.
■ Swelling of the nose, like erysipelas.
Swelling of the nose in the room, after walking in the open air. Eruptions on the nose.
■ Cancer of nose.
^ Face. ■Puffy under eyes. ^Endocarditis.
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In the groove between nose and cheek a cutaneous lump of the size of a split pea, which irritates, gets picked, scabs over, and persists.
■ Anxious expression of face. ^Endocarditis. Feels ill, and looks pale.
Heat only in face.
■ Face pale. ^Valvular disease of the heart.
■ Blue about nose and lips, d Typhus.
■ Face cyanotic. ^Asthma.
I Face glowing red. ^Headache.
iFace bloated, glossy; worse from mental exertion.
■ Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in upper and
lower jaws ; teeth feel too long ; swelling of both cheeks.
■ Erysipelas of face.
■ Acute cutting, stinging and tearing, now in nerves of left side
of head, now of teeth, coming and going, preventing sleep.
■ ■Inflammation of bones of face; caries, with tearing, boring
and burning stitches. ■Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking.
■ Fine pimples on the face. ^Prolapsus uteri.
■ Lichens on the face.
■ Red eruption on forehead and nose, often peeling. Fine pimples on the face, their tips are filled with pus.
■ Corona veneris. ^Syphilis with mercurialization. ' Lower Face. Tensive pain in lower jaw.
■ Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a
gland below the angle of lower jaw.
■ Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.
■ Trismus. ^Typhus.
■ Lips bluish. ^Endocarditis.
*" Teeth, and Gums. ■Toothache caused by drawing air into mouth ; when chewing, suddenly a painful dullness in one of the upper molar teeth.
■ Toothache from congestion to the head.
■ Carious teeth. ^Faceache.
■ ■Toothache at night. ^ Heart disease.
■ Violent tearing toothache, affects the heart.
I I Gums swollen, darker red, sore when touched or when eat- ing ; gums bleed easily.
" Taste, Speech, Tongue.
Metallic taste in mouth ; tongue slightly coated with brownish fur.
Milky taste.
■ Loss of taste. ^Melancholy.
■ Flabby taste with clear tongue. 6 Hysteria.
■ Bitter taste in mouth, with sensation of dryness.
■ Foul taste of even the water.
■ Putrid trste in mouth, as of spoiled game, between meals.
■ Loss of taste; tongue hard as leather and immovable.
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Tongue swollen with scirrhus-like hardness ; after biting the
tongue in sleep.
I Tongue trembling and dry. ^Typhus.
I Tongue dry and coated. ^Endocarditis.
I Tongue coated at the back. ^Pining boys.
Ulcers on the tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth, l ■ Fouri)reath. 6 Girls at puberty.
Fetor of breath like old cheese.
I In the morning offensive breath, reddish tongue, and copious
salivation, d Melancholy.
Saliva copious, sweetish.
Aphthae on the tongue and in the mouth.
"Palate and Throat.
I Caries of palate. ^ After abuse of
mercury. 6 Syphilis. I Red, swollen and ulcerated tonsils; difficult deglutition. iBoring in the hard palate ; caries of roof, palate and nose.
d Abuse of mercury, d Syphilis.
■ Stinging soreness in throat only during deglutition. Difficult raising of phlegm.
I Dull, pressive pain, with or without swallowing, in a gland
below the angle of jaw,
I I Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat.
" Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions. Violent hunger and
thirst.
■ Hunger, immoderate; relishes his meal, but hunger not ap-
peased.
Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in stomach.
Desire for milk and coffee.
I Desire for alcoholic drinks, which are easily borne, d Typhus.
Loss of appetite.
I Want of appetite. ^Jaundice.
Aversion to food, especially meat.
■ Appetite poor. ^ Hemiopia.
■ No appetite for plain food, d Pining boys.
" Eating and Drinking. After dinner : discomfort in abdomen ;
Sleep
After eating : colic ; inclined to vomit ; pressure in hypochon- dria ; sense of suffocation.
Worse after drinking ; after wine.
Worse when hungry ; pain at the stomach, etc.
Colic even after the simplest food.
Drowsy after dinner.
^® Belching and Nausea. ■ Sour belching.
Eructations of gas relieve attacks of palpitation.
Nausea from mental labor. *'' Scrobiculum and Stomach. Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings.
■Pressure in region of stomach at noon.
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iPressure to the left of the scrobiculum, below the cartilages of the upper false ribs ; worse during expiration.
Swelling of pit of stomach and hypochondrium, with stinging pain when touching the parts. ^^Hypochondria. Swelling of the liver consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.
■ Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium. Jaundice, with pain in liver and pit of stomach ; greenish-brown
urine ; bad breath and putrid taste.
■ Chronic hepatitis, with aversion to life; suicidal mood ; averse
to exercise, feels stupid.
■ Painful accumulation of gas below the left ribs, causing stitch-
ing pains. Pressure in the hypochondria, as from flatulence ; worse after food or drink, and motion.
" Abdomen, Loins and Groins. Distended abdomen.
Nightly flatulent colic.
■ Ascites: from disturbances of abdominal organs; with al-
buminuria ; with melancholy.
■ Abdomen pufied up. ^Hysteria.
Colic, frequent discharge of wind. ' '
■ Tabes mesenterica.
Spasmodic contraction of abdomen, with great anguish; in- clined to suicide. See Heart, 29.
■ ■Inguinal hernia; also with children.
Heaviness in abdomen, with icy cold hands and feet.
Intolerable itching in r. groin in its inner third, could not re- sist scratching ; later inspection showed a wheal, tender from the violent rubbing ; even after the wheal is gone, the part remains tender.
2° Rectum and Stool. 1 1 Proctostasis. Copious stool.
■ Passes fetid flatus.
■ Stools: offensive, painful; grayish, ashy; off'ensive in preg-
nancy. ■Nightly diarrhoea, with burning in rectum.
■ Hard, knotty or large stools; constipation, worse during
menses, with prolapsus uteri. Piles with rectal catarrh; costive; external piles bleed during
Stool
Constipation ; stool very large in size and very hard or knotty.
■ Obstinate constipation, d Jaundice. .
■ Looseness and costiveness in alternation. 6 Melancholy.
^^ Urinary Organs. For many days great morbid activity of uropoetic system.
■ Urination frequent with painful retention. 6 Prolapsus uteri.
■ Albumenuria consecutive to heart-disease.
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I I Kidneys hyperaemic, with pressure around the waist and in- crease of urine ; consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.
Passes more urine than corresponds to the quantity of water drunk.
Constant urging to urinate.
I Urine scanty, greenish-brown. ^Jaundice.
I Urine clear, gold colored, d Dropsy.
I Turbid, like buttermilk ; much mucous sediment.
B Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otor- rhoea.
I Ischuria and constipation, worse during menses. 6 Prolapsus uteri.
Suppression of urine.
Painful retention of urine with pressure in bladder.
■ Frequent painful retention of urine.
■ Urethritis.
Renal secretion much less in quantity. iHaematuria. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. ■ Testes mere pendent shreds. ^Pin- ing boys.
I Chronic induration of testicles.
I Testes indurated ; also after abuse of mercury.
Testes a little swelled and hard.
■ Frequent nightly emissions. ^Melancholy. ^Neuralgia of face.
■ Onanism. ^ Faceache. ^Melancholy.
■ Nightly erections without emission ; or nightly erections and
pollutions, without subsequent weakness.
■ Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis ; settled me-
lancholy, with suicidal mania. Sensation as if a knife was drawn through the swollen testicle.
■ Right testicle swollen ; pressive pains when touched or rubbed ;
pressure and tension as from a bruise. Itching of the scrotum.
■ Ulcers on the scrotum, after gonorrhoea.
■ Cutting and stinging in the perineum.
■ Inguinal glands suppurate. ^ Mercurio-syphilis.
■ Hydrocele. 6 Child eet. 6 months.
■ Chancres.
■ Hunterian chancres.
■ ■Secondary syphilis; also infantile; especially after abuse of
mercury (and probably of potash). Affections of the prepuce.
■ Balanitis.
Condylomata around the anus; around the corona glandis.
■ Sarcocele. ■Epididymitis.
■ Orchitis. I Syphilis.
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" Female Sexual Organs. ■ > Sterility after depression of spirits. I Ovarian affections connected with syphilis.
■ Induration of uterus. ^Prolapsus uteri.
I Menses delayed, especially the first. ^Prolapsus uteri.
■ Menses too late and scanty. ^Prolapsus uteri.
II Amenorrhoea with great melancholy; her mind constantly inclines to suicide, d Prolapsus uteri.
■ Bruised, shooting or drawing pain in uterus. ^Prolapsus.
■ Drawing pain at the pubes. d Prolapsus uteri. Right inguinal region sore to touch ; uterus affected.
■ Os uteri swollen, hardened.
■ Prolapsus and induration of uterus.
■ I Uterus prolapsed and indurated; bruised pain, with shooting
or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at menstrual period.
I 1 Menses regular, but with headache and burning on the ver- tex ; uterus indurated.
Menses too late, scanty ; preceded by swelling of axillary glands ; accompanied by colic, prolapse of the rectum.
Constant oozing from the vulva.
Thick white leucorrhoea ; burning smarting of the vulva ; labia majora red, swollen.
■ Leucorrhoea profuse and corroding, yellow, d Prolapsus uteri.
■ Leucorrhoea thick white. ^Prolapsus uteri.
■ Prolapsus: with backache, worse during menses ; with heat of
vagina; ■from reaching high ; ■from straining;
I Iwith in- duration of uterus and bruised, shooting or drawing pains.
" Pregnancy and Parturition.
During pregnancy : suicidal melancholia; jaundice.
Suppressed milk.
■ Palpitation following metrorrhagia after a mole or in childbed,
after overexertion.
■ Labor pains make her desperate, she would like to jump from
the window or dash herself down ; often with congestion to
head and chest and palpitation. ^' Larynx. Voice : nasal ; husky, as if he had a cold.
Phlegm deep in larynx, not easily hawked up. ^® Respiration. > Morning asthma ; face cyanotic ; light haired
persons ; worse after mercury, in wet weather and in warm
air.
■ Marked dyspnoea, anxiety at the heart; stenocardia.
■ Excessive dyspnoea, with difficult breathing at night.
■ Cardiac difficulty of breathing, d Old age.
■ Dyspnoea: with dull stitches in chest when inspiring; can-
not be relieved in any position ; takes deep breaths, from besoin de respirer. d Heart disease.
■ Asthma from congestion to chest; great oppression at night
and when walking in open air ; suffocative fits, with spas-
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modic constriction of chest; face bluish-red; palpitation; falls down unconscious.
B Want of breath, d Valvular disease of the heart.
I Difficult breathing, d Jaundice.
I I Loses her breath, better from belching or walking, d Hys- teria.
Suffocative fits and constriction of chest.
When laughing difficulty in breathing.
I Propped up in bed and breathing very hurriedly, d Endocar- ditis. ^^ Cough. B Cough for want of breath at night.
Cough Avith tough yellow sputum on awaking in the morning.
Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to females ; periodi- cally, every night from sunset to sunrise.
Expectoration infrequent, morning and evening.
I Moist rales all over chest with cough. ^Endocarditis'. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. G-reat tightness of chest.
Violent rush of blood to chest. iHypersemia of the lungs.
■ Shooting through the back when breathing. ^Facial neu-
ralgia.
Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation.
Dull stitches in both sides of the chest, with heat in chest and dyspnoea ; increased by inspiration.
Persistent dry catarrh on the chest, early in morning, on wak- ing; with great difficulty he raises a little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.
Oppression of the chest with the faceache.
■ Extreme tightness of chest with difficult breathing.
I I Great weight on chest, especially a heavyweight on the sternum. 6 Angina pectoris.
^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, with tremulous fearfulness ; great anguish increasing to self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of the abdomen ; uneasiness and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity ; he cannot do anything fast enough, and does not succeed,in satisfying himself; is constantly impelled to be in motion, and is sorry for his inactivity ; he imagines he is neglecting something and deserves reproaches in conse- quence.
I I Violent heart-stroke not synchronous with the pulse.
Sensation as if the heart was turning around.
Constriction of the chest with a painful spasmodic sensation of the heart ; pulse remits.
iPains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in the heart ; must sit upright ; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thump.
Pain in region of heart, extending down left arm to fingers.
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Pain in the heart and palpitation of the heart ; jumping feeling
of the heart and violent palpitation by motion. I Angina pectoris.
I Action of heart floundering, d Endocarditis.
I I Violent palpitation, anxiety and congestion of blood to the head and chest. 6 After uterine hemorrhage.
■ Palpitation, with great agony.
When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop.
B I Violent beating of heart after exertion.
Between the attacks of palpitation, feeling as of a bladder hang- ing in the left chest ; must often take a deep breath.
B Attacks of oppression at the heart at night, with palpitation and great debility, d Old age.
BLoud endocardial bruits. ^Endocarditis.
B B Fatty degeneration of heart.
B Violent orgasm of the blood as if it was boiling.
B Congestions to head and chest, with anxious palpitation.
B Visible beating of carotids and of temporal arteries, d Heart affections in old age.
Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse ; short breathing.
BBPulse small, but accelerated; small, feeble, rapid; irregular.
B Pulse quick, full, corresponding to the beat of heart, and omit- ing before the single strong beat, d Heart disease.
B Pulse rapid, compressible and intermittent, d Endocarditis.
B Weak pulse. ^ Old age.
BWeak heart.
B Sensation as if the heart stood still. ^ Outer Chest.
A wart, size of a split horse-bean since proving Cundurango, several years since, is beginning to lap over and to catch things and seems flatter ; in the sixth week flatter and much smaller ; on the 80th day, nearly gone ; in the twelfth week increases again. ^^ Neck and Back.
B Enormous goitre disappeared long after.
B Swollen cervical glands, d Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Tension in the neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest ; mostly when stooping.
B Spine disease, with gressus gallinaceus.
Pain in small of back as from fatigue.
Tendons of muscles so painfully stiff, that the thigh cannot be raised ; thigh feels paralyzed.
I Stinging pains in small of back, d Jaundice.
Pain at lower part of spine. ^^ Upper Limbs. ' ' Arms start, d Hysteria.
1 I Boring in left shoulder.
B Inflammatory swelling of axillary glands.
Difficult movement of arms ; they feel fatigued ; forearms feel heavy.
1 1 Severe bone pains in right elbow.
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I I Boring in the right forearm.
Cramp-like tearing in bones of both wrists.
I Palms itch.
■ Herpes of palms.
I I Boring in finger-joints.
I Bones of hands swelled; almost immovable and tender.
d Endocarditis. I Large bursa-like swelling on the wrists for a long time.
6 Hemiopia.
I Flesh of hands puffy. ^Endocarditis.
Finger-nails turning blue.
^^ Lower Limbs, i Coxalgia.
■ Retraction of the lower limbs, d Typhus.
All the blood appeared to rush from her head into her lower limbs ; they feel paralyzed ; she has to sit down.
Tottering of the knees ; stiffness, paralytic feeling ; they pain as if firmly bandaged, when sitting.
Right knee becomes weak from walking ; drawing when walk- ing or setting foot on floor.
■ Weakness in limbs, most in hollow of knees, d Neuralgia. Small blotches on the leg and below the knee, when slightly
rubbed, they are changed to thick nodosities under the skin.
■ Nodes on legs, d Syphilis with mercurialization.
■ Caries in bones of lower extremities. Boring in tibiae, ankles and dorsa of feet.
■ Swelling of legs and feet, when getting up in the morning ;
better after walking.
I I Toes red.
Itching on the soles.
■ Slight dropsy effect. ^Endocarditis.
■ Swollen feet, d Valvular disease of heart.
Weary pains in r. tarsal bones, shooting up towards knee, early
morning in bed. ^* Limbs in General. ■ Limbs go to sleep ; numb, insensible on
awaking; more while lying than when moving. Paralytic drawing in limbs in the morning, when awaking ;
also on getting cold. I I Has to seize hold of the left arm during attacks of palpitation.
■ Swelling of the periosteum of the forearm and thigh bones.
I I Pain as from bruises in head and limbs, early in bed ; mostly
at rest ; passes off after rising. Sensations in joints and muscles like after unwonted exercise.
■ Limbs swelled and painful, joints almost as firmly locked as if
anchylosed, cannot move hand or foot for pain, from this swelled and inflamed state of joints, d Endocarditis. ^^ Rest.
Position.
Motion. ■■ Inclined to be active.
Lying down : bones of skull painful ; limbs feel numb.
Must lie down : vertigo.
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In dyspnoea no position relieves.
Sitting : knees pain as if firmly bandaged.
Must sit down : paralytic symptoms. See 33.
Must sit erect : heart disease.
Rising : vertigo goes off; raises only a little phlegm, 28 ; pain in head and limbs goes off.
Stooping: vertigo, as if turning in a circle; tension in neck.
Walking : vertigo, as if drunk ; headache worse ; boring in zy- goma ; asthma worse ; breathing in hysteria better ; palpita- tion so bad must stop ; right knee weak ; relieves swelling of feet.
Motion: vertigo, 2 ; headache worse; pressure in hypochon- drium worse ; compelled to move, 29 ; relieves numbness in limbs.
Exertion : beating of heart.
I From over- exertion during confinement. ^Palpitation. ' Wants to jump out of window : during labor.
TrExercise, even fatigue, aids the action. ** Nerves. Increased bodily and mental activity, followed by pros- tration and melancholy.
I Hysterical symptoms, cold hands and feet, d Prolapsus uteri.
■ Increased bodily irritability.
I I Hypochondriasis and hysteria.
In the morning completely exhausted, as if he had not slept.
iTremulous agitation, as in joyous hope.
I Hysterical spasms ; alternate laughter and crying.
When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without
knowing it ; when speaking he smiles involuntarily.
Sensation of internal emptiness and weakness of whole body.
I Great nervous weakness.
B Great debility, d Heart affection in old age.
■ Convulsive movements of face and limbs, d Typhus.
■ Alternate convulsions and stupor, d Typhus.
■ Wavering, uncertain walk. ^Melancholy.
^^ Sleep. Feels fagged in the evening, yet not able to sleep.
Looks and feels ill, and although weary, no inclination for either
rest or sleep. Very wakeful, well up to work ; great mental activity.
■ Continuing sleeplessness ; if he falls asleep erotic dreams,
erection and emission. 6 Melancholy.
Frightful dreams.
Narcosis with uraemia.
■ Sobs aloud during sleep ; frightful dreams about thieves, with
loud screams.
■ Awake all night, no pain; no lassitude or sleepiness in the
morning.
■ Sleep disturbed by sexual excitement, d Hysteria.
■ ■ Sleeplessness, d Headache.
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Sleepless after midnight.
1 1 Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does
not want to live.
Bruised feeling ; mornings in bed.
Sleep does not refresh.
Two successive nights dreamed a great deal of death.
Early in the morning in bed weary pains in r. tarsal bones.
Bad nights, dreaming of the dead and of corpses.
Dreams towards morning.
I Sleep restless and full of anxious dreams. 6 Hemiopia. ^^ Time.
B At night: colic and passing wind. ^Melancholy. ■ Nocturnal bone pains.
Night : boring, aching in left eye worse ; toothache ; diarrhoea ;
difficult breathing ; cough from want of breath ; feeling of
lump in throat; constantly awake; cold hands and feet;
IB bone pains.
After 3 a.m.: delirious talk.
Morning: headache; confusion of head early, on rising;
eyes worse ; mucous discharge in posterior nares worse ;
cheeks swell ; eyelids adhere ; asthma ; cough on awaking ;
expectoration; catarrh on chest; swelling of legs and
feet ; paralytic drawing in limbs ; exhausted, as if he had
not slept; no lassitude, though he did not sleep through
night ; bruised feeling in bed ; sweat.
Noon : pressure in epigastrium.
Remission during day and evening, until 12 p.m.
Evening: expectoration; satiety of life at 6 p.m.; testicle
swells ; chill.
Evening till midnight: violent itching, 46.
Evening and morning : expectoration.
B Always worse as day progresses, and better in the morning.
d Hemiopia.
Sunset to sunrise : cough worse. ^^ Temperature and Weather.
In the room : swelling of nose ;
stinging, burning pains better.
In bed : shivering, legs cold.
Warm air: asthma worse.
Air : aggravates toothache.
B Desire for open air. ^Adiposis.
Open air : vertigo, as if drunk ; swelling of nose ; aggravates
asthma, and stinging and burning pains ; ameliorates
Headache
Averse to uncover.
Getting cold : paralytic drawing in limbs.
Cold water : ameliorates pain in eyes.
Wet weather : aggravates asthma.
Very sensitive to cold : over the whole body.
B Generally better growing warm. ^Headache.
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Many symptoms disappear after -washing. ^^ Chill.
Fever.
Sweat.
Chill predominating.
Chill and coldness of hands and feet, also in bed, often lasting
all night.
General shivering, evenings in bed.
Coldness of whole body with blue nails and nausea.
Cold hands and feet; sometimes lasting all night; want of
thirst. Chill lessened after getting out of bed ; shivering in bed ; legs
cold as far as the knees.
The severer the pains, the colder she becomes.
Heat only in the face ; aversion to uncovering ; cold hands
and feet. Heat most in face, alternating with chill.
■ Sweat early in the morning; mostly on and around genitals.
d Melancholy.
■ Profuse perspiration. ^Endocarditis.
^^ Attacks. lEvery day several paroxysms. ^Palpitation of heart. Paroxysm of palpitation every 2, 3 weeks, coming on when
sleeping, walking or riding, lasting half hour.
Pains come and go : neuralgia of head.
Every night, from sunset to sunrise : dry, nervous cough. *^ Locality and Direction.
Right : pain in side of occiput ; caries of nasal bones ; upper jaw painful ; boring in zygoma ; cutting and heat in hypochondrium ; testicle swollen ; in- guinal region sore; boring in forearm; bone pains in elbow.
Left : tearing in head, teeth and ears ; boring tumor on eye ; boring behind ear ; boring in nasal bone ; neuralgia of head ; pressure in scrobiculum ; gas accumulates under ribs ; sen- sation of a bladder hanging in chest ; boring in shoulder ; seizes arm during palpitation.
Without inward : pains in eyes.
Pains wander from joint to joint.
Rending pain upwards.
Pain pressing inwards.
Pain from within outward, in eye diseases.
Left side worse, with nasal catarrh. *^ Sensations. Oversensitive to all pain.
Pains drive to despair, does not want to live.
Susceptible to all sorts of pains; on thinking of them, he im- agines he already feels them.
As if a current of air was rushing through head.
Teeth feel too long.
As if the heart was turning around.
As of a bladder hanging in left chest. See 29.
As if firmly bandaged : knees.
Violent pain : in 1. forehead and eye.
Boring:: hemicrania ; behind 1. ear; in nasal bones; in bones
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of face ; in hard palate ; in 1. shoulder ; in r. forearm ;' in finger-joints.
Cutting : through eyes ; neuralgia in face and head ; in r. hypochonder ; through swollen testicle ; in perineum.
Stitching : megrim ; in nose ; below 1. ribs.
Stitches : in chest.
Shooting : in uterus ; through chest ; towards knee from tar- sal bones.
Pricking : in eyelids ; in mastoid process.
Stinging : in eyelids ; neuralgia in face and head ; in throat ; in swelling of epigastrium ; in perineum ; in small of back.
Smarting : in nose ; of vulva.
Soreness : in nose ; in throat.
Burning: megrim; in eyelids; in mastoid process; in nose ; at stomach ; in r. hypochonder ; in rectum ; on vertex ; of vulva.
Drawing : around the eyes ; in jaws ; in uterus ; at pubes ; in r. knee.
Tearing : from side of head through brain ; deep in brain ; in forehead, temples and vertex ; in teeth and ears ; in jaws ; neuralgia in face and head ; toothache.
Cramp-like tearing : in bones of wrists.
Pressure : in 1. temple ; in eyeballs ; in submaxillary glands ; in region of stomach ; to left of scrobiculum ; in the hypo- chondria ; in bladder ; in r. testicle.
Aching: dull, heavy, in eyeball.
Bruised pain : in head ; in r. testicle ; in uterus ; in limbs.
Weary pains : in r. tarsal bones.
Undefined pain : in nasal bones; in liver and pit of stomach.
Undefined : at lower part of spine ; in r. elbow.
Beating : in forehead.
Uncomfortable feeling : in forehead.
Tension : in eyes ; in lower jaw ; in r. testicle ; in neck.
Constriction : of chest.
Spasmodic sensation : about heart.
Twitching: in upper lid.
Paralytic feeling : in lower limbs ; in knees.
Heaviness : in abdomen ; in forearm.
Numbness : of limbs.
Dryness : in ears and nose ; in mouth.
Heat : in eyes ; in chest.
Itching : in eyelids ; in mastoid process ; in nose ; in r. groin ; of the scrotum ; of palms ; of soles. ^^ Tissues. Rheumatism appears on back, sacrum, hands and feet, after the heat is relieved.
i Boring pains, mostly in the bones.
Ci'ampy tearing pain in phalangeal bones and joints. B Arthritic deposits.
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Bone pains at night.
I Osteitis ; caries.
Ulcers after abuse of mercury, which attack the bones.
B Erethism or vascular fullness characterizes nearly all com- plaints ; thus ruddy with scrofula ; vascular leukoma ; con- gestive asthma ; ebullitions ; erections, congested kidneys and liver — all from hypertrophied, heart.
I Violent orgasm ; plethora.
Cancerous ulcers.
External parts become black.
iDropsy; ascites; albumenuria and heart affections ; (urine is clear and gold colored.)
SI Exostoses of the skull and other bones.
I B Boring in bones ;
B caries especially after mercury ;
B I pains drive to despair.
B Corpulency ; fat about the heart ; especially if nervous irrita- bility is present.
I Glands painfully swollen; scrofula, ruddy complexion.
B Adenitis.
Emaciation ; secondary syphilis ; also in melancholia.
Rheumatism, erratic; attacking the heart.
B Indurations.
Scrofula.
B Arthrocace scrofulosis. ^^ Touch, Passive Motion. iDJuries. Has to seize and grasp the 1. arm tightly during the attack of palpitation.
Touch : aggravates boring pains in skull, pains in eyes, pains in swollen parotids, soreness of nasal bones and upper jaw, soreness of gums, pains in testicles, soreness in in- guinal region.
Rubbing : causes blotches on leg to feel like thick nodosities.
Pressure: aggravates eye symptoms.
Riding: produces palpitation.
Lifting: causes prolapse of uterus.
B After a fall: swelling in groin. *^ Skin. B Jaundice with greenish-brown urine and costiveness for twelve days.
I Skin dark yellow. ^Jaundice.
B Patches of a brown hue and some like albugo, d Old age.
TrViolent itching, first in soles of feet and then over the whole body, from evening till midnight.
Fine papular eruption on face.
BDeep ulcers, affecting bones; after abuse of mercury.
Small and large blotches, stinging burning, feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color; less in-doors than in open air.
Indurations under the skin on the leg, over the heel and behind the knee, itching violently.
BAVarts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial.
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*^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Sanguine people, with black hair and dark eyes, lively, restless, anxious disposition ; dis- posed to feel anxious about the future.
Headache of people with black hair, dark, olive-brown com- plexion ; disposed to constipation ; sad, gloomy, taciturn.
I B Constitutions broken down by the combined influence of syphilis and mercury.
I Had syphilis ten years ago. d Hemiopia.
I Low-spirited, lifeless boys, their memories bad, lacking alto- gether in boyisli go. See testes, 22.
Carbo-nitrogenoid constitution.
■ Females: nervous cough ; hysteria.
I Girls at puberty.
I I Pining boys. See 22.
1 1 Often indicated with old people : weak vision ; corpulency, etc.
I Scrofula ; light haired ; sanguine temperament ; ruddy com- plexion.
I i Syphilitic and mercurial patients.
I I Old age.
■ Man, set. 34, troubled with headache and hgemorrhoidal com-
plaints, now tired of life.
I Man, ^t. 35, sanguine, nervous, strong; after a gonorrhoea. . d Melancholy.
I Woman, set. 55, after third week of rheumatic fever. 6 Endo- carditis.
I Woman, set. 70, oppression of heart.
BMan, get. 85, oppression of heart.
I Man, set. 63, florid complexion, sanguine temperament. 6 Melanosis of eye. *^ Relationship.
Similar to: Amm. earh.
(chest, heart);
Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen., Asaf.
(pains about eyes ; but Asaf. has relief from pressure ; caries from mercury) ;
Bellad., Capsic.
(caries of mastoid ; corpulency ;
Calc. ostr.
(leuco- phlegmatic, corpulent ; gold has more oversensitiveness and erethism);
Cale. j^hosj^h., Coccul.{emj)tj feel'mg);
Cmchon., Coffea (hyper excitation) ;
Cuprum (asthma ;
Digit, (heart ; inclined to activity) ;
Ferrum (hyperemia) ;
Glonoine (hyper- gemia of lung from heart) ;
Hepar, lodum, Kali hiclir.
(deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozsena, secondary syphilis) ;
Kali carh., Kali liydr.
(secondary syphilis; mercurial affec- tions of bones and periosteum) ;
Kalihrom.
(anguish at heart and desire to move about) ;
Laches., Lycop., Mereur., Nitr. ac, Nux vom.
(hernia, prolapsed uterus) ;
Pallad.
(uterine symptoms);
Platina (uterine symptoms);
Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr., Silic, iSepia, Sulphur, Tarantul.
(heart as if turned around ; hysteria) ;
Thuya (condylomata, 22) ;
Ver. vir.
(heart).
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After Kali hiehr. had been given in vain, Aur.fol. cured ozgena,
and caries of nasal bones.
I Man, set. 52, whiskey drinker, d Decrease of vision.
S After daily use of whiskey, and not abstaining from its use,
got well, d Hemiopia. Antidotes to Aurum : Bellad., Cinchon., CoccuL, Coffea,
Cuprum, Mercur., Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr.
Aurum antidotes : Mercur., Spigel.
Aur. met., 2d trituration, from July 16th to 21st, twice a day ;
subsequently, once in four days for sixteen days; cured
melanosis of eye, after Thuya, Carh. an., Oonium, Bellad.
and Arsen. had failed. 1 Antidote to ill effects of mercury. I After having taken large quantities of iodide of potash.
6 Hemiopia.
AURUM fflURIATlCUM.
Auric chloride. AuCl^.
Hahnemann had, in his Materia Medica, 1818, published some symptoms obtained before the trituration was preferred.
Dr.
Molin published in the French journals, 1845, after a good proving of Aurum met., tlie first useful proving; he was followed by Buchner and others, contained, with the ex- ception of Prasoberera, in Allen, Vol.
II, 1875.
^ Mind. I Functions of mind in best order and clear in his views, except with regard to his health or disease ; he imagines he has all possible diseases, d Angina pectoris.
B If left alone he thinks about nothing but his ailments, and gets more and more out of humor ; desires company, d Angina pectoris.
B Inclined to suicide ; frequent weeping ; aversion to occupation.
■ Laziness. ^ Albumenuria.
I Great depression of mind. ^Dropsy.
Everything is disagreeable, dreary, even nature around.
I I Sadness, as when homesick ;
I sad, as though a great misfor- tune impended.
■ Melancholic mood. ^ Ozsena syphilitica.
■ Profound melancholy. 6 Dropsy. Great anxiety, with palpitation.
Loss of energy ; diminished virility ; unrefreshing sleep.
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SFull of wliims and notions. Irritable without cause ; tired of life.
■ Insurmountable mental or bodily restlessness; he has to
spend hours in the street and in the open air. 6 Angina pectoris.
■ Thinking about his disease brings on palpitation. ^Angina
pectoris. I After fright or vexation, palpitation, which he can feel and hear, d Angina pectoris.
■ Ailments from violent chagrin.
^ Sensorium. Vertigo, as if he was walking in the air.
■ Dullness of head, d Albumenuria.
^ Inner Head. ■Dull frontal headache. Drawing headache in forehead.
■ Drawing in left half of head.
■ Constant burning in whole head; worse on left side. Burning with stinging in occiput.
;rSometimes a penetrating pain from forehead down to nose. Throbbing, with heavy dreams ; throbbing in left temple after
rising ; relieved by application of cold water.
Congestion to the head increasing to delirium. * Outer Head.
Burning in the forehead.
■ Head hot; limbs cool. ^Albumenuria.
Drawing, tearing in bones of skull from time to time ; head
feels insensible.
Pressure on brain, along sagittal suture.
Cool sensation on vertex.
Tickling itching on the forehead.
TiHair, eyebrows and beard fall out. ^ Sight and Eyes.
Sudden blindness in childbed.
■ Amaurosis.
Cannot accomodate his eyes quickly for near or far objects.
Complete blindness, occurring suddenly after scarlet fever, with cold sweat; rapid, scarcely perceptible pulse; respiration rapid and unequal ; abdomen burning hot ; extremities cold and covered with sweat ; pupils do not react to light.
Evening, candle-light, letters disappear ; paper white, as if not printed upon.
Neuralgic pain in 1. eye.
Feeling as if eyes were drawn deep into the head.
■ Sclerotica red, with sensation of burning heat and prickling.
■ ■ Keratitis parenchymatosa ; cornea very opaque, traversed by
a dense mass of blood-vessels in the cornea, proper (or not), and tending towards staphyloma, ciliary injection, some pho- tophobia, and no vision.
■ Acute ophthalmia, d Caries of the nasal bones.
Burning, pricking itching and tickling in the eyes and lids.
Lachrymation.
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Difficulty in keeping eyes shut.
Lids agglutinated in the morning.
I Chronic inflammation of edges of eyelids.
B Fistula lachrymalis. * Hearing and Ears, i Buzzing in left ear and sensitiveness.
Ringing and roaring in ears, followed by deafness, with sensa^
tion as if the ears were wide and hollow inside, so could not
hear distinctly. I Music relieves.
B Ears reddened. ^ Angina pectoris. Scurf behind the ears.
Burning and itching behind the ears, particularly at night. ^ Smell and Nose.
B Pressing pain in the nose.
Burning and itching in the nose.
BBIows blood from the nose.
Crawling in the cavities, as if a coryza was breaking out ;
stinging itching on small places ; r. to 1. B Coryza.
B Snuffles of a baby.
B Bad-smelling, watery discharge, irritating the upper lip.
B Discharge from nose containing some blood at times, d Dropsy.
Yellow-greenish discharge, not offensive, after 10 days.
B B Ozsena scrofulosa, with unbearable odor.
B Sudden running of pus from the nose. ^ Ozsena syphilitica.
SNostrils stuffed up with hard crusts, d Syphilitic ozsena.
BRed swelling of left side of nose ; nasal cavity ulcerated deep
in, with dry, yellowish scurf and sense of obstruction, al- though enough air passes.
Nasal bones sensitive ; also upper middle of sinciput.
Burning and itching pain in upper part of nose, externally.
Redness and swelling of nose.
B Hardness around the corners of the nose and lips, d Ozaena.
BDeep cracks in the alas nasi ; in old cases of ozsena.
BLupus attacking the alae nasi.
B Infants nose dented in. ^ Face.
B Red face, d Angina pectoris.
BPale face with single red spots.
BFacepale; limbs cold ; sudden blindness. ^ In child-bed. I I Burning in face at times, mostly after shaving, with a dark
redness of the cheeks.
On different parts of the face digging, gnawing, stitching pain.
Itching, as from the tickling of a feather on various parts of
the face.
BAcne rosacea.
Caries of the upper jaw-bone after typhoid fever; pain in bones
and teeth. B Infant with ancient appearance.
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^ Lower Part of Face. I Caries of lower jaw since scarlatina in second year of her age ; set. 18.
■ Exostosis of r. cheek-bone disappeared in two months after
the treatment. ;rTrembling of lower jaw and threatened with trismus.
Watery, offensive moisture inflaming the upper lip.
Indurations in the lips.
Burning like pepper on the lips.
Pustule on the lip.
I Lips swollen, they burn and itch.
I Cancerous ulcers on the lips.
I Lips deep red. d Angina pectoris.
Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands. ^^ Teeth and Gums, i Loose teeth.
Jerking pain in the teeth.
Front teeth sensitive ; metallic taste.
TrGreat tenderness of gums and slight salivation.
Gums inflamed or white, blueish ; painful in spots, even ulcer- ated.
I Dental fistula.
" Taste, Speech, Tongue.
Metallic taste.
Flat, bad taste in the mouth.
I Taste entirely lost. ^Cancer.
■ Tongue as hard as leather, hardly moveable.
;rTongue became stiff and prevented articulation of certain words, d Cancer.
■ Induration remaining after glossitis.
Redness, dryness, and excoriation of the tongue.
Yellow, furred tongue.
Warts on the tongue.
;rTongue ulcerated in various places.
■ Cancer on the tongue.
^^ Inner Mouth. Dry mouth.
Inflammation of the mouth.
Burning itching and biting in mouth.
Saliva increased, frequent desire to swallow ; metallic taste.
TrMouth filled with aphthae. ^^ Palate and Throat. Fauces red, pain in throat.
■ Mucus in morning passes from head to throat, d Ozsena.
■ Inflammation with hoarseness.
■ Suppurating ulcer on tonsils with loss of substance. Scraping and pricking in throat.
Painful redness of the fauces and pharynx.
Dryness in the throat ; difficult deglutition.
Frequent desire to swallow ; feeling of a plug in throat ; metal- lic taste ; increased saliva.
" Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions.
Appetite increased or lost.
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Thirst.
Sweetened coffee disgusts him. ^' Eating^ and.
Drinking.
After eating : nausea ; distension and fullness of stomach ; frequent yawning.
After breakfast : nausea leaves.
Slow digestion.
I Diarrhoea after eating.
Worse from coffee, tea, wine. ^^ Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Belching and nausea ; risings have a putrid taste.
Nausea fasting, better after breakfast.
B Vomiting of a green fluid, d Albumenuria.
Vomiting of some white frothy matter (dogs).
" Scrobiculum and Stomach.
Pressure in scrobiculum.
Sensation of fullness in stomach.
B Burning, cutting, stitching in stomach. 6 Cardialgia.
Painful drawing in pit to the middle of sternum ; as if a hard body was pressed into cavity ; worse stooping, eating, drink- ing; paroxysmal.
Slow digestion.
B Cramps in stomach.
Increased warmth in stomach.
B Inflammation of stomach.
Mucous membrane of stomach ulcerated ; in dogs. ^^ Hypochondria. Burning in r. hypochondrium, with heat and pricking in abdomen.
Constant sensation of tension in r. hypochondrium.
B Induration of the liver with dropsy.
Pressure in the hypochondria.
B Burning in right hypochondrium ; constant disagreeable feel- ing ; hepatic hypersemia and swelling, d Ascites.
B Spleen enlarged. ^Albumenuria.
Stitches in 1. hypochondrium, as after running. '" Abdomen, Loins and Groins. Abdomen distended ; con- strictive colic obliges her to double up ; only goes off in bed.
Redness, heat, itching and biting at the umbilicus.
Dull bellyache.
BPain in bowels, d Albumenuria.
Tympanitis.
B Distension of single places in the abdomen.
Drawing pain in abdomen.
Straining, tensive pain, as if laced.
B Ascites. ^ Liver affections. ^Albumenuria.
Tension in the loins.
B Stiffness in region of the groins.
Eruption of small red nodules above the pubes.
Abdomen sensitive to touch.
;rConsiderable swelling of inguinal glands.
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^^ Rectum and Stool. Frequent fluid stools.
Diarrhoea : worse at night ; after eating ; with pain in bowels.
Stools : grayish-white, yellow, watery.
I Diarrhoea. ^ Albumenuria.
Obstinate costiveness.
iHsemorrhoidal tumors ; blood discharged during stool.
Condylomata at the anus.
I 1 Excrescences near anus, with an abundant serous discharge.
I Anal and intercrural excoriation in a baby.
■ Numerous circumanal condylomata, with a scrofulous, syphi-
litic baby.
IlFistula in ano of five months standing, with a young man, set. 21, bilious, sanguine temperament. ^^ Urinary Organs.
I Scanty urine. 6 Anasarca.
Urine turbid, with a red lateritious sediment.
■ Frequent urging to urinate ; worse at night, d Albumenuria.
■ Incontinence of urine; worse at night. ^ Old man, after
dropsy. I I Burning on urinating ; urine feels as if too hot ; tenesmus
vesicoe. I Urine turbid. 6 Dropsy.
■ Increased discharge of urine; urine has a peculiar odor and
sediment. If the bladder is filled in the morning, he has strong erections but no sexual desire.
■ Pressing around the waist ; increased urine ; renal hyperaemia.
d Heart disease, d Morbus Brightii.
■ Pains in region of kidneys ; urine pale, clear. ^Albumenuria
in pregnancy. Heat, tickling and burning in urethra. ;rSuppressed urethral discharges are re-established.
■ ■Syphilitic gonorrhoea.
^^ Male Sexual Organs.
Diminished virility ; melancholy.
Increased sexual desire.
Exhausting erections ; hypergemia.
Testicles swollen, tense ; drawing along the cords.
Gleet; worse mornings.
Warts on the prepuce.
■ Chancre-like ulcers.
■ Condylomata on prepuce, anus and tongue.
Flat ulcers on the scrotum secreting a fetid ichor.
TrChancres secrete an abundance of laudable pus ; buboes be- come vast hearths of suppuration.
■ ■ Chancres on the prepuce and scrotum.
■ ■Bubo in 1. groin.
TrExcrescences extending from the glans up to os sacrum.
■ Excrescences on scrotum, d Fistula in ano. " Female Sexual Organs. : Sterility.
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I Painful induration of the mouth of uterus.
■ Metritis.
Menses too early and profuse ; blood acrid, makes her sore.
Before menses : leucorrhoea ; red pustules on the labia.
I Catamenia suppressed, d Dropsy.
;rAmenorrhoea.
B Leucorrhoea, light-yellow, especially mornings; uterus pro- lapsed, indurated ; chronic metritis, with malposition and dis- charge.
I Pudenda oversensitive.
■ Burning, itching of vulva.
I Heat and itching in vagina.
Vaginitis.
iGonorrhoeal discharge and swelling of both groins. 24 Pregnancy and Parturition. During pregnancy and after childbed: dropsical symptoms.
Infiltration of cellular tissue of legs in childbed.
See 33. ^' Voice and Larynx.
Trachea and Bronchia.
Voice rough
or screeching.
Speaking is difficult.
I I Hoarseness, with violent fever and pleuritic symptoms.
■ Hoarseness, with inflammation of throat. I Chronic irritation of the air passages.
^® Respiration.
Pressure on the chest impedes breathing ; worse standing.
I I Anxious contraction of chest.
I I Long-lasting asthmatic symptoms.
Oppression as soon as the clothes are fastened.
■ Anxious abdominal respiration; labored breathing. ^Ana-
sarca.
Difficult breathing from stagnation of blood ; heart beats in- creased, too strong.
Suffocation at night.
Oppression compelling deep breathing, which relieves. ^"^ Cough. Short, dry cough in paroxysms, especially at night, fol- lowed by heat in throat.
Frequent hard cough, with white sputa mingled with threads of blood.
Frequent, loud-sounding cough.
Frequent night cough.
Loose cough, with thick yellow expectoration. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■ Pressure under sternum ; palpi- tation increases with every step, as if the chest would burst. 6 Hypersemia from stenocardia.
■ Pulmonary catarrh.
I I Stitches under the ribs and other signs of pleurisy. Inflammatory symptoms of lungs.
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I Pains in left side of chest, as in pleurisy ; they change place
and sometimes leave. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation.
Sore aching in cardiac re- gion ; burning, pricking.
Drawing and cutting in cardiac region.
Pressure in region of heart, with gnawing in abdomen.
Awakened by a sticking, boring at the point where impulse of
apex is felt; feels as if he could not have endured it longer;
deep breathing does not alter it ; hand toressed lightly does ;
immediately afterwards lancinating streaming pain, thence
to 1. hypochondrium.
Stitches directly above the heart.
Peculiar sensation of heaviness and rigidity in the heart, with
sudden arrest of breathing.
I Cardiac anguish. ^Endocarditis.
I I Angina pectoris (next to Arnic. indispensable).
■ Endocarditis rheumatica.
I Heart disease accompanying carious affections of the bones. I Beating of heart causes anxiety and sleeplessness, cannot rest
until heart is quiet, d Angina pectoris.
Percussion all along the heart dull, d Stenocardia.
I Heart-beats irregular, with severe constriction of the chest;
^Rheumatism, after disappearance of swelling of joints.
Palpitation : with anxiety ; worse from every mental emotion.
Heart contracts more strongly; first sound increased.
I Heart-beats sharp and metallic, but no other abnormal sound.
^Angina pectoris.
■ Violent, irregular palpitation, with great oppression of heart.
d Endocarditis. Throbbing in the carotid and temporal arteries.
■ Pulse large. ^ Angina pectoris.
■ Pulse small and frequent. ^Dropsy.
■ Heart's beat weak ; apex felt indistinctly, d Stenocardia.
■ Weak pulse and feeble heart. ^Dropsy.
^^ Neck and Back. iHard swelling had twisted the neck to the r. shoulder, d After scarlatina ; 2".
Dull drawing in the neck while sittino;.
Tension in dorsal vertebrie.
Burning, pricking, cutting and stiffness in back.
Very severe backache. ^^ Upper Limbs. Drawing in shoulders ; worse in bed.
Disagreeable sensation in shoulders and arms.
I I Tearing in 1. shoulder ; in r. arm, from elbow to tip of little finger.
Burning, lancinating in arms and forearms.
Involuntary concussive shocks in arms.
■ Spasmodic motion of arms.
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Swelling in wrist, no pain, if left alone ; tensive only when bending hand back ; stitches on seizing anything.
Trembling of hands in the morning.
Stiffness of arms and finger-joints.
Tearing pain in middle finger after a meal.
;rPainful swelling of r. hand, d Endocarditis.
Burning and itching of hands.
The hands can be closed with less facility. ^^ Lower Limbs. Blood-boils on the nates and thighs.
Stiffness in the thighs and legs.
Heat, pricking and stinging in the knees.
Knees painlully swollen ; worse stretching leg.
B Exostoses, with bone-pain in both shin-bones. ^Secondary syphilis.
I Right tibia, anterior aspect of bone denuded and black nearly its entire length, surrounding soft parts inflamed and swol- len ; with a boy, get. 12, exfoliating and healing within six months, d Necrosis.
■ Legs swollen and very tender along the inside of tibia. iLeft leg oedematously swollen.
■ Infiltration of cellular tissue of legs; great tension, pain.
d Childbed.
Deep-seated, tensive pain in dorsum of left foot ; worse from motion, during evening and night, disturbing sleep ; also from warmth.
A doughy, sharply defined, semicircular swelling on dorsum of
left foot, extremely sensitive to touch. I Deep-seated, troublesome pain in left foot. ^ After typhoid
Fever
B Periostitis of left foot. ^ After typhus. ^ After mechanical in- jury- Burning in the feet.
Swelling of the feet.
Cutting pain in the toes when walking.
B Redness and swelling of toes, with burning and stinging ; can- not put the feet down. ^* Limbs in General. Drawing, tearing, especially in the ex- tremities.
B Limbs cold, covered with sweat. 6 After scarlatina. ^^ Rest.
Position.
Motion.
Lying : cannot lie on back. d Anasarca.
Must lie doubled up : in colic.
Sitting : drawing in the neck.
Standing : pressure on chest impeding breathing worse.
Stooping : pains in sternum worse.
Stretching leg : swollen knee worse.
Rising : throbbing 1. temple worse.
Motion : pain 1. foot < ; impossible in dropsy.
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Walking : pain in toes.
I Ascending a hill or stairs causes palpitation and dyspnoea. d Stenocardia.
B Great restlessness : changes his position every moment ; his friends call him "the quicksilver man." ^Neurosis cordis. '^ Nerves. TrGreat nervous irritation.
Greatest exhaustion, mostly in the limbs.
Frequent startings. 6 Dropsy.
Restlessness with the palpitation.
Weakness, fever, and the most violent symptoms, as if poisoned, after trituration in water, by the teaspoonful, for syphilitic ulcers in throat.
Nervous aifections, with disgust of life ; insomnia and melan- choly. ^"^ Sleep. Yawning after eating.
I 1 Sleepy by day even at work.
I I Comatose sleep, d Albumenuria.
■ Sleepless: from excitement; from palpitation. Wakes with a start.
Dreams : with sadness ; tormenting. ^* Time.
Morning : eyelids agglutinated ; mucus passed from head to throat; erection if bladder is full; gleet < ; leucorrhoea ■< ; trembling of hands.
Day : sleepiness even while at work.
Evening : pain in 1. foot worse.
Night : burning and itching behind ears ; diarrhoea ; urging to urinate ; incontinence of urine < ; suffocation ; dry cough < ; pain in foot ; swelling of tissue worse. 2^ Temperature and Weather. Cold washing: throbbing in
1. temple better.
Wet cold winter : improves.
Warmth : pain in 1. foot worse.
Cannot bear warmth of bed-clothes, throws off the covers. ^^ Chill.
Fever.
Sweat.
Slight chilliness over the body.
I I Violent chill and fever.
I Hectic fever: dropsy; after scarlatina; secondary syphilis.
Copious, oflFensive-smelling sweat.
Sweat increased.
■ Copious, cold sweat, d After scarlatina. Promotes the sweat in small-pox.
" Attacks. At times very much prostrated.
In paroxysms : drawing in stomach ; short cough. *^ Locality and Direction.
Right : exostosis of cheek bone dis- appeared ; tension and burning in hypochondrium ; neck twisted to shoulder by hard swelling ; tearing in arm ; pain- ful swelling of hand ; tibia denuded and black.
Left : drawing in half of head ; burning in side of head ; throb- bing in temple ; neuralgia of eye ; buzzing in ear ; red swell-
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ing side of nose ; stitches in hypochondrium ; bubo in groin ;
pains side of chest ; tearing in shoulder ; pain dorsum of foot, R. to L.: stinging itching on small places.
Above downward : pain in forehead ; pain in elbow.
Diagonally : pain from apex of heart. *^ Sensations.
As if eyes were drawn deep into head.
As if the ears were wide and hollow inside.
Feeling of a plug in throat.
As if a hard body was pressed into epigastrium.
Disagreeable sensation in shoulders and arms.
Boring : in cardiac region.
Cutting : in cardiac region ; in back ; in toes.
Lancinating: from cardiac region to 1. hypochonder ; in arms.
Stitching : in face ; in stomach ; in 1. hypochonder ; under
ribs ; above the heart ; in wrist. Pleuritic pains : in chest.
Stinging : in occiput ; in nose ; in knees ; in toes.
Pricking : in cardiac region ; in back ; in knees.
Prickling : in eyes ; in throat.
Burning : in head ; in occiput ; in forehead ; in eyes ; behind
ears; in nose; in face; on lips ; in mouth ; in stomach ; in
r. hypochonder ; on urinating ; in urethra ; of vulva ; in
cardiac region ; in back ; in arms ; in feet ; in toes.
Biting : in mouth ; at umbilicus.
Tearing : in bones of skull ; in 1. shoulder ; in r. arm ; from
elbow to tip of little finger ; in middle finger ; in extremities.
Digging : in face.
Jerking pain : in teeth.
Gnawing : in face.
Scraping : in throat.
Drawing : in 1. half of head ; in bones of skull ; epigastrium to
sternum ; in abdomen ; along spermatic cords ; in cardiac
region ; in neck ; in shoulders ; in extremities. Pressure: on brain; in nose; in scrobiculum ; around waist;
on chest ; under sternum ; in cardiac region.
Aching : in cardiac region.
Penetrating pain : from forehead to nose.
Undefined pain : in throat ; in bowels ; in kidneys ; in 1. foot: Throbbing : in 1. temple.
Concussive shocks : in arms.
Constrictive colic.
Cramps : in stomach.
Contraction : of chest.
Tension : in loins ; in vertebrge ; in legs.
Straining, tensive pain, as if laced : in abdomen.
Stiffness : in groins.
Rigidity : in cardiac region.
Crawling : in nasal cavities.
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Tickling : itching on forehead ; in eyes ; on face ; in urethra.
Itching : in eyes ; behind ears ; in nose ; on face ; of lips ; in mouth ; at umbilicus ; of vulva ; in vagina.
Fullness: in stomach.
Heaviness: in cardiac region.
Heat : at umbilicus ; in urethra ; in vagina ; in knees.
Coldness : on vertex.
Dryness : in throat. ** Tissues. IBHypersemia from over-action of the heart ; conse- quent congestion of liver, kidneys, genitals.
B Violent rheumatic fever, with painful swelling of joints ; leav- ing the joints and attacking the heart.
llDropsies: from heart-disease; from liver-affections; with albumenuria ; after scarlatina ; with intermittent fever.
■ Swellings characterized by heat, hardness, tension, etc.; sen-
sitiveness to touch ; worse at night, disturbing sleep. Emaciation, especially in syphilis.
■ Indurations. See Nose, Lips, Teeth, Uterus, etc.
■ Cancerous glands.
■ ■Bones: periosteum affected; exostoses; caries, especially
after abuse of mercury ; syphilitic caries.
■ Caries of the joints, with gnawing, boring deep in.
■ Ascites.
TiMorbid secretions are at once re-established. *" Touch.
Passive Motion.
Injuries.
Touch : abdomen sensi- tive; swellings sensitive.
Light pressure: pain at apex of heart better.
Tight clothing : oppression of breathing worse.
Stepping : palpitation worse.
Cannot put foot to ground : toes red, swollen.
After mechanical injury : periostitis of foot.
■ Cured ascites even after three successive tappings. *^ Skin. ■ Eczema.
■ Skin dry and shrunken. ^Dropsy. ^Albumenuria.
Small red itching elevations, leaving spots after they disappear.
Whole body covered with ulcers and scurf, with hectic fever.
d Secondary syphilis.
TrEruptions of pimples ; crops of pustules all over the body. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution.
Lymphatic, scrofulous consti- tution, with dropsy after scarlatina and albumenuria.
■ Girl, aet. 12, with hypertrophy of heart, with dilatation and
insufficiency of the valves, d Hydrops.
■ Woman, ^t. 24, lymphatic constitution, scrofulous habit.
d Hydrops.
■ Man, set. 32, sanguine, robust, d Secondary syphilis.
■ Woman, set. 40, after rheumatism and endocarditis, fatty de-
generation. 6 Stenocardia.
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BA man, set, 57, well-preserved, lively temperament, had gonorrhoea. 6 Angina pectoris.
I After syphilis, maltreated by mercury. ^ Osteocopus.
■ Mercurial affections.
;rSymptoms whose suppression had caused serious mischief, re- appear.
I A stout young man, subject to rheumatic attacks. ^Endo- carditis. ^ Relationship.
Gold salts and mercury salts both loosen the cohesion of the organic tissue.
Both stimulate the absorb- ent, secreting and excreting functions of skin, kidneys and salivary glands.
Employed for a longer period they initiate a peculiar metamorphosis of plastic life.
They differ from the mercurials in stimulating more the activity of heart and blood-vessels, but not fluidily organic tissue so powerfully as dry mercury.
Similar to : Aeon., Amm. cm-b.
(hypersemia of chest from heart-disease) ;
Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen.
(dropsy, albu- menuria, heart) ;
Bellad., Cinnah.
(syphilis) ;
Ferruvi, Crlo- noine (intermediate remedy in neurosis cordis) ;
Lycop., Mercur., Nitr. ae., Phosphor., Platin., Silic, Sulphur.
Incompatible : sulphur springs.
Antidotes
Bellad., Cinnah., Mercur.
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