Ferrum

Iron. The Element.

Triturations of pure metallic iron ; solution of the acetate and triturations of the carbonate.

Brovings bj Hahnemann, Gross, the American Pro vers' Union, etc. See Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 303.

Clinical Authokities Hydrocephalus in ancemic children, Liedbeck, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 43;

Headache, Sorge, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 482; Megrim, Miil- ler, B. J H., vol. 21, p. 17;

Exophthalmic goitre, Norton, Ophth. Therap., p. 196; Facial neuralgia, Schron, Stens, Eiick. Kl.

Erf,, vol. 5, p. 185 ; Toothache, Saeger, "Times Ketrospect, 1875, p. 110; Berridge, Times Ketrospect, 1875, p. 110; Influ- enza, Hartman, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 41 ; Vomiting after eating (3 cases), Knorre, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 557 ; Vomiting of infants, Hartmann, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 112; Swelling and pai^ifidness of liver, 'KaWenhach, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 696; Diarrhcea, A. E. Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 415; Gross, Knorre, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 1, p. 834 ; Werber, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 835 ;

Chronic diarrhoea, Saeger, Times Eetrospect, 1875, p. 76; Cholerine (5 cases), Pemerl, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 47;

Prolapsus recti, Cooper, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 123; Incontinence of urine. Price, Or- ganon, vol. 2, p. 121; Enuresis diurna (2 cases), Eichards, Eaue's Eec, 1873. p. 141;

Gonorrhoea, Eosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 84; Uterine hemorrhage, Hrg., Bigel, Attomyr, Scholz, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 310; Vomiting during preg- nancy, Schron, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 2, p. 382; Threatened abortion, Schiiler, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 310;

Premature labor, Scholz, Euck. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 310; Aphonia, Eiickert, Hom.

Clin., vol. 3, p. 58; Spasmodic cough after influenza, Hart- mann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 41 ;

Whooping cough, Boenninghausen, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 719; Constriction of chest, Knorre, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., voL 3, p. 189; Hcemoptysis, Bathman, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 264; Hartman, Eiick. Kl. Erf. vol.3, 5,216;

Hrg., Kreuss, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 216; Pneumonia, Cate, Times Eetrospect, 1876, p. 11 ;

Tuberculosis, H. V., Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 838;

Phthisis after pneumonia, H. in Z , Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 368 ; Lobeth, Hartmann, H. in Z., Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 367-9; Palpitation of heart, Griess, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 3, p. 445; Hypertrophy of heart with attacks of palpitation (2 cases), Billig, Lirsch, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 857-9 ;

Ancemia, Werber, Eiick. Kl. Erf. vol. 2, p. 273; Jahr., B.

J. H., vol. 12, p. 445; Debility after hemorrhage, AVerber, Eiick.

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Kl. Erf., vol.2, p. 273; Debility ivith chlorosis, Eidherr, B. J.

H., vol. 27, p. 303; Chlorosis, Knorre, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 271 ;

Stapf, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 73; Goullon, Knorre, Lobeth, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 271-3; Hofrichter, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol, 5, p. 310 ; Miiller, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 602 ;

Lameness of shoul- der, Saeger, Times Eetrospect, 1875, p. 110; Omodynia, Miller, Eaue's Eec, 1874> p. 253; Hhettmatism of deltoid muscle, Plate, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 898; Rheu- matismus humeri, Ide, Allg. Horn. Ztg., vol. 101, p. 27; iscAws, Goullon, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 517 ; Cramp in legs and feet, Hirsch, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 2G1 ; Oehme, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 248 ;

Cramps in ccdves, Oehme, Hah. Mo., vol. 9, p. 318; Intermittent fever (2 cases), CI. Miiller, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol, 4, p. 919; Pear- son, Organon, vol. 3, p. 99; (from Eiickert), see Allen's Int, Fever, p, 131 ;

Hrg., Baertl, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol, 4, p, 917 ; Hectic fever, Miiller, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 837 ; Rheumatism, Berridge, Times Eetrospect, 1875, p. 110; Hartmann, Eiick.

Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 517 ; BoUe, Eiick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 5, p. 899.

^ Mind. I Mind confused, cannot collect his thoughts.

I Prone to weep or laugh immoderately; with a choking sensation in throat, as if swollen outside.

I I Lively in evening.

I Not inclined to talk or study; nervous, restless.

Great indifference.

Changeable disposition, one evening low-spirited and mel- ancholy, next excessively cheerful.

■ Depression of spirits; also after menses.

I Mental depression, gloomy foreboding thoughts.

iMind in highest degree oppressed; despondent; great so- licitude about those belonging to him, with constant thoughts of death. /^Aphonia.

I I Anxiety as after committing a crime.

■ From slightest cause, anxiety, with throbbing in pit of

■ Nervous, hysterical feeling; fear of apoplexy.

I Irritability; little noises, such as crackling of a newspaper^ drive him to despair.

Pettish, quarrelsome, disputative, easily excited, least con- tradiction angers.

■ Excited by slightest opposition; everything irritates or

■ Moderate mental exertion improves many symptoms. ^Sensorium. Head confused, muddled; with cold feet and

■ Confusion of head.

■ ■Vertigo: on rising suddenly, things grew black, had to

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lean against something or fall; with nausea, prostration, lethargy; as if balancing to and fro; as when on water; when walking over water, like when crossing a bridge ; when descending, with disposition to fall forward.

■ Whilst walking, giddy as if drunk, as though she would

fall over obstacles.

I On looking at running water dizzy and giddy in head,, as if everything went round with her.

Staggering in walking, as if intoxicated ; reeling sensation and vertigo on seeing flowing water; vertigo with sick- ness at stomach in walking; momentary shock, with giddiness in brain.

Sensation as if head would constantly incline to r. side. ^ Inner Head. • Pressive headache in forehead as if it would burst.

■ Pressure in frontal eminences, after rising and dressing,

in morning, after quarter of an hour, extending over whole forehead to vertex and becoming more intense, and after twenty minutes changing to a pressive pain from within outward; on going down stairs pain <, involuntarily presses palm of hand on painful spot, which momentarily > the pain, but it is only decidedly

> in open air.

■Dull, pressive sensation in frontal eminence, afterwards spreading over whole forehead and finally to vertex ;

■ Awake 3 a.m. with severe stitches, as from a pen-knife,

in both temples, gradually extending over whole fore- head, with chilliness, rendering her unable to go to sleep again.

Headache every evening above root of nose.

Sticking pain over 1. eye, coming suddenly.

■ Hammering, boring pain beginning mostly in 1. temple,

with sensation of expansion of blood-vessels in the temples. ■Violent shooting headache in 1. side, in afternoon.

■ Headache: occupying 1. side of head; with coryza; after

Tearing from lambda to temporal bone.

■ Headache on top of head, as if skull was pushed upward.

■ Throbbing pain in top of head when moving suddenly.

■ Beating in back of head and neck, gradually extending

to sides and forehead, < stooping or moving. Drawing from nape of neck into head, with stinging, hammering and roaring in head.

■ Drawing, from nape upward into head, in which there

is then shooting, roaring and humming.

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I Pain ill back of head when coughing.

■ Weight in back of head, from ear to ear.

Confusion of mind, with liammering, beating sensation

in liead. I Sensation in head as of tlie beatings of the pulse, witli

slight sticking. iRush of blood to head, wdth swelling of veins of head,

and slight flushes of heat. iRush of blood to head, with throbbing pains, roaring,

buzzing and prickling in brain. Hammering and throbbing headache, obliging one to lie

down, or as if brain were rent asunder.

I Hammering, pulsating pain; humming in ears; con-

gestion of head, with pale face; intolerance of all spirit- uous liquors ; dread of movement, with loss of muscular tone and debility.

I I Headache : for two, three, or four days, every two or three weeks; hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down in bed ; with aversion to eating and drinking.

1 Hammering, pulsating headache; ulcerative pain of scalp, with loss of hair ; bruit du diable in vessels of neck ; paleness of mucous membranes of mouth and eyes; vigorous, healthy appearance, the general con- dition simulating a plethoric rather than an ansemic habit. ^Megrim.

I Head dull and full, eyelids heavy, apt to sleep, while sitting reading.

I Writing causes headache to re-appear.

I Headaches of anaemic, debilitated persons, especially with congestion of head or chest.

I Head hot, feet cold.

Apoplexia sanguinea.

■ Hydrocephalus with open fontanelles and great ansemia. •* Outer Head. l Pressure on top of head when cold air

touched it.

■ Great sensitiveness of scalp to touch.

■ Scalp and hair feel sore; falling out of hair.

■ Formication or slight itching in scalp; cold feet. Cannot keep head quiet.

Distended veins on temples. '' Sight and Eyes. ■At night capability to see in dark, with liysteric persons; pupils can be dilated but little; red eyes with burning pains.

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I Dark before eyes; giddy.

Darkness before eyes in evening, with aching pains and

slight epistaxis. I Amaurosis.

■ Letters run together when reading or writing. I Weak eyes with lachrymation.

Pupils contracted.

I Blue rings around eyes, which are dull, lustreless.

I Bloated appearance about eyes; face j)ale. ^Intermittent.

I Face fiery red; red spots on cheeks; puffiness of face

around eyes; livid, jaundiced complexion; pale face

■ Pressure in eyes as if they Avould protrude; the r. worse.

■ Sticking pain over 1. eye coming very suddenly and last-

ing a short time.

■ Can scarcely open eyes; lids pressed down.

■ Redness and swelling of both lids.

■ Marked muscular debility; redness of eyes, swelling of

lids; slimy pus-like discharge from Meibomian glands; sweet taste in mouth; circumscribed dark or violet spots on skin. ^Intermittent. Suppurating stye on upper lid and nightly agglutination.

■ ■Morbus Basedowii; especially after suppression of men-

ses; protruding eyes; enlarged thyroid; palpitation of heart; excessive nervousness. ^ Hearing and Ears. ■Over-sensitive to sounds.

■ Discharge from 1. ear; chlorotic complexion; impaired

hearing; murmur in 1. jugular vein; palpitation of heart. ■Ringing in ears, particularly the right.

■ Stitches in ears in morning.

Ulcerative pain in outer ear; singing, humming in ears; > laying head on table. '' Smell and Nose. ■Bleeding from nose in morning on stooping.

■ ■Epistaxis in anaemic children, with frequent changing

of color of face.

■ Epistaxis in ansemic patients subject to ebullitions.

■ Epistaxis alternating with spitting of blood.

I Nose continuously filled with clotted blood; especially with coryza.

■ Dropping of fluid from posterior nares or frontal sinuses;

^Nasal catarrh.

■ Bloody, puruloid greenish, whey-like, slimy, acrid dis-

charge; cold in head.

■ Scabs come out of nose or are coughed up every few

weeks.

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^ Upper Face. H Extreme paleness of face, which becomes red and flushed on least emotion, pain or exertion.

I Face pale, collapsed, or expressionless, stiff and stupid.

I Face ashy pale or greenish; pale and wan.

I Pale, earthy color of face. ^Aphonia.

I Pale, livid face, sometimes bloated, with blue margins around e3"es.

I Pale face, with red si3ots on each cheek.

I Livid, or pale face and lips.

■ Cadaverous, jaundiced complexion.

I Face yellow, or yellow in spots.

I I Face flushes easily on least excitement or exertion. I Flushed face with, burning cheeks.

■ Face fiery red, veins large; congestion to head.

■ Face becomes suddenly fier}^ red, with vertigo; ringing

in ears ; great palpitation of heart, and dyspnoea. I I Very red face of children.

■ Face feels as if swollen and bloated.

iCEdema of feet and face, especially upper and lower eye- lids.

I Pain in face < to an intense degree by lying down; > sitting up. ^Neuralgia.

■ Neuralgia after cold washing and overheating; during

paroxysm face fiery red, sometimes only in one spot ; cannot keep head quiet; at intervals face looks pale and earthy. Eruption on face followed by bluish spots. ^ Lower Face. iLips pale, dry. ^Intermittent fever.

I I Swelling of gums and cheeks; with bleeding; pale lips. ^^ Teeth and Gums, i Great paleness of gums. ^Intermit- tent fever.

■ Toothache all morning.

■ Toothache, momentarily > by cold water,

■ Persistent diarrhoea the result of morbid dentition ; stools

composed of mucus and undigested food ; face flushed or has a red spot on each side; dentition advances slowly. " Taste and Tongue. ■Unbearable taste of blood; children complain of it.

■ Taste like rotten eggs.

I I Sweet or bitter taste in mouth. ^Intermittent fever. Bread tastes dry and bitter.

■ Earthy, putrid taste; all food has a dry, woody, insinid

taste; no appetite; no thirst; vomiting of blood.

■ Bad taste, mouth dry, tongue coated white.

I I Numb and pithy feeling of tongue, as if burned. Burnt sensation on back and middle portion of tongue. ^^ Inner Mouth. ■Lips, gums, tongue and mucous membrane of entire buccal cavity joale and bloodless.

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I Mouth dry in the morning.

I Cankered sore mouth; mucous membrane very pale;

vomiting after coughing. ^^ Throat, l Sensation of a himp in 1. side of throat below

tonsil ; < when swallowing empty, not when eating or

drinking. I I Aching, pressing pain in throat during deglutition, with

heat in fauces. I Constrictive sensation in throat.

I I Throat sore ; feels dull and heavy all day ; lively in

evening.

I I Exophthalmic goitre, especially after suppression of menses; protruding eyes, enlargement of thyroid, pal- pitation of heart and excessive nervousness.

^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Appetite vora- cious, double amount of an ordinary meal in evening hardly sufficient.

1 1 Canine hunger, alternating with loss of ajDpetite.

1 1 Anorexia; extreme dislike to all food.

■ Anorexia, without bad taste or thirst.

I Has no appetite, always feels full; drinks are relished. I Unquenchable thirst or thirstlessness.

■ Insatiable thirst. ^Intestinal catarrh.

■ Appetite for bread.

Improved by wine, except such as are termed acid wines. Desire for raw tomatoes.

■ Can only eat bread and butter; meat disagrees ; children

accustomed to meat suddenly become disgusted with it.

■ Aversion to: meat, wdiich disagrees; eggs; beer and ale;

hot things; sour things. ■^^ Eating and Drinking. ■All food tastes bitter.

■ Solid food is dry and insipid while masticating.

■ ■After eating eructation and regurgitation of food, with-

out nausea or inclination to vomit. Taste putrid, bitter, or dry and insipid; loss of appetite, owing to a constant feeling of repletion; meat disagrees; after eating, heat and anxiety, clulness of head, present- ing mental exertion ; vomiting after eating.

■ After eating: heat in stomach; nausea; regurgitation of

food. ■After least food or drink, especially after meat, spasmodic pressure at stomach.

■ After fat food, bitter eructations.

■ After eggs, vomiting.

Worse from meat; sour fruit; drinking milk; tobacco, tea and beer.

■ Beer rises to head ; stomach disordered after drinking beer. Wine agrees, if not acid.

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Bad effects from drinking tea ; toothache, etc. Worse on an empty stomach, better after breakfast. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Constant

eructation as soon as she has eaten. Eructations: sour; foul; burning; relieving burning in

Regurgitation of food. Nausea: with headache; witli nightly diarrhoea; with

Reeling and staggering as if intoxicated, with sickness in

stomach when walking. lA^omiting of food, and a flow of water from mouth. I Vomiting after breakfast. lA'omiting after eating, coming each time with new force;

times ; not as a symptom of other disease, nor depend- ing on organic affections of stomach. Vomiting of ingesta with constant pressure in pit of

stomach and weariness of feet. Vomiting with pain in stomach.

I Vomiting of everything eaten without being digested.

■ Vomiting of food, particularly after breakfast..

I I Vomiting of food immediately after midnight, followed by aversion to food and dread of open air.

■ Everything vomited tasted sour and acid.

■ Frequent vomiting of food with children ; easy vomiting..

■ Hsematemesis.

■ Palpitating in stomach and through oesophagus, as if a,

nerve was quivering, with an occasional suffocating feel- ing, as if a valve rose in throat.

■ Pit of stomach sensitive to touch.

■ Feeling of fulness and pressure in pit of stomach.

■ Stomach feels full and bloated after eating a few mouth-

fuls, with burning heat in it.

■ Spasmodic pressure at stomach after taking least food or

drink, especially after eating meat.

■ Pressure in stomach after eating. ^Intermittent fever.

■ Pressure at stomach with vomiting of food, followed by

nausea and vomiting of water; pain in stomach > after vomiting; < drinking milk. ^Chlorosis.

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I Pressure in stomach and acidity. ^Chronic diarrhoea.

Pressure in stomach and head.

Heat rising from pit of stomach.

iHeat and burning in stomach, with momentary, cramp- like pain in splenic region.

I I Occasional uneasiness at splenic end of stomach.

I I Cramp-like stomachache.

iNeuralgic and anaemic cardialgia; atony of digestions- vomiting of food immediately after eating, without any preceding nausea, also when coughing or moving about; cardiac uneasiness.

I I Gastralgia after drinking.

iPit of stomach sensitive to touch, and soreness all over abdomen; pulse full, excited; face pale; greatly ex- hausted. ^Haematemesis.

■ Hemorrhage from stomach and pain in stomach through

to spine. ^^ Hypochondria. Swelling and hardness in hypochondriac regions.

■ Tightness in r. hypochondriac region and shooting pains

in left. I Fulness in region of liver.

■ Liver enlarged, sensitive to pressure.

■Marked swelling of liver which is very sensitive to touch; pains along back particularly in places upon which she must lie; cannot lie long upon either side.

■ Pain in small of back and liver, all day. i Dropsy of liver.

■ Cramp-like sensation in splenic region.

■Splenic region swollen and sore on pressure; spleen large.

■ Chronic affections, and swellings of spleen and liver, with

infarctions of liver. ^^ Abdomen. Painful weight of viscera when walking, as if they would drop.

■ Congestion to head, blood-vessels dilated; swelling about

eyes; pressure in stomach and abdomen after smallest quantity of food, vomiting of food, tension in abdomen causing shortness of breath, weakness almost to paraly- sis, hardness and fulness in r. side of abdomen, begin- ning dropsy, swelling of feet. ^Intermittent.

■ Bowels feel sore when touched, as if bruised, or weakened

by cathartics.

■ On feeling abdomen and on coughing, bowels are sore as if

beaten, or as if they had been acted upon by purgatives. ■Abdomen feels sore and bruised when walking. ■Soreness all over abdomen ; > by warmth. ^Intestinal

catarrh. Stitching in abdomen,

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■ Hardness and distension of abdomen, without flatulence. I Rumbling, with pain in small of back and kidne3^s, and

slight urethral soreness when urinating. I I Rumbling in bowels, with constant feeling as though

of pale blood with violent colic. ^Dysmenorrhoea. ^^ Stool and Rectum. lAt 8 a.m. very sudden discharge

from bowels, waterj^ painless and odorless.

■ Diarrhoea < mornings; bad sleep before midnight.

■ Sudden, gushing diarrhoea.

■Sudden, watery, painless stool, without smell.

■ ■ Frequent diarrhoea ; stools watery, with or without te-

nesmus, and preceded or not by pain, but always with much flatulence and more frequent after taking food or water.

■ Acrid watery diarrhoea, excoriating the anus, with vom-

iting of food soon after eating.

■ Frequent diarrhoeic stools, corroding the anus, face being

fiery red.

■ Watery diarrhoea with burning at anus.

■ Obstinate diarrhoea, stools composed of slime and undi-

gested food; painless, excoriating and exhausting.

■ Chronic, watery, painless diarrhoea, coming regularly

every afternoon. I I Painless diarrhoea, involuntary during a meal.

■ Painless stools like from a spout. ^Intestinal catarrh.

■ Chronic watery diarrhoea in children, usually soon after

eating and drinking, without pain or effort, mostly con- taining undigested substances.

■ ■Undigested stools at night, or while eating or drinking.

■ Diarrhoea; pale, miserable complexion; emaciation; abdo-

men hard and distended without flatulency ; bulimia alternating with anorexia; thirst. ■Slimy, watery, painless diarrhoea, < at night; abdomen painless to pressure; face pale; marked swelling of body which pits upon pressure; skin cold; no appetite; great thirst; great weakness: slight fever towards evening; peevish and tearful.

■ Painless, large, watery discharge, with a good appetite.

■ Watery diarrhoea, brown, painless and weakening.

■ Colliquative diarrhoea in phthisical subjects; passages

very frequent and finally become almost involuntary; great debility. I I Diarrhoea during pregnancy.

■ Summer complaint of children with emaciation.

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I Rice-water discharges; cold, with cold, sour sweat.

I 1 Profuse discharge of flakes of mucus, or formed into lumpy balls.

I Cholerine where the enteric symptoms are particularly severe; extreme sensitiveness of intestinal tract, so that the least motion, or smallest amount of food or drink, renews or < diarrhoea; intestinal scrapings discharged in large quantities; vox cholera present; blue rings around eyes; pulse beginning to fail.

I I Slimy, bloody stools with tenesmus.

■Straining for stool all day, sick at stomach, disagreeable taste, worse drinking cold water.

Constipation from intestinal atony.

■ Costive: stools hard and difficult, followed by backache.

■ Chronic constipation; ineffectual urging; anaemia; easily

flushed head and face, with cold hands and feet.

■ Hard, difficult stools, followed for hours by cramping

pain in rectum. ^Intermittent. 1 1 Constipation with hot urine. I 1 Contractive spasm in the rectum.

■ Prolapsus recti, particularly with children.

■ Itching at anus at night, from ascarides ; taenia. I I Discharge of ascarides with slimy stool.

■ Helminthiasis; wretched complexion; itching in anus at

night, from seat worms.

■ Piles, copious bleeding or ichorous oozing; tearing pains

with itching and gnawing.

■ Protrusion of large varices at anus.

■ Profuse hemorrhoidal flux from anus and bladder. Aggravation: after abuse of cinchona; while eating or

drinking; at night. ^^ Urinary Organs. ■ Pains in bladder.

■ Urging to urinate, with tickling in urethra extending to

neck of bladder.

■ Continual desire to urinate, with pain in liver, chest and

kidneys.

■ ■Involuntary urination at night, and also when walking

about by day.

■ Incontinence of urine, more frequent by day than by

night, but floods bed five or six times at night; urine smells like strong ammonia, stains sheets very dark; yellowish clay-colored sediment sticks to sides and bot- tom of vessel.

■ Nocturnal enuresis; urine dark red, sometimes with mu-

cous sediment. I I Urine blood-red, and plentifully charged with blood corpuscles.

■ Urine clear as w^ater. ^Anaemia.

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lUrine more copious and clear; with relaxation and pros- tration, making him very nervous. I Urine alkaline.

■ Hot urine; metrorrhagia.

Burning in urethra during micturition, as if urine were hot.

■ Slight soreness in urethra. Diabetes.

I 1 Albuminuria, with chronic fatty degeneration, much aneemia and excessive prostration, with anasarca.

I Chronic vesical catarrh and gleet. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Erections night and day; nocturnal emissions; sterility; sexual desire increased.

I Impotence.

Discharge of mucus from urethra after a cold.

■ Copious, slimy, painless discharge from urethra, remain-

ing after an attack of gonorrhoea. iGonorrhoea of long standing with milky discharge. I I Chronic gleet with anaemia. ^ Female Sexual Organs, i Sexual desire lessened, sterility. ■Ansemia of ovaries, with amenorrhoea and general anaemia.

■ Dropsy of uterus; face flushes red; great debility. I Sticking, shooting pains in uterus.

I Pain in os tinc£e on lying down; bearing down feeling,, at same time dryness in vagina.

I Sharp pains in abdomen, bearing down in uterus, with aching below it.

• Before menses, stinging headache, ringing in ears, dis- charge of long pieces of mucus from uterus.

I Labor-like colicky pains.

■Anaemia, with uterine congestion, burning pain or press- ure and weight in sacrum; dragging pains in loins, pelvis and thighs ; cold hands and feet.

Menses: too late, long lasting and profuse; flow watery, or in lumps; preceded by labor-like j)ains; varices in legs <; intermit two or three days, then return; uterus displaced; come on with a physical languor and mental depression unfitting her for work, could overcome them by forced exertion; followed by hysterical symptoms.

I I Menses: too soon, too profuse, too long lasting, with fiery red face, ringing in ears; flow pale, watery, debilitating.

■ During menses, must keep perfectly still, least movement

greatly < the flow.

■ Copious discharge of partly fluid and partly black and

coagulated blood, with pains in loins and labor-like colic in weakly persons, with fiery red face and vascular excitement; headache and vertigo; constipation and hot urine. ^Hemorrhage.

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I Uterine hemorrhage with labor-like pains in abdomen and small of back, and hard, full pulse.

■ Passive hemorrhage dark grumous in character. ^Menor-

rhagia. I Metrorrhagia, especially when accompanied by a very red face; menses profuse; acrid leucorrhoea; miscar- riage ; sterility ; painfulness of vagina during an embrace.

■ Face pale and bloated in appearance; skin cold and pits

upon pressure, especially about ankles, great lassitude, cries easily, want of ajDpetite, aversion to food, indica- tion of acidity of stomach, constipation, stool often absent a whole week, menses too frequent and too copious. ^After severe hemorrhages. iThe menses intermit and then re-appear.

■ Scanty pale catamenial discharge, with violent colic. llMenses pale, watery, debilitating.

I Amenorrhoea or watery menses; women who flush easily, especially after drinking wine, with dyspnoea and pal- pitation.

■Amenorrhoea with chlorosis; congestive headache; fiery red face; they feel weary and tired all the time, with desire to lie down.

■ Suppression of menses with extreme nervousness.

■ Mucous discharge in place of menses. ^Chlorosis.

■ Prolapsus of vagina.

■ Vagina too dry.

■ Insensible or jjainful during coitus.

■ Much itching of vulva in weakly, delicate women with

red face, i I Leucorrhoea before menses.

■ Leucorrhoea resembling watery milk, smarting and cor-

roding when first appearing, not afterwards; dragging pains in loins, pelvis and thighs.

■ Leucorrhoea mild and milky, or acrid and sharp, with

■ Prevents abortion; promotes expulsion of moles. I I Prolapsus of vagina, only during pregnancy.

■ ■Suddenly leaves table and with one effort vomits all the

food taken, appetite not thereby impaired, can sit down and eat again. ^Pregnancy.

■ Varicose veins during pregnancy.

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I I Great nervous erethism, flowing, and pain, with fiery- red face ; she is weak and pale. ^Miscarriage.

■ Uterine hemorrhage with threatened premature labor, at

end of eighth month.

■ Uterine hemorrhage with labor-like pains, glowing face;

flow watery, or containing lumps; j^ulse full, hard.

i I Spasmodic labor pains.

I I Violent pains in loins and abdomen, like those of labor,, with discharge of partly fluid and partly clotted blood ; full, hard pulse; frequent short shuddering; headache and vertigo; hot urine; feeble; fiery red face. ^Ex- cessive or too long lasting after-pains. ^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. ■ Voice hoarse, almost extinct, utterance diSicult and panting.. ^Intermittent.

I I Complete aphonia, causing much anxiety.

■ Can talk only in a toneless whisper, and only that which

is absolutely required from him; pain in larynx and trachea; after talking, burning; sensation as if some- thing was in larynx, which he wished to remove by hawking or coughing; sensation, externally, as if throat was being squeezed; tickling in larynx, producing vio- lent attacks of cough, loses breath, blood mounts to head, tears run from eyes, he sinks down exhausted ; easily vexed; least thing excites him; pulse accelerated toward evening; cannot get to sleep in evening, and after he does fall asleep, sweat awakens him; some nights, congestion to chest; palpitation of heart; pulsa- tions in all the arteries, and anxiousness; despondent; solicitude about those belonging to him, with constant thoughts of death; pale, earthy color of face. ^Aphonia. I I Low tone of voice; pain in larynx and trachea; burning sensation after talking; laryngeal hemorrhages; asth- matic symptoms with haemoptysis. ^Aphonia.

■ Hoarseness, with sensation of roughness in larynx.

■ General weakness, caused by speaking.

■ Influenza, cough and vomiting of food immediately after

eating. ^*^ Respiration. iHot breath.

■ Uneasy breathing, from pain across chest.

■ Breathing dry, loud, anxious; sometimes rattling in

■ ■Difficult breathing, oppression of chest, as if some one

pressed with hand upon it.

■ Cannot get any air; even when seated his breathing is

difficult.

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■ Oppression from orgasm of blood; chest scarcely moves

when breathing; nostrils dilated during expiration.

■ Difficult inspiration, want of air in coughing out, want

of air in drawing in.

■ Breath fails at end of coughing fit.

■ Suffocative fits in evening, in bed, with warmth of neck

and trunk, limbs cold. ^Spasmodic asthma.

■ Asthma, with oppression of chest and anxiety at pit of

stomach, preventing free respiration.

■ Catarrhal asthma every morning from 10 to 11. ■Asthma worse after 12 p.m., must sit up; > walking

about slowly and talking; > uncovering chest; after itch.

■ Asthma, with difficult, slow breathing, > by walking

■ Pneumonia epidemica: dyspnoea gradually increased; no

pressure under sternum; pale face; stupid; roof of mouth white; skin neither burning nor cold and damp; pulse never hard and full.

■ Dyspnoea. ^Intermittent fever.

■ Constant tickling irritation to cough, with copious, green-

ish, blood-streaked, purulent expectoration, great de- bility, emaciation and hectic fever; complete cessation of menstrual flow which is replaced by a blenorrhagia.

I I Catarrhal cough, with aching pain in upper part of sternum.

■Spasmodic cough with expectoration of transparent, tena- cious mucous, and vomiting of ingesta.

■ ■Spasmodic cough after meals with vomiting of all the

food taken. 1 I Cough with gagging and vomiting.

■ Spasmodic cough, in evening without, in morning with

blood-streaked, purulent, slimy, sometimes frothy expec- toration, of a sweetish, putrid or sour taste, < in eve- ning till midnight; during this period the sputa are not dislodged, but in daytime, during motion, they are loosened; suitable for drinkers of brandy, excessive tea- drinkers, or for persons who have taken much Cinchona.

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■ Spasmodic whooping cough, dry in evening, in morning,

copious, purulent, blood-streaked expectoration, and sour

vomiting of food ; at once > by eating a small quantity

of food. 1 1 Whooping cough ; child vomits food with every coughing

spell ; great pallor and weakness. I Cough : worse from abuse of tea, quinine, brandy ; tobacco

smoke; loss of fluids; when moving; violent exertion;

I So-called galloping consumption with pus-like expecto- ration; vomiting of ingesta; swollen feet; leucorrhoea;

diarrhoea. t I Chronic blenorrhoea pulmonum. I Sputa: copious, putrid, purulent, greenish or frothy,

bloody; < morning; copious when moving; scanty,

thin, frothy, with streaks of blood.

■ Hawking up of bloody phlegm.

1 B Scanty, thin, frothy expectoration, with streaks of blood. 1 Coughing up of blood in morning on rising from bed.

■ Dry, tickling cough with blood- spitting.

■ Cough with expectoration of blood, in lean people with

yellowish color of face, who cannot sleep well at night.

■ Patients of venous constitution, who have for some time

had bloody expectoration and complain of shortness of breath without any particular pain in chest, and suffer occasionally from palpitation of heart.

■ iHsemoptysis: of onanists and consumptives; from severe

exertion; after loss of fluids; from suppressed menses.

■ Haemoptysis in a laborer whose work compelled him to

receive constant light blows on pit of stomach ; blood watery and coagulated; prsecordial region sensitive to touch and painful, pain spreading from thence over nearly whole abdomen; pulse full, hard and excited; face pale; great weakness.

■ Blood scanty, clear and bright red, escaping with an easy

effort at vomiting; pain between shoulders; constriction of chest, < at night; cannot sit, but is > by slowly walking about, must frequently lie down, is very weak, particularly after talking; must cough after any exer- tion. ^Haemoptysis.

■ Haemoptysis morning and night; blood bright, coagu-

lated, scanty during slight cough with interscapular pains; heavy breathing; must sit up; > walking slowly about, notwithstanding weakness obliges lying down; palpitation.

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^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■ Slight heaviness in upper part of 1. lung, making breathing rather difficult; sore feel- ing below clavicle and 1. nipple, cannot take a long breath.

I Slight, dull, heavy pain across upper part of chest, ren- dering breathing uneasy.

Fulness and tightness in chest as if constricted, < walking.

I Pain in 1. side with dyspnoea. ^Intermittent fever.

I I Fugitive pains in chest, flying from one point to another.

• Women who blush easily; < after wine; epistaxis in al- ternation with spitting of blood; pains in chest fugrtive, cannot be located; menses watery or absent. ^Pul- monary consumption.

■ Shooting stinging in chest.

■ Sticking and bruised sensation in chest.

I I When coughing, stitches in chest; sensation of soreness.

I Feeling of dryness and heat in chest.

I Burning in upper part of sternum after coughing.

■ Pressure superiorly under sternum, with catarrh and

I Contractive cramp in chest, and cough only when moving

and walking. I Constriction of chest at night due to erethism of vascular

system and congestion of blood to chest ; < from least

covering of bed clothing ; > lying with chest elevated ;

boring in chest; not noticeable during day while

by palpitation of heart, obliging patient to sit up. I Rush of blood to head and chest, with cold hands and

slowly. -I Incipient tuberculosis, with transient pains in chest and

discolored sputa; in later stages when there is vomiting

of food; constant pressure in epigastrium, and crowded

sensation in chest. ■Tuberculosis with flying pain in chest, and hectic fever.

■ Pulmonary tuberculosis; especially in young, florid sub-

jects, with a remarkable erethism of vascular system, and inclination to congestion to chest. lAnsemia in chlorotic, or tuberculous subjects with profuse serous effusion, with ascites and oedematous feet, scanty urination; bruised feeling in chest, orthopnoea; want of air; < in walking, j^reventing inspiration and compel-

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ling them to sit up in bed; < after midnight; pains in chest, with stitching and tension between shoulders, allowing no motion.

■ Consumption in consequence of erethic chlorosis.

■ Whole body emaciated and covered with a clammy col-

liquative, sweat; face hippocratic, sunken, earthy in color with circumscribed redness of r. cheek; eye& sunken, dull, yellowish and filled with tears; pale lips; tongue pale and flabby ; whole throat and pharynx sore and ulcerated; voice rough, hoarse, scarcely audible; constriction of chest; difficult respiration (mainly accom- plished by abdominal muscles, the thorax being mo- tionless, with great expansion of alse nasi during expi- ration); stitching pain in chest extending back into shoulder blades ; tickling in larynx with anxious irri- tation to cough, copious, greenish, blood-streaked, foul- tasting expectoration ; great debility and lassitude ; stitch- ing pain here and there in limbs; colliquative diar- rhoea excoriating the rectum; chilliness, particularly over back, < evenings, with cold extremities and hot palms of hands; loss of appetite; thirst and sleepless- ness; scalp painful to touch with falling out of the hair. ^Phthisis florida after pneumonia. ■No ailments previous to chill; dyspnoea increases slowly; face pale, and in adults collapsed, hippocratic or expres- sionless, stiff and stupid; roof of mouth always white; skin neither cold nor burning hot; pulse neither full nor hard; stool consistent, brown. ^Pneumonia.

■ Inflammation of lungs with roof of mouth white; dry

skin and gradually increasing oppression.

■ Pneumonia senilis; laxity of fibre; pulse soft and quick,

■ Congestion to chest ; anxiety; palpitation of heart; pul-

sation in all the arteries. ^Aphonia.

■ Palpitation, with fear; has to move about, can neither

sit nor stand. I I Palpitation ; beats of heart < from least motion.

■ Palpitation: > walking slowly; in onanists; after loss

of fluids; with blood-spitting; in chlorosis.

I I Anxiety in chest, heat rising from pit of stomach up- ward, after bodily exercise ; palpitation. ^Heart disease.

■Rapid action of heart.

■ Hard, strong beating of heart; pseudo-pk'thora.

■ Bellows-sound of heart, and anaemic murmur of the

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arteries and veins; muscles feeble, and easily exhausted from slight exertion ; oedema of body. ^Anaemia iConsecutive heart disease ; chlorosis.

■ Hypertrophy of heart.

I i Endocarditis with chlorotic symptoms.

I Fatty degeneration of heart.

I Pulse accelerated towards evening. ^Aphonia.

■ Violent ebullitions.

■ Pulse full, hard; increased by exertion.

I I Pulse hard and full at beginning of paroxysm ; or weak^

small and scarcely perceptible during apyrexia. ^In- termittent fever.

■ Soft, quick, occasionally slow pulse; weak, easily com-

pressible. ^Pneumonia. ■Small, weak pulse, sometimes intermittent, sometimes uneven.

■ Chlorosis with vertigo on moving, stooping, etc., pressing

pain in forepart of head and in stomach, anorexia, con- stipation, skin of face and body of waxy appearance, lips and tongue pale, menses scanty, watery and at times entirely absent, emaciation, great debility, as if her knees would sink under her, occasionally swelling of face, hands and particularly of feet, urine clear as water, constant chilliness and coldness, pulse weak.

■ Chlorosis in consequence of retarded puberty; after loss

of blood.

■ lErethic chlorosis, < in winter.

■ lAnsemia masked behind plethora and congestions; pale

color of mucous membranes, with nun's murmur.

■ Great erethism of the circulation; red face and full pulse;

blood partly fluid and partly clotted, with labor-like pains in abdomen; feels < in the night, particularly after midnight, from fat food, abuse of Peruvian bark ; very weak. ^Hemorrhage.

■ Throbbing in all the blood-vessels; soft bellows-sound

at apex.

II Nun's murmur in the veins.

■ Drawing in chest and around heart; scalp sore. ^^ Neck and Back. ■ Neck sore as if bruised ; stiff.

■ Neck and shoulder painful when lying on r. side.

■ Pains between shoulders.

■ Constant pains along back, < in those parts she had to

lie on. ^Enlargement of liver.

■ Lumbago all night, goes off on rising.

■ Pain in region of kidneys, with desire to make water;

urine albuminous, feet and legs dropsical.

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I Stitch-like jerks in small of back when walking, extend- ing toward hips rather than upper parts ; more painful after sitting or standing (almost as after straining the parts by lifting). ^^ Upper Limbs, l Paralytic heavine'ss in shoulder-joint.

I Omodynia, either side ; pain especially in deltoid muscle, of a constant, drawing, tearing, laming nature, < in bed, must get up and slowly move about; also < from being too lightly covered for an}^ length of time ; face pale, flushing easily; no swelling.

I Omodynia in Spring, affecting both deltoid muscles; in Fall a recurrence, but only in 1. deltoid; violent lanci- nating pain when moving arm, making her cry out.

■ Constant dull tearing or quick darting pain in deltoid,

particularly at insertion of biceps muscle, and extend- ing with decreasing severity to elbow ; < holding arm quiet, warmth of bed, uncovering for any length of time; cannot move elbow from body without severe pain; lifting arm, or lifting hand to head, or putting hand behind back utterly impossible. I I Pain, shooting and tearing, from shoulder-joint into upjDcr arm and farther downward, which makes it im- possible to raise it.

■ Downward shooting pains (in shoulders and arms) more

severe than the shooting upward.

■ Slight gnawing pain in 1. arm, finally becoming so severe

as to compel her to keep arm quietly at side ; pain con- stant, preventing sleep; least movement of fingers causes pain in arm; arm heavy as lead; pressure upon head of humerus very painful; chilliness, heat, thirst and sweat present. ^Rheumatismus humeri. Flesh of r. arm and shoulder sore to touch, feels bruised, < from motion, pain > by external heat.

■ Pinching in r. deltoid.

■ Boring in r shoulder, and from biceps to elbow; < from

■ Paralytic tearing pain from shoulder-joint into upper

arm (left); he cannot raise arm; slow movement im- proves it gradually.

■Nightly tearing and stinging in arms.

I I Cracking in shoulder-joint.

■ Right arm lame.

■ Arms nearly rigid.

■ Irresistible desire to bend arm, with intense pain; drives

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I Fingers stiff, numb, contracted. ^^ Lower Limbs. I Violent pain in hip-joint, < evening until 12 P.M.; must get out of bed and walk about; can hardly- put foot down, but pain lessens while walking.

■ Shooting and tearing in hip-joint, which pains as if

bruised when touched ; down along tibia; < evening, in bed ; must get up and walk about.

I Remitting pains; < in night; although at first scarcely able to stand on affected limb, by continued motion and walking about, pain gradually becomes milder; pain in 1. shoulder; face pale, emaciated, but flushes easily. ^Sciatica.

I Numbness of thighs.

I Varicose veins inside of r. thigh, then of 1.

■ Painful drawing in legs, with heaviness and stiffness.

■ Legs feel weak.

■ Great weakness of knees, almost sinks to the ground.

■ Calves weak as if bruised.

■ Cramps in calves, < at rest, especially at night.

■ Sore throat and chronic enlargement of tonsils; great

weakness in joints, especially in ankles; ligaments be- came so relaxed that she could not walk or stand, on attempting to do so her legs seemed to slip off the feet and she would drop upon her external ankles. ^Ansemia.

■ Feet cold, numb, stiff.

■ CEdema of feet. ^Intermittent fever. ■Varices on feet.

I I Shooting pricking in r. instep.

■ Cramps in soles of feet and toes, with painful contraction

of toes ; cramps in calves of legs at night.

■ Soles feel hot.

■ Heel pains.

■ Easily fatigued by walking; better from moving and

walking slowly about, but weakness obliges to lie down. ^* Limbs in General. ■Nightly tearing in arms and legs.

■ Stitching tearing pains, < at night; must constantly

change position of limbs; face pale and emaciated. Neuralgia in limbs, throbbing, < at night, by lying down,

■ Swelling of hands and of legs up to knees.

■ Hands and feet almost continually cold.

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Laying head on table: > singing and humming in ears.

Holding arm quiet: < pain.

Lying with chest elevated: constriction >.

Ljang down: desire to; hammering pain in head compels one to ; pain in face < ; pain in os tincse ; asthma < ; weakness obliges.

Pain < from lying down, > from rising.

Sitting up : > pain in face ; asthma > ; cough compels him to sit up to raise sputa; congestion of blood to lungs, with palpitation, obliges patient to sit up.

Sitting up after sleeping: sweat goes off suddenly.

Pain < in part of back she lies on.

Can only lie on back at night.

Cannot lie long on either side.

Must change position to relieve pains in limbs.

Sitting still : asthma <; stitch-like jerks in back <; falls asleep.

Standing: stitch-like jerks in back <.

■ Better walking slowly about.

Motion: sudden, brings on throbbing headache; beating pain in head <; the least renews diarrhoea; least < flow of menses; sputa dislodged during; cough <; cramp and cough ; boring in chest > ; pains in chest and between shoulders allow no motion; must move about, cannot sit or stand ; palpitation < ; vertigo with chlo- rosis; of arm, lancinating pains; the least of fingers causes pain ; bruised feeling in r. arm and shoulder < ; boring in shoulder <; slow motion > pain in arm; > pain in lower limbs; neuralgia > ; heat > ; sweat <.

Talking: burning in larynx; asthma > ; cough <.

Rising: vertigo; after rising and dressing pressure in frontal eminence; coughing up blood on rising from bed; lumbago >.

Cannot keep head quiet.

Cannot move elbow from body without severe pain ; can- not raise arm.

Irresistible desire to bend arm.

Stooping: < beating pain in head; nosebleed; vertigo with chlorosis.

Must get up and slowly move about.

After getting out of bed: chill >.

Going down stairs: headache <.

Fall forward: must lean against something to prevent falling; danger of falling when descending.

Walking: giddy, as if drunk; vertigo, with sickness of stomach; painful weight of viscera; abdomen feels sore and bruised; involuntary urination; asthma > ; heavy breathing >; tightness inchest <; cramp and cough;

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slowly, haemoptysis > ; palpitation > from slow ; stitch- like jerks in small of back; slowly > pain in arms; pain in hip-joint > ; must get out of bed and walk slowly. •^^ Nerves, l Over-sensitiveness to pain. I Nervous excitability and anxiety.

■ Increased bodily irritability.

• I Restless, must walk slowly about.

I Great nervousness and debility; great disposition to lie or sit; red face; weak, clilorotic.

■ Weak and nervous, suffers much, has very red cheeks.

I Very weak and tired, but always > w^alking slowly about.

■ Tired, aching, as from lying long in one position. Relaxation and debility after excitation which might be

mistaken for exuberance of life.

■ After an attack of pneumonia, debility and chlorosis;

paleness of face and mucous membranes; swelling of spleen; want of muscular power; anaemic murmurs.

■ Great weakness and prostration; very easily fatigued.

iLaxness and weakness of whole musculature, with ema- ciation, weakness of digestion, and coldness of ex- tremities.

■ General w^eakness, even from talking.

■ Great languor, with emaciation.

■ Prostration, debility and great loss of muscular power.

■ Pr-ostration, with slow, weak pulse.

I I Prostration, lethargic dulness, vertigo, i Weakness of body almost paralytic; she is so weak that she must lie down.

■ Paralysis from loss of fluids. Consecutive paralysis; generally one-sided.

■ Frequent attacks of tremor, alternating with a sensation

of weakness, as if very weary ; trembling of whole body. I I Frequent and sudden attacks of trembling throughout body, with great weakness, lassitude and desire to sleep, which does not relieve.

■ Fainting spells, with subsequent weakness. I I Light spasms, with numbness of limbs.

I I Tetanic spasms with cataleptic condition of upper por- tion of body.

■ Chorea.

■ Cataleps3^

^^ Sleep. Falls asleep : from weariness or debility ; while sewing; sitting and studying.

■ Excessive and drowsy fatigue, with restless sleep at night.

■ Sleepy at night, with inability to sleep.

■ Restless sleep at night; cannot get to sleep in evening;

after he does fall asleep, a sweat breaks out which awakens him, and he has to lie a long time before he

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can go to sleep again, and so on until morning ; some nights, congestion to chest; palpitation of heart; pulsa- tion in all the arteries, with anxiousness. ^Aphonia.

I Bad sleep before midnight.

lAnxious tossing in bed before 12 p.m. ; has to get up and walk.

■ Child does not sleep because of itching from ascarides.

I Can lie only on back at night.

I I The pain forces him to get up out of bed at night and walk slowly about.

1 I Is worse from being too lightly covered for any length

of time.

■ Weariness and drowsiness in daytime, with light sleep

at night, full of dreams, attended with seminal emis- sions; vivid dreams of being engaged in war, or that he fell into water.

■ Disturbed by dreams; much weariness on rising in

morning.

■ Dreams : vivid ; confused ; unpleasant.

■ Nightmare.

^^ Time. Morning : pressure in frontal eminence, extending- over whole forehead to vertex and becoming more in- tense; headache < towards; stitches in ears; nosebleed; toothache; mouth dry; diarrhoea <; cough with ex- pectoration of blood-streaked mucus; whooping cough; copious blood-streaked expectoration; coughing up of blood; haemoptysis; much uneasiness on rising; loose stool early in; chilliness with headache; sweat <.

2 A.M.: driven out of bed by pain.

3 A.M.: severe stitches in temples.

8 A.M.: sudden discharge from bowels.

12 P.M.: asthma < after.

All day: frontal headache; dull and heavy; pain in small of back and liver; straining for stool.

By day: involuntary urination; incontinence of urine more frequent; erections; sputa dislodged; cough and boring in chest > ; sweat <.

Afternoon: shooting headache; violent chill lasting half hour.

Evening: lively; headache; darkness before eyes; appetite voracious; fever towards; pulse accelerated towards; cannot get to sleep; suffocating fits; asthma <; spas- modic cough; putrid or sour taste <; till midnight sputa not dislodged; whooping cough dry; haemoptysis; chilliness < ; violent pain in hip joint < till midnight; chilly; general coldness; heat < ; can only sit up short time.

Night: capability to see in dark; diarrhoeic flatulent colic;,

289 FERRUM.

undigested stool; slimy, watery diarrhoea < ; itching in anus; hemorrhoidal flux from anus and bladder <; involuntary urination ; incontinence of urine, floods bed five or six times; erections; nocturnal emissions; con- gestion to chest; must sit up to raise sputa; cough <;. constriction of chest; after abuse of Peruvian bark, from fat food feels <; lumbago; tearing and stinging in. arms ; remitting pains in lower limbs < ; cramps in calves < ; tearing in arms and legs ; restless sleep at night; can only lie on back; chilly; general coldness; feet cold and numb; sweat.

Midnight: headache < after; vomiting of food immediately after; bad sleep before; after, anaemia < ; after abuse of Peruvian bark, or from fat food feels <. ^^ Temperature and "Weather. Overheating produces neu- ralgia.

External heat: > pain in arms; boring in shoulder <.

Warmth of bed: pain in arm <.

Warmth: > soreness of abdomen.

Uncovering chest: asthma >.

Too lightly covered: omodynia <.

Least covering: constriction <.

After getting oat of bed: chill >.

Open air: > headache; dread of.

Cold water: > momentarily toothache ; taste in mouth <,

Cold washing produces neuralgia.

Cold air : pressure on top of head caused by.

In July, sleeping with window open : intestinal catarrh.

Generally < in cold weather, > in warm air.

Winter: erethic chlorosis <. *° Fever, l Vomiting of ingesta as chill is coming on; loose stool in early morning.

I Frequent short attacks of shivering or shuddering.

I Chilliness with trembling all over.

iChilly; want of animal heat.

I 1 Chilliness, with headache in morning.

I Chill with thirst; headache; hot, red face; chilly all night.

I Chilliness, with great thirst, preceded and succeeded by headache.

■ During chill face is glowing hot.

I Chilly every evening; hectic fever.

• General coldness of body, hands and feet very cold.

■ General coldness in evening, in bed, often lasting all

night. I Hands and feet cold and numb, chilly all over, not >

by walking. I Feet very cold, toes cold as ice, fingers stifi".

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I Feet cold and numb all night, as after skating.

I I Chill, lessened after getting out of bed.

I Chill better after eating.

I I Sensation of heat all over body, which is cold to touch,

with sensation in face and around eyes, as if swollen

and bloated.

■ Heat, with very red face and inclination to uncover, i I Heat in body, with red cheeks, but head is free.

■ Head hot, feet cold.

I Great heat of palms of hands and soles of feet

I I Heat in stomach ( > by eating), vomiting of ingesta.

I I Dry heat, < towards evening ; inclination to uncover ;

every motion, at niglit and morning in be,d- iSweat from early morning until noon, every other day,

preceded by headache. I At times anxious cold sweat (with cramps of different

■ Strong smelling night-sweat.

■ Sweat stains yellow, is fetid on going to sleep. iViscid, exhausting sweats.

Sweat often confined to lower part of body. • Sweat lessened : while speaking; after meals. All the symptoms < while sweating.

■ Cold perspiration with convulsions.

■ During apyrexia profound disturbance of digestive

organs, fulness and pressure in stomach, regurgitation and vomiting of food, slimy or watery diarrhoea; op- pression of chest, tendency to mucorrhoea and hemor- rhage, palpitation of heart, vertigo and headache, great palenessof lips and gums; anaemic murmur; paroxysms not severe but protracted and irregular; sweat profuse and debilitating; type of fever easily changing; marked swelling of spleen. ^Intermittent.

■ Prostration, debility and great loss of muscular power;

anaemia; cedema of feet and face, especially upper and lower eyelids; headache; vertigo; swelling of cutaneous veins; splenic region swollen and sore on pressure; vomiting of everything eaten; constipation or chronic diarrhoea with lienteria; cadaverous, jaundiced com-

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plexion; yellow spots on face; very weak and tired, but always > walking slowly about; cases maltreated by quinine. ^Intermittent.

iCliill lasting one hour, 7 to 8 a.m., one day, and from 9 to 10 the next, first in feet, extending to back, < r. side; nails blue; very little thirst, nausea or pain; slight temporal headache; paroxysm preceded by one loose stool early in morning, and great nervousness; ill- humor, scolds about everything and everybody ; fever lasts two hours, feet continuing cold some time after fever sets in; sweat profuse and debilitating on falling asleep, but goes off suddenly on sitting up; dreads sweat more than chill or fever; nausea during sweat; sleep restless and disturbed; no appetite; face sallow, light leather-color; r. cheek slightly swollen, though not sore; weak, can only sit up a short time in evening. ^Inter- mittent.

■ Complete aphonia, great prostration, skin pale, puffi- ness about eyes, lips and gums colorless, ansemic mur- mur, constant dyspnoea, oedema of feet, loss of appetite with pressure in stomach after least food, hard, difficult stool followed by cramping pains in rectum, lasting several hours, profuse, offensive smelling sweat on going to sleep; cough; spleen enlarged. ^Tertian intermittent.

iParoxysm every other day; headache; pressing in fore- head, followed by violent chilliness, lasting three-quar- ters of an hour, with increased headache and much thirst, afterwards moderate heat and sweat; bitter taste, loss of appetite, constipation, yellowish complexion ; great weakness; moderate headache during apyrexia. ^In- termittent.

lln afternoon violent chill for half an hour, then thirst, must go to bed, followed by heat with perspiration.

I Intermittent fever after abuse of quinine; congestion to head; veins distended; vomiting ingesta; swelling of spleen; anaemia, masked by pseudo-plethora; skin trans- parent when it is not earthy.

I Intermittent fever of long duration and maltreated by quinine, where there is complete prostration with great anaemia, face and lips pale, body cold, particularly ex- tremities, digestion impaired, lassitude and weakness of whole musculature, and great emaciation, lungs affected, circulation disturbed and tendency to hemorrhages; tuberculosis threatens.

'■(Edematous swelling of body; cool skin; constant chilli- ness, evening fever, simulating hectic fever.

iThe skin becomes paler and paler; well-marked black or dark purplish spots on skin. ^Intermittent.

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Type: tertian; morning chill; afternoon fever. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Frequent short shuddering.

Periodical headaches.

Quarter of an hour: headache in morning, grows <.

20 minutes: headache changing to pressive pain from within outward.

Three quarters of an hour : chilliness.

Stools followed for hours by cramping pain in rectum.

Chill lasting one hour from 7 to 8 a.m., one day, and from 8 to 10 the next.

Every morning from 10 to 11 : catarrhal asthma.

Every afternoon: chronic watery, painless diarrhcea.

Every evening: chilly.

Every other day, from early morning until noon : sweat, preceded by headache; paroxysm.

Every two or three days: menses intermit and then return.

Every two weeks: for a few days headache.

Every few weeks: scabs come out of nose or are coughed up. ^- Locality and Direction. Right: as if head would incline to side; eye feels as though it would protrude; ringing in ear; tightness in hypochondriac region; hardness and fulness on side of abdomen; circumscribed redness of cheek; neck and shoulder painful when lying on side; flesh of arm and shoulder sore to touch; pinching in deltoid; boring in shoulder; arm lame; varicose veins inside of thigh; pricking in instep; chill < r. side ; cheek slightly swollen.

Left: sticking pain over eye; hammering boring pain in temple; shooting headache in side; headache on side; sudden pain over eye; discharge from ear; murmur in jugular vein; sensation of lump in side of throat; shoot- ing pains in hypochondriac region; heaviness in upper part of lung; sore feeling below nipple; pain in side; omodynia in deltoid; gnawing pain inarm; paralytic tearing pain from shoulder-joint to upper arm; varicose veins inside of thigh. From within outward: headache. ^Sensations.

Giddy, as if drunk; as if everything went around with her; as if balancing to and fro; staggering as if intoxicated; as if head would constantly incline to r. side; as if skull were pushed upward; as if brain were rent asunder; as if grain of sand were in eyes; pressure in eyes as if they would protrude; face as if swollen or bloated; tongue as if burnt; as of a lump in 1. side of throat; throat as if swollen outside; as if a nerve was quivering in stomach ; as if a valve rose in throat ; as if viscera would drop ; bowels as if bruised ; bowels as if beaten, as if they had been acted upon by purgatives; bowels as though they were going to move ; as if some- thing was in larynx ; as if throat was being squeezed ; chest as if constricted ; clavicles as if gone to sleep.

Pain : in back of head ; in face ; in stomach ; in stomach through to spine; in back; small of back and liver; in kidneys; inchest; in bladder; in os tincse; in loins; in vagina; in larynx and trachea; across chest; between shoulders; in 1. shoulder; between scapulae; in 1. side; in outer parts of chest; in neck and shoulders; in deltoid muscle; in heels. Intense pain : in arms. Severe frontal headache.

brain ; in all arteries ; in limbs. Boring: in 1. temple ; in chest; in r. shoulder; from biceps

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Cramp-like pains: in splenic region ; stomachache.

Constrictive pain : in region of heart.

Colicky pains: in abdomen.

Gnawing: at anus; in 1. arm.

Burning pains : in eyes ; in sacrum.

Constant pains along back.

Aching pains: in eyes; in throat; below uterus; upper- part of sternum.

Paralytic pain from shoulder-joint to upper arm.

Ulcerative pain : of scalp ; in outer ear.

Pressing pain : in forehead ; in throat ; in forepart of head; in stomach; in head of humerus.

Dragging pain: in loins; in pelvis ; in thigh.

Heavy pain : across upper part of chest.

Headache: above root of nose, 1. side; on top of head.

Dull pain: across upper part of chest.

Burning: in stomach; at anus; in urethra; in larynx;: in upper part of sternum.

Heat: of face; of head; in stomach; in chest; in soles;, all over body.

Flushes of heat : in head.

Anxiety: at pit of stomach; in chest.

Bruised feeling: of abdomen; inchest; in neck ; in hip- joint; in calves.

Constriction : of chest.

Contraction : of limbs.

Drawing: from nape of neck to heel; in region of heart;. in chest ; painful in legs.

Choking sensation : in throat.

Tickling: in urethra ; in larynx; in trachea.

Prickling : in brain.

Pricking: in r. instep.

Soreness : of throat ; of abdomen ; of bowels : of urethra ;. in chest ; below clavicle ; below 1. nipple ; of ])harynx.

Roughness : in larynx.

Dryness : of mouth ; of vagina ; in chest.

Crowded sensation : in chest.

Heavy feeling in head ; in eyelids ; in upper part of 1., lung; in legs.

Paralytic heaviness: in shoulder-joint.

Fulness: in pit of stomach; in region of liver; in r. side of abdomen; inchest.

Bearing down feeling: in uterus.

Painful weight: of viscera.

Weight: in back of head; in sacrum.

Pressure : on top of head; in eyes; at stomach ; in pit of stomach; in abdomen; in sacrum ; under sternum.

Tension: in abdomen; between shoulders.

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Tightness : in r. hypochondriac region ; in chest.

Oppression : of chest.

Palpitation : in stomacli.

Trembling : of whole body.

Restlessness: of limbs.

Uneasiness : at splenic end of stomach.

Weakness: of legs; of knees; of calves; of whole body.

Weariness : of feet.

Diilness: of head.

Roaring : in head ; in brain.

Murmur: in 1. jugular vein.

Humming : in ears.

Singing or ringing : in ears.

Buzzing: in brain.

Cracking : in shoulder-joint ; in limbs.

Rumbling: in abdomen.

Burnt sensation : on back and middle of tongue.

Pithy feeling: of tongue.

Stiffness: of legs.

Numb feeling : of tongue ; in arms ; in fingers ; in feet ; in thighs.

Formication : of scalp.

Itching: on seal}); at anus; of vulva. ** Tissues. "A cachectic state from faulty nutrition and assim- ilation.

Tendency to get fat.

1 1 Emaciation.

I Relaxation and weakness of entire musculature with emaciation; muscles feeble and easily exhausted from slight exertion.

I Pseudo-plethora; congestions, etc., yet ana?mic; face is earthy, flushing easily.

iHemorrhages; blood light or lumpy; coagulates easily.

I Blood-vessels distended, especially those of head, face and

feet.

I I Red parts become white.

llncrease of watery elements of blood and decrease of solids.

llAneemia, from whatever cause; chlorosis of defective menstruation, or simple poverty of blood induced by hemorrhages, deficiency of air, light, and suitable food, or of exhausting diseases.

lAfter severe hemorrhages; pale, bloated appearance; skin cool, and pitting upon pressure, particularly about joints; great lassitude and debility; cries easily; loss of appe- tite with aversion to food; indications of acidity of stomach; constipation; menses too frequent and too pro- fuse. ^Anaemia.

I lErethic chlorosis, worse during cold weather.

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■ Swelling of cutaneous veins; varices.

I Glands swollen, with rending, tearing pains.

■ Bonds disposed to soften or bend; fracture unites slowly. Scrofulosis.

■ Atrophy of children.

■ Cracking in joints.

■ Sudden emaciation; muscles lax, limbs cold; weak

Pressure: > headache; liver sensitive to; splenic region sore on pressure; abdomen painless; swelling of body pits upon pressure; upon head of humerus very painful.

Weight of bedclothes: boring in shoulder <.

Constant light blows on pit of stomach : cause hsemoptysis. ^^ Skin. BDry skin. ^Pneumonia.

■ Skin pale, yellow, sallow, dirty, withered, flabby.

■ Burning sensation, with pain as if excoriated when

touched.

■ Yellow-brown spots, sore to touch.

■ Inflammation and suppuration of dark hepatic spots.

■ Dirty brownish discoloration of skin.

■ Sharply defined black, or dark violet spots on skin.

■ Skin peels off on shoulders and left hand.

■ Scarlatina during desquamation.

■ Swelling of cutaneous veins.

■ Anasarca.

■ Ulcers pale, cedematous.

■ Warts on fingers and backs of hands.

*^ Stages of Life, Constitution. ■ ■Adapted to persons of san- guine, choleric temperament; pettish, quarrelsome, dis- putative, easily excited, least contradiction angers; women are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a very red face. ■Very weak and thin.

■ ■General hemorrhagic diathesis.

■ ■Hemorrhophilia. Dark hair.

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Child, set. 2| years, marked lymphatic constitution; diarrhoea.

Child, set. 3 ; enuresis diurna.

Boy, set. 14 years, of rapid growth, very pale and thin; diarrhoea.

Girl, set. 15, not yet menstruated; ansemia.

Boy, set. 16; gonorrhoea.

Girl, set. 20; chlorosis.

Man, set. 24, sanguine, choleric temperament, after pneu- monia; phthisis.

Man, set. 24, light com plexioned, strong, had intermittent fever of tertian type suppressed by quinine, and then reappeared as a quartan with marked symptoms of Cin- ch onism.

Girl, set. 25; blonde, chlorosis.

Woman, set. 26, mother of two children, lymphatic consti- tution, phlegmatic temperament, after loss of much blood; ansemia.

Man, set. 27, tall, pale, while at work in factory receives constantly a slight blow in epigastric region; hsemop- tysis.

Plump, strong, butcher's widow, aged 28; ansemia with migraine.

Mrs. B., set. 28, lymphatic temperament; enuresis diurna.

Man, lively disposition, dark complexioned, after washing face in cold water while overheated; neuralgia.

Man, set. 34; intermittent fever.

Man, set. 37; aphonia.

Man, set. 45, dyer, thin, muscular, choleric, dark com- plexion; rheumatism.

Woman, set. 53, after inflammation of liver; pain and swelling of liver. ^^ Relations. Antidoted by: Arsen., Cinchona, Hepar, Ipec, Pulsat.

It antidotes: Arsen., Cinchona, lodum, Mercur., Prus. acid, tea, and alcoholic drinks.

Compatible: Aeon., Arnica, Bellad., Cinchona, Conium, Lycop., Mercur., Phosphor., Veratr.

Incompatible: Thea, beer.

Complimentary: to Alum., Cinchona.

Borax (vertigo when descending), Anac, Spongia (cough > after eating), Arsen., Cinchona (intermittent fever), Phosphor, (cholerine), Selen., Thuja (bad effects of tea).

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Iodide of Iron. Fel^.

Trituration of freshly prepared crystals.

^ Mind. Dulness of mind and general thickness in head, <

to top of head. On going to bed slight throbbing pain in head on r. side and upper part of forehead, also at back part on 1. side at junction of head and neck. Headache felt as a cutting from bridge of nose through the occiput. ' Sight and Eyes. A phenomenon similar to nebula before eyes, except that the objects floating before eyes are bright as sparks of fire, instead of dark specks; after breakfast. ■ Eyes shut on account of pain and photophobia; lids swollen, discharging copious quantities of pus when forcibly opened; conjunctiva bluish-red ancl swollen; skin pale; nose thick; eczema of face; submaxillary and

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cervical glands swollen and hard; periostitis of one finger and two toes; body emaciated ; abdomen large; no appetite. ^Scrofulous inflammation of e,yes.

lAfter suppression of menses, protrusion of eyes, enlarge- ment of thyroid gland, palpitation of heart and exces- sive nervousness. ^Exophthalmic goitre.

Burning in eyelids.

Coryza, profuse discharge of mucus from nose, and frequent expectoration of mucus from larynx and trachea.

A chronic nasal catarrh becomes worse; discharge usually in mornings, now lasts all day, with a stuffed-up feeling at night; blowing nose gives no relief; discharge thick, yellow or green.

■ Nose thick. ^Scrofula.

■ Scrofulous swelling of nose, with ulcers and crusts inside. ^ Upper Face. Injected, red face.

morning; of peppermint. Increase of saliva.

dotted with red, presenting a fine, dense, bright red

papular eruption, i Submaxillary and cervical glands swollen and hard.

^Scrofula. 13 Throat. Violent tickling and scraping in throat and nose,

with sensation as though he would suffocate; hawking

swallowed. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. iNo appetite.

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^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Tenderness in pit of stomach ;

at same time a pinching pain in back, over spine,

directly behind pit of stomach. Fuhiess even after a little food, as if she had eaten too

much, a sort of upward pressure ; stuffed feeling as if

she could not lean forwards. Stomach full of wind ; every breath gives pain as from a

weight in epigastrium. On rising, or at night when turning in bed, heart beats

violently, with pain in epigastrium or lower end of

sternum. Uncomfortable feeling in epigastrium, with nausea and

upward; even a small quantity of food causes it; may

or may not feel hungry, but food soon satisfies her. Rumbling in abdomen, wdth slight colicky pains, before

Abdomen when pressed feels like a rubber ball. A feeling as of a cord drawn connecting anus and navel,

with cutting pain every time he straightens up from bent

If she happens to pinch abdominal walls, or to crease them,

the parts feel sore for a long time. A feeling of numbness in fleshy part of abdomen, as if

asleep, but without the tingling. Inguinal pains extending across hypogastrium, sides feel

stiff, as after a strain. Feeling in sides, low down, as of needles pricking her; <

raising arms and walking; inguinal region sore on

stools loose; may have two movements, first costive,

stool is easy and painless. A peculiar feeling in rectum and anus, as if something

twisted and turned about in a circle, and something like

drops of water flowed down, and as if a screw were boring

upward and downward.

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^' Urinary Organs. Pain in both kidneys, principally left.

A feeling in fossa navicularis as though the water remained in it and could not be forced out any further, in morning.

lUrine dark-colored, depositing a thick, white sediment; urine scalds.

Frequent and profuse emission of light yellow urine, hav- ing a sweetish smell, and slight milky sediment.

I Albuminuria with oedema of lower extremities was in some cases temporarily relieved, in other cases entirely cured.

A hard drinker, set. 45, after catching cold, who had, next day, fever, headache, nausea, vertigo, oppression of chest, oedema of feet, and much albumen in urine, was entirely cured.

Prickling itching in urethra, especially in forepart, with frec|uent urging to urinate, but very little flow.

Crawling tickling in urethra and rectum.

I Gonorrhoea. ^^ Female Sexual Organs. ! Severe hysterical attacks, with frequent spasms and syncope; great debility, cachectic appearance, leucorrhoea, anorexia; finally hydrops of r. ovary set in; enormous swelling under border of r. ribs; menses scanty, preceded by painful swelling of r. breast, and followed by an aggravation of the constant and pro- fuse leucorrhoea; three weeks after beginning of treat- ment there occurred sudden loss of consciousness and discharge of about two quarts of yellowish fluid from vagina, after which swelling subsided and health was entirely restored. ^Plydrops ovarii.

■ Constant bearing down as if something was coming away;

while sitting feels as if pushing something up; she can touch the cervix uteri.

■ On standing erect, disagreeable sensation of pressure and

protrusion of rectum; could not walk across room, sub- ject to dysenteric attacks with severe neuralgic and hys- teric spasms, constant tenesmus, and white, slimy evacua- tions every four or five hours; sympathetic fever, tender- ness of abdomen, urine high-colored and scanty, dis- agreeable and painful pressure high up in rectum; fun- dus and OS tincse on a level. ^Retroversion.

■ Complete prolapsus and inversion of uterus after mechan-

ical replacement.

■ Uterine displacements, including ante and retroversion

and prolapsus.

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1 1 Ainenorrhoea.

lltching and soreness of vulva and vagina; parts much swollen.

Cough with expectoration of greyish-white, rather tena- cious mucus drawn out in threads.

I Haemoptysis. ^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Great oppression of chest; is obliged to take a deep breath, which causes feeling of soreness in chest, together with a feeling of oppression, as though expansion of thorax were prevented.

iGreat debility and emaciation; in evening chilliness fol- lowed by heat and sweat all night; cough at first dry, later accompanied by greenish, purulent expectoration, containing small, cheesy particles; oppression of chest; inclination to lie on back; sides of chest tympanitic; under clavicle rales and bronchial breathing. ^Tuber- culosis.

■ Phthisis pulmonalis in subjects of relaxed fibre, especially

in third stage. iBronchorroea and chronic pneumonia. '^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Running up stairs causes

violent beating of heart and pain on top of head. Heartbeat so violent, it awoke her from sleep; throbbing

all over. Circulation excited; heart beats Cjuickly and seems to force

the blood violently through whole body. Blood-vessels throb all over, even when quiet.

■ Chlorosis.

^° Outer Chest. • Indurated, painless swelling near r. nipple

as large as a hazel nut, finally becoming as large as a

fist, scirrhous in character, with sharp, lancinating pains

spreading from breast to axilla; pain in epigastrium;

emaciation; swelling sensitive to touch, and threatens

to develope from a cancer occultus to a cancer apertus.

\ Scoliosis and paralysis of muscles of inspiration on r. side.

^"^ Neck and Back. Sides of neck feel sore when touched or

on moving.

iBronchocele.

Small of back as if broken; felt only at night; as if lying

in a cramped position. Dull pain in back on each side about six inches above kidneys, extending through chest.

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Painful sensation in back and kidneys and lower portion

of spine, starting from lumbar vertebrae. ^^ XJpper Limbs. A rheumatic, bruised, paralyzed feeling in

r. upper arm and shoulder. Painful drawing in tendons and back of r. hand and 1.

foot. Right arm weary and as if paralyzed, has to stop writing,

in evening. ^^ Lower Limbs. Rheumatic pain extending upward from

back of 1. foot to pelvis, in evening. Paralyzed and bruised feeling in all the limbs, especially

in legs. Bruised, paralytic sensation in thighs, extending to knees,

which are heavy. ^* Limbs in General. Weakness and bruised sensation in all

to navel. Standing : in draft, heaviness in head > ; erect, sensation

of pressure and protrusion of rectum. Sitting down : heaviness and pressure in head > ; feels as

stiff. Motion: dizziness; heaviness in head <; side of neck

feels sore. Walking : as of needles pricking her < ; inguinal region

sore on walking; stitches in r. inguinal region ; weak,

top of head. ^''Nerves. Nervous; hand shakes while sewing; heartbeats

violently; each beat seems to go into stomach, and cause

a nervous, trembling feeling across epigastrium; weak,

trembling feeling in limbson usinghands and on walking. ■ Great weakness. • Epilepsy with dementia and paresis of r. arm; bones of

skull hypertrophied; scrofula. ^^ Sleep. Frequent starting in sleep and waking with a feeling

as though paralyzed, the hands and feet could not rest. Night restless, with frequent waking, many dreams, with

easy erections.

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Dreams: of long past events; of thieves and of fighting with them.

In his sleep it seemed as if he had grown exceedingly- large and was thirty to fifty feet high; everything about him seemed small and insignificant.

At night in bed, feels as if back would break; on getting up, abdomen feels sore.

Back stiffen getting up from bed, but > during da}'. ^'^ Time. Morning: discharge from nose; bad taste in morn- ing ; a feeling in fossa navicularis as though the water remained in it and could not be forced out any further.

All day: discharge from nose; stiffness of back >.

3 p.M : sudden bleeding of gums.

Evening : chilliness followed by heat and sweat and has to stop writing; rheumatic pain from foot to pelvis.

Night : stufted up feeling ; cheek itches ; heart beats vio- lently ; erections ; violent pain and burning in urethra ; heat and sweat ; small of back feels as if broken ; rest- less ; frecjuent waking ; easy erections ; as if back would break. ^^ Temperature and Weather. AVarm room : heaviness in head <.

Open air: heaviness in head >.

Draft of air: heaviness and pressure in head >. ^^ Attacks, Periodicity. Every four or five hours : white

slimy evacuations. ^" Locality and Direction. Right : feeling of heaviness and soreness; throbbing pain in side of head; stitches in inguinal region; hydrops of ovary; enormous swelling under border of ribs; painless swelling near nipple; scoliosis and parah^sis of muscles of inspiration on side; rheumatic feeling in upper arm and shoulder; drawing of tendons and back of hand ; arm weary as if paralyzed ; paresis of arm.

Left: pain under eye ; throbbing pain in back j)art of head on side; pain in 1. kidney ; drawing of tendons of foot; rheumatic pain from back of foot to pelvis. ^'Sensations. Sensation as though he would suffocate; food seems to jjush up in throat as if it had not been swal- lowed ; as if she had eaten too much ; stuffed feeling as if she could not lean forwards; pain in stomach as from a weight in epigastrium; abdomen when pressed feels like a rubber ball; as of a cord drawn connecting anus and navel; abdomen as if asleep; sides feel stiff as after a strain; in side as of needles pricking her; as if lying in a cramped position ; feeling in anus as if it were com- pressed; as if worms were in anus; feeling in rectum and anus as if something twisted and turned about in a

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circle, something like drops of water flowed down ; as if a screw were boring in anus ; feeling in fossa navicu- laris as though the water remained in it ; constant bear- ing down in vagina as if something was coming away, while sitting as if pushing something up ; small of back as if broken ; as though paralyzed ; as if back would break.

Pain : in eyes ; in stomach ; in epigastrium ; in lower end of sternum ; in both kidneys ; in chest ; in top of head ; painful sensation in kidneys ; in back ; in lower part of spine.

Violent pain in urethra.

Sharp pains: through head to vertex.

Lancinating pain : spreading from heart to axilla.

Cutting pain : from bridge of nose through occiput ; from anus to navel.

Pinching pain : in back.

Griping: in abdomen.

Colicky j)ains : in abdomen.

Stitches; in r. inguinal region.

Sticking: in anus.

Severe: neuralgic spasms.

Throbbing pain : in head ; upper part of forehead ; back part on side at junction of head and neck ; all over.

Rheumatic feeling : in arm ; in shoulder.

Bruised feeling: in upper arm; in shoulder; in thighs.

Inguinal pains: across hypogastrium.

Burning: in eyelids; in tongue; of mouth; of throat; in urethra.

Dull pain: under short ribs ; in back.

Paralyzed feeling : in all the limbs.

Heaviness: in head; in knees.

Soreness: of abdominal walls ; of inguinal cord ; of vulva; of vagina; of abdomen.

Tenderness: at pit of stomach ; of abdomen.

Uncomfortable feeling: in epigastrium.

Confused sensation in head.

Thickness: in head.

Pressure: in forehead ; in rectum beneath sternum.

Oppression: of chest.

Scraping: in throat; in nose.

Dryness: of mouth; of throat.

Roaring: in ears.

Numbness: in fleshy part of abdomen.

Tickling; in throat; in nose; in urethra.

Crawling: in urethra; in rectum.

Itching: of cheek; in urethra; of vulva and vagina.

VOT^. V. — 20.

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Symptoms of plethora; general turgescence of peripheric capillary system.

■ Body emaciated. ^Scrofula. ■Rheumatism without fever. ■Scirrhus ; early.

Anaemic people, with indurated glands; constitutional syphilis.

■ Chlorosis, particularly in scrofulous subjects.

Pressure: abdomen feels like a rubber ball.

Rubbing: reddens cheek ; vesicles become raw.

Pinching: makes walls of abdomen feel sore for a long time. *^ Skin. ■Skin pale. ^Scrofula.

Short lasting cutaneous eruptions, like urticaria; eczema ; lichen. '*'' Stages of Life, Constitution. Scrofulous diathesis.

Mercurial cachexia.

'Girl, weak and scrofulous; scoliosis.

Boy, set. 11; scrofulous epilepsy.

Delicate woman, set. 36, has only been pregnant once and then aborted, after coitus; ovarian dropsy.

Woman, set. 44, widow, of psoric constitution; retroversion.

Woman, set. 48, mother of several children, sanguine tem- perament, of slender, graceful build, during youth had three times inflammation of lungs, subject to epistaxis, catarrhal diarrhoea, in thirty-second year cessation of menstruation, chest barrel-shaped and elongated, supra and infra-clavicular regions sunken; tuberculosis.

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