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General

Savine. Coniferse.

An evergreen shrub native of the south of Europe. The tincture is made from the young fresh tops of the branches.

Proved by Hahnemann, Gross, Fr. H., Herman, Hartmann, Stapf, etc. ; Archiv fiir Horn., voh 5; Hering, Prak. Mittheilungen, 1827 ; Buchner, A. H. Z., vol. 20.

Clinicaij Authorities Toothache, Bonninghausen, Riiek. Kl. Erf., vol.

I, p. 476; Hemorrhoids, Hartmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 1003;

Gleet, GoUman, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 550 ; Condylomata, Exuberant granulations, Uterine dis- placments, Kurtz, Riick.

Kl. Erf, vol. 5, p. 635 ; Uterine affection, Lietzkau, Ruck. Kl.

Erf, vol. 2, p. 356 ; Menorrhagia, Metrorrhagia, Abortion, Hartmann, Weber, Ran, Lobethal, Griessel, Nenning, Knorr, Genzke, Attomyr, Schron, Emmrich, Sturm, Pleyel, Schiller, Tietze, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 325 ;

Metrorrhagia, Low, Battman, Huber, Ruck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 6:^8; Hahnemann, B.

J. H., vol. 12, p. 270; Huber, B. J.

H., vol. 16, p. 303 ; Eldherr, B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 51;

Terry, N. A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 317;

Ludlam, M. I., vol. 4, p. 278; Uterine hemorrhage, Burchfield, Med. Ad., vol. 20, p. 350 ;

Menorrhagia, Patzak, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 253; Wesselhoeft, Hom.

CL, vol. 4, p. 20; Cowperthwait, A. J. H.

M. M., vol. 8, p. 11, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 177 ; Frost, H. M., Nov., 1874, p. 145, Raue's Rec, 1875, p. 176;

Waddell, Hom. Phys., vol. 8, p. 445; Dysmenorrhoea, Johnson, T. H.

M. S. Pa., 1887, p. 328; Fanning, Hom.

Rev., vol. 3, p. 30; Amenorrhcea, Watzke, A, J. H. M.

M., vol. 4, p. 55, from (Estr. Zft. f. Hom., vol. 2, p. 1 ; Am,enor- rhcea and ancemia, Madden, B.

J. H., vol. 24, p. 301 ; Leucorrhoea, Wood, Hom. CL, vol. 3, p. 93;

Boynton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 412 ; Threatened abortion, Gibson, M. I., vol. 6, p. 141 ;

Lindsay, Org., vol.1, p. 472; Fleming, T. H. M.S.

Pa., 1887, p. 282; Barretti, Riv. Om., 1874; (2 cases), Slocomb, Mass.

Trans., vol, 4, p. 810; Premature rupture of the membranes, Streeter, M. I., vol. 4, p. 371 ; Dystocia, Adams, Med.

Adv., Jan., 1890, p. 35 ; Retained placenta, Schron, Riick. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 404 ;

Eaton, Hom. Phys., vol. 9, p. 140 ; Arthritis, Hartmann, Riick. Kl.

Erf., vol. 3, p. 546 ; Rheumatism, Wells, Hom. Rev., vol. 3, p. 259 ; Chronic rheumatism, JEgidi, A.

J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 90.

^ Mind. Music is intolerable to her.

Much irritability of temper, hysteria.

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Hypochondriacal mood.

Great tiredness and laziness, with a feeling of deep-seated inward trouble, which makes him melancholy and sad.

Irritability of temper, with sour stomach and great anxiety ; hypochondriacal mood ; rheumatic subjects. ^Sensorium. Vertigo: especially in morning, fears she will fall ; everything turns black before her eyes ; suppressed menses ; with congestion to and heat in head ; when standing ; as if he would fall ; with obscuration of vision.

* Inner Head. Headache, especially in temporal eminences,

as if parts were pressed asunder; it comes suddenly,

disappears gradually and recurs frequently. Frontal headache, pressing down on eyes as if they would

be pressed out ; < in morning on rising ; > in open air. Transitory tensive pain in forehead, as if skin had grown

fast, with tension in eyes. Pressure and dulness in head, especially in forehead. Sense of painful stricture over temples. Circumscribed pain in each temporal region.

* Sight and Eyes. Lustreless eyes.

* Hearing and Ears. Buzzing in ears. '^ Smell and Nose. Dry coryza.

Epistaxis, preceded by dulness and pressure in forehead. Redness of skin around alse nasi, painful to touch.

* Upper Face. Flushes of heat in face, with chilliness all

over and coldness of hands and feet.

Pale face ; eyes lustreless with blue rings around them.

Pimples on cheeks and forehead.

Black pores in face and on nose. '"Teeth and Gums. Drawing toothache caused by masti- cating.

\ I Throbbing toothache, appearing toward evening and at night, < after eating and from warmth of bed ; sen- sation as if tooth would burst; throbbing in all the bloodvessels ; belching ; profuse discharge of bright red blood from genitalia between periods.

I [Toothache after a gouty pain in great toe had been driven away by external applications.

Toothache evening and night.

Tearing pain in roots of molars.

Swelling of gums around broken teeth. "Taste and Tongue. Bitter taste of food, of milk and coffee. ^^ Inner Mouth. Offensive breath.

Dryness of mouth and oesophagus without thirst.

Dryness of mouth and throat; the saliva is quite white, and becomes frothy while talking. *^ Throat. Dryness in throat with drawing pain.

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Sensation of swelling in throat, as if he had to swallow over a foreign bod}'.

Sensation of a lump in throat; when trying to swallow, cannot; can swallow food. "Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Constant desire for acids (especially lemonade) and roasted coffee.

Appetite poor. '" Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Burning in stomach ; morning sickness.

Heartburn and sour eructations, especially when sitting bent, which position also aggravates other symptoms.

Paroxysms of nausea and qualmishness when she is in a crowd.

Frequent empty retching.

Vomiting: of bile; of undigested food eaten day previous. '^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Stitches in pit of stomach, ex- tending to back.

Frequent burning in pit of stomach, with drawing, twist- ing and gurgling in bowels, bearing down toward sexual organs. '^ Abdomen. Tympanitis ; bloatedness of abdomen ; rumbling in evening, in a warm room.

Writhing and pinching in abdomen, in umbilical region ; frequently recurring with increasing violence and a sensation as if vomiting would come on, without nausea.

Slight sensation of motion in abdomen, as if something were alive.

Quivering in abdomen, as if there were something alive in it, resembling fcBtal movements.

Laborlike pains in abdomen, down groins.

Soreness of abdominal muscles.

Pressing down toward genitals. ""Stool and Rectum. Diarrhoea : with pain extending from back through to pubes; in rheumatic or gouty women; with much flatulence.

Stools: of blood and mucus; frequent urging, finally a liquid portion is discharged, followed by a hard portion.

■ Constipation: stools hard, difficult and painful; pain from back to pubes.

I Hemorrhoids with discharge of bright red blood, causing pain in back, from sacrum to pubes, biting sore pain in the varices, especially during morning stool. I I Hemorrhoids with excessive discharge of bright red blood or blood mixed with mucus; cutting, pressiye pain low down in abdomen; pressing, urging pain in sphincter ani ; constant urging to stool; itching and burning in anus; paroxysmal stitching pain in small of back.

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^'Urinary Organs, i Nephritis, with retention of urine, or discharge by drops, with burning ; ardor urince in rheumatic subjects.

■ Vesical irritability, depending on gouty diathesis. Diminished discharge of red urine, with strangury. Frequent violent urging to urinate, with profuse dis- charge.

Urine bloody and albuminous ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire increased, witji vio- lent continuous erections. Ilnflammatory gonorrhoea, with discharge of pus.

■ Rheumatic gonorrhoea.

I iGlans penis dark red, with burning soreness to touch ;

painfulness of prepuce, cannot retract it ; attacks of pain

in frsenum preeputii. ^Gleet. Hard swelling on penis. iSycotic excrescences, with burning soreness.

■ Fig-warts with intolerable itching and burning; exuber-

ant granulations. ^' Female Sexual Organs. Increased sexual desire almost amounting to nymphomania; almost insatiable desire for an embrace. Ovaritis, stitches in vagina, deep from before backward.

■ ■Inflammation of ovaries or uterus after abortion or pre-

mature labor. Contractive pain in region of uterus.

■ Uterine pains running from back to groins.

■ Painful active congestions of uterus.

■ Acute metritis ; metritis hsemorrhagica.

■ Lateral and posterior displacements of uterus from gen-

eral atony. I I Remittent but fixed pain in uterus, at times stitching in character; < during menstruation; colic with the menses; long-continued leucorrhoeal discharge after menses; pain during an embrace; uterus enlarged or swollen (mother died of carcinoma uteri).

■ The OS tincse is open, the blood looks red, the discharge

is profuse and paroxysmal, especially during motion. ^Threatened abortion.

■ Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excite-

ment.

■ Copious hemorrhages, accompanied by uterine colic ; con-

tractive laborlike pains extending from back to pubes and great urging to urinate. I I Pain or feeling of malaise, extending between sacrum and pubes and experienced in these points. (^Metror- rhagia.

■ ■Metrorrhagia : resulting from plethora ; clotted and fluid

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blood, pain extending from sacrum or lumbar region, to pubes; with severe bearing down, extending from lower part of back around abdomen and down thighs, blood bright red, thin, liquid ; laborlike pains in lumbar and uterine region, discharge of large clots of blood, bright red, coming in gushes, particularly profuse on motion, OS uteri being constantly open ; < by least motion, often > by walking; produced by great irritability of organ- ism, in patients who have menstruated very early in life and very freely, and have always had more or less tendency to miscarriage I I Without any apparent cause menses recurred three times during the month, each time very abundant and last- ing three days; the following month while carrying a heavy burden a stream of blood suddenly gushed from genitals, attended with violent hypogastric pains, weak- ness of head almost amounting to vertigo; paleness of face; eyes heavy, lustreless ; great thirst; little appetite, loose stool ; urine red by admixture of blood ; drawing, bearing-down pains from fundus of uterus toward sa- crum and along broad ligaments to each side, appearing periodically, accompanied at one time by a discharge of black fluid, at another, of coagulated blood ; when the pains are absent she has constant hemorrhage ; pains > by pressure ; least motion increases discharge ; hypogas- trium distended, has a doughy feeling, but only tender on firm pressure ; temperature of skin not elevated, that of extremities lowered ; pulse full, soft, quick ; sleep un- easy ; frequent shivering and mental anxiety. ^Metror- rhagia.

I I After miscarriage (two months ago) placenta remained

fourteen days; had a constant hemorrhage which could not be stopped; a tampon relieved, but when removed hemorrhage returned ; had occasional laborlike pains which caused some strings and shreds to pass. ■ Protracted uterine hemorrhage arising from a loss of tone in vessels of uterus, whether from disease or weight and pressure of foetus in utero ; blood dark and clotted; gouty subjects.

I I Menses: too profuse, too early; last too long; partly fluid, partly clotted and ofl'ensive; flow in paroxysms; with colic and laborlike pains ; pains from sacrum to pubes.

I I Low grade of asthenic fever, violent menorrhagia; set in with great violence, discharge red, clotted, partly fluid, accompanied by a pain running from back through to pubes ; the noise of the piano seemed to set her dis- tracted.

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I I In poor health for two years, from living in a damp house in an ague neighborhood ; liad chills several times; menses profuse, with large coagulated, conical clots. ^Menorrhagia.

I I Girl, set. 14, had menstruated for more than a year and always irregularly; there was an almost incessant dis- charge of bright-red blood for four weeks, so that it was impossible to determine the actual periods of commence- ment of menstruation ; walking very much lessened the hemorrhage, but it returned again very soon. ^Menor- rhagia.

I I Five months after delivery, very profuse discharge of blood, with pains in back and laborlike pressing toward pubes; for six days constant dribbling interrupted by profuse gushes of blood with discharge of large masses of dark coagula accompanied by laborlike pains ; < from motion ; rapid prostration ; pale face ; vertigo ; chilliness ; uterus prolapsed, os pointing to 1. side while fundus lay on opposite side. ^Menorrhagia.

I iMenorrhagia during climacteric period in w^omen who formerly aborted.

I iDysmenorrhoea accompanied by violent headache; menses generally delayed, lasting about seven days, scanty, coming for a few minutes at a time, then ceasing for six or eight hours, bright, clotted, without flow ; pain in hypogastrium going to back; feeling of obstruction internally ; dragging pain in back and pain throughout lower extremities which seems deep seated ; easiest posi- tion is on flat of back with limbs extended ; pain < walking, > from warmth ; severe pain in head princi- pally in anterior part and eyes, < stooping, walking, > from pressure; nausea, at times vomiting; feverish- ness; cold hands and feet; pulse 120; violent rapid pul- sation felt throughout body, except in head ; no pre- monitory symptoms, pain coming about two hours after menses and ceasing on second day.

IDysmenorrhoea with violent pain extending from back through to pubes, rheumatic in origin.

I I Kate R., 16 years old, has not yet menstruated, suffered three years ago from intermittent fever, and since then complained of frontal headaches pressing down on eyes as if it would push them out ; < in morning when rising, > in fresh air ; cachectic features with blue rings around eyes, especially in morning, toothache most severe at night in bed, > walking about, < by eating ; paroxysms of nausea and qualmishness when in a crowd; frequent burning in pit of stomach, draw- ing, twisting and gurgling in bowels, lasting for hours ;

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bearing down toward sexual organs ; shortness of breath ; palpitation at every motion, especially when ascending ; pressing pains in chest; heaviness of lower extremities, with painfulness of thighs when walking; drawing, tear- ing pains in extremities, especially at night ; great las- situde and sleepiness. ^Chlorosis primaria amenor- rhoeica. I I Anna L., 17 years old, strong constitution, menstruated in her thirteenth year ; menses returned regularly until they became suppressed about 18 months ago from im- moderate dancing; complains since of severe vertigo, especially in morning and after exertion, so that she is afraid of falling, and everything turns black before her eyes; pressing pains in forehead; burning in ears, greenish-yellow corroding leucorrhoea; shortness of breath, palpitation, sweats easily, painful lassitude; leuco-phlegmatic expression ; cheeks and forehead cov- ered with pimples ; constant desire for acids and roasted coffee. ^Chlorosis secundaria metastatica.

I I Yellowish, ichorous, fetid leucorrhoea, and painful dis-

charges of fetid blood every two weeks ; at climaxis.

I I Leucorrhoea: of pudenda; of consistence of starch; copious, milky, causing itching; ropy, glairy from cer- vical canal; with drawing })ains in broad of back through to pubes.

I I Corrosive leucorrhoea since commencement of first preg- nancy, causing soreness and itching of thighs.

I Stitches from below upward deep in vagina.

■ Condylomata which itch and burn.

I Cysts in vulva, sensitive or with tearing pains during rest.

1 I Stitches in 1. nipple.

Voluptuous itching in nipples. ^'Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, i Promotes the ex- pulsion of moles.

I iTendency to abortion, especially at third month; dis- charge of bright- red, partly clotted blood, < from any motion ; pain from sacrum to pubes.

I 1 Greatest anxiety ; constant fear that she will abort ; for last two days on slightest motion, discharge of blood, alternately bright red, fluid and dark or in clots ; labor- like pains from back to pubes ; external genitals hot to touch ; OS uteri dilated half an inch. /^Threatened abor- tion.

I I During fifth month of pregnancy labor pains come on at regular intervals of about fifteen minutes, with a slight but unceasing flow of bright-red blood. ^Threat- ened abortion.

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I I Profuse flow of blood from vagina ; os considerably

dilated ; vagina filled with dark coagulated blood ;

chilly; nausea; great thirst; much prostration; third

month of pregnanc3^ I I Hemorrhage of dark-red blood, at times fluid, at others

clotted ; not the slightest pain in back or hypogastrium ;

great prostration. ^Threatened abortion.

■ Miss Rose L., about 22 years old, a thin, delicate female

of nervous temperament, forsaken and unhappy ; seven months pregnant ; morning sickness with loss of appe- tite and diarrhoea ; some blood has passed at mtervals of two and three weeks ; profuse metrorrhagia and diar- rhoea ; flooding much < by moving or going to cham- ber, when it flows profusely and is of an arterial color ; constant pain from sacral region to pubes; child has not moved since two days ; face pale, she begins to feel faint; os dilated and patulous (delivered two months later of a healthy child).

I I After a miscarriage violent hemorrhages, lasting each time eight to ten daj^s; during first five days profuse discharge of bright-red fluid blood, without pain.

I I Uterine hemorrhage of four weeks' duration after abor- tion.

I I Retained placenta after abortion ; free discharge of blood ; mouth of uterus closed ; patient very nervous.

I I Premature rupture of membranes and free escape of liquor amnii; occurred forty days previous to labor, caused by overwork and followed by labor pains and discharge of blood.

I I On eighth day after labor, reappearance of blood, lochial discharge having already ceased; on ninth day three attacks of hemorrhage, discharge profuse, containing a large number of clots, < on rising, causing loss of con- sciousness; heat over whole body with sweat, face cold and pale.

I Atony of uterus; painless loss of dark-red blood imme- diately after delivery ; discharge of fluids and clots with each pain.

I Retained placenta; pain, or an uneasy, bad feeling, ex- tending from sacrum to pubes ; a slight sensation of motion in abdomen; intense after-pains, notwithstand- ing the retention, with discharge of fluid blood and clots in about equal proportion with every pain.

■ Retained placenta from atony of uterus.

I After-pains with sensitiveness of abdomen.

■ Metritis after parturition.

^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Crawling and tickling in laryiix exciting cough and mucous ex- pectoration.

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Dry, hacking cough and tickling in trachea ; expectora- tion streaked with blood next day. ^^Respiration. Shortness of breath.

^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Intermittent stitches in clavicle. Tensive pain with pressure in middle of sternum, neither

increased by expectoration nor inspiration. Pressing pains in chest.

I Haemoptysis.

^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Palpitation at every mo- tion, especially when ascending. Pulse unequal; generally quick, strong and hard. Violent beating of bloodvessels in whole body. ^' Neck and Back. Constant pain in small of back, obliging him to bend the back inward. Paralytic pain in small of back ; would like to stretch; > bending backward.

I I Drawing pains in small of back, extending to pubic region.

I Indescribable uneasiness in lumbar vertebrae ; dragging sensation from behind forward resembling weak labor pains.

Weariness in lumbar region.

Laborlike pains drawing down into groins. ^^ Upper Limbs. Pain as if sprained, in r. shoulder joint, even during rest.

I iPressive pain in both upper arms, near elbow joint, from without inward, < on touch and motion.

Paralytic tearing along r. upper arm as far as hand.

Stinging in both upper arms, from within outward, near elbow joints.

Aching pain in right radius, < from motion or touch.

■ Arthritic stiffness and swelling of wrist joint, with tear- ing and stinging, made almost insupportable when hand hangs down. '''* Lower Limbs. Rheumatism of metatarso-phalangeal joint of big toe, characterized by great swelling, bright shin- ing red ; intense sensibility to touch and motion ; < at night; high fever.

Heaviness of legs, with painfulness of thighs when walking.

Stinging pains in hip joints, in morning and when breathing.

Sensation of coldness in whole (r.) leg.

Ulcers on tibia, with a lardaceous base.

Swelling, redness and stitches in big toe. ^Gout.

The middle of anterior surface of his thighs feels bruised and painful.

Tearing pain with pressure in metacarpal bones of both feet.

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Sharp stitches from within outward in heels.

Painful drawing in joints of r. toes, < during a walk. ^ Limbs in General. Drawing, tearing pains in extremities, especially at night.

I I A man set. 42; haggard, emaciated, stooping gait, thin, grey hair, hollow eyes, skin of an ashy hue; from time to time dry cough, with dyspnoea ; complains of weak- ness and decrepitude, no strength to work, little appe- tite, slow digestion, sleep restless and full of dreams, sticky sweat toward morning ; here and there through joints a gouty lamelike pain, now in shoulder and elbow joint, now in hip and knee; pains < in a warm room and > in open air; pains usually in one side of body, mostly r.; troublesome pulsation in different bloodvessels, especially when taking a deep breath, < in evening in bed, which he has to leave again, not being able to return until morning ; transitory, tensive pain in forehead, with sensation as if skin had grown fast, with tension in eyes; redness of skin around alse nasi, painful to touch ; dryness of mouth and oesopha- gus without thirst; collection of white frothy mucus, tilling corners of mouth when talking; sensation of a body in throat, which he tries to swallow but cannot, it offers no impediment to swallowing of food; heartburn and sour eructations, especially when sit- ting bent, which likewise aggravates the other symp- toms ; > from sitting erect, from moving and stretching limbs, for which he has an involuntary desire ; rum- bling and gurgling in abdomen, especially in evening, in warm room ; great tiredness and laziness, with a feel- ing of deep-seated inward trouble, which makes him melancholy and sad. ^Chronic rheumatism.

Great weakness and weariness of limbs, with tearing pains at night ; when very warm ; > in cold air.

I I Red and shining swelling of great toe, with excessive pains, < by least touch or motion ; heaviness of affected limbs; fever < in evening; wandering pains, burning, affecting one joint after another, especially big toe and hand ; > by cool applications ; changes her position often to get relief. ^Arthritis. ^^Rest. Position. Motion. Rest: tearing pains in cysts; pain in shoulder joint.

Lying on flat of back wdth limbs extended, easiest posi- tion during dysmenorrhoea.

Must lie down : heaviness of body.

Sitting bent : heartburn and sour eructations <.

Standing: vertigo.

Stooping: pain in head <.

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When hand hangs down : tearing and stinging in wrist joint <.

Must bend the back inward : pain in small of back.

Elevating limbs : > pain in ulcers.

Rising: discharge of clots <.

Changes position often to get relief: arthritis.

Motion: profuse discharge from uterus; palpitation; al- ways increases discharge ; palpitation ; pain in upper arms < ; pain in r. radius < ; pain in big toe <.

Moving and stretching limbs: eructations and heart- burn >.

Walking: metrorrhagia >; lessened hemorrhage; dys- menorrhoea < ; pain in head < ; painfulness of thighs ; drawing in toes <.

Ascending: palpitation <.

Lies on 1. side: during sleep. ^^ Nerves. Feels weary and weak in all her limbs with great despondency.

I I Heaviness and indolence of body, obliging him to lie down.

Great lassitude and heaviness.

Very tired and lazy.

Is very nervous and hysterical, and if she becomes preg- nant is almost sure to abort about third month.

I Nervousness so great that music becomes unbearable, it goes through bone and marrow. ^'' Sleep. Sleeplessness and restlessness after midnight, with heat and profuse perspiration.

Lies on 1. side during sleep. ^ Time. Morning : vertigo < ; frontal headache < ; pain in varices during stool; pain in hip joints; toward, sticky sweat; tenseness in ulcer <.

During day: great chilliness.

Toward evening: toothache.

Evening: rumbling in abdomen; pulsation in different bloodvessels < in bed; fever <; chill with shivering; tenseness in ulcer <.

Night: toothache; pains in extremities <; pain in great toe < ; drawing and tearing in extremities <.

After midnight: sleepless and restless. ''Temperature and Weather. Warmth of bed, toothache < ; pain (dysmenorrhoea) > ; pain in ulcer <.

Warm room : rumbling in abdomen ; rheumatic pains < ; gout <.

Open air: frontal headache > ; rheumatic pains > ; tense- ness in ulcer >.

Cool applications: wandering pains in joints >.

Cool air: weariness and weakness of limbs > ; gout >.

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*" Fever. Chill in evening with attacks of shivering.

Great chilliness during day.

IShivering with obscuration of sight, followed by sleepiness.

Burning heat of whole body, with great restlessness.

Flushes of heat in face, rest of body chilly, hands and feet cold.

Sweats easily ; sweat every night. *' Attacks, Periodicity. Paroxysms: discharge from uterus; of nausea and qualmishness.

At intervals of fifteen minutes: labor pains.

Periodically : pains in uterus.

Every night: sweat.

Three times during month: menses.

Every two weeks : painful discharge of fetid blood. *" Locality and Direction. Right : pain in shoulder joint ; tearing in upper arm; aching in radius; coldness in leg; painful drawing in joints of toes.

Left: stitches in nipple; lies on side during sleep.

From before backward: stitches in vagina.

From behind forward : dragging in lumbar vertebrae.

From below upward : stitches in vagina.

From within outward: stinging in upper arms; stitches in heels.

From without inward : pressive pain in arms. *^ Sensations. As if she would fall ; as if parts of tempo- ral eminence were pressed asunder; as if eyes would be pressed out ; as if skin had grown fast on forehead ; as if tooth would burst ; as if he had to swallow over a foreign body; as of a lump in throat; as if vomiting would come on ; as if something were alive in abdomen ; r. shoulder joint as if sprained.

Pain : in temporal eminences ; from back through to pubes ; in frsenum ; in uterus from back to groins; throughout lower extremities ; from sacral region to pubes ; in small of back.

Violent pains : in hypogastric region ; from back to pubes.

Severe pain : in head and eyes.

Tearing pain : in roots of molars ; in cysts, in vulva ; in wrist joints; in metacarpal bones of both feet; in ex- tremities.

Paralytic tearing: along upper arm as far as hand.

Throbbing pain : in teeth.

Stitches : in pit of stomach ; to back ; in vagina ; in 1. nip- ple ; in clavicle ; in big toe ; in heels.

Stitching pain : in small of back; in uterus.

Cutting pressive pain: low down in abdomen.

Pinching: in abdomen.

Dragging pain : in back.

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Pressing urging pain : in sphincter ani.

Pressing pain : in chest ; in forehead ; in upper arms.

Tensive pain: in forehead; in middle of sternum ; in broad

of back through to pubes ; in small of back ; in joints

of r. toes ; in extremities. Contractive pain : in region of uterus. Aching pain : in r. radius. Bearing-down pains : from fundus of uterus toward sacrum

and along the broad ligaments to each side. Drawing pain : in teeth ; in throat. Laborlike pains : in abdomen down groins. Paralytic pain : in small of back. Lamelike pain : in joints.

Burning sore pain : in the varices ; in glans penis. Circumscribed pain : in each temporal region. Dragging sensation : in lumbar vertebrge. Burning : in stomach ; in pit of stomach ; in anus ; of con- dylomata. Stinging : in both upper arms ; in wrist joint ; in hip joints. Soreness : of abdominal muscles ; of thighs. Painfulness : of thighs. Painful stricture: over temples. Throbbing : in all bloodvessels. Tension : in eyes. Pressure : in head ; in forehead ; in metacarpal bones of

both feet. Pressing : on eyes ; toward genitals. Heaviness : of lower extremities. Dulness : in head ; in forehead. Drawing, twisting and gurgling: in bowels. Writhing : in abdomen. Weariness: in lumbar region; of limbs. Weakness : of head ; of limbs. Dryness: of mouth and oesophagus; of throat. Tickling: in larynx; in trachea. Crawling: in larynx. Itching : in anus ; of pudenda ; of thighs ; of condylomata ;

voluptuous, in nipples. Coldness: of hands and feet; in r. leg. ** Tissues. Drawing pains through long bones. Red, shining swelling of affected parts. I Gout; arthritic complaints; tearing, stinging in joints

after they become swollen ; < in heated room ; > in

cool air or cool room ; arthritic nodes. Chlorosis.

Throbbing in all the bloodvessels. I Hemorrhages. ^' Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Touch : skin around

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alse nasi painful ; glans penis sore : pains in upper arms < ; pain in r. radius < ; intense sensibility of great toe.

Pressure : pains in uterus > ; hypogastrium tender ; pain in head >. *'' Skin. Black pores in skin, especially of face.

I Fig-warts, with intolerable itching and burning; exube- rant granulations.

Deep ulcers ; prickling feeling of tenseness in ulcer ; < morning and evening, exertion, touch, warmth of bed; > open air, cold, raising or elevating limbs. *'' Stages of Life, Constitution. Chronic ailments of women ; arthritic pains ; tendency to miscarriage.

Gouty diathesis.

Girl, set. 12, came into puberty at the age of eleven ; dys- menorrhoea.

Girl, set. 14, tall, thin, scrofulous, has menstruated for more than a year ; menorrhagia.

Girl, set. 16, not yet menstruated, suffered three years ago from intermittents, since then complaining; amenor- rhoea.

Girl, set. 17, strong constitution, menstruated in her thir- teenth year; suppressed 18 months ago from immoder- ate dancing ; amenorrhoea.

Girl, set. 19, sanguine temperament, thin, weakly constitu- tion, menstruated regularly since sixteenth year, seven years ago had hsemoptysis ; metrorrhagia.

Woman, set. 21, delicate, nervous, always aborted at third month after slightest mental disturbance, hemorrhage being profuse ; threatened abortion.

Mrs. D., set. 21, nervous temperament, suffering since her first pregnancy ; leucorrhoea.

Miss R. L., set. 22, nervous temperament, thin, delicate, for- saken and unhappy, seven months pregnant; threatened abortion.

Young lady, set. 23, in good health ; menorrhagia.

J. 0., set. 24, medium height, dark complexion, dark hair, nervous temperament, very fond of music, suffering for years ; dysmenorrhoea.

Woman, set. 24; threatened abortion.

Miss P., set. 25, ill two years ; amenorrhoea and ansemia.

AVoman, set 26, delivered two months ago, since then suf- fering; uterine hemorrhages.

Mrs. J., set. 27, mother of two children ; retained placenta after abortion.

Mrs. S., set. 26, brunette, married ten years ; uterine hem- orrhage. Servant girl, set. 30, tall, thin ; metrorrhagia. Mrs. A., set. 30, in poor health for two years^ from living in

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a damp house in an ague neighborhood, liaving had chills several times ; menorrhagia.

Woman, set. 30, on ninth day after second labor; uterine hemorrhage.

Woman, set. 30, strong, sanguine choleric temperament, aborted four times, now three months pregnant ; threat- ened abortion.

Woman, set. 32, three months pregnant; threatened abor- tion.

Mrs. N., set. 38, nine months married ; dystocia.

Woman, set. 40, sanguine temperament, passed through four pregnancies, waters each time escaping eight days before labor; threatened abortion.

Man, set. 42 ; chronic rheumatism.

Woman, well built, phlegmatic temperament, delivered five months ago, since then has not menstruated ; men- orrhagia. ^^ Relations. Antidoted by : Fulsat.

Compatible: Arsen., Bellad., Fulsat., Rhus tox., Spongia, Sulphur.

Complementary to : Thuja.

Compare

Arnica, Cole, ostr., Coccul., Crocus, Ipecac, 3Iillef., Ruta, Secale, Trillium.

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