Calcarea Sulphurica

1847. Extracts from provings of C. Hg., Dr. Withy and that of a j'oung lady.

1873. Extracts from provings with the 30th and 200th by Dr. C. M. Conant, (Trans. Am. Inst, of Horn.).

Cured symptoms by C. Hg., Koeck and Knerr.

Symptoms from Schuessler and Old School authorities are marked with : .

t. stands for toxicological symptoms.

^ Mind. Loss of consciousness ; t.

Loses memory and power of thought suddenly, after lunch.

Sometimes a desire to walk, to attend to something ; as soon as she sets out to do it, the desire is gone.

Awoke screaming.

Great depression at times.

Liveliness and good spirits change to grief and melancholy, afternoon and evening. ^ Sensorium. While walking, dizzy in head and weakness and oppression from head and across stomach.

Vertigo with deathly nausea. ^ Inner Head. Pain in 1. forehead and head.

Severe frontal headache, <C after dinner and in evening.

Ache across forehead and in vertex.

Pain around head, several times before going to bed.

Tearing around whole head, with nausea, when rising from lyi^gi > while lying.

Headache: from concussion; with feeling as if eyes were sunken ; during catamenia ; with pain in chest.

Inflammation of eyes, evening and night, with slow fever ; sen- sation of heat, eyes red.

Conjunctiva yellow. ^

• Eyes bleared, red ; with colic.

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Tears from 1. eye, with left siJed coryza. Twitching of eyelids. Smarting in inner canthi. Severe inflammation in canthi. Boil over 1. eye. ^ Outer Head, Sensation around head as if he had his hat on, 4 P.M. On region of anterior fontanelle two red pimples, and a burn- ing sore feeling on a place as large as a dollar. Painful pimples on scalp leave a yellow scab. Hard tender swellings in scalp in edge of hair, l:;jleeding when scratched. /

Crusta lactea or "scald head" of children. ) Cranio tabes. Sight and Eyes. Sees only half an object. Looking at a piece of paper pains r. eye. Occasional blindness, with twitching of eyelids. Deep ulcers on cornea. Ophthalmia, pus thick and yellow, i Cornea smoky, pus in anterior chamber, sensation as from a foreign body ; has to tie up the eye ; after injury to the eye from a splinter. Continued dull pain over r. eye; evening. Twitching of muscles on supra-orbital foramen, near outer cor- ner of 1. eye. Pressing pains in I. eyeball ; cutting in 1. eye with soreness in

evening, as if eyes were sunken in head, with headache. Protrusion of eyes ; t. ^ Heariug and Ears. Singing in her ears. Otitis after a slap on ear. Dark brown earwax from r. ear ; A.M. Pimple on top of r. ear.

Soreness of r. parotid gland ; >■ walking in open air. ^ Smell and Nose. A quivering on root of nose, extending to cheek. Nosebleed.

Coryza, with thick, yellow, lumpy, mattery discharge. Yellowish mucus from 1. nostril and tears from 1. eye. During day r. nostril discharges watery mucus, I. dry ; at

night vice versa. Yellowish-green phlegm from posterior nares. Scanty phlegm, mostly from posterior nares, morning and

evening. Posterior nares closed, watery coryza from anterior. Influenza and sneezing, >> in open air; coryza on r. side after

a bath, ^ out-doors. Blood&treaked mucus from 1. nostril after a bath.

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Excoriating watery coryza in open air, > in-doors and after •washing with cold water.

Edges of nostrils slightly sore, excoriated. ^ Upper Face. • Swollen cheek with toothache ; if suppuration threatens.

A small swelling on 1. inferior maxilla, about lower and middle part of buccinator.

Swollen hard pimple on 1. cheek.

Darting pains in r. side of face.

Pain in r. upper jaw.

Flushes of heat.

Exceedingly pale, sickly appearance (workers in plaster).

■ Herpetic eruptions on face.

i Pimples and pustules on face. ^ Lower Face. Blister-like sores on r. lower lip, ulcerate, ooze bloody matter, and extend to r. corner of chin.

Many tender pimples under beard discharge blood or oily trans- parent matter.

On outer lower lip a raw sore, forming a scab. ^^ Teeth and Gums. • Rlieumatic toothache.

Pain in r. upper jaw, with swollen and tender gums about a de- cayed molar.

Toothache : ] with swollen cheek ; after dark, and in sleep ; first < by cold water, soon >>.

Right lower molar decayed; is tender and sensitive to cold air, water, etc.

': Inside of gums swollen and sore.

Gums bleed while brushing his teeth. '^ Taste and Tongue. Taste: : flabby; soapy; sour acrid; bitter.

At base of tongue slightly puckered sensation.

Tongue coated yellow at base ; j resembling a layer of half dried clay.

Tongue seamed with a deep red line.

Glossitis ; • when suppuration begins. ^^ Inner Mouth. Inside of upper lip sore.

Dryness of mouth ; t. " Throat. Soreness, left side of roof as if burned, while eating.

Pharynx red and sore, tonsils affected.

I Diphtheritis of the soft palate; fauces are much swollen ; also in scarlatina.

\ Tonsillitis if a discharge of pus is anticipated. ^* Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Excessive appetite and thirst.

No appetite for meat.

Great desire for tea, claret, green sour vegetables and fruit. " Eating and Drinking. While eating : roof of mouth sore.

After maple sugar, diarrhoea.

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After eatinp; : better; lunch, loses memory ; dinner, headaclie. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea:

with vertiii;o ; with headache ; with pain in pelvis. " Scrobiculun and Stomach. • Pain in stomach ; motions and

buinings ; pain extends into liver. ^^ Hypochondria. Severe pain in region of liver. ^^ Abdomen. Sensation of weakness across stomach, as if from the head. Colic : with rumbling ; with diarrhoea ; with bleared eves. A feeling in lower part of abdomen as if skin was too tight,

with pain. Pain in r. side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea and pain at stomach. Intestinal ulcers, w'ith typhus. Buboes ; to prevent suppuration. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Diarrhoea, with pain in abdomen, from change of weather or after eating maple sugar. I Diarrhoea : with discharge of pus, or bloody pus; with

typhus. I Dysentery, if the passages consist of pus-like slime. I Painful abscesses about anus in cases of fistula. J Prolapsus ani.

i Costiveness ; with hectic fever; with difScult breathing. ^' Urinary Organs. Chronic nephritis.

I Bright's disease, if the symptoms correspond. : Red urine, with hectic fever. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. • Spermatorrhoea with impotency. Gonorrhoea ; in suppurative stage. Chronic syphilis.

^^ Female Sexual Organs. Menses came later and continued longer; usual symptoms, headache, twitchings, great weak- ness, etc., were aggravated. 21 Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation, ! Mastitis, when pus

begins to form or to prevent suppuration.

^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. ■ Croup.

Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion. ^^ Respiration. Shortbrealhed, costive and cachectic (workers in plaster of paris). '• Asthma, with hectic fever.

After great dryness of mouth, suffocative attacks with protru- sion of eyes, loss of consciousness, and death ; t. ^^ Cough. : Cough, with hectic fever. Chronic cough of the tuberculous. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Pain in sternum became so much <, she was obliged to double up. At times a pain across ch«st. Pain in chest, and headache. Pneumonia, third stage.

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I Empyema ; after thoracocentesis. ^' Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Pain from anterior of heart

down to lower part of thigh. '^ Neck and Back. Pain across back of her neck. Pain in lower part of back.

Chronic pain in os coccygis was greatly aggravated. ^^ Upper Limbs. iThe third phalanx of index-finger had been bruised; had a misformed surface, suppurating, full of gran- ulations, the bone was bare, pains very violent. Eingers are stiff in a dream ; stiff and painfully rigid, puffy

and stiff, mainly on r. hand, A.M. Swelling of phalanges of fingers. Inflammation and swelling of little finger.

• Whitlow, when suppuration begins.

^^ Lower Limbs. ; Inflammation of hip-joint; in suppurative

stage of hip disease. I Ischias and podagra. Pain from heart to lower thigh. Painful rigidity of legs, A.M., especially the r. ; later the upper.

part < P.M. ; the worst in early evening. A weakness in her legs. Weariness in knees after walking. I Pain in knees from a blow. ': Stitches in knee. Lameness in inner part of 1. knee when in bath, A.M., when

stooping or walking fast, later in posterior part. Legs tender to touch ; feet slightly swollen and tender. A great burning .and itching of soles of her feet.

• Burning on soles, with hectic fever.

The basis of fourth 1. toe suddenly tender while walking. '* Limbs in General. • Pain in joints. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. Better while lying: headache.

Stooping : < lameness in eye.

Obliged to double up to > pain in stomach.

When rising from lying down : headache.

Better walking in open air; improves soreness in parotid gland ; desire to walk.

While walking : dizzy ; toe tender.

After walking : weariness in knees ; walking fast, lameness in knees. 36 Jferves. Twitchings during catamenia.

Great disposition to lie down aiid stretch out.

Weakness and. oppression from head down to stomach.

Weakness during catamenia.

Much exhausted after a dream.

Great lassitude, 2 p.m. till evening. ,

Weak, languid, no pluck ; intolerable lassitude after siesta.

Weariness after pain in pelvis.

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^^ Sleep. : Sleepy during day, wakeful at night.

Before going to bed, pain in head.

She dreamed she had a convulsion from fright, awoke scream- ing and much exhausted.

Internal lassitude after siesta. ^^ Time. In morning : lameness of knee, in bath.

2 P.M. until evening: lassitude.

Afternoon and evening : liveliness alternates with melancholy.

4 P.M. : external headache.

Evening : toothache ; pain in legs.

Late P.M. : half-sightedness.

About 10 P.M. : pain in eye.

Before going to bed : headache.

At night : toothache. 39 Temperature and Weather. • Burns and scalds ; whensup- puration begins.

I Suppurating chilblains.

Open air : better walking in it ; desire to be in it.

Suffered unusually from cold, while taking his usual bath, a.m.

Knee pains in bath.

Sensitive to water, first < then >, toothache.

From change of weather : diarrhoea.

After washing with cold water : coryza. ^^ Fever. • Quotidian or tertian fever.

\ Intermittent fever ; back of tongue has a coating, resembling dry clay. Typhus : when diarrhoea sets in ; intestinal ulcers. Hectic fever: with costiven ess and red urine; with asthma, cough and burning in soles of feet. *^ Locality and Direction. Right : over eye dull pain ; in eye, pain; soreness of parotid gland; earwax dark; pimple on top of ear ; watery mucus from nostril ; pain in upper jaw ; sores on lip; toothache; pain in pelvis; fingers stiff"; rigid legs.

Left: pain in forehead; twitching of muscles about eye; press- ing pain in eyeball; cutting in eye; tears from eye; boil over eye ; coryza from nostril ; swelling on infra maxilla ; pimple on cheek; soreness roof of mouth; knee lame; toe tender.

Direction of pain across : in head, stomach, liver, chest, and neck.

Above downwards : heart to leg. *^ Sensations. As if he had his hat on ; as of a foreign body in eye ; as if skin was too tight in lower abdomen.

Darting : in r. side of face.

Stitches : in knee.

Burning : sore feeling on anterior fontanelle ; in stomach ; of soles of feet.

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Tearing : around head. Smarting: in inner canthi. Soreness : of r. parotid ; roof of mouth. Aching: across forehead ; in vertex. Dull pain : over r. eye.

Undefined pain: in 1. forehead and head , in r. upper jaw; in stomach ; in region of liver ; in lower abdomen ; in r. side of pelvis ; in anal abscess ; across chest ; in chest ; from heart to thigh ; across back of neck ; in lower part of back ; in joints. Puckered sensation : at base of tongue. Weakness : across stomach. Lameness : in knee. Itching : of soles of feet. ** Tissues. : Its sphere of action is in the connective tissue ; in- flammation with suppuration. Arrests hemorrhage and blenorrhoea.

Abscesses which have their seat in the connective tissue, if they are the result of stasis in the connective tissue tubuli. Serous swellings; post- scarlatinal dropsy, in rare cases. Hard or suppurating glands.

In third stage of inflammation ; lumpy or bloody discharge. Acute and chronic rheumatism.

Discharge in cough, leucorrhoea, gonorrhoea, etc., yellow, thick and lumpy, sometimes bloody. After mechanical injuries, when in neglected cases suppuration has set in. Greenish, brownish, yellow crusts. Cystic tumors ; fibroma ; fibrous polypi. ^' Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. Legs tender to touch ; toe tender while walking. From a blow or concussion : headache ; pain in knee. After a slap on ear : otitis. After a bruise : suppuration of finger. After a hurt by a splinter : sore eye.

Cuts and wounds, to control suppuration; thick yellow matter. Burns and scalds, if suppurating. ^® Skin. Itching on soles.

• Scarlet rash ; scarlatina, with excessive swelling of soft palate. Suppurating pustules and nodules.

Skin affections, with greenish, brownish or yellowish scabs. Yellow scab follows pimples on scalp. Boils and furuncles.

Abscesses and carbuncles, to control the formation of pus.* Tetters.

* Anthracine is much better. C. Hg.

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I Ulcers discharging thick yellow matter.

Many little matterless pimples under hair, bleeding when scratched.

Grayish, lead-colored skin (workers in gypsum).

\ Chilblains, when suppurating. ^^ Relations. Compatible : after Kali mur., JVatr. sulph., Silica.