All the provings and cures were made with high potencies. The provers were Ken Dell, Finch, Swan, Farrington, Cleveland, Higgins and others. Other authorities, for symptoms clinical and pathogenetic, mentioned in Berridge's MSS., prepared for Swan's Materia Medica, are Ren Dell, Finch, Swan, Norton, Frost, Farrington, Cleveland, Morgan, Berridge, Wildes, Higgins, Ostrom,. Nichols, Pease, Sawyer, Carr, Biegler, etc. Clinical AuTHOEiTiES. — Neuralgic headache, MSS. ; Ptosis of lids, Swan, MSS.; Abscess of liver, MSS. ; i)iarrAcEa, MSS. ; Cholei-a infantum (2 cases), S\^'an,M.SS.; Noc- turnal enuresis, Sawyer, MSS. ; Impotence, Cleveland, MSS. ; Gonorrhaa, ivith mental disturbance, Pease, MSS. ; Ulceration of neck of womb,^^i\&es,M.SS.; C hronic soreness- ofmammxE, Higgins, MSS. ; Cough, Berridge, Hom. Phys., vol. 5, p. 149 ; Incipient con- sumption, Farrington, MSS. ; Rheumatism, Biegler, Org., vol. 3, p. 211 ; Obstinate rheu- matism, Swan, MSS. ; Chronic rheumatism (not sycotic), Wesselhoeft , MSS. ; Gonor- rhoeal rheumatism, Nichols, MSS.; Sequelce of rheumatism. Biegler, MSS.; Shoulder pains, Higgins, MSS.; Pain under I. scapxda to end of little finger, Ostrom, MSS.; Itching and hivelike eruption, Swan, MSS. Symptoms not marked are pathogenetic; marked I or | | pathogenetic veri- fied ; marked | | purely clinical. ^ Mind. I Great weakness of memory. I I Dulness of memory and desire to procrastinate, because business seemed so long lasting, or as if it never could be accomplished. ^Gonorrhoea. ■ Entirely forgot what she had read, even previous line. iForgetfulness of names, later of words and initial letters. S Cannot remember names; has to ask name of her most intimate friend ; forgets her own. Cannot spell right ; wonders how the word " how " is spelled. Reads a letter and thinks the words look queer and are spelled wrong. 293 MEDORRHINUM. llTime moves too slowly. ■ Dazed feeling; a far off sensation, as though things done to-day occurred a week ago. Momentary loss of thought, caused b}^ sensation of tight- ness in brain. ■ Loses constantly the thread of her talk. I I In conversation he would occasionally stop, and on re- suming make remark that he could not think what word he wanted to use. ^Gonorrhoea. ■Seems to herself to make wrong statements, because she does not know wdiat to say next, begins all right but does not know how to finish; weight on vertex, which seems to affect mind. ■ Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses herself and has to be asked over again. Difficulty in concentrating his thoughts or mind on ab- stract subjects. Could not read or use mind at all from pain in head. Thinks some one is behind her, hears whispering; sees faces that peer at her from behind bed and furniture. Persons come in, look at her, whisper, and say "come." ■ One night saw large people in room; large rats running; felt a delicate hand smoothing her head from front to back. Is sure that she is worse, knows she is not going to live, cannot see any improvement, even when it is pointed out; has no fear of death, speaks calmly about it, and gives directions as to the disposition of her affairs. ■Sensation as if all life was unreal, like a dream. ■ Wild and desperate feeling, as of incipient insanity. ■ Cannot speak without crying. Tendency to suicide, gets up in night and takes his pistol, but his wife prevents him. ■ ■Is in a great hurry; when doing anything is in such a hurry that she gets fatigued. Strange exhilaration of spirits. Alternation of happiness and gloominess. Spirits in the depths, weighed down with heavy, solid gloom, > by torrents of tears. ■ Is always anticipating ; feels most matters sensitively be- fore they occur and generally correctly. ■ Anticipates death. ■ Dread of saying the wrong thing when she has headache. ■ Everything startles her, news coming to her seems to touch her heart before she hears it. ■ Woke at an early hour with a frightened sensation, as if something dreadful had happened; heavy weight and great heat in head; could not rest in bed; felt as if she must do something to rid her mind of this torture. MEDORRHINUM. 294 I Fear of the dark. Feeling as if he had committed the unpardonable sin and was going to hell. A word or look of seeming harshness puts her in despond- ency for hours. Feeling of desperation; did not care if he went to heaven or hell. I Cross through day, exhilarated at night, wants to play. ■ Irritated at little things. Nerve trembling, with worry. I Very impatient. Reading and writing make her nervous and enrage her. Great selfishness. ^ Sensorium. l Vertigo: when stooping; several times during day sudden attacks, seemingly in vertex, with danger of falling; things did not seem to go round, but there was a sensation and fear of falling, only slightly > lying down; < on movement; always woke with it; as if in- toxicated; walks zigzag; in occiput, extending to ver- tex, with sensation of enlargement of occiput. ■ Head light, not exactly dizzy. Sensation of tightening in head, causing intense vertigo. ^ Inner Head, l Frontal headache: with nausea; feeling of a tight band across forehead, < leaning head forward; as if front half of brain would come through forehead ; as if skin was drawn tight; with fluent coryza; with pressure back of eyes, as if they would be forced out; extending over brain to neck. BBrain seems weary; slightest sound annoys and fatigues her. Neuralgia first in 1. temple and parietal bone, then in r., next day in 1. eye. Wakes with headache over eyes and in temples; < from sunlight. I I Headache in r. temple; a good deal of aching over 1. eye. ^Nocturnal enuresis. I I Neuralgic headache in 1. temple and around middle part of cranium, at times terribly severe, with sensation of great weight and pressure in vertex; has lasted twenty- four hours and is gradually increasing in violence. Pain in centre of brain; in evening sharp pain through temples; pains commence and cease suddenly. Heat and throbbing in temporal region both sides. Brain exceedingly tender and all mental work irksome. Pain in 1. parietal bone when the wind blows on it. Pain circling through head and around crown. -Terrible pains all through head in every direction, with continuous and violent vomiting, followed by aching in sacrum and down back of legs to feet. 295 MEDORRHINUM. I Constant headache, < while coughing; light (through tne eyes) seems to hurt it. Intense headache for three days, with inflammation of eye. Headache and diarrhoea from motion of cars. Headache with menses. Dull headache in a broad ring around head. Intense cerebral suffering, causing continual rubbing of head in pillow, rolling from side to side. I Dull pain in cerebellum. ■ Intense burning pain in head, < in cerebellum. Tensive pain in 1. side of head as far back as parietal emi- nence and to middle of crown. Tensive pains in head as if she would go crazy ; could not read or use mind. Sensation as of three points of tension in head, in centre of each hemisphere and cerebellum; as if large cords were drawn to each from every part of lobes and cere- bellum ; extremely painful, caused a disposition to run wildly through streets tearing hair; seemed as if tensive pains would break, when suddenly they relaxed and a bubbling sensation passed from centres to circumfer- ences; when reached, the tensive pains began again. Sensation of tightness and contraction, extending from eyes and meeting in brain ; extends down whole length of spine. Aching in occiput and medulla; pain sharpen motion; drowsy. Aching and exhausted feeling in cerebellum and medulla, with a subjective tenderness of spine from cerebellum to kidneys. Aching pain in base of brain, with swelling of cords of neck. Burning glow in cerebellum and down spine. Head feels heavy and is drawn backwards. Severe pain in back of head as though it had been struck ; pain spread over to front, with severe neuralgic pain in 1. eye; headache lasted all night; eye bloodshot. ■ Pain in back of head and in r. eye. Simmering in head, does not know whether it is heard or felt. Sensation as if occipital protuberances were enlarged. ' Outer Head. Hair lustreless, dry and crispy. Dryness and electrical condition of hair; it will not remain brushed. ■ Intense itching of scalp; quantities of dandruff. ' Sight and Eyes. When eyes were shut, felt as if pulling out of head to one side or other ; when open all things seemed to flicker. A blur over things ; numberless black, sometimes brown spots dancing over her book ; sees objects double ; things look very small ; sees imaginary objects. MEDORRHINUM. 296 I Feeling as if she stared at everything, as if eyes pro- truded. I Aching in eyeballs, pressure and heat in vertex, a ten- dency to shut eyes. I Neuralgic pain in eyeballs : when pressing eyelids together ; < when rolling them. I I Continuous watering of eyes, great heat and sensation of sand under lids. I Feeling of pain and irritation, and sensation of sticks in eyes, lids and especially inner canthi, redness and dry- ness of lids, congestion of sclerotic and sensation of a cool wind blowing in eyes, especially inner canthi. • Ptosis of outer end of both upper lids, particularly 1., requiring exertion to open them. ■ Swelling of upper lids; soreness and smarting of edges. ■ Decided tendency to irritation of edges of lids. ■ Pulling pain in 1. lower lid from outer can thus; could see lid twitch between these points. Hardness of upper lid as if it had a cartilage in it. Eyebrows itch; brows and lashes fall off. Swelling under eyes. * Hearing and Ears. Nearly total deafness of both ears, with very little noise; had to use a trumpet. ■ Partial or transient deafness; pulsation in ears. I I Child hard of hearing for six days. Singular sensation of deafness from one ear to the other, as if a tube went through head, while yet there was an overacuteness of hearing. Is sure he hears people in conversation, but on carefully watching, finds that sounds have reference to arterial pulsation, but where he cannot discover. When whistling, the sound in ears is double, with peculiar vibration as when two persons whistle thirds. Noises seemingly in mastoid cells, frying and hissing. Pain passes up Eustachian tube and out of both ears with a tickling sensation. After sleeping feels as though parchment was drawn over ear on which she was lying. Sensation of a worm about an inch long crawling in r. ear, and as if it commenced boring in anterior wall of auditory canal. Itching, aching, or boring pain in 1. ear. Aching in cartilage of ear when lying on it at night. Soreness to touch of r. concha. Quick, darting pains in r. ear, from without inward; pains followed each other in close succession. Ringhole in 1. ear sore and almost gathered. ^ Sm€ll and Nose. Intense itching in nose, internally near point, had to rub all the time. 297 MEDORRHINUM. Very great burning in both nostrils when breathing through them. Coldness of end of nose. Entire loss of smell for several days. Soreness of outer wing (inside) of 1. nostril. Nose constantly running. Nasal catarrh, with continual running down throat. Sensation of action in bones of nose ; obstruction at root of nose as if mucous membrane was hypertrophied. Nose goes to sleep. llEpistaxis. Nose inflamed, swollen. Catarrh of posterior nares. Posterior nares obstructed, > by hawking thick, greyish mucus, followed by bloody mucus. Heavy fluent coryza, with hard headache all day in frontal region, < 10.30 a.m. Soreness and crawling feeling as of a centipede in 1. nostril in morning. ^ Upper Face, l i Great pallor; yellowness of face, particularly around eyes, as if occurring from a bruise (greenish yellow) ; yellow band across forehead close to hair. Greenish, shining appearance of skin. Blotches on face. Flushes of heat in face and neck. Fever blisters near corner of r. upper lip, small but very sore. Enormous fever sore on lower lip near 1. commissure. Sweat of face ; on uj)per lip. I I Neuralgia of r. upper and lower jaws, extending to temple. TrSwelling in region of 1. submaxillary gland, the size of a goose egg; whiskers over tumor came out; softened in centre ; at times sharp, shooting pains; on being opened discharged a large quantity of thin, bloody pus; was opened several times, finally the aperture formed raised embankment-hke edges; the pus burrowed until arrested by clavicle, where it formed an enormous swelling (> after Thuja 3m.); the tumors left fistulous openings which were a long time in healing. ^Retronasal catarrh (benefited). Face covered with acne ; dry herpes ; freckles. * Lower Face, i i Tendency to stiff'ness in jaws and tongue. I I Rigidity of muscles of face, especially of lower lip, drawing it up tight to teeth ; jaws stifl; unable to open them ; deglutition nearly impossible ; throat filled with saliva. Swelling of submaxillary glands. Teeth and Gums, i i Teeth have serrated edges, or are chalky and easily decay. MEDORRHINUM. • 298 Sore teeth, particularly eyeteeth ; feel sore and soft. Yellowness of teeth. I I Hard swelling on r. upper jaw, as if in socket of a tooth gone since four years; intense neuralgic pains extend- ing to whole head, causing sleeplessness; severe pains all over head, with external heat. I 1 Pale gums. " Taste and Tongue. Taste : coppery on rising ; disagree- able ; bad in morning. Tongue coated : brown and thick ; thickly in morning, with bad taste ; white at base, the rest red ; white, with papillse showing through. Tongue blistered. Small sores, pustules (canker sores) on edge, tip and under tongue, very painful ; also inside lips and in throat. ^^ Inner Mouth. Foul breath in morning. Dryness of mouth ; feels burnt. I I Very sore mouth, ulcers on tongue and in buccal cavity, like blisters. I I Blisters on inner surface of lips and cheeks, skin peel- ing off in patches. Excitement of submaxillary glands, pouring out saliva profusely. Stringy mucus comes out of mouth during sleep. 13 Throat. Irritation in throat as if scraped. Pharynx inflamed and feels very stiff and sore. Great dryness of throat, with swollen glands. Back part of throat constantly filling with mucus from posterior nares. Sore throat and cold in head > by salt water bathing. Soreness of throat, hurts to swallow. ^* Appetite. Thirst. Desires. Aversions. ' i Appetite in- creased ; ravenous hunger immediately after eating. Absolute loss of appetite ; thirst. Enormously thirsty ; even dreams that she is drinking. Insatiate craving for liquor, when before she hated it. I I Great craving for salt. ^Abscess of liver. Craving: for sweets; hard, green fruit ; ice; sour things; oranges ; ale. ^''Belching, Hiccough, Nausea and Vomiting. ' i Hiccough. Nausea: with frontal headache; after drinking water; after dinner ; always after eating ; before eating. Vomiting of thick mucus and bile, without nausea. I I Violent retching and vomiting for forty-eight hoars; first glairy mucus, then frothy and watery, and lastly coffee grounds ; accompanied by intense headache, with great despondency and sensation of impending death ; during paroxysm was continually praying. 299 MEDORRHINUM. Vomiting black bile without nausea, tasting bitter and sour, with considerable mucus. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach, i i Sensation in pit of stomach as of a paper of pins that seemed to force themselves through flesh, causing her to. rise and double up and scream ; pins seem to come from each side. ^Abscess of liver. A sick or gnawing feeling, not > by eating or drinking. Trembling at pit of stomach. Sometimes a burning (like a flame) in pit of stomach, as if heart palpitated there. Dull pain in epigastric region, deep in. Feeling of a lump in stomach after eating. Throbbing in sides of stomach. Clawing in stomach, < drawing up knees. I I Cramps in stomach as from wind. I I Intense pain in stomach and upper abdomen, with a sensation of tightness. Sensation of sinking and agonizing sickness at stomach, with a desire to tear something away. ^^ Hypochondria. Terrible pains in liver, thought she would die, they were so acute. I Bilious colic with frequent vomiting and nausea ; diar- rhoeic stools, chilliness and perspiration on face and neck. I Congestion of liver. ■ Grasping pain in liver and spleen. I Burning heat around to back, like a coal of fire. ^Ab- scess of liver. I Severe pain from abscess extending to r. shoulder and down elbow. ^Abscess of liver. I Throbbing and thumping in region of suprarenal cap- sule, seeming to come from abscess or sore spot just below fifth rib, r. side ; creeping chills in region of r. kid- ney, throbbing, contracting, drawing and relaxing as if caused by icy cold insects with claws. ^Abscess of liver. Abdomen, l Intense agonizing pain in solar plexus ; surface cold; eructations tasting of sulphuretted hydrogen and, after eating, of ingesta ; applied r. hand to pit of stomach and 1. to lumbar region. Pressure in lower abdomen as of a heavy weight. A feeling as of a tumor in r. side of abdomen. Tensive pain in r. side of abdomen, as of a hard, bicon- vex body ; with heat and gnawing aching pain, con- tinued a short time ; it was between spine of ilium and recti muscles. Darting pain from centre of r. ovarian region to lower edge of liver. I I Ascites; abdomen greatly distended ; palpation showed water ; urine very scanty and high colored. MEDORRHINUM. 300 Beating as of a pulse in abdomen vertically. Left inguinal glands sensitive and slightly swollen. Cutting in r. lower abdomen running into r. spermatic cord ; r. testis very tender. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Bilious diarrhoea, verging on dysen- tery, with mucous stools. Pains of most intense kind (threatening cramps) in upper abdomen (darting and tearing pains) coming on at stool ; stool diarrhoeic, thin and hot, but not copious ; after stool, profound weakness and mild cramp in 1. calf. Profuse bloody discharges from rectum, sometimes in large clotted masses, followed by shivering. I I Bhick stool. I I White diarrhoea. Stools tenacious, claylike, sluggish, cannot be forced, from a sensation of prolapsus of rectum. Can onl}^ pass stool by leaning very far back ; very pain- ful, as if there was a lump on posterior surface of sphinc- ter ; so painful as to cause tears. 1 Constriction and inertia of bowels with balllike stools. I I Child, £et. 15 months, brought on a pillow to clinic, ap- parently dead ; eyes glassy, set ; could not find pulse, but felt heart beat ; running from anus greenish yellow, thin, horribly offensive stool. I I Baby, set. 7 months, after summer complaint, great emaciation, diarrhoea green, watery, slimy, yellow, curdled, like boiled potatoes chopped up with greens, thin, cream colored, watery, smelling like rotten eggs ; stools pass involuntarily ; apparently lifeless, except that it rotates head on pillow. I I Cholera infantum with opisthotonos, vomiting and watery diarrhoea ; profuse discharge of blood and pus. Sharp, needlelike pains in rectum. I I Painful attack of piles, not bleeding, hot swelling on 1. side of anus ; pin worms. Oozing of moisture from anus, fetid like fish brine.