Opium
Reason for use
For provings and toxicological reports which are numerous, see K. A. M. L., vol. 1, p. 278, and Allen's Encyclopedia, vol. 7, p. 173.
CLiNicAii Authorities. — III effects of anger, Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 5, p. 271 ; Menial disturbance; Idiocy, Sonnenberg, Schiiler, Kiesselbach, Kiick., Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 36; Bigler, Hom. Phys., vol. 6, p. 249; Delirium, Elwert, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 8 ; Delirium tremens, Strecker, Weber, Trinks, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 146 ; Battmann, Kurtz, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 65 ; Apoplexy, Higgins, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 58 ; Scliolz, Schmid, Knorre, Frank, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 94 ; Low, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 30 ; Stupor, Sawyer, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 337 ; Sunstroke, Espinay, N. A. J. H., vol. 22, p. 80 ; from Bib. Franc , Dec, 1872; Vertlyo, Miiller, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 22; Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 1, p. 377 ; Headache, Schmid,
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B. J. H., vol. 1, p. 378; Eilck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 190; Meningitis, Hartmann, Hirsch, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 46; Cerebro- spinal meningitis, Eaue, Analyt. Therap., vol. 1, p. 248 ; Affection of stomach, vomiting, Hofrichter, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 319 ; Colic, Welsch, Times Eet., 1875, p. 73 ; A. H. Z., vol. 90, p. 173 ; Flatulent colic, Hirsch, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 108 ; Lead colic, Eiickert, Fleischmann, Eothhansl.Trinks, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol 1 p. 758 ; Hnber, Mattoli, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol.5, p. 369; Ussher, Hah. Mo., vol. 23, p. 601; Horn. World, July, 1888; Intestinal catarrh, Miiller, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 425 ; Ileus, Cserno, Eaue's Eec 1872, p. 149 ; H. Kl., 1871, p. 50 ; Intestinal obstruction, Low, Kafka, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p, 374 ; Intestinal obstruction and fecal tumor, Plimpton, Hah. Mo., vol. 10, p. 393; Abdominal complaint, Bartl, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 777 ; Constipation, Swan, Horn. Times, vol. 4, p. 275; Stoaks, Horn. Phys., vol. 8, p. 439; Foster, Times Eet., 1877, p. 35; Am. Horn., vol. 1, p. 114; Luchs, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 396 ; Lobeth., Hrg., Mschk., Kirsch, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 817 ; Eafin- esque, Bernard, Bernard and Strong, p. 85 ; Cholera, Hirsch, B. J. H., vol. 26, pp. 107-112 ; Lobeth., Eentsch, Both, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 952 ; Engelhard, Gers- tel, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 479 ; Proctitis, Lindner, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 355 ; Retention of stool and urine, Hrg., Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 28 ; Renal colic, Trinks, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 28 ; Strangury, Allen, Horn. Phys., vol. 7, p. 212 ; Ureth- ral stricture, Eosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 547 ; Sloughing of scrotum, Sircar, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 169; Calcutta M. J., vol. 3, p. 122; 3Ienorrhagia, Weil, Times Eet., 1877, p. 109 ; Menostasia, Gross, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 179 ; H. Kl., 1871 ; Constipation during pregnancy, Knorr, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 384; Disorders of pregnancy, Wheeler, Times Eet., 1877, p. 113, Mi^ss. Trans., vol. 4, p. 883; Abortion, Griessel, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p 319; Ineffectual labor pains, Afterpaivs, Battmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 656; Use in labor, Battmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 34; Paerperal convulsions, Hartmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, pp. 394, 408 ; Briry, N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 348 ; Baer, Eaue's Ec-c, 1874, p. 247 ; from Trans. A. I., 1872, p. 225 ; Bronchitis with dyspncea, Kafka, Euck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 800 ; Dyspnasa, Morrison, Horn. Eev., vol. 21, p. 157 ; Asthma Millari, Times Eet., 1877, p. 84, Cough, Gross, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 46; Hcemoptysis, Lobethal, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 805; Pneumonia, Bernrenter, Eaue's Path., p. 392 ; Miil- ler, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 310; Heart disease, Knorre, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 447; Huber, Eiick. Kl. Erf., .vol. 5, p. 860; Spasms, Epilepsy, Hrg., Attorn., Hro- mada, Knorre, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4 p. 586 ; Spasms, Pritchard, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 248 ; from Trans. N. Y. S., 1873-4, p. 314 ; Convulsions, Ping, Times Eet., 1875, p. 36, from Bib. Horn., vol. 7, p. 79 ; Epilepsy, Groos, Horn. CI., vol. 4, p. 93 ; Stens, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 228 ; from A. H. Z., vol. 83, p.l28 ; Spalding, N. E. M. G., vol.8, p. 208 ; Sleep, Sleeplessness, L5w, Eenlsch, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 60 ; Cold, Un- derwood, B. J. H., vol. 33, p. 574 ; Ague, Hrg., Gauwerky, Seidel, Euramel, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 968; Seidel, Allen's Int. Fever, p. 195; from Plom. CI., Lippe, M. I., vol. 6, p. 345 ; Fischer, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 18 ; Typhoidfever, Lobeth., Low, Gross, Hartmann, Trinks, Wislicen., Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 761 ; Scarlet fever, Hahnemann, Trinks, Hartmann, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 58.
' Mind. I I Confusion of mind.
iDulness of head ; has no mental grasp for anything and
cannot comprehend the sense of what he is reading. I Imbecility of will, as though annihilated.
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I B Insensibility, accompanied by complete apoplectic res- piration.
1 1 Unconscious, eyes glassy, half closed; face pale; deep coma.
iStupid indifference.
B Drunkenness, with stupor; as if from smoke in brain; eyes burning, hot and dry.
B Sopor: painless, complains of nothing, wants nothing; with delirium ; depression of lower jaw; dilated pupils ; general symptoms of paralysis of brain.
B Profound coma; cannot be aroused from stupor; pupils greatly contracted or widely dilated ; face puffed, with dark red or cherry brown appearance ; stertorous breath- ing; pulse full and labored or slow and feeble.
BTalkative; glistening eyes and mental activity; inclines to gayety.
I I Thinks he is not in his own house; imagines himself living in a locality three hours distant from his house; detains all passers-by and wishes to take them into his house ; will brook no opposition, meets force with force, face flushed; stupor, forgetfulness, he does not at once recognize friends ; anxiety ; wildness ; inclination to sleep without. being able to do so; constipation with meteoric distension of abdomen ; urine retained, a pare- tic condition apparently preventing evacuation ; while smoking forgets to draw; lively and cheerful, yet very drowsy.
I iSaid many disconnected things and pointed to masked people who seemed to approach him.
BSees frightful ghosts; easily frightened.
llShe appears to see most frightful animals and other objects.
I Vivid imagination, exaltation of mind.
I Imagines parts of body very large.
B Thinks she is not at home.
B Delirious talking, eyes wide open, face red, puffed up.
B Delirium : muttering ; violent, with red face, glistening eyes and great physical activity.
I I Constant delirium day and night; declares he is not alone in bed ; when spoken to answers intelligently, but at once becomes delirious again; frenzy; desires to es- cape ; says a regiment of horsemen are upon his bed and that he fears to be trodden upon ; w^hen told that horses are very careful, answered that he feared he would be crushed by the wagons that followed them. ^After pneumonia.
B I Mania a potu : with dulness of senses, at intervals sopor, with snoring; in old, emaciated persons; sees animals
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coming towards him ; people want to hurt him, execute him ; creeping under covers or jumping out of bed; in " old sinners " whose long lives of excess have thoroughly- destroyed their constitutions; in those who have had the disease repeatedl}^, it taking but a small quantity of liquor to throw them again into delirium ; face wears a constant expression of fright and terror; preceded by epileptiform fits; imagine they see frightful objects and are in great fear; believe themselves to be murder- ers or criminals to be executed ; want to run away ; staring look ; twitching of muscles of face and mouth ; lockjaw ; tremor.
I Fantastical insanity with frightful visions; talks in a confused manner; commits indecent actions; cheerful- ness and feeling of great strength ; contempt of death ; riotous hilarity with buffoonery and subsequent angry savageness or tearful sorrow; instability and imbecility of will ; indifference to joy and suffering; complete de- mentia, does not recognize his own relatives; excessive debility, stupor, frequent sweats and eruptions on skin; diminished secretion of urine. ^Mental derangement.
I I After practising masturbation for many years fell into a state of despair respecting his health, this degenerated into complete idiocy.
i Nervous and irritable; tendency to start.
IB Ailments from excessive joy, fright, anger or shame.
IB After fright, fear of the fright still remaining.
Anxiety; apprehension; fear of impending death.
I I Started at least noise ;■ a fly ujDon any part of body was a burden to him.
I After a fright with fear, convulsions, or a hot head, with twitching about mouth.
I I Grief over insults is followed by convulsions.
Mendacity.*
I I Screaming before or during spasm.
I I Dislikes to talk during sweat. ' Sensorium. ii Great sensibility to sound, light and faintest odors
I Apoplexy : vertigo, congestion to head, with great roaring in ears ; eyes open, pupils dilated ; face red, muscles twitching; sinking of jaw ; tongue drawn to one side; speech impeded; inability to swallow; slow, irregular, stertorous breathing; limbs cold, paralyzed ; drowsiness; in persons addicted to spirituous liquors or oppressed by care or grief; convulsive motions of extremities or tetanic stiffness of whole body; hot sweat on head;
* "Opium eaters are chronic liars."
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after consciousness is restored cannot retain what he reads and forgets connection of consecutive thoughts; paralysis of r. side. iComa : incomplete insensibility; will be aroused for a mo- ment when addressed in a loud tone of voice and then relapse into stupor ; extremities and face bluish or livid ; loud, stertorous inspirations ; coldness of skin ; ursemic.
■ Sunstroke; unconsciousness ; deep coma ; eyes glassy and
half closed. I I After sleeping in sun during afternoon could not be awakened following morning; she slept quietly and normally, pulse regular, skin cool. ^Sunstroke.
■ Passive cerebral congestion, with somnolence after meals
in patients predisposed to apoplexy.
■ ■Fainting turns with vertigo whenever he attempts to
rise from bed, with sudden return of animation on lying down.
■ Vertigo : with anxiet}^ and delirium ; when rising ; after
typhus ; from injuries to head ; as after intoxication ; with darkness before eyes; with dulness of head and stupefaction; sympathetic, accompanying diseases of prsecordial organs, suppressed hemorrhoids, menstrua- tion, heart affections, etc. ; after fright ; with sensation as if he were flying or hovering in air.
■ Sensation in head like that following sleep after excess-
ive debauch.
■ Great heaviness of head, making thought and writing
difficult.
■ Dull, stupid, as if drunk.
■ Congestion of blood to head, with pulsations in it.
^ Inner Head. ■ Headache: pressing pain in temples; ver- tigo, red face, sleepiness; < on closing eyes; congestive, nervous, abdominal.
■ Throbbing of arteries; rush of blood to head.
■ Cerebro-spinal meningitis: stupor; spasms; drawing
body backward and rolling from side to side; deep, slow, stertorous breathing; very quick or very slow pulse ; after violent emotions, fear, grief, fright, which acted like a blow, stunning whole nervous system.
■ Meningitis, particularly if caused by insulation or when
child has slept near hot stove. ■ ■Traumatic encephalitis.
■ Hydrocephalus acutus: early and late stages; heavy
and stupid sleep, with red face ; stupid even after wak- ing; extremely acute hearing; child seems to be afraid of something and starts as if frightened ; constipation, stools resemble small, black balls; chronic. * Outer Head. iHead hot and covered with hot or cold sweat. ^Apoplexy.
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lOcciput feels heavy as lead, head falling back constantly. ^Apoplexy. ^Cerebro-spinal meningitis. ^ Sight and Eyes. > Obscuration of sight ; amblyopia.
I Scintillations before eyes. •
I I The pupils are dilated and insensible to light, con- tracted or sluggish.
B Sensation as if eyes were too large for orbits.
■ Eyes: glassy, protruded, immovable ; staring look ; half
open, balls turned upward ; red, half closed, burning hot and dry ; red, glistening and prominent.
I I Sensation of sand or dust in eye, with burning.
I I Swelling of lower lids; lids hang down as if paralyzed.
I I Total paralysis of accommodation, with impaired sen- sibility of r. retina, and partial paralysis of accommoda- tion of 1. eye ; supposed to be due to use of cosmetic which probably contained carbonate of lead ; almost constantly frontal headache, vertigo with darting pains from occiput to forehead, distressing feeling of empti- ness in stomach, especially in morning, bowels consti- pated, and a sensation of pain and constriction as of a band encircling her chest in line of pleura.
I I Embolism of central artery of retina; arteries blood- less, veins engorged and stagnant, and hemorrhagic spots on disk; after a severe attack of neuralgia; face very red and drawn to r. side, tongue protruded to r. side, speech imperfect, nearly voiceless, except with effort; pain in back ; all pains on r. side. ^Hearing and Ears. iiAcuteness of hearing; clocks strik- ing and cocks crowing' at a great distance keep her awake.
iBuzzing, humming and violent roaring in ears.
■ Congestion to ears ; hsematorrhoea. ^ Smell and Nose. ■ b i Loss of smell.
I I Stitches in r. nostril on taking a long inspiration.
I I Stoppage of nose; dry coryza. ® Upper Face. > iFace : flushed ; red, bloated, swollen ; livid ; pale, earthy, eyes weak, full of water ; pale, clay-colored, sunken countenance and eyes, with red spots on cheeks; bluish (purple), swollen ; of sucklings three or four weeks old, like that of an old man ; affrighted, mania a potu ; debauched, distorted.
iTrembling, twitching and spasmodic motions of facial muscles.
■ Muscles of face relaxed, lower lip hangs down; veins
distended.
■ Cold sweat on forehead.
' Lower Face. iCorners of mouth twitch; distortion of mouth.
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I Lips livid ; foam at mouth.
■ Lower lip and jaw hang down.
I I Lockjaw.
"Taste and Tongue, ii Taste: lost; bitter; sour; disagree- able, sweet (lead colic).
I I Paralysis of tongue and difficult articulation.
I I Unable to talk with mouth open ; answered in a stam- mering manner with interrupted articulation.
■ Tongue: quivering; coated dirty yellow, or white; unc-
tuous ; purple black. '^ Inner Mouth. Dryness of mouth, thirst and want of appetite. I I Saliva lessened or ptyalism ; spitting of blood. I I Ulcers in mouth and on tongue. ^^ Throat, l Dryness of throat,
I I Inability to sw^allow ; daily attacks of distension and strangulation.
■ Dysphagia becoming true aphagia, as from paralysis of
muscles. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. ■Appetite raven- ous or lost.
■ Disgust at food, or food is desired, but no sooner is first
morsel swallowed than it is followed by oppression.
■ Violent thirst or absence of thirst.
■ Desire for spirituous liquors ; costive. I I Longing for beer or brandy.
^^ Eating and Drinking. Aggravation from brandy or wine. *® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. ■ Hic- cough ; sour eructations.
■ Nausea and inclination to vomit when moving and after
eating.
■ Retching which has come on in consequence of a moral
emotion, as loathing.
■ Unsuccessful vomiturition in drunkards.
■ Vomit: green, bloody or bitter; putrid; stercoraceous ;
intussusception, with violent colic and convulsions; first of food then of fecal-smelling substance (hiccough), great thirst, cold limbs, distorted face (ileus, incarcer- ated hernia) ; of enormous masses of mucus intermixed with large bubbles of air, occasionally greenish, accom- panied by great nausea, pressure in stomach, constipa- tion, etc. " Scrobiculum and Stomach, i i Painful swelling in prte- cordia.
■ Violent cutting in epigastric and umbilical region.
■ Constrictive pain in stomach.
■ Heaviness and pressure in stomach.
■ Fulness and oppression in stomach, with shortness and
difficulty of breathing.
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■ Digestion slow, disturbed, weakened, with sensation of
fulness, heaviness, pressure, constriction and pain in stomach and prsecordium; inactivity of digestive or- gans ; atonic dyspepsia of drunkards ; subacute gastritis.
^^ Hypochondria. 1 1 Swelling of spleen.
'^Abdomen. iRumbling in abdomen; griping, grumbling.
■ Abdomen tense, distended, tympanitic, hard, swollen,
sensitive to touch.
iPressive pain in abdomen, as if intestines would be cut to pieces.
I I Tension in hypogastric region, which is extremely pain- ful to touch.
I I Pressure and heaviness as from a stone or weight in abdomen, in umbilical region.
I I Accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines, causing
painful swelling ; > for a time by motion ; if gas passes off it is immediately renewed. ^ I Anxious sensation in epigastrium; colic, with great pressure downward upon rectum and bladder, without any discharge of gas, feces or urine.
I I Colic: transient, very violent; griping, with constipa- tion (in sucklings); cutting; flatulent; as if intestines were cut to pieces; from lead poisoning.
I I Intestinal spasms; child cried day and night and could not be pacified ; after each attack pale and collapsed ; thirsty, vomits after drinking; stools hard, lumpy, colorless, or thin, j^ellowish or greenish ; passed much urine ; great fearfulness, especially at night ; eyes wide open ; he crouched up and perspired ; whenever he cried scrotum and penis wrinkled up, testicles were drawn up within abdominal ring, and penis completely disappeared.
I I Squeezing pains as if something were forced through a narrow space; shooting pains into testes and bladder; restless, anxious, changing position; face hot; pulse slow. ^Nephralgia.
I I Severe vomiting, with pains in stomach and obstinate constipation ; great confusion of head ; tongue coated ; metallic taste in mouth ; intolerable pains in abdomen, as if stabbed with a knife ; umbilicus spasmodically retracted; pulse tense, hard, slow; skin dry. ^Colic.
IlVer}' severe twitching-tearing or lightning-like pains shooting in all directions through abdomen, even ex- tending down to testicles and at times involving blad- der; pains do not remain long in one place, but con- stantly change locality, and are not < from -external pressure ; no indications of inflammation ; stool and urine normal ; pulse normal. ^Colic.
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B Flatus accumulates in upper part of bowels, causing dis- tension of abdomen, especially in umbilical region, with antiperistaltic motion, belching and vomiting.
1 1 Constant severe constricting pain in abdomen, day and night, compelling him to bend double ; constipation ; loss of appetite ; great lassitude ; lower limbs heavy as lead. ^Lead colic.
I I Delirium, with severe convulsions; complains of no pain; skin very hot; pulse 120; pupils greatly dilated, sensitive to light ; at night complains of sudden loss of vision ; later, pain and sensation of lameness in lower limbs, with constriction in abdomen. ^Lead colic.
I I Colic in a printer from handling type; pain so severe
as to compel him to lie on floor and make a great out- cry ; constipation.
I I Painter's colic.
iCrampy intestinal motions; rolling up as of a hard body in r. hypochondrium. ^Ileus. ,
I Strangulation of bowels; violent colicky pains and fecal vomiting,
B Digestive organs inactive ; peristaltic motion reversed or paralyzed ; bowels seem closed.
B Paralysis of intestines from lead poisoning.
BLaxness of abdominal organs.
B Incarcerated umbilical and inguinal hernia; fecal vomit. ""Stool and Rectum. BiStool: involuntary, especially after fright ; pasty ; fluid, frothy, with burning in anus and tenesmus; excessively offensive; watery; black, fetid; unsatisfactory, hard; hard, preceded by griping; hard, dark-brown or grey; hard and crumbly; BBhard, round, black balls; in small hard knots, accompanied by bearing-down pains, or with sensation as if rectum were closed ; hard, dry, in black balls, like sheep clung ; in large masses; hard, alternated with liquid, frothy stools ; come down and recede ; retained spasmodically.
B Diarrhoea : occasioned suddenly by fear, a cold, or other slight causes ; after sudden joy ; persistent, in those treated with- large doses of the drug; last stage of in- fantile, with characteristic stools and convulsions; dur- ing typhoid.
BDysentery: patient drowsy and stupid; urine scanty and retained ; no appetite ; rapid emaciation ; strong resemblance to second stage of typhus.
BB Cholera infantum: with stupor, snoring and convul- sions ; contracted pupils ; tonic spasms ; face pale or red ; fatally advancing stupor ; pupils react very slug- gishly or not at all ; disease seems to begin by involv- ing brain, as yet there is neither vomiting nor diar-
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rlicea, child appears as if drugged; lack of vitality; well-selected remedy refuses to act; patient either slug- gish or drowsy.
■ Cholera Asiatica: from emotional causes, fright at seiz-
ure or death of relatives; after failure of Verat. or Arsen.; when too large doses of Camphor have been given, and there is great congestion to head and threat- ened apoplexy; typhoid symptoms; asphyctic stage; icy coldness and blueness of surface; pulseless; no reaction ; disturbances in circulation and respiration in consequence of violent and sudden implication of solar plexus, with cyanosis and threatened suffocation.
■ Constipation : from fright or fear; nervous and irritable,
passes nothing but hard, black balls from bowels; from arrested secretions; from ileus or paresis from intes- tines;_ almost unconquerable; for weeks with loss of appetite ; not more than one motion a week ; from in- activity of intestines ; the most active purgatives have lost their power; decreased peristaltic motion ; paraly- sis of intestines in consequence of a protracted attack of diarrhcea in subjects leading a sedentary life and also in robust, healthy men; associated with incarcerated hernia ; want of sensibility, hardly any inconvenience is felt from accumulation of feces ; of corpulent, good- humored women and children ; from spasmodic reten- tion in small intestines, with feeling of pressing asunder; from lead poisoning; after abuse of cathartics ; bowels impacted with feces ; resulting from pressure upon rec- tum in consequence of a gravid uterus or abdominal tumors; of nursing infants, aged persons, and those of a torpid or plethoric habit; absence of expulsive efforts; accompanied by hysterical symptoms; at one time, after stool had remained absent eleven weeks, fecal vomiting occurred.
■ Before stool: no desire, or with desire to go to stool there
is a sensation as if anus were closed.
■ Proctitis during course of peritonitis (metritis); anus
greatly retracted.
■ Sensation of occlusion of anus; constriction, anus spas-
modically closed during colic, with obstinate constipa- tion ; very difficult emission of flatus. " Urinary Organs, l i Diabetes mellitus; dulness, sadness, weak memory ; after mental shocks or injuries; irenal colic; pressing squeezing pains as though something had to force its way through a narrow space ; shooting pains from different places into bladder and testicles ; vomiting of slime and bile; obstinate constipation; dysuria; greatest anxiety and restlessness; constantly changing position; face hot ; pulse slow.
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iHematorrhoea.
lUrine retained: from fright; from contraction of sphinc- ter or paralysis of fundus of bladder; bladder full; post-partum ; nursing children after passion of nurse ; in fever or acute illness ; chiefly caused by blunting of lining of membrane of neck of bladder so that fulness is not recognized by patient.
I Urine: suppressed; passes with difficulty, as from atony; seldom and scanty, dark brown, brickdust sediment; red and cloudy; lemon colored, with much sediment; bloody.
■ Frequent interruption of stream of urine, which com-
mences to flow alter waiting a long time, on account of a cramp in sphincter vesicae.
■ Cutting in urethra.
iStrangury and retention of urine from excessive use of tobacco.
■ Involuntary urination.
■ Nocturnal enuresis; urinates very often.
^^ Male Sexual Organs. ■Excitement of sexual organs with violent erections ; impotence.
I I Voluptuous fancies, with erections during sleep and impotence after waking; nightly emissions with amor- ous dreams.
I I Emissions without erections, followed by debility and great relaxation of parts.
■ Spasmodic stricture after drinking poorly-fermented
liquor ; also in drunkards.
I I Painful sensation in testicles.
I I Inflammation and sloughing of scrotum following at- tacks of malarious fever. "Female Sexual Organs, ii Great excitement of sexual organs, with sexual dreams and orgasm.
I I Perfect loss of sexual desire from lack of nutrition.
■ Softness of uterus, with fetid discharge. ^After metritis.
■ Prolapsus uteri from fright.
■ Severe laborlike pains in uterus, with desire to go to
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Stool
■ Menses: irregular, profuse, violent colic forcing her to
bend over; urging to stool; suppressed by fright.
■ Amenorrhoea from fright; irresistible drowsiness;
eclampsia.
■ Menorrhagia, or metrorrhagia; great sleepiness, yet she
cannot sleep; sheets so hot that she has to change to a cooler place every little while; constipation.
■ Menses suppressed by great fright; violent epileptiform
convulsions followed b}^ very profuse menses. I I Prolapsus of vagina with strangulation ; very sleepy ; lies in a soporous condition.
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I Leucorrhoea : fetid. ^'Pregnancy. \ Parturition. Lactation, i During preg- nancy : insomnia ; retention of stool ; continued' hic- cough ; frequent nausea and vomiting after eating.
■ Violent or painful movements of foetus.
■Abortion threatening after great fright, especially if in latter part of pregnancy.
■ Labor pains: spasmodic, extremely painful, but ineffect-
ual; great pain in small of back; false or suppressed; from fear or fright ; twitching and jerking of muscles ; sopor, red face, injected eyes, retention of stool and urine. I I Puerperal convulsions, after cathartics, not ceasing after child was born ; pulse 120 ; pallor ; sunken eyes ; pu- pils much dilated; muttering; borborygmus; coma; spasm ; throws arms and legs about ; stretching arms and legs at right angles with body ; trembling; pulse working rapidly ; eyes turned inward and upward ; head bent back over to left; 1. hand and foot turned to 1. i side; tongue quivering, coated dirty yellow, unctuous;
the spasm would scarcely relax, when it would run into another, more than thirty having occurred, finally stopping very suddenly for ten minutes.
■ Puerperal convulsions; spasms commenced with rigidity
of muscles and distortion of features, drawing mouth down and to one side; head turned far back and to r. i side ; then there was jactitation of limbs and body, with
lividity of face and frothing at mouth; this condition would subside and be'followed by stertorous breathing; tongue much swollen and bloody.
■ During and after labor, spasm, with loss of consciousness
and drowsiness, open mouth ; coma between paroxysms.
■ Puerperal fever, especially when caused by fright; over-
excitement of all the senses; every distant sound an- noys her ; very fetid discharge from uterus ; case ap- proaches a condition of stupor.
■ Extremely severe after-pains, particularly in very sensi-
tive women.
■ After parturition, retention of urine.
■ Suppression of lochia from fright, with sopor.
■ Newborn children, pale, breathless, cord pulsates; after
Aeon., if pulse remains imperceptible, face purple. I I Suckling of a few weeks, had not grown, but was like an old man; limbs lax, skin wrinkled; bones of skull had lapped over during birth, the parietals over each other and over the occiput. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. "Aphonia, occasioned by fright.
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■ Hoarseness, dry mouth and throat, white tongue. ^■Feeble voice, it requires a strong effort to speak loud.
■ Laryngismus striduhis.
■ Tickling in larynx, with violent, dry, racking cough;
dryness and cough > by drinking water. ^^Respiration. ■Breathing: frequent, involuntary, deep; laborious and drawn at long intervals ; short inspira- tion, long, slow expiration, epigastrium drawn in ; fine rales, constant cough, sopor, face bluish ; great anguish and dread of suffocation ; looks as if dying; slightly > from cold air and bending forward ; < from smoking or wine; difficult, intermittent, as from paralysis of lungs; difficult, oppressed, especially at night; loud, difficult, rattling ; long and sighing ; snoring ; deep, ' stertorous; puffing; snoring, with wide open mouth; irregular; moaning, slow; four respirations to the minute.
■ Asphyxia neonatorum; pale and breathless; cord still
pulsates.
■ Nightly asthma, with whizzing and rattling during ex-
piration, which is long and attended with retraction of epigastric region ; inhalation short without noise.
■ Attacks of difficult breathing, with noisy, stertorous
respiration; on taking an inspiration respiration would appear to be suspended and child would struggle to get its breath. /^Asthma Millari. I I Asthmatic form of hay fever; paroxysms of suffocation come on during sleep and are apt to be followed by violent fits of dry, racking cough > for a time by drinking water.
■ Loss of breath on going to sleep.
■ Suffocative attacks during sleep, like nightmare.
■ Tightness of breath and oppression, with great anguish, tightness and spasmodic constriction of chest.
Cough
■Cough: spasmodic, dry, tickling, paroxysmal, < at night ; with gaping, drowsiness, yet cannot sleep ; with spasm of lungs and blue face ; when drinking ; with difficult sputa, followed by gaping; suffocative, with bluish-redness efface; with profuse sweat; severe, with difficult expectoration, followed by yawning; < on swallowing (haemoptysis). Sputa frothy, containing blood and mucus.
■ Gaping after coughing.
^ Inner Chest and Lungs. ■Tension and constriction of chest.
■ Heat in chest.
I I Bronchitis after catching cold or getting wet, with high fever, dyspnoea, bloodstreaked expectoration and press-
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ure on chest; constant cough; at night must sit up on account of shortness of breath and dread of suffocation. I I At times feels as if he were not in his house, which he expresses by saying, " I wish I could be in the house with my family;" although in a desperate condition he is not much alarmed and wants to sit up a great part of time, because bed feels too hot; whole body, except lower extremities, perspires profusely; sweat is very hot; perspiring parts covered by a heavy crop of sudamina; gropes with his hands about bed as though hunting something; whole 1. and considerable part of r. lung hepatized. ^Double pneumonia.
■ Infantile pneumonia, where the pulmonary inflammation
is disguised by symptoms of cerebral congestion and oppression; cyanotic color of upper part of body, with slow, stertorous breathing; pneumonia senilis et pota- torum,_ with similar symptoms; difficult intermitting breathing, as from paralysis of lungs.
■ Suppuration of lungs occurring in those greatly addicted
to use of intoxicating liquors; breathing labored, with rattling and snoring; cough very difficult and attended with smothering spells ; face becomes blue during cough.
I Congestion of blood to chest, or pulmonary spasms, with deep, stertorous, rattling breathing.
iHsemoptysis: absence of all pain; blood thick, frothy, mixed with mucus; great oppression; burning about heart, tremor, feeble voice; anxious sleep, with starts; legs cold, chest hot; especially for drunkards. ^' Heart, Pulse and Circulation. 1 1 Burning about heart.
■ Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on neck. I I Beat of heart could not be felt.
■ Palpitation of heart after alarming events, fright, grief,
sorrow, etc. I I Pain in cardiac region, with great anxiety, violent beating of heart, trembling, difficult respiration, sleep- lessness at night, delirium; great excitement of mind, with constant talking and motion of head and hands, rest of body lying in an elevated position ; talks of im- pending death, cries, bids all farewell, then lies quiet as if communing with herself; face expresses great fear, will not answer, or answers irrelevantly; hands at one time icy-cold and covered with cold sweat, at another dry and hot; pulse small, thready, quick, irregular, at one time strong, at another weak, intermittent; grasps cardiac region with hands and presses them hard againstl. side of chest; frequent deep respirations, dur- ing which she presses chest forward and arches back, as if endeavoring to remove some obstruction in chest
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accompanied by a peculiar motion of head and mouth and gasping for air; notices most trifling actions of those about lier; gives answers to conversation carried on in low tones in adjoining room ; at times breaks into a monotonous song ; on recovering consciousness com- plained of great palpitation ; urine hot, dark, scanty ; constipation. ^Heart disease.
I Pulse: varies; full and slow, with snoring; quick, hard, with anxious breathing; irregular and unequal; im- perceptible ; face purple, in cyanosis neonatorum. ^^ Neck and Back. Pulsating arteries and swollen veins on neck.
I I Drawing lacerating in back.
I Back bent backward spasmodically^ curved like an arch, violent trembling motion.
■ Myelitis.
^' Upper Limbs, i Twitching and spasmodic movement of arms and hands, as in drunkards.
■ Paralysis of arms.
■ Numbness and sensation of swelling in hands and
forearms.
■ Trembling of hands.
■ Veins of hands distended.
^^ Lower Limbs. ■Twitching and spasmodic movements.
■ Weakness, numbness and paral3'sis of legs.
I I Feels as if her lower limbs were severed from her body
and belonged to some one else. I I Distressing spasmodic jerking in muscles of calves. I 1 Heaviness, numbness and swelling of feet. I I Shuffling and trembling gait. ^Myelitis acuta. ^ Limbs in General. ■Tremulous motion of all limbs.
■ ■Trembling of limbs after fright.
■Spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs; convulsive movements.
■ Coldness of extremities.
I I Chilblains on fingers and toes. ^Rest. Position. Motion. Lying down: animation re- turned.
Lying in an elevated position : during heart disease.
Must lie on floor: colic.
Rising : from bed, vertigo.
Head falling back constantly: cerebro-spinal meningitis; apoplexy.
Stretching arms: at right angles to body, during spasm.
Moving: inclination to vomit; painful swelling of ab- domen >.
Bending forward : > breathing.
Presses chest forward and arches back : heart disease.
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Must sit up : from dread of suffocation. Changing position : nephralgia. Constant tossing and tumbling about : at night. ^'^ Nerves. 'Starts at least noise. I i Buzzing through whole body.
■ Trembling of whole body; caused by fright; of 1. arm
in paroxysms ; with external coldness, with jerking and twitching in limbs; convulsions.
■ Twitching, trembling head, arms and hands; now and
then jerks of flexors ; body cold ; stupor ; motion of body and uncovering head relieves.
I Involuntary contraction of muscles.
I I Convulsive movements of one or other arm to and fro.
I iSpasms : from emotion, fright, anger, etc. ; from approach of- strangefs (children) ; from crying; throws limbs or stretches arms at right angles to body, or, tetanic rigidity, opisthotonos, with rolling laterally ; spasm begins with loud screams, then foam at mouth, trem- bling of limbs, suffocation ; eyes half open and up- turned, pupils large and insensible to light; after attack, deep sleep, face remains deep red and hot; stupor between spasms; on entering fit, loud screams, as from fright; from nursing soon after sudden fright of mother; with sudden loud cries. • I I Suddenly seized with an epileptic fit without any appreciable cause, six weeks later second fit, third came four weeks after second, and then they followed every three weeks ; after attack soporous sleep, lasting from twenty-four to thirty hours; face dark red during sleep ; after sleep pain in front of head ; constipation.
I I Fits only after going to sleep; would not sleep ten minutes during day or night before she would, with a sudden spring, become violentl}'^ convulsed ; foaming at mouth and bleeding from her bitten tongue; face puffed, almost purple; eyes dull and turned upward; lids half closed; head hot; severe opisthotonos; con- vulsions last ten to thirty minutes, sinks into a deep, heavy sleep, with loud snoring and rattling inchest; in half an hour, sometimes not five minutes, suddenly goes into another convulsion, thus she passes entire night ; wakes in morning lame and tired, but wholly unconscious of not having had a quiet nights sleep; during day listless and drowsy ; itching of skin with- out eruption ; indifferent to what transpires ; prefers to be left alone ; constipation. ^Epilepsy.
I 1 Every evening about 11 o'clock, after having slept fif- teen minutes, begins to toss head from side to side, raises head, flexes it upon chest and finally tosses it
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back quickly upon pillow ; after having repeated this for third time stretches out and clenches r. hand, thumb, however, not being drawn in, and gives herself several forcible blows upon chest; thereafter violent stretch- ing, followed by twitching, until cessation of attack. /!^Epilepsy.
■ Emotional chorea.
I Faints every fifteen minutes; eyes shut; head hangs;
unconscious ; jerks ; sighing ; < on rising. ■Muscular exhaustion ; great depression of nervous centres,
with stupor and coma. B I Want of susceptibility to drugs; want of vital reaction.
■ Shock from injury, severe cases; rapid breathing, every
breath being a loud moan; livid or pale face; livid lips; great distress, oppression and angui-sh ; cool, clammy skin ; thi'oat emits sound of letter " k " in respiration; eyes fixed unequally ; unconsciousness.
■ Numbness and insensibility.
■ ■Paralj^sis, insensibility after apoplexy; in drunkards or
old people; stool and urine retained.
■ ■Painlessness with all ailments; complains of nothing
and asks for nothing. ^^Sleop. ■■ Drowsiness: with headache; amounting almost to sopor.
■ Stupid, comatose sleep, with rattling, snoring breathing ;
slumber with half open eyes, contracted or sluggish pupils, carphologia and touching surrounding objects.
■ Drowsiness or sopor; red face; stertorous breathing; hot
sweat.
■ Very restless at night, constant tossing and tumbling.
■ iSleepy, but cannot sleep ; excessive wakefulness.
■ Sleeplessness, full of unwelcome fancies and imagina-
tions that wxre entirely distinct from surrounding objects, as in delirium.
■ I Sleeplessness, with acuteness of hearing ; clocks striking
and cocks crowing at a distance keep her awake.
■ Coma vigil, with frightful visions, before midnight.
■ During sleep : picking of bedclothes; sobbing; groaning ;
voluptuous dreams. ^* Time. Morning: distressing feeling of emptiness in stomach < ; hot, profuse sweat.
II A.M. : shaking chill. Day: listless and drowsy.
Night : great fearfulness ; sudden loss of vision ; breathing difficult and oppressed; cough < ; must sit up from dread of suffocation ; sleeplessness ; convulsion; chill.
Before midnight: coma vigil with frightful visions.
Remission during day and evening; aggravation night and morning.
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^^Temperature and "Weather. Uncovering head relieves. Cold air : labored breathing >. Drinking water: dryness and cough >. Getting wet : bronchitis. I Bed feels so hot she can hardly lie on it ; > from cold ;
< from heat. Very susqeptible to cold air.
Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated. ^Tever. Coldness: of body, especially of extremities ; and
rigidity. iStitf and cold ; chill and diminished heat, stupor; weak,
scarcely perceptible pulse. iChill: latter part of night, wdth thirst, pains in limbs,
hot head, stupor; afterwards heat with sleep, headache,
pale face, bilious vomit; then sweat mostly on legs,
with burning hot feeling.
■ Flushed face, cold legs, sleepy, but cannot sleep. BHeat: of 'head, with profuse sweat; in chest and other
parts of trunk; with burning of cheeks; in face, with perspiration in large drops; with soporous, snoring sleep,_ and open mouth ; twitches through limbs and perspiration on hot body; body burning even when bathed in sweat; limbs twitch ; wants to uncover. ■Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it; moves often in search of a cool place.
■ Sweat: cold, on forehead or over wdiole bod}^; over
whole body, which is burning hot; sleep and snoring; hot, profuse morning sweat, wants to be uncovered; on upper part of body ; lower part hot and dry.
■ Acute fevers characterized by a sopor bordering upon*
stupor, and by absence of any complaint, snoring with ; mouth open, half jerking of limbs and burning heat of perspiring body.
I I After catching severe cold; febrile symptoms, sore throat, throbbing headache, delirious, troubled sleep; hot surface, with chill creeping over body, especially from hips to below knees; lameness of eyeballs; uncon- trollable desire to weep.
I I Shaking chill at 11 a.m. ; body cold, or coldness only of limbs, abdomen, back, hands and feet.
I I Sleep during chill, heat and sweat; during sweat still feels burning hot; children and old people. 6'Ague.
■ Congestive chill; paroxysms regular in time, irregular
in stages.
■ Intermittents of old people and children.
■ Somnolency attended with slight delirium; lies quietly
with a pleased expression of countenance; replies cor- rectly when aroused ; makes no complaint, on contrary
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is often satisfied with his condition because his dreams are agreeable ; continues awake but a short time, then falls into somnolent state again. ^Typhoid.
■ Typhoid type of fever, stupor, can scarcely be aroused ;
speechless; eyes half open ; mild delirium or loud talk- ing, fury, singing, desire to escape.
■ Typhoid fever: with profound cerebral congestion result-
ing in paralysis of brain; dark or brownish-red hue of face; dropping of lower jaw and stertorous breathing ; body bathed in hot sweat, sweat not critical ; feels as if her lower limbs were severed from her body and be- longed to some one else ; during lucid intervals com- plains that bed is too hot. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Paroxysms : chill, regular.
Alternate : hard and liquid stools.
Every fifteen minutes : faints.
Ten to thirty minutes : convulsions last.
Daily : attacks of distension and strangulation.
Every evening about 11 o'clock : fits commence.
Nightly : emissions ; asthma.
During week : one motion of bowels.
Every three weeks : epileptic fits, sleep lasting twenty- four to thirty hours. *^ Locality and Direction. Right : paralysis of side ; angle of mouth higher than left ; pulse full at radial ; eye turned upward ; impaired sensibility of retina ; face drawn to side ; tongue protruded to side ; pains on side ; stitches in nostril ; as of a hard body in hypo- chondrium ; head turned to side; clenches hand, thumb not drawn in.
Left : eye turned to ear ; partial paralysis of accommoda- tion of eye ; head bent back over to side ; hand and foot turned to side ; presses hands against side of chest ; trembling of arm. *^ Sensations. As if from smoke in brain ; as if he were fly- ing or hovering in air ; as if drunk ; as if eyes were too large for orbits ; as of sand or dust in eyes ; lids as if paralyzed ; as of a band encircling chest in line of pleura ; as if intestines would be cut to pieces ; as of a stone or weight in abdomen ; as if something was forced through a narrow space in abdomen; abdomen as if stabbed with a knife ; rolling as of a hard body in r. hypochondrium ; as if rectum were closed ; child as if drugged ; as though anus were closed ; looks as if dying; as if her lower limbs w^ere severed from body.
Pain: inchest; in back ; in lower limbs ; in testicles; in cardiac region ; in limbs.
Intolerable pain : in stomach.
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Extremely severe after-pains.
Violent colicky pains : in abdomen.
Great pain : in small of back.
Shooting pain : in testes and bladder.
Darting pains : from occiput to forehead.
Lightning-like pain : in all directions in abdomen.
Spasmodic pains : in uterus.
Stitches: in r. nostril.
Twitching-tearing pains: in all directions through ab- domen.
Cutting : in abdomen ; in urethra.
Drawing lacerating : in back.
Griping : in abdomen.
Squeezing pain : in abdomen.
Constrictive pain : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Pressive pain : in abdomen.
Pressing pain : in temples.
Severe laborlike pains : in uterus.
Bearing-down pains : in abdomen.
Burning: in eyes; in anus; about heart; of cheeks; of body ; in veins.
Heat : of face ; in chest ; of hands.
Throbbing : of arteries.
Constriction : of anus ; of chest.
Pressure: in stomach; upon rectum and bladder; on chest.
Tension : in hypogastric region ; of chest.
Fulness : in stomach.
Oppression : in stomach.
Anxious sensation : in epigastrium.
Heaviness: of head; of occiput; of stomach; of limbs; of feet.
Sensation of swelling : in hands and forearms.
Emptiness : of stomach.
Tickling : in larynx.
Dryness: of eyes; of mouth; of throat; of skin; of hands.
Lameness : of lower limbs ; of eyeballs.
Numbness : of arms ; of legs ; of feet.
Buzzing : through whole body.
Trembling : of whole body.
Coldness: of extremities ; of body ; abdomen, back, hands and feet ; in veins.
Itching : of skin. " Tissues. Increased excitability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles.
Jerks ; only the flexors active.
■ Emaciation and debility.
■ Marasmus; child wrinkled and looks like a little dried-
up old man ; stupor.
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I Suspension of secretion from mucous surface of digestive canal.
■ Plethora.
I Venous congestion, with dark red surface.
■ Burning or sensation of coldness in veins. B Morbus coeruleus.
■ Suppurations and ulcers painless.
■ ■Lead poisoning.
■ Dropsical swelling of whole body.
*^ Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries. ^Bed feels so hard she cannot lie upon it.
Touch : abdomen sensitive ; hypogastric region painful.
•Scratching : red blotches after itching.
From injury: to head, vertigo; shocks.
Burns; especially in children with disposition to convul- sions and other spasmodic a'tfections the result of fright from accident. *^ Skin. iSkin hot and damp, or sweating even in morning, and a desire to uncover.
■ Dryness of skin, without fever.
■ Very troublesome itching all over, fine pricking, rarely
sensitive to touch. I I Smarting-itching after sweating. I I Whole body looks red. I I Redness and itching of skin, red blotches after scratching.
■ Paleness of skin.
I I Skin of a pale blue, especially on genitals.
■ Blue spots on skin.
■ Scarlatina: burning heat, soporous stupor, agonized
tossing about, vomiting, diarrhoea, convulsions, consti- pation.
■ Sudden retrocession of acute eruptions; paralysis of brain • sets in, or convulsions.
*^ Stages of Life, Constitution. ■Light hair, lax muscles and want of bodily irritability ; the well-chosen remedy makes no impression.
■ ■Especially suitable for children and old persons; dis-
eases of first and second childhood.
■ Frequently suited to persons addicted to spirituous
drinks.
Girl, few days after birth ; affection of heart.
Nursing child ; colic.
Baby, set. 18 months, suffering since five months old ; spasms.
Girl, £et. 3, short, stout, dark hair and eyes; stupor.
Girl, pet. 3, after sleeping in sun during afternoon ; sun- stroke.
Boy, set. 4, suffering twelve months ; asthma.
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Boy, a3t. 5, healthy ; ague.
Boy, set. 6, suffering six weeks ; ague.
Girl, set 6 J, formerly suffering from urticaria, which was aggravated whenever she ate a strawberry; constipation.
Girl, set. 7, had mesenteric disease in infancy and convul- sions subsequently ; dyspnoea.
Boy, set. 9, suffering 6 weeks ; ague.
Girl, set. 12, suffering several years; constipation.
Boy, set. 12, but one chill this year, although subject to frequent attacks last season, always suppressed with quinine; ague.
Girl, set. 14, menses suppressed by fright, had convul- sions; monorrhagia.
Miss set. 15, suffering three years ; epilepsy.
Girl, set, 17, fragile and delicate, first menstruated when seventeen years old, and discharge suppressed after two days by fright; epilepsy. • Man, set. 18, after having nearly recovered from pneumo- nia ; delirium.
Woman, set. 18, very stout, primipara, after cathartics; puerperal convulsions.
Girl, set. 19, formerly suffering with pain in chest and feet ; epilepsy.
Man, set. 21, had an attack a year ago ; colic.
Girl, set. 23, formerly robust, but for last three years con- stantly complaining ; constipation.
Girl, set. 23 ; epilepsy.
Two men, set. 20 to 25 ; delirium tremens.
Man, set. 27, suffering three days ; colic.
Man, set. 27, single, robust, one month ago similarly affected ; lead colic.
Woman, set. 27, single, gentle, quiet disposition, thin, slender brunette, suffers from epilepsy, particularly during menstrual period, mother phthisical, father dis- solute ; disease of heart.
Woman, set. 28, dark complexion, pregnant for third time, suffered in previous pregnancies with vomiting for about four months ; disorders of pregnancy.
Woman, set. 30, during epidemic of influenza ; cough.
Mrs. M., ^t. 32, Irish, cheerful, fresh-looking in health ; intestinal obstruction and fecal tumor.
Woman, set. 35, after losing two children in quick succes- sion ; cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Woman, set. 36, has tumor on r. side of chest, extending from axilla and enlarging breast; affection of stomacli.
Man, set. 38, figure small, slight, practiced masturbation since twelve years old ; idiocy.
Man, ffit. 40, short, fat, phlegmatic; delirium tremens.
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Man, set. 40, drunkard ; delirium tremens.
Man, set. 40, after feet had become very cold ; colic.
Man, set. 40, gardener ; catarrh of chest.
Man, set. 40, phlegmatic temperament, Bryon., Phosphor., etc. , given without benefit, on eleventh day of disease; Opmm followed by sudden change and satisfactory recovery ; double pneumonia.
Woman, set. 43, after having been beaten violently with fist about head, neck and shoulders ; spasms.
Dr. E. M., set. 44, nervo-bilious, addicted to strong drink ; apoplexy.
Woman, set. 48, well nourished, in good health ; intes- tinal obstruction.
Man, set. 50, addicted to drink, oppressed by care and sorrow ; apoplexy.
Man, set. 50, heavy drinker ; bronchitis and asthma.
Man, set. 51, suffering ten years ; constipation.
Mrs., set. 56, suffering twenty years ; constipation.
Woman, set. 56; constipation.
Man, set. 60 ; constipation.
Man, set. 75, tendency to apoplexy, prodromes of which w^ere several times dissipated by Bellad.; apoplexy.
Man, set. 84, suffering from hemorrhoids; mental dis- turbance.
Miss C, rosy, buxom ; epilepsy.
Young woman, primipara, after a difficult labor, adminis- tration of ether and use of instruments having been necessary to accomplish delivery ; puerperal convul- sions.
Young man, strong constitution, after violent fit of pas- sion ; headache, fever, etc.
Lady, suffering several years; headache.
Potter, has worked a long time at glazing ; colic.
Painter, well built, has had frequent attacks ; lead colic.
Man, drinker, after excessive drinking, to which he re- sorted in consequence of vexation and grief; delirium tremens.
Woman, suffering many years ; headache.
Elderly woman, robust, with rosy cheeks; vomiting. *^ Relations. Antidoted by : strong coffee, Bellad., Ipec, Nux vom., Vinum, Vanil. arom., Zincum.
It antidotes: charcoal vapor, Bellad., Digit, Laches., Mercur., Nux vom., Strychnia, Plumhum, Stramon., Tart. emet.
Compatible: Aeon., Bellad., Bryon., Hyosc, Nux mosch., Nux vom., Tart. emet.
Compare
Apis (apoplexy, coma); Ipecac, and Moschus (spasm of lungs).
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