Provings by Hahnemann, Becker, Franz, Gross, Gutmann, Fr. Hahnemann, Hermann, Hartmann, Langhammer, Mej-er, Stapf, Teuthorn, Wislicenus, Hering, Chronische Krankheiten ; Herinigke, A. H. Z., vol. 79, p. 157 ; Schelling, A. H. Z., vol. 84, p. 43; Eobinson, B. J. H., vol. 25, p. 327; Andrews, Am. J, of Insan., 1869, p. 118 ; Gale (from Farrington), MSS. Clinical Authorities.— A"os/a/(/('a, Grief, Woost, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 9 ; Headache, Wood, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 92 ; Occipital headache, Bayes, Horn. Eev., vol. 13, p. 269; Chronic congestion to head, Haynel, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 136; Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 2; Sivelling of nose, Eosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 173; Periostitis of jaw, Kunkel, A. H. Z., vol. 102, p. 68; Toothache, affection of gums, Hrg., Alts., Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 471 ; Affection of teeth, Altschul, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 208 ; Ulcer on tip of tongue, C. Hg., MSS. ; Cancrum oris, Hedges, Eane's Eec, 1874, p. 106, from U. S. M. and S. J., vol. 8, p. 499 ; Vomiting (a child), Kick, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 261; Pains in stomach, Kunkel, A. H. Z., vol. 101, p. 131; Dyspepsia, Berghaus, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 170, from Trans. A. I., 1872, p. 339; Swelling of inguinal glands, Kunkel, A. H. Z., vol. 101, p. 124; Diarrhoea, Hrg., Griessel, Lobeth, L. in Z., Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 844; Kunkel, A. H, Z., vol. 101, p. 131; Diarrhosa and impotence, Mos?a, Times Eet., 1877; p. 95; from 303 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. A. H. Z., vol. 94, p. 28; Chronic diarrhcea, Cramoisy, Hah. Mo., vol. 14, p. 674; Small, Eaue's Eec, 1873, p. 120, from U. S. M. and S. J., vol. 7, p. 427 ; Kimkel, A. H. Z., vol. 101, p. 123, and vol. 110, p. 12 ; Cholerine, Engelhard, Gerstel, Find- eisen, Riick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 432; Cholera, Cholerine, Quin, Lobeth, Reil, Adler, Schiiler, Ruoff, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 957 ; Use in cholera, Drysdale, B. J. H., vol. 8, p. 163; Hemorrhoids, Lobeth, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 1003; Diabetes, Lor- bacher, H. K., 1875, p. 24; Pompili, Walker, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 516; (9 cases reported cured), Oehme, Eaue's Eec, 1874, p. 211; Walker, Eansford, Hughes, B. J.-H.,vol. 16, p. 456; vol. 19, p. 390; vol. 24, p. 260; vol. 31, p. 369; Milky urine (6 cases), Hrg., Stapf, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 50 ; Dysuria, ^gidi, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 384 ; Onanism, impotence, Wolf, Lobeth, Eosenberg, Kopp, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 62; SpermatorrJtoia, Mossa, Times Eet., 1877, p. 104, from A. H. Z., vol. 94, p. 27 ; Prostatorrhoea, Pulford, Med. Adv., Oct., 1888 ; Oleet, Eo- senberg, Mosaik, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 95; Menstrual disturbance, Kirsch, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 243; Cough and hcenioptysis, IJoffendahl, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 3, p. 222 ; Use in pneumonia, Miiller, Schiiler, Eiick. Kl. Erf.,vol. 3, p. 325 ; Car- diac weakness, Hale, Eaue's Eec, 1875, p. 133 from H. W., vol. 9, p. 194; Spondy- litis of cervical vertebra',, Kunkel, A. H. Z., vol. 101, p. 122; Spinal irritation, Miller, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1885, p. 1 80 ; Neidhard, B. J. H., vol. 27, p. 554 ; Weakness of spine, Bayes, Hom. Eev., vol. 13, p. 269 ; Pain in stump of finger, Schraitt, Horn. Phys., vol. 5, p. 168 ; Pains in loins, Berridge, N. E. M. G., vol. 9, p. 288 ; Periostitis and necrosis of tibia, Kunkel, A. H. Z., vol. 101, p. 131 ; vol. 110, p. 12 ; Ulcers on leg, Kunkel, A.. H. Z., vol. 102, p. 68 ; Pehility, Payne, N. E. M. G., vol. 6, p. 166 ; Paralytic xveakncss, Bayes, Hom. Eev., vol. 13, p. 270 ; Prostration, Kunkel, A. H. Z., vol. 101, p. 131 ; Nervous prostration, Bayes, Hom. Eev., vol. 13, p. 269; Hysteria, Williamson, Eaue's Eec., 1872, p. 2, from Trans. Penn. Soc. ; Typhoid fever, Bcenning- liausen, Hom. Clin., vol. 3, p. 54; (3 cases), Wurmb and Caspar, B. J. H., vol. 12, p. 23; Trinks, B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 295; Wurmb (reports 160 cases cured) ; Lcew (reports 35 cases), Eummel, Giibel, Trinks, Lobeth, Gross, Horner, Hartlaub, Cas- par, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, pp. 769, 776; Ague, Bayes, Hom. Eev., vol. 13, p. 269 ; Lade, Hom. Eev., vol. 14, p. 544 ; Fever attending caries of vertebra}, Goullon, Eaue's Eec, 1871, p. 171, from A. H. Z., vol. 81, p. 70 ; Night sweats, Bayes, Hom. Eev., vol. 13, p. 269; -Er?/s?^ek(.s, Thorer, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 146; Variola, Altschul, Eiick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 113; Syphilis, Eosenberg, Eiick. Kl. Erf, vol. 2, p. 163. * Mind. Unconsciousness, no complaints ; even pinching is not noticed. iWeak memory; loss of ideas and weakness of mind; on thinking he becomes dizzy; cannot collect his thoughts in proper order. ^Brain fag. Uncapacity for thought in morning. I Hypochondriasis from sexual abuse. liQuiet, indifferent, unwilling to speak, or hasty speech. I I Listless, apathetic; remarl^able indifference to every- thing in life; especially if there be emaciation and debility. ■ Cannot find the right word when talking; answers either reluctantly and slowly or short and incorrectly. ■ Homesickness, with inclination to weep. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 304 ■ Hysteria, in women of dark complexion; change of life. iSadness, grief and disposition to weep. 1 1 Ailments from care_, grief, sorrow, chagrin, homesick- ness or disappointed love; particularly with drowsi- ness; night sweats towards morning; emaciation. I Anxiety and doubt concerning his recovery; insomnia and prostration. I Hectic fever, sweat and flushing of face, especially in afternoon, evening or towards night ; of crushing weight on vertex. ^Effects of grief. I I Chronic effects of fright, ■ Delirium, quiet, not violent, with stupefaction and dul- ness of head. ■ Depression of sensorium, and muttering, unintelligible speech; lies in a stupor, or in a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is going on around him ; when aroused is fully conscious. ■ Disinclined to work. ■ Dread of the future; brooding over one's condition. ^Sensorium. ■Vertigo: head sinks forward or backward ; in morning; towards evening, while standing or walking; on closing eyes; in hypochondriacs after excess in ven- ery; at climaxis with flushes of heat and sweat; in t^^phus, so that they fall when sitting up ; lying in bed, as if feet were going up, with head remaining still ; after reflection. ■ Sensation as if intoxicated, in evening, in warm room, with humming in head, -which feels as if it would burst when coughing. Confusion and painful cloudiness of head, especially on awaking. Stupefying pain in forehead, with somnolency without snoring, eyes being closed. ■ Dulness of head; inability to think; as after excessive coition. Great heaviness of head. ^ Inner Head. ■Severe pressing pain in forehead and temples, every morning; aversion to food; nausea be- fore eating, and vomiting after eating; watery, at times clay-colored diarrhoea; pale, thin, debilitated and weak; has grown too rapidly. ■Stupefying pain in forehead, with somnolency without snoring, eyes being closed. Stitches over one (r.) eye. I I Dull headache, with tingling in head. ■ Pressure as from a weight in head, from above down- ward. Pressing tensive headache, especially on side on which one lies. 305 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. ■ Dreadful pain on top of head, as if brain were crushed, after long-continued grief. Headache forces one to lie down and is insupportable, < from least shaking or noise, especially music. ■ Headaches usually go from behind forward and are > by lying down. ■Morning headache. ■ ■Schoolgirl's headache; from overuse of eyes. ■ ■Occipital headache and pain in nape of neck from ex- hausted nerve-power or excessive grief. I I Great heaviness of head. ■ Chronic congestions to head, caused by fright or grief. ■ Cerebral weakness from brain fag. * Outer Head. ■ Periosteal pains: bones ache as if scraped ; > in motion ; when l^ang pain shifts to side on which he lies. ■ Hair turns grey early; flaxen and very greasy; falls off after grief and sorrow, or after fevers. I i Itching on scalp. I I Erysipelas, traumatic form, where periosteum is affected. ^ Sight and Eyes. Eyes sensitive to light ; lachrymation. Aversion to sunlight, sees colors, as of rainbow, or is dazzled on looking at bright objects; sees variegated colors where there is but one. ■ Amblyopia: optic nerve appears torpid. I I Blindness with frequent desire to wink. ■ Torpid amaurosis, caused b^^ debilitating losses. ■ Headaches of school children from overuse of eyes (as- thenopia.) I I Pupils dilated. 1 I Eyes look glassy, lustreless or staring. Pressing in eyes, as if eyeballs were too large. Burning of eyelids and corners of eyes, especially in even- ing by candlelight. Yellow spots in white of eye. Coldness of inner surface of e^'elids. ■ Margins of lids swollen, red, rounded ; lashes fall out; particles of pus on lashes and in canthi; itching and burning; sensitiveness to candlelight; difficult opening of eyes in morning. ■ Hordeolum. ^Hearing and Ears. ' i Intolerance of noise, especially of music, ^lieadache. Every sound re-echoes loudly in ears. Shrill sound in ears on blowing nose. ■ ■Roaring in ear, with difficult hearing. ■ Nervous deafness, after typhoid diseases. ■ Dull hearing: stupefaction; especiall}^ to distant sounds' vol.. VIII. — 20. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 306 from mental or bodily exhaustion ; after severe acute diseases ; does not hear tick of watch held at moderate distance, when held close to ear hears no tick, only a hissing, hears it more distinctly at a distance of a foot and a half. 1 1 Spasmodic drawing pain in ear. Earache on blowing nose. I I Otalgia: stitches in ears and drawing pains in cheeks and teeth ; from music. ^ Smell and Nose. Sense of smell too acute. Fetid smell from nose. ■ Bleeding from nose. I Nosebleed in typhus, giving no relief. Discharge of bloody pus from nose. I I Violent coryza; oza^na. iSwelling of dorsum of nose, with red patches or pimples on tip of nose, and throbbing sensation therein; cold swelling of nose, with itching and burning. Inclination to bore with fingers in nose. ^ Upper Face. Hippocratic face, lips and tongue very pale. I Sickly, pale or earthy complexion; lustreless, sunken eyes with blue margins. Skin of face feels tense, as if white of egg had dried on it. Burning in skin of cheeks. Heat of side efface on which he is not lying. I I Eruptions of large pimples on face. iPimples on forehead and body of onanists. Eruptions on face, yellow 'brown crusts. I Hairs of beard fall out, especially after grief and sorrow. I I Sensation of coldness on one side of face. ^ Lower Face. Sensation as if lower jaw were going to break. Large pimples and herpes on face and chin. Lips dry, scurfy and suppurating. Yellow brown crustlike eruptions, with pus on lower lip near corner of mouth. Pimples and scurfs on vermilion borders of lips. Scrofulous swelling on nose and lips, with tendency to bleeding. ■ Periostitis of upper and lower jaw. '" Teeth and Gums. Sensation of coldness in roots of molars. I Pains from hollow teeth, extending into head. I Hollow teeth ache only when food gets into them. I Caries of teeth in scorbutic subjects. Teeth become yellow and feel dull. ■ Bleeding, swollen gums; tearing pains in teeth, < when warm in bed, and from heat or cold ; burning in front teeth during night. ■ Scorbutic affection of gums, after abuse of mercury; 307 * PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. gums white, swollen, easily bleeding, standing off from teeth ; teeth yellow and very loose ; fetid, putrid odor from mouth. Painful tubercle on gums. iDiseases of children during dentition. " Taste and Tongue. Taste as from rotten eggs in mouth in morning. Bread tastes bitter. iTongue: coated white; pale and flabby; and lips pale, in typhus; clammy, sticky; gluey, in choleraic diseases; red streak in middle ; dry ; swollen with pain on talk- ing; burning; smarts only at night. Smarting in mouth when masticating. I Bites side of tongue involuntarily, also at night, I I Bites her tongue frequently and has a hard nodule on tip, upon which forms a vesicle resulting in an unclean looking ulcer with a hard edge ; burning pains < at night. '^ Inner Mouth. Dryness of mouth and throat; grey whitish coating of tongue. Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces. Ulceration of soft velum with burning pain. I iCancrum oris, following measles in syphilitic children. ■ Mercurial syphilitic ulceration of lips, gums and soft palate, with swelling of bones ; condylomata. " Throat. Dryness of palate and whole mouth, without thirst. Velum palati feels excoriated with burning. Sore throat, soreness, scraping, stinging, < swallowing food. Hawks up tough mucus. Nasal voice. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions, i Canine hunger or loss of appetite ; the little food taken comes up with acid eructations; half an hour after eating crampy pains in stomach, with distress from acid eructations. . Excessive, unquenchable thirst; a sensation of dryness of whole body. Inclination for warm food. ■ Longs for something refreshing and juicy; bread is too dry. Desire for beer and milk. Averse to coffee, wine, beer, or spirituous liquors. Sour food causes bitter eructations or flatulency. *° Eating and Drinking. Bad effects from sour food and drink. '"Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting, i Sourish, acid, or bitter eructations. Nausea: as if in soft palate; continuous in throat; vomit- ing of food. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. * 308 " Scrobiculum and Stomach. Sensation as if stomach were being balanced up and down. 1 I Pressing in stomach: as from a heavy load ; after eat- ing, < from touch and motion ; with drowsiness. ■ Pressing pain in stomach whenever pit of stomach is touched ; cannot button clothes tightl}'. I I Violent pressure in pit of stomach through to back ; < from touch. ^Gastralgia. I I Paroxysmal pressing pains in stomach, several times a day, momentarily > from warm food and drink, but < after an hour or two; constant drawing rheumatic pains in 1. lower extremity, < when part becomes cold, > from warmth of bed; tendency to sweat ; sensitive to draught or wind ; pressure in stomach < after a connection ; hypochondriacal mood and expression of face; irritable; cannot tolerate a Avarm room nor coffee; awakes be- tween 1 and 3 A.M.; frequent urination; much collec- tion of mucus in mouth, particnlarl}^ in morning; flatu- lence, great rumbling, in abdomen from umbilicus into epigastrium and in both sides of chest. I Acidity of stomach. iLoss of appetite; the little food taken comes up with acid eructations half an hour after eating; crampy - pains in stomach, with distress from acid eructations. ^Dyspepsia. ■ Dyspepsia after loss of vital fluids. '" Hypochondria. Heaviness, stitches, burning of one spot in region of liver in passage of gall-stones; jaundice in scrofulous children or from grief. Pain universally in liver during menses. I I Pygemic symptoms. ^Hepatitis. '^■Abdomen. l i Spleen enlarged, extending beyond ribs. /^Typhoid. iMeteoristic distension of abdomen; rumbling and gur- gling and noise as from water; painless stools. I Flatulency much augmented by sour food. I J'ain in umbilical region, audible rumbling and gurgling in abdomen on making pressure. I I Griping colic. I I Pressure in several places in lower abdomen. I I One year ago suffered from gonorrhoea for seven or eight days ; eight days ago, although he had no connec- tion, inguinal glands became swollen and painful; lame sensation in legs; heavy sleep; on waking feels tired and mouth is full of mucus; pain in forehead, < motion; urine turbid, offensive. I I Spleen enlarged, extending be3'ond ribs. ^Typhoid. ^^ Stool and Rectum. Frequent desire for stool. JStools: yellow, watery, with mcallike sediment; whitish ^^^ PHOSPHORICTJM ACIDUM. , watery ; involuntary while passing flatus ; painless • very offensive ; involuntary, liquid-orey ; yellow, mixed with mucus; undigested, greenish-'white, painless- thin, whitish-grey ; watery, with rumbling in bowels • yellowish and very offensive, child listless, wants noth- ing and cares for nothing; undigested, painless. "White or yellow watery diarrhoea, chronic or acute, without pain or any marked debility or exhaustion. ■ Diarrha^a: not prostrating; after catching cold during heat of summer; watery, chronic: violent bilious or mucous, of twenty months standing, has the appearance of an old man ; from acids in young persons who grow too rapidly; after eating ; undigested ; greenish-white • painless. ' I I Diarrhoea for months, coming usually at night ; pain in bowels before a passage; .much rumbling in abdomen ; great weakness in legs ; almost complete impotence. I I Ji-vacuations particularly one hour after dinner and at times at night; stool preceded by griping in abdomen • feces white, grey, undigested, often consisting only of mucus ; urine dark, on standing a little while is like but- termilk; much rumbling in abdomen ; great prostration. c/Chronic diarrhoea. I Diarrhoea from taking cold on hot Summer days with cool evenings. ■ Infantile diarrhoea; Summer complaint. I Diarrhoea caused by fear during cholera Season; rest- essness; constant rumbling in abdomen ; hot hands ; body bathed in anxious sweat; great thirst; thin, pain- less stools. ■ Diarrhoea remaining after an attack of cholera; feces greyish-white; urine becomes milky on standing; at times pains in abdomen ; morose and irritable; pains in legs; emaciation. ■ Cholerine during cholera epidemic, especially when pa- tient IS debilitated and relaxed by heat of Summer; no pain; lassitude; prostration; general ill-feeling- abdomen bloated, rumbling therein"; small painless discharges. ■ Tongue covered with thick tenacious mucus; finger ad- heres to tongue. ^Choleraic dysentery. ■ Cholera infantum ; great exhaustion ; sunken eyes, with blue margins; stools generallv painless. ■ Diarrhoea which precedes cholera. ■ Cholera: on fourth day; roaring in head and ears; pho- tophobia and redness of eyes ; deafness ; dry mouth and tongue; alternate heat and coldness of limbs; trismus; severe retching and vomiting; hiccough; pains in ab- PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 310 domen, with frequent white, greenish, or black evacua- tions; limbs numb and motionless; dark-red spots and stripes on skin; prostration; despondency; after cam- phor had checked vomiting, purging, cramps, etc., there remained frequent whitish, watery motions, vomiting about once in an hour ; tongue white; pulse quick, face pale, eyes sunken, skin warm ; consecutive fever on fourth or fifth day of disease, restless, tossing about; semi-stupor; sunken features; yellowish diarrhoea ; fre- quent sighing; stupor, difficult speech, deafness, slow pulse, etc. ■ During stool, profuse emission of flatus. With emission of wind, stool escapes. Difficult discharge of even soft stool. 1 1 No stool. Hard, difficult stool. Stools are hard and in pieces. Intestinal hemorrhage in typhoid. ■ Hemorrhoids : bleeding, with intolerable pain in sitting ; with cramps of upper arm; forearm and wrist. ^^ Urinary Organs. i i Great torpor, melanotic dyscrasia, similar to scurvy and stupid typhoids; heart relaxed, dilated, with thin walls; atheroma of the arteries, petechise ; insidious appearance of the renal degenera- tion; careless and apathetic; perfect prostration with low delirium ; neither hunger nor thirst; nausea and vom- iting ; bleeding gums; urine contains much phos- phates; fibrinous casts and epithelial cells, fatty cor- puscles, rarely carbonate of ammonia, and never much albumen ; costiveness or light-yellowish diarrhoea ; no fever or heat'; cool wrinkled skin, cool breath, cool sweat. ^Morbus Brightii. I I Urine thick, like milk (chyluria) or lime water, with whitish curds, with stringy, bloody lumps, or clear, limpid, containing much sugar ; pain in back and kid- neys; dull pressure in bladder; greatest weakness and emaciation ; furunculosis. ^Diabetes. ■ Diabetes mellitus ; urine clear as water, three times larger in quantity than fluids taken in twenty-four hours ; con- stant urging to urinate; sugar in urine; sleeplessness; unquenchable thirst; particularly at night; extreme weakness and emaciation. ■ Diabetes mellitus; sugar and albumen in urine; largely increased secretion and excretion of urine ; skin dry ; progressive emaciation. 1 I Diabetes in a man suffering from myelitis ; after latter disease had been cured former still remained ; constant thirst and great desire for effervescing liquids; specific 311 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. gravity of urine 1038, varying in quantity from eight to twelve pints in twenty-four liours, fermenting with extreme briskness on addition of yeast and precipitating abundantly metallic copper when boiled with the Pot- ash Sulphate of Copper. Spasmodic constriction of bladder. ■ Weakness of muscular structure of bladder; easy and involuntary discharge of urine on motion, coughing or sneezing. ■ Enuresis when urine is passed in first sleep and fairly floods the bed. Constant desire to urinate; sudden irresistible urging; desire with scanty emission. ■ Copious and frequent micturition. ■ Must often rise at night to pass large quantities of color- less urine. ■ Urine so thick that flow is interrupted; stops and flows again; as if mixed with flour, containing stringy, jelly- like masses, or cheesy masses, like curdled milk ; pain in back and kidneys ; at times dull pressure in region of bladder ; emaciation during pregnancy. ■ After every emotion urine as if stirred up with chalk. ■ Milky urine, smelling like raw meat, containing bloody clots. ■ Urine like whey or milk; usually shortly before menses. ■ Urine decomposes rapidly. Burning in urethra while urinating. 1 I Creeping in urethra between acts of micturition. ■^ Alale Sexual Organs. Erections without sexual desire; morning when standing. ■ During coition sudden relaxation of penis preventing emission. ■ Weakness after coition; also after pollutions. ■ Emissions: frequent, profuse and debilitating, causing hypochondriasis ; from weakness of parts from onanism ; with very little sexual excitement; during stool; with dragging aching in testes. ■ ■Onanism when patient is distressed by culpability of his indulgence. ■ Sexual desire suppressed, ■ Impotence, especially when sensibility of part is exces- sive and semen is discharged shortly after an erection, or before an erection. . ■Remote eff*ects of loss of animal fluids; long-lasting effects of seminal emission, whether occurring during sleep or when awake, with every efibrt at stool or urina- tion, or from excessive venery; whole system seemed weakened. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 312 ■ I I Nightly pollutions, sometimes several in one night, and even after coitus; immediately after pollution wakes with an erection; after an emission has more sexual desire than at any other time; for desire, as a rule, is reduced to a minimum ; after a pollution has all day an itching sensation, as if ants were crawling over body, but particularly on genitals; also constant desire to urinate, quantity passed being larger than usual ; after coitus urine flows in a broken stream ; looks like chalk and water, or like buttermilk, causing a burning sensa- tion at the orifice of urethra ; appetite good ; emacia- tion ; sad, depressed, despairing of recovery, ^Sperma- torrhoea. i Prostatorrhoea : immediately after every erection dis- charge of a teaspoonful or more of prostatic fluid. ■ Chancres : with raised edges; like an indolent ulcer; edges thick, rounded and prominent; granulation pale and flabby or absent; corroding itching herpes prepu- tialis ; blisters and condylomata on glans. iFew drops of white gleety discharge mornings, and pros- tatic fluid in evening. 1 I Feeling of heaviness in glans, especially during urina- tion ; also, with tingling oozing vesicles around fra^num; in balanorrhoea. Pricking pain in glans penis. Tingling and humid secretions at frsenulum. I Herpes preputialis, with tingling. Swelling of testes, with swelling and tension in spermatic cords ; testes tender to touch ; gnawing pain or exco- riated feeling in testes. Epithelium of scrotum denuded in large spots with sore- ness. Inflammatory swelling of scrotum. Hair of sexual parts falls off*. ■ iSycotic excrescences, chronic, with heat, burning and sore- ness when sitting or walking.- i Fig-warts complicated with chancre.' . Female SexualOrgans.'i Ovaritis, metritis, or prolapsus from debilitating or emotional influences; amenorrhcea. BUterus bloated, as if filled with wind. .1 I Very irritable uterus. Uterine ulcer, with copious, putrid, bloody discharge; itching or corroding pain, or no pain. I I Dysmenorrhoea, with pain in region of liver. I Menses : too early and too long; too late; dark, clotted, appearing every fourteen days, preceded by leucorrhoea and for one or two days by griping and rumbling in abdomen. 25. 313 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. iLeucorrhoea: yellow, mostly after menses, with itching; profuse, yellow; thin, acrid, mucous; with chlorosis. ^* Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation. Itching, pricking like flea-bites between mammse, obliging her to rise at night. I I Dysuria during pregnancy ; cutting pain. Eclampsia and Bright's disease during childbed; hem- orrhage. Sharp pressure in 1. mamma. Scanty milk with debility and great apathy. I I Deterioration of health from nursing. I I Constant vomiting of milk in a suckling ; waxy color of face; blue rings around eyes; child does not cry; mother has very little milk. -' Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia. Nasal voice. Contraction in suprasternal fossa, > when bending neck. Burning in throat and chest. I Inability to speak long on account of weakness of chest. B Hoarseness and roughness in throat hindering speech. Tenacious mucus in mouth and fauces causes hawking. I I Excessive hoarseness and loose cough, produced by titillation in pit of stomach; dry cough in evening or morning with expectoration of whitish or yellowish mucus; pressive pains in chest. ^Laryngotracheitis. I I Exceedingly violent bronchitis; seemed to be capillar}', associated with fever, with exacerbation in evening, dyspnoea, pressive pain under sternum, violent sneezing, great thirst, violent coryza; profuse secretions, puru- lent, rather than slimy and serous. ■ Chronic lar^mgeal and bronchial catarrh with tendency to hemorrhage. *" Respiration, l Respiration difficult and oppressed. I I Dyspnoea: as from weakness of chest; caused by odors ; by talking or by any effort. Oppression of chest: with contraction; with anxiety; when beginning to walk ; at night. ^^ Cough. iCough : seems to be caused by tickling of a feather, extending from middle of chest to larynx; dry, ' caused by tickling low down in chest; from tickling in pit of stomach and throat, with expectoration only in morning; constant, irritable; spasmodic, tickling, as from down; evening without, morning with expecto- ration of dark blood, or of tenacious whitish mucus of sourish, herby taste; arising from tickling in chest, about ensiform cartilage, < evening after lying down ; expectoration in morning yellowish or muco-purulent and usually tasting salty; every draft of air gives him fresh cold; wraps chest up warmly; cannot bear PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 314 draft of air to touch chest; with hawking of mucus in little balls ; in morning with yellow expectoration; violent with copious expectoration ; with headache, nausea and vomiting of food, or with involuntary emis- sion of urine ; with purulent, very offensive expectora- tion ; in overgrown youths. I I For several years cough with expectoration of blood, severe pains in chest and digestive disturbances; sensa- tion of fulness and great internal restlessness, so that he is filled with anxiety, with tickling cough and expecto- ration of a quantity of bright-red frothy blood, often preceded by hawking; stitches in chest, particularly on inspiration ; drawing pains in small of back; ano- rexia; constipation; paleness of face. ■ Expectoration of a salty taste. ^'^ Inner Chest and Lungs. iWeak feeling in chest from talking, coughing or sitting too long; > by walking. Talking causes a weakness in chest. I Pain in chest as from weakness. Burning in whole chest, with pressure. Spasm in chest and diaphragm, sudden and unexpected ; must sit bent. Loud whistling and rattling in chest, with but little cough. ■ Tuberculosis; great weakness of chest, so that patient can hardly talk, and causing dyspnoea. ■ Haemoptysis; phthisis ; typhoid fever with diarrhoea and great rumbling in bowels ; fast-growing youths. I I Restless but weak with haemoptysis. ■ Useful in pneumonia when disease cannot take normal course, owing to great prostration of patient from loss of vital fluids ; diarrhoea, depressing emotions, etc. I I Hypostatic pneumonia. ^Bright's disease. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. Stitches through heart. ■ Palpitation: in children and young persons who grow too fast; in onanists; after depressing emotions. ' I After severe disappointment in her affections, no out- ward demonstrations of grief, but her color faded, plumpness disappeared ; extremities cold ; dry hacking cough; breathing shallow; dyspnoea from slightest ex- ercise ; mind obtuse, brooding over her sorrow; heart beats feebly and quick ; pulse almost imperceptible. ^Cardiac weakness. Pulse: irregular, sometimes intermitting one or two beats; generally small, weak or frequent, at times full. Violent ebullitions, with great restlessness. Swollen veins. ^^ Neck and Back. I l Spondylitis of cervical vertebrae; fre- 315 PHOSPIIORICUM ACIDUM. quent formation of abscesses; three or four fistulous passages, at bottom of whicli caries vertebrae could be felt with sound ; body of vertebrae considerably en- larged; painless diarrhoea with much rumbling in ab- domen ; stools white or greyish-white, often undigested ; involuntary; stool escapes when child is moved or turned ; urine profuse, clear, becoming turbid and milky, of offensive odor, escaping involuntarily, espe- cially on passive motion; child morose, will not tolerate brothers or sisters near him ; face pale ; great emacia- tion ; loss of appetite ; marked sleepiness and yet does not go to sleep; cannot move head; cries out at least careless handling. Gnawing on scapulae. I I Burning and soreness between shoulders. ^Irritable spine. Violent pain in back on rising, after stooping. Burning pain in a spot about small of back. Burning in lower half of body, from small of back to pit of stomach downward ; extremities are cold to touch. Formication in back and small ofback. ■ Weakness in spine and spinal nerves, giving rise to great fatigue on exertion and frequent desire to urinate, espe- cially in morning. ■ Burning in anterior half of soles of feet; cold, uncom- fortable feeling in anterior tibial region ; heat of occi- pital region, with erratic pains; increased sexual desire from sexual excesses.; spinal irritation. ■ Heaviness in lumbar region, increases to pain in legs. ^Tabes dorsalis. ■ Dull pains in loins, going down back of legs to lower part of calves ; pain in loins > from walking, rest or pressure; is subject to these attacks and they make him ill for several days. ■ Great debility and profuse night sw^eats and symptoms of slow hectic fever; violent smarting or burning pains in lumbar region. ^Spinal abscess. ■ Psoas abscess. I I Itching stitch in coccyx ; fine stitches in coccyx and sternum. I I Boils on nates. ^* Upper Limbs. Tearing in shoulder and 1. hand. Burning as from a red-hot coal, in different parts of arm and on shoulder. Hydroadenitis in axillae. Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves, awaken him from sleep. Stiffness and cramps in joints. PIIOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 316 I Weakness of arms. Cramps of upper arm, forearm and wrists. Shrivelled, dry skin of hands and fingers. I Wens on hand, between metacarpal bones. Sharply marked deadness of one-half of fingers. Hands tremble when writing. Burning of hands and heaviness; blood rushes into them when the}^ hang down. Stitches in finger joints. ^^ Lower Limbs. Heaviness and paralytic sensation in hip joint, < commencing to walk after sitting; > after walking a little. Painful spasm in hip joint. iCoxalgia; emaciation from excessive suppuration; gen- eral debility ; sensation as if bones w^ere scraped with knife ; disease originating from suppressed or misman- aged scarlatina or other exanthemata. ■ Osteomyelitis in hip joint; tongue dry; great excita- tion ; much complaining and lamenting ; great fear ; sleeplessness. 1 I On 1. hip jointr and 1. thigh, neuralgic or rheumatic pain, running from gluteal muscles or hip joint down leg to knee, and often to calf of leg or ankle, slightly > after walking, but still severe. Burning, in posterior muscles of thigh when standing, > when walking; in tibise and soles at night. Itchlike pustules on nates and balls of toes. Weakness of legs ; he falls easily from a misstep or on tripping. I Pains in tibice at night. I I Necrosis of r. tibia; sequestrum extending over nearly two-fifths of length of bone and about J cm. in thick- ness; enormous discharge of mucus from mouth every morning; difficult and very annoying; conjunctivitis of r. eye. I Ulcers on tibia; periosteum affected, profuse watery ofi'ensive discharge. I Ulcers on legs. Pimples on knees and calves of legs, becoming confluent and forming easily-bleeding ulcers. Blisters on balls of toes; feet swollen and sweaty. Beating, swelling and burning in joint of big toe. *' Limbs in General. Drawing and twitching tearing in limbs. Smarting at night in bones of limbs. Limbs feel weak from loss of fluids, with no other pain than burning. Formication in limbs. 317 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. Feeling as if periosteum were being scraped with knife, after injuries. Interstitial distension of bones; mercurial, syphilitic or scrofulous. Arthritic pains brought on by least cold, with irritable cough ; swallowing excites pains ; fear of touching parts. Cold hands and warm feet. Boils in axillee, on shoulders and nates. Bruised pain in all joints, in morning, in arms and lower extremities. ^'^ Rest. Position. Motion. Rest: pain in loins >. Lying in bed : vertigo; headache > ; tickling in chest <. Side on which he lies: pressive headache. Desire to lie down: fainting. Must lie down : headache. Sitting: vertigo causes them to fall ; intolerable pain in hemorrhoids ; soreness in sycotic excrescences ; too long, weak feeling in chest. Must sit bent : spasm in chest. Bending neck : contraction in suprasternal fossa <. Rising after stooping: violent pain in back. Standing : vertigo ; burning in posterior muscles of thigh. When hands hang down : blood rushes into them. Motion : pain in bones > ; pressing in stomach < ; pain in forehead < ;' involuntary^ discliarge of urine. Slightest exercise : dyspnoea. Writing: hands tremble. Walking: vertigo; soreness in sycotic excrescences ; when beginning, oppression of chest > ; weak feeling in chest ; pain in loins > ; after sitting, heaviness in hip joint <, then > ; pain in hip joint and thigh > ; burning in musclesof thigh <. ^^ Nerves, l ils very weak and indifferent to the affairs of life. iTrembling: legs weak, stumble easily or make missteps. I Weakness : of parts of body ; disinclination for business ; prostrated; apathetic in morning; from loss of fluids; from typhoid fever; from grief; from sorrow or unfor- tunate love ;■ from suppression of eruptions; from talking; from seminal loss, perspiration, leucorrhoea or excessive grief ; paleface; paralytic, or semi-paralytic; with or without sciatic pains. ■ Child weak, pale, cold ; painless stool; bones diseased. ■ Nervous debility, with cold clammy sweats or profuse