Introduced and proved by Hahnemann, assisted by F. Hahnemann, Gutmann, Hartmann, Haynel, Hornbnrg, Langhammer, Wagner, Wislicenus, Stapf and Lehmann, Hah. Materia Medica, voh 2; Fincke, Am. Hom. Eev., vol. 1, p. 317; "Bell, Am. Jour, of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. 2, 1869, p. 211 ; Berridge, N. E. Med. •Gaz., vol. 9, p. 403. Clinical Authorities. — Basedow's disease, Hirsch, H. Kl., 1870, p. 113; Allen, Norton's Oph. Ther., p. 171 ; Diphtheria, Baynum, Hah. Mo., vol. 14, ,p. 605; Pain in abdomen, Veit Meyer, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 3, p. 8, from A. H. Z., vol. 71, p. 197 ; Constipation, GouUon, A.. H. Z., vol. 78, p. 199 ; Bane's Bee, 1870, jp. 251 ; Epididymitis, orchitis, Hornby, A. H. Z., vol. 82, p. 88 ; Orchitis, Hartmann, Schmid, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 210; Schmid, B. J. H., vol. 5, p. 277 ; Williamson, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1873; Affection of testicle. Dudgeon, B. J. H., vol. 13, p. 137; Irritabdity of larynx, Nankivell, Hom. Eev., vol. 15, p. 137 ; Laryngitis, Lobethal, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 100; Hendricks, A. H. Z., vol. 105, p. 166 ; Perichondritis daryngea, Unsin, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 740 ; Laryngeal affections, Lobethal, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, p. 172 ; Catarrh of air-passages, Kiiseman, Biick. Kl. Erf., ^o\. 3, p. 27 ; Croup, Elb, Miiller, Schneider, Billig, Bolle, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 765; Stapf, Tietze, Hartmann, Hartlaub, Weigel, B. J. H., vol. 5, p. 294; Kiiseman, Bosch, Schwarze, Hartmann, Frank, H. in F., Hartung, Biick. Kl. Erf., -vol. 3, p. 137 ; Morgan, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 2, p. 240 ; McNeil, Org., vol. 1, p. 481 ; Asthma, Gaspary, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 2, p. 281 ; Gaspary, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 3, •p. 198; Gee, Hom. Phys., vol. 7, p. 18; Cough, Schleicher, Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 696 ; Bell, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 1, p. 211 ; Berridge, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 37 ; Chauvet, Bib. Horn., vol. 9, p. 47 ; Nash, Org., vol. 3, p. 94 ; Med. Couns., vol. 1, p. 181 ; Chronic cough, Williams, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 267 ; Pertussis, A. R., Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 729 ; Circumscribed gangrene of lung, Koch, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 123 ; Use in phthisis, Hathaway, Mass. Trans., vol. 4, p. 231 ; -Aneurism of aorta. Fanning, A. J. H. M. M, vol. 3, p. 10; Endocarditis, Bell, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 4, p. 211 ; Affection of heart, Wells, Hering's Anal. Ther., vol. 1, p. 223 ; Hering, Wells, A. J. H. M. M., vol. 1, p. 134 ; Goitre, B. in D., Biick. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 380; Bernard, T. H. M. S. Pa., 1883, p. 204; Bronchocele, (3 cases. Barlow, N. A. J. H., vol. 17, p. Ill; also B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 670; Enlargement of thyroid gland, Stumm, A. J. H. M..M., vol. 3, p. 108; Ringivorm, 3fuller, B. J. H., ivol. 23, p. 373. ^^^ SPONGIA TOSTA. ^ Mind. Conscious, but unable to act upon her limbs ilnsensibility (loss of feeling) with the chills. Mental dulness; difficult comprehension. I Irresistible desire to sing, excessive mirth, followed bv sadness. *' ■ Paroxysms of anxiety or anguish. ^Cardiac troubles. linear of the future; tired of life. ^Chronic orchitis Aggravation from excitement. I i Fancies appear on shutting eyes. ^Typhus. Taciturn and discontented mood, not disposed to talk I Delirium : with the heat; when falling asleep, with the chills. ^ Crazy feeling, head feels blown up. Feels awkward about her work, which she cannot accom- plish satisfactorily. Alternating merry, peevish, vexed and scolding mood JJuiness with gloominess over root of nose Inconsolability, would rather die on the spot; with the neat. i Weeping and inconsolable mood. i Inclination to weep: with the dreams; with whoopine cough ; with heat ; with sweat. J I Anxiety: in features; looks around anxiously; with the dreams; and heat, suddenly ; nausea, pallor, after exercise out-doors; restlessness; with attacks in throat- m croup ; with dyspnoea ; in typhus. ' i I She is very fretful and anxious about her condition, tears she will die of suffocation. I Anxious sweat and faintness; with angina pectoris. bhe IS very timid, and is especially pursued and incessantly tormented by a frightful scene of some mournful event of the past. She is very timorous, and starts at every trifle, which affects her feet, so as to make them feel heavy iTimidity of mind with the sweat. I Terror and fear: of approaching death; that she will die of suffocation; with heart disease; with whooping cough; with the heat; with the sweat. He IS anxious, as if some misfortune would occur of which he has a presentiment. J Apprehension of a fatal termination of his disease iGreat alarm, agitation, anxiety, difficult respiration. J Jb right awakens. iNervous,- desponding about loss of sexual power, ibatiety of life, with the heat. Ill-humored ; dislikes to talk and answer Out of temper and lazy; would rather rest, and is not disposed to talk. SPONGIA TOSTA. 464 Peevish, vexed and scolding mood. Sulky, obstinate and improper behavior. ■ Obstinacy, with whooping cough. liEver}' excitement increases the cough. Thinking of it increases onesided heat of face. ^ Sensorium. ■ Vertigo: with danger of falling; at night, when awaking, with nausea ; when sitting, as if head would fall to one side, with a feeling of heat in head ; as if one would fall backward ; as if tipsy ; after sleep, with the heat; with rush of blood to head. ■ Congestion of blood to head, with throbbing and pressure in forehead. ■ Heaviness and fulness in head, as if all blood were mount- ing to head, with vertigo. 'Inner Head. Stitches in temples. Sharp stitches externally in 1. temple, extending to fore- head. While lying feels a strong pulsation, < about ear on which she is lying. Dull headache in r. side of brain, on coming into warm room from open air. Headache as if skull would burst, in vertex and forehead. Pressing sensation : in r. temple, from within outward ; downward drawing pain in r. side of head and neck ; outward on r. parietal bone, while lying. Pressing headache in vertex. ■ Pressing headache in r. frontal eminence, from within outward, < while sitting, on entering warm room after walking in open air, and from looking at anything sharply ; > when lying in horizontal position, espe- cially when lying on back. ■ Forehead: blood accumulated, pressing out; burning heat; violent heat; pain; stitches from temples; pressure. ■ Occiput: headache; stitches; pain; heaviness before fever ; stitch on turning head ; burning. ■ Headache: when gazing steadily; on rising, > after washing and taking breakfast; from dry, cold weather; after intoxication ; with the chill ; with heat of face. ■ Congestion of blood to head, with pressing, knocking and pulsating in forehead ; redness of face, with anxious mien ; > when lying in a horizontal position. While lying, she feels a dull, tremulous roaring (wuw- wern), like a strong pulsation, each time with a double stroke, in head, in region of ear upon which she lies in bed ; when turning on other ear she feels it in that side. Bursting pain in head, with whooping cough. ■ Meningitis, scrofulous or tuberculous; congestion of blood 465 SPONGIA TOSTA. to head, with pressing, knocking and pulsating in fore- head ; redness of face with anxious mien ; > when lying in horizontal position ; heat in head ; bending head backward, with tension in neck ; eyes staring, lids wide open; double sight; face pale and cold, with heat, or alternately red and pale; twitching of muscles with fever; frequent waking with a start; tossing about; stu- pid slumber. * Outer Head. _ l l Sharp stitches in 1. temple, externally, ex- tending into forehead. Sharp stitches in scalp, with heat of scalp. I Sensation as if hair were standing on end on vertex- during chill. ' Sharp pressure externally, at both temples. Gnawing pain, externally on crown of head. Forehead painful to touch. Disagreeable sensitiveness of cranial integuments, particu- larly on moving scalp. ■ Violent itching on scalp. I Yellow, scabby eruption. Turning head: a stitch in occiput; to right, neck pains; neck stiff; tensive pain in neck. I Bending head back: tension in neck; in croup and suf- focative attacks. Jerks head downward. iBending backward and sinking of head, with painful stiffness of neck ; piping, anxious inspiration, with dry barking cough. ^Croup. ' Holding head in an upright position, > dull pressure in occiput. ^ Sight and Eyes. Sees visions on closing eyes. Double vision ; > lying down. Pressing and stinging in eyes. Coldness of eyes. Lachrymation and headache, when looking fixedly at one spot. Things appear in flames, at night. Objects appear to move up and down. Could not distinguish objects. She can recognize distant objects only with great exertion. Looking sharply at anything increases headache and causes lachrymation. Pressing in outer half of 1. eye. Tension about 1. eye, near temple. Tearing and stinging in 1. eye, after fever. Stinging about eye. Stinging, finally pressing pain in both eyes, in evening. Stingmg itching under 1. eye, > by rubbing. VOL. IX. — 30. SPONGIA TOSTA. 466 Coldness or heat in eyes. Redness of conjunctiva; eyes fill with puslike matter. Burning in 1. eye about eyeball. ■ Heaviness and nightly agglutination of lids. Tears exude from between closed lids. Sudden stinging drawing at outer canthus of 1. orbit, which spreads around, above and below to inner can- thus. Tensive stinging pain in 1. outer canthus, most severe on moving eyes; disappearing when touched. Eyes close involuntarily, almost spasmodically. Pressing under eyelids. Burning pain on external surface of 1. lower lid. Itching of eyelids. I Redness of eyes, with lachryniation and burning. I Eyes protruding, staring, or deeply sunken. I I Inflammation with dryness of lids. Eyes have a dull, swollen look, as after intoxication. Pressing pain over r. eye, externallj^ I Macules of cornea. I I Eyeballs staring and perceptibly protruding ; stitches in balls and burning around eyes, with lachrymation, > from any sudden light ; often eye feels as if twisted around ; there is constant flashing of colors, mostly deep red, with figures of light, etc., even when eye is closed, especially at night ; thyroid gland is considerably hyper- trophied ; palpitation very marked, makes her uneasy, restless and easily frightened, especially at night. ^Basedow's disease. ^ Hearing and Ears. Hardness of hearing. Congestion of blood to ears ; burning. Dull ringing in ears ; ringing in r. ear ; hears a pulsating roar in ear upon which she lies ; as if a battery of guns were discharged, at night. Cramplike pain in 1. ear, while walking in open air. Pressure in ears, and crowding sensation in same. Drawing pain in internal r. ear. Earache of a contracting kind. Fine stitches in r. ear, outwardly, as if passing through tympanum., Digging stitches in depth of 1. ear. I Heat in ears. Burning : in ears from throat ; behind ear. ■ Suppuration of external ear. Pain in cartilages of ears. Burning in orifice of r. ear. An inflamed nodule finally covered with a scab, pain- ful to touch and remaining several days, in 1. concha, 467 SPONGIA TOSTA. close to entrance of meatus auditorius ; tensive pain, creeping as if it would gather and l3reak, at times stitches. Red swelling of r. helix, with a pimple on same, exuding moisture like an ulcer, for nine days; painful on external pressure. Boils on 1. ear, painful to touch. ^ Smell and Nose. Bleeding of nose : when blowing it ; during dinner ; with whooping cough. Dulness and sensation of gloominess over root of nose like that preceding a common cold. Tensive constricting sensation above root of nose. Tearing in nose. Creeping stitches in 1. nasal bone. I Nose stuffed up. ^Coryza. ^Whooping cough. iCoryza: fluent; hoarseness; croupy cough; after dry, cold winds ; with chills ; in measles. I I Breathing through nose obstructed by a swelling in fauces. I Dryness of nose. ■ Retention and thickening of nasal mucus. I Nasal mucus viscous, grows thick. ^Membranous croup. I Chronic dry nasal catarrh ; nose entirely occluded. I I Coryza ; nose running, or stopped up, with fever ; hoarseness ; at same time catarrhal affection of larynx, with hollow or crouplike cough ; respiration difficult, with a noise sounding as in laryngo-stenosis. I I Nostrils wide open ; fanlike motion. I Nose pinched ; cold. Eruption on point of nose, and on lips. ^Tipper Face. iFace: distressed, in croup ; anxious; livid; pale and bloated; blue; pale, with sunken eyes; red, with anxious expression ; alternately red and pale ; 1 1 cold sweat. Heat on one side of face, < when thinking of it. Swelling of cheeks. Itching and stinging in cheeks. Cramplike pain from 1. articulation of jaw to cheek ; evenings, while eating or when walking in open air. A vexed expression, with cough at night. Coldness, pallor and sweat of face, with heat of body. I Cold sweat in face, in evening. Flying heat in face and in blood, with excitement of