Lachesis lach.

Thinks herself under superhuman control.
Complete insensibility.
Memory weak, makes mistakes in orthography.
Quick comprehension; mental excitability, with almost prophetic perceptions; ecstasy.
Delirium, fears she will be damned.
Delirium at night, muttering, drowsy, red face; or slow, difficult speech and dropped jaw.
Mania, with great loquacity, frequently jumping from one subject to another.
Mania after overstudying.
Delirium tremens, worse after sleep; cannot bear pressure of neckcloth; loquacious.
Delirium from overwatching, overfatigue; loss of fluids; excessive study.
Thinks she is dead, and that preparations are being made for her funeral; thinks herself pursued by enemies; fears the medicine is poison.
Loquacity, with mocking jealousy; frightful images.
Talks, sings, whistles, makes odd motions.
Proud; jealous, suspicious.
Peevish, disposed to be morose or to quarrel.
Suicidal mood, tired to life.
Great sadness and anxiety, worse in morning on awakening.
Dread of death, fears to go to bed.
Fears being poisoned.

Vertigo: from looking at one and the same object; from walking in the open air (at climaxis); from suppressed erysipelas; with pale face; migraine.
Head heavy like lead, worse about occiput, with vertigo.
Rush of blood to the head, after spirituous liquors; from suppressed or irregular menses.
Blowing expiration, cannot bear neck touched; left-sided apoplexy, especially if after mental emotions, or abuse of alcohol.
Severe pains all over the head, so giddy he could not stand; could not see the letters, fell against the wall.

Frontal headache, faint on rising.
Headache over eyes and in occiput, morning, on rising.
Pressing, bursting pains in temples, better when lying down.
Temporal nerves pain, vertigo, pale face; throbbing temples.
One-sided headache; pains intense, extend to neck and shoulders, with stiff neck; paralytic tongue.
Tearing on top of head from within outward. See face.
Weight and pressure on the vertex.
Burning of the vertex, at the menopause.
Beating headache with heat, worse on the vertex and right side, or over the eyes, preceding a cold in the head, with stiff neck.
Feeling in back of head as if pressed asunder.
Headache in the sun, glimmering sight.
Throbbing in the head from least movement; congestion.

Purplish swelling; delirious talk when closing the eyes. θ Erysipelas.
Tumors which perforate the skull.
Hair falls off, worse during pregnancy; averse to sun's rays.

Oversensitive to light.
Amblyopia, with lung or heart affections.
Feels, when throat is pressed, as if eyes were forced out.
Whites of the eyes yellow.
Redness of the eyes.
Retinitis apoplectica.
Ulcers on the cornea.
Severe pain in and above the eyes.

Sensitiveness to sounds; rushing and thundering in the ears.
Hardness of hearing, with want of wax; dryness in the ears; numbness about the ear and cheek (left).
Ear-wax too hard, pale, and insufficient.

Nosebleed, dark; with amenorrhœa; typhus, etc.; blowing of blood, mostly in the morning.
Coryza preceded by headache; discharge watery with red nostrils, herpes on the lips.
Relieves paroxysms of sneezing in hay asthma.
Nasal mucous membrane swollen; sneezing.
Pus and blood from the nose.
Vesicular eruption about the nose.
Nose red externally; nose filled with scabs; discharge of pus and blood; mercurio-syphilis; also in drunkards.

Flushes of heat in drunkards.
Expression of pain with sopor.
Features distorted.
Livid, grey complexion, with abdominal complaints or ague.
Face pale, with fainting; dizzy with headache.
Yellow complexion, with vermillion redness of the cheeks, or with small red blood-vessels shining through the skin.
Syphilis.
Red face, as in apoplexy; bloated red face, with headache, pains in limbs, stomach, etc.
Erysipelas of the face, with burning and itching, worse after siesta; with hammering headache.
Neuralgia, left side, orbital; rising of heat to the face before, and weak feeling in the abdomen after, the attack.

Lower jaw hangs down. θ Coma.
Lips dry, cracked, bleeding.
Lower lip swollen.

Decayed teeth pain when biting; after sleep; after abuse of mercury.
Decayed teeth crumble.
Cheek swollen, skin tense, hot and crisp, as if it would crack; periodontitis.
Gums bluish, swollen, bleeding, worse from warm drinks.

Sour taste, everything turns sour.
Difficult speech, tongue heavy, cannot open mouth wide.
Puts the trembling tongue out with great difficulty. θ Diphtheria, etc.
Tongue: trembles when protruded, or catches behind the teeth; swollen, coated white; papillæ enlarged; dry, red cracked at the tip; red up and down centre; mapped dry, black and stiff.
Blisters, mostly about the tip.
Talking: 26.

Bad odor from the mouth.
Saliva abundant, tenacious.
Sore mouth in the last stages of phthisis.
Sensation on roof of mouth as if the mucous membrane were peeling off.

Uvula elongated; fauces purplish and swollen, or ulcerated.
Feeling of a lump in the throat; suffocative sensation; on swallowing, the lump descends, but returns at once: 48.
When swallowing fluids, they escape through the nose; worse when swallowing saliva, less from liquid, and even relieved by solids.
Much phlegm in the fauces, with painful hawking.
Pain and soreness begin on left side of throat. θ Tonsillitis. θ Diphtheria.
Constriction of the throat; feels as if tied; worse from the least external pressure; suffocating spells, worse during or awaking from sleep.
Tonsils swollen, worse the left, with a tendency to the right; inability to swallow, threatening suffocation; or, on swallowing, pain shoots into the (left) ear; cannot bear anything to touch the neck.
Diphtheritic patches in the throat, spreading from left to right; fetid breath; worse after sleep; great debility, feeble pulse; clammy sweat; headache and faintness.
Aggravation by hot drinks; liquids pain more than solids while swallowing. θ Tonsillitis. θ Diphtheria.
Excessive tenderness of throat to external pressure. θ Tonsillitis. θ Diphtheria.
Ulcers in the throat; worse in wet weather; after mercury; from syphilis; ulcers extend up into posterior nares; throat so dry, he awakens choking; soft palate full of cicatrices, with greenish-yellow ulcers between; pains shooting; fetid breath.

Appetite gone.
Thirst insatiable, with disgust for drink.
Desire for oysters; for wine and liquors; for coffee, which agrees.

After eating: gnawing in stomach better, but returns in a few hours. θ Cancer of stomach.
After eating: vertigo, languor; gagging and suffocation; dyspnœa; stomach puffed; eructations, flushes of heat.
After acids, symptoms worse.
Worse from alcoholic drinks (except the snake-bite).
Warm drink: 10, 13. After drinking: 13, 16.

Eructations, which relieve.
Everything sour; heart-burn.
Nausea after drinking.
Nausea in attacks, weakness, dyspnœa, palpitation, cold sweat.
Vomiting: of food; of bile; of mucus; with copious saliva.

Pit of stomach painful to touch.
Dyspepsia worse as soon as he eats; costive; weak digestion, especially after mercury.
Gnawing pressure; relieved after eating, but returning as soon as the stomach is empty.

Acute pain in the liver, extending towards the stomach.
Liver complaints at the climaxis; after ague; pain as if something had lodged in the right side, with stinging.
Cannot bear any pressure about the hypochondria.
Contractive pain in the region of the liver.
Ulcerative pain about liver; inflammation and abscess.

Painful distention, flatulence; can bear no pressure.
Burning like fire in hypogastric and lumbar region.
Cutting in right side of abdomen, causing fainting attacks.
Swelling in cæcal region; must lie on the back with limbs drawn up. θ Typhlitis.
Abdomen hot, sensitive, painfully stiff from loins down the thighs; pus formed. θ Peritonitis.

Thin, offensive stools.
Stools: watery, light yellow, fecal; dark, chocolate-colored, cadaverous-smelling; of decomposed blood, looking like charred straw; mixed blood and slime; worse at night, after acids; during warm weather.
Painful straining, with discharge of croupous exudate.
Diarrhœa and constipation in alternation.
Costive, ineffectual urging; anus feels closed.
Stools offensive, even if formed.
Beating in the anus as from hammers.
Tormenting urging, but not to stool.
Wants to pass stool, but the pain is so increased thereby, he must desist.
Rectum prolapsed and tumefied.
Piles protruding or strangulated, or, with stitches upward at each cough or sneeze; worse at climaxis, or with drunkards.
Itching at the anus; worse after sleep.

Stitches from kidneys, through the ureters.
Urine: almost black; frequent, foamy, dark.
Ineffectual urging to urinate; burning when it does pass.
Feeling as of a ball rolling in the bladder or abdomen, when turning over.
Discharge of offensive mucus during micturition; catarrh of bladder.

Sexual excitement.
Onanism, with epilepsy.
Buboes indurated or with fistulous openings and hectic; after mercury.
Indurated foreskin, after chancres.

Sexual desire. θ Nymphomania.
Swelling, induration, neuralgia, suppuration, etc., of left ovary.
The uterine region feels swollen, will bear no contact not even of the clothing; bearing down pains.
Uterine and ovarian pains relieved by a flow of blood.
Pains like a knife thrust into the abdomen.
Uterus feels as if the os was open.
Menses scanty feeble, but regular; blood lumpy, black or acrid.
Before menses: desire for open air; vertigo, nosebleed; labor-like pains, worse in left ovarian region; bruised feeling in the hips all better when the flow begins.
Leucorrhœa copious, smarting, stiffening the linen, staining it greenish.
Redness and swelling of the external parts (with discharge of mucus).
Suitable at the menopause: flashes, hot vertex; metrorrhagia; fainting.

Lochia fetid; urine suppressed; face purple; unconscious; abdomen swollen. θ Puerperal fever.
Milk thin, blue; she awakens always sad, despairing.
Lancinating pains in the mamma, pains down the arm; breast bluish, with blackish streaks.
Fungus hæmatodes, frequently bleeding.

Hoarseness, rawness and dryness; larynx sensitive to touch.
Aphonia in phthisis; sputum tough and green.
Impending croup (during diphtheria), awakens suffocating, grasps the throat; fears he is dying.
Larynx externally sensitive to least touch which causes suffocation, feeling of a lump in the throat.
Croup, when the patient is worse after sleep; or, seemingly sleeps into the croupy spell.
Suddenly something runs from neck to larynx, stopping the breathing, it awakens him at night. θ Spasmus glottidis.

Asthma, worse from covering mouth or nose, or touching the throat, or moving the arms; on awaking; after eating or talking; better sitting up bent forward.
Chest feels constricted.
In the morning when sitting up quickly, the breathing becomes slow, difficult, whistling.
Chest stuffed; short cough, with scanty, difficult expectoration.
Asthma during scabies, if the itching ceases.

Gagging, persistent cough, from tickling in the throat under the sternum, or in the stomach; worse on falling asleep or during the day; from change of temperature; after alcoholic drinks.
Has to cough hard and long before he can raise.
Expectoration scanty, difficult, watery, saltish, must be swallowed again; or is accompanied with straining and vomiting.
Spitting large quantities of ropy mucus. θ Diphtheria.
Cough from ulcers in the throat.
Cough, with slimy, bloody sputum.
After a long, wheezing cough, suddenly spits up profuse, frothy, tenacious mucus.

Oppressive pain in chest as if full of wind, better eructations.
Pain in the chest as from soreness.
Burning in the chest.
Stitches in the (left) chest, with dyspnœa.
Pneumonia, hepatization, mostly of left lung; great dyspnœa on awaking.
Useful when tubercles follow pneumonia.
Dropsy of the chest; awakens with suffocating spells; liver swollen; scanty, dark urine; palpitation. θ After scarlatina.

Palpitation, can bear no pressure on throat or chest; must sit up or lie on the right side; numbness of the left arm, fainting, anxiety.
Pericarditis, dropsy, diphtheritic patches in the throat after scarlatina.
Restless, trembling; anxiety about the heart; hasty speech; suffocation on lying down; weight on the chest; heart feels constricted. θ Rheumatism of the heart.
Cyanosis neonatorum.
Pulse: small, weak and accelerated; unequal; intermittent; alternately full and small.

Stiff neck, moves jaw with great difficulty, tearing from nape of neck up either side, to top of head.
Pain in the small of the back, with constipation.
Pain in the os coccygis, when sitting down, feeling as if sitting on something sharp.

Left shoulder and arm weak and lame, worse when lying on the arm.
Soreness of the right shoulder, worse when lying on it.
Axillary glands swollen.
Garlic-like smell of the sweat in the axillæ.
Tingling-prickling in the left hand.
Trembling of the hands. θ In drunkards.
Rheumatic swelling of index-finger and wrist; worse after sleep.
Panaritium, bluish swelling; even necrosis, with fistulous openings, or erysipelas; stinging-pricking pains.
Numbness of the finger-tips (morning).

Contraction of psoas muscle, after abscess.
Sciatica, left-sided; pain as from a hot iron; worse after sleep.
Uneasiness in the lower limbs.
Contraction of the hamstrings, after a popliteal abscess.
Stinging-tearing in the knees, with swelling.
Aching pain in the skin-bones.
Flat ulcers on legs, with thin, offensive discharge, and bluish areolæ.
Caries of the tibia.
Lacerating, jerking, rheumatic pains in the legs, as soon as he falls asleep.
Swelling of the feet, worse after walking. θ During pregnancy.
Tingling in the toes.
Rhagades of the toes.
Gangrenous ulcers on the legs and toes.

Erysipelas of the legs or arms; surface bluish, glossy, swelling, impending gangrene.
Bluish swelling of the joints, after sprains.
Dark bluish swelling of cellular tissue on hands, arms, legs; very sensitive; impending gangrene.
Nightly burning in palms and soles.
Limbs stiff or curved after mercurialization.

Motion: erysipelas excited by too much walking; relieves the periodical sufferings.
Walking in open air: 2. After walking: 33. Moving the arms: 26. Turning over: 21. On rising: 3. Must sit up: 29. Sitting: 31. Sitting bent forwards: 26. Lying down: 3, 29, 32. Must lie on back: 19. Lying on right side: 29.

Crawls on the floor, spits often, hides, laughs, or is angry; spasms.
Epilepsy comes on during sleep, from jealousy, onanism, loss of fluids.
Spasms of the legs.
Awkward gait; left side weak; gressus galinaceous.
Paralysis, left-sided; after apoplexy, or cerebral exhaustion.
Trembling all over; exhausted, faint.
Fainting, with pain in heart, nausea, pale face, vertigo.

Sleepy day and night; sleeps well unless the cough annoys him.
Children toss about, morning, during sleep.
Restless sleep, with many dreams and frequent waking.
Persistent sleeplessness; sleepless in the evening, with talkativeness.
Awakens at night and cannot sleep again.
The mind worse after sleep.

Morning: 1, 3, 7, 26, 32. Afternoon: 40. Evening: 37, 40. Night: 1, 20, 25, 34, 37, 40. Day: 27. Day and night: 37.

Worse from the sun's rays: 3, 4. Worse during Spring and Summer; or from extremes of temperature, debility: 20. Change of temperature: 26. Wet weather: 13. Desire for the open air: 23. Worse in the open air: 2. Warmth: 44. Warm room: 40. Hot drinks: 13.

Chill: runs up the back to head, often on alternate days; abates in the warm room; with chattering of the teeth, desires external warmth.
Wants to be held, or to be pressed down during chill.
After icy-cold calves, shaking chill with warm sweat; then strumming through limbs, intermingled with flushes of heat.
Spasms during every paroxysm, in nursing children.
Chill at night, flushes of heat by day.
Heat, particularly on the hands and feet, in the evening.
Burning in the palms and soles, evening and night.
Heat at night, as from orgasm of blood, throat sensitive.
Internal sensation of heat, with cold feet.
Profuse sweat, with most complaints; sweat about the neck after the first nap; phthisis.
Sweat cold, stains yellow; or bloody, staining red.
Intermittent fever recurs every Spring, or after suppression in the previous Fall by quinine; worse in the afternoon, 2 P.M.; face red, headache, feet cold; talking during hot stage; excessive burning and rending pain during relapse into bilious intermittent after quinine.

Periodical attacks: every fourteen days, every Spring: 40.

Right: 3, 18, 19, 32. Left: 2, 6, 8, 13, 23, 28, 29, 32, 33, 36. Left to right: throat and ovarian symptoms; also 44. Below up: 40. Within outwards: 3.

Neuralgic pains change locality, with palpitation.
Tearing pains; prickling; pulsating.

Blood dark, non-coagulable; small wounds bleed much.
Affected parts bluish.
Gangrene.
Ulcers sensitive to touch; ichorous, offensive discharge; many small pimples surround them; areolæ purple; better from warmth.
Dropsy from liver and spleen diseases; after scarlatina; urine black, legs œdematous, first left, then right.
Cellulitis, with burning and blue color of skin.

Touch: 2, 13, 25, 26, 44. Pressure: 1, 13, 29.
The greatest sensitiveness, even to touch of edge of bed-clothing on throat, common bed-covering on abdomen.

Itching of the whole body, burning; yellow or purplish blisters; scabies.
Military eruption; rash appears slowly or turns livid or black; comatose.
Bullæ dark from bloody serum within.
Carbuncles, with purple surroundings and many small boils around them; must rise at night and bathe to allay burning; also when suppuration is tardy and systemic weakness obtains.
Malignant pustule.
Scars redden, hurt, break open and bleed.
Bed-sores, with black edges.

Followed by Arsen., Bellad., Carb. veg., Caustic., Conium, Mercur., Lycop.
Tarent. cub. compare well in carbuncles; the pains are atrocious.
Follows: Arsen., Bellad., Mercur., Nitr. ac., Hepar.
Complementary to Lycop.
Antidotes: Arsen., Bellad., heat, alcohol, salt.
Compare: Lact. ac. in lump or fulness in throat like a puff-ball, not better swallowing, keeps swallowing frothy mucus; constricted feeling low in throat with nausea.