Argentum Metallicum arg-m.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

NERVES. Cartilages, mucous membranes: LARYNX. Bones. Condyles. Joints. Genito-urinary. Left side; ovary. Testis (R).

Worse

USING VOICE. Mental strain. Noon. Cold damp. 3 to 5 A.M.

Better

Motion. Coffee. Wrapping up.

General

Slow, deep, low grade processes. THICKENED SECRETIONS, cartilages, tarsi, etc. Gray or tenacious mucus. Sore rawness. Increasingly violent pains, suddenly cease; < touch; with polyuria. Arthralgia. Loss of power; mental, over limbs, etc. Epilepsy, then rage.

Particulars

Hasty; deceitful. Talkative and forgetful. Whirling vertigo. Emptiness or crawling in head. Itching canthi, eyelids or earlobes. Exhaustingly profuse coryza. Pale, sallow and weak. Sticky teeth (Lach.). Croaking in abdomen (l). Emissions. Chronic urethritis. Foul leucorrhœa. Easily raises gray, gelatinous or starchy mucus; < laughing. Hoarseness or aphonia, < using voice. Weakness in chest (l). Heart stops, then trembles and throbs; > inspiration. Swelled ankles. Diabetes. Nervous itching. Shocks on dropping to sleep.

Related

Related: Sele. Stan. Zin.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Tall, thin, irritable persons. Ailments from abuse of Mercury. Constitutional effects of onanism. Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, Eustachian; the structures entering into joints. Seminal emissions: after onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis. Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.). Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, Pal.); climacteric haemorrhage. Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing. Hoarseness; of professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum. t.). Total loss of voice of professional singers. Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing. Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stan.) and produces profuse mucus in larynx. When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, looking like boiled starch. Great weakness of the chest (Stan.); worse left side. Alternation in timbre of voice with singers and public speakers (Arum t.). Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea. worse when using voice, talking or singing.

Relations

Follows well: after, Alum. Similar: to, Stan. in cough excited by laughing.

Aggravation

Riding in a carriage (Coc.); when touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

The head seems to sympathize with all the symptoms of this remedy. Also much urine.

Mental

Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk.

Head

The different pains in the head are shooting, drawing, boring, pressive, tearing, twitching, pinching; pressure, tearing in the region of the right and left temporal bone, worse from contact. Right or left one-sided headaches; inner temples. Dulness of; sensation of emptiness in. Attacks of vertigo. Effects of sunstroke.

Eyes

The upper and lower eyelids are red and thick. The left internal canthus has sticking and stitches, and some itching. Amaurosis of left eye. Violent itching of lids and corners of eyes. Purulent ophthalmia of infants. Inflammation of the eyes, intolerance of light, running of the nose. Shooting, itching, aching pains. Stricture of lachrymal duct.

Ears

Corrosive itching of the lobules of both ears, early in the morning, after rising. Much itching and stitches in the ears, externally and internally.

Nose

Excessive fluent coryza, often with sneezing, tickling and crawling sensation in the nose, followed by bleeding.

Face

Drawing tearing in the right zygoma, sometimes in the left; a violent pain in the bone of the right lower jaw. Pale and earthy face.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth, and frequently of the tongue. Much saliva in the mouth, which is sometimes sticky; sometimes the teeth seem coated with it, may be sticking them together, the lower with the upper, making talking difficult.

Throat and Chest

The region of the submaxillary gland is swollen; this makes the neck stiff, and produces a tension in the parts when moved, deglutition at the same time is difficult, as if there were internal swelling of the throat; is obliged to force every mouthful of food down the throat. Viscid, gray, jelly-like mucus in the throat, which can be easily hawked up, early in the morning. Raw, sore throat when coughing or swallowing. Yawning gives pain in the fauces. Thick, viscous saliva sticks to the hard palate. Hoarseness, or complete aphonia in singers, speakers, etc. raw and sore feeling in upper part of larynx; consumption of throat. Much dry cough; or with thick white expectoration, like starch. Great weakness in chest, with stitches; sore to touch; sweaty.

Stomach

Excessive appetite, sometimes continuing when the stomach seems quite full; gnawing hunger; hunger with nausea. No appetite for breakfast; entire indifference to all food. Continual nausea all day.

Abdomen

A bruised, sore sensation all over the left pelvic region of the abdomen. Loud rumbling in the left side of the abdomen, like the croaking of frogs. A good deal of pain and tenderness about the posterior portion of the left pelvis. Painful soreness over the entire abdomen, worse when riding in a carriage. A good deal of rumbling in bowels and some sharp pains.

Stool

Frequent and always successful desire for stool. Dry stool, like sand.

Urine

Profuse; frequent; diabetic.

Sexual

Female: Prolapsus uteri, with pains in left ovary, much backache.

Bones and Joints

Arthritic and bruised pains; darting pains from within outward; drawing pains; with sensation of pressure; tearing and drawing pains; legs weak and trembling on rising in the morning.

Worse

From abuse of Mercury; onanism; at rest or sitting; on being touched or pressed.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Viscid gray, jelly-like mucous in pharynx, easily hawked up; only in the morning. Throat feels sore during expiration and coughing' not on swallowing.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Silver

General

Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnœa, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug.

Mental

Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.

Head

Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.

Throat

Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration.

Respiratory

Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of chest; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower ribs.

Back

Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.

Urine

Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.

Extremities

Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp. Swelling of ankles.

Male

Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.

Female

Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhœa foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climateric hæmorrhage. Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.

Modalities

Worse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy).

Relationship

Antidotes: Mercur; Puls.

Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).

Dose

Sixth trituration and higher. Not too frequent repetition.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Restlessness, anxiety, which directs him from place to place. Ill-humor, with disinclination to talk.

Head

Pressing, tearing pain in the skull, principally in the temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, with soreness of the external head, aggravated by pressure and contact, ameliorated in the open air. Painful sensation of emptiness in the head.

Eyes

Violent itching in the corners of the eyes. Redness and swelling of the edges of the eyelids.

Ears

Itching of the ears, he scratches them until they bleed. Itching of the lobes of the ears.

Nose

Violent fluent coryza, with much sneezing.

Face

Redness of the face. Swelling of the upper lip.

Throat

The throat feels as if internally swollen. The throat feels more sore from coughing than when swallowing, although the food passes with difficulty. Accumulation of much gray, jelly-like mucus in the throat, which is easily hawked up.

Stomach

Appetite much increased, he is hungry after eating a full meal. Desire for wine. Heartburn. Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest.

Abdomen

Painful swelling of the abdomen. Tension in the abdominal muscles.

Stool and Anus

Frequent pressure in the lower part of the rectum, with discharge of small quantities of soft stool. Dry stool, like sand, after dinner.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.

Sexual Organs

Men. The testicles feel as if bruised. Women. Prolapsus uteri, with pain in the left ovary.

Respiratory Organs

When stooping, or ascending steps, mucus comes up into the larynx, which is easily expectorated by one cough. Sensation of rawness or soreness of the larynx. Laughing causes mucus in the trachea, and cough. Cough, caused by stinging, cutting in the with mucus in the chest, and expectoration of transparent mucus, like boiled starch. Rattling cough, only during the day in the room. Stitches in the (right side) of the chest, when inhaling and exhaling.

Upper Extremities

Tearing in the bones of the arms, especially of the and fingers.

Lower Extremities

Tearing in the bones of the feet and toes.

Generalities

Sensation of numbness in the limbs, as if asleep. Sensation of soreness and rawness in internal organs. Boring pain in the joints. Sensation of soreness in the joints. Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous membranes.

Fever

Heat of the body, but none on the head, without thirst. Perspiration only on the abdomen or chest.

Conditions

Bad effects from the use of mercury. Bad effects from onanism. The symptoms are renewed at noon.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Silver Leaf and Precipitated Silver. Ag (A. W. 107.66). Trituration.

Clinical

Blepharitis. Brain-fag. Caries. Chlorosis. Cough. Diabetes. Enuresis nocturna. Epilepsy. Epithelial tissue, affections of. Exostosis. Heart, affections of. Hit-joint, disease of. Hysterical joint. Joints, affections of . Laryngitis. Ovaries, affections of. Phthisis. Pollutions. Rheumatism. Uterus, cancer of; prolapse of. Voice, loss of.

Characteristics

Argentum affects all the cartilages, and hence all joints and bones, with tearing and bruised pains, tenderness and weakness; painful, so-called "hysterical" joint, articular rheumatism without swelling; pain in rib cartilages and especially the left. Exostosis on skull. The muscular system is also affected with cramps in limbs; calves feel too short on going downstairs; stiffness; numbness; electric-like shocks in joints and limbs; painless twitchings. The heart is specially affected; frequent, spasmodic, though painless twitchings in whole heart muscle, < lying on back; fears apoplexy. Sensation as if heart stood still followed by trembling, then irregular violent throbbing. Palpitation, at night; during pregnancy. Systemic convulsions. Epileptic attacks followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those near. In society disinclined to talk; discouraged. (Reaction from this: great inclination to talk, mind very clear.) Vertigo on entering a room after a walk. Vertigo on looking at running water. As if drunk. Frontal headache of business men. Headache increasing gradually and ceasing suddenly, at acme as if a nerve being torn, usually l. side. Viscidity of saliva and mucous expectoration, which is easy. From the mucous membranes generally there is secretion like boiled starch; or there may be thin and at the same time a thick yellow or greenish discharge. Great hunger even after a full meal. Extreme dryness of mouth, tongue sticks to palate. (This symptom with the polyuria points to diabetes, in which Arg . is particularly indicated if there is swelling of the ankles.) Spasmodic enuresis nocturna. Effects of onanism: impotence; atrophy of penis; bruised pains in testicles. Pains in left ovary; feels enormously swollen; with this, prolapse of uterus (scirrhus). Metrorrhagia, large lumps with violent pains, < by every motion. Arg. met . acts more on the left side than the right; left ovary is affected: "Prolapsus uteri with pains in left ovary." It corresponds to deep-seated insidious disease. In the mental sphere it affects the intellect more than the affections. Headache of business men. Left-sided headache as if in brain substance. Headache and dyspepsia induced by mental agitation, nursing the sick, mental exertion. Suited to thin patients with hollow eyes, pale skin, tendency to tubercle, caries, cancer, deep ulcers, imbecility. The more deeply seated the troubles are the more likely are they to be painless. Tenderness is prominent in Arg. met . Tearing pressure and pains in the bones. Articular rheumatism without swelling. Parts feel bruised when pressed on. Hoarseness of singers and speakers, < speaking or singing. Laughing causes cough. Restless sleep; electric shock through body wakens her. Symptoms < in sleep; nausea in dreams; seminal emissions. On waking, limbs powerless. Paralytic weakness. < By touch; pressure riding in carriage; lying on back; sitting; stooping. At noon at night (profuse urine). Uncovering (chills before midnight). Entering warm room. Sun.

Relations

Zinc (itching in canthi ─ Zn. more in inner canthi and acts more on muscular system and skin). Pallad. (ovaries; Pall., r., Arg., l.). Stan. (cough excited by laughing). Follows well: Alum., Plat. Is followed well by: Calc., Puls., Sep. Antidoted by: Merc., Puls. (an occasional dose of Puls. favours action of Arg. nit. in ophthalmia). Teste classes Arg. met. with Merc., and with Arsen.

Causation

Onanism. Sunstroke.

Mind

Restlessness, which forces one to walk quickly. ─ Ill-humour and aversion to talking. ─ When pleased, excessively merry, but cries a long time about a trifle. ─ Delirious rage (mania; after epilepsy).

Head

Dulness, and sensation of emptiness in the head. ─ Confusion, as if caused by smoke, and sensation of intoxication, with tingling in the head. ─ Dizziness, with obscurity of vision, or with drowsiness, and falling of the eyelids. ─ Pressing, tearing pain in the skull, principally in the temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, with soreness of the external head, aggravated by pressure and contact, ameliorated in the open air. ─ Migraine (l.) as if in brain substance, coming gradually to a great height; ceasing suddenly. ─ Drawing and pressive pain in the occiput, as if caused by a foreign substance, with a sensation of stiffness in the nape of the neck. ─ Numbing pressure in the sinciput. ─ Compression in the brain, with nausea and burning in the epigastrium, on reading and stooping for any time. ─ Cramp-like pains and shootings in the head. ─ Pain, as of excoriation in the scalp, on the slightest pressure. ─ Cramp-like and pressive pains in the bones of the head. ─ Painful dartings in the temporal muscles, and in the forehead. ─ Pimples on the temples, with pain, as of ulceration.

Eyes

Itching in the eyes, and principally in the angles. ─ Swelling and redness of the edge of the eyelids. ─ Stricture of lachrymal duct.

Ears

Shootings in the ears, with incisive pain, which extends to the base of the brain. ─ Gnawing itching in the external ear, causing the part to be scratched till it bleeds. ─ Itching of the lobes of the ears. ─ Sensation of stoppage of the ears.

Nose

Epistaxis, after blowing the nose, or preceded by itching and tickling in the nose. ─ Stoppage of the nose, with itching in the nostrils. ─ Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing. ─ Flowing of purulent matter, mixed with clots of blood, from the nose.

Face

Redness of the face. ─ Pale and earthy face. ─ Gnawing, cramp-like, and pressive pains in the bones of the face (in the r. zygoma, sometimes in the L; a violent pain in the bone of the r. lower jaw). ─ Swelling of the upper lip, immediately under the nose.

Teeth

Pain in the teeth, as if the gums had receded. ─ Painful sensibility of the gums on being touched. ─ Gums loosened, and readily bleeding.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth. ─ Sensation of dryness on the tongue, though it be moist. ─ Accumulation of a viscid saliva in the mouth, with shuddering (sometimes the teeth seem coated with it, maybe sticking them together, the lower with the upper, making talking difficult). ─ Vesicles on the tongue, with burning pain of excoriation.

Throat

Soreness in the throat, as if there were a tumour in the gullet, with difficulty of swallowing. ─ Hoarseness (or complete aphonia in singers, speakers, &c.) and scraping in the throat. ─ Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of excoriation on swallowing and on breathing. ─ The throat feels more sore from coughing than when swallowing, although the food passes with difficulty. ─ Yawning gives pain in the fauces. ─ Pricking and tingling in the throat. ─ Accumulation of greyish and viscid mucus in the throat, with easy expectoration.

Appetite

Repugnance to all food, even to the thought of it, with prompt satiety. ─ Appetite much increased, he is hungry after eating a full meal. ─ Desire for wine. ─ Gnawing hunger, which cannot be appeased by food.

Stomach

Pyrosis. ─ Hiccough on smoking tobacco. ─ Constant nausea and uneasiness. ─ Burning in the stomach, ascending to the chest. ─ Inclination to vomit, and vomiting of acrid matter, of a disagreeable taste, and which leaves in the throat a sensation of scraping and of burning. ─ Pressure in the epigastrium.

Abdomen

Violent pressure on the entire abdomen, extending to the pubis, appearing as soon as one begins to eat; aggravated by breathing, and mitigated by rising up. ─ Pressive and painful inflation of the abdomen. ─ Cutting pains. ─ Tension in the abdominal muscles. ─ Contraction of the muscles of the abdomen on walking. ─ Loud borborygmi.

Stool and Anus

Frequent inclination to go to stool, with scanty evacuation of soft matter. ─ Dry, sandy stool after dinner. ─ Vomitings during the stool. ─ Pain of contraction in the abdomen, after a stool in the morning.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to make water, with abundant emission (diabetes).

Male Sexual Organs

Pain, as from a bruise, in the testes. ─ Pollutions.

Female Sexual Organs

Prolapsus uteri, with pain in the l. ovary.

Respiratory Organs

Pain of excoriation in the larynx, esp. on coughing. ─ Accumulation of mucus in the trachea, which detaches itself on stooping, laughing, or going upstairs, and which is easily expelled by expectoration. ─ Abundant accumulation of mucus in the chest. ─ Cough excited by incisive pain in the trachea, with expectoration of serous matter. ─ Sensation of rawness or soreness of the larynx. ─ Cough, caused by stinging, cutting in the trachea, with mucus in the chest, and expectoration of transparent mucus, like boiled starch. ─ Paroxysms of coughing, short and rattling, during the day, with easy expectoration of thick and whitish matter.

Chest

Stitches in the (r.) side of the chest, when inhaling and exhaling. ─ Pressure in the chest. ─ Pressure and shooting in the sternum and in the sides of the chest. ─ Pain in the lower (l.) rib cartilages. ─ Incisive pain in the sides of the chest, on breathing and on stooping forward. ─ Cramp-like pain in the muscles of the chest and in the sides.

Heart

Painless twitching in cardiac muscle, < lying on back; with feeling that he would have apoplexy. ─ Sensation as if heart stood still, followed by trembling, then irregular, violent throbbing. ─ Palpitation: at night; during pregnancy. ─ In evening, in bed, quick pulse with thirst.

Neck and Back

Cramp-like pains in the shoulders and in the shoulder-blade. ─ Pains, as of bruising or of drawing in the loins.

Upper Limbs

Tension and acute pullings, cramp-like and pressive pains in the arms and hands. ─ Cramp-like pressive pains in the bones, and in the joints of the hands and fingers. ─ Contraction of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Shooting, pressive, and, as it were, paralytic pain, in the coxo-femoral joint, when walking. ─ Jerking in the muscles of the thighs. ─ Cramp-like, acute, and incisive pains in the knees and in the ankle-bones. ─ Cramp in the calves of the legs, with sensation of contraction of the muscles, on going downstairs. ─ Pain, as of bruising and throbbing, in the joints of the feet. ─ Cramp-like pain in the bones and in the joints of the feet and toes. ─ Tearing in the bones of the feet and toes. ─ Sensation of numbness in the heel and in the tendo Achillis. ─ Feet œdematous (diabetes).

Generalities

Pressure, cramp-like, pulling, principally in the limbs and in the bones. ─ Bruising pain, chiefly in the sacrum and the joints of the lower limbs. ─ Boring pain in the joints. ─ Sensation of soreness in the joints. ─ Strong effects on the secretions of the mucous membranes. ─ Sensation of excoriation in the skin and internal organs. ─ Sensation of numbness arid stiffness in the limbs; as if asleep. ─ Epileptic attacks. ─ Aggravation of the symptoms every day, in the afternoon. ─ Burning itching in different parts of the skin. ─ Eruption of pimples, with burning pain, as of excoriation. ─ Anxious dreams. ─ Shuddering and cold, esp. in the afternoon and at night. ─ Nocturnal sweat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

All the time as if drunken.
Without anxiety, again and again the idea comes as if he might have an apoplectic stroke, and could not finish this proving ; with spasmodic contraction of heart.
Cannot occupy his mind regularly, as imagination reproduces former exciting events ; all afternoon.
Imagines things about the military which he never liked ; long-forgotten old songs come into his mind.
Mania.
Delirious rage, after epileptic attacks.
Great inclination to talk ; his mind is very clear, and he argues with great facility.
Inclined to laughter and joking.
Inclined to play tenpins, which he never liked.
In society indisposed to talk ; he complains of rush of blood to head and cheeks, singing in ears ; itching in reddened eyes.
Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk.
When contented, very merry ; but any trifle sets her to cry a long while.
Great serenity, a heavenly sensation of peace.
He feels unpleasant and is lazy.
Depressed and very sleepy.
Anxious about her health ; full of care. θ Laryngitis.
In forenoon inclined to melancholy, in afternoon to great merriment.
Anxious, as if his clothing got too tight, with feverish heat and languor, when walking out doors.
Fear of concussion, as if he might run against something, with pain in testicles.
Displeased, aversion to talk. θ Exostosis of skull.
Mental agitation induces headache and indigestion.

Sensorium

Dizziness on entering a room after a walk ; before midnight, while slumbering in bed, it seemed as if head was falling out of bed ; followed by a violent convulsive starting of body.
Felt suddenly giddy, and as if a mist was before eyes.
Attacks of vertigo ; he cannot think rightly.
When looking at running water, giddy.
A crawling and whirling in head, as if drunken.
Vertigo when reading.
Complete dizziness on entering room after a walk.

Inner head

Frontal headache of business men.
Congestion to head, followed by redness of cheeks.
Cutting stitches from left ear into brain.
Pressing pain, with dulness in forehead, and drawing pressure in occiput.
Dull pain in right temple and right side of head, lasting one hour.
Painful sensation of emptiness in head, feeling as if it was hollow, with aching of whole brain. θ Exostosis of skull.
Left-sided headache, as if in brain substance ; at first only slight drawing, but gradually becoming more violent ; at its culmination raging as though a nerve was being torn, ceasing suddenly.
Dull, pressive, persistent headache, encircles the calvarium like a wreath.
Bad effects of sunstroke.
Headache and dyspepsias induced by mental agitation, nursing sick, etc.

Outer head

Tenderness on top of head, painful to touch.
Pressing, tearing pain in skull, principally in temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, < by pressure and touch, > in open air.
Aching of external parts of head.
Pityriasis.

Sight and eyes

Sight very weak.
Sight vanishes.
Amaurosis of left eye, contracted pupil, insensible to light.
Itching in outer canthi.
Violent itching of lids and corners of eyes. θ Blepharitis.
Lids greatly swollen and thickened ; margins thick and red.
Pustules along edges of lids after measles. θ Blepharitis.
Any effort to separate lids causes their edges to be drawn in ; lids raw, sore, red, slightly everted, without smarting or pain. θ Blepharitis.
Abundant purulent discharge.
Stricture of lachrymal duct.
Infant, æt. 4 weeks ; since third and fourth day, abundant purulent discharge, pus oozing in jets, lids could not be separated ; alarmingly swollen and thickened ; after Sulphur and Calc. carb., Arg. met. [2c] every four hours ; next day to the mother at lengthening
intervals.
Affections of tarsal cartilages.
Inflammation of left eye with lachrymation, great intolerance of daylight and running at nose ; after many medicines attacking right eye, pain was shooting, itching, aching ; sometimes very violent, also without corresponding amount of redness. θ After
measles.

Hearing and ears

Buzzings in ears, with ebullitions and heat. θ Palpitation of heart.
Corrosive itching ; scratching until bleeding ensues.
Itching, warmth and formication of concha.
From fossa under right ear-lobe, drawing pain at short intervals, as if in periosteum, to cheek and lower maxilla ; when chewing, a cutting sensation into eustachian tube towards parotid, as from a sharp acid.

Smell and nose

Tickling, crawling sensation in nose, followed by nosebleed.
When blowing nose, violent bleeding.
Nosebleed, with tickling, crawling sensation in nose.
Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing.
Most exhausting fluent coryza, with sneezing. θ Exostosis on skull.
Throbbing in left nostril, tension in external skin, as if nasal bones were compressed, with tickling, prickling in l. nostril, causing violent sneezing.
Affections of nasal cartilages.

Upper face

Face red.
Great redness of face. θ Exostosis on skull.
Pale and earthy face. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Face straw-colored, down to lips inclusive. θ Scirrhus of os uteri.
Pressing and tearing of facial bones ; drawing, tearing in r. zygoma.
Perceptible throbbing over whole left cheek, as if muscles would be raised from mucous membrane, with a feeling as if cheek was larger ; cheeks both red ; chilly burning in skin.
Sudden heat in face. θ Palpitation of heart.
Burning itching of face.

Lower face

Swelling of upper lip, close under nose.
A violent horrible pain in bone of right lower jaw.

Teeth and gums

Severe aching in decayed last molar, left side.
Upper and lower teeth adhere together like from glue.

Taste, speech, tongue

Speech impeded by much viscid saliva in mouth.
Sore burning blisters on tongue ; tongue dry.
Red streaks in middle of tongue.
Dryness in middle of tongue.
Tongue has a silvery coating, more dense than the transparent white of Arsen.

Inner mouth

Dryness in mouth.
Fetid breath. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Saliva sticky.

Palate and throat

Sore throat as from swelling of pharynx. θ Exostosis on skull.
Region of submaxillary glands swollen ; neck stiff ; swallowing difficult, as from internal swelling ; has to force every mouthful down œsophagus.
Scratching sensation in soft palate, as from something rough sticking there ; felt most during empty swallowing, forcing him to swallow saliva.
Painful tension in fauces, as from swelling, when yawning.
Throat feels raw and sore during expiration, or when swallowing or coughing.
Viscid, grey, jelly-like mucus in pharynx, easily hawked up ; early morning.
Anesthesia of fauces. θ Diphtheria.
Throat aches more with coughing than with swallowing, notwithstanding that food goes down with difficulty. θ Exostosis on skull.
Itching crawling in pharyngeal orifice of eustachian tube, extending to tympanum.
A thick, viscous saliva sticks to hard palate, causes a scratching.
Mercurial angina.
Tension in fauces on right side, felt only when gaping. θ Aphonia.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite very much increased ; hungry after eating a full meal.
Great hunger. θ Exostosis on skull.
Hungry in morning, giving her nausea. θ Palpitation.
Appetite pretty good. θ Scirrhous uteri.
At times loss of appetite, with aversion to smoking, for a long time.
Aversion to all food, even when thinking of it.
Want of thirst, even during hot stage of fever.
Desire for wine.

Eating and drinking

During and after meals, sweating ; skin near sacrum feels cold.
After dinner : nosebleed ; dry stool.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Squeamish nausea in region of sternum, with vertigo and burning in scrobiculum.
Nauseous sensations with hunger ; nausea in his dreams.
Vomiting, with stool in afternoon.
Bitter, acrid fluid rises up in throat ; heartburn.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Digestion took place without pain in stomach. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Oppression in scrobiculum. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach.
Burning in stomach, ascending to chest.

Hypochondria

Cutting stitches under last left ribs.

Abdomen and loins

Tympanitic puffing of right side of abdomen.
Abdomen sore to hard pressure ; slowly lessened after wind passes.
Expansion and sensation of fulness in epigastrium, with hunger.
Loud croaking in abdomen, with hunger.
Wind colic.
Every moment lancinating pain in hypogastrium, like pin-pricks. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Distension of hypogastrium ; which was exceedingly sensitive to contact. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Contraction and tension of abdominal muscles ; has to walk bent forward.
Bruised pain over left hip, and on whole left side of pelvis, with uterine weakness.
Painful soreness in whole abdomen, < when riding in a carriage. θ With uterine complaints.
Tendency to crampy pains in groins. Scirrhus uteri.
Sweat only on abdomen and on chest.
Sweat on abdomen. θ Exostosis on skull.

Stools and rectum

Soft, but scanty stool. θ Exostosis on skull.
Diarrhœa, with constant pain in left side of stomach, all morning, afternoon and evening, and next day.
Painless stools of undigested food.
Frequent urging in lower part of rectum, with discharge of small quantities of soft stool.
Dry stool, like sand, after dinner.
Alvine evacuation irregular, often lienteric diarrhœa. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Diarrhœa with constant pain in left side of stomach.
Sore between nates, around anus, and in groin, on moderate walking.

Urinary organs

Passed five or six pints of urine in one night. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Urine turbid, sweetish, profuse at night. θ Diabetes.
Profuse urine.
Urination copious. θ Diphtheria ; scirrhous uteri, etc.
Polyuria.
Urine like whey, slightly turbid, of a sweet taste. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Urine pale, fetid, profuse, especially at night. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Enuresis nocturna, spasmodic form.
Albuminuria.

Male sexual organs

Seminal emissions almost every night, without erection, with atrophy of penis ; after onanism.
Yellowish-greenish gonorrhœa, of an indolent character from beginning ; of eight months' standing.
Very profuse gonorrhœal discharge, with contusive pain in testicle.
Greyish ulcers, with shaggy borders, on prepuce ; at same time in throat.
Crushed pain in testicles ; clothing increases pain on walking ; also evening in bed.
Scrotum and feet œdematous. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Pruritus scroti.

Female sexual organs

Prolapsus, with pain in left ovary.
Pain in left ovary and back, extending to front and downward. θ Prolapsus.
Pains in left ovary and loins.
Purulent, ichorous, sometimes bloody matter flows from uterine ulcers, filling room with unbearable stench. θ Scirrhus.
Neck of uterus looks spongy, deeply corroded ; face straw-colored ; bruised, tense feeling in groin ; urine copious ; cramps in thighs.
Metrorrhagia, large lumps with violent pains, < with every motion.
Hemorrhages at approach of climacteric period.
Prolapsus uteri ; pain in left ovary ; pain in small of back, extending to front and downward.
Sore feeling, as if ulcerated, in whole abdomen, < when riding in a carriage. θ Uterine diseases.
Mucous membrane of vagina wrinkled by descent of uterus. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Purulent, ichorous, horribly smelling and at times bloody matter filled vagina. θ Scirrhous uteri.
Ulcers of uterus discharging purulent, ichorous matter, sometimes bloody water, with unbearable stench. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Neck of uterus very much swollen, presented a spongy mass, deeply corroded with ulcers in different directions, it was impossible to discorver the os tincæ.
In less than three days foul smell was lost almost entirely. θ Scirrhus of os tincæ.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Palpitation during pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness ; especially of professional singers, speakers, etc.
Total loss of voice with professional singers.
Very hoarse, cannot speak a loud word. θ Laryngitis.
Hoarseness, aggravated by speaking for a length of time.
In evening, hoarse, when reading aloud, has to hem and hawk.
Cannot speak a loud word ; constant tickling in throat, provoking cough. θ Laryngitis.
The sounds in singing came double.
Alteration in timbre of voice with singers, speakers and preachers, with feeling of constriction and rawness in larynx.
Aphonia after angina, cannot sing, and when gaping he feels a tension in throat.
The cricoid cartilage is painful, with a bruised sensation to slightest touch, and a feeling as if stopped up with a foreign body.
Rawness and soreness in upper part of larynx, when coughing, not when swallowing.
Laughing produces mucus in larynx and excites cough.
When stooping, or ascending stairs, mucus rises into throat, easily brought up by a single cough.
A grey, gelatinous phlegm is easily raised from trachea.
Over bifurcation of trachea, a raw spot ; < when using voice, talking or singing.
Eating apples, small piece seemed to stick in larynx, leaving a spot which feels cool, irritates to cough, which does not lessen the sensation.
A dull cutting pain rises in trachea, becomes a shooting, inducing single coughs. θ Laryngitis.
Chronic inflammation of larynx with a teacher ; 3d followed by 2e.
Very sudden transient pain in larynx up through back of head into vertex, and a little in right ear ; after 1 P. M.
A roughness and soreness in larynx when coughing, not when swallowing. θ Laryngitis.
A soreness "at bottom of windpipe."
Phthisis laryngea ; clergymen, singers, public speakers, etc.
Foul breath. θ Scirrhus of os uteri.
When reading aloud in evening, he has to hem and hawk.
Stitches between sixth and seventh rib, < when inhaling.
With a deep inhalation, pressing-out pain below second and third rib.
With every deep breath cutting on both sides on last ribs.
Violent stitches in chest impede both in and exhalation.
Want of breath. Diabetes.
Deep sighing inhalations relieve the palpitation.
Laughing causes cough ; mucus in larynx. θ Laryngitis.
Voice fails in singing.

Cough

Attacks of cough from laughing.
Complains about a constant tickling in throat setting her to coughing. θ Laryngitis.
Dull cutting, becoming a shooting, rising up in trachea and forcing him to single coughs.
Cough dry, caused by irritation in bronchia, with a sore pain ; drawing stitches in lowest rib, near spine.
Cough in attacks, rattling by day and in room, not at night nor in open air.
Cough with easy expectoration, white, thickish, looking like boiled starch.
Expectoration almost constant, day and evening.
When coughing, a raw sore feeling in throat, not in windpipe, also not when swallowing.
Dry cough and easy expectoration.
Sputa like gelatin and grey.
Much grey, gelatinous phlegm in trachea, easily expectorated. θ Exostosis on skull.
Sputa easy, white, thick, like boiled starch. θ Laryngitis.
The cough is accompanied with an easy expectoration of white, thick, starch-like mucus, without taste or smell.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in right chest from within outward ; he can neither inhale nor exhale.
Violent pain in chest and shoulders pressing inward, returning every Winter.
Great weakness of chest, < left side, as a concomitant to other symptoms.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sensation as if heart suddenly was standing still, followed by a trembling at heart, gradually passing into an irregular throbbing, disappearing after a few minutes. θ During
pregnancy.
Frequent palpitation with or without anxiety.
During pregnancy, increasing palpitation.
Palpitation at night.
During day or night frequent attacks of violent palpitation of heart, with or without feeling of anxiety. θ Third month of pregnancy.
Oppressive burning in region of heart.
Trembling and palpitation of heart.
Heartbeats sometimes omit.
Full feeling in region of heart.
Frequent, spasmodic, though painless twitchings of whole cardiac muscle, especially on lying on back ; fears apoplexy.
Pulse : often unchanged ; more frequent in evening in bed ; slow in morning.
Pulse intermitting and very irregular during attacks of palpitation.
Periodic jerking ; disorderly, irregular pulse ; very annoying action of heart with an intermittent, irregular pulse, most when lying on back.

Outer chest

Cutting, left side, in cartilages of false ribs.
Chest feels sore to touch.
Boil near last rib.
Sweat on chest. θ Exostosis on skull.
Affections of cartilages of ribs.

Neck and back

The sterno-cleido-mastoid muscles hurt when stretched by turning of head.
Itching between shoulder blades.
On right of pelvis, near sacrum, skin feels cold, as if touched with ice ; returns after eating.
Dull stitches in second lumbar vertebra.
Feels as if small of back had been knocked away.
Bruised pain in small of back, loins and neck, < from motion ; mornings on awaking.
Violent pain as if sprained deep in left lumbro-sacral region ; unendurable on adduction of left thigh, compelling to limp.
Chill spreads from back.

Upper limbs

Upper arms feel powerless, as after severe labor.
Tension and tearing of arms, especially in bones of hands and fingers.
A short paralytic drawing on outside of left upper arm ; on pressure it pains as if beaten ; same in left wrist-joint.
Inflammation of arms.
Burning of hands, itching.

Lower limbs

Stitches in hip when walking.
Crampy pains in thighs from time to time. θ Scirrhus of os uteri.
Inside of thighs pain as if ulcerated.
Weariness after rising, mostly in region of great trochanters, ligaments and muscles feel as if they had given way, with painful tension in muscles about trochanters and buttocks as if sprained ; < walking ; on hard pressure after using, feel bruised.
From time to time crampy pains in thighs. θ Scirrhous os uteri.
Stiffness in hips in morning.
Knee pains as if bruised, while sitting.
Knees knock together when walking.
Calves feel as if too short on going down-stairs.
When stepping, feet feel sore, as if ulcerated.
Feet œdematous, swollen. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Tearing in feet, at times in soles, dorsum, heels or toes, in tarsal or metatarsal bones.
Numbness in heels.
Lower limbs sometimes, especially in morning after rising, become so weak and trembling that knees knock together. θ Palpitation.
In left knee, when moving it, a pain as if beaten and as if out of joint, like after much walking. θ Palpitation.
Left lower limb gets stiff and immovable, as if asleep. θ Palpitation.

Limbs in general

Numbness in limbs, as if asleep.
All limbs feel stiff.
Loss of power ; after walking unusual fatigue ; heaviness.
Joints of hands and feel sore ; drawing in joints.
Rheumatic pains in extremities.
Burning, lancinating pain, like sting of a wasp at knee and elbow, < at the latter.

Rest. position. motion

At rest : pain in limbs of all sorts, < ; pressing, squeezing, below right axilla.
Forced to lie down from weariness.
Lying low with head.
Worse lying on her back. θ Palpitation.
Lying : on back brings on attack of palpitation or increases it, also twitching of cardiac muscles.
Sitting : pains in back and limbs increase ; pains in knees.
Standing : pain in knee ; cutting in leg ; crawlings over body.
Motion : paralytic weakness ; much inclined to move, feels as if she had more power ; pains in menorrhagia ; bruised pain in back, loins and neck <.
Rising from sitting : pressure in abdomen > ; weariness.
Walking : after moderate walking, sore ; has to walk bent forward ; dizzy coming in warm room after a walk ; stitches in hip ; muscles over trochanter sprained ; thighs give out ; knees knock ; sore nates.
Stooping : mucus in air passages ; stitches in left ribs.
Ascending stairs : mucus in larynx.
Descending : joints weak, sore.
Sudden exertion : palpitation ; knees pain.

Nerves

After dinner, during siesta, a violent electric shock, first proceeds from left afterwards from right hip joint, disturbing sleep ; having fallen asleep again (ten minutes), with hands above head, another shock, much more violent in left arm, proceeds
from arm joint.
Painless twitching : around right shoulder and right thigh ; of right thumb, abducting it while writing.
Spasmodic, painful twitching of muscles on temple, forehead, and throat, near thyroid cartilage.
Convulsive shocks of whole body ; after previous vertigo ; mostly when dropping off to sleep, preventing sleep.
Epileptic attacks, followed by delirious rage, jumping about, striking those near.
Weary, forced to lie down and sleep.
Paralytic weakness on motion ; bruised feeling.
Paralytic weakness, with all pains.
Legs weak and trembling, mostly in morning after rising ; knees give way. θ Palpitation of heart.
Sudden weakness, as if he should break down. θ Palpitation of heart.
Very much prostrated. θ Diabetes mellitus.

Sleep

In bed, while slumbering, seized with a dizziness, as if head fell out of bed ; followed by a violent, convulsive starting of body ; vertigo and desire to sleep had disappeared.
Cannot fall asleep easily, and her sleep is very restless ; as soon as she sinks into a doze, an electric shock of whole body or single limbs occurs and interrupts sleep. θ Palpitation.
Gaping, drowsy, depressed in mind.
Restless sleep ; anxious, frightful dreams, on awaking believes them true ; also in cases of palpitation of heart.
Nausea in dreams ; seminal emissions.
On awaking : fatigue ; upper arm weak ; legs powerless.
Many anxious dreams with screaming. θ Palpitation.
No rest at night, has to urinate so often. θ Diabetes mellitus.

Time

Many complaints < at noon.
Chill at 12, noon.
Day : cough rattling.
In morning : weary in all limbs ; sneezing ; mucus in throat ; pulse slower ; hips stiff ; nausea.
In forenoon : out of humor ; heat.
At 1 P. M. : pain from larynx through head.
Afternoon : nosebleed ; gastric symptoms ; vomiting with stool ; pains in joints ; chill.
Evening : mind depressed, sad ; pains in limbs ; crushed pain in testes ; two tones in larynx while inspiring ; hoarse reading ; pulse increased.
Night ; profuse urine ; palpitation.
Day and evening : expectoration.
Before midnight : vertigo, seems as if head was falling out of bed ; chill.
After midnight : sweat.
Remission of complaints evening and night.
Night half and day half like 3 to 4.
Evening half and morning half like 5 to 3.

Temperature and weather

Averse to uncovering.
Open air : tearing in skull > ; cough >.
After effects of sunstroke.
Entering a room after a walk : dizzy.
In room : cough rattling.

Fever

Chill before midnight, every time bedclothes are raised.
Coldness on small spots.
Chill : in afternoon and evening, until sleep ; before midnight.
Chilly, stupid ; chill spreads from back.
Heat in forenoon without thirst.
Heat all over, but less on head.
Heat of body, except head, with thirst. θ Exostoses on skull.
Heat in forenoon, over whole body, but less on head.
Hectic, 11 A. M. to 12, or 1 P. M. θ In laryngeal and bronchial troubles.
Sweats easily ; during and after eating ; upper part of body, or only front of body.
Sweat after midnight.
Sweat on abdomen, chest.
Oily sweat on abdomen or chest.

Attacks, periodicity

Paroxysms of burning in corns.
Pains increase gradually, disappear suddenly.
Sudden, momentary pains ; belly, back, right shoulder, etc.
Cough in attacks.
Symptoms reappear at noon.
Attacks brought on by lying on back. θ Palpitation.
Every day at noon : pains in skull renewed ; chill.
Every Winter ; pain in chest and shoulders.

Locality and direction

Right : dull pain in temple and side of head ; fossa under ear-lobe painful ; pain in jaw ; tension in fauces ; tight feeling in ear ; stitches in chest, under axilla ; pelvis as if touched with ice ; side of abdomen tympanitic ;
twitching in shoulder, thigh and thumb.
Left : cutting into brain from ear ; temple ; headache ; amaurosis ; nostril throbs ; cheek throbs ; molar aches ; cutting under ribs ; arm as if beaten ; over pelvis, bruised ; ovary,
cartilages, false ribs ; shocks in arm ; paralytic drawing in upper arm, wrist ; patella.
Right to left : ear-lobes, eustachian tube.
Left to right : hips, knees.
Within outward : stitches in chest ; dull pains.
Pressing inward : pain in chest and shoulders.
Tearing upward : pains in legs.

Sensations

As if clothing were too tight ; painful emptiness, or hollow feeling in head ; as if left cheek was larger ; sensation of something rough sticking in soft palate ; feeling in larynx as if filled up with a foreign body ; as if small of back had been
knocked away ; as if heart suddenly stood still, followed by trembling at heart ; as if drunken ; as if he ran against something ; as if head was falling out of bed ; as if mist was before eyes ; as if nasal bones were compressed ; as if muscles would be
raised from mucous membrane ; abdomen as if ulcerated ; as if sprained in lumbo-sacral region ; left arm pains as if beaten ; knees as if bruised ; as if she should break down ; joints as if beaten ; itching as if from fleas ; left knee as if beaten
and out of joint.
Pain as if ulcerated : inside of thighs ; in feet, when stepping.
Raging pain : as if a nerve were being torn in left side of brain.
Violent horrible pain : in bone of right lower jaw.
Violent pain : in chest and shoulders ; in left lumbo-sacral region.
Lancinating : in hypogastrium like pin-pricks ; and burning, like sting of a wasp, knee and elbow.
Stitches : from left ear into brain ; under last left rib ; in air passages ; between sixth and seventh rib ; in chest ; drawing on lowest rib, near spine ; in right chest, from within outward ; dull in second lumbar vertebra ; in hip.
Cutting : in eustachian tube toward parotid ; on last ribs ; rises in trachea, becomes a shooting ; left side in cartilages of false ribs.
Tearing pain : in skull ; in facial bones ; in arms, bones of hands and fingers ; in feet ; in long bones.
Drawing : in left side of brain ; from fossa under right ear to cheek and lower maxilla ; and tearing in right zygoma ; paralytic on outside of left upper arm and in left wrist joint ; in maxillary and parotid gland ; in bones.
Pressing pains : in forehead ; and drawing in occiput ; and tearing in skull ; in facial bones ; inward, in chest and shoulders ; in bones.
Dull pressive pain : encircles calvarium.
Pressing out pain : below second and third rib.
Pressure : in pit of stomach.
Aching : of whole brain ; of external head ; of eyes ; in left molar.
Scratching : in soft palate.
Rawness : in throat ; in larynx ; above bifurcation of trachea.
Burning : and itching in face ; blisters on tongue ; in scrobiculum ; in stomach, to chest ; itching of hands ; lancing, knee and elbows ; in corns ; in region of heart.
Painful soreness : in abdomen.
Soreness : in joints of hands and feet ; of the eruptions ; in throat ; at bottom of windpipe ; between nates ; around anus ; in groin.
Rheumatic pain : in extremities.
Dull pain : in right temple and right side of head.
Undefined pain : in forehead ; in right lower jaw, very violent ; in left side of stomach, with diarrhœa ; in left ovary and back, with prolapsus ; in loins ; in cricoid cartilage ; in testicle.
Sudden transient pain : in larynx ; through back of head into vertex and right ear.
Contusive or crushed pains : in testicles.
Bruised pain : over left hip ; left side of pelvis ; in buttocks ; in knee ; in small of back, loins and neck ; in cricoid cartilage ; in groin.
Sprained feeling ; in lumbo-sacral region ; see 31 ; in buttocks.
Crampy pains : in groins ; in thighs.
Contraction : of abdominal muscles.
Constriction : in larynx.
Oppression : in scrobiculum.
Tension : in skin of nose ; in fauces ; of abdominal muscles ; in arms ; in muscles about trochanters.
Calves feel too short on going down-stairs.
Ligaments and muscles in region of great trochanter feel as if they had given way.
Fulness : in epigastrium, with hunger ; in region of heart.
Throbbing : in left nostril ; over left cheek ; at heart.
Stiffness : of neck ; in left leg ; in all limbs.
Numbness : in heels ; in left leg ; in limbs.
Crawling and whirling : in head.
Electric shock : from left then right hip joint, then in left arm, disturbing siesta ; of whole body.
Spasmodic painless twitchings : of cardiac muscle ; around r. shoulder and thigh ; of right thumb ; of muscles on temple, forehead and throat, near thyroid cartilage.
Dryness : in mouth ; on tongue.
Heat : in face ; of body except head.
Chilly, burning : in skin.
Cold spot : in larynx ; on right of pelvis near sacrum ; in hips.
Tickling : in throat.
Tickling and crawling : in nose.
Tickling and prickling : in left nostril.
Itching : in canthi ; of lids ; of corners of eyes ; of eyes ; of ears ; and crawling in pharyngeal orifice of eustachian tube ; of scrotum ; between shoulder blades ; burning of hands ; and crawling on head and body ; in pharyngeal
orifice of eustachian tube ; here and there as from fleas.
Formication and itching in concha.
Weakness : upper arms ; in legs, in knees ; general ; in joints.

Tissues

Drawing pains in maxillary and parotid glands.
Acts on all cartilages.
Joints feel weak, sore ; especially on descending.
Joints feel as if beaten. θ Exostosis on skull.
Emaciation. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Drawing pressure or tearing in bones, especially long bones.
Articular rheumatism without swelling.
Caries.
Tearing pain in bones. θ Exostosis on skull.
Tenderness, tearing pressure and pain in bones.
Copious discharge of mucus ; of pus ; of urine.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : head painful.
Pressure : pain in skull increased.
Clothing increases pain in testicles.
Worse riding in carriage : painful soreness of whole abdomen, also uterine complaints.
Worse when touched : pain in muscles of upper arm ; bones of thumb and last phalanges of both big toes.
When pressed upon, parts feel sore as if bruised.
Every step hurts in hip joint.

Skin

Intolerable itching, like from crawling on head and body.
A sore burning itching here and there as from fleas.
Itching, unchanged by scratching.
Sore exanthemata, cannot bear to have them touched, even motion of skin is almost unbearable.
A pimple on left temple sore to touch.
Eruptions feel sore as if excoriated.
Greyish ulcers with shaggy borders ; on prepuce and in throat.
Purulent, ichorous, sometimes bloody matter flowing from ulcers, constantly filled the vagina, from which proceeded a horrible stench, driving all from room. θ Scirrhus
of os tincæ.

Stage of life, constitution

Man, æt. 26, robust, active, intelligent ; red hair, white skin, marked rheumatic diathesis.
Woman, æt. 28, choleric, black eyes and hair ; pregnant in fourth mouth. θ Palpitation.
Affections from onanism.
Girl, æt. 1, after measles, inflammation of left eye.
Woman, æt. 50, tall, thin, emaciated, very irritable temperament. θ Scirrhus of neck of uterus.

Relations

To be compared with Zincum in itching in outer canthi. ( Zincum more the inner, and acts more on the muscular system and on the skin).
Cured gonorrhœa, after Cannab., Copaiva and Mercur failed.
Cured scirrhus of os tincæ, after Conium, Cicuta, Sepia and Lycop . failed.
Uterine and ovarian symptoms, similar to Pallad ., latter on right side ; Argent. met . on left.
Ailments from abuse of mercury.
Antidotes to Argent. met . : Mercur., Pulsat .
After Argent. met . follow well : Calc. ostr., Pulsat., Sepia .
Argent. met . follows well after Alum and Platin .
A return of trembling palpitation four months after delivery, after being cured in third month of pregnancy by Argent. met ., was relieved by Rhus tox .
Compare Stannum in cough excited by laughing.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Generalities

We will take up the study of Metallic silver.

No wonder that this remedy is a very deep acting remedy, for it has been used symbolically, and medically throughout all history.

It has been a valuable substance throughout all history. It is an anti psoric and from its symptoms. I believe it to be an anti-sycotic. It goes into the life. Especially affects the nerves, nerves sheaths. Has complaints along the nerves.

All cartilages in the body are affected by it. It produces a hypertrophy of cartilages, a thickening of the cartilaginous portions of joints, of the cartilage of the ears, and of the nose.

Produces cartilaginous growths and tumors; infiltrations. It affects the nerve substance, it is a deep organic remedy.

It is more than an ordinary remedy, for it affects all there is of man. In those nerve fibers especially that carry messages. It affects the brain in a very profound manner, bringing about changes and a gradual softening.

Mind

A strange feature about it in its general action upon man is that is singles out mostly the intellectual faculties.

It scarcely disturbs his affections; only makes slight and vague changes in his voluntary system.

But the memory, the intellectual part of man is disturbed increasingly to imbecility. In great sufferings and it is full of suffering - it affects his ability to reason.

In nearly all the headaches and pains in the back, and the rending , tearing pains that it produces over the body, it disturbs his memory and reasoning faculties.

Disturbs his ability to think. And it comes on in persons who are in the habit of laboring with the intellectual faculties.

Business men, students, readers, and thinkers. Reasoners come to a point when they can no longer reason and the slightest mental effort brings on vertigo.

He is fatigued. All symptoms are worse after sleep. Instead of being rested for the day, he wakes in the morning with mental fatigue and weakness, so that he can hardly move, and it is with great difficulty that he gets himself together for a mental or physical effort of another day.

Pains

If he undertakes to do any more mental work, he gets a headache. Headache mostly in the front of the head, but also in the occiput.

Another strange feature about it, it is full of rending, tearing pains along the nerves, predominantly of the lower extremities.

Tearing, as if the nerves would be torn in pieces (during rest).

Cold, damp weather, stormy weather will bring on rheumatism - not so much with swelling, although it has that, but pains apparently in the cartilages, and pains along the nerves.

And these pains are so severe that he cannot keep still. Hence, it has a rheumatic state, from cold, damp weather, from becoming chilled, in the joints and in the nerves, so that be walks and walks.

Many symptoms are better from especially walking. So tired and exhausted, but die pain is so severe that it drives him to walk. These pains are many times palliated by copious drafts of coffee, and this will suppress the sickness, and leave upon him all sorts of difficulties, under which he is threatening with break down, and in time be becomes almost useless.

"Mental weakness. Physical prostration."

Rending, tearing pains, Affections of the joints, the cartilages of the joints. Tearing pains along the bones and he is really a wreck, an old broken down constitution when he is yet young.

"A man of forty is like one of eighty."

All these pains are better from motion.

Again, it full of infiltrations. Inflamed cartilages infiltrate and form into hard knots. A superabundance of cartilaginous tissue, so that round about the joints the cartilages are thickened.

In the ear and nose the cartilage is thickened. The infiltration that belongs to epithelioma. It has been a wonderful palliative in scirrhus, and in epithelioma. It has cured epithelioma.

It is on record as curing pp epithelioma of the cervix uteri.

Ulceration everywhere; but ulcers that have their beginning in the cartilaginous tissue and. break out through the cellular tissue, and copiously discharge. The ulcers infiltrate at. their base, and become hard.

Another marked feature is that it affects both testes, but it has a predominant action in the right. The left ovary and the right testis.

Such things are singular, that in one sex it should produce symptoms in one side of the body, and in the other sex on the, opposite side.

It has cured. all sorts of tumors enlargement of the ovary, and infiltrations of the tissues. It is a chilly remedy. Wants to be kept warm and its pains are ameliorate by heat.

Its headaches are ameliorated by heat - are ameliorated by pressure, by bandaging. I have orated by heat. I have many times cured these symptoms in headaches when the patient had the head wrapped up.

Now, in this medicine we class the patient as one having a lack of vital heat. He wants to be warm. Likely to be lean, growing increasingly lean, increasingly nervous, increasingly sensitive.

Takes on all sorts of whims. Women needing Silver very often do such strange and unaccountable things in (compare Argentum nitricum) their nervous states that they bar out all sympathy of their friends, and are called hysterical.

Deep seated trouble of the nerves. Growing increasingly sensitive to surroundings.

Now, the mental state of Argentum met. is just such as is aroused by confusion, just such as is I aroused by the emotions, just such as the loss of balance from fear, from anger, from fright, from disturbance of the mind.

Because this patient is so sensitive to his surroundings and so disturbed by annoyance. With his pains he becomes delirious, and it is not that involuntary delirium that we see in low forms of fever, but he becomes wild and full of rage.

He takes on mental excitement, rage and a state in which he talks nonsense with great rapidity. Sometimes there is a stage of unusual excitement in his conversation all mixed up about the character of his thought.

All of the time looks as if he were intoxicated, and he flies from one subject to an other, and prattles. For a moment appearing to be very intense and very active in mind, and forgets all that he was talking about.

In society indisposition to talk.

Because he is incompetent. He is tired mentally and he forgets what he is talking about. Loses the thread of his discourse; and he dreads to talk because he gets complaints while talking. If compelled to answer, he becomes dizzy, and feels strange all over, and has nervous shakes or shocks.

And shocks go over him when tired like an electric shock. It comes suddenly, but the most favourable time for that to come is just when he wants to go to sleep. He thinks, now he is away from all the troubles of the day and can, rest, and the instant sleep comes over him he is roused from head to foot a shock, and another one, and another one, sometimes the whole night he jerks from head to foot.

His limbs jerks up, his lower limbs twitch and jerk, then he gets out of bed and walks - tries to walk it off. This comes out in the proving of Argentum nitricum, but it belongs as much to Argentum met., and Argentum met. has long cured it. In Hahnemann's study of the remedy he lays down the importance of shock on going to sleep. Shocks in the limbs.

But it is an electric shock that causes the whole body to jerk. Anxious about the health. Thinks he is certainly breaking down, for he is growing weaker. He cannot walk, though he is growing increasingly restless. He cannot exercise mentally or physically without distress. From meditation or as soon as he enters a warm room he becomes dizzy and that is an exception belonging to a few of the head troubles and the sensorium; he usually is sensitive to cold. In the house when the room is close he becomes dizzy.

It has been an astonishing feature in this remedy that precisely at the hour of no great many troubles come on, and the pains and Hess Chills. Pains in the ovary at noon. Dizziness with vertigo as if intoxicated.

The headaches are frontal and occipital. One-sided brain affection. One-sided headaches. Violent neuralgia in the head upon one side at a time, as if deep in the brain, as if involving one-half of the brain, Mostly the headaches have been on the right side-the one-sided headaches.

Those broken down patients that have become prostrated and over-wrought by exposure to the sun. Upon the scalp, the ears, here and there upon the body, itching places.

Itching and burning, like frost bite. It has an itching and burning like Agaricus, in the toes, in the ears, and he scratches the part, and scratching does not relieve it until the skin is off, until it oozes, but no relief from scratching.

Rawness in the ears, kept up by constantly boring and scratching in the ears. Scratching the skin off because of the tingling, itching and burning.

Eyes

Another strange feature is that about the eyes. Silver affects the lids more than the globe. It affects the sight, producing dimness of vision, and loss of vision; but it produces infiltration of the lids, thickening of the lids until they are almost as hard as cartilage.

The mucous membrane is infiltrated and hard, and the eyelids cannot be opened. They spasmodically close, they cannot be pulled apart except by violence. It is a blepharitis, with thickening and infiltration.

Copious discharge. Now, as we strike this as a catarrhal region, let me say that all through the remedy we will find passive catarrhal discharges. In some instances thick and yellow, but at the same time passive, a passive state of the mucous membrane. But the characteristic, the principal discharge of Argentum met. is gray, thick, tenacious mucus.

He expectorates from the lungs-and from the air passages, from the trachea and from the larynx, gray mucus. Gray mucus from the vagina, gray mucus from the urethra, gray mucus from the eyes. Only in a few instances does it have yellow discharges.

When ulceration takes place, as in the larynx and on the eyelids, we have from this ulceration thick, yellow discharges; but from the ulcerated mucous surfaces it will generally be found to be gray, except in the urethra.

It has cured old cases of chronic gonorrhoea. If we get the general character of the remedy we know what to expect when it goes to each region. If we do not know the general character of a remedy we do not know what to expect; and if we get into a region where we have the very opposite of it we know then that that is a particular, and does not conform to its generals.

But first of all we have to single out what is general, what may be expected, what belongs to the nature of the remedy, so that when we see its opposites we may recognize it and know it as an opposite, as a particular, and as an exception. Here is one of the characteristic features of Argentum itching.

"Scratching until bleeding in the ear".

Now, this itching involves the whole outside ear and extends into the ear, so he scratches the ear until it is red, and swollen, and bleeds.

The cartilage of that ear is lumpy and nodular; is infiltrated. The cartilages of the nose are also infiltrated. Argentum met. cures many of these cases that are operated on when they have some portion of the inside of the nose removed by the surgeon, so that the patient can breathe better.

"Thickening of' the bones in the nose, the thickening and building up of the mucous membrane and the cellular tissue in the nasal passages."

Argentum met. is often indicated in such cases. This remedy has a very decided action. Infiltrations go on thickening and hardening, and then we have serum in joints. This is one of the most important remedies to know in the necrosis of cartilages every where in the body.

But with it must go such nervous and mental symptoms as the remedy has, such as I have described. The patient looks sickly, pale, careworn, tired. A broken down patient. An Argentum met. patient is a sickly one who should have had a homoeopathic doctor years ago, but one who can, be patched tip and benefited now if be has not gone too far.

"Painful tension and drawing in the throat. Throat feels raw and Painful sore during expiration. This is extended into the larynx. soreness from breathing. Rawness from coughing in the larynx. Great quantities of gray mucus expectorated easily. Tension in the fauces on the right side."

Abdomen

Argentum met. has abdominal troubles. Bruised, sore feelings in the abdomen. If these progress from a catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes to a general congestion of all the tissues in the abdomen, diarrhea comes on, or constipation of the most inveterate character, tuberculosis of the mesenteric glands, emaciation, weakness, trembling.

Paralytic feelings here and there in the body. Painful soreness, in the whole abdomen in connection with the urinary troubles. It has a low form of tissue making, such as tuberculosis, cancerous affections, infiltrations, such as we have mentioned.

Dry stool, like sand. Undigested stool; very offensive. Catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the urinary passages, the whole urinary tract. It cures albuminuria; it cures diabetes, with sugar in the urine; and many of the broken-down conditions of the kidneys. Low, broken-down constitutions. Enormous quantities of whey-like urine. A copious flow of urine. Children lose the urine in sleep. Broken-down, nervous constitutions lose the urine in sleep.

Genitals

It has a very decided action upon the genitalia of both male and female. In the male it especially affects the testes and the mucous tract. It, infiltrates the testes, producing hardness. In the text it reads;

"crushed pain the right testicle."

"Clothing increases pain on walking."

Inflammation with infiltration. Chronic orchitis. It has cured a very suspicious testicle believed to he a cancerous affection, which began in the epididymus, following a gonorrhoea. Inflammation, great hardness, pain, swelling, burning and stinging.

Another symptom here is of great importance:

"Yellowish-greenish gonorrhea of an indolent character from the beginning, of eight months' standing."

That clinical symptom has been verified.

Now, it is a natural feature of gonorrhoea for the discharge to be yellow, or yellowish-green, and thick in the early stage, for it then to become lighter and lighter until it is whitish thick or thin, growing lighter in character until it becomes white and gleety. Argentum met. is the remedy when the discharge remains yellow.

The pain has all ceased, and generally when the pain ceases the discharge soon begins to be lighter, but in the Argentum met. cases pain ceases, it becomes a passive discharge, the urethra loses its sensitiveness to pain, and the mucous membrane loses its sensation to a great extent, but the thick greenish or yellowish discharge remains. Now, in these thick passive discharges that are long-standing, old cases, we are very much troubled to find remedies.

These old stubborn cases that still remain yellow, and still remain thick. They will not yield to ordinary remedies-they come under a peculiar class of remedies. Argentum met., Alumina, Alumen, Sulphur . Ones not usually thought of in the early period, but the general constitutional state of the patient forms the character of his symptoms.

In the female we have ovarian troubles, infiltration, hardness, cystic troubles, cystic ovaries, that are cured by this remedy; ovarian tumors; very large, hard indurated ovaries-especially the left. The right testicle, the left ovary. Pain in the left ovary and back. Prolapsus, with pain in left ovary. Pain in the small of the back while sitting. The cures have been predominantly of the left ovary, although, it cures complaints of both.

Another grand feature - found in-this remedy is weakness, relaxation of muscles through the whole body; trembling; and now, if that thought is applied - if that feature of the remedy is observed in the pelvic organs - it will be seen that those muscles that hold up the uterus, the broad ligament, etc., are in a state of relaxation, they allow the uterus to sag. In other words, we get prolapsus.

Prolapsus

You will be astonished to know that homoeopathic remedies are wonderful in their ability to create tonicity, and thereby restore the prolapsed uterus to its normal position, and to remove the dragging down feeling women generally describe, a sensation as if the inner parts were being forced out.

All of these are sensations that accompany a prolapsus. Argentum is one of the medicines. In fact, the whole pelvic system is engorged increased in weight; tissues infiltrated likely to be hardened. Cervix congested and indurated. Takes on ulceration.

Greatly enlarged, congested. It has been a palliative medicine in epithelioma of the cervix, with burning, stinging pains, copious, putrid, yellowish-green and bloody discharge. It has cured a tendency to menorrhagia, copious menstrual flow; the relaxation that must be present in hemorrhages will soon be overcome when the symptoms agree, when the general state is present. Ulcer of the uterus; discharge purulent, ichorous.

"Sometimes bloody water, with unbearable stench."

It is a medicine increased in weight; tissues infiltrated likely to be hardened. Cervix

"Neck of the uterus very much swollen, presented a spongy mass, deeply corroded with ulcers in different directions."

Where it was given in case of scirrhus of the uterus it says.

"In less than three days foul smell was lost entirely."

When a remedy acts in that manner it actually stops the growth. In fact, a cancerous state that would go on to its termination in fourteen to sixteen months will go two or three years and the patient remain comfortable.

The remedy that is indicated stops the ulceration, it checks the destruction, and keeps the patient comfortable and with her friends for years. In cancerous affections the state of life is very low. The state of order is generally beyond restoration.

Voice and larynx

Then we come to a state of the larynx. It is a wonderful laryngeal medicine. Loss of voice with inflammation, from overuse of the voice such as occurs in singers and talkers. One who is compelled to use the larynx much. It is then a paralytic weakness of the vocal cords. Running all through this remedy there is aggravation from any little prolonged exertion - a paralytic tendency wit aggravation from exertion.

So it is in the lungs - in every part of the body. And then comes the loss of voice. Now, apply all that we know of its ability to infiltrate.

We have tuberculosis of the larynx. Singers, public speakers, who are broken down, nervous, of poor digestion, bad inheritance, take on tuberculosis of the larynx, and the voice is lost. Ulceration follows. And this trouble finally goes into the lungs. They emaciate and get night sweats.

"Loss of voice." Generally of a painful character.

Again, colds settle in the larynx.

"Cannot speak a loud word; constant tickling in the larynx, provoking cough."

Rawness and soreness in upper part of larynx. Laughing aggravates the coughing-laughing will cause tickling in the larynx, and he will scrape out quantities of gray mucus.

If the irritation is in the smaller air passages, in the lungs, laughter will set him to coughing, and he will scrape out gray mucus.

"Over the bifurcation of trachea, a raw spot; when using the voice, talking, laughing, or singing."

In the middle of the chest a raw sensation.

"Roughness and hoarseness of the voice. Phthisis of the larynx;"

in those withered young people; a young man when he is not more than twenty five looks to be fifty. Many wrinkles as though he had had many cares.

Has a dry cough; gets up a little gray mucus. Yet he may be somewhat wiry, getting about fairly well. Has inherited phthisis. The cough is a deep cough, is aggravated from laughing, talking and in a warm room. Laughing causes cough and causes mucus in the larynx.

This remedy will turn aside this threatening phthisis, this dry teasing cough. A little dry, hacking cough especially comes under this remedy. In no instance are we likely to have those violent spasmodic shaking coughs, such as we find in Bry.

When coughing a sore feeling in the larynx.

"The cough is accompanied with an easy expectoration."

He does not usually cough so much to get up the mucus as he does to relieve a little irritation; but when there is mucus it generally comes up easily. It is not so difficult to detach as we find in many remedies.

"Easily detached mucus in the larynx."

He simply scrapes it out by an effort of the larynx. Cough and scraping of the larynx during the daytime and evening, worse in a warm room and better in the open air and from motion.

It has a sense of weakness of the chest. There are two remedies having this weakness of the chest and you cannot easily tell them apart.

Weak voice, weak chest; a feeling that it is so difficult to, breathe, and so difficult to talk, and so difficult to cough, because the muscles of the chest feel so weak.

These two medicines are Argentum met. and Stannum.

Great weakness of the muscles of the chest. The patient dwells upon it much, and it is a weakness far beyond what can be accounted for in tuberculosis, a sense of muscular weakness in the chest.

A paralytic weakness of the chest. Of course, this is wholly different from the Antimonium tart., which has a dreadful weakness of the chest, but in that remedy you will remember it is in the acute affections.

It is suitable in lingering complaints, sickness of long standing, so that "great weakness of the chest" means that which I have tried to describe and it is that witch patients will often fail in their efforts to describe.

"Doctor, I feel so weak in the chest."

Now, this remedy is full of cardiac disturbances. Palpitation when lying on the back.

"A sense of trembling in the chest."

A sense of quivering, fluttering, or trembling, as it will be described by the different patients, trembling in the chest.

That tremulous weakness of the whole body, bands and feet; palpitation with general trembling is strong in this remedy.

"Frequent palpitation. During pregnancy, palpitation. Palpitation at night. Palpitation associated with headaches."

With general weakness. Gradually increasing weakness. From his general weakness the knees knock together when walking. Trembling in the knees with palpitation and general weakness. The limbs become stiff,

"Numbness in the limbs, as if asleep."

Loss of power. Many of the complaints are increased during rest . Pain in the back and limbs while sitting, better while walking. All the nervous excitement that is possible in remedies comes up in this remedy.