Aurum Metallicum aur.

MIND. Nerves. VASCULAR SYSTEM. Heart (R). Bones: NASAL. Skull. Patellæ. Joints. Glands. Liver. Kidneys.

Emotions: Depressing. Disordered affections. Mental exertion. Cold. Night: Sunset to sunrise. Abuse of Merc. or Kali-iod. Cloudy weather.

Cool; open air. Cold bathing. Becoming warm. Music. Walking.

Vaso-motor mobility; erratic ebullitions and venous congestion, more to head and chest. Vascularity. Weak, yet sensitive to pain. Pains wander, impel motion, finally attack heart (Benz-ac. Colch.); boring, cutting osteocopic. Indurations; glandular. Sclerosis; coronary. Necrosis. Chronicity. Mercurio-syphilitic dyscrasia. Extremely violent symptoms. Heart feels loose on walking. As of air blowing on part.

Intense, hopeless depression and suicidal anguish. Brooding melancholy; alternating with irritability or moroseness. Praying and self-reproaches; starting from heart. Weak memory. Vexed mood; enraged by least contradiction. Loquacity. Rapid questioning. Fears the least noise. Violent confusing headache; syphilitic. Hemiopia upper horizontal. Sore orbits. Congested, bluish-red face. Pains in zygomæ. Red knobby nose. Ozœna. Foul breath. Bulimy. Soreness over liver. Hepatitis. Ascites. Jaundice, of pregnancy. Liver, with heart symptoms. Chronic orchitis. Crushing weight under sternum < ascending. Dyspnœa; < laughing. Oppression at heart; as if to stop, then gives one hard thump. Violent palpitation; at puberty. Cardiac hypertrophy. Angina pectoris. Aortic disease. As if lower spine bulged backward. Pott's disease. Nightly leg pains. Painfully sensitive to cold. Sweat about genitals. Cold and damp all over.

Related: Merc.

Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless, anxious about the future. Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life. For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphillis. Pinning boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in "boyish go;" testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds. Constantly dwelling on suicide (Naja - but is afraid to die, Nux). Profound melancholy: feels hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit suicide; life is a constant burden; after abuse of mercury; with nearly all complaints. Uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity; cannot do things fast enough (Arg. n.). Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure (Staph.). Oversensitive: least contradiction excites wrath (Con.); to pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch (Anac.). Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy, taciturn; disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion. Falling of the hair, especially in syphillis and mercurial affections. Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, Lith. c., Lyc.). Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones. Caries: of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozaena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic origin (Asaf.). Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining (Pod., Rhus); from hypertrophy (Con.). Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < at menstrual period. Foul breath; in girls at puberty. Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat and then suddenly gave on hard thump (Sep.). Violent palpitation; anxiety, with congestion of blood to head and chest after exertion; pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular; visible, beating of carotid and temporal arteries (Bell., Glon.). Fatty degeneration of heart (Phos.).

Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphillinum. Similar: to, Asaf., Cal., Plat., Sep., Tar., Ther., in bone, uterine disease.

In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down; mental exertion; many complaints come on only in winter.

In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning and during summer.

Strongest symptom is a great desire to commit suicide. This idea is uppermost in the mind all the time, and every opportunity will be sought for self-destruction. Sleeplessness. There may be an irregularity in the labor pains, and when she rises up for anything, instead of lying down again quietly, she thrashes herself down hard. Hunger too strong. Affections of the prepuce; joints of the toes; desire for the open air; erethism; sudden rush of blood to any part; pain in the joints as if bruised; sensation of contraction of the joints. Very violent hysterics, accompanied with desperate actions, and thrashing one's self about. Dry exanthema.

Anguish of the mind, and great grief; seems to have no friends; hopelessness and despondency; mental irritability; fits of anger, with great rashness. Sad, feels that all is against her and life is not desirable, and the thought of death alone gives pleasure. Mental labor is fatiguing.

Exostosis on the right vertex, with boring pain.

Sees everything double, and one object seems to be mixed up with another.

Caries of mastoid process. Fetid otorrhœa. Hearing too sensitive.

Affections of the external nose, as a knob on, etc.; bones of; stench from; smelling too sensitive. Caries of; painful nostrils, closed by ulcers; can't breathe through the nose; swelling of, sometimes elevated spots painful to touch.

Violent pain in malar bone; inflammation of bones of the face, particularly after Mercury. Swelling of frontal bone, upper jaws, nasal bones.

Fetid odor of, particularly young girls at pubescence. Caries of the palate often with bluish ulcers. Drink flows back through the nose. Jaw bones affected; teeth loosen.

Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands from syphilis, or the use of Mercury. Pressure as though hernia would protrude through the right inguinal ring; protruding of inguinal hernia; with sensation as if flatus were incarcerated therein; inguinal hernia of children. Flatus becomes incarcerated under the left ribs. Drawing from the groin into the thighs.

Painful retention of, with pressure on bladder; urine like buttermilk, with mucous sediment.

Male: Frequent nightly erections and pollutions; itching of scrotum; swelling of right testicle; chronic induration of testicles. Female: Prolapsus and induration of uterus.

Much difficulty of breathing, frequently taking a deep breath; stitches in. Palpitation of heart with anguish.

Bony tumors on head, anus, legs. Swellings, ulcers, tetters, rhagades, cancerous ulcers.

Sobbing during; frightful dreams; sleeplessness.

Cramp-like tearing in bones of both wrists. Pains in both knees as if tightly bandaged.

Scrofulous sufferings: nightly bone pains; inflammation and ulceration of the bones, syphilitic or mercurial. Sensitiveness to cold air.

In the morning; when blowing the nose; in cold air; in getting cold; while lying down; after lying down and rising up; from abuse of Mercury, as may have frightful bone pains, swelling of the bones. etc.; while resting; from strong smells; in the winter; as for instance, some complaints that come on only in the winter.

From moving; walking; getting warm; in warm air.

Acon., Bellad., Calc. carb., China, Mercur., Lycop., Pulsat., Rhus. tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Coffea, Mercur.

Very melancholy with disgust for life; suicidal tendency. Objects appear as if divided horizontally; can only sec lower hall upper half as if covered with a dark body. Deep ulcers affecting the bones, after the abuse of mercury. Caries of the nasal, palatine, mastoid and osicular bones.

Metallic Gold

Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy. Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it. Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commit suicide. Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction. Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine. Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects. Palpitation and congestions. Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections. Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury. This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by homeopathy, and now it can never be lost again. When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to be especially suited to the vile combination. Ennui. Ozæna; sexual hyperæsthesia. Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.

Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness. Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide. Talks of committing suicide. Great fear of death. Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements. Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough. Oversensitiveness; (Staph) to noise, excitement, confusion.

Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure. Roaring in head. Vertigo. Tearing through brain to forehead. Pain in bones extending to face. Congestion to head. Boils on scalp.

Extreme photophobia. Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs. Double vision; upper half of objects invisible. Feel tense. Sees fiery objects. Violent pains in bones around eye (Asaf). Interstitial keratitis. Vascular cornea. Pains from without inward. Sticking pains inward. Trachoma with pannus.

Caries of ossicula and of mastoid. Obstinate fetid otorrhœa after scarlatina. External meatus bathed in pus. Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis.

Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed. Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody. Boring pains in nose; worse at night. Putrid smell from nose. Sensitive smell (Carbol ac). Horrible odor from nose and mouth. Knobby tip of nose.

Foul breath in girls at puberty. Taste putrid or bitter. Ulceration of gums.

Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.

Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands. Caries of the palate.

Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations.

Right hypochondrium hot and painful. Incarcerated flatus. Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.

Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment. Painful retention.

Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Nocturnal diarrhœa, with burning in rectum.

Pain and swelling of testicles. Chronic induration of testicles. Violent erections. Atrophy of testicles in boys. Hydrocele.

Great sensitiveness of vagina. Uterus enlarged and prolapsed. Sterility; vaginismus.

Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Hypertrophy. High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)

Dyspnœa at night. Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.

Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis. Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones. Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones. Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.

All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs. Dropsy of lower limbs. Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins. Paralytic, tearing pains in joints. Knees weak.

Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.

Worse, in cold weather when getting cold. Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.

Compare: Aur ars (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anæmia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite).

Aur brom (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).

Aur mur (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhœa; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur mur is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric hæmorrhages from the womb. Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis).

Aur mur kali.--Double chloride of Potassium and gold (In uterine induration and hæmorrhage).

Aur iod (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozæna, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis).

Aur sulph (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of mammæ; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains).

Also, Asafaet (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin: Kali iod; Hep; Merc; Mez; Nit ac; Phosph.

Antidotes: Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.

Third to thirtieth potency. Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

Wants to commit suicide; thinks he is no good in the world.

Nodes and bone pains, caries and necrosis with great depression of mind.

Abuse of Mercury, in syphilis, in massive doses.

"Looks on the dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide." Strange that this noble metal, for which mankind strives for its pecuniary value, should, when taken into the organism, cause the greatest unhappiness.

The Aurum patient is plunged into the deepest gloom and despair. Life is a burden, he desires death. Suicide dwells constantly in his mind. In men, I have observed it oftenest in connection with liver troubles. In women, with womb troubles, especially when enlarged, indurated or prolapsed. In both these cases, the result, so far as local conditions are concerned, seems to be from repeated attacks of congestion to the parts, which ends in hypertrophy. The liver in enlarged the womb also, and prolapsus occurs from the very weight of the organs. These congestions, so characteristic of the remedy, take place also in head, heart, chest and kidneys; but, whenever they come, the peculiar mind symptoms are always present to furnish the chief indication for Gold. The Gold patient is also at times "peevish and vehement, the least contradiction excites his wrath." He will exhibit these outbreaks occasionally, even when the more characteristic depression and gloom greatly preponderate. Other remedies have a similar depression and tendency to suicide, like Naja and Nux vomica, but none in anything like the degree of Aurum. I once cured a young lady who tried to commit suicide by drowning. After she was cured she laughed at the occurrence, and said she could not help it. It seemed to her she was of no use in the world. She felt so.

Aurum has been found efficacious in curing some bone affections of syphilitic origin, especially if such cases had been the subjects of old school dosing with Mercury. There would be a great falling off of business for physicians if the old school could learn to cure their patients without poisoning them with their drugs. The locality where Aurum has made its best record in these syphilitico-mercurial affections is in caries of the bones (caries of long bones, Fluoric acid, Angustura), of the nose and palate, also of the mastoid process. In these nasal troubles it is sometimes of great use in the catarrh, or ozœna, before the trouble has progressed to actual caries. The nostrils are agglutinated, ulcerated, and nose obstructed and filled with crusts, or there are excessively fetid discharges, and the patient is melancholy and disposed to suicide. Aurum is one of the few remedies that has hemiopia or half-sight, and has cured it even in the 200th potency. Lycopodium and Lithium carbonicum also have half-sight, but Aurum sees only the lower, while the other two see only the left half of objects.

Aurum not only causes and cures indurations of the womb in the female, but indurations also of the testicles in the male, and in both cases de ever-present mental symptoms of Aurum or the syphilitico-mercurial history furnish the chief indications for its use. In fatty heart, in ruddy, corpulent, old people it is one of our best remedies. In these cases there is much vascular disturbance. "Violent palpitation, with anxiety and congestion in the chest and visible beating of the carotids and temporal arteries".

Belladonna may relieve the attack, but Aurum goes deeper and is more lasting in its effect. Aurum is one of our best remedies for bone pains. Never forget it. It ranks with Kali iodide, Asafœtida and the Mercuries in periostical affections.

Melancholy mood, dejected, inclined to weep, and longing to die. Excessive anguish, increasing even to self-destruction. The least contradiction excites his wrath. Alternate peevishness and cheerfulness.

Congestions to and heat in the head, with sparks before the eyes, and glossy bloatedness of the face, aggravated from every mental exertion. Sensation, as if a current of air were rushing through the head, if it be not kept warm. The bones of the skull are painful, especially when lying down. Exostosis on the head.

Protruded eyes. Vertical half-sight. Fiery sparks before the eyes.

Caries of the mastoid process. Fetid otorrhœa. Roaring in the ears.

Caries of the nose. Discharge of fetid pus from the nose. Fetid odor from the nose. Very sensitive smell.

Bloated, shining face. Swelling of the cheeks. Inflammation of the bones of the face. Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

Putrid smell from the mouth, as of old cheese. Caries of the palate, especially after the abuse of mercury.

Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach.

Constipation ; stool very large in size, or very hard or knotty. Nightly diarrhœa, with burning in the rectum.

Painful retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder. He passes more urine than corresponds to the quantity he drinks.

Men. Induration of the testes. Swelling of the (lower part) of the testicle (right). Sexual desire increased. Women. Prolapsus and induration of the uterus.

Suffocative attacks, with suffocative oppression of the chest. Anxious palpitation of the heart from congestion to the chest.

Over-sensitiveness to all pain, and to the cold air. Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying, alternately. Great ebullitions, with congestions to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart.

Sleepiness after dinner. Frightful dreams -he sobs aloud when asleep.

Pulse mall, but accelerated. Chilliness predominates -coldness of the hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night. Heat, only in the face. Perspiration in the morning-hours ; the strongest on and around the genitals.

Ulcers (after the abuse of mercury) which attack the bones. Inflammation of the bones-caries (palate and nasal bones).

Bad effects from the misuse of mercury. Paralytic drawing-in of the limbs in the morning, when awaking, and on getting cold. Pain in the bones, at night. Aggravation in the morning ; on getting cold ; while reposing. Amelioration, from moving ; while walking ; and on getting warm.

Aurum foliatum (metallic gold). Au (A. W. 196.8). Trituration.

Alcohol, effects of. Amenorrhœa. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Bone affections. Breath, offensive . Corpulency. Depression . Ears, affections of. Erethism. Erysipelas. Eye, affections of . Fevers. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids. Hemiopia. Hydrocele . Jaundice. Leucorrhœa. Locomotor ataxy . Melancholy. Melanosis. Mercurial poisoning. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh. Night terrors. Ozœna. Paralysis . Phthisis. Pining boys. Scrofula. Smell, disordered. Syphilis. Testicles, affections of ; undeveloped. Tongue, nodules on . Tumours. Uterus, induration of . Vertigo. Vision, disordered.

Gold affects profoundly the entire organism, exercising a solvent action on the tissues, producing ulcerations and the disappearances of new growths. Hence it is one of the best antidotes to Mercurial over-dosing, and especially in cases of syphilis. Scrofula and caries of bone also find in Aurum a remedy. It also produces rushes of blood and hæmorrhages. Boring pains and burning stitches predominate. No drug produces more acute mental depression than Aurum , and in any case where this profound melancholy is found, Aurum must be well studied. There is a condition of melancholy, hoplessness, profound depression, tendency to suicide and longing for death. Anthrophobia. Aggravation from emotion. Complaints after grief, fright, anger, disappointed love, contradiction, reserved displeasure. Hysteria, laughs and cries alternately. The head is giddy, full, hot. Rush of blood to the head. Vertigo as if turning in a circle when stooping, goes off on rising. As if drunk when walking in the open air. Sensation as if a current of air were rushing through the head, if not kept warm. Bones of skull painful, especially lying down. Vertical half-sight. Fiery sparks. Caries of mastoid process of bones of nose. Ozæna. In the abdominal region, as with Merc ., there is swelling of liver, jaundice. Hernia, inguinal or umbilical; and in children. Onanism. The sexual organs are markedly affected. Induration of testes. Undeveloped testicles in puny boys. Swelling or neuralgia of testicle (r). Uterus prolapsed and indurated; the weight of it causes prolapse. (The chloride of gold and sodium acts more powerfully in these conditions.) Shelton has recorded as effects on girls working with gold leaf the occurrence of a "thick leucorrhœal discharge, not offensive, white or yellowish, occasionally profuse, invariably < by walking." Suffocative attacks, with suffocative oppression of chest. Anxious palpitation from congestion to the chest. Palpitation, with anguish and tremulous fearfulness. Pain in heart region extending down left arm to fingers. There are boring pains in bones, < at night. Over-sensitiveness to all pain. Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately. Great ebullitions with congestion to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart. Frightful dreams; he sobs aloud when asleep. Chilliness predominates; shivering in open air; coldness of hands and feet, sometimes lasting all night. Heat, only in the face. Perspiration in the morning hours; mostly on and around the genitals. Ulcers which attack the bones. Warts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial. " < From Sunset to sunrise" is a leading Condition of Aurum . Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning when awaking; and on getting cold. < At night; in morning; on getting cold; by rest. Shivering on getting into bed. > Moving; walking; getting warm. Suited to sanguine people with black hair and dark eyes, olive-brown complexion. Also light-haired scrofulous persons. Pining boys, girls at puberty, and old age. Syphilitic and mercurial patients.

Compare: Luet. (syphilis); Am. c., Arg. met., Arg. n., Ars.; Asaf. (pains about eyes; but Asaf. has > from pressure; mercurial caries); Bell.; Caps. (caries of mastoid, corpulency); Calc. c. (night terrors; leucophlegmatic; Aur. has more over-sensitiveness and erethism); Calc. ph.; Coccul. (empty feeling); Chi. and Coff. (hyper-excitation) Cup. (asthma); Dig., Fer.; Glon. (Hyperæmia of lung from heart) Hep., Iod.; Kali bich. (deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozæna, syphilis); K. ca.; K. iod. (syphilis); K. bro. (anguish at heart and desire to move about); Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nit ac.; Nux v., (hernia; prolapsed uterus); Pallad., Platin., Puls., Spigel., Sol. nig., Sil., Sep., Sul.; Tarent. (heart as if turned round); Thuj., Ver. v. Antidoted by: Bell., Chi., Coccul., Coff., Cup., Merc., Puls., Spi., Sol. nig. Antidote to: Merc., Spigel., Chronic effects of alcohol, Kali iod.

Mercury. Alcohol. Iodide of Potassium. Effects of grief; fright; anger; disappointed love; contradiction; reserved displeasure.

Melancholy, with inquietude and desire to die. — Irresistible impulse to weep. — Longing to see one's relations, resembling nostalgia. — Imagines he has lost the affection of his friends; this makes him weep. — Sees obstacles everywhere. — Hopeless. — Suicidal; desperate; inclined to jump off heights; to dash himself into a chair. — Sad, feels that all is against her and life is not desirable, and the thought of death alone gives pleasure. — Great anguish, which even induces a disposition to suicide, with cramp-like contractions in the abdomen. — Excessive scruples of conscience. — Despair of oneself, and of others. — Ill-humour and aversion to conversation. — Grumbling, quarrelsome humour. — The least contradiction excites his wrath. — Alternate peevishness and cheerfulness. — Anger and passion. — Alternation of gaiety, or of irritability with melancholy. — Hypochondriacal humour. — Weakness of the intellectual faculties. — Weakness of the memory.

Vertigo: when stooping, as if turning in a circle; > on rising; as if drunk when walking in open air; feels as if he would fall to l.; must lie down, even then for some time it returns on slightest motion. — Fatigue from intellectual labour. — Sudden stupefaction, with loss of sense. — Pain, like that of a bruise in the brain, esp. in the morning, or during intellectual labour, and sometimes inducing confusion of ideas. — Pain in the head, as if the air passed over the brain, when it is not kept very warm. — Acute drawing pains in the head. — Beating and hammering pain on one side of the head. — Congestion of blood to the head. — Congestions to and heat in the head, with sparks before the eyes, and glossy bloatedness of the face, aggravated from every mental exertion. — Buzzing in the head. — Pain in the bones of the cranium, esp. on lying down. — Exostosis on the head; on the r. vertex, with boring pain. — Falling off of the hair.

Pain in the eyes aggravated by touch, as if the ball of the eye were pressed inwards. — Tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight. — Burning pain and redness in the eyes. — Obscuration of the sight. — Black spots before the eyes. — Eyes very prominent. — Flames and sparks before the eyes. — Vertical half-sight. — Hemiopia; objects are seen cut in horizontal lines. — Eyes better by moonlight and after violent muscular exercise. — Objects seem smaller and more distant.

Hearing too sensitive. — Pain in the ears, like internal tension. — Caries of the mastoid process. — Flow of fetid pus from the ears. — Oversensitive to noises, but music > -Annoying dryness in ears and nose with difficult hearing. — Hardness of hearing from hypertrophy of the amygdalæ, with embarrassed speech. — Humming in the ears. — Roaring in the ears.

Pain in the nasal bones on being touched. — Gnawing prickings. — Inflammatory swelling and redness of the nose, followed by desquamation. — Caries of the bones of the nose. — Nasal cavities ulcerated and covered with thick crusts. — Running from the nose of a fetid greenish-yellow matter. — Stoppage of the nose. — Fluent coryza. — Nose red, swollen; tip knobby, red. — Cancer. — Furfuraceous desquamation of the epidermis of the nose. — Increased sensibility, or absence of smell. — Sweetish putrid smell, or smell of brandy before the nose. — Fetid odour from the nose.

Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat. — Inflammation of the bones of the face. — Parotids swollen, painful to touch as if pressed or bruised. — Swelling of the cheeks. — Swelling of the bones of the forehead, of the upper jaw, and of the nose. — Red eruption, which peels off, on the forehead and on the nose. — Traction in the jaws, with swelling of the cheeks. — Tensive pain in the upper jaw. — Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Odontalgia, with heat and congestion in the head. — Looseness of the teeth. — Ulcers in the gums, with swelling of the cheeks. — Toothache < at night, < drawing cold air into mouth.

Fetid smell of the mouth, like rotten cheese. — Piercing pain in the velum palati. — Tongue swollen; with scirrhus-like hardness; after biting tongue in sleep. — Tongue coated; dry; ulcerated.

Caries in the palate, with ulcers of a bluish colour, esp. after the abuse of mercury. — Tonsils swollen and ulcerated. — Drinks find a passage through the nostrils. — Stinging soreness in throat only when swallowing. — Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.

Milky or sweetish taste. — Loathing of food, and esp. of meat. — Great desire for coffee. — Excessive hunger and thirst. — No appetite for plain food in pining boys.

Pain in the stomach, as if proceeding from hunger. — Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach. — Sensation of indescribable uneasiness in the epigastrium. — Swelling of the epigastrium and of the hypochondria, with shooting pains on being touched. — Burning at stomach and hot eructations. — Burning, drawing, and cutting pain; pressure. — Pressure to l. of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs; < during expiration.

Burning heat and cutting pain in r. hypochondrium. — Colic with sensation of great uneasiness and inclination to evacuate. — Tensive aching and fulness in the abdomen. — Abdomen inflated. — Exostosis in the pelvis. — Tendency of hernia to protrude, sometimes with cramp-like pains and incarcerated flatus. — Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands from syphilis or the use of mercury. — Windy colic by night, with pinching, grumbling, and borborygmi. — Frequent emission of very fetid wind.

Copious evacuation. — Nocturnal diarrhœa. — Nightly diarrhœa, with burning in the rectum. — Constipation; stool very large in size, or very hard and knotty.

Painful retention of urine, with urgent inclination to make water, and pressure on the bladder. — Frequent emission of watery urine. — Urine turbid, like butter-milk, with thick mucus-like sediment.

Sexual desire greatly increased. — The whole genital system is strongly affected. — Nocturnal erections and pollutions. — Flow of prostatic fluid, with flaccidity of the penis. — Swelling of the (lower part) of the testicle (r). — Swelling of the testes, with aching pain on touching and rubbing. — Induration of the testes. — Testes mere pendant shreds (in pining boys). — Hydrocele. — Bubo. — Chancre.

Pains in the abdomen, as if the catamenia were coming. — Prolapsus and induration of the matrix. — Uterine affections with depression and tendency to suicide. — Menses too late; and scanty or absent. — Drawing pain in pubes; r. inguinal region sore to touch. — Before menses: swelling of axillary glands. — During menses: colic; prolapse of rectum. — Leucorrhœa: profuse and corroding, yellow; thick white, not offensive, < by walking. — During pregnancy: suicidal melancholia; jaundice.

Accumulation of mucus in the trachea and in the chest, which is expectorated with difficulty in the morning. — Voice nasal. — Cough from want of breath at night. — Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.

Great difficulty of respiration at night, and on walking in the open air, requiring deep inspirations. — Paroxysms of suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of sense, and bluish colour of the face. — Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the ribs. — Continuous aching in l. side of the chest. — Incisive pain, and obtuse shootings, near the sternum. — Great weight on chest; esp. heavy weight on sternum. — Much congestion in the chest.

Anxious palpitation of the heart, from congestion to the chest. — Beatings of the heart, irregular, or by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest. — Pain in heart region extending down l. arm to fingers. — Floundering heart. — When walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose. — Sensation as if the heart stood still. — Palpitation compels him to stop.

Swollen cervical glands. — Tension in neck as if muscles too short, even at rest; < stooping. — Stinging pains in small of back. — Gressus gallinaceous (in spine disease). — Pain at lower part of spine. — Pains, generally passive, or drawing and acute, in the back, chiefly in the morning, and sometimes so violent as to prevent any motion of the limbs.

Limbs go to sleep; numb, insensible on waking; more when lying than moving. — Has to seize hold of l. arm during attack of palpitation. — Limbs swollen, painful, almost anchylosed.

Boring in l. shoulder. — Aching pains in the arms and in the forearms. — Cramp-like and acute drawing pains in the bones of the carpus and of the metacarpus. — Acute drawing pains and paralytic weakness in the bones and joints of the fingers. — Palms itch; herpes; nails turn blue.

Coxalgia. — Sharp pains in the thighs, esp. morning and evening. — Paralytic and painful weakness of the knees, as if a bandage were tightly compressed above them; they are feeble and give way. — Drawing pains and acute pullings, with paralytic weakness, in the bones and the joints of the toes. — Nodes; caries.

Pain, like that of a bruise, with acute pullings, and paralytic weakness in the limbs in general, and chiefly in the joints, esp. on uncovering the part affected, in the morning, on waking and during repose, disappearing on getting up. — Darting pains in the limbs, with great dejection. — Inflammation of the bones, with nocturnal pains. — Exostosis on the head, on the arms and on the legs. — Great acuteness and delicacy of sensation, with excessive sensibility to the least pain. — Over-sensitiveness to all pain, and to the cold air. — Hysterical spasms, sometimes with alternate tears and laughter. — Great sensibility to cold, or strong desire to go into the open air, even in bad weather, because it is found to be a relief. — Great ebullitions, with congestions to the head and chest, and palpitation of the heart.

Weary, but cannot rest or sleep. — Drowsiness after meals. — Nocturnal sleep till four o'clock in the morning only. — Awakened by bone pains; in despair. — Fatigue and weakness in the morning on waking. — Restless sleep, with anxious dreams; of thieves. — Nocturnal mumbling in the form of questions.

Pulse small, but accelerated. — Febrile shiverings over the whole body, while in bed in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst. — Cold of the entire body, with bluish colour of the nails, nauseous taste, with inclination to vomit, sometimes followed by an increase of heat. — Heat of the face, with cold in the hands and feet. — Copious general perspiration early in the morning; mostly about genitals.

Active memory.
Weak memory. θ Puerperal mania. θ Neuralgia of face.
Loss of memory.
Absence of mind, forgetfulness. θ Ozæna.
Mental dulness ; feels stupid. See 35 .
Inability to reflect.
She thinks she feels depression of spirits in chest. θ Induration of uterus.
Looks on dark side, weeps, prays, thinks she is not fit for this world, longs for death, strong inclination to commit suicide ; desperate, desires to jump from a height. θ Prolapsus
or induration of uterus. θ Pregnancy.
Imagines he is neglectful and deserves reproach in consequence.
Imagines he cannot succeed in anything, and he does everything wrong ; he is in disunion with himself.
Imagines to see obstacles in his way everywhere, occasioned partly by contrary fate, partly by himself ; makes him feel desponding.
Thinking of death gives him intense joy.
He imagines he has lost the affection of his friends ; this makes him sad even to tears.
Inclined to be delirious. θ Headache.
Violent, gay, loquacious delirium, with exaltation of strength. θ Typhus.
Insanity more frequent than imbecility.
Suicidal mania or melancholia, tedium vitæ, with genital symptoms.
Religious mania ; prays all the time.
Desire to be active, to move about.
Longing for death.
Mind constantly turns towards suicide. θ Prolapsus uteri. θ Childbed.
θ Amenorrhœa.
Disposition to commit suicide. θ Chronic hepatitis. θ Headache.
Hysterical mood, laughing one minute and crying next.
Constant complaining. θ Adiposis.
Inclined to weep.
Weeping and praying. θ Melancholy.
She howls and screams and imagines herself irretrievably lost.
Sudden screaming from earache. θ Ozæna.
Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity ; cannot do things fast enough.
Taciturnity.
Desire for solitude.
Mood changing, cheerful or despondent ; irritable ; no unconsciousness.
Remarkable changeability of mind, now impulsive, rash, now very merry, now sad, anxious longing to die, soon after laughing aloud. θ Hysteria.
Lachrymose mood. θ Heart disease.
Very sad, could cry all the time. θ Hemiopia.
Melancholy, disposed to weep ; imagines he is unfit for this world, that he never can succeed.
Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome ; anxious palpitation and desire to commit suicide.
Great depression of spirits, accompanied by sterility.
Great depression of spirits. θ Old age.
Melancholic mood, disposed to shun people ; if meeting some one it gives him a nervous trembling and has to weep.
All the time a dark, hopeless mood, frequently anxiety and despair ; life is a burden to him.
Terrible melancholy after abuse of mercury ; patient pining away on account of bodily and mental anxiety.
Is very unhappy ; continued thought of suicide. θ Puerperal mania.
Hopelessness.
Hopeless and despondent. θ Headache.
Hypochondriasis, with longing for death.
A kind of hypochondriacal drunkenness ; the head feels full of compressed air, especially towards nape of neck.
Apprehensiveness, full of fear ; a mere noise at door makes him anxious.
Fearfulness, a longing for death. θ Hyperemia of brain.
Dread of men.
Anxiety and dread. θ Valvular heart disease.
Anguish of mind and great grief. θ Headache.
Great anguish increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of abdomen.
Frequent attacks of anguish about heart, with trembling fearfulness.
Excessive anguish with palpitation of heart, weariness in all limbs and sleepiness.
Great anguish coming from precordial region, and driving him from place to place, so that he can remain nowhere.
Despondency.
Despair of self and others.
Weary of life ; especially in evening, with longing for death.
Disappointed love, with weeping and inclination to commit suicide.
Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none ; this makes her unhappy.
Extreme disposition to be offended ; he was extremely affected and provoked by least circumstances which had the appearance of hurting his feelings.
Choleric and quarrelsome.
Disposed to grumble and quarrel. θ Headache.
Quarrelsome disposition when displeased. θ Prolapsus uteri. θ Amenorrhœa.
Alternately peevish and cheerful.
Whining mood. θ Obesity.
Peevish and vehement, least contradiction excites his wrath ; he trembles when he cannot satisfy his anger.
Suffers constant vexation and torment. θ Jaundice.
Becomes angry at absent persons while thinking of them.
Chagrin, violent anger and vehemence.
Vehement and disposed to fly into a passion. θ Headache.
Contradiction excites wrath ; distrust.
Very sensitive, easily frightened, especially when falling asleep. θ Hysteria.
Prostration of soul and body.
Worse from mental exertion ; better from entertainment.
Mental labor fatigues ; headache from least mental exertion.
Feels weary and exhausted from performing mental labor.
Worse after emotion. θ Palpitation.
Ailments from grief, disappointed love.
Ailments from fright, anger, contradiction, mortification, or vexation with dread, fear, reserved displeasure, or vehemence.
Pain makes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of window, or dash herself down. θ Parturition.

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The general features of the remedy are such as relate to the mind and such as relate to the tissues of the body in general. If you run through the mental symptoms, taking them all in as one great whole, you will see that all the affections, natural to healthy man, are perverted.

So great in extent is this that one of the fundamental loves, which is the love of living, of self-protection, is perverted and he loathes life, is weary of life, longs to die and seeks methods to commit suicide.

No love of life. The affections pre-eminently are deranged, the intellectual sphere is only secondarily changed.

Of course insanity runs through the remedy, but it is an insanity that begins in the will and proceeds to the intellect; it is first observed as a perversion of the affections.

It is astonishing that one could get into such a state of mind, such horrible depression of spirits that there is an absolute loss of enjoyment in everything.

You take away a man's hope, and he has nothing to live for, he then wants to die. Such, it seems, is the state in this medicine.

Self-condemnation, continual self-reproach, self-criticism, a constant looking into self; she does nothing right, everything is wrong, nothing will succeed, hopelessness.

"Imagines he cannot succeed in anything, and he does everything wrong; he is in disunion with himself."

Imagines he sees obstacles in his way everywhere.

He is all the time imaging that he has neglected something, that he has neglected his friends.

He imagines that he deserves reproach in consequence of having neglected duty; he has neglected something, he is wrong, is wholly evil, has sinned away his day of grace, is not worthy of salvation; this is the train of thought that constantly runs through his mind.

The thought really becomes uncontrollable; he is absorbed in himself and sits and broods over it, and by brooding over it he only intensifies his present state and hatches new grievances, continues to worry over himself, thinks he is wholly unfit for this world, and then he longs to die.

He looks on the dark side of everything, constantly expecting bad news, looking for everything to go wrong. The future looks dark to him, and he wants to die; he never will succeed, for everything goes wrong that he turns his hand to.

His business is dark, his family troubles him, his friends annoy him; he becomes extremely irritable, easily angered, is worried over trifles, and easily excited.

Every little thing rouses him into anger and turmoil, he is always in a vexation. The Aurum state of mind is an insanity dreadful to look upon because of its turbulence and melancholy.

It is suitable in the most profound states of melancholy and depression where the patient sits silent and says nothing. When disturbed he is aroused to great vehemence, anger and violence.

"Melancholy, feels hateful and quarrelsome."

"Terrible melancholy after abuse of Mercury."

The causes of this state of insanity are prolonged anxiety, unusual responsibility, syphilis and loss of property.

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Weak memory.
Religious mania; prays all the time.
Uneasy, hurried, desire for mental and bodily activity; cannot do things fast enough.
Suicidal mood.
Hallucinations; sees dogs, a hand on the wall, etc., mania.
Apprehensiveness, full of fear; a more noise at the door makes him anxious.
Melancholy, disposed to weep; imagines he is unfit for this world, that he can never succeed.
Great anguish, coming from the precordial region, driving him from place to place palpitation.
Weary of life; especially in evening, with longing for death.
Has no confidence in herself, thinks others have none; this makes her unhappy.
Alternately peevish and cheerful.
Contradiction excites wrath.
Mental labor fatigues.
Ailments from grief, disappointed love.

Vertigo: when stooping, as if turning in a circle, goes off no rising; as if drunk, when walking in open air; feels as if he would fall to left side; must lie down; even then for some time it returns on slightest motion.

Tearing headache deep in the forehead and temples, abating in the open air.
Rush of blood to the head; sparks before the eyes, and glossy, bloated face; worse from mental exertion.
Bruised pain, especially in the early morning or during mental labor, ideas become confused; roaring in head.
Headaches of students, with precordial anxiety and flashes of heat to the head.
Megrim, stitching, burning pains, beating in one side of forehead; nausea, even bilious vomiting.
Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain to the forehead; worse during motion.

Skull bones painful, as if broken; worse lying down.
Exostoses on the head; boring pains; worse from touch.
Falling out of hair.

Objects as if divided horizontally; sees only half of an object, other half as if covered with a dark body.
Tension in the eyes; sees things double or mixed up.
Fiery sparks before eyes; optical illusions in bright colors.
Pupils most frequently contracted.
Cutting pain through the eyes.
Iritis serosa and cornea spotted.
Opacity of the cornea. θ After keratitis.
Eyeballs protrude.
Red sclerotica; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at the inner canthus.
Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening the eyes; eyes very sensitive to touch.
Pressive pain in orbit from above downward, within out.
Bones around the eye feel bruised.
Ulceration of the cornea in the course of pannus; pains from within outwards; worse from pressure.
Little blisters turning into crusts on the edges of lids, with some trichiasis.
Eyelids red, suppurating; stinging, prickling, itching; agglutination in the morning; cilia fall out.

Roaring in the ears; oversensitiveness to noises.
Annoying dryness in ears and nose, with difficult hearing.
Caries of the mastoid process; obstinate otorrhœa.
Burning, prickling, itching; boring pain behind left ear.
Parotids swollen; painful to touch as if pressed or contused.

Complaints caused by strong odors.
Sensitive smell; everything smells too strong.
Putrid smell when blowing nose; want of smell.
Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe through the nose; crusts in the nose.
Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely.
Ozœna, excessively fetid discharge; severe frontal headache.
Coryza, thick discharge, like the white of egg; frequent sneezing.
Carries of nasal bones; right nasal bone and adjoining parts of upper jaw painful to touch.
Boring in left side of nasal bone, toward the maxilla.
Burning, itching, stitching, smarting; feeling of soreness in nose, especially when touched.
Mucous discharges from the posterior nares in the morning.
Tip of the nose "knobby", red.
Nose red and swollen.

Bloated, glossy, worse from mental exertion; cyanotic.
Drawing, deep seated tearing in the left side of the face.
Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and in tearing in upper and lower jaws; teeth feel too long.
Inflammation of bones of face; caries of cheek-bones; tearing, boring, burning stitches in the zygoma.
Violent tearing in the malar bone.
Fine eruption on lips, face or forehead.

Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Toothache caused by drawing air into the mouth.
Gums swollen, dark red, sore when touched or when eating; bleed easily.

Bitter taste; putrid taste, as of spoiled game, between meals.
Loss of taste, with complete immovability of the tongue, which is hard as leather.
Aphthæ on tongue and mouth.
Ulcers on the tongue.

Copious saliva; saliva sweetish.
Inside of mouth blistered.
Stench from the mouth; smell like old cheese.
Offensive odor; girls at puberty.

Red and swollen tonsils.
Boring in the hard palate; caries of roof, palate and nose.
Stinging soreness in throat only during deglutition.
Difficult raising of phlegm.
Dull, pressive pain, with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.

Hunger, immoderate; relishes his meal but appetite not appeared.
Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach.
Appetite for milk, wine, coffee.
Aversion to meat.

Eructations of gas relieve attacks of palpitation.
Nausea from mental labor.

Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings.
Pressure in region of stomach, at noon.
Pressure to the left of the scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs; worse during expiration.

Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium.
Painful accumulation of gas below left ribs, causing stitching pains.
Pressure in hypochondria, as from flatulence; worse after food or drink and motion.

Colic, frequent discharge of wind.
Spasmodic contraction of abdomen with great anguish, inclined to suicide.
Tensive pain, as if laced together.
Heaviness in abdomen, with icy coldness of hands and feet.
Ascites from disturbances of abdominal organs.

Passes fetid flatus.
Stools offensive, painful; greyish, ashy.
Nightly diarrhœa, with burning pain in the rectum.
Hard, knotty or large stools; constipation worse during menses.
Piles with rectal catarrh; costive; external piles bleed during stool.

Constant urging to urinate.
Urine scanty, greenish-brown, in jaundice; clear, gold-colored, in dropsy.
Turbid, like buttermilk; much sediment of mucus.
Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otorrhœa.
Paralysis of the bladder with retention of urine.
Ischuria painful, with pressure in bladder.

Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis; settled melancholy, with suicidal mania.
Right testicle swollen, pressive pains when touching or rubbing.
Testes indurated; testes undeveloped; boy pining, depressed, weak.
Itching of the scrotum.
Ulcers on the scrotum; cutting and singing in perineum.
Inguinal glands suppurate.

Uterus prolapsed and indurated; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing; heaviness in abdomen; after lifting a heavy load; worse at time of menses.
Sterility in syphilitic women; also in the ill-nourished, who are mentally depressed because of their barrenness.
Menses: too late, scanty; preceded by swelling of axillary glands; accompanied by colic; prolapse of the rectum.
Amenorrhœa, with prolapsus uteri and melancholy.
Constant oozing from the vulva.
Thick white leucorrhœa; burning-smarting of the vulva; labia majora red, swollen.

Suppressed milk.
Palpitation following metrorrhagia after a mole or in childbed, after overexertion.
Labor-pains make her desperate, she would like to jump from the window or dash herself down; often with congestion to head and chest; palpitation.

Voice: nasal; husky, as if he had a cold.
Phlegm deep in the larynx, not easily hawked.

Dyspnœa: with dull stitches in chest when inspiring; cannot be relieved in any position; takes deep breaths.
Asthma from congestion to chest: great oppression at night and when walking in the open air; suffocative fits, with spasmodic constriction of chest; face bluish red; palpitation; falls down unconscious.
Morning asthma: face cyanotic; light-haired persons; worse after mercury; in wet weather and warm air.

With tough yellow sputa on walking in morning.
Cough from want of breath, at night.
Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to women; periodically, every night from sunset to sunrise.

Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation.
Dull stitches in both sides of chest, with heat in the chest and dyspnœa; increased by inspiration.
Persistent dry catarrh on the chest, early in the morning, on walking; with great difficulty he raises little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.

Frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, the tremulous fearfulness; palpitation with great agony.
Strong beating of heart, with anxiety and congestion to the head, after metrorrhagia; also after exertion.
When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop.
Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse; short breathing.
Pain in region of heart, extends down left arm to fingers.
Pains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in the heart, must sit upright; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thumb.
Puls small, but accelerated.
Weak pulse, cardiac asthma, mental depression; great debility.

Swollen cervical glands.
Tension in neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest, mostly when stooping.
Spine disease, with gressus galinaceous.
Pain in small of back as from fatigue.
Tendons of lumber muscles so painfully stiff, that the thigh cannot be raised; thigh feels paralyzed.

Boring in left shoulder.
Inflammatory swelling of axillary glands.
Difficult movement of arms; they feel fatigued; forearms feel heavy.
Severe bone pains in right elbow.
Boring in right forearm.
Cramp-like tearing in bones of both wrists.
Palms itch. θ Herpes of the palms.
Boring in finger-joints.

All the blood appeared to rush from her hand into lower limbs; they feel paralyzed, she has to sit down.
Tottering of the knees; stiffness, paralytic feeling; they pain as if firmly bandaged, when sitting.
Right knee becomes weak from walking; drawing when walking or setting foot on floor.
Boring in tibiæ: ankles; dorsum of feet.
Swelling of legs and feet when getting up in the morning, better after walking.
Toes red.
Itching on soles.

Limbs go to sleep, numb, insensible on awaking; more lying than moving.
Paralytic drawing in of the limbs in the morning when awaking; also on getting cold.
Has to seize hold of left arm during attacks of palpitation.
Swelling of periosteum of forearm and thigh bones.
Pain as from bruises in head and limbs, early in bed; mostly at rest; passes off after rising.

Rest: 31, 34. Sitting: 33. Lying: 34. Must lie down: 2. Walking: 29, 33. Walking in open air: 2, 26. Motion: 2, 3, 18, 34, 36. Exertion: 29. Stooping: 2, 31. Rising: 2, 28, 33, 34, 40. Setting foot on floor: 33. In bed: 37.

In the morning completely exhausted, as if he had not slept at all.
Tremulous agitation, as in joyous hope.
Hysterical spasms; alternate laughter and crying.
When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without knowing it; when speaking he smiles involuntarily.
Sensation of internal emptiness and weakness of whole body.
Great nervous weakness.

Sobs aloud during sleep; frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams.
Awake all night, on pain; no lassitude or sleepiness in the morning.
Sleeplessness after midnight.
Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live.
Bruised feeling, mornings in bed.

Morning: 3, 5, 7, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40. Morning and evening: 27. Noon: 17. Night: 5, 20, 26, 27, 37, 40. Sunset to sunrise: 27. Evening till midnight: 46.

Very sensitive to cold.
Generally better growing warm.
Warmth: 26. Room: 46. Cold: 34. Air: 10. Wet weather: 26. Open air: 3, 26, 46.
Many symptoms disappear after washing.

Cold hands and feet; sometimes lasting all night want of thirst.
Chill lessened after getting out of bed; shivering in bed; legs cold as far as the knees.
Coldness of whole body, nausea chill predominates.
Heat only in face; aversion to uncovering cold hands and feet.
Heat alternating with chill.
Auric fever: temperature raised, pulse frequent, then profuse, lasting sweats, salivation, sore mouth; profuse urine, or turbid, fetid urine.
Sweat early in morning, mostly on and around genitals.

Sunset to sunrise: 27. Every three or four days: 3.
Every two or three weeks: palpitation. Evening till midnight: 46.

Right: 18, 22, 32, 33. Left: 2, 6, 8, 17, 18, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34. Behind forwards: 4. Without in: 5. Within out: 5. Above downwards: 5.

Oversensitive to all pain, pains drive to despair, does not want to live.
Susceptible to all sorts of pains; on thinking of them, he imagines he already feels them.
Boring pains, mostly in the bones.

Violent orgasm; plethora.
Cold at first causes a feeling of strength, even of buoyancy; later come depression, sense of illness, etc.
Cancerous ulcers.
Pus yellow, with cheesy flocculi; lumbar abscess.
External parts become black.
Dropsy.
Exostoses of skull and other bones.
Boring in the bones; caries especially after mercury; pains drive to despair; worse at night.
Corpulency; fat about the heart.
Glands painfully swollen; scrofula, ruddy complexion.

Touch: 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 22. Pressure: 5. Chewing: 10. Seize hold of left arm: 34. Rubbing: 22. Riding in carriage: 29.

Violent itching, first in the soles of the feet and then over the whole body, from evening till midnight.
Fine popular eruption on the face.
Deep ulcers, affecting the bones; after abuse of mercury.
Small and large blotches, burning feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color; less in-doors than in open air.

Women nervous cough.
Girls at puberty pre-pubic boys, 22.
Open indicated with old people; weak vision; corpulency; heart disease.
Scrofula; light haired; sanguine temperament; ruddy complexion.
Syphilitic and mercurial patients; especially advanced cases with melancholy, malnutrition and excessive debility. Syphilis in the strumous after abuse of mercury.

After daily use of whisky, blind.
Antidotes to Aurum: Bellad., Cinchon., Coccul., Coffea, Cuprum, Mercur., Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr.
Aurum antidotes: Mercur., Spigel.

At the present time there is great diversity of opinion concerning the physiological action of gold and its salts. It is, however, safe to say that connective tissue generally is affected. Its action on the mind is decided and peculiar.

General over-sensitiveness to pain and cold.
Need fresh air.
General orgasm of blood, with violent palpitations.
Bruised pain in the head and limbs.
Paralytic, tearing pains in the joints, especially in the morning on waking, or if the parts become cold.
Pain < by lying, > by rising.

General disgust at life; suicidal tendency.
Anguish, increasing to attempts at self-destruction.
Becomes violent on the least contradiction.
Quarrelsome; irritable; melancholy.
Longs for death.
Imagines he cannot succeed in anything; wishes to be alone.
Weeping mood; thinks his friends have forsaken him.
Apprehensive, caused by a noise, fear of persons intruding.
Alternations of laughing and weeping.
Religious melancholy.

Violent rush of blood to the head, with heat.
General bruised pain < by mental effort.
Vertigo on stooping as of whirling around, or as if one would fall to the left; must lie down, < on the slightest motion.
Pain in the bones of the skull.
(Bony tumor on the vertex, with boring pain.)

Tensive pain in the eyes, so that vision is difficult, > by closing the eyes.
Eyes feel weak, with pressure; feeling of sand.
Lachrymation.
Pain pressing from above downward in the right eye.
Burning heat in the inner canthi, with sticking and drawing.
Double vision.
Half vision.
The upper half seems covered with a dark cloud.
Only sees the lower half of objects.

Clinical:
Most violent inflammation (ulcerated cornea); extreme photophobia, with violent pain in the bones, extending down into the face.

Roaring.
(Offensive discharge from the ears.)
Caries of the mastoid process.

Nostrils ulcerated, agglutinated, painful.
The nose internally is sore, the nasal bones and adjoining parts painful to touch.
Foul odor from the nose.
Discharge of offensive matter.
Smell very acute.

Toothache from drawing air into the mouth.
Ulceration of the gum, with toothache and heat in the head.
Foul odor from the mouth.
Taste putrid or bitter.
(Caries of the hard palate.)

Stitches on swallowing.
Submaxillary glands swollen, painful as if bruised.

Immoderate hunger or thirst.
Heavy pressure in the stomach at noon.

Rumbling.
Flatulent colic.
Burning in the right hypochondrium, with cutting.
Incarcerated flatulence in the left ribs, with lancinating pain.

Constipation, evacuations hard, nodular.
(Nightly diarrhœa.)

Urine increased, pale.
Urine sometimes turbid, like buttermilk.
(Painful retention, with dragging pressure on the bladder.)

Swelling of the right testicle, with tensive pain, as if bruised.
Increased sexual desire.
Nocturnal erections and emissions.

Symptoms of inflammation of internal organs.
Chronic inflammation of the uterus, which is enlarged and prolapsed.
Sensitiveness of the vagina.
Sterility, with depression of spirits.
Vaginismus, with hysterical symptoms.

Dyspnœa at night.
Attacks of suffocation, with constrictive oppression of the chest.
Need to take deep breaths.

Attacks of anguish in the region of the heart.
Drives one from place to place.
Anxious; palpitation, with a rush of blood to the chest.

Violent backache.
Tearing in the different joints.
Paralytic weakness in the knees.

Sleepiness at night, but restless sleep and anxious dreams.
Sleepiness after midday meal.

Sensitiveness to cold.
General febrile shiverings in the evening in bed, without thirst and without subsequent heat.
Coldness of the whole body, with qualmishness.
Orgasm of blood as if it were boiling in the veins.
Morning sweat.

AURUM. GOLD. (THE WELL-KNOWN METAL.)

Just as superstition, inexact observations and credulous conjectures have been the source of innumerable untrue statements as to the virtue of medicines in the materia medica, so also lack of proving and groundless theoretic reasons of physicians have with just a little reason denied to exceedingly powerful, and therefore highly curative substances, all medicinal powers, and have thus deprived us of these remedies. Here I will only mention gold, and, indeed, not the gold changed through the ordinary chemical processes, neither that dissolved by acids, nor that which is separated again by precipitation (the fulminating gold), both of which were also stated to be, if not useless, still utterly injurious substances ; probably because they could not be given in a so-called justa dosis, i. e., in an excessive quantity, without incurring danger. No ! I speak of the pure gold, unchanged by any chemical process. This the modern physicians have declared to be entirely without effect, and have finally omitted it altogether from all their teachings of materia medica, and have thus deprived us of all its great curative powers. It was stated, that "it cannot be dissolved in the gastric juice, and that it is therefore, altogether without power or use." This was their theoretical supposition, and such theoretical dicta have always, in medicine, had the force of conviction. As they do not question experience -the only possible revealer in the healing art, which rests altogether on experience- because it was more convenient merely to assert, they usually put bold affirmation, theoretic, empty supposition and arbitrary decrees in the place of well-founded truth. The excuse, that older physicians also supposed gold to be without any use or efficacy, will not here avail them. So e. g., FABRICIUS (in Obs. med.) says : "How could the slight heat of our stomach have any effect on leaf-gold, when it loses nothing even in the most violent fire ?" Or NIC. MONARDES (de ferro, pp. 32, 33) : "The patients may believe me and save the expense of putting gold into their medicine ; they will in no wise gain from it any medicinal virtue in their diseases." Or again, ALSTON (Nat. Med., I., p. 69) ; "Since gold in its metallic state is not dissolved and can not be changed by our vital force, it can not, therefore, have any medicinal power, except such action as it may exert on the bowels by means of its weight, hardness and mechanical form. Or, finally, J. F. GMELIN (Appar. med. min., I., p. 445) : "Since gold is indestructible, cannot be dissolved into vapor, and cannot therefore combine with the juices of the animal body, it cannot therefore have any curative power." [*].

[] It was very silly to desire to decide theoretically the question whether gold could* have any curative virtues ; all that was necessary was but to gather conviction by trials and experience, whether gold has or has not medicinal powers. If it has medicinal virtues then all the theoretical hypotheses of denial are ludicrous.

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Aur. / (Gold-Rich.) / Aubrey.

Aurum, all thy bones decay,
Putrefaction paves thy way.
Gland and bone and muscle coat,
Note thy ulcerating dote.
Chronic ailments are thy show,
Chronic, fetid, mucous flow.
Mind in suicidal gloom.
Failing heart, a threatening doom.
Sight that double, things reveal.
Painful testes, Sarcocele.
Glands enlarged- hard bony nodes-
Nightly bone pains- show thy modes.
Hinting syphillis we see,
Or abuse of mercury.
Such thy shameful record bold,
Always worse when in the cold.

Aubrey,- Has ailments from the abuse of Mercury.

Aubrey Po-car Knight, the dark Kid, is shy of Jo Plat's elm staff.

This Aubrey,- Who is subject to suicidal gloom,- Is at Naja, in for gin and ale.

Ailments from Abuse of Mercury: Aur., Pod., Carb. v., Arg. n., Nit. a., Kali i., Sul., Hep., Iod., Plat., Lach., Mez., Stap.

Suicidal Gloom: Aur., Naj., Graph., Nux v., Lach.

Indicated in ailments from grief, disappointed love, deep mortification; in syphilitic affections and diseases due to abuse of mercury; in diseases of the small bones, with characteristic pain and soreness; in glandular swellings of scrofulous persons; induration of uterus and testicles; foul nasal catarrh, ozaena. Frequently there is present great sexual hyperaesthesia, with mental and sexual excitement, begetting a state, essentially hysterical, in which the patient becomes excessively moody and crushed by a sense of unworthiness and unfitness to live; hence talks about self-destruction as the only means of escape. Acts best in young women of light complexion, inclined to plumpness.

Great mental depression; talks of committing suicide. Often accompanied with cerebral congestion and sexual furor.

Profound depression, followed by sudden, but temporary, cheerfulness.

Hypersensitiveness of special senses.

Great sensitiveness to pain and cold.

Fitful appetite, with tendency to ravenous eating at times.

Violent headache, congestive, with sparkling eyes, flushed face, mental and sexual excitement.

Pain about the eye, in the bony structures, extending from above downward, into the eye-ball. Better from cold applications.

Salivation without tenderness or ulceration of the gums.

Fetid odor, like old cheese, from the mouth; on young girls at puberty.

The headache, eye-symptoms, symptoms in the ear and face, accompanied with characteristic bone pains in the affected regions, with much tenderness to pressure.

Nasal discharge fetid, bloody, purulent, with putrid odor from the nose and boring pains in the nasal bones.

Affections of the mastoid, with fistulous openings and sinuses. External meatus of the ear bathed in pus.

Hard swelling of the inguinal glands, with drawing pains form the groin into the thigh.

Chronic induaration of the testicles.

Hard swelling of the cervical glands, worse from touch.

Violent palpitation of the heart, with rush of blood to head and chest; great anxiety; coldness of hands and feet; rapid, feeble, irregular pulse.

Asthma from congestion in the chest; restlessness and anxiety, starting in the region of the heart, driving him from place to place; cannot stay anywhere.

Aching in stomach and abdomen, with coldness of hands and feet.

Urine looks like butter-milk; decomposes quickly; of ammoniacal odor; more fluid passed than drunk.

Uterus prolapsed and indurated.

Burning-itching in the vagina, inducing self-abuse; parts sensitive.

Uterine affections tending toward induration with drawing, shooting pain.

Worse in the morning; in cold air; in the winter, when obliged to be quiet; from abuse of mercury.

Debility from mental labor. Melancholy mood with restlessness and longing for death. Irresistible inclination to weep. Religious melancholy with praying. Melancholy with rancor. He does nothing but ask questions. Great anguish drinking him to suicide. Despair of himself as well as others. From slightest opposition he flies into a heated passion and anger. Alternate laughing and crying, or alternate anger and sadness. Unfortunate love. Hypochondriasis. Taciturnity. Scrupulosity.

Intense congestion to, with heat therein. Bruised pain in forepart of, on awaking, causing confusion of ideas. Tumult and roaring in. Pain in skull bones. Worse: Every mental exertion, stooping, cold. Better: raising up, warm wrapping, in open air.

Exostoses, boring painfully of themselves, but worse when touched or lain upon. Boring tearing in skull bones readily passing into inflammation and necrosis. Worse: Becoming cold. Better: Warm wrapping, external pressure.

Tensive pain in. Inflammation and suppuration of. Protruding. Fire and sparks before. Paralysis of optic nerve. Horizontal half vision.

Discharge of foul - smelling pus from. Humming in. Caries of mastoid.

Caries of nasal bones. Bone pain in bridge of. Cancer of. Fetid odor from. Greatly heightened sense of smell.

Glistening, puffy. Swelled cheeks. Osteitis Tensive pain n upper jaw. Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.

Ulcerated gums with toothache and heat in head.

Foul odor like old cheese from. Caries of hard palate.

Appetite: Excessive hunger and thirst with sore feeling in stomach.

Protruding inguinal hernia. Disagreeable feeling in.

Flatulence: Nightly diarrheas. Copious.

Painful retention of, with urging and pressing in bladder. Copious, watery.

Indurated testes. Swelling of under part of testes. Increased sexual desire. Nightly erection and pollutions. Prolapsus uteri.

Suffocative attacks with constrictive oppression of chest. Great tightness in thorax, with necessity to take a deep breath.

Anxious palpitation from congestion thereto.

Intense backache.

Tearing in joints of hands and fingers.

Paralytic weakness in knee, as if bandaged. Tearing in joints and bones of feet and toes.

Paralytic tearing in joints, early, on awaking, and when parts become cold. Gouty nodes. Dropsical swelling of body. Strong ebullition in blood throughout entire body, with violent palpitation. Over - sensitive to cold and every pain. Desire for open air. Hysterical spasms with alternate laughing and weeping.

Bone pains. Osteitis. Caries.

Cracked. Mercurial ulcers, which also attack the bones.

Sleepiness after dinner. Restless with anxious dreams. Nightly delirium.

Pulse: Small, but accelerated. Much ebullition of blood in entire body, and strong congestion to head and chest. Chill: Predominating. And coldness of hands and feet, also when in bed, often continuing the whole night. In evening in bed, general shaking chill without thirst and not followed by heat. Coldness of entire body, with nausea. Heat: Mostly in face, only alternating with chill. Sweat: In early morning, most profuse on and above sexual organs.

Allied Remedies: Asaf., Col-c., Coff., Merc., Nux-v., Phos. Pul.

Melancholy.

Fear, even to suicide.

Paralytic drawing in the limbs in the morning, when awakening and on getting cold.

Pain in the bones at night.

Great ebullition and palpitation of the heart.

Oversensitiveness to all pain and to the cold air.

Desire for the open air.

Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately.

Desire for the open air.

Hysterical spasms, with laughing and crying alternately.

Inflammation of the bones - caries of the palate and nasal bones.

Offensive breath.

Aggravation in the morning on getting cold, while reposing.

Amelioration from moving, while walking and on getting warm.