Aurum Metallicum aur.

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

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

Worse

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

Better

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

General

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.

Particulars

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

Related: Merc.

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

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Keynote

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.).

Relations

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

Aggravation

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

Amelioration

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

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General Characteristics

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.

Mental

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.

Scalp

Exostosis on the right vertex, with boring pain.

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Nose

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.

Face

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

Mouth

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.

Abdomen

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.

Urine

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

Sexual

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

Chest

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

Skin

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

Sleep

Sobbing during; frightful dreams; sleeplessness.

Extremities

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

Generalities

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

Worse

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.

Better

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

Remedies following

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

Antidotes

Coffea, Mercur.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

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.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Metallic Gold

General

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.

Mind

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.

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

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

Nose

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.

Mouth

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

Face

Tearing in zygoma. Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.

Throat

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

Stomach

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

Abdomen

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

Urine

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

Rectum

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

Male

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

Female

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

Heart

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)

Respiratory

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

Bones

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.

Extremities

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.

Sleep

Sleepless. Sobs aloud in sleep. Frightful dreams.

Modalities

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

Relationship

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.

Dose

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

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

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.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

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.

Head

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.

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Nose

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

Face

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

Mouth and Throat

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

Stomach

Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in the stomach.

Stool and Anus

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

Urinary Organs

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

Sexual Organs

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

Chest

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

Generalities

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.

Sleep

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

Fever

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.

Skin

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

Conditions

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.

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

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

Clinical

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.

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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.

Causation

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

Mind

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.

Head

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.

Eyes

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.

Ears

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.

Nose

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

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.

Teeth

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.

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.

Throat

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.

Appetite

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.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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.

Stool

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

Urinary Organs

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.

Male Sexual Organs

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.

Female Sexual Organs

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.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Chest

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.

Heart

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.

Neck and Back

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

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.

Upper Limbs

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.

Lower Limbs

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.

Generalities

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.

Sleep

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.

Fever

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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

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.

Sensorium

Vertigo. θ Syphilis.
Head giddy, full, hot. θ Melancholy.
Vertigo : when stooping, as if turning in a circle ; goes off on 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.
Feels stupid, a dazed feeling in head. θ Chronic hepatitis.

Inner head

Congestion of blood to head.
Rushes of blood to head with violent palpitation, great anxiety and fainting.
Uncomfortable feeling in forehead.
Violent pain in left forehead and eye. θ Melancholy.
Pressure in left temple, < on being touched.
Severe frontal headache. θ Coryza.
Heat of head with cold hands and feet.
Rush of blood to head with tumult and waving of head.
Tearing headache deep in brain, in forehead, temples and vertex, abating in open air.
Rush of blood to head ; sparks before eyes, and glossy, bloated face ; < from mental exertion.
Bruised pain, especially early in morning or during mental labor, ideas become confused ; roaring in head.
Megrim, stitching burning pains, beating in one side of forehead ; nausea, even bilious vomiting.
Fine tearing from right side of occiput through brain to forehead ; < during motion.
One-sided boring, severe throbbing ; begins on awaking mornings.
Tearing in head, teeth and ears ; < left side. θ Heart disease.
Headache as from incipient cold.
Sensation as if a current of air was rushing through head, if not kept warm.

Outer head

Pricking as from pins in forehead externally.
Boring in left side of frontal bone.
Pressive pains in left temple externally.
Pains in bones of head on lying down, affecting vital energy.
Pains in bones of skull, morning in bed.
Syphilitic exostoses on skull.
Skull bones painful, as if broken ; < lying down.
Severe, constant burning heat on top of head.
Exostoses on skull ; boring pains ; < from touch.
Caries of mastoid process.
Tinea capitis.
Eruption of small white pimples all over hairy scalp, with heat and itching.
Portions of frontal bone had exfoliated. θ Syphilis with mercurialization.
Falling out of hair, especially in syphilis.

Sight and eyes

Photophobia, profuse scalding tears on opening eyes ; eyes very sensitive to touch.
Photophobia ; lids cannot be even forcibly opened.
Weak sight and eyes.
Vision 5/200, after Aurum C2 5/80, and in eight weeks more, 5/60. θ Tumor in eye.
By gaslight, a number of bright, floating specks and dots are seen.
Eyes > by moonlight, and after active muscular exercise.
Objects seem smaller and more distant. θ Hemiopia.
Sees a little better on looking intensely and steadily on an object, though he sees no trace of upper half of it.
Large letters cannot be distinguished, seem only something black upon a white ground.
Yellow, crescent-shaped bodies floating obliquely upward in field of vision.
Fiery sparks before eyes ; optical illusions in bright colors.
Everything looks blue.
Color of optic nerve-entrances of a greenish hue, except round periphery, which was yellowish-white, with a slight trace of pigmentary deposit on lower outer edge of optic disc in left eye.
Fog or smoke before his eyes, to this, at a later period, black spots were added, and for the last few weeks he can only see upper half of objects, their lower half seems to be covered by a black veil. θ Hemiopia.
Black spots floating before eyes. θ Hemiopia.
Tension in eyes ; sees things double or mixed up.
Objects as if divided horizontally ; sees only half of an object, other half as if covered with a dark body.
In upper dark section of field of vision occasional showers of bright, starlike bodies, lower half looks lighter, and he can distinguish color, light or dark.
Hemiopia of left eye.
Could not see upper half of a room or any large object, though lower half was clear, with left eye.
Hemiopia from straining eyes.
Strong pressure from within outward and from above downward in both eyeballs, accompanied by dull, heavy aching deep in both globes.
Pressing in eyes as from acrid dust. θ Hysteria.
Cutting pain through eyes.
Pains in eyes > by blowing nose.
On using eyes, sensation of violent heat in them.
Central portion of retinal vessels strongly pulsating.
Chorio-retinitis chronica, with an accumulation of fluid beneath retina, which settled to lower portion of left eye, causing a large detachment of retina. θ Hemiopia.
Large black subchoroidal tumor behind lens in fundus, growing from inner side.
Iris blackish-brown mixed with blood red, in place of pupil and encroaching upon iris a nodular new growth of a mixed black and red color, filling whole anterior chamber, without, however, displacing cornea, on which formed a vesicle discharging fluid ; sclerotica
sprinkled with blackish spots ; conjunctiva pale red and swollen ; slight lachrymation ; pressing and slight burning in and about eye ; later drawing in surrounding bones. θ Melanotic tumor.
Vitreous hazy from infiltration. θ Hemiopia.
Anterior chamber contracted.
Protruding eyes. θ Headache.
Staring, dreary look. θ Melancholy.
On pressure eyeball more tense and firm than usual.
Interstitial keratitis and kerato-iritis, even in atonic cases, with infiltrated cornea and fine interstitial vascularity.
Cornea opaque ; leukoma ; gray or yellow spots, always marked by a surrounding network of enlarged bloodvessels ; after keratitis, syphilitic or scrofulous cases.
Iritis marked by much pain around eye, which seems to be deep in bone, extends from without inward, and is aggravated by touch. θ Mercurio-syphilis.
Pupils generally contracted.
Amaurosis.
Pupils irregularly dilated ; cornea dull, with loss of usual lustre.
Macula corneæ.
Red sclerotica ; burning, stitching, drawing and itching at inner canthus.
Scrofulous ophthalmia, with great photophobia.
Twitching in upper lid. θ Hemiopia.
Pains of a burning or dull character, compelling one to close lids ; < in morning and > by application of cold water. θ Trachoma.
Eyelids red, suppurating ; stinging, pricking, itching ; agglutination in morning ; cilia fall out. θ Mercurio-syphilis.
Pannus, with ulceration of cornea ; pains from without in ; < from pressure.
Large bony tumor on left eye, with boring, aching pains, < at night.
Little blisters turning into crusts on edges of lids, with some trichiasis.
Bones around eye feel bruised.
Styes on eyelids.

Hearing and ears

Humming, buzzing and rushing in ears. θ Hysteria.
Roaring in ears. θ Cerebral hyperemia.
Oversensitive to noises ; but music relieves.
Annoying dryness in ears and nose, with difficult hearing.
Caries of mastoid process ; obstinate otorrhœa ; burning, pricking, itching ; boring pain behind left ear.
Congestion to ears.
Fetid otorrhœa ; especially with caries of ossicula. θ After scarlatina.
Parotids swollen, painful to touch, as if pressed or contused.

Smell and nose

Nosebleed.
Excessively fetid discharge from nose. θ Ozæna.
Scrofulous and syphilitic affections of bones of nose and face.
Caries of bones of nose and palate.
Complaints caused by strong odors.
Sensitive smell ; everything smells too strong.
Putrid smell when blowing the nose.
Want of smell.
Pain in nasal bones.
Boring pain in nasal bones. θ Ozæna.
Nasal catarrh, with melancholy, or even suicidal mood.
Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils, cannot breathe through nose.
Crusts in nose. θ Ozæna.
Nose feels obstructed, as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely.
Ozæna, excessively fetid discharge ; severe frontal headache. θ Scrofula. θ Mercurio-syphilis.
Coryza, thick discharge, like white of egg ; frequent sneezing.
Caries of nasal bones ; right nasal bone and adjoining parts of upper jaw painful to touch.
Nose sunken in. θ Caries of nose.
Boring in left side of nasal bone, towards maxilla.
Burning, itching, stitching, smarting ; feeling of soreness in nose, especially when touched.
Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning.
Brown red spots on nose ; nostrils chapped.
Yellow, thick discharge from nose, or dry, firm pieces are blown out, always of an offensive odor.
Tip of nose "knobby," red.
Nose red, swollen. θ Scrofula. θ Abuse of mercury.
Swelling of nose, like erysipelas.
Swelling of nose in room, after walking in open air.
Eruptions on nose.
Cancer of nose.

Upper face

Puffy under eyes. θ Endocarditis.
In groove between nose and cheek a cutaneous lump of size of a split pea, which irritates, gets picked, scabs over, and persists.
Anxious expression of face. θ Endocarditis.
Feels ill, and looks pale.
Heat only in face.
Face pale. θ Valvular disease of heart.
Blue about nose and lips. θ Typhus.
Face cyanotic. θ Asthma.
Face glowing red. θ Headache.
Face bloated, glossy ; worse from mental exertion.
Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in upper and lower jaws ; teeth feel too long ; swelling of both cheeks.
Erysipelas of face.
Acute cutting, stinging and tearing, now in nerves of left side of head, now of teeth, coming and going, preventing sleep.
Inflammation of bones of face ; caries, with tearing, boring and burning stitches.
Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking.
Fine pimples on face. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Lichens on face.
Red eruption on forehead and nose, often peeling.
Fine pimples on face, their tips are filled with pus.
Corona veneris. θ Syphilis with mercurialization.

Lower face

Tensive pain in lower jaw.
Dull, pressive pain, either with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of lower jaw.
Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.
Trismus. θ Typhus.
Lips bluish. θ Endocarditis.

Teeth and gums

Toothache caused by drawing air into mouth ; when chewing, suddenly a painful dulness in one of upper molar teeth.
Toothache from congestion to head.
Carious teeth. θ Faceache.
Toothache at night. θ Heart disease.
Violent tearing toothache, affects the heart.
Gums swollen, darker red, sore when touched or when eating ; gums bleed easily.

Taste, speech, tongue

Metallic taste in mouth ; tongue slightly coated with brownish fur.
Milky taste.
Loss of taste. θ Melancholy.
Flabby taste with clear tongue. θ Hysteria.
Bitter taste in mouth, with sensation of dryness.
Foul taste of even water.
Putrid taste in mouth, as of spoiled game, between meals.
Loss of taste ; tongue hard as leather and immovable.
Tongue swollen with scirrhus-like hardness ; after biting tongue in sleep.
Tongue trembling and dry. θ Typhus.
Tongue dry and coated. θ Endocarditis.
Tongue coated at back. θ Pining boys.
Ulcers on tongue.

Inner mouth

Foul breath. θ Girls at puberty.
Fetor of breath like old cheese.
In morning offensive breath, reddish tongue and copious salivation. θ Melancholy.
Saliva copious, sweetish.
Aphthæ on tongue and in mouth.

Palate and throat

Caries of palate. θ After abuse of mercury. θ Syphilis.
Red, swollen and ulcerated tonsils ; difficult deglutition.
Boring in hard palate ; caries of roof, palate and nose. θ Abuse of mercury. θ Syphilis.
Stinging soreness in throat only during deglutition.
Difficult rising of phlegm.
Dull, pressive pain, with or without swallowing, in a gland below angle of jaw.
Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Violent hunger and thirst.
Hunger, immoderate ; relishes his meal, but hunger not appeased.
Immoderate appetite and thirst, with qualmishness in stomach.
Desire for milk and coffee.
Desire for alcoholic drinks, which are easily borne. θ Typhus.
Loss of appetite.
Want of appetite. θ Jaundice.
Aversion to food, especially meat.
Appetite poor. θ Hemiopia.
No appetite for plain food. θ Pining boys.

Eating and drinking

After dinner : discomfort in abdomen ; sleep.
After eating : colic ; inclined to vomit ; pressure in hypochondria ; sense of suffocation.
Worse after drinking ; after wine.
Worse when hungry ; pain at stomach, etc.
Colic even after simplest food.
Drowsy after dinner.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

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

Scrobiculum and stomach

Burning sensation at stomach, with hot risings.
Pressure in region of stomach at noon.
Pressure to left of scrobiculum, below cartilages of upper false ribs ; < during expiration.
Swelling of pit of stomach and hypochondrium, with stinging pain when touching parts.

Hypochondria

Swelling of liver consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.
Burning heat and cutting in right hypochondrium.
Jaundice, with pain in liver and pit of stomach ; greenish-brown urine ; bad breath and putrid taste.
Chronic hepatitis, with aversion to life ; suicidal mood ; averse to exercise, feels stupid.
Painful accumulation of gas below left ribs, causing stitching pains.
Pressure in hypochondria, as from flatulence ; < after food or drink, and motion.

Abdomen and loins

Distended abdomen.
Nightly flatulent colic.
Ascites : from disturbances of abdominal organs ; with albuminuria ; with melancholy.
Abdomen puffed up. θ Hysteria.
Colic, frequent discharge of wind.
Tabes mesenterica.
Spasmodic contraction of abdomen, with great anguish ; inclined to suicide. See 29 .
Inguinal hernia ; also with children.
Heaviness in abdomen, with icy cold hands and feet.
Intolerable itching in right groin in its inner third, could not resist scratching ; later inspection showed a wheal, tender from violent rubbing ; even after wheal is gone, part remains tender.

Stools and rectum

Proctostasis.
Copious stool.
Passes fetid flatus.
Stools : offensive, painful ; greyish, ashy ; offensive in pregnancy.
Nightly diarrhœa, with burning in rectum.
Hard, knotty or large stools ; constipation, < during menses, with prolapsus uteri.
Piles with rectal catarrh ; costive ; external piles bleed during stool.
Constipation ; stool very large in size and very hard or knotty.
Obstinate constipation. θ Jaundice.
Looseness and costiveness in alternation. θ Melancholy.

Urinary organs

For many days great morbid activity of uropoetic system.
Urination frequent with painful retention. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Albuminuria consecutive to heart disease.
Kidneys hyperemic, with pressure around waist and increase of urine ; consecutive to cardiac hypertrophy.
Passes more urine than corresponds to quantity of water drunk.
Constant urging to urinate.
Urine scanty, greenish-brown. θ Jaundice.
Urine clear, gold-colored. θ Dropsy.
Turbid, like buttermilk ; much mucous sediment.
Urine ammoniacal, decomposes rapidly, smells like the otorrhœa.
Ischuria and constipation, worse during menses. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Suppression of urine.
Painful retention of urine with pressure in bladder.
Frequent painful retention of urine
Urethritis.
Renal secretion much less in quantity.
Hæmaturia.

Male sexual organs

Testes mere pendent shreds. θ Pining boys.
Chronic induration of testicles.
Testes indurated ; also after abuse of mercury.
Testes a little swelled and hard.
Frequent nightly emissions. θ Melancholy. θ Neuralgia of face.
Onanism. θ Faceache. θ Melancholy.
Nightly erections without emission ; or nightly erections and pollutions, without subsequent weakness.
Discharge of prostatic fluid from a relaxed penis ; settled melancholy, with suicidal mania.
Sensation as if a knife was drawn through swollen testicle.
Right testicle swollen ; pressive pains when touched or rubbed ; pressure and tension as from a bruise.
Itching of scrotum.
Ulcers on scrotum, after gonorrhœa.
Cutting and stinging in perineum.
Inguinal glands suppurate. θ Mercurio-syphilis.
Hydrocele. θ Child, æt. 6 months.
Chancres.
Hunterian chancres.
Secondary syphilis ; also infantile ; especially after abuse of mercury (and probably of potash).
Affections of prepuce.
Balanitis.
Condylomata around anus ; around corona glandis.
Sarcocele ; epididymitis ; orchitis.
Syphilis.

Female sexual organs

Sterility after depression of spirits.
Ovarian affections connected with syphilis.
Induration of uterus. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses delayed, especially the first. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Menses too late and scanty. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Amenorrhœa with great melancholy ; her mind constantly inclines to suicide. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Bruised, shooting or drawing pain in uterus. θ Prolapsus.
Drawing pain at pubes. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Right inguinal region sore to touch ; uterus affected.
Os uteri swollen, hardened.
Prolapsus and induration of uterus.
Uterus prolapsed and indurated ; bruised pain, with shooting or drawing ; heaviness in abdomen ; after lifting a heavy load ; worse at menstrual period.
Menses regular, but with headache and burning on vertex ; uterus indurated.
Menses too late, scanty ; preceded by swelling of axillary glands ; accompanied by colic, prolapse of rectum.
Constant oozing from vulva.
Thick white leucorrhœa ; burning smarting of vulva ; labia majora red, swollen.
Leucorrhœa profuse and corroding, yellow. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Leucorrhœa thick white. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Prolapsus : with backache, < during menses ; with heat of vagina ; from reaching high ; from straining ; with induration of uterus and bruised, shooting or drawing pains.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy : suicidal melancholia ; jaundice.
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 and palpitation.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

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

Respiration

Morning asthma ; face cyanotic ; light-haired persons ; < after mercury, in wet weather and in warm air.
Marked dyspnœa, anxiety at heart ; stenocardia.
Excessive dyspnœa, with difficult breathing at night.
Cardiac difficulty of breathing. θ Old age
Dyspnœa : with dull stitches in chest when inspiring ; cannot be relieved in any position ; takes deep breaths from 'besoin de respirer'. θ Heart disease.
Asthma from congestion to chest ; great oppression at night and when walking in open air ; suffocative fits, with spasmodic constriction of chest ; face bluish-red ; palpitation ; falls down unconscious.
Want of breath. θ Valvular disease of heart.
Difficult breathing. θ Jaundice.
Loses her breath, > from belching or walking. θ Hysteria.
Suffocative fits and constriction of chest.
When laughing difficulty in breathing.
Propped up in bed and breathing very hurriedly. θ Endocarditis.

Cough

Cough for want of breath at night.
Cough with tough yellow sputum on awaking in morning.
Dry, spasmodic, nervous cough, peculiar to females ; periodically, every night from sunset to sunrise.
Expectoration infrequent, morning and evening.
Moist rales all over chest with cough. θ Endocarditis.

Inner chest and lungs

Great tightness of chest.
Violent rush of blood to chest.
Hyperemia of lungs.
Shooting through back when breathing. θ Facial neuralgia.
Shooting pains in chest after attacks of palpitation.
Dull stitches in both sides of chest, with heat in chest and dyspnœa ; increased by inspiration.
Persistent dry catarrh on chest, early in morning, on waking ; with great difficulty he raises a little phlegm, and this only after rising from bed.
Oppression of chest with faceache.
Extreme tightness of chest with difficult breathing.
Great weight on chest, especially a heavy weight on sternum. θ Angina pectoris.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Frequent attacks of anguish about heart, with tremulous fearfulness ; great anguish increasing to self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction of abdomen ; uneasiness and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity ; he cannot do anything fast enough, and does
not succeed in satisfying himself ; is constantly impelled to be in motion, and is sorry for his inactivity ; he imagines he is neglecting something and deserves reproaches in consequence.
Violent heart-stroke not synchronous with pulse.
Sensation as if heart was turning around.
Constriction of chest with a painful spasmodic sensation of heart ; pulse remits.
Pains wander from joint to joint, and finally become fixed in heart ; must sit upright ; feels as though heart ceased and then suddenly gave one hard thump.
Pain in region of heart, extending down left arm to fingers.
Pain in heart and palpitation ; jumping feeling of heart and violent palpitation by motion.
Angina pectoris.
Action of heart floundering. θ Endocarditis.
Violent palpitation, anxiety and congestion of blood to head and chest. θ After uterine hemorrhage.
Palpitation, with great agony.
When riding or walking, palpitation compels him to stop.
Violent beating of heart after exertion.
Between attacks of palpitation, feeling as of a bladder hanging in left chest ; must often take a deep breath.
Attacks of oppression at heart at night, with palpitation and great debility. θ Old age.
Loud endocardial bruits. θ Endocarditis.
Fatty degeneration of heart.
Violent orgasm of blood as if it was boiling.
Congestions to head and chest, with anxious palpitation.
Visible beating of carotids and of temporal arteries. θ Heart affections in old age.
Palpitation, with irregular, intermittent pulse ; short breathing.
Pulse small, but accelerated ; small, feeble, rapid ; irregular.
Pulse quick, full, corresponding to beat of heart, and omitting before single strong beat. θ Heart disease.
Pulse rapid, compressible and intermittent. θ Endocarditis.
Weak pulse. θ Old age.
Weak heart.
Sensation as if heart stood still.

Outer chest

A wart, size of a split horse-bean since proving Cundurango, several years since, is beginning to lap over and to catch things and seems flatter ; in sixth week flatter and much smaller ; on 80th day, nearly gone ; in twelfth week increases again.

Neck and back

Enormous goitre disappeared long after.
Swollen cervical glands. θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Tension in neck, as if muscles were too short, even at rest ; mostly when stooping.
Spine disease, with gressus gallinaceus.
Pain in small of back as from fatigue.
Tendons of muscles so painfully stiff that thigh cannot be raised ; thigh feels paralyzed.
Stinging pains in small of back. θ Jaundice.
Pain at lower part of spine.

Upper limbs

Arms start. θ Hysteria.
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.
Cramplike tearing in bones of both arms.
Palms itch.
Herpes of palms.
Boring in finger joints.
Bones of hands swelled ; almost immovable, and tender. θ Endocarditis.
Large bursa-like swelling on wrist for a long time. θ Hemiopia.
Flesh of hands puffy. θ Endocarditis.
Finger nails turning blue.

Lower limbs

Coxalgia.
Retraction of lower limbs. θ Typhus.
All the blood appeared to rush from her head into her lower limbs ; they feel paralyzed ; she has to sit down.
Tottering of 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.
Weakness in limbs, most in hollow of knees. θ Neuralgia.
Small blotches on leg and below knee, when slightly rubbed they are changed to thick nodosities under skin.
Nodes on legs. θ Syphilis with mercurialization.
Caries in bones of lower extremities.
Boring in tibiæ, ankles and dorsa of feet.
Swelling of legs and feet, when getting up in morning ; > after walking.
Toes red.
Itching on soles.
Slight dropsy of feet. θ Endocarditis.
Swollen feet. θ Valvular disease of heart.
Weary pains in right tarsal bones, shooting up towards knee, early morning in bed.

Limbs in general

Limbs go to sleep ; numb, insensible on awaking ; more while lying than when moving.
Paralytic drawing in limbs in morning, when awaking ;
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.
Sensations in joints and muscles like after unwonted exercise.
Limbs swelled and painful, joints almost as firmly locked as if anchylosed, cannot move hand nor foot for pain, from this swelled and inflamed state of joints. θ Endocarditis.

Rest. position. motion

Inclined to be active.
Lying down : bones of skull painful ; limbs feel numb.
Must lie down : vertigo.
In dyspnœa no position relieves.
Sitting : knees pain as if firmly bandaged.
Must sit down : paralytic symptoms. See 33 .
Must sit erect : heart disease.
Rising : vertigo goes off ; raises only a little phlegm ; pain in head and limbs goes off.
Stooping : vertigo, as if turning in a circle ; tension in neck.
Walking : vertigo, as if drunk ; headache < ; boring in zygoma ; asthma < ; breathing in hysteria > ; palpitation so bad must stop ; right knee weak ; relieves swelling of feet.
Motion : vertigo ; headache < ; pressure in hypochondrium < ; compelled to move ; relieves numbness in limbs.
Exertion : beating of heart.
From overexertion during confinement. θ Palpitation.
Wants to jump out of window : during labor.
(In sick :) Exercise, even fatigue, aids the action.

Nerves

Increased bodily and mental activity, followed by prostration and melancholy.
Hysterical symptoms, cold hands and feet. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Increased bodily irritability.
Hypochondriasis and hysteria.
In morning completely exhausted, as if he had not slept.
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.
Great debility. θ Heart affection in old age.
Convulsive movements of face and limbs. θ Typhus.
Alternate convulsions and stupor. θ Typhus.
Wavering, uncertain walk. θ Melancholy.

Sleep

Feels fagged in evening, yet not able to sleep.
Looks and feels ill, and although weary, no inclination for either rest or sleep.
Very wakeful, well up to work ; great mental activity.
Continuing sleeplessness ; if he falls asleep erotic dreams, erection and emission. θ Melancholy.
Frightful dreams.
Narcosis with uræmia.
Sobs aloud during sleep ; frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams.
Awake all night, no pain ; no lassitude or sleepiness in morning.
Sleep disturbed by sexual excitement. θ Hysteria.
Sleeplessness. θ Headache.
Sleepless after midnight.
Awakened by bone pains, suffering so great he despairs, does not want to live.
Bruised feeling ; mornings in bed.
Sleep does not refresh.
Two successive nights dreamed a great deal of death.
Early in morning in bed weary pains in right tarsal bones.
Bad nights, dreaming of dead and of corpses.
Dreams towards morning.
Sleep restless and full of anxious dreams. θ Hemiopia.

Time

Night : boring, aching in left eye < ; toothache ; diarrhœa ; difficult breathing ; cough from want of breath ; feeling of lump in throat ; constantly awake ; cold hands and feet ; bone
pains ; colic and passing wind.
Nocturnal bone pains.
After 3 A. M. : delirious talk.
Morning : headache ; confusion of head early, on rising ; eyes < ; mucous discharge in posterior nares < ; cheeks swell ; eyelids adhere ; asthma ; cough on awaking ; expectoration ; catarrh on chest ; swelling of legs and feet ;
paralytic drawing in limbs ; exhausted, as if he had not slept ; no lassitude, though he did not sleep through night ; bruised feeling in bed ; sweat.
Noon : pressure in epigastrium.
Remission during day and evening, until 12 P. M.
Evening : expectoration ; satiety of life at 6 P. M. ; testicle swells ; chill.
Evening till midnight : violent itching.
Evening and morning : expectoration.
Always < as day progresses, and > in morning. θ Hemiopia.
Sunset to sunrise : cough <.

Temperature and weather

In room : swelling of nose ; stinging, burning pains >.
In bed : shivering ; legs cold.
Warm air : asthma <.
Air : aggravates toothache.
Desire for open air. θ Adiposis.
Open air : vertigo, as if drunk ; swelling of nose ; aggravates asthma, and stinging and burning pains ; > headache.
Averse to uncover.
Getting cold : paralytic drawing in limbs.
Cold water : ameliorates pain in eyes.
Wet weather : aggravates asthma.
Very sensitive to cold : over whole body.
Generally > growing warm. θ Headache.
Many symptoms disappear after washing.

Fever

Chill predominating.
Chill and coldness of hands and feet, also in bed, often lasting all night.
General shivering, evenings in bed.
Coldness of whole body with blue nails and nausea.
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 knees.
The severer the pains, the colder she becomes.
Heat only in face ; aversion to uncovering ; cold hands and feet.
Heat most in face, alternating with chill.
Sweat early in morning ; mostly on and around genitals. θ Melancholy.
Profuse perspiration. θ Endocarditis.

Attacks, periodicity

Every day several paroxysms. θ Palpitation of heart.
Paroxysm of palpitation every 2, 3 weeks, coming on when sleeping, walking or riding, lasting half hour.
Pains come and go : neuralgia of head.
Every night from sunset to sunrise : dry, nervous cough.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in side of occiput ; caries of nasal bones ; upper jaw painful ; boring in zygoma ; cutting and heat in hypochondrium ; testicle swollen ; inguinal region sore ; boring in forearm : bone pains in elbow.
Left : tearing in head, teeth and ears ; boring in tumor on eye ; hemiopia ; boring behind ear ; boring in nasal bone ; neuralgia of head ; pressure in scrobiculum ; gas accumulates under ribs ; sensation of a bladder hanging in chest ;
boring in shoulder ; seizes arm during palpitation.
Without inward : pains in eyes.
Pains wander from joint to joint.
Rending pain upward.
Pain pressing inward.
Pain from within outward, in eye diseases.
Left side worse, with nasal catarrh.

Sensations

Sensations
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.
As if a current of air was rushing through head ; skull bones as if broken ; as if a knife was drawn across testicle ; as if blood was boiling ; as if heart stood still ; teeth feel too long ; as if heart was turning round ; as of a bladder hanging in
left chest ; knees as if firmly bandaged.
Violent pain in left forehead and eye.
Boring : hemicrania ; behind left ear ; in nasal bones ; in bones of face ; in hard palate ; in left shoulder ; in right forearm ; in finger joints ; in tibiæ ; ankles and dorsa of feet.
Cutting : through eyes neuralgia in face and head ; in right hypochonder ; through swollen testicle ; in perineum.
Stitching : megrim ; in nose ; below left ribs.
Stitches : in chest ; inner canthus.
Shooting : in uterus ; through chest ; towards knee from tarsal bones ; through back.
Pricking : in forehead ; in eyelids ; in mastoid process.
Stinging : in eyelids ; neuralgia in face and head ; in throat ; in swelling of epigastrium ; in perineum ; in small of back.
Smarting : in nose ; of vulva.
Soreness : in nose ; in throat.
Burning : megrim ; in eyelids ; in mastoid process ; in nose ; at stomach ; in right hypochonder ; in rectum ; on vertex ; of vulva.
Drawing : around the eyes ; inner canthus ; in jaws ; in uterus ; at pubes ; in right knee ; in limbs.
Tearing : from side of head through brain ; deep in brain ; in forehead, temples and vertex ; in teeth and ears ; in jaws ; neuralgia in face and head ; toothache.
Cramplike tearing : in bones of wrists.
Pressure : in left temple ; in eyeballs ; in submaxillary glands ; in region of stomach ; to left of scrobiculum ; in the hypochondria ; in bladder ; in right testicle.
Aching : dull, heavy, in eyeball.
Bruised pain : in head ; in right testicle ; in uterus ; in limbs.
Weary pains : in right tarsal bones.
Undefined pain : in bones of head ; in nasal bones ; in liver and pit of stomach ; in heart.
Undefined : at lower part of spine ; in right elbow ; in lower part of back.
Beating : in forehead.
Uncomfortable feeling : in forehead.
Tension : in eyes ; in lower jaw ; in right testicle ; in neck.
Constriction : of chest.
Spasmodic sensation : about heart.
Twitching : in upper lid.
Jumping feeling : of the heart.
Paralytic feeling : in lower limbs ; in knees.
Heaviness : in abdomen ; in forearm.
Numbness : of limbs.
Dryness : in ears and nose ; in mouth.
Heat : in eyes ; in chest ; of head.
Itching : in eyelids ; in mastoid process ; of inner canthus ; in nose ; in right groin ; of the scrotum ; of palms ; of soles.

Tissues

Rheumatism appears on back, sacrum, hands and feet, after the heat is relieved.
Boring pains, mostly in the bones.
Crampy tearing pain in phalangeal bones and joints.
Arthritic deposits.
Bone pains at night.
Osteitis ; caries.
Ulcers after abuse of mercury, which attack bones.
Erethism or vascular fulness characterizes nearly all complaints ; thus ruddy with scrofula, vascular leukoma, congestive asthma, ebullitions, erections, congested kidneys and liver-all from hypertrophied heart.
Violent orgasm ; plethora.
Cancerous ulcers.
External parts become black.
Dropsy ; ascites ; albuminuria and heart affections (urine is clear and gold-colored).
Exostoses of skull and other bones.
Boring in bones ; caries especially after mercury ; pains drive to despair.
Corpulency ; fat about heart ; especially if nervous irritability is present.
Glands painfully swollen ; scrofula, ruddy complexion.
Adenitis.
Emaciation ; secondary syphilis ; also in melancholia.
Rheumatism, erratic ; attacking the heart.
Indurations.
Scrofula.
Arthrocace scrofulosis.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Has to seize and grasp left arm tightly during attack of palpitation.
Touch : aggravates boring pains in skull, pains in eyes, pains in swollen parotids, soreness of nasal bones and upper jaw, soreness of gums, pains in testicles, soreness in inguinal region.
Rubbing : causes blotches on leg to feel like thick nodosities.
Pressure : aggravates eye symptoms.
Riding : produces palpitation.
Lifting : causes prolapse of uterus.
After a fall : swelling in groin.

Skin

Jaundice with greenish-brown urine and costiveness for twelve days.
Skin dark yellow. θ Jaundice.
Patches of a brown hue and some like albugo. θ Old age.
(In sick :) Violent itching, first in soles of feet and then over whole body, from evening till midnight.
Fine papular eruption on face.
Deep ulcers, affecting bones ; after abuse of mercury.
Small and large blotches, stinging burning, feeling like hard knots, of a dirty yellow color ; less in-doors than in open air.
Indurations under skin on leg, over heel and behind knee, itching violently.
Warts, scrofulous, syphilitic, mercurial.

Stage of life, constitution

Sanguine people, with black hair and dark eyes, lively, restless, anxious disposition ; disposed to feel anxious about the future.
Headache of people with black hair, dark, olive brown complexion ; disposed to constipation ; sad, gloomy, taciturn.
Constitutions broken down by combined influence of syphilis and mercury.
Had syphilis ten years ago. θ Hemiopia.
Low-spirited, lifeless pining boys, their memories bad, lacking altogether in boyish go. See 22 .
Carbo-nitrogenoid constitution.
Females : nervous cough ; hysteria.
Girls at puberty.
Often indicated with old people ; weak vision ; corpulency, etc.
Scrofula ; light-haired ; sanguine temperament ; ruddy complexion.
Syphilitic and mercurial patients.
Man, æt. 34, troubled with headache and hemorrhoidal complaints, now tired of life.
Man, æt. 35, sanguine, nervous, strong ; after gonorrhœa. θ Melancholy.
Woman, æt. 55, after third week of rheumatic fever. θ Endocarditis.
Woman, æt. 70, oppression of heart.
Man, æt. 85, oppression of heart.
Man, æt. 63, florid complexion, sanguine temperament. θ Melanosis of eye.
Man, æt. 52, whisky drinker. θ Decrease of vision.
In spite of daily use of whisky, and not abstaining from its use, got well. θ Hemiopia.

Relations

Similar to : Amm. carb . (chest, heart) ; Arg. met., Arg. nitr., Arsen., Asaf . (pains about eyes ; but Asaf. has relief from pressure ; caries from mercury) ; Bellad.,
Capsic . (caries of mastoid ; corpulency) ; Calc. ostr . (leucophlegmatic, corpulent ; gold has more oversensitiveness and erethism) ; Calc. phosph., Coccul . (empty feeling) ; Cinchon.,
Coffea (hyper-excitation) ; Cuprum (asthma) ; Digit . (heart ; inclined to activity) ; Ferrum (hyperemia) ; Glonoine
(hyperemia of lung from heart) ; Hepar, Iodum, Kali bichr . (deep ulcers, scrofulous ophthalmia, ozæna, secondary syphilis) ; Kali carb., Kali hydr . (secondary syphilis ; mercurial affections of bones and
periosteum) ; Kali brom . (anguish at heart and desire to move about) ; Laches., Lycop., Mercur., Nitr. ac., Nux vom . (hernia, prolapsed uterus) ; Pallad . (uterine
symptoms) ; Platina (uterine symptoms) ; Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr., Silic., Sepia, Sulphur, Tarantul . (heart as if turned around ; hysteria) ; Thuya
(condylomata) ; Ver. vir . (heart).
After Kali bichr . had been given in vain, Aur. fol . cured ozæna, and caries of nasal bones.
Antidotes to Aurum : Bellad., Cinchon., Coccul., Coffea, Cuprum, Mercur., Pulsat., Spigel., Sol. nigr .
Aurum antidotes : Mercur., Spigel .
Aur. met ., 2d trituration, from July 16th to 21st, twice a day, subsequently, once in four days for sixteen days, cured melanosis of eye, after Thuya, Carb. an., Conium, Bellad . and Arsen .
had failed.
Antidote to ill effects of mercury.
After having taken large quantities of iodide of potash. θ Hemiopia.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Mind

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.

Persons who have been repeatedly drugged with Mercury, have established upon themselves a mercurial disease, with enlargement of the liver, and this is almost always attended more or less by melancholy and sadness and such hopelessness as we find in Aurum.

Aurum produces such affections of the liver as are associated with cardiac affections, endocarditis, dropsy of the heart and rheumatic affections that have gone to the heart.

You will notice that wherever the affections are pre-eminently disturbed in mental, disease that there is either cardiac weakness, endocarditis, enlargement of the heart, or some organic or functional disease of the heart.

You will very often find a history of taking Mercury that has superinduced a rheumatic state that has been rubbed away with liniments until the heart is affected, and with this comes hopelessness, insanity of the will, disturbance of the affections.

Then it appears to spread in this remedy from the will to the understanding, and the intellectual portion of man becomes involved. Think what a state it is for a man who has been in good condition of health, respected in his business circles, to have a desire to commit suicide.

You will see other kinds of insanity and a breaking down or a state of feebleness of the intellect, he cannot think nor reason; his affections are practically intact, but he finally goes into a state of imbecility, or he becomes wild and commits suicide from impulse.

That is an instance where the intellect has been affected first and spread to the will. Sometimes this state comes on, and no disturbance in the man's intellectual nature has been observed; it is intact, it is sound.

He has been sound in his business affairs, he has been a good father, he has been observed by those around him to be intelligent, but he has silently brooded over his state and his hatred of the world; he has told nobody of it, and then, he has been found hung in his room.

The man's intellectual nature keeps the man in contact with the world; but his affections are largely kept to himself. A man can have affection for all sorts of things and perversion of the affections, but his intellect will guide him not to show his likes and dislikes to the world.

The affections cannot be seen, but man's intellect is subject to inspection. He cannot conceal his intellect. We shall see that the affections are interior, they are covered with a cloak, they are his innermost and are hidden from inspection; but the understanding is the outermost garment, it surrounds and hides his affections, just as does the garment he wears over the body hide the body. The affections that Aurum resembles are those like unto the very innermost nature of man.

"Ailments from grief, disappointed love, fright, anger, contradiction, mortification."

"Pain makes her desperate so that she would like to jump out of the window."

He meditates upon death, upon suicide; he wants to get out of the world, wants to destroy himself, has no love for his life which he thinks is worthless.

Bones and articulations

The remedy is full of rheumatic affections, not unlike such as are found in old mercurial cases; rheumatic affections with swelling of the joints; affections of the cartilages and bone, inflammation of the periosteum; thickening and induration of the periosteum. Indurations of glands; induration of the cartilages about the joints.

These are all of syphilitic and mercurial character. It is useful in old syphilitics when the bones are breaking down in any part of the body; the shin bones, nose bones, ear bones, any of the small bones.

Pains

Like syphilis and mercury, the complaints are aggravated at night, coming on in the evening and keep up all night. The pains are violent, they tear, the bones ache as if they would break, not in acute fevers but in old syphilitic bone troubles.

Knife-like pains in the periosteum. Pains in the joints rendering them immovable. Inflammation of the bone itself with caries.

It is not strange that the vascular coating of the bones, the periosteum, should be greatly affected because there is a strange vascularity, all over the economy, in this medicine.

Veins

The veins are enlarged, in a state of congestion and inflammation, and friable. The veins become thickened and tumefied. The blood vessels pulsate all over the body.

"Erethism or vascular fullness characterizes nearly all complaints."

Fullness of the veins of the extremities; this goes on until swelling appears with weakness so that dropsy is prevalent throughout the remedy. Oedema of the extremities, with pitting upon pressure, which occurs in heart and liver affections.

A false state of plethora seems to exist in the body and finally turmoil and excitement occur. Violent orgasms in the body, sometimes demonstrated as violent heat, coming in flushes with excitement. Fidgetiness, feeling as if something dreadful were going to happen throughout the economy.

Then it settles into a state of quiescence for awhile and then this repeats itself. These violent orgasms come preparatory to the localization or establishment of some breakdown in the economy.

At times it is a cardiac affection, with marked oppression behind the sternum with dyspnoea on walking fast for going upstairs.

Endocarditis will have this turmoil in the body; by and by, look for albumin in the urine, look for enlargement of the liver, look for signs of cancer of the uterus, and deep-seated affections.

"Boring in bones."

"Pains drive to despair."

The pains drive the patient out of bed at night and make him walk. This is seen in old syphilitic bone pains, and old mercurialized patients.

The patient has been taking Mercury all his life and his liver is enlarged, and his joints are enlarged. He goes to every doctor, with an endeavour to get relief from his distressing sufferings .

Mercury and disease are so mixed up that a great turmoil will result from your first prescription. He will go through these stages of violence and periodical attacks. You will have to know such medicines as Aurum, Chelidonium and Staphysagria to get this patient over these awful attacks which he is obliged to go through.

Glands

This medicine wonderfully affects the glands, the parotid glands, the glands about the groin, the lymphatics in the abdomen; in fact, the glands everywhere.

The mammary glands, the testes and ovaries, are involved, and undergo states of hardness, infiltration, etc.

Aurum, cures chronic enlargement of the testes, and lumps in the mammary glands. Tumors in these glands, of cystic character, have been cured by Aurum.

Hahnemann potentized Aurum and gave some of it to a patient, and it did not work, but he thoroughly triturated it until he got it to the fifteenth potency and then it worked and restored that patient to the bosom of his family.

Hahnemann says that in the earlier triturations the dose was yet too large to cure; so he went higher until it was sufficiently small to cure, sufficiently attenuated to go into the interior of the economy through the various envelopes of man.

There is one grand feature running through the Aurum state; it is the manner in which he is affected by temperature, and by the weather. Here are some symptoms that relate to the whole man, which must be examined in this connection.

"Desire for open air."

This patient ranks along with Pulsatilla as to temperature; but Aurum is not mild, gentle and yielding, he is obstinate, irascible, the very opposite of the Pulsatilla patient.

"Generally > growing warm." This is in connection with the headaches.

"Cold water ameliorates pain in eyes."

"Averse to uncover," but he desires open air like Pulsatilla.

"Warm air, asthma <."

Many symptoms disappear after washing, especially cold washing; but whenever the patient is suffering from great excitement, turmoil and vascularity, constitutional orgasm, pulsations, he wants the doors and windows open, wants to get out in the cool air; wants the clothing thrown off.

This state of excitement and pulsation is ameliorated by the open air. It has those flushes of heat so, common to women at the critical period, and these are followed by sweat, sometimes by chilliness.

Most that we have said of the remedy is about its general aspect, for everything about the mind is general.

Head

In Aurum the pain in the head is very intense, maddening, often accompanied by a sensation as if air were blowing upon him; he looks around to see where the draft comes from when there is none; extremely sensitive.

Often has to have the head wrapped up, although it feels hot, with a good deal of congestion and rush of blood to the head. The head is sore and feels bruised. Stitching, burning, tearing pains in the head; much throbbing in the head. The face is bloated, flushed and shiny with the congestive headaches.

These headaches are often found in syphilitic subjects; often associated with cardiac disease. Pain in the back of the head associated with cardiac disease, with sluggish circulation, purple face, duskiness of the skin. Exostoses as in syphilis.

The skull bones are sensitive to touch; the periosteum is tender to touch. In old mercurialized cases with bone affections and necrosis of the skull, as in syphilis and mercury, the hair falls out copiously; the head becomes bald.

Baldness due to syphilis; the scalp is left shiny and the hair will not grow in again. In acute diseases there is falling out of the hair, but it grows in again. But young syphilitics often lose the hair and remain bald all the rest of their life.

Eyes

There are disturbances of the eye, of a catarrhal character, even to the extent of ulceration and infiltration of the various coatings of the eye.

Iritis

great disturbance of the whole visual apparatus; some of the striking features I will read from the book, but remember the constitution that we must always have in view; remember the mental state, the mercurial and syphilitic states, the gouty tendency, and the complaints that belong to joints, remember the cardiac disturbances.

As we review the eye symptoms we thus see the constitution with which they are likely to be associated.

"Photophobia." Weak sight and eyes.

"By gaslight a number of bright, floating specks and dots are seen."

"Eyes ameliorated by moonlight."

"Large letters cannot be distinguished."

"Yellow, cresent-shaped bodies floating obliquely upward in field of vision."

"In upper dark section of field of vision occasional showers of bright, star-like bodies."

In Calcarea there is a queer symptom; he sees a sudden flash arise from the lower portion of the field of vision; it shoots up and divides, and then he sees stars in every direction. It is the appearance you will see sometimes in the shooting off of one of those rockets that explode and come down in a shower.

That has been observed in Calcarea.

"Hemiopia of the left eye."

And so it goes on with many of these peculiar things that can hardly be described except in the language of the text.

"Protruding eyes."

Protrusion of the eyes, such as occurs in exophthalmic goitre, with enlargement of the heart, has been cured by Aurum.

Enlargement of the thyroid gland with rapid and full pulse. Exophthalmic goitre has been cured by Aurum, Natr. mur.

"Starting, dreary look."

"Iritis marked by much pain around eye, which seems to be deep in bone."

Such a state would be likely to be produced by syphilis that had been treated with Mercury and Aurum would come in as an antidote to both the syphilis and the Mercury.

"Pupils irregularly dilated."

It has catarrhal states of the eye. It has inflammation of the conjunctiva, choroid, iris and retina.

Well, syphilis does this, taking hold of the eye in just this way and causing great infiltration.

Pains round about the eye; the thin plate bones, and the skull bones are all sensitive to pressure; the bones seem tender; periostitis; opacity of the cornea.

Ears

Syphilis often takes hold of the ear, affecting the bones of that organ.

"Caries of mastoid process, obstinate otorrhoea."

"Caries of the bones of the ear. "

"Parotids swollen, painful to touch, very sensitiveness to noises but music relieves".

Humming, buzzing and rushing in ears. Rushing like the rushing of wind and falling water.

"Annoying dryness in ears and nose."

This is all like the complaints to of syphilis, which are cured by Aurum, but Aurum also corresponds to and has cured many times otorrhoea following scarlet fever where there is even entire loss of the drum of the ear and loss of the bones.

Of course it does not restore hearing. Patients will come to you for car troubles, and you may find that the whole ear apparatus is destroyed; the mucous membrane and bones of the ear are all in a state of ulceration and necrosis and the discharge is foetid.

The patient consults you in order to have the hearing restored and it may not be possible; stops that ear discharge and restore the hearing are the only two things he thinks about.

If you go to-day to our ear specialists and speak about curing the patient, they would not know what you were talking about; the only thing that would be thought of would be the stopping of that ear discharge as quickly as possible.

They would examine the car to see whether it is intact or not; and if it is not, the hearing is of course gone and the stopping of the discharge is then all that is taken into consideration.

Homoeopathy teaches that the patient should be treated and the patient only, after which the organs and tissues become normal. The whole duty of the physician is to restore health to the patient. We have the nose specialists with their local applications.

These things will only bring on bone disease, and tubercular troubles; they stop the discharge from the nose, and of nature must have a vent somewhere and so she establishes a discharge in the chest; the trouble progresses from the mucous membranes into the lung, into the parenchyma of the lungs, and is often of a tubercular character, and then these men tell you the bacilli have come.

This is spurious science. Clean, healthy tissues are the only safeguard.

Nose

Aurum is full of nasal troubles, with foetid discharge. The bones of the nose necrose; syphilitic necrosis, the nose flattens down; the bones are discharged. You see these people walking about with flattened-down nose and if you get near enough to them the stench will be observed. They are nearly all syphilitics.

A few remedies have the power of curing this syphilitic nose condition; Aurum, Mercury and Hepar are three of them.

I have cured this state a number of times with Hepar. I once cured a man after the bones were completely softened, so that when the nose was handled it would bend right over; only a sort of cartilaginous structure held the nose in place. I gave that patient Hepar. It cured him of syphilis after he had been filled in vain with Mercury.

"Coryza, thick discharge, like white of egg."

"Mucous discharge from posterior nares in morning."

Tip of nose knobby, red, like Lach.; strawberry nose. Little knobs on the nose composed of varicose veins in heart cases, with disturbance of the right side of the heart; sometimes found in old drinkers and in heart affections generally.

Face

Face red and swollen. Aurum has cured epithelioma of the wing of the nose and lip. Remember the horribly offensive odor from the nose, loss of smell following pains in the nasal bones; nasal catarrh.

"Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils."

"Crusts in nose."

"Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza."

With nearly all of these nose affections, the patient is bowed down with sorrow, full of grief; black clouds hang over him and he wants to die. Loathing of life and wants to find some way to commit suicide.

"Puffy under eyes."

"Blue about nose and lips."

"Face glowing red. "

"Violent boring in right zygomatic process when walking."

"Carious teeth."

"Toothache at night."

"Foul breath."

"Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat."

"Boring in hard palate."

Liver

This medicine has cured craving for alcohol, the craving of drunkards.

Another marked feature of this medicine is its ability to harden, enlarge and inflame the liver; induration with cardiac affections; enlargement of the heart and liver.

When you take into consideration the venous system, the portal system and its close association with the heart in establishing the circulation of blood in the abdomen, and the work that it does in the abdomen as a great receiving apparatus, you will not be surprised to find that heart and liver affections are associated with hopelessness and despair.

Notice, on the other hand, something that will set you to thinking perhaps, in cases of phthisis, none of them is hopeless they think they are going to get well; the lungs are almost gone with tubercles, but he knows if he could only get up that little something out of the throat he would get well.

Notice then that peculiar relation between the lungs and the understanding, and between the heart and the will. With every little trouble located in the heart there comes hopelessness, but when the manifestation of disease is in the lungs there is hopefulness

Dropsical conditions of the abdomen.

"Inguinal hernia."

"Tabes mesenterica."

All of the glands of the body are involved more or less. All sorts of disturbances of the sexual organs.

"Testes indurated."

"Frequent nightly emissions."

Complaints as the result of vices.

"Hydrocele."

"Ulcers on scrotum after gonorrhoea."

"Burning and stinging in perineum."

"Condylomata around anus."

"Induration of uterus."

"Menses too late and scanty."

"Uterus prolapsed and indurated."

"Leucorrhoea thick white."

Complaints in the uterus and region of the pelvis from straining and reaching up the arms; abortion from reaching up at the windows and fixing a curtain, etc.

Aurum is a medicine that is suitable for induration of the uterus and ulceration of the uterus as a result of repeated abortions.

When you study the loss of affections that is involve in such a state and the affections or lack of affections that are found in Aurum you can see a deep well grounded similitude in the symptoms, and that is the way to hunt a remedy.

It is in the sphere of the physician to examine into this state of mankind in which he can destroy his offspring and to examine into the nature of remedies producing such a state.

We see in Aurum this entire perversion of all the loves of mankind, and finally their entire destruction.

The symptoms of asthma and of difficult breathing you would naturally expect to be associated with the cardiac affections.

Notice this also, that the difficult breathing is of two kinds, such breathing as involves the lung, and such breathing as involves the heart. So it we have an asthmatic condition of dyspnoea that is cardiac in character, and dyspnoea that is purely respiratory.

These are entirely distinct in character; one belongs to such remedies as have a predominance of action on the affections, and another belonging to those having a predominance of action on the intelligence; one will involve the lung and finally bring on emphysema; the other one is entirely different in its character, with irregular heart action, and only secondarily associated with emphysema.

Study your pathology with these things in mind and you will be able to perceive the nature of sickness and its results. These things are not mere observation, whims and theories, but are the outcome of studying things from internal to external.

in this remedy the pains wander from joint to joint and finally locate in the heart. Angina pectoris is often the ending of an old rheumatism that has wandered from joint to joint.

"Difficult breathing."

If the case goes on a little while, there will be blood spots, and if he lie on the right side the lower part will be dull on percussion and the upper part will be resonant. Palpitation with great agony. Extreme oppression in the region of the heart on walking fast and going upstairs with oedema of the lower limbs.