Belladonna bell.

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

Nerve centers. Brain. Blood-vessels. Capillaries. Mucous membranes: Eyes. Mouth. THROAT. Skin. Organs. Right side.

Worse

Heat: of sun; if heated. Afternoon (3 P.M.). DRAFTS; on head; hair cut (Glo.). Washing head. After taking cold. CHECKED SWEAT. LIGHT. NOISE. JARRING. Touch. Company. Pressure. Motion. Hanging down.

Better

Light covering. Bending backward. Rest in bed.

General

Plethoric, brainy. SUDDEN, VIOLENT EFFECTS. DRYNESS, BRIGHT REDNESS -streaked (Pho.)- AND BURNING HEAT; WITH GREAT PAIN; FULNESS OR SWELLING. CONGESTION: TO HEAD. Dilated arteries. Inflammation. Heat in body, parts, discharges, etc. CONSTRICTIONS. Parts are hot, swelled, red and dry. THROBBING, SHARP CUTTING, SHOOTING or clawing PAINS; of maddening severity; coming and going, in repeated attacks (Nit-ac.). Scant or hot discharges. JERKS. Shocks. TWITCHINGS. SPASM; of throat, vagina, etc.

Particulars

Over-active. Excited. WILDLY DELIRIOUS; ferocious, noisy, cries out. RESTLESS and talks fast. Tries to escape. Furibund. Biting mania. Violent delirium. THROBBING HEAD; < temples; < motion; > letting hair down. Brain rises and falls in waves. Rolls head. Pains go downward from head. HEAD SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS AND COLD, or washing hair. HAMMERING THROB. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Sunstroke. DILATED PUPILS. Prominent, sparkling eyes. Red sclerotic. Lurid, red, terrifying hallucinations; on closing eyes. Blind attacks; then yellow vision. Sees red. Flashes before vision. PHOTOPHOBIA. Red nose. Fiery RED, turgid, hot FACE, or alternately pale and red. DRY, HOT MOUTH AND THROAT (Pho. Rhus-t.). Toothache, > biting. Swelled tongue. Strawberry tongue. Urging to swallow, with choking. Drinks in sips. Must drink to swallow. Craves lemonade. Pain from stomach or liver to shoulder and throat, < lying on it. Cutting epigastric colic, > bending backward. Distended transverse colon. Clawing or downward forcing in abdomen. Acute prolapsus ani (Ars.). Stools contain chalky lumps. Enuresis on lying down; nocturnal. Fiery red urine. Early, profuse, hot (Sabi.), red, gushing menses. Rigid os. Metritis. Bearing down > standing,< lying. Red streaked mammæ. Dry cough. Barking voice. Stiff r. neck and shoulder in afternoon. Back feels broken. BRIGHT, RED, GLOSSY SKIN. Intense dermatitis. Scarlatina. Erysipelas. Sleepy, but can't sleep. Heavy, hot sleep. JERKS DURING SLEEP. Frightful dreams; of quarrels, fire, etc. Internal coldness with external, pungent, burning heat. HOT HEAD, with cold limbs (Sul.). Hot sweat. Skin hot, but moist and dry alternately. Spasm, then prolonged unconsciousness.

Related

Complementary: Calc-c. Hep. Merc. Related: Glo. Hyo. Stram.

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

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

Keynote

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delerious when sick. Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tuberculous patients. Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus - takes cold from exposure of feet, Con., Cup., Sil.). Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly (Mag. p.). Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; fulness of head and throbbing of carotids. Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs, wolves. Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations. Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell.). Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy; but cannot sleep (Cham., Op.). Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p.); come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold. Rush of blood to head and face (Amyl., Glon., Mel.). Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids (Met.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses. Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod.). Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of position. Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar. Pain in right ileo-coecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed- cover. The transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet. Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Lil., Mur., Sep.).

Relations

Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure. Similar: to, Acon., Bry., Cic., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Mel., Op., Stram.

Aggravation

From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright, shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 p. m.; night, after midnight; while drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.

Amelioration

Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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

General

Manifested under this drug is a remarkable quickness of sensation, or of motion; the eyes snap and move quickly; pains come and go with great celerity; a pain may have lasted for some time, then in a second it is gone; may commence suddenly, slowly increase in severity till the height is reached, then in a second be gone. Much twitching and jerking of the muscles. Dull and sleepy, awake and half asleep.

Mental

Dulness; delirious, with dulness; with raving and disposed to injure, strike, bite, etc.; calling to each other to kill them; also merry delirium. Moaning, it seems to relieve. Vertigo. Affections of the mind in general; of the intellect; fantastic illusions (brimful of fancies); imbecility; insensibility; madness. Memory quick; weak; lost.

Head

Sensation of heaviness. Forehead most sensitive. Shuts the eyes. Throbbing and stitches. Convulsive shaking and bending the head backward. Movements of; boring into the pillow; constantly moving it from side to side. Affections of the hair, which may split, or come out, or be hard and dry, etc. Apoplexy.

Eyes

Very red; much injected and even ecchymosed; diplopia; sees wrong side up; neuralgia. Lachrymation feeling like brine; dim sight. Eyeballs, sclerotic coat; pupils dilated; eyes water; eyebrows; eyelids; inner angles of the eye; ocular illusions, in strange things particularly objects look fiery, etc. Photophobia; paralyzed optic nerve; amaurosis; look is fixed; momentary loss of sight.

Ears

Paralyzed auditory nerve; hard hearing. Affections of the locality below the ears; stitches in and about the ears, parotids, etc.; noise in, particularly humming, roaring; tearing from above downward.

Nose

Bleeding of; pale blood from; smelling too sensitive; smelling too feeble; imaginary smells; foul imaginary smells. Pimples quickly filling with pus and covered with crusts. Fine stitches or tingling in tip of nose relieved by rubbing.

Face

Scarlet red; dark red; bluish red; changing colour frequently; very pale and suddenly red; colored like erysipelas. Distorted with the pain and suffering.

Mouth

Red mouth and fauces; gaping mouth; sensations under the jaw; articulations of the jaws; lock-jaws; puffiness of the lips; affections of corners of the lips. Palate. Gullet. Tongue, red on its edges and borders, white in its middle; not clean (furred); increase of saliva: diminution of saliva, thick and tenacious; papillæ red and swollen; trembling of; stammering speech. Hæmorrhage from mouth and nose. Lower teeth; grinding of; drawing in; with flushed face and red eyes.

Throat

Dryness in fauces and burning of tongue. Sore throat. Swelling in throat and tonsils. Difficult deglutition. Fluid returns by the nose; aversion to all liquids.

Chest

Aphonia; hoarse; croupy cough. Expectoration bloody; blood pale. Respiration oppressed; quick; slow; unequal; labored; with moaning. Tender chest and rattling of mucus. Fine, stitching, needly pains in. Bubbling sensation in region of heart.

Gastric

Sour taste. Eructations, empty gagging with inclination to vomit. Nausea; vomits bile and mucus. Violent hiccough; spasmodic eructations resembling hiccough. Loss of taste; putrid. Complete loss of appetite and aversion to food, especially to meat. Thirst; also great thirst and inability to drink a drop. Hard and painful pressure in stomach; after a meal or when walking, must walk very slowly and easily. Cramps in the stomach suddenly.

Abdomen

Inner lower belly (troubles in this locality are very characteristic). Cramp and colic-like pain in the abdomen, as if a hand had clutched some part, and was griping (squeezing) it with great force, causing great pain, or a feeling as if the nails (of the hand) were dug into the part; this sensation generally comes and goes very suddenly. Cutting pain, as if a knife was actually slicing the parts. Sensation as though the inner parts were distended. Dragging pain. Feels as if a hard body were pressing out of right inguinal ring. Constriction about umbilicus, as if a hard lump would form. Great sensitiveness of abdomen; dartings across.

Stool

Shuddering during; diarrhœa followed by tenesmus; vomiting after tenesmus; involuntary stools. Constipation.

Urine

Urine dark; yellow; lemon; gold color; pale; involuntary. Incontinence of urine in bed at night.

Sexual

Male: Testicles are drawn up; lancinations in. Seminal emissions with relaxed penis; total loss of sexual instinct. Female: Pain like labor pains as if pressing out through vulva; pressing followed by flooding; labor pains cease; pains in labor, coming and going very suddenly; labor pains too weak. Abortion. Metrorrhagia. Milk diminished or increased. Erysipelas of mammæ. Rigidity of os. Menstruation painful; blood of light color; bad smell. All affections of uterus.

Sleep

Pulsations of the blood vessels; may hear the pulsations of the blood vessels so loud when trying to sleep, as to be kept awake by it. Drowsy; stupid; sleepless; screams out; jumping; jerks; anxious; frightful; terrifying sleep, unrefreshing. Stupor like sleep; concomitant complaints to morbid sleep; sleeplessness, with drowsiness very characteristic.

Fever

Pulse full; hard; strong, bounding, double. Sensation of external and internal heat; heat of single parts; heat of outer or of inner parts. Congestion of blood to single parts. Shuddering in general. Perspiration; want of perspiration, Compound fevers in general; heat, with shuddering. Chills commencing in the back, pit of stomach, arms, spreading over; no thirst. During fever, thirst, drowsy, starting, delirium.

Skin

Burning of the skin, particularly when the hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been touched, very characteristic. Cutting of the skin as though "sliced" with a sharp knife. Desquamation of skin; pale; dry; red. Boils red, with sensation of heat, and feels hot to the hand. Exanthema; erysipelatous; flat; painful; peeling off; of scarlet color; smooth scarlatina, with swelling; phlegmonous erysipelas, swollen thick; red spots; swelling of the parts affected; sensation as if a part were swollen. Ulcers; cutting, hard, swollen red and angry looking. Warts, with red streaks.

Parts

All affections of the internal head, right side; right eye; right ear; face, right side; teeth, right side; mouth and fauces, left side; right hypochondria; right chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; general symptoms right side. Neck: glands of the neck, and lower jaw. Complaints pertaining to the back; foot; hollow of the knee; patella. Back: Pains in, can't lie, sit, or stand; sharp pain in, transfixes one on motion. Affections of glands, cervical, left axillary.

Sensations

Burning in inner parts; boring as if the parts would burst, or as if they were pushed or pressed asunder; of contraction of inner parts; cramp pains in muscles; dryness of inner parts, as of the throat, etc., as though the inner parts were falling, (particularly in females, through vulva); heaviness of the outer parts, jerking pain of the outer parts. Motion rendered difficult; sensation of motion; drawing from below upwards; vibration like dull tingling in the body; convulsive motion. Paralyzed inner parts. Pricking or darting in outer parts; darting from below upwards; darting in the bones. Convulsions in general; clonic; tonic.

Extremities

Upper: Creeping on limbs as of a mouse. Arthritic pains in joints; lameness of; sharp pains; dartings. Lower: Right hip-joint, can't lie on it; rising from seat very painful Lancinations in right thigh close above knee when sitting. Cramp pain in right knee; also bubbling sensation in.

Generalities

Concomitant complaints to cough. Milk increased. Apoplexy. Bleeding from inner parts; blood feels hot; with forcing pains; coagulates easily. Plethora. Chlorosis. Distension of the blood vessels. Dropsy of the inner parts. Epilepsy. Hydrophobia. Indurations after inflammations. Inflammation of the mucous membrane wherever occurring. Staggering when walking. Starting of the body. Swelling in general and of the parts affected. Inflammation of the glands; induration of the glands; glands painful, prickling, swelling, hot swelling of the glands. Pricking in the bones.

Worse

From the least jar of the bed or chair which aggravates the patient exceedingly; in the afternoon; in the evening; after taking cold; after having the hair cut; from draught of air; while drinking, often times the fluid will escape through the nose; applicable to the complaints of children; from looking at shining objects (puerperal convulsions will sometimes come on from looking at a shining object); looking at running water; after moving; after taking narcotics; sausages; suppressed perspiration; during pregnancy; on rising after scarlet fever; during sleep; from strong smells; from sun burning; from touching the parts; during walking; walking in the wind particularly; with women, especially in confinement; when shaking the head; from the head getting wet.

Better

On bending or turning the affected part; while reposing; while standing; while sitting up.

Remedies following well

Acon., Calc. carb., Hyosc., Laches., Moschus, Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidotes

Hyosc., Coffea.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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

Red line symptom

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them. Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping falling to the left or backwards, with vanishing of sight and flickering before the eyes. Intense throbbing headache, worse from noise light or jarring, and from leaning forward, better when bending backward. Face glowing red, hot and swollen. Tonsilitis, worse on right side, parts bright red, worse on swallowing liquids. Pharyngitis, and other throat affections characterized by intense hyperaemia and dryness of the parts, and tendency to spasmodic contraction. Pains, particularly in the abdomen and pelvis, come on suddenly, continue violently a longer or shorter time, and disappear as suddenly as they came. Tenderness of the abdomen is aggravated by the least jar of the bed or the chair on which she sits. She is obliged in walking to step with great care for fear of a jar. Peritonitis and other inflammation, of the abdominal viscera, characterized by great distension, and sensitiveness to touch and motion; extreme pungent heat and violent pain. Menorrhagia or metrorrhagia; blood bright red; in plethoric subjects. Dry cough from tickling in the larynx, usually worse in the evening after going to bed. Pulse accelerated, full and bounding, violent throbbing of the carotid and temporal. Wants to sleep but cannot. Takes cold in every draft of air, especially when uncovering the head, complains from having the hair out. Usually worse after 3 p. m., and again after midnight.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Deadly Nightshade

General

Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis). Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety or fear. Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid toxæmia. Use 1x (Beebe).

Mind

Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape. Loss of consciousness. Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses. Changeableness.

Head

Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.

Face

Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.

Eyes

Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated (Agnus). Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.

Ears

Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony-hearing one's voice in ear.

Nose

Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red face. Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.

Mouth

Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.

Throat

Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Œsophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.

Stomach

Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting.

Abdomen

Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc (Laches).

Stools

Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani (Ignatia; Podoph).

Urine

Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. Hæmaturia where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.

Male

Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.

Female

Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Hæmorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling hæmorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.

Respiratory

Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration (Cocaine; Opium). Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.

Heart

Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dichrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.

Extremities

Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.

Back

Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

Skin

Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.

Fever

A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxæmia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on head. No thirst with fever.

Sleep

Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep. Sleeps with hands under head (Ars; Plat).

Modalities

Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down. Better, semi-erect.

Relationship

Compare: Sanguisorba officinals 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceæ family, (Profuse, long-lasting menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head and limbs. Passive hæmorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hæmorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora--(Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos (less fever, more agitation); Stram (more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia-A Mexican drug, similar in action to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is often required after Bell; Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action (Great dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large. Platina opposite). Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated. Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.

Non-Homeopathic Uses.--Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the accommodation.

Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine. Physostigma and Prussic Acid. Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically.

Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for intestinal obstruction threatening life.

Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.

Atropia 1-20 gr is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.

Also used as a local anæsthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions, milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.

Dose

Atropia Sulph, 1-120 to 1-60 grain.

Antidotes to Belladonna: Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.

Complementary: Calc. Bellad (contains lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.

Incompatible: Acet ac.

First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

All acute inflammatory diseases present prominent head symptoms, pain, red puffed face, throbbing carotids and delirium, and spasms, or jerks and twitchings.

Eyes staring, red, blood-shot and pupils first contracted, then greatly dilated.

Mouth and throat very dry, red, sometimes greatly swollen; all mucous surfaces correspondingly dry and hot.

Pains appear suddenly, and after a while disappear as suddenly as they came.

Skin very red and hot, fairly radiates heat; burns the hand touching it, but sweats on covered parts.

Several inflammations which streak out in radii from a center.

Great liability to take cold; sensitive to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut (Hep.); tonsils swell after riding in a cold wind (Acon.).

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs and wolves.

Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar.

Pain in right ileo-cæcal region, < by slightest touch, even the bed covers.

Pressing downwards, as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; < standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (compare Lil., Mur., Sep.).

Tongue: Red and dry, with red edges and white coating in the middle; Papillæ bright and prominent, like scarlatina (Acon., Ant. t.), offensive, putrid taste in throat when eating or drinking, although food tastes natural.

We now come to consider what I call the trio of delirium remedies -Belladonna, Hyoscyamus and Stramonium. Many other remedies have delirium, but these three deserve to head the list. Belladonna may also be called pre-eminently a head remedy. In most complaints where this remedy is indicated head symptoms preponderate. The blood all seems to be rushing to the head. (Amyl nitrite, Glonoine, Melilotus). The head is hot while the extremities are cool. The eyes are red and blood-shot. The face is also red, almost purple red. The carotid arteries throb so as to be plainly visible. There is either great pain, pressure or sense of fullness, or an almost stupid condition. The wild, terrible delirium, if present, may be found with pain, or even with no complaint of pain. In delirium the patient "imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces and animals and insects." Fears all sorts of imaginary things and wants to run away from them; breaks out into fits of laughter or screams and gnashes his teeth; bites or strikes those around him; in short, Performs all sorts of violent acts and is controlled with great difficulty. No remedy has more presistently violent delirium than Belladonna. One of the characteristic features of Belladonna in delirium as compared with the other two remedies is the decided evidence already mentioned of a surcharge of blood in the brain. When the throbbing of the carotids, the heat, redness and congestion of face and conjunctiva go away, the delirium subsides in proportion. Belladonna may have delirium with pale face as its alternate, but it is the exception. Even the upper lip is congested and swollen.

In inflammations, which localize, Belladonna is in the first stage as often the leading remedy as any other. It does not make much difference where they localize, whether in head, throat, mammæ or elsewhere, if they come on suddenly, pursue a rapid course, are red, painful and especially throbbing. It is astonishing how many local inflammations, even a carbuncle or boil, will so disturb the general system and circulation, as to produce the general inflammatory fever, with the characteristic head symptoms calling for Belladonna, and no less astonishing how this remedy controls the whole condition, both local and general, when indicated. What! exclaims the believer in local applications, give Belladonna internally for a boil on the hand or foot? Yes, indeed, not only Belladonna, but Mercurius, Hepar Sulphuris, Tarantula Cubensis, and many others, and you will not have any need for local medication at all. It is only in the first or congestive or active inflammatory stage that this remedy is in place; but, if properly administered then, it will often abort the whole thing and never leave it to finish all its stages, or if not, so modify as to make it comparatively insignificant.

Belladonna is one of our best remedies in the diseases of children, even vieing with Chamomilla. They come suddenly, almost without warning. This sudden and intense onset of fever is sometimes duplicated in Cina cases, but there is helminthiasis in connection with it. Child is well one minute and sick the next, and one very characteristic symptom in these cases is, the child is very hot, with red face and semi-stupor, but every little while starts or jumps in sleep as if it might go into spasms. This condition is often found in children and then Belladonna is like "oil upon troubled waters." Remember Belladonna inflammations localize more than they do in Aconite. I drew the difference between these two remedies in inflammations and inflammatory fevers when writing upon Aconite. There is no use of confounding them. Some do so; but, in so doing, only exhibit their ignorance.

There are, in every remedy, symptoms of sensation, circumstance, constitution or modality which are peculiar both to diseases and remedies. These symptoms are not always easily accounted for. The attempt to explain them from a pathological standpoint is not always possible or even necessary were it possible. A simple acceptance of them as facts is often more sensible than to wait long to find the often unfindable. To act as a prescriber upon what we know is better than waiting, because we cannot explain or account for it. For instance, it is not easy to tell why "the pains of Belladonna appear suddenly and after a time disappear as suddenly as they come," while those of Stannum "gradually increase to a great height and as gradually decline," or Sulphuric acid "begin slowly and decline suddenly," or "gradually increase and suddenly cease " but so it is, and the acceptance of these facts enables the homœopathic prescriber to cure his patient, whether he can explain them or not. Guernsey says -"This medicine is particularly applicable, and in fact takes the lead over all others in cases in which quickness or suddenness of either sensation or motion is predominant." To be sure all these symptoms have their pathological explanation if we could give it; but, acting on our law of Similia, we can cure our patients and are not left at sea, without chart or compass, because we cannot explain. We know that these symptoms are the natural outcry of the pathological state, and that the administration of a poison which is capable of setting up a similar outcry cures the patient. What else is necessary? Either this is true, or Homœopathy is a humbug.

The simple fact, abundantly proven, that the remedy having the symptoms corresponding to the symptoms of the patient, cures him, no matter what the pathology, where a cure is at all possible, is one of the greatest discoveries of scientific investigation. Long live the name of Hahnemann the discoverer.

From out description thus far of this remedy you would expect it to be a good one for congestive headaches, and so it is, and not only so, but for neuralgic headaches. Throbbing pains, with the already described evidence of congestion of blood to the head. Belladonna headaches, whether congestive or neuralgic, are worse on stooping forward, bending downward, or lying down, anything that takes the patient out of the perpendicular. "Worse on lying down," in fact, seems to be a very reliable general characteristic. The elder Lippe once told me of a case of suspicious enlargement or swelling and pain of the breast of long standing, which, as he expressed it, seemed likely to prove a case for the surgeon (cancer), which was entirely cured by a few doses of Belladonna, to which he was guided by this symptom of the pains being so much worse on lying down. Since then I have observed and verified this symptom in many cases of different kinds. I will not stop to give all the symptoms that might be present in Belladonna headaches.

No remedy has greater affinity for the throat. The burning, dryness (Sabadilla), sense of constriction (constant desire to swallow to relieve the sense of dryness, Lyssin), with or without swelling of the palate and tonsils, is sometimes intense. I once witnessed a case of poisoning in which these symptoms were terribly distressing.

There are two very characteristic symptoms in the abdominal region, viz.: "Tenderness of the abdomen, aggravated by the least jar, in walking, or stepping, or even the bed or chair, upon which she sits or lies "; and "pressure downward as if the contents of the abdomen would issue through the vulva, < mornings." This last symptom is found under other remedies, notably Lilium tigrinum and Sepia. With Belladonna there is often associated with this pressure downward a pain in the back "as if it would break." "Starting and jumping, " or "twitching in sleep," or on going to sleep is characteristic.

So also is "sleepy, but cannot sleep," and "moaning during sleep."

With Belladonna the head likes wrapping up or covering, takes cold when it is uncovered or from cutting the hair (Silicea). (Glonoine; can't bear hat on).

Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness of the skin, so hot that it imparts a burning sensation to the hand of one who feels of it, is very characteristic (H. N. Guernsey).

Convulsions with other symptoms of Belladonna are very frequently found under this remedy.

I have here endeavoured to give an outline of this great remedy. A volume might be profitably written upon its virtues. No one remedy would be more greatly missed than this, if it were to be expunged from our great Materia Medica, but we must leave it here and proceed to notice.

Modalities

Modalities: < after 3 P. M. or after midnight from uncovering, or draft of air, and lying down; > from covering and head high.

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Mind and Disposition

Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape. Stupefaction, with congestion to the head ; pupils enlarged -delirium. Loss of consciousness. Fantastic illusions (when closing the eyes). Rage, madness, disposition to bite, to spit, to strike and to tear things. Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking. Delirium, with frightful figures and images before the eyes.

Head

Vertigo, with stupefaction, vanishing of sight and great debility. Vertigo, with anguish, and falling insensibly on the left side, or backwards, with flickering before the eyes, especially when stooping, and when rising from a stooping posture. Congestion of blood to the head, with external and internal heat ; distended and pulsating arteries, stupefaction in the forehead, burning, red face ; worse in the evening -when leaning the head forward, from the slightest noise, and from motion. Stupefying stunning headache, extending from the neck into the head, with heat and pulsation in it ; worse in the evening, and from motion ; better when laying the hand on the head, and when bending the head backward. Boring headache in the right side of the head ; changing to stitches in the evening. Pressing headache, as if the head would split, pupils contracted, voice faint. Periodical nervous headache, every day from 4 P.M., till 3 A.M., aggravated by the heat of the bed, and when lying down. Jerks in the head, especially when walking fast, or when ascending steps ; better from external pressure. Inflammation of the brain, with burning and pulsation in the head ; first in the cerebellum, then in the forehead, and later in the whole head -blood-vessels on the head and neck enlarged, shaking with the head or boring in the pillows ; worse in the evening, and when lying. Hydrocephalus, with boring with the head in the pillows ; sensation as if water were moving in the head ; worse in the evening and when lying ; better from external pressure, and from bending the head backwards. Headache, from taking cold in the head, and from having the hair cut. Headache, worse on the right side. Headache, aggravated by moving the eyes, by shaking the head, when lying down, from a draft of air ; relieved by sitting up, leaning the head backward, from pressing the head with the hands. External heat and soreness of the head. Smooth, erysipelatous, hot swelling, first of the face, then extending over the whole head, with stupefaction or delirium ; violent headache, red, fiery eyes. Stitches in the bones of the neck. Convulsive shaking and bending of the head backwards. Boring the head into the pillow. Profuse, pungent-smelling perspiration, especially on the covered parts, while the body is burning hot.

Eyes

Congestion of blood to the eyes, and redness of the veins. Heat in the eyes-distention of the sclerotica. Yellowness of the whites of the eyes. Eyes sparkling, red, glistening, or dim. Look, wild, unsteady, wavering. Continued lachrymation (tears sharp and salty). Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the eyes. Photophobia, or photomania. Ectropium. Blindness at night (moon-blindness). Things look red. He sew sparks of fire. Diplopia. Squinting. Paralysis of the optic nerve.

Ears

Inflammation of the external and internal (right) ear, with discharge of pus. Stinging in and behind the ears. Humming and roaring in the ears. Paralysis of the auditory nerves. Inflammatory swelling of the parotid glands -stitches in the parotid gland.

Nose

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the external nose. Bleeding of the nose, with redness of the face. Over-sensitiveness of the sense of smell. Putrid smell from the nose.

Face

Purple, red, hot face, or yellow color of the face. Face pale, sunken, with distorted, anxious countenance. Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Convulsive motions of the muscles of the face and mouth. Spasmodic distortion of the mouth (risus sardonicus). Erysipelatous swelling of the face. Semilateral swelling of the face. Nervous prosopalgia, with violent, cutting pains. Lips dark red, swollen, indurated. Swelling of the upper lip. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Mouth half open, or spasmodically closed by lock-jaw. Stitches in the articulations of the jaws. Swelling and inflammation of the sub-maxillary glands.

Teeth

Toothache, drawing and tearing up into the ear, with swelling of the cheek ; worse in the evening and at night ; aggravated by the cold air, by contact, while masticating, by mental exertion. Grinding of the teeth. Swelling of the gums, with burning heat and stinging.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst. Inflammatory swelling and redness of the inner mouth and soft palate. Tongue hot, dry, red, cracked ; or only red on the edges, with white coating on the middle ; coated white or brown, or covered with mucus. Inflammatory swelling of the tongue, painful to the touch. Heaviness of the tongue, with difficulty in talking. Stuttering. Speaks through the nose speechlessness. Hæmorrhage from the mouth.

Throat

Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of a lump, which induces hawking, with dark redness and swelling of the velum palate ; and pudendum. Burning and dryness in the œsophagus. Stinging in the œsophagus, in the tonsils ; worse when swallowing, and when talking. The œsophagus feels contracted, spasms in the throat not permitting one to swallow, the drink swallowed is discharged through the nostrils. Continual inclination to swallow. Tonsils inflamed, swollen, ulcers rapidly forming on them.

Appetite and Taste

Loss of taste. Taste bitter, insipid, sour (bread) or sticky, slimy taste in the mouth. Excessive burning thirst, with constant desire to drink, drinks hastily ; or aversion to drink, or inability to swallow. Aversion to meat, acids, milk, beer.

Stomach and Abdomen

Bitter eructations. Gulping up of food. Vomiting, of water ; of mucus ; of acid ; of bile ; of blood. Empty retching. Painful pressure in the pit of the stomach and stomach, especially after eating. Spasms of the stomach. Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to the touch. Colic, with restlessness, below the umbilicus, as from clutching and griping with the nails, worse from external pressure. Flatulent colic, (with protrusion of the transverse colon, like a pad), ameliorated by bending forwards and by external pressure. Stitches in the left side of the abdomen when coughing, sneezing, and touching it.

Stool and Anus

Stool in lumps, like chalk. Frequent small diarrhœic stools of mucus. Thin, green stools, with frequent micturition and perspiration. Dysenteric stools. Involuntary evacuations. Before stool, perspiration. During stool, shuddering. Spasmodic stricture of the rectum. Paralysis of the sphincter ani. Stinging pain in the rectum.

Urine

Retention of urine. Difficult discharge of urine, (and then discharge of a few of bloody urine only). Urine scanty, fiery red, dark, turbid. Continuous dropping of urine. Paralysis of the sphincter vesicæ. Strictures of the urethra.

Sexual Organs

Men. Inflammation of the testicles, great hardness in the, drawn-up testicles. Women. Great pressing in the genital organs, as if every thing would protrude. Spasmodic contraction of the uterus. Labor-pains too distressing, spasmodic, -too weak, or ceasing. After-pains. Congestion and inflammation of the uterus and labia. Prolapsus and induration of the uterus. Stitches in the organs. Dryness of the vagina. Metrorrhagia, blood clotted, with violent pain in the small of the back, and bearing down. Puerperal fever, nymphomania. Catamenia too early and too profuse. Menstrual blood of bright color, or of a bad smell. Lochial discharges in clots, and of bad smell.

Larynx and Trachea

Larynx very painful, with anxious starts when touching it. Constriction of the trachea. Voice rough, with a nasal sound. Hoarseness, loss of voice. Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx, with headache ; redness and heat in the face. Cough, with stitches in the chest, in the lumbar region, as the hip, in the uterus, -pain in the sternum, with tightness of the chest,- with rattling of mucus on the chest. Dry, spasmodic cough, with vomiturition, especially after midnight. Barking cough. Hooping-cough, with crying, or pain in the stomach before the attack, with expectoration of blood, (pale or coagulated), congestion of blood to the head, sparks before the eyes, spasms in the throat, bleeding from the nose, stitches in the spleen, involuntary stool and urine, oppressed breathing, stiffness of the limbs, shaking of the whole body, and general dry heat. The cough is renewed by the least motion, (especially at night).

Chest

Breathing labored, unequal, quick, with moaning. Vehement expirations. Feeling of suffocation when swallowing, or when touching and turning the neck. Oppression of the chest in the morning when rising, cannot breathe in the room, better in the open air. Congestion to the chest. Stitches in the chest, especially when coughing or yawning. Violent palpitation of the heart, reverberating in the head. Mammæ swelled, inflamed or indurated. Flow of milk.

Back

Stiffness of the neck. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck. Intense cramp-pain in the small of the back and the os coccyx ; he can only sit for a short time.

Extremities

Upper. Arms heavy, as if paralyzed. Scarlet redness and swelling of the arms and hands. Painful twitchings, spasms and convulsions in the arms and hands. Lower. Coxalgia, with stinging pain or burning in the hip-joint ; worse at night ; aggravated by the least contact. Involuntary limping. Heaviness and paralysis of the legs and feet. Tottering walk -when rising from bed in the morning, the legs refuse their service. Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Generalities

Over-excitability of all the senses. Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in children, during dentition. St. Vitus's dance. Epileptic spasms. Renewal of the spasms by the least contact, or from the glare of light. Hydrophobia. Full habit (plethora). Congestions (head, lungs). Apoplexia. Burning in the inner parts. Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one place to another.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Somnolence -stupor- lethargy (with snoring). Fearful visions, when closing the eyes to sleep. Starting, when closing the eyes, or during sleep, as in a fright. Dreams anxious-night-mare. Sleep, with moaning and towing about.

Fever

Pulse. Pulse accelerated, often full and hard, tense occasionally soft and small ; if glow, the pulse is full. Chilliness in the evening, especially on the extremities (arms) with heat of the head. Cold limbs, with hot head. Chilliness not relieved by the heat of the stove. Chilliness as soon as he moves under the cover. Internal and external burning heat, with restlessness. Continuous dry, burning heat, with perspiration only on the head. Internal heat, with restlessness ; hot forehead and cold cheeks. Dry heat, with thirst, and perspiration only on the head and neck (sour smelling). Perspiration exclusively on the covered parts, during sleep, ascending from the feet to the head.

Skin

Dry, burning-hot skin. Smooth, even, shining (not circumscribed) redness of the skin, with bloatedness, dryness, heat, burning, itching and swelling of the parts (especially face, neck, chest, abdomen and hands). Erysipelatous inflammations. Scarlet-red rash (over the whole body). Miliary eruptions. Vesicular eruptions, with scabs, white edges and œdematous swellings. Boils (returning every spring). Glands swelled, inflamed, painful, stinging. Bleeding soreness of the bends of the joints. Ulcers, with burning pain when touching them.

Conditions

Indurations, after inflammation. Liability to take cold, with great sensitiveness to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head. Bad effects from valerian, mercury, china and opium. Aggravation, in the afternoon, and after midnight ; on moving ; from touching the parts even softly ; on walking in the wind ; from a draft of air ; on looking at shining or glistening objects ; while drinking. Amelioration, on bending the affected part backwards or inwards ; from leaning the head against something ; while standing.

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General

Atropa Belladonna. Deadly Nightshade. (Greece, Italy, Britain.) N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.

Clinical

Abscess. Acne. Amaurosis. Apoplexy. Bladder weakness. Boils. Brain, affections of. Bronchial glands, disease of. Carbuncle. Colic . Constipation. Convulsions. Cough. Croup. Delirium tremens. Depression . Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Ear, affections of . Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Erythema. Excitement. Eye, affections of. Fear, effects of. Glandular swellings. Goître . Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hydrocephalus. Hydrophobia. Hyperæmia. Influenza. Kidney, affections of. Lung, affections of. Malignant pustule. Mania. Measles. Meningitis. Menstruation. Mouth affections. Mumps. Neuralgia. Nose, affections of. Nyctalopia . Nymphomania. Paralysis. Parametritis. Perichondritis. Perimetritis. Peritonitis . Phlegmasia alba dolens. Pleurisy. Pneumogastric paralysis. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of . Puerperal mania. Rheumatism. Roseola. Scarlatina. Sensitiveness. Sleep, disorders of. Smell, disordered. Strangury. Taste, disordered. Tenesmus. Testicles, affections of. Thirst. Throat, sore. Tongue, affections of. Tuberculosis. Ulcers. Uterine affections. Vaccinia. Vertigo. Whooping-cough . Worm fever.

Characteristics

Belladonna acts primarily on the brain, and Teste very acutely explains the diversity of its action on men and animals by suggesting that it acts with an intensity proportionate to the brain development. On goats and rabbits it has no poisonous action whatever. On carnivorous animals it acts with moderate intensity. On man it acts with highest intensity. But on idiots, as Hufeland mentions, it has no more action than it has on some of the carnivora. An enormous number of the symptoms of Bell . are developed in and from the head and sensorium. Conformably with this, the pains of Bell . run downwards, i.e ., away from the head. ( Silic . and Gels . have a pain running up the back). To understand aright the action and uses of this great medicine it is necessary to bear in mind some leading features which characterise its action in all parts of the organism. But before alluding to these I will briefly refer to its correspondence to scarlatina. Cases of Belladonna poisoning have frequently been mistaken for cases of scarlatina. But it is the smooth form only, these presenting a smooth, even, red surface that come under its controlling action and prophylaxis. When such an epidemic is about, any one who may be exposed to infection may obtain almost certain immunity by taking Belladonna two or three times a day.

The several points to be remembered about Belladonna are that it is a medicine which has great general sensitiveness and also sensitiveness of the special senses ─ sensitive to light; to slightest noise; to motion or jar as when someone touches the bed. This is one feature which renders Bell . so appropriate in hydrophobia. It is a chilly medicine; sensitive to changes from warm to cold, to draught of air, to damp weather, to chilling from having the head uncovered, or having the hair cut ; better from being wrapped up warmly in a room. Under this drug there is a remarkable quickness of sensation, or of motion; the eyes snap and move quickly. The pains come and go suddenly no matter how long they may last. They are in great variety, but throbbing, burning, and stabbing are very characteristic: " stabbing from one temple to the other."

The great intensity and variety of the head pains has caused Bell . to be regarded as the headache medicine par excellence . Congestion of blood to the head. Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in the morning, also when walking and on every change of position. Headache with flushed face and brilliant eyes, dilated pupils. Feeling in brain like swashing of water. Throbbing, pulsating headache, with beating arteries and violent palpitation of the heart. It has cured a very severe headache in a nervous man occurring whenever he was exposed to tobacco smoke. In the mental sphere are mania; rage; disposition to bite, scratch and tear things. Fantastic illusions when closing eyes. Dull and sleepy; half asleep and half awake. Spasms and twitchings are very marked. Many disorders of vision. Heat, redness and burning are three great characteristic notes of Bell ., and are constantly cropping out in the pathogenesis. The face is purple, red, and hot, or yellow. Redness and pallor alternate. The mouth is exceedingly dry without thirst. Stinging in œsophagus, < swallowing or talking. Œsophagus feels contracted. Sensation of a hand clutching intestines. Stool in lumps like chalk. Spasmodic contraction of anus; obstinate constipation. Bleeding piles; back pains as if breaking. The menstrual flow is hot; of light colour; or bad smell. Cough short, dry, tickling, similar to cough of Rumex and Phos . Whooping-cough; with crying or pains before the attack; flushed face; nose-bleed and bloody expectoration; sparks before eyes; stitches in spleen; involuntary stool and urine. Paralysis of lungs and heart (vagus nerve). Violent palpitation of heart. Stitches in chest. Swelling of breast with bright red streaks radiating from centre of inflammation. Rheumatism < by motion. Sweat on covered parts only.

A striking picture of Bellad . is sometimes seen in cases of worm-fever. A case (æt. 3, pale, feeble child) reported by Lutze had the following symptoms: Awakened, or at least sits up at night in bed screaming, cannot be pacified; wets bed at night; passes worms now and then; cheeks and ear-tips brilliant scarlet, other parts of face, especially round mouth, white as snow; eyes brilliant, staring; pupils dilated. Skin dry and hot like fire. On being spoken to coaxingly flew into a violent rage. Cina 200 had ameliorated. Bell . cm. and m. cured permanently.

Bell . is a great children's remedy, not less important than Cham . Complaints come suddenly; hot, red face, semi-stupor, every little while starting or jumping in sleep as if it might go into convulsions. A very general characteristic of Bell . is < on lying down. It refers to headache and all kinds of inflammatory affections. Some characteristic symptoms are: "Tenderness of abdomen, < by least jar." "Pressing downward as if contents of abdomen would issue through vulva, < mornings; often associated with pain in back as if it would break." Starting, twitching, or jumping in sleep. Moaning in sleep. "Sleepy, but cannot sleep." The characteristic skin of Bell . is: "Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness, so hot that it imparts a burning sensation to the hand of one who feels it." "Sweat on covered parts only" is also a marked symptom of Bell .

A number of cases of poisoning have been reported from application of Belladonna plasters to the skin, classical symptoms of the drug being produced and no little danger to life. One practitioner was warned by his patient that she could not tolerate a Belladonna plaster, but he, thinking there must have been a mistake, and that cantharides must have been in the plaster she had formerly used, had one made up under his own eyes and applied it himself. In less than one hour there was an unbearable pain and when the plaster was removed the surface was found to be blistered.

A case of poisoning reported in the Medical Press (September 9, 1891) brings out the profound and long-lasting effects of the drug. Three children, aged 7, 5, and 3 1/2, ate a number of the berries. Three days after, a doctor saw them. The condition of the eldest was as follows: pupils dilated to maximum and insensitive to light; pulse frequent; breathing feeble and hurried; skin dry, bright red; temperature lowered; extremities and face cold; urination and defecation suspended. Co-ordination was lost ; the patient staggered as if drunk and acted like a mad person. When asked his name he would shout as loud as he could, falling backwards with his hands in the air, his legs slightly bent as if about to sit down on a low stool, and then tumble on the floor. When raised from the ground and seeing his friends again he began to talk without ceasing, laughing, and singing local melodies in a boisterous manner. Suddenly his whole demeanour would change in to a melancholic depression of agony; he would look blank and wild on all around. He would instantly jump up, run at the wall, and endeavour to spring on the highest articles in the room with the strength of a wild animal, and it was with difficulty that his movements could be controlled.

The youngest of the three lay depressed, in a soporific condition, eyes closed, skin cold, limbs powerless. Pupillary reaction, tendon and muscular reflex were almost gone, whilst the sense of heat and cold still remained. On shouting loud in his ear, he slowly tried to open his eyes in wonder; when shaken and put on his feet he made two or three steps backward as his elder brother and fell senseless on the floor. The second eldest lay in a deep sleep, face cyanotic; skin of extremities and part of body dry and cold; breathing feeble, pulse scarcely perceptible. Loudest crying, or shaking could not rouse him; feeling and reaction lost. Washing out the stomach was effected in the eldest, but no evidence of the berries was obtained in that way. A long injection tube was inserted into the rectum and irrigation with hot and cold water alternately was carried out, with the object of exciting peristalsis. This was successful. Besides a great quantity of black-brown masticated fruit with skins and seeds, broken berries were found to the number of 28 in the case of the eldest, 39 in the second, and 37 in the youngest. Pilocarpin and morphia were injected in the case of the eldest, and camphor subcutaneously in the other two. The skin was rubbed, warm applications administered and rectal injections of milk, egg and brandy.

Nothing was heard of the children till "June of the present year" (1891), [the date of the poisoning is not stated, but it was probably the previous autumn] when the children were brought to the doctor by their father. They all looked pale and feeble; the pupils contracted slowly, and all were sensitive to light. The eldest was irritable and desponding. In the other two hearing and speech were almost gone. The almost. absolute deafness in these cases is noteworthy in connection with Dr. Cooper's cure of a very chronic case of deafness with single drop doses of Bell Ø.

Bell . is predominantly (but by no means exclusively) a right-side medicine: all affections of internal head, right side right eye; right ear right face; right teeth; right hypochondrium right chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; mouth and fauces left side. It is suited to plethoric persons with red face; and to conditions where there is local plethora, that is, inflammatory states with pain, throbbing, shiny redness as in acute gout. Symptoms are < afternoon; 3 p.m.; 11 p.m.; after midnight; during the night and not at all in the day; morning. By touch; draught of air; cold applications; having hair cut; looking at shiny things; drinking; sleeping; lying down; lying on affected side. > Bending affected part backwards or inwards; leaning head against something; standing; by warmth. Bell . is suited to the bilious, lymphatic temperament. Light hair and complexion, blue eyes. It grows in dry limestone soils and is the acute correlative of Calc. c.

Relations

Bell. must be compared with the other Solanaceæ: Caps., Dulc., Lycopers., Hyos., Stramonium and the alkaloids Atropia and Solania. Antidotes: To effects of large doses, Vegetable acids, infusion of galls, or green tea, Coffea., Hyoscy; to effects of small doses, Camph., Coff., Hep., Hyo., Op., Puls., Sabad. (salivation), Vinum. It antidotes: Aco., Arum t., Atrop., Chi., Cup., Fer., Hyo., Jaborandi, Merc., Op., Plat., Plumb., sausage poisoning; oil of turpentine. It follows well: Ars., Cham., Hep., Lach., Merc., Phos., Nit. ac., Cup. Is followed well by: Chi., Cham., Con., Dulc., Hep., Hyo., Lach., Rhus, Seneg., Stram., Valer., Verat. Similar to: Acon., Alcohol (merry craziness); Ars. (pains of cancer); Bry. (rheumatism < by motion. In pleurisy and pneumonia it is distinguished from Bry. in that it has < lying on affected side whilst Bry. has the opposite); Calc. c., Cham., Cicut., Coff., Cup., Eupat. purp. (diuresis and vesical irritation, but Eupat. has more hyperæmia and vesical inflammation); Gels., Hep., Hyo., Lach., Lil. tig. (Lil. has > by motion; Bell. < by motion), Merc., Nux v., Op., Puls., Rhus, Stram. (rage), Tereb., Verat.; Arn. (whooping cough). Complementary: Calc. c. Incompatible: Vinegar.

Causation

Hair-cutting. Head, getting wet. Sausages. Sun. Wind, walking in.

Mind

Melancholy, with grief, hypochondriacal humour, moral dejection, and discouragement. ─ Great agitation, with continual tossing about, inquietude, and anguish, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon, sometimes with headache and redness of face. ─ Desire to die, and inclination for suicide. ─ Lamentations, groans, cries, and tears. ─ Perversity, with tears (in children). ─ Timidity, disposition fearful, mistrustful, and suspicious; apprehension and inclination to run away. ─ Fear of approaching death. ─ Mental excitation, with too great sensibility to every impression, immoderate gaiety, and disposition to be easily frightened. ─ Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape. ─ Dotage, delirium, and mania, with groaning, disposition to dance, to laugh, to sing, and to whistle; mania, with groans, or with involuntary laughter; nocturnal delirium; delirium with murmuring; delirium, during which are seen wolves, dogs, fires, &c.; delirium by fits, and sometimes with fixedness of look. ─ Stupefaction, with congestion to the head; pupils enlarged. ─ Delirium. ─ Great apathy and indifference, desire for solitude, dread of society and of all noise. ─ Repugnance to conversation. ─ Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking. ─ Ill-humour, disposition irritable and sensitive, with an inclination to be angry and to give offence. ─ Folly, with ridiculous jesting, gesticulations, acts of insanity, impudent manners. ─ Fury and rage, with desire to strike, to spit, to bite, and to tear everything, and sometimes with growling and barking like a dog. ─ Dejection and weakness of mind and body. ─ Dread of all exertion and motion. ─ Loss of consciousness. ─ Fantastic illusions (when closing the eyes). ─ Dementia, to such an extent as no longer to know one's friends, illusions of the senses and frightful visions. ─ Complete loss of reason, stupidity, inadvertence, and distraction, inaptitude for thought, and great weakness of memory. ─ Memory: quick; weak; lost.

Head

Confusion of the head, cloudiness, and apparent intoxication, chiefly after eating or drinking, or else in the morning. ─ Apoplexy. ─ Fits of vertigo, with tottering, swimming in the head, dulness, giddiness, nausea, trembling of the hands, anxiety; sparks before the eyes, chiefly in the morning on getting up, on standing upright, or on stooping. ─ Vertigo with anguish, and falling with loss of consciousness, or with weariness and fatigue before and after the attack. ─ Vertigo, with stupefaction, vanishing of sight and great debility. ─ Vertigo, with anguish and falling insensibly on the l. side, or backwards, with flickering before the eyes, esp. when stooping, and when rising from a stooping posture. ─ Stupor and loss of consciousness, so as to know one's friends only at most by the hearing, sometimes with pupils dilated and mouth and eyes half open. ─ Fulness, heaviness, and violent pressure on the head, chiefly on the forehead, above the eyes, and nose, or on one side of the head, and sometimes with giddiness, stupor, and sensation as if the cranium were going to burst, or with ill-humour and groans, drawing up of the eyelids and desire to lie down. ─ Sensation of inflation and pressive expansion in the brain. ─ Sharp, tractive, and shooting pains in the head. ─ Dartings into the head, as if from knives. ─ Violent throbbings in the head. ─ Strong pulsation of the arteries of the head. ─ Ebullition and congestion of blood in the head, chiefly on stooping. ─ Congestion of blood to the head, with external and internal heat; distended and pulsating arteries, stupefaction in the forehead, burning, red face; < in the evening, when leaning the head forward, from the slightest noise, and from motion. ─ Stupefying, stunning headache, extending from the neck into the head, with heat and pulsation in it; < in the evening and from motion; > when laying the hand on the head, and when bending the head backward. ─ Sensation of cold or of heat in the head. ─ Headache, from taking cold in the head, and from having the hair cut. ─ Sensation of fluctuation in the brain, as if there were water in it. ─ Sensation, during the pains, as if the cranium were too thin. ─ Sensation of a dull balancing in the brain, and shocks in the head, chiefly on walking quickly or ascending. ─ Daily pains in the head, from about four o'clock in the afternoon till towards three o'clock the following morning, < by the heat of the bed and by a recumbent posture. ─ The pains in the head are generally aggravated by movement, especially of the eyes, by shaking, by contact, by free air and a current of air; they are mitigated by holding the head back and by supporting it. ─ Cramp-like pain in the scalp. ─ Copious sweat in the hair. ─ Affections of the hair, which may split, or come out, or be hard and dry, &c. ─ Profuse pungent-smelling perspiration, esp. on the covered parts, while the body is burning. ─ Shaking or turning of the head backwards. ─ Hydrocephalus, with boring with the head in the pillows; sensation as if water were moving in the head; < in the evening and when lying; > from external pressure, and when bending the head backwards. ─ Boring with the head on the pillow while sleeping. ─ Boring headache in the r. side of the head; changing to stitches in the evening. ─ Pressing headache, as if the head would split, pupils contracted, voice faint. ─ Swelling of the head and of the face. ─ Smooth, erysipelatous, hot swelling, first of the face, then extending over the whole head, with stupefaction or delirium, violent headache, red, fiery eyes.

Eyes

Heat and burning in the eyes, or pressure as from sand. ─ Aching in the eyes and the sockets, extending into the head. ─ Sensation of weight in the eyelids, which close involuntarily. ─ Quivering in the eyelids. ─ Ectropium. ─ Paralysis of the optic nerve. ─ Falling down of the eyelids, as if from paralysis. ─ Shooting in the eyes and in the corners, with itching. ─ Eyes red, brilliant, and convulsed, or fixed, sparkling, and prominent, or dull and turbid. ─ Congestion of blood to the eyes, and redness of the veins. ─ Look fixed, furious, and wavering. ─ Look wild, unsteady, wavering. ─ Spasms and convulsive movements of the eyes. ─ Eyelids wide open. ─ Inflammation of the eyes, with injection of the veins and redness of the conjunctiva and of the sclerotica. ─ Heat in the eyes. ─ Distension of the sclerotica. ─ Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the lachrymal aperture. ─ Softening of the sclerotica. ─ Spots and ulcers on the cornea. ─ Medullary fungus in the eye. ─ Swelling and inversion of the eyelids. ─ Yellowish colour of the sclerotica. ─ Eyes as if affected by ecchymosis, with hæmorrhage. ─ Sensation of burning dryness in the eyes; or flow of acrid and (salt) corrosive tears. ─ Pupils immovable and generally dilated, but sometimes also contracted. ─ Agglutination (nocturnal) of the eyelids. ─ Desire for light, or photophobia, with convulsive movements of the eyes when the light strikes them. ─ Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the eyes. ─ Momentary blindness. ─ Confused and weak sight, or obscuration and entire loss of sight. ─ Blindness at night (moon-blindness). ─ Presbyopia. ─ Mist, flames, and sparks, before the eyes. ─ Diffusion of the light of candles, which appear to be surrounded by a coloured halo. ─ White stars and silvery clouds before the eyes, esp. on looking at the ceiling of the room. ─ Objects appear double or reversed, or of a red colour. ─ Trembling and sparkling of the letters when reading.

Ears

Piercing, aching, sharp pain, pinching, squeezing, and shooting in the ears. ─ Inflammation of the external and internal (r.) ear, with discharge of pus. ─ Excretion of pus from the ears. ─ Stinging in and behind the ears. ─ Ringing, murmuring, and buzzing in the ears. ─ Humming and roaring in the ears. ─ Paralysis of the auditory nerves. ─ Great acuteness of hearing. ─ Hardness of hearing; sometimes as if there were a skin before the ears. ─ Swelling of the parotids, with shooting and tractive pains, which sometimes extend even to the throat. ─ Stitches in the parotid gland.

Nose

Pain, as of a bruise, in the nose, esp. on touching it, and sometimes with burning. ─ Nocturnal shootings in the nose. ─ Swelling, redness, and burning it the point of the nose. ─ Inflammatory swelling and redness of the external and internal nose. ─ Bleeding of the nose, with redness of the face. ─ Painful ulceration of the nostril. ─ Nose very cold. ─ Bleeding of the nose, chiefly night and morning. ─ Hæmorrhage from the nose and mouth. ─ Great dryness of the nose. ─ Sense of smell either too sensitive, esp. to tobacco smoke, or diminished. ─ Putrid smell in the nose. ─ Fluent coryza of one nostril, alternating with stoppage of the nose. ─ Smell like herring in the nose during the coryza.

Face

Paleness of the face, which sometimes suddenly alternates with redness. ─ Face hollow, with anxious look of the features, and wandering air. ─ Burning heat of the face, sometimes without redness. ─ Glowing redness and bloated appearance of the face, as from drinking wine. ─ Deep, or scarlet, or bluish redness of face. ─ Purple, red, hot face, or yellow colour of the face. ─ Hard swelling and bluish redness of face, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and sometimes with burning, shooting, piercing, and pulsation. ─ Erysipelatous swelling of the face. ─ Semi-lateral swelling of the face. ─ Spots of a scarlet or deep red colour on the face. ─ Eruption of red pimples on the temples, in the corners of the mouth, and on the chin. ─ Purulent and scabby pimples, chiefly on the cheeks and on the nose. ─ Thickening of the skin of the face. ─ Cramp-like pressure, sharp and drawing pain in the cheek-bones. ─ Nervous, violent incisive pain in the face, following the course of the sub-orbital nerve. ─ Nervous prosopalgia, with violent, cutting pains. ─ Muscular palpitations and convulsive movements in the face, chiefly in the mouth, which is drawn towards the ear. ─ Spasmodic distortion of the mouth (risus sardonicus). ─ Swelling, of the upper lip. ─ Induration and swelling of the lips, with shootings in rough weather. ─ Deep redness and dryness of the lips. ─ Pimples, scabs, and ulcers; with a red circular margin, on the lips and in the corners of the mouth. ─ Convulsive clenching of the jaws, which renders it impossible to open the mouth. ─ Sensation as if the lower jaw were drawn very far back. ─ Sharp pains in the jaws; shooting and tension in the maxillary articulations. ─ Mouth half open, or spasmodically closed by lock-jaw; sensations under the jaw; affections of the articulations of the jaws (sometimes while chewing). ─ Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and of those of the neck, with nocturnal (shooting) pains.

Teeth

Violent grinding of the teeth. ─ Sharp and drawing pains or successive pullings in the teeth, sometimes with pain in the ears, and chiefly at night or in the evening, during intellectual labour, or else after having eaten. ─ The toothache is < by exposure to the air, or by the touch, while masticating. ─ Toothache with inflammatory swelling of the cheek. ─ Piercing in carious teeth, and flow of blood on sucking them. ─ Painful swelling of the gums, with heat, itching, and pulsations, or with ulcerative pain on being touched. ─ Bleeding of the gums. ─ Vesicles on the gums, with pain like that of a burn.

Mouth

A sensation of great dryness, or a real and extreme dryness and choking in the mouth. ─ Dryness of the mouth, without thirst. ─ Foam before the mouth, sometimes of a reddish colour, or having the smell of rotten eggs. ─ Accumulation and flow of saliva, viscid, thick, and whitish. ─ Great accumulation of viscid, whitish mucus in the mouth and in the throat. ─ Offensive smell of the mouth, chiefly in the morning. ─ Inflammatory swelling and redness of the buccal cavity, and of the pharynx. ─ Violent hæmorrhage of the mouth. ─ Excoriation of the interior of the cheek; the orifices of the salivary ducts are as if ulcerated. ─ Sensation of cold, of torpor, and of numbness in the tongue. ─ Tongue red, hot, dry, and cracked, or loaded with whitish mucus, or yellowish, or brownish; redness of the edges of the tongue. ─ Inflammatory swelling and redness of the papillæ of the tongue. ─ Phlegmonous inflammation of the tongue. ─ Soreness of the tongue, esp. on touching it, with a sensation as if it were covered with vesicles. ─ Heaviness, trembling, and paralytic weakness of the tongue, with difficult and stuttering speech. ─ Dumbness. ─ Voice weak, whistling, and nasal.

Throat

Pain of excoriation, scraping, and shooting in the throat and in the amygdalæ, principally on swallowing, and sometimes extending to the ears. ─ Great dryness and burning in the throat and on the tongue. ─ Inflammation and swelling of the throat, of the velum palati, of the uvula, and of the tonsils; suppuration of the tonsils. ─ Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of a lump, which induces hawking, with dark redness and swelling of the velum palati and tonsils. ─ Burning and dryness in the œsophagus. ─ Stinging in the œsophagus, in the tonsils; < when swallowing, and when talking. ─ Tonsils inflamed, swollen, ulcers rapidly forming on them. ─ Painful and difficult deglutition. ─ Complete inability to swallow even the least liquid, which frequently passes out through the nostrils. ─ Constant inclination to swallow, with a sensation as though suffocation would otherwise follow. ─ Sensation of contraction, strangling, and spasmodic constriction in the throat. ─ Sensation as if there were a tumour in the throat, or a plug which cannot be detached. ─ Paralytic weakness of the organs of deglutition.

Appetite

Loss of taste. ─ Food appears insipid or too salt. ─ Putrid, or insipid, or slimy, or bitter taste of the mouth. ─ Rye bread tastes acid. ─ Want of appetite and distaste for all food, chiefly for meat, acids, coffee, milk, and beer. ─ Burning, excessive, intolerable thirst, often with dread of all drink; or constant desire to drink with inability to swallow a single drop of liquid. ─ Drinking is performed with trembling precipitation. ─ Great and unbearable hunger. ─ After having eaten, a feeling of intoxication, colic, pains in the stomach, heat, and thirst.

Stomach

Frequent risings, often bitter, or putrid, or sour and burning. ─ Pyrosis. ─ Obstructed and abortive risings. ─ Nausea and inclination to vomit, chiefly on beginning to eat, or in the open air, or after breakfast, sometimes with burning thirst. ─ Retching and violent vomiting, principally in the evening or at night; retching, with entire inability to vomit; vomiting of food, or of mucous or bilious matter, of blood; or acid and serous matter; vomiting with diarrhœa, or with vertigo, heat, and sweat. ─ Spasmodic hiccough, sometimes with sweats and convulsions. ─ Pressure, cramp-like and contractive pains, sensation of fulness and inflation in the stomach and in the epigastrium, principally after having eaten or while eating. ─ Shootings, beatings, pulsations, and burning in the stomach and in the precordial region. ─ Inflammation of the stomach and of the duodenum.

Abdomen

Colic with constipation, abundant flow of urine, risings and nausea. ─ Violent pain in the abdomen, which allows no rest whatever. ─ Shootings in l. side of the abdomen, on coughing, on sneezing, and on being touched. ─ Pains and burning in the hypochondria. ─ Pressure in the abdomen, as if by a stone, chiefly in the lower part of the abdomen and in the groin. ─ Painful pressure in the pit of the stomach and stomach, esp. after eating. ─ Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to the touch. ─ Inflation and tension of the abdomen, chiefly in the hypochondria. ─ Colic, with restlessness, below the umbilicus, as from clutching and griping with the nails, < from external pressure. ─ Cramp-like, contractive, and constrictive pains and pinching in the abdomen, and esp. round the navel or in the hypogastrium, with a sensation as if one or other of the parts were squeezed, or seized with the nails; the pains necessitate a bending of the body, and are sometimes accompanied by vomiting, or by inflation and protrusion of the colon in the form of a pad. ─ Digging in the abdomen. ─ Cuttings and shootings in the abdomen, as from knives. ─ Heat and great anguish in the abdomen. ─ Rumbling in the abdomen, with frequent escape of flatus without smell. ─ Soreness of the whole abdomen, as if everything in it were excoriated and raw, and painful sensibility to the touch of the teguments of the abdomen. ─ Shootings in the groins. ─ Itching in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Suppressed evacuations and constipation, sometimes with inflation of the abdomen, heat of the head, and copious sweats. ─ Hard and scanty evacuations. ─ Frequent inclination to evacuate, with tenesmus, but without result. ─ Frequent small evacuations, often with tenesmus. ─ Frequent small diarrhœic stools of mucus. ─ Evacuations whitish like chalk, or greenish; evacuations watery or slimy. ─ Thin, green stools, with frequent micturition and perspiration. ─ Dysenteric stools. ─ Before stool, perspiration. ─ During stool, shuddering. ─ Spasmodic stricture of the rectum. ─ Stinging pain in the rectum. ─ Loose evacuations, with nausea and aching pains in the stomach. ─ Involuntary evacuations, from paralysis of the sphincter of the anus. ─ Bleeding piles; back pains as if breaking. ─ Mucous membrane of anus seems swollen as if pressed out. ─ Prolapsus ani.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to make water. ─ Retention of urine. ─ Difficult discharge of urine (and then discharge of a few drops of bloody urine only). ─ Continual dribbling of urine. ─ When passing water, fæces escape. ─ Frequent emission of urine, copious, pale, and watery, sometimes with profuse perspiration, thirst, increased appetite, diarrhœa, and obscuration of sight. ─ In continence and involuntary emission of urine, even in the night and during sleep. ─ Paralysis of the neck of the bladder. ─ Strictures of the urethra. ─ Urine turbid, of a yellow colour, or clear, the colour of gold or citron; or scanty and of a brownish-red colour, or the colour of blood, or a bright red colour. ─ Red, or whitish and thick sediment in the urine. ─ Sensation of motion in the bladder, as of a worm. ─ Nocturna pressure in the bladder. ─ Shooting, burning pains in the renal region.

Male Sexual Organs

Sharp and drawing pain in the spermatic cords, chiefly while making water. ─ Retraction of the prepuce. ─ Soft and painless nodosity in the glans. ─ Shootings in the testes, which are drawn up. ─ Inflammation of the testicles, great hardness in the drawn-up testicles. ─ Pollutions, with flaccidity of the penis. ─ Nocturnal sweat of the genital parts. ─ Flow of prostatic fluid. ─ Sexual desire diminished, with perfect indifference to all voluptuous excitement.

Female Sexual Organs

Violent pressure towards the genital parts, as if all were going to protrude, principally when walking, or when in a crouching posture. ─ Shooting in the internal genital parts. ─ Great dryness of the vagina. ─ Prolapsus and induration of the matrix. ─ Catamenia too copious, and too early, or too tardy. ─ Catamenia too pale. ─ Before the catamenia, fatigue, colic, loss of appetite, and confused sight. ─ During the catamenia, nocturnal sweat on the chest, with yawning and transient shiverings, colic, or anguish of heart, burning thirst, sharp and cramp-like pains in the back and in the arms. ─ Flow of blood beyond the period of the catamenia. ─ Flow of blood between the periods. ─ Menstrual discharge bright red, feeling very hot like hot sealing-wax. ─ Metrorrhagia of clear red blood, with a discharge of fetid clots; with violent pain in the small of the back and bearing-down. ─ Menstrual blood of bright colour, or of a bad smell. ─ Leucorrhœa with colic. ─ Diminished lochia. ─ Spasmodic contraction of the uterus. ─ Labour pains too distressing, spasmodic; too weak, or ceasing. ─ After-pains. ─ Congestion and inflammation of the uterus and labia. ─ Stitches in the organs. ─ Puerperal fever, nymphomania. ─ Flow of milk from the breast. ─ Mammæ swelled, inflamed, or indurated.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh with cough, coryza, hoarseness with tenacious mucus in the chest. ─ Voice weak, hoarse, and whistling; nasal-toned voice. ─ Loss of the voice. ─ Great soreness of the larynx, with danger of suffocation on pressing the gullet, as well as on coughing, on speaking, and on breathing. ─ Spasmodic constriction of the larynx. ─ Larynx very painful, with anxious starts when touching it. ─ Constriction of the trachea. ─ Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx, with headache, redness, and heat in the face. ─ Cough with stitches in the chest, in the lumbar region, in the hip, in the uterus; pain in the sternum, with tightness of the chest; with rattling of mucus on the chest. ─ Dry spasmodic cough, with vomiturition, esp. after midnight. ─ Whooping-cough, with crying, or pain in the stomach before the attack, with expectoration of blood (pale or coagulated), congestion of blood to the head, sparks before the eyes, spasms in the throat, bleeding from the nose, stitches in the spleen, involuntary stool and urine, oppressed breathing, stiffness of the limbs, shaking of the whole body, and dry general heat. ─ Cough, as if one had swallowed dust, or as if there were some foreign body in the larynx, or in the pit of the stomach, which excites the cough; chiefly at night, or in the afternoon, in the evening in bed, and even during sleep; the cough is mostly dry, short, and sometimes convulsive, fatiguing and shaking, or hollow and barking. ─ Before the cough, tears, or pains in the stomach; when coughing, shootings in the abdomen, or retching, or pain as of a bruise in the nape of the neck; after the paroxysm, sneezing. ─ The least movement, when in bed at night, renews the cough. ─ Cough with rattling in the chest, or with catarrh, and shootings in the sternum, or with headache and redness of face. ─ Expectoration of thick and puriform mucus with the cough. ─ Cough with spitting of blood.

Chest

Breathing laboured, unequal, quick, with moaning. ─ Rattling noise, and crepitation in the bronchia. ─ Vehement expirations. ─ Feeling of suffocation when swallowing, or when touching and turning the neck. ─ Oppression of the chest, difficult respiration, dyspnœa and shortness of breath, sometimes with anxiety, and chiefly in the evening in bed, and after having drunk (coffee). ─ Oppression of the chest in the morning when rising, cannot breathe in the room, better in the open air. ─ Congestion to the chest. ─ Irregular respiration, at one time small and rapid, at another time slow and profound. ─ Respiration short, anxious, and rapid. ─ In the morning after rising, want of breath, relieved in the open air. ─ When walking, cramp-like oppression of the chest, with necessity to fetch a long breath. ─ Pressure on the chest, with pain in the shoulder-blades and short breath. ─ Tension in the chest. ─ Shootings in the chest, sometimes as if from knives, and chiefly on coughing and yawning. ─ Great inquietude and beatings in the chest. ─ Painful blisters, filled with water, or small spots of a deep red colour on the chest.

Heart

Violent beatings of the heart, which sometimes are felt in the head. ─ Palpitation of the heart when ascending. ─ Trembling of the heart, with anguish and pressive pain. ─ Violent palpitation of the heart, reverberating in the head.

Neck and Back

Painful swelling and stiffness in the neck and in the nape of the neck. ─ Painful swelling in the glands of the neck and in those of the nape of the neck. ─ Sharp pains in the armpits. ─ Red and purulent pimples on the back and nape of the neck. ─ Veins in the neck swollen. ─ Sour sweat, only on the neck. ─ Pain, as of dislocation; rheumatic and drawing pains in the back and between the shoulder-blades. ─ Furunculus on the shoulder. ─ Dartings, as if from knives, in the bones of the spine. ─ Gnawing in the dorsal spine, with cough. ─ Painful stiffness and cramp-like pains, in the sacral regions and in the back.

Upper Limbs

Arms benumbed and painful. ─ Tractive pressure, with sensation of torpor, and sharp pains in the arms. ─ Inclination to stretch the arms. ─ Arms heavy, as if paralysed. ─ Torpor and heaviness of the arms. ─ Swelling and scarlet redness of the arms and of the hands. ─ Drawing and aching pain in the shoulder, running rapidly from the top to the bottom of the arms, and exhibiting itself particularly at night, diminished by external pressure, excited by motion. ─ Painful startings, cramp and convulsions in the arms and in the hands. ─ Trembling of the hands. ─ Pressure, with sharp pains in the carpal and metacarpal bones. ─ Arthritic stiffness in the joints of the hand. ─ Frequent dislocation of the joints of the fingers. ─ Drawing back of the thumbs.

Lower Limbs

Shootings and burning pains, aggravated by fits, in the coxo-femoral joint, more unbearable at night, and increased by the least contact. ─ Stiffness in the hip, after sitting for some time, with difficulty in getting up. ─ Pain in the hip, which causes lameness. ─ Involuntary limping. ─ Tottering walk, when rising from bed in the morning, the legs refuse their service. ─ Trembling of the knees. ─ Drawing pains in the legs, esp. in the knees. ─ Heaviness and paralysis of the legs and of the feet. ─ Bending of the knees and of the feet in walking. ─ Tension of the tendons of the ham. ─ Swelling of the feet. ─ Crawling sensation in the feet. ─ Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Generalities

Shooting, or tearing, aching pains in the limbs. ─ Bruise-like pains in the joints and bones. ─ Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one place to another. ─ The pains are aggravated, chiefly at night, and in the afternoon towards three or four o'clock. ─ The least touch, and sometimes also the slightest movement, aggravates the sufferings. ─ Some of the symptoms are aggravated, or make their appearance after sleep. ─ Jerking in the limbs, muscular palpitations and shocks of the tendons. ─ St. Vitus's, dance. ─ Sensation in the muscles, as if a mouse were running over them. ─ Cramp, spasms, and convulsive movements, with violent contortion of the limbs; convulsive fits, with cries, and loss of consciousness; epileptic convulsions, drawing back of the thumbs. ─ Renewal of the spasms by the least contact, or from the glare of light. ─ Hydrophobia. ─ Burning in the inner parts. ─ Attacks of immobility and of spasmodic stiffness of the body, or of some of the limbs, sometimes with insensibility, swelling of the veins, bloatedness and redness of the face, pulse full and quick, with copious sweat. ─ Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in children, during dentition. ─ Full habit (plethora). ─ Swelling in general of the parts affected. ─ Inflammation of the glands; induration of the glands; glands painful, prickling, swelling, hot swelling of the glands. ─ Attacks of tetanus at times, with the head thrown back. ─ Spasmodic attacks, with involuntary laughter. ─ Before the convulsive fits, formication, with a sensation of swelling and torpor in the limbs; or colic and aching in the abdomen, extending to the head; after the attack, oppression at the chest, as if from a heavy weight. ─ The attacks are renewed by the least touch, as well as by the slightest opposition. ─ Great uneasiness in the head and limbs, chiefly in the hands. ─ Trembling of the limbs, with fatigue and lassitude. ─ Heaviness in the limbs, with weariness, great indolence and dread of all movement and of all labour. ─ Failing of strength, paralytic weakness, and paralysis of the limbs. ─ Paralysis and insensibility of one side of the body. ─ Fits of swooning and of syncope, with loss of all sensation and of all motion, as in death. ─ Ebullition of blood, with congestion to the head, and fatigue even to fainting. ─ Congestions (head, lungs). ─ Apoplexia. ─ Over-excitement and too great sensibility of all the organs. ─ Tendency to be chilled easily, with great sensibility to cold air. ─ Formication in the limbs.

Skin

Swelling, with heats and scarlet redness of the whole body, or of several parts, chiefly the face, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, and the hands. ─ Cutting of the skin as though "sliced" with a sharp knife. ─ Erysipelatous inflammations, with phlegmon, which sometimes turn to gangrene. ─ Gangrene and sphacelus of several parts. ─ Red places, inflamed and scarlet spots on several parts of the body, sometimes with small, quick pulse, difficulty of respiration, violent cough, delirium, liveliness of memory, inclination to rub the nose, and dilated pupils. ─ Red spots, the colour of blood, over the whole body, principally on the face, neck, and chest. ─ Eruption resembling morbilli. ─ Eruption of petechiæ, with itching and redness of the whole body. ─ Miliary eruptions. ─ Vesicles which discharge a great deal of serum, and are so painful as to extort cries and groans. ─ Bleeding soreness of the bends of the joints. ─ Eruption of pustules with whitish edges, with black slough, and œdematous swelling of the diseased part. ─ Boils (returning every spring). ─ Red scaly eruption on the lower part of the body. ─ Scrofulous tumours and nodes, which are painful. ─ Pain, as of excoriation, burning and pulling in ulcers, principally on being touched, during motion, and in the night. ─ Dry, burning-hot skin. ─ Burning of the skin, particularly when the hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been touched, very characteristic. ─ Red, hot, and shining swelling of the diseased parts. ─ Smooth, even shining (not circumscribed) redness of the skin, with bloatedness, dryness, heat, burning itching and swelling of the parts (esp. face, neck, chest, abdomen and hands). ─ The ulcers secrete a purulent and sanguineous matter. ─ Chilblains. ─ Painful swelling of the glands (inflamed, stinging).

Sleep

Constant drowsiness, sometimes with cloudiness, and yawning, and chiefly towards the evening. ─ Fits of somnolence and of lethargy, with profound sleep, immobility of the body, jerking of the tendons pale and cold face, hands cold, and pulse small, hard, and quick. ─ Somnolence: stupor, lethargy (with snoring). ─ Coma, interrupted by momentary wakings, with furious looks. ─ After the fit of coma, great hunger, burning heat, and dryness of the mouth. ─ Pulsations of the blood-vessels; may hear the pulsations of the blood-vessels so loud when trying to sleep as to be kept awake by it. ─ Comatose sleep at night, with frequent waking and convulsive movements. ─ Sleep, with moaning and tossing about. ─ Nocturnal sleeplessness, sometimes with desire to sleep and useless efforts to go to sleep, mostly in consequence of excessive anguish or great agitation. ─ On sleeping, frequent starts with fright, groans, cries, starting of the limbs, carphology, aggravation of pains, singing, talking, delirium, and continual dreams. ─ Nightmare. ─ Dreams: anxious, terrible, frightful, vivid, dreams of fires, of robbers, and assassins; meditative dreams. ─ On closing the eyes in order to go to sleep, frightful visions and jerking in the limbs. ─ On waking, headache and aggravation of sufferings.

Fever

Coldness over the entire body, with paleness of face, or coldness of the extremities, with bloatedness and redness of the face. ─ Shiverings and partial shuddering, chiefly in the back or the pit of the stomach, or in one arm, and sometimes with heat in other parts, chiefly in the head, or followed by universal shivering. ─ Cold limbs, with hot head. ─ Chilliness not relieved by the heat of the stove. ─ Continuous dry, burning heat, with perspiration only on the head. ─ Internal heat with restlessness; hot forehead and cold cheeks. ─ Dry heat and thirst, and perspiration only on the head and neck (sour-smelling). ─ The shiverings appear mostly in the evening, sometimes with nausea; bruise-like sensation, and pulling in the back and in the limbs, pricking in the chest and obscuration of the eyes. ─ Febrile attacks, in which shiverings alternate with heat, or of shiverings followed by heat, with aggravation at night or in the evening, resembling quotidian, or double quotidian, or tertian, with complete adypsia, or burning and inextinguishable thirst. ─ Dry, burning heat, often with swelling of the veins, pulsation of the carotids, heat, redness and bloatedness of the face, burning thirst, agitation, furious delirium, and shiverings on being even slightly uncovered. ─ Pulse strong and quick, or full and slow, or small and quick, or hard and wiry. ─ If slow, the pulse is full. ─ Pulse full; hard; strong, bounding, double. ─ Sweat with or after the heat; copious sweat during the night, or in the morning; sweat of the parts that are covered only; ascending from the feet to the head; sweat when asleep; sweat of an empyreumatic smell, or which imparts a yellow colour to the sheets.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

The patient is conscious but tormented by terrible anxiety.
Loss of consciousness.
Stupefaction, with congestion to head, pupils enlarged ; delirium.
Memory lively ; remembers things long gone by.
Memory impaired ; forgets in a moment what he was about to do.
Absent-minded and forgetful.
Likes to brood in silence, supreme indifference, nothing makes an impression.
Paroxysm of cerebral exaltation with abundance of ideas and images, generally fantastic and incoherent.
Mental confusion.
Confusion of head, aggravated by movement.
Her mind was disordered so that speech did not correspond to thought, nor thought to sense, nor sense to objects present.
Merry craziness ; while laughing or singing she constantly touches things around her.
Timorous insanity ; he is afraid of an imaginary black dog ; of the gallows, etc.
Insanity ; they stripped themselves and clad only in their shirts ran out into streets in broad daylight, gesticulating, dancing, laughing and utterring and doing many absurd things.
(In sick :) Became crazy ; got one leg over the window to kill himself, had to be tied down ; died next day ; within ten hours, two doses. θ Consumption.
Imbecility.
Fantastic illusions (when closing eyes).
When closing eyes, though not asleep, patient sees fierce, wicked looking large animals with horns and bushy heads ; room seemed to be full of strange men passing in and out, who would snatch at her as they passed, which frightened her very much, she thought
the men wanted to take her away from home ; she then saw children sitting on low benches in rows as in a school-room.
Hallucinations, and illusions of senses.
Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces and various insects.
Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them.
Frightful visions ; she wishes to hide herself.
He is afraid of an extraordinary black dog, the gallows, etc. ; he sees ghosts and insects ; gets vexed easily, and then weeps ; he tears things around him, bites and strikes, and when restrained, spits at those around him, strikes himself, curses and uses horrible words.
(These symptoms of rage much resemble those of Stramon. and Hyosc.).
Fixed ideas, thinks he is riding on an ox, uses a stick for a gun, growling and barking like a dog.
Delirium.
Lethargy and delirium, with pain in head. θ On disappearance of tumor.
Delirious moaning, flushed face, hot head.
Delirium and heat.
Rambling delirium.
Delirium : with frightful figures and images before eyes ; is afraid of imaginary things ; sees monsters ; talks of dogs as if they swarmed about him ; furious.
Violent delirium ; broke into fits of laughter, then gnashed teeth ; disposed to bite and strike those around.
Delirium ; the boy jumped out of bed, talked a great deal, was lively and often laughed ; consciousness was entirely gone ; he did not recognize his parents.
In evening he was seized with such violent delirium that it required three men to confine him ; his face was livid ; his eyes injected and protruding, pupils strongly dilated ; carotid arteries pulsating most violently ; a full, hard pulse, with loss of power to
swallow.
Delirium, either continuous or recurring in paroxysms, mirthful at first, but subsequently changing to frenzy.
Excited and delirious, with violent motions of arms and legs, increasing to a raging delirium.
Furious delirium all night with pleasant hallucinations, followed by great prostration, and mental confusion.
Bites at his attendants and himself, screams furiously. θ A boy, æt. 3.
Mania, with desire to bite, strike and run away.
Highest degree of mania, complete restlessness ; he jumps on chairs, tables and stove.
The paroxysms of madness were occasionally interrupted by loud laughing and grinding of teeth ; head was hot, face red, look wild and staring ; pulse small and very frequent ; pupils dilated ; arteries of head and neck visibly palpitating, pulse hard and frequent.
Mania, at one time merry, again would spit and bite at those around.
Epilepsy and mania furibunda.
Rage, madness, disposition to bite, to spit, to strike and to tear things.
Fury, with grinding of teeth and convulsions.
Fury ; they pulled at the hair of bystanders.
Such fury (with burning heat of body, and open, staring and immovable eyes) that she had to be held constantly, lest she should attack some one ; and when thus held so that she could not move, she spat continuously at those around her.
Desire to escape or hide herself.
Jumping out of bed with fear, trying to run away and hide.
She rather desires death than fears it.
She sought continually to spring out of bed.
Inclination to bite those around him and to tear everything about him in pieces.
She wishes to strike, bite and quarrel.
Weary of life, with desire to drown herself.
Desires light, but shuns company.
Loquacity.
Speech rapid and hasty ; they often utter inarticulate, confused sounds.
Great loquacity, foolish talk, laughs without any cause.
Talkative, then again mute.
Delirious, obscene talking.
Garrulity ; he constantly uses foolish and absurd language, at which he often laughs aloud ; when addressed he turns towards speaker, but does not answer correspondingly.
She talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes.
Loud laughter, wild abandon, singing, whistling, lascivious conversation.
Changes from quiet to gay and merry mood, in which trills and sings ditties ; great thirst, violent motion of arms.
Moaning.
Much moaning, distress, a sudden crying out. θ Retention of urine.
Weeping and screaming, made < by gentle comforting.
She was violently delirious, screamed and wept aloud, and was unmanageable, suffered greatest anxiety and despaired of recovery.
The child cries out suddenly, and after awhile it ceases crying as suddenly as it began, and appears as if nothing had been the matter.
Crying and howling of children, as from rage.
Instead of eating, bit wooden spoon in two, gnawed plate, and growled and barked like a dog.
The boy was quite beside himself, struck at his mother, bit her, made terrible grimaces and contortions of limbs, did not remain a moment in one place.
She attempted to bite and strike her attendants, broke into fits of laughter, and gnashed her teeth ; head hot, face red, looks wild and fierce.
She tears her night dress and bedclothes.
Picking at bedclothes as if looking for something lost, with confused muttering.
In his delirium he picked at bedclothes, and threw them off, and sought continually to spring out of bed.
Foolish, ludicrous antics and gestures ; they touch everything within their reach ; foolish laughing, excessive sensibility.
Became wantonly merry, ran from house, and exposed their nakedness.
They behaved like drunken people.
Both children played with each other at hide and seek, calling each other in their sleep.
The boy ran around room laughing immoderately, desired neither food nor drink ; a piece of bread, which he took to be a stone, he threw far from him ; his delirium was always merry, he became totally unconscious ; pulse very slow, full ;
pupils widely dilated, not sensitive to light abdomen somewhat distended.
Dancing, running and creeping about in shirt.
The child became flushed, wanted to escape, struck at people, became delirious and restless.
She turns about in her bed in a perfect rage.
In his delirium he threw himself down from a height.
Nearly all symptoms lead to violence of action ; patient must do everything violently ; she wishes those around her to kill her.
Sensation of floating or gliding along, as if in a boat ; as if the body, or a part of it was greatly enlarged.
Aversion to noise and company.
Aversion to all mental occupation ; indolence.
Hands constantly in motion, try to catch things in air.
She will sit and break pins into pieces, half a day at a time.
She feels of those around her ; at times she seats herself ; at times she acts as if she was washing, or as if she counted money, or as if she was drinking ; she mutters as if asleep ; she talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes ; talks about
dogs that swarm around her ; converses with a late sister in a churchyard ; beautiful images present themselves to her as if by a charm.
Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking.
Very mirthful mood, singing and whistling ; frequent laughter.
Depression, or too great hilarity.
Sadness and dejection ; patients are indifferent to everything, seek solitude, and desire rest.
Melancholy ; hypochondriasis ; hopelessness.
She is very despondent.
Tremulous despondency.
Great distress, with inquietude.
Despair.
Hysteria, with melancholic mood.
Became fearful when persons approached him in street, and when they had passed, he insisted on it that he had stabbed them.
Starts in affright at approach of others.
Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them.
Cardiac anxiety, with anguish and restlessness.
Anxiety and fear of imaginary objects and hallucinations, ghosts, soldiers which come to take them away, black animals, rats, dogs, wolves, etc.
Anxiety, restlessness, nausea and pain in back, with wind colic.
Anxiety, anguish, trembling, constant restlessness.
By day great anxiety ; she has no peace anywhere ; it seemed to her as if she must fly away.
Anxious and confused, fears she is about to die.
Tremulous, anxious, nervous.
Anxious and timorous.
Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape.
Anxiety, followed by sweat.
Intolerable anguish during time she is free from rage, with desire to die.
Loss of courage.
Very sensitive, irritable mood.
Very excitable mood, easily brought to tears.
Weeping, irritable mood.
Fretfulness ; nothing seemed right to him ; was vexed with himself.
Weeping and vexation about trifles, with headache and pressure in forehead, and great dryness of mouth.
Morose and serious.
Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of convulsive rage.
Quarrelsome, during exuberant mirth.
Quarrelsomeness, cannot be quieted, with disposition to violent rage.
Great inquietude, goes from place to place.
Great restlessness and indescribable anxiety, cannot sit or lie long in any position ; they seek to fly.
Mania : with intense craving for snuff ; voracious appetite, they swallow everything in their reach ; generally constipated ; wild, unsteady look, eyes brilliant, face flushed, breathing anxious, irregular ; sexual excitement, inclined to
masturbate ; sleepless and restless.
Stupefying headache.

Sensorium

All senses more acute.
Great irritability and impressionableness of senses ; he tastes and smells everything more acutely ; sense of taste, of sight and of hearing is keener, and the mind is more easily moved, and thoughts more active.
Excessive nervous excitability, with exalted sensibility of all organs ; least noise, least light is annoying.
His senses deceive him.
Cloudiness or dulness as if drunken.
Feeling of drunkenness, with reeling.
Bewildered feeling in head.
Painful dulness of head.
Dulness and dazed feeling, < by moving head, still more by walking.
The whole head is muddled.
Weariness of head.
Heaviness of head, seems about to fall asleep.
Blood mounts to head, which becomes heavy as if giddy.
Weight in head as if he would fall.
Dizziness, with sensation as if a board was before her forehead, falling to left or backward.
Vertigo, it appears to him as if objects around him swayed to and fro.
Vertigo, as if she was being rocked.
When in act of lying down, it seems as if bed was bouncing patient up and down.
Vertigo, as if everything turned around in a circle.
Vertigo increased on every movement of body.
Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping.
Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in morning, also when walking, and on every change of position.
Giddiness, with falling and loss of consciousness.
Throbbing in head, buzzing in ears, dimness of vision, flushed face, anxiety and nausea, even vomiting.
Vertigo with rush of blood to head, roaring in ears, and slight mistiness of vision.
Vertigo with dimness of vision, vanishing of sight or flickering before eyes.
Vertigo with perceptible pulsations in head, dilated pupils, with nausea.
Vertigo with tired feeling before and after attack.
Vertigo, then headache, then falling.

Inner head

Frontal headache.
Pressive headache, especially in forehead.
Headache as if a stone was pressing forehead, > by laying head down, and stooping, with dilated pupils and whining ill humor after trifles.
Painful pressure in head, especially in lower part of forehead, directly above nose, intolerable on stooping or reading.
Sensation as if brain was pressed to forehead, which disappeared directly on bending head backward.
Pain in stooping forward, as if everything would issue at forehead.
Headache as if brain would be pressed out, in forehead, just above orbits, which prevents eyes being opened, and obliges him to lie down.
Tensive pressure in right side of forehead.
Pressive frontal headache so severe, when walking, that eyes were drawn shut ; > when sitting, ceases when lying down, < rising again or going into open air.
Severe shooting in right frontal eminence, < from bending forward, > by pressure.
Pain ameliorated by strong pressure on forehead.
Boring pain under right frontal eminence, early in morning soon after waking.
Aching in forehead, during motion it increases so much as to cause eyes to be closed.
Violent frontal headache, with heat and redness of face and throbbing carotids ; occasionally nausea.
Soreness in sinciput, stiffness in occiput.
Headache above orbits, as if brain was compressed, so that he was obliged to close his eyes.
She is very much troubled with throbbing headache, particularly over eyes.
One-sided pressure, or tensive pain moving from temple or forehead to orbit, spreading from there to entire half of brain, < by motion of head and eyes from rays of light and from slightest noise.
Pain in head and eyeballs, eyes felt as if starting from their sockets.
Violent headache, chiefly in orbital region, with redness of eyes and face.
Headache < by moving eyes, by looking down and reading.
A drawing down in temples and in right orbit.
Half-sided headache extending into orbits and bones of nose, with a pressing, bursting, wavelike sensation.
Fulness and pressure at temples and forehead, with pain, making him restless and uneasy.
Violent shooting pain in right temple.
The pains are tearing, drawing, begin in right temple, spread over orbit to right cheek, and are < by slightest motion.
Pressive pain in right temporal region, which on supporting head with hand increases to a sense of bursting and extends into right frontal eminence.
Dull shooting in left temple, from in out.
Stabbing, as with a knife, from one temple to the other.
Sharp cutting pain in right side of head, from frontal to occipital region, becoming general, and last settling in left parietal bone.
Boring, tearing, cutting, shooting pains in various parts of head, generally < on right side and in forehead, less in occiput.
Dull pressive pain on one or other side of head.
Violent throbbing in brain, from behind forward and towards both sides ; throbbing ends on surface in painful shootings.
Tensive pressure in left vertex and in forehead.
Tearing pain in right vertex.
Three violent stabs through head from forehead to occiput, whereupon all previous headache suddenly disappears.
Sensation of heaviness in head, with pressure in occiput, or pressing sensation in brain towards temples, with dimness of vision and dulness of hearing.
Incessant, dull, pressive pain on one or other side of head.
Pressure in head, now here, now there, which occupies each time larger areas.
Violent pressing in whole head, from within outward, as if it would burst.
Continuous and forcible distension of whole brain ; headache close above orbits, as though brain was pressed out ; eyes remain forcibly closed, on account of pain, pupils being contracted to highest degree, and voice scarcely audible.
Headache, as if sutures of skull were being torn open, and as if a lever was being applied, whereby head was forced asunder.
Incessant drawing and expansive pain in head, as if something in it rocked and swayed in a jerking manner.
Headache, in vertex, a kind of twisting, sometimes also digging, sometimes tearing, becomes much more violent on external pressure ; skull seemed to be quite thin, as if it could be pressed through.
Stitches and tearing in head.
Boring, tearing, cutting, shooting pains in various parts of head, generally < on right side and in forehead, less in occiput.
Stabbing through head, as if with a double-edged knife, in evening.
Stabbings in right side of head, as if with a two-edged knife, which next are felt in front of head, then in vertex, then in occiput, so that she cannot lie on either side.
Swashing in head as if full of water.
Sensation as if brain was shaken in skull.
Feeling in brain like swashing of water.
Gouty headache, most half-sided ; flying stitches, felt very deep, sometimes commencing like a blow on a part of head, passing over into a long and very painful stitch, drawing through whole half of head and lasting some minutes, often with loss of consciousness.
Pains come on suddenly, last indefinitely, but cease suddenly.
Hysterical headache.
Hemicrania ; migraine.
Very intense headache.
Headache makes him first blind, then unconscious.
Headache increases at night, makes him crazy, he has to run up and down, and often falls.
Attacks of headache, accompanied by pain in small of back ; cold feet ; difficulty in swallowing ; nausea and vomiting ; frequent urination ; oppression of chest ; stiff neck ; irritable mood, and tired feeling in limbs.
Headache with desire for lemonade.
Headache with sleepiness, but cannot sleep.
Pains in head < by noise, light, motion, when moving eyes, by shocks, contact, least jar, from least exertion, and in open air.
Headache from heat of sun.
Headache > during menses, from pressure, tight bandaging and wrapping up, but < from warmth.
In open air sensation of bursting in head is very violent, and he is afraid to cough on account of increase of pain.
Pressure deep in brain over whole head, during and after walking in open air.
Jerking headache, extremely violent on walking quickly, or ascending stairs rapidly ; at every step a jolt as if a weight was in occiput.
He was frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from violence of pain in forehead ; at every step it recurred, as though brain rose and fell in forehead ; pain > by pressing strongly on part.
Head > from looking up and bending head back.
Pain decreased by strongly pressing parts.
Headache < when leaning forward, > when bending backward.
Headache with dizziness, aggravated by stooping.
Pressure deep in brain, over whole head, after stooping.
After waking, throbbing in head.
Headache generally comes in morning after a restless night.
Headache from abuse of coffee, from overheating and from cold.
Congestion to brain.
Fulness and heaviness of head.
There is a general tendency of blood to head, with redness of eyes and face, which is still more developed in spasmodic attacks.
Rush of blood to head ; pulsation of cerebral arteries and a throbbing in interior of head.
The feeling in head was that of violent congestion, a full, tense and throbbing state of cerebral vessels, incidentally same sensation as would be produced by a ligature thrown round neck and impeding return of venous circulation.
Congestion to head ; dry heat ; red face ; sleeplessness, or soporous condition, with starting, or crying out.
Congestion to head, with delirium. θ Typhus.
Strong rush of blood to head, with beating in temples and burning in eyes.
Congestion of blood to head, with danger of apoplexy.
Cold sensation in brain at middle of forehead.
Much heat in head.
Annoying pulsation of arteries of brain when lying.
Strong pulsation of bloodvessels of forehead, and pain as if bones were lifted up.
Pulsating headache, with pressure at vertex.
Inflammation of base of brain and medulla from exposure to sun after having hair cut.
Meningitis and encephalitis, first stage ; throbbing carotids ; hot head ; flushed face ; glistening eyes ; nausea ; thirst ; scanty urine ; no stool ; sudden starting ; dry heat ; frequent full pulse ; drowsiness ; boring
head into pillow, etc.
Encephalemia ; hyperemia from active congestion.
Hydrocephalus acutus, with boring head into pillows.
Apoplexy ; flushed, hot, bloated face ; dilated pupils ; a fixed, threatening look ; nausea ; staggering ; drowsiness ; stertorous breathing during sleep ; grinding teeth ; on waking throbbing in head ;
prodroma are tired feeling in limbs, lethargy and aversion to occupation, weak memory, stiffness of tongue, etc.
Suitable for plethoric individuals disposed to phlegmonous inflammations ; or for lymphatic, scrofulous persons, liable to glandular swellings.

Outer head

Gnawing at frontal eminences.
Sensation as if skull was as thin as paper.
As if skull was transparent.
Drawing pains in frontal bone and in nape of neck, both when at rest and during motion.
Headache with not only visible but audible pulsation.
Heat hot ; feet cold ; rolls head. θ Cholera infantum.
Hot head, sensitive to touch.
Convulsive shaking and bending backward of head.
Boring of head into pillow.
Numbness in temples.
Contractive pain in scalp.
Painful swelling and redness of head.
Crampy pain in frontal eminence, extending to zygoma and lower jaw.
Great swelling of head with redness over whole body.
Head swollen to double its size.
Sensation externally, as if muscles of forehead and eyes were contracted.
Takes cold in every draught of air, especially when uncovering head ; complaints from cutting hair.
Head externally so sensitive, that least contact, even pressure of hair, gives pain.
Inclination to lean head against something cold and hard.
Headache > if hair hangs loosely, < if it is "put up."
The hair, which had been electric, ceased to be so.
Children tear their hair.

Sight and eyes

Flightiness as soon as eyes are closed.
Visions on closing eyes.
On closing eyes for sleep a sudden shock runs through body from below up.
Looking at shining or glistening objects aggravates.
Pressive pain deep in ball when she closes eyes ; feeling as if eyes protruded.
Oversensitiveness of sight.
Sensitiveness of eyes, she cannot bear light.
Intolerance of light.
Convulsive movements of eyeball in light, with terrible pressive pain extending through whole head ; > in a dark room.
Inclined to remain in a dark room.
Photophobia ; < from artificial light.
Desire for light.
Halo around light, particolored, red predominating ; at times light seems broken into days.
Chromopsia.
Everything he looks at seems red.
Flickering before eyes ; sparks, or dimness of vision.
Bright sparks before eyes.
Flashes of light before eyes.
Farsightedness.
Every object in room, both real and spectral, had a double or at least a dim outline, owing to extreme dilatation of pupils.
The page appears covered with letters in great confusion.
Objects appear : double, and seem to revolve and run backward ; upside down or crooked.
Triplopia ; sees a second dim representation of object on each side of it ; from candle proceed rays of same color as flame, and outside rays there is a variegated halo, inner circle being green, middle red, and outer white ; when Walking he also sees a round black ball
hovering, a little larger than a pea ; all this he sees before his left eye.
When reading lines appear crooked.
She sees things wrong side up (Stramon. produces an oblique appearance of all objects).
Cannot look upward.
Weakness of sight from doing fine work.
Vanishing of sight on sitting up in bed.
Partial blindness, cannot read anything printed.
Vision obscured as from a white vapor.
Dimness of vision, or actual blindness.
Amblyopia caused by stoppage of menses ; veil before sight ; diplopia ; chromopsia ; dilated pupils and stitching in right eye.
Irides insensible to light.
Blindness following severe congestive headaches after scarlet fever.
Recognizes his friends through sense of hearing, not by sight.
While window-shutters are open he says they are closed, for he cannot see with open eyes. θ Hepatitis.
Amaurosis.
Complete amaurosis caused by a severe nervous fever, or from large amount of quinine given at that time ; pupils widely dilated.
Amaurosis from a cold, with much vertigo ; pressing pain and feeling of fulness in eyeballs ; black spots before eyes ; increased pain by candlelight, and much congestion of vessels.
Amaurosis of four years' duration, occurring after suppression of rash in scarlatina ; only a perception of light remained ; pupils dilated.
Apoplexy of retina, with suppression of menstruation, occurring in a girl, æt. 18 ; she was subject to cerebral congestions, sudden heat of head, vertigo, burning and throbbing frontal pain, noises in ears and illusions of vision, while rest of body was cold ; headaches
increased ; pulsation of parotids became more severe ; photopsia and then sudden blindness.
She has a wild look, a stunned appearance.
Restless, unsteady look, vacant gaze, at times eyes sparkle ; face is flushed ; anxious, irregular breathing.
The eyes are dim, faint, without lustre.
Had a staring, threatening, wild, wandering look.
Staring, glassy eyes.
Half-opened, protruded, staring eyes.
The lids wide open ; eyes shining and protruding.
Eyes red, protruding, staring and brilliant.
Eyes very animated, with fully dilated pupils.
Pain over eyes.
Pressive pain over right eye.
Deep-seated, dull pain in back of eye.
Pain in head and eyeballs, which felt as if starting from their sockets.
Pain begins in orbit, alternately spreads to forehead and skin of face.
Pain in orbits ; often feels as if eyes had been torn out, sometimes as if pressed into head.
Orbital neuralgias, especially of infraorbital nerve, with red face, hot hands.
Ciliary neuralgia appearing and disappearing suddenly ; photophobia ; congestion.
Violent pain deep in eyes aggravated by movement, but particularly by light.
Transient, fine, stinging pain in eyes.
Shooting in eyes, from within outward.
Violent aching pains in eyes, from without inward.
Pain and burning in eyes.
Feeling of heat in eyes ; seems as if surrounded by a hot vapor.
Burning, itching and smarting in eyes.
Severe pains of glaucoma ; (glaucomatous eyes are exceedingly sensitive to action of Bellad.).
Mydriasis, resulting from nervous headache.
Pupils dilated.
Pupils dilated and immovable ; sclerotica bluish ; livid, lead-colored spots on eyelids ; deathly pallor of face.
Protruded eyes with dilated pupils.
Contracted pupils.
Choroiditis, especially the disseminate form.
In chronic keratitis, when suddenly eye becomes intensely congested, with heat, pains, photophobia ; pains often sharp, shooting through ball to back of head.
Ulcers or maculæ on cornea ; thickening of cornea.
Particularly useful in diseases of fundus ; hyperesthesia of retina.
Optic disc greatly deepened in tint, and retinal arteries and veins much enlarged, veins most markedly.
Optic neuritis, veins large, flashes of light before eye and pains in head.
In hyperemia of optic nerve and retina, especially indicated, if dependent upon cerebral congestion and accompanied by aching pain in eye, aggravated by any light.
Inflammation of optic nerve and retina.
Retinitis in a young lady (subject to congestive headaches, always < in afternoon) ; retina very hazy and œdematous, appearing as if covered with a bluish-grey film, outlines of disk ill-defined, vessels large and tortuous.
Rheumatic iritis in early stages.
Eyes are congested, look very red ; cannot bear light ; opening only when in a dark place.
Catarrhal ophthalmia.
Ophthalmia suddenly appearing ; < right eye ; intense photophobia.
Scrofulous ophthalmia : cannot bear artificial light ; abundant flow of hot tears.
Inflammation of eyes ; with redness and swelling of lids, also of newborn infants ; of gouty or scrofulous persons after catching cold.
Given in cases of chronic ophthalmia caused eyes to burn, and a feeling in cheek bones as if scalded.
Conjunctivitis (especially catarrhal, in early stages) with dryness of eyes, thickened red lips, and burning pains in eye.
Conjunctiva covered with red vessels ; shooting pains ; eyes water.
In chronic forms of hyperemia, if a red conjunctival line is very marked along line of fissure of lids.
Tunica conjunctivæ highly injected ; whole eye prominent and preternaturally brilliant.
Strabismus, due to spasmodic action of muscles, or when resulting from brain affections.
Spasmodic motion of eyes.
Spasms of eyes distorting them.
Eyes are in constant motion, pupils extremely dilated.
The eyeballs turn convulsively in a circle.
The eyes became distorted, with redness and swelling of face.
Swelling and suppurative inflammation of left caruncula lachrymalis.
Dryness of eyes.
Feeling of burning dryness in both eyes.
Feeling of sand in eyes.
Eye dry, motion attended with a sense of dryness and stiffness ; surface of ball became quite dry, causing a very disagreeable sensation, not relieved by winking or continued closing of eyes.
Burning dryness of eyes ; water flowing from eyes is hot, or smarting ; double vision.
Lachrymation, with great photophobia.
Burning tears.
Lachrymation on side affected by headache.
Yellowness of sclerotica.
Dull, heavy, aching pain in lids.
Heaviness of lids.
Eyes wide open.
Nictation of eyelids.
Trembling and quivering of right upper eyelid.
Itching and burning of lids.
Bleeding from lids.
Lids swollen, red, like erysipelas.
Lids puffy, red and congested.
Lids feel sore, red, congested and swollen.
In blepharitis, if lids are painful and swollen like erysipelas.
Itching stitches in inner canthus only temporarily relieved by scratching.
Inflammatory swelling of lower lid near inner canthus, with throbbing pains.
In morning lids are completely agglutinated.
Scrofulous inflammation of lids.
Everted lids.
Acute aggravations of various chronic diseases, as in granular lids, when, after taking cold, eyes become sensitive to air and light, with dryness and a gritty feeling.

Hearing and ears

Extreme sensibility of hearing.
Very sensitive to noises ; easily startled.
Earache worse from least noise.
Cannot bear noise or bright light.
Roaring, ringing, or noises in ears.
Roaring, tingling, humming and murmuring in ears.
Roaring in ears ; vertigo and dull colic.
Fancied noise awakens ; slight delirium on waking.
Deafness as if a skin were drawn over ears.
Hardness of hearing, owing to having taken cold.
They lose their hearing. θ Typhus.
Tearing in internal and external ear, in a downward direction.
Stitches in ears.
Shooting in internal ear, with hardness of hearing on same side.
Pinching in ears, first right, then left.
Earache, with boring and screwing in ears.
Acute thrusts in internal ear, with pinching like earache.
Soreness extending from throat to ears.
Lacerating from above downward in external and internal ear.
Tearing in right external ear and whole right side of face, downward.
The violent, tearing pain spreads from external ear both backward and forward to whole side of face.
Sharp pains in and about ears, sometimes excited by chewing.
Otalgia.
Acute inflammation of ears.
Otitis interna ; child screams in sleep ; delirium ; rolling of head ; threatens extension to meninges.
Otorrhœa.
Inflammatory swelling of ears, and also of parotids.
Swelling of right parotid gland, with erysipelatous bright redness and violent shooting pains.
Inflammatory swelling of parotid gland.
Violent shootings in right parotid, extending into external ear, where it becomes cramplike and then disappears ; it returns again following day, also at same hour.
Inflammation of glands about ears, with tearing and stitches.

Smell and nose

Oversensitiveness to smell.
Extreme sensibility of smell ; odor of tobacco and of soot is intolerable.
Smell now acute, at another time dull. θ Coryza.
Loss of smell.
Smell in nose as from herring brine or sour beer. θ Coryza.
Putrid smell from nose.
Cramp at root of nose.
Nosebleed : with congestion to head ; in children at night.
Very frequent epistaxis, with pulsative pains in head, especially at night when in bed and on waking in morning.
Bleeding of nose ; distended abdomen ; throat frequently becomes sore ; eyes are often inflamed ; bloated face ; no good sleep, hears all that is going on at night.
Discharge of mucus, mixed with blood, from nose.
Frequent sneezing.
Frequent dry sneezing, with tickling, especially in left nostril.
Spasmodic sneezing, with cough of children.
Sensation of dryness of Schneiderian membrane.
Dryness of nose, with dull frontal headache.
Coryza ; one side of nose stopped up.
Dryness of nose and lips, the latter very red.
Nasal voice ; from stoppage.
Coryza, with offensive smell in nose, as of herring pickle, especially when blowing nose.
Suppressed catarrh, maddening headache.
Inflammatory swelling and redness of internal and external nose.
Pain as if bruised, when touching nose.
Sudden redness of tip of nose, with burning sensation.
Tip of nose red, swollen and shining.
Tip of nose red and hot, particularly in warm weather.
Nostrils and corners of lips ulcerated, without pain or itching.
Pustules break out on cheek and nose, which rapidly fill with pus, become covered with a crust.

Upper face

Cutting, tearing pain, mostly right side, shooting from side of face up to temple, into ear, and down to nape of neck ; < from touch and motion ; hard pressure sometimes relieves.
Neuralgic pains commencing under left orbit and running back to ear.
Violent shooting in right maxillary joint, extending to ear ; when chewing.
Prosopalgia ; tic douloureux ; Fothergill's faceache.
Extraordinary mobility of facial muscles, especially on left side.
Twitching of facial muscles.
Convulsive movement of facial muscles, with distortion of mouth.
Spasm of facial muscles ; risus sardonicus ; continual winking and trembling of eyelids, alternating with cramps of hands and feet.
The muscles of his face, jaws and limbs were agitated by convulsive twitchings.
Convulsive play of facial muscles, with grinding of teeth.
Numbness of face.
Paleness and coldness of face, with shivering ; fixed or convulsive eyes ; foam at mouth ; involuntary escape of feces and urine.
Great paleness of face ; much moaning and grinding of teeth.
An extreme paleness of face is instantaneously changed to redness, with cold cheeks and hot forehead ; sweat only in face.
Paleness of face, sometimes suddenly alternating with red.
Face pale and sunken ; features express restlessness and anxiety, are often deeply furrowed by grief, or pale and dull.
Sensation of burning heat in whole face, without redness of cheeks ; or marked thirst ; body warm ; feet cold.
Red face.
Face animated and flushed.
The face was very red, with a staring, anxious look.
Hot head ; flushed face ; wild staring look ; frequent pulse ; Mucous membrane of mouth dry ; tardy stool ; suppressed urination.
Pains that cause redness of face and eyes ; throbbing of carotids and in head.
Glowing redness of face, with violent, inexpressible headache.
Violent neuralgia ; sometimes originating in right temple and spreading over orbit to right cheek ; < from slightest motion ; sometimes pain radiates from orbit to forehead, and over skin of face ; sometimes affecting ears and teeth. θ Prosopalgia.
Dark red face.
Scarlet spots in face.
Mottled redness of face.
Bluish-red, bloated face.
Red face, with burning heat.
Very red face, with general warmth and great restlessness.
Flushed face and injected eyeballs.
Very red and hot face, with dilated pupils and hot head ; with throbbing of carotids and injection of scleroticæ.
Great thirst, without sweat.
Face red and hot, and face, neck and chest much swollen.
Tumefaction and redness of face and lips.
Swelling of cheeks with burning pains ; also of one side of face.
Erysipelas of face, parts being red, hot and hard.
Scraping itching of forehead.

Lower face

Tearing pain in jaws.
Stitching and tightness in maxillary articulations.
Sensation as if lower jaw was drawn backward.
Shooting and tension of lower jaw, in direction of ears.
Shootings from superior maxilla into internal ear.
Pressing below right zygoma.
Tearing and drawing behind right zygoma.
Inflammation and swelling of submaxillary and cervical glands.
External throat below angle of lower jaw very painful to touch.
She clenched her teeth together so that great force could not open them, with startings in all limbs, and chilliness.
The lower jaw is pressed convulsively against upper with a red face and a peculiar staring look.
Convulsive closing of jaws, and contraction of muscles of face and extremities ; next day increase of convulsive movements, with redness of face and profuse perspiration ; great rigidity down spine.
The jaws are closed convulsively, and very difficult to open. θ Trismus.
The mouth is half open or spasmodically closed in consequence of lockjaw.
Trembling of upper lip.
Thick, swollen upper lip. θ Scrofula.
Pustules, or abscess on upper lip.
Lips : especially upper one, crack in middle ; dry and parched.
Lips dark red.
Swelling of lips.
Pustules at borders of lips, with smarting pains.
Dry, burning, swollen and hardened lips.
Raw feeling at corners of mouth.
Eruptions at corners of mouth painful when touched.

Teeth and gums

Sensation as if her teeth would be forced out of her head.
The teeth feel elongated.
Digging toothache.
Teeth feel "on edge."
Lacerating toothache ; worse in evening.
Dull drawing in upper row, right side, all night.
Painful jerkings in nerves of fangs of one or more teeth.
Sore pain in teeth from admission of open air.
Toothache some minutes after eating, not during ; increases gradually to high degree and as gradually diminishes.
Toothache : tearing, drawing and stinging in spells ; < evening till night ; sometimes renewed in morning on awaking ; < from touching teeth, chewing, and from cold air ; > from pressure and pricking gums until blood comes.
Toothache, with red, hot face and throbbing in head.
Toothache with otalgia.
Rheumatic toothache, particularly in females, especially when pregnant.
Throbbing in teeth. θ Pregnancy.
The pain seems to start from teeth and returns to them.
Barking and growling, with gnashing of teeth.
Grinding of teeth.
Grinding of teeth, with moaning ; great dryness of mouth relieved for a short time by rinsing with cold water.
Grinding of teeth, with foam at mouth.
Extremely troublesome itching of gums, with pain in throat.
Vesicle in gum below one of front teeth, with pain as if burnt.
Gums pain as if ulcerated.
Extremely painful swelling of gums on right side.
Bleeding of gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : salty ; sour ; bitter ; pappy ; offensive ; putrid when eating or drinking.
Bread tastes sour.
Putrid taste rising out of throat ; also when eating or drinking, although food and drink have proper taste.
Putrid, disagreeable taste in mouth, with a clean tongue.
Insipid taste ; or loss of taste.
Hasty speech ; often inarticulate, confused sounds.
Stammering speech.
Inarticulate speech from hindered mobility of tongue.
Tongue dry and dislike to talk.
Loss of speech. θ Typhus.
Paralytic weakness of organs of speech.
Smacking with tongue.
Trembling of tongue when protruded.
Feeling of coldness and dryness of forepart of tongue.
Dryness of tongue and throat becoming so great as to interfere with speech.
Hot tongue.
Tongue dry, cracked and difficult to move.
Tongue parched ; rattling in mouth like a chip.
Inflammatory swelling of tongue.
Tongue : inflamed and much swollen ; papillæ of deep red color ; tip and edges light red.
The papillæ on tongue are of a deep red color, inflamed and much swollen (Tart. emet. produces red tongue with raised papillæ).
The tongue hung dry out of child's mouth, and was swollen thick ; it was scarcely possible to get some drops of milk into mouth.
The tongue is painful, especially to touch ; it is red, hot and dry, with red edges and white in middle.
Red streak in middle of tongue, wide and broader towards point.
Tongue : white centre with red edges ; or two white stripes ; covered with white, clammy fur, which can be pulled off in strings ; dry and furred ; covered with much tenacious, yellowish-white mucus.
Feeling in tip of tongue as if a vesicle was on it, with burning pain when touched.
Cracked tongue, coated white, with salivation.

Inner mouth

Foul odor from mouth.
Peculiar odor from mouth, with but slightly coated tongue.
Mouth feels hot.
Burning in mouth.
Dry, burning mouth, with great thirst.
Paralytic weakness of internal parts of mouth.
Hemorrhage from mouth and nose.
The lips, mucous membrane of mouth, fauces and nose, very hot and dry.
Dry mouth and lips.
Dryness of mouth, with thirst.
Mouth feels scalded.
Dryness of whole inner lining of cheek, tongue, which looks as if burnt, roof of mouth and pharynx.
Red, inflammatory swelling of inner mouth and soft palate.
Lips, tongue and throat dry, with constricted feeling in mouth.
A good deal of tenacious mucus in mouth.
Slimy mouth in morning, when awaking, with pressing headache.
Thick, white mucus collects in mouth and throat, with constant inclination to hawk and swallow.
Saliva thickened, tenacious, brownish, white, clings to tongue like glue.
Salivation ; < when lying down.
Salivation succeeding dryness of mouth.
Increased flow of saliva.

Palate and throat

Dryness of roof of mouth, fauces and throat.
Troublesome continued dryness of mouth, lips and throat with a violent longing for drink, but not satisfied by it.
Great dryness of mouth and throat ; desires drink but cannot swallow.
Desire to swallow saliva, which is painful.
About fauces sensation of dryness most distressing ; it induced a constant attempt at deglutition, and finally excited suffocative spasms of fauces and glottis ; renewed at every attempt to swallow.
Dryness of fauces, causing excessive difficulty of swallowing ; and alteration of voice.
Sensation of heat and dryness in mouth and pharynx, extending to stomach ; epigastric region painful and swollen, with constant thirst.
Dryness, burning and scraping in mouth and throat.
Catarrhal inflammation of palate.
Rawness and soreness of palate.
Painful narrowing and contraction of gullet.
Dryness of mouth and pharynx, with sense of constriction of throat.
Tongue and palate dark red ; she complains of dryness of throat and of difficult swallowing.
Inflammation of throat and fauces.
Redness and swelling of uvula and soft palate.
Burning sensation in fauces.
Mucous membrane, from posterior third of palate, as far down as could be seen, was of a deep crimson color, and tonsils were much enlarged.
Angina faucium, catarrhalis, erysipelatosa, tonsillaris, etc.
Amygdalitis.
Inflammation ; also swelling and suppuration of tonsils.
Tonsillitis ; < right side ; parts bright red ; < swallowing liquids.
The fauces, uvula and tonsils are scarlet and shiny.
Fine tearing on inner surface of angle of left lower jaw, in and behind left tonsil, unaffected by contact ; < when swallowing.
Sensation of foreign body in œsophagus.
Sensation as of a lump, which cannot be removed.
Fine tearing on inner surface of corner of left lower jaw ; in left tonsil, and behind latter ; unaffected by contact ; tearing is more violent during deglutition.
Sensation of heat, burning and dryness in throat.
Violent burning in throat (the mouth at the same time being moist), which is not at all relieved by drinking, but is by a little sugar, though only for a moment.
Constant pressing and burning in throat. θ Quinsy.
Felt great soreness in throat, which looked very red about tonsils and palate ; soreness extended to ears.
Throat : feels raw and sore ; looks very red and shining.
Inflammation of throat and back part of mouth.
Sensation as if a large tumor was growing in throat and stopped it up.
Sore throat : fauces and pharynx deep red ; soft palate and tonsils swollen ; swallowing painful, particularly fluids ; speech thick ; feels like a lump in throat, which induces hawking ; throat swollen outside and sensitive to touch.
Lump in throat.
Violent, lancinating pain in throat when swallowing or breathing.
Sore throat ; shooting in pharynx, and pain as from an internal swelling, only felt during deglutition, and upon turning head around ; likewise when feeling side of neck, but not when at rest or in speaking.
Sore throat, which increases every hour ; heat ; scraping ; narrowing, and feeling of soreness.
As soon as throat began to feel sore, there was great expectoration of light mucus.
Sore throat : fauces and pharynx deep red ; soft palate and tonsils swollen ; swallowing painful, particularly fluids ; speech thick ; feels like a lump in throat, which induces hawking ; throat swollen outside and sensitive to
touch.
Painful contraction and narrowing of upper part of throat.
Constriction of throat, with choking sensation.
Contraction of œsophagus, lasting a short time, but frequently recurring ; more during deglutition than between, and followed each time by a scraping sensation in region of epiglottis, as if latter was raw and sore.
Spasmodic constriction of throat.
Spasms in œsophagus. θ Typhus.
Only with difficulty and by constantly taking liquids is he able to swallow solid food.
Constant urging and desire to swallow ; seemed as if he would choke if he did not swallow.
During deglutition, feeling in throat as if it was too narrow, or drawn together, as if nothing would pass properly.
Difficulty in swallowing ; severe coughing spells, causing much redness of face ; moaning and drowsiness.
When swallowing, experiences a sensation in throat as though the parts were too narrow, contracted, as if nothing would go down.
On attempting to pour down liquid, tetanic closure of mouth, and regurgitation of liquid.
Impeded deglutition, or entire inability to swallow even liquids, which return by nose.
He swallows water with greatest difficulty, and can only get smallest quantity of it down.
Chokes easily ; things go down wrong way.
Aversion to all fluids, so that she behaves frightfully at sight of them ; forcible administration of fluid medicine makes her furious.
Constant desire for empty swallowing, which causes pain in larynx.
When swallowing, a pressing, urging pain. θ Angina.
Swallowing saliva, or empty, is most painful. θ Angina.
Has to swallow, which is very painful ; he has to bend head forward and lift up knee. θ Angina.
A violent shooting pain in throat on swallowing or breathing.
Rapidly forming aphthous ulcers on tonsils ; intense congestion ; throbbing of carotids.
Throat is painful to touch on right side, especially towards ear, where it stings. θ Angina.
Right hand clutches at throat. θ Epilepsy.
Pressive pain externally when bending head backward and when touching parts.
Cervical glands inflame suddenly.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

If children in hydrocephaloid cry until they get something to eat, Bellad. is well indicated.
Complete loss of appetite.
Aversion to food, particularly meat.
Anxious seeking for drink.
Great thirst.
Violent thirst at noon.
Excessive thirst for cold water. θ Angina.
Desire for lemons and lemonade, which prove beneficial.
Desire for warm drinks.
Great thirst in evening, with watery taste ; all drinks are loathsome.
Absence of thirst.
Aversion to every kind of liquid ; she demeans herself like a fury when seeing it.
Violent burning, suffocative, unquenchable thirst, with inability to swallow least drop, or with great aversion to drinks.
Thirst for water changed into thirst for beer.
Repugnance to beer, acids, coffee, camphor.
Desire for tobacco and indigestible things ; swallows food greedily.

Eating and drinking

Hasty drinking, with trembling.
After eating : putrid taste in mouth.
Pressure in stomach after eating.
Taking drink or nourishment excites vomiting.
At first he pushed away a glass of sugared water, when on being coaxed he attempted to drink it, only a few drops passed down, the rest was forced out of mouth by spasmodic contraction of muscles of deglutition.
After drinking beer, internal heat.
Wine aggravates dyspnœa.
Vomiting after eating or drinking.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Attacks of violent hiccough. θ Hepatitis.
Crying on account of pain from hiccough.
Hiccoughing eructations ; spasm composed partly of eructation, partly of hiccough.
Half suppressed, incomplete eructations.
Bitter, frequent eructations, with want of appetite and giddiness.
Gulping of food, with pressing in stomach.
Nausea, with loathing of food.
Nausea in throat and stomach.
Nausea and bitter eructations.
Ineffectual efforts to vomit about midnight, with cold sweat.
Nausea, retching and vomiting.
Unsuccessful inclination to vomit ; empty retching.
Sick and fainty ; vomits everything.
Can't keep any food on stomach ; can't hold his head up ; makes water freely ; exceedingly cross, ill-tempered ; drowsy, but can't get sound sleep ; bowels constipated very much ; stools dark and hard ; tongue coated
white ; uneasy, restless ; rouses up and screams ; starts and screams as if frightened.
Can keep nothing down ; pale ; weak.
Frequent nausea ; spasmodic vomiting.
Vomiting : of mucus ; of bile and mucus, or undigested food ; watery, sour, bloody mucus.
Vomits bloody phlegm and improves. θ Angina.
Vomit watery, slimy, bilious fluid. θ Hepatic affections.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Painless throbbing and beating at pit of stomach.
Tensive pressing pain in pit of stomach, particularly after eating.
Painful pressure in pit of stomach only when walking ; compels him to walk slowly.
Violent shooting, cutting pain in pit of stomach, forcing one to bend body backward and to hold one's breath.
At night periodical pains at pit of stomach, with tremor.
Burning in stomach.
Excruciating pains about pit of stomach.
Feeling of emptiness in stomach.
Spasm in stomach like cramp.
Chronic spasm of stomach, always occurring during a meal ; colic, as if a spot in abdomen were seized with nails ; a gripping, clutching, seizing with talons (see Ipec.).
Fulness and oppression in stomach ; cannot lie still. θ Hepatitis.
Cardialgia ; gastralgia.
Hard pressure in stomach after eating ; violent stomachache, lasting a short time.
Pain in stomach extending through to spine, between shoulders.
Pains in stomach and abdomen < when walking, and from a jar ; in stomach or abdomen as if clutched by a hand.
Gnawing, pressing, crampy, drawing and wrenching pain in stomach, compels patient to bend backward ; < after drinking.
Shooting pains in stomach.
Cutting pain in stomach ; < from motion or pressure.
Region of stomach sensitive to touch.
Hematemesis ; ringing in ears ; red cheeks ; feeling of fulness and warmth in stomach.
Gastritis.
Distension of epigastrium, with tensive pain in stomach.

Hypochondria

Pain in liver.
Acute and chronic hepatitis.
Region of liver painful and sore to touch. θ Congestion of liver.
Acute pain in region of liver ; < lying on right side ; pains go the shoulder and neck ; can tolerate no pressure or jar ; pit of stomach bloated.
Severe pressure in right hypochonder on a small spot near and above umbilicus ; < from motion, and very sensitive to touch. θ Hepatitis.
Pain in hepatic region gets rapidly worse ; spreads to back and kidneys ; causes retching and vomiting of bile ; has to bend double. θ Hepatitis.
Colic from gall-stones ; liver hard. θ Jaundice.
Pain as if hypochondria was being pressed out, when pressing on epigastrium.

Abdomen and loins

During pain transverse colon protrudes like a pad, all the way across abdomen.
Colic ; spasmodic tension from chest to deep in abdomen.
Colic, as if a spot in abdomen was seized with nails ; a griping, clutching, clawing.
Sudden violent, stinging, cutting or pinching pain, proceeding from one place in abdomen and spreading over larger portion of it.
Loud rumbling and pinching in belly ; wind-colic.
Violent cutting pressure in hypogastrium, now here, now there.
Pinching colic ; flatulent colic > by stooping forward and by pressing on part.
Clawing around navel ; > from pressure.
Infantile colic ; patient bends backward, and pains appear and leave suddenly.
Pains in abdomen cause violent screaming. θ Children with dysentery.
Pains, particularly in abdomen and pelvis, come on suddenly, continue violently a longer or shorter time, and disappear as suddenly as they came.
Children relieve their bellyache by lying flat on their bellies across a chair.
Constriction of abdomen around navel, as if a ball or lump would form.
Contractive dragging in region of navel, especially about noon and in afternoon.
Constricting, pinching pains under navel, coming suddenly, patient has to bend double.
In hypogastrium, immediately below umbilicus, a feeling as though intestines pressed outward, chiefly in standing.
Along with sensation of distension of abdomen, constrictive pain below umbilicus, which comes in jerks and forces one to lean forward bent double.
Cramplike, constrictive pain in lower intestines.
Pressure in abdomen as from a stone (in evening), with pains in loins.
In morning, immediately after getting out of bed, a violent, tensive, pressing pain in whole of hypogastrium, but especially in region of os pubis ; it appears as if hypogastrium (rarely epigastrium) was spasmodically constricted, sometimes as if it was distended (although not
really so) ; pains which gradually increase and gradually decrease.
Squeezing, constrictive pain in lowermost intestines, alternately with dull shoots or jerks in direction of perineum.
Burning, pressive and pinching pain in abdomen, obliging him to bend double.
Feeling of heat in abdomen, as from a hot iron.
Heat in belly (with anxiety), in chest, and in face, with obstruction of nose.
Pain in abdomen, as if raw and sore.
Long-lasting painfulness of whole abdomen, as if it was all sore and raw.
Peritonitis.
Tumefaction of abdomen, which was very tender to touch.
Painfulness of abdomen to contact.
Tenderness even to slight pressure, especially over ovarian region.
Sensitiveness of abdomen to slightest touch.
Tenderness of abdomen aggravated by least jar, even of bed or chair upon which she sits ; she is obliged, in walking, to step with great care, for fear of a jar.
Great pain in right ileo-cecal region, cannot bear slightest touch, not even bedcover.
Abdomen tympanitic and extremely sensitive.
Abdomen contracted.
Distended, but neither hard nor painful abdomen.
Abdomen distended, hot. θ Cholera infantum.
Much bearing down pain ; < in morning.
Feeling as if a hard body pressed from within outward, at right inguinal ring ; part not feeling hard to touch ; while sitting with body bent forward.
Fine shooting in left groin.
Violent twitching of abdominal muscles.
Incarcerated hernia.
Itching on abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Contractive pain in rectum.
Straining and colic.
Frequent urging to stool without result, or with a very scanty and hard evacuation.
Urging to stool, which is thinner than usual, but passes in proper quantity.
From 10 P. M. till 2 A. M. violent tenesmus, with passage of blood and slime, the rest of the time thin but formed stools.
Frequent urging to stool, sometimes ineffectual and with tenesmus.
Straining to stool ; the evacuation is undoubtedly diarrheic, but very little is voided, and immediately after follows much straining.
Urging to stool, which is more fluid than usual, but passed in proper quantity.
Frequent thin stools, with tenesmus.
Dysentery.
Slimy and bloody diarrheic stools.
Papescent stool mixed with mucus.
Diarrhœa, with bearing down pain in uterus.
Diarrhœa < from motion (compare Rheum and Crot. tigl.).
Asiatic cholera.
Involuntary evacuations ; temporary paralysis of sphincter.
Involuntary discharge of feces and urine ; violent startings ; flushed face.
Escape of feces when passing wind.
Stools : thin, green mucus ; frequent, thin ; bloody mucus with tenesmus ; containing lumps like chalk ; clay colored ; chalky-white, with granular, slimy mucus ; smell sour ; with shuddering.
Retarded stool.
Digestion torpid ; stools scanty.
Sense of constipation.
Obstinate constipation.
Constipation with weak pulse.
Before stool : constriction in rectum ; sore aching in upper part of abdomen ; perspiration ; heat in abdomen ; colic.
During stool : shuddering ; nausea and pressing pain in stomach ; pressure on genitals.
Diarrhœa, with pressure on bladder.
With stool passage of urine.
The diarrheic stool is followed by frequent urging, no more stool being passed.
After stool : tenesmus.
A sort of tenesmus, a constant pressing and urging towards anus and genitals, alternating with painful contractions of anus.
Pressing in rectum towards anus.
Spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani. θ Dysentery.
Bleeding piles ; back pains as if breaking.
Mucous membrane of anus seems swollen and pressed out.
Prolapsus ani.
Voluptuous tickling in lower parts of rectum and anus.
Violent itching, at same time constrictive sensation in anus.

Urinary organs

Stinging, burning pain, from region of kidneys down into bladder.
Nephritis.
Spasmodic, crampy straining along ureter, during passage of calculus. θ Nephritic colic.
Sensation of turning and twisting in bladder, as from a large worm, without desire to micturate.
Tenesmus of bladder, without inflammation.
Dull pressing in vesical region during night.
Vesical region very sensitive to pressure or jar.
It is indicated in irritation (not inflammation) of bladder, with strangury and white epithelium in urine.
Shooting in bladder when moving.
Tenesmus of bladder.
Very frequent desire to urinate, even if only a few drops had accumulated.
Frequent desire to urinate, but urine voided in remarkably small quantities, although of a natural color.
Diminished urine.
When passing water feces escape (compare Rhus).
Frequent copious emission of urine.
Urine : either suppressed or profuse, light and clear ; bright yellow and clear ; frequent, copious, pale and watery ; first clear, becomes turbid on standing ; blood-red, dark and scanty, sometimes as yellow as gold ; red and scanty ; dark, even
bloody ; scanty, and passed with difficulty ; deep red, with light sediment ; dark and increased ; turbid, like yeast, with a reddish sediment ; scanty, brownish-red and cloudy ; yellow, turbid.
When urine is heated, almost invariably deposits a cloud of phosphates.
Urine looks as if mixed with black dust, or streaks ; strongly acid. θ After scarlatina.
Suppression of stool and urine.
Retention of urine, which only passes drop by drop.
Much difficulty in passing a small quantity of urine, it flows in a very feeble stream or in drops.
Post-partum retention of urine.
Involuntary emission of urine when standing.
Constant dribbling of urine, clear as water and odorless.
Urine escaped from him during a deep sleep in daytime.
Enuresis nocturna of children.
Enuresis, with profuse perspiration.
Wets bed ; restless, starts in sleep. θ Scrofulous children. θ Chorea.
Between acts of urination, dull shooting in urethra, behind glans, especially during movement.
During urination : burning ; drawing in spermatic cord ; pain in left groin.
After urination : itching ; smarting pain in outer edge of prepuce worse.

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual desire, with great inclination to masturbation.
Sexual desire decreased.
Nocturnal emission of semen, during relaxation of penis.
Inflammation of prostate gland.
Inflammation of testicles.
Drawing pain in one of testicles and spermatic cord, as if testicle was drawing up into abdomen.
Violent stitches in testicles, which are drawn up.
Tearing upward in left spermatic cord, evening in bed.
Soft, painless tumor on glans.
Violent pressing and urging towards genitals, as if everything would fall out there ; < sitting bent, and in walking ; > standing, and sitting erect.
Weakness and relaxation of genitals.
Sweating of genital organs.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania. See 24 .
Ovarian neuralgia.
Lancinating pain in ovary.
Right ovary : much enlarged ; stitching, throbbing pains in region of hard swollen ovary ; pains come and go suddenly.
Burning in ovarian region.
Affections of right ovary.
Pain in ovaries with appearance of menses.
Pains in pelvic region, which come on suddenly and cease as suddenly. θ Uterine displacement.
Drawing pains in pelvic region.
Uterine congestion.
Congestion of womb, and sensation as if it would fall out.
Acute metritis.
Burning, pressure, uneasiness and weight in uterine region.
Clutching or clawing pains, or transient stitches in uterine region ; parts sensitive, cannot bear least jar.
Enlargement of uterus, and periodically spasmodic bearing down, coliclike pains in uterus, discharging black, pitchlike ichor.
Fulness and bearing down in parts, cannot stand without complaining ; sacrum very painfully affected at irregular times ; a discharge of bloody ichor. θ Beginning of uterine
cancer.
Spasmodic contractions of neck of uterus, which is hot, dry and tender.
Prolapsus : with bearing down pains, as if everything would issue from vulva ; relieved by standing ; especially felt in morning ; with indurations ; in climacteric years ; parts congested ; burning, stinging, tension, fulness
and bearing down ; in loins and sacrum, drawing, cutting, pressing, cramplike pains ; with nervous, irritable women.
Menses : too early and too profuse ; of thick, decomposed, dark red blood ; retarded and too pale ; bright red, or black and clotted ; hot ; offensive.
Before menses : colic ; cramp of stomach ; loss of appetite, tiredness ; clouded vision.
During menses : bearing down towards genitals ; pain in back and limbs ; heat of head, anxiety ; disturbance of mind ; chills, thirst ; perspiration of chest at night.
After menses : cramps of stomach.
Dysmenorrhœa : with rush of blood to head ; with spasmodic contraction of uterus and terrible bearing down pains ; < in morning ; with pains in limbs and back ; in women of full habit.
Amenorrhœa, with congestion to head.
Flow of blood between periods.
Metrorrhagia.
Hemorrhage from womb, with contracting pain in lower part of abdomen ; < from every motion.
Profuse discharge of hot, bright red blood ; sometimes dark, clotted, and of bad smell.
More or less discharge of blood from vulva, sometimes feeling very hot.
Profuse discharge of bright red, hot blood, with pressing or forcing, as if all would escape vulva, or pain in back as if it would break ; sometimes there is congestion to head, with throbbing of carotids.
Fluor albus of white mucus, with or without colic.
Leucorrhœa with colic ; pains come suddenly and finally cease as suddenly as they came.
Bearing down pains with leucorrhœa.
Induration of uterus : with crampy pains and bearing down ; with clawing and cutting pains.
Pressure downward, as if all contents of abdomen would issue through vulva : < mornings.
At every step violent shootings in genital region, as if in internal sexual organs.
In morning a pressing, as if everything would be forced out, with distension of abdomen ; after pressing, abdomen contracted, and that was followed by a discharge of white mucus from vagina.
Pressing and urging towards genitals, < by sitting bent and walking ; > by standing and sitting erect.
Sense of heaviness, fulness, and bearing down in parts.
Throbbing about parts, and sense of weight.
Stitches in vagina with sensation of great heat and dryness.
Female parts are sensitive, can bear neither touch nor least jar.
The parts have a scarlet red appearance.
Inflammation of external genitals.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Suitable for women, particularly during pregnancy.
During pregnancy : mental derangement ; toothache ; spasms and convulsions ; spasmodic hacking cough ; fainting.
Labor-like pains deep in pelvis, radiating to back and loins.
Promotes expulsion of moles, etc.
Labor pains : deficient ; cease, have only periodical slight pressure on sacrum ; amniotic fluid gone, yet os still spasmodically contracted ; false spasmodic ; labor slow and tedious.
Old maids married late, in first delivery muscles rigid.
The woman, in labor, lies quiet, without pains ; has only an occasional pain in occiput.
The parturient woman makes wry faces, on account of a periodical pressure in sacrum.
Drawing pains from small of back to thighs.
If during powerful labor the os tincæ is not widened correspondingly, or seems to be spasmodically contracted.
Constriction of lower part of uterus.
After body was born, but head spasmodically held inside of uterus (five drops of tincture loosened the constriction in 20 minutes, and head was expelled ; followed by a violent bleeding, cured by Secale).
Appears as if stunned ; semiconscious with loss of speech ; convulsive movements in limbs and muscles of face ; paralysis of right side of tongue, foam at mouth ; renewal of fits at every pain. θ Puerperal
convulsions.
Cramps in legs during labor, necessitating instrumental delivery in nine confinements ; she became enraged, wanted to tear everything within her reach, tried to escape ; Bellad. [4c] quieted her and produced natural delivery.
After a mole birth : occasional chill ; constant thirst ; moaning ; blowing respiration ; wild look ; rage ; wild laughter ; feels as if a rope was tied around hypochondria ; sides painful to pressure ; short stomach cough causing
retching and raising of sour slime ; pressure in forehead.
Lying-in women : milk fever ; deficiency of milk, or too great a flow ; puerperal fever, particularly after a violent emotion, or after suppression of milk.
Mania puerperalis.
Retained placenta, with profuse flow of hot blood, which speedily coagulates ; placenta may be spasmodically retained.
Hemorrhage after confinement, or after miscarriage.
Puerperal peritonitis (at the onset), a hot steam seems to issue from body of patient.
Great sensitiveness of abdomen after delivery.
Very acute after-pains.
Prolapsus after parturition.
Lochia : too weak and insufficient ; suppressed ; offensive, feeling hot to parts.
Consequences of taking cold during confinement.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
The breasts become filled with milk (in a female who is not pregnant), the milk running out.
Too copious flow of milk.
Inflammation of breasts, in streaks or rays, diverging from centre to circumference. θ Moles, tubercles, wheals, warts, etc., with a like characteristic.
Swelling and induration of breasts.
Swollen, painful mamma.
Nodular swelling of breasts ; skin of breast hot and inflamed, pain stinging and throbbing.
Rose-colored, radiating inflammation and swelling of breasts, with stinging, tearing pains.
Erysipelatous swelling of breasts.
Erysipelatous inflammation of breasts, particularly from weaning.
Ophthalmia ; spasms ; sleeplessness and crying of newborn infants ; troubles from teething.
Heat and redness of gums during dentition.
Difficult dentition ; convulsions, etc.
Complaints during dentition and puberty.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarse outcries.
Hoarseness which is especially violent when crying.
Hoarse, rough voice, with dryness in throat, seat of which she accurately located in larynx ; she had to cough frequently and swallow often ; when swallowing she complained of a pain in larynx.
Voice hoarse and weak.
The voice is altered, hoarse, rough, weak and wheezing.
Sudden attacks of hoarseness ; feeble voice ; dry cough, often with spells of suffocation. θ Chronic laryngitis.
Speaking is very difficult to him ; speaks in a piping tone.
Cannot speak but with great exertion, very gentle and low. θ Angina.
Now and then while speaking, the voice, which had been weak, becomes suddenly loud and clear.
Voice weakened even to complete aphonia.
Aphonia, or confused sounds uttered with pain.
The dryness extends into larynx, rendering voice husky, and often inducing dry cough.
Painful dryness in larynx, yet with an unconquerable aversion to all drinks.
Great sensitiveness to slightest pressure in lower portion of larynx.
Sensation as if some one constricted his larynx.
Sensation as if larynx was inflamed and swollen, with snoring breathing and danger of suffocation.
Pain in larynx when talking.
Great painfulness of upper part of windpipe, with danger of suffocation when touching or turning throat ; when coughing, talking, or taking breath.
Spasmodic constriction of throat.
Crouplike spasms in larynx, in attacks ; fauces red.
Spasms of glottis.
All the symptoms of membranous croup, but the usual remedies are of no avail, and the case is characterized by single attacks ; hollow cough, with strangulation and putting hands to larynx, evidently a spasmodic constriction.
Acute catarrhal laryngitis.
Chronic laryngitis, with spasmodic dry cough.
Noise and rattling in bronchial tubes.

Respiration

Short breath.
Shortness of breath after drinking coffee in afternoon.
Respiration rapid and somewhat oppressed.
Short, hurried, anxious breathing.
Breathing heavy and stertorous.
Rattling breathing with cough.
Quick, short, irregular breathing, alternates with slow, gentle, at times almost imperceptible breathing ; in a child.
Breath hot ; respiration difficult.
Asthmatic paroxysm in afternoon and evening, with sensation of dust in lungs.
Asthmatic complaints, with suffocative spells.
Attacks of dyspnœa at night.
Asthma in hot, damp weather ; < after sleep.
Oppression of chest.
Dyspnœa after rising in morning ; > in open air.
Danger of suffocation when swallowing ; or when turning, or touching neck.

Cough

Dry cough : from dryness of larynx ; from tickling itching in back part of top of larynx, evening after lying down in bed ; from sensation of a foreign body in larynx.
Dry cough day and night, with tickling in throat, or with headache and redness of face.
Very dry, tearing cough at night.
Cough accompanied by a red, injected throat.
Dry and short cough.
Violent scraping in larynx exciting a dry cough.
Violent dry cough, as if a foreign body had got inside throat.
Sensation as if something was in pit of stomach, which excites cough.
Dry spasmodic cough : with retching, especially after midnight ; with dull pain in head.
Dry throat, whereby throat is scraped.
Tickling and burning in larynx, with violent paroxysms of cough.
The cough is spasmodic, rough, hollow, hacking, caused by a sensation of constriction of larynx ; < from motion and talking, or when child cries ; when awaking from sleep ; concomitants ; congestion to head ; aversion to light ; rattling in chest ;
skin dry ; generally irritable in beginning.
Barking cough waking suddenly 11 P. M. ; face fiery red ; crying with cough. θ Croup.
Short dry cough ; spasmodic, or else hollow and hoarse cough.
Whooping cough : with sneezing ; with injected capillaries ; cough comes in short paroxysms ; < evening and night, most violent just after midnight ; < from every movement or touch, especially at larynx and throat ; < from talking or crying ;
< from a deep inspiration, and when awaking ; suitable at beginning, or when cerebral inflammation intervenes.
Cough produces such congestion as to cause sclerotic to appear as one gore of blood. θ Whooping cough.
Cough, with bloody mucous expectoration in morning ; bloody taste in mouth.
Frequent attacks of cough about 11 P. M.
Night cough ; wakes from sleep.
The slightest movement in bed at night renews cough.
Nocturnal cough, mostly dry, with tearing in chest, or with cold in head and stitches in breast bone.
Violent cough about noon, with expectoration of much tenacious mucus.
Attacks of cough < in afternoon and evening until midnight.
Cough commences in evening (about 10 o'clock), and occurs every quarter of an hour or oftener, in three or four fits at a time.
Attack of coughing, as if one had inhaled dust ; wakens at night ; mucous expectoration.
Cough caused by fine dust in air.
Catarrhal cough, with rattling in chest.
The mucous rales are large and crepitous ; hoarse cough ; much moaning ; moaning at every breath.
Child begins to cry immediately before cough comes on (Compare Hepar and Bryon.).
Cough causing congestion of face and great redness of eyes.
Attacks of cough ending with sneezing.
Violent cough during sleep, with grinding of teeth.
Cough, with a bloody taste in mouth.
Cough causes scraping in throat, or pain in stomach and inclination to vomit.
Cough causes pain in pit of stomach, "seems to strike there."
Pain in sternum from coughing.
Expectoration of bloody mucus.
Pain in nape of neck when coughing.
During cough : pain in sternum ; constriction of throat ; stitches in chest or uterine region ; pains in head, abdomen, hips or legs ; reversed action of stomach ; vomiting of mucus ; bloody taste in mouth ; bleeding from ear or nose ; heat of
face ; redness or blueness of face ; pressure in epigastrium ; stiffening of body ; convulsions.
Catarrh or cough, with coryza.
Coughing fit, with subsequent heat ; with asthma ; from rush of blood to chest.

Inner chest and lungs

Tightness, oppression, or constriction of chest.
Constriction across chest, as if pressed inward from both sides.
Exceeding weight and oppression of whole chest.
Painful pressure in chest extending into back.
Pressive pain in chest, with shortness of breath, and at same time between shoulders, when walking or sitting.
Pressure in right chest, causes anxiety.
Pressure in chest affecting heart.
Rush of blood to chest.
Stitches in apex of right lung. (Compare Arsen.).
Burning in right chest.
Stitches in chest ; with desire to cough, or particularly when coughing or yawning.
In pneumonia : young persons, full habit ; temperature and fever high ; face flushed ; eyes congested ; great nervousness ; sleeplessness ; delirium, or threatened convulsions, with tickling, dry cough.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Violent palpitation, reverberating in head.
Tremor of heart, with anguish and an aching pain.
Gurgling at heart, a kind of palpitation when going up-stairs.
Pressure in cardiac region, which arrests breathing and causes a sense of anxiety.
Throbbing in carotid arteries.
A beating of arteries of head and all parts of body, in morning on waking.
Congestion of blood to various parts, to head, chest, uterus.
Vascular excitement : throbbing of carotids ; flushed face ; red eyes ; and full, bounding pulse.
Plethora ; hemorrhages.
Pulse : much increased in force and frequency ; full, frequent ; accelerated, frequently full, hard and tense ; large, full and slow ; at times small and soft ; slow, thready, irregular.

Outer chest

Heat in sternum.
Corroding, gnawing pain beneath cartilages of last ribs, right side.
Heat, swelling and hardness of mamma. θ Mastitis.
The eruption begins on throat and chest. θ Scarlatina.

Neck and back

Painful swelling and stiffness of neck and nape of neck.
Swelling of glands in nape of neck, with cloudiness of head.
Inflammation and swelling of glands of neck and of back part of throat.
In coughing, a violent pressing pain in nape of neck, as if it would break.
Pressive pain externally in neck, when bending head backward, and when touching part.
Distension and perceptible throbbing of vessels of neck.
Sour-smelling sweat only on neck.
Drawing pressure between right scapula and spinal column.
Pressive pain under left scapula, more towards outer side.
Shooting and gnawing pain in spinal column.
Gnawing in spine, with cough.
Stabbing, as if with a knife, from without inward, in vertebræ.
Drawing, burning and throbbing pain in spine.
Myelitis.
Rheumatic pain in back.
Backache, as if back would break.
Feeling in back as if it would break, hindering motion.
Soreness of last dorsal and first lumbar vertebræ.
Cramplike sensation in left lumbar region.
Curvature of lumbar vertebræ.
Bearing down on to sacrum.

Upper limbs

Swelling of axillary glands.
Shooting, or stitching pressure on top of left shoulder.
Lacerating, with pressure in shoulder, darting suddenly along arm ; particularly painful at night.
Twitching of arms.
Paralytic drawing pressure, with weakness in right upper arm and forearm.
Paralytic tearing pressure in anterior surface of left upper arm.
A sense of stretching and twisting in upper extremities.
Drawing pain on inner side of left upper arm.
Laming, drawing pressure, tearing in arms, with weakness.
Paralytic pressure in left upper arm, with paralytic feeling and weakness of whole left arm.
Heaviness and paralytic feeling in upper limbs.
Violent stabbing, as with a blunt knife, below head of humerus, from within out.
Tearing pain in humerus.
Bruised pain in upper arm.
Sharp shooting externally in left elbow joint.
Cutting pain in interior of left elbow joint when walking.
Cutting tearing in lower muscles of both forearms.
Painful jerking ; spasms and convulsions of arms and hands.
Swelling, also scarlet redness of arms and hands.
Peculiar cutting pains commencing in wrist, shooting to elbow and above, always from periphery to centre.
Not able to turn hand easily and freely on its axis (as when dropping from a glass), turns only by jerks, as from want of synovial fluid in wrist joint ; painless.
Spasmodic closing of fingers.
Numbness and prickling in hands.
Hands swollen and dry, drops things.
Paralytic tearing in middle joint of right index finger.
Painful drawing in posterior joint of left middle finger, as if in periosteum.

Lower limbs

Hip gout, with burning stinging, most violent at night and by contact.
Hip-joint disease, first stage ; sharp pains, < at night ; screams out in sleep.
Stiffness of hip joint.
Cramp pain in gluteal muscles, with tension on bending body forward.
Cutting stitches in outer muscles of right thigh, just above knee, only when sitting.
Pain in thighs and legs, as if beaten and as if carious ; fine shooting and gnawing along bones, with violent tearing in joints ; pain rises gradually from ankle to hips, necessitates, while sitting, constant motion and shifting of feet ; is milder when walking.
Cramp pain in both knee joints, particularly about patellæ ; she could not walk up-stairs.
Cramplike pain in right knee near patella, towards outer side, when sitting.
Burning stinging in knee joint ; worse at night.
Sensation in joints of lower limbs, particularly knees, as if they would give way, especially when walking, and more marked when going down hill.
Dull tearing in legs.
Heaviness and lameness of legs and feet.
Tearing pressure in middle of inside of leg, uninfluenced by motion or contact.
Tremulous heaviness of legs.
Lower extremities cold and semirigid.
Paralysis of lower extremities, together with neck of bladder and sphincter ani.
Large bloodboil on thigh, discharging yellow, thick, bloody pus.
Pain as if bruised in heel, when treading thereon.
Pain in metatarsal bones, as if dislocated.
Tension in right tarsal joint while walking in open air.
Cold feet.
Boring, digging, or shooting pains in soles.
Tension in sole of right foot near heel, changing into a tensive pressure ; pressing upon parts > for some time.

Limbs in general

He slowly moves extremities upward, trembling, then with greater force he throws them downward.
Twitchings of limbs.
Convulsive movements of limbs.
Convulsive twitching, twisting and turning of extremities.
Pressure, burning, stinging or tingling in limbs.
Heaviness of hands and feet.
Heaviness and tired feeling in limbs.
Hands and feet become very cold.
Lassitude of limbs.
Loss of coordination of muscles of both upper and lower limbs, very like heaviness and helplessness of movement observed in first stage of progressive paralysis of the insane.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : drawing pains in head and neck.
Disinclination and aversion to work or motion.
Restlessness ; he was obliged constantly to move body to and fro, especially hands and feet.
Cannot stay long in any position, at one time lies, at another sits, again stands, in all of which he constantly changes his position.
Lying down : headache >, or ceases ; salivation < ; cough <.
Lying on right side : pain in liver <.
Must lie down : with supraorbital headache.
Bending head back : pressure of brain forward > ; headache >.
Sitting erect : pressing towards genitals > ; pain in chest.
Sitting : headache > ; cutting stitches in muscles of thigh.
Sitting bent forward : feeling as if a hard body pressed from right inguinal ring ; pressing towards genitals as if everything would fall out ; cramp in right knee.
Stooping forward : flatulent colic >.
Bending forward : pain in gluteal muscles.
Bending backward : colic of infants.
Bending head backward : superficial pain in neck.
Lying flat on belly across chair : colic of children >.
Standing : intestines seem to press outward below umbilicus ; pressing towards genitals >.
Sitting up : can only sleep.
Slides down in bed : in typhoid.
Could only lie on painful side. θ Angina.
Every jar, turning or movement of body increases pain, patient therefore lies immovably on his back.
Motion : confusion of head < ; vertigo < ; aching forehead < ; drawing in nape of neck ; pain side of face < ; pressure in right hypochondrium < ; diarrhœa < ; shooting in bladder ; metrorrhagia < ; cough <.
Act of lying down : bed seems to rock.
When rising from a seat he staggers, cannot use the cars ; in leaving he would fall against the wheels ; headache <.
Walking : uncertain, hasty, precipitate ; dulness and confusion of head < ; vertigo < ; frontal headache < ; illusions of sight ; pain in pit of stomach ; pressing towards genitals as if everything would fall out < ; pain in chest ; pain in
left elbow joint ; tension in tarsal joint ; pain in ankles to hips < ; sensation as if knees would give way.
Stooping : vertigo < ; headache > or < ; sensation as if brain would issue from forehead ; shooting in head <.
Cannot bear stooping.
Ascending stairs : palpitation.
Turning in bed : vertigo <.
Must bend double : from pain in hepatic region.
Anxiety prevents remaining long in one position.

Nerves

Spasms : from laughing or crying.
Hysteria : headache predominates ; with spasmodic symptoms in chest, abdomen and limbs ; predominating symptoms of genital organs.
Great restlessness, body is thrown to one side then to other ; sometimes chest, at other times abdomen is elevated.
Great restlessness with sudden startings.
Great irritability and sleeplessness.
Bodily inquietude ; he was constantly obliged to move whole body to and fro, and especially hands and feet ; he cannot stay long in any position, now he lies, now he sits, now he stands, so that he is always changing his posture in one way or another.
He walked round and round in a circle.
Twitching of extremities.
Twitchings more in arms and face ; difficult articulation ; throws head back, rolling head. θ Chorea.
Subsultus tendinum.
Easily startled ; sudden starting.
Starting on falling asleep ; the feet are jerked upward and the head forward.
He starts as if in affright, and wakes when he is just falling asleep.
She started as in affright in otherwise quiet sleep, feeling as if she was falling deep down, which caused her to shudder violently.
On closing eyes a sudden inward shock passing upward and preventing sleep. θ Sunstroke, from exposure of nape of neck.
Spasmodic motion of body, generally backward. θ Chorea.
Throws body forward and backward, while lying, like constant change from emprosthotonos to opisthotonos. θ Chorea.
Fear of apparitions, with convulsive motion of limbs, or twitching of single muscles.
Muscles of face, jaws and limbs, agitated by convulsive twitchings.
Spasmodic diseases.
Eclampsia with children ; convulsions.
Convulsions commence in arm. θ Epilepsy.
Convulsive momentary extension of limbs on awaking.
Convulsions come suddenly.
Repeated convulsions and horrible spasms, especially of flexor muscles.
Violent convulsions ; distortion of limbs and eyes.
Convulsions followed by sound sleep.
Renewal of fits at every pain ; more or less tossing between spasms, or deep sleep, with grimaces or starts and cries, with fearful visions.
Spasms, startings and convulsions of limbs ; after a fit of chagrin ; renewed by least contact ; with screams and loss of consciousness ; with delirium ; with extension of limbs, or violent distortion of muscles.
She has the appearance of being stunned ; a semi-consciousness and loss of speech ; convulsive movements in limbs and muscles of face ; paralysis of right side of tongue ; difficult deglutition ; dilated pupils ; red or livid countenance.
Attacks similar to epilepsy.
Epileptic convulsions.
Epilepsy, with violent congestion to head, with attacks or at other times.
Epileptic convulsions, followed by an apoplectic condition.
Epilepsy : patient clutches wildly at throat ; eyes roll back in their sockets, he froths at the mouth ; brought on by fright.
Clonic and tonic spasms.
From her 3d to her 9th year, every three months a spasmodic attack ; face red, with snapping jerks of lower jaw and biting her tongue ; lying on her back.
Clenched teeth with such force that they could not be opened.
Tetanus and trismus.
Became unconscious while working in hot sun ; jaws fixed ; head hot ; feet cold. θ Tetanus.
Contortions of extremities, with great prostration.
Paroxysms of stiffness, and immobility of all limbs, or of single limbs only.
Stiffness of whole body.
Great prostration.
After prostration by sunstroke. θ Epilepsy.
Great general debility.
All her strength goes in an instant.
Limbs relaxed ; red swollen face ; dilated pupils ; paralysis and puffiness of upper lids ; stertorous breathing ; weak but rapid heartbeat ; difficult swallowing.
Trembling in all the limbs.
General tremor with anxiety.
Weakness and tottering gait.
Paralytic weakness of all the muscles, especially of feet.
Spasm of one and paralysis of other side.
Fainting fits, sometimes resembling lethargy.

Sleep

Frequent yawning.
When yawning he has to cough. θ Hepatitis.
Towards evening drowsiness, with yawning.
Great drowsiness and somnolency.
The child is very drowsy, half sleeping and half waking.
Sleep prevented by anxiety.
He can only sleep sitting up.
Great inclination to sleep.
Sleepy, yet cannot sleep.
Quite profound somnolency, with subsultus tendinum ; pale, cold hands, and hard, small, rapid pulse.
Soporous after the spasms.
Somnolence : stupor ; lethargy ; deep sleep with snoring.
Comatose condition, with rattling in throat ; very red face.
She does not sleep well ; she lies half sleeping and half waking.
Frequent waking in night, with great restlessness, anxiety and tossing about in bed.
Anxiety and apparitions prevent sleep ; burning heat, thirst, with difficult deglutition ; restless tossing about, even twitching.
Went to bed after 11 o'clock ; sleepless from 2 to 5 ; laughed, and said she saw laughing masks.
During sleep : singing and loud talking ; moaning ; tossing about ; screaming ; starts.
Uneasy sleep before midnight ; the child tosses about, kicks and quarrels in its sleep.
She wakes in night full of fright and fear ; it appeared to her as if there was something under bed which made a noise ; she felt dry heat on awaking.
At night boys became restless, spoke irrationally, and could with difficulty be kept in bed.
Great restlessness, boy wished to escape, and had to be kept on his couch by force, at same time he developed a vigor and strength beyond his age.
Moaning and starting in sleep ; head hot.
Awakes from sleep and looks frightened, with staring eyes.
Children sleep with half-open eyes.
He does not sleep well, and "hears all that is going on."
Restlessness at night ; grinding of teeth, now and then convulsions.
Deep, sound sleep, full of dreams.
Vivid dreams, but could not remember them.
Sleep is broken by disagreeable dreams.
Restless sleep, with anxious and frightful dreams.
He is frequently awakened out of sleep by fearful dreams and convulsions.
Anxious dreams : about murder ; street robbers ; of danger from fire ; of swimming.
Sleep restless, disturbed dreams ; irrational talking.
Sleep much disturbed by frightful dreams ; complains of intense pains in head, and says that it feels enormously large ; great intolerance of light and noise ; at noon very delirious, and would insist that there were horrid monsters all over room staring at her.
Very restless sleep.
Restless tossing about in bed.
Starts as in affright, during and from sleep.
As soon as he closes his eyes for sleep, shocks run from below and startle him ; it torments him with each beat of pulse ; great longing for sleep. θ Sunstroke
from exposing nape of neck.
Stertorous breathing.
Feet icy cold ; can scarcely be warmed.
Sleeplessness.
When awaking from sleep exceedingly irritable and inclined to weep.
In morning feels as if had not slept enough.
Sleeps much, yet not refreshed.

Time

At 2 to 5 A. M. : sleeplessness.
Morning : boring pain in right frontal eminence ; eyelids agglutinated ; nosebleed ; toothache renewed ; mouth slimy ; pain in hypogastrium < ; bearing down pains < ; dysmenorrhœa < ; dyspnœa ; general beating of arteries on awaking ;
fever with thirst.
At 10 A. M. to 2 P. M. : violent tenesmus ; dysenteric stools.
Noon : violent thirst ; contractive dragging in region of navel ; violent cough ; delirium ; coldness ; weakness ; heat ; sweat.
Day : dry cough ; several attacks of fever ; frequent chilliness ; sweat during sleep.
Afternoon : contractive dragging in region of navel ; shortness of breath after drinking coffee ; asthma ; attacks of cough < ; fever ; heat without thirst.
Usually < after 3 in afternoon, and again after midnight.
Towards evening : drowsiness, with yawning.
Evening : stabbing through head ; toothache < ; great thirst ; pressure in abdomen as from a stone ; tearing upward in left spermatic cord ; asthma ; cough < ; whooping cough < ; chill ; sweat ; fever violently aggravated.
At 10 P. M. : cough commenced.
At 11 P. M. : barking cough awakens suddenly.
Night : headache < ; nosebleed of children ; hears all "that is going on ;" toothache < ; pains in stomach ; enuresis ; seminal emissions ; dyspnœa ; dry cough ; darting pressure in shoulder < ; pains in hip joint < ; burning
stinging in knee joint < ; awakens full of fear and fright ; restlessness ; child vomits ; typhoid fever < ; fever.
Before midnight : uneasy sleep.
Midnight : ineffectual efforts to vomit, with cold sweat.
After midnight : dry cough, with retching ; whooping cough most violent.

Temperature and weather

Takes cold from having hair cut.
Worse in sudden changes, from warm to cold.
Better wrapped up warmly in room.
Spring : boils, etc.
Sunstroke.
Liability to take cold, with great sensitiveness to draughts of air, especially when uncovering head.
After riding in a cold wind swelling of tonsils, preventing deglutition.
Open air : frontal headache < ; pressure deep in brain < ; eyes sensitive ; dyspnœa > ; tension in tarsal joint.
Cold air : toothache worse.
Draught : takes cold easily.
Sun : headache ; inflammation at base of brain, after hair cut ; unconsciousness from working in hot sun.
Hot, damp weather : asthma worse.
Warm weather : nose red and hot.

Fever

She is occasionally chilly.
Shivering running down back.
Feels very chilly, wants warmth of a stove. θ Angina.
Cool hands forehead, with much thirst, but no fever.
Shuddering, or violent chill in back, epigastrium, or arms.
Chill and heat alternating.
At noon : coldness, with marbled skin and blue lips ; so weak that he falls ; afterwards heat with glowing red face and burning ears ; soon afterwards sweat on head in drops.
Chill in evening, mostly on arms, with heat of head.
Internal chill, with external burning heat.
Several attacks of fever in one day, during which hot stage followed cold within a few minutes to half an hour after, always without thirst in either stage, and mostly with confusion of head.
Heat of forehead, with cold cheeks.
Frequent chilliness during day, though well protected and even feverish ; sight is dim from intensity of fever ; surface of body imparts a burning sensation to hand of physician ; pulse has a full double beat.
Milk fever, with coldness of nose, finger tips and feet ; at night fever, restlessness, vomiting and frequent stools.
Violent chills ; thirst ; bitter vomiting ; throbbing in forehead ; weeping ; stiff neck ; pain in epigastrium ; heat, thirst and sweat.
Coldness of limbs, with heat of head.
Temperature of head very much increased, of rest of body diminished.
Internal heat, with anxiety and restlessness.
Heat of head, with redness of face and delirium.
During hot stage : delirium ; redness and puffiness of face, great thirst.
Heat : violent burning, internal or external ; dry, principally of head and face.
Head hot ; face red ; eyes protruding, staring, pupils dilated.
Skin hot, dry, scarlet, especially intense on face and ears.
Child cries, refuses to eat, vomits at night ; fever in morning, with thirst ; red face ; little blisters on inner lips ; forehead burning hot and painful ; pulse rapid and soft ; when taking a deep inspiration or when retching, feels pain in middle of
sternum ; frequent clenching of fingers. θ A child disposed to convulsions.
Excessive heat : distended veins ; insatiable thirst, with anxiety and trembling.
Flying heat.
Great heat ; distension of superficial veins of body and insatiable thirst.
Typhoid fever : nights are always worse ; at first he lies quiet, but moans often ; trembling, twitching of lips, of head and limbs ; slides down in bed ; gets restless now and then, or screams and says he cannot bear it ; sometimes he complains, sometimes
he refuses to answer ; pulse very small, thready and irregular ; a strong throbbing pulse in head ; in attacks, heat in head, with thirst ; ears cold and white ; face pale ; throat so dry that it hurts when he drinks ; he has hands always on sexual
parts ; complains either of pain in urinating or that the urine passed too slowly.
Colic, with distension of abdomen ; vomits breakfast, has not the least appetite, but great thirst ; tongue whitish, furred ; aversion to sweets ; no stool ; burning heat of body, with a very frequent pulse ; face either very pale or very red ; pupils
dilated ; prostrated and ill-humored. θ Worm fever.
Dry heat and throbbing.
Violent heat.
Temperature of skin increased ; face red ; pulse accelerated, senseless talking, and tottering almost as if drunk.
Inflammatory, catarrhal, rheumatic, milk, puerperal and typhoid fevers, with furious delirium and loss of consciousness.
Bellyache, with vomiting of all food and some large worms ; violent thirst ; skin hot and dry ; pulse quick ; violent burning headache ; restless and talking in night ; great prostration ; a boy. θ Worm
fever.
Heat predominating ; averse to uncovering.
Burning heat within and without ; body burning hot like fire.
Burning heat over whole body ; skin universally red ; pulse full, quick, and extremely frequent.
Burning heat of body, with extreme distention of superficial bloodvessels, and furious delirium.
Fever in afternoon and night.
Temperature of skin very much raised ; skin scarlet.
Child has fever, with transient perspiration ; thirst ; nausea ; desire for this and that, things which it refuses when offered ; says everything is bitter ; complains of sore throat ; has ineffectual urging to stool ; is
very sensitive, and cries at least provocation.
Continuous dry burning heat, with sweat only on head.
Pains in liver with violent vomiting ; fever heat ; sleep followed by thirst and sweat. θ Hepatitis.
In afternoon, heat without thirst ; in evening, sweat ; cough < during fever ; hungry, but cannot eat ; talks in sleep and grinds teeth. θ Bloodboil
on thigh.
Sensation of heat with actual heat in whole body, but particularly in face, which was red and covered with sweat, with confusion of head.
Fever heat, now and then sweat, they often ask for drink, but do not take much ; pulse full and frequent. θ After abuse of Sulphur in itch.
Sweat : on covered parts ; with or immediately after heat, mostly in face ; staining clothing and of empyreumatic smell ; during sleep, day or night ; ascending from feet to head ; copious ; staining brownish-yellow.
Entire want of sweat.
General sweat suddenly occurring and quickly disappearing.
Cold sweat on extremities.
General sweat, excepting on head.
Pains come on suddenly, and, after a shorter or longer duration, cease suddenly.

Attacks, periodicity

Sudden attacks of violent cramplike pain in one side of chest, or of abdomen, or loin, or one elbow, especially during sleep, causing one to bend painful part.
Most all pains in short attacks.
Periodical nervous headache.

Locality and direction

Right : pressure in forehead ; shooting in frontal eminence and temple ; drawing pain in temple and orbit ; stabbing side of head ; quivering of upper eyelid ; tearing in ear and side of face ; swelling of parotid ; shooting in maxillary
joint ; pressing below zygoma ; toothache upper row ; painful swelling of gums of side ; tonsillitis ; hand clutches throat in epilepsy ; pain in liver, < lying on side ; pain in hypochondrium ; pain in ileo-cecal region ; feeling as if a hard
body pressed from inguinal ring ; ovary enlarged ; paralysis side of tongue ; stitches in apex of lung ; burning in chest ; drawing pressure between scapula and spine ; paralytic weakness of arm and forearm ; paralytic tearing in index finger ; tension
in tarsal joint ; tension in sole of foot ; cutting stitches in thigh when sitting ; cramp in knee.
Right to left : cutting from right occipital bone to left parietal bone ; pinching in ears.
Side to side : stabbing in head.
Left : shooting in temple ; triplopia ; tickling in nostril ; pains under orbit ; mobility of facial muscles of side ; tearing in tonsil ; fine shooting in groin ; tearing in spermatic cord in evening in bed ; pressive pain under
scapula ; cramp in lumbar region ; shooting or stitching top of shoulder ; paralytic weakness of arm ; pain inner side of upper arm ; sharp shooting in elbow joint ; painful drawing in middle finger.
Above downward : tearing in ear and right side of face ; tension in chest ; pressing towards genitals as if everything would fall out.
Below upward : shock through body on closing eyes ; tearing in left spermatic cord ; pains in ankles.
Without inward : stabbing as with a knife in vertebræ.
Within outward : shooting in left temple ; pressure in head ; shooting in eyes ; feeling as if a hard body pressed from right inguinal ring ; stabbing below head of humerus.

Sensations

As if a board was before forehead ; as if head was full of water ; as if brain was shaken in skull ; as if bones of forehead were lifted up ; as if a skin was drawn over ears ; as if lower jaw was drawn backward ; as if objects around him
swayed ; as if she was being rocked ; as if bed was bouncing patient up and down ; as if everything turned in a circle ; as if brain was pressed to forehead ; as if everything would issue at forehead when stooping ; as if brain rose and fell in forehead at every
step ; as if brain was compressed ; headache above orbits ; as if brain was shaken ; as if eyes were starting from their sockets ; as if sutures of skull were being torn open ; as if a lever was being applied to force head asunder ; as if something rocked
and swayed in a jerking manner in head ; as if skull was thin and could be pressed through ; at every step a jolt, as if a weight was in occiput ; as if skull was as thin as paper, as if it was transparent ; as if muscles of forehead and eyes were contracted ; a
sudden shock running through body from below up ; as if eyes had been torn out or pressed into head ; as if eyes were surrounded by a hot vapor ; feeling of sand in eyes ; as if teeth would be forced out of head ; teeth feel elongated and on edge ; as of a
vesicle on tip of tongue ; as of a foreign body in œsophagus ; as if a tumor stopped up throat ; as if something was in pit of stomach, exciting cough ; as if a spot in abdomen was seized with nails, griping, clutching ; as if hypochondria were being pressed
out ; as if a ball or lump would form in abdomen ; as though intestines pressed outward, below umbilicus ; as if a hard body pressed from within outward at right inguinal ring ; as if mucous membrane of anus was swollen and pressed out ; as from a large worm twisting
in bladder ; as if testicle was drawing up into abdomen ; as if a rope was tied around hypochondria ; as if womb would fall out ; as if back would break ; as if knees would give way ; as of a foreign body in larynx ; as if a mouse was creeping about in
muscles.
Excruciating pains : about pit of stomach.
Lancinating : in throat ; in ovary.
Thrusts : in internal ear.
Cutting : in right side of head, from frontal to occipital region ; in parietal bone ; in various parts of head ; in side of face to temple, ear and neck ; in pit of stomach ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in uterus ; in loins and sacrum ; in
left elbow joint ; tearing in lower muscles of both forearms ; from wrist to elbow ; stitches in outer muscles of right thigh.
Stabbing : from temple to temple ; from forehead to occiput ; through head, as with a double-edged knife ; in forehead, vertex and occiput ; left lower jaw ; in vertebræ ; below head of humerus.
Stitches : in head ; flying through head ; itching stitches in inner canthus ; in ears ; in maxillary articulations ; in testicles ; in ovary ; in uterine region ; in chest ; in vagina ; stitching pressure on top of left
shoulder ; in apex of right lung.
Shooting : in right frontal eminence ; in right temple ; dull in left temple ; in various parts of head ; in eyes ; in internal ear ; in right parotid ; from side of face to temple, ear and neck ; in right maxillary joint ; in lower
jaw ; from sup. maxilla into internal ear ; in pharynx ; in throat ; in pit of stomach ; in stomach ; in left groin ; in bladder ; in urethra ; behind glans ; in genital region ; in spinal column ; externally in left elbow
joint ; in soles ; along bones.
Stinging : in eyes ; toothache ; in abdomen ; from kidneys to bladder ; in uterine region ; in nodules in breast ; in hip ; in knee joint.
Prickling : in hands.
Lacerating : in external and internal ears ; toothache ; in shoulder.
Tearing : from right temple over orbit to right cheek ; in various parts of head ; in right vertex ; in vertex ; in head ; in internal and external ears ; in right side of face ; from side of face to temple, ear and neck ; in jaws ;
behind right zygoma ; toothache ; inner surface of angle ; in left spermatic cord ; in inflamed breasts ; in arms ; in humerus ; in joints ; in legs ; pressure in inside of middle of leg ; cough at night.
Paralytic tearing : in middle joint of right index finger.
Jerking : headache ; in teeth ; in abdomen ; in direction of perineum from lower intestines ; of arms and hands.
Beating : in temples.
Boring : under right frontal eminence ; in various parts of head ; in ears ; in soles.
Pinching : in ears ; in abdomen ; under navel.
Gnawing : at frontal eminences ; in stomach ; beneath cartilages of last ribs ; in spinal column ; along bones.
Clawing : around navel ; in uterine region.
Screwing : in ears.
Stretching : in upper extremities.
Twisting : in vertex ; in upper extremities.
Turning and twisting : in bladder.
Digging : in vertex ; toothache ; in soles.
Drawing : down in temples and right orbit ; from right temple over orbit to right cheek ; incessant, in head ; in frontal bone ; in nape of neck ; behind right zygoma ; in upper teeth ; toothache ; in spermatic cord ; in one of testicles
and spermatic cord ; in pelvic region ; in loins and sacrum ; pressure between right scapula and spinal column ; in spine ; from small of back to thighs ; inner left upper arm ; in joint of left middle finger.
Burning : in eyes ; of eyelids ; in tip of nose ; heat, in face ; in swollen cheek ; of lips ; in mouth ; in fauces ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in larynx ; in right chest ; from kidneys into bladder ; in spermatic
cord ; in ovarian region ; in uterine region ; in spine ; in hip ; in knee joint.
Smarting : in eyes ; in pustules on upper lip ; in prepuce.
Corroding : beneath cartilages of last right ribs.
Scalded feeling : in cheek bones ; in mouth.
Burnt feeling : in vesicle on gum.
Pressure : in forehead ; as if a stone was pressing forehead ; in lower part of forehead ; above nose ; hemicrania ; in right temporal region ; in occiput ; in brain towards temples, occupying large areas in head ; at vertex ; in
eyeball ; over right eye ; below right zygoma ; in throat ; in chest ; in stomach ; painless ; in right hypochonder ; in abdomen ; in hypogastrium ; in region of os pubis ; towards anus and genitals ; in vesical region ; in
uterine region ; through vulva ; in sacrum ; in loins and groins ; in cardiac region ; in nape of neck ; under left scapula ; in shoulder ; in left upper arm.
Bearing down : in abdomen ; in uterus ; on to sacrum ; with leucorrhœa.
Labor-like pains : deep in pelvis, to back and loins.
Tensive pressure : in right side of forehead ; from temple to orbit ; hemicrania ; in left vertex and forehead ; in pit of stomach.
Aching : in forehead ; in eyes ; in lids ; in upper part of abdomen.
Soreness about heart ; in sinciput ; of eyelids ; from throat to ears ; in teeth ; of palate ; in throat ; in abdomen ; of last dorsal and first lumbar vertebræ.
Raw feeling : of corners of mouth ; of palate ; in throat ; in abdomen.
Scraping : in throat ; in region of epiglottis ; in larynx.
Scraping itching : of forehead.
Bruised pain : in nose ; in upper arm ; in heel.
Beaten feeling : in thighs and legs.
Squeezing ; in lowermost intestines.
Wavelike sensation : hemicrania.
Distension : of whole brain ; of abdomen.
Bursting : hemicrania ; in right temporal region.
Expansive pain : in head.
Dislocated feeling : in metatarsal bones.
Constricted feeling : in mouth ; of gullet ; of throat ; of abdomen, around navel ; under navel ; in lower intestines ; in rectum ; in larynx ; in chest.
Contractive pain : in scalp ; in lower abdomen ; in rectum ; of anus.
Contractive dragging : in region of navel.
Crampy pain : in frontal eminence to zygoma and lower jaw ; in right external ear ; at root of nose ; in stomach ; in abdomen and lower intestines ; in uterus ; in loins and groins ; in left lumbar region ; in gluteal muscles ; in knee
joints ; in right knee.
Cramps : of hands and feet ; in stomach along ureter ; in legs, during labor.
Twitching : of facial muscles ; of arms ; of abdominal muscles.
Quivering : of right upper eyelid.
Trembling : of right upper eyelid ; of upper lip ; of tongue.
Swashing : in head.
Gritty feeling : in eyelids.
Tension : in lower jaw ; spasmodic, from chest into abdomen ; in uterine region ; in right tarsal joint ; in sole of r. foot ; in gluteal muscles.
Tightness : in maxillary articulations.
Throbbing : in head ; in forehead ; violent in brain ; in teeth ; at pit of stomach ; in ovary ; in carotids ; in spine ; in nodules in breast.
Pulsating : pain in head.
Fulness : at temples and forehead ; in stomach ; in uterine region.
Empty feeling : in stomach.
Rheumatic : toothache ; pain in back.
Neuralgic pain : in infraorbital nerve ; beneath left orbit to ear.
Ulcerated feeling : in gums.
Dull pain : in back of eye.
Lameness : of legs and feet.
Paralytic feeling : in upper arms.
Tired feeling : before and after vertigo.
Undefined pain : over eyes ; in orbits ; in stomach through to spine ; in liver ; in right ileo-cecal region ; in sternum ; in nape.
Weight : in head.
Heaviness : in head ; in uterine region ; in upper limbs ; of legs and feet ; of lids ; of hands.
Stiffness : in occiput ; of neck ; of hip joint ; of body.
Weakness : of left upper arm.
Numbness : in temples ; of face ; in hands.
Tickling : in left nostril ; voluptuous in lower parts of rectum and anus ; in throat.
Itching : in eyes ; of eyelids ; itching stitches in inner canthus ; of gums ; on abdomen ; in back part of top of larynx.
Heat : in head ; in face ; in throat ; in abdomen ; in chest ; in sternum ; of mamma ; in vagina ; of body.
Coldness : in brain, at middle of forehead ; of face ; of forepart of tongue ; in nose, finger tips and feet.
Dryness : burning in both eyes ; of lids ; of Schneiderian membrane ; of tongue ; in mouth ; about fauces ; in pharynx ; in throat ; in larynx ; in vagina.

Tissues

Suits persons with largely developed brains.
Acts on circular fibres of bloodvessels ; on sphincters, as in spasm of os uteri, etc.
Inflammation of serous and mucous membranes.
Pains along periosteum.
Red shining swelling of joints.
Phlegmonous inflammation.
Engorgement of glands ; acute swelling.
Inflammation of lymphatic vessels and glands in children.
Glandular swellings, painful or suppurating.
Swelling of salivary and cervical glands.
Inflammation of internal organs, with disposition to suppurate.
The inflammation is of an erysipelatous kind, it runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts.
Induration after inflammation.
Scirrhous indurations.
Varices.
Scrofulous and rickety complaints.
Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with inflammation and swelling.
Atrophy and wasting of scrofulous subjects. θ Marasmus of children.
Gangrene.
Rachitis, mostly when abdomen is puffed up tense and hard ; child shakes and withers ; pale all over, with flushes ; pupils not very sensitive.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Tenderness of abdomen aggravated by least jar, even of bed or chair upon which she sits ; she is obliged in walking to step with great care, for fear of a jar.
Pressure : headache > ; shooting pains in forehead > ; vertex headache < ; pain side of head > ; toothache > ; wants to lean head against something hard and cold ; pressure on epigastrium causes pain as if hypochondria were being pressed
out ; flatulent colic > ; clawing around navel > ; ovarian region tender ; vesical region sensitive ; lower part of larynx sensitive ; tension in sole of right foot better.
Touch : outer head sensitive ; nose feels bruised ; pain right side of face < ; toothache < ; throat sensitive ; right hypochondrium sensitive ; abdomen tender ; pain right ileo-cecal region < ; danger of suffocation from touching larynx ; pain
in hip joint < ; skin sensitive ; pit of stomach sensitive.
Spasm renewed by least contact (especially in hydrophobia).
Painful sensitiveness of skin to all contact.

Skin

Painful sensitiveness of skin to contact.
Heat over whole body, with bluish redness of whole surface.
Skin imparts a burning sensation to examining hand.
Heat, redness and dryness of skin.
Red, hot swelling of affected parts.
Tense skin.
Skin alternately red and pale.
Great redness of parts, redness extending in radii.
Universal redness of skin, with or without rash.
Skin scarlet, smooth and shining.
Red, scaly eruption on lower part of body, as far as abdomen.
Inflamed red patches of skin, and irregularly shaped scarlet spots over body.
Redness of whole body, with quick pulse.
Erythema of skin.
Urticaria : during profuse menstruation ; over whole body, most on inner side of limbs, none on face ; sometimes resembling mosquito-bites ; itches most mornings and evenings ; scratching feels pleasant ; at times glowing heat, with sweat, then again dulness
and shivering over back ; < after drinking cold water ; sensation as if brain was shaken ; when yawning, coughing or sneezing, pain runs from nose upward and inward, as if head would be torn off.
Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling.
Phlegmonous erysipelas ; bright red and radiating.
Vesicular erysipelas (when fever is violent).
Intense erysipelatous fever, accompanied by inflamed swellings, passing even into gangrene.
Measles.
Eruptions like roseola and scarlet fever, with fever, sore throat, cough, headache, etc.
Eruption resembling measles ; scarlet spots, and scarlet redness on various parts, sometimes with hot swelling of parts.
Red spots with small vesicles becoming confluent, showing darker and redder spots, getting white from pressure with finger ; fever heat with thirst ; frequent, small pulse ; quick, short breathing ; sensation of weakness in chest, and a pain
which does not permit lying down ; bodily restlessness ; trembling ; sleeplessness ; much saliva ; crampy, shooting pain below pit of stomach ; pit is very sensitive to touch ; several days no stool.
The face, upper extremities and trunk, exhibited a diffuse scarlet efflorescence, studded with innumerable papillæ, very closely resembling rash of scarlet fever ; eruption terminated abruptly at wrists and flexors of thighs, rest of body retaining natural color ; skin hot and
dry.
Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness of skin, with dryness, heat, itching, burning, and bloatedness of parts, especially face, neck, chest, abdomen and hands.
A scarlet redness suddenly spread over body, especially face and limbs, with which appeared heat and exaltation of all faculties, without thirst.
Scarlet redness of skin, especially face, with great cerebral action ; red, swollen face, with staring eyes ; erysipelas of face (with Graphit., Laches. and Rhus tox.).
Scarlet redness of skin of face and neck, followed second day by peeling off of cuticle.
Redness, like scarlatina, of entire surface of body, with a white circle around mouth and nose, and great dryness in throat.
Scarlet rash over whole body ; eruption resembling measles ; purple rash.
Smallpox when brain is affected.
In true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet.
Blood-boils on various places.
An infant, after suppressed itch, nightly fever without thirst ; pale lips and face ; offensive smelling stools ; restlessness.
Ulcer on left cheek, with bloody ichor and a discolored fundus and raised edges.
Ulcers if suppuration is interrupted and pains follow.
Scrofulous and mercurial ulcers, also cancerous.
Blood-boils after abuse of Sulphur, with fever.
Red streaks, like radii, extend from scirrhous induration or ulcer.
Pustules on nape of neck, arms and back.
Jaundice after abuse of Peruvian bark or mercury ; in complication with stones in gall-bladder.
Vesicular eruptions with scurf, whitish border and swelling.
Crawling itching over whole body, fugitive, now here, now there.
Snake-bite, when given at once, before difficult breathing sets in.

Stage of life, constitution

Bilious, lymphatic temperament.
Girl, æt. 10, light hair and complexion, blue eyes. θ Epileptic convulsions.
A man, æt. 27, healthy, never had vertigo ; after cutting hair and exposing nape of neck to a tropical sun, sunstroke.

Relations

Antidotes to Bellad. : effects of large doses by vegetable acids ; infusion of galls, or green tea ; Opium (?), Coffea, Hyosc . ; effects of small
doses by Camphor, Coffea, Hepar, Hyosc., Opium, Pulsat., Sabad . (salivation), vinum.
Bellad . antidotes : Acon., Arum triph., Atrop., Cinchon., Cuprum, Ferrum, Hyosc., Jaborand., Mercur., Opium, Platin., Plumbum ; sausage poisoning ; oil of turpentine.
Frequently useful after : Arsen., Chamom., Hepar, Laches., Mercur., Phosphor., Nitr. ac .
Bellad . cured spasms of chest after Cuprum .
After Bellad . : Cinchon., Chamom., Conium, Dulcam., Hepar, Hyosc., Laches., Rhus, Seneg., Stramon., Valer., Veratr ., are frequently indicated.
Has cured constipation after failure of Opium, Nux vom., Bryon . and Alumina .
After Bellad ., if there is a strong craving for lemon juice, it may be allowed to hasten convalescence.
Similar to : Acon., Alcohol (merry craziness) ; Arsen . (pains of cancer, etc.) ; Bryon., Calc. ostr., Chamom., Cicut., Coffea, Cuprum, Eupat. purp . (diuresis and
vesical irritation, but Eupat . has more hyperemia and vesical inflammation) ; Gelsem., Hepar, Hyosc., Laches., Mercur., Nux vom., Opium, Pulsat., Rhus tox., Stramon . (rage), Tereb., Veratr .
Complementary : Calc. ost .
Incompatible : vinegar (headache), Dulcam . (?).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Generalities and modalities

Belladonna is a remedy that takes hold of the system with great violence. It is especially suitable to plethoric, vigorous individual, and intellectual people brainy people have complaints coming on suddenly, providing they are in a substantial state of health, and are reasonably plethoric and vascular.

The complaints of Belladonna come on suddenly, run a regular course, and subside suddenly. The pains and suffering come on suddenly and with great violence, and subside suddenly.

Colds ultimate rapidly, run a sharp course, a course of great violence, and subside sudden. Belladonna especially affects the whole vascular system, the heart, lungs, brain and nervous system.

Among the earliest conditions to examine is the heat. It has inflammations of all the organs, especially the brain, lungs, and liver.

The intestines are also involved as well as the other organs. These inflammations are always attended by violent heat; the heat is some thing unusual.

It is more marked in Belladonna than in almost any other remedy. When you put your hand upon a Belladonna subject you will suddenly withdraw it, the heat is so intense.

The memory of the heat is carried in the hand and fingers for some time.

Pains, inflammations, and sufferings, nightly attacks of delirium, violent attacks inflammatory in character are attended with that kind of heat.

No matter where the inflammation is, there is that same intense heat, There are times, though, when that kind of heat is present, and it is not Bell., and that is when the fever is of the continued type.

Fever

Bell. has no continued fever in it. It is true the older books tell you about Bell. for this violent heat in typhoid and some other continued fevers, but if you examine Bell. from beginning to end you will find nothing continued in its fever.

Its fever is remittent. It never comes on in its complaints gradually like typhoid. It has not the gradual rise and the gradual fall like a continued fever.

I only mention that so that you will not be lost.

Our lamented Hering, one of the ablest teachers the world ever had, classes Bell. for typhoid fever when the delirium and the heat are somewhat like Bell., but let me tell you just what will take place.

When you give Bell. for the delirium in typhoid fever - for such a delirium as looks like Bell. - you may subdue the delirium, but other manifestations will rise in that fever.

You will not subdue the fever, but you will subdue the patient. The patient will be sick longer, will go into a greater state of prostration than if you had let that delirium alone.

But Stramonium fits perfectly Hering's description of a case in which he says Bell. should be given.

The idea of that heat must be well fixed in the mind.

Heat, intense heat, violent heat.

There is another phase of Bell. that runs all through these inflammatory complaints and its fevers.

The inflamed parts, and very commonly the skin, are very red, and, as the inflammation advances, grow dusky; as the fever advances the face becomes mottled; but the first representation of Bell. is bright red, and the skin is shiny.

An inflamed part than can be seen will be red. In inflammation of glands the skin over the glands will be bright red in spots.

Hence red spots in the neck over inflamed glands. Inflammation of the parotid glands, inflammation of the sub-maxillary glands, inflammation of the glands of the neck, there will be a spot as red as fire over each.

The throat is as red as scarlet. The mucus membrane is inflamed, and red as scarlet. After a little it grows dusky, finally mottled; showing the character and direction of the Bell. constitution.

It travels gradually towards a zymotic state, such as we see in scarlet fever, in low inflammatory conditions; at first intense congestion, but vaso-motor paralysis follows.

Intense congestion and blueness, or purple and mottled.

Burning

Another grand feature of Bell. is present in its inflamed parts, and in its painful parts, whenever Bell. brings out anything like a decided action, it has burning; intense burning.

The burning in the throat with a Bell. sore throat is like a coal of fire. Inflammation of the tonsils, burning like fire.

The skin burns, and it is burning hot to the sensation of the patient, and intensely hot to the doctor. The skin burns in scarlet fever. He says,

"It burns so, doctor, it burns so;"

in bilious or remittent fever. In inflammation of an organ, the skin burns, there is a burning fever, and the part itself burns.

Inflammation of the bladder, with burning. Congestion of the brain, and the head burns. Congestion of the throat, and the throat burns.

It is hot locally, and it also burns subjectively. In gastritis there is burning.

In inflammation of the liver, the liver burns. Congestion of the liver with jaundice, and the liver burns. Now, we have three leading features; do not call them "key notes," for that is not what I mean; heat, redness and burning.

We will see how they modify the whole feature of the sickness, how they permeate and ramify, and how they take meaning.

Swelling

But, that is not all. We have much swelling in Bell. The inflamed parts swell rapidly; are extremely sensitive to touch; are very painful, with the sensation as if they would burst, with pressive pains, stinging and burning.

There is heat, redness and burning in these inflamed parts, as well as swelling. Swelling, stinging, burning, throbbing. All over he throbs with all congestions and inflammations he throbs.

The part itself throbs, and his carotids throb. When children are sick in bed with congestion of the brain, they have an intensely hot head. If old enough to talk about it, they will say "it burns."

But then we will notice the throbbing. The temporal arteries and the carotids pulsate, with great violence. A turmoil is going on. An earthquake is taking place. Everything is being shaken when the patient needs Bell.

It is one of the most painful of remedies. It is so sensitive to pain. So sensitive that be suffers more than ordinary people do from the pain.

And, remember, the pains comes suddenly, they remain longer or shorter, and they go suddenly. They do this in neuralgia; they do this in inflammatory conditions, they do it in inflamed organs; they do it wherever they come.

Pains, tear, shoot, burn, and sting, and press, and smart, all at once. All of these characteristics are bundled up into one bundle, so that he suffers.

All of his pains are worse from motion, worse from light, worse from a jar, worse from cold. He wants to be wrapped up warmly, and is worse from any exposure or a draft.

The headaches are like many of die other pains; it feels as if the brain was going up and down, tearing and burning at every step he takes, and from every motion of the eyes, or turning the eyeballs, or going up stairs, rising from, his seat, or sitting down; all motion creates violent pains; feels as if the head would burst, as if the eyes would be pressed out. If he moves he starts the heart to pulsate on his sore parts and he calls them "hammering pains."

Wherever that pain is he cannot have it touched. If it is touched it will throb. If uncovered it will become worse. If some one walks across the floor, the jar makes him worse.

The jar of the bed, if he is in bed, is a common aggravation of Bell. If he is so sick that he is in bed, the jar of the bed makes all of his complaints worse.

You go to the bedside of a patient suffering from, an inflamed liver, and he will not let you put your hand on the bed, for the jar makes him worse. If the pain is in the abdomen; if it is an inflamed uterus; if it is in confinement, it is the same.

This aggravation from the jar is such a marked feature that it is not always confined to inflammations. It is often a modified in a state of nervous hyperesthesia.

A woman in confinement, when there is no inflammation, and none threatening, is in such a state of hyperesthesia that she wants the windows closed to keep the air out; she does not want to be touched; she does not want the bed moved, any little jar aggravates; she is so sensitive to a jar, even when there is no sensitive part.

You go to such a case, and you will realize in time that you are going to have a difficult and painful labor, without Bell.

But with a dose of Bell. all of these complaints pass away quickly, so quick is the action of this medicine. The jar of the bed will often reveal to you the nature of the remedy. If you walk to the bedside of a patient suffering from gallstone colic, with violent pains, he cannot have the bed touched.

His face is red, his skin burns, he cannot be touched, he is in excruciating, agony, and he tells that before you have crossed the room, You see it all. He says,

"Don't touch the bed, doctor."

That is a special feature; the aggravation from a jar is marked.

Spasms

general spasms and local spasms. Spasms of little canals, of the circular fibers, of tubular organs, like that I have spoken of in the gallstone colic.

In the ductus communis choledochus there is a clutching - or it may be in the cystic duct that the circular fibers, clutch that little bit of stone and will not let it through.

The passage is large enough to admit it and it has started to go through - but the irritation of the part causes a spasm and it clutches, that little stone; you put a dose of Bell. on his tongue, the spasm lets up, stone passes on, and there is no more trouble; in fifteen minutes the gallstone colic is gone.

There is never a failure in homoeopathic prescribing in gallstone- colic. The symptoms are not always Bell., but in this instance, where that horrible sensitiveness is present, it is Bell.

"Convulsions in infants."

They are violent and are usually associated with cerebral congestion. The skin is always in a state of fever. They are brought on from light, from a draft of cold air, from the infant becoming cold.

Nervous, brainy children, those with a good sized head, and plump, large-headed boys; boys especially, but also girls that have boys' heads, when exposed to the cold have convulsions. Light, motion and cold will bring on these convulsion.

The Bell. subject as an individual, like Bry., is worse in all his complaints from motion.

Motion brings on convulsions, motion brings on pain; motion increases the action of the heart and brings on throbbing; motion brings on many complaints and increases the sufferings.

Now think of these generals whenever you come to Bell. This idea of Bell. must prevail. No matter how many little symptoms you accumulate, get at these first.

Mind

The mental symptoms of Bell. are delightful to study, but dreadful to look upon. The mental symptoms are such as come on in intense fevers, such as are observed in maniacal excitement, in delirium.

Excitement runs all through. Violence runs all through the mental symptoms. The mental symptoms are all active, never passive. There is no passive delirium in Bell. It is a wild state.

He is wild; striking, biting, tearing things; doing unusual things; doing strange things; doing unexpected things. He is in a state of excitability. These mental symptoms that come on during fevers, the delirium and excitement, are very commonly ameliorated by eating a little light food.

That is not generally known in Bell., but it is quite a strong feature. But remember the violence, and with it, if you go to the bedside where there is this violent delirium, keep in mind the heat, redness and burning.

Full of imaginations. Sees ghosts, and spirits, and officers, and wild things. In the early part of the fever the delirium is very violent and excitable; but as it passes on he goes into a sleep, a sort of half-slumber a semi-comatose state.

Apparently in a dream, and he screams out. Dreams horrible things. Sees in his dreams the things that he talks about. When he has real sleep, or resting, as near as it is for him to rest, he has violent dreams; night-mare.

Sees things on fire. He is in a delirium, and in torment. He becomes stupid at times, appears to lose consciousness. Loses the memory of all things and then becomes wild. His delirium goes ort when he appears to be sleeping.

These symptoms often occur with cerebral congestion, the violent cerebral congestion of the infant. If they are old enough to talk they will talk about the hammering in the head.

In Bell. the infant also commonly remains in a profound stupor, the profound stupor that goes with congestion of the brain pupils dilated; skin hot and dry; face red, throbbing carotids.

Finally the child becomes pale as the stupor increases and the neck is drawn back, because as it progresses the base of the brain and spine become involved, and the muscles of the neck contract; drawing the head -backwards; and he rolls the head; eyes staring, pupils dilated.

This mental state is associated with scarlet fever and with cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Again, these mental states take the form of acute mania, when the patient will bite the spoon; will bark like a dog; will do all sorts of violent things; even jump out of the window. He has to be restrained, put in a strait-jacket.

The face is red, and the skin is hot, and the patient at times says that he burns all over, or that the head burns, and the head is very hot.

During all this time the feet are cold. Head hot, feet cold, or feet and hands cold as ice. It seems all the blood is being hurried to the head. All sorts of delusions and hallucinations are mingled with the acute mania; ghosts; horrid monsters; strange things, and deformed subjects.

Fear of imaginary things, and wants to run away. In the delirium of Bell. he wants to jump out of the window, wants to run, wants to get away from his attendants. He thinks they are doing him injury.

Throughout the acute mania, and throughout the delirious state, all the manifestations partake of violence. Destructiveness.

The Bell. patient in the most acute state must be watched, controlled, handled, and sometimes tied. In the text it describes these states as "rage, fury."

He wants to do violence.

"Moaning. Instead of eating, bit wooden spoon in two, gnawed plate, and growled and barked like a dog. A boy violently sick ran around the room laughing immoderately."

It has an insane laughter. A loud, boisterous laughter.

"A piece of bread, which he took to be a stone, he threw far from him. He turns and rolls in bed in a perfect rage. Aversion to noise and company."

Aversion to light; is better in the dark. At times a more passive state intervenes between these attacks of violence.

The active time is always that of violence; but there is sometimes a more passive state when the patient will sit or lie in bed and tear the bed clothing, or break anything that she can get her hands on. If it is a stick, she will break it up.

Running all through the complaints, whether delirium, fever, or pains, there is starting.

Starting in sleep like an electric shock. just as soon as he falls asleep a sensation like an electric shock throughout the body.

"Starts in fright at approach of others. Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them."

"Great anxiety"

runs through the remedy. As a patient comes out of these attacks of delirium, as he comes out of convulsions, fear is depicted upon the face.

The patient is in great excitement; the circulation is in a state of great excitement; the heart is in great excitement; motion and emotion increase the beating of the heart.

It may have been gleaned that Bell. is a remedy that is over sensitive; a state of hyperesthesia extreme irritability of tissues. This is said to be an increased irritability of the nerve centres.

This develops a state of increased ability to taste, and to smell and to feel; excibility of the sensorium.

Sensorium

Sensitive to impressions. Sensitive to light, to noise, to touch, to jar. The sensorium is violently excited.

Excessive nervous irritability stands out, perhaps, as one of the most prominent features of Bell. in contrast with medicines like Opium that deprive the patient of all sensitivity.

The more congestion there is in Bell. the more excitability. The more congestion there is in Opium the less excitability.

And yet they are very similar in many respects; very similar in aspect; in the appearance of the eyes and face; similar in pathological states. If I were to prescribe on the pathological state, the congestion of the brain, the appearance, without taking in the intensity of the one or other, I would not be able to distinguish between Opium and Bell.

They often antidote each other. But we do not prescribe on pathology, but upon symptoms, after careful individualization.

"Vertigo," with this intense excitability. Turning in bed, or moving the head makes him dizzy.

"Things go round."

"Vertigo with pulsations."

Moving the head increases the pulsation, and the vertigo. The patient lies in bed; cannot hold the head up.

This increase sensitiveness especially applies to the scalp. We notice it particularly in the woman. She cannot have the hair bound up. It is often the case that Bell. patients will not have the hair combed or brushed.

"Lets the hair hang down the back;" so sensitive is the scalp.

"Hair feels as if pulled. Does not want the hair touched."

There are some remedies that correspond to extreme irritation in very sensitive natures; like Hepar, where she faints with the pain; like Nitric acid, when cannot bear the noise of vehicles going along the street, because it creates such violent sufferings; like Coffea, where footsteps aggravate all the complaints; he was so sensitive to pain that the noise of one entering the door when he was on the third floor aggravated his sufferings intensely, though no one else could hear it.

In Nux vomica, even the sound of footsteps increases the pain all over the body. Bell. has in its nature all this sensitiveness to pain. It is a part of the general sensorium; the who bodily state is intensified.

The Chamomilla patient is oversensitive to pain, but we do not need to sympathize with the Chamomilla patient, he will fight it out himself. But you will pity the Belladonna patient, you will pity the Pulsatilla patient, and the Nitric acid patient.

A strange part of it also is the reactive excitability. The reaction to medicine is so quick and so sudden that I have many times heard a patient say, before I had turned my back away from the bed,

"That medicine has relieved me," so quick is the reaction.

In many medicines reaction is slowed down, but in Bell. it is intensified. So it is in Nux vomica and in Zincum. When the case is very acute, but sometimes also when the case is somewhat chronic, this sensibility is marked.

Cuprum is so sensitive all over. It has sensitive warts; it has sensitive skin, sensitive polypi, everything sensitive; and it is so sensitive in its reaction that, when it is needed, partially indicated remedies will not work, because the patient is so oversensitive to everything that everything overacts.

The smallest dose, the mildest dose, the simplest dose overacts and everything aggravates. Odors aggravate; well selected remedies disturb instead of cure.

Cuprum tones down, relieves that sensitivity, and well-selected remedies will then act curatively and long. Cuprum lacks it in that high state of congestion - it is not like Bell. in that; Cuprum does not have that sensibility along with the active fever and congestion, the throbbing and disturbance of the circulation; but it has it in a chronic state.

Women and children are so sensitive that they get no sympathy and it is not suitable for hysterical ones either, but those that are not able to control themselves perfectly. Such is Cuprum.

We have medicines that are suitable to sensitive people, and especially sensitive women. Sensitive to odors, sensitive to every conceivable influence.

The doctor who will go out and take care of these poor sick little mortals, who understands their nature, perceives their quality, and relieves them of their suffering will command the whole community, in spite of the reputation of all the doctors that are there before him.

He must not be one who measures everybody by his own sensorium he may be a pachyderm, but he will find patients that are sensitive.

Head

This sensitivity is present in most of the Bell. headaches. There are stabbing pains, throbbing pains, shooting pains, all in connection with congestion.

They are all sensitive to motion, to every jar, to light, even to the winking of the eyes; sensitive to draft. Bell. will be indicated when the head is rolling - the patient rolling the head because the pain is so severe he cannot keep still, although the motion increases the headache.

A child lies and turns and tosses its head with congestion of the brain, screaming out with the brain cry, a sudden shriek. After awhile it wakes up and commences to toss the head, and every few minutes it shrieks with that brain cry; it is going into a stupor, the neck is drawn back, the face is flushed, it is now becoming pale.

There are times of stupor, and in that stupor the child cries out. In all brain troubles we must be careful about feeding much, or overloading the stomach, because the stomach is very feeble. It will not digest much, but the food should be well selected and light.

Great heaviness of the head. The head feels like a weight, and is drawn back. Sometimes we see the head drawn back from contraction of the muscles of the neck when the membranes of the upper portion of the spine are involved.

Again, we see the Bell. patient drawing the head back himself, because drawing the head back often ameliorates the violent headaches.

This amelioration is kept up so long as he holds the head back. Aggravated from bending the head forward when sitting, from bending the head forward when standing, or stooping. It feels as if the brain would fall out or push forward.

This in creases the headache so much that it sometimes turns into knife-like, or hammering pains. These are the expressions used.

Sensation of nails and hammers, jagging and tearing; but with all, pressure and throbbing. When rising from a seat these sensations are all intensified. Throbbing pulsation, like hammers hitting the inside of the sore skull, described by patients as if the inside of the skull was one continuous sore and was being pecked by hammers with every pulsation.

Some times it will settle down while sitting still, or while lying; but rising up from a chair will set that hammer going.

"Expansive" is an expression that is often used by the patient, and it was used by the provers. Expansive sensation, as if the head was enlarged; pressure from within out.

All these headaches are relieved by pressure upon the outside. Sudden touch or pressure will aggravate; but pressure that is gradually increased and brought to bear carefully upon the head will ameliorate, like the pressure of a bandage, or a tight-fitting cap.

Again, all of these headaches are brought on by exposure to the cold air; from standing in the cold air with the head uncovered. Sometimes a severe headache will come on from merely having the hair cut. Congestion of the head lasts for days, with throbbing and pulsating; from having the hair cut.

Ear troubles, chest complaints, rheumatic complaints come on from having the hair cut, or from standing in the cool air with the hat off; so sensitive is the head to cold.

It may be said of this remedy that complaints of various parts of the body come through the head and go downwards, Complaints in the lower extremities, rheumatic complaints of the joints, with great redness and swelling, come on from uncovering the head, from exposure of the head, or from getting the head wet, or from being caught in a shower.

There is one complaint which will puzzle you if you ever meet it and you do not know just what I am going to tell you.

The complaints of Bell. in a general way are ameliorated from rest, and aggravated from motion; but there is a kind of restlessness with tearing pain from the hips down, most troublesome to observe, that keeps the patient walking all of the time.

The instant there is rest the pains come on. They sometimes shoot downwards, they sometimes tear up and down the nerves; and this comes on from exposure of the head, and not from getting the feet wet.

Complaints of Aconit and Pulsatilla come on from getting the feet wet, and these complaints rise upwards, come on through the feet and go upwards and affect the head.

Bell. complaints come on from exposure of the head and go downwards; sometimes affect the head sometimes the chest sometimes the stomach, sometimes centre in the abdomen, sometimes centre in the uterus and ovaries.

Rhus has complaints from getting wet, but the complaints are in the parts that are wet. If he gets the legs wet he will have rheumatism in the legs.

There is a vast distinction, and this distinction has to be made in almost every prescription you will make. Homoeopathy is a matter of individualization as to how complaints spread. Some complaints begin on the right side of the body and spread to the left.

Some complaints begin in the top of the body and go downwards. That is the way this remedy acts. In some remedies the exposure of the feet to an ice cold draft mill bring on headache (Silic.); but in Bell, the exposure will bring on a headache, or neuralgia of the lower extremities.

Now that pain that comes on from rest is an exception in Bell. That illustrates again the importance of distinguishing very decidedly between generals and particulars.

Without knowing "Generals" and "Particulars" you will never do accurate prescribing. The lower extremities here are the particulars. The patient and the general condition of the patient are ameliorated by rest; the symptoms of the patient are ameliorated by rest.

All of those symptoms that can be predicted of the patient himself are ameliorated by rest, but the pains of the lower limbs, as described, those neuralgic pains are ameliorated by motion, and come on in rest.

That does not mean that all the pains in the lower extremities are ameliorated by motion, because the pains in rheumatism are invariably ameliorated by rest, and aggravated by motion.

Those tearing pains, from the hips downwards, with no swelling, come on during rest. All remedies are full of freaks, and it is the figuring out of these peculiarities that enables us to do good prescribing.

With all the complaints of Bell. do not lose sight of the congestion upwards.

"Rush of blood to the head. Cold extremities."

Cold feet, cold hands; hot head.

Eyes

Inflammatory conditions of the eyes.

"Glistening eyes. Dilated pupils. Flushed face. Intense redness of the inflamed part."

Inflammation of all the tissues of the eyes, the lids, and all the parts of the eyeball, with most violent pain. Heat, redness, and burning.

These three strong features that run through the remedy will be found in the eye sufferings. Pulsation, tumefaction, lachrymation; intense pains; sufferings all worse from motion, and worse from light.

Most intense photophobia.

"Flashes of light and flickerings before the eyes,"

When reading, lines appear crooked.

"Dimness of vision, or actual blindness."

Intense congestion and fullness of all the parts.

"Apoplexy of the retina. Half-opened, protruding, staring eyes."

You will see that in the infant when the child lies in a stupor; eyes half open; congestion of the brain; face flushed and intensely hot; rolling the head from side to side; if it has been going on for several days the face will - later become pallid, and the neck drawn back.

In these congestive troubles, lying with the eyes half open; almost no winking.

"Orbital neuralgias. Protruding eyes, with dilated pupils. Inflammation of the optic nerve and retina. Eyes congested and red."

Another feature belonging to the eye is strabismus. Not those cases coming on gradually, such as will, need the surgeon, but those that come on with congestion of the brain, with this state of congestion and dilated pupils and rolling the head from side to side, flushed face, throbbing carotids and intense heat.

After a day or two the eye begins to turn in, and the little one is cross-eyed. That is an additional indication for Bell. Sometimes, coming out of a severe congestion, the strabismus remains and Bell. is sometimes the suitable remedy.

All of these cases coming on from the circulatory, conditions should be cured with remedies. They should never be sent to the surgeon. Though they remain some time, even months, they will be cured by well-selected remedies, while those that come on gradually, and those that are born so, will not be relieved by remedies.

Only those spasmodic ones mat are associated with, and come on from, congestion of the brain. In connection with congestion of the liver and duodenal catarrh there is yellowisness in the eyes.

Ears

In inflammations of the ear which go on to suppuration Bell. is rarely useful. We have to look to deep acting remedies.

We may have the pain, tenderness, over sensitiveness, all inflammatory conditions; but cases requiring Bell. rarely go on to suppuration.

Mucous

Now we come to the mucous membranes, the nose, mouth, throat, larynx, chest, the mucous membrane extending into the car through the Eustachian tube, and we have another strong feature of Bell. which characterizes most of its conditions.

Great dryness; a sensation of dryness.

Dryness in the nose; mouth; of the tongue; in the throat; in the chest, and such evidences as dry cough and spasmodic conditions.

These are so general. that with the nose symptoms, the coryza, the throat symptoms, the cough, this is intensified; dryness of mucous membranes will generally be found. It is that way with Phos.

When Phos. has a sore throat it will have dryness of the mouth, tongue and air passages.

This is general as to the respiratory tract. Then there is coryza with much sneezing,

"Pricking, burning in the nose."

Hot sensation in the nose. The general states present Much redness of the face, much heat with the coryza; hot head, cold extremities; marked headache, because there is dryness.

The very dryness itself is sometimes causative of pain, because the natural flow from the mucous membranes is dried up.

Whenever we have checked secretions we have fever, and in Bell. this is marked. Checking of the discharge with fever, with heat, redness and burning; red face, burning face; heat in the face and head, and cold extremities. It says in the text,

"maddening headache, with suppressed catarrh."

Now, in such a climate as this most people during winter and cold weather and the changes have more or less mucous flow from the nose, and eyes, and air passages.

They are better when this takes place. All at once it stops, and all the parts become dry; then look out.

An awful, maddening, throbbing headache comes on. It is not so suitable for those old catarrhs where there is a copious flow of thick, yellow mucus.

The catarrhal state wherein Bell. is useful is simply the exaggeration of the whitish mucous flow. Where it has been thick and yellow, and then stops suddenly from a cold, and a coryza comes on, Bell. is worthless.

Always bear in mind that you select for suppressed catarrh a medicine that is within the sphere of the symptoms that have been suppressed. Hence, the medicine for thick, yellowish-green discharges might be Merc., Sulphur, or Pulsatilla; then you are within the range of medicines capable of re-establishing the flow, and at the same time beginning a curative effect on the state of the tissue, leaving the patient in a much better state.

Face

Violent faceaches. Rending, tearing pains in the face; throbbing pains in the face. Pains in the face worse on the right side; worse from a jar; with much heat; throbbing carotids; hot head; brought on from exposure to cold wind, and riding in the cold wind.

Bell. has cured paralytic conditions, but Causticum is generally the remedy for paralysis of the face from riding in a cold wind. Spasms of the muscles of the face.

Extraordinary twitchings of the face. Erysipelas in the face; a bright red gradually becoming purple if there is a fever accompanying it. In the neuralgic pains there is always more or less congestion of the face with violent pains, and the face will be bright red.

With the zymotic state, as the febrile condition becomes more profound, and as the blood becomes more zymotic, the face grows from duskiness into a mottled state, as you will see in Baptisia, more marked in Baptisia than in Bell.

"Red face, with burning heat."

The teeth are full of pains, congestions, and aches of a similar character. Very sensitive teeth.

The tongue should be a dry tongue, as that is general with its mucous membranes. Dry mouth; dry tongue; swollen tongue; protruding tongue, dry and hard, feels like leather.

Loss of sensation, loss of taste, loss of power of the tongue and loss of speech are all Bell. features.

"Paralytic weakness of the tongue; trembling of the tongue when it is protruded."

It comes out weak, In a very few days the Bell. fever patient is greatly reduced, is greatly exhausted, has almost a paralytic weakness.

When he raises the hand and holds it a moment it trembles in the same way.

That which is found in the tongue is only a part of the general state. Trembling from congestion of the nerve centers. The papillae of the tongue are erect, and the tongue is bright red. Bright red tongue in scarlet fever. Bright red tongue in congestion of the brain, with the erect papillae.

When going over Arum triphyllum I told you it had been pronounced "strawberry tongue."

It is the same with Bell. The tongue looks as red as a strawberry, and the papillae stick up like seeds.

"Red streak in the middle of the tongue, wide and broader towards the point. Tongue, white centre with red edges."

White tongue with brain affections is not uncommon. It has thick, milk-white, delicate fur all over the tongue in brain troubles.

"Dryness of the mouth, with thirst."

"Dryness of the mouth, with no thirst."

Bell. is full of thirst, we will find when we come to study the stomach symptoms.

Stomach

Sometimes Bell. wants large quantities, sometimes water constantly to wet the mouth, like Ars.

It is a common feature in Bell., like Ars., to want water little and often, just enough to wet his parched tongue, mouth and throat.

Dryness in posterior nares, and the mucus that he drags down from the posterior nares is tough and stringy, and very scanty, and it is white, or, if changed at all from white, it is bloody.

Yet I have not said anything about this remedy for bloody discharges and for bleeding. We will find before we finish that it is a haemorrhagic remedy, that parts bleed easily.

There is bleeding from the eyes, bleeding from the nose, bleeding from the throat, bleeding from the larynx, bleeding from the chest, bleeding from the bladder, bleeding from the uterus.

Ulcers bleed. Little fine ulcers in the throat no bigger than a pinhead. Little aphthous patches bleed. An aphthous inflammation of the throat; but the most of the complaints of the throat are dry and red.

Great tumefaction. Extremely sensitive; much swelling; inability to swallow. Great pain on swallowing, with all the sensitivity of the surrounding parts, with the sore throat, and with the inflamed throat.

Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, with red face, intense heat, throbbing carotids, high fever, coming on from cold. Fauces and pharynx deep red. Soft palate and tonsils swollen.

Swallowing painful, particularly of fluids. Speech thick.

"Feels like a lump in the throat" that is from the swollen tonsils.

Constant scraping and hawking in the throat. The pharynx and larynx are very commonly in a state of spasm; partly from dryness, partly from extreme sensitiveness of the nerves of the part. Clutching of the throat on going to sleep, clutching of throat on coughing. Spasms of the oesophagus.

"Spasmodic constriction of the throat." Constrictions that are spasmodic.

Constrictions of the larynx, of the pharynx, of the throat. Bell. has constructive pains in parts that feel like the clutch of fingers. That sensation of clutching is felt in the uterus; it is a spasm. It is felt, in the liver; it is felt in the brain; it is felt in the throat. Jerking and twitching of muscles, with violent pain, in painful parts.

That is a strong Bell. feature. Patients sometimes in their inability to describe their feelings will say,

"Doctor, I feel a clutching in there."

This constriction that comes in the sore throat occurs just in the act of swallowing fluids or solids, and that action will force the food and fluids up into the nose, and sometimes out of the nose.

Some remedies have it as a paralytic condition, because the muscles of deglutition are paralyzed and they do not favor the natural contracting actions to force the food down the oesophagus, and in that way the food is forced up into the nose and causes strangling.

In Bell., in its acute states, its inflammatory conditions and its spasms would distinguish it from Lachesis, where it occurs as a paralytic condition after diphtheria, and from Alumina, which has a spasm of the oesophagus.

These are slow in coming on Bell. is early. The early part of the fever is the time of its irritation. The latter part of the fever is the time of its relaxation. Rapidly forming aphthous patches upon the tonsils.

With the sore throat such as we have described you will nearly always find an enlargement and inflammation, or soreness of the glands, under the jaws about the neck. Tenderness along with a Belladonna sore throat is a natural concomitant.

A strange feature running through the Bell. fevers of all sorts is an unconquerable craving for lemons, and lemon-juice. Lemonade seems to agree sometimes. In acute diseases when they crave lemon it is good for them.

They often crave things to eat. You must not be so violently temperate and in favor of prohibition that if a patient longs for beer in acute sufferings you will not give it.

"Thirst for water changed into thirst for beer."

Thirst for things that could not be endorsed in health, even.

"Excessive thirst for cold water."

In the stomach and bowels we have inflammatory conditions which can all be grouped as one. Pain, burning, distress, distension; sensitive to a jar, and to the slightest motion, and to the slightest pressure.

Sensitive to a jar, and sensitive to motion.

"Pain in the stomach extending through to the spine."

Inflammation of the stomach from becoming chilled, with intense heat; with much burning. It has violent colic, intense cramping pain in children. Face red and hot; pain relieved only by bending forward.

There are exceptional in stances where it has been relieved by bending backward, when it is similar to Dioscorea. The mother finds that by holding the child on her hand it will relieve the colic.

That is like Colocynth; but Colocynth is without much fever, without much thirst, a pain in one spot, an intense colic in the abdomen ameliorated by doubling up, ameliorated by bending across something hard, is Colocynth.

In that instance Colocynth can be prescribed on that one group of symptoms.

"Great pain in the ileo-coecal region; cannot bear the slightest touch, even the bed clothes."

There are instances where Bell. is the remedy in appendicitis.

Stools

Belladonna has dysenteric troubles. Diarrhoea, with scanty fluid stool; marked straining, but with it the face is flushed.

Heat, redness and burning in the face and head. Cold extremities, with hot head. Much straining, but passes scanty stool.

"Spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; with hemorrhoids."

Hemorrhoids that are violently painful, that are intensely red, that are greatly swollen and inflamed, a high grade of inflammation; cannot be touched; must lie with limbs wide apart, the hemorrhoids are painful and there is much burning.

Bladder

No remedy has a greater irritation in the bladder and along the urinary tract than Bell. The urging to urinate is constant.

The urine dribbles, and it burns intensely along the whole length of the urethra. The whole urinary tract is in a state of irritation.

Bell. has cured inflammation of the bladder. With the irritation and the congestion there is all the sensitiveness to pressure we find in any other part where Bell. is indicated; sensitive to a jar. irritable state of the mind, irritable state of the whole nervous system.

"Tenesmus of the bladder. After passing urine sits and strains," in torment.

The urine is diminished, bloody, sometimes pure blood, or little blood clots. A considerable quantity of blood in the bladder comes away in little clots.

"The urine looks as if mixed with brick dust, or streaks. Strongly acid."

There is a spasmodic retention of urine and. there is involuntary passing of urine. Dribbling of urine in brain troubles. During sleep, dribbling of urine.

Dreams that he is passing urine, and involuntarily passed it. Retention of urine after shock, or from congestion of the brain, or after confinement. Bladder full; great pain; great sensitiveness.

Involuntary dribbling while standing and walking; or sometimes from mere motion the urine spurts. The urging is violent and sudden. When a little urine has collected in the bladder he has a sudden, painful urging.

Much of the trouble is at the neck of the bladder, and it is spasmodic. He feels the spasmodic clutching. At the time of the urging, and at other times, he has spasm of the neck of the bladder, from shock, from cold, from anxiety, from mental disturbances.

When becoming old, or chilled, or in very cold air, women lose their urine, like Dulcamara and Causticum. Starts in sleep, and wets bed.

Dreams of a fright, which causes a starting, and she wets the bed. On going to sleep, a sudden electric shock goes through the whole body, and she wets the bed.

Bell. is rich with such strange little peculiarities; but it only shows the general spasmodic condition and the general irritability of the whole Belladonna constitution.

We see those strange conditions and states, the irritability in all parts of the body, especially where there are sphincters, where there are circular fibres clutching in thy neck of the bladder; clutching at the mouth of the vagina; constriction of tubes. Constriction of the uterus.

Here we see a special marked feature of it, in the neck of the bladder. It has more troubles in the woman than in the man; that is in the symptoms and conditions in relation to the female sexual organs, and to parturition, and to the breasts, and during the period of gestation there are many conditions where Belladonna will be needed. It is really an important remedy for the nervous sensitive woman, the woman of irritable fiber.

Genitals

In the male genitals we have scarcely any important symptoms; but with the female there are many, and some very distressing ones.

They have symptoms of great suffering, of great excitability, The parts are sensitive; the uterus and ovaries are congested, sore to touch, sensitive to jar. Irritable uterus, until it has become enlarged and painful, and sore to the touch.

Sometimes it remains in this state after parturition. Or, after every menstrual period it is a little larger, and remains. It does not return to its normal state, but remains congested, and the woman feels all through the interim as if she was menstruating.

Bruised feeling; sensitive to a jar. The flow is copious and clotted. But the most striking feature here is the uterine haemorrhage. Uterine haemorrhage from congestion, with spasms, with great sensitiveness.

The uterus contracts with violence, hence, a spasmodic contraction. Great soreness, with a copious flow of bright red fluid mixed with clots, is the characteristic of the Belladonna flow.

It is like Sabina in that respect. Those two medicines have that in a high grade. The uterus fills with a clot, and then comes a contraction like a labor pain and expels it; for a while a copious flow of fluid; and then contractions like labor pains come on again, expelling the clots, and then comes the flow.

The blood clots soon, and the haemorrhage is attended with great exhaustion. Now this occurs almost without any provocation. This haemorrhage occurs also in connection with abortion, Belladonna is a great remedy to check the haemorrhage in connection with abortion or from any cause whatever where the symptoms of sensitiveness are present.

Sensitive to touch, sensitive to a jar; the patient herself is in that state of irritable sensitiveness, great nervous excitement manifested both when awake and in sleep, often with fever. Haemorrhage, with febrile conditions, but usually the haemorrhage takes the place of the fever, and commonly if there is haemorrhage it will relieve the fever.

It is also a great remedy for haemorrhage after confinement. The blood feels hot. Haemorrhage, with hour-glass contraction. It is not an uncommon thing for the placenta to be grasped in its middle by a, contraction like an hour-glass tearing it loose here and there, and from below comes the bleeding; a copious flow of blood. Bell. relieves this hour-glass contraction.

It has also the most violent dysmenorrhoea. Pains like labor-pains. Spasmodic labor-pains. Circular contractions are the commonest forms in Bell.

All of the fibers should take part uniformly and do their work uniformly, and thereby gradually bring to bear a tightening upon the contents. In Bell. it is just like a cord going around the body of the uterus, tightening it and it interferes with labor.

That is the way it is in its dysmenorrhoea. Violent contraction of the circular fibers, and hence, a woman will often describe it as feeling as if the uterus was clutched with a string. As if it were tightened. Bell. is rich in spasmodic conditions, in haemorrhagic conditions, in states of irritation, and in soreness, and the parts are sensitive to pain, and the woman herself is dreadfully wrought up and shocked by pain.

In addition to that, pains in the ovary. Belladonna acts in many instances on the right side. It is common for the right ovary to be more painful than the left, or the right to be entirely affected and the left not at all, in Belladonna. So it is with the right side of the throat. So it is sometimes in the right side of the body.

"Pains in the ovaries with the appearance of the menses. Pains in the pelvic region, which come on suddenly, and cease as suddenly."

The characteristic Belladonna pains come on suddenly, sometimes stay a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, and leave suddenly. Pains from uterine congestion. Acute inflammation of the uterus.

"Enlargement of the uterus, and periodically spasmodic bearing down,"

It has a relaxation in the parts as well. The uterus has been congested and is enlarged, and heavy, and the little suspensory attachments have become relaxed, and tired, and weak, and have stretched and elongated, and the already distended and over weighted uterus keeps pulling on them, and this creates the sensation that women so often describe, a bearing down sensation as if the uterus would escape.

It is sometimes described as a funneling sensation. These are the expressions of women when they suffer from prolapsus. That relaxation is common in a great number that have been poisoned with Ergot.

The uterus comes down and is partly exposed between the labiae. Prolapsus as if the whole inner parts were coming out is a common feature, and with this she is worse from a jar.

There is a great sensitiveness in the parts. There is a great soreness in the uterus, and a sensation of heaviness. I have seen women sit with their limbs wide apart so sensitive is the neck of the uterus that is protruding from the vulva.

"Must sit; cannot lie down."

Many of the Bell. cases cannot lie down, because of the stretching of the abdominal muscles. When they lie down they must draw up the limbs to relax those muscles.

Must sit, or take a flexed posture. Great sensitiveness in the parts. Pressing and urging towards the genitals.

There are all sorts of positions, and aggravations, and ameliorations in Belladonna, in accordance with what particular muscles are involved.

Some patients can lie better than they can sit. Almost all are worse standing. Some are made better by sitting with the limbs, wide apart. Most are aggravated by bending forward too much. Sitting in a chair she cannot bend forward too much, neither can she bend backwards without increasing the suffering.

So sensitive, and so much swelling in these parts. She is worse from motion, worse from jar, worse from excitement, worse from the slamming of the door, because that makes the muscles twitch.

All this illustrates how sensitive the irritated parts are. Then in the external and internal genitals and ovaries there is burning, and twitching, and much heat. Often tearing pains; the tearing pains are generally an exaggeration of those clutchings and constrictions, and such are known as spasms especially of the circular fibres.

Belladonna is well suited to pregnant women who are extremely sensitive, who are plethoric, who have congestion from taking cold, who have soreness, where there is threatened abortion, or during or after abortion when there are hemorrhages.

Then again Bell. is useful in red-faced plethoric, vigorous women who have married late in life and become pregnant, and when the day of delivery comes the muscular fibres are in a state of tension.

The uterus will not relax. She is flushed and has heat, and is in a state of excitement, sensitive to touch, sensitive to jar.

Relaxation will soon follow. It is not to be expected that she will have an easy labor, because women who marry at 28 or 30, or later, suffer from prolonged labor.

There is one strong feature of the hemorrhages and, of the discharges; the flow of blood feels hot. During confinement gushes of blood that feel hot. After abortion, gushes of blood that feel hot.

A lochial discharge that feels hot, along with the sensitiveness and soreness of the parts. Tenderness to pressure.

There are inflammatory conditions of the breasts accompanying confinement. Milk fever. When the breasts become red, extremely sensitive to touch.

She cannot turn over in bed; she cannot have the bed jarred, the face is flushed and the carotids are throbbing; there is fever; the sensitivity is aroused throughout the economy.

Great induration; hard as a stone. Bell. will stop the pain in the breast in a few hours. It will stop that congestion, and, will relieve all suffering.

When the mammary glands are inflamed without any general symptoms but merely an inflammation of the glands give Phytolacca.

Larynx

Inflammation of the larynx. There is that clutching again and choking. It begins with a- rawness in the throat a smarting, and scraping, and the formation of a little mucus. After much scraping and hawking, it extends up the throat a little but before, he begins to cough it is quite dry.

There is smarting, and loss of voice. As soon as he attempts to go into a sleep, that clutch comes on and wakes him up. Hoarseness and rawness and clutching in the throat.

Laryngitis with sensitiveness.

"Sudden attacks of hoarseness;"

every motion, or the slightest attempt to talk, the slightest effort to move the larynx or to touch it causes suffering.

Moving the head backward, or moving the head from side to side, causes pain and cough. Swallowing aggravates. As the bolus goes down behind the larynx he feels a great big sore place, it is the larynx. The voice changes.

One minute it is one key, and in another it changes. Sometimes it is hoarse and sometimes it is squeaky. And then, there is complete loss of voice, unable to utter a sound.

"Croup-like spasms in the larynx. Spasms of the glottis. All the symptoms of croup," but no membrane.

It is simply a dry, denuded larynx, with rawness and scraping; an inflamed condition. And this is the form of the acute laryngitis; it comes ort very suddenly. His respiration is short, rapid and painful. Often asthmatic.

Chest

Asthmatic condition, with spasmodic breathing. And again, these symptoms seem to involve the whole chest. Oppression of the chest. Asthma in hot damp weather.

The Belladonna cough comes on from clutching in the larynx. As it a little speck of something had crept into the larynx; a little dust, or a little food, or a drop of water had gotten into the larynx, and he coughs.

"Dry, spasmodic cough."

An intense cough. Cough at night. Cough when lying down, more at night than in the daytime. The cough is spasmodic, barking, short. It is a remedy for whooping cough, with spasms of the larynx which cause the whoop and difficulty of breathing.

Finally after long coughing, the expectoration of a little blood, or a little thin white mucus, is the result of the violent turmoil going on in the air passages from coughing. The Belladonna cough is peculiar.

As soon as its great violence, and the great effort have raised a little mucus he gets peace for a little while, and stops coughing. But during the restful period the larynx and the trachea, and the air passages grow dryer and dryer, and finally they commence to tickle, and then comes on the spasm, as if all the air passages were taking part in it, and the whoop and the gagging, and sometimes vomiting.

Then he gets up a little mucus and the cough subsides. Another little interval and he has another spell. That is the way its goes on, like whooping cough, but during, all of the interim there is constant dryness. Hence the cough is called paroxysmal.

Tightness in the chest, Painfulness in the chest. Soreness in the chest. In Bell. the child will cry the instant it feels that urging to cough, because it knows what a great suffering is going to take place. The chest is so painful, the child dreads the cough and screams. By the child's cry we know that it is going to have a coughing spell .

Just like, Bry.., Hepar and Phos ., which have that feature more, than other remedies. There is burning in the chest; violent congestion in the chest; With all of these chest complaints there is that dry, harassing spasmodic cough; worse at night.

This remedy cures pneumonia and pleurisy. I am sure every one here could picture a Belladonna pneumonia, or a Belladonna pleurisy. I am sure you know the patient so well that I need not describe the patient, the head, the congestion, the red face, or the burning; but in pleurisy I will tell you its secret. Bell. prefers the right side.

Great pain; extreme soreness of the part; cannot lie on it; worse from the jar of the bed and you have the Bell. pleurisy.

Bry. also prefers the right side, but the Bry. patient must lie on that side; must have pressure, and is not so sensitive to a jar; he has not the intense heat, he has riot the great throbbing, and the burning.

Every kind of sickness that you go to you have to individualize in that way. There is no other way to practice Homoeopathy.

Remember, with all the inflammatory conditions there will be throbbing heat redness, burning, soreness to touch, and sensitiveness to a jar.

With Bell. it means he cannot lie on the inflamed part; while with Bry. he is ameliorated from lying on the inflamed part.

Throbbing in all the arteries. Great congestion. Vascular excitement. These are present with all the congestions, and inflammations.

Joints

Belladonna cures inflammatory rheumatism, when all the joints are swollen, or a great number of them, and they are hot, red, and burn.

We have in the rheumatism the heat, redness and burning running through; with the same sensitiveness of the whole patient, and a sensitiveness of the joints to the jar of the bed.

He wants to lie perfectly still is very much worse from motion and has considerable fever. Sometimes when the fever in inflammatory rheumatism runs pretty high there is delirium. But the striking features are the swelling of the joints with the redness, and great sensitiveness to motion and to a jar.

It is especially suitable to those that are very sensitive to cold, who cannot bear the least uncovering, cannot bear a draft, very sensitive to the motion, of the covers, and ameliorated by heat.

The very stamp and character of Bell. is in its rheumatic state, like it is in all of its other complaints. It is the patient that has given Bell. that character in provings; it is the patient that gives disease that character when he had it, and it is only the fulfillment of the Law of Similars when these come, together, and the remedy annihilates the sickness.

Inflammation of the joints, coming on from sudden exposure of that particular joint. Or from a severe attack of cold one joint becomes inflamed. A trouble that is localizing itself. It may be any joint- of the body, for Bell, affects all the joints.

The sudden exposure to cold in plethoric individuals, is one of the most prominent. causes of the Bell. sickness. In chronic cases the taking of cold generally, locates, or creates, a disturbance, and increases disorder, that manifests itself in the weakest place.

Vigorous people take cold in the nose, where they throw it off easily. You can often say to sickly patients that your cold now affects you in the weakest place. If you have liver trouble,

"your cold will settle in the liver," and so on; "but when you get well you will take cold like other people, in the nose."

Absolutely healthy people seldom take cold, but we do not have many such, they are so rare that we do not often see them; and the snuffles, and sneezing, and the running at the nose are simply throwing off of the cold of ordinarily healthy people.

Limbs

In the limbs, again, we have convulsions, which is a part of the generals. In all the muscles in the limbs, and throughout the body, convulsions.

Children go into convulsions with head troubles, with congestion of the brain, with irritation of the brain. Convulsions from taking cold, in plethoric children, and the limbs are most, likely to show forth these convulsive efforts of the muscles.

Violent cramping. All the limbs are in a state of convulsive movements. Sometimes the spasms are clonic, and sometimes tonic. The convulsions in the limbs are sometimes such as draw them up, suddenly, throw them out suddenly; sometimes convulsions that throw the body backward, called opisthotonos, and sometimes throwing the body forward, called opisthotonos.

The most of the complaints in Bell. are ameliorated by keeping still. The drawing pains, the pulsations, the inflammatory conditions drive the patient into a desire for perfect rest, are aggravated from motion.

The disinclination and aversion to the slightest motion is common in Bell., and as strong in Bell. as in Bry. Bell. is so sensitive in parts that the motions of talking are painful; so sensitive that the conclusion of the voice is painful in the sore spots.

A person with a strong voice, a bass voice, hardly thinks of the concussion that takes place; and much less is that of the female voice, and yet I have seen that aggravation from motion, and that aggravation from jar so marked in the female that her voice was like the pounding of hammers. In inflammation of the uterus, and ovaries, and the bowels, she refrains from talking, because her voice creates a concussion in the sore parts.

That only illustrates the extremes of this great sensitiveness to motion and to jar. Jar is only an exaggerated form of motion, bringing out that sensitiveness.

If you will study the nerves you will find the greatest array of peculiar nervous manifestations, such as sensitiveness of the nerves, aggravated from shock; spasms; various disturbances of the whole nervous, system; twitching; jerking; trembling; subsultus tendinum, etc. Cramps, and spasms, and convulsions in children.

Convulsions

Convulsions come on, with great suddenness.

They come on entirely unexpected. In most instances of convulsions in the long acting remedies and medicines of the zymotic type, the patient has not been prospering in the last days of her gestation; but with Bell. she goes on part way through the labor, or finishes it, and little is expected.

Perhaps her face is a little too red, but she goes into a convulsion unexpectedly, a violent

one from head to foot.

Congestion of the brain, with excitement. Intense heat; everything is intense, violent, sudden and unexpected.

The pains sometimes leave in confinement suddenly, and a convulsion comes on. But look and see that all the sensitiveness that I have described runs through the patient.

The pains cease suddenly. The blood seems to mount to the head. The face becomes red. Congestions come on suddenly. Convulsions epileptiform in character.

Bell. is not suitable for those numerous recurrent complaints, even though the single attack should be mitigated with Bell. Take any of these attacks; whether they are convulsions or headaches, or congestion of the brain, they are running down and become excitable, take on congestive attacks of the head, go right to bed, and roll the head.

You treat those with Bell.; the attack is relieved. Take notice, I start out by saying this is only one of a series. You may not know it. This may be the first one.

You reduce that one, and when that same exposure comes again, that same attack comes back; but Bell. does less this time than it did before. After two or three attacks Bell. will do no more and you are worse off this time than you were before.

When it has broken the first one the physician should see that this is one of a series, and that Bell. is not suitable. Often it is a case that needs Calc., I say often, not always.

All the symptoms should be examined between the attacks, so that the child may be elevated above these attacks because the acute remedy will do no more than suit the first, or second, or third at most. It has not the depth of action, it has not the length of action. It does not affect the economy profoundly enough. It passes away after a few days; has to be frequently repeated.

The patient should be followed up and watched in all these recurrent spasmodic and periodical complaints. Bell. is not a good remedy for recurrent complaints for it lacks periodicity, just as it lacks continuance of complaints.

Even if the first attack looked like Bell.. the next attack would come back just the same. Belladonna is suitable in those complaints that if conquered have no tendency to recur; those complaints that end in death or recovery. It will only mitigate those complaints that are periodical.

Sleep

Its sleep is a congestive sleep, a stupor; full of dreams full of violence. Wake's with fright from a horrible dream, a nightmare. Jerks and twitches in sleep.

"Restless sleep."

Moaning and groaning in sleep. Doing all sorts of violence. Delirium in sleep.

"Starts in sleep as if frightened."

In sleep sometimes the patient will commence to talk, will talk faster and louder, the head becomes hot, and the feet cold, and he ends with a shriek.

"Restless tossing in sleep. Feet becoming icy cold in sleep. Head getting hot, in sleep. Wakes up in a fever, and excitement."

It has symptoms so much like a typical old-fashioned Sydenham scarlet fever that it has been useful in scarlet fever.

Perhaps it is one of the most frequently indicated medicines in that disease. In some seasons, at least it will run all through, and the majority of cases will be Bell. cases, with the bright red face and glossy appearance of the skin.

Bright red, intense heat, great congestion; after a short time if Bell. is not administered it will grow darker.

But running through all this are those three words, heat, redness and burning. Burning everywhere. The temperature I described among the generals as being so marked, so intense that you will carry it with you on the ends of your fingers for hours after you have touched a Bell. scarlet fever.

It differs wholly from the Apis case, which has a rough rash. Bell. is smooth and shining. Apis wants to be cool, wants to be uncovered; Bell. wants to be warm, wants a warm room; Apis has no thirst, to speak of; in Bell. it is the exception to have no thirst, generally very thirsty for water, little and often.

The intense dryness of the mucous membranes and skin. Coldness of the extremities with hot head. In Arum triphyllum there is a constant picking of the mouth, with suppressed or scanty urine; pale surface, only here and there a little rash; the itching of the fingers, toes, nose and lips will lead you to prescribe Arum.

You remember the Baptisia case, with that mental state where he is feeling all over the bed "to get the pieces together."

On the other hand, where there is no rash to speak of, now and then a patch enough to make a diagnosis, or the diagnosis is made from the fact of some one else having the disease in the family, the child is swallowing ice water, but vomiting it up when it gets warm in the stomach, who would not give Phosphorus?

So it is at the bedside we pick out the distinguishing, things and see that these remedies are not at all alike.

Bell. stands out with its heat, its redness, its turmoil. Remember it has, not continued fever; it is not suitable in typhoid. Bell. in a night will bring down the fever, will allay the delirium; but how is it the next night?

On comes the fever, and the patient is worse than he was before. Simply because Bell. cannot hold what it starts with. It is not suitable.

It has not that continued feature in it. We are led to a medicine that corresponds to continuous fevers, and such must be selected when we go into the typhoid state.

Our earlier practitioners often only thought of what they saw at the time. It was only after our school had considerable experience that it was found that periodicity constitutes a symptom.

Every remedy has its pace, its times of aggravation and its, times of amelioration.

So it is with Bell. . Its time is 3 o'clock in the afternoon, commonly. Its complaints, are generally worse in the night. Its complaints commonly start about three o'clock in the afternoon, and run till three in the morning, or until after midnight.

So that during the night its fever is highest. The fever comes on, and rises rapidly, to a very high temperature, sometimes 104 ° or 105 °, and runs down again to almost normal; but not with a complete apyrexia.

It is not suitable in complaints with complete apyrexia, for that marks complete periodicity which Bell. has not.

Skin

The heat, the redness and the burning characterize most of the skin symptoms.

It has a fine rash; not the coarse rash, but the fine, scarlet red, smooth rash. It has inflammation of the skin, phlegmonous, a deep inflammation.

First bright red, gradually grows bluish or purple, or mottled; and in this there is the heat, redness and burning.

It is not suitable generally for the erysipelatous inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues, covered with vesicles, like Rhus.

Vesiculation is sometimes present, but it is the exception, while in Rhus it is the general character. Rhus begins with inflammation; it has heat, redness and burning; but whenever Rhus begins an inflammation, just that instant it throws out a great blister and it fills with serum.

Almost any Bell. surface that is inflamed is likely to throw out a red rash. In intense fevers, where there are not scarlet fever or any of the common rashes, a red, fine, glossy eruption is likely to come out.

It is not an uncommon thing in congestion of the brain, and in bilious fevers, for this rash to appear, and it sometimes deceives the physician into making a diagnosis of one of the eruptive diseases, whereas it is a mere hybrid.

The Bell. skin, while it turns red, has such a passive redness that you can write your name, almost, on the skin. As you take your finger and make a line on it, it leaves a white line behind your finger.

That was an old diagnostic phase of scarlet fever, and it shows that Bell. produces upon the surface that peculiar passive congestion very much like the scarlatina. So we have in the Bell. provings a symptom that is even a pathognomonic symptom of scarlatina.

But we do not prescribe on a symptom. Of late years no homoeopathic physician ever thinks of giving a medicine simply for the purpose of bringing the pulse down, or bringing the fever down.

He prescribes for the patient. It is true that the temperature does come down, if we get the right remedy; but to prescribe a remedy to bring the pulse down is going at it wrong end to.

One who thinks homoeopathically never prescribes to remove a symptom; but guided by the symptoms he selects the remedy, no matter what follows.

It is true the symptoms subside. Others might say he prescribed to remove the symptoms, because they subside.

Learn to keep the ideal of Homeopathy in mind, and think rationally; in order to do that you will have to rid yourselves of a tremendous amount of inheritance.

We have inherited the way to think wrong end to.

"Yellowness of the skin from congestion of the liver, and catarrh of the duodenum."

When persons have been over-medicated with quinine until they take cold on every occasion, and a sudden attack of congestion of the liver comes on, with the great soreness, and the skin becomes yellow with all the sensitiveness of this remedy, Bell. will cure such cases.

There are conditions that follow Bell. that relate to its chronic state. Where Bell. has been suitable for the acute conditions, the congestions, but there is that periodicity that I have mentioned, it has its natural followers, and Calcarea is one of them.

In boys that are big-headed, plump, plethoric, precocious, that take cold easily, and come down, with headaches and congestion; school children that get headaches which Bell.

At first helped; very commonly if you look carefully into the case it will turn out to be a Calc. case.

It is so common for Calc. to relate in this way to Bell.

Now-a-days we frequently find the dry, backing cough in the hands of doctors who have given too much Lachesis.

Lachesis is commonly given to over-sensitive women, and it produces many of those conditions; it sometimes cures great troubles, but it leaves behind for weeks a dry, hacking cough that keeps her from sleeping.

Sometimes it comes on after the first sleep, which is commonly about ii o'clock; a dry, hacking cough from lying down.

Bell. will cure this old effect of Lach., the nervous state and excitability and the cough. Bell. will be suitable as an antidote for Lach., that is, for the acute symptoms.

Calc. is an antidote for the more chronic effects of Lach.

After the abuse of Bell., Calc. comes in as one of the natural antidotes.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick.

Women and children, with light hair, blue eyes, fine complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions.

Great liability to take cold, sensitive to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut (Hep.); tonsils swell after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus).

Over-excitability of all the senses; convulsions during dentition; spasms of single muscles or the whole body; chorea, epilepsy.

Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly.

Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p.); come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold.

Rush of blood to head and face (Amyl, Glon., Mel.).

Pains come on suddenly, last indefinitely, cease suddenly (Mag. p.)

Pains: usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; with throbbing of carotids and fulness of head.

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs, wolves.

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations.

Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell., Hyos.).

Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globules like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy; urine suppressed; sleepy but cannot sleep (Cham., Lach., Op.).

Vertigo: when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of position.

Headache: congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids (Mel.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses.

Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod., Tub.).

Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar.

Pain in r. ileo-cæcal region, < by slightest touch, even the bed-cover.

The transverse colon protrudes like a pad.

Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining hand; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet.

Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Compare, Lil., Mur., Sep.).

Relations

Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea and Tuberculinum which are often required to complete a cure.

Aggravation

From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 P. M. and midnight; while drinking; uncovering; hot sun; lying down.

Amelioration

Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.

Type

Quotidian, tertian. Sometimes the type is anticipating. Periodicity not marked. Continued; typhoid; yellow.

Time

6 P. M. In evening, or at night.

Chill

Without thirst. Chill, beginning in both arms at once, thence spreads all over the body (Hell.—begins in extremities, Gels.); a violent chill seized her in scrobiculus cordis; shivering running down the back, and terminating in pit of stomach (chill felt most severely in pit of stomach, Arn.—chill begins in pit of stomach with a fixed, cold, agonizing weight, Cal.). Chill, alternating with dry, burning heat. Chill, with violent, bursting, frontal headache, dilated pupils, dread of light and noise; restlessness; pale face when lying down; red face when sitting up (the reverse of Acon.). Congestive chill, with red face, delirium and bursting headache. Chill internal, with external burning heat. Feet ice-cold; can scarcely be warmed, while face is red and bloated (Arn.). Chill after eating (Kali c., Mar. v.—chill after eating and drinking, Asar.). Chilliness in the arms, with redness and heat of the ears and nose (with coldness of tip of nose during chill, Ced.). Chilliness not relieved by heat of stove. Rarely any thirst; if any, it is during the alternate burning heat of the chill.

Ascends from feet to chest.

One hot cheek; contracted pupils. Red face when lying down; pale face and fainting when sitting up.

Chilly from being touched, or even lifting bed clothes. Body chilly, forehead and ears hot.

Begins in both arms at once, thence over body.

Hot face, dilated pupils. Pale face when lying down; red face when sitting up.

Chill after eating, with redness of the face. Chilliness, with redness and heat of ears and nose.

Heat

INTENSE, with great thirst and desire for cold water, yet everything he drinks feels as if too cold. Constant dry burning heat with sweat only on head. Burning heat within and without; burning heat of the body, with extreme distension of the superficial blood-vessels, the distended veins lie like cords on the skin (distension of veins and congestive headache, Cinch.). Violent, bursting headache, with strong pulsations of arteries, especially throbbing of the carotids; dilated pupils; very red face; delirium; restlessness. External coldness of the body, and internal burning heat. Head sometimes ice-cold, sometimes burning hot. Face hot, with extremities cold; forehead hot, with cold head and cold cheeks (Rhus). Heat the predominant stage of the paroxysm. Averse to uncovering. Sensitive to light and noise.

Redness and heat of one, coldness and paleness of the other cheek.

Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels.

Likes to be uncovered.

Forehead hot, with cold face and cold cheeks.

Distended superficial blood-vessels, like whip-cords on the skin.

Averse to uncovering.

Sweat

Beginning at the feet and rising up to head; during heat, or immediately after it, mostly on face and down the nose; on covered parts only, or on covering parts ever so little (Cinch.); sweat stains linen yellow or dark; empyreumatic, smoky odor; profuse sweat with diuresis; sweat of head, hands, face (which is very red) and feet, with burning heat; profuse sweat over whole body by the least exercise (Bry., Camp.), sudden, evanescent; during sleep, day or night, with gradual relief of pain (Nat.); may be entirely wanting.

Covered or affected parts sweat profusely.

Belladonna.

On covered parts only, or on covering parts ever so little.

Aconite.

Sour smelling sweat all over the body.

Tongue

Red and dry, with red edges and white coating in the middle; papillæ bright and prominent, like scarlatina (Acon., Ant. t.). Offensive, putrid taste in throat when eating or drinking, although food tastes natural.

Coated white “strawberry tongue.” Everything but water tastes bitter; taste of rotten eggs.

Belladonna.

Sweat stains the linen yellow.

Sweat of empyreumatic odor.

Red, dry, “scarlatinalike,” mouth and fauces dry.

Food tastes salty; bread sour.

“ Where there is a doubt whether Aconite or Belladonna should be given, I have always found that a disposition to perspire constitutes a valuable indication for Belladonna.”—BAEHR.

It has been taught by some authors, and believed by many members of the homeopathic faith, that Aconite and Belladonna—except as incurrents during the congestive stage of heat—are useless in the treatment of intermittent fever. But the law of cure, as enunciated by Hahnemann, knows no such narrow restrictions, and is not bound by the ipse dixit of individual opinion.

If Aconite or Belladonna cover the totality of the patient’s symptoms, it will as certainly cure this fever, as any other remedy. They are comparatively rarely indicated, but will effectually do their work when called for. The characteristic symptoms of the remedy must always be the guide.

Pulse

Strong, full, large and frequent; globular, like buckshot; or small, wiry and hard; the former in chill and heat, the latter as paroxysm passes off. Throbbing of arteries.

Aconite.

Analysis

Congested, red, hot face; head and carotids throbbing; pupils dilated; cold extremities.

Heat; intense, burning within and without, great thirst, distended blood-vessels, < uncovering.

Sweat; on covered parts only, or on covering slightly.

A typical Belladonna picture, irrespective of the paroxysm.