Calcarea Carbonica calc.

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

Leucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin; tendency to obesity in youth. Psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking. Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldly. Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence. Large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft, develop very slowly. Curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones; extremities crooked, deformed; bone irregularly developed. Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pillow far around (Sil., Sanic.). Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and neck, or chest and upper part of body (Sil.). Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweats, and open fontanelles. During either sickness or convalescence, great longing for eggs; craves indigestible things (Alum.); aversion to meat. Acidity of digestive tract; sour eructations, sour vomiting, sour stool; sour odor of the whole body (Hep., Rheum.). Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, and grow too rapidly. Menstruation too early, too profuse, too long lasting; with subsequent amenorrhoea and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed. Women: menses too early, too profuse; feet habitually cold and damp, as if they had on cold damp stockings; continually cold in bed. The least mental excitement causes profuse return of menstrual flow (Sulph., Tub.). Fears she will lose her reason or that people will observe her mental confusion (Act.). Lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right lung (Ars. - upper left, Myr., Sulph.); oftener the guide to the constitutional remedy than Phosphorus (compare, Tub.). Diseases: arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk or stand; children have no disposition to walk and will not try; suppressed sweat. Rawness of soles of feet from perspiration (Graph., Sanic.); blisters and offensive foot sweat. Longing for fresh air (when in a room) which inspires, benefits, strengthens (Puls., Sulph.). Coldness: general; of single parts (Kali bi.); head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs; aversion to cold open air, "goes right through her:" sensitive to cold, damp air; great liability ot take cold (opposite of Sulph.). Sweat: of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest; axillae, sexual organs; hands, knees; feet (Sep.). Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure. Uraemic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or workers in cold clay. Feels better in every way when constipated. Stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe., Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.). Painless hoarseness < in the morning. Desire to be magnetised (Phos.).

Relations

Complementary: to Bell., which is the acute of Calc. Calcarea acts best: before Lyc., Nux., Phos., Sil. It follows: Nit. ac., Puls., Sulph. (especially if pupils are dilated); is followed by, Kali bi. in nasal catarrh. According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit. ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications. In children it may be often repeated. In aged people should not be repeated; especially if the first dose benefited, it will usually do harm.

Aggravation

Cold air; wet weather; cold water; from washing (Ant. c.); morning; during full moon.

Amelioration

Dry weather; lying on painful side (Bry., Puls.).

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

We find this remedy particularly adapted to the real leucophlegmatic constitution--where we find a large head, large features, pale skin with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles.

Right eye; face, right side; right abdominal ring; sexual organs, right side, forearm. Inguinal glands often become swollen; left side of the neck and nape of the neck; left chest; left lower extremity. Right side of the back; right upper extremity. General symptoms, right. Light haired people; pale face.

Mental

Peevishness; dizziness of mind; feels as if she will go crazy; melancholy; desire to weep. Fearful apprehensions--of death, of forthcoming sad events, misery, etc.

Head

External, right side. All symptoms worse on ascending, such as vertigo, peculiar headache, etc. Headache of various kinds; lancinating pains in; icy coldness of; jerks and shocks in; as if pressed or pushed asunder; as if it would split. Arising from nape. Scalp; scaling off; dandruff; milk crust. Profuse perspiration of the head, particularly where it stands out in large, bead-like drops, and in such profusion, as to soak the pillow thoroughly; it may run down upon the face and neck.

Eyes

Eyeballs; injected; cornea, as little white ulcers on the cornea, etc.; eyes water; eyelids, particularly lower eyelids; external angles of the eyes; constant mist before the eyes; dimsightedness; pupils dilated. As if a little foreign body were in. Dancing wavelets of light. Itching of. Can't see well, or use eyes comfortably by gaslight.

Ears

Affections of the internal ears; noises in the ears in general; when swallowing, noise in; cracking in when chewing; hard hearing; deafness.

Nose

Internal nose; bleeding of the nose; smelling is feeble; imaginary smells; polypus; nasal secretion with bad smell; purulent nasal secretion; stoppage of.

Mouth

Upper gums; teeth can't bear any cold; cold wind striking the body, immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache; thirst. Taste bad, sour, bitter. Ranula.

Throat

Uvula dark red and covered with blisters; saliva; hawking.

Gastric

The region over the stomach is swollen and looks like a saucer turned bottom up; hunger; extreme hunger; vomiting of sour matter; affections of inner region of the stomach; heartburn; milk disagrees. Sleepy after supper; nausea in morning.

Heart

Pains in heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart; palpitation of the heart with anguish; trembling pulsation of the heart.

Stool and Rectum

Obstructed evacuation; stool with ascarides; with tape-worm. Affections of the rectum, as fissures, which are very painful, bleeding after every stool, followed by extreme exhaustion; burning.

Sexual

Male: Complaints from coition; nocturnal pollutions. Female: Affections of the vagina; discharge of blood before the proper period; metrorrhagia; menstruation too early; too profuse; complaints before menstruation. Leucorrhœa in general; burning; itching; milk-like. Amenorrhœa. Too scanty flow of milk. Nipples cracked; ulcerated; very tender to touch.

Cough

Cough in general; with expectoration; expectoration, mucous, purulent, yellow, sour taste, offensive smell.

Joints

Joints in general; hand; shoulder; wrist; finger; of the leg in general, especially hip-joint; cramp pain in; darting in; weakness of.

Bones

Shin-bones; darting in; pricking in. Bending of; softening, swelling.

Hypochondria

Can't bear tight clothing around; stitches in liver during or after stooping. Flatulency or gurgling in the right hypochondrium.

Skin

Bloatedness of; paleness of; dryness of; exanthema in general, dry, in blotches, like milk crust, like nettle-rash, scurfy. Flaccidity of; chapping; chapping after washing; sensibility of in general; tetters in general; furfuraceous, scurfy; deep ulcers; fistulous ulcers; ulcers with too little pus.

Sensations

As if the parts would burst; were pressed, or pushed asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet; of crepitation; cramp pain in the muscles; creeping on the limbs like a mouse; cutting pain, and pain as if sprained in outer, or inner parts; griping with sense of tearing away; jerking pain in outer parts; knocking in outer, or inner parts; pricking (darting) in outer parts; darting and drawing in the muscles; dartings with jerkings; puffiness; itching; better by scratching. Complaints prevailing in inner parts of coldness in; of dust in inner, as in the eyes, bronchial tubes, etc.; of heaviness, of pulsations and of jerks in; parching, pinching and pressing in; sensations of trembling of; dryness of inner parts that are usually moist.

Sleep

Falling asleep late; complaints preventing; waking too late; concomitant complaints of waking (as a patient may always awaken with a headache, or with some other trouble, or may always feel worse when awakening); waking frequently during the night; sleeps in the early morning. Sleepiness in the morning; in the evening. Sleeplessness in general; before midnight; dreams pleasant; fantastical.

Fever

Pulse tremulous; internal chilliness; sense of cold in inner parts; heat with thirst; perspiration in general, of single parts, of forepart of the body; want of perspiration with anxiety: chilliness with heat at the same time; internal chilliness with external heat; heat followed by chilliness. Chills coming at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Generalities

Aversion to open air; attacks of sick feeling; bleeding from inner parts; erethism of blood (flush); chlorosis; epilepsy; epilepsy without consciousness; tendency to get fat; disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things; secretion of mucus increased; laxness of muscles; sprains: inflammatory swelling; debility; pricking corns; cystic tumors: polypus (nose, ear, vagina, uterus). Tape worm; worms; ascarides.

These complaints occurring in a leucophlegmatic constitution particularly furnish us with the strongest characteristic.

Extremities

Affections of the legs; calves; arthritic nodes; limbs drawn together crooked. Cramps in the legs coming on at three o'clock A.M.; bunions on the large toe joint, or on adjoining joint; hands chap from lime water; children can't learn to walk, they won't put their feet on the ground.

Worse

In the morning (frequently awakens at three or four o'clock in the morning, and can't get sleep afterwards); before falling asleep; on washing; on stooping down; from suppressed catarrh; worse in children; after coition; in cold, wet weather; after eating; from exertion of the mind (after reading, writing, thinking, etc.); fasting before breakfast; affecting females particularly; when giddy; on ascending (apt to produce giddiness); from loss of fluids; when letting the limbs hang down; from spraining the parts; from lights in general; from light of the sun; from lamp light; looking fixedly at one object; looking upwards; from masturbation; before menstruation; dry food; from milk; from wet poultices; from reading; after sexual excess; while suckling the child; on stretching the affected part; from washing, and water; from getting wet; when writing; when turning the head; from lying on the side; from suppressed perspiration; from lifting; for stone cutters; by pressure of the clothes; from talking.

Better

After breakfast; in the dark; from drawing up the limbs; while lying on the back; after lying down; from loosening the garments; from raising the limbs; on rising from rubbing; from scratching; in dry weather; wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched.

Remedies following well

Agar., Bellad., Bismuth, Ipec., Lycop., Natr. carb., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sarsap., Sepia, Sulphur.

Antidotes

Bryon., Nitr. ac., Nux vom.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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Red line symptom

Head too large, fontanelles not closing. Itching of the scalp, children scratch their heads when their sleep is disturbed or they are awakened. In teething children milk disagrees, may be vomited in curds, or pass the bowels in the same manner. Difficult dentition with little children. Sour taste in the mouth or of the food, sour vomiting, especially during dentition, also sour diarrhoea. Pit of the stomach swollen, like a saucer turned bottom up. Menses several days too early and too copious. Chronic rheumatism and other troubles caused by working in water. Feet constantly cold and damp, as if she had on cold damp stockings. Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat. Very sensitive to the least cold air, which goes right through her. Weak and sick for several days after coition. Especially indicated in fair, plump children, those of a leuco-phlegmatic temperament.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Carbonate of Lime (CALCAREA CARBONICA - OSTREARUM)

General

This great Hahnemannian anti-psoric is a constitutional remedy par excellence. Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipient phthisis (Ars jod; Tuberculin). It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses. Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.

Raised blood coagulability (Strontium). Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum. Is a hæmostatic and gives this power probably to the gelatine injections.

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhœa. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.

Mind

Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion.

Head

Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from overlifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on waking.

Eyes

Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early in morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Far sighted. Itching of lids, swollen, scurfy. Chronic dilatation of pupils. Cataract. Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal fistula; scrofulous ophthalmia.

Ears

Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation with muco-purulent otorrhœa, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear (Petrol). Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.

Nose

Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. Takes cold at every change of weather. Catarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates with colic.

Face

Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goitre. Itching of pimples in whiskers. Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear.

Mouth

Persistent sour taste. Mouth fills with sour water. Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything cold or hot. Offensive smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.

Throat

Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking-up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Parotid fistula.

Stomach

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria (Phos).

Abdomen

Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Gall-stone colic. Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.

Stool

Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children's diarrhœa. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.

Urine

Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis (Use 30th, also Tuberculin. 1 m.).

Male

Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.

Female

Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhœa. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhœa, milky (Sepia). Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi.

Respiratory

Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by eating. Persistent, irritating cough from arsenical wall paper (Clarke). Extreme dyspnœa. Painless hoarseness; worse in the morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest. Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion, or pressure. Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty expectoration (Lyc).

Heart

Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.

Back

Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebræ. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.

Extremities

Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Cold, damp feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees cramps in calves. Sour foot-sweat. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.

Sleep

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber. Night terrors (Kali phos). Dreams of the dead.

Fever

Chill at 2 pm begins internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.

Skin

Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.

Modalities

Worse, from exertion, mental or physical; ascending; cold in every form; water, washing, moist air, wet weather; during full moon; standing. Better, dry climate and weather; lying on painful side. Sneezing (pain in head and nape).

Relationship

Antidotes: Camph; Ipec; Nit ac; Nux.

Complementary: Bell; Rhus; Lycop; Silica.

Calcar is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.

Incompatible: Bry; Sulphur should not be given after Calc.

Compare: Aqua calcar.--Lime-water--(1/2 teaspoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc caust--slaked lime--(pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also symptoms of influenza). Calc brom (removes inflammatory products from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. Tendency to brain disease. Insomnia and cerebral congestion. Give 1x trituration). Sulph (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc).

Calcar calcinata-Calcined oyster-shell-a remedy for warts. Use 3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta-Toasted egg-shells--(backache and leucorrhœa. Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer).

Calcar lactic (anæmias, hæmophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with œdema of eyelids, lips or hands; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective).

Calcar lacto-phosph (5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic vomiting and migraine).

Calc mur

Calcium chloratum-Rademacher's Liquor--(1 part to 2 of distilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink, with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic œdema. Pleurisy with effusion. Eczema in infants).

Calcar picrata, (peri-follicular inflammation; a remedy of prime importance in recurring or chronic boils, particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on shinbones, coccyx, auditory canal, dry, scurfy accumulation and exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc, styes, phlyctenules. Use 3x trit).

Compare also with Calcarea: Lycop; Silica; Pulsat; Chamom.

Dose

Sixth trit. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently in elderly people.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Deficient or irregular bone development. (Fontanelles open, crooked spine, deformed extremities.)

Leucophlegmatic temperament.

Fairs fat, flabby, obesic.

Coldness, general and local, subjective and objective, especially as if had on cold, damp stockings. Affections from working in cold water.

Sweats general (night sweats and on exertion). Local; head (children), axillæ, hands, feet, etc.

Digestive tract sour (sour taste, eructations, vomiting, sour curds, diarrhœa).

Great debility: cannot walk far or go upstairs for short breath; easily strained.

This is another of Hahnemann's constitutional remedies which, as Farrington says, "may come into use, in almost any form of disease." We may say come into use because it may be on account of certain idiosyncrasies. which come under the remedial power of Calcarea that the disease, whatever it is, is made less amenable to ordinary treatment.

The temperament of Calcarea is altogether different from that of Sulphur. You remember the lean stoop-shouldered Sulphur subject. Calcarea is on the contrary what cannot be better expressed than in the term used by Henry N. Guernsey viz.; Leocophlegmatic temperament.

The Calcarea patient is constitutionally fat, over-fat or strongly inclined to obesity. The color of the skin is white, watery or chalky pale. Of torpid disposition (especially children), sluggish or slow in its movements. The Sulphur is almost the exact opposite, quick, wiry, nervous, active. There is none of the bilious, swarthy, yellowish appearance in Calcarea that we find in Lycopodium. These three remedies Calcarea, Sulphur, Lycopodium are a trio that find each their counterpart in many persons the world over. Of course we find the tendency to obesity under other remedies, as for instance, under Graphites, but with this obesity we almost always find accompanying it the peculiar skin troubles of Graphites. Sometimes we seem to find a condition that seems to simulate each remedy in some one feature; for instance, the obesic temperament of Calcarea and the eruptive tendency of Sulphur. This may combine so as to make a case that will be covered by Hepar sulph. Such cases are more difficult to cover with a perfect simillimum. But when we do find a purely Calcarea, Sulphur or Lycopodium subject the fact is inestimable as a help to a brilliant result in many cases.

Malnutrition is one of the disorders calling for the exhibition of this remedy.

"Tardy development of the bony tissues with lymphatic enlargements."

"Curvature of the bones, especially spine and long bones."

"Extremities deformed, crooked."

"Softening of the bones; fontanelles remain open too long and skull very large."

These symptoms are quoted from "Hering's Guiding Symptoms," and show the lack of, or imperfect, nutrition of bones. They are nourished irregularly, or unevenly. One part of a bone, the vertebræs for instance, is nourished while the other is starved. While all this irregular bone development is going on the soft parts are suffering from over-nutrition. Thus we have recorded in the pathogenesis: "Tendency to obesity especially in children and young people."

"Nutrition impaired with tendency to glandular enlargements."

"Granular vegetations: polypus (in nose, ear, bladder, uterus, etc.)."

This is a fair picture of the general or constitutional use of Calcarea ost., and it remains to give some of the characteristic or peculiar symptoms guiding to its selection.

When writing of Sulphur we called particular attention to the sensation of burning under that remedy. Calcarea has characteristically the opposite, viz., Coldness (Cistus.).

"Cold, damp feet."

"Sensation in feet and legs as if she had on cold, damp stockings."

"Coldness of legs with night-sweats."

"Internal and external sensation of coldness of various parts of head as if a piece of ice were lying, against it; with pale puffed face."

"She feels a sort of inward coldness."

"Aversion to open air, the least cold air goes right through her."

All this is so directly opposite to Sulphur that any confusion between them seems impossible.

Sensations of coldness in single parts should always call to mind Calcarea, as well as general coldness. (Cistus and Heloderma.)

If Calcarea has one symptom that not only leads all the rest, but also all other remedies, it is found in the profuse sweats on head of large-headed, open fontanelled children. The sweat is so profuse that during sleep it rolls down the head and face wetting the pillow far around. Many a little child has been saved from dying of hydrocephalus, dentition, rachitis, marasmus, eclampsia, cholera infantum, etc., where this sweating symptom was the guiding symptom to the use of Calcarea. It is also especially indicated, other symptoms agreeing, in sweats of male organs, nape of neck, chest, axilla, hands, knees, feet, etc. Partial sweats. It is also a remedy for night sweats generally when they occur in connection with consumption or other debilitating diseases.

In all these sweatings of Calcarea the surface is characteristically cold at the same time, and especially would we find the lower extremities cold.

Calcarea has characteristic symptoms in the digestive tract. One is that everything in the whole length of the tract seems soor. Eructations sour; sour vomiting of large curds (Æthusa); sour diarrhœa. And then there is a sour smell of the whole body. This is not like the offensive odor of the body that Sulphur has.

Then there is a peculiar symptom of the appetite that has often been verified -"Longing for eggs, particularly in children in sickness or during convalescence, even before they are able to swallow. The stomach externally is swollen or seems distended, standing right out like an inverted saucer. Abdomen is also much distended from hard and swollen mesentery, even when the rest of the body is emaciated."

The diarrhœa, which may vary as to color and consistence, instead of being aggravated in the morning, like Sulphur, is worse in the afternoon. The patient is generally better when constipated.

Calcarea has not so positive and unvarying action upon the skin as Sulphur, but is indispensable in skin affections which seem to depend upon some constitutional dyscrasia that it covers in its general action, for instance, in eczema capitis or milk crusts. in children of the Calcarea type. Here, of course, no remedy can take its place. Indeed all skin troubles in Calcarea subjects disappear when through its action the system is set right, showing that the skin troubles after all were only secondary. The skin of the Calcarea subject is generally cold, soft and flabby.

We must not omit to notice the action of Calcarea ost. on the respiratory organs, for the reason that it is of great importance in its use in that dread disease, pulmonary consumption. Whether, as Professor Bennet believes, this disease be essentially one of faulty nutrition or as Virchow believes, one of inflammation, or if Professor Rindflesch's theory relegating it to the class of diseases known as infections, be true, or whatever its primary cause may be, we know that Calcarea ost. is one of the most effective agents, if indicated by the temperament and symptoms, in the cure of this malady, and if applied at a stage when a cure is at all possible.

Very many cases in the incipient stage come within range of Sulphur or Calcarea. As we have already given the leading indications of Sulphur, we will now give some of them for Calcarea:

"Leucophlegmatic temperament."

"Middle and upper portion of right lung." (Sulph., upper left.)

"Chest painfully sensitive to touch and on inspiration."

"Shortness of breath on walking, especially on ascending."

"Painless hoarseness, < in the morning."

"Especially in women who have always been too early and profuse in menstruation, and who have habitually cold feet to the knees."

"Tendency to looseness of the bowels, < afternoons."

"Appetite failing and emaciation progressing."

Here are a few of the prominent indications, and on them many a case has been cured. Of course this is generally cough, and it may be tight or loose, yet the case rests mainly on the symptoms outside the cough. This remedy in this disease and the success attending its use is one of the illustrations of the soundness of Hering's advice when he says "treat the patient, not the disease."

Modalities

Modalities: < cold air, ascending, or exertion; straining from lifting.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Easily frightened, or offended. Inclination to weep. Children are self-willed. Apprehensive anxiety about his health, or of some future misfortune. Anguish, with palpitation of the heart. She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind. Despairing mood, with fear of disease and misery. Thinking is difficult.

Head

Vertigo, when ascending a height, walking in the open air, or turning the head quickly, or looking upwards (in the morning). Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder. Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and stupefying headache ; with redness of the face and bloatedness ; worse in the morning when awaking, and from spirituous drinks. Headache, from overlifting. Fulness and heaviness in the head. Pulsations in the occiput. Heat in the vertex. Headache, with empty eructations and nausea, vertigo ; aggravated from mental exertions, stooping or walking in the open air ; from mental exertions, stooping or walking in the open air ; ameliorated by closing the eyes, and by lying down. Internal and external sensation of coldness of one (right) side of the head, as if a piece of ice were lying there ; with pale, puffed face. Enlargement of the head, with open fontanelles. Profuse perspiration, mostly on the back part of the head and on the neck (in the evening). Tumors and suppurating boils on the head. Itching of the hairy scalp -scabs on the head. Falling off of the hair (sides of the head -temples).

Eyes

Pressure, itching, burning and stinging in the eyes. Cutting in the eyes and lids ; worse when reading by candlelight. Inflammation of the eyes, from foreign bodies coming into them ; in infants, or scrofulous subjects. Ulcers, and specks on the cornea. Dimness of the cornea. Oozing of blood from the eyes. Watering of the eyes in the morning, or in the open air. Fungus medullaris. Fistula lachrymalis. Pupils dilated. Dimness of sight (mist before the eyes when looking sharp). Bright light dazzles the eyes.

Ears

Stitches, or pulsations in the ear. Inflammation of the external and internal ear. Discharge of pus from the ears. Tingling in the ears. Polypus of the ear. Hardness of bearing, especially after the suppression of intermittent fever by quinine. Inflammatory swelling of the parotid gland.

Nose

Inflamed, swollen, red. Dryness of the nose. Nostrils ulcerated and scabby. Bleeding of the nose (in the morning). Polypus of the nose. Stench before the nose (as from manure, gunpowder or putrid eggs). Stench from the nose. Smell diminished.

Face

Pale bloatedness of the face. Yellow color of the face. Moist, itching, scurfy eruption on the cheeks and forehead (with burning pain). Eruptions on the lips ; around the mouth ; in the corners of the mouth. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Itching of the face and under the whiskers. Swelling of the upper lip (in the morning). Painful hard swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Difficult dentition. Gums swollen and bleeding. Toothache, drawing, stinging, from a draft of air ; aggravated by noise, from drinking any thing cold, during and after the catamania, during pregnancy. Fistula dentalis.

Mouth

Dryness of the tongue at night, and when awaking. Ranula. Accumulation of mucus in the mouth.

Throat

Spasmodic contraction of the œsophagus. Inflammatory swelling of the palate, with blisters on it. Stinging in the throat when swallowing. Swelling of the tonsils.

Appetite and Taste

Continued violent thirst for cold drinks (at night). Canine hunger (in the morning). Desire for wine, salt or sweet things. After drinking milk, nausea and sour eructations. After eating, heat, or bloatedness, with nausea. Sour taste of the food, or by itself.

Stomach and Abdomen

Eructations tasting like the ingesta. After eating, heartburn, and continued loud belching of wind. Morning nausea. Sour vomiting, especially in children, and during dentition. Vomiting of the ingesta (tasting sour). Pit of the stomach swollen and painful to pressure. Pressure and cramp-like pain in the stomach, especially whet fasting, or after meats, with vomiting of the ingesta. Stinging pain in the liver, (during or after stooping). Cutting in the upper part of the abdomen. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Enlargement of the abdomen, with swelling of the mesenteric glands. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal glands swollen and painful.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; stools hard and undigested. White stools. Diarrhœa of sour smell ; putrid ; during dentition. Involuntary stool, (as if fermented). Tapeworm, and ascarides, with the stool. Discharge of blood from the rectum. Prolapsus ani. Itching of the anus. Varices, swollen, protruding, burning.

Urinary Organs

Frequent micturition, also at night. Urine dark, brown ; with white sediment ; of putrid smell. Bloody urine. During micturition, burning in the urethra. Polypus in the bladder.

Sexual Organs

Men. Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning pain. Frequent nocturnal, involuntary emissions. During coition, erections of too short duration. Burning and stinging while the semen is discharged during coition. Women. Catamenia too early, and too profuse. Suppressed menstruation, with full habit. During menstruation, cutting in the abdomen ; grabbing in the back ; heat and congestion to the head. Stitches in the os uteri. Itching or pressing in the vagina. Varices on the labile. Prolapsus uteri, with sensation of pressing on it. Sterility, with catamenia too early, and too profuse. Fluor albus like milk ; burning ; itching ; in starts ; during micturition ; before the catamenia.

Larynx and Trachea

Hoarseness, (painless). Sensation, as if something were torn loose in the trachea. Tickling cough, caused by a sensation of dust in the larynx. Ulceration of the larynx. Cough in the evening in bed, at night ; while sleeping ; with expectoration through the day, but not at night. Expectoration of thick mucus ; gray, yellow, of putrid smell ; bloody ; purulent ; tasting sour. Hæmoptysis. Ulceration of the lungs.

Chest

Tightness of the chest, as if too full, (filled with blood). Arrest of breath, when walking against the wind, or stooping. Burning in the chest. Inclination to draw a deep breath. Sensitiveness and sensation of soreness in the chest, drawing a deep breath, and when touching it. Stitches in the chest, and sides of the chest when as when taking a deep inspiration ; when leaning the painful side. Palpitation of the heart at night ; after eating ; with anguish. Trembling pulsation of the heart. Hot swelling of the mammæ. Secretion of milk too abundant, (galactorrhœa), or suppressed.

Back and Neck

Pain in the small of the back, or in the neck from over-lifting. Pain in the small of the back, (as if sprained) ; he can scarcely rise from his seat, after being seated. Pressing pain between the shoulder-blades, impeding breathing, when moving. Curvature of the dorsal vertebræ. Painful swelling of the cervical glands. Thick, struma-like swelling of the thyroid gland.

Extremities

Upper. Suppuration of the axillary glands. Weakness and lameness of the arms, (left). Pain as if sprained in the wrist-joint, (right). Arthritic nodosities on the hand and finger-joints. Deadness of the fingers. Trembling of the hands. Lower. Coxalgia, with drawing stitches, or tearing, cutting. The child is late learning to walk. Heaviness and stiffness of the legs. Swelling of the knee. Tearing and stinging in the knee. Cramp in the bend of the knee, in the calves of the leg, soles of the feet ; toes ; especially when extending the leg, (pulling on the boots). Erysipelas, (lower leg, with swelling). Phlegmasia alba dolens. Itching on the lower limb and foot-joint. Burning of the soles of the feet. Perspiration on the feet, (foot-sweat). Perspiration of the palms of the hands. Coldness and deadness of the feet, especially at night, in bed. Corns, sore, with burning pain.

Generalities

Great weakness and debility, from a short walk ; from talking. Cramps in single parts, which draw the limbs cracked, specially the toes and fingers. Epileptic attacks, at night ; during the full moon ; with hallooing and shouting. St. Vitus' dance. Fainting, with loss of sight and coldness. Full habit and ebullitions. Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat. Bloatedness of body and face, with swelled abdomen, in children. Great emaciation, with swelled abdomen and good appetite. Visible quivering of the skin, from the feet to the head, with which he becomes dizzy. Trembling of inner parts. Bleeding from inner parts. Pulsating pains. Sensation of dryness of inner parts. Sensation of coldness in inner parts. Stinging and cutting in outer and inner parts. Arthritic tearing in the muscles. Arthritic nodosities.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, from many thoughts crowding his mind. When closing his eyes, he has many horrid visions. He falls asleep late. Awakens early in the night. Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep. At night, oppression of the chest, with heat and restlessness, thirst. Sleepy the whole day, and early in the evening.

Fever

Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous. Chilliness, when rising in the morning. Chilliness, mostly in the evening ; internal with external heat. Frequent flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart. Heat, with thirst, followed by chilliness. Heat, after eating. Perspiration from the least exertion, even in the open, cold air. Perspiration, in the first sleep. Night sweat, especially on head, neck and chest. Night sweat, sticky only on the legs.

Skin

Flaccidity of the skin. Bloatedness. Nettle rash, mostly disappearing in the cold air. Eruptions moist, scurfy. (Milk crust). Herpes, burning ; chapped ; furfuraceous. Rhagades, especially in those who work in water. Unwholesome, readily ulcerating skin ; even small wounds suppurate and do not heal. Polypus (nose, ear, uterus). Ulcers, deep ; fistulous ; carious. Steatoma, reappearing and suppurating every four weeks. Warts, inflamed ; stinging ; suppurating. Painful swelling of the glands. Varices. Bones, swelling ; softening ; curvature of ; stinging in ; caries.

Conditions

Easy straining, from which he gets sore throat, stiff-neck, backache, or headache. Sprains, from overlifting. Liability to take cold, and great sensitiveness to moist, cold air. Aversion to the open air. Full habit and ebullitions. Puffiness. (Chlorosis). Desire to be mortised. Aggravation. Morning ; evening, or after midnight. In the cold air, and in wet weather. After washing, and by cold water. On awaking. After eating (smoked meat, milk). From exertion of the mind (after writing). From pressure of the clothes. From sexual excess. From suppressed perspiration. Amelioration. After breakfast ; on rising ; from drawing up the limbs ; from loosening the garments.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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

General

Impure Calcium Carbonate. Ca CO 3 . Including symptoms of Calcarea acetica, and Calcarea ostrearum, a trituration of the middle layer of oyster shells, of both of which Hahnemann made provings. Koch's provings were made from carbonate of lime precipitated from a solution of chalk in hydrochloric acid. Trituration.

Clinical

Abdomen, large. Acidity . Alcohol, effects of. Anæmia. Ankles, weak. Appetite, depraved. Beard, sycosis of. Bone, disease of . Brachial neuralgia. Breasts, painful. Bronchial glands, affections of. Calculus . Caries. Cataract . Chilblains. Chorea. Cold. Consumption. Corpulency . Coryza. Cough . Coxalgia. Croup . Crusta lactea. Debility . Delirium tremens. Dentition . Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Ear, affections of. Epilepsy . Epulis. Eyes, affections of . Fever, intermittent. Fistula. Gall-stones. Glandular swellings . Gleet. Goître . Gonorrhœa. Gouty swellings. Headache. Hernia . Herpes. Hydrocephalus . Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Impotence. Joints, affections of. Lactation, defective. Leucocythæmia. Leucorrhœa. Lupus . Masturbation. Melancholia. Menstruation, disorders of . Milk-fever. Miller's phthisis. Miscarriage. Molluscum contagiosum. Nævus . Nervous fever. Neuralgia. Night terrors. Paralysis. Parotitis. Peritonitis. Perspiration . Plethora. Polypus. Pregnancy . Prosopalgia. Psoriasis palmaris. Ranula . Renal colic. Rhagades. Rheumatism . Rickets. Ringworm . Sciatica. Scrofula. Skin, affections of. Sleep, disorders of. Sleeplessness. Smell, disorder of . Spinal affections. Stone-cutter's phthisis. Strains. Sycosis. Sycosis menti. Tabes mesenterica . Tapeworm. Taste, disordered. Teeth, carious. Toothache. Trachea, affections of. Tuberculosis. Tumours . Typhoid. Urticaria. Uterus, affections of . Varices. Vertigo. Walking, late. Warts . Whitlow. Worms .

Characteristics

Calcarea is one of the greatest monuments of Hahnemann's genius. His method of preparing insoluble substances brought to light in this instance a whole world of therapeutic power formerly unknown. Moreover, Calcarea is one of the polychrest remedies, and ranks with Sulphur and Lycopodium at the head of the antipsorics. It is absolutely essential to a correct appreciation of the homœopathic materia medica that these three medicines should be thoroughly known, as these are in a sense the standards around which the rest are grouped. All three have a very wide range and deep action. They have many symptoms in common, but Calc . is somewhat sharply distinguished from Sulphur in that it is a chilly remedy, the patient seeking warmth, whilst the Sulphur patient is < by heat, and > by cold. Calc . has cold, clammy feet, "as if there were damp stockings on"; Sulphur has characteristically hot , sweaty feet. The "sinking sensation" common to all three is most marked with Sulphur at 11 a.m., with Lycopod . at 4 p.m., with Calcarea at any time. Calcarea is closely allied to Belladonna, Nux, Puls ., and Rhus in its action. It follows well Sulph . and Nit. ac ., to both of which it is complementary. It is inimical to Bryonia , and should not be given immediately before or after that medicine. Like many of the other carbonates, Calc. carb . corresponds to persons of soft fibre with tendency to be fat. "This remedy is particularly adapted to the real Leucophlegmatic Constitution . Where we find a large head, large features, pale skin, with a chalky look, and (in infants) open fontanelles, we may think strongly of Calc. c ." (Guernsey). The scrofulous constitution embraces a large number of Calcarea's characteristic effects: fat children rather bloated than solid, pale but flushing easily. Fair; slow in movement; of irregular growth, large heads, with wide-open fontanelles; large abdomens; irregular and partial sweats: the head sweats profusely, wetting the pillow for a space around the head; enlarged and hard lymphatic glands. Icy coldness in abdomen. In addition there are night terrors; child wakes at 2 or 3 a.m. screaming, cannot be made to understand, remembers nothing of it in the morning.

Children are slow in teething and walk late. Sourness is one of the characteristic notes of Calc. c .; the body is sour; taste sour; sour stool and urine. All the symptoms are made worse by taking cold. In all cases where there is improper nutrition and imperfect digestion, such as described above, and where there is chilliness, aggravation from contact with water and from cold, cold, clammy feet and sinking sensations, Calcarea will most likely prove the remedy. Calc . also corresponds to ailments following losses of fluids, such as from self abuse; and it corresponds to a form of menorrhagia, the flow being excessive and the intervals shortened. Periods return too soon after excitement. There is often pain in the breasts before the flow commences, as with Conium . But if the menses are scanty or absent, and the Calc . characteristics of chilliness and cold, clammy feet are present, Calc . will still be the remedy. Suppression of menses in women of full habit after working in water. Bearing-down pains. Ovarian or uterine pains, right side, extending down thighs; < on reading or writing (left, Lil. t .). In addition to the cold symptoms there are sensations of heat and burning: heat in and on the vertex. In connection with this the sweat of the head must be remembered. It occurs chiefly on occiput and forehead (that of Sil . is all over). There is > uncovering during the heats (as with Lyc . and unlike Sil .). Burning in soles of feet at night; burning in back of hands. The characteristic Calc . hand is soft, warm, and moist; a boneless hand. Also hands inclined to chap. There are copious night sweats, which may be sour or odourless. Foot-sweat, sour or odourless. The sweats of Calc . give no relief. Bloody sweats. Among other heat symptoms is hot breath, with heat in mouth. Rumination is among the Calc. effects. Nausea after drinking water, even ever so little; but not if iced . The "sinking" sensation of Calc . has some modifications. There is ravenous hunger; hunger and feeling of emptiness immediately after a meal, and in the early morning. If he doesn't have his breakfast at the proper time, a headache comes on. Craving for eggs; for indigestible things, chalk, coal, &c. Nausea when fasting. Sour eructations. Sour diarrhœa. Sour body smell. Milk disagrees; sour vomiting of large curds. Inability to swallow solids. Chronic disease of left tonsil; feeling of lump in left side of throat which he wants to swallow down. Pain from left tonsil to ear. Semilateral swelling of tongue. The prosopalgia of Calc . is > warm fomentations, like Pul . Biliary colic: cutting pain under right scapula running to right hypochondrium and epigastrium. Crawling in rectum as from worms. Burning in rectum. Weight in lower rectum. Stools hard and pasty; like chalk or clay offensive; undigested. Ardor urinæ; offensive urine. Impotence penis cold and relaxed. Calcarea is related to the pretubercular stage of phthisis; it is more especially suited to affections of the right apex. Stitching in chest and sides of chest when moving and when lying on affected side. The cough is provoked by going into a cold room; by chilliness. Tickling cough, sensation of feather in throat. I have cured with Calc. a "fat cough" ─ i.e ., a cough with easy expectoration of a little mucus ─ and an arsenical cough (brought on by sleeping in a room having an arsenical wallpaper) which waked the patient in the middle of the night, causing him to sit up and cough till phlegm was raised. Rattling in the chest; miller's and stone-cutter's phthisis; old suppurating cavities. Swelling of cervical and bronchial glands. Scrofulous glands and scrofulous diseases of bones; spinal curvature; rickets. Swellings; false appearance of fat; milk leg > by elevating the limb, < hanging it down. The same conditions mark the sciatica of Calc ., which follows on working in water. Rheumatic and gouty conditions from wetting. Joints crack and crepitate as if dry. The skin is rough and scaly and inclined to chap. Rhagades. Chapped hands. Chilblains from wetting. Eruptions. Cooper has cured with it psoriasis palmaris. Eruption behind right ear. Warts and polypi. Calc . is an eminently sycotic medicine, as the early morning aggravation would indicate.

The mental and nervous systems of Calc . are no less remarkable than the bodily. The Calc . patient is slow in movements ( Sul . quick and active). The state of mind is one of apprehension. The patient fears she will lose her reason, or that people will notice her mental confusion. Fears she has some fatal disease, especially heart disease. Shuddering and dread as evening, draws near. Sees visions on closing eyes (hence useful in delirium tremens). Cries out, twitches, grasps at flocks; restless and anxious though unconscious (nervous and typhoid fever); beside herself with anguish; on the borders of acute mania. Evil forebodings; talks of Mice, rats, murders. Forgetful. The epilepsy of Calc . has an aura spreading up from the solar plexus, in which case the convulsion comes on immediately; or it may be like a mouse running on the arm; or it may run down from epigastrium into uterus or limbs. The causes are fright, suppressed eruptions and discharges, sexual excesses. Rush of blood to head; a sensation of something rising up from epigastrium to head is very characteristic. Trembling, twitching; internal trembling sensation on awaking. Fainting, coming on in the street with sensation of something rising from stomach to head. Talking = a feeling of weakness which compels him to desist. Exertion or excitement = exhaustion, though he may feel well before. Ascending = great weakness. Exhaustion in the morning. Vertigo: tendency to fall to left; to either side; backward. Caused by turning head; < looking upward; going (especially running) upstairs. Sensation as if in a dream. Calc . is one of the remedies that has been used for the sensation of levitation. Aversion to darkness. Cloud coming over head. In sleep the mental symptoms come out again: the patient is either abnormally sleepy or sleepless. Wakes 3 a.m., and cannot get to sleep again; tosses about. Horrible phantasms. The child wakes in the night screaming and cannot be pacified; in the morning remembers nothing of it. Chews and swallows in sleep. Frightful dreams of sickness, death, and smell of corpses.

Neuralgias and paralyses are among the Calc . effects. A remarkable case (of Dr. Mayntzer's) improved by Silic . and cured by Calc . is quoted in Hom. League Tract , vol. ii. p. 108. A girl of nineteen had had for some months neuralgic pains in both arms, coming on every evening, lasting all night, and being replaced during the day with sensation of lameness and weakness. Pressure and movements aggravated. Hands trembling, numb, fingers often remained opened out stiff and could not be bent. The Silica symptoms are: "Tearing pains in upper arm. Pain as of dislocation at wrist. Cramp pain and lameness of hand on slight exertion. Gone-to-sleep feeling of hands at night. Numbness and formication of hands. Restlessness and trembling in right arm." The symptoms of Calc . are: "Bruised pain of arms on moving or grasping. Pain as if sprained in wrist, with shooting and tearing in it when moved. Tearing in whole arm, shooting, tearing pain in upper arm and elbow. Nocturnal tearing and drawing in arms. Spasmodic tearing pain on outer side of forearm from elbow to wrist. Cramp in whole of one or other arm. Cramp in hands at night until she rises in morning. Cramp-like contraction of fingers. Pain and weakness of hands; trembling of hands in morning. Weakness and a kind of lameness of arm. Fingers feel furry." Both remedies were given, and great improvement occurred under Silic ., but as the pain was not gone the patient took Calc . (which was only to be taken in case of need) on the fifth day. On the sixth day the pain was gone "as if blown away," as the patient expressed it ─ and no wonder! It would be difficult to find a closer simillimum. The general condition of the patient underwent a complete change for the better at the same time. Both remedies were given in globules of 6th. Dr. Van den Neucker ( H. Recorder , 1886, p. 139) once cured a baker of paralysis of both arms with Calc.; and also a case of paralysis with many symptoms of locomotor ataxy in a lymphatic blonde girl of nineteen.

According to Guernsey Calc . is in general a right-side remedy. It affects specially right external head; right eye; right face; right abdominal ring; sexual organs right side; right back; right upper extremities. Left side neck and nape of neck; left chest; left lower extremities. Complaints prevailing in inner parts. Among the sensations of Calc . are: Pain as if the parts would burst, were pressed asunder, were pushed asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet. Creeping on the limbs like a mouse. Pain as if sprained in outer parts. Sensation of dust in inner parts as the eye, bronchial tubes. Pricking, darting, jerking, trembling; itching > by scratching. It is often indicated in epilepsy, disposition to strain a part by lifting heavy things, pricking corns, polypus, cysts, occurring in leucophlegmatic constitutions. Where a cold wind strikes the body and it immediately runs to the teeth, causing them to ache. Ranula. Flatulence or gurgling in right hypochondrium. Cramp in legs at 3 a.m. Hands chap from hard water.

Alexander Villers cured with Calc. c . 200 in rare doses a case combining many of the features of the remedy. The patient, a lady, æt. 20, very despondent through long-continued depressing circumstances, became very nervous. She was companion to an exceedingly deaf lady, whose voice was high-pitched. This, with the strain on her voice to make herself heard, caused headache through temples > by rapid motion of head. Outdoor exercise was accompanied by hard pressure on chest, which only eructations seemed to relieve. Bowels constipated. Menses every fortnight, with backache and great prostration. Under the remedy, repeated at rare intervals, the menses came on monthly, headache and pressure on chest disappeared.

Among the Conditions of Calc ., dread of the open air ranks most prominently; the least cold air goes right through. Great sensitiveness to cold, damp air. Also cannot bear sun. The slightest change < . Dread of bathing and water. There is inclination to stretch and put the shoulders back; but straightening < rheumatism. Calc . is hydrogenoid and sycotic ─ sensitive to cold and damp and early morning aggravation. Warts and polypi also point to the same constitutional state. The Calc . patient generally feels better when constipated. The diarrhœa of Calc . is generally < in afternoon. There is painless hoarseness < in morning. "The Calc . pains are most generally felt while lying in bed, or while sitting; they are felt in the parts upon which the body has been lying for a time" (Teste). There is < after midnight and in early morning; on awaking. Chill at 2 p.m. In the evening, 6 to 7, there is fever without chill, < from working in water or bathing, < at full moon; at new moon and at solstice. < After eating (smoked meats, milk); when fasting. < By mental exertion (writing). < From pressure of clothes. < From lifting; from stooping. < Walking in open air, cold air, wet weather, to which he is very sensitive. < From letting limbs hang down. In spite of the sensitiveness to cold, cannot bear sun. < From light in general; from looking fixedly at any object; from looking upward; from turning the head. Some symptoms are > inspiring fresh air; and during heat, uncovers. > After breakfast; on rising from drawing up limbs; from loosening garments. > In the dark when lying on the back; after lying down; from rubbing, from scratching; in dry weather; wiping or soothing with the hands; from being touched. Great weakness on ascending, on walking, talking (chests feels weak), or excitement.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Ip., Nit. ac., Nit. sp. dulc., Nux, Sul. Antidote to: Bism., Chi., Chi. sul., Dig., Mez. (headache), Nit. ac., Phos. Follows well: Cham., Chi., Con., Cup., Nit. ac., Nux, Pul., Sul. (especially if the pupils dilate). Followed well by: Lyc., Nux, Pho., Plat., Sil. Hahnemann says that Calc. must not be given before Nit. ac., or Sul. Complementary: Bell. Incompatible: Bry. Compare: Alum. and Am. mur, (tightness of chest); Arn. (strains, &c.); Arsen. (swollen mesenteric glands). Calcarea ovi testæ, Calc. ars., Calc. ph., and other Calcareas. In ardor. urinæ (Sep., burning and cutting; Canth., cutting); losses of fluids (Chi., Sul.); left tonsil (Bar. c., Sul., Lach.); nausea when fasting (Pul., Lyc., Sil.); leucorrhœa, acrid or bland (Graph., Sul., Alum.); glandular enlargement; alcohol, effects of (Ars., Chi., Nux, Lach.); acid stomach (Chi., Lyc., Sul., Pul., Rob.); menses too copious and too early (Bell.); one side of tongue (Lauro., Sil., Thu.); waking at 3 a.m. (Bellis, Nux, Kali c., Ars., Sep.); swelling and painfulness of breasts before menses (Con. ─ Con. is an anti-fat, like Calc., precedes and follows it well; suits well Calc. subjects who have scanty menses, Bell. corresponds otherwise); dread of losing senses (Lyc., Nux, Sul.); levitation, as if raised from the ground (Sil., Can. i., Sticta, Gelsem., Asar., Thu.; Phos. ac. has feeling as if legs were raised above the level of head); prosopalgia > by warm fomentations (Pul.); sinking immediately after meals (Ars., Cin., Lyc., Staph., Ur. n.); cough when eating or in open air Rx. c. ( after eating, Nux, Ip.; < change of temperature, Lach.; < current of cold air, Sil., Nat. c.); ravenous hunger (Ars., Calc., Cin., Iod., Sil., Stp.); hot breath (Sul., Rhus); aversion to darkness (Am. m., Carb. a., Stro., Val., Stram.); > uncovering (Aco., Camph., Fer., Iod., Lyc., Pul., Sec., Sul., Ver.); vertigo on turning head or looking up (Pul., looking up; Sul., looking down); vomits milk (Æth., Ant. c.); tightness of chest (Alum., Am. m.); child chews and swallows in sleep (Amyl., Bry., Ign.); convulsions, scarlatina, headache (Bell.); weak from talking (Cocc., Stan., Sul., Ver.); epilepsy (Cupr.); nævus (Fluor. ac.); diarrhœa, cholera infantum (Ip.); constipation, intertrigo, gout, ophthalmia, gonitis, epilepsy, typhus (Lyc.); intertrigo, &c. (Cham.); canker sores, quinsey, heart, stool, sweat, especially on chest with old people (Merc. ─ compare the Hydrarg. cum creta of the old school); burning on vertex (Phos., Sul.); rheumatism from damp, ophthalmia, inflamed glands from strains (Rhus ─ Rhus is a very close analogue of Calc.; Bell., Dulc., Nux, Puls., and Rhus may be regarded as the acute satellites of Calc.); desire to be mesmerised (Phos., Sil.), nævus, mesenteric glands (Sil.); epilepsy, aura of mouse running up arm (Sul. ─ Sul. should be given first, and if it does not cure, then Calc.); polypus (Teuc.); scarlatina (Zn).; sunstroke and sunheadaches (Aco., Glo., Lach., Lyc., Sul., Nat. c., Nat. m. ─ headache > by heat of sun, Stro.). Teste puts Calc. in the Pulsatilla group of remedies. He says there is a "sort of negative relation between the symptoms of Merc. sol., or rather between those of Nit. ac. and the symptoms of Calc. This contrast has struck me several times, and it is the most remarkable for this reason, that Nit. ac. is one of the best antidotes to Calc."

Causation

Alcohol. Cold, moist winds. Excessive venery. Self-abuse. Injury to lower spine. Over-lifting. Strains. Mental strain. Losses of fluids. Suppressed sweat. Suppressed eruption. Suppressed menses. Fright.

Mind

Melancholy, dejection, and sadness. ─ Disposition to weep, even about trifles. ─ Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences. ─ Anxiety and anguish, excited by fancies, or frightful stories, also with shuddering and dread during the twilight, or at night. ─ Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, ebullition of the blood, and shocks in the epigastrium. ─ Anxious agitation, forbidding rest. ─ Disposition to take alarm. ─ Sadness, with heaviness in the limbs. ─ Apprehensions. ─ Easily frightened or offended. ─ Children are self-willed. ─ Despair in consequence of the impaired condition of the health; or hypochondriacal humour, with fear of being ill or unfortunate, of experiencing sad accidents, of losing the reason, of being infected by contagious diseases. ─ Discouragement and fear of death. ─ Impatience, excessive excitability, and excessive liability to mental impressions; the least noise fatigues. ─ Excessive ill-humour and mischievous inclination, with obstinacy and a disposition to take everything in bad part. ─ Indifference, apathy, and repugnance to conversation. ─ Aversion to others. ─ Solitude is insupportable. ─ Disgust and aversion to all labour whatever. ─ Absence of will. ─ Great weakness of memory and of conception, with difficulty in thinking. ─ Dizziness of mind. ─ Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, and to take one word for another. ─ She fears she will lose her understanding, or that people will observe her confusion of mind. ─ Loss of sense and errors of imagination. ─ Delirium with visions of fires, murders, rats and mice.

Head

Head compressed, as if by a vice. ─ Dizziness after scratching behind the ear; or else, before breakfast, with trembling. ─ Headache, with empty eructations, and nausea, vertigo; < from mental exertions, stooping, or walking in the open air; > by closing the eyes, and by lying down. ─ Vertigo, sometimes with obscuration of the eyes, on mounting to a great height, or only a flight of stairs, on walking in the open air, on turning the head briskly, or after a fit of anger. ─ Vertigo at night, in the evening, or in the morning. ─ Headache from over-lifting, straining the back, or from having wrapped the head in a handkerchief, or in consequence of a chill. ─ Headache every morning on waking. ─ Attacks of semi-lateral headache, with risings and nausea. ─ Pulsations in the occiput. ─ Pains in the head, producing giddiness, pressive or pulsative, < esp. by reading, writing, or any other intellectual labour, as well by spirituous drinks, or by stooping. ─ Fulness and heaviness of the head, esp. of the forehead, with shutting of the eyes, < by movement and physical exertion. ─ Heat in the vertex. ─ Pressive pains at the vertex, appearing in the open air. ─ Tensive and cramp-like pains, with pressure outwards, commencing from the temples and extending to the vertex. ─ Drawing pains in the right side of the forehead; the part is painful when touched. ─ Shooting pains in the head. ─ Piercing in the forehead, as if the head were going to burst. ─ Pains of hammering in the head, which force the patient to lie down, and which appear esp. after a walk in the open air. ─ Icy coldness in and on the head, esp. at the r. side, with pale, puffed face. ─ Congestion in the head. ─ Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and stupefying headache; with redness of the face and bloatedness; < in the morning when awaking, and from spirituous drinks. ─ Buzzing and pains in the head, with heat of the cheeks and in the head. ─ Movement of the brain on walking. ─ Immense size of the head, with the fontanel open in children. ─ Sweat on the head (profuse, particularly where it stands out in large, bead-like drops, and in such profusion as to soak the pillow thoroughly; it may run down upon the face and neck) in the evening. ─ Profuse perspiration, mostly on the back part of the head and on the neck (in the evening). ─ Strong disposition to take cold through the head. ─ Scabs on the scalp. ─ Scaling off of the skin at the scalp (dandriff; milk crust). ─ Painful sensibility in the roots of the hair. ─ Falling off of the hair (sides of head ─ temples). ─ Tumours and boils in the scalp, which tend to suppuration.

Eyes

Aching in the eyes. ─ Itching and shooting in the eyes. ─ Pressure, itching, burning and stinging in the eyes. ─ Smarting, burning, and incisive pains in the eyes and the eyelids, esp. on reading during the day, or by candle-light. ─ Sensation of cold in the eyes. ─ Eyes inflamed, with redness of the sclerotica and abundant secretion of mucus. ─ Inflammation of the eyes from foreign bodies coming into them; in infants or scrofulous subjects. ─ Ulcers, spots, and opacity of cornea. ─ Dimness of the cornea. ─ Flow of blood from the eyes. ─ Inflammation and swelling of the corners of the eyes. ─ Lachrymal suppurating fistula. ─ Lachrymation, esp. in the open air, or early in the morning. ─ Quivering in the eyelids. ─ Red and thick swelling of the eyelids, with abundant secretion of humour and nocturnal agglutination. ─ Closing of the eyelids in the morning. ─ Pupils greatly dilated. ─ Confusion of sight, as if there were a mist, a veil, or down, before the eyes, chiefly on reading, and on observing an object attentively. ─ Obscuration of the sight on reading, or after a meal. ─ A dark spot is seen before the eyes, on reading, to accompany the letters. ─ Great photophobia and dazzling from too strong a light. ─ Presbyopia.

Ears

Shootings in the ears. ─ Pulsation, beating, and heat in the ears. ─ Internal and external inflammation and swelling of the ear. ─ Purulent discharge from the ears. ─ Humid eruption upon and behind the ears. ─ Polypus in the ears. ─ Humming, buzzing, tingling, or rumbling, sometimes alternately with music, in the ears. ─ Crackling and detonation in the ears, when swallowing and when chewing. ─ Sensation, at intervals, of stoppage in the ears, and hardness of hearing. ─ Hardness of hearing, esp. after the suppression of intermittent fever by Quinine. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the parotids.

Nose

Inflammation of the nose, with redness and swelling, chiefly at the extremity. ─ Ulcerated and scabby nostrils. ─ Epistaxis, chiefly morning and night, sometimes producing fainting. ─ Fetid smell from the nose. ─ Sense of smell dull, or exceedingly sensitive. ─ Painful dryness in the nose. ─ Obstruction of the nose by yellowish and fetid pus. ─ Polypus of the nose. ─ Dry coryza, in the morning, with frequent sneezing. ─ Excessive fluent coryza. ─ Coryza, alternately with cutting pains in the abdomen. ─ Fetid odour before the nose, as if from a dunghill, rotten eggs, or gunpowder.

Face

Yellow colour of the face. ─ Face pale and hollow, with eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid circle. ─ Red patches on the cheeks. ─ Heat, redness, and puffing of the face. ─ Erysipelas in one cheek. ─ Ephelis on the cheeks. ─ Itching and eruption on the face, chiefly on the forehead, in the cheeks, and in the region of the whiskers, sometimes humid and scabby, with burning heat (sycosis menti). ─ Milk crusts. ─ Acute pains in the face and the bones of the face. ─ Swelling of the face without heat. ─ Pale bloatedness of the face. ─ Eruptions and scabs on the lips and round the mouth. ─ Lips cracked. ─ Swelling of the upper lip. ─ Ulcerated corners of the mouth. ─ Fissures in the ulcerated lips. ─ Attacks of torpor and paleness in the lips, which appear as if dead. ─ Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

Teeth

Toothache, aggravated or excited by a current of air, or by cold air, or by taking anything too hot or cold, or by noise, or else during and after the catamenia; the pains are, for the most part, shooting, piercing, contractive, pulsative, or gnawing, and digging, with a sensation as of excoriation. ─ Toothache at night, as if from congestion of blood. ─ Sensation of lengthening and loosening of the teeth. ─ Fetid odour of the teeth. ─ Painful sensibility of the gums, with shootings. ─ Difficult dentition. ─ Ready bleeding and swelling of the gums, with throbbings and pulsations. ─ Fistulous ulcers in the gums of the lower jaw.

Mouth

Accumulation of mucus in the mouth. ─ Constant spitting of acid saliva. ─ Vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. ─ Cramp-like contraction of the mouth. ─ Dryness of the tongue and of the mouth, chiefly at night and in the morning on waking. ─ Swelling of the tongue, sometimes on one side. ─ Tongue loaded with a white coating. ─ Burning and pain as of excoriation on the tongue and in the mouth. ─ Tongue difficult to move, with embarrassed and indistinct speech. ─ Ranula under the tongue.

Throat

Sore throat, as if from a plug or a swelling in the gullet. ─ Constriction in the throat, and cramp-like contraction of the gullet. ─ Excoriation of the gullet, with shooting and pressure on swallowing. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the gullet and of the uvula, which are of a deep red colour, and covered with vesicles. ─ Swelling of the amygdalæ, with sensation of contraction in the throat on swallowing. ─ Affection in the throat after straining the back. ─ Hawking up of mucus.

Appetite

Unpleasant taste in the mouth, mostly bitter, or sour, or metallic, esp. in the morning. ─ Insipidity, or sickly or sour taste of food. ─ Burning or constant thirst, esp. for cold drinks, and often with total absence of appetite. ─ Continued violent thirst for cold drinks (at night). ─ Hunger, a short time after having eaten. ─ Bulimy, generally in the morning. ─ Prolonged distaste for meat and hot food. ─ Repugnance to tobacco-smoke; desire for salt things, for wine, and for dainties. ─ Weakness of digestion. ─ After having taken milk, nausea or acid regurgitations. ─ After a meal, heat or inflation of the abdomen, with nausea and headache, pain in the abdomen or in the stomach, or else risings and water-brash, or dejection or drowsiness. ─ Risings, with taste of undigested, or bitter, or sour food.

Stomach

Pyrosis after every meal, and noisy and constant eructations. ─ Eructations tasting like the ingesta. ─ Regurgitation of sour substances. ─ Frequent nausea, esp. in the morning, in the evening, or at night, sometimes with shuddering, obscuration of sight, and fainting. ─ Sour vomitings. ─ Sour vomiting, esp. in children, and during dentition. ─ Vomiting of food, or of bitter mucus, often with incisive and cramp-like pains in the abdomen. ─ Black or sanguineous vomiting. ─ Flow of saliva from the stomach, even after a meal. ─ The vomitings appear chiefly in the morning, at night, or after a meal. ─ Pressive, or pinching pain in the stomach, or cramp-like and contractive pains, chiefly after a meal, and often with vomiting of food. ─ Cramps in the stomach at night. ─ Pressure on the stomach, even when fasting, or in coughing, or with pressure on the hypochondria, or else with squeezing as if from a claw, on walking. ─ Pinchings, cutting pains, and nocturnal aching in the epigastrium. ─ Inflation and swelling of the epigastrium and of the region of the stomach, with painful sensibility of those parts to the touch (they look like a saucer turned bottom up). ─ Pain, as of excoriation, and burning in the stomach.

Abdomen

Pains generally shooting, or tensive, or pressive, with swelling and induration of the hepatic region. ─ Stinging pain in the liver (during or after stooping). ─ Painful pulling from the hypochondria and the back, with vertigo and obscuration of sight. ─ Tension in the two hypochondria. ─ Inability to wear tight clothes round the hypochondria. ─ Tension and inflation of the abdomen. ─ Frequent gripings and shootings in the sides of the abdomen, in children. ─ Colic, with cramp-like and gnawing contractive pains, esp. in the afternoon, and sometimes with vomiting of food. ─ Frequent attacks of griping, chiefly in the epigastrium. ─ Shootings or pinchings, and aching in the abdomen, even without diarrhœa. ─ The pains in the abdomen appear chiefly in the morning, in the evening, or at night, as well as after a meal. ─ Sensation of cold in the abdomen. ─ Pain, as of excoriation and burning, in the abdomen. ─ Swelling and induration of the mesenteric glands. ─ Enlargement and hardness of the abdomen. ─ Incarceration of flatulency. ─ Pressure of wind towards the inguinal ring, as if hernia were about to protrude, with noise and borborygmi. ─ Painful pressure, pullings, griping, and shootings, or heaviness or traction in the groins. ─ Swelling and painful sensibility of the inguinal glands.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. ─ Evacuations suspended, hard, in small quantity, and often with undigested substances. ─ Ineffectual efforts to evacuate, sometimes with pain. ─ Difficult evacuation, and only every two days. ─ Relaxation of the abdomen, frequent or continual; two evacuations a day. ─ Evacuations like clay, in small quantity, knotty, or serous, or in the form of pap. ─ White evacuations, sometimes with streaks of blood and hepatic pains, on touching the region of the liver, and on breathing. ─ Diarrhœa of sour smell; putrid; during dentition. ─ Involuntary and frothy evacuations. ─ Diarrhœa, of a sour smell, or fetid, or yellowish, in infants. ─ Ejection of ascarides and of tenia. ─ Prolapsus of the rectum during evacuation. ─ Before the evacuation, great irascibility. ─ After the evacuation, dejection, and relaxation of the limbs. ─ Flow of blood from the anus during the evacuation, also at other times. ─ Swelling, and frequent protrusion of hæmorrhoidal excrescences, esp. during the evacuations, with burning pain. ─ Cramps, tenesmus, and contraction of the rectum. ─ Burning in the rectum and in the anus, with itching and tingling. ─ Burning eruption, in the form of a cluster, in the anus. ─ Excoriation at the anus, and between the buttocks and the thighs. ─ Affections of the rectum, as fissures, which are very painful, bleeding after every stool, followed by extreme exhaustion.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus of the bladder. ─ Too frequent emission of urine, even in the night. ─ Wetting the bed. ─ Deep-coloured urine, without sediment. ─ Urine red like blood, or a brownish red, of an acrid, pungent, and fetid smell, with white and mealy sediment. ─ Passing of blood. ─ Flow of blood from the urethra. ─ Abundant discharge of mucus with the urine. ─ Polypus of the bladder. ─ Burning in the urethra, when making water, and at other times.

Male Sexual Organs

Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning pain. ─ Pressure, and pain as from a bruise, in the testes. ─ Weakness of the genital functions, and absence of sexual desire. ─ Increase of sexual desire, with voluptuous and lascivious ideas. ─ Absence of pollutions, or great frequency of them. ─ Erections of too short continuance, and emission of semen too slow and too feeble during coition. ─ Lancinations and burning in the genital parts, during the emission of semen in coition. ─ After coition, confusion of the head and weakness. ─ Flow of prostatic fluid, after evacuation and emission of urine.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia premature and too copious. ─ Sterility, with catamenia too early, and too profuse. ─ Before the catamenia, mammæ swollen and painful, fatigue, headache, disposition to be frightened, colic, and shivering. ─ During the catamenia, congestion in the head, with internal heat, or cuttings in the abdomen, and cramp-like pain in the lumbar region, or else vertigo, headache, toothache, nausea, colic, and other sufferings. ─ Suppressed menstruation, with full habit. ─ Miscarriage. ─ Voluptuous sensation in the genital parts, with emission. ─ Flow of blood at a time different from the catamenia. ─ Metrorrhagia. ─ Itching or pressing in the vagina. ─ Shootings in the orifice of the matrix, and pressive pain in the vagina. ─ Prolapsus uteri, with pressure on the parts. ─ Itching in the womb. ─ Inflammation and swelling of the womb, with redness, purulent discharge, and burning pain. ─ Varices in the labia majora. ─ Leucorrhœa before the catamenia. ─ Leucorrhœa, with burning itching, or else like milk, flowing by fits, and during the emission of urine. ─ Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, in the nipples. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the mammæ and of the nipples. ─ Swelling of the glands of the breast. ─ Breasts painful and tender before menses. ─ Milk too abundant, or suppressed.

Respiratory Organs

Ulceration of the larynx. ─ Ulceration of the lungs. ─ Frequent or long-continued hoarseness. ─ Hoarseness (painless). ─ Sensation, as if something were torn loose in the trachea. ─ Abundant accumulation of mucus in the larynx and in the bronchia. ─ Cough, without expectoration, excited by a tickling in the throat, and often accompanied by vomiting. ─ Tickling cough, caused by a sensation of dust in the larynx. ─ Short cough in the day, as if from a feather in the throat. ─ Cough excited by playing on the piano, or by eating. ─ Cough in the evening, in bed, or at night, when asleep, or in the morning, and generally violent and dry (with expectoration during the day, but not at night), sometimes even spasmodic. ─ Cough, with expectoration of thick mucus; gray; bloody; purulent; tasting sour; or yellowish and fetid, generally at night, or in the morning. ─ Expectoration of purulent matter, on coughing. ─ Cough, with expectoration of blood, pain of excoriation in the chest, vertigo, and unsteady walk. ─ On coughing, pressure in the stomach, shootings or shocks in the head, and pains in the chest.

Chest

Obstructed breathing on stooping, walking against the wind, or on lying down. ─ Urgent inclination to inspire deeply. ─ Sensation, as if respiration were obstructed between the shoulder-blades. ─ Oppression at the chest, as if from congestion of blood, with tension, mitigated by bringing shoulder-blades together. ─ Wheezing respiration. ─ Shortness of breath, chiefly on ascending. ─ Anxious oppression of the chest, as if it were too narrow, and could not be sufficiently dilated. ─ Great difficulty of respiration. ─ Sensation of fatigue in the chest after speaking. ─ Anxious feeling in the chest. ─ Pressure on the chest. ─ Shootings in the chest and the sides, esp. during movement, on breathing deeply, and when lying on the side affected. ─ Shocks in the chest. ─ Sensibility, and pain, as from excoriation, in the chest. esp. during inspiration and on being touched. ─ Burning in the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, also at night, or after a meal, sometimes with anxiety and trembling movements of the heart. ─ Shootings, pressure, and contraction in the region of the heart. ─ Pricking shootings in the muscles of the chest.

Neck and Back

Rigidity of the neck. ─ Hard and strumous swelling of the thyroid gland. ─ Hard and painful swelling of the glands of the neck. ─ Tumour between the shoulder-blades. ─ Suppuration of the axillary glands. ─ Pains, as of dislocation, in the loins, back, and in the neck, as if caused by a strain in lifting a weight. ─ Pain in the small of the back (as if sprained); he can scarcely rise from his seat, after being seated. ─ Shooting pains in the shoulder-blades, loins, and back. ─ Nocturnal pains in the back. ─ Pains in the lumbar region, when riding in a carriage. ─ Drawing between the shoulder-blades, or pressive pain, with sensation of suffocation. ─ Pressive pain between the shoulder-blades, impeding breathing, when moving. ─ Swelling, and distortion of the spine.

Limbs

As if the parts would burst; were pressed, or pushed, asunder; as if cold, damp stockings were on the feet; sensation of crepitation; cramp pain in the muscles; creeping on the limbs like a mouse.

Upper Limbs

Drawing pains in the arms, even at night. ─ Cramp, and cramp-like pains, in the arms, hands, and fingers. ─ Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms (l.). ─ Acute, cramp-like pains in the forearm. ─ Furunculi on the forearm. ─ Pains, as of dislocation, in the wrist-joint (r.). ─ Swelling of the hands. ─ Arthritic nodosities, swelling of the wrist, and of the joints of the fingers. ─ Swelling of the veins of the hands. ─ Sweating of the hands. ─ Perspiration of the palms of the hands. ─ Trembling of the hands. ─ Hands and fingers dead, even in a warm temperature, and esp. on taking hold of an object. ─ Warts on the arms and on the hands. ─ Furunculi on the hands and the fingers. ─ Tingling in the fingers, as when they are asleep. ─ Frequent paralytic weakness in the fingers. ─ Heavy movement of the fingers. ─ Contraction of the fingers. ─ Panaris.

Lower Limbs

Drawing lancinations, or incisive, acute pains in the hips and in the thighs, chiefly when resting upon them. ─ Limping, which occurs when resting on the toes in walking. ─ Weight and stiffness of the legs. ─ Cramps in the legs. ─ Pain, as of dislocation, in the joints of the hips, knees, and the feet. ─ The legs go to sleep when one is seated. ─ Itching in the thighs and the feet. ─ Varices in the legs. ─ Tearing and stinging in the knee. ─ Drawings, shootings, and acute pains in the knees, esp. when standing or sitting, also when walking. ─ The child is late learning to walk. ─ Swelling of the knees. ─ Tension in the ham, when in a squatting position. ─ Cramps in the hams, the calves of the legs, the soles of the feet, and the toes, chiefly on extending the legs, pulling on boots, or during the night. ─ Red spots on the legs. ─ Phlegmasia alba dolens. ─ Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the legs. ─ Ulcers on the legs. ─ Swelling of the malleoli and of the soles of the feet. ─ Inflammatory swelling of the instep. ─ Furunculi on the feet and legs. ─ Burning in the soles of the feet. ─ Sweating of the feet. ─ In the evening, coldness and numbness of the feet; esp. at night, in bed. ─ Painful sensibility of the great, toe. ─ Corns on the feet, with burning pain, as of excoriation. ─ Contraction of the toes.

Generalities

Cramps and contractions of the limbs (which draw the limbs crooked), esp. of the fingers and toes. ─ Wrenching pains. ─ Pulsative pains. ─ Shootings and drawing pains in the limbs, chiefly at night, or in summer, and on change of weather. ─ Stinging and cutting in outer and inner parts. ─ Arthritic tearing in the muscles. ─ Arthritic nodosities. ─ Attacks of torpor and paleness of some parts of the body, which appear as if dead. ─ Great tendency to strain the back in lifting, often followed by pains in the throat, or stiffness and swelling of the nape of the neck, with headache. ─ Tendency of the limbs to numbness. ─ Bleeding from inner parts. ─ Sensation of dryness of inner parts. ─ Ebullition of the blood, mostly in plethoric individuals, and often with congestion in the head and chest. ─ Startings in different limbs. ─ Epileptic convulsions, also at night with cries; during the full moon; with hallooing and shouting. ─ The symptoms are aggravated or renewed after labouring in the water, as well as in the evening, at night, in the morning, after a meal, and every second day. ─ The sufferings are periodical and intermittent. ─ Great uneasiness, which forces the patient to move constantly and to walk much. ─ Visible quivering of the skin, from the feet to the head, with which he becomes dizzy. ─ Trembling of the inner parts. ─ Frequent trembling of the whole body, increased in the open air. ─ St. Vitus' dance. ─ Pain, as from a bruise, in the arms and in the legs, and also in the loins, esp. on moving, and on going upstairs. ─ General uneasiness in the evening, as preceding an attack of intermittent fever. ─ Want of strength, and dejection, chiefly in the morning early. ─ Fatigue and nervous weakness, often with paleness of the face, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, shivering, pain in the loins. ─ Fainting, esp. in the evening, with obscuration of the eyes, sweat on the face, and cold in the body. ─ Great fatigue after speaking, or after a moderate walk in the open air, as well as after the least exertion, with ready and abundant perspiration. ─ Strong desire to be magnetised. ─ Excessive dejection, sometimes with violent fits of spasmodic laughter. ─ Tendency in children and young persons to grow very fat. ─ Bloatedness of the body and of the face, with enlargement of the abdomen, in children. ─ Emaciation (with swelled abdomen), without failure of appetite. ─ Great plumpness and excessive obesity. ─ Sensation of coldness in inner parts. ─ Great tendency to take cold, and great sensibility to cold and damp air. ─ On walking in the open air, sadness with tears, headache, inflation of the abdomen, palpitation of the heart, sweat, great fatigue, and many other sufferings.

Skin

Flaccidity of the skin. ─ Visible quivering of the skin from head to foot, followed by giddiness. ─ Burning, smarting, itching. ─ Ephelis. ─ Nettlerash, mostly disappearing in the fresh air. ─ Eruption of lenticular red and raised spots, with great heat, much thirst, and want of appetite. ─ Skin hot and dry during motion. ─ Skin of the body rough, dry, and as if covered with a kind of miliary eruption. ─ Furfuraceous coating of the skin; burning; chapped. ─ Humid, scabby eruptions and tetters, or in form of clusters, with burning pains. ─ Itching pemphigus over the whole body. ─ Skin excoriated in several places. ─ Skin unhealthy; every injury tends to ulceration; even small wounds suppurate and do not heal. ─ Ulcers deep; fistulous; carious. ─ Ulcers with too little pus. ─ Erysipelatous inflammations. ─ Furunculi. ─ Warts. ─ Corns, with pain as of excoriation, and burning. ─ Polypus (nose, ear, uterus). ─ Encysted tumours, which are renewed and suppurate every month. ─ Bloatedness. ─ Swelling and induration of the glands, with or without pain. Varices. ─ Arthritic nodosities. ─ Swelling; softening; curvature of; stinging in; caries and distortion of the bones. ─ Ulceration of the bones. ─ Panaris. ─ Flaws in the fingers.

Sleep

Drowsiness in the day and early in the evening. ─ Retarded sleep and sleeplessness from activity of mind, or in consequence of voluptuous or frightful images, which appear as soon as the eyes are shut. ─ During sleep, talking, groans, cries, and starts, anxiety which continues after waking, or movements of the mouth, as if one were chewing or swallowing. ─ Snoring during sleep. ─ Dreams frequent, vivid, anxious, fantastic, confused, frightful, and horrible; or dreams of sick and dead persons. ─ Sleep disturbed, with tossing about and frequent waking. ─ Sleep of too short duration, from eleven in the evening till two or three in the morning only. ─ Waking too early, sometimes even at midnight. ─ At night, agitation, asthmatic suffering, anxiety, heat, pains in the stomach and in the precordial region, thirst, beatings of the head, toothache, vertigo, headache, ebullition of the blood, fear of losing the reason, pains in the limbs, and many other sufferings. ─ On waking, lassitude, exhaustion, and desire to sleep, as if the patient had not slept at all. ─ Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep.

Fever

Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous. ─ Excessive cold, internally. ─ Shivering and shuddering, principally in the evening, or in the morning after rising. ─ Heat with thirst, followed by chilliness. ─ Frequent attacks of transient heat, with anguish and beating of the heart. ─ Heat in the evening, or in bed at night. ─ Quotidian fever towards two o'clock in the afternoon, with yawning and cough, followed by general heat, with desire to lie down, at least for three hours, after which the hands become cold; all with absence of thirst. ─ Tertian fever in the evening, at first heat of face, followed by shivering. ─ Profuse sweat by day, after moderate corporeal exercise. ─ Sweat with anxiety. ─ Nocturnal sweat, chiefly on the chest. ─ Sweat in the morning.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Enfeebled memory. θ Epilepsy.
Forgetfulness ; vanishing of thoughts.
Misplaces words, tendency to express himself wrongly.
When roused opens eyes with absence of mind and alarm, murmuring, frightened. θ Intermittent.
Buried in deep thought ; anxiety about present and future.
Rush of thoughts prevents sleep.
Cannot get rid of one and the same thought at night, even during light slumbers. θ Typhoid.
Mind full of concern about imaginary things that might happen to her. θ Chlorosis.
Mind is confused, so that what is read or heard is not understood or comprehended.
Intellect dull ; unable to progress in her studies. θ Epilepsy.
Thinking is difficult.
Absent-minded, after nausea in afternoon.
Stupid, peevish, in the intervals. θ Epilepsy.
Appears to be lapsing into complete imbecility. θ Epilepsy.
Imagines some one is walking beside her ; that something hanging over back of chair is a person sitting there, etc.
Feels as if she would lose her senses. θ Megrim.
Visions of faces and persons, when eyes are closed. θ Typhus.
Mental aberration with horrid visions before eyes and cardiac anxiety ; he despairs of his salvation and wants to stab himself.
Delirium. θ Second week of typhus.
Sees and plays with cats and other animals in delirium. θ Nervous fever.
Mania-a-potu, with delirious talk about fire, rats, mice and murder.
Mania ; sees many curs crowding around him, fights them off. θ From chilling feet and legs in potter's clay.
Desire to go home. θ Insanity.
Desire for company.
Steady inclination to work, with mental anxiety.
Inclination to weep, with mental depression ; weeps when admonished.
Feels as if she would like to run up and down and scream.
She thinks and talks of nothing but murder, fire, rats, etc.
Violent screaming spell every day at 5 P. M., so hard as to cause a scrotal hernia ; infant, æt. 5 weeks.
Changeable mood ; easily laughing or crying. θ Neurosis cordis.
Disinclined to talk, and very irritable.
Taciturn, with a dry tongue.
Disinclination for every kind of work. θ Coryza. θ Addison's disease.
Does not care to get well, or to do anything to assist recovery.
Weeping mood. θ Muscular atrophy.
Weeping and anxious.
Whimpering. θ Catarrh.
Low-spirited and melancholy, with weeping and despair of life.
Low-spirited and depressed. θ Diarrhœa. θ Muscular atrophy. θ Phthisis
pulmonalis. θ Chorea.
Despondent and melancholy, in highest degree, with a kind of anguish.
Children sad and unhappy.
Weary of life. θ Catarrh.
Hopelessness ; despair.
Hypochondriacal mood. θ Coryza.
Restless anxiety.
Anxious and irritable by spells.
Anxiety : with nausea ; during sweat ; during typhus.
Anxious about getting well, during the intervals. θ Epilepsy.
Apprehension about present and future.
Apprehensive mood : as if some misfortune was about to happen ; about his health ; that he might have an organic disease of the heart.
Fear, that something sad or terrible will happen.
Fears she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of mind.
Fear : of death ; of consumption ; of misfortune ; of being alone.
Child is afraid of everything it sees. θ Inflammation of brain.
Concern about spiritual welfare.
Feels awe-stricken at night. θ Diarrhœa.
Anxiety, shuddering and dread as soon as evening comes on, with fear of death ; torments those around him day and night.
Great anxiety : with spasm in rectum ; with dull shocks from posterior wall of chest up to between shoulders.
Great anxiety and oppression. θ Scarlatina.
Great anxiety, restlessness and palpitation.
Anguish, with palpitation of heart.
Fear excited by reports of cruelties.
Great anxiety, in evening, for which no reason could be assigned. θ Uterine tumor.
Easily startled.
Despairing ; hopeless of ever getting well ; with fear of death, tormenting all around day and night.
Indifference ; does not care to get well ; reticence and inertness.
Apathy and depression of mind. θ Addison's disease.
Quiet, mild disposition. θ Strabismus.
Active, full of fun. θ Boy with chronic diarrhœa.
Excessive mischievousness, with obstinacy.
Voluptuous, lascivious fancies.
Ill-humored, with white blood-streaked stool.
Dissatisfied and easily angered.
Aversion to everything as soon as he sits idle.
Obstinacy and irritability.
Children self-willed, inclined to grow fat.
Hateful, vindictive.
Irritable without cause ; cries about trifles ; borrows trouble.
Irritable mood. θ Leucorrhœa.
Child cross, fretful and restless. θ Scarlatina.
Children very fretful and stubborn. θ Rachitis.
Irritability, with pressing frontal headache.
Peevish without cause.
Peevishness, much nervous excitement and irritability.
Very peevish and easily vexed. θ Chorea.
Easily offended ; takes everything amiss.
Violence and anger.
Restless mood, with gloominess and anxiety.
Child restless and cross during day. θ Keratitis.
Easily frightened ; tendency to start.
Mental occupation > headache ; better from engaging his attention. θ Chorea.
Nervousness < by mental exertion, > from closing eyes.
After exerting mind : hyperemia of head ; chorea ; trembling spells.
Aggravation from mental emotions. θ Neuralgia cordis.
Headaches of school-children.
The slight effort of talking gave him sensation as if brain would be paralyzed, mostly in occiput.
From thinking : drawing pain in right side of forehead.
Affections from egotism.
Excitement brings on dysmennorrhœa ; least excitement endangers return of catamenia, or causes metrorrhagia.
Great anxiety and worriment of mind. θ At onset of typhoid.
Mental anxiety, producing palpitation, sweat, nausea and tremor.
Excited by chagrin or fear. θ Epilepsy.
Vexation causes vertigo.
Fright followed by trembling motions of upper and lower limbs in repeated paroxysms. θ Chorea.

Sensorium

Want of memory and confusion in head, with benumbing pressing pain in forehead.
Sensation as if he would drop unconscious.
Feels as if she would fall when walking.
Surging humming in head, with dulness.
Feeling of emptiness in head.
Dulness of head : as if too full ; with buzzing in head ; with sensation of a board before head ; with stinging in neck ; from pressure in lower part of abdomen ; with vertigo, backache and chilliness.
Constant fulness in head.
Dulness of head, particularly in morning. θ Chronic coryza.
Rush of blood to head : with heat, redness and puffiness of face ; < from alcoholic drink ; < in morning when awaking ; < after mental exertion.
Heaviness in forehead ; < when reading or writing.
Heaviness and stupefaction, with nervous erethism, remaining for a few days. θ Megrim.
Dizziness and trembling in morning until he has his breakfast.
Dizzy : after scratching head ; after attack of epilepsy.
Dizziness on going up-stairs. θ Tuberculosis. θ Hemorrhoids.
Reeling vertigo, with nausea and vomiting.
Giddiness when walking or hurried, or after arriving at top af stairs ; inclined to fall to left. θ Sore throat.
Vertigo : in morning, in bed ; when rising or shortly after ; < stooping, with darkness before eyes ; after walking ; when standing and looking about ; as if things were turning with her ; < looking upward ; on going up-stairs, especially
when running ; when turning head quickly ; in morning, with nausea and vomiting.
Vertigo : when climbing into high places ; on going up-stairs, or up a hill ; on suddenly raising or turning head, even when at rest ; on walking in open air, as if he would tumble, especially on suddenly turning head ; with
stupefaction and a sensation of falling (neurosis cordis) ; with inclination to fall backward or sideways ; with headache ; nausea and vomiting, incarcerated flatulence ; accompanied by nausea and a feeling as though one would fall unconscious ; with unsteadiness in
thighs when walking rapidly ; in Addison's disease ; during intervals of epileptic spasms.

Inner head

Pressure in forehead, with nausea and belching.
Headache centres with such violence on top of head that she thinks brain is dissolving and she will go crazy. θ Megrim.
Severe, particularly frontal, headache ; < in forenoon and from mental exertion ; pallor ; indigestion ; lassitude, principally in morning. θ Chronic headache after
suppression of itch.
Stupefying pressing ache in forehead, during rest and motion. θ Chronic coryza.
Stupefying pressive pain in forehead, with confusion of senses and dulness of whole head, while reading ; he was obliged to stop and did not know where he was.
Heavy pressing frontal headache, with belching and nausea ; must close eyes ; < from mental exertion, stooping and walking in open air ; from rising up, in warmth and lying on back.
Pressing as if forehead would burst. θ Catarrh in sinus frontalis.
Pressive drawing headache through day, concentrates about right eye in evening.
Heaviness in forehead ; < by reading and writing.
Boring in forehead and left temple, in or out morning and evening ; < in open air ; from pressure and stooping ; > from touch.
Cutting pain in forehead.
Painful pressure in forehead, extending down into nose.
Pressive pain in forepart of head above root of nose, in morning. θ Coryza.
Tearing headache above eyes down to nose, with nausea.
Spasmodic pain, drawing from forehead to vertex, after taking cold.
In temples : pressure outward and inward ; drawing pain ; throbbing ; burning ; violent jerks.
Shooting from left temple to right ; < from stooping ; > from pressure.
Shooting pains in both sides of head, with nausea.
Stitches in temples, with head in ears.
Stitching headache over left temple.
Hemicrania left side ; stitches in temple and downward into teeth ; < on awaking, from motion, noise and talking ; > in evening. θ Chlorosis.
Pricking in left side of head, with vertigo.
Tensive headache, mostly in right side of head and temple.
Headache from right temple to vertex ; drawing in root of nose and closing eyes.
Frequent one-sided headache, always with much empty eructation or inclination to vomit.
Headache. θ Addison's disease.
Sick headache on left side, with scanty menses ; on right side with profuse menses.
Throbbing headache : in middle of brain every morning, continuing all day ; through forehead and base of brain.
Hammering in head.
Headache ; pain being seated in crown of head. θ Reconvalescence from yellow fever.
Violent pressive pain in vertex.
Weight on top of head.
Pressure in vertex and forehead, with irresistible sleepiness after dinner, and cold feet.
Violent throbbing on vertex ; has to lie perfectly quiet.
A surging humming in top of head.
He is roused from sleep every morning at 5 o'clock by a violent aching pain in vertex, which goes off after one hour.
Burning sensation on vertex.
Cutting in vertex and occiput, with distended veins on temples ; sore scalp.
Cutting thrusts from within out, with throbbing in vertex.
Headache extending from back to crown of head. θ Reconvalescence from yellow fever.
Headache begins in occiput and spreads to top of head, so severe that she thinks head will burst, and that she will go crazy. θ Megrim.
Pulsation in occiput.
Dull tearing pain through brain.
Brain as if squeezed and relaxed alternately.
Pressing pain from within outward, occupying only a part of head at a time.
Stupefying headache : from 3 A. M. till afternoon ; < on rising, stooping, or exerting mind ; > closing eyes.
Fulness and heaviness in head. θ Megrim. θ Congestion. θ Hemorrhoids.
Tightness of right side of temple.
Throbbing and hammering of head, in morning ; < from stooping, mental exertion, spirituous liquors, and after walking in open air ; > from closing eyes and lying down.
Concussive throbs in head, abdomen and chest.
Concussive, stitching, pulsating pains in head, as if it would split, with cough. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Stitches in head.
Empty feeling in head, with shooting pains.
Pressing pain, with sensation of fulness, heaviness and pulsation, in head. θ Hereditary headache.
Pains half-sided, tearing, shooting, throbbing. θ Rheumatic headache with children.
Wandering pains in head.
Strange feeling of icy coldness in some parts of head or in whole head. θ Megrim.
Internal and external sensation of coldness of various parts of head, as if a piece of ice was lying against it, with pale puffed face.
Head feels hot, dull and heavy. θ Coryza
Great heat in head ; perceptible at times to hand held 2 or 3 inches from it. θ Tinea.
Brain feels hot and burning. θ Typhoid.
Severe heat in head and great orgasm of blood.
Congestion to head ; with heat and stupefying headache ; with red puffed face ; with toothache ; during night ; < in morning when awaking, and from spirituous drinks ; in menorrhagia ; in tuberculosis.
Nervous sensation as if blood was rushing to head.
Headache. θ Worms.
One-sided headache, with belching. θ Reconvalescence from yellow fever.
Headache accompanied by : weak memory ; vertigo ; noises in head ; fluent coryza or stoppage of nose ; nausea ; vomiting ; constipation ; worms ; menstrual irregularity ; oppression of breathing ; cold feet ;
chorea ; epilepsy ; glandular swellings, etc.
Headache aggravated by : thinking about it ; mental exertion ; sexual debauches ; spirituous liquors ; talking ; looking up ; reading or writing ; hot sun ; stooping ; going up-stairs ; walking in open air ; in a draught ;
by taking cold ; lifting ; getting wet ; dentition.
Headache ameliorated by : closing eyes ; vomiting mucus and bile ; lying down ; tight bandaging ; pressure ; and cold applications.
Headache after attack. θ Epilepsy.
Stupefying headache, from 3 A. M. until afternoon.
Headache from waking early in morning ; cannot sleep after 3 A. M. θ Reconvalescence from yellow fever.
Violent headache every morning. θ Albuminuria.
Chronic headache upon brain fag.
Inflammation of brain : during dentition ; in scrofulous subjects.
Chronic hydrocephalus.

Outer head

Pressive drawing in right temporal muscle.
Fine tearing or jerking stitches in vertex, towards evening ; < from washing and during wet weather ; > in dry air ; also from scratching and rubbing.
Burning in vertex ; also after grief. Compare Phosph.
Stinging on vertex, in evening ; < in wet, > in dry weather, and from rubbing.
Sore pain in back part of head ; < from touch and in wet weather ; > from scratching and rubbing.
Crepitation in back part of head, followed by warmth rising through nape of neck into head ; < early on rising and at noon after eating ; > on lying down.
Tearing in bones of head.
Left-sided headache.
Painful sensitiveness of scalp, especially on moving muscles of forehead ; < towards evening and in open air, especially damp air and draught, and on getting warm in bed.
Clinching tearing in scalp and muscles of head ; < from washing, and in open, especially damp, air ; > from pressure, rubbing, scratching, lying down, and in dry weather.
Biting, burning and crawling itching on scalp, spreading from back part of head ; < from scratching, which causes lumps and a bloody eruption, which forms into scales ; > in evening on getting warm in bed.
Crawling on scalp and lower part of face.
Itching on scalp ; biting, burning, crawling spreads from occiput, followed by scurfs ; < on getting warm in bed.
Itching burning on head and neck.
Sensation of coldness upon top of head. θ Rheumatism.
Cold feeling on top of head. θ Uterine cancer.
Internal and external sensation of coldness of one (r.) side of head, as if a piece of ice was lying there ; < weather changing ; in early morning ; from motion in open air ; > on lying down.
Head becomes cold very easily, which causes headache, as if a board lay upon head, with pressive pain in it, and chilliness of whole body.
Heat of head.
Heat on top of head after grief.
Sweating of head, very profuse, rolling down face in large, beadlike drops ; the pillow is wet for some distance around child's head. θ Tinea. θ Chalklike
stools. θ Dentition.
Face and head bathed in sweat and running off in little streams. θ Palpitation.
Sweat on back of head and neck, in evening.
Profuse sweat on head. θ Dentition. θ Cholera infantum. θ Colic.
θ Metritis. θ Uterine displacement. θ Eclampsia.
θ Epilepsy, after attacks.
Sweat all over, especially on head and face, with cold extremities even in hot weather ; must have his feet covered with a feather bed. θ Heart disease.
Copious exhausting sweat, particularly at back part of head and nape of neck, lower limbs remaining cold ; < in evening and on least motion, especially in cold air ; > on sitting quietly and in warm room.
Sweat, particularly on head, in morning when walking in open air.
Nocturnal sweats of head. θ Softening of brain. θ Dentition. θ Impetigo.
θ Bronchitis. θ Phthisis pulmonalis. θ Second
stage of coxalgia. θ Liver complaint, with dropsy. θ Lymphatic enlargements.
Disagreeable odor about head from sweating. θ Softening of brain.
Cold sweat of head. θ Keratitis.
Head too large, fontanelles not closing. θ Hydrocephalus. θ Rachitis.
θ Marasmus. θ Eclampsia. θ Cholera
infantum.
Open fontanelles, with large head and much sweating of same ; children leuco-phlegmatic, very fat and of leaden weigh ; abdomen hard and distended, with sour-smelling diarrhœa.
Hydrocephalic enlargement of head ; the boy required a hat several sizes smaller every three or four months while under treatment until normal.
Exostoses on skull.
Swellings in bones of skull, inflamed with sticking pain and hammering ; ending in suppuration ; < from damp, cold air ; > on touching and rubbing.
Idiopathic fungus of dura mater, or cranium.
Convulsive movements of head.
On turning head : vertigo ; and on stooping, she feels as though she does not know where she is ; heaviness in it < ; painful concussion in brain ; pain in neck, as though a swelling was about to appear ; swelling on neck painful ; sudden pain in neck, as
if dislocated.
Worse on bending head back, or inclining it to right or left ; toothache.
A muscular strain produces headache.
Cannot rest head back. θ Pneumonia.
Orgasm of warm blood to head from pit of stomach.
Cramplike tearing in scalp.
Painful soreness of scalp, more when moving muscles of forehead ; < in evening, open air, damp air, draught, and getting warm in bed.
Itching on scalp.
Scratches head impatiently on getting awake or when disturbed in sleep. θ Coxalgia. θ During
dentition. θ Paralysis.
Pain at roots of hair ; hair bristles up when chilled.
Hair falls out ; or comes out when combing. θ Childbed. θ After
inflammatory or nervous diseases.
Hair dry ; looks like tow. θ Cholera.
Hair falls out on crown of head. θ Megrim.
Bare spots, size of palms of hands, without a single hair ; on horses.
Falling out of hair, mostly on temples and sides of head down to beard ; dryness of hair ; great sensitiveness of scalp, with yellowish-white scales on same ; sensation of coldness of outer head ; puffed up face ; many small warts on hands. θ Lying-in
women.
Papulous eruption on forehead.
Headache with an unusual accumulation of dandruff on scalp. θ Pregnancy.
Dry, tenacious, bran-like scurf on scalp. θ Keratitis.
Scales on head, either dry or moist, small or large, thin or thick, and yellowish-white.
Thick scabs on head, with yellow pus ; spreading to face.
Scabs on scalp, thick and bleeding when picked ; also itch a little ; glandular swellings in neck. θ Eczema capitis.
Yellow scabs upon vertex, covering nearly entire top of head. θ Tinea.
Eczema of scalp ; with flatulence, protrusion of navel and screaming spells, at 5 P. M., until scrotal hernia formed (followed by Lycop.).
Dry, thickly encrusted, foul smelling eruption, commencing at back of head and extending over whole head to beard, with crawling and sore, itching pain, > from scratching.
Tinea favosa ; thick scabs covered with thick pus.
Crusta serpiginosa ; herpes circinatus. θ Dentition.
Tumors, suppurating boils and abscesses on scalp.
Easily suppurating hairless boils and encysted swellings on scalp, returning every four weeks (at full moon), painful especially in open air.
Paralysis after striking head against a stone wall ; boy, æt. 8 years.

Sight and eyes

Farsightedness ; snapping as of sparks from an electric machine, in occiput and ears.
Sensitiveness to light, photophobia. θ Megrim. θ Tinea. θ Ophthalmia
scrofulosa. θ Ulcerated cornea.
Photophobia ; < in morning after rising, and in evening by candlelight.
Great shunning of light, closes lids, sits in corners, bores face in pillows, or hangs head.
Great photophobia ; < in evening ; agglutination of lids in morning. θ Keratitis.
Photophobia, accompanied by a chronic soreness of thighs. θ Strabismus.
Stinging pains in eyes, < from candlelight ; rainbow around light.
Glittering or bright luminous appearance before eyes, with severe vertigo.
Sees a bright star to right side, which she is constantly induced to follow with her eyes, which, however, recedes as fast as she turns her eyes. θ Chorea.
Optical illusions in dark colors ; she saw black spots during physical exertion.
Mist before eyes when looking keenly at anything or when reading. θ Pregnancy.
Blackness before eyes, with nausea at pit of stomach, in morning before meal.
Dim vision after fine work ; objects run together ; desire to close eyes.
Dimness of vision : with feathery appearance before eyes ; as if looking through gauze ; after getting head cold ; after meals.
Dim-sightedness. θ Muscular atrophy. θ Nervous headache. θ Uterine
ailments. θ Pulmonary derangements. θ Addison's disease. θ After
suppression of acute cutaneous diseases. θ Chorea.
She sees only half of object to right of that particularly looked at, though it would naturally fall within field of vision. θ Chorea.
Cataract.
Like a shadow before eyes, obscuring one side of object ; pupils much dilated.
Sudden blindness after dinner ; anxious sweat, nausea, and an appearance of bright shiny light before eyes.
Horrid visions when eyes are closed. θ Typhus.
Asthenopia in pale flabby subjects inclined to grow fat ; < in damp weather, from warmth, and after using eyes.
Veils, feathers, shadows or black spots appear before eyes, making vision indistinct ; it is also indistinct from straining of body or mind, from reading, and after dinner.
At 3 to 4 inches distance objects appear blended or flowing into one another. θ Strabismus.
Short-sighted, to read, nose has to touch paper. θ Strabismus.
Severe pain over whole head after straining or overexerting eyes. θ Strabismus.
Slightest attempt to use eyes causes frightful pain in them.
While reading : pressive, stupefying pain in forehead ; darkening of eyes ; must wink ; tension in ocular muscles ; by candlelight, burning and cutting in eyes and lids ; stitching in eyes with flow of tears in sun.
Worse from reading, writing or looking up. θ Nervous sensations in head.
On looking around, vertigo.
Closing eyes : > headache ; horrid visions appear ; feels need of closing eyes.
Pressure, itching, coldness or burning and stinging in eyes.
Tearing in eyes and on head.
Dilated pupils ; often indicated after Sulphur.
Pupils sometimes dilated and sometimes contracted.
Redness of eyes.
Oozing of blood from eyes.
Fungus hematodes with opacity of cornea.
Fungus medullaris.
Excrescence on inner corner of eye ; eye inflamed.
Pterygium proceeding from external canthus towards cornea.
Corneal affections of children.
Bluish cornea or bluish spots on it. θ Horses.
Dimness of cornea ; opacity ; maculæ.
Pustules on cornea, with a tendency to spread and ulcerate ; a white centre with red margin. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
A pustule above centre of cornea with bloodvessels running to it from above.
Pustules on cornea, much lachrymation and excessive photophobia ; < by gaslight, or in morning, and in changes of weather.
Vascular ulcer on cornea.
Ulceration of cornea in child with light hair, blue eyes and distended abdomen. (Resulting cicatrix, Graphit.) θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Corneitis and conjunctivitis.
Ophthalmia : from taking cold ; entrance of foreign body ; in the newborn ; scrofulous ; arthritic.
Traumatic iritis.
Retinitis.
Foreign bodies in eye.
Inflammation of eyes, with vesicles containing a clear fluid.
Ophthalmia scrofulosa : lids closed, red, swollen, painful, itching, glued together in morning ; conjunctiva inflamed and red ; vesicles filled with pus on cornea ; acrid flow of tears ; great photophobia ; stitching pain in eyes.
Conjunctivitis trachomatosa with pannus ; from working in the wet.
Sore eyes and rough cough ; sheep.
Sensation in eyes as if she should press them in.
Stitching pains through eyeballs at external canthus. θ Keratitis.
Stinging pain in eyes. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Stinging, tearing, burning, pressing, itching in eyes.
Dreams of violent stitches in eye.
Inflammation of eyes, with stitches as of needles, burning, flow of tears, and difficulty in opening, at night.
Smarting, burning and cutting in eyes and lids, especially when reading by candlelight.
Pain in eyeball < in evening and by gaslight. θ Keratitis.
Extending to eyes : pressure in vertex ; stitching headache on right side ; to right eye, pressing pain in forehead ; to eye and ear, boring and stitching toothache.
Stitching in head, out at eyes.
Tearing pain in bones of orbit.
Feels as if she squinted. θ Nervous sensation in head.
Strabismus ; after cutting eye-teeth.
Left eye turns in. θ Strabismus.
On turning eyes tension in ocular muscles.
Sensation as if eye moved involuntarily.
A slight dull or blurred appearance of eye. θ Strabismus.
Anxious look of eyes. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Lachrymation of reddened eyes ; he can scarcely open them.
Much lachrymation and photophobia. θ Keratitis.
Lachrymation : in open air, or in morning ; while writing ; with considerable pain.
Fistula lachrymalis ; thick yellow pus in canthus ; itching, humid eruptions.
Excessive secretion of mucus in eyes.
Burning in canthi. θ Ophthalmia.
Stitches in inner canthi, with alternating stitches and throbbing in eyes, and after the pain disappeared, frequent blowing of nose.
Itching in canthi.
Severe pressure, day and night, as if a grain of sand was under upper lid.
Swelling and redness of lids, with nightly agglutination ; during day they are full of gum, with a hot sensation and smarting pain and lachrymation.
Lids closed, red, swollen, with painful itching in them, agglutination mornings. θ Keratitis.
Lids feel sticky when moving them.
Agglutination and suppuration of lids.
Eyes full of gum in daytime.
Lids are agglutinated with gum in morning ; eyes look watery, and pain if she looks at light.
Eyelids inverted and swollen ; they looked like raw beef ; were stuck together with yellow gum. θ Tinea.
Entropium.
If closed lids are opened by force, a stream of acrid, hot tears gushes out.
Twitching in upper lids, with a sensation as if eye was moving of itself.
A painful sensation as if a small foreign body was in eyes.
Quivering in upper eyelid.
Nictitation in upper and lower lid.
Clonic spasms of eyelids.
Spasmodic closure of lids and photophobia. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Itching margins of lids.
Heat and heaviness in upper lids.
Burning and cutting in eyelids.
Lids hard and swollen ; throbbing pains.
Blepharophthalmia, which destroyed eyelashes and partly lids.
Dry scurf on cilia during day ; lids agglutinated in morning.
Indurations after styes.
Sensation of swelling below eye.
Fine crawling under eye.
Encysted swelling over left eye, congenital.
Dermoid swelling of eye.
Dark rings around eyes. θ Worms.
Obstruction of lachrymal duct ; fistula lachrymalis.

Hearing and ears

Brain sensitive to loud or shrill sounds. θ Megrim. θ Toothache.
Many perversions of hearing ; noises ; deafness, with feeling as if something lay in front of the membrana tympani ; noise or sputtering in ear when using a handkerchief or swallowing.
Ringing in ears.
Cracking in ears when chewing or swallowing.
Roaring in ears ; with nausea ; with inclination to fall.
Ringing, buzzing, singing and hissing or thundering in ears.
Hardness of hearing, especially after suppression of intermittent by quinine ; also from eustachian catarrh.
Deafness. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa. θ Epilepsy. θ Intermittent
fever. θ Otorrhœa.
Diminished sense of hearing, with stinging and ringing in ear, alternating with musical sounds ; of twenty-six years standing.
Deafness : right-sided ; in the scrofulous ; < in open air ; > from sweating.
Deafness of left ear, and on shaking bead singing and roaring.
Heat within ears, like hot blood.
Throbbing in ears.
Tingling in ears.
Pain in internal ears, first right then left ; < extreme heat or cold, blowing nose or coughing ; internally tender. θ After variola.
Pain in ear beating, with knocking, buzzing and roaring ; detonations ; meatus externus filled with whitish, pappy, fetid pus or viscid discharge ; membrana tympani perforated. θ Scrofulous
subjects.
Pain shoots into ear and head. θ Toothache.
Pulsation, stitching and heat in ears.
Right ear much swollen, with sudden jerking pain, causing whole body to start ; same in eyelids and face.
Stitches in ears and eyes, from within outward.
Earache : < by blowing nose ; with cough.
Dryness of ears, with deafness, or copious secretion of cerumen.
Inflammation and swelling of outer and inner ear.
A little water trickles from ear, with which he hears well ; difficult to hear with other ear, which has normal wax.
Discharge from ear muco-purulent. θ Suppuration of middle ear.
Otorrhœa muco-purulent, affecting principally right ear ; enlarged glands. θ Eczema. θ Scrofula.
θ Goitre.
Offensive discharge from ears. θ Pruritus vulvæ.
Chronic catarrh of middle ear. θ After suppressed itch.
Ulceration, then granulation, then polypus ; great stench.
Tickling at times in right eustachian tube. θ Sore throat.
Stitches or pain in throat extending to ears.
Deafness from eustachian catarrh.
Swellings in ears.
Small ulcers at outer meatus.
Dampness, moist eruption, behind ears.
Eruption and itching of ears.
Retro-aural abscess after incision.
Parotitis, particularly on right side.
Painful inflammatory swelling of parotids.
Swelling in front of left ear, painful to touch, like a boil.
Parotitis in scarlatina ; discharge ichorus, malignant.
Suppuration of parotid ; neighboring glands indurated.
Corrosive nasal discharge and glandular swellings of ears.
Steatoma over right parotid gland.
Fistulous ulcers towards neck discharging pus in front of ears.

Smell and nose

Smell sensitive.
Impaired smell. θ Chronic coryza.
Very offensive smell in nose ; stench as of manure, gunpowder or putrid eggs. θ Chronic coryza. θ Nasal
catarrh.
Epistaxis frequent and profuse, almost to faintness.
Bleeding of nose in morning. θ Nasal catarrh.
Hemorrhage from nose ; < from right nostril. θ Tuberculosis.
Nosebleed in the scrofulous, subject to cold in head (morning).
Annoying dryness of nose. θ Nasal catarrh.
Dry nose at night ; moist during day.
Mucous membrane of nose swollen. θ Chronic catarrh.
Loud breathing through nose. θ Tuberculosis
Frequent sneezing from prickling or itching in nose. θ Coryza.
Sneezing with a foul smell from throat. θ Bronchial catarrh.
After frequent vain attempts at sneezing, severe fluent coryza.
Drawing pain in occiput, disappears on sneezing.
Nose sometimes very dry and then again plugged with yellow, offensive pus.
Profuse fluent coryza.
Coryza with profuse secretion, clear like water, of a salty taste.
Colds come on suddenly with a discharge, dropping in spells like clear water from nose. θ Coryza.
Discharge from nose ceases in morning and causes headache. θ Chronic catarrh. θ Ozæna.
Severe fluent coryza, followed by colic. θ Nasal catarrh. θ In children.
Coryza with oppression of chest. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Fluent coryza soon becomes purulent, whitish-yellow. θ Tuberculosis.
Constant catarrh in nose, with thick mucous discharge. θ Bronchial asthma.
Nasal discharge yellow and thick. θ After variola.
Blowing thick slime from nose, mixed with blood. θ Chronic catarrh.
Purulent thick or yellow red discharge making lip sore ; red, itching pustules on upper lip and cheeks ; nose swollen externally and internally.
(In sick :) Plugs of mucus in nose.
At first stoppage of nose, then fluent coryza, with cough.
Stoppage of nose. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Stoppage of nose, can hardly breathe, especially at night ; on boring into nose with finger, sensation as if something was pushed up, and blood appears ; nose externally swollen and sore.
Stoppage of nose, sneezing ; < morning on awaking. θ Chronic colds.
Nose stopped up with yellow, foul smelling pus.
Stoppage of nose, with oppression and sense of anxiety in chest.
Purulent, sometimes bloody profuse discharge from nose. θ Chronic catarrh. θ Ozæna.
Acrid discharge from nose. θ Keratitis.
Cold in head with sores inside nose. θ Pruritus vulvæ.
Sore, ulcerated nostrils.
Nostrils ulcerated and scabby ; lips sore.
On nostrils ulcerated spots, covered with crusts and very sensitive to touch. θ Chronic catarrh.
Scurfs in nose.
Ulceration of inner nose, with at times yellow, and at times black crusts.
Foul stench from nose.
Ozæna after suppressed itch.
Nasal polypi, with loss of smell.
Great liability to catarrhs. θ Coryza.
Discharge changeable in color and consistency, dropping from posterior nares.
Blowing nose yields thick slime, mixed with dark blood.
Chronic coryza.
When blowing nose, darting to ear.
Effort of blowing nose caused sensation as if ear was closed.
Nose inflamed, red and swollen. θ Nasal catarrh.
Painful sensitiveness of nose, with coryza.
Stitches towards nasal bone.
A pain rises from nose up to forehead, as if a board was laid against it.
Fine crawling on side of nose.
Sensation of swelling around nose.
Sore, painful, swollen, and erysipelatous looking nose ; it is quite hard to touch, and attended with much frontal headache.
On left ala nasi (externally) a red swollen spot tender to touch and on moving muscles of nose.
Cartilage at bridge of nose painful, especially on pressure.
Swelling of nose, especially at root, frequently appearing and disappearing ; bluish-red ; nasal passage stopped up.
Swelling of nose and upper lip, in children.
Nose thick, red, with acrid discharge. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Knotty swelling on ridge of nose.
(In sick :) Soreness and rawness around tip of nose, with redness and determination of blood to same.
On motion, painfulness of right wing of nose, which is swollen.
Cancer of nose.
Abscess of nose.
Herpetic eruption on nose, in horses ; after Sulphur.
Tearing headache above eyes down nose, with nausea and gaping.
Metastasis from nose to abdomen ; when coryza ceases, colic sets in. θ In children.

Upper face

Tearing pain in cheek, which becomes swollen.
Rending in facial bones.
Chronic prosopalgia ; fat people ; damp, cold feet ; profuse menses.
Pain in upper jaw when chewing.
If face is exposed to cold air it pains ; soon subsides in a warm room. θ Prosopalgia.
Pains from right mental foramen along nerve up lower jaw to ear. θ Prosopalgia.
Pressure in head spreading to cheek.
Anxious face when raised from cradle. θ Cholera infantum.
Eyes and mouth drawn down, the latter open, with an idiotic expression. θ Marasmus.
Face looks old and wrinkled. θ Cholera infantum. θ Marasmus. θ Diarrhœa
of children.
Cadaverous appearance. θ Tumor of eye.
Cold face and forehead. θ Cholera infantum.
Coldness of face, hands and feet ; when solitude becomes burdensome.
Chilliness, alternating with heat, especially in face. θ Coryza.
Heat of face : with headache, and determination of blood to head ; with pain in left temple.
Warmth or heat of forehead and face, with shivering of whole body.
Face pale and cachectic. θ Chronic coryza. θ Leucorrhœa. θ Chorea.
θ Epilepsy. θ Herpes. θ Cholera
infantum. θ Diarrhœa. θ Phthisis pulmonalis. θ Worms.
θ Dysmenorrhœa. θ Scarlatina.
Pale earthy countenance. θ Keratitis.
Face sallow. θ Bronchial asthma. θ Addison's disease.
When emaciation occurs, face is pale or sallow.
Face waxy pale. θ Palpitation.
Pale, lean face with deep-set eyes, surrounded by dark rings. θ Worms.
Paleness of face with frequent flushes. θ Tuberculosis.
Yellow color of face.
Face red. θ Headache. θ Tinea. θ Typhus.
Flushed face, lying on left side. θ Intermittent.
Glowing redness of face, with a fine network of capillaries, like veined marble.
Coppery appearance of face.
Sweat on forehead. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
Large drops of sweat in face, with fainting spell.
Face puffed up, in children.
Puffiness of face. θ Hyperemia of head.
Swelling of cheeks after faceache.
(In sick :) Striped swelling on cheeks, next to these light spaces.
Swelling of right side of face and ear ; covered with pimples.
(In sick :) Nodular swellings in face.
Baggy swellings in face, which are in constant state of inflammation and frequently suppurate ; also polypi in ear.
Itching and eruption in face and in whiskers.
Red itching pustules on upper lip and cheeks. θ Chronic coryza.
Moist itching scurfy eruption on cheeks and forehead, with burning pain.
Eruptions of painful papules or an eczema.
Forehead and face were covered with yellow scabs, especially about mouth. θ Tinea.
Pityriasis in spots on face.
Light spaces in face, with dark surroundings.
Light brown spots or freckles on face.
"Seed wart" on left cheek.
Tensive pain when chewing, with boil under ear-lobe.
Cracking in ear when chewing.

Lower face

Crawling on lower part of face.
Drawing pain in jaw.
Lower jaw, gum and cheek swollen. θ Toothache.
Swelling of right lower jaw bone.
Swelling of upper lip, in morning. θ Catarrh. θ Scrofula. θ Keratitis.
θ Epilepsy. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa.
(In sick :) Lumps in upper lip.
Swelling of lower lip.
Ulcers inside of lower lip, which interfere with speaking ; light yellow, surrounded by redness, painful on contact with tongue and every motion.
Scurfy pimples on border of red portion of lower lip.
Very small warts in bunches on lower lip ; horses.
Lips dry. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Lips chapped and cracked ; corners of mouth ulcerated.
Eruption on lips and mouth.
On motion of lower jaw, digging stitches in left temple.
While chewing : cracking in ear ; pain on side and lower surface of tongue ; tensive pain in maxillary joint ; painful tension in swollen gland under jaw.
Chewing motion with mouth before attack. θ Epilepsy.
Chewing motion of jaws during sleep. θ Acute yellow atrophy. θ Hepatic
affections.
Painful swelling of submaxillary glands.
Submaxillary glands swollen and suppurating ; followed, later, by goitre.
Hard, painful swelling of submaxillary glands ; painful tension when chewing ; sticking pain when touched.
Large swelling of submaxillary glands of right side, not tender to touch, painful only when turning head ; from getting feet wet.
Drawing and stitching in left chest to left submaxillary gland.

Teeth and gums

Inclined to gnash teeth as in a chill.
Inclined to touch tooth with tongue.
Teeth crumbling from decay. θ Chronic prurigo. θ Diarrhœa. θ Emaciation.
Pressure on upper row of teeth.
Gnawing toothache in upper molars.
Drawing toothache with stitches, day or night, relieved by cold or warmth.
Drawing, pricking, rooting, throbbing, jerking in teeth.
Moderate toothache ; with very severe swelling of cheek ; with stitching.
Throbbing, boring and swelling of gums and cheeks.
Tearing pains, extending up into head, as if roots were being torn out.
Pain in hollow teeth, especially around loose stumps.
Gnawing toothache ; < in evening.
Pain in upper and lower teeth, left side, extends to maxillary bones.
Toothache extending to ear.
Pressure in head, spreads to teeth.
(In sick :) Toothache on right side, which cannot be located in any special tooth ; afterwards nausea and coldness in abdomen ; patient never had toothache before.
Immediately after menstruation, toothache, drawing and sticking, day and night ; < if she inclined head to right, or to left, or backward.
Toothache during pregnancy, with determination of blood to head, from taking cold ; worse at night ; < from noise and warmth or cold.
Toothache, with inflammation of bones.
Teeth cannot endure air or any coldness.
Teeth are raised, and pain when biting on them.
Toothache : after drinking cold liquids, or excited by draught, or cold ; drawing, shooting or boring ; during and after menstruation ; during pregnancy ; worse from warm or cold drinks ; from getting wet working in damp places ; < from noise and
trying to use eyes.
Toothache in all teeth ; < from entrance of cold air ; wakes him at night.
Teeth are particularly sensitive to cold air.
Offensive smell from teeth.
Difficult dentition. θ Rachitis. θ Eclampsia. θ Cholera
infantum. θ Hydrocephalus. θ Crusta lactea. θ Infantile
catarrh. θ Laryngo-tracheitis. θ Bronchitis. θ Bronchial
catarrh. θ Marasmus. θ Urticaria. θ Chorea.
During teething sore mouth.
Pulsating in gums. (compare Pulsat.)
Stitching in gums.
Gums painfully tender ; swelling, bleeding, even at night.
Toothache, with red swollen and inflamed gums, followed by pain in jaw, went from upper to lower teeth and from r. to left ; > from external warmth.
Toothache and bleeding of gums, with foul odor from mouth.
Bleeding of gums after suppressed menses.
Gums eaten away ; exposed bones become covered with callous membrane.
Fistula dentalis. (Compare Flour. ac.)
Epulis, soft and painless.

Taste, speech, tongue

Loss of taste ; with impaired smell.
Food tastes "too fresh" or unsalted.
Taste : sour ; salty ; like ink ; of iron ; bitter, back in throat ; metallic or leaden ; foul ; like dung, in mouth and pharynx ; like smell of strong urine ; pappy, in headache ; acid, in gout ;
unpleasant, with cough.
Sour taste in mouth or of food.
Cold water is the only thing which has a good taste. θ Hereditary headache.
Speech is difficult and clumsy.
Tongue dry, does not like to talk. (Compare Phosph. Ac and Bellad.)
Dryness of tongue, at night, and morning on awaking.
Great dryness of mouth and tongue, with a sense of roughness.
Dryness, alternating with excess of saliva. θ Ranula.
Rough streaks in middle of a dry tongue. θ Typhus.
Dry, slimy tongue, with dull pain in forehead.
Rough bristling sensation, with great dryness of mouth and tongue.
Pain on side and lower surface of tongue on spitting.
Soreness of tongue, either on tip, sides, or dorsum ; can scarcely talk or eat.
Burning pain at tip of tongue, as from soreness ; < from warm food or drink.
Burning pain ; burning vesicles, which become ulcers.
Tongue pains as if ulcerated. θ Glossalgia.
Painful blisters on tongue and palate.
Tongue clean, red, pointed. θ Intermittent.
Tongue red, raw. θ Gastromalacia.
Cracked and fissured tongue.
Glossitis after abuse of mercury.
Tongue generally white coated. θ Headache.
Tongue dirty, with nasty taste. θ Pneumonia.
Tongue, lips and hands became white and cold.
Pain beneath tongue, when swallowing, on left side, behind hyoid bone.
Swelling of sublingual glands. θ Ranula.
Tongue pushed upward and to left by a globular, semitransparent, fluctuating tumor, size of pigeon egg. θ Ranula.
Cancer or syphilitic tubercle of tongue.
Abscess, cracks or fissures of tongue.

Inner mouth

Heat in mouth, with hot breath.
Dryness of mouth, at night.
Dryness of mouth, alternating with salivation. θ Aphtæ.
Great dryness in mouth. θ Coryza.
Collection of water in mouth, with disposition to gag, in œsophagus.
Frequent spitting ; after vexation ; with pressure in stomach.
Flow of sour, watery fluid from mouth, with nausea.
Copious viscid saliva, with sour taste in mouth.
Accumulation of much mucus in mouth, though it does not cause spitting.
Foul odor from mouth.
Catarrhal inflammation of mouth and fauces, when salivation alternates with dryness of mouth and lips. θ Stomatitis.
Sore mouth of children ; canker sores, especially during teething.
Mouth slimy, blisters on inner surface of cheek and tongue.
Ulcers in mouth.
Ulcers inside of lower lip, light yellow surrounded by redness ; pain on contact of tongue and every motion ; interferes with eating and speaking.
Recent spongy painless tumor, size of marble, on inner side of right under lip ; near corner of mouth ; fair and fat : leuco-phlegmatic young lady.

Palate and throat

Chronic swelling or hardening of palate.
Blisters on roof of mouth and uvula, which is dark red.
Stitches in palate, after expectoration of blood, from coughing.
Inflammatory swelling of palate and uvula or tonsils, with sensation as if throat was contracted when swallowing.
Sensation of stinging and pricking roughness of back part of palate, exciting cough. θ Coryza.
Uvula feels elongated.
Swollen or ulcerated tonsils.
Greatly inflamed throat, with aphthæ on tonsils and roof of mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Fauces feel unpleasantly rough. θ Coryza.
Smarting aching in back of throat about ten minutes after eating. θ Sore throat.
Pharynx spasmodically contracted.
A feeling in pharynx, in afternoon, as if food remained sticking in it and could not get into stomach, with a kind of nausea.
Pain in throat ; extending to ears.
Feeling of swelling in throat ; < left side, extending up into ears.
Feeling of a lump in throat.
Tickling as from a feather in throat ; swallowing difficult.
Scratching in throat ; stitching and pressure on swallowing ; constriction.
Stitches in chest extending toward throat.
(In sick :) Relaxed throat, with roughness and hoarseness, and soreness of eyes.
Bitter taste in throat, or mucus tasting of iron.
Throat very painful ; swallowing difficult. θ Scarlatina.
Throat feels narrowed, so that she must frequently swallow. θ Sore throat.
For a week feeling a lump in left side of throat, which makes her feel sick and compels her to swallow saliva often, and on doing so, lump seems to descend.
On swallowing : cracking noise in ear ; pain on side and lower surface of tongue to left behind hyoid bone ; pressure in pharynx ; sensation as if fauces were filled with mucus ; sensation of much mucus in pharynx ; narrowness in œsophagus ; stinging
and stitches ; is not able to swallow bread ; pain as of a plug in throat.
She cannot eat enough ; it will not go down.
Swallows wrong way ; afterwards cough with expectoration of blood.
Hawking of phlegm, particularly in morning, with nausea ; causes odor in mouth when hawking.
Hawks saltish mucus from throat. θ Chorea.
Throat is rough. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Sensation of rawness and soreness of entire œsophagus.
Violent stitching in upper part of œsophagus when not swallowing.
Sensation as if food had lodged in œsophagus ; taste of iron and of ink.
Heavy load rising from abdomen up into throat. θ Gastralgia.
Spasmodic contraction or narrowness of œsophagus.
Organic stricture of œsophagus.
Throat inflamed, with aphthæ on tonsils and roof of mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Sore throat when weather changes. θ Catarrh.
Sore throat marked ; cellular tissue around cervical glands swollen ; nose sore, obstructed. θ Scarlatina.
Calcareous deposits in pharynx.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite increased spasmodically, alternating with loss of appetite.
Appetite prodigious ; thirst very great. θ Mesenteric disease.
Ravenous hunger, with weak stomach.
Ravenous hunger in morning.
Canine hunger. θ Epilepsy.
Eats a great deal and yet loses flesh. θ Marasmus. θ Epilepsy.
Voracity ; everything she eats seems to go into an empty stomach.
Hunger, soon after eating.
Appetite poor, with an aversion to meat and a craving for boiled eggs. θ Palpitation.
Loss of appetite ; but when he began to eat he relished it.
Complete loss of appetite. θ Coryza. θ Keratitis. θ Indigestion.
θ Neurosis cordis. θ Gout. θ Gonagra.
θ Muscular atrophy. θ Hereditary headache.
Anorexia. θ Pneumonia.
Anorexia and bulimia. θ Addison's disease.
No appetite, but constant burning thirst. θ Cough.
Increased thirst, especially for cold drinks, and particularly at night.
Thirsty ; craving cold drinks. θ Cholera infantum.
Constant thirst, even after drinking. θ Lymphatic enlargements.
Much thirst for acidulated water.
Great thirst : with complete loss of appetite ; with stomach pains ; with chilliness.
Great thirst. θ Worms. θ Gonagra. θ Gout.
θ Epilepsy.
No thirst. θ Hereditary headache. θ Coryza.
Desire for sweets. θ Uterine displacement.
Appetite for sweets and pastry. θ Epilepsy.
Great desire for eggs, wine, sour, salt or sweet things ; sugar, disagrees.
Longing for eggs, particularly with children, in sickness or during reconvalescence, even before they are able to swallow.
Longing for boiled eggs. θ Ophthalmia scrofulosa. θ Uterine displacement. θ Coxalgia.
θ Scarlatina.
Craves indigestible things, chalk, coal, etc.
Unnatural craving for ice-cream an lemonade, which agree with her.
Irresistible desire to eat raw potatoes and handfuls of flour, in alternation.
Great aversion to eating.
Aversion to meat and warm food.
Aversion to meat. θ Chlorosis. θ Goitre.
Aversion to milk, which tastes sour.
Aversion to smoking tobacco.

Eating and drinking

Before breakfast : headache ; faintness, weakness ; drowsiness and trembling.
Headache before breakfast. θ Epilepsy.
Brought on by eating : toothache ; cough.
After dinner : sudden blindness ; heat of face ; distension of abdomen.
After evening meal : pressure in stomach ; pinching and forcing immediately under navel ; severe chill, followed by pain in abdomen throughout night.
After eating : first stitches then boring in last molar tooth ; heat or flatulency, with nausea ; pain in stomach and abdomen ; bloatedness ; eructations with burning ; pressure in stomach ; aching or crampy pains ; cramplike pain around navel,
causing nausea, with cold sweat, relieved by eructation ; burning in throat ; swelling of stomach (chlorosis) ; cough (bronchial catarrh) ; palpitation of heart (chlorosis) ; fulness in abdomen ; diarrhœa ; straining, almost cutting, forcing down, in
colon ; headache, palpitation, rush of blood to head and sleepiness ; immediately hungry.
Burning extending up into throat, after every meal, especially after use of hard, dry food.
Worse after eating smoked meats.
Sour taste after eating sugar or cake.
Worse from salad ; from leguminous food.
Better from eating : first stitches then boring in last molar tooth ; cutting in abdomen.
Worse from drinking : diarrhœa ; cough and spitting blood.
Worse from drinking cold water. θ Epilepsy.
After milk : nausea and sour eructations ; waterbrash.
Worse from spirituous drinks. θ Throbbing headache.
After wine, especially champagne, often is relieved. θ Hereditary headache.
Sweat after eating or drinking. θ Crusta lactea.
Nausea from smoking tobacco.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Frequent hiccough.
Eructations : tasting of food eaten ; bitter ; sour ; offensive ; of tasteless fluid ; of brownish sour fluid ; with taste like gall ; rancid, leaving scratching sensation.
Frequent eructations, generally sour, with burning from epigastrium upward.
Much empty eructation : with headache in temples ; with hemicrania ; with uneasiness in legs.
Sour eructations. θ Diarrhœa. θ Gastralgia.
Uneasy movements over entire body, from suppressing eructations.
Heartburn : extending to throat ; with continued loud belching after eating ; with cough and nausea ; with itching and stitching burning at nape of neck.
Rising of tasteless water in mouth. θ Sore throat.
Nausea and waterbrash after milk.
Gulping up of food, with foul taste.
Qualmishness while riding.
Nausea : mornings, with qualmishness and shuddering ; towards evening, during dentition ; with roaring before ears ; with sensation in larynx as if food had stuck there ; with flow of sour water from mouth ; with pressing pain in
lower abdomen ; with trembling ; with cold sweat ; after drinking milk ; after colic ; in pit of stomach, in morning, fasting, with blackness before eyes, so that he was obliged to sit down ; in forenoon, followed by anxiety in afternoon.
Accumulation of water in mouth with vertigo in morning ; also at other times ; with waterbrash ; sometimes early vomiting.
When he had eaten almost enough, he became nausated, this ceased if he stopped eating.
Nausea with heat in top of head. θ Megrim.
Nausea and headache : after severe vertigo ; from customary smoking.
She feels sick, but is unable to bring up anything.
Nausea following vomiting.
Vomit : sour ; of bitter slime ; of what has been eaten ; black ; bloody ; sweet (Kreosot., Plumbum) ; sweet, with nursing women ; curdled milk ; of sour water at night ; after eating fish ; of all he
eats ; after epileptic attacks.
Sour vomiting, especially during dentition.
Vomit has sour smell. θ Cholera infantum.
Occasional acidity of stomach. θ Phthisis pulmonalis. θ Addison's disease.
Vomiting and diarrhœa of teething children.
Vomiting of mucus or bile announces remission. θ Megrim.
Milk is vomited in form of cheese.
With vomiting of food aching or crampy pains.
Vomiting on drinking water after evening meal.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Epigastric region painful to touch. θ Chronic mesenteric disease.
Aching, both when fasting and after eating, and particularly on couching.
Pain in epigastrium.
Pressing pain in stomach, as if a load of stone was in it, after moderate supper ; < from motion ;> lying quiet on back. θ Gastralgia.
Pressure and cramplike pain in stomach when fasting, or after meals, with vomiting of ingesta.
Gastrodynia.
Severe pressure in pit of stomach, when pressing upon it, and after stool, in forenoon.
Pressure transversely across stomach.
Pressure at pit of stomach, at night.
Pressure in stomach, with pressure outward under last rib.
Anxious pressure in stomach, followed by insensibility.
Stitching pressure in stomach after eating.
Stitches in pit of stomach, downward.
Cutting pain in epigastrium.
Digging a pit of stomach.
Sudden jerks at pit of stomach, with fear.
Trembling and beating in region of stomach.
Tensive pinching pain at pit of stomach.
Relaxed sensation in stomach.
Warm streams of blood from pit of stomach to head.
Burning in stomach while sitting.
Burning extending upward from pit of stomach.
Constricting pains at pit of stomach.
Cramps in stomach : from gases ; with sour eructations ; with nausea ; ending in vomiting ; with sour or bitter vomit, or vomiting of food ; with yawning ; with anxiety and constriction in chest ; palpitation of heart,
costiveness and blind piles ; in the scrofulous.
Cardialgia, afternoon to evening.
Pit of stomach swollen like a saucer turned bottom up ; painful to pressure. θ Icterus. θ Hepatic
affections. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Neuralgia cordis. θ Dyspepsia.
θ Diarrhœa. θ In children.
Hard bloated stomach. θ Intermittent.
Bloating in region of stomach, compelling him to undo his clothing. θ Palpitation.
Distress in epigastric region, much greater just before a stool, compelling to press hands upon that region and bend forward ; relieved to some extent by movement of bowels. θ Mesenteric
disease.
Indigestion. θ Icterus. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Weak digestion from a blow or strain ; scarcely any food agrees ; sleepy all day.
Weak stomach with great voracity.
Gastromalacia : tongue red as if raw ; total loss of appetite ; great thirst ; vomiting of all he eats ; stool often green, many small lumps surrounded by green matter ; emaciation of neck ; peculiar crying.
Cannot bear tight clothing over pit of stomach.
After gastric disturbances. θ Chronic headache.

Hypochondria

Pressure in hepatic region, with every step, when walking.
Stitches in hepatic region during or after stooping. θ Icterus.
Darting pain, right to left side, with profuse sweat ; had to bend double, clench her hands, writhe with agony. θ Icterus from calculus.
Enlargement of liver. θ Icterus.
Induration of liver.
Sore pain in region of liver and spleen.
Enlarged spleen. θ Intermittent. θ Gout and rheumatism.
Tightness in both hypochondria.
Feeling as if laced below hypochondria, with trembling and throbbing in epigastric region.
Tight clothes about hypochondria are unbearable. θ Icterus. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Bloated, must loosen garments. θ Heart disease.
Swelling of epigastric region, towards left side.
Stitches in left side on bending towards same.
Pains more on left side, especially under left hypochondrium ; tearing stitching pains in left chest to hypochondrium.

Abdomen and loins

Sensitive to pressure in epigastrium and abdomen. θ Addison's disease.
Uneasiness in abdomen.
General soreness in whole lower abdomen. θ Prolapsus uteri.
Cutting in upper part of abdomen.
Cutting and grasping in abdomen, in afternoon, with vomiting of food taken at dinner.
Pressive sticking pain in abdomen, with diarrhœa.
Digging pain in abdomen during vomiting.
Jerking in abdomen towards glans penis.
Pressing, pinching pain in abdomen, with or without diarrhœa.
Pressure in lower abdomen, on physical exertion.
Pressure in abdomen, from pit of stomach downward.
Heavy load rising from abdomen into throat. θ Gastralgia.
Sensation like crawling of worms in abdomen, causing nausea.
Beating in abdomen.
Hot burning in abdomen.
Feeling of coldness in abdomen. θ Colic.
Sense of coldness with swelling of lower abdomen. θ Uterine tumor.
Frequent pain in upper part of abdomen ; a "grumbling pain" or a "very sharp squeeze." θ Mesenteric disease.
Severe spasms in intestines. θ Colic.
Frequent severe cramp in intestinal canal, especially in evening and night, with coldness of thighs.
Colic of horses ; after Cinchona, or abuse of it.
Colic : with waterbrash ; following coryza and diarrhœa ; followed by intermitting diarrhœa.
Colicky pains about umbilicus towards uterus.
Abdominal pains are brought on or aggravated by inspiration.
Contractive drawing aching in epigastrium and across upper abdomen, compelling to walk bent forward, and aggravated by deep inspiration.
Nausea with pain in lower abdomen, beginning in morning, reaches its height in evening.
Pain in abdomen all night.
Pain in abdomen relieved by warmth. θ Mesenteric disease.
Pains relieved by cold water applications ; wants them frequently renewed. θ Peritonitis.
Incarcerated flatus, with distension. θ Megrim.
Constant rumbling in bowels.
Flatulency with gurgling in right side of abdomen.
Tension in abdomen, with distention, all afternoon, without sensation of flatus, which disappears after passing wind.
Abdomen large. θ Chronic diarrhœa. θ Lumbrici.
Abdomen protuberant. θ Hydrocephalus.
Abdomen much distended ; hard. θ Keratitis. θ Ophthalmia
scrofulosa. θ Colic. θ Dentition. θ Worms.
θ Cholera infantum. θ Marasmus. θ Ovarian
dropsy. θ Fibroid uterine tumor. θ Uterine displacement. θ Coxalgia.
θ Gonarthrocace. θ Epilepsy. θ Eclampsia.
θ Intermittent. θ Osteitis. θ Rachitis.
θ Addison's disease.
Mesenteric glands hard and swollen, in children ; abdomen feels as if filled with stones or ovoid bodies.
Enlargement and induration of mesenteric glands, with claylike evacuations ; dry and flabby skin and muscles ; hair dry and looking like tow.
Mesenteric atrophy.
Ascites ; abdomen painful to touch.
Ulcers in bowels.
Emaciated everywhere, except abdomen.
Worm symptoms. θ Chorea.
Tenia.
Soreness of navel ; a moist excrescence like proud flesh from navel of infants. (Kali carb., Natr. mur.)
Inguinal and umbilical hernia ; walls of abdomen so thin that a truss could not be worn.
Pressing and pain in left groin.
Umbilical hernia.
Pain as if swollen, with hardness in inguinal region ; upon touch or pressure.

Stools and rectum

Tension in abdomen, disappears after passage of flatus.
Looseness of bowels. θ Prosopalgia. θ Eclampsia. θ Tuberculosis.
θ Gonarthrocace.
Tendency to looseness of bowels, with prolapse of rectum. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Inclined to diarrhœa, especially towards evening. θ Coxalgia.
Looseness of bowels, however induced, makes her feel weak for a long time ; bowels worse in evening.
Diarrhœa. θ Hydrocephalus. θ Worms. θ Cholera
infantum. θ Epilepsy. θ Typhus θ Osteitis.
θ Goitre.
Diarrhœa : of varying character, undigested, offensive, like spoiled eggs, mixed, soft and lumpy ; undigested, whitish ; a stool which is first hard, then pappy, then soft ; scanty, mixed with blood ; the stool does not weaken the patient, in chronic diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa of sour smell. θ Cholera infantum. θ During
dentition. θ Scrofula.
Diarrheic, clay-like stools, smelling sour or fetid.
Stool white, undigested. θ Intermittent.
Profuse diarrhœa, watery, slimy, with bits of coagulated milk of sour smell ; painless. θ Rachitis.
Chronic diarrhœa ; also after burns.
Asiatic cholera.
Diarrhœa : with pain in abdomen ; after eating ; after walking and motion.
Watery, pale yellow, or whitish soft stools. θ Intestinal catarrh.
Greyish-whitish feces. θ Icterus.
Stools whitish, watery, most frequent in after-part of day. θ Cholera infantum.
Stool whitish-grey, often streaked with blood. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Whitish frothy diarrhœa. θ Rachitis.
Perfectly milk-white stools. θ Diarrhœa.
Whitish stools, with emaciation. θ Chronic prurigo.
White stools, streaked with blood, with despondency and pain in liver when drawing a breath ; burning in rectum after stools.
Stools copious, pappy, of a dark greenish-brown color, quite offensive. θ Mesenteric disease.
Stools watery, smelling badly. θ Cholera infantum.
Stools : frequent, first hard, then pasty, then liquid ; thin, offensive, like bad eggs ; yellowish, grey, or clay-like, fecal ; whitish, watery, worse in after-part of day, often of sour smell ; undigested, hard or thin.
Involuntary stool, as if fermented.
Watery stools. θ During teething.
Passage of bloody slime with stool.
Stool scant, hard and black.
Hard, undigested stool of a light color or chalky appearance.
Stool large, hard, dry, knotty, and difficult of passage.
Feels best when constipated.
Stool hard, egg-shaped and white, passed with great straining. θ Liver complaint, with dropsy.
Hard, thick, scanty, and evacuated with difficulty, or complete constipation.
Must extract excrements with fingers.
Constipation of bowels with unsuccessful urging. θ Coryza.
Constipation. θ Megrim. θ Phthisis pulmonalis. θ Neurosis
cordis. θ Gonagra. θ Gout. θ Muscular
atrophy. θ Addison's disease. θ Icterus.
Stool regular, with prominent abdomen and milky urine.
Stool after eating.
Stools chiefly during 4 A. M. to noon, seldom after noon or before midnight. θ Mesenteric disease.
Bowels moved more frequently towards evening. θ Bronchitis.
Ineffectual urging, with nausea.
Before stool : irascible, irritable.
During stool : burning, tearing, and tenesmus in rectum ; prolapse of rectum ; piles ; succus prostaticus ; rolling in abdomen ; twitching in muscles of abdomen ; pallor.
After stool : pressure in rectum ; erections ; lassitude ; oppression of breath with anxiety ; in epigastrium stitches during pressure.
Tapeworm and ascarides with stool.
Pressure or straining in rectum ; constant desire for stool. θ Ovarian dropsy. θ Chronic
dysentery.
Constriction of rectum.
Tensive, jerking or aching pain in rectum.
Sensation of heat at lower end of colon, with drawing and cutting therein.
Cramp in rectum, whole forenoon ; a griping and stitching, with great anxiety ; was not able to sit, had to walk about.
Feeling of heaviness in lower portion of rectum.
Burning : in rectum, in anus.
Pain in rectum, as if it was torn open, during a soft evacuation ; grape-like protrusion around anus, inflamed, burning and painful.
Oozing of fluid from rectum, smelling like herring-brine.
Discharge of blood or bloody mucus from rectum.
Hemorrhoidal flow, with violent itching over whole body.
Flow of blood from rectum, coincident with severe nasal catarrh.
Suppressed hemorrhoidal flow, with vertigo ; pressive, dull, thick sensation in head as of drunkenness ; severe, pressive, stupefying headache ; weakness of memory ; stool seldom, costive ; foul-smelling and copious sweat of feet, with soreness of soles.
First itching in rectum, then cramps in abdomen and inflation, then stomach pains in paroxysms.
Crawling in rectum, as from worms.
Ascarides, with hard stool.
Tapeworm ; after Graphit.
Involuntary passage of foamy stool.
Rectum with its hemorrhoids protrudes during stool.
Hemorrhoidal tumors appear, which pain both during motion and repose, and especially at stool, and bleed freely.
Varices, swollen, protruding, burning.
Anus powerless. θ Muscular atrophy.
Hemorrhoidal affections with hematemesis.
Mucous hemorrhoids.
When bleeding is checked, head is affected. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Hematemesis.
Crampy, jerking pain from small of back to anus.
Burning, stitching and itching at anus on scrotum, which had been seat of herpetic eruption.
Itching of anus.
Itching, as from thread or pin worms, and a burning, inflamed eruption around anus.
Anal abscess.
Large, bleeding, burning ulcers in anus and rectum.
Burning in anus, during stool.
Flow of blood from anus, with determination of blood to head.
Prolapsus ani ; burning with stool. θ Cholera infantum.
Soreness between legs and at anus.

Urinary organs

Symptoms worse at night.
Pressing pain in kidneys and loins. θ Addison's disease.
Aching in kidneys and lumbar region when riding.
Polypi and varices of bladder. θ Hæmaturia.
Fungoid of trigone vesicale.
Inflammation of bladder.
Spasm of bladder, hysteric and hypochondriacal.
Cutting stitches in urethra, with ineffectual desire to urinate.
Stitches through female urethra.
Burning at meatus, at night, when urinating, or after coition.
Pain in urinary passage after feet became wet.
Bleeding from urethra.
When busily occupied, she has to run and pass a few drops of urine.
Frequent urination ; also at night.
Frequent and profuse urination. θ Coryza.
During pain she is obliged to urinate about every 10 minutes. θ Prosopalgia.
Child desires to urinate, none flows ; at another time could not retain it.
Involuntary emission of urine when walking. θ Tumor of vulva.
Wetting bed ; fat children, red face ; sweat easily and catch cold.
(In sick :) Pressing on bladder with frequent urging, passing very little. θ Megrim.
Chronic strangury, from standing on cold pavement.
Before urinating : burning.
During urinating : cutting, burning, sore pain ; burning pain of inflamed foreskin ; passage of blood and mucus.
Polypous masses pass with urine.
After urinating : renewed desire with burning ; itching in glans.
Urine milk-white, with whitish sediment.
Dark, scanty, acid urine. θ Gonagra.
Bloody urine. θ Scrofula. θ Polypus.
Urine clear, but of a pungent, fetid odor. θ Cholera infantum.
Urine dark and offensive.
Acrid or sour-smelling urine.
Urine smells strong. θ Cholera infantum.
Foul-smelling, dark brown urine, with white sediment.
After standing, urine looks turbid, like lime-water.
Sediment in urine after standing. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Diabetes.
Albuminuria. θ Following variola.
Gravel ; urinary calculi.
Stone in bladder.
Tumors of bladder.
Copious white mealy sediment in urine.

Male sexual organs

Increases sexual desire and provokes emissions, but unusual weakness follows indulgence and ejaculation is tardy.
Excessive sexual desire, caused by lascivious fancies, but penis failed in erection, which was only induced by rubbing ; scarcely had coition commenced when semen was emitted ; this was followed by excessive weakness and great excitability of
nerves ; he was discontented and angry, and knees seemed to give way from weakness.
Burning and stinging while semen discharges during coition.
Impotence.
Consequences of onanism or of too frequent coitus : pressing pain in head and back ; lassitude and weakness in lower limbs ; knees seem to give way ; sweats easily, debility, hands tremble ; chorea ; palpitation ; epilepsy.
Frequent nocturnal, involuntary emissions. θ Tuberculosis.
Aching of testicles, with spasmodic retraction.
Cutting rending from inguinal regions to testicles.
Induration of testicles.
Hydrocele of children.
Spermatic cords painfully swollen.
Inflammation of prepuce, with redness and burning pain.
Inflammation of prepuce, frenum and orifice of urethra, with a little yellow pus between frenum and glans.
Phimosis.
Balanitis.
Itching vesicle on foreskin.
Scrotum hangs relaxed.
Scrotal swelling, with scaly spots.
Drawing pain from right hypochondrium towards symphysis pubis.
Itching and burning of genitals of both sexes.
Chronic gonorrhœa, which has been suppressed.
Gleet ; fat, lymphatic persons.
Organic stricture.
Fig-warts, often smelling like old cheese or herring-brine.
Dry and copper-colored eruptions on genitals of children.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania.
Sterility, particularly when catamenia is too early and too profuse.
Great lassitude after coitus.
Constant aching in vagina. θ Puerperal fever.
Burning soreness in genitals. θ Uterine cancer.
Bearing down in pelvis. θ Fibroid of uterus. θ Ovarian dropsy.
Sense of weight and soreness in uterus.
A sense of shuddering and painful pressure within uterus. θ Uterine tumor.
Pain in uterus or right ovarian region extending down thighs.
Stinging in os uteri and stitches in cervix. θ Uterine displacement.
Prolapsus with sensation of pressure on uterus ; bearing down, as if prolapsus would occur, and internal organs would pass out, hence difficulty in standing.
Uterus low down, enlarged ; mouth open to admit finger ; a smooth sensitive body felt within. θ Fibroid of uterus.
Displacements of womb, caused by lifting.
Warts on os uteri.
Polypus uteri.
Chronic infarcts of womb. θ Metritis.
Ulcers, or polypi, or cancer of uterus : desponding mood ; fault-finding ; ill-humor ; hysteria ; stupefying or throbbing headache ; supraorbital neuralgia ; headache, with empty eructations ; icy coldness in and about head ; head and upper
part of body sweat profusely at night ; trembling pulsation of heart ; sour vomiting ; painful urination ; backache ; bloated abdomen with emaciation and good appetite ; adapted during climaxis, in old maids, or in women who have had no children.
Physometra.
Menses late ; at times scanty with bloating. θ Goitre.
Menses will not appear ; in plethora.
Complaints as if menses would set in, but do not. θ Amenorrhœa.
Menses : too early ; last too long ; too profuse. θ Menorrhagia. θ Phthisis
pulmonalis. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Sterility. θ Ovarian
dropsy. θ Metritis. θ Uterine displacement. θ Uterine
tumor. θ Leucorrhœa. θ Endocarditis. θ Gonarthrocace.
θ Epilepsy. θ Intermittent. θ Chlorosis.
Profuse menstruation ; too frequent menstruation ; consequent anemia. θ Fibroid tumor of uterus.
Too profuse catamenia. θ Gastralgia. θ Uterine cancer. θ Megrim.
θ Prosopalgia.
Menses profuse, membranous, dark colored, tardy or premature. θ Tumor of vulva.
Monthly periods regular, copious and dark. θ Neurosis cordis.
Frequent menses, with weakness in legs.
Menses lasting two weeks, with interval of two weeks.
Menses irregular, every five months. θ Epilepsy.
Menses eight days late, very scanty, last five days ; with swelling of abdomen.
The least excitement brings on a return of profuse catamenia.
Very often useful in scanty menstruation.
Suppression of menses in women of full habit, leucophlegmatic temperament, or with anasarca from working in water.
Absence of menses after fright.
Amenorrhœa with dropsy of uterus and adjacent parts.
Membranous dysmenorrhœa.
Before menstruation : indisposition ; disposed to frights ; amorous dreams ; headache ; heat of head ; chills and nocturnal colicky pains ; aching of back and hips ; pain in armpits ; pain and swelling of breasts ; leucorrhœa.
At beginning of menstruation : cramps.
During menstruation : labor-like pains in abdomen and back ; pain in hip bones or in arms ; heat of head ; headache and toothache ; headache and pain in nape of neck ; hardness of hearing ; painful deglutition ; nausea and ineffectual straining at
stool ; difficulty of breathing ; anxiety and restlessness, followed by faintness ; nocturnal agglutination of eyelids ; lachrymation, in morning ; swelling of feet ; orgasm of blood, at night, with restless sleep ; cutting in abdomen or uterus, and
gripping in back.
After menstruation : leucorrhœa ; toothache ; inflammation of eyes ; ulcer of cornea.
A few days before or after catamenia : megrim.
Metrorrhagia.
Discharge of bloody water from uterus, in an old woman, with pain in back as though menses were coming on.
Flow of blood between monthly periods. θ Cancer of womb.
Hemorrhage profuse, bright red. θ Fibroid of uterus.
Uterine hemorrhages ; tendency to miscarry.
Metrorrhagia, with leucorrhœa, during climacteric period.
Leucorrhœa : like milk, with itching and burning ; before or after menses ; during micturition ; profuse at times ; in fits and starts ; worse after exercise ; with great debility ; with stinging in os and aching in
vagina ; with burning in cervical canal ; with accumulation of mucus between labia ant thighs ; with chlorosis, in scrofulous women.
Milk-like leucorrhœa. θ Uterine displacement.
Leucorrhœa with pruritus ; white, milky, but not thick ; heat of parts.
Acrid leucorrhœa, corroding genitals. θ Ophthalmia.
Leucorrhœa thick, yellow ; < by day, when urinating. θ Vulvar tumor.
Frequent leucorrhœa between menses, which are too early and profuse. θ Incipient phthisis.
Chlorosis.
Aching in vagina. θ Uterine displacement. θ Uterine cancer.
Itching or pressing in vagina.
Vaginal polypi and fistula.
Stinging, burning tubercles on margin of labia.
Painful tumor or right labium, size of a thumb ; tender on pressure ; could hardly sit down. θ Vulvar tumor.
Varices of labia.
Much moisture between labia and thighs, with biting pain.
Voluptuous sensation in genital parts, in afternoon.
Violent itching and soreness of vulva. θ Pruritus.
Burning soreness in genitals.
Itching and stitches either in internal or external vulva.
Terrible itching of parts towards evening, or after going to bed.
Inflammation and swelling of genitals, with purulent discharge.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Causes conception to take place readily.
In first month of pregnancy menses still flow, accompanied by much pain.
Vomiting of pregnancy, and toothache.
Clumsy, awkward, easily falls ; tired from short walk, from a general feeling of lameness in pelvis. θ Pregnancy.
Cramps in toes or soles of feet, during pregnancy.
Threatened miscarriage in those who generally have profuse menses or are subject to hemorrhages.
Promotes expulsion of moles, etc. ; darting shooting pains.
False labor-pains, running upward.
After-pains or milk fever after confinement.
Puerperal fever ; constant aching in vagina ; cold, damp feet ; head perspiring freely ; stitches in neck of uterus.
Red rash on seventh day after confinement ; after restlessness, anxiety and increased fever.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Lochia last too long, or have a milky appearance.
Coxarthrocace ; after childbed.
Profuse menstruation during lactation. Compare Silica.
Secretion of milk too abundant ; galactorrhoea.
Profuse secretion of watery milk, which the child refuses to take.
Excessive lactation ; also hectic and sweat ; debility as a consequence.
Breasts distended, milk scanty ; she is cold, feels cold air very readily ; there is a want of vital activity to secrete milk.
Deficient milk ; mamma not swollen.
Absence of milk, in cows, after severe sickness.
Sweet vomiting, without suppression of milk, in a nursing woman.
Hardening of nipples.
Ulcer on nipple.
Hot swelling of mamma.
Breasts hard, but not red.
Mammary glands pain as if they were suppurating, especially on touch.
Glandular hypertrophy and induration of breast.
Malignant ulceration of mamma.
Induration of mamma ; scirrhus.
When nursing child, severe internal stitching, as if arrows were forced through breasts.
Milk disagrees with infant.
Milk has a disagreeable, nauseating taste ; child will not nurse, and cries much.
Child will not take breast, cries itself hoarse, has swollen gums and swollen, sore tongue ; slimy stool ; at times thin, sour fluid from breast, child takes it, but draws too lightly, then cries and makes body stiff, has large blood-boils and lumps ; often has pains in
lungs and chest, groaning in sleep ; severe cutting in abdomen, with urging to stool without passing anything.
Crusts on head in nursing children.
Inflammation of eyes with newborn children.
Child has been slow about teething and walking. θ Tinea capitis.
Difficult teething of children. (Obs, When remedy does not act, put into child's milk, if bottle-fed. C. Hg.)
Infantile hernia and moist excrescence on navel.
Ailments from worms.
Child becomes sore around anus.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Rough voice in morning, which improves by hawking. θ Chronic coryza.
Painless hoarseness ; could scarcely speak ; < in morning. θ Phthisis. θ Bronchitis.
θ Coryza.
Hoarseness : larynx often dry ; with severe burning in throat ; with cough at night.
Hoarse, hardly audible voice.
Persons who have to talk a great deal become subject to hoarseness. θ Bronchial catarrh.
While speaking : pinching, almost cramplike pain in lower abdominal walls ; stitches in neck.
Talking : debilitates ; aggravates headache and cough.
After much speaking rawness and pain or weakness in chest.
Roughness or rawness in larynx ; < in morning.
Chronic laryngitis.
Whistling in larynx after lying down, evenings.
Prickling in larynx, with severe night cough, concussive and fatiguing ; rattling cough, with little expectation ; will not permit him to sleep ; cannot bear cold drink.
Pain in larynx, as if something was being torn loose when coughing.
Dryness of larynx.
Habitual croup in scrofulous children during dentition.
Sequela of croup.
Ulceration of larynx and lungs, especially in stonecutters.
Necrosis of cartilages of larynx.
In trachea a tickling irritation, as if from dust or feather down ; cough is provoked by this as well as by eating, and playing piano.
Sensation as if something was torn loose in trachea.
Difficult loosening of phlegm in trachea.
Wheezing in windpipe. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Sensation as though a lump of phlegm was moving up and down windpipe when coughing. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Catarrh of bronchia in teething children.
Rattling of mucus. θ Bronchitis.
Sensation of dust in throat and lungs. θ Asthma.
Bronchocele.
Thyroid gland enlarged. θ Goitre.
Goitre of 36 years' standing ; commenced at 13 years.
Goitre at 7 years ; Iodine and Spongia failed ; left lobe as large as a pigeon's egg, soft, reddish, indolent, movable, traversed with bluish veins ; otorrhœa.
Young lady of 15 years, subject from 2 years of age to "fluxion of throat", "almonds of ear," (parotid tumors) and swellings of submaxillary glands ; after treatment by a plaster, goitre developed ; after 21 days of treatment by powdered calcined egg-shells,
the urine became much more copious, whitish, and loaded with muddy sediment as of chalk ; after 30th day no tumor visible.
Young lady, æt. 17, subject to suppuration of anterior submaxillary glands ; goitre at puberty, lobes separate, soft and indolent ; menstruation every six weeks or two months ; she becomes stout, if discharge is scanty ; respiration impeded ; must sit upright
several times in night. (Cured in 5 months by Calc. ost., 3d trit., 6th, 30th and 200th dil.).

Respiration

Oppression of breathing relieved by throwing shoulders back.
Frequent need to breathe deeply.
Difficult, laborious breathing. θ Palpitation.
Great shortness of breath. θ Chlorosis.
Throat feels closed, as if she could not get her breath. θ Sore throat.
Was obliged to breathe deeply, which caused sticking, now in right, now in left side of chest, or hypochondrium.
Loud breathing through nose. θ Tuberculosis.
Sobbing respiration.
Oppression of breathing with pressure on rectum.
Shortness of breath after walking and on going up slightest ascent.
Desire to take a deep breath, and sensation as if breath remained stopped between scapulæ.
Stoppage of breathing when stopping, or walking against wind.
Tightness of chest with hoarseness.
Tight breathing and tension as from rush of blood to chest ; relieved by raising shoulders. θ Asthma. θ Tuberculosis.
Oppression of chest ; turning in bed puts her almost out of breath. θ Chloris.
Nocturnal tightness of breathing ; with heat ; apprehensive anxiety ; restlessness.
Difficult breathing, awaking with anxiety.
Asthma : early in morning ; muscles not rigid ; sensation of dust in throat and lungs. θ Scrofula.
Constriction of chest alternating with pain in abdomen, or accompanied by pressure, or digging around navel ; nausea, with other spasmodic ailments.
Dyspnœa : with tightness of chest ; with stitches in chest ; anguish and tight feeling.
Spasmodic contraction in precordial region, checking breath, followed by violent shocks, stitches in heart, leaving an aching pain.
Dyspnœa, occasioned by cough. θ Bronchial catarrh.
With every breath he takes, he utters a loud noise.
On inspiration : tearing or stitching as of needles in abdominal muscles below ribs ; stitching across abdomen ; sharp stitches in left side ; stitches deep in right chest ; cutting in chest ; entire chest painfully sensitive ; pressure on chest ;
sore pain in chest ; irritation to cough ; cutting pain at last ribs from within out ; single, severe stitches in upper part of back ; constricting pain in upper abdomen ; gnawing pain on left side of chest.
Inspiration difficult, with anxious tightness of chest.
On expiration : loud rattling in trachea ; itching stitches on chest.
Mucus rattles in chest on expiration ; < when lying and in evening. θ Bronchial catarrh.
During breathing : pain in abdomen above hips ; rumbling in abdomen ; stitches in chest most severe ; pain in liver ; pressive pain in spine ; painful shocks in right side of back.
With every breath she makes a sound as though respiration would fail her.
Catching of breath ; from stitching in abdomen to back, and from stitches in heart ; on bending.

Cough

Tickling cough, as from a feather in throat, or as of dust in larynx. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Tickling in larynx causes cough. θ Catarrh.
Constant tickling under middle of sternum causing a hacking cough ; < from talking and moving. θ Onset of typhus.
Cough from constriction of throat.
Irritation to cough, in chest.
During entire day, a constant hacking cough, seems to be involuntary from habit, in children.
From tickling, a dry cough ; < towards morning, with a hoarse voice.
Tickling cough and periodical hoarseness prevent preaching. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Tickling and very troublesome cough at night, at different hours ; immediately after waking up raises whitish mucus. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough : dry, especially at night ; violent, first dry, afterwards with profuse salty expectoration, with pain, as if something had been torn loose from larynx ; with rattling in chest and bronchia ; in morning, with yellowish expectoration ; from
inspiration ; from playing on piano.
Short hacking cough. θ Second week of typhus.
Dry hacking cough all night. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Short concussive cough, especially at night, with itching in larynx.
Dry tormenting cough, chiefly at night, raising only after long and great efforts scanty white, frothy, gluey or dirty-looking putrid sputa.
Loose cough. θ Bronchitis. θ Pneumonia. θ Tuberculosis.
Cough caused by sensation of plug, which moved up and down in throat.
Cough during or after eating. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Coughing up blood after drinking.
Cough hardly permits talking. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough induced by playing on piano ; every note she struck seemed to vibrate in her larynx.
Cough < on walking.
Loose cough in morning. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough dry at night, loose by day.
Cough in afternoon.
Cough < in evening. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough dry before midnight, loose after ; hurts chest ; < walking ; sputa yellow and thick. θ After variola.
Dry hacking cough in evening, especially in bed.
Dry cough at night, after midnight, so that heart and arteries throb.
Night cough. θ Phthisis.
In night on waking, a long scraping, dry, spasmodic cough. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough dry at night and in evening, with shocks in head and sometimes vomiting ; in morning it is loose, sputa being yellow and sometimes bloody ; often in morning before coughing large mucous rales are heard in trachea on expiration.
Cough < in morning on rising and in early evening.
Whooping cough, attacks < mornings.
Cough in morning ; yellow pus-like, bad-smelling sputa.
Cough ; see frightful objects at night.
Cough producing frontal headache. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Cough causes stitching headache. θ Bronchial catarrh.
During coughing painful shocks in head. θ Typhus.
Cough with coryza.
Cough with nasal catarrh, first dry, later fluent. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Cough with nausea and a kind of heartburn.
Cough with rattling in chest. θ Tuberculosis.
During cough : rawness in chest ; pain as if tearing something loose ; sweetish vomit ; headache ; pressure in stomach and chest ; pain in inguinal hernia ; pain in chest ; palpitation and throbbing of arteries ; sweat ;
convulsions ; earache ; gagging with evening and night cough ; catching of breath ; inclination to vomit and vomiting of sweetish matter ; headache.
Cough after measles and variola.
Whooping cough in teething children.
Hæmoptysis.
Raises white phlegm. θ Cough.
Cough with greyish expectoration, especially in morning ; very dispirited ; pains in both sides of chest.
Cough with copious sputa, sweetish or sour, lumpy mucus. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Expectoration : of mucus, with sweetish taste ; of blood, when coughing and hawking, with rough and sore sensation in chest ; of thick mucus ; salty ; putrid ; yellow, stinking ; grey-yellow, of
putrid smell ; bloody, purulent ; tasting sour ; during day, but none during night.
Expectoration of bloody mucus, with emaciation. θ Gleet.
Fetid sputa. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Sputa greyish and fetid, or yellow and not fetid. θ Pneumonia.
Viscous sputa loosened with difficulty, of sweetish or flat taste. θ Catarrh of lungs.
Cough almost always with profuse sputa, whitish-yellow, purulent in morning. θ Tuberculosis.
Copious mucous secretion, weakening and emaciating. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Mucus rattling in lungs. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Mucus in chest without cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Acts upon upper and middle portion of right lung. θ Pulmonary consumption.
Left lung affected. θ Pneumonia.
Pain in right side. θ Cough.
Anxiety and sense of constriction in chest.
Oppression of chest, as if too full of blood, often accompanied by palpitation.
At night, oppression of chest, with heat, restlessness and thirst.
Oppression of chest : with coryza ; with pain in back.
Tightness on chest accompanying manual labor. Compare Amm. mur.
Oppression or constriction of chest ; > by drawing shoulders backward. θ Tuberculosis.
Constriction of abdomen, upward to chest.
Weakness in chest interferes with speaking. θ Leucorrhœa.
Pressure on chest.
Sensitiveness and sensation of soreness in chest, when drawing a deep breath and when touching it.
Soreness of chest, especially under clavicles, during deep inspiration and especially to touch.
Sore pains in chest, as if beaten ; < during inspiration.
Chest feels sore and raw. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Stitches in chest : with urging in abdomen ; with difficult breathing ; and sides, when moving ; from deep inspiration, and when lying on affected side ; in left side, on inspiration ; > from rubbing.
Stitching in left chest to throat pit, with loose night cough.
Concussive stitch in chest, from hepatic region.
Cutting in chest, on inspiration.
Lancinating pains from sore spot in left chest, upper third, extending transversely across sternum to a corresponding point in right side of chest, thence turning a little downward. θ Rheumatism.
Burning in chest.
Coincident with heartbeat, dull shocks from posterior wall of chest, upward to between shoulder blades.
Pinching, nipping sensation in entire hypochondrium, extending to under surface of sternum.
Gnawing griping in abdomen and stomach starting from chest.
Pains in chest, occasion dyspnœa and a sense of constriction in thoracic parietes. θ Rheumatism.
Congestion to chest. θ Menorrhagia.
Suppuration of lungs ; in horses.
Tuberculous consumption.
Abscess in lungs of children, particularly in left lung.
Consumption in scrofulous persons, with morning cough, purulent expectoration, hypertrophic mucous membrane, bleeding easily.
Pleuro-pneumonia in tuberculous individuals.
Threatened paralysis of lungs in scarlatina ; loud rattling in windpipe, breath hot ; precordial anguish ; no cough ; rattling mostly during expiration.
Much mucus in chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Anxious sensation about heart.
Compressive pain in heart.
Stitching in heart and region of heart during breathing.
Bellow or anemic murmurs around heart and large arteries.
Audible beating of heart.
Tremulous pulsation of heart ; < after eating ; at night, with anguish. θ Endocarditis.
Anxious palpitation from slightest exercise.
Palpitation of heart. θ Neurosis cordis. θ Hemorrhoids. θ Second
week of typhus. θ Cardiac rheumatism.
Palpitation of heart before attack. θ Epilepsy.
Palpitation : with anxiety and anxious restlessness ; at night, or after meals ; when falling asleep ; with cold feeling at night ; preventing sleep ; with pain in left arm ; on awaking ; with laborious breathing ;
after least exertion ; want of breath when moving or ascending ; after suppressed eruptions.
Fluttering of heart and faintness.
Arrest of breath, when walking against the wind, or when stooping.
Inclination to draw a deep breath.
Palpitation < after eating. θ Endocarditis.
Palpitation of heart with cough at night. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Heart disease : in scrofulous constitutions ; after abuse of mercury.
Ebullition of blood, with restlessness and uneasiness.
Much beating in bloodvessels.
Pulse full, accelerated or tremulous. θ Typhus.
Unequal pulse with tremendous palpitation.
With each pulse-beat a broad stitch upward in chest muscles.
Idiopathic arteritis.
Aneurism, particularly of aorta.
Fatty degeneration and calcification of bloodvessels.

Outer chest

Cannot bear clothes tight around chest.
Chest painfully sensitive to touch, and on inspiration. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Sensation of soreness and acute sensibility to pressure in a small place in pectoral muscles, left side upper third. θ Rheumatism.
Pricking stitches in muscles of chest.
External heat and swelling of right chest.
In right side between ribs, a small lump may be felt under skin, like cartilage ; painful to touch, and on breathing stinging in it, extending to shoulder blades ; accompanied by difficult breathing on right side.
Convulsive movements of chest.
Rhachitic deformity of thorax in costo-sternal region, with paroxysm of bronchial asthma ; inframaxillary and other glands swollen. θ Bronchial asthma.
Sweat on chest.
Itching on chest.

Neck and back

Carotids throbbing. θ Tinea capitis.
Swelling of glands, with aching, and on chewing, sometimes also on swallowing, stitching pains.
Goitre and scrofulous swellings.
Pricking on neck and face.
Itching burning on neck.
Warmth ascending nape of neck after crackling in occiput.
Stiffness and rigidity at nape of neck : with headache ; cramplike, up to vertex ; in morning, with coryza ; with dysmenorrhœa.
Pain in neck, on turning head, as if a tumor would protrude there.
Painless swelling of glands, in neck, at margin of hair.
Cervical glands swollen. θ Keratitis. θ Ophthalmia. θ Scarlatina.
θ Eclampsia. θ Eczema.
Glands of neck swollen, with eruption on head.
Enormously enlarged cervical glands. θ Caries of lower jaw.
Painful swelling of cervical glands.
Indurated glands at neck, with stitching pain.
Burning pain in nape of neck to occiput, lasting all day, and ceasing only on going to sleep at night.
Sensation as if scalp was loosened from head back to nape of neck.
In spells pressure outward in occiput, extending to back.
Rheumatic pain in upper cervical vertebræ, with stiffness of neck.
Easily overstrains himself from lifting, from which neck becomes stiff and rigid, with headache.
Neck thin and scrawny. θ Marasmus. θ Gastromalacia.
Swelling and incurvation of vertebræ of neck and back. θ Cough.
Drawing pain between shoulder blades.
Stitches very severe in various parts of back ; sudden stitches, especially between scapulæ.
Pressure between and under shoulder blades.
Shooting pains under left shoulder.
Dull shocks upward to between shoulder blades, from posterior wall of chest.
Sensation of numbness in side of back, on which he has been lying ; after siesta.
Curvature of dorsal vertebræ.
Extending towards small of back : constricting pain in abdomen ; stitches in left abdomen ; stitches in right hypochondrium ; stitches in abdomen ; drawing pain in posterior hepatic region.
Pain in small of back : could hardly rise from seat ; with watery bloody discharge from vagina ; from incarcerated flatus.
Intolerable backache. θ Fibroid in uterus. θ Dysmenorrhœa. θ Rheumatism.
θ Lumbago. θ Keratitis. θ Ophthalmia
scrofulosa. θ Otorrhœa. θ Coxalgia. θ Eclampsia.
θ Epilepsy. θ Intermittent. θ Scarlatina.
Rheumatism of lumbar vertebræ, with violent boring, tearing, burning pain, extending downward, with inclination to move.
Pain starting from small of back ; spinal bones affected. θ Ischias.
Weakness in small of back.
Weak feeling in back, worse from mental annoyance.
Urging in back.
Pain in sacral region, back and neck, after overlifting, or feeling as if wrenched.
Heat around coccyx.
Drawing and tearing pinching in coccyx.
After painful stiffness of spine, ebullition and determination of blood to head.
Painful stiffness in back, making change of posture very difficult.
Inflammation of spinal cord.
Pott's disease. [Obs. Easily detected by the hot sponge down the spine ; if Calc. ostr . is applied early with proper mechanical aid, curvature may be prevented.]
Spine curved laterally. θ Marasmus.
Spina bifida of the newborn.
Spinal complaints with gressus vaccinus.

Upper limbs

Pains in shoulders, with fever.
Arthritic pain in right shoulder. θ Rheumatism.
Shooting pains under left shoulder.
Stitches in left shoulder joint.
Pain from left shoulder down along arm and towards heart.
Painful aching of shoulder muscles and arms. θ Muscular atrophy.
Suppuration of axillary glands.
Fistulous ulcers in glands of axilla.
Internal drawing corrosive pains in right arm, especially under joint ; can move arm but is painful ; < at night.
Pressing pain in right upper arm.
Weakness and a kind of paralysis of left arm ; it is difficult to move or raise it ; it will fall down of itself.
Weakness and lameness of arms ; sudden weariness, as if paralyzed. θ Muscular atrophy.
Nightly lacerating and drawing pains in arms. θ Muscular atrophy.
Arms feel bruised on moving them, or taking hold of them.
Cramp in whole of one or other arm.
Arm goes to sleep if he lies upon it, with pains.
Sense of something running up arm before attack. θ Epilepsy.
Stiffness of elbows.
Spasmodic tearing pain on outer side of forearm, extending from elbow to wrist, as soon as he takes hold of anything.
Forearm becomes covered with dots like goose's skin.
Arms cold to elbows. θ Cholera infantum.
Severe itching on inner part of forearm ; small water blisters from scratching.
Pustules on forearm.
Hands and forearms felt cramped in morning.
Pain in wrist joint.
Pain as from a sprain in right wrist, or as if something had been wrenched or dislocated.
Ganglion on right wrist size of a bean.
Feeling as if something in wrist joint had been contused.
Painful swelling at carpus, and itching when touched.
Pain in hands. θ Leprosy.
Cramp in hands, at night, lasting till morning on rising.
Numbness of hands when grasping anything. θ Muscular atrophy.
Nervous trembling of hands. θ Intermittent.
Swelling of hands.
Sweating of hands and palms of hands.
Upper limbs, especially hands, become cold and tremble. θ Hereditary headache.
Palms of hands painful, with sensation as if they were swollen, on waking from sleep in evening.
Finger joints much swollen.
Arthritic nodosities on hand and finger joints.
Convulsive trembling of left index finger.
Stiffness of index finger, so that the can make but little use of it.
Middle fingers become dead ; they are white, cold and senseless, preceded by slight drawing in them.
Middle phalanx of left middle finger painful, especially to pressure.
Large painful boil on first phalanx of fourth finger.
For 12 years piercing darting pains in left ring finger ; joint permanently enlarged ; constant dull pain day and night.
Awkwardness of fingers ; they feel as if dead. θ Chlorosis.
Want of mobility of fingers. θ Muscular atrophy.
Fingers stiff in morning.
Frequent paralysis of fingers.
Painful nodules on fingers.
Swelling of radius and crusts on skin, smelling like cheese.
Boils and rhagades on fingers and hands. θ Sequela of acarus itch.
Small ulcers on index finger, moist, itching and painful to touch ; surrounded by small vesicles.
(In sick :) Vesicles on fingers.
Herpetic eruption on hands.
Warts on arms and hands.
Little warts on hands and fingers. θ Otorrhœa.

Lower limbs

Inflammation of psoas muscles.
Coxalgia, with drawing stitches, or tearing, or cutting.
Coxalgia ; scrofulous diathesis, child commenced limping seemingly without any occasion, and dragged left foot in walking, without complaining of any pain ; on examination, no diseased condition was found externally ; the ailing limb being, however, a little longer than
the sound one ; on pressing head of bone into cotyloid cavity, child complained of pain ; in walking, toes were always directed outward ; cure resulted in less than a month.
Relaxation of ligaments about hip joint.
Hip joint disease with contraction.
Hip disease with dislocation of head of femur.
Drawing and shooting in hip.
Open sore on hips of a little girl, discharging splinters of bone.
Atrophy of right hip, arrest of growth of femur, with limping. θ Boy, 5 years old, following spasms.
Coldness and deadness of feet. θ Boy, epileptic spasms.
Needle-like stitches in buttock.
Aching smarting across gluteal region. θ Rheumatism.
Cold feeling in gluteal region. θ Rheumatism.
Itching vesicular eruption over whole body, especially over hips.
Sensation as if right hip and thigh were brittle, as well as short and small.
Stitching in thigh, on stepping.
Weariness and a feeling of stiffness in anterior muscles of thigh, in morning, on beginning to walk.
Painful weariness of lower limbs, especially of thighs and feet.
Lifeless, "gone asleep" sensation in muscles of thighs.
Coldness of thighs. θ Colic.
Glands on thighs swollen.
Bloody boils on thigh, instead of asthma during new moon.
Old sore on thigh begins to smell like rotten eggs.
Varicose veins on thighs.
Fistulous openings in thigh.
Emaciation of thighs and paralysis of extensor muscles.
Itching of thighs.
Weakness and trembling in legs, especially above and below knees, after coition.
Sciatic pains caused by working in water.
Pain extends down into limbs and keeps them in constant uneasiness. θ Ischias.
Stitching and tearing in knee.
Tearing and stinging in knee.
Creaking sound in right knee while walking, obliging her to stand still.
Cartilage inflamed, mostly about knee.
Red, burning swelling of knee, comes over night.
Both knees hot, pale, swollen, very sensitive to touch ; < at night. θ Gout. θ Gonagra.
Knee swollen, hot and red, pain on motion extending to sacrum and toes, abscess discharging yellowish, creamy substance ; menses absent since trouble in knee (eight years). θ Chronic
arthritis in woman, æt. 43.
Swelling of knees.
Drawing or stinging pain in knee while sitting or walking.
Weakness of knee as if sprained, gives way under him, has to straighten it before walking.
Weakness in knees. θ Leucorrhœa.
Lameness in left knee. θ Rheumatism.
Ulcer-like sores on right knee, discharge of pus in morning on pressure.
Spongy swelling of knee joint.
Red stripes on tibia, consisting of nettlerash elevations, with severe itching and burning after rubbing.
Shins ulcerated and puffed up, with affection of bone.
Denuded spots on shins that water for a long time.
Pain in calf, on walking and stepping, or on touch and on bending foot.
Legs go "to sleep" in evening when sitting.
Left calf swollen, with internal lumps ; much pain in foot. θ Cramps of legs. θ Muscular
atrophy.
Hard knots in calves, internal, with pain.
Jerking stitching in leg and above ankle joint.
Tightening pain in legs during pressive cramps in stomach.
Humid spot on leg.
Much itching on lower leg and foot.
Itching below both calves.
Itching on lower limb and foot joint.
Pains in tendo-achillis.
Spasmodic contraction of tendo-achillis, with violent pain.
Unusual weariness in lower extremities, at noon, especially in ankles.
Feet and legs swollen to knees. θ Pneumonia.
Small, deep, painless ulcer on right external malleolus.
Weariness of feet so great that it seems as though they could not bear body, and knees would bend.
Insensibility of feet, in evening.
Sweat of feet, towards evening.
Cold damp feet. θ Cough. θ Hydrocephalus traumaticus. θ Prosopalgia.
θ Hemorrhoids. θ Metritis. θ Uterine
displacement. θ Tumor of vulva. θ Phthisis pulmonalis. θ Rheumatism.
Sensation in feet and legs as if she had on cold damp stockings. θ Herpes circinatu.
Viscous cold sweat on legs.
Foot sweat makes feet sore.
Coldness and deadness of feet, especially at night in bed.
Heaviness of feet, with great irritability.
Cramps in feet and legs. θ Muscular atrophy.
Œdema of feet after abuse of quinine.
Eruption on feet, itching, violent biting, causing scratching ; bleeding when scratched, and changing to an eruption like nettlerash.
Small pustules on foot, secreting much pus.
Necrosis of tarsus.
(In sick :) Blisters on feet, which change to foul ulcers.
Burning in soles. θ Uterine displacement.
Burning in soles of feet at night.
Soles of feet swollen.
Offensive sweat on feet making soles raw. θ Hemorrhoids.
Spreading blisters on soles of feet.
Ulcerated bunions and callous places on soles.
Great toe very sensitive on walking ; feels numb on bending ; < at night.
Corns, sore, with burning pain.
Icy coldness of legs. θ Megrim. θ Palpitation.
Coldness of legs, with night sweats.
Cramp in bend of knee ; in calves of leg ; soles of feet ; toes ; especially when extending leg, pulling on boots.
Depression of spirits, with heaviness in legs.
Heaviness and stiffness of legs. θ Muscular atrophy.
Legs go to sleep while sitting.
Child is very backward in learning to walk, or children seem to forget how to walk.
Red spots on legs.
Enlarged veins on legs are painful.
Whitish swelling of leg and foot with sensation of coldness.
Legs like sticks. θ Marasmus.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Bunions after frostbite.

Limbs in general

Tearing in limbs.
Pain as if beaten in upper arms and middle of thighs, when ascending stairs.
Heaviness and painful weight in limbs and great fatigue on walking.
Great weakness and weariness of all limbs, especially in feet, lasting till she goes to bed.
Shooting pains throughout limbs, both upper and lower ; he began to imagine he was going to have rheumatic fever ; finger joints became much swollen.
Burning in hands and tearing in legs, alternately in knee ant hip joint.
Upper arms and thighs feel as if lamed and bruised.
Cramp in arms and legs.
Sweaty hands and feet. θ Megrim.
Limbs go to sleep.
Trembling motion of upper and lower limbs in spells. θ Chorea.
Crampy feeling in single parts, and contraction, especially of fingers and toes.
Hands and feet stiff, spasmodically bent inward.
Contraction and later rigidity of flexors of right arm ; fingers, hand, arm and leg of right side cold and damp. θ Epilepsy.
Pains in joints of shoulder, knee and foot, with or without swelling.
Cracking in knee and shoulder.
Paralytic bruised pain in long bones and in joints of limbs, also in small of back, on motion ; even when sitting or standing, back pains as if beaten, and muscles of legs are sore to touch.
Cold hands and feet. θ Dysmenorrhœa. θ Chlorosis.
Cold hands and warm feet.
Coldness of limbs. θ Addison's disease.
On flexor side of forearm and thigh small ulcerating pustules.
Synovitis. θ Scrofula.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : stupefying headache ; sweat >.
Lying : crepitation in back part of head > ; constant inclination to lie, in chlorosis ; on affected side, stitches ; > throbbing headache ; coldness of head < ; cannot lie, in pneumonia ; < on side, tuberculosis ; > on back ; assumes the
prone position ; pain in stomach >.
Letting legs swing : < epilepsy.
Sitting : causes backache and headache, chlorosis ; drawing or stinging pain in knee ; legs go to sleep.
Rising from seat : < rheumatism ; is difficult after sitting awhile.
Bending : feels numb.
Stooping : produces a bewildered sensation ; arrest of breath ; < headache.
Elevated : when keeping limbs, ulcers >.
Stretching : inclination to, in morning ; of limbs, before epileptic attacks ; of horse's limb, in exostosis.
Straightening : < rheumatism.
Exercise, slightest : anxious palpitation.
Exertion, least : perspiration, even in open air.
Chewing or swallowing : cracking in ears.
Straining or overlifting : stiff neck ; backache ; headache ; sore throat ; rheumatism ; uterine displacement.
Motion : pain on, in knee ; headache ; pain in right wing of nose ; pain in stomach <.
Moving : stitches ; want of breath ; < headache ; symptoms of chest and heart ; > gastralgia.
Beginning to walk : weariness and a feeling of stiffness in anterior muscles of thigh.
Walking : cough < on ; against the wind, want of breath ; tension or stitches in hip joint ; drawing or stinging pain in knee ; pain in calf ; creaking sound in right knee ; great toe very sensitive ; great fatigue, in chlorosis and
tuberculosis ; children show no disposition to walk, or stumble and fall easily ; sweat on head ; pressure in hepatic region ; involuntary emission of urine.
Stepping : pain in calf ; < pain, in rheumatism.
Playing on piano : cough.
Ascending : vertigo ; headache in vertex ; want of breath ; palpitation ; pain, as if beaten, in upper arm and middle of thigh ; dizzy and entirely exhausted.
Turning : in bed, pain in neck ; feels as if the back "cricked ;" < turning from back to sides, tuberculosis.
Throwing shoulders back : > oppressive breathing.
Overdriven horses refuse to eat.

Nerves

So-called nervous irritability and nervous excitement. θ Megrim. θ Muscular
atrophy.
Nervous erethism. θ Herpes.
Sensation of power with lack of will force.
Peculiar fear of shadows thrown by candlelight ; a child.
Restless and irritable.
Uneasiness even to fainting.
Sudden starting of body, with jerking and roaring in ears.
Subsultus tendinum.
A kind of voluptuous trembling, with sadness.
Attacks as of fear, passing from feet over body ; trembling ; grinding to teeth, doubling of fists, as if in furious anger ; wishes to destroy himself, yet retains consciousness ; afterwards a shivering over back.
Anxious trembling, with drowsiness.
Uneasiness and trembling fear, with internal chill.
Trembling in limbs and continuous lassitude.
Hysterical fits of laughing.
Hysteric spasms.
Muscular twitching ; clonic spasms and epileptic paroxysms. θ Addison's disease.
Throws herself forcibly about, rolls on ground, tries to catch hold of bystanders' clothing, which she puts into her mouth, bites and spits, makes a loud barking noise, all with open, dull eyes.
Chorea : sometimes only one-sided ; involuntary motions ; sometimes falling down ; violent motions of hands and feet ; from fright, onanism or worms ; in second dentition.
Chill with red face, gazes fixedly before him, fingers jerk spasmodically, while both arms lie stretched at length ; then wild laughter with fixed, staring gaze and hard, bounding pulse.
Convulsions in a little boy, with chalky stools and distended abdomen. θ Croup.
Spasms. θ Whooping cough. θ Dentition.
Tonic spasms, with scrofulous people.
Frequent severe spasms, especially in evening and at night, with coldness of thighs.
Epilepsy : before the attack sense of something running in arms, or from pit of stomach down through abdomen into feet ; sudden attacks of vertigo ; loss of consciousness without convulsions ; pharyngeal spasms, followed by desire to
swallow. Causes : vexation ; fright ; onanism ; protracted intermittent ; suppression of chronic eruption. Worse at night, during solstice and full moon ; with hallooing and shouting.
Epileptic attack ; while standing at his work he fell suddenly to ground sideways, without consciousness, and on returning to consciousness found himself lying with outstretched arms ; this was followed by heat and some sweat.
Epilepsy of three years' standing ; eight or ten fits daily ; < from 4 A. M. to 4 P. M.
Easily tired by bodily exertion. θ Uterine displacement.
Nervous debility. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Protracted convalescence. θ Cerebra-spinal meningitis.
Muscular debility, uneasiness and lassitude. θ Addison's disease.
Paralysis of voluntary muscles. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Exhaustion in morning. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Great weakness. θ Chronic diarrhœa. θ Bronchial catarrh.
From walking up-stairs, dizzy and entirely exhausted. θ Uterine displacement.
Weak, no animation. θ Cough.
General malaise. θ Leucorrhœa.
Easy relapses, one does not continue to convalesce.
Disinclination for every kind of labor.
Feels very tired. θ Consumption.
Very weary and sleepy the whole day.
Such great weariness that he is not able to walk.
Great loss of power on walking, especially in limbs, with exhausting sweat.
She was unable to go up-stairs, and became very much exhausted from it.
Great exhaustion on waking in morning from deep sleep, so that the confused and sleepy condition continued even after rising from bed.
Child languid, yellow and pale ; whining ; stool scanty.
Lassitude in limbs ; general sense of weakness after every walk, such as one feels after a fever ; it even goes so far as to amount to attacks of faintness with chill ; indistinct vision and nausea.
Great lassitude : with sickly complexion ; with intense appetite ; with vertigo and tendency to falling.
Very great weakness and debility : from a short walk ; from talking.
Very weak and sick for several days after coition.
Great prostration : with fluent coryza ; with nausea and vomiting of food taken.
Want of strength, especially in morning ; arising from loss of animal fluids.
Fainting : after loss of sight, with coldness ; after stool ; in Addison's disease.
Spells of fainting in street ; come on with sensation of something rising from stomach to head ; feels as if he would die ; followed by bewilderment of mind. θ Tumor of eye.
Sensation as if about to faint, with headache.
After going out in evening, yawning and fainting.
Attacks like fainting after writing and thinking, when lying down, or when rising.
Great desire to be mesmerized.
Paralyzed in all limbs, even scalp feels lax.
Great heaviness of body.
Paralysis : of upper extremities ; of fingers ; of legs ; after onanism or sexual excesses.
Paralysis of voluntary muscles. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Locomotor ataxia ; after exposure to wet and cold ; after sexual excesses.
Idiopathic neuroma.

Sleep

Considerable day sleepiness. θ Chronic diarrhœa. θ Neurosis
cordis.
After siesta great dulness of head.
Weary sleepiness in all limbs in evening, with chilliness.
Great inclination to sleep after supper.
Sleepiness and continuous yawning.
Yawning : with cramps in stomach ; with fatigue ; with chilliness over entire body.
Late falling asleep in evening.
Sleeplessness : from many thoughts crowding his mind ; from mind turning on same thought ; from mortification at trifles ; until 2 or 3 A. M.
Restless, sleepless nights. θ Megrim. θ Gonagra.
Light slumber, or utter sleeplessness, from overactivity of mind. θ Onset of typhus. θ Chronic
headache.
The same disagreeable idea always rouses the sick as often as they fall into a light slumber.
Horrible phantasies in bed, at night, before going to sleep.
When closing eyes, horrid visions. θ Typhus. θ Lying-in.
Raves in sleep. θ Keratitis.
Before going to sleep : severe sweating of face ; pressure in stomach ; burning itching as from nettles.
Very sensitive to noise, on going to sleep.
Starting in sleep, or just when going to sleep.
Child chews and swallows in sleep.
Heat and nausea, with very uneasy sleep.
Nightmare ; cramp in calves ; much palpitation and tumult of blood at night.
During sleep : short, almost sobbing breathing ; cough at night ; palpitation of heart.
Flighty and wandering at night.
Throws himself about in bed, all night. θ Tinea.
Continually throws himself about, with snoring groaning, the entire night.
Restless at night, with dry heat. θ Coryza.
Restless at night, with sweats on head. θ Dentition.
Disagreeable twitching in penis, in bed.
Visible jerking in left great toe, in bed.
Cold feet at night in bed.
Night sweats ; also after 3 A. M. ; sticky, only on legs.
Often obliged to get up in night, two or three times, to dry her head with a towel. θ Softening of brain.
Severe itching on various part of body, in bed.
Awakens early in night.
Cannot sleep after 3 o'clock in morning.
Frequent awaking at night.
On awaking : is roused with difficulty ; pain in head, with vertigo ; heaviness of head ; dull pain in forehead ; at first dull, then pressive pain in temple ; flickering appearance, like sparks of fire before eyes ; eyelids stick together ; taste
in mouth like ink ; dryness of tongue ; drawing and cutting in abdomen ; at midnight, cough with nausea ; painful stiffness in spine ; painfulness of finger joints as if swollen.
After rising from bed, stupefying pressing pain in head.
Dozing even after getting up on her feet. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Inclination to stretch, mornings.
Uneasiness from dreams and heat.
Much orgasm of blood, at night, with many dreams.
Frightful dreams all night, and at last a sensual dream with an emission.
Voluptuous dreams.
Anxious and frightful dreams, from which he was unable to free himself on waking.
Fearful of fantastic dreams during sleep.
Horrible, frightful dreams of sickness, death and corpses.

Time

Night : congestion to head ; vomiting of some water ; pain in abdomen ; cough dry ; cramp in hands ; both knees hot, pale, swollen, very sensitive to touch ; coldness and deadness of feet ; burning of soles of feet ; great toe very
sensitive on walking ; horrible phantasies ; nightmare ; cramp in calves ; much palpitation and tumult of blood ; flighty wandering ; throws himself about in bed ; restless ; awakens early in ; much orgasm of blood ; frightful dreams ;
internal heat, especially in feet and hands ; skin hot ; dry nose ; stoppage of nose ; toothache.
Midnight : before, night sweats.
From 2 to 3 A. M. : sleeplessness ; chill commencing in pit of stomach.
At 3 A. M. : often night sweats ; cannot sleep after ; till afternoon, headache.
Morning : cough with yellowish expectoration ; loose cough ; greyish expectoration, purulent ; coryza with stiffness and rigidity of nape of neck ; hands feel cramped ; fingers stiff ; uneasiness and a feeling of stiffness in anterior muscles on
beginning to walk ; ulcer-like sores on right knee, discharge pus on pressure ; exhaustion ; inclination to stretch ; dry tongue without thirst ; coldness of head ; photophobia < ; nosebleed ; nausea ; pain in abdomen ; roughness of
larynx ; lassitude.
Morning towards : in bed, itching worse.
At 11 A. M. : fever without chill.
Forenoon : chill with shivering ; headache < ; fever.
Noon : unusual uneasiness in lower extremities, especially in ankles.
At 4 A. M. : stool.
From 4 A. M. to 4 P. M. : epilepsy worse.
Day, during : expectoration ; tremulous pulsation of heart, < after eating ; burning pain at nape of neck to occiput ; very weary and sleepy ; headache ; eyes full of gum.
Afternoon : cough ; cardialgia.
At 5 P. M. : screaming spells.
From 6 to 7 P. M. : fever without chill.
Evening : itching on scalp < ; sweat of neck and head ; photophobia < ; pain in eyes < ; cramps in intestinal canal ; cough < ; pain in finger joints ; insensibility of feet ; feet sweat ; chill with shivering ; fever for ten days ;
first heat of face, then chill ; and night skin hot ; stinging in vertex ; diarrhœa.

Temperature and weather

Cannot bear sun ; vertigo while walking in it ; headache <.
Inclination to uncover during heat. Comp. Sulphur.
Inspiration of fresh air was beneficial and strengthening.
Aversion to open air ; the least cold air goes right through.
Great sensitiveness to damp cold air.
Walking in open air : vertigo ; pressive headache ; tightness of chest ; crampy pains in arms ; pain in patella ; pressive pain in left tibia ; trembling of entire body ; lachrymation ; deafness <.
Warmth : headache > ; toothache > ; itching on scalp > ; pain in abdomen >.
After going from open air into room : great peevishness ; throbbing headache < ; pressing outward in forehead worse.
In a draught : headache <.
The pain is aggravated by the slightest change, as from a current of air, cold or warm ; coldness of head <.
Taking cold : headache <.
Ailments resulting from draught, washing or working in water, and dread of water and bathing.
Immersion in cold water : > paroxysm of cutting in abdomen.
Getting wet : headache <.
Damp cold air : swelling in bones of skull < ; asthenopia worse.
Cold applications : headache <.
Washing : stitches in vertex <.
After wetting feet : pain in ureters ; swelling of submaxillary gland.
Cold : toothache > ; teeth very sensitive.
Dry weather : ulcers.
Wet weather : stitches in vertex <.

Fever

Coldness : of face, hands and feet ; of body, and cold sweat ; and indistinct vision, with attack of faintness.
She feels a sort of inward coldness.
Icy coldness in and on head.
Chilliness : with vertigo and headache ; with headache, after taking cold ; with stitches through head ; with pale, sickly complexion ; with grasping in hypochondrium ; with thirst, after motion of feet ; with erysipelatous inflammation of lower
leg ; when rising in morning ; mostly in evening ; and cold creeping over body ; though limbs feel warm.
Chill begins in scrobiculus cordis with spasms, or cold agonizing weight, increasing with chill and disappearing with it.
Shivering over entire body, with sudden pain in parietal bone, as if it had been forcibly broken.
Fever without chill at 11 A. M. and from 6 to 7 P. M.
Chills, commencing at 2 P. M., in pit of stomach.
Chill at 11 A. M. one day, at 4 P. M. next.
Chill with shivering, mostly in evening, yet sometimes in forenoon.
Paroxysms occurred every other day at 11 A. M. ; chills began in feet and extended towards head. θ Intermittent.
Chill and headache ; drowsy fatigue in all limbs.
Thirst during chill. θ Intermittent.
Before chill : drawing in all joints, and great heaviness of head and body.
Dry heat with uneasiness and drowsiness.
Frequent attack of sudden universal heat, as if she had been drenched with hot water, with despair of life.
Heat with or without thirst, followed by chilliness and cold hands.
External heat, with internal chilliness, in evening in bed.
Inward chilliness alternating with flushes of heat. θ Coryza.
Paroxysm of fever in forenoon ; chill and heat alternating.
Hectic fever : with alternate chills and heat ; frequent attacks of flushes of heat, with anguish and palpitation of heart, or constant shuddering in evening, with red cheeks ; skin dry, withered ; sweats easily ; great
debility ; after prolonged or profuse lactation, loss of fluids, tuberculosis, etc., etc.
Morning fever.
Flushes of heat and trembling.
Heat and ebullition of blood to head.
Frequent flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation of heart.
Evening fever for three days, first heat of face, then chill.
Evening fever, with burning heat in belly and thirst for water the whole night. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Fever in evening, with hard, quick pulse.
Nightly internal heat, especially in feet and hands, morning dry tongue, without thirst ; external heat of head.
Skin hot, especially evenings and nights, when it is covered with sweat, which threatens to exhaust child more and more.
Considerable fever with thirst, hot, dry skin, after getting wet.
Little fever. θ Gonagra. θ Gout.
Heat with inclination to uncover.
Skin hot, then cold clammy sweat. θ Cholera infantum.
Hot sweat. θ Intermittent.
Sweat over whole body, with severe cramp in stomach.
Great sweat on moderate motion.
Perspiration from least exertion, even in open, cold air.
Easily sweating. θ Tuberculosis. θ Worms.
Perspires easily. θ During intervals of epilepsy. θ Rheumatism. θ Bronchial
asthma.
Sweats easily, when exerting himself, in preaching. θ Bronchial catarrh.
Heat and sweat after epileptic attack.
Sweat : of palms ; of feet ; most profuse on head and chest ; with uneasy sleep ; during first sleep.
Morning sweat.
Night sweat : especially on head, neck and chest ; before midnight, with cold limbs.
Clammy night sweat, only on legs.
Cold sweat and coldness of body.
Cold sticky sweat on feet.
Body always bathed in sweat, especially head, while feet are very cold. θ Palpitation.
Partial sweats : head, scalp wet, cold, wets pillow far around ; male organs ; nape of neck ; chest ; axillæ ; hands ;
knees (cholera infantum) ; feet.
Complaints after suppressed sweat.
Intermittent fever after abuse of quinine ; chronic forms with scrofula ; chill commences in stomach, agonizing weight, increasing with chill and disappearing with it ; with people who work much in cold water ; cachectic
constitutions ; suppressed eruptions ; desire for eggs.
Attacks of intermittent with spasmodic symptoms.
Tertian evening fever ; first heat in face, then chilliness.
Typhoid fever, during aggravation which precedes rash (14th day), palpitation, tremulous pulse, anxiety, red face, delirium, jerks ; short, hacking cough ; excessive diarrhœa.
Sequela of putrid fever ; horses.
Useful in convalescence from yellow fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Returning at intervals : aching in throat.
Every morning : pain in brain ; violent headache.
Attacks several months apart. θ Epilepsy.
Lasting from 3 days to 6 months. θ Hereditary headache.
Worse towards new moon. θ Gangrena oris.
Worse during solstice. θ Epilepsy.
(In sick :) Worse about new moon. θ Crusta lactea.
Worse during full moon. θ Epilepsy.
Some symptoms < every other day.

Locality and direction

Left : boring in temple ; hemicrania ; pricking on side of head ; swelling in front of ear ; pain in temple ; seed wart on cheek ; as of a lump in side of throat ; pain in side ; pain in groin ; lung affected, stitches on
inspiration, to throat pit ; abscess ; lancinating pain from sore spot in chest to right side ; pain in arm, with palpitation ; soreness in pectoral muscles ; shooting pain in shoulder down along arm and towards heart ; arm, weakness and a kind of
paralysis ; shoulder, shooting ; convulsive trembling of index finger ; middle phalanx of middle finger painful ; piercing darting pains in ring finger ; foot dragged in walking ; lameness in knee.
Right : pain about eye ; drawing in temporal muscle ; ear and face swollen ; tickling in eustachian tube ; parotitis ; steatoma over parotid gland ; painfulness of wing of nose ; pain in ovarian region ; side, pain in ; external heat and
swelling ; between ribs small lump, with difficult breathing ; shoulder, arthritic pain ; arm, internal drawing corrosive pains ; arm, pressing pain ; wrist, pain as from a sprain ; ganglion in wrist size of a bean ; atrophy of hip ; sensation as if
hip was brittle, as well as short and small ; creaking in knee when walking ; ulcer-like sores on knee ; small, deep, painless ulcer on external malleolus ; fingers, hand, arm and leg cold and damp ; knee, blood-boils.
From left to right : shooting in temples ; lancinating in side.
First right then left : pain in ear ; darting pain in side.
From within outward : cutting thrusts in vertex ; stitches in ears and eyes.

Sensations

As of a board before head ; as if everything was turning with her ; as if he would drop unconscious ; brain as if squeezed ; as if a piece of ice was lying on side of head ; as if right hip and thigh were brittle ; as if scalp was loosened from
head back to nape of neck ; as if she should press eyes in ; as if eye moved involuntarily ; as if a grain of sand was under eyelid ; as if roots of teeth were being torn out ; as of a lump in throat ; as of a plug which moved up and down in throat ; as if
a load or stone was in stomach ; as if laced below hypochondria ; as of worms crawling in abdomen ; as if rectum was torn open ; as if something was being torn loose in larynx when coughing ; as of dust in throat and lungs ; pain in sacral region, back and neck,
after overlifting, as if wrenched, as if they were swollen ; as if r. hip and thigh were brittle, as well as short and small ; as if lower limbs had gone to sleep ; as if she had on cold damp stockings.
Cutting : in chest, on inspiration ; in forehead ; in vertex and occiput ; in eyes and lids ; in abdomen ; in epigastrium ; in upper part of abdomen ; in colon.
Lancinating : from sore spot in left chest ; nightly in arms.
Stitching : in head out of eyes ; in gums ; headache from cough ; in eyes ; in teeth ; in throat ; in hepatic region ; in left chest to hypochondrium ; in rectum ; at anus and in scrotum ; through female urethra ; in left chest
to throat pit ; in region of heart ; pain in neck ; various part of back ; between scapulæ ; in thigh, on stepping ; in knee.
Cutting stitches : in urethra.
Cutting rending : from inguinal region to testicles.
Stitch : upward in chest muscles ; in left shoulder joint ; in temples ; in ears and eyes ; towards nasal bones ; in stomach ; in cervix.
Concussive stitch : in chest.
Stinging : in lump between ribs, right side, extending to shoulder blades ; in knee ; in bones ; in neck ; in eyes ; in palate ; in os uteri.
Needle-like stitches in buttock.
Prickling : stitches in muscles of chest ; on neck and face ; in left side of head ; in teeth.
Smarting : across gluteal region ; in eyes ; in throat.
Corrosive : pains in right arm.
Rawness : in chest, from dry cough.
Burning : in temples ; vertex ; in scalp ; in eyes : in canthi ; of tongue ; in eyelids ; in throat ; from epigastrium up ; at nape of neck ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in rectum and anus ; at meatus ; of
urethra ; of genitals ; in chest ; pain at nape of neck ; pain extending downward, with inclination to move ; in back of hands ; on tibia ; on soles of feet at night ; pain in corns ; in hands ; in veins.
Biting : eruption on feet ; on scalp.
Gnawing : in abdomen and stomach ; in teeth.
Boring : rheumatism of lumbar vertebræ ; in bones ; in forehead and temples ; in teeth.
Jerking : in ears ; in teeth ; in stomach ; in abdomen to glans penis ; in rectum ; from small of back to anus.
Jerking stitching : in leg above ankle joint.
Tearing : pain as if, in chest ; rheumatism of lumbar vertebræ ; in eyes and head ; in coccyx ; pain on outer side of forearm ; in knee ; in limbs ; in legs ; ulcers ; above eyes down to nose ; through brain ; in bones of
head ; in scalp ; in cheeks ; in teeth.
Shooting : pains under left shoulder ; through limbs ; both upper and lower ; in temples ; in hip.
Darting : to ears ; in side.
Drawing : in temples ; pain between shoulder blades ; in hepatic region ; in coccyx ; pains in right arm ; in middle fingers ; in knee ; from forehead to vertex ; in temporal muscles ; in occiput ; in teeth ; in colon ; in
hip ; from r. hypochondrium towards symphysis pubis.
Nipping : in entire hypochondrium.
Pinching : in entire hypochondrium ; in coccyx ; under navel ; in stomach ; in abdomen.
Piercing : dating pain in left ring finger.
Rooting : in teeth.
Digging : at pit of stomach ; in abdomen.
Griping : in abdomen and stomach ; in rectum ; in back.
Sore pain : in region of liver and spleen.
Bruised : arms feel, on moving them.
Soreness : in chest ; around tip of nose ; of tongue ; of œsophagus ; in abdomen ; of navel ; of soles ; between legs and at anus.
Aching : swelling of glands of neck and back ; of shoulder muscles and arms ; smarting across gluteal region ; in rectum ; in kidneys and lumbar region ; of testicles ; of vagina ; of back and hips.
Bearing-down pain : in pelvis.
Pressure : in stomach and chest ; on chest ; between and under shoulder blades ; in eyes ; on upper row of teeth ; in throat ; in hepatic region ; in abdomen ; in left groin ; in rectum.
Pressive sticking pain : in abdomen.
Pressing pain : in right arm ; in forehead ; in vertex ; in stomach ; in kidneys and loins.
Rheumatic pain : in upper cervical vertebræ.
Dull pain : day and night.
Dulness : of head.
Undefined pain : in inguinal hernia ; in both sides of chest ; in back, with oppression of chest ; in neck, on turning head ; in left arm ; between shoulders and in lower part of back ; in shoulders, with fever ; in right wrist joint, as from a
sprain ; in hands ; in tendo-achillis ; as if beaten in upper arms and middle of thighs ; at roots of hair ; shoots into ears and head ; in upper jaw ; in left temple ; on side and lower surface of tongue ; in throat ; in abdomen ; in
epigastrium ; in left groin ; in rectum ; in uterus or right ovarian region ; in armpits ; in breasts ; in hip bones or in arms ; in larynx ; in calf.
Painful : stiffness in back.
Colicky pains : about umbilicus.
Urging : in back.
Tensive pain : in maxillary joint ; in swollen gland under jaw ; in head.
Severe spasms : in intestines.
Stupefying pain : in head.
Concussive throbs : in head, abdomen and chest.
Emptiness : in head.
Pulsating : in gums.
Beating : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Throbbing : ulcers ; in temples ; in middle of brain ; in vertex ; in eyelids ; in ears ; in teeth ; of gums ; in epigastric region.
Tightness : on chest ; of right temple ; in both hypochondria.
Tightening : pain in legs during pressive cramps in stomach.
Compressive pain : in heart.
Tension : in abdomen.
Hammering : in head.
Contractive drawing aching : in epigastrium and across abdomen.
Constriction : in chest ; with anxiety ; of abdomen upward ; in stomach ; in rectum ; in throat.
Cramped : hands and forearms ; in feet and legs.
Cramps : in stomach ; in intestinal canal ; in rectum ; in abdomen ; in toes and soles ; in arms.
Twitching : in penis.
Shocks : in head at night, from dry cough ; dull, from posterior wall of chest upward.
Heaviness : and painful weight in limbs, and great fatigue on walking ; of the body ; in forehead ; in upper lids ; of rectum ; of feet ; of legs.
Weight : sensation of, in different parts.
Weariness : of lower limbs.
Weak : feeling in back ; in left arm ; in chest.
Scratching : in throat.
Uneasiness : in legs ; in abdomen.
Numbness : of single parts ; in side of back, on which he has been lying ; in hands ; in great toe on walking.
Dead : fingers and feet feel as if.
Paralytic bruised pain in long bones and in joints of limbs ; also in small of back, on motion.
Warmth : ascending nape of neck.
Heat : and swelling of right chest ; around coccyx ; in head ; in ears ; in upper lids ; of face ; in top of head ; in rectum.
Cold : feeling in gluteal region ; feet ; icy feeling in and on head ; like cold air passing over the part ; on thighs ; top of head ; in eyes ; in abdomen.
Itching : in chest ; burning on neck ; on inner part of forearm ; of thighs ; on tibia ; on lower leg and foot ; eruption on feet ; crawling, on scalp ; burning on head and neck ; in eyes ; in canthi ; in ears ; in
nose ; of eruption of face ; at nape of neck ; in rectum ; of anus ; on scrotum ; of sexual organs, male and female ; in larynx ; of thighs.
Dryness : of ears ; of nose ; of tongue ; of mouth ; of larynx.
Crawling : on side of nose ; on lower part of face ; in rectum.

Tissues

Congestions : head ; eyes ; ears ; nose ; face ; chest ; abdomen, limbs ; plethora.
Anemic symptoms. θ Menorrhagia. θ Uterine tumor. θ Following
loss of fluids, hemorrhage, sweat, diarrhœa, seminal emissions, etc.
Chlorosis.
Poor assimilation. θ Phthisis pulmonalis.
Bleeding from inner parts.
Fungus medullaris.
Bloody tumors.
Varicose veins ; burning in veins.
Inflammation, painful swelling and induration of glands.
Glandular swelling. θ Keratitis. θ Catarrh. θ Gonarthrocace.
Atrophy, with glandular swelling of scrofulous subjects. θ Marasmus, etc.
Cystic swellings.
Cancer of breast, very sensitive, and painful to touch.
Sour taste in mouth, or of food, sour vomiting, especially with children during dentition, also sour diarrhœa, accompanying affections of mucous membranes.
Pus : albuminous, whitish, yellow, copious or scanty, putrid.
Mild pus. θ Blennorrhœa.
Pus stinking. θ Horses.
Pyæmia.
Granular vegetations ; polypus (in nose, ear, bladder, uterus).
Boring, stinging or pulsating in bones.
Exostoses : horses, continually stretch the limb.
Tardy development of bony tissues, with lymphatic enlargements.
Osteomalacia with decubitus.
Softening of bones ; fontanelles remaining open too long, and skull very large ; swelling of joints.
Curvature of bones, especially of spine and long bones.
Extremities deformed, crooked. θ Rachitis.
Swelling, caries, necrosis and malformation of bones in scrofulous individuals.
Acts on epiphyses of bones.
Spinal meningitis extending from diseased bones of spine.
Osteomyelitis scrofulosa.
Steatoma, reappearing and suppurating every four weeks.
Crackling, or crepitation in joints as if they were dry.
Arthritic nodosities, with stiff joints.
Hip disease ; second stage ; scratches head on awaking ; craves boiled eggs ; swollen glands ; diarrhœa, etc.
White swelling of knee ; pressing, stitching pains intermitting at night and during rest.
Twitching of muscles.
Cramps in single parts, which draw limbs crooked, especially toes and fingers.
Easy straining.
Muscular weakness ; children.
Muscles soft and flabby. θ Cholera infantum. θ Atrophy of
infants. θ Asthma. θ Scrofula. θ Chlorosis.
θ Chorea, etc.
Muscular atrophy ; muscles of back and limbs wasted.
With rheumatic pains hard welts are to be felt in muscles.
Rheumatism. θ Goitre.
Arthritic tearing in muscles.
Visible quivering of skin, from feet to head, with which he becomes dizzy.
Scrofulous eruptions and ulcers in children.
Fistulous, carious and scrofulous ulcers.
Puffiness. θ Chlorosis.
Bloatedness of body and face, with swelled abdomen in children.
In eruptions of skin determined by diseases, which usually (as hemorrhoids, disorders in secretion of urine, etc.) locate in internal organs.
Anasarca. θ Amenorrhœa. θ After scarlatina.
Tendency to obesity, especially in children and young people.
Atrophy, especially of neck and face. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Emaciation ; imperfectly growing bones. θ Hydrocephalus traumaticus.
Great emaciation, with swelled abdomen and good appetite.
Marasmus ; large belly ; body and also limbs wasted ; appetite good ; hollow, wrinkled face ; skin dry ; wrinkled ; hair dry ; averse to exercise, etc.
Emaciation. θ Cholera infantum. θ Tuberculosis. θ Intestinal
catarrh. θ Chronic diarrhœa. θ Leucorrhœa. θ Pneumonia.
Nutrition impaired, with tendency to glandular engorgements.
Scrofula.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Horseback riding : > headache.
Pressure : middle phalanx of left middle finger painful ; aching in female genitals < ; shooting in temples > ; hardness of inguinal region <.
Touch : stitches in temple > ; small ulcers on index finger painful ; both knees hot, pale, swollen, very sensitive to touch ; pain in calf ; painful, cancer of breast.
Scratching : stitches in vertex >.
Cannot bear tight clothing, particularly around hypochondria ; > from loosening garments.
Lifting : easily overstrained or sprained ; headache, backache, stiff neck, sore throat.
Small wounds suppurate and do not heal ; the wound is raw and inflamed, painful as if beaten.
After burns : chronic diarrhœa ; tumors.
Traumatic ophthalmia.
When riding : aching in kidneys and lumbar region.

Skin

Itching on various parts of body.
Itching at all times < towards morning, in bed. θ Herpes circinatus.
Eruptions burn and itch. θ Keratitis.
Visible quivering of skin. θ Muscular atrophy.
Skin pale and flabby, or dry, shrivelled and yellow.
Bloated appearance of skin.
Chaps, or rhagades, especially in those who work in water.
Unhealthy, ulcerative skin ; even small wounds suppurate.
Skin sensitive to rubbing, when washing ; she must do it herself, and very gently.
Perceptible quivering of skin from head to foot, with giddiness.
Eruption of prickly heat over whole body.
Violent irritation about chest, back, neck and shoulders, and in calves of legs, followed by a reddish rash.
Elevated red stripes on tibia, with severe itching and burning after rubbing.
A red rash appears on 7th day. θ Peritonitis.
Whole body, particularly lower limbs, covered with large pomphi (vesiculi) of angry red color, itching terribly ; when scratched increasing in size ; < at night.
Chronic form of urticaria, mostly disappearing in cold air.
Skin rough, with appearance like miliary rash.
Miliary eruption over abdomen, itching so that he must scratch until he screams.
Erysipelas (lower leg, with swelling) in repeated attacks.
Scarlatina, with corrosive nasal discharge and swelling of glands of ear, first left side, then right ; sore throat ; skin of face pale, bloated, no sign of eruption there ; threatened paralysis of lungs.
Chronic forms or protracted cases of scarlatina, where temperament is leuco-phlegmatic, nose sore and obstructed, glands of neck swollen ; slow fever, especially < in morning ; child pale and languid, does not seem to convalesce after regular recession of eruption.
Extensive portions of body without redness. θ Scarlatina.
Sequela of scarlatina. θ Parotitis.
Yellow color of skin, with scrofula.
Eruption of white spots and some scattered red patches on wrists, back of hands, thighs, legs and ankles, with violent irritation.
Spots glistening through skin.
Fresh leprous spot on chin ; a rough dark spot soon becomes the size of a half dollar.
Milk-white spots on skin with dark borders.
Spots on skin usually white became more bluish.
Skin has a bran-like coating.
Herpes, burning ; chapped ; furfuraceous, or moist.
Ringworm.
Scaly skin.
Eruptions moist, scurfy. θ Milk crust.
Scurfy pimples on border of free edge of lower lip.
Moist eruption behind right ear.
Thick crusts, moist or dry. θ Dermatitis.
Eczema, thin moist scabs upon head, with swollen cervical glands ; eczema behind ears.
Skin hypertrophied, dark red, secretes a corrosive fluid, which dries into thick crusts on both hands and forearms ; burning itching of parts ; motion of wrist and finger joints is painful.
Eruption with thick scales and yellow pus underneath.
Eruption yielding a thick, mild secretion. θ Impetigo.
In centre of spots dry vesicular elevations change into nodules.
Papules in various parts of body.
Pustular eruption on head, neck, shoulders and buttocks.
Pustules under breast painful on rubbing.
Acne indurata or punctata.
Induration in skin of horses.
Hard eczematous vesicles on backs of hands.
Itch-like phagedenic blisters on index fingers.
Blisters that leave raw spots, or are converted into ulcers, especially on elbow, on upper and forearm ; accompanied by bloated, florid and scaly appearance of face, and scabby condition of feet.
Blood-boils : appear on head, neck and shoulders, or on thigh instead of his asthma, during new moon ; on both cheeks in front of ears ; on right knee, can press out quantity of pus.
Eradicates predisposition to boils.
Old ulcers, deep, fistulous, carious.
Ulcers : simple, indolent, sloughing and hemorrhagic, putrid, carious, white or yellow ; tearing or throbbing ; < in morning, also just before falling asleep, on awaking, when letting limb hang down, before menstruation, from wet poultices, in Spring, in wet
weather ; > when keeping limb elevated, in dry weather, from rubbing or scratching.
Ulcers : with red, hard, swollen circumference ; high and feeble granulations ; without much pain, or, tearing and throbbing in ulcers ; pus scanty, albuminous.
Subcutaneous tubercle.
A red excrescence, size of bean, every four weeks ; inflames, breaks open, becomes hollow, discharges pus, and then heals.
Round swellings, which appear in different places, on joints of upper limb, breasts, lower legs and feet, with needle-like stitches, especially at joint ; also pain in ear, with fever heat and thirst.
Encysted tumors ; naked tumors. θ Horses.
Cystic swellings, discharging pus.
Bloody tumors ; nevus ; cholesteatoma ; enchondroma.
Spongy tumor.
Recurring fibroid tumors.
Malignant tumors on head, eyes, nose, mouth, neck and female genitals.
Lipoma, from abuse of liquors, or from scrofula.
Many very small warts appear here and there.
Warts : round, soft at base, almost of color of skin, upper surface hard, rough, whitish and horny.
Wart appears, itches, bleeds and disappears.
Warts : inflamed, stinging ; suppurating, and forming ulcers ; thickly studding mouths of sheep.
Variola during teething ; sequela of variola.
Sequela of measles ; eye disease, etc.
After suppressed eruptions. θ Epilepsy. θ Megrim. θ Nervous
palpitation of heart.
After suppressed pimples on face. θ Nervous palpitation of heart.

Stage of life, constitution

Pale, leuco-phlegmatic, weakly timid persons.
Scrofulous constitutions, with pale face, rather fair complexion and disposition to corpulence.
More frequently indicated with the young ; cannot be often repeated with the old, unless higher potencies are used.
Diseases of children, especially during dentition.
Children and sucklings become thick and gross, as if fat, but are pale and unhealthy.
Leuco-phlegmatic temperament in childhood. θ Dentition.
Fair, plump children. θ Crusta lactea. θ Urticaria, etc.
Children : self-willed ; fair, plump ; fat, flabby, with red face, sweat easily, and readily take cold ; large heads and abdomens, open fontanelles and sutures, and crooked legs.
Fat child, æt. 18 months, light hair, blue eyes. θ Tinea capitis.
Child, æt. 2, blue eyes, blonde hair and fair skin. θ Hives.
Boy, æt. 2, strumous, head sweats much at night.
Child, æt. 3, blue eyes, blonde hair, plump fat habitus. θ Strabismus.
Boy, æt. 10 ; since his fourth year. θ Mesenteric diarrhœa.
Miss, æt. 14, light complexion. θ Epilepsy.
Puberty : girls who begin with menses too early and too profuse ; fat, yet chlorotic ; plethoric girls, amenorrhœa, etc.
Girl, æt. 16, fair complexion, strumous family, easily excited to tears. θ Herpes circinatus.
Girl, æt. 20, small, plethoric and blonde. θ Chlorosis with hermicrania.
Light-haired youth, growing rapidly. θ Tuberculosis.
Young who grow too fat and heavy. θ Ozæna scrofulosa.
A young man, after he had worked with his bare feet in cold clay.
A widow, æt. 40, large figure, round form, brown hair, blue eyes, white and delicate skin, constantly red cheeks, irritable. θ Gout.
Plethoric woman. θ Vulvar tumor.
Climacteric years ; hysteric women who have not been married ; who have had profuse catamenia ; metrorrhagia.
A woman, æt. 60, night sweats of head since 37th year.
Man, æt. 60, dark haired, muscular, thin and tall. θ Polypus.
Fat, unhealthy children. θ Ulcer of cornea.
Flat, flabby children, with red face, who sweat and catch cold easily. θ Enuresis nocturna.
During dentition. θ Eclampsia.
Nervous, hemorrhoidal, plethoric and lymphatic constitutions ; disposed to grow fat.
Chronic headaches of torpid constitutions.
Gouty people.
Herpes in the scrofulous, with enlarged glands.
Tuberculous diathesis.
Scrofulous diathesis. θ Rachitis. θ Hydrocephalus. θ Crusta
lactea. θ Keratitis. θ Catarrh. θ Strabismus.
θ Herpes. θ Polypus auris. θ Cancrum
oris. θ Intestinal catarrh. θ Worms. θ Amenorrhœa.
θ Menorrhagia. θ Uterine displacement. θ Uterine
cancer. θ Pruritus valvæ. θ Dysmenorrhœa. θ Gonarthrocace.
θ Bronchial catarrh. θ Asthma. θ Scarlatina.
θ Coryza. θ Nasal catarrh. θ Herpetic
affections.
Leuco-phlegmatic, light complexion, blue eyes, blonde hair, fair skin.
Fair, light complexion, grows too rapidly. θ Tuberculosis.
Full habit and ebullitions.
Sanguine temperament, muscles soft, flabby. θ Goitre.
Darkish yellow complexion, spare habit. θ Icterus calculosus.
Nervous temperament, delicate constitution. θ Megrim.
Black hair, dark complexion, blue eyes. θ Rheumatism.
Nervous temperament, dark hair and grey eyes. θ Prosopalgia.
Nervo-bilious temperament, black hair, dark complexion. θ Muscular atrophy.
Fat persons. θ Prosopalgia.
Persons inclined to grow fat. θ At onset of typhus.
Leuco-phlegmatic temperament. θ Cholera infantum. θ Laryngo-tracheitis. θ Bronchitis.
θ Hæmaturia. θ Gleet. θ Menorrhagia.
Persons subject to nightly emissions. θ Bronchial catarrh.
For drunkards.

Relations

Antidotes : Camphor, Ipec., Nitr. ac., Nitr. spir. dulc., Nux vom., Sulphur .
Calc. ostr . antidotes : Bismuth, Cinchon., Chin. sulph., Digit., Mezer . (headache), Nitr. ac., Phosphor .
Compatible : before Lycop ., Nux vom., Phosphor., Platin., Silica ; after Chamom ., Cinchon ., Conium, Cuprum ,
Nitr. ac ., Nux vom., Pulsat ., Sulphur (especially if pupils dilate).
Incompatible : before Nitr. ac . And Sulphur , according to Hahnemann.
Complementary to Bellad .
Compare : Alum., Amm. mur . (tightness of chest) ; Arnica, Arsen . (swollen mesenteric glands) ; Bryon . (child chews and swallows in sleep) ; Baryt. Bellad .
(eclampsia, scarlatina, headache, crusta lactea, etc.) ; Calc. phosph . (cold damp feet, uterine trouble) ; Chamom., Cina (worms) ; Cinchom . (deafness, etc.) ; Coccul .
(weak from talking) ; Conium , Cuprum (epilepsy) ; Fil. mas . (tapeworm) ; Fluor. ac . (nevus) ; Iodium,
Ignat . (child chews and swallows in sleep) ; Ipec . (diarrhœa, cholera infantum) ; Kali carb ., Lycop . (typhus, intertrigo, gout, ophthalmia, gonitis, epilepsy,
etc.) ; Magnes ., Mercur . (canker sores, quinsy, heart, stool, sweat particularly on chest, with old people, etc.) ; Mezer., Nitr. ac., Nux vom . (headache, spasm of
eyelid) ; Phosphor . (burning in vertex) ; Pulsat . (sleepless, restless after scarlatina) ; Rhus tox . (rheumatism, ophtalmia) ; Sacch. alb .
(swollen mesenteric glands) ; Secale (menses) ; Sepia (convalescence from yellow fever) ; Silica (desire to be mesmerized, nevus, swollen mesenteric glands) ; Sulphur
(epilepsy, intertrigo, gleet, etc.) ; Teucrium (polypus) ; Veratr . (weak from talking) ; Zincum (scarlatina).
General remarks : acts a long time ; with children, when indicated, may be often repeated ; with aged people, however, it should not be repeated, for if given to them a second time, especially if the first dose benefited, it will usually do harm ; when the remedy does
not otherwise act, put it in child's milk, if bottle-fed.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

If you were about to produce a Calcarea subject to order you could do so by feeding him lime or lime water until the digestive organs were so debilitated that they could no longer digest lime; and then the tissues would be increasingly deprived of what they need, and give us the lime subject, the "bone salt inanition" case, for that is really what it is. Infants that are fed lime water in the milk will in a little while be lime subjects.

They will soon get in such a state that they cannot take the lime from their natural food, and the result will be a Calcarea subject such as we are about to describe.

But the natural cases are those that have a natural sickness, are born so, born with an inability to digest the lime that is in their natural food, and they grow fat and flabby, and produce deficient bones.

There is a greater proportion of cartilaginous material in the bones than lime, and the bones bend, and take on diseases and destructive troubles. Deficient teeth, or no teeth at all. The bones simply stop growing, and the patient goes into marasmus.

What a foolish notion it is to feed that infant lime water because he cannot digest lime! Is it not just as reasonable as anything else in allopathy? And yet our homeopaths use allopathic medicines. They use the lowest potencies they can get and it would seem strange if those substances cured any better in the hands of the homeopath than in the hands of the allopath.

Nor, it is astonishing that one single dose of the potency suitable to meet the state of disorder will make that infant commence to digest its food, and appropriate from its food the lime substance that it needs in its bones, and wherever else it needs it.

All at once the teeth begin to grow; the bones begin to grow, and the legs get stiff enough for him to begin to walk, and they will hold up. It is astonishing what changes will take place under the various medicines that are suitable for the disturbances of the hair, and the bones and nails.

The remedy must be sufficiently potentized to correspond with the wrong. It certainly must not be crude because the child is already stunted by the crude material. You will see within a month or six weeks after giving a solitary dose of the sufficiently potentized remedy the nails that were corrugated and uneven and spotted and irregular will form a margin and will grow out smooth.

You will see the ugly little crowns upon the teeth, distorted, and black things as they come up out of the gums; but when they have been under the suitable homeopathic remedy you will see them form a margin line, and from there on the teeth look healthy, and from there on the little body of the tooth is smooth and round; just as if that child bad had an impulse to grow better teeth.

That same thing probably takes place where the bones exist. The periosteum takes on healthy work.

This is the Calcarea state when the patient needs lime and he cannot get it because he has been cloyed; or, because he has an indigestion, he is unable to assimilate the lime that is in his food, and it goes through him and does not affect him.

So it is with much of the sickness we have, an inability to extract from the food and assimilate such things as the body needs. Would not anyone be a simpleton to suppose that he had been the cause of the building of a tooth?

You do not build mole hills out of our high potencies; they simply establish a state of order, so that digestion and assimilation go on, order is established and the tissues are improved.

Health comes, beauty, a growth of hair, better skin, better nails.

The Calcarea constitution is what we want to know. We do not need to know that the individual has been poisoned by lime; it is not worth much to know it, because that is not the index to the remedy. If indigestion of lime has been brought about by lime, it may need one of ten other remedies to overcome that indigestion for lime.

It is not always Calcarea that covers the symptoms. The medicine that covers the symptoms is the one that will change the economy from an abnormal to a normal state, and digestion will become orderly, and we will have growth and prosperity in the economy.

Aspect

The Calcarea case is to be known by the symptoms, and not by the fact that the patient has been poisoned by lime; the chances are that those we have to treat have never had any lime. Many of them have never been poisoned by lime but have been unable to assimilate lime from birth.

Calcarea is full of congestions, determination of blood to the head cold feet; hot head; congestion of the chest. Calcarea corresponds in a very high degree to the chlorotic and anaemic, pale and waxy, and in spite of this plump. It has both fat, flabby and pale patients and it has emaciated states, too.

Muscles emaciate. Emaciated about the neck; emaciated about the neck and from there downwards. Anemic conditions; pale, waxy, sickly; pale lips; pale ears; pale fingers; pale and yellowish.

Chlorosis is a word especially relating to the anemia of girls. A large number of remedies is indicated in those conditions, but Calcarea produces the kind of anemia known as chlorosis. It produces most pernicious anemia.

Great relaxation in the tissues everywhere; relaxation of muscles; relaxation of veins; relaxation of the walls of blood-vessels to such a great extent, especially in the lower limbs and anus, that there are marked hemorrhoidal manifestations or marked varicose veins in the legs. Distended veins, burning in these varicose veins. Burning and smarting. Bleeding and oozing. Inflammation and painful swelling of joints.

Glands

Another marked feature running through the remedy is its tendency to attack glands, the glands of the neck, all of the glands of the body, especially the lymphatic glands.

The lymphatic glands in the abdomen become hard, inflamed and sore, like great nodules, like hickory nuts; tubercular. Calcarea is useful in tubercular formations.

Calcareous degenerations, calcareous glands, induration of glands. It is useful in indurations in ulcers, and the base of ulcers, and round about ulcers, hence its wonderful use in palliating and restraining the growth of malignant ulcers, as malignant ulcers always have an indurated base.

Old cancerous ulcers are greatly restrained in their growth, that is, the constitutional state is much improved, the patient himself has more endurance and the ulcers will take on healing. In cancerous affections that would kill in sixteen months the patient will live five years with Calcarea, if Calcarea is indicated.

That is something, and in any times that is all that can be expected in a cancerous growth.

In glandular affections where the glands round about are infiltrated and hard, where there is much burning and stinging pain, where the growth has invaded and appropriated the surrounding tissues so that there are adhesions, matters are serious.

There is malignancy in almost all these cases. They differ entirely from glands that are loose from the skin, glands that roll under the skin, and have no fibrous attachment. Cancerous affections burn and sting. Calcarea cures many tumors, fatty, cystic, if the symptoms agree, so strongly is it related to this building tip process in glands. It builds up glands and bone.

Another thing running through the remedy is a pyoemic state, in which there are abscesses in deep muscles. Abscesses deep in the neck, deep in the thigh, in the abdomen.

You will be astonished to learn that Calcarea will take care of the abscess (when the symptoms agree), and it will not break. I have many times seen an abscess disappear when fluctuation was most positive. I have seen those abscesses disappear when pus was shown to he present by the needle; I have not only seen the abscesses go away, but also the pyoemic state which was prior to it. We have but a few medicines that will do that.

There is something singular about this. Why does Calcarea favor the resorption of that fluid and encourage the part to become calcareous?

It is more than I am able to explain, but it does it when the symptoms agree. But Sulph. and Sil., when their symptoms agree hasten suppuration. But Calcarea has that peculiar action of concentrating and contracting.

One may be indicated in one case, the other may be indicated in the other. There are times when Sil. is indicated and the abscess is in such a dangerous place. Then if Sil. is given the result that naturally belongs to the spreading of that abscess is dangerous; in such an instance the surgeon must be called to drain the abscess in a safe manner, even when we know that if that abscess were located in a safe place, it would be far better for that patient to have the remedy he needs.

Sometimes the periosteum is injured by a hammer striking it through muscles, injuring or contusing the periosteum. Inflammation will set in, pus will form rapidly, and if Calcarea is indicated by the constitution of the patient the surgeon's knife is entirely useless, and a most detrimental thing.

But in thinking from the old standpoint, the physician who knows nothing about Homoeopathy, and the wonders of our homeopathic remedies, would hold up his hands in horror.

"Why, if you produce a resorption of that pus into the system you will have blood poisoning and death."

But under Calcarea this resorption does take place in some manner, and the patient improves every moment, he stops his sweating, his rigor has disappeared, he becomes perfectly comfortable, his appetite improves, he is stronger by the time it is over, and remains well.

Judging from the old standpoint, we cannot conclude anything about the problems that will come up under Homoeopathy. We can only judge from our standpoint, and from what we know.

And if you hear that somebody has tried this and tried that without success, remember that somebody has only demonstrated his own failure. Homoeopathy is capable of demonstrating itself in all intelligent hands; wherever the physician has intelligence and makes use of the law and applies the remedy in accordance with the symptoms he will see the case turn out as described.

Polypi

Another grand feature running through this remedy is its ability to grow polypi. Those who need Calcarea will grow polypi in the nose and ears, in the vagina, in the bladder, and here and there. Cystic growths also and strange little papillomata.

Exostoses

Another strange thing that it does is to cause exostoses. This state of disorder comes from the irregularity in the distribution of the lime. You would think that nature would try to distribute it around evenly where it can do the most good.

But when this bone salt inanition has commenced the lime may be piled up in one place, and almost absent in another. One bone will be cartilaginous and another will have bony growths on it. Softening of the bone.

Defective formation of bone. A keynote has grown out of this, viz:

"Late learning to walk," because the legs are so weak.

It is not late learning to walk, but it is late walking.

It knows how to walk, but it can't walk. Natrum mur. has brain trouble, in which the child is late learning to do things.

"Tardy development of bone tissues. Curvatures."

Muscles flabby, joint affections, like hip-joint disease. It is full of rheumatism. Rheumatic and gouty conditions of the joints.

The Calcarea patient is a chilly patient. Sensitive to the cold air. Sensitive to the raw winds. Sensitive to the coming of a storm; sensitive to the coming of cold weather, and when the weather changes from warm to cold it seems impossible for him to keep warm; he wants the body kept warm.

Head

The head is sometimes congested; and it is hot to the touch; but it often feels cold to him. His scalp feels as if it were cold. But the body is nearly always cold to the touch and he feels cold, and he wants plenty of clothing.

The feet are cold. He sweats in various places, sweats in spots. Sweats upon the forehead, or upon the face, or upon the back of the neck, or the front of the chest, or his feet.

Sensitiveness to cold and weakness run through the remedy. Weakness in the legs. Inability to endure. Worse from every kind of exertion. Out of breath. Fat, flabby anemic subjects, sometimes they look plump, often flushed in the face, but they have no endurance, and if such a patient undertakes a little exertion he is down sick with a fever, or a headache.

Calcarea is full of complaints brought on from lifting, from exertion, from walking, from walking enough to get into a sweat; and these come very suddenly, because he cannot stop that perspiration by keeping still without getting sick.

If he gets into a sweat, and stops long enough to be comfortable, the perspiration will stop so suddenly that he will have a chill, or he will have a headache. Weak, tired, anxious.

Difficulties of breathing. Weak heart. Weak all over. No ability of the muscles to sustain prolonged effort, and it is the same way with the mind. No ability of the mind to sustain prolonged mental effort. Calcarea is a tired patient.

He is suffering from want of lime. He has been unable to digest lime, and he goes into a state with enlarged glands, emaciation of the neck and of the limbs, while the fat and the glands of the belly increase. Especially is this noticed in children. A big bellied child, with emaciated limbs and emaciated neck.

Enlarged glands. Pale, and flabby, and sickly. Those that take on flesh without any increase of strength. They take on flesh and grow flabby. Remain feeble. Those that get up from sickness take on flabby flesh, and in a little while they become dropsical.

The Calcarea patient can't go upstairs; he is so tired in his legs, and so tired in the chest; he pants and suffocates from going upstairs. He has every evidence of muscular weakness and flabbiness. Nutrition is impaired everywhere.

This is the kind of patient that used to be called scrofulous; now we call the condition psora; and Calcarea is one of our deepest anti-psorics. It is a medicine that goes deep into the life, and takes a deep hold of every part of the economy.

Mind

Now we will take up the mental symptoms. All the mind symptoms represent Calcarea as in a state of great weakness; in ability to prolong mental operation.

Becomes very tired from mental work. Full of anxiety. He is tired mentally, and tired physically, from mental work and breaks down in a sweat, and becomes excited and irritable and disturbed. Great disturbance of the emotions; complaints lasting for days and weeks from excitement of the emotions; from worrying, from vexation, or a general emotional disturbance is prostrated.

"Inability to apply himself."

Inability to do good thinking for some time after such excitement, disturbance or worry. It is very useful in complaints from prolonged worry, from prolonged application to business, from excitement.

It is full of a peculiar kind of mental feeling, differing quite considerably from most remedies; he feels his exhaustion of mind, and it seems to him that this weakness, and this inability to do and to think connectedly, must be going towards insanity, he broods over it, he is convinced that he is insane, or about to become insane, that he is getting weak-minded, and he looks it, too, because what he has in his mind is this: that he is becoming insane or weak-minded and he thinks people will observe it.

He thinks people look at him suspiciously, and he looks at them suspiciously, and he wonders why they do not say something to him about it.

He thinks he is going insane, and that other people are observing his state of mind, and he keeps that in his mind most of the time. He thinks of it day-times, and he gets greatly roused up over it; he thinks of it nights, and it keeps him awake.

He lies awake late at night thinking. Calcarea leads to little ideas, that is, it compels the mind to littleness, to little ideas, or to dwell on little things, but his mind, as it were, is forced to dwell upon things that he cannot put aside.

When the Calcarea patient begins to relate to his friends how he feels they all naturally say to him,

'Why don't you put that aside; that doesn't amount to anything,"

but to him it is a big thing, and he cannot put it aside; all these little things combine to convince him that he is going crazy. he cannot calculate, he cannot do deep thinking, he cannot dwell upon deep things; he may have been a philosopher, and he has lost his ability to think out things in philosophy.

He has lost his mental depth. he forms conclusions out of his emotions rather than from his intelligence. He forms conclusions about things as he wants them to be. You would almost think he wants to grow crazy, he keeps talking about it so much.

He is unable to accept any sort of argument, and this grows worse and worse. He is unable to accept the assurance of his physician, in whom he has always had confidence. It is no use, it seems, to try to reason with him; yet he is not so far gone but he can reason about other things except his own mental state.

He imagines things; and the things he imagines you will really wonder at his dwelling upon them so, because they are such little things. And so it is when he goes into insanity, or imbecility, or a general breakdown.

It is a passive state, in which he sits and thinks about his little affairs, and his little things that amount to nothing at all, and he sits and sits, the text says,

"Sits and breaks sticks, or bends pins all day long with his fingers."

Does little things, and in this way he keeps himself busy, wears himself out more and more. Any amount of thinking be comes impossible. It is almost impossible for him to come to a conclusion, for he never figures it twice alike.

He cannot add and subtract even in the simplest forms. Now, he thinks about this matter so much and thinks everybody else is watching him, until finally the instant he closes his eyes he has visions, just as soon as he gets down quiet and thinks

"Now I will go to sleep, I will get rid of all this,"

and he closes his eyes to sleep, then he must get them open as quick as possible, he is in a state of excitement, for he sees horrid little spooks; he cannot keep his mind clear.

He cannot go to sleep because his thoughts trouble him, and he sees all sorts of things. There is no congruity in his mind. We know that strong intelligence puts aside such follies, but these are just the things that Calcarea patients dwell upon.

Talking to himself. He lies in bed, or sits, when be is alone, and carries on a general conversation with every conceivable individual he has had to do with, on every conceivable subject; and it multiplies and it grows, and he imagines it is all real.

We see how far that is removed from the healthy mind, and yet he is not fit for the insane asylum, with all of these strange things, for when he is roused he does carry on a conversation, and he does as ordinary people do.

When he is alone, when he has nobody to talk with him, he does these strange things. He is controlled and dominated when he is in company, to a great extent, and hence these things are not brought out.

He carries out that same idea when he becomes delirious or insane. Picks his fingers, and does all sorts of peculiar little things. Sees visions and faces of persons when eyes are closed.

"Imagines some one is walking beside her."

In the proving of Sil. that was observed very strongly. It has been observed in Petroleum, and in Calcarea. In a perfect state of health, with a strong, vigorous intelligence, it is not likely to be felt, but in nervous people, and especially in women, it is common.

"Mental aberration with horrid visions. Sees dogs crowding around him, fights them off."

Here is a sensation, occurring in nervous women,

"Feels as if she would like to run up and down, and scream."

Feels as if she could not help it, she must scream. That occurs in persons overwrought, dreadfully excited from a loss in the household by death. The mother loses her child, or husband; or a young girl loses her intended. She is broken-hearted, and greatly excited. It is a hysterical state. And yet I have seen the same in men.

I remember one. It came upon him from business cares. He had that same feeling; he would walk up and down the house, he said he felt as if he must fly or jump out of a window, or do some thing. That is analogous to the mental state found in hysteria, or a great state of nervous excitement.

"She thinks and talks of nothing but murder, fire, rats, etc."

That is that same idea of talking about little things and foolish things. Things that are not interesting to anybody, And yet I have seen these things in patients and I would ask them why they did it. It is generally said,

"I tried a good while to stop it, and when I could not I just kept right on at it, for it seemed to do me good."

"She thinks and talks of murder, fire, rats, etc."

Your patient may talk about other foolish things, but it is only to il lustrate the idea that she sits and talks about foolish things, and can not control herself; thinking, thinking, or expressing it, talking, talking, talking.

Violent screaming spells. And then the Calcarea patient will refuse to talk, will say nothing. She may talk to herself when alone, but will decline to enter into conversation, and will sit perfectly silent.

A Calcarea patient sometimes takes an aversion to work, and quits work. He will quit a most thriving business, and go home and do nothing, after being fatigued in carrying on the business until it- reaches a most thriving condition. He says business is not good for him.

He is tired of business, and when he goes to his business again it seems as if it would drive him crazy. He does not want to see it, he does not want to know anything about it.

Of course, you can readily see that it is not so much in the Calcarea patient that he is driven to, weakness and fatigue from distress in business, although it has that, but that which I am speaking about is that he has overworked until he has given out, and right in the midst of his success he quits his business and goes home, and leaves all-it looks just as if he were lazy.

If you look at him you come to the conclusion that he is lazy. Yet it is an insanity; not the laziness that belongs to tramp nature, though that also might be cured many times. He has been industrious, and all at once takes a turn. A great change occurs in the mind, and he takes on symptoms. It is not such persons as were born that way, born lazy, never would work; but those that become lazy.

It is like the symptom in a pious upright man, whose walk and conversation has been upright but all at once he turns and commences to swear. Of course we know that individual is insane. On the other hand, we have patients that have been only ordinarily industrious that develop an insanity for work, and it seems they have ability in that insane industry to work almost night and day; they are up early and late.

It is a sick state. So when we see in the Repertory "Industry" it does not mean an ordinarily industrious state but one that is exaggerated into a symptom. He has become so industrious that he has a mania for work.

"Whimpering. Low-spirited and melancholy."

It is a strange thing to see a bright little girl of 8 or 9 years old taking on sadness, melancholy, and commencing to talk about the future world, and the angels, and that she wants to die and go there, and she is sad, and wants to read the Bible all day.

That is a strange thing; and yet Calcarea has cured that. Ars. has cured that state, and also Lach. They are a little inclined to be precocious, and they have attended the Sunday-school, and they have taken too seriously the things they have learned.

Children sad and unhappy, and old people who take on a loathing of life, become weary of life. That is a good deal like Aurum. In going over Aurum I explained that, and dwelt upon it, that the highest love is the love of life; and when an individual ceases to love his own life, and is weary of it, and loathes it, and wants to die, he is on the border line of insanity.

In fact, that is an insanity of the will. You have only to look with an observing eye to see that one may be insane in the affections, or insane in the intelligence. One may remain quite intact, and the other one be destroyed.

We find in Calcarea both equally disturbed. One patient may be insane in his voluntary system, so that all of his loves are perverted; he has no affection that is like what it used to be, like it was when be was well.

Antipathy to his family or some member of his family.

Or, he may have the affection fairly intact, but no intelligence, and does all sorts of strange things.

He is full of fear.

Weary of life; hopelessness, anxiety. The world is black.

"Fear that something sad or terrible will happen. Fears that she will. lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of mind."

"Fear of death; of consumption; of misfortune; of being alone."

Fear abounds, especially when the voluntary system is disturbed. She is startled at every noise. He can't sleep sq that the body rests or the mind rests. He is disturbed in his sleep with horrible dreams. His sleep is a restless one.

"Great anxiety and oppression. Restlessness and palpitation. Despairing; hopeless."

These symptoms have to be coupled and connected with that leucophlegmatic, pale, flabby, sickly individual.

"Child cross and fretful. Easily frightened."

Many complaints after exertion of the mind. Many complaint after excitement, chagrin or fright.

He is so weak in his circulation, so much disturbed in the heart, it palpitates from every excitement. He is out of breath from every physical exertion; and these take part so much in the circulation of blood in the body, have so much to do with circulation of blood in the brain, have so much to do with the intellect, with the sensorium, that we see at once vertigo on almost all occasions, intermingled with all sorts of symptoms.

Fear, anxiety, and vertigo. If his. emotions stir him up he becomes dizzy. From going upstairs the blood mounts to the head, and he becomes dizzy. Confusion of mind and vertigo from mental exertion. If he becomes shocked, or has bad news, or has any mental excitement or chagrin, this vertigo will come out.

Confusion of mind, determination of blood to the head, cold extremities, covered with sweat, with vertigo.

"Vertigo, when climbing into high places;"

that is the effort of going up. The blood rushes to the head and he becomes dizzy.

"On going upstairs or up a hill. On suddenly rising, or turning the head, even when at rest."

Head: One of the most striking symptoms of the head of the Calcarea patient is the sweat, the sweat of the head upon the slightest exertion. He will sweat on the face when he sweats nowhere else, and his head is covered with cold sweat when he is comfortable in other places about the body.

The same thing is true about the feet. When his feet become very cold they will sweat. When they are warm they will sweat. You would naturally think that a person going into a cold room would stop his sweating. But sometimes the Calcarea patient will break out in a sweat, upon the head, and upon the feet, in a cold room,

He sweats upon the forehead, so that every draft of air makes him chilly, and this brings on headache. Coldness of the whole scalp, so he has to wrap up the head. Yet during congestions, the head is hot.

So it has at times great heat in the head. The Calcarea headaches are stupefying, they are benumbing; they bring on confusion of mind.

The Calcarea patient has a catarrh in the nose, with more or less discharge; at his best he has considerable discharge. But he goes into a cold place, the discharge is slacked up, and he gets a headache. Headache over the eyes. Congestion of the head; back of the head.

"Tearing headache above the eyes down to nose," is a strong symptom of Calcarea.

It seems sometimes as if a great wedge were lip in there. This is relieved by very hot applications. It is relieved in the dark; it is aggravated in the daylight. He must go into dark room and lie down for relief.

Sometimes this headache is ameliorated by lying down in the dark. This headache continues to grow worse during the day, until in the evening it becomes so severe that it is at tended with nausea and vomiting.

It is one of the forms of constitutional headache, is a headache that sometimes occurs once in two weeks. Headache every seven days, or headache once in two weeks. Periodical headaches. Sick headache, the old-fashioned American sick-headache.

There is commonly a periodicity belonging to it, of seven to fourteen days, but again, it comes on whenever he is exposed, by riding in the wind, for he is a very chilly patient, if he becomes really chilled or very cold, he gets a headache, a sick-headache.

Then, again, it has pain in the left side of the head. One-sided headache. Headache worse from noise, from talking, but ameliorated in the evening, from lying in the dark. It has headache in the temples, and this headache seems to draw through to the root of the nose.

The headaches from the supraorbital region draw through to the nose. Headaches in the temples seem to produce a feeling of tightness, a feeling of great tension in the forehead. Headaches worse from motion, from walking, from talking.

Most of the Calcarea headaches, as soon as they become severe, are attended with pulsation. The pulsation is so strong that the patient is not satisfied by merely saying it is a pulsation, he describes it as hammering. Most of the pains are pressive or tearing.

"Concussive headaches."

Stitching, pulsating pains in the head, as if it would split. Headaches worse from walking, and from a jar. Sometimes he feels a coldness in the head, it seems as if the cold head is numb, cold as if made of wood. He sometimes feels this numbness, and describes it as if he had a cap, sometimes as if there were a helmet, on the head.

Now, all of these sensations are difficult to describe, but sometimes they are one and the same thing. All the headaches of Calcarea, are more or less congestive. It is a peculiar feature of Calcarea, that the more marked the congestion of internal parts, the colder the surface becomes.

With chest troubles, and stomach troubles, and bowel troubles, the feet and hands become like ice, W covered with sweat; and he lies in bed sometimes with a fever in the rest of his body, and the scalp covered with cold sweat.

That is strange. You cannot account for that by any process of reasoning in pathology, and when a thing is so strange that it cannot be accounted, for, it become very valuable as descriptive of the remedy, and is one that cannot generally be left out when prescribing for a patient.

That is almost a general state, it is so marked. It has burning in the vertex, and this is often present coldness of the forehead, or the whole head may feel cold except a burning spot on the vertex. Calcarea will again have cold head and icy cold feet when walking in cold air or in very cold weather; but as soon as the feet get warm, they go to the other extreme, and burn so that he puts them out of bed.

This has often led inexperienced prescribers to prescribe Sulph., because that is a keynote of Sulph. All keynote prescribers give Sulph. whenever the patient puts the feet out of bed, but a number of remedies have burning feet, hot feet, so we are not limited to Sulph. Calcarea has affections of the bones of the skull, the outer part of the head.

Slow formation of bone. The fontanelles remain open a long time. It has hydrocephalic conditions, effusion in the membranes, and the bones do not grow and keep pace with the growth of the head, and hence the sutures commence to separate and the head grows wider, and larger all the time, with hydrocephalus.

In hydrocephalic children this sweating head is a common feature. The child lies at night upon the pillow, and the sweat pours from the head and wets the pillow all around; especially sweating at night.

In persons suffering from softening of the brain, the pillow is wet all around the head. Children going through difficult dentition have dreadful times in their dreams, they screech out in the night, and the pillow is wet all around their head.

Old plethoric patients, broken down constitutions, fat, flabby, lymphatic patients, with enlarged glands, with sweating of the head, cold sweating of the head. The hair falls out, not in the regular way such as occurs in old ago bit in patches here and there.

You see a bald spot on the side of the head, or the back of the head; a tuft of hair has come out, or in two or three places. Then it has eruptions upon the head and face; eczema that we find in children and infants.

"Thick scabs on the head, with yellow pus."

Eyes

Offensive eruptions. The eye comes in for a share of troubles, and Calcarea is one of the best friends the oculist has, if he knows how to use it. It is not especially suitable for every inflammation, but in those fat, flabby constitutions, where every cold settles in the eyes, and produces an inflammation, and this goes on for a few days, and ulceration begins, then study Calcarea.

Vesicles are formed and break and spread into an ulcer. From exposure of the feet in water, from riding in the wind, from cold, damp weather he gets eye troubles. Ulceration of the cornea. In all of the complaints of the eyes and of the head the photophobia is so marked that the Calcarea subject when he is at all disturbed cannot even stand ordinary light, and to be out in the sunlight is extremely painful, and many times inflammations are started from merely going into a bright sunlight, from steady looking, and from straining the eyes.

All kinds of exertions bring on headaches and eye troubles. Tension, because one muscle is weak. There is a disturbance of accommodation. Worse from every exertion of the eyes; you see that is like its generals, that is, aggravated from exertion.

He cannot endure any prolonged exertion; you see that is just as true of his parts as the whole. You know that reading, writing and looking at one thing all are marked exertions. With Calcarea, the part itself is worse from exertion, and the whole body is worse from exertion.

Calcarea has cured cataract. Calcarea has other disturbances of the eyes, in connection with head troubles, in connection with fevers, and when he is out of sorts from great exertion; he so easily gets into a fidgety state, confusion of mind that is almost a delirium, and on closing the eyes he sees the most horrible visions, specters, ghosts.

Long before any disturbance can be observed in the tissues, or in the retina, or any disturbance of the eye by looking into it with the ophthalmoscope he will complain of seeing smoke, or steam in the air before his field of vision, as if looking through a veil, as if looking through a cloud, all meaning the same thing.

"Dim vision." His vision is weak.

The muscles are weak. He suffers from dim vision, which is going on gradually to blindness as he grows increasingly weak. All of his eye symptoms, and his headaches, and his nervous symptoms arc aggravated from reading, from writing, from looking steadily at one thing.

He is very much exhausted after such an exertion and will have tearing pains over the eyes, behind the eyes in the head. That is a peculiar kind of a headache, such as he is in the habit of having. It may be in any part of head.

Called eye-strain. It is a wonderful remedy for eye-strain ( Onosmodium). Calcarea has cured many cases of opacity of the cornea (Bar, iod.). In an old case a cure can never be promised. It is one of the results of disease, and we never know when we are going to remove the results of disease, because the intelligent homeopath never prescribes for the results of disease. He prescribes for the patient. An opacity itself, when it is present, is not a symptom, but a result of disease.

Often when a patient is prescribed for on his general symptoms, such a state of opacity of the cornea will, after a while, begin to pass away. The patient grows better, feels better himself. His symptoms commence to subside, and after the symptoms have subsided pathological conditions will commence to subside.

Do not be discouraged in prescribing if the pathological conditions do not go away; but if all the symptoms of the patient have gone away, and the patient is eating well, and is sleeping well, and doing well, do not feel that it is impossible for that opacity of the cornea to go away, for sometimes it will.

I have known patients to come back, years later, even after I had given them up as cured, as their symptoms had all disappeared, and I was foolish enough to say to the patient,

"Well, I do not suppose this condition will ever go away, but you are all well, there is nothing to prescribe on, there is not much use of your taking any more medicine," but in six months from that time the patient would come back to me and say:

"Doctor, do you suppose the treatment you gave me had anything to do with this trouble going away? It has nearly all disappeared."

I only tell you this to give you an idea how long it takes to restore order, for nature herself to replace the bad tissue and put healthy tissue in that same place, to restore an organ. It takes time, and it is best that we should not be surprised. it may be that the medicine has done all it can do.

Here is another thing I have seen: even when there were no symptoms left, and after waiting a considerable time and there were no symptoms, I have seen another dose of the same medicine that was given on the last symptoms give the patient a great lift, and pathological conditions commence to go way.

So Calcarea is a great friend to the oculist, and every physician ought to be just as good a prescriber as the oculist can be, for he prescribes for the patient. So must the oculist. In prescribing I am in doubt whether there can be any such thing as a specialty, because the homoeopathic physician prescribes for the patient. He prescribes for the patient, whether he has eye disease, or car disease, or throat disease, or lung disease, or liver disease, etc.

Ears

In the ear we have a great deal of trouble. It produces thick yellow discharge from the ears. Cold, chilly weather brings on ear trouble; quite likely from becoming cold or chilled, from an exposure, or from a sudden change of cold damp weather he has additional complaints in the ears.

While he is at his best the idea holds good here as in other catarrhal conditions, there is copious discharge. But from exposure and cold this slacks up a little, and when it does there is a little inflammation, and like enough throbbing, and headache. That occurs every time from exposure.

Whether the catarrh is in the nose, the eyes, or the ears, there will be headache. The Calcarea patient is so easily disturbed from cold weather and exposure, he is so sensitive to the cold, that it is next to impossible for him to dress and protect himself. He is flabby and soft, easily disturbed, sensitive to his surroundings.

If it is an ear trouble, he may have difficult hearing, abscess of the middle ear, catarrh of the Eustachian tubes, etc., but all of these bring on headaches; and around about the ear the glands are all affected.

Nose

The catarrh of the nose is extremely troublesome. Old lingering stubborn catarrhs, with thick yellow discharge; great crusts from the nose. In the morning he blows out enormous blackish, bloody chunks.

He breathes part of the night through the nose, and then his nose clogs up so that he breathes, through the mouth. It has cured a great many times polypi of the nose.

The homeopathic physician, trusting so much to his symptoms, knows so well the remedy after studying the case, that be very likely will prescribe for the patient on the symptoms alone. He says:

This patient needs Calcarea, there is no doubt about it. He prescribes for him and sends him away.

After three or four weeks the patient comes back with a gelatinous looking tough thing on a handkerchief, and says:

"Doctor, look there at what came out of my nose.

Do you suppose your medicine had anything to do with that?"

Perhaps you did not know he had polypus, it does not make any difference, your prescription cannot be any different if he has polypi in the nose, and you do not know it is there; you cannot by any process of torsion remove it before you prescribe, so you will have to leave that torsion to those that do not know about Homoeopathy; and hence the examination is not so important as it is to those who prescribe for the polypi, and forget about the patient.

Affections of the bones of the nose. That is, the catarrhs go on so long, and they are so deep-seated, that the bones of the nose and the cartilage of the nose are infiltrated, any they break down.

Then operators cut out bones, remove cartilage, and perform operations too numerous to mention; and every one must have the same operation; but in order for him to be cured, he must even after that go to an homoeopathic physician. He should first be cured and then if there is anything to be removed let him be operated on.

Face

The face is sickly, cold, covered with sweat. Sweats on the slightest exertion, and sometimes it sweats in the night, on the forehead.

"Cold sweat on the face. Face pale and cachectic," such as we see in advanced cases of cancer, and consumption.

Face sallow, pale, sickly, dropsical. Eruptions on the face. Eruptions about the lips; and the lips are chapped and the mouth is raw. The lips are cracked and bleeding. Painful swelling on the parotid glands; painful swelling of the sub-lingual and sub-maxillary glands.

The glands all take part in the Calcarea troubles.

Throat

Calcarea is a medicine for chronic sore throats. The throat appearance itself is not always sufficient to prescribe on, but the complaints in the throat are those that come on in persons taking cold so frequently that the patient has not time to get over one before be goes into another, and this engrafts upon him a chronic sore throat.

It may in the beginning be a Bell. throat, which is quite likely, but before he gets over it he has taken another cold. Remember that this is a part of the Calcarea patient, that he takes cold so easily; he takes cold from every, draft, from very exposure, and from damp weather.

When getting over a Bell. sore throat - about the time he thinks he is over it he takes a new cold. Perhaps it has been relieved two or three times with Bell., and then it settles down into a chronic state, and there are little red patches, perhaps little ulcers in the throat, this extends all over . It extends to the roof of the mouth, a sore tongue, and a constant dry, choking feeling in the pharynx, covering the tonsils and extending, up into the posterior nares, filling with thick, yellow mucus.

Chronic inflammation. The uvula may be puffed; swollen.

"Parts swollen, red, tumid," but it patches.

The throat very painful on swallowing; dry, choking feeling.

Stomach

The stomach in Calcarea is slow in its action.

"Food taken into the stomach remains."

It does not digest, it turns sour.

"Sour vomiting."

Milk sours. Milk disagrees; the digestion is also slow, feeble. He has a feeling of tumefaction and fullness; enlargement after eat ing; and everything sours in the stomach; everything disorders the stomach.

Weak digestion. The Calcarea patient has a very strong longing for eggs. Little children crave eggs; at every meal they will eat eggs, and eggs, will digest better than anything else. It is very seldom that little children naturally long for eggs; children with cold feet, emaciated extremities, large heads, enlarged abdomen; stomach distended like an inverted saucer, rounded out; bloated abdomen, and slender extremities; cold and sensitive to cold; pale skin; pale, waxy surface.

Then, there is complete loss of appetite, no desire for any kind of food. If any desire at all, it is for eggs. Aversion to meat; aversion to warm food.

This with enlarged glands, with goitre. Flatulency. Sour vomiting; sour diarrhoea; that is, it has a pungent, sour odor, especially in children.

In infants living on milk, the milk passes in an undigested form; the stool is so sour that it is pungent. It excoriates the parts, and keeps the nates raw in infants where the diaper comes in contact with the parts.

There are times when the abdomen is emaciated; the gases go out and the abdomen sometimes becomes flabby; but most of the time it is distended with flatulence. When it is flabby it can be observed that there are nodules in the abdomen.

The lymphatic glands are hard, and sometimes can be felt through the emaciated abdomen. There is a tubercular tendency, and tabes mesenterica is one, of the natural endings of the lime constitution, with this we get the glandular affections of the bowels.

Tubercular deposits in the mesenteric glands. Diarrhoea comes on sour; watery diarrhoea; gradual emaciation, especially of the extremities. Every cold brings on more indigestion, and more sour vomiting.

Diarrhoea that can't be stopped, because every time he gets a cold it renews the diarrhoea. When it, is an acute attack Dulc. often relieves it but when it has recurred several times Dulc. can no longer relieve it and Calcarea then becomes one of the remedies.

Again, it is one of the most useful medicines in old, lingering, stubborn cases of constipation. When there is only a moderate diarrhoea the stool is white; and when this constipation is present, the stool is white, or like chalk.

In infants taking milk you can account for the white or pale stool, because of the milk; but when the patient does not live on milk, and lives on ordinary substances, the stool becomes bileless and is very light colored; is yellow or white; and in the constipation, often the stool is very light colored and hard.

Calcarea has a kind of indigestion, a fermentation that favors the formation of worms, so that Calcarea babies are sometimes wormy.

Pass worms in the stool, and vomit worms. Calcarea so corrects this indigestion, when the symptoms agree, that worms no longer hatch out. The symptoms disappear, and we really wonder what becomes of the worms.

The idea with the homoeopathic physician is not to give vermifuges, but to so correct the digestion that worms will not thrive; and it is true that worms will not thrive in the healthy stomach and intestines. Whether they leave by expulsion or whether they are destroyed, or what becomes of them, I do not know.

To remove them by physicking them out, and by vermifuges, only makes a bad matter worse, because it increases the indigestion, it increases the turmoil. So it is with all worms in the stomach and rectum; all those worms will come if they are favored with just exactly the right kind of fluids to hatch out in.

They come, and they grow. I suppose at least twenty-five times in the last twenty years have I known Calcarea to bring away tape worm, and in most instances I did not know it was present; but I simply prescribed for the patient. I was not aware of its existence. It is so with many remedies, but this more than others.

Genitals

The Calcarea patient is weak sexually, with general relaxation and weakness. Sometimes an inordinate carving, sometimes an overwhelming desire keeps him awake at nights. But weak; weak in this way, that any indulgence is followed by weak back, sweating, weakness in general, so that he is compelled to abstain because of the sufferings.

The woman is affected in a similar way. You need not be surprised, when you hear all of the constitutional weakness, that it is a common, thing for Calcarea women to be sterile. So tired, so relaxed; wholly unfit for reproduction.

And the same as in the male, she suffers from lassitude, swelling, wakefulness, and weakness in general after every coition. The parts feel relaxed. The uterus drags down. Sensation as if parts would be forced out. State of general weakness and general relaxation of the sexual organs of both male and female. Calcarea has a tendency to grow warts and polypoid growths, pedunculated growths, that bleed easily, that are soft and spongy.

The woman flows too much at the menstrual period; too long, and, of course, this naturally brings her around too soon. Often every three weeks, lasting a week, with a copious flow. Menstrual period too soon, lasting too long, and profuse. Calcarea is not always indicated; not unless all of the symptoms go together to make up the Calcarea patient.

Sometimes it may occur to your mind to say, that with five or six key-notes, certainly you would give Calcarea; but suppose you did have five or six key-notes of Calcarea, and the patient should be a Puls. patient, would you expect to cure her with Calcarea?

Suppose the patient always avoided warm things and much clothing, and wanted the cold open air, and still had a dozen key-notes, you would find every time that Calcarea would fail. Unless you combine the particulars with the things that are general, and the generals with the particulars, unless the remedy fits the patient from within out, generally and particularly, a cure need not be expected. That is why I say, do not prescribe on key-notes, but upon the symptoms of the patient.

This great state of relaxation which we always have in every Calcarea patient is also manifested in leucorrhea, copious, thick, constant leucorrhea, discharging day and night. Leucorrhea that is acrid, keeping up an itching, and smarting, and burning,

"Leucorrhoea thick and yellow," from one menstrual period to another, and some times it intermingles with the menstrual flow.

"Vaginal polypi. Burning soreness in the genitals" from leucorrhoea.

"Itching and rawness" from leucorrhoea.

Hemorrhage of the uterus from over-lifting; from excitement; from shocks; from anything that greatly disturbs; from fear, from any great emotion, or from straining the muscles. Such are the conditions of relaxation and weakness. Inability to strain the muscles, or to exert himself mentally or physically.

The complaints of pregnancy are generally those of great relaxation and weakness. Threatened abortion. After delivery, weakness and prostration; sweating. Weakness from nursing.

Voice

The Calcarea voice is that of painless hoarseness. The vocal cords are tired, and cannot endure strain; almost a paralytic weakness. Sometimes a copious flow of mucus from the larynx. Much irritation in the larynx, but weakness. Not that burning and rawness that we find in Bell. and Phos., but painless hoarseness. In Phos. it is painful, in Bell. it is very painful. He cannot speak without pain.

But in Calcarea he wonders why he has so much trouble in the larynx, because he has no feeling in it. This goes on from bad to worse, and with the tubercular tendency, look out for tubercular laryngitis. Given early it may keep off such a tubercular tendency. It has cured tubercular laryngitis.

Much rattling of mucus; rattling breathing; coarse rattling; that is, much mucus in the trachea, in the larynx, in the bronchial tubes, in the chest. Great dyspnoea.

The dyspnoea comes on from going up stairs, from walking against the wind. Anything that bas any exertion in it will bring on the dyspnoea. We find this in asthma, weak heart, weak chest and in threatening phthisis.

That state of the lungs you will know very often by the kind of breathing; because all that are going into phthisis are tired and weak. He is too tired and weak to make any effort at breathing, so that he has difficult in going up stairs, climbing a hill, walking against the wind.

Chest

The chest troubles furnishes one of our best fields for Calcarea.

We having spiting of blood prolonged cough; copious expectoration of thick yellow mucus, or even pus; ulceration, or abscess. Tickling cough. We have, in threatening chest trouble, the beginning emaciation, the pallor, the sensitiveness to cold, changes, and to the cold air and to wet weather and to winds.

He takes colds and they all settle into the chest; gradual emaciation in the limbs; always so tired. It corresponds to just such constitutional weakness as precedes, or is present in the first stages of phthisis. It stops the patient taking cold, which is the very beginning of it. The patient will begin to feel better after taking Calcarea, and it improves his general state, and it will even encyst tubercular deposits.

It turns them from a caseous into a calcareous form, and cysts have been found in the chest long afterwards. Patients have lived a long time and improved, and gone into a general state of health, when quite well advanced with tubercular deposits. Of course, when any person is well into a tubercular condition, it may be expected that he will go.

Do not believe or think favorably of cure for consumption. Every little while we have some one. Coming out with something or other that cures consumption, a new cure.

Every one who know much about the real nature of phthisical conditions, cannot have much confidence in such things, and I certainly lose respect for an individual who has a consumption cure. He must either be crazy or something worse.

Generally he is after the money that may be in it. Hardly any one who knows anything about it can conscientiously present a consumption cure to the world.

To prevent those things is what we want to do, and this is the great sphere of Calcarea. The expectoration is sweetish very often, like Phos. and Stannum . White , yellow, thick.

We might go over all the general symptoms here, the soreness, the tenderness, the kind of pains, the lassitude, and a great many symptoms of that sort, they are too numerous to mention, but they are non descriptive, for the reason that after you get these pains and study them carefully, you are no better off. You must study the constitution of Calcarea, the nature of Calcarea, its character.

There are spine symptom s; plenty' of them. Weak; all degrees of weakness. The Calcarea patient is so weak in the back that he slides down in the chair while sitting; cannot sit right in his chair.

Rests on the back of his head. The back of his chair and the back of his head come in contact. A weak spine, a sensitive spine, and the glands of the neck are swollen. Again, a marked condition of the spine is where the lime element is deficient, and we soon get deformity; curvature.

It may be surprising to you to hear that Calcarea is a great help, and has sometimes cured that without any brace or support whatever, when taken early.

You take infants manifesting a weakness of the spine, let them lie flat on their back in bed, put them on the indicated remedy - it is sometimes Calcarea - and in a little while that knuckling will cease, and the little one will sit up straight.

Such wonderful things occur under the use of Calcarea, when the symptoms agree. In the extremities we have all the rheumatic conditions that it is possible to describe.

Gouty affections of the joints, with enlarged joints; gouty conditions, especially of the small joints, of the toe and finger. Rheumatic complaints of the joints from every exposure, from every change of the weather to cold, especially if it is cold and damp.

The feet are always cold, or cold and damp, except at night in bed after piling clothing upon the feet more than any other part of the body, then the feet begin to get warm, and then they often go to the other extreme and burn; and so they burn at night in bed.

But the feet are so cold that the patient has to put more clothing on the feet than the body will endure. Cold, damp feet. Late walking. Clumsiness; awkwardness; stiffness.

Rheumatic conditions. Stiffness belongs to Calcarea all over. Stiff on beginning to move; stiff at night on rising from a seat. Stiffness in all joints on beginning to move; and if it turns cold or there is a cold rain, the Calcarea patient always suffers; suffers from coldness, stiffness, rheumatism has rheumatism in every cold change in the weather.

The sleep is greatly disturbed. Late going to sleep, sometimes not till 2, 3 or 4 o'clock. Full of ideas; when closing the eyes horrible visions. Grinding the teeth. A child in sleep, chews and swallows and grinds the teeth. Sleeplessness a good part of the night. Cold feet at night in bed.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Adapted to the leucophlegmatic; blond hair, light complexion, fair skin and blue eyes.

Scrofulous constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking; vertigo on ascending a height, going upstairs, is out of breath, has to sit down (vertigo on descending, Borax); disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy.

Children: with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold readily in consequence; large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; head sweats profusely while sleeping; wetting pillow far around (San., Sil.); diseases of dentition; during sickness or convalescence great longing for eggs.

Acidity of digestive tract; sour eructation, sour vomiting, sour stool; sour odor of the whole body (Hep., Rheum).

Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, grow too rapidly; who begin with early, profuse, protracted menstruation; subsequently have amenorrhœa and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed.

Women: with menses too early and too profuse; feet constantly cold and damp, feel as if she had on cold, damp stockings; difficult to stop menstruating, the least mental excitement causes profuse return (Sul., Tub.).

Fears she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her mental confusion (Act.).

Aversion to cold air; least cold air seems to go through and through; very sensitive to damp cold air.

Lung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right lung (Ars.—upper third of left, Myr., Sul., Tub.). Oftener the guide to the true remedy than Phosphorus.

Disorders arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk; have no disposition, will not try.

Longing for fresh air, which inspires, benefits, strengthens (Sul.).

Coldness: general; of single parts (Benz., Kali bi.); head, stomach, abdomen, feet and legs.

Sweat: of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest; axillæ; sexual organs; hands; knees; feet (Sep., Tub.).

Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure.

Uræmic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or workers in cold clay.

Constipation: inactivity of rectum; stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe, Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.).

Painless hoarseness, < in the morning.

Feels better in every way when constipated.

Desire to be magnetized (Phos.).

Complementary: Belladonna, which is the acute of Calcarea and Tuberculinum.

According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit. ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications.

Aggravation

Cold air, damp winds; getting wet; ascending heights; exertion of mind or body, walking, talking, writing.

Amelioration

In dry, warm weather; lying on painful side.

Type

Tertian. Chronic intermittent or remittent fevers.

Time

2 P. M.—Fever without chill at 11 A. M. and 6 to 7 P. M. (11 A. M. one day, 4 P. M. the next.—E. C. PRICE).

Cause

Working while standing in cold water. Potters, brick-makers who work in wet clay; gardeners and fruit growers, handling cold vegetables and fruit (Zinc., Val.).

Prodrome

Drawing in all the joints, and great heaviness of head and body.

Chill

With thirst. Begins in scrobiculus cordis, with spasms, or fixed, cold, agonizing weight, increasing with the chill and disappearing with it. External coldness and internal heat, or internal coldness and external heat, or chill and heat alternating (Ars.). Coldness of single parts; of face, of hands, of feet, of internal organs; icy coldness in and on head; feels an inward coldness. Heat followed by chill and cold hands. Shaking chill at night. Chill in the evening in bed; was unable to get warm, though covered warmly, as though he had no warmth in his body. He was cold and his teeth chattered though he sat over the fire. Chill with headache and drowsy fatigue of all the limbs.

Heat

Without thirst: Followed by chill and cold hands. Frequent flashes of heat. Severe heat in the head and great orgasm of blood. Nightly internal heat, especially in the feet and hands; anxiety and palpitation. Frequent attacks of sudden universal heat, as if she had been drenched with hot water, with despair of life.

Heat, with inclination to uncover (Acon., Lyc., Sec., Sul.).

Fever at 11 A. M. without thirst and without previous chill, she felt hot and was hot to the touch, with red face.

Sweat

No thirst. Hot sweat. Sweats during the day from the least exertion, even in the cold air (Am. m., Bry.). Profuse sweat in the morning on moderate exertion. Sweat of palms of hands; of the feet; knees; over whole body, with severe cramp in stomach; chest; nape of neck; male organs. Clammy sweat only on the limbs Often sleep after sweat.

Tongue

Dry in the morning on awaking; coated white. Taste: bitter, sour, foul, offensive; "too fresh," like ink, like iron.

Apyrexia

Never clear. Intermittents with spasmodic symptoms; after abuse of quinine; chronic forms with scrofula; cachectic constitutions; suppressed eruptions, or sweat; desire for eggs.

Analysis

The constitutional symptoms existing or aroused by the fever, form the chief guide in selection of remedy. The psoric cachexia of the patient is guiding, and is generally found in the apyrexia.

Chill, heat and sweat of single parts. The cause often indicative.