Camphora Officinarum camph.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

DIGESTIVE TRACT. Cerebro-spinal nerves. Urinary organs. Nose.

Worse

Cold. Drafts. When half asleep. (Mag-p-au. Nit-ac.). Mental exertion. Shock. SUPPRESSION. Inattention.

Better

Free discharges. Sweat. Thinking of it.

General

Algidity; can't get warm; at start of colds, cholera, etc. Bluish, old, pinched look. ICY COLD, YET AVERSE TO COVERS (Sec-c.), or wants them off then on; with internal burning heat; and anxious. Sudden weakness; dry collapse. Cholera. Scanty or retained discharges. Violent tonic spasm; of bladder; then stupor, with coldness.

Particulars

Insensibility or anxiety. Head feels knotted up. Hammering in occiput. Inhaled air seems cold. Coryza; in old age. Retracted lips; upper. Cold tongue. Burning thirst. Burning in stomach. Strangury. Hæmaturia. Sexual excitement. Satyriasis. Hoarse, squeaking voice. Asphyxia neonatorum. Cold breath. Thumbs cramp backward. Cramp in calves. Dry skin. Erysipelas. Very sensitive to cold air or taking cold. Shaking chill, with cold skin. Wants cover during hot stage only. Sudden, inflammatory fevers with rapid alternation of heat and cold; followed by rapid prostration. Heat or sweat, > covers. Corrects spoiled cases and antidotes most remedies. Chilly, below scapulæ; before colds.

Related

Antidotes: Coff. Op. Pho. Related: Carb-v. Cup. Op. Sec-c.

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Keynote

Pain better while thinking of it (Hell. - worse, Cal. p., Helon., Ox. ac.). Persons physically and mentally weak and irritable. Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., Psor.). Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of body cold, face pale, blue lips livid; profound prostration. Surface cold to the touch yet cannot bear to be covered; throws off all coverings (Med., Sec.). Entire body painfully sensitive to slightest touch. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea; nose cold and pointed; anxious and restless; skin and breath cold (Ver., Jatr.). In first stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera; severe, long- lasting chill (Ver.). Great coldness of the surface with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent (Ver.); pulse weak, externally small, scarcely perceptible. Measles and scarlatina when eruption does not appear; with pale or cold blue, hippocratic face; child will not be covered (Sec.). All sequelae of measles.

Relations

Camphor antidoes nearly every vegetable medicine; also tabacco, fruits containing prussic acid, poisonous mushrooms; should not be allowed in the sick room in its crude form; Compare: Carbo veg., Opium, Verat., Sec.

Amelioration

When thinking of existing complaint; warm air; drinking cold water. Note for thought. - All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphor and Opium. - Hering.

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General

Very strong characteristics of this drug are: coldness of the surface of the body to the touch, and in spite of this coldness, the patient throws off all covering, and will not remain covered; the face presents a bluish and pinched appearance.

In the autumn we frequently find patients suffering from the abuse of camphor during the summer for diarrhœa, etc.; stools smell of camphor, and other signs may be observed. The administration of Camphor, in a high potency, will very often effect a perfect cure in these cases.

Mental

Anxiety.

Head

Heaviness of; influenza; headache with catarrhal affections, brought on by change of the weather; sun-stroke, where there is restlessness and depression of spirits. Face pale. Eyes, sensation as if objects were too bright and shining; pupils contracted. Ears, ulcers in left. Mouth, saliva in; teeth feel too long; lock-jaw, with cold surface of the body.

Gastric

Almost continual eructations after dinner; nausea relieved by eructation. Stomach, violent pressure in pit of; painful to touch.

Abdomen

Burning in the.

Stool

Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, burning in œsophagus and stomach. Stool blackish, involuntary.

Urine

Burning: strangury.

Larynx

Mucus in the air-passages with danger of suffocation.

Chest

Stitches in left: oppression like suffocative catarrh.

Back

Stitches from between the scapulæ through the chest.

Extremities

Upper: Pain in elbow. Lower: Cracking of joints; tearing or cramp pains. Cramps in the calves of the legs; affections of the patella; back of the foot.

Fever

Coldness of the body with paleness.

Generalities

Diarrhœa with colic-like pains; pain in inner parts as if bruised. Sleeplessness; difficult motion of limbs. Great weakness. Sinking of vital forces with paleness.

Worse

From cold air in general.

Better

From warm in general.

Remedies following well

Arsen., Bellad., Coccul. ind., Nux vom., Rhus tox., and Veratr.

Antidotes

Opium, Dulcam.

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Red line symptom

Cholera and choleric conditions; first stage or when discharges are scanty or suddenly suppressed; dry skin; icy coldness of the body and collapse.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Camphor

General

Hahnemann says: "The action of this substance is very puzzling and difficult of investigation, even in the healthy organism because its primary action, more frequently than with any other remedy, alternates and becomes intermixed with the vital reactions (after effects) of the organism. On this account it is often difficult to determine what belongs to the vital reactions of the body and what to the alternating effects due to the primary action of the camphor."

Pictures a state of collapse. Icy coldness of the whole body; sudden sinking of strength; pulse small and weak. After operations, if temperature is subnormal, low blood pressure, 3 doses camph. 1x, 15-minute intervals. This condition is met with in cholera, and here it is that Camphor has achieved classical fame. First stages of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing. Subsultus and extreme restlessness. Cracking of joints. Epileptiform convulsions. Camphor has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia. In local rheumatic affections in cold climates necessary. Distention of veins. As a heart stimulant for emergency use of Camphor is the most satisfactory remedy. Drop doses on sugar as often as every five minutes.

It is characteristic of Camphor that the patient will not be covered, notwithstanding the icy coldness of the body. One of the main remedies in shock. Pain better while thinking of it. Very sensitive to cold and to touch. Sequelæ of measles. Violent convulsion, with wandering and hysterical excitement. Tetanic spasms. Scrofulous children and irritable, weakly blondes especially affected.

Head

Vertigo, tendency to unconsciousness, feeling as if he would die. Influenza; headache, with catarrhal symptoms, sneezing, etc. Beating pain in cerebellum. Cold sweat. Nose cold and pinched. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Fleeting stitches in temporal region and orbits. Head sore. Occipital throbbing, synchronous with the pulse.

Eyes

Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.

Nose

Stopped; sneezing. Fluent coryza on sudden change of weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent epistaxis, especially with goose-flesh state of skin.

Face

Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold. Cold sweat.

Stomach

Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Coldness, followed by burning.

Stool

Blackish; involuntary. Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, great weakness, collapse, tongue and mouth cold.

Urine

Burning and strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Retention with full bladder.

Male--Besire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.

Respiratory

Præcordial distress. Suffocative dyspnœa. Asthma. Violent, dry, hacking cough. Palpitation. Breath cold. Suspended respiration.

Sleep

Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme restlessness.

Extremities

Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints. Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.

Fever

Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body. Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.

Skin

Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered (Secale).

Modalities

Worse, motion, night, contact, cold air. Better, warmth.

Relationship

Camphor antidotes or modifies the action of nearly every vegetable medicine--tobacco, opium, worm medicines, etc. Laffa acutangula (whole body ice-cold, with a restlessness and anxiety; burning thirst). Camphoric acid--(a prophylactic against catheter fever; cystitis 15 grains three times a day; also for prevention of night sweats).

Incompatible: Kali nit.

Complementary: Canth.

Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc; Phos.

Compare: Carbo; Cuprum; Arsenic; Veratr.

Dose

Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling of Spirits of Camphor. Potencies are equally effective.

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Leaders

Great coldness of the external surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; collapse.

The patient objects to being covered, notwithstanding the objective coldness; throws off all the covering.

Pains disappear when thinking of them; exceedingly sensitive to cold air.

The great characteristic around which the whole action of Camphor seems to revolve is: "Great coldness of the external surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces. " It is no wonder Hahnemann headed his trio (Camphor, Cuprum and Hellebore) of cholera remedies with Camphor. If we were to sum up the same condition in one word it would be collapse. No remedy comes nearer to Camphor than the last of the trio, viz., Veratrum album, but Camphor has the collapse with painless stool or even no stool at all, while Veratrum has the collapse seemingly as a consequence of the very profuse evacuations of stomach and bowels. Both have great external coldness, but Veratrum has a very marked appearance of cold sweat upon the hippocratic face, especially forehead. Cuprum leads the trio, when the cramp in stomach and extremities is the most prominent symptom. These remedies are indicated when these characteristic symptoms appear, not only in cholera, but in any disease. There is one peculiarity in the coldness of Camphor, viz., the patient will not be covered, or objects to it, no matter how objectively cold he is. Secale coldness or collapse is exactly like this, and even in gangrena senilis it proves a great remedy on the same indications. The signal success of Dr. Rubini, of Naples, in treating five hundred and ninety-two cases of cholera with Camphor verified the prediction of Hahnemann beyond question.

Collapse with cold surface and aversion to heat may come on in retrocedent exanthema, or in the later stage of so-called cholera infantum, in pneumonia, or capillary bronchitis, from exposure to intense cold or traumatic shock. Indeed it does not matter from what cause except death. Camphor is the first remedy to be thought of, and according to susceptibility or strength of the patient the dose must be varied from tincture to highest potency.

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Mind and Disposition

Great anguish and discouragement. Mania to dispute. Confusion of ideas ; delirium.

Head

Giddiness, with heaviness of the head and vanishing of the senses. Sensation of constriction in the brain, especially in the cerebellum ; the pain ceases when he thinks of it. Inflammation of the brain, (after sun-stroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head, (to the side or backward), worse from movement, or in the cold air ; better when lying down, or when thinking of it.

Eyes

Staring, wild look. Eyes sunken. Contraction of the pupils. Aversion to light ; the objects appear too bright and shining.

Ears

Lobules red, hot. Ulcer in the (left) meatus auditorius, (with stinging pain).

Nose

Dry coryza.

Face

Death-like paleness of the face, alternating with redness. Icy-cold, purple, pale face. Distorted countenance. Lock-jaw. Foam at the mouth.

Throat

Burning in the mouth and throat, extending to the stomach. Dry, scraping sensation of the palate.

Appetite and Taste

Thirstlessness, or violent thirst. Food tastes bitter. The taste is more acute.

Stomach and Abdomen

Burning in the stomach. The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch. Burning heat in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, from want of peristaltic motion of the intestines. The rectum fools narrow and swollen ; is painful during the emission of flatulence. Involuntary diarrhœa ; stools blackish.

Urinary Organs

Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Burning of the urine during emission. The stream is thin, as if the urethra were contracted. The urine is yellowish-green.

Sexual Organs

Sexual desire wanting ; impotence. Sensation of contraction in the testes.

Chest

Violent oppression of breathing, with constriction of throat, as if produced by the vapor of sulphur. Accumulation of mucus in the air-passages, with danger suffocation. Audible palpitation of the heart, (after eating). Trembling of the heart.

Extremities

Upper. Hands icy cold. Convulsive rotation of the arms. Lower. Great weakness of the legs. Cramps in the calf of the leg and feet.

Generalities

Epileptic and convulsive attacks ; he falls down insensible. Diminished circulation of the blood to the parts most distant from the heart. Icy coldness of the whole body, with paleness of the face. Sudden and great sinking of strength.

Sleep

Torpor, with delirium or snoring. Sleeplessness from nervous over-excitability. During sleep, the inspirations are shorter than the expirations.

Fever

Pulse small, weak, and slow. The blood does not circulate to the parts distant from the heart. Chilliness, and sensitiveness to cold air. Coldness, with chilliness and shaking. Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest. Heat, with distended veins, aggravated from every movement. Cold perspiration, often clammy, and always very debilitating.

Skin

Dryness of the skin. Erysipelatous inflammation.

Conditions

Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition, and disappear when thinking of them. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air ; the pains are aggravated by it.

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General

Camphor. C 10 H 16 O. - N. O. Lauraceæ. A gum obtained from Laurus camphora. Solution in rectified spirit.

Clinical

Angina pectoris. Bed-sores. Cholera Asiatica . Chordee. Cold . Convulsions. Epilepsy. Eruptions, suppressed . Erysipelas. Gonorrhœa. Heart affections. Hyperpyrexia . Influenza. Measles. Memory, loss of . Priapism. Rheumatism. Sexual mania. Sleeplessness. Snake-bites. Spasms. Strangury . Sunstroke. Taste, disordered . Tetanus. Tobacco habit . Twitching. Urethra, spasmodic stricture of. Urine, suppression of .

Characteristics

"Chill; cramp; convulsion with mental anguish" ─ these give an idea of the essential action of Camphor . It causes retreat from the circumference to the centre; and its chief remedial action is in correcting just such conditions ─ cold, collapse, repercussed eruptive diseases. "Great coldness of surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces." Feeling as if a cold wind were blowing over body. In all kinds of sudden internal pains arising from chill, or other causes, Camphor in rapidly repeated doses will be very likely to prove Curative. In these conditions it is often prescribed on broad indications and given in the lower potencies, but those whose knowledge of Camphor is confined to its coarser actions will never understand what a great remedy it is when used according to its fine symptomatic indications and given in the higher potencies. Camph . produces tetanic spasms, with showing of teeth by drawing up the mouth corners (like Nux and Phytolacca , but the deathly coldness of Camph . distinguishes it from both). Camph . has internal heat and external coldness. In the collapse of cholera it corresponds rather to the initial chill before either vomiting or diarrhœa. (The collapse of Carbo v . is rather the result of alvine discharges.) The tongue is cold. If he can speak, the voice is either high pitched or husky. The cramps of Camph . are less pronounced than in Cupr .; but cramps with icy coldness of limbs is characteristic of Camph . The coldness of Camph . resembles that of Verat ., but with the latter the discharges are copious, and Camph . has marked nausea, and the expression of nausea, upper lip drawn up. In some epidemics, Camph . given early has alone cured a large majority of the cases treated, and that whether given in drop doses of the tincture or in the 30th. Salzer ( On Cholera , p. 68) says the cases calling for it are those in which "arterial spasm," with difficult breathing (spasm of pulmonary arteries), coldness and lividity are the leading features. In its actions on the genito-urinary sphere Camph . approaches Canth . in intensity, and is one of the antidotes to the latter. Strangury and priapism are among its effects. Camph . is indicated in many conditions of sudden collapse from overpowering influences acting on the nervous centres. For example, sunstroke: vitality ebbing away; fainting spells growing worse; body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat. Some characteristics are: Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition, and disappear when thinking of them . Afraid of his own thoughts; wants to be diverted from thoughts of himself. Fears to be left alone. Memory lost. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air; which < pains takes cold easily. Surface cold to touch, yet throws off all covering . Extremities cold, with cramps. Awkwardness. Spasmodic movement of head; head drawn to r. side; rest of body relaxed; unconscious. Spasmodic drawing of head laterally or backwards with deathly coldness. Erysipelas spreading to central membranes. Repercussed eruptions. Soft parts drawn in. Skin painfully sensitive. In the form of the ordinary Camphor pilules, I have found it an excellent remedy for simple sleeplessness. In this, as in its effect on colds, it resembles Acon. Irritable, weakly blondes most affected. Scrofulous children most sensitive to Camph .

Relations

Camph . has very important antidotal relations. It is antidoted by: Op., Sp. nit. dulc., Dulc., and Phos. It antidotes: Am. c., Canth., Carb. v., Cup., Lyc, Squil., Nat. m., so-called worm-medicines, tobacco, bitter almonds, and other fruits containing prussic acid; also the secondary affections remaining after poisoning with acids, salts, metals, poisonous mushrooms, &c. Incompatible: Nitrum. Tea, coffee, and lemonade, as a rule, do not interfere, but sometimes coffee < . Compare: Alo.; Carbo v. (coldness from undeveloped exanthema, collapse; epistaxis, dark, persistent; low hæmorrhages generally); Canth.; Cup.; Dulc.; Sec. (skin cold with desire to uncover); Lyc. (head drawn to one side-Lyc. to left, Plumb. and Stram. to right, Bufo to either); Op. (narcotism, heart affections); Pho. (anguish and burning in cholera). Sp. dul. nit., Squil., Verat. Teste puts Camph. in his Belladonna group, with Agar., Lach., Cedr., Stram., Tabac., and others. He notes that it acts much more powerfully on carnivorous animals than on herbivora.

Causation

Shock from injury. Eruptions, suppressed. Cold air. Sunstroke. Vexation.

Mind

Anxiety with fretfulness. ─ Great anguish and discouragement. ─ Afraid of his own thoughts. ─ Quarrelsome and combative humour; mania to dispute. ─ Dulness of the senses. ─ Loss of consciousness. ─ Confusion of ideas; delirium. ─ Rage. ─ Loss of memory.

Head

Dizziness, as if from intoxication, esp. on walking. ─ Giddiness, with heaviness of the head and vanishing of the senses. ─ Vertigo, and heaviness of the head, which obliges the patient to incline the head backwards. ─ Headache, as if the brain were bruised, or sore from a wound. ─ Dull headache above the os frontis, with inclination to vomit. ─ Constrictive headache, esp. in the occiput and above the root of the nose, greatly aggravated by stooping, by lying down, or by the touch, and disappearing when the attention is directed to the pain. ─ Incisive shocks in the head on lying down. ─ Pulsative headache at night, with shootings in the forehead and heat of the body. ─ Congestion in the head. ─ Inflammation of the brain. ─ Inflammation of the brain (after sunstroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head (to the side or backward), < from movement or in the cold air; > when lying down, or when thinking of it. ─ Spasms, which draw the head on one side.

Eyes

Inflammation of the eyes. ─ Red spots on the eyelids. ─ Trembling of the eyelids. ─ Staring, wild look. ─ Eyes sunken. ─ Eyes haggard, and turned convulsively upwards. ─ Contraction of the pupils. ─ Obscuration of the sight. ─ Visions of strange objects. ─ Photophobia. ─ Everything appears too bright and brilliant.

Ears

Heat and redness of the ears, esp. in the lobes. ─ Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain.

Nose

Dry coryza. ─ Coryza fluent or dry. ─ Sneezing, beginning of coryza. ─ Catarrhal affections with headache, from sudden change of weather. ─ Nose-bleed. ─ Nose cold and pointed. ─ Violent stitching or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip.

Face

Face deadly pale; or deep red. ─ Icy-cold, livid, pale face. ─ Erysipelas in the face. ─ Convulsive distortion of the features. ─ Convulsive clenching of the jaws. ─ Hippocratic face. ─ Foam at the mouth. ─ Cold sweat on face, upper lip everted.

Teeth

Toothache, as if from swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with sensation of lengthening of the teeth. ─ Acute shocks in the roots of the incisors. ─ Painful looseness of the teeth. ─ Flying toothache, gnawing boring in molars, mostly in hollow ones; much < if even a soft little crust of bread touches the affected tooth; < from drinking coffee or spirituous liquors; > after drinking beer or cold water; but < from water kept in mouth; > by coition.

Mouth

Breath fetid in the morning. ─ Foam at the mouth. ─ Abundant accumulation of a viscid and slimy saliva.

Throat

Soreness in the throat on swallowing, as if from excoriation of the throat, which is felt even at night. ─ Dry, scraping sensation of the palate. ─ Burning heat in the throat, extending from the palate to the stomach. ─ More decided relish for all food, and esp. for broth. ─ Bitter taste of tobacco and of food, esp. of meat. ─ Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke. ─ Excessive thirst.

Stomach

The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch. ─ Almost continual eructations after dinner; nausea > by eructation. ─ Inclination to vomit, followed by attacks of vertigo. ─ Vomiting of bile or of blood. ─ At the commencement of the vomiting, cold sweat, chiefly on the face. ─ Sensation of burning and heat in the stomach. ─ Pain, as from a bruise, in the epigastrium. ─ Strong pressure in the epigastrium.

Abdomen

Cramps in the abdomen. ─ Cutting colic at night. ─ Belly-ache as if diarrhœa would follow. ─ Drawing pain, as from a bruise, on the entire of r. side of the abdomen. ─ Sensation of fulness in the abdomen. ─ Sensation of cold or of burning heat in the epigastrium and in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. ─ Difficult evacuation, as if from inactivity of the intestines, or from contraction of the rectum. ─ The rectum feels narrow and swollen; is painful during the emission of flatulence. ─ Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness in body, anguish, burning in œsophagus and stomach. ─ Diarrhœa: with colicky pain, esp. when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength. ─ Involuntary diarrhœa. ─ Blackish fæces.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine. ─ Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. ─ Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream, as if the urethra were contracted. ─ Urine of a yellowish green, turbid, and of a mouldy smell. ─ Hæmaturia. ─ Burning pain during the emission of urine. ─ Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

Inceased desire. ─ Erethism. ─ Attacks of violent priapism during dreams. ─ Absence of sexual desire, and impotence. ─ Sudden laxness of penis. ─ Nocturnal emissions. ─ Involuntary masturbation. ─ Sensation of contraction in the testes. ─ On l. side of root of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude. ─ Strangury from stricture.

Female Sexual Organs

Sexual orgasm. ─ Erethism of sexual system. ─ Labour-like pains. ─ Menses too profuse; or absent.

Respiratory Organs

Voice husky; weak; mucus in air passages, not removed by hacking; high and squeaky. ─ Constriction of larynx, feeling as if throat tied. ─ Cutting, cold feeling deep in windpipe; causes a slight cough. ─ Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea. Breathing: anxious; oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow; snoring; almost completely arrested. ─ Asthma, < from bodily exertion. ─ Hot breath (with acute eruptive diseases). ─ Cool breath. ─ A cold feeling in chest followed by cold breath. ─ Fatiguing, hacking, dry cough. ─ Every inspiration starts the cough.

Chest

Suffocating oppression of the chest, and constriction of the larynx, as if from the vapour of sulphur. ─ Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs, with danger of suffocation. ─ Cramps in the chest. ─ Shootings in the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, esp. after a meal. ─ Anxiety at heart. ─ Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when lying on l. side, > when turning on r. side.

Neck and Back

Tension and stiffness of the neck on moving it. ─ Heat with an inward vibration spreads from neck and from between shoulders into limbs. ─ Drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades, extending into chest when moving arms. ─ Pressure in small of back with leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs. ─ Coldness in small of back and loins; inner coldness < by walking a few steps. ─ Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.

Upper Limbs

Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the arms. ─ Convulsive movement of the arms, which describe circles. ─ Pressure and acute drawing in the arm and forearm. ─ Hands icy cold. ─ Hands do not feel anything he touches. ─ Fingers stiff, open, distorted; thumb drawn back.

Lower Limbs

Pains, as from a bruise, in the thighs and in the knees. ─ Great weakness of the legs. ─ Cramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep. ─ Cramps in the calves of the legs; with icy coldness. ─ Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, on walking.

Generalities

Convulsions and cramps of different kinds. ─ Tetanus, with loss of consciousness, and vomiting. ─ Attacks of epilepsy, with rattling in the throat; face, red and puffed; convulsive movements of the limbs, and even of the tongue, of the eyes, and of the muscles of the face; hot and viscid perspiration on the scalp, and on the forehead; after the fit, comatose drowsiness. ─ He falls down insensible. ─ Diminished circulation of the blood to the parts most distant from the heart. ─ Uneasiness, relaxation, and heaviness over the whole body. ─ Sinking of all strength. ─ Fainting fits. ─ Cracking in the joints. ─ Rheumatic lancinations in the muscles. ─ Difficulty in moving the limbs. ─ Painful sensibility of the periosteum of all the bones. ─ Sufferings in consequence of a chill. ─ Icy coldness of the whole body, with paleness of the face. ─ The majority of the symptoms appear during movement, or else at night, or are aggravated by cold, the open air, and contact. ─ The symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them.

Skin

Skin sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch. ─ Erysipelatous inflammations. ─ Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body. ─ Dryness of the skin.

Sleep

Strong desire to sleep in the day. ─ Coma, with incoherent words. ─ Nocturnal sleeplessness, from nervous excitement. ─ Snoring and tossing during sleep. ─ During sleep, the inspirations are shorter than the expirations. ─ Dreams: anxious; fearful; visions of spirits; about what Is intended or what has happened in morning hours. ─ Extreme restlessness with anxiety.

Fever

Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold. ─ Cold over the whole body, with deadly paleness of face, shivering, and chattering of the teeth. ─ Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest. ─ Heat of the body, with redness of face, esp. in the cheeks, and in the lobe of the ear. ─ General heat, which becomes excessive on walking. ─ Heat with distended veins, aggravated from every movement. ─ Pulse remarkably small and slow, or excessively quick and full. ─ The blood does not circulate to the parts distant from the heart. ─ Sensation of dryness on the whole cutaneous surface.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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Mind

Unconsciousness.
Grew dizzy while studying in school. 12.30 p. m., book seemed to go round, could hardly keep his seat ; felt as if falling towards right side and as if going into a state of sleep or unconsciousness ; > in open air ; a boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Vomiting and convulsions, with loss of consciousness and frequent desire to make water.
Loss of consciousness, during which he was attacked with violent convulsive fits and maniacal frenzy.
Falls down, without consciousness, with howling cries.
Stupefaction of senses, like fainting.
Half stupid and senseless, moaning and groaning.
Want of memory.
Complete loss of memory, after an attack of catalepsy, whith loss of consciousness, followed by vomiting.
Memory lost, after mental or sensorial disturbances.
Though he could remember the name of everything, when he looked at it, yet it was not without investigating its nature that he could discover its use.
Awkwardness.
Unusually clear-headed ; also intellectual dulness.
Uneasiness of body and confusion of mind, impossible to describe.
Ideas were confused, delirium.
Monomania, with horrible visions and torturing ideas about religion, which he cannot shake off, although he is conscious that they morbid ; is < at night.
A tumult of crude ideas floated through his mind, with a noise in his ears, followed by insensibility.
He lay with closed eyes, seemingly asleep, answering no questions ; when the distant town clock struck he lifted his arm at every stroke ; one evening he went to the piano with closed eyes and played with great precision what at other times he could not
have done without his note ; several times he wrote letters in an acquired language more correctly than in a waking state ; once he occupied himself for several hours with the number 6 ; at times he had violent spasms and priapism.
It was to him as if he moved in his own little world, in which all things were clear and defined ; outside of which uncertain and undefined ; t.
Thought he would die. θ Gastralgia.
Very nervous ; imagined various things ; that he would get yellow fever, etc. ; boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Confused fancies, and delirium.
Delirious, somnolent, with slow fever, at night.
Stupefaction, coma and delirium.
Delirium with heat in throat and thirst.
Delirium, with pain in stomach.
Most furious delirium, being with difficulty restrained in bed by two men.
Rage, with foaming at mouth.
Violent rage ; scratches, spits and bites ; tears her clothes and foams at mouth. θ Puerperal mania.
Mania, with melancholy.
Disposition to cry out frequently, he knew not what for, but would frequently find himself crying out when at work or when walking about.
Desire to be diverted from thoughts of himself ; t.
Desire to dispute ; self-willed.
Wants to get out of bed.
Often felt as if he ought to kill people, when in street ; never felt a disposition to kill any of his own family, but thought he ought to kill somebody.
Impulse to jump out of window.
He talks irrationally, and proposes absurd things.
Talked wildly, constantly repeating the same sentence.
Gestures and conversation very wild and strange.
Greatly excited, talks incessantly. θ Puerperal mania.
(In sick :) Mind wandering ; talking, shouting, crying and laughing by turns ; t. θ Spasms.
Was found much excited, screaming loudly, "I shall not faint! I shan't faint, for if I do, I will have fits and never come out of them!" Uttered a strange scream, a sort of howl, leaped from bed, apparently in great agony, and bent on something desperate.
Screamed, raved and scolded in most indecent language ; 4th day. θ Puerperal mania.
Cries for help, takes hold of others, will not be left alone.
Weeping or crying, does not know why.
Sighing and muttering in sleep.
Tosses anxiously in bed, weeps incessantly ; full irritable pulse, violent headache. θ Hysteria.
Restless tossing about ; heart palpitates.
Children throw things in air with crazy laughter.
Strips himself, and tries to jump out of window.
He beats himself on chest, and falls into a faint.
Child creeps into a corner, howls and cries ; everything that is said is taken as if one was ordering him, and he was considered naughty and would be punished.
Violent outbursts of rage and vituperation ; abuses her child. θ Puerperal mania.
Hasty in action and speech. θ Puerperal mania.
Does not speak unless questioned.
Aversion to all kinds of work.
Greatly exhilarated, lively mood.
Depressed, sad and irritable, despondent.
Indescribable wretchedness.
Felt a vague sense of impending danger to life, > moving about, rushed out of house and walked violently until he perspired, which relieved ; t.
Dread of being alone in dark.
Afraid of mirrors in room, lest he should see himself in them ; so excessive was this fear at times in night that he would have got up and broken mirrors, only that he was still more afraid to get up alone in the dark.
Indescribable dread of being drawn upward.
Very great anxiety.
Precordial anxiety, with weeping.
(In sick :) Anxiety, restless tossing in bed. θ Cancer labii.
Anxiety, almost loses consciousness. θ Puerperal mania.
An indifference whether the world uses one well or ill, everything is repulsive.
Very irritable and fretful ; every word irritates and excites him.
Fretful, anxious, at night, with frightful visions.
Palpitation ; vexed by want of sympathy, afraid to be alone a moment, fears death ; boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Dogmatical easily offended.
Voluptuous ideas.
Great excitement, almost amounting to frenzy.
Excitement, as of intoxication.
Easily startled.
Want of irritability ; general apathy.
Lethargy ; cannot be roused. θ Typhus.
Better when thinking of the existing complaint.
Thinks he is going to die ; < when he thinks about it ; boy, æt. 13 ; t.
Mania after mental overexertion, in a boy, æt. 14 ; talks disconnectedly, refuses to answer ; wants to lie on bare floor, and wallows in his own filth.

Sensorium

(In sick :) Severe dizziness, flushing of face, followed by extreme pallor ; t. θ Spasms.
Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.
On looking through window everything in street appears in utmost tumult and confusion.
Vertigo : in frequent short attacks ; after nausea and retching, giddy, sparks before eyes, dim sight, singing in ears, heat and tremor ; vomiturition ; with tendency to fall forward, 10 a. m., while walking ; so severe that knees knock
together and he nearly falls ; on stooping ; when sitting.
Staggers, or totters in walking ; feels drunken.
Feels as if lighter, not touching the ground ; as if he could fly.
Uncertain in his gait ; in looking down it seems as if all objects were commingled ; t.
Lightness or dizzy heaviness of head.
Loss of consciousness, fainting, delicate people suddenly sink down, turn pale, shut eyes ; breathing and pulse very weak ; after recovering, one sided lameness or blindness.
All senses vanish, even the touch ; cannot distinguish cold or hot.
Stupor ; fainting ; apoplexy.
Vertigo without nausea, uncertainty of motion, and a fainting fit, in which he remained unconscious for four or five minutes ; t.

Inner head

Head confused, stupefied, burning hot, congested, generally clear consciousness, sometimes unconscious.
Frontal headache ; pressing outward ; also left-sided.
Throbbing headache in forehead, over root of nose, with heat.
Fine tearing in head, especially in left side of forehead and occiput.
Throbbing stinging in forehead, all night, with a dry, thirstless heat.
Tearing sticking in forehead, and pressure on upper part of frontal bone.
Pressure : in forehead, in middle, on right side, on left side ; over l. eye, in evening.
Heaviness and heat in forehead, < when walking.
Slight headache in forehead, which gradually became more violent, and accompanied by stitches, apparently starting in temporal bones, and returning every five minutes.
Dull headache above frontal bone, with nausea.
Pressive headache, alternating in forehead and sides.
Headache, beginning in frontal region and extending to occiput.
Boring in temples, shooting towards eyes or teeth in short attacks, early in morning.
Single violent stitches in right half of brain.
Fine tearing in right temple and forehead.
Tearing pressure in right temple ; Throbbing pressure in temples.
Headache with drawings in right side.
Pressure by jerks, in head, over left ear.
Throbbing of temporal arteries, and distended jugular veins.
Aching in middle of head, from forehead backward, lasted through evening and next day.
Cutting jerks or shocks from forehead and temples towards middle of brain, in short intervals, soon after lying down.
Heat and heaviness of head, especially vertex.
Severe pressure on right side of vertex.
Dull pressure in region of vertex.
Throbbing, like beats with a hammer, in cerebellum, isochronous with pulse ; head hot, face red, limbs cool, > in standing ; mostly with such as were deprived of sexual intercourse.
Pressure in occiput.
Cutting pressure from left side of occiput towards forehead.
A contractive pain at base of brain, especially in occiput, and above root of nose, which continues without cessation, whereby head is leaned to one or other side ; a pain which is very much < by stooping low, lying down, or by external pressure ; with coldness of hands and
feet, hot forehead, and coma vigil.
Uneasy feeling at back of head.
Sensation of cold in cerebellum.
Contraction as if laced together in cerebellum and glabella, with coldness all over. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Heat in head, and tearing headache, soon passing off and disappearing on pressure.
Transient headache, as if brain was compressed from all sides, only felt during half-consciousness, when he was not paying attention to his body ; if he became conscious of his pain and thought of it, it immediately disappeared.
Drawing sensation all around head, as if nerves of head were all drawn up ; drawings for some minutes, then remissions, then drawings again.
Headache, as if bruised, or as if brain was sore.
Head heavy, with anxiety, brilliant eyes, red face and great agitation.
Dizzy heaviness of head ; head sank backward.
Rush of blood to head, with heaviness of head ; > from external pressure ; heat in head, as in sweat would follow, while crawlings run over limbs and belly.
Throbbing headache ; alternate pallor and flushes.
Intense headache and giddiness.
(In sick :) Headache, with burning in stomach and precordial anxiety. θ Cancer labii.
Headache, with burning pain in stomach, eructations, great thirst, and a sense of formication in extremities.
Pains run from head to tips of fingers, with trembling and uneasiness.
Headache, in morning, after rising, for several days in succession.
Pressive headache from within outward, immediately.
Hydrocephalus : great coldness of skin, yet child cannot bear to be covered.
Inflammation of brain after sunstroke.

Outer head

Cold sweat on forehead. θ Cholera infantum.
Hot sweat on forehead and in palms.
Scalp intensely hot.
Heat of head, hands and feet, yet thirstless.
Drawing around head, as if it was drawn upward, in short attacks, with crawls.
Spasmodic motions of head.
Head is thrown back.
Head drawn to right shoulder ; rest of body relaxed ; unconscious.
Spasmodic drawing of head, laterally or backward, with deathly coldness.
Premature grey hairs.
Anterior fontanelle much depressed. θ Cholera infantum.

Sight and eyes

Sensation of increased and dazzling light.
Objects appear too bright or glittering, at same time black spots are seen.
Flickering before eyes.
Objects quivered before his eyes.
Cannot read, letters run together ; dim and dark.
Strange visions before his eyes ; hallucinations ; wonderful forms float before eyes.
Sees bright colors, sparks and fiery wheels, alternating with mistiness.
After using eye for awhile objects become indistinct, as if seen through a fog, often they appear double ; the upper portion of large objects is not visible.
Objects, upon which she fixes her gaze, appear to move to one side, with a jerk.
Sees objects plainly at arm's length, things farther off appear dim and undefined ; t.
Eyes sensitive to light ; photophobia.
Darkness before eyes, as if objects were encircled in a cloud ; sight obscured or dim.
Dimness of vision diminishes as attacks of vertigo increase.
Sees better after breakfast, not at all in evening.
Pupils contracted and immovable or dilated.
Eyes worse in sunlight.
Conjunctiva injected, pupils dilated.
Chronic inflammation of eyes.
Red spots on white of eye.
(In sick :) Heat, redness and burning in eye, with lachrymation.
Eyes brilliant and glittering.
He looks at one staring and wondering, without consciousness.
Disturbed wild and roving glances, disheveled hair. θ Puerperal mania.
Eyes staring, sparkling, a little convergent ; 3d day. θ Puerperal mania.
Eyes fixed, staring, turned upward or outward.
Eyes protrude, with monomania, despair of salvation, wants to cry, but his eyes are dry.
(In sick :) Eyes turned to right, upward and backward ; head the same ; t. θ Spasms.
Eyes deeply sunken ; blue rings ; pale face.
Soreness or tense, stiff feeling in eyes and eyelids all day.
Sensation in eyeballs as from pressure and pushing upon them from behind.
Lachrymation in open air ; lids feel stiff, sore or tense.
Twitching or biting in external canthus.
Smarting, biting-itching, sticking, or burning in eyelids.
Burning or biting in edges of lids.
Twitching of lids ; quivering in upper lid ; constant agitation.
Eyelids are covered with many red spots.
When closing eyes in slumber, things appear to grow thicker or thinner, as the pulse beats.
Pressure above right eye.

Hearing and ears

Singing, ringing, buzzing, or roaring in ears.
Stitches from a draught of air.
Tearing behind and above ears.
Burning, stitches, or tearing in ears.
Pain in left ear from a dark red pimple, which suppurated in thirty-six hours.
Yellow blisters around ear, with erysipelas of face.
Ear-lobe hot and red.
Congestion to ears.

Smell and nose

Sudden, momentary boring in right side of nose.
Drawing in left side of nose.
In anterior corner of nostrils, stinging as if sore and would ulcerate.
Itching in nose, and left nostril.
Air of room, breathed through nose, seems cooler, when walking.
Violent stitching, or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip.
Nose cold and pointed. θ Summer complaint. θ Cholera.
Sneezing, beginning coryza.
Coryza fluent or dry.
Nose stopped on right side, afterwards running.
Catarrhal affections, with headache, from sudden change of weather.
Nosebleed.

Upper face

Features changed, distorted, relaxed and expressionless.
Face : scarlet red and puffy ; flushed with wild expression ; bluish and pinched ; pale, anxious and haggard ; distorted and sunken ; livid, cold and deathly.
Spasmodic distortion of facial muscles, with froth from mouth.
Red and glowing face. θ Puerperal mania.
Redness of cheeks and lobules of ears.
Red face, with warmth of body.
Pale face, with crawling.
Looks pinched and blue. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Erysipelatous red cheeks and ear-lobes.
Face now pale, then livid, expressing despair ; incessant spasmodic movements, grimaces.
Very pale face, with at first closed, afterwards open staring eyes, with eyeballs turned outward.
Excessive paleness of face, with a fixed and stupid look.
Flushed and bloated face, brilliant eyes, full rapid pulse and hot skin ; cannot bear heat. θ Cancer labii.
Pale face, dry skin, not hot, cool forehead ; third day. θ Puerperal mania.
Black in face.
Face hippocratic. θ Scarlet fever. θ Cholera.
Distorted features. θ Puerperal mania.
Cold sweat, with vomiting. θ Cholera.
Cold sweat stood in drops on his face, nose icy cold and pinched, upper lip everted ; could not see. θ Gastralgia.
Flushes and grows pale by turns. θ Puerperal mania.
In morning, disturbed countenance, blue rings around eyes.
Heat in face and cold hands.
Stitching in left cheek.
Drawing in left zygoma ; boring in right.
Burning in face.
Slight twitchings of face.
Buries face deep in pillow to shut out hideous sights. θ Delirium.

Lower face

Froth or foam at mouth.
Upper lip drawn up, exposing teeth.
Lips everted as in bleating, head hot, feet cold ; t.
Blue lips. θ Cholera infantum.
(In sick :) Cancer of under lip.
Lockjaw, with coldness (and brownish look of eruption, during partial repercussion, in scarlatina).
Drawing in angle of right lower jaw.
Tensive pain in masticators.
Stitching in chin.
Glands near lower jaw are swollen ; seem to cause a toothache.

Teeth and gums

A little froth about teeth, which were firmly clenched.
Flying toothache, gnawing-boring in molars, mostly in hollow ones ; much < if even a soft little crust of bread touches the suffering tooth ; < from drinking coffee or spirituous liquors ; > after drinking beer or cold water, but < from water kept in
mouth ; relieved by coition.
Drawing in upper incisors, and in hollow lower molars.
Transient, cutting shootings through gum to roots of incisor and canine teeth.
Transient toothache, now in one, now in another tooth.
Cutting toothache, which seems to originate from swelling of a submaxillary gland.
Painful looseness of teeth ; teeth seem too long.
During coition toothache ceases, immediately after which he sleeps quietly for the first time.
When walking, drawing in decayed upper incisors.
On going into cold or windy air with toothache, a stitch shoots from tooth into eye.
Gums loosened, of a livid color.
Constant pressure, makes him mad, with great itching of swollen gums, teeth too long.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : acute ; beef broth tastes too strong ; food tastes bitter, meat more so than bread ; tobacco has an offensive, bitter taste.
Bad taste, with nausea and vomiting, in morning.
Great difficulty of speech and thought.
Speech uncertain, impeded ; when roused he had scarcely any power to articulate.
Speech feeble, broken, hoarse.
Could not speak from words seeming to choke him in larynx.
Red tongue. θ Polydipsia.
Tongue : felt swollen and numb ; dry, or covered with aphtæ.
Sensation of dryness on back part of tongue, like a scraping, with much saliva.
Tongue thick, spongy, fissured, covered with much yellowish mucus.
Burning on edge of tongue and hard palate.
Burning sensation on end of tongue, as from pepper.
Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.
Tongue and teeth dirty and dry. θ Typhus. θ Suppression of
urine.

Inner mouth

Mouth open.
Foaming at mouth.
Saliva : running together, watery ; at times slimy and tenacious ; children "slobber."
Mouth dry and parched, red tongue, no thirst ; t.
Whole mouth interiorly, with tongue, gums an palate, feels as if swollen.
Sensation in mouth, as after eating peppermint lozenges, and same in stomach.
Dryness, after it aphthous sponginess of mucous membrane.
Continued dryness of mouth, with increased thirst.
Unpleasant heat in mouth and stomach.
Coldness in mouth.
A cold sensation rises into mouth and to palate.
Sense of coldness changed to that of sharpness and burning.
Offensive odor from mouth, in morning, which he himself noticed.
Boiling hot tea seems cold to him.

Palate and throat

Heat : on hard palate ; in throat ; in œsophagus.
A dry scraping sensation on palate.
Single coarse stitches in palate.
Burning from palate down œsophagus ; it makes him drink, but this does not lessen it.
Repeated short stitches at back and towards left side of pharynx.
Sore throat when swallowing, and even more when not swallowing, as if throat was sore and torn up, with a sensation as if she had eaten rancid substances.
Scraping in throat.
A hot vapor seems to rise up throat and out of mouth. θ Scarlet fever.
Slight warmth in œsophagus and stomach, extending over whole body.
A cooling sensation rising up throat to roof of mouth.
Rattling in throat. θ Scarlet fever.
Swallowing is impossible. θ Typhus.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Neither appetite nor thirst.
Aversion to accustomed tobacco smoking without its tasting badly ; he soon becomes averse to it to a degree of vomiting.
Desire to drink without feeling thirsty.
Continued thirst, with frequent drinking.
Insatiable burning thirst, not quenched by incredible quantities of cold water. θ Polydipsia.
Desire for beer, which > the toothache.

Eating and drinking

Could neither taste bread nor meat on account of nausea.
Eats voraciously and has frequent thirst. θ Puerperal mania.
After meals : he feels heart beating against ribs ; a drawing through whole body, with coldness, cold arms, hands and feet ; constant belching.
Drinking difficult.
Better from drinking cold water.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Belching and gulping up contents of stomach.
Empty eructations frequently after eating, and almost continuous.
Nausea : with vertigo, twitching in face, salivation, retching and vomiting ; with accumulation of saliva ; and prostration, 10 to 11 a. m.
Nausea and inclination to vomit, which disappeared each time after an eructation.
Retching.
Nausea and vomiting, especially mornings.
She drank some coffee, which excited vomiting.
Constant vomiting. θ Viper bite.
Vomit : bilious ; of some blood ; mostly sour.
Watery, slimy vomit. θ Summer complaint.
Vomited black streaked fluid smelling of camphor.
Chronic vomiting, in morning, of sour mucus.
Vomiting, with cold sweat in face.
Coldness after vomiting.
Sometimes nausea and vomiting, with cold sweat. θ Cholera.
Absence of nausea and vomit, icy cold. θ Cholera.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pain in epigastric region.
Terrible anguish and burning at pit of stomach driving to despair. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Pain, as if beaten, or distended, in pit of stomach, with fulness of abdomen ; sensitive to touch.
Sensation in region of pit of stomach as if distended at this point, and diaphragm thereby pressed upward ; oppression of breathing.
Pain, at first moderate, but afterwards very intense, in epigastrium, radiating all over belly and into limbs, accompanied by uterine tenesmus.
Gradually increasing pain in epigastrium, loins and bowels, with strangury and vomiting.
Pressive pain in pit of stomach, or in anterior part of liver.
An oppressive sensation, with a feeling of warmth, in pit of stomach.
Unpleasant feeling in gastric region, with transient vertigo.
Digestion impaired, < after taking cold, with pressure or burning above navel, great thirst, precordial anxiety, heat, burning and dryness of skin, limbs heavy as lead.
Stitches and burning in stomach.
Sensation of heat in stomach, with chilliness in loins and small of back.
Coldness in stomach.
Feeling like hunger in stomach.
Awoke in night, with cramp in stomach so violent he thought he would die. θ Gastralgia.

Hypochondria

Constrictive pain below short ribs, extending to lumbar vertebræ.
Aching pressure in both hypochondria.
Aching in anterior part of liver.
In right hypochondrium a stitch from front to back, < when running.
Pressive pain in hypochondria.
Under short ribs a painful contraction, through to lumbar vertebræ.
Stitches in spleen, from front backward, < after quick walking.

Abdomen and loins

Cutting colic, at night.
Slight cuttings in region of navel, followed by passage of flatus, inclination to stool, and urging to urinate.
Movements in intestines, and in afternoon, frequent passage of offensive flatus ; during next night, from 1 to 2 o'clock, violent pressive pain, located in coeliac ganglia, so severe that he feared inflammation would ensue, which caused great anxiety and sweating.
In right side a stinging drawing heaviness, more perceptible when pressed ; a drawing soreness, more inward than outward, extending to region of liver and chest, < when inhaling.
Drawing bruised pain, more internally than externally, especially on inspiration, in whole right side of abdomen, extending into region of liver, and into chest.
Drawing in left side of lower abdomen, with a tensive bruise sensation.
Pinching in region of navel.
Bellyache, as if diarrhœa would follow.
At first, passage of much flatus, and after several hours, in morning, pressure in abdomen as of distension from flatulence.
Hard pressure in left side of lower abdomen.
Pressure and burning about navel.
Violent burning heat in upper and lower abdomen.
Burning in bowels. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Heat in abdomen.
Sensation of hardness and heaviness in abdomen, above navel.
Coldness in upper and lower abdomen, followed by burning heat therein.
Cold feeling in abdomen spreading over chest.
An aching in abdomen seems to cause a suffocating contraction of chest.
Burning sticking in a surface as large as hand, below anterior crest of ilium, extending to groin.
Itching crawling in right groin, >. on rubbing.
Abdomen retracted.
Transient ascites, or dropsy with ischuria after abuse of cantharides.

Stools and rectum

Flatulency ; wind passes without relief.
Rice water stools ; difficult passage of feces preceded by passage of much wind, but with the same difficulty. θ Summer complaint.
Involuntary stools, thin and blackish.
Cholera infantum : vomiting and diarrhœa suddenly cease ; coldness of body, blueness of nails and lips, cold sweat on forehead and upper part of chest, with icy cold feet ; hoarseness ; cold spell coming on at night, with desire to be
uncovered.
Diarrhœa with colicky pain, particularly when caused by cold.
Anxiety and restlessness, absence of evacuations, frequently chilly or feeling as if cold air was blowing on covered parts ; great sinking and collapse. θ Cholera
Asiatica.
Diarrhœa : attack very sudden ; sudden and great sinking of strength ; cold sweat on face ; eyes sunken and fixed ; icy coldness of whole body ; face pale, livid, purple, icy cold, distorted ; upper lip drawn up, exposing
teeth ; foam at mouth. θ Cholera morbus. θ Cholera Asiatica.
After taking cold, cutting with involuntary loose discharge of dark brown feces, like coffee-grounds.
Stool ; generally painless ; dark brown, thin and scanty ; blackish, like coffee-grounds ; sour ; involuntary ; sluggish and incomplete.
Urging to stool ; stool of usual hardness, but only a little passes, followed again by violent urging, and again by a scanty discharge.
Urging to stool and insufficient discharge, cramp in sphincter ani.
Feces passed with difficulty, not without exertion of abdominal muscles, as if peristaltic motion of intestines was diminished, and at same time rectum was contracted.
Constipation from inactivity of bowels.
Rectum seems contracted, swollen, and painful, on passing flatus.
Chapped sensation in rectum, drops of blood from anus.
Smarting in rectum.
Aggravation ; during epidemic cholera ; from hot sun.

Urinary organs

Pain in bladder after acrid drugs.
Painful urination ; sticking burning.
Burning during urination. θ Pregnancy.
Strangury from stricture following gonorrhœa.
A biting in back part of urethra ; during and after urination pressure in bladder.
Frequent urination, passes more than he drinks ; loses strength ; emaciates.
Frequent desire to make water, with some pain in course of spermatic vessels.
Frequent and difficult urination ; contraction of bladder less powerful, urine passes slowly and by drops.
Diminished power of bladder ; urine passes very slowly, without any mechanical hindrance.
Urine passes in a very thin stream, passes almost involuntarily, and after it a painful contraction going from front backward.
Involuntary escape of urine ; urine dribbles.
Difficult urination. θ Impotentia virilis.
Urine scanty, in drops, or suppressed.
Urine increased of a dark brown color.
Urine contains sugar, is pale, odorless ; contains mucus, without sediment.
Yellowish-green, turbid urine, of a musty odor.
Urine red, bloody ; after irritating drugs, or in exanthematic fevers.
Urine with white or red sediment.
Urine profuse, colorless, frequent, almost every five minutes.
Urine quite clear, but having, like the perspiration, a very strong odor of camphor.
Urine burns, passing in drops ; painful urination, hot burning in urethra as after cantharides.
Retention of urine ; a pressure on bladder ; desire to urinate. θ Pregnancy. θ Ischuria
of infants. θ Measles.
Tenesmus of neck of bladder. θ Strangury.
Hemorrhage from urinary organs after irritating drugs, especially cantharides, and during exanthematic fevers.

Male sexual organs

Increased sexual desire.
Nervous erethism of sexual organs following frequent excitement, without satisfaction of desire.
Increased sexual desire ; unusual sexual ardor, with continued delusions respecting the object of embrace.
Attacks of violent priapism, during dreams.
Want of sexual desire, with weakness of parts want of erections ; testicles relaxed. θ Impotence.
Stultified by sudden laxness of penis ; at night the fancy becomes excited in dreams, and a discharge is the result.
Nightly emissions ; sometimes occurring without a dream.
Involuntary masturbation.
Contractive sensation in testicles.
Stinging itching on inner surface of prepuce.
On left side of root of penis, while standing a pressure outward, as if a hernia would protrude.
Gonorrhœa, with constant sticking together of meatus.
Chordee.
After gonorrhœa : suppression of urine, with restlessness, pain in hypogastric region, weak but rapid pulse, and delirium ; strangury from stricture.

Female sexual organs

Erethism of sexual system. θ Puerperal mania.
Os uteri enlarged and hot.
Dropsy of uterus ; red, sometimes greenish urine, deposits a thick sediment ; urine passed slowly, bladder being nearly paralyzed, body cold.
Severe labor-like pains, as in parturition.
Slight discharge of blood from vagina.
Menstruation too profuse, or cessation of menses.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Abortion, particularly during epidemic influenza.
Labor pains : weak or ceasing ; will not be covered, restless, skin cold.
Cramps during pregnancy ; cannot remain covered.
Puerperal mania : staring eyes, sparkling, somewhat convergent ; pale face, dry skin, not hot ; cool forehead ; sits up in bed held by three women whom she scolds in the most indecent and abusive terms ; constantly bares her breast.
Lochia suppressed. θ puerperal mania.
Fine stinging in nipples.
Suppuration of mamma.
Newborn children ; asphyxia ; hard places in skin on abdomen and thighs, quickly increasing and getting harder, sometimes with a deep redness spreading nearly over whole abdomen and thighs ; violent fever, with startings and tetanic spasms,
with bending backward ; make no water.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice husky and deep. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Talked in a husky voice. θ gastralgia.
Voice : weak ; uncertain ; bleating ; whispering ; murmuring ; hollow.
Influenza.
Mucus in air passages ; it makes voice husky and is not removed by hacking, or clearing throat.
Pain in air passages and bronchial tubes, mostly in coughing, and even when hacking and clearing throat.
Contractive sensation in larynx, as from sulphur fumes.
Constriction of larynx, or feeling as if throat was tied.
Cutting cold feeling deep in windpipe ; causes a slight cough.
Dry feeling in bifurcation of trachea.

Respiration

Breathing ; anxious ; oppressed ; sighing ; quiet ; deep and slow ; heavy, difficult and slow ; short and snoring ; irregular and hurried ; hurried and labored ; almost completely arrested, neither audible nor
visible.
Suffocative oppression.
Choking sensation ; it threatens to suffocate him and consrict larynx.
(In sick :) Gasping for breath, chest feels dry, could scarcely speak.
Asthma, worse from bodily exertion.
Inhalation shorter than exhalation, in sleep.
Snoring in sleep, with inhalation and exhalation.
Asphyxia, or apparent death of newborn children.
Suspended respiration ; heart ceases to beat, life seems gone. Follows well after Tart. emet.
Hot breath, with acute eruptive diseases.
Cool breath, as from the grave, playing upon hand held before mouth. θ Cholera Asiatica.
A cold feeling in chest, followed by cold breath. θ Emphysema.
Spasms of chest.

Cough

Hacking, dry cough.
Short cough, from scraping in throat.
Very fatiguing cough without bringng up anything.
Violent dry cough, with hoarseness. θ Sequel to measles.
Cough, with pain in throat, chest, stomach and abdomen.
Dry cough every forenoon for two weeks.
Every inhalation starts the cough.
Stitches in chest, and hacking cough, as if caused by cutting cold sensation deep jin air passages.
Stitches through to spine, mostly through left lung.
Stitches : from shoulders into chest ; in left side of chest when walking ; through chest to spine.
Soft pressure internally in chest, below sternum, with difficult inhalation, and a cold sensation rising up into mouth.
Pressure in upper part of sternum, as from a load.
Trembling in left side of chest and arm, when lying on l. side ; it ceases on turning to right side.
Contraction of chest, and oppression.
Mucus in air passages.
Congestion to chest.
Pneumonia notha of old people, with sinking of forces, dry burning heat and dyspnœa ; slight moisture on face ; rattling breathing indicating threatening paralysis of lungs.
In later stages of pneumonia, short, anxious, oppressed breathing, with chill and heat alternating.
Hepatization of right lung ; of lower lobe of left.
Hepatization of left lung, and some pleuritic exudation. θ Pleuro-pneumonia.
Emphysema pulmonum.
Sensation of coldness, extends from pit of stomach over whole sternum, and exhaled as a cold breath. θ Asthma empysematicum.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Great anxiety in precordial region.
Precordial distress, when spoken to, with sensation of severe coldness and irresistible sleepiness.
Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest, when lying on left side ; on turning to right side it ceases.
He felt and heard throbbing of heart against ribs, after eating.
Heartbeat : very slow, and intermitting ; impulse hard, but regular.
Palpitation, as if heart turned forward and over ; stoppage of breath and gasping ; has to walk about the room ; boy ; at. 13 ; t.
Palpitation : after eating ; trembling with anxiety ; with regular slow beats ; after awaking, with twitches ; with cold face, limbs and body ; with pale face and coldness of
surface ; with sudden oppression of breathing.
Often easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbings or palpitations.
Pulse : full ; weak ; not perceptible ; frequent and scarcely perceptible ; accelerated without fever ; very much accelerated, but undulating, and without strength ; very rapid ; full and rapid ; full and
irritable ; irritable in evening ; hard or soft ; frequent and small (hepatized left lung) ; extremely small ; small and slow, sixty beats to minute ; small and hard, becoming slower and
slower ; small, weak and quite frequent ; could not be counted ; extremely rapid and weak (typhus) ; audible and full ; weak and thready.
Diminished flow of blood to those parts remote from heart.

Outer chest

On upper part of sternum, pressure like a heavy load, while standing.
Tearing pain from his right nipple to chest.
Fine tearing pain near right nipple, extending down into pelvis.
Fine stitches in nipples.
Small rash on outer throat and chest.
Cold sweat on upper part of chest. θ Cholera infantum.

Neck and back

Painful drawing or tearing along medulla spinalis.
Painful drawing and stiffness on side of neck, when walking in open air.
Stiffness in nape of neck.
Drawing on left side of nape of neck towards shoulder.
Stitches in neck, near right shoulder, on motion.
Tensive pain in muscles of nape of neck and lower portion of neck ; < on every motion and on turning neck.
Tearing pain in nape of neck, on bending head forward.
Creeping sensation in left side of neck, above clavicle.
Pain in fifth, sixth and seventh cervical vertebræ ; < from moving head ; > from pressing hand thereon.
Swelling of cervical glands.
Jugular veins distended.
Heat with an inward vibration spreads from neck and from between shoulders into limbs.
Rheumatic pain between shoulders.
Drawing stitches through and between shoulder blades, extending into chest when moving arms.
Stitches near right shoulder, tearing when moving, from neck up into head, tensive pain with motion and turning.
Sensation on sticking coldness in sacral region, which passed with lightning-like velocity along side of vertebræ to nape of neck and over whole body, alternating whith a feeling of transient heat.
Tired feeling in small of back, when walking.
Pressure in small of back, with leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs.
Violent pain in back all day.
Constricting pain from short ribs to lumbar vertebræ.
Pain runs through back into limbs repeatedly.
Coldness in small of back and loins.
Inner coldness in loins and small of back ; < by walking but a few steps.
Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.
Cold feeling on back.
Chilliness in back, and as if sweat would break out.

Upper limbs

Drawing, painful stitches through shoulder blades and between them, extending into chest on moving arm, for two days.
Tearing pressure on edges of shoulder blades impeding motion of arm.
Pressure on top of shoulder, particularly right ; drawing pain in left.
Bruised pain in both shoulders.
Tearing pressure in middle of posterior portion of right upper arm.
Drawing in muscles of left upper arm, when walking.
Tearing on inside of left arm, passing at times into thumb and index finger.
Tired feeling in left arm, commencing at left shoulder, extending into wrist ; > by motion of arm.
Jerking, fine tearing from middle of inner surface of left upper arm to middle of forearm.
Painful pressure in right elbow joint, < leaning upon it, when it extends into hand.
Bruised pain in right elbow, wrist and fingers.
Tired feeling from left elbow into hand.
Sensation of fatigue and heaviness in left arm.
Pressure and drawing on inner side of both arms, during rest of parts, ceasing when moving them.
(In sick :) Right arm extended above head, as if catching something ; t. θ Spasms.
Convulsive rotation of arms.
Rotary movement of right arm and a little of left ; right thumb clenched. θ Cholera infantum.
Arms move involuntarily from time to time ; eyes are turned up ; girl, æt. 5.
Arm more convulsed than lower limbs.
Arms : stiff ; powerless.
Hands : tremble ; cold ; bluish.
His hands do not feel anything he touches.
Fingers stiff, open, distorted ; thumb drawn back at nearly right angles with its metacarpal.
Sensation in joint of thumbs as if sprained.
Skin of fingers shriveled. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Itching on back of hands, in palms and on knuckles.

Lower limbs

Drawing in nates, as if it would paralyze the thigh.
Soreness as if beaten in thighs, after walking.
Drawing, bruised pain in right thigh, and on inner side near and below patella ; he fears that the leg will bend forward suddenly.
Tearing in anterior muscles of right tigh.
Cracking and creaking in hip, knee, and ankle joints.
Pressing in left knee and leg, and above right knee.
Stitches on patella.
Knees give way ; tremble ; tottering gait.
Heaviness in knees.
Legs heavy like a weight, hanging from knee down.
Subsultus tendinum of right lower limb.
Cramps in calves. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Drawing pinching pain on backs of feet, especially on moving them.
Joints of feet ache as if sprained, when walking.
Tearing, crampy pain on backs of feet, extending up outer side of calves to thighs.
Toes drawn up or spread.
Tearing in tips of toes, and under nails, when walking.
Soreness in toe joints and in corns.
Œdema of feet. θ Polydipsia.
Icy cold feet. θ Cholera infantum.
Lower extremities paralyzed. θ Typhus. θ Suppression of urine.

Limbs in general

Cracking and creaking in hip, knee, and ankle joints.
Drawing in fingers, then in toes.
Blueness of nails. θ Cholera infantum.
Limbs as heavy as lead.
Limbs are difficult to move.
Stretching, trembling, and general painful sensitiveness of limbs.
Hands and feet tremble, if he attempts to move them. θ Shock from injury.
Convulsive agitation in limbs, after tetanic stiffness.
Rheumatism returns repeatedly, attacking part after part, even internal organs.
Violent cramps in extremities.
Coldness of limbs.
(In sick :) Extremities and limbs cold and cramped ; t. θ Spasms.
Cold extremities, clammy sweat, great prostration. θ Cholera Asiatica.
(In sick :) Better in sitting posture on sofa and bed ; t. θ Spasms.

Rest. position. motion

Tosses in agony. θ Cholera Asiatica.
While sitting : cold feeling in right leg.
Lying down : cutting in head ; < contractive pain base of brain ; spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest, when on left side, or turning to right side.
Standing : > throbbing like beats with a hammer, in cerebellum.
Stooping : < contractive pain base of brain.
Moving ; drawing, pinching pain on backs of feet ; pain in fifth, sixth and seventh cervical vertebræ from moving head ; arms, drawing stitches through and between shoulder blades ; nausea, chronic vomiting.
Walking : vertigo ; < heaviness and heat in forehead ; drawing in decayed upper incisors ; < stitches in spleen from front backward ; painful drawing and stiffness on side of neck when in open air ; a few steps, inner coldness in loins and small of
back ; drawing in muscles of l. arm ; soreness as if beaten ; pains in joints of feet ; heaviness in legs.
Running : < stitch from front to back in right hypochonder.
Exertion : bodily < asthma.

Nerves

Increase of muscular power.
Subsultus tendinum.
Great nervous excitability, jerking, twitching and trembling.
Trembling of inner parts.
Easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbing or palpitation.
Starting with tremor of limbs ; t.
Convulsive circular motion.
Clonic and tonic spasms and convulsions ; falls down unconscious
Spasms of children, with sopor, from suppressed eruptions, from suppressed catarrh of head or chest.
Spasms, bending body backward and twisting extremities. θ Cholera.
Trismus, especially of newborn children ; tetanus.
Tetanic spasms of arms, hands, feet and lower jaw ; body stiff, with slight opisthotonos, from suppressed scarlatina.
Eclampsia, with anemia ; coldness.
Epilepsy ; throws himself back with dreadful shrieks ; endeavors to tear everything within his reach.
Violent epileptic spasms after vexation ; girl, æt. 17.
Shock from injury : cold extremities, trembling of tongue, hands and feet.
Excessive weakness, prostration and exhaustion.
Discomfort of whole body.
Attacks of malaise.
Loses strength suddenly. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Fainting spells follow each other in rapid succession. θ Viper bite.
Want of bodily irritability ; insensibility to touch.
His whole body is insensible to touch and cold as marble.
Feels no inward warmth.
A tremor seized o every part of his body ; quieted by bathing his hands and face in cold water.
Lassitude and depression of spirits, with frequent yawning and stretching.

Sleep

Yawning and sleepiness during day ; falls asleep in evening.
Sleep : profound ; deep ; unrefreshing ; coma.
Sleepless and restless.
Sleeplessness, alternating with coma.
Afraid to go to bed ; suddenly all sleep is gone ; eyes open against will, and awful sensations disturb him.
Snoring during inhalation and exhalation ; moaning ; sighing.
Much sweat during sleep.
Talking all night in a gentle voice.
Twitchings, also on awaking, followed by palpitation.
Gets awake with a nightmare, or cannot get fully awake.
Dreams : anxious ; fearful ; visions of spirits ; about what is intended, or what had happened in morning hours.

Time

All complaints < soon as it gets dark.
Night and solitude frighten him.
Night : monomania ; delirium ; low fever ; burning in œsophagus ; seminal emissions.
All night : throbbing, stinging in forehead.
Morning : shooting in temples ; bad taste ; offensive odor from mouth ; headache after rising ; early attacks of boring in temples, shooting towards eyes or teeth ; bad taste, with nausea and vomiting.
From 10 to 11 a. m. : nausea, vertigo, vomiting, prostration.
Forenoon : cough.
From 1 to 2 p. m. : colic.
Afternoon : movements in intestines, frequent passage of offensive flatus.
Evening : fever.
At 8 p. m. : drawing in fingers and toes.
All day : soreness or tense, stiff feeling in eyes and eyelids ; pain n back.

Temperature and weather

Effects of sunstroke.
He is excessively sensitive to cold air.
The surface cold to touch, yet they throw off all covering, will not remain covered.
After change of weather, catarrh with headache, or diarrhœa with colic.
Sunstroke ; sunburns on face and hands ; restless and depressed.
Is improved by warm water.
Takes cold easily ; after it, toothache ; weak digestion, fevers, rigors or diarrhœa.
Very sensitive to cold air.
Better from drinking cold water.
Open air : painful drawing and stiffness on side of neck when walking in open air.

Fever

Chill, chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air ; crawlings with gooseflesh.
General coldness ; clammy sweat ; circumscribed redness of cheeks ; quiet delirium ; sinking pulse. θ Nervous fever.
Icy coldness all over, with deathlike paleness of face ; diminished circulation to parts most distant from heart.
Great coldness of surface, with a desire to uncover.
Skin becomes very cold. θ Cholera Asiatica.
Rigor, with chattering teeth, thirst, followed by sleep.
Chill : with anxiety ; with unconsciousness ; with pale face ; with clonic spasm ; congestive chill.
Chilly all over, followed by heat and warm sweat on forehead, with nausea.
Increased warmth of body, with redness of face.
Heat, with distension of veins, increased by every motion.
Heat all over, getting much < while walking.
Heat or sweat, with aversion to uncover ; he cannot get warm.
Sweat profuse, warm and improving.
Cold, clammy, weakening sweat.
Typhus : greatest weakness ; cold sweat all over ; quickly decreasing temperature, especially of extremities ; small, very frequent, scarcely perceptible pulse ; great nervous restlessness of body and limbs ; collapse in
face ; cold, pointed nose ; automatic motions of muscles ; delirium ; syncope ; snatches of sleep ; great thirst, with red, dry tongue ; frequent involuntary stools, after much rolling and rumbling in bowels.
Severe and long chill at beginning of yellow fever, with trembling of internal parts and coldness of limbs.

Attacks, periodicity

Rheumatic attacks remit, go to one part after another.
Attacks come suddenly.
Every five minutes stitches in temporal bones.
Remissions : in drawing sensation all around head.

Locality and direction

Within outward : pressing headache ; pressing on eyeballs.
Backward : stitches in spleen.
Left : of neck, creeping ; shoulder, tired ; lung, stitches trough ; chest and arm, trembling, it ceases turning to r. side ; lung hepatized ; cutting left side of occiput ; ear pain ; side of nose, drawing ; nostril, itching ; sided
headache ; fine tearing in head ; drawing in lower abdomen ; hard pressure in lower abdomen ; root of penis, while standing pressure outward, as if a hernia would protrude ; spasmodic stitches in region of heart when lying on left side ; drawing in left side of
nape of neck towards shoulder ; ear, pressure by jerks ; stitches in l. cheek ; zygoma drawing ; pharynx, stitches ; side, drawings.
Right : itching, crawling in right groin, < on rubbing ; spasmodic stitches in region of heart, ceases on turning to r. side ; thigh, drawing bruised pain in ; head drawn to right shoulder ; eye, pressure ; side of nose, boring ; nose stopped ;
lower jaw, drawing ; hypochonder, a stitch ; lower abdomen, sticking, drawing ; itching, crawling in groin ; lung, hepatized ; shoulder, pressure ; arm, rotary movement ; thigh, tearing ; lower limb, subsultus tendinum.

Sensations

As if bruised, headache ; mouth as after eating peppermint lozenges ; as if throat was sore and torn ; as if she had eaten rancid substances ; pain in stomach as if distended ; as if cool air was blowing on back ; thumb as if sprained ; as if
he could fly ; as if brain was compressed on all sides ; as if nerves of head were all drawn up ; as if brain was sore ; mouth as if swollen ; as if cold air was blowing on covered parts.
Boring : in temples ; right side of nose ; in right zygoma.
Jerking : fine tearing from middle of inner surface of left upper arm.
Tearing : fine, in head ; sticking in forehead ; in right temple and forehead ; in ears ; behind and above ; pain from right nipple to chest ; along medulla spinalis ; pain in nape of neck ; right shoulder ; r ; upper arm ;
right thigh ; pain in backs of feet ; in tips of toes ; here and there in joints ; on inside of left arm.
Cutting : jerks or shocks from forehead and temples towards middle of brain ; shooting through gum to roots of incisor and canine teeth ; colic at night ; region of navel ; deep in windpipe.
Stitches : starting in temporal bone ; right half of brain ; in ears ; from a draught of air ; violent in root of nose ; left cheek ; in chin, shoot from tooth into eye ; in palate ; in stomach ; right hypochonder ; in spleen ;
coeliac ganglia ; in chest ; through to spine ; in region of heart ; in nipples ; in neck near right shoulder ; on patella.
Shooting : towards eyes or teeth ; here and there in joints ; from temples ; through gum to roots of incisor and canine teeth.
Sticking : drawing heaviness below crest of ilium ; burning before urination ; coldness in sacral region.
Stinging : anterior corner of nostrils ; right side of lower abdomen ; on inner surface of prepuce ; in nipples.
Biting : in external canthus ; Itching in eyelids ; edges of lids ; in back part of urethra.
Burning : in edges of lids ; in ears ; in face ; on edge of tongue ; end of tongue ; from palate down œsophagus ; anguish at pit of stomach ; above navel and about navel ; below anterior crest of ilium ; before and during
urination ; dryness of skin ; in abdomen ; in bowels.
Smarting : in eyelids ; in rectum.
Chapped feeling in rectum.
Scraping : back part of tongue ; in throat.
Gnawing boring : in molars.
Aching : in middle of head ; in both hypochondria ; anterior part of liver ; in abdomen ; joints of feet.
Drawing : pain in right thigh ; pain in back part of feet ; through shoulder blades ; pain in left shoulder ; left upper arm ; inner side both arms ; right side of head ; all around head ; left side of nose ; left zygoma ; in angle
of right lower jaw ; right side ; left side ; along medulla spinalis and stiffness on l. side of neck ; stitches through between shoulder blades ; in nates ; in upper incisors ; right side of abdomen ; in fingers and toes.
Pressure : headache ; right temple ; by jerks over left ear ; on eyeballs, from behind ; pain pit of stomach ; pain in both hypochondria ; left side lower abdomen ; about navel ; in small of back ; with leaden-like heaviness of lower
limbs.
Pressing : outward ; frontal headache ; on upper part of frontal bone ; right side of vertex ; in occiput ; above right eye ; above navel ; pain in coeliac ganglia ; in bladder ; in chest ; upper part of sternum ; on chest like
a heavy load ; on top of right shoulder ; painful, in elbow joint ; on inner side of both arms ; left knee and leg.
Pinching : region of navel ; pain on backs of feet.
Soreness : as if brain was sore ; eyes and eyelids ; in thighs ; in toe joints and in corns.
Bruised : right side ; left side ; pain in both shoulders ; as if beaten ; pain in right elbow ; wrist and fingers ; pain in right thigh.
Rheumatic pain between shoulders.
Pain : in left ear from a dark red pimple ; in epigastric region ; as if distended ; in periosteum of toes ; in bladder ; in vertebræ.
Violent pain : in back.
Throbbing : headache in forehead ; stinging in forehead ; in temples ; of temporal arteries ; like beats with a hammer in cerebellum.
Tense : feeling in eyes and eyelids ; pain in masticators ; pain in muscles of nape of neck.
Swollen : tongue ; mouth and gums.
Stiff : feeling in eyes and eyelids.
Numb : tongue.
Uneasy : feeling in back of head.
Contraction : as if bound together, in cerebellum and glabella ; pain base of brain ; painful under short ribs through lumbar vertebræ ; in testicles ; in larynx ; of chest.
Constriction : pain below short ribs ; in larynx ; pain from short ribs to lumbar vertebræ.
Cramp : in stomach ; on backs of feet ; all over body ; in sphincter ani ; in extremities.
Heaviness : in forehead ; in vertex ; right side ; in abdomen ; in knees ; of limbs ; in left arm.
Tired : feeling in small of back when walking ; feeling in l. arm ; feeling from left elbow into hand.
Fatigue : and heaviness in left arm.
Creeping : left side of neck.
Crawlings : run over limbs and belly ; about head ; right groin.
Warmth : in œsophagus.
Heat : in forehead ; in vertex ; in face ; in mouth and stomach ; violent in upper and lower abdomen.
Cooling sensation rising up throat to roof of mouth ; in chest.
Cold : in cerebellum ; hands ; mouth ; in stomach ; feeling deep in windpipe ; in small of back and loins.
Itching : left nostril ; swelling on gums ; on inner surface of prepuce ; in groin, in eyelids ; on back of hands ; in palms and on knuckles.
Dryness ; all over body ; on back part of tongue ; in bifurcation of trachea.

Tissues

Soft parts drawn in.
Cyanosis ; external parts turn black.
Internal congestions.
Cramps in inner and outer parts.
Cracking of joints.
Stenosis after inflammations.
Dropsy of external parts ; less often of internal.
Glands inflamed.
Flow of black coagulated blood. θ Viper bite
Pains in periosteum of all bones.
Tearing shooting here and there in joints.
Greatest emaciation.
Rheumatic fevers ; pains changing place, persistently return.
Anthrax : Camphor. relieved pain and swelling ; prevented formation of new pustules ; gangrenous aspect of wound changed for the better ; man, æt. 65.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Skin of whole body painfully sensitive, slightest touch hurts.
External pressure : < contractive pain in base of brain ; > rush of blood to head.
Disappearing on pressure : heat in head.
Sensitive to touch : distended stomach.
From pressing hand thereon : improved pain in upper vertebræ.
Painful pressure in right elbow joint : < leaning upon it.
Effects of shock from injury : surface of body cold, face pale and bluish, lips livid ; diarrhœa ; pulse feeble ; nervous anxiety and stupefaction, sighing respiration ; great exhaustion.

Skin

Skin : flabby ; relaxed ; leather-like ; loose ; sensitive ; burning ; itching.
Skin dry, even in bed ; not a trace of sweat ; dry with heat.
Skin tense, hot, dry, like parchment.
Skin cold and bluish on face and hands, looks shriveled.
Skin cold as marble, frightfully cold to touch, still patient would not be covered ; very great excitability and fear of being left alone.
Petechiæ over entire body, which is cold. θ Viper bite.
Erysipelatous inflammation, with coldness, paleness and sinking, and aversion to being covered.
Measles : pale face, cold skin, bluish ; tetanic rigidity ; dysuria ; eruption does not appear.
All sequela of measles.
Scarlatina : with cold, blue, hippocratic face ; rattling in throat ; with hot breath, hot sweat on forehead ; child will not be covered.
Sudden sinking away of variola pustules.
Bedsores.
Blood blisters ; erysipelas ; gangrene ; hard spots.

Stage of life, constitution

Irritable, weakly blondes most affected. Scrofulous children most sensitive to Camphor.
Boy, æt. 13 ; vertigo and palpitation ; t.
Girl, æt. 17 ; epilepsy.
A man, æt. 65 ; anthrax.

Relations

Antidotes : Opium, Sp. nitr. dulc., Dulcam., Phosphor .
Camphor antidotes : Canthar., Cuprum, Lycop., Squilla , and the effects of so-called worm medicines, tobacco, bitter almonds, and other fruits containing prussic acid ; likewise for the secondary affections
remaining after poisoning with acids, salts, metals, poisonous mushrooms, etc.
In most other cases the smelling of Camphor is not antidotal, but palliative, by producing the symptom "pain better while thinking of it."
Vaccine virus failed to take effect when kept in proximity to Camphor .
Incompatible : after Nitrum . Tea, coffee and lemonade, as a rule, do not interfere, but in some cases coffee aggravated and was followed by vomiting.
Compare : Carbo veg . in coldness from undeveloped exanthema, in collapse, and in continuous epistaxis ; Canthar. ; Cuprum ; Dulcam. ; Lycop. ; Nitrum ; Opium in narcotism, heart
affections ; Phosphor . in anguish and burning in cholera ; Sp. nitr. dulc. : Squilla ; Verat. alb .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

The camphor bottle is, a great mischief in the house, as camphor antidotes most of our remedies. Camphor in potentized form will cure many complaints.

It is suitable in some acute complaints attended with nervous excitement, even to frenzy, with spasms and convulsions and finally exhaustion. The Camphor state is one of convulsions or coldness.

In the most acute period of the Camphor excitement, the excitability and frenzy of the patient are extreme, or he goes into the other extreme, in which the irritability is lost and there is loss of sensation, unconsciousness and coldness.

The two extremes may be seen in one patient, one earlier and the other later. He may go from the extreme of mental excitement and violence to one of prostration and exhaustion, in which the body is blue and cold and yet must be uncovered.

Mind

In the mental state, there is anxiety and extreme fear; fear of persons, of strange spheres, of the dark; the dark is filled with imaginary specters; he dare not get out of bed in the dark; everything that moves is a specter and the inanimate things of the room become alive and terrify him.

Frenzy. Coupled with this, there is kidney and urinary trouble, like that of Cantharis, and because of this similarity, the two remedies are both complementary and antidotal to each other. If a woman has poisoned herself with Cantharis, and there is present the frenzy and excitement, Camphor will act as an antidote.

The details of the mental symptoms are worthy of much consideration. The patient goes into a state not unlike imbecility, and the appearance is as if it had come on slowly. The mind and memory are gone. He closes the eyes, seemingly asleep, and answers no questions. Delirious with the heat, rage and mania, wants to jump out of bed or out of the window. Screams and calls for help. Tosses anxiously in bed.

Anxiety and almost loss of consciousness. These symptoms will indicate Camphor in puerperal fever, in congestion of the brain, or in shock from violent inflammation of organs. Confusion comes from the shock and comes with violence.

The more violently the patient suffers, the sooner he is cold, and when he is cold, he must uncover even in a cold room. This is somewhat like Secale. In Secale the patient, when cold, wants to uncover and to be in a cold room, and it also has frenzy, and so there is nothing in what we have yet seem to distinguish Secale from Camph.

But there is another thing that runs through Camph., by which a distinction can be made. The coldness, frenzy and heat very often intermingle. When the Camphor patient is becoming cold, he has spells of heat which come over him; flashes of heat intermingle with rending, tearing, burning pains, either in the inflamed organ or along the nerves.

The patient is a most troublesome patient to nurse; nobody and nothing suits. If an inflammation of the bladder comes on, there is intense pain and tenderness, and from the shock of the suffering the mind is in a state of frenzy.

Coldness then comes on and the patient wants to be uncovered, wants cold air, wants the windows open, but before all this can be done, a flash of beat comes on and then he wants the covers on, and the register turned on, and wants a hot iron and hot bottles; but this stage now passes off, and while the nurse is bringing the hot irons he wants her to open the windows and have everything cool.

You will see at once that these are serious cases. This occurs with opisthotonos, convulsions, inflammation of the brain, liver, kidney, bladder, coming on from violent shock and cold with great exhaustion. You will see this in one who has worked for hours for his life, and when the excitement is over reaction sets in and it is like a whirlwind; he has worked until he is exhausted and now he is prostrated, cold and blue; here is the sphere where the old woman with her Camphor bottle has established a reputation, but potentized Camphor will do more for him than the Camphor bottle, it will put him into a refreshing sleep.

Menopause

It is useful in the climacteric period with flushes of heat and sweat in a warm room; the limbs and abdomen are very cold and she suffers from cold when uncovered and sweats copiously when covered. She cannot endure covering to warm her limbs though she suffers from cold.

Head

The head is full of pain; throbbing pain. Contractive feeling as if laced together in the cerebellum. The whole back of the head and neck throb like hammers, worse from bending head forward; burning and stinging. Frontal headaches.

Cholera

We have heard about Camphor in cholera, which is a disease that brings the patient down quickly. The face is cold, blue and shriveled, without much sweat, in the cases that would make one think of Camphor.

There is not much discharge from the bowels, not much vomiting and not much sweat; but suddenly he becomes cold, blue and collapsed, as it were paralyzed and goes into a stupor.

Convulsions with frothing at the mouth. Blue lips, lockjaw, tetanus. Cold sweat on the face with vomiting. Erysipelatous appearance of face.

There is a desire to drink without thirst. There is also insatiable thirst; he is not satisfied with incredible quantities of cold water. Cannot get it cold enough, and cannot get enough, but he soon vomits it up.

The gastric irritation is marked. Everything is vomited. The tongue is blue and cold and the breath is cold. Everything coming out of the body is cold. The air as it leaves the chest feels like that from a cellar, like Carbo v. and Verat.

The tongue is cold and trembling. Such states are found in cholera. All through the cold stage there is burning. The inside of the body seems to burn, or there is a sense of internal smarting like a rawness or a sense of burning without heat.

The pain in the stomach in gastritis is so violent that the anguish on the face is equal to that in Arsenic; a deathly anguish is felt in his stomach and he feels that he must die. Burning, rending, tearing pain in the stomach, with retching and vomiting.

Cramps in stomach and bowels and spreading to other parts of the body until there are convulsions and opisthotonos.

Anguish at the pit of the stomach drives him to despair. Heat in the stomach, Cold feeling in the stomach. Abdomen is full of colic and burning. Cold feeling in the abdomen.

Cholera stools; rice water discharges, with anxiety, restlessness, spasms of the muscles, cramps of the chest, prostration, increasing coldness and blueness; wants to be uncovered and he is going into collapse.

The old Camphor, Cuprum and Veratrum still hold together for Asiatic cholera. In Camphor there is prostration, blueness, coldness and yet he wants to be uncovered and the body is cold and dry.

The other two remedies have all there is in cholera, but in Cuprum there is not so much coldness, more cramping, more convulsive tendency and not so much prostration.

The more cramping there is the more it is Cuprum. The more copious the discharge from the bowels and the more profuse the vomiting and sweat, the more we would think of Veratrum. Cold and dry: Camphor. Cold and copious discharge Veratrum.

After taking cold there is cutting, with involuntary discharge of dark brown faeces like coffee grounds. Tenesmus. At times the cholera patient, with the coldness and blueness, is retching and straining to vomit and suffering with horrible tenesmus to get rid of a little stool and has convulsions here and there. These bowels symptoms gradually increase until there is no ability to strain at stool, a paralytic condition. Rectum seems contracted and painful.

Urinary and sexual organs

There is suffering in the urinary and sexual organs. Burning urination. Strangury. Frequent urination.

Frequent desire, with difficulty. The same state arises in the bladder as in the rectum, and there is retention with horrible torture. The patient sits on the commode and strains to pass the urine, but there is a paralytic condition of the bladder. The urine is red, bloody, and comes by drops like Canth. Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder.

Camphor increases the sexual erethism to an unbearable degree. In some cases from large doses this is seen in the extreme, and in other cases the reverse takes place.

It has both sexual erethism and impotency in its provings. I once knew a French woman who had an insane desire to keep her boys always at home with her, and she thought she could accomplish this if she could only keep them away from the girls; and to destroy their sexual desire she kept a bag of camphor under their pillows. All of them were made impotent. But in some provers it establishes sexual erethism. It has this like Canth.

Nose

Camphor produces a coryza, with a profuse discharge from the nose and from the air passages, from the nose to the bronchi. Bronchitis of children and old people. Old withered up people take cold at every exposure to weather and become cold and chilly.

Ant. crud., Am. carb. and Camph. are wonderful remedies in octogenarians. Every cold seems threatening. Old people don't come down with cold the same as young people; they are prostrated, sinking, have rattling in the chest and the family think it is the death rattle and that it is grandpa’s last spell.

These three remedies fit the case, they are like the advanced stage of pneumonia. Ant. t., Ant. c., Am. c. and Camph. cover these cases in which the hot stage is omitted.

Camph. has very little heat; it has the sensation of heat; but not a marked hot stage. There are other symptoms in this medicine such as you will find in old people.

Jerking of the muscles, trembling and jerking. Spasmodic conditions with trembling. Trembling of the tongue.

The general constitutional state of a Camphor patient is coldness and extreme sensitiveness to cold. In acute inflammatory conditions he is cold and wants the covers off.

In acute complaints there is violent thirst, in chronic complaints thirstlessness. It is the same in Arsenic, in the acute thirsty, but in the chronic thirstless.

In Camphor an important thing to recall in the acute is that during the heat and when the pains are on he wants to be covered up. The coldness is relieved by cold, he wants more cold.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Blondes most affected; persons very irritable and mentally weak. Catarrhal and choleraic diseases.

Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., Psor.). Surface cold to the touch, yet cannot bear to be covered; throws off all the covering (Med., Sec.).

Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of body cold, face pale, blue, lips livid; profound prostration.

Skin of the whole body painfully sensitive, slightest touch hurts.

Sudden attacks of diarrhœa and vomiting; nose cold and pointed; sweating, vomiting, purging; anxiety and restlessness; skin and breath cold.

Long-lasting chill, great coldness of skin and sudden and complete prostration.

Great coldness of the surface with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent (Ver.); pulse weak, extremely small, scarcely perceptible; yellow fever.

* NOTE FOR THOUGHT.—All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphor or Opium.—HERING.

Antidotes many vegetable remedies; hence its use in the sick room in the crude form of tincture is not advisable.

In most other cases the smelling of Camphor is not antidotal, but palliative by producing the symptom, "pain better while thinking of it."

Aggravation

Cold air; night; motion; lying covered.

Amelioration

When thinking of existing complaint; warmth; warm air; drinking cold water.

Type

Periodicity not marked. Pernicious fevers: the so-called sinking or congestive stage of intermittents (Ver.); yellow fever.

Time

At any time. All periods.

Chill

Without thirst. Long-lasting, terrible chills; icy-coldness all over; extremities cold and blue, with death-like paleness of the face (Ver.). The body generally is quite cold; coldness of the skin. Excessively sensitive to cold air; great aversion to cold air; he is obliged to wrap himself up warmly, and even then he is chilled through and through. Great chilliness; excessive chill; shaking chill and chattering of the teeth, with cold arms, hands and feet. The skin of the whole body is painfully sensitive and sore to the slightest touch (Apis). Coldness for an hour, with deathly paleness of the face. Coldness increased by walking. Hands and feet extremely cold, complains of freezing, worse when walking. Chill with anxiety; pale face; unconsciousness; clonic spasm; skin cold as marble, yet the child cannot bear to be covered; hot breath (cold breath, Carbo v.). Frequent chilliness of back and loins (Caps.). Paroxysm of fever; severe chill, with gnashing of the teeth and much thirst; he sleeps immediately after the chill, with frequent wakings, almost without the slightest heat. Chill the predominant stage. Congestive chill.

Heat

Without thirst; of the whole body, which becomes excessive when walking. Heat with distention of the veins, increased by every motion (> by motion, Caps.). Glowing heat, with full rapid pulse. Heat in the head, face, occiput, back, legs, lobules of the ears; body hot and sweating, but averse to uncovering.

Sweat

At first warm and profuse, which relieves; then profuse cold sweat over the whole body, very weakening. Sweat most profuse during sleep, and on slightest exertion (Bry., Cinch.). Excessive perspiration of hands and feet. Sweat profuse, shirt and clothes drenched, having penetrated to lower side of feather-bed (Thuja). Sweat often clammy and always exhausting. Cold sweat on face, when beginning to vomit (Ver.).

Tongue

Cold, trembling, flabby, spongy, covered with a tough yellowish mucus.

Pulse

Small, weak, slow, often imperceptible.

Apyrexia

Great weakness and exhaustion; lassitude. Convulsions may occur in children. Weak, weary and great anxiety. Face anxious, pale, livid, haggard and sunken. Yellowish, green, red, brown, turbid urine, of a musty odor. Terrible sinking and exhaustion.

In 1829, on the approach of Asiatic Cholera to Western Europe, Hahnemann, from a description of the disease, published in advance of its approach, that Camphor would be the remedy in the stage of collapse; and the clinical experience of each subsequent epidemic demonstrated his prediction. This power of prevision; the crowning glory of our school of medicine; the absolute proof that "similia" is a "Law of Cure;" the demonstration of the claim of Homeopathy to be ranked as a medical science; was first shown by Hahnemann in the fatal typhus which followed the terrible retreat of Napoleon from his Russian campaign in 1812. He published in advance that Rhus would be the principal remedy, and the recognition of Homeopathy by the Austrian Government was the reward of its successful administration.

There is probably no stage of any disease that bears so close a resemblance to the collapse of cholera as the true, "pernicious" "sinking," or "congestive" stage of intermittent fever. Hence, Camphor should deservedly be placed in the front rank with Apis, Carbo v., Gels., Lach., Nux, Ver., as one of our "sheet anchors" in this form of fever, instead of Quinine, often so indiscriminately and empirically used.

This abuse of Quinine is borrowed by the pseudo-homeopath from his allopathic brother, who has no "law of cure" upon which to rely, and is compelled to depend upon his theories (malarial and cryptogamic) to prevent the return of the paroxysm.

Quinine may suppress it, as it will many simpler forms of the fever, but there are many cases it will neither suppress nor cure, and these are generally the fatal cases that so often occur in the practice of regular (?) medicine. The fatal “third paroxysm” is rarely known under the properly selected homeopathic remedy.

It is a “bug-bear” of allopathic teaching and practice. No ho- meopath, surely, would think of giving Quinine in cholera col- lapse, for no better reason than it is given by the rational (?) school of medicine. The statistics of comparative mortality of each system of practice “in cholera” ought to be convincing.

A CASE.—Last summer I had two cases, one a boy the other a girl, which defied all my efforts. When I saw her she was in the sweating stage; face looked cold, pale blue, pinched, anxious, and was covered with a profuse sweat. When I looked at her I thought if you were suffering from cholera

I would give you Camphor. Why should I not give Camphor in this sick- ness? I accordingly gave her the 2x trit., three or four powders per day.

I was agreeably surprised to find that she did not have a recurrence of the chills; has remained free ever since.

Her fever was of the tertian type.—R. C. ALLEN, M. D., Med. Investi- gator, Sept., 1885.

Analysis

Chill; severe, long, terrible; congestive, of per- nicious fever. Sensitive to cold air. Face and extremities cold, blue, pinched; cannot bear to be covered.

Heat; light, without thirst; of single parts.

Sweat; cold, profuse, exhausting.