Clematis Erecta clem.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: EYES. URETHRA. GLANDS: TESTES. Epididymis. Mammæ. Ovaries. Skin; scalp. Occiput.

Worse

GONORRHŒA. Heat of bed. NIGHT. Cold washing. Light. Moon, < and > with (Phel. Tarn.). Mercury.

Better

Sweat.

General

Flaccid muscles. VERY HARD, PAINFULLY SWOLLEN GLANDS; TESTES (r). Burning, itching, stinging, crawling pains.

Particulars

Indifference. Chronic conjunctivitis. Iritis. Lachrymation. Urine flows by starts, or dribbles; strains out a few drops, then full stream follows. Stricture (Con.). Mucus in urine. Swelled inguinal glands and spermatic cord; with cutting, sore pains. Orchitis. Loathes coition. Full, heavy, sensitive breasts; outward darts in. Skin itches violently, with profuse desquamation. Vesicles. Pustules. Corroding eruptions; ending in flat, eating ulcers; with thick crusts and eczema; < occiput and lower legs. Sleepiness.

Related

Complementary: Merc. Related: Pho. Rhod. Stap.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

Troubles of the genital organs particularly. Affections of teeth of the left side; external head, left side. Torpid, cachectic, scrofulous individuals.

Urine

Like pus; discharge of, interrupted, i.e., it flows and stops, or only flows in a very slight stream; affections of the urethra; penis in general; prepuce in particular; burning; sharp stitches on beginning of flow; in drops.

Skin

Scaly exanthema; tetters in general, itching, pricking; scaly, with thick crust.

Generalities

Inguinal glands are often affected with the genitals. Indurations after inflammations; induration of glands. Aversion to washing. Troubles from suppressed gonorrhœa.

Worse

From wet poultices; from water; washing.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Sepia, Silic., Rhus tox., Sulphur.

Antidotes

Bryon., Chamom.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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

Red line symptom

Moist, sore eruptions on occiput, extending down the neck, with crawling and itching, worse from washing in cold water, and from warmth of bed.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Virgin's Bower

General

Scrofulous, rheumatic, gonorrhœal, and syphilitic patients. Acts especially on skin, glands and genito-urinary organs, especially testicles. A remedy of much importance in disturbances of sleep, and neuralgic pains in various parts. Many of these pains are relieved by perspiration. Muscles relaxed or twitching. Great emaciation. Great sleepiness. Distant pulsation in whole body.

Head

Boring pain in temples. Confused feeling; better in open air. Eruption on occiput at base of hair, moist, pustular sensitive, itching.

Eyes

Heat in eyes and sensitive to air; must close them. Chronic blepharitis, with sore and swollen meibomain glands. Iritis, great sensitiveness to cold. Flickering before eyes. Pustular conjunctivitis, with tinea capitis; eyes inflamed and protruding.

Face

White blisters on face and nose, as if burned by sun. Swelling of submaxillary glands, with hard tubercles, throbbing, aggravated on being touched. Pain in right side of face to eye, ear and temple; better, holding cold water in mouth.

Teeth

Ache; worse, at night and from tobacco. Teeth feel too long.

Stomach

After eating, weakness in all limbs and pulsation in arteries.

Male

Ilio-scrotal neuralgia. Testicles indurated with bruised feeling. Swelling of scrotum (Orchitis). Right half only. Troubles from suppressed gonorrhœa. Violent erections with stitches in urethra. Testicles hang heavy or retracted, with pain along spermatic cord; worse, right side.

Urinary

Tingling in urethra lasting some time after urinating. Frequent, scanty urination; burning at orifice. Interrupted flow. Urethra feels constricted. Urine emitted drop by drop. Inability to pass all the urine; dribbling after urinating. Pain worse at night, pain along the spermatic cord. Commencing stricture.

Skin

Red, burning, vesicular, scaly, scabby. Itches terribly; worse, washing in cold water; worse face and hands and scalp around occiput. Glands hot, painful, swollen; worse inguinal glands. Glandular indurations and tumors of breast. Varicose ulcers.

Modalities

Better, in open air. Worse, at night, and warmth of bed (washing in cold water); new moon--(monthly aggravation).

Relationship

Compare: Clematis vitalba (varicose and other ulcers); Sil; Staph; Petrol; Oleand; Sarsap; Canth; Phos ac; Pulsat.

Antidotes: Bryon; Camph.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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

Leaders

This is a good remedy for gonorrhœa when there are on account of slow or intermittent flow of urine indications of formation of a stricture, and will, if given early (high), often prevent it So much pain and suffering often necessitating operation for the relief of stricture has been experienced that everything possible should be done to avert it. In the first place the cauterization method, or fashionable local treatment, is responsible for nearly, if not quite, all strictures. I know that such practice is neither scientific nor curative in the remotest sense, and on the other hand I know that constitutional treatment alone is adequate to cure (not simply suppress) the worst cases, and that in the shortest possible time. Another use for Clematis is for curing the orchitis arising from the suppression of gonorrhœa, or when it may have extended to the testicles without such suppression, which latter condition seldom occurs. The testicle becomes greatly swollen, and if not promptly relieved becomes indurated and hard as a stone. I have cured this very promptly with Clematis. Pulsatilla is undoubtedly the remedy oftenest indicated in orchitis from suppressed gonorrhœa, but if after it has reduced the pain and restored the discharge it fails to reduce the swelling or induration, Clematis will do the rest. It has not disappointed me. Clematis has a symptom similar to Coffea, viz., "Toothache relieved by holding cold water in the mouth."

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Low-spirited and fear of approaching misfortunes. Aversion to talk. Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet otherwise agreeable company. Memory impaired.

Head

Giddiness, if he lift his head up, or when moving the head. Boring pains in the temple. Head feels full and heavy, hanging down. Heaviness in the forehead. Headache, aggravated by bending the head backwards. Eruptions on the back part of the head and neck ; moist, sore, tingling and stinging itching ; often drying up in scales ; when getting warm in bed, violently itching ; only temporarily relieved by scratching ; with soreness only rawness. Itching on the hairy scalp.

Eyes

Itching in the canthi. Burning of the eyelids. Burning and heat in the eyes, with dryness, as if fire were streaming from the eyes. Redness biting and lachrymation from the eyes. Inflammation of the iris. The white of the eyes has a yellow tint. The closed eye is very sensitive to the air (cold air), and when it is opened very sensitive to light. While writing, the letters momentarily run one into another ; at times, double vision, with flickering before the eyes.

Ears

Ringing, as from bells in the ear. The external ear is hot and burns.

Nose

Dryness of the nose, with heat. Violent coryza, with sneezing ; the secretion is streaked with blood.

Face

Sickly paleness of the face. Cheeks red and hot (momentary flushes). White blisters on the nose and face, as if burned by the sun. Moist eruption on the face, preceded by stinging pain. Cancer of the lips.

Mouth and Throat

Pricking or drawing toothache ; worse, and becoming in insupportable at night, in a horizontal position. Toothache in a decayed molar tooth, much aggravated from a crumb of bread coming into it ; relieved by cold water. Sensation as if the decayed tooth were too long ; the least contact is exceedingly painful, with an excessive flow of saliva. Aggravation of the toothache by smoking tobacco. Increased secretion of saliva. Small blisters on the tongue and in the throat, which soon become ulcers. Heat and burning in the mouth and throat. Sensation of roughness in the throat.

Appetite and Taste

Aversion to beer. Increased thirst, with desire for ice. After eating, nausea and sleepiness.

Stomach and Abdomen

Nausea after smoking tobacco. Disagreeable sensation of coldness in the stomach. Tension of the stomach. Pain in the liver, aggravated by pressure. Stitches in the liver. Sensation of constriction in the lower abdomen, which is hard. Swelling, induration and twitching pains in the inguinal glands.

Stool and Anus

Hard stool, difficult to discharge (in the evening). Loose stools, with burning at the anus. Burning heat, and itching at the anus (in the evening) ; better after an evacuation. Hæmorrhoids, itching, discharging some mucus.

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of urine. Urine turbid, milky, dark, with flakes of mucus and frothy. Secretion diminished ; the last drops cause violent burning. Secretion slow and in a small stream. During micturition, burning in the urethra ; stitches in the urethra ; stitches from the abdomen into the chest. After micturition, itching, tingling in the urethra, lasting half an hour ; burning in the urethra ; involuntary dripping of urine. The urethra is painful to pressure. Spasmodic stricture of the urethra. Discharge from the urethra, thick, pus.

Genitals

Men. Itching at the genitals. Drawing pain from the testicles into the spermatic cords upwards ; the right testicle is drawn up. Sensation of soreness of the testes. Violent, long-continuing erections, with stitches in the urethra. Painful swelling and induration of the testes (right). Scrotum swelled, indurated. Women. Swelling and induration of the mammary glands ; cancer of the breast.

Respiratory Organs

Violent cough, with irregular respiration, at times too slow at times too rapid ; barking cough, with burning pain in the sternum and stitches in both sides of the lungs. Sharp stitch in the heart, from within to without.

Back and Neck

Moist eruption in the neck, extending into the head. Pain in the small of the back, as if broken, with tension ; worse when stooping.

Extremities

Upper. Swelling and induration of the axillary glands. The hands feel as if they were too large ; they are dry and hot. Spreading blisters on the swollen hands and fingers, aggravated by old water. Arthritic nodosities in the finger-joints. Lower. Dry, scaly tetter on the legs. Itching of the toes and perspiration between them.

Generalities

Great emaciation. Twitching of the muscles. Great debility and weakness (3-5 P.M.).

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day (morning). Restless sleep, with toning about and vivid, lascivious dreams ; profuse perspiration after midnight.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. Chilliness with shuddering, followed by perspiration. Chilliness from being uncovered. Dry heat, with sensation of general heat (at night). Profuse perspiration at night, towards morning, with disinclination to he uncovered.

Skin

Painful swelling and induration of the glands. Ulcers, with tingling, pulsation, burning ; stitches in the edges when touching them. Itching over the whole body. Skin inflamed, red, burning ; eruption of blisters, which burst and form ulcers. Moist tetter, itching in the heat of the bed, and after washing. Painful (not itching) tetter over the whole body ; red and moist during the increasing moon, pale and dry during the decreasing moon. Scaly tetter, with thick crusts. Itching and moist eruptions, with ichorous discharges excoriating the surrounding parts, with redness, heat and swelling of the skin. Aggravation of all skin symptoms by the heat of the bed and from washing.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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

General

Upright Virgin's Bower. Flammula Jovis. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of leaves and stems.

Clinical

Cancer. Eyes, affections of. Face, pimples on . Gonorrhœa. Headache. Rheumatism. Testicles, inflammation of . Toothache. Urethra, stricture of.

Characteristics

Clematis , like other Ranunculi, is a direct irritant of the skin producing inflammation and vesication. It was used by Stoerck before Hahnemann's time in cancerous and other foul ulcers, inveterate skin eruptions, syphilis, and rheumatism. In the provings, the external head (left), eyes, teeth (left), skin, urinary and male sexual organs show the greatest number of symptoms. Inflammation of eyes ( < left), smarting, burning, stitches, redness, lachrymation, photophobia. Sensation as if fire were streaming from eyes. There is mucus in the urine, but not pus. Flow of urine by fits and starts; or has to wait a long time before he can urinate, with intense pain along fore part of urethra. Beginning of inflammatory stricture. "Affections of urethra; penis in general; prepuce in particular." Swelling of inguinal glands. Painful, inflamed, swollen testicles. Clematis acts best on light-haired people; torpid, cachectic conditions; swellings and indurations of the glandular system; syphilitic taint. Great debility; twitching of, muscles; vibrating sensation through body. The symptoms are < by touch and generally by motion; headache and toothache < lying down in evening. Eyes < on closing them. Headache < bending head backward. Great debility 3-5 p.m.; nearly all symptoms < night. Weakness after eating. Aversion to be washed. < By cold water; cold air; cold weather; moist poultices. Toothache, temporarily > by drawing in cold air; < from heat of bed. < During increasing, > during waning moon. Giddiness when lifting up head, or when moving head.

Relations

Antidoted by: Bry. (toothache, urinary symptoms), Camph. Antidote to: Merc. Compatible: Sil. Compare: Ars. (skin; Clem. has more redness, is < from washing; has moist, alternating with dry scabs); Puls. (gonorrhœal orchitis, testicle tender and hard as a stone); Bell., Bry., Calc., Canth., Con., Caust., Dulc. (syphilitic ulcerations); Graph., Merc. (iritis, sensitive to cold); Petr. (impetigo on neck and occiput); Sars. (syphilitic ulcers). In "aversion to be washed," compare Ant. c., Hep., Pho., Sep., Spi., Sul. In bending head back, Cinnabar. Cobalt . has < bending head forward.

Mind

Sadness and apprehension. ─ Moroseness. ─ Aversion to conversation. ─ Indifference. ─ Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet otherwise agreeable company. ─ Memory impaired.

Head

In the morning, confusion and heaviness of the head. ─ Giddiness if he lifts his head up, or when moving the head. ─ Head feels full and heavy, hanging down. ─ Headache, aggravated by bending the head backwards. ─ Pressive tension in the forehead and sides of the head, as well as in the bones of the cranium. ─ Digging pressure on the brain. ─ Piercing in the temples. ─ Boring pains in the temple. ─ Hammering and strokes in the head. ─ Purulent pimples on the forehead, painful on being touched. ─ Burning, incisive pains in the skin of the forehead. ─ Eruptions on the head. ─ Moist phlyctenæ on the occiput and at the nape of the neck; sore, tingling and stinging-itching; often drying up in scales; when getting warm in bed, violently itching; only temporarily relieved by scratching; with soreness and rawness. ─ Itching on the hairy scalp.

Eyes

Pressure on the ball of the eye. ─ Smarting in the eyes, and in the margins of the eyelids, esp. on closing them. ─ The closed eye is very sensitive to the air (cold air), and when it is opened very sensitive to the light. ─ Shootings in the corners of the eyes. ─ Itching in the canthi. ─ Burning and heat in the eyes, with dryness, as if fire were streaming from the eyes. ─ Inflammation of the iris. ─ The white of the eyes has a yellow tint. ─ While writing, the letters momentarily run into one another; at times, double vision, with flickering before the eyes. ─ Inflammation of the eyes, with profuse lachrymation. ─ Inflammation and ulceration of the margins of the eyelids. ─ Photophobia.

Ears

Burning pain in exterior of the ear. ─ Tinkling in the ear. ─ Ringing, as from bells in the ear.

Nose

Purulent pimples, painful on being touched at the root, and on the point of the nose. ─ Fluent coryza (with sneezing), with abundant secretion of mucus, streaked with blood.

Face

Face pale and sickly. ─ Sensation of burning in the skin of the cheeks (momentary flushes). ─ Incisive burning pains in the lower lip. ─ Cancer of the lips. ─ Phlyctenoid eruptions on the lip. ─ White vesicles on the nose and on the face, as from a sunburn. ─ Moist eruption on the face, preceded by stinging pain. ─ Purulent pimples on the chin. ─ Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with nodosities, hard, tensive, pulsative, and painful on being touched.

Teeth

Toothache, < by smoking tobacco. ─ Toothache in a decayed molar tooth, much < from a crumb of bread coming into it; much > by cold water. ─ Nocturnal pains in the teeth, which, in a horizontal position, are aggravated so as to occasion despair, with tossing, weakness, anxiety, and insupportable suffering on being uncovered. ─ Shooting pains or successive pullings in the teeth, extending even into the head and producing incapacity for intellectual labour. ─ Sensation as if the decayed tooth were too long; the least contact is exceedingly painful, with an excessive flow of saliva.

Mouth

Dryness of the tongue in the morning. ─ Dull shootings and piercings in the root of the tongue. ─ Small blisters on the tongue and in the throat, which soon become ulcers. ─ Expectoration of sanguineous saliva.

Throat

Heat and burning in the mouth and throat. ─ Sensation of roughness in the throat.

Appetite

Prolonged satiety, though the food continues pleasant to the taste. ─ After eating, nausea, and sleepiness. ─ Nausea on smoking tobacco, with weakness of the legs. ─ Aversion to beer. ─ Increased thirst, with desire for ice.

Stomach

Disagreeable sensation of coldness in the stomach. ─ Tension of the stomach.

Abdomen

Pains, as from a bruise in the hepatic region, on touching the part, and on stooping. ─ Stitches in the liver. ─ When walking, incisive contractions in the regions of the loins. ─ Pressure towards the exterior of the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to protrude. ─ Swelling and induration of the inguinal glands, with jerking pains. ─ Sensation of constriction in the lower abdomen, which is hard. ─ Stitches: shooting up, < on breathing and urinating.

Stool and Anus

Frequent, liquid, or loose evacuations, without colic. ─ Loose stools, with burning at the anus. ─ Burning heat, and itching at the anus (in the evening); better after an evacuation. ─ Hæmorrhoids, itching, discharging some mucus. ─ Hard stool, difficult to discharge (in the evening).

Urinary Organs

Increased secretion of urine. ─ Purulent urine. ─ Urine turbid, milky, dark, with flakes of mucus and frothy. ─ Secretion diminished; the last drops cause violent burning. ─ Secretion slow and in a small stream. ─ During the emission of urine, pulling in the spermatic cord. ─ Burning sensation and smarting in the urethra, on commencing to urinate. ─ Stitches in the urethra; stitches from the abdomen into the chest. ─ Contraction of the urethra, with the urine stopping suddenly, or only flowing drop by drop; jerk-like tearing in fore part of urethra in the intervals.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching on the genitals. ─ Violent, long-continuing erections, with stitches in the urethra. ─ Swelling of the r. half of scrotum. ─ Drawing pains, in the testes and in the spermatic cord, extending to the groins and the thighs. ─ Painful inflammation and swelling of the testes. ─ Induration of the testes. ─ Thickening of the scrotum. ─ Aversion to sexual enjoyment, as after excessive indulgence. ─ Burning pain in the penis, during emission in coition.

Female Sexual Organs

Swelling and induration of the mammary glands; cancer of the breast; and womb. ─ Menses too early.

Respiratory Organs

Violent cough, with irregular respiration, at times too slow, at times too rapid; barking cough, with burning pain in the sternum and stitches in both sides of the lungs.

Chest

Violent shocks, with dull shootings in the sides of the chest and of the abdomen. ─ Shootings in the chest, aggravated by breathing.

Heart

Sharp stitch in the heart, from within to without.

Neck and Back

Itching pustules round the neck, with excoriation after scratching. ─ Humid tetters from the nape of the neck to the occiput. ─ Eruption of pustules in the lumbar region.

Upper Limbs

Swelling and induration of the axillary glands. ─ Pressure or pullings in the muscles of the arms and of the hands. ─ Gnawing blisters on the hands and fingers, with swelling; cold water aggravates the sufferings. ─ The hands feel as if they were too large; they are dry and hot. ─ Arthritic nodosities in the joints of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Tearing in the thighs. ─ Scaly tetters in the thigh. ─ Furunculi in the thigh. ─ Itching of the toes and perspiration between them.

Generalities

Convulsive movements of the muscles in different parts of the body. ─ Relaxation of the muscles. ─ Great emaciation. ─ Fatigue of all the limbs, esp. after a meal, with beatings in all the arteries. ─ Vibration through the whole body, after lying down. ─ Great debility and weakness, 3-5 (p.m.). ─ Lancinations from below upward, < on breathing, or urinating, concomitant with uterine or other affections.

Skin

Obstinate miliary eruptions. ─ Vesicular eruptions on the body. ─ Scaly tetters, discharging a sanious pus, yellowish and corrosive, and with redness, heat and swelling of the skin. ─ Obstinate tetters, red and moist, with insupportable itching in the heat of the bed, and after washing. ─ Itching over the whole body. ─ Aggravation of all skin symptoms by the heat of the bed and from washing. ─ The tetters (painful, not itching over the whole body) are red and humid while the moon is increasing, and pale and dry when the moon is waning. ─ Burning or tingling, and pulsation in the ulcers, with shootings in the edges when touched. ─ Psoric pustules over the whole body. ─ Painful swelling and induration of the glands.

Sleep

Great drowsiness during the day, even in the morning after rising. ─ Sleeplessness in the evening and, at night. ─ Sleep, with frequent dreams, agitation, and tossing; vivid, lascivious dreams; profuse perspiration after midnight. ─ In the morning, sensation of not having slept enough.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. ─ Quartan fever, characterised by shuddering, followed by sweat. ─ Sweat on waking, and sensitiveness of the skin, which the patient cannot bear to be uncovered. ─ Dry heat, with sensation of general heat (at night).

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Melancholy ; preoccupied by sad thoughts.
Despairing mood. θ Stricture.
Indifferent, silent, almost thoughtless.
Low spirited, and fear of approaching misfortune.
Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet even agreeable company.
Irritable, taciturn, does not want to go out.
Peevish and dissatisfied without any cause.
Ailments from homesickness, or contrition of spirit.
Difficulty in thinking, memory impaired.
Furious delirium and violent fever. θ Orchitis.

Sensorium

Confusion and heaviness of head in morning.
Dulness and cloudiness in head, with tendency to vertigo.
Giddiness on lifting head up, or when moving head.

Inner head

Head feels full and heavy, and drops.
Pressive, tensive pain in forepart of brain, < when walking than when sitting ; with heaviness of head.
Headache in forehead > by pressure.
Drawing pain in left side of forehead.
Boring pain in left temple.
Grinding in right half of brain when walking.
Tight aching in whole of left side of head, more in bones than in brain.
Shocks in brain, from behind forward.
Hammering sensation in head in evening when lying down.
Headache < by bending head backward.

Outer head

Eruption of painful pimples on forehead.
Itching of scalp.
Small itching crusts and some stitches in scalp.
Tinea capitis over greater part of head, with pustular conjunctivitis.
Eruption on occiput, extending down neck, moist, sore, with crawling and stinging-itching ; often drying up in scales ; itching < when getting warm in bed ; only slight, and but temporary relief by scratching.
Eruption on back of head and neck ; tingling and itching ; vesicles break, overflow other parts, with tendency to ulceration.

Sight and eyes

Staring look.
Burning heat and dryness in eyes as if fire was streaming from them ; great sensitiveness to cold air, to light and bathing.
Pressing pain in eyes, photophobia and lachrymation < in open air ; heat in eyes.
Smarting of eyes < when closing them ; on re-opening them, great sensitiveness to light.
Complaints from bright sunlight.
Obscured sight.
While writing the letters momentarily run together ; at times double vision, with flickering before eyes.
Inflammation of iris ; posterior synechia.
Kerato-iritis, particularly of the ulcerative type.
Pain in eyes ; pressure in middle of left eyeball.
Pulsating, itching, burning dryness, as if fire was streaming from eyes, with biting, acrid lachrymation.
Eyes smart, as if raw, capillaries enlarged, lachrymation ; smarting < when closing eyes ; sensitive to open air, fears to open them ; "gets black" before eyes.
Ulceration of cornea with burning, tingling and stitching pains, sensitive to heat and bathing.
Spot on left eye caused by gonorrhœa ; inflammation in opposite eye.
Pustular conjunctivitis, complicated with tinea capitis ; with agglutination of lids in morning.
Whites of eyes have a yellow tint.
Burning and inflammation of inner canthi ; dim, weak sight.
Stitches in inner canthus of left eye, as from a sharp-pointed body, lasting some minutes.
Itching in canthi.
Smarting and burning in eyes, especially in margins of lids.
Eyes inflamed, protruded, dim ; eyelids badly ulcerated and secreting acrid water. θ Syphilis.
Chronic irritable condition of lids, with swelling of meibomian glands, in young, scrofulous subjects.
An itching pimple of the arcus ciliaris, with coryza and moroseness.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in ears, as from bells.
Burning pain in auricles, with heat.

Smell and nose

Violent coryza, with sneezing ; discharge streaked with blood.
Dryness of nose, with heat and burning.

Upper face

Pale and sickly countenance.
Aching in right side of face, which is tender to touch ; > from smoking, < when lying on painful side.
Shooting, upward, in right side of face to eye, ear and temple.
Burning of face ; cheeks red and hot, momentary flushes.
Moist eruption on face, preceded by stinging pain.
White blisters on face as if burnt by the sun.

Lower face

Burning, cutting through lower lip.
Vesicular eruption on lip.
Pustular eruption about lips, tender to touch.
Lower lip swollen, deeply ulcerated and cancerous. θ Syphilis.
Suppurative pimples on chin.
Swelling of submaxillary glands, with hard, little tubercles, throbbing, tight as if they would ulcerate ; painful when touched and exciting a toothache.

Teeth and gums

Toothache : stitching and drawing < at night, > for short time from cold water, > when drawing in air, > in open air ; < from warmth of bed ; crumb of bread starts aching ; < from smoking tobacco ; from syphilitic affections, when
mercurialized.
Toothache, tolerable during day, but as soon as he lies down in bed and assumes a horizontal position, it increases to an unbearable degree.
Toothache in a hollow tooth, only transiently relieved by drawing in cold air.
Dull pain in hollow tooth > by cold water or sucking it.
Decayed teeth feel too long ; contact extremely painful ; free flow of saliva.
Gums of left lower molars pain, as if sore, < while eating.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue dry in morning, on awaking.
Small blisters on tongue and in throat, which soon become ulcers.

Inner mouth

Breath offensive to others.
Heat and burning in mouth and throat.
Continued salivation. θ Syphilis.

Palate and throat

Sensation of roughness in throat.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Long-lasting satiety ; can eat, and with relish, yet immediately feels it is too much.
Aversion to beer.

Eating and drinking

After eating, weakness in all the limbs, with pulsation in arteries.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea, with weakness in legs, from smoking tobacco.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Disagreeable sensation of coldness in stomach.
Pressure on stomach, after dinner.

Hypochondria

Bruised pain in hepatic region, when touched or bending.

Abdomen and loins

Lancinating pains from belly to chest, < by breathing, also during micturition.
Increased sensitiveness of both inguinal regions.
Swelling and induration of inguinal gland, with jerking pains.
Sensation in abdominal ring and in inguinal glands as if a swelling would form.
Sensation of constriction in lower abdomen, which is hard.
Swelling of right inguinal region, painful to touch.
Swelling of glands in both inguinal regions, with sensitiveness while walking ; right inguinal glands become more swollen, with prickling pain in them, < by walking and in bed ; afterwards a tensive sensation in them, especially when walking.
Swelling of right inguinal gland, < than left, not painful when rising after walking.
Large pustules about loins.

Stools and rectum

Frequent stools, becoming more and more loose, without abdominal pain.
Loose stools, with burning at anus.
Diarrhœa and dysentery.
Constipation : hard stool, very difficult to discharge (in evening).
Burning heat and itching at anus.
Hemorrhoids ; itching, discharging mucus.

Urinary organs

Urine frequent but scanty.
Urgent desire to urinate, without pain.
Spasmodic, urging and tenesmus.
Vesical neuralgia ; the urethra or seminal cord most affected.
Long-lasting contraction or constriction of urethra, urine emitted by drops, as in spasmodic stricture.
Burning in urethra on urinating.
Sharp stitches in urethra.
Tingling in urethra, culminating at frenum.
Urethra painful to touch, < at night and from heat of bed.
Urethra painful to pressure.
Micturition remarkably slow.
Urine passes slowly and in a thin stream, as if urethra was constricted.
Interrupted flow of urine, with burning during, but most at beginning of micturition, or during the interruptions.
Acute pain (ardor urinæ) and tenesmus while urinating, with aching pain in lower part of back ; the forcing induces copious, involuntary lachrymation, and is most violent before 6 P. M. ; not so troubled at night.
After great straining a few drops of urine pass, which is followed by a full stream without pain ; after this sometimes dribbling of urine.
Involuntary flow, by drops, after micturition.
Heavy, aching pain in lower part of back, with sense of bearing down and heavy pain in chest ; continual desire to pass water with inability to perform the act ; urine comes away first in drops, as if something blocked up the passage, after this
stream is full and continuous.
Inability to evacuate all the urine at once.
When beginning to urinate it burns the worst, while urinating it sticks in urethra, and after urinating it still continues to burn and bite.
The last drops of urine cause violent burning.
Flocculent, pale urine. θ Stricture.
Urine turbid, milky dark, with flakes of mucus and froth.
Urinary deposit pus-like.
Discharge from urethra of thick pus. θ Gonorrhœa.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire weak.
Involuntary erections by day.
Violent, long-continued erections, with stitches in urethra.
Burning in penis during seminal discharge in coitus. θ Stricture.
Right spermatic cord sensitive, testicles drawn up.
Pain in testicles, drawing to spermatic cord.
Swelling of left testicle, with intolerable drawing pain in testicle and cord. θ Suppressed gonorrhœa.
Drawing pain in testes and spermatic cord from below upward.
Painful sensitiveness of testes.
Pinching pain in testicles, < from slightest touch.
Painful, inflamed and swollen testicles.
Testes painful to touch, as if bruised, with drawing and stretching in inguinal region, left thigh and scrotum ; a clawing pain when touching it or when walking.
Severe and painful strangury, with enlargement and tenderness of left testicle and swelling in groin of same side ; testicle hard and tender to touch ; the swelling and pain extend along cord into groin, is shooting in character and < by
motion ; a slight gleety discharge present ; no pain in micturition. θ Orchitis after mismanaged gonorrhœa.
Orchitis with much urethral irritation.
Swelling and induration of both testicles, or only of right ; pain as if bruised on touching the testes.
Induration of testicles.
Swelling of right half of scrotum, which is thickened and hangs low down ; testicle also relaxed and hanging down.
Itching about genitals.

Female sexual organs

Menses too early.
Softened scirrhus, with corrosive leucorrhœa and lancinating pains running upward, < by breathing and during micturition.
Swelling and induration of breasts ; cancer of breast ; glandular induration above nipple, painful when touched.
Scirrhus, left mamma, with stitches in shoulder ; the gland is very painful, < in cold weather and during night ; < during growing moon ; while perspiring she cannot bear to be uncovered.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Dryness and burning in throat.

Respiration

Respiration impeded when ascending a hill or walking over an uneven road.

Cough

Violent cough with irregular respirations, at times too slow, at times too rapid.
Barking cough with burning pain in sternum and stitches in both sides of lungs.
Cough usually dry.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest.
Aching or stitching pains in chest.
Tearing pain in forepart of chest, above heart.
Burning pain in sternum and stitches in both sides of lungs, with barking cough.
Left side of chest seems most affected.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Sharp stitches in region of heart, from within outward.
Pulse unchanged ; excited, with throbbing in veins.
Distinctly perceptible pulsations in whole body, especially about heart.

Neck and back

Small of back ; burning ; pressure in ; bruised pain ; as if broken, with tension, < when stooping.
Moist eruption on neck extending to head.

Upper limbs

Swelling of axillary glands.
Pressing or drawing in muscles of arms and hands.
Rheumatic pains in hands.
Arthritic nodes on finger joints.
Fiddling motion of left and right arm ; slow bass viol movement.
Hands feel as if they were too large ; they are dry and hot.
Spreading blisters on swollen hands and fingers, < by cold air.

Lower limbs

Weakness in legs from smoking tobacco.
Scaly herpes on thighs.
Burrowing, boring, or pressive pains on tibiæ.
Rheumatic pains in lower limbs.
Painful swelling in knee after gonorrhœa.
Violent itching of toes, evenings, after lying down ; sweat between toes.
Dry, scaly tetter on legs.

Limbs in general

Weakness, heaviness, weariness and bruised sensation in limbs.
Great emaciation and relaxed muscles.

Rest. position. motion

When lying down : in evening, hammering in head ; toothache < to an unbearable degree.
After lying down : violent itching of toes, evenings ; vibrating sensation through whole body.
Sitting : pressive, tensive pain in forepart of brain, < when walking than when sitting.
Closing eyes : < smarting in eyes.
On opening eyes : great sensitiveness to light.
Motion : < shooting along cord into groin.
When moving head : giddiness.
Bending head backward : < headache.
On lifting head up : giddiness.
While writing : letters momentarily run together.
Bending : causes bruised pain in hepatic region.
Stooping : < pain and tension in small of back.
When walking : pressive, tensive pain in forepart of head < ; grinding in right half of brain ; sensitiveness of inguinal glands ; prickling, tensive pain in right inguinal glands ; clawing pain in scrotum ; over an uneven road, impeded respiration.
When ascending a hill : respiration impeded.

Nerves

Great debility.
Twitching of muscles.
Vibratory sensation through whole body after lying down.
After typhoid fever, while getting better, and in hydrocephalus, sudden stupor and look as if dying.

Sleep

Sleepiness, great desire to sleep during day, even mornings early.
Sleeplessness, evening and night.
Uneasy sleep, dreaming and tossing about ; rises unrefreshed from sleep in morning.
Restless, tossing about, vivid, lascivious dreams ; profuse perspiration after midnight.
Feels exhausted on waking.

Time

Before 6 P. M. : forcing to urinate, inducing copious, involuntary lachrymation.
In morning : heaviness of head ; pustular conjunctivitis, with agglutination of lids ; on awaking, dryness of tongue ; rises unrefreshed from sleep.
During day : involuntary erections ; great desire to sleep.
Early in morning : great desire to sleep.
In evening : hammering in head ; constipation ; after lying down, violent itching of toes ; sleeplessness.
At night : toothache < ; pain in urethra < ; scirrhus, left mamma, with stitches in shoulder < ; sleeplessness ; dry heat, with general hot sensation ; profuse sweat, most towards morning ; herpes exedens, itching and burning < ; ulcers <.
After midnight : profuse perspiration.

Temperature and weather

Warmth of bed : < itching in eruption on scalp and neck ; < toothache ; < painful urethra ; < moist eczema, itching terrible.
Heat : ulceration of cornea, eye sensitive to.
When drawing in ear : toothache > ; toothache in hollow tooth, transiently >.
When uncovering in bed : chilliness over whole body.
Open air : < pressing pain in eyes, photophobia, lachrymation ; eyes sensitive to ; > toothache.
Cold air : sensitiveness of eyes to ; < spreading blisters on swollen hands and fingers.
Bathing : sensitiveness of eyes.
Cold water : > toothache for a short time ; < moist eczema.
Moist poultices : < eczema and ulcers.
Cold weather : < scirrhus, left mamma.

Fever

Fever
Chill, with shivering, followed by sweat, without intervening heat.
Chilliness over whole body, particularly when uncovering in bed. θ Orchitis.
Dry heat, with general hot sensation only at night.
Heat of one side.
Profuse sweat at night, most towards morning, with aversion to uncovering.

Attacks, periodicity

Sudden : stupor, after typhoid and in hydrocephalus.
Spasmodic : urging and tenesmus.
Momentary : flushes to cheeks.
Lasting some minutes : stitches in inner canthus of left eye.
Frequent : stools ; urination.
At times : double vision, with flickering before eyes ; respiration too slow ; respiration too rapid.
Continuous : salivation ; desire to pass water with inability to do so.
Long-lasting : satiety ; contraction and constriction of urethra ; violent erections.
During growing moon : scirrhus, left mamma, with stitches in shoulder < : eruption looks inflamed.
During decreasing moon : eruptions look dry.
Chronic : irritable condition of lids with swollen meibomian glands ; exanthematous eruption ; constitutional herpes ; tetter of hands.

Locality and direction

Right : grinding in half of brain ; inflammation in eye ; aching in side of face ; shooting upward in side of face, to eye, ear and temple ; prickling in swollen inguinal glands ; swelling of inguinal gland ; spermatic cord sensitive ;
swelling and induration of testicle ; swelling of half of scrotum, which is thickened and hangs low down, testicle also relaxed and hanging down ; fiddling motion of arm.
Left : drawing pain in side of forehead ; boring in temple ; tight aching in whole of side of head, more in bones than in brain ; pressure in middle of eyeball ; spot on eye caused by gonorrhœa ; stitches in inner canthus of eye ; gums of lower molars
pain, while eating ; swelling of testicle, with intolerable drawing pain in testicle and cord ; drawing and stretching in thigh ; enlargement and tenderness of testicle and swelling in groin, testicle hard and tender to touch ; scirrhus of mamma, with stitches in
shoulder, gland very painful ; side of chest most affected ; fiddling motion of arm ; sore on side < from washing.
From behind forward : shocks in brain.
From within outward : stitches in heart.

Sensations

As if fire was streaming from eyes ; as if eyes were raw ; as if little tubercles of swollen submaxillary glands would ulcerate ; as if decayed teeth were too long ; as if gums of left lower molars were sore ; as if a swelling would form in abdominal
ring and in inguinal glands ; as if urethra was constricted ; as if something blocked up passage of urine ; as if testes were bruised ; as if bruised on touching testes ; as if small of back was broken ; as if hands were too large ; stitches in eyes as from
sharp body.
Pain : in pimples on forehead ; in eyes ; acute, while urinating ; in testicles, drawing to spermatic cord.
Lancinating pains : from belly to chest ; with softened scirrhus.
Cutting : through lower lip.
Boring : in left temple ; on tibiæ.
Sharp stitches : in urethra ; in region of heart, from within outward.
Stitches : in scalp ; as from a sharp-pointed body, in inner canthus of left eye ; in urethra ; in left shoulder.
Stitching pains : with ulceration of cornea ; toothache ; in chest ; in both sides of lungs.
Sticking sensation when touching skin.
Stinging pain : precedes eruption on face.
Stinging-itching : in eruption on occiput and neck.
Shooting : upward, in right side of face to eye, ears and temple ; along cord into groin ; in ulcer.
Jerking : in swollen and indurated inguinal gland ; in ulcer.
Tearing : in forepart of chest, above heart.
Drawing : in left side of forehead ; toothache ; in left testicle and spermatic cord ; in inguinal region, left thigh and scrotum ; in muscles of arms and hands.
Burning : of face ; through lower lip ; at anus ; in urethra on urinating ; during, but most at beginning of urination, or during interruptions ; after urinating ; last drops of urine cause violent ; in penis during seminal discharge in
coitus ; in throat ; in sternum ; in small of back ; in skin ; herpes exedens with ; miliary eruption with ; in ulcer ; with ulceration of cornea ; of inner canthi ; in eyes, especially in margins of lids ; in auricles ; of nose,
with heat and dryness ; in mouth and throat.
Burning heat : in eyes ; at anus.
Burning dryness : of eyes.
Smarting : of eyes ; in eyes, especially in margins of lids.
Pressive pain : in forepart of brain ; on tibiæ.
Pressing pain : in eyes ; in muscles of arms and hands.
Pressure : in middle of left eyeball ; on stomach, after dinner ; in small of back.
Oppression : of chest.
Tensive pain : in forepart of brain ; in swollen inguinal glands of right side.
Tension : in small of back.
Stretching : in inguinal region, left thigh and scrotum.
Clawing pain : when touching scrotum or when walking.
Pinching : in testicles.
Grinding : in right half of brain when walking.
Burrowing : on tibiæ.
Gnawing : in skin.
Biting : lachrymation ; in urethra after urinating.
Constriction : in lower abdomen.
Hammering : in head.
Shocks : in brain from behind forward.
Rheumatic pain : in hands ; in lower limbs.
Bruised pain : in hepatic region ; in small of back ; in testes when touched ; in limbs.
Dull pain : in hollow tooth.
Tight aching : in whole of left side of head, more in bones than in brain.
Heavy aching : in lower part of back with sense of bearing down and heavy pain in chest.
Aching : in right side of face ; of tooth from crumb of bread ; in lower part of back ; in chest.
Throbbing : in swollen submaxillary glands ; in ulcer.
Pulsating : in eyes ; in arteries, after eating.
Prickling : in swollen inguinal glands of right side.
Tingling : in eruption on back of head and neck ; pains with ulceration of cornea ; in urethra.
Creeping : in ulcer.
Crawling : in eruption on occiput and neck.
Itching : of scalp ; of small crusts on scalp ; in eruption on back of head and neck ; of eyes ; in canthi ; in pimple over arcus ciliaris ; at anus ; hemorrhoids ; about genitals ; of toes ; over whole body ; terrible with
eczema and chronic herpes ; with miliary eruption ; in and about ulcer.
Painful sensitiveness : of testes.
Sensitiveness : of both inguinal regions ; of right spermatic cord.
Vibrating sensation : through whole body.
Roughness : in throat.
Heaviness : of head ; in limbs.
Fulness : of head.
Dulness : in head.
Confusion : of head.
Cloudiness : in head.
Weakness : in all the limbs, after eating ; in legs, from smoking.
Weariness : in limbs.
Feels exhausted on waking.
Coldness : in stomach.
Dryness : in eyes ; of nose ; of tongue ; in throat ; of hands.
Hotness : of cheeks ; of hands.
Heat : in eyes ; in auricles ; of nose ; in mouth and throat.

Tissues

Inflammatory variety of stricture, terminating by serous infiltration into suburethral tissue and formation of a submucous callus.
Hot, painful swelling and induration of glands.
Skin and muscles lax.
Acts especially upon skin, lymphatic glandular system, and genito-urinary organs.
Rheumatic and gouty affections of joints ; catarrhal and rheumatic affections of bladder ; rheumatic affections of eyes and ears.
Obscure inflammatory conditions of some glands where infiltrations are the result, causing greater or less swelling of the affected organ without much pain.
Organic strictures, formed by infiltration of corpus spongiosum at some point, by coagulable lymph, and formation of a submucous callosity.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : right side of face tender ; pustular eruption about lips, tender ; swollen submaxillary glands painful ; toothache excited ; decayed teeth extremely painful, bruised pain in hepatic region ; swelling of inguinal region sensitive ;
urethra painful ; pinching pain in testicles < from slightest ; testes painful ; clawing pain in scrotum ; left testicle tender ; glandular induration above nipple painful ; causes shooting in ulcer.
Sticking sensation : when touching skin.
Pressure : headache in forehead > ; urethra painful.
Scratching : slight and temporary relief of itching in eruption on scalp and neck ; gnawing in skin not >.
Aching in right side of face < when lying on painful side.

Skin

Itching over whole body.
Sticking sensation when touching skin.
Gnawing sensation in skin, not > by scratching.
Skin inflamed, red, burning ; eruption of blisters, which burst and form ulcers.
Eruption of vesicles and pustules, from former exuded a clear, watery secretion, from latter a purulent fluid, followed by formation of scales and scabs ; this chronic exanthema, which extended almost over whole body, was always exuding and accompanied with
tormenting itching.
Vesicular eruptions on body ; herpetic eruptions ; chronic constitutional herpes.
Eruption looks inflamed during increasing, and dry during decreasing moon ; moist eczema, itching terribly, < from washing in cold water, from warmth of bed and from wet poultices.
Head and face a solid mass of scabs, dark and rough, adhering firmly, exuding a yellowish fluid when removed, which excoriates parts with which it comes in contact ; body completely covered, front and back, and legs to knees. θ Crusta
serpiginosa.
Chronic, red, humid herpes, with intolerable itching in warmth of bed and after washing ; tendency towards rupture and ulceration of vesicles.
Herpes exedens, secreting an acrid, purulent fluid ; itching and burning < at night.
Dark, burning, miliary eruption, with violent itching.
Eruptions following suppressed gonorrhœa.
Impetigo, especially after abuse of mercury, in psoric constitutions.
Burning, creeping, jerking, throbbing or shooting in ulcer ; shooting pain in ulcer, only when touched ; scabby, deep ulcers ; indurated ulcers, with high, elevated edges, difficult to heal ; itching in and around about ulcer ; pus serous, sanious, yellow, acrid,
corrosive or ichorous ; scanty secretion, or total suppression of pus ; at night, also from poulticing ; < when washing sore, left side.
Ichorous, spreading, fetid ulcers. θ Syphilis.
Eruption on neck and occiput.
Chronic tetter of hands.
Tetter : painful over whole body ; moist ; scaly, with thick crusts.
Scald head ; psoriasis ; scabies ; varicella ; acne indurata ; cancerous ulcers.

Stage of life, constitution

Light hair.
Torpid, cachectic conditions ; swelling and induration of glandular system ; syphilitic taint.
Clara B., æt. 23, and Sarah F., æt. 25, servant ; urinary difficulties.
Strong man, æt. 30, had gonorrhœa ; stricture of urethra.
Woman, æt. 50, of scrofulous habit ; herpes exedens.

Relations

Antidotes : Bryon . (toothache, urinary symptoms), Camphor .
It antidotes : Mercur .
Compatible : Silic .
Compare : Arsen., Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Canthar., Capsic., Conium, Caustic., Dulcam . (syphilitic ulcerations), Graphit., Mercur . (iritis, sensitive to cold), Petrol .
(impetigo on neck and occiput), Pulsat . (orchitis), Sarsap . (syphilitic ulcers).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

Clematis has only been partially proved, and consequently it applies only to a few conditions, but these are very important, so that it cannot be passed over.

Skin

It has vesicular eruptions almost erysipelatous in character. One almost constant mental state is that he fears to be alone, yet dreads company. fie dreads the necessity of having company, and it seems that the atmosphere is full of frightful and distressing things to worry him.

This makes him low-spirited. The remedy seems to fit the sycotic constitution in its mental state and its generals.

It seems to be fitted to those who had gonorrhoea recently suppressed, because after that suppression will come on this mental state with inflammation of glands.

It is rather singular about the eruptions. One would not think that from so harmless a little shrub so much trouble would come; but there are persons who are just as sensitive to this vine as to Rhus and it resembles Rhus to a great extent in its manifestations.

It produces just, as poisonous a condition as Rhus. Here I might speak of several remedies which relate to the Rhus poison.

There are many vesicular remedies that look like Rhus, and all of them you will have to use more or less in their antidotal relations to each other, but it is well to be sure in a given case which one of them produced the poison.

Croton tig., Rhus, Ranunculus, Anacardium and Clematis at times look so much alike that I am unable to tell them apart by their eruptions.

They are all similar enough to each other to become universal antidotes. The others are all deeper acting than Rhus. The Ranunculus, the little buttercup, has cured epithelioma of the lids. It has cured cancerous affections, so we say it goes deep into the tissues.

On the outer head we have a part of the manifestations of Clematis vesicular eruptions with great itching, stinging and crawling. Now what is true of the eruption here will be true of the Clematis eruption everywhere. It is aggravated from washing.

It will smart and burn, and a quasi-inflammation will set in from washing. Contrast this with the internal features of the remedy. In the teeth and jaws the pain is violent, but while the eruption is made worse from cold applications, the pain inside the jaw and the teeth is relieved by cold water held in the mouth, and aggravated violently from heat, and from the warmth of the bed.

The eruption is aggravated from the warmth of the bed, and also from cold washing. We have to go into the details a little to see whether an eruption is Rhus or whether it is Clematis, or something else. Vesicular eruptions filling with yellow fluid and with induration under the vesicles.

It produces eruptions very closely related to herpes and eczema, and they spread. About the eyes we have vesicular eruptions. If seen in one stage it will be vesicular, and if later, it will be seen as an ulceration. Simple and graver forms of herpes. Herpes zoster about the body.

"Burning, and smarting of the eyes; worse from closing them.

Inflammation of the iris.

Eyes inflamed, protruded, dim.

Chronic irritation of the lids."

Teeth

The pains in connection with the teeth are aggravated from the warmth of the bed, which is general; they come at night, are aggravated from warm things held in the mouth and ameliorated from holding cold water in the mouth.

Stitching and drawing pains in the teeth; worse at night; better for a short time from holding cold water in the mouth; better from drawing in cold air; worse from the warmth of the bed. The toothache is tolerable during the day, but as soon as he lies down in bed and assumes a horizontal position it increases to an intolerable degree. Pain in hollow tooth, better by cold water or drawing in cold air.

Glands

Swelling of the glands of the groin is a striking feature even when connected with scirrhus. It is connected also with suppressed gonorrhea, and with rheumatism of the joints. Pain and swelling of the right spermatic cord; this is worse at night, worse from walking and from the warmth of the bed.

Bladder

While it has both sides, strange to say there is more trouble in the glands that are on the right side of the body than on the left. It has produced much trouble in the bladder. Constant urging to urinate, most painful tenesmus. Flow stopping and starting. The urethra is painful to pressure. Micturition is remarkably slow, only a feeble stream because of the smallness of the urethra.

It is the nature of this remedy to infiltrate and inflame tissues, and, hence it is useful in those cases of gonorrhoea where they have been slow in passing away, where they have been treated by injection.

That slow inflammation of the urethra will infiltrate and the urethra feels like a large whip-cord, painful upon pressure, and this goes on until the canal is almost closed. You will be surprised to find, when Clematis is indicated, that after giving that remedy the discharge is re-established, and soon the old stricture goes away. At the end of two or three months he feels nothing of it.

A striking feature in connection with the urine, bladder, etc., is that the patient cannot quite empty the bladder. He always feels as if there was a little more, and when he appears to have finished it will keep dribbling away. This is a common feature of stricture.

"Inability to evacuate all the urine at once.

When beginning to urinate it burns the worst, while urinating it sticks in urethra, and after urinating it still continues to burn.

Discharge from the urethra of thick pus."

It is seldom indicated in the very first stage of gonorrhoea during the highest inflammation, but in those cases that are inclined to hang on. Then come the sequelae if gonorrhea be suppressed. Inflammation of the testes is common, and this is one of the medicines suitable.

Strange to say, the right side of the body is more commonly affected than the left. Intermittent flow of the urine. Urine stops and starts with the chordee still present. The right spermatic cord is very sensitive. Pain in the testes, drawing. Painful, inflamed and swollen testes. Orchitis with much painful swelling and hardness. Now when the swelling has gone down-perhaps you gave Puls., which was the remedy for the time, but it did not finish the case, there is induration of this portion. Swelling of the right half of the scrotum with thickening and banging low down.

Women

Provings have not been made very much in women, which is to be regretted, because it would be well to know if this remedy affects the ovaries as it does the testes. It has been clinically used, and has cured many troubles in women, especially inflammation in the mammary gland.

"Ulceration and hardness of glands.

Scirrhus of the breast with induration and ulceration.

Scirrhus of the left mamma with stitches in the shoulder;"

this is a clinical symptom, "worse in the night."

She cannot bear to be uncovered.

It has rheumatic conditions of the limbs from suppressed gonorrhea. Great nervous weakness and twitchings of the muscles. It has pain on lying down and preparatory to going to sleep. An electric shock; twitching, jerking, as if a faradic battery had been turned on. It has also a general febrile condition, but nothing very striking.

Vesicular eruptions on the body. Herpetic eruptions here and there it has a herpetic constitution.

"Eruption of vesicles and pustules from the former exuded a clear, watery secretion, from the latter a purulent fluid."

Yellow vesicles and yellow pustules. Both are common to this remedy.

"Dark, burning eruptions with violent itching."

Herpes that ulcerate. Ichorous, spreading ulcers.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

General

Light complexion; torpid, cachectic conditions; glandular swellings and indurations; sycotic or syphilitic taint.

Herpetic eruptions, following suppressed gonorrhœa.

Herpes and eczema; angry during increasing, dry during decreasing, moon; intense itching < washing in cold water, wet poultices, warmth of bed, at night.

Urethral stricture; inflammatory or organic, with serous infiltration and formation of submucous callosity (Petros.).

Sleepless; restless tossing about, sleepy but unable to sleep from internal dry heat.

Aggravation

Washing in cold water; wet poultices.

Type

Remittent; typhoid; continued.

Cause

Often from diseases of genital organs, especially sup- pressed gonorrhœa; from exposure, getting wet; bathing while warm.

Chill

With shivering, followed by sweat, without interven- ing heat, < uncovering.

Heat

Of one side only; dry, at night with a general hot sensation.

Sweat

Profuse at night; after midnight.

Cannot bear to be uncovered.

While convalescing from typhoid, sudden stupor and look as if dying.