Lycopodium Clavatum lyc.

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

NUTRITION: DIGESTIVE TRACT. Portal system. Skin. URINARY ORGANS. RIGHT SIDE to left: THROAT. Chest. Ovary. Brain. Lungs.

Worse

PRESSURE OF CLOTHES. WARMTH. Awaking. Wind. Eating; to satiety; oysters. Indigestion. 4-8 P.M.

Better

WARM DRINKS, food, etc. Cold applications. Motion. Eructations. Urinating.

General

Weak from digestive disturbances. Repeating or alternating symptoms; flexion, then extension; automatic acts; flushing, then paling, chill after chill, etc. Progressive affections. Relapses. Sudden symptoms. Throbbing. Pains cause anger, jerking, etc. ACIDITY; sour taste, eructations, vomitus, etc. Calculi; gall-stones, gravel, tophi. Gout. Thin, withered and FULL OF GAS. Poor circulation; it seems to stand still; limbs feel dead; numb spots. Descending symptoms; emaciation, etc. Early senility. Dropsy.

Particulars

Confused over daily affairs. Mentally active, but grows weaker. Can't think. Miscalls or omits words, etc. Paralysis of brain. AWAKES ANGRY, sad or anxious. Sensitive and fearsome. Averse to being alone. Hateful, cranky, domineering, exacting, reserved or despairing. Headache; pain goes to other side, where it is worse; pulsating in occiput at night; < if hot. Hair falls; comes in gray. Dandruff. Eyes half open. Hemiopia. Sees sparks. FANNING OF WINGS OF NOSE. Nose stuffy; dry posteriorly. Acrid ozœna. Face yellowish; pale, gray; wrinkled forehead; frowning; twitching. Hydrocephalus. Meningitis; tubercular. Mouth hangs open (Merc-c. Mur-ac.). Sore lips. Yellow teeth. Tongue; puts it in and out rapidly; trembling; swelled; heavy; lolling; stiff; cracked; painful vesicle on tip. A ball rises and sticks in throat. Sorethroat (r); < cold drinks. Diphtheria. Hunger, but quick satiety; A LITTLE FOOD OVERFILLS. Averse to soups. Incomplete eructations. Epigastric anxiety, pressure, etc. Gnawing in stomach. As of a band about waist. Sensitive, congested liver. MUCH, NOISY FLATULENCE, < lower bowels. Meteorism. Flatulence, pressing out. Abdomen; sore, < lower; alternating sides; brown spots on and on chest. Colicky babies, < in evening. Stool, most seems to remain, after; contains sand. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Piles, > hot bathing. Frequent urging to urinate, > riding in cars, etc. Acrid urine. Urine scanty; cries before urinating; red sand in; suppressed. Sexual exhaustion. Pollutions. Violent dysmenorrhœa, with fainting. Menses of clots and serum; < stool. Acrid or periodical leucorrhœa. Painful coitus. Gas from vagina. Craves air, but is chilled by it. Short, rattling breathing. Salty, green-yellow, lumpy or foul expectoration. Unresolved pneumonia. Dry, teasing cough, with emaciation. Mammæ, achy; sore; nodes in (l). Axillary abscess (r). Bubbling at scapulæ. Stiff back. Hands numb; cramps in, and in feet. Fingers twitch during sleep; sticky sweat on. Pains jerk legs upward. As of a stone under heel. Feet asleep, < heels; acrid sweat on. DRYNESS; palms, vagina, skin, etc. Rawness in folds, nipples, anus, etc. Suppurating eruptions. Receding boils, erysipelas, etc. Vascular swellings. Erectile tumors; < before menses. Aneurism. Rapid pulse, < eating; evening. Coldness; icy; head, throat, stomach; of one foot; < coughing. Chill, then vomits; after first sleep. Burning, between scapulæ. Foul viscid axillary or foot sweat; like onions.

Related

Complementary: Calc-c. Iod. Kali-c. Lach. Related: Carb-v. Sil. Follows: Chel. or Graph.

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

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Keynote

For persons intellectually keen, but physically weak; upper part of body emaciated, lower part semi-dropsical; predisposed to lung and hepatic affections (Cal., Phos., Sulph.); especially the extremes of life, children and old people. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Pains: aching-pressure, drawing; chiefly right sided, < four to eight P.M. Affects right side, or pain goes from right to left; throat, chest, abdomen, liver, ovaries. Children, weak, emaciated; with well-developed head but puny, sickly bodies. Baby cries all day, sleeps all night (rev. of, Jal., Psor.). Ailments from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation with reserved displeasure (Staph.). Avaricious, greedy, miserly, malacious, pusillanimous. Irritable; peevish and cross on walking; ugly, kick and scream; easily angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks disputes; is beside himself. Weeps all day, cannot calm herself; very sensitive, even cries when thanked. Dread of men; of solitude, irritable and melancholy; fear of being alone (Bis., Kali c., Lil.). Complexion pale, dirty; unhealthy; sallow, with deep furrows, looks older than he is; fan-like motion of the alae nasi (Ant. t.). Catarrh: dry, nose stopped at night, must breathe through the mouth (Am. c., Nux, Samb.); snuffles, child starts from sleep rubbing its nose; of root of nose and frontal sinuses; crusts and elastic plugs (Kali bi., Marum). Diphtheria; fauces brownish red, deposit spreads from right tonsil to left, or descends from nose to right tonsil; < after sleep and from cold drinks (from warm drinks, Lach.). Everything tastes sour; eructations, heartburn, waterbrash, sour vomiting (between chill and heat). Canine hunger; the more he eats, the more he craves; head aches if does not eat. Gastric affections; excessive accumulation of flatulence; constant sensation of satiety; good appetite, but a few mouthfuls fill up to the throat, and he feels bloated; fermentation in abdomen, with loud grumbling, croaking, especially lower abdomen (upper abdomen, Carbo v. - entire abdomen, Cinch.); fulness not relieved by belching (Cinch.). Constipation: since puberty; since last confinement; when away from home; of infants; with ineffectual urging, rectum contracts and protrudes during stool, developing piles. Red sand in urine, on child's diaper (Phos.); child cries before urinating (Bor.); pain in back, relieved by urinating; renal colic, right side (left side, Berb.). Impotence: of young men, from onanism or sexual excess; penis small, cold, relaxed; old men, with strong desire but imperfect erections; falls asleep during embrace; premature emissions. Dryness of vagina; burning in, during and after coition (Lys.); physometra. Discharge of blood from genitals during every stool. Foetus appears to be turning somersaults. Hernia: right sided, has cured many cases especially in children. Pneumonia; neglected or maltreated, base of right lung involved especially; to hasten absorption or expectoration. Cough deep, hollow, even raising mucus in large quantities affords little relief. One foot hot and the other cold (Cinch., Dig., Ipec.). Waking at night feeling hungry (Cina., Psor.).

Relations

Complementary: Iodine. Bad effects: of onions, bread; wine, spiritous liquors; tabacco smoking and chewing (Ars.). Follows well: after, Calc., Carbo v., Lach., Sulph. It is rarely advisable to begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lyc. unless it is clearly indicated; it is better to give first another antipsoric. Lyc. is a deep-seated, long-acting remedy, and should rarely be repeated after improvement begins.

Aggravation

Nearly all diseases from 4 to 8 p. m. (Hell. - from 4 to 9 p. m., Col., Mag. p.).

Amelioration

Warm food and drinks; from uncovering the head; loosening the garments.

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Mental

Disposition to be very haughty when sick; mistrustful; peevish; comprehension difficult,--does not seem to understand anything one says to them; memory weak. Anxious dreams of fatal accidents.

Abdomen

Great deal of noisy flatus in the abdomen, or particularly in the right hypochondriac region; there seems to be a constant fermentation in the abdomen, which produces a loud croaking sound. This remedy is much used for troubles of the liver; there may be great pain, or some other trouble in this organ, with much rumbling of wind in the left hypochondriac region. Vomiting of sour matter; dyspepsia with loud croaking in the abdomen. Affections of the inner lower belly; inguinal ring; inguinal hernia; obstructed flatus. Extreme hunger.

Urine

Clear, transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallized sediment in the bottom of the chamber. In typhus fever, for example, where the patient is in a very low state, and can't retain the urine, we may see this sediment on the sheets; also in colic of babies, with much sediment of this kind on the diaper. A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating, causing the patient to cry out; retention of urine; patients will get into position to urinate, but wait a great while before the water comes, accompanied by the characteristic pain in the back, which ceases when the urine flows; children often cry out with pain before urinating; complaints while passing water; affections of the urethra.

Chest

Affections of the right side of the throat; for all troubles commencing there, though they may spread to the left side (ascertain on which side the trouble began. Right side, Lycop.; (Left side Laches.). Respiration with mucous rattle. Expectoration gray; purulent, i.e., pus like; taste of expectoration salty (Arsen., Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia, have this symptom in a very marked degree); very white; profuse secretion of mucus. Palpitation of the heart, with or without anguish, with flapping of the wings of the nose; enlargement of the heart; hypertrophy in general.

Sexual

Male: Impotency; as when in health, otherwise sexual desire is felt, but there is no erectile power. Female: Menstruation too late; lasts too long; sometimes suppressions of, or may be too scanty; complaints before. May find females at change of life with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied. Sore nipples of nursing females.

Skin

Corns which are very sensitive, or with tearing pains. Exanthema in general, particularly with biting sensation; moist; scurfy; tearing and painful. Boils, which bleed a great deal all the time. Want of action of the skin. Itch, burning; creeping; gnawing. Skin scurf; sticky; clammy. Brown mortification. Pale swelling. Ulcers in general; bleeding; burning; burning on the edge; scabby; fistulous; hard; hard on edge; itching; painless tearing. Salt rheum. Varices suppurating.

Fever

Chilliness in general. Dry heat; heat with want of perspiration; perspiration stinking; perspiration viscid.

Sensations

Sensation of coldness in inner parts; numbness or insensibility; pinching pains, particularly in inner parts; sensation as if single parts had gone to sleep; drawing pains in outer parts, drawing from above downward, or pains running from above downward.

Generalities

Affections in general of right eye: right side of the face; right hypochondrium; right abdominal ring; left chest; left lower extremity; general symptoms right side (though they may spread to the left); hair of the head; rectum; bladder; hands; fingers; finger-joints; back part in the lumbar region; feet; ankles; legs, and lower extremities in general. Hard hearing; smell too sensitive. Deep furrows on the face; same on forehead; sensations in the temples. Collection of water in the mouth, i.e., "mouth waters." Obstructed evacuation; painless diarrhœa. Anything running from right to left. Apoplexia; erethism of blood, accompanied with flashes of heat; chlorosis. Consumption resulting from badly treated pneumonia. Crooked legs; ankles weak; emaciation in general; painless paralysis; old sprains; tension, tightness or stiffness of the joints; weakness of the joints. Great debility. Swelling of the glands; enlargement of the bones; caries of the bones; arthritic nodes.

Worse

In the afternoon from four to eight; in the evening; before midnight; after eating, if only a very little (this may be a sensation of great fullness, perhaps extending clear up to the throat; China, fulness is felt after eating a full, regular meal; Lycop., fullness after eating or drinking a little,--can't eat any more, though would like to, as they "feel so very full"); wrapping up the head, or even from wearing the hat or bonnet; before menstruation; from suppressed menstruation; while lying down,--must change the place every little while; lying on either side; on lying down and rising: from lamp light or gas-light; from looking fixedly at any point; from eating cabbage; from cold food generally,--must have everything warm; from eating vegetables with husks; from drinking, pressure from without, even of the clothes (must loosen them, especially with the "full" feeling); after rising from a seat; from strong smells; while urinating; on getting warm in the open air; in the wind; from wrapping up one's self.

Better

On getting cool; in company; from eructation, up or down; from uncovering the head; from loosening the garments; from moving; after rising from a seat; after uncovering the body; generally from warm or hot things; and from getting warm in bed.

Remedies following

Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Hyosc., Nux vom., Phosphor., Pulsat., Sepia., Stramon., Sulphur., Veratr.

Antidote

Pulsat.

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Red line symptom

Excessive fullness and distension of the abdomen, with flatulence, relieved by eructations. Hunger, but a small quantity of food seems to fill him full. Continuous rumbling and rolling in the abdomen. Severe backache, relieved by passing urine, urine deposits a red, sandy sediment. Fan-like motion of the alae nasi in respiratory diseases, especially of children and young persons. Aggravation of the symptoms from 4 to 8 p.m. Humid suppurating eruptions, especially on occiput and face, crusts thick, easily bleeding, oozing a fetid moisture, worse after scratching and from warmth. Much flatus accumulates here and there in the abdomen. in the hypochondria, in the back, in region of ribs and chest, causing tension, bubbling and gurgling, relieved by empty eructations.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Club Moss (LYCOPODIUM)

General

This drug is inert until the spores are crushed. Its wonderful medicinal properties are only disclosed by trituration and succussion.

In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found. Corresponds to Grauvogl's carbo-nitrogenoid constitution, the non-eliminative lithæmic. Lycopodium is adapted more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Atony. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children. Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm. In kidney affections, red sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse before urination. Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm. Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease. Lycop patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors.

Mind

Melancholy; afraid to be alone. Little things annoy, Extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Head strong and haughty when sick. Loss of self-confidence. Hurried when eating. Constant fear of breaking down under stress. Apprehensive. Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables. Failing brain-power (Anac; Phos; Baryt). Cannot bear to see anything new. Cannot read what he writes. Sadness in morning on awaking.

Head

Shakes head without apparent cause. Twists face and mouth. Pressing headache on vertex; worse from 4 to 8 pm, and from lying down or stooping, if not eating regularly (Cact). Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing. Headaches over eyes in severe colds; better, uncovering (Sulph). Vertigo in morning on rising. Pain in temples, as if they were screwed toward each other. Tearing pain in occiput; better, fresh air. Great falling out of hair. Eczema; moist oozing behind ears. Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and gray hair.

Eyes

Styes on lids near internal canthus. Day-blindness (Bothrops). Night-blindness more characteristic. Sees only one-half of an object. Ulceration and redness of lids. Eyes half open during sleep.

Ears

Thick, yellow, offensive discharge. Eczema about and behind ears. Otorrhœa and deafness with or without tinnitus; after scarlatina. Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.

Nose

Sense of smell very acute. Feeling of dryness posteriorly. Scanty excoriating, discharge anteriorly. Ulcerated nostrils. Crusts and elastic plugs (Kal b; Teuc). Fluent coryza. Nose stopped up. Snuffles; child starts from sleep rubbing nose. Fan-like motion of alæ nasi (Kali brom; Phos).

Face

Grayish-yellow color of face, with blue circles around eyes. Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored eruption. Dropping of lower jaw, in typhoid fever (Lach; Opium). Itching; scaly herpes in face and corner of mouth.

Mouth

Teeth excessively painful to touch. Toothache, with swelling of cheeks; relieved by warm application. Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst. Tongue dry, black, cracked, swollen; oscillates to and fro. Mouth waters. Blisters on tongue. Bad odor from mouth.

Throat

Dryness of throat, without thirst. Food and drink regurgitates through nose. Inflammation of throat, with stitches on swallowing; better, warm drinks. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Ulceration of tonsils, beginning on right side. Diphtheria; deposits spread from right to left; worse, cold drinks. Ulceration of vocal bands. Tubercular laryngitis, especially when ulceration commences.

Stomach

Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc. Excessive hunger. Aversion to bread, etc. Desire for sweet things. Food tastes sour. Sour eructations. Great weakness of digestion. Bulimia, with much bloating. After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth. Eating ever so little creates fullness. Cannot eat oysters. Rolling of flatulence (Chin; Carb). Wakes at night feeling hungry. Hiccough. Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours. Likes to take food and drink hot. Sinking sensation; worse night.

Abdomen

Immediately after a light meal, abdomen is bloated, full. Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; upper left side. Hernia, right side. Liver sensitive. Brown spots on abdomen. Dropsy, due to hepatic disease. Hepatitis, atrophic form of nutmeg liver. Pain shooting across lower abdomen from right to left.

Stool

Diarrhœa. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete. Hæmorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching (Mur ac).

Urine

Pain in back before urinating; ceases after flow; slow in coming, must strain. Retention. Polyuria during the night. Heavy red sediment. Child cries before urinating (Bor).

Male

No erectile power; impotence. Premature emission (Calad; Sel; Agn). Enlarge prostate. Condylomata.

Female

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse. Vagina dry. Coition painful. Right ovarian pain. Varicose veins of pudenda. Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina. Discharge of blood from genitals during stool.

Respiratory

Tickling cough. Dyspnœa. Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest. Cough worse going down hill. Cough deep, hollow. Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty (Ars; Phos; Puls). Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes. Catarrh of the chest in infants, seems full of mucus rattling. Neglected pneumonia, with great dyspnœa, flaying of alæ nasæ and presence of mucous rales.

Heart

Aneurism (Baryta carb). Aortic disease. Palpitation at night. Cannot lie on left side.

Back

Burning between scapulæ as of hot coals. Pain in small of back.

Extremities

Numbness, also drawing and tearing in limbs, especially while at rest or at night. Heaviness of arms. Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. One foot hot, the other cold. Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Profuse sweat of the feet. Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble. Painful callosities on soles; toes and fingers contracted. Sciatica, worse right side. Cannot lie on painful side. Hands and feet numb. Right foot hot, left cold. Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed. Limbs go to sleep. Twitching and jerking.

Fever

Chill between 3 and 4 pm, followed by sweat. Icy coldness. Feels as if lying on ice. One chill is followed by another (Calc; Sil; Hep).

Sleep

Drowsy during day. Starting in sleep. Dreams of accidents.

Skin

Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm applications. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; fissured eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders; bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Varicose veins, nævi, erectile tumors. Brown spots, freckles worse on left side of face and nose. Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axilla. Psoriasis.

Modalities

Worse, right side, from right to left, from above downward, 4 to 8 pm; from heat or warm room, hot air, bed. Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks. Better, by motion, after midnight, from warm food and drink, on getting cold, from being uncovered.

Relationship

Complementary: Lycop acts with special benefit after Calcar and Sulphur. Iod; Graphites, Lach; Chelidon.

Antidotes: Camph; Puls; Caust.

Compare: Carbo-Nitrogenoid Constitution: Sulphur; Rhus; Urtica; Mercur; Hepar. Alumina (Lycop is the only vegetable that takes up aluminum. T. F. Allen) Ant c; Nat m; Ery; Nux; Bothrops (day-blindness; can scarcely see after sunrise; pain in right great toe). Plumbago littoralis-A Brazilian plant--(Costive with red urine, pain in kidneys and joints and body generally; milky saliva, ulcerated mouth). Hydrast follows Lycop in indigestion.

Dose

Both the lower and the highest potencies are credited with excellent result. For purposes of aiding elimination the second and third attenuation of the Tincture, a few drops, 3 times a day, have proved efficacious, otherwise the 6th to 200th potency, and higher, in not too frequent doses.

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Depression of mind and sensorium, stupid; lower jaw drops; chronic conditions, memory fails; uses wrong words to express himself; mixes up things; failing brain power.

Right-sided complaints, or begins on right and travels leftward; throat, ovaries, uterine region, kidney and skin troubles; hernia.

Sense of satiety, or hunger, but soon fills up.

Great flatulence with rumbling, mostly intestinal and pressing downward.

Lithic acid diathesis; red sand in clear urine; > pains in back or kidneys after passing.

Dark-complexioned people; emaciated in face and upper parts, bloated or swollen in lower; keen intellectual but feeble muscular development.

Irritable; peevish and cross on waking; ugly, kick and! scream; easily angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks disputes; is beside himself.

Complexion: Pale, dirty, unhealthy; sallow; looks. Older than he is.

One foot hot and the other cold.

Great thirst after the sweat.

Chill on left-side of the body (Caust., Carbo v.).

Sour vomiting between chill and heat; must uncover (Lach.).

Perspiration immediately after the chill. Thirst after sweating stage.

In intermittents, the flatulence, sour eructations, sour taste, sour sweat, sour vomiting.

The remedy with Sulphur and Calcarea forms the leading trio of Hahnemann's anti-psoric remedies. This makes a good starting point, as the boy said when he set a pin in a vacant chair. They all act very deeply. Each finds its affinity in a certain class of people or temperament. Lycopodium acts favourably in all ages, but particularly upon old people and children. It acts upon persons of keen intellect, but feeble muscular development; lean people, leaning towards lung and liver troubles. Such people are apt to suffer from lithic acid diathesis for which this is also great remedy. The Lycopodium subject is sallow, sunken, with premature lines in the face; looks older than he is. Children are weak with well-developed heads, but puny, sickly bodies. They are irritable, and when sick awake out of sleep ugly and kick and scream and push away the nurse or parents. These temperament remedies are not always appreciated by those who do not understand the true spirit of our own art of healing; but when appreciated the skillful observer can often see the picture of the right remedy in the face and build of his patient before he speaks a word. A remedy must not only be well proven, but extended clinical use and observation is necessary to develop it and indicate its true sphere of usefulness. I have known temperaments so intensely Aconite or Belladonna that they could not take these remedies except in the high and highest potencies, and then only in single doses at long intervals. Why should this be thought incredible? Carpenter, in his Physiology, tells of a person who was so susceptible to Mercury that she was salivated by sleeping with her husband, who had taken Mercury.

This is one of the leading trio of flatulent remedies, Carbo veg. and China being the other two. With Lycopodium there seems to be an almost constant fermentation of gas going on in the abdomen, which produces a loud croaking and rumbling. Remember, while China bloats the whole abdomen Carbo veg. prefers the upper and Lycopodium the lower parts. With Lycopodium this flatulent condition is very apt to occur in connection with chronic liver trouble. Again this rumbling of flatulence is often found particularly in the region of the splenic flexure of the colon or left hypochondria.

A feeling of satiety is found under this remedy which alternates with a feeling of hunger of a peculiar kind. The patient sits down to the table very hungry, but the first few mouthfuls fill him right up and he feels distressingly full; in a Pickwickian sense "too full for utterance." This alternation of hunger and satiety is not markedly found under any other remedy.

Constipation predominates under Lycopodium, and like Nux vomica there may be frequent and ineffectual desire for stool, but while that of Nux vomica is caused by irregular peristaltic action that of Lycopodium seems to be caused by a spasmodic contraction of the anus, which prevents the stool and causes great pain.

Lycopodium should be thought of in anal troubles associated with chronic liver troubles, especially if with much flatulence.

Lycopodium is of use in right sided hernia. It has cured cases of long standing without the aid of a truss.

The liver troubles of Lycopodium are more apt to be of the atrophic variety, while those of China are hypertrophic, both being equally useful in their sphere.

Lycopodium has almost, if not quite, as marked action upon the urinary organs as upon the liver. It is the chief remedy for "red sand in the urine." This not simply the reddish sediment which is generally termed "brick-dust sediment," and which is found under many remedies, but is an actual sandy, gritty sediment that settles at the bottom of the otherwise perfectly clear urine. Unless thus condition is removed we have sooner or later renal calculi, or gravel forming, and terrible attacks of renal colic. In children this sand is sometimes found in the diaper after severe crying spells, and in adults much pain in the back in region of kidneys, which is relieved after the discharge of urine containing the sand. (See Borax, Sarsaparilla and Sanicula). No one remedy helps these cases more promptly or permanently than Lycopodium.

Lycopodium is also one of our best remedies for impotence. (Agnus castus). An old man marries his second or third wife and finds himself not "equal to the occasion." It is very embarrassing for the whole family. A dose of Lycopo d ium sets the thing all right and makes the doctor a warm friend on both sides of the house.

Young men from onanism or sexual excess become impotent. The penis becomes small, cold and relaxed. The desire is as strong as ever, and perhaps more so, but he can't perform. (Selenium, Caladium). I have known apparently hopeless cases of this kind cured by the use of this remedy, high single doses at intervals of a week or more.. Give it low, however, if you want to, but do not blame me if you don't succeed.

Lycopodium affects the right side most, or. at least the troubles begin on the right side. Swelling and suppuration of the tonsils I have aborted more than once in old quinsy subjects by an early dose of this remedy. In fact, I have had such success with Lachesis, Lycopodium, Lac caninum and Phytolacca that some who employ me for nothing else come for those powders that "break up quinsy " so quick. In diphtheria, if the disease begins in the nose or right tonsil and extends to the left, you will think of Lycopodium, but remember that Mercurius protoiodide also begins on the right side, but there is no difficulty in choosing between the two. (Bromine diphtheria begins below and comes upward, just the reverse of Lycopodium). Pains in the abdomen, ovarian and uterine regions also begin in right side, running from right to left; right foot gets cold while the other remains warm, eruptions begin on right and travel across to left side. Sciatica the same; any complaint that begins on right and goes to left makes me think of Lycopodium. The "sides of the body" subject is of more account than some imagine. Drugs have an affinity for particular parts, organs and even sides of the body.

Upon the respiratory organs this remedy also has a strong influence. It is one of our best remedies for chronic dry catarrh of the nose, which becomes completely closed, so that' the patient has to breathe through the open mouth, especially at night. Here the choice often lies between this remedy, Ammonium carb. and Hepar Sulphur., other symptoms, of course, deciding the choice. In infants Sambucus comes in for a share of attention.

Lycopodium has often saved neglected, mal-treated or Imperfectly cured cases of pneumonia from running into consumption. It may even come into the later stages of the acute attack itself, and here as usual the disease is apt to be in the right lung, and especially if liver complications arise. The disease has passed the first or congestive stage, and generally the stage of hepatization, or is irk the last part of this stage, and is trying hard to take a favourable turn into the breaking-up or third stage, the stage of resolution. Just here is where many cases die, neither free expectoration, nor perfect absorption of the disease product taking place. There is extreme dyspnœa, the cough sounds as if the entire parenchyma of the lung were softened; even raising whole mouthfuls of mucus does not afford relief, the breath is short and the wings of the nose expand to their utmost with a fan-like motion. Now is the tame when Lycopodium does wonders. Again, even when this stage is imperfectly passed, and the patient still coughs and expectorates much thick, yellow, purulent or greyish-yellow, purulent (sometimes fœtid) Matter, tasting salty, with much rattling in the chest, Lycopodium is indispensable Here the choice may have to be made between this remedy and Sulphur, Kali hydroiod. or Silicea. The characteristic aggravation as to time, of this remedy is from 4 to 8 o'clock P. M. Colocynth has 4 to 9 aggravation of abdominal pains, and Helleborus Niger, of the headache, with coryza; but the 4 to 8 aggravations of Lycopodium are general, not confined to any one, or one set of symptoms.

Lycopodium profoundly impresses the sensorium. We see by studying its pathogenesis that it depresses. This is found particularly in typhoid. The patient lies stupid, eyes do not re-act to light; lower jaw drops; apparent impending paralysis of the brain.

This condition may also be found in the advanced stage of many different acute diseases such as cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhoid fever, pneumonia, etc. Now if you get the 4 to 8 P. M. aggravation this remedy surely comes in. But this depression of the sensorium is also found in chronic form. you remember what was said of this remedy in the impotence of old men. If you find corresponding failure in the sensorium of old men, the memory fails, they use wrong words to express themselves, mix things up generally in writing, spelling, and are, in short, unable to do ordinary mental work on account of failing brain power, remember Lycopodium Here again Anacardium, Phosphorus, Baryta or Opium may come in for comparison. Also Picric acid and Agnus castus.

Many more things might be written of this wonderful polychrest, but I have given the most important. Its strongest curative powers are not developed below the 12th potency, hence neither the old school nor the homœopaths who confine themselves exclusively to the low preparations know much about it. Like Carbo vegetabilis, Silicea and Sulphur its best powers are only developed by Hahnemann's peculiar process of potentization; "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Modalities

Modalities: < 4 to 8 P. M., after eating, in warm room; > in cool open air, on motion.

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Mind and Disposition

Low-spirited, taciturn, melancholy ; doubts about his salvation. Desponding, grieving mood. Weeping, sad mood ; extremely sensitive. Dread of men ; desires to be alone, or aversion to solitude. Extremely indifferent. Headstrong, vehement, angry ; irritable and nervous.

Head

Stupefying headache, with heat in the temples and of the ears ; dryness of the mouth and lips ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M., when rising up, and on lying down. Pressing headache on the vertex ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M. from stooping, lying down, exertion of the mind, and followed by great weakness. Tearing in the forehead or in the right side of the head, extending down to the neck, with tearing in the face, eyes, and teeth ; worse on raising oneself up, better on lying down and in the open air. Tension in the head ; worse at night when lying in bed, and on getting warm while walking in the open air ; better when walking slowly in the open air, from cold, and when uncovering the head. Stitches the temples, mostly on the right side, from within without ; worse in the evening and at night when lying in bed, from heat and exertion of the mind ; better from cold and in the open air. Congestion of blood to the head, especially in the morning when raising himself in bed. Headache after breakfast. Tearing, boring, and sensation of scraping on the external head, during the night. Eruption of crusts on the back part of the head, moist smelling fetid, easily bleeding, and burning ; after scratching, more moisture and increase of the crusts. The hair becomes gray early. Baldness ; the hair falls out, first on the vertex, later on the temples (after diseases of the abdominal viscera ; after parturition), with violent burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, especially on getting warm from exercise during the day.

Eyes

Stitches and soreness in the eyes in the evening, when looking at the light. Inflammation of the eyes, with lachrymation during the day and agglutination during the night. Photophobia. Obscuration of sight, as from feathers before the eyes. Perpendicular half sight. Itching in the canthi. Cold feeling in the eyes. Styes on the eyelids near the internal canthus. Dim, hot eyes. The eyes are wide open, insensible to light fixed. Dryness of the eyes, in the evening. Sparks before the eyes, in the dark.

Ears

Over-sensitiveness of bearing. Music and sounds affect the ear painfully. Roaring humming and whizzing in the ears. Sensation as if hot blood rushed into the ears. Congestion of blood to the ears. Humid, suppurating scurfs on and behind the ears. Ulceration and running of pug from the ears. Hardness of hearing ; the ears become closed with whizzing. Singing in the ears, as from boiling water.

Nose

Over-sensitiveness of the swell. Bleeding from the nose, principally in the afternoon. Scurf in the nose. Nightly closing of the nostril by pus. Dryness of the nose. Obstruction about the root of the nose ; can only breathe through the nose. Dryness of the posterior nares. Coryza, with acrid discharge, making the upper lips sore. Violent coryza, with swelling of the nose. Fan-like motion of the nostrils.

Face

Paleness of the face, with deep furrows, especially towards evening. Earthy, yellow complexion, with deep furrows, blue circles around the eyes, and blue lips. Flushes of heat in the face. Spasmodic twitching in the muscles of the face. Eruption around the mouth. A large ulcer on the vermilion border of the lower lip. Soreness of the corners of the mouth. Swelling of the upper lip. Eruptions on the face, humid and suppurating. The lower jaw hangs down. Freckles. Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.

Mouth and Throat

The teeth are excessively painful on touching them. Yellow color of the teeth. Toothache, with swelling of the cheek ; relieved by the heat of the bed, and from warm applications. Fistula dentalis. The gums bleed violently on being touched. Gum-boils. Putrid smell from the mouth, especially in the morning when awaking. Dryness of the mouth and tongue, without thirst. Stiffness of the tongue and indistinct speech. Vesicles on the tip of the tongue ; they feel scalded and raw. Soreness of the tongue. Ulcers on and under the tongue. Convulsions of the tongue. The tongue is painful and swollen in different places (tubercles on the tongue). The saliva becomes dry on the palate and lips, and is converted into tough mucus. The posterior part of the mouth is covered by tough mucus. Dry and bitter mouth (in the morning). Tongue dry ; becomes black and cracked. Inflammation of the throat, with stitches on swallowing. Swelling and suppuration of the tonsils. The ulceration of the tonsils begins on the right side. The pharynx feels contracted, nothing can be swallowed. Hawking up of bloody mucus.

Stomach and Abdomen

Canine hunger. Desire for sweet things. Aversion to coffee and smoking, and to boiled, warm food. Bitter taste or acidity in the mouth after a meal. Food tastes sour. Bitterness in the mouth with nausea in the morning. Nausea in the pharynx and stomach. Nausea in the morning and when riding in a carriage. Vomiting of food and bile ; of coagulated blood and matter. Vomiting between the chill and heat in intermittent fever. Heartburn. Hiccough frequently, periodically. Immediately after a (light) meal the abdomen is bloated, full, distended. Has a great appetite, but a small quantity of food fills him up and he feels bloated. After each meal pressure in the stomach with bitter taste in the mouth. Painful swelling and sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to tight clothing and to contact. Cancer of the stomach. Tension in the hypochondria as from a hoop. Inflammation and induration of the liver. Pressure and tension in the liver, especially on satisfying one's appetite. Indurations in the abdomen. Accumulation of flatulence-incarcerated flatulence, the flatulence cannot pass, and causes much pain. Gnawing, griping sensation in the region of the stomach. Continuous rumbling in the abdomen. Hernia (right side). Palpitation of the heart during digestion. Full, distended abdomen with cold feet. Spasmodic contraction in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Constipation. Hard stools with ineffectual desire to evacuate. Desire for stool followed by painful constriction of the rectum or anus. Small stool, with the sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful accumulations of flatulence. Hæmorrhage from the rectum, even after a soft stool. Feeling of fulness in the rectum continues after a copious stool. Contractive pain in the perinæum, after scanty hard stool. Stitches in the rectum. Pale, putrid smelling stools. Diarrhœa (during pregnancy), with earthly color of the face. Itching and tension at the anus (in the evening in bed). Itching eruption of the anus, painful to the touch. Painful closing of the anus. Protrusion of the varices. Distention of the varices of the rectum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent desire to urinate, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine. Frequent micturition during the night, with scanty and rare discharges through the day. Dark urine with diminished discharge. Red, sandy sediment in the urine ; greasy pellicle on the urine. Involuntary micturition. Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless. Foamy urine. Itching in the urethra during and after micturition. Stitches in the bladder. Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time. Renal colic.

Sexual Organs

Men. Sexual desire increased or suppressed. Impotence ; penis small, cold, relaxed. Feeble erections. Itching of the internal surface or the prepuce. Soreness between the scrotum and thigh. Dropsical swelling of the genital organs. A quantity of yellowish humor behind the corona glandis. Falls asleep during an embrace. Discharge of prostatic juice without an erection. Excessive and exhausting pollutions. Women. Menstruation too profuse and too long protracted. Suppression of the menses, also from fright. Before the menses, bloatedness of the abdomen, chilliness, low-spirited, desponding and melancholy. Dryness of the vagina. Burning in the vagina during coition. Varices on the genitals. Leucorrhœa corroding like milk, bloody, worse before the full moon. Disposition to miscarriages. Stinging in the nipples. Soreness of the nipples, or spreading scurf on them. Hard, burning nodosity in the mammæ.

Respiratory Organs

Shortness of breathing in children, especially during sleep. Every exertion causes shortness of breathing. Oppressed breathing, worse when walking in the open air. Sensation as if there were too much mucus in the chest, with whizzing breathing in the day-time. Rattling in the chest. Dry cough, day and night. Cough at night which affects the stomach. Cough, with expectoration through the day and without expectoration during the night. Titillating cough caused by deep breathing. Cough, with copious purulent expectoration. Cough with gray, salty-tasting expectoration, or expectoration of blood. Hooping cough from irritation in the trachea as from fumes of sulphur, in the morning and during the day, with expectoration of fetid pus or of mucus streaked with blood. Morning cough, with green expectoration. Cough aggravated from 4 to 6 P.M., frequently on alternate days, from exertion, from stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on the (left) side, from eating and drinking cold things, in the wind, or in the warm room. Hoarseness ; voice feeble and husky. Roughness, soreness and tension in the chest. Cough with painfulness of the region of the stomach. Oppression of the chest, with shortness of breathing. Continuous pressure in the chest, it, feels raw internally. Stitches in the left side of the chest, also during an inspiration. (Typhoid and neglected) pneumonia. (Hepatization of the lungs). Paralysis of the lungs. Hydrothorax. Yellow, liver spots on the chest. Itching on the chest. Palpitation of the heart, worse after eating.

Back and Neck

Pain and stiffness in the small of the back (at night). Stitches in the small of the back, especially when rising from a stooping position. Burning as of red-hot coals between the scapulæ. Painful stiffness of the (left side) of the neck. Stiffness and swelling of one side of the neck. Swelling of the cervical glands. Large clusters of red pimples around the neck, with violent itching. Soreness of the neck.

Extremities

Upper. Rheumatic tension in the right shoulder-joint. Pain in the bones of the arms at night. The arms and fingers go to sleep easily. Weakness of the arms when at work. Pain as from a sprain in the right wrist-joint. Redness, inflammation and swelling of all the joints of the fingers. Twitching in the arms and shoulder. The skin of the hands is dry. Burning in the palms of the hands. Stiffness of the fingers from arthritic nodosities. Itching pimples between the fingers. Panaritium. Lower. Nightly pains (tearing) in the legs. Rheumatic tension in the left hip. Pain as from a sprain in the hip. Swelling and stiffness of the knee. White-swelling of the knee. Swelling of the knee, with perspiration. Pain, as from contraction (cramps) in the calves when walking. Swelling of the feet, around the ankles. Swelling of the soles of the feet. Pain of the soles when walking. Cold, sweaty feet. Profuse sweat on the feet, they become sore. Stitches in the big toe of the right foot (in the evening). Rhagades in the heel. Cramp in the toes. Stitches in the corns, with sore feeling. Old ulcers on the lower legs, with tearing, itching and burning at night.

Generalities

Drawing and tearing in the limbs, especially at night and during rest, or on alternate afternoons. Numbness of the limbs, sensation as if circulation ceased. Great emaciation, great internal debility. Twitches through the body. Contraction of some limbs. Stiffness of all the joints. The whole body feels bruised. Involuntary, alternate extension and contraction of the muscles in different parts of the body. Epileptic spasms, with screaming, foam at the mouth, loss of consciousness, throws the aims and limbs about, great anguish about the heart, and imagines he would have to die. Faintishness at certain hours of the day.

Sleep

Sleepiness during the day, but cannot go to sleep at night, his mind is too active. Restless sleep, with anxious dreams and frequent waking. Loud coughing during sleep ; screaming while asleep. Sopor. Starting when falling asleep. Unable to find ease in any position. Hunger at night when waking. Unrefreshing sleep.

Fever

Pulse only accelerated in the evening and afternoon. Sensation as if the circulation stood still. Chilliness in the afternoon from 4 to 8, with sensation as of numbness in the hands and feet. Chilliness in the evening in bed, preventing sleep. One-sided chilliness, mostly on the left side. Chilliness followed by perspiration without heat after the chill. Chills and heat alternating. Want of natural heat. Flushes of heat over the whole body, mostly towards evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time ; constipation and increased micturition. Heat of one (left) foot with coldness of the other (right) foot. Violent perspiration during the day from the least exertion. Night and morning sweats, often with coldness of the face. Night-sweats, clammy. The perspiration is frequently cold, smelling sour, or offensive, or smelling like onions, or bloody. Intermittent fever. Nausea and vomiting and then chilliness, followed by perspiration (without previous heat). Chilliness in the evening, when in bed till midnight, this is followed by heat, in the morning sour-smelling perspiration. Great heat and redness of the cheeks, alternating with chilliness. Shaking chill 7 P.M., and great coldness as if lying in ice, with traction through the whole body, upon waking up from sleep, which is full of dreams, covered with perspiration, perspiration is followed by violent thirst. Tertian fever, with sour vomiting (worse between chill and fever) ; the chills are followed by bloatedness of the face and hands. Typhus fever (with threatening paralysis of the brain).

Skin

Biting, itching when becoming warm through the day. Humid, suppurating tetters, full of deep rhagades and covered with thick crusts. Soreness of children, the sore places are humid. Ulcers, at night, with tearing and itching pains, burning when touched. (Mercurial ulcers) ; bleeding and burning when dressing the otherwise painless ulcer. Blood-boils (periodically). Inflammation of the bones, with pains at night. Softening of the bones. Caries. Fistulous ulcers, with hard, red-shining, everted edges, and inflammatory swelling of the affected parts. Glandular swellings. Chilblains. Arthritic nodosities. Freckles. Liver spots (abdomen). Dropsical swellings.

Conditions

Great disposition to get cold. Great desire for the open air or entire aversion to it. Aggravation from 4 to 8 P.M., when everything is better, with the exception of the debility. While at rest the debility is mostly felt, but there is also great aversion to exercise. Aggravation on lying down, while sitting, when rising from a seat and when beginning to walk (the stiffness), after eating and having satisfied one's appetite, after eating oysters, from salt food, from cold food or drink, from wet (warm) poultices, from pressure of the clothes, from strong smells, while urinating. Amelioration, on getting cold, from uncovering oneself, after rising from a seat and when continuing to walk, from warm food and drink. It is not advisable to begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lycopodium, it is better to give first another not antipsoric remedy. Lachesis and Lycopodium follow well one after another. Lycopodium follows well after Pulsatilla or Calcarea.

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General

Lycopodium clavatum. Muscus terrestris repens. Pes ursinus. Clubmoss. Wolf's-claw. (Hilly pastures and heaths in Central and Northern Europe, Russian Asia, and North America. Common in Great Britain, especially the North.) N. O. Lycopodiaceæ. Trituration of spores. Tincture of spores. Tincture of fresh plant. Etherial tincture of spores (ether dissolves the spore cases).

Clinical

Abdomen, distended . Abortion. Albuminuria. Aneurism . Angina pectoris. Aphasia . Asthma. Axilla, offensive perspiration of. Biliousness. Borborygmi . Bright's disease. Cancer . Cataract. Constipation. Consumption . Corns. Cough. Cramps. Cystitis. Debility. Diphtheria . Distension . Dropsies. Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Dyspepsia . Ear, eczema behind. Eczema . Ephelis. Epistaxis. Epithelioma. Excoriation . Eye, inflammation of; polypus of canthus. Face, eruption on. Feet, perspiring . Fibroma. Flatulence . Gall-stone colic. Glands, swelling of. Goître. Gout. Gravel . Hæmaturia. Hæmorrhoids. Hair, falling out. Hands, chapped. Heartburn . Heart, diseases of. Hemiopia . Hernia. Hydropericardium. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Impotence. Influenza. Intermittents. Intertrigo. Irritation . Labour-pains, abnormal. Lip, cancer of. Liver, derangement of. Liver-spots. Locomotor ataxy. Lungs, affections of. Menstruation, disorders of . Metrorrhagia. Nævus. Nymphomania. Otorrhœa. Panaritium. Paralysis. Paralysis agitans. Peritonitis . Phlegmasia dolens. Physometra. Plica polonica. Pneumonia . Polypus, of eye; of ear; of nose. Proctalgia. Prostatitis. Pylorus, affections of. Quinsy. Renal colic. Rheumatism . Rhagades. Sciatica. Sleep, abnormal. Speech, disordered ; stammering. Strains. Sunstroke. Taste, abnormal. Throat, sore. Tongue, coated ; cramp in. Typhoid fever. Urine, abnormal . Varicosis. Warts. Water-brash . Whooping-cough. Worms. Yawning .

Characteristics

Lycopodium is one of the pivotal remedies of the materia medica, and an intimate acquaintance with its properties and relations is essential to a proper understanding of the materia medica as a whole. The spores from which the attenuations are made have been called "vegetable sulphur" (probably on account of their use for producing stage-lightning at theatres), and Lyc . ranks with Sulphur and Calcarea in the central trio around which all the rest of the materia medica can be grouped. The Lycopodiums stand between the mosses and the ferns, and in past eras occupied a most important place in the world's vegetation as fossils show. In the old school the function of Lyc . has dwindled into its use as an "inert" coating for pills and an "inert" powder for dusting on excoriated surfaces. Earlier practitioners did not consider it as by any means inert. Teste mentions that it is recorded of a decoction of the plant that it has caused vomiting. The use of the powder in intertrigo was not regarded as a physical one but as medicinal. It was praised by Wedel, Lantilius, Gesner, and others in ( 1 ) cardialgia and flatulent colic of children and young girls; ( 2 ) diseases of children; ( 3 ) nephritic colic and calculi ─ which is about as much as some homœopathists know about it at the present day. But Mérat and de Lens speak of its internal use in: Rheumatism; retention of urine; nephritis; epilepsy; and pulmonary diseases. In Poland it is used for powdering the hair in "plica polonica," a decoction being used internally and also externally at the same time. The comparative fruitfulness of the two schools of medicine may be accurately measured in the history of this drug: in the old school it has dwindled into an "inert" powder; in homœopathy, by means of the scientific methods of developing and investigating drug action it possesses, all the old virtues of Lyc . have been confirmed and precisionised, and a new world of medicinal action added to them. Teste puts Lyc . at the head of a group containing Nat. m., Viol. tric ., and An t. c . Among the common characters he attributed to them are: Primary action on digestive organs and adjoining glands; on liver and larger intestines rather than stomach. Aversion to bread and < from eating bread and foods made of fermented and fermentable dough. Frequent and painful eructations. Sour eructations; vomiting; distension; alternate diarrhœa and constipation. Pale, whitish, cloudy, mucous urine, often fetid. Premature and profuse menses. Peevishness. Rush of blood to head. Falling of hair; with crusty scalp eruption. Inflammation of eyes and lids. Deficiency of vital heat. Contraction of tendons, especially hamstrings. These are general features common to the group. Lyc . acts profoundly on the entire organism, on solids and fluids. It causes paralysis and paralytic weakness of limbs, of brain, suppurative conditions, even gangrene. It is particularly suited to: Persons of keen intellect, but feebler muscular development; upper part of body wasted, lower semi-dropsical; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic conditions; herpetic and scrofulous constitutions; hypochondriacs subject to skin diseases; lithic acid diathesis, much red sediment in urine, urine itself transparent; sallow people with cold extremities, haughty disposition, when sick, mistrustful, slow of comprehension, weak memory; weak children with well-developed heads but puny, sickly bodies, irritable, nervous, and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross, pushing every one away angrily; old women and children. In my experience it has been more indicated in persons of dry temperament and dark complexion; but this is not by any means exclusive. Undernourished states suggest it. But it is impossible to get the best therapeutic results for this great remedy without an intimate knowledge of certain leading characteristics. Lyc . will cure any case in which the totality of symptoms correspond with symptoms of the remedy; but it will be found that in a large proportion of cases in which this is the case, there will be present some symptoms which are peculiarly characteristic of the remedy, constituting what are called keynotes. Practice on keynote symptoms alone is an absurdity; but the right use of keynote symptoms is an immense saving of labour. The Lyc . keynotes are very pronounced, and though I cannot say that one is more important than another, I give them in this order. ( 1 ) < From 4 to 8 p.m. [In one case cured by Lyc . it was: "Bad from 4 to 6; better at 8; gone at 9."] In any case, when the symptoms are < from 4 to 8 p.m., the chances are very great that the rest of the case will correspond to Lyc ., no matter what the disease may be. The times may not be accurately at these hours, and still Lyc . may be the remedy. < At 4 p.m. or from 4 to 6; and the condition may continue into the night without the 8 p.m. alleviation. But the grand characteristic is 4 to 8. ( 2 ) The second keynote is in direction , right to left. Any affection commencing on the right side and spreading to the left is likely to require Lyc ., whether it be headache, sore throat, chest affection, abdominal affection, pains in ovaries ─ if the affection begins on the right side and spreads to the left Lyc . must be studied. Cutting pains shooting from right to left in any part indicate Lyc . In this it is complementary to Lach ., which has just as characteristically the opposite direction. Lyc . is a right-side medicine; but right-sidedness is not so characteristic as the direction right to left. These two features are perhaps the most valuable keynotes, in the materia medica. After them in importance, and scarcely less important, come others. ( 3 ) > From uncovering. This is general, but it applies to Sufferings in the head more particularly. If a patient complains of headache, no matter of what kind, and if the headache is distinctly > by taking off the hat or other covering, Lyc . will probably be the remedy. This is the great dividing line between this remedy and Sil ., another great headache medicine: in Sil . cases the patient must wrap up the head. > From loosening the garments is in the same category. ( 4 ) The next characteristic is somewhat of an opposite kind: > From warm drinks; < from cold food and drink. This does not refer to gastric complaints alone, but to headache, sore throat, and any other condition. ( 5 ) Fan-like movement of alæ nasi occurring in cerebral, pulmonary, and abdominal complaints. The movements are usually rapid, never slow, and are not synchronous with the breathing. In the same order with this are spasmodic movements of facial muscles: angles of mouth alternately drawn up and relaxed; and spasmodic movements of tongue, it cannot be protruded; rolls from side to side like a pendulum. One prover had a kind of cramp in the tongue when speaking, cutting off the end of every sentence. Nodding and side to side movement of the head. Loosvelt ( H. W ., xiv. 396) has found that "half-open condition of the eyes during sleep" is a strong indication for Lyc ., and has led him to make cures in cases of bronchitis, pneumonia, and typhoid when other remedies have failed. The "fan-like movement" of the alæ nasi led Halbert to the cure of a case of nervous asthma ( H. W ., xxxiii. 545): Mrs. S., 28, had periodic attacks of spasmodic asthma, always ushered in by unusual excitement and attended by peculiar mental depression. The attack for which Halbert saw her was induced by a violent fit of anger, and persisted longer than usual. Extreme despondency and melancholy, would have nothing to do with her friends. Fan-like motion of alæ nasi. Constriction of throat, like globus, but always induced by regurgitation of food. Excessive appetite easily satisfied. Fulness of abdomen with flatulence. Constipation, dry, hard stools. Dyspnœa. Slight cough with chest constriction; > in open air. All symptoms < 4 to 8 p.m. Lyc . 6x trit. cured. ( 6 ) Suddenness; sudden flashes of heat, lightning-like pains; sudden satiety. Pains and symptoms come and go suddenly, as with Bell . ( 7 ) Sensation as if a hand were in the body clutching the entrails (also as with Bell .). ( 8 ) Restlessness > by motion. ( 9 ) Right foot hot, left foot cold. ( 10 ) Burning pains > by heat; burning like hot coals between scapulæ. Burning stinging in breasts. ( 11 ) Dryness of parts: of mucous membranes; of vagina; of skin, especially palms. Prominent among mental symptoms is Fear : of being alone; of men; of his Own shadow. Apprehensiveness : susceptible to natural causes of fear which make a profound impression on bodily organs, as the liver; mental states resulting from fear. Profound sadness and inclination to weep. Peevish. Forgetful. Avaricious. Imperiousness. Lyc . is a remedy for misers. The headaches are in great variety, but the modalities will generally decide: < 4 to 8 p.m.; from eating; from warmth of bed; from becoming heated during a walk; from heat in general; from mental exertion; > in open air; in cool place; by uncovering. Hair falls out. Ophthalmia: conjunctiva looks like red flesh. Lyc . has cured desperate cases of facial neuralgia with the general characteristics of the drug. The facial appearance is pale and yellow; deeply furrowed; looks elongated. Sordes in teeth. Lyc . is in the front rank among flatulent remedies. Incarcerated flatulence; more in intestines than stomach; painful with > by eructations. There is the sinking sensation at epigastrium; and it is < in the night, waking up the patient; or < in afternoon. This sensation becomes translated into canine hunger, but as soon as a morsel of food is swallowed there is distension and fulness to the throat, preventing him eating any more. Sour stomach, sour taste, sour vomiting. Thirst for little and often, but drinking cold water = nausea. Great weakness with the vomiting. Cord-like tension across hypochondria. Flatulence incarcerated, pressing outward, sensation as if something moving up and down in bowels. Great sensitiveness in liver region. [This sensitiveness is a characteristic of Lyc ., as it is of its complementary remedies, Lach., Kali iod ., and Iod . It has led me to cure many cases of sciatica having this characteristic: cannot bear to lie on painful side it is so sensitive. Especially in case of right-side sciatica of this description. Gums, epigastrium, abdomen, right side of chest, eruption round anus, all soft parts are sensitive. Touch and pressure < all these; only > tearing in head.] The flatulence presses on rectum and bladder. There is out-pushing also in right inguinal ring; and Lyc . has cured many cases of right inguinal hernia, especially in children. Lyc . is one of the great remedies for constipation where purgatives have been abused. Spasmodic constriction of rectum. Constipation of infants. The urinary symptoms present no less important characteristics than the gastric. Renal colic, with stinging, tearing, digging pain in right ureter to bladder, as if some small calculus was tearing its way to bladder. Aching in back before micturition. Child cries before micturating; red sand is found on diaper. Aching in kidneys < before > after urinating. The catamenia are too early and too profuse. Extreme sadness and irritability before, ceasing with the flow. Cutting pain right to left. Left leg colder than right. Borborygmi under left ribs in front. Ill-humour. Bearing-down pains and headache. Intolerance of tight clothing. Sensation as if a hand were in body clutching the entrails. Though a right-side remedy, it must not be supposed that Lyc . is exclusively so. It has cured left ovarian pain, dull aching, < on raising the limb or turning in bed. It is of great service in pregnancy (nausea; varices; excessive fœtal movements); and in labour (unsatisfactory pains). The "burning" of Lyc . is exemplified in the cure of a case of puerperal fever having these symptoms: Feels as though hot balls dropped from each breast through to back, rolling down back, along each leg, and dropping off heels; this alternated with sensation as if balls of ice followed same course. Phlegmasia dolens. Lyc . has a very large range in respiratory affections. Salt sputa; milky; greenish yellow; thick yellow muco-pus. Dry burning catarrh of nose, larynx, throat, chest. A very characteristic cough of Lyc ., which I have verified, is this: "Dry teasing cough in emaciated boys". The cough of Lyc . is provoked by: Irritation from deep breathing; stretching out throat; and by empty swallowing. A patient of mine to whom I gave Lyc . 30 developed this symptom: "Pain under sternum as if food lodged there and she could not breathe through it." Cough, < on waking. All the blood-vessels from the heart to the capillaries are affected by Lyc . It has cured both nævus and aneurism, and relieved many conditions of disordered heart. It is also one of the most important remedies in varicosis. Excessive sensitiveness is a note of Lyc .: Cannot bear any strong smells. Cannot endure noise. Sensitiveness to sound has a curious development in this symptom: In the evening she continues to hear the music she has heard during the day. "Heaviness of the arm" is a special feature among the general paralysing effects of Lyc . Skinner cured with Lyc . c.m. this case: A lady had burning in right arm with paralysis, preventing her grasping anything with the right hand. Had had much worry. Irritability before menstrual period, > by the flow. < From 6 to 7 p.m. With the burning was a sharp pain shooting up the arm; but it was not the pain which caused the paresis. Nash mentions that the sphere of Lyc . in impotence is considerable. It covers the case of old men who marry again and find themselves impotent; and the case of young men who have become impotent from masturbation or sexual excess. The desire is strong but the power is absent; penis small, cold, relaxed. P. C. Majumdar records ( Ind. Hom. Rev ., x. 1) the case of a boy, 14, who had general dropsy and anasarca consequent on the subsidence of an enlarged spleen under allopathic medication. There was afternoon fever ( < 4 to 8 p.m.), slight chilliness, but no thirst; difficult breathing on lying down, urine scanty and high coloured, bowels constipated, heart's action weak but regular. Apis caused the urine to be more free, but a troublesome diarrhœa set in. Apocy . 6x removed the diarrhœa, but had no effect on the dropsy. Lyc . 30 was now given purely on the symptoms, and quickly cleared up the case. S. A. Jones ( Amer. Hom ., xx. 283) calls attention to the irritability of Lyc ., and instances the cure of a boy of typhoid with excessive tympanites when the case seemed almost hopeless, the guiding symptoms being: "When awake exceedingly cross, irritable, scolding, screaming, behaving disagreeably," which was quite different from his usual nature. Lyc . 30 was given. The same writer ( H. R ., xi. 351) relates an involuntary proving of Lyc . from inhalation of the fumes in the course of chemical experiment, Lyc . powder being added to a boiling mass. The writer (apparently a medical man) had at times whilst engaged in the experiments: Frightful headaches (occiput, vertex, and through right eye), always > by Mag. phos . In addition he discovered 12.5 per cent. of albumen in his urine, which had been tested a short time previously and found normal. Other characteristic symptoms of Lyc. were present, and all disappeared, including albuminuria, when the experiments were abandoned. H. Goullon ( H. R ., vi. 155) cured this case of cystitis: A man, 55, subject to attacks of enteralgia, was seized two days after such an attack with a severe cystitis, with fever and palpitation of the heart. The calls to micturate were increased, and he could hardly reach the vessel quick enough to prevent premature escape of the urine, so severe and sudden was the urging. During and sometimes after the passage there was intense burning pain, "as if molten lead were flowing through the urethra." During the height of the pain he grasped the penis to obtain relief. The urine, which was discharged in very scanty quantities, looked turbid, almost loamy, had a dirty brownish-red colour, and a peculiar odour of malt. Lyc . 12 was given, six drops in half a wineglassful of water: a teaspoonful every three hours. Cured in twenty-four hours. J. E. Winans ( Med. Adv ., xix. 499) points out the appropriateness of Lyc . to the effects of chewing tobacco. Allen records under Tabac . this symptom: Convulsions, head firmly drawn back, with rigidity of muscles of back of neck; constantly recurring rigid tetanic spasms, muscles of back being principally affected, till death a week after he chewed the tobacco." Winans had a very similar case from the same cause-clonic, opisthotonic spasms as of cerebro-spinal meningitis ─ which he cured with Lyc . c.m. and m.m. given after each tetanic seizure. Other Lyc . symptoms verified by him are: "Forehead cold , but becomes warm if lightly covered " ( Sil .); and, in pernicious intermittents "a long-lasting chill coming on 9 a.m., and generally passing off without subsequent heat or sweat ." Drysdale has recorded ( B. J. H ., xlii. 203) the cure of a young woman whose hands were covered with warts. One 2 gr. tablet of Lyc . 6 trituration was given at bedtime. The warts soon began to shrivel, and in less than six weeks were all gone. The sphere of Lyc . in metrorrhagia is illustrated by a case of Waszily's (quoted H. W ., xxviii. 320): Mrs. O., 44, menses after being absent eight months had come on and lasted fourteen days. She felt particularly well, and had walked out, when a violent flooding came on, and she had to be taken home in a carriage and put to bed. Dark blood with large clots flowed from her, < every movement; no pain. Previous day had much flatulent distress. Lyc . 30, two globules on the tongue. After that one large clot passed and nothing more. Rapid recovery followed. Among the peculiar sensations of Lyc . are: As if everything was turning round. As if temples being screwed together. As if brain vacillating to and fro. As if head would burst. As if head opened. Pain in head as if caused by wrong position. As if eyes too large. As if hot blood rushed into ears. As if sulphur vapour in throat. Front teeth as if too long. Vesicles on tip of tongue as if scalded and raw. As if a ball rose up in throat. As if hard body lodged in back of throat. As if everything eaten was rising up. As if œsophagus was being clutched and twisted. As if steam rising from stomach to head. As if something were moving up and down in stomach. As if suspensor ligament of liver would tear. As if stomach would fall down. As if drops of water were falling down. As if heart hung by a thread. As if gimlets were running into spine. As if dogs with sharp teeth were gnawing her. Tension as from a cord in diaphragm. As if chest constricted with tight waistcoat. (Cramps in chest accompanying stomach affections is a strong indication for Lyc .) Burning as of hot coals between scapulæ. As if hot balls dropped from each breast through to back, rolling down back, along each leg and dropping off heels; alternating with balls of ice. As if water spurted on back. As if lying on ice. The symptoms are < by touch, pressure, weight of clothing. Riding in carriage = nausea. < Morning on waking; < afternoon, 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 4 to 6 p.m., 4 to 8 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m.; < evening before midnight. < After eating, even if ever so little. < Wrapping up head, even wearing hat or bonnet. < In warm room. < Getting warm by exercise. Warmth of bed < headache and irritation of skin, but > toothache, rheumatism, and other symptoms. Great desire for open air. > In open air; by uncovering. Must be fanned, especially wants to be fanned on the back (burning between shoulders). > By warm, < by cold food and drink. < By wet weather; by stormy weather; especially by wind. < From moistening diseased parts. Rest < ; motion > . Lying down > headache; pain in epigastrium. Lying on back > cough. < Lying on right side in liver affection. < Lying on painful side (sciatica). < Lying on left side. < By rising from a seat; > after. < From lamplight; from looking fixedly at any point. < From eating cabbage; vegetables, beans and peas, with husks; bread, especially rye bread and pastry. < From wine. < From milk. < Before menstruation. < From suppressed menstruation. [ Lyc . is very prone to cause aggravations, especially when highly attenuated, and hence it is necessary to give it with caution. Unless the indications are quite clear it is better to start a case on an allied remedy. I gave Miss E. Lyc . 30 for constipation. Soon after taking it she had pains in upper abdomen in all directions; urging to stool without ability to pass it; much flatus which could neither be got up nor down. Lyc . 1m. was now given, a few globules dissolved in water, a teaspoonful at bedtime. All symptoms vanished. On rising a second teaspoonful was taken, and after this the bowels were well relieved. On another occasion she took Lyc . 1m. in the evening, and immediately felt her throat tight and uncomfortable; but this passed off and she went to bed. At 5 a.m. she woke with choking; had the greatest difficulty in getting her breath. She managed to reach a bottle of Bell . 3, and a dose of this relieved her at once. ─ A patient for whom Lyc . 5 had, to her great delight reduced the gouty swellings about her finger-joints, till she could get rings on she had not been able to wear for years, was obliged to discontinue it on account of the distressing headaches it caused. ─ Mr. W. had every Sunday afternoon attacks of pain like biliary colic. They came on at 5 p.m. and lasted till 1 a.m. The pain started from right of gall bladder, travelled to middle line, and then passed downwards. In the attack he was cold and yet sweated. Bowels constipated. Lyc . 1m., one dose every alternate day. A powder of the same was, given to be dissolved in water, of which a teaspoonful was to be taken every twenty minutes in the event of an attack. During the week he felt better, but on the next Sunday he had the worst attack he had ever had, and the Lyc . given to be taken frequently did not relieve at all. Nux 30 was next given night and morning. The next Sunday was passed without any pain, and he felt much better generally. Cases of this kind could be multiplied indefinitely, and I have known some very good prescribers almost abandon this remedy on account of unexpected aggravations.]

Relations

Antidoted by: Aco., Camph., Caust., Cham., Coff., Graph., Nux, Puls., Coffee. It antidotes: Chi. (yellow face, liver and spleen swollen, flatulence, tension under short ribs < right side, pressure in stomach and constipation); Merc.; Chlorine (effects of the fumes when they cause impotence). Compatible: Bell., Bry., Carb. v. (a dose of Carb. v. every eighth day facilitates action of Lyc.); Calc. c. (predisposition to constipation, hard stools evacuated with difficulty, or urging ineffective); Graph., Hyo., Lach., Led., Pho., Puls., Sep., Sil., Stram., Sul., Ver. Follows well: Sul., Calc., Lach. Is followed well by: Graph., Lach., Led., Pho., Sil. Incompatible: Coffee. Complementary: Iod., Chel. (K. iod., Lach., Ign., Puls.); Ipec. in capillary bronchitis, < right side, sputa yellow and thick. "Unless undoubtedly indicated the treatment of chronic diseases should not be commenced with Lyc., it is best to give first another antipsoric remedy." Compare: Desires fresh air, desire to be uncovered, Sul., Pul. Terrible sadness during menses, Nat. m., Nit. ac., Sep. Action on veins, Puls., Sep. Thirst for little and often, Ars. (wants it cold and vomits it immediately); Ant. t. Sinking at epigastrium < at night preventing sleep, Ign.; (Sul. < 11 a.m., also 8-9 a.m. and 1-2 p.m.). Hot flushes in afternoon, Sul. Nausea fasting, Pul., Calc., Sil. Moth spots or liver spots, Thuj. Canine hunger, especially at night, Ign., Chi. Hungry but cannot get food down, Sil. < Every other day, Chi. Fan-like motion of alæ nasi, Chlorof. (slow); Gadus and Kreas. (rapid). Apprehension of losing senses, Calc., Nux, Sul. Acquisitiveness, Ars., Pul. Fear of being alone, K. ca., Lil. (Ars., Bism., fear and forgetfulness when alone; Pho., fears something is going to happen when alone in room, especially at night; Arg. n., fears to remain alone lest he should harm himself; anxiety compels moving about; fears to go on a lofty place lest he should throw himself down ─ Anac. also). Fear of darkness, Calc., Stram. Imperiousness, Plat. (haughtiness). Cursing, Anac., Iod., jug. r. Nervous before undertaking anything, Ars., Arg. n. Shaking head, Ant. t., Ars., Aur. sul., Can. i., Eupion., Nux m., Sep., Tarent. Head drawn to one side, Camph.; spasmodically to right side in diphtheria, Lachn. Burning pains > by heat, Ars., Caps., Alumina. Bloody sweat, Calc., Lach., Lyc., Nux m., Nux, Arn. Hoarseness 4 to 6 or 8 p.m., Hell. (Coloc. and Pul. at 4 p.m., Col. and Mag. p. 4 to 9 p.m., Carb. v. 3 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.). Constipation when from home (when on journey, Plat.). Laughs at serious things, Pho., Anac., Nat. m., Plat. Laughs and cries alternately, Aur., Pul., Alm., Stram., Bov., Caps., Graph., Pho., Sep., Sul., Ver. Globus hystericus, Ign., Lach., Pul. < Ascending, Ars., Sul. Restlessness > by motion, Rhus (Rhus generally in recent Lyc. in old cases), Puls. > slow motion. Emaciation from above down, Nat. m. Burning as if hot coals between scapulæ, Glo. (burning as if hot water whole length of spine), Pho. Head symptoms > cold, Ars. (Ars. has general > by warmth, Lyc. < by warmth). Flashes of heat, Lach., Sep., Sul. Feet cold and damp to knees, Calc. Sore throat right to left (Lach. left to right) less sensitive than it looks (Lach. more); < cold drink (Lach. > ) Inguinal hernia, Nux (Nux more left, Lyc. more right). Piles, Æsc., Nux, Caust., Alo., Sul. Child screams before passing urine, just as it begins to pass > by flow, red sand (Sarsa. cries before and during flow, grey sand). Sufferings of widowers from unsatisfied desire, &c., Con., Pic. ac., Plat., Calc. Physometra, Bro., Lac c., Nux, Sang. Burning in vagina during coitus, Kre., Sul. Dryness of vagina with painful coitus, Bel., Fer., Nat. m., Sep. Burning and stinging in breasts, Apis, Carb. a., Pho., Lauro. Milk in breasts when it should not be there, Cycl., Pul., Pho.; (unhealthy milk, Cham., Phyt., Acet. ac., Calc., Lach., Pul.) > Fanning (Carb. v. and Sul. in collapse; Lyc. wants the back fanned). Acid dyspepsia, Mag. c., Robin. > By warm drink and food (Pul. and Phos. > by cold food). Catarrh of chest after badly treated pneumonia, Sul. Chest rattling, full of mucus, Ant. t. Child sleeps with eyes half-open, Sul. Black boils, Lach. Distress in stomach immediately after eating (Nux some time after). In labour and threatened miscarriage, pains fly from right to left (Act. r. from side to side; Ip. from left to right with nausea). Ordinary amount of food causes full sensation, Ars. Diphtheria, nose obstructed, excoriating discharge, patient picks and bores nose, Ar. t. (but Lyc. has right to left; < after sleep, even a short nap; irritable and peevish; urine stains red). Large tonsils studded with small indurated ulcers, Bar. c. Aneurism, Bar. c., Carb. an., K. iod. Nævus, Fl. ac., Arn., Thuj., Vacc. Tympanites, Carb. v. (Carb. v. rancid belching; Lyc. sour). Fan-like motion of alæ nasi; one foot hot, one cold, Chel. (Lyc. and Chel. are much alike and complementary; Lyc. favours dark, Chel. fair people; Lyc. pains more dull, Chel. lancinating; Lyc. rumbling of flatus in left hypochondrium, sour taste; Chel. bitter). Distension after eating with great accumulation of flatus, Graph. (Graph. has rancid or putrid eructations, Lyc. has not; Lyc. has constriction, Graph. none). Intermittent fever; syphilis; ulcers; flatulent dyspepsia; < after sleep, Lach. Ulcers on instep (Nat. c. ulcers on heel). Half sight, Nat. m., Titan., Aur., Lith. c. Dyspepsia with thick urine; Sep. (Lyc. repletion after eating, Sep. emptiness of epigastrium); ball in anus, Sep. Yellow-brown spots, Sep., Nux, Curar., Sul. Cough excited by talking, Sil. Impotence, Tab. (Lyc. cured impotence caused by indulgence in tobacco). Ailments from fright, anger, or mortification with reserved displeasure, Staph. Nose stopped at night, Am. c., Nux, Samb. Red sand on child's diaper, Pho. Cries before urinating, Bor. Dryness of vagina, Hdrfb. One foot hot, the other cold, Chi., Dig., Ip. Waking at night hungry, Cin., Pso. Enforced sexual abstinence, Con. Proctalgia, Pho. Craving for sweets, Arg. n., Sul. Pain in head during stool, Indium. Fulness after a meal, Chi. (Chi. after a full meal; Lyc. after ever so little. The Lyc. fulness is full right up into the throat). Colic, &c., > bending over, Coloc. Crampy pains, < night. Nux. After-effects of fevers, Pso.

Causation

Fear. Fright. Chagrin. Anger. Vexation. Anxiety. Fevers. Over-lifting. Masturbation. Riding in carriage. Tobacco-chewing. Wine.

Mind

Silent, melancholy, and peevish humour; despair of eternal salvation. ─ Desponding, grieving mood. ─ Sadness when hearing distant music. ─ Anguish, esp. in region of epigastrium, with melancholy and disposition to weep; esp. after a fit of anger, or on the approach of other persons. ─ Sensitive disposition. ─ Dread of men; desires to be alone, or else aversion to solitude. ─ Excitement after a glass of wine, almost mischievous. ─ Must laugh if any one looks at her to say anything serious. ─ Inclined to laugh and cry at same time. ─ Irritability and susceptibility, with tears. ─ Irascibility. ─ Obstinacy. ─ Estrangement and frenzy, which manifest themselves by envy, reproaches, arrogance, and overbearing conduct. ─ Disposition to be very haughty when sick; mistrustful; does not understand anything one says to them; memory weak. ─ Avaricious. ─ Character, mild and submissive. ─ Complete indifference. ─ Aversion to speaking. ─ Fatigue from intellectual exertion, and incapability of devotion to mental labour. ─ Giddiness. ─ Inability to express oneself correctly; misapplication of words and syllables. ─ Confused speech. ─ Confusion about everyday things, but rational talking on abstract subjects. ─ Inability to remember what is read. ─ Stupefaction. ─ Dulness.

Head

Dizziness and vertigo, as from intoxication. ─ As soon as she sees anything turning about she feels as if her body were turning about. ─ Whirling vertigo, esp. when stooping, or in a warm room, with inclination to vomit. ─ Headache from vexation. ─ Headache, with disposition to faint, and great uneasiness. ─ Headache with vertigo. ─ Heaviness of the head. ─ Headache when shaking or turning head, and also at every step on walking. ─ Cephalalgia above eyes, immediately after breakfast. ─ Semi-lateral headache in evening, < beyond endurance by intellectual labour. ─ Aching as if head would be forced asunder and as if brain were swashing to and fro, < walking, ascending steps, and rising from stooping; could not work and could scarcely step without vertigo. ─ Throbbing after every paroxysm of cough. ─ Pressive headache sometimes as if a nail were being driven into the head, or with tension, which is < by lying down; < at night when lying in bed, and on getting warm while walking in open air; > when walking slowly in open air, from cold, and when uncovering head. ─ Stitches in temples, mostly on r. side, from within to without; < in evening and at night when lying in bed, from heat and exertion of the mind; > from cold and in open air. ─ Thrust in temples during difficult stool. ─ Pain at vertex during moderate pressure at stool. ─ Headache after breakfast. ─ Tearing, boring, and sensation of scraping on external head, during night. ─ Screwing together in forehead, during menses. ─ Jerking in r. frontal bone extending to root of nose and eyebrows. ─ Tearing headache, esp. in afternoon or at night, principally in the (r.) forehead, but often also in whole head, in eyes and nose, extending to teeth, with inclination to lie down. ─ Stupefying headache, with heat in temples and ears; dryness of mouth and lips; < from 4 to 8 p.m., when rising up, and on lying down. ─ Pressing headache on vertex < from 4 to 8 p.m.; from stooping, lying down, exertion of the mind, and followed by great weakness. ─ Tearing in forehead or in r. side of head, extending down to neck, with tearing in face, eyes, and teeth; < on raising oneself up, > on lying down and in the open air. ─ Shooting headache. ─ Throbbing in brain on leaning head backward. ─ Throbbing in head after lying down in evening. ─ Congestion in head, with heat, sometimes in morning on rising up in bed. ─ Shaking and resonance in brain at every step. ─ Boring, scraping, and tearing in scalp, esp. at night. ─ Involuntary movements and convulsive trembling of head. ─ Head turned involuntarily to l. ─ Involuntary nodding: now to r., now to l.; slow at first then constantly more rapid. ─ Involuntary shaking makes him dizzy. ─ Shaking head on stepping hard. ─ Great tendency to take cold by the head. ─ Eruption on the head, with abundant and fetid suppuration, sometimes with obstruction of the glands of the nape and neck. ─ The hair becomes grey early. ─ Baldness; the hair falls out, first on the vertex, later on the temples (after diseases of the abdominal viscera; after parturition), with violent burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, esp. on getting warm from exercise during the day. ─ Scurf over whole scalp, child scratches it raw in night and then it bleeds. ─ Contracted sensation with feeling as if the hair would be pulled up. ─ Hair falls off scalp, but increases on other parts of body.

Eyes

Aching in the eyes. ─ Gnawing, burning, and shooting pains in eyes (and lids), esp. in evening, by candle-light. ─ Smarting in eyes. ─ Sensation of coldness in eyes, evening. ─ Dryness of eyes; and lids; as if dust in them; difficult to open. ─ Smarting and burning. ─ Swelling and painfulness of lids. ─ Inflammation of the eyes and lids. ─ Stye. ─ Styes on the internal canthus. ─ Agglutination of eyelids, esp. at night, and lachrymation, < by day, and in a cold wind. ─ Twitching of the eyelids. ─ Troubled sight, as from feather-down before the eyes. ─ Photophobia. ─ Itching in canthi. ─ Dim, hot eyes. ─ The eyes are wide open, insensible to light, fixed. ─ Dryness of eyes, in evening. ─ Sparks before the eyes, in the dark. ─ Must wipe mucus from eye in order to see clearly. ─ Purulent mucus. ─ Myopia or presbyopia. ─ Hemiopia perpendicularis (sees only l. half of objects, esp. with r. eye). ─ The characters are confused when reading. ─ Obscurity, black spots, glittering, and sparks before eyes. ─ Eyes dazzled and irritated by candle-light in evening.

Ears

Otalgia in open air. ─ Congestion in the ears. ─ Ulceration of the ears. ─ Discharge from the ears. ─ Hearing excessively sensitive to least noise; music occasions fatigue. ─ Tinkling and buzzing in ears. ─ Roaring, humming, and whizzing in ears. ─ Sensation as if hot blood rushed into ears. ─ Congestion of blood in ears. ─ Singing in the ears as from boiling water. ─ Ringing in r. ear; every noise has peculiar echo deep in ear. ─ Hears in evening music she heard played during day. ─ Hardness of hearing. ─ Moist scabs on and behind ears. ─ Has improved deaf-mutism (Cooper).

Nose

Scurf in nose; crusts and elastic plugs. ─ Nostrils ulcerated, scabby, obstructed by mucus at night. ─ Swelling of nose, with acrid, fetid, and corrosive discharge. ─ The ichorous discharge from the nose begins in r. nostril; scarlatina or diphtheria. ─ (Patient bores and picks nose. ─ Convulsive movements of muscles of nose. ─ Fan-like motion of the nostrils in pneumonia. ─ Bleeding from nose, on blowing it, and epistaxis, principally in afternoon. ─ (Nose-bleed in morning from r. nostril.). ─ Excessive acuteness of smell. ─ Coryza with acrid discharge, making the upper lips sore. ─ Coryza of almost all kinds. ─ Dry coryza, with obstruction of the nose, confusion in head, and burning pain in forehead. ─ Dryness of the posterior nares. ─ Obstruction of nostrils, esp. at night, and which prevents respiration except through the mouth. ─ Stoppage: towards morning; in evening; child's breath often stopped in sleep for fifteen seconds even when mouth is open.

Face

Paleness of face, < in evening. ─ Face yellow and earthy, with deep wrinkles, blue circles round eyes, lips bluish. ─ Circumscribed redness of the cheeks. ─ Face red and bloated, with eruptions and red spots. ─ Swelling and tension of face. ─ Tearing in bones of face. ─ Painful sensation of coldness in face. ─ Twitching and convulsive movements in muscles of face. ─ At first l. angle of mouth drawn outward, then r. ─ Muscles of lips and cheeks drawn together making mouth pointed, followed by broad distension of mouth. ─ Frequent attacks of transient heat in face. ─ Eruption on face, sometimes with itching. ─ Ephelis. ─ Tetters on face, which are furfuraceous, and yellow at the base. ─ Lips pale and bluish. ─ Soreness of corners of mouth. ─ Swelling of upper lip. ─ Eruption and excoriations on the lips and their commissures. ─ Eruptions on face, humid and suppurating. ─ The lower jaw hangs down. ─ Ulcers on the red part of the lower lip. ─ Itching eruption round the chin. ─ Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Teeth

Odontalgia only at night, > by hot drinks, and by heat of bed. ─ Dull pains in teeth, with swelling of the cheeks and gums. ─ The teeth ache as if suppurating; are excessively painful on touching them; and when chewing; front teeth loose or too long. ─ Cramp-like drawing, tearing, and jerking, or pulsations in teeth, esp. during or after a meal. ─ Grinding of teeth. ─ Yellowness of the teeth. ─ (Fistula in the gums.). ─ The gums bleed violently on being touched; when cleaning teeth. ─ Gumboils. ─ Swelling of gums, with shocks, tearings, and shootings. ─ Ulcers in the gums.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst, with tension of the parts, the tongue heavy, and speech indistinct. ─ Torpor of the interior of mouth and tongue. ─ Exhalation of a putrid odour from the mouth, esp. in morning when awaking. ─ Buccal hæmorrhage. ─ Tongue foul and coated. ─ Involuntary movements of the tongue. ─ In talking, all the words of a sentence were spoken completely and distinctly except the last, which was stammered; it seemed as though the tongue were affected by a peculiar cramp; no amount of attention to this was of any avail; it lasted four weeks and gradually disappeared of itself. ─ Stiffness of the tongue; vesicles on tip of tongue; they feel scalded and raw. ─ Soreness of tongue. ─ Ulcers on and under tongue (from tobacco). ─ Convulsions of the tongue. ─ The tongue is painful and swollen in different places (tubercles on the tongue). ─ The saliva becomes dry on the palate and lips and is converted into tough mucus. ─ The posterior part of the mouth is covered by tough mucus. ─ Dry and bitter mouth (in the morning). ─ Tongue dry; becomes black and cracked. ─ Tongue is darted out and oscillates to and fro; in sore throat. ─ Tongue distended, giving patient silly expression; in angina or diphtheria.

Throat

Sensation of constriction in throat, with obstructed deglutition. ─ Dryness of throat. ─ Pain, as from excoriation, in throat. ─ Burning pain in throat, with nocturnal thirst. ─ Sensation in throat, as if a ball were ascending from the pit of the stomach. ─ Feeling on l. side of a lump moving up and down. ─ Inflammation of throat and palate, with shooting pain, which obstructs deglutition. ─ Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. ─ The ulceration of the tonsils begins on r. side. ─ The pharynx feels contracted, nothing can be swallowed. ─ Hawking of hard greenish-yellow masses; granular; of bloody mucus. ─ Sticking in region of r. parotid. ─ Sticking in throat during cough. ─ Sticking preventing sneezing. ─ Sensitiveness of the submaxillary glands. ─ Ulcers, like chancres, in the tonsils. ─ Goître.

Appetite

Loss of appetite. ─ Mouth clammy or bitter, esp. in morning, often with nausea. ─ Nausea in pharynx and stomach. ─ Nausea in morning and when riding in a carriage. ─ Sourness in mouth, esp. in morning, or sour taste of food. ─ Absence of thirst, or burning thirst. ─ Nocturnal thirst. ─ Loss of appetite, sometimes with the first mouthful. ─ Sudden satiety. ─ Immoderate hunger. ─ Bulimy. ─ Aversion to: cooked or warm food; rye-bread; meat; coffee; tobacco smoke. ─ Craving for sweet things. ─ Inability to digest heavy food. ─ After a meal: hepatic pains, oppression and fulness in chest and abdomen, nausea, heat in head, redness of face, pulsation and trembling over whole body, hands hot, palpitation of heart, colic, &c. ─ Sourness and diarrhœa after taking milk.

Stomach

Violent risings in afternoon. ─ Incomplete eructations, burning, rising only into pharynx, where they cause burning. ─ Sour eructations, the taste of which does not remain in mouth, but the acid gnaws in the stomach. ─ Burning, sour, greasy or bitter risings. ─ Sour regurgitation of food, esp. of milk. ─ Pyrosis, esp. after a meal. ─ Violent hiccough by fits, esp. after a meal. ─ Nausea when in a room, which disappears in open air, and vice versâ . ─ Frequent continued nausea, esp. in morning, with bitter taste in mouth. ─ Nausea, caused by the motion of a carriage. ─ Sensation of nausea in stomach in morning. ─ Heartburn. ─ Cancer of the stomach. ─ Water-brash, sometimes every second day, with flow of bitter water. ─ Vomiting of food and bile, esp. at night, or when fasting in the morning. ─ Vomiting of bitter, greenish matter. ─ Vomiting of blood. ─ Vomiting between the chill and heat in intermittent fever. ─ Vomiting after a meal with salivation; during menses. ─ Gnawing, griping sensation in region of the stomach. ─ Slow digestion. ─ Pains in stomach, with shivering and deadness of the hands after a slight chill. ─ Periodical pains in stomach, > by heat of bed. ─ Aching in stomach, in evening, and after every meal, sometimes with a bitter taste in mouth. ─ Compressive or contractive pains in stomach. ─ The pains in the stomach manifest themselves principally in morning; in open air; after a meal; or after drinking wine; they are sometimes > in evening, and are often accompanied by cramps in chest and difficulty of respiration. ─ Swelling of epigastrium with painful sensibility to the touch. ─ The clothes round the stomach cause uneasiness. ─ Stitches in l. side of pit of stomach, apparently externally. ─ Pain in epigastrium caused by cough.

Abdomen

Tension round hypochondria, as from the pressure of a hoop. ─ Pressure and tension in liver; esp. on satisfying one's appetite. ─ Cramp-like pain in diaphragm, and contusive pain in liver, on stooping. ─ Pain when walking in upper part of r. hypochondrium, as if the suspensor ligament of the liver would tear. ─ Pressive pain in r. hypochondrium, at times took away the breath, became a sticking. ─ Pain in liver as from a blow, < by touch. ─ Violent gall-stone colic. ─ Sharp pain in dorsal hepatic region, in r. shoulder and arm. ─ Liver region sensitive. ─ Griping; and rumbling in splenic flexure. ─ Inflammation and induration of the liver. ─ Immediately after a (light) meal the abdomen is bloated, full, distended. ─ Has a great appetite, but a small quantity of food fills him up and he feels bloated. ─ Aching pains in abdomen. ─ Fulness and distension of stomach and abdomen. ─ Weight in the abdomen. ─ Sensation of something heavy lying on l. side of abdomen. ─ Brown spots on abdomen. ─ Hardness in the abdomen. ─ Dropsical swelling of the abdomen. ─ Contractive cramp-like pains in the abdomen, which is distended. ─ Tearing, drawing, tension, and pinching in abdomen and sides of abdomen. ─ Clawing in hypogastrium, with suspended respiration. ─ Cutting pains, esp. above the navel. ─ Pain above the navel, on touching the part. ─ Burning pain in the abdomen. ─ Hernia on the r. side. ─ Tearing shootings, pulsation, and pressure in the inguinal ring, as if hernia were on the point of protruding. ─ Cramp-like pains in abdominal muscles, esp. at night. ─ Incarcerated flatus. ─ Imperfect expulsion of flatus. ─ The flatulence cannot pass and causes much pain. ─ Great deal of noisy flatulence in the abdomen, or particularly in the r. hypochondriac region; there seems to be a constant fermentation in the abdomen, which produces a loud croaking sound. ─ Sometimes much rumbling of wind in l. hypochondriac region. ─ Dyspepsia with loud croaking in the abdomen. ─ Affections of the inner lower belly. ─ Full, distended abdomen with cold feet. ─ Gurgling and borborygmi in abdomen, esp. on l. side.

Stool and Anus

Constipation of long standing. ─ Hard stools with ineffectual desire to evacuate. ─ Desire for stool followed by painful constriction of rectum or anus. ─ Small stool, with the sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful accumulations of flatulence. ─ Hæmorrhage from rectum, even after a soft stool. ─ Feeling of fulness in rectum continues after a copious stool. ─ Contractive pain in perinæum, after scanty, hard stool. ─ Stitches in the rectum. ─ Diarrhœa (during pregnancy), with earthy colour of the face. ─ During stool: burning and biting at anus; pressure; tenesmus; ringing in ears; headache; pain in back as if broken; hæmorrhage. ─ After stool: flatulent distension. ─ Constriction of the abdomen, sometimes with ineffectual want to evacuate, and difficult evacuation. ─ Constipation or diarrhœa in pregnant women. ─ Fæces: pale and of a putrid odour; thin brown; pale green mixed with hard lumps; thin yellow or reddish-yellow fluid; shaggy reddish mucus (urethral tenesmus, dysentery); green, stringy, odourless mucus. ─ Discharge of mucus, or of blood, during evacuation. ─ Lumbrici. ─ Pains in the anus after a meal and after an evacuation. ─ Itching and tension in the anus. ─ Incisive pains, shootings and pain as from excoriation in the rectum. ─ Spasms in rectum. ─ Contraction of rectum so that it protrudes during a hard stool. ─ Piles swollen, protruding, burning sticking, protruding during soft stool, painful on touch and when sitting. ─ Hæmorrhoidal excrescences in anus and in rectum, with prolapsus recti. ─ Itching eruption in anus. ─ Itching and tension at the anus (evening in bed). ─ Painful closing of anus. ─ Protrusion of the varices. ─ Distension of the varices of the rectum.

Urinary Organs

Urgent want to urinate, with too frequent emission, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine. ─ Frequent micturition by night, with scanty and rare discharges by day. ─ Dark urine with diminished discharge. ─ Greasy pellicle on the urine. ─ Involuntary micturition. ─ Discharge of blood from the bladder, painless. ─ Old thickening of bladder with irritable urethra. ─ Foamy urine. ─ Urine deep coloured, with yellow or reddish sediment. ─ Clear, transparent urine, having a heavy, red, crystallised sediment in the bottom of the chamber. ─ In typhus fever, where the patient is in a very low state, and cannot retain the urine, we may see this sediment on the sheets; also in colic of babies, with much sediment of this kind on the diaper. ─ A very severe pain is felt in the back every time before urinating; causing patient to cry out; retention of urine; patients will get into position to urinate, but wait a great while before the water comes, accompanied by the characteristic pain in the back, which ceases when the urine flows; children often cry out with pain before urinating. ─ Turbid, milky urine, with an offensive purulent sediment; dull pressure in region of bladder and abdomen; disposition to calculi; cystitis. ─ Hæmaturia from gravel or chronic catarrh. ─ Renal calculus and gravel. ─ Emission of blood instead of water, sometimes with paralysis of the legs, and constipation. ─ Incontinence of urine. ─ Smarting when urinating. ─ Itching in urethra during and after emission of urine. ─ Shooting pinchings and incisive pains in the bladder and urethra. ─ Stitches in the bladder. ─ Stitches in the neck of the bladder and in the anus at the same time. ─ Burning in urethra and glans. ─ Urine burning hot, like molten lead.

Male Sexual Organs

Shooting, drawing, and incisive pain in the glans. ─ Bastard gonorrhœa, with a deep red and smarting pustule behind the glans. ─ Excoriation between scrotum and thighs. ─ Dropsical swelling of genital organs. ─ Immoderate excitement, or absence of sexual desire. ─ Repugnance to coition, or disposition to be too easily excited to it. ─ Impotence of long standing. ─ Weakness or total absence of erections. ─ Penis small, cold, relaxed. ─ Itching of the internal surface of the prepuce. ─ Excessive pollutions, or absence of pollutions. ─ Emission too speedy or too tardy during coition. ─ Falling asleep during coition. ─ Lassitude, after coition or pollutions. ─ Flow of prostatic fluid, without an erection.

Female Sexual Organs

Nymphomania with terrible teasing desire in external organs. ─ Itching, burning, and gnawing in vulva. ─ Pressure towards the outside, above the vulva, and extending as far as the vagina, when stooping. ─ Expulsion of wind from the vagina. ─ Chronic dryness of vagina. ─ Shooting pains in labia, when lying down. ─ Excoriation between the thighs, and at the vulva. ─ Burning pain in the vagina, during and after coition. ─ Catamenia (too early) too profuse, and of too long duration. ─ Catamenia suppressed readily, and for a long time, by fright. ─ Before menses: shivering, sadness, melancholy; bloatedness of the abdomen. ─ During menses: delirium, with tears; headache; sourness in the mouth; pain in loins; swelling of feet; fainting; vomiting of sour matter; cuttings, colic; and pains in the back. ─ Menstruation too late; lasts too long; sometimes suppression of; profuse, protracted; flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum; with labour-like pains followed by swooning; with sadness; suppressed by fright. ─ May find females at change of life with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied. ─ Fœtus appears to be turning summersaults. ─ Metrorrhagia; at menopause; dark blood with large clots pour from her. ─ A rumbling begins in upper abdomen and descends to lower, when a flow of blood follows, and so on successively. ─ Leucorrhœa: milky, yellowish, reddish, and corrosive; sometimes preceded by cuttings in abdomen. ─ Varices on the genitals. ─ Disposition to miscarriages. ─ Swelling of the breasts with nodosities. ─ Excoriation and moist scabs on nipples. ─ Stinging in nipples. ─ Milk in breasts without being pregnant.

Respiratory Organs

Crawling scraping in trachea, at night. ─ Hoarseness, with roughness, and pain as from excoriation in chest, after speaking. ─ (Voice feeble and husky.). ─ Whizzing breathing in daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in chest; loud rattling. ─ Voice weak and dull. ─ Cough after drinking. ─ Obstinate dry cough in morning. ─ Nocturnal cough, < before sunrise, which affects the head, diaphragm, and stomach. ─ Dry cough, day and night. ─ Cough excited by a tickling, or as if produced by the vapour of sulphur, or by taking a deep inspiration, generally with a yellowish grey and saltish expectoration, sometimes with great weakness of stomach, fever, nocturnal sweat, and emaciation. ─ Cough with expectoration through the day and without expectoration during the night. ─ Whooping-cough from irritation in trachea as from fumes of sulphur, in the morning and during the day, with expectoration of fetid pus or of mucus streaked with blood. ─ Cough < from 4 to 6 p.m., frequently on alternate days, from exertion, from stretching the arms out, stooping and lying down, when lying on l. side, from eating and drinking cold things, in the wind, or in warm room. ─ Cough (morning), with copious expectoration of greenish matter. ─ Copious expectoration of pus, when coughing. ─ Cough, with expectoration of blood. ─ When coughing, shocks in the head, shortness of breath, smarting and concussion in chest, or pains in region of stomach.

Chest

Short respiration during almost every effort, also in children, esp. during sleep. ─ Continued oppression of the chest, < by walking in open air. ─ Rattling of mucus and stertorous respiration. ─ When breathing, twitching and shooting in chest and sides of chest. ─ Pain as if from a bruise in the chest. ─ Constant pressure in the chest (it feels raw internally). ─ Weight in the chest. ─ Tension in anterior part of chest. ─ Lancinations in the chest, esp. on l. side, and principally when sneezing or coughing, on laughing, or on the slightest movement, sometimes with inability to remain lying on affected side, and difficult respiration. ─ Pain as from excoriation in the chest, esp. after speaking. ─ Stitches in the l. side of chest, also during an inspiration. ─ Typhoid and neglected pneumonias. ─ Hepatisation of the lungs. ─ Paralysis of the lungs. ─ Hydrothorax. ─ Itching on the chest. ─ Stitches in the side, alternately with toothache and pains in the limbs. ─ Painful eruption and maculæ hepaticæ on the chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, esp. during digestion, or in bed in evening, sometimes attended with anxiety and trembling. ─ Accelerated pulse, with cold face and feet. ─ Palpitation of the heart with flapping of the wings of the nose; enlargement of the heart; hypertrophy in general. ─ Cramp and constriction, dyspnœa, stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of back and shoulders; sharp pains shooting into heart, sensation of stoppage of circulation at night, with fright and then sweat, pulse quick and unsteady (angina pectoris). ─ Dyspnœa, cyanosis, hasty eating and drinking (heart disease). ─ Beating of temporal arteries and carotids. ─ Heart sounds heard loudly on lying down at night, keeping patient awake. ─ (Hypertrophy.). ─ (Aneurism.). ─ (Hydropericardium.).

Neck and Back

Traction and contraction from the nape of the neck to the occiput. ─ Rigidity of the nape of the neck, sometimes caused by lifting a weight. ─ Maculæ hepaticæ in the nape of the neck. ─ Tetters on nape of neck and under armpits. ─ Furunculi under armpits. ─ Stiffness, swelling, and induration of one side of neck. ─ Painful stiffness of l. side of neck. ─ Burning as of red-hot coals between scapulæ. ─ Swelling of glands of neck and of the shoulder, with shooting pain. ─ Weakness and paralysis of muscles of neck. ─ Painful eruption on neck. ─ Large clusters of red pimples around neck, with violent itching. ─ Soreness of the neck. ─ Goître. ─ Violent sacral pains, which do not permit sitting upright. ─ Pains in the back and loins, esp. when moving, stooping, and lifting anything, often accompanied by constrictive pains in abdomen. ─ Shootings in loins on rising up after stooping. ─ Drawing, tearing, and shooting pains in back and loins, with difficult respiration, chiefly when seated, and also at night. ─ Pain in back and r. side, from congestion of the liver. ─ Stitches in region of kidneys, < from pressure; extending into rectum. ─ Distortion of the spine.

Upper Limbs

Tearings and shootings in the joints of shoulder and elbow. ─ Rheumatic tension in r. shoulder-joint. ─ Pain in bones of arms at night. ─ Weakness of arms when at work. ─ Difficulty in moving arms as if rheumatism were creeping on, with nodes on fingers. ─ Pain as from a sprain in r. wrist-joint. ─ Swelling of axillary glands. ─ Nocturnal aching pains, in the arms and elbow. ─ Drawing pain in arms. ─ Jerking in shoulders and arms, also during it siesta. ─ Paralytic weakness of arms. ─ Arms and fingers easily benumbed, even at night, or only when raising them. ─ Biting, itching, and maculæ hepaticæ in the arms. ─ Arthritic stiffness of the elbow and wrist. ─ Tetters on the arms. ─ Erysipelatous inflammation in the forearm, with suppuration. ─ Dryness of the skin of the hands. ─ Burning sensation in the palms. ─ Red and painless swelling of the hands. ─ Warts on the hands and fingers. ─ Deadness of fingers and hands. ─ Involuntary trembling of the hands. ─ Red swelling and arthritic tearing in joints of fingers. ─ Arthritic nodosities and stiffness in fingers. ─ Stiffness of the fingers during labour. ─ Itching pimples between the fingers. ─ Panaritum. ─ Contraction and twitches in the fingers. ─ Chilblains. ─ Gouty contraction of palmar fascia: sudden pain runs down arm (l.?) causing fingers to stiffen and draw away from each other and to draw towards hand, as though palmar fascia were contracting (Cooper).

Lower Limbs

Rheumatic tension in l. hip. ─ Pain as from a sprain in hip. ─ Periodical pains, from coxo-femoral joint to foot, every fourth day. ─ Tearing: beneath r. hip; in l. hip-joint. ─ Drawing along sciatic nerves to feet, evening, in bed. ─ Pain in muscles about joints, on pressure, sitting or lying. ─ Pain in r. hip > walking in open air. ─ Pain from r. hip-joint to feet when walking, he must limp. ─ Tearing in legs and knees, extending to tibia and instep, esp. in evening and at night. ─ Soreness in inner side of l. thigh, with biting itching extending to genitals. ─ Brown spots on inner side of thighs, inflamed with burning pain. ─ Uneasiness, shocks, and trembling in legs and feet, esp. in evening and at night. ─ Involuntary shaking in legs, or alternate separation and bringing together again of the thighs. ─ Burning and biting itching in the legs, esp. in the hams. ─ Curvature and stiffness of the knees. ─ Swelling (and stiffness) of the knees. ─ Swelling of the knee, with perspiration. ─ Swelling of the legs, with large, red, burning spots, and pains which prevent walking. ─ Paralysis of the legs, with emission of blood instead of urine, and constipation. ─ Tetters on the legs and calves of the legs. ─ White swelling in the knee. ─ Cramps and cramp-like pains in the calves, esp. when walking, and at night. ─ Burning pain in legs. ─ Ulcers in the legs, with nocturnal tearing, itching, and burning heat. ─ Pain in the soles when walking. ─ Cramps in the feet and toes. ─ Swelling of the feet and of the malleoli, or of the soles (with shooting pain). ─ Coldness of the feet. ─ One foot (r.) hot the other cold. ─ Cold sweat on feet, sometimes copious, and with excoriation of the skin. ─ Stitches in r. big toe (evening). ─ Rhagades in the heel. ─ Cramp in the toes. ─ Bending of the toes when walking. ─ Contraction of the toes. ─ Corns on the feet, sometimes with shooting pain.

Generalities

Affections in general of r. eye; r. side of face; r. hypochondrium; r. abdominal ring; l. chest; l. lower extremity; general symptoms r. side (though they may spread to the l.); hair of head; rectum; bladder; hands; fingers; finger-joints; back part in the lumbar region, and ankles. ─ Hard hearing; smell too sensitive. ─ Deep furrows on the face; same on forehead; sensations in the temples. ─ Collection of water in the mouth, i.e., "mouth waters.". ─ Pains in different parts as from flatus: over r. hip; below chest; in lower abdomen, &c. ─ Obstructed evacuation; painless diarrhœa. ─ Anything running from r. to l. ─ Apoplexia; erethism of blood accompanied with flashes of heat; chlorosis. ─ Consumption resulting from badly treated pneumonia. ─ Crooked legs; ankles weak; painless paralysis; old sprains; tension, tightness of the joints. ─ Enlargement of the bones. ─ Drawing and tearing in extremities, < at night and during repose; sometimes also in the afternoon; every second day, and esp. in windy and rainy weather, > by heat. ─ Shooting pains, internal and external. ─ Painful stiffness of muscles and joints, often with torpor and insensibility of the extremities. ─ Numbness of the limbs. ─ Great liability to strain the back, which, when it occurs, is often followed by stiffness in nape of neck. ─ Cramps and contraction of limbs. ─ Alternate spasmodic and involuntary extension and retraction of some of the muscles, or some of the extremities. ─ Shocks and jerks in some of the limbs or throughout the body, during sleep and on waking. ─ Cramps, internal and external, < at night. ─ Attacks of epilepsy, sometimes with cries, foam at the mouth (loss of consciousness, throws the arms and limbs about), and great anguish of heart (imagined he would have to die). ─ Dropsical and inflammatory swellings. ─ Varices. ─ Arthritic nodosities. ─ Swelling of the glands. ─ Inflammation of the bones, with nocturnal pains. ─ Distortion and softening of the bones. ─ Ulceration of the bones. ─ The symptoms are frequently < towards 4 p.m., and begin to abate towards 8 p.m., the weakness excepted. ─ Periodical sufferings. ─ The whole body feels bruised. ─ Ebullition of blood throughout the body, esp. in the evening, with inquietude and trembling. ─ Sensation, as if the circulation of the blood were suspended. ─ Internal weakness. ─ Great nervous excitability. ─ Weakness and lassitude in limbs, < during repose, or on waking in morning. ─ Fatigue, esp. in the legs, after a very short walk, accompanied by a burning sensation in the feet. ─ Fear of movement, with constant desire to remain lying down. ─ Total prostration of strength, with falling of the lower jaw, eyes cloudy and half closed, and slow respiration through the mouth. ─ Great emaciation, also with children. ─ Fainting fits, esp. in evening, and sometimes also on lying down, with loss of consciousness, cloudiness of sight, and great listlessness. ─ Trembling of limbs. ─ Want of vital heat. ─ Great desire for, or marked repugnance to fresh air, with excessive sensitiveness to cool air. ─ Great tendency to take cold. ─ < From east winds.

Skin

Gnawing and itching in daytime, on getting heated, or in evening, before lying down. ─ Tendency of the skin to become chapped. ─ Painful eruptions. ─ Nettle-rash (chronic). ─ Large red spots on skin. ─ Itching maculæ hepaticæ. ─ Abundant ephelis. ─ Insensible tetters, of a yellowish brown, wrinkled or moist, purulent, full of deep cracks and thick scabs. ─ Large furunculi, which return periodically. ─ Mercurial ulcers. Bleeding ulcers, with shooting pain, which burn while being dressed, or with nocturnal tearing and itching. ─ Fistulous ulcers, with callous, red edges, reversed and shining, sometimes with inflammation and swelling of the part affected. ─ Excoriated places on the skin of children; the sore places are humid. ─ Intertrigo; raw places bleeding easily. ─ Skin unhealthy, corrosive vesicles. ─ Nævus maternus. ─ Vascular tumours. ─ Warts. ─ Corns which are very sensitive, or with tearing pains. ─ Exanthema in general, particularly with biting sensation; moist; scurfy; tearing and painful. ─ Want of action of the skin. ─ Itch, burning; creeping. ─ Skin scurfy; sticky; clammy. ─ Brown mortification. ─ Pale swelling. ─ Salt rheum. ─ Varices suppurating. ─ Chilblains. ─ Great dryness of the skin.

Sleep

Frequent, and sometimes interrupted, yawning. ─ Inclination to sleep during day and early in evening, with sleep retarded by mental activity and excessive nervous excitement. ─ Disturbed and restless sleep, with anxious and frightful dreams, and frequent waking with fright. ─ Loud coughing during sleep; screaming while asleep. ─ Sopor. ─ Hunger at night when waking. ─ Unrefreshing sleep. ─ Soporous sleep in typhoid and exanthematous fevers. ─ Voluptuous, vivid, mournful dreams; dreams of murder or of the occupations of the day, &c. ─ Anxious dreams of fatal accidents. ─ Jerks, cries, starts with fright, or bursts of laughter, or tears and groans during sleep. ─ (Sleeps with eyes half-opened,). ─ Sleeps with mouth open. ─ At night, jerking and restlessness in the legs, headache, anguish, nightmare, ebullition of blood and palpitation of heart, stomach-ache, colic, asthmatic sufferings, &c. ─ Lying on l. side is difficult on account of the palpitation of heart and stitches. ─ It is impossible to remain lying down at night on account of every position being uneasy. ─ Child sleeps all day and cries all night.

Fever

Shivering in evening, sometimes only on one side; or every second day, with heat, or followed by sweat without heat. ─ Chilliness in the afternoon from 4 to 8, with sensation as of numbness in hands and feet. ─ Chilliness in evening in bed, preventing sleep. ─ One-sided chilliness, mostly on the l. side. ─ Chills and heat alternating. ─ Want of vital heat. ─ Tertian fever, with sour vomiting and bloatedness of the face and hands after the shivering. ─ Transient heat. ─ Burning heat, with short respiration. ─ Flashes of heat over whole body, mostly towards evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time; constipation and increased micturition. ─ The perspiration is frequently cold, smelling sour, or offensive, or smelling like onions, or bloody. ─ Intermittent fever. ─ Nausea and vomiting and then chilliness, followed by perspiration (without previous heat). ─ Chilliness in the evening till midnight, this is followed by heat, in the morning sour-smelling perspiration. ─ Great heat and redness of the cheeks, alternating with chilliness. ─ Shaking chill 7 p.m., and great coldness as if lying in ice, with traction through whole body, upon waking up from sleep, which is full of dreams, covered with perspiration, perspiration is followed by violent thirst. ─ Typhus fever (with threatening paralysis of the brain). ─ Malignant fever, with malevolence and ill-humour on waking, or with nervous excitability, without heat of the head or redness of the face, red spots on the cheeks, great weakness, sweat without any mitigation, tongue red and dry, and constipation. ─ Slow fever, with viscid sweat, at night. ─ Fever, with total prostration of strength, lower jaw hanging down, eyes clouded and half-closed, and respiration slow, with the mouth open. ─ Sweat principally in face, easily excited during the day by slight exercise. ─ Febrile sweat by day. ─ Nocturnal sweat, often fetid or viscid, principally on chest and back. ─ Pulse only accelerated in the evening and afternoon. ─ Sensation as if circulation stood still.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Unconsciousness.
Vanishing of thoughts.
Weak memory, old people are very forgetful.
Uses wrong words for correct ideas ; uses wrong syllables ; makes mistakes in writing ; spells words wrong ; mixes up letters and syllables, or omits parts of words.
She was quite unable to write ; having written a letter, she could not read it.
Cannot remember meaning of single letters ; imitates in writing without knowing signification.
Cannot read, because meaning of certain letters is not clear ; makes mistakes in speaking, because he cannot get right words ; when subject is very important, words are correctly chosen. θ Indigestion.
Thoughts confused, unable to fix them ; difficult to find fitting words.
Absent minded ; supposes to be in two places at a time.
Mental torpor and weakness ; slow of comprehension ; dulness to imbecility.
Fancies and delirium.
Child desires to be carried.
Taciturnity ; desires to be alone.
Dread : of men ; of solitude, irritability and melancholy.
Weeps all day, cannot calm herself, < from 4 to 8 P. M.
Sensitive ; even cries when thanked.
Her answers are quick, anxious and tremulous ; wandering ; imperiousness ; speaks with an air of command ; manner stiff and pretentious ; strikes her attendant and grows angry ; scolds much and violently at imaginary persons, or
laughs and cries alternately, or is exceedingly hilarious.
Catching at flocks.
Excessively merry and laughs at simplest things, again melancholy and low spirited.
Melancholy : has doubts about her salvation ; before catamenia ; in child characters.
Desponding, grieving mood.
Satiety of life, particularly mornings in bed.
Apprehensiveness, difficult breathing ; fearfulness.
Easily frightened and starts up ; feels frightened at everything, even ringing of door bell.
Anthropophobia (in children) ; fear of phantoms in evening, with anguish.
Anxious thoughts, as if about to die, for which she prepares farewell messages.
Indifferent, taciturn ; insensibility to external impressions.
Amativeness or amorousness.
Want of self-confidence ; indecision ; timidity ; resignation.
Loss of confidence : in his own vigor ; in physician and remedies.
Sensitive, irritable disposition ; peevish and cross on getting awake ; easily excited to anger ; cannot endure slightest opposition, and is speedily beside herself.
Obstinate, defiant, arbitrary ; seeks disputes.
Very ill humored and morose, just before menstruation.
Discontented and impatient.
Misanthropic ; flies even from his own children.
Distrustful, suspicious and fault finding. θ Dyspepsia. θ Chronic hepatic congestion. θ Excess
of lithic gravel.
Haughty, reproachful and overbearing.
Parsimonious, greedy, avaricious, malicious and pusillanimous.
Ailments from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation, with reserved displeasure.
Nervous action weakened ; threatened softening of brain from overwork, or metastasis of ulcers suddenly healed.
Oversensitiveness to pain ; patient is beside himself.

Sensorium

Impending cerebral paralysis ; somnolence ; staring eyes ; dropped jaw. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Stupor, right pupil dilated ; grunting expirations, occasional outcries ; tympanitis ; head bent back ; urine dark ; constipated ; lower jaw sunken ; sliding down in bed.
Stupefying headache ; heat in temples and ears ; mouth and lips dry ; < from 4 to 8 P. M., rising up or lying down.
Vertigo : rising from seat ; whilst drinking ; in hot room ; in morning, when and after rising from bed, he reels back and forth ; in forenoon ; nausea, seems as though everything were turning round ; constantly dreads falling.
Congestion of blood to head, especially in morning when raising himself in bed.
Gets hot, face reddens, eyes water and become dim. θ Vertigo.

Inner head

Hammering pain in centre of forehead.
Tearing in forehead or right side of head, extending down to neck, with tearing in face, eyes and teeth ; < on rising, > lying down.
Burning, tearing pain in forehead, day and night.
Much dull frontal headache.
Headache above eyes : immediately after breakfast ; accompanying severe colds.
Pain in temples, as if screwed together ; < during menses.
Stitches in temples, mostly right, from within outward.
Semilateral headache ; shattered or concussed feeling at every step.
Pressing headache on vertex ; < from 4 to 8 P. M., from stooping, lying down and exerting mind ; followed by great weakness.
Pain in upper part of occiput, followed by unconsciousness. θ Hydrocephalus.
Awakes with violent headache, throbbing on top of head.
Throbbing in brain, leaning head backward, during day.
Headache as if bones of skull were being driven asunder, or as if brain was vacillating to and fro, especially when walking, going up stairs, or rising from stooping.
Throbbing headache : from motion ; after every paroxysm of coughing.
Congestive headache ; head seems as if it would burst.
Shaking in head on stepping hard.
Headache with stupefaction.
Violent headache at night, as if caused by a wrong position.
If she does not eat during ravenous hunger, she is attacked with headache, which disappears after eating.
Headache < from warmth of bed, getting warm while walking, and from mental exertion, or chagrin ; > lying down, in open, cold air, and uncovering head.
Drowsiness, loud screams during sleep ; sleep with half open eyes, throwing head from side to side with moaning ; bad humor after sleep ; comatose ; emaciation ; pale face ; flushes of heat in face ; spasmodic twitching of
face ; stiff neck ; constipation ; complications with eruptive fevers and pneumonia. θ Tubercular meningitis.
Dread of solitude ; active, irritable and melancholy mind ; stupefying headache, pain extending down neck, with great weakness ; acute hearing, with roaring in ears ; acute smell ; tongue swollen ; bloating of abdomen, with tension as of a hoop, same in
chest ; much flatus ; urine loaded with lithates ; burning pain between shoulders ; numbness and twitching through body and limbs. θ Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
In delicate anemic children ; heaviness and obtuseness of head ; stupefaction ; convulsive motions of head, face, and extremities ; hemiopia or amblyopia ; coldness of face or of whole body ; indistinct speech and heaviness of tongue ; sleepiness ;
screaming out in sleep, delirious words ; frequently indicated after Calcar., when erethic symptoms are followed by deep coma. θ Hydrocephalus acutus.

Outer head

Tearing, boring and scraping on external head during night.
Head drawn to right side, or bent backward ; spasmodic shaking of head.
Head easily becomes cold ; cutting soreness of scalp.
Itching of scalp ; dandruff, smelling badly.
Pityriasis in spots on scalp ; fair haired, strumous girls.
Eruption, beginning on back of head ; crusts thick, easily bleeding, oozing a fetid moisture or emitting a mousy smell ; < at night, after scratching, and from warmth. θ Crusta
lactea.
Eruption on head with swollen cervical glands.
Circular patch on vertex denuded of hair ; scalp puffed up by accumulation in subjacent cellular tissue of bloody, offensive pus, which discharges from time to time. θ Herpes tonsurans.
Whole of occipital region and also other parts of head covered with a thick, loose and porous crust, bottom of which seemed full of vermin ; severe itching, causing constant scratching and rubbing ; discharge of bloody, watery, lymph-like pus, so profuse that it ran down neck
and back, < at night ; glands of throat and neck swollen ; extremely offensive odor ; face pale and covered with small red pimples, points of which contain pus ; eruption behind ears ; outer ear occasionally covered with thick crusts ; discharge of pus from
ear.
Plica polonica.
Hair falls off : after abdominal diseases ; after parturition ; burning, scalding, itching of scalp, especially on getting warm from exercise.
Hair becomes grey too early.

Sight and eyes

Photophobia ; evening light blinds him ; in artificial light all objects tremble.
Eyes dazed by light, and painful as if bruised.
Floating black spots before eyes ; sparks in the dark ; letters run together or become indistinct while reading or writing, must vary distance of page ; as of a veil and flickering, after siesta ; obscuration as from feathers.
Hemiopia, sees only left half of objects.
Vision weak, unable to distinguish small objects even at a short distance ; seems as though one was looking through fine lattice.
Sees everything dimly, as through a fog ; can only see rude outline of objects ; in walking, needs assistance ; slight haziness of lens, < in right eye ; menses absent. θ After
typhoid.
Night blindness, with black spots before eyes.
Hemeralopia ; obliged to stop work at 4 P. M., because he cannot see after that hour ; attacks come suddenly, with severe cutting pains.
Hypermetropic, double convergent strabismus ; cannot see after 7.30 P. M., from February to July each year ; a fog seems to shut him in ; photophobia in daytime ; keeps lids nearly closed ; conjunctiva palpebrarum congested ; congestion of optic nerve ;
pustules developed on margin of left cornea (improved). θ Retinitis hemarolopica.
Cataract : with suppressed menses ; after typhus ; with chronic dyspepsia.
Inflammation of cornea, with bulging.
Staphylomatous protrusion.
Eyes very much sunken, blue rings.
Eyes seem too large.
Eyes hot, dim, wide open, fixed and insensible to light.
Cold feeling in eyes.
Dryness of eyes ; in evening and at night ; obliged to close lids ; difficult to open, smarting in morning.
Pressive pain in eyes, as if dust was in them.
Burning and itching in eyes.
Stitches and soreness in eyes, evenings, when looking at light.
Redness of eyes and pressure in them.
Much mucus in eyes, with smarting pain.
Inflammation of eyes, with itching in both canthi, redness and swelling of lids of right eye ; distressing pain, as if they were dry, with nightly agglutination.
Catarrhal or scrofulous ophthalmia ; secretion thick, yellowish, green.
After catching cold during an attack of jaundice, severe inflammation of eyes ; on fifth day copious discharge of pus from under puffed lids ; lids opened with difficulty ; conjunctivæ looked like raw meat ; cornea dim.
Arthritic catarrh of conjunctiva, with accumulation of white matter in corners.
Ophthalmia neonatorum during suppurative stage.
Inflammatory affections of eyes, with nocturnal agglutination and lachrymation by day.
Smarting and burning of lids.
Ulceration and redness of eyelids ; water flows from eyes, smarts and bites cheeks.
Granular eyelids, dry, with smarting.
Itching in canthi.
Pustules and styes on lids, more toward inner canthi.
Polypus as large as a pea, pedunculated, growing from outer canthus of right eye.
Lachrymal fistula.
Small red spots ; bloody extravasations scattered here and there around eyes, in consequence of straining at vomiting. θ Vomiting during pregnancy.

Hearing and ears

Oversensitiveness of hearing ; sensitive to musical sounds and noise.
Roaring, humming, whizzing, rushing in ears, or singing as from boiling water ; hardness of hearing.
Sensation as if hot blood rushed into ears.
Impairment or loss of hearing, in connection with otorrhœa ; integrity of organic part of middle ear unaffected ; patient scrofulous, with swelling of glands of neck.
Loss of hearing after scarlet fever ; offensive, bad looking discharge from ears ; loss of speech, due to his not being able to hear words.
Otorrhœa : purulent, ichorous ; after scarlatina ; with impaired hearing ; after severe otitis interna.
External meatus excoriated by offensive discharge ; drumhead destroyed ; cannot bear to be covered ; after scarlet fever, with affections of parotid glands, eruptions and abdominal troubles. θ Otitis
media.
Small ulcers or polypi in ear.
Tearing in right and left meatus.
Itching in ear (in sleep).
Humid, suppurating scurfs in and behind ears.
Eczema of ears, with thick crusts and fissures in skin.

Smell and nose

Oversensitiveness of smell.
Frequent epistaxis ; principally in afternoon.
Dryness and stoppage of nose.
Stopped catarrh, cannot get breath at night.
Nose stopped up, especially at root ; breathes with open mouth and protruding tongue. θ Diphtheria.
Stoppage of nose, with dryness of posterior nares, fetid secretion, hoarseness, rawness, and soreness of chest ; nightly tickling cough, with sensation as from sulphur-vapor in throat.
Snuffles, child starts out of sleep rubbing its nose.
Fluent coryza, with redness of eyes and lachrymation, frequent flushes of heat and yawning.
Violent coryza, nose swollen ; discharge acrid ; excoriating ; posterior nares dry.
Long lasting coryza, discharge purulent.
Violent catarrh, with swelling of nose.
Catarrh, with acrid discharge from nose, makes upper lip sore.
Ichorous discharge from nose, begins in right nostril. θ Scarlatina. θ Diphtheria.
Catarrh of nose and frontal sinuses ; discharge yellow and thick ; frontal headache ; yellow complexion.
Thick yellow discharge, copious and fatty ; constipation ; prostration ; impotence ; palpitation. θ Nasal catarrh.
Scurf or crusts in nose ; nightly closure of nasal openings in dry coryza.
Discharge of elastic plugs from nose. θ Catarrh.
Very sensitive smell ; violent coryza, acrid and making upper lip sore ; posterior nares feel dry, and nostril is closed every morning with what looks like inspissated pus. θ Polypus.
Fanlike motion of alæ nasi. θ Pneumonia.
Pimples sore and acrid on end of nose.
Child wakes at night and rubs nose so much and long that parents are frightened ; it won't stop rubbing its nose. θ Catarrh of breast.

Upper face

Copper colored eruption on forehead.
Silly expression.
Face : pale, dirty, sickly ; pale, with circumscribed red cheeks ; earthy, yellow, with deep furrows ; blue circles around eyes, blue lips ; yellowish grey.
Flushes of heat in face ; burning.
Heat in face after eating, particularly in left cheek.
Glowing redness of face, with a fine network of capillaries.
Great heat in face without redness.
Spasmodic twitching of facial muscles.
Tearing pain in bones of cheeks.
Œdema of face ; puffy and pale yellow.
Eruption on face, humid, suppurating.
Red, bloated face, full of dark red spots, covered with pustules.
Gnawing, biting pains in right malar bone, extending into sound and affected teeth, with swelling of cheek and inability to chew ; on disappearance of this pain has pain in right side of face, right temple and parietal bone ; small ulcers in
ear.
Eruption covering whole right cheek ; thick, dry and scaly, itching and troublesome ; constant disposition to breaking out on left cheek also. θ Barber's itch.

Lower face

Lower jaw drops : during sleep ; with stupor, in exhausting fevers.
Drawing or lacerating in lower jaw.
Eruption around mouth ; corners of mouth sore.
Swelling of lower lip.
Large ulcer on vermilion border of lower lip. θ Cancer.
Itching, papular eruption about chin.
Small, white, pedunculated warts on chin, appearing over night.
Stitches in region of right parotid.
Submaxillary glands swollen.

Teeth and gums

Teeth : become yellow ; excessively painful to touch ; front teeth loose or as if too long ; painful on chewing.
Toothache : with swelling of cheek ; > by heat of bed, warm drinks and warm applications ; from slightest touch of teeth or from shock of coughing ; only at night ; when it ceases in morning, great excitement and uneasiness, which keep her awake.
Violent stitches follow each other in slow succession in hollow teeth, ceasing after getting warm in bed.
Odontalgia caused by carious teeth ; dull pain < from eating ; swelling and ulceration of gums.
Constant throbbing ; teeth sensitive and elongated ; salivation.
Swelling between upper gums and malar bone, with swelling of cheek ; awoke with violent headache, throbbing on top of head.
Swelling of gum above front teeth, with swelling of upper lip.
Profuse bleeding of gums when touched or cleaning teeth.
Gumboils ; fistula dentalis.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : too acute ; sour ; bitter ; fatty ; mouldy ; cheesy.
Bad taste in mouth : soon after eating ; on awaking in morning ; tongue thick and burning, as after much smoking.
Tongue : coated white ; sour taste ; heavy, trembling ; stiff with indistinct speech and dryness, mornings ; red, dry ; becomes black and cracked ; painful and swollen in places, hindering speech ; tubercles ; convulsions of tongue ; gets
involuntarily between upper teeth and lip, and then between under teeth and lip ; darts out and oscillates to and fro.
Tongue distended, giving patient a silly expression. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.
Numerous blisters on tongue ; burning pain ; vesicles on tip feeling scalded and raw.
Ulcers on and under tongue.

Inner mouth

Mouth and tongue dry, without thirst ; dry and bitter in morning.
Saliva dries on palate and lips, becoming tough.
Increased secretion of saliva, tasting salty.
Accumulation of water in mouth ; with nausea ; with dyspepsia.
Sensitiveness of submaxillary glands ; increased secretion of saliva.
Putrid smell from mouth, especially in morning when awaking.
Small tumors in mouth in various places.
Gums and velum palati covered with a lardaceous coating. θ Syphilis.

Palate and throat

Feeling of contraction in throat, nothing goes down ; food and drink regurgitate through nose.
Feeling as if a ball rose up in throat from below.
Choking in throat provoking constant swallowing.
Accumulation of mucus in throat, with inclination to swallow.
Soreness of throat, with difficult swallowing.
Burning or pricking in throat and pharynx.
Pain in throat, with sensation of constriction in region of submaxillary glands.
Difficult swallowing of liquids ; as if entrance to pharynx was constricted.
Ulceration of tonsils.
Swelling and suppuration of tonsils and glands.
Pain and soreness begins on right side of throat. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.
Inflammation of fauces, deep seated stitching pain, with swollen sensation, as if a hard body lodged in back part of throat ; thick, yellow and greenish yellow expectoration, firm and almost hard in centre, in morning.
Swelling of right cervical glands, which disappeared and was followed by swelling in left throat, with difficult swallowing ; whitish ulcer in left tonsil, with soreness there ; swelling of left cervical glands ; hot drinks make throat smart ; < from 4 P. M. θ Ulcerated
throat.
Sore throat for six days, commencing on right side ; tongue much swollen ; cannot protrude it beyond teeth, hindering swallowing and speaking ; pulse 120 ; skin hot ; restless at night ; increased saliva ; breath offensive ; left side of face
swollen.
Soreness of throat commenced on right side, extending to left ; whitish ulcer on right tonsil ; sharp pain on swallowing, especially warm drinks ; pains as if bruised all over limbs ; frontal headache ; brown tongue ; pulse 120. θ Ulcerated
throat.
Throat sore on right side ; sensation when swallowing as if head opened and pain shot down into abdomen ; when sitting up, pain shoots through head.
Swelling and suppuration of tonsils, going from right to left.
Tonsils covered with lardaceous ulcers. θ Syphilis.
Inflammation and enlargement of tonsil, over surface of which, at about equal distances, are found half a dozen or more minute drops of pus beneath epithelium. θ Tonsillitis.
Swollen, congested tonsils, with yellow, small patches on each ; great difficulty to swallow, with pains on left side, shifting to right and upwards to ear ; heat and chills alternating ; commencing to get < at 4 P. M. ; pemphigus on thumb of left hand and on third
finger, with terrible burning pain ; blisters small, situated on a highly inflamed surface. θ Tonsillitis and pemphigus.
Chronic enlargement of tonsils.
Hawking of bloody mucus, or of hard greenish yellow phlegm ; feeling as of a hard body in œsophagus.
Fauces brownish red ; diphtheritic patches spreading from r. tonsil to left, or descending from nose ; < from cold drinks and after sleep.
Diphtheria < on right side ; great restlessness (like Rhus tox. restlessness) ; membrane of pearly hue, sometimes yellow.
Membrane right to left ; difficulty in breathing ; fanlike motion of alæ nasi ; speech indistinct ; soporous condition and indifference to external surroundings ; impatient on awaking. θ Diphtheria.
Commenced in nose and extended to right tonsil, thence to l. ; right tonsil enormously swollen, extending to cellular tissues, so that right side of neck was swollen clear out beyond yaw and began to turn purple ; unable to lie on back on account of inability to breathe ;
awakens from short, restless naps, "kicking and screaming and very cross ;" breath horribly offensive. θ Diphtheria.
Face flushed ; pulse 154 ; skin hot and dry : restless ; headache ; great aching in back and limbs ; pain in throat only on drinking cold liquids other than water ; throat much congested, four or five greyish spots size of hemp seed on right
tonsil ; next day spot size of ten cent piece, very angry looking, on left tonsil ; strong, diphtheritic odor in room. θ Diphtheria.
Inflammation of tonsils and fauces for four days ; much swelling and pain, amounting to spasm on swallowing ; white diphtheritic patches on tonsils ; constant desire to swallow, accompanied by spasm and violent stinging pain ; rigors ; rapid pulse ; swelling
and pain most marked on right side ; fetor. θ Diphtheria phlegmonosa.
After scarlatina : pulse too rapid to be counted ; great aching of head, back and limbs ; vomiting and flatus ; throat pains on drinking cold milk, but not cold water ; > from warm drinks ; deposit of greyish yellow covering on whole of right
tonsil ; very dull and difficult to rouse. θ Diphtheria.
At 9 A. M. began to feel chilly and weak ; chilliness not > by heat of stove ; at 4 P. M. great prostration, throat sore and several patches on right tonsil ; complained more of prostration and aching in bones ; glands of neck swollen ; tongue yellow, more at
base ; taste brassy, odor from mouth same ; next day diphtheritic patches on right tonsil had coalesced and several patches on left tonsil ; on third day prostration, loss of appetite, aching in back, and legs ; pain in throat and ears much <, whole throat and fauces
covered with thick, dirty yellow membrane, breath offensive ; cannot swallow anything warm ; but cold drinks > somewhat ; passed a bad night because he could not breathe through nose ; symptoms < after 4 P. M. ; had had bright yellow, thick and very offensive
discharge from right ear, which caused soreness of meatus, since childhood. θ Diphtheria and chronic otorrhœa.
Diminished secretion of urine ; grinding of teeth during heavy stupor, as when fully awake. θ Diphtheria.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Excessive appetite, followed by distension ; hunger remains though stomach and abdomen are full and tense.
Canine hunger ; the more he eats the more he craves ; head aches if he does not eat.
Greyish yellow color of face ; frequent yawning ; belching, flatulency ; pain in small of back ; dry stool ; stitching in knees and ankles ; dimness of vision ; great urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of watery
urine ; fluor albus. θ Bulimia.
Hungry, but soon satisfied, soon filled up ; constipation, vertigo, belching of tasteless wind.
Constant satiety, takes no food, says she wants nothing because she is full ; the least morsel causes sensation of fulness up to throat.
Thirst : with dry lips and dry mouth ; with disgust for drink ; at night drinks little but often.
Want of thirst.
Desire for : sweets ; oysters, which disagree.
Aversion to : coffee ; tobacco smoke ; boiled, warm food ; bread (rye) ; meat.

Eating and drinking

Loss of appetite at first mouthful ; weight at stomach after eating.
After eating : sudden repletion ; irresistible drowsiness followed by weariness ; pressure in stomach ; pressure and tension in liver, sensitive to pressure ; bitter gulping up or spitting up of food ; palpitation.
After a meal : sensation in stomach as if fasting, but without hunger ; feels more nervous and weary, with quickened pulse.
Aggravation by cold drinks (except water in some cases) ; > from warm. θ Angina. θ Diphtheria.
Bad effects : from onions, bread, particularly rye bread ; from spirituous liquors ; from smoking ; from drinking wine.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Everything tastes sour ; sour eructations ; heartburn, waterbrash ; acid gnaws stomach.
Belching : without relief ; bitter, particularly in morning ; during day, with burning.
Nausea : constant ; in pharynx and stomach ; mornings, fasting ; in room, passing off in open air ; when riding in a carriage ; after a meal, with accumulation of water in mouth ; after cold, not after warm drinks (in
chills) : qualmishness before breakfast ; during menstruation.
Vomiting : food and bile ; coagulated blood ; sour substances ; dark greenish masses, after eating or drinking.
Greatly weakened by frequent vomiting ; feels especially weak in her knees and down legs to joints of feet ; as soon as she eats, great burning in throat ; one hour after eating, nausea, followed by vomiting with great straining, causing pain in head and back ; in
consequence of this straining, small, red spots, bloody extravasations, scattered here and there around eyes ; after bitter vomiting, cramps in abdomen ; wind in stomach and bowels, causing crampy sensation upward toward chest ; brandy brings on belching and > cramps ;
thirsty, but drinking brings on vomiting ; frequent spells of nausea, as if caused by wind in stomach, smothering her and making her feel weak ; constipated ; > in open air.

Scrobiculum and stomach

In epigastrium : anxiety ; pressure ; constrictive pains, > lying down ; pain caused by coughing.
Epigastric region extremely sensitive to touch and tight clothing.
Hard swelling in epigastric region.
Sinking at stomach ; sensation of fluttering at stomach, which goes all over body.
Discomfort, pressure and heaviness in stomach after eating a little.
Pressure in stomach : after eating ; in evening in bed ; with difficult breathing.
Feeling of tension beneath stomach, as if everything was too tight, with sore sensation in chest.
Compressive pain as if stomach was pressed together from both sides.
Rumbling or sensation of churning in stomach.
Twisting, crawling and emptiness in stomach, with yawning.
Stomach sensitive to pressure.
Pain in stomach and region of duodenum, < by sitting bent over.
Constriction and cramp in stomach, which is much distended.
Gnawing, griping, cutting pain in region of stomach.
After eating and after slight cold, violent stomach pains, with chilliness, fingers become waxy white, as if dead.
Griping and clutching in epigastrium and stomach, extending beneath ribs and into back, constriction of œsophagus, with nausea, anxiety, oppression, flushes of heat and weakness almost to fainting, after least amount of food ; pains so severe that he rolls about on floor ;
gives him shocks from stomach up to œsophagus and throat, accompanied by throwing back of head ; bloating ; palpitation ; yawning ; dry stool ; great lassitude ; little sleep.
Constant pressing, tearing, burning pains in stomach, with almost daily sour vomiting, or vomiting of slime or water ; great debility ; can hardly eat anything ; constipation ; white coated tongue with a dry line down centre.
For several years attacks of pain in stomach ; burning in epigastrium, extending up into throat ; when lying, burning sensation up whole spine ; after eating, pressure in region of stomach and nausea, sensation as if everything eaten was rising up ; gagging with
mucous discharge ; cannot bear tight clothing, nor anything tight about abdomen ; frequent shuddering ; biting, acrid leucorrhœa.
Attacks of severe pain in stomach once or twice daily, gradually becoming more frequent ; pains constricting or boring, extend into back, at times burning, stitching, > by belching, disappear entirely after raising a quantity of thin, acrid fluid ; < by lightest
food ; > at night ; constant dull pain in epigastrium ; hunger with faintness ; no appetite ; white tongue ; constipation and flatulency ; emaciation and general debility.
Gnawing, twisting griping in epigastrium, stomach and upper abdomen ; stitching, tearing into stomach, extending through to back and to shoulders ; pressure and bloating in abdomen, with oppression of breathing, fearfulness, sighing and anxiety in chest ; hot flushes from
abdomen up into chest and head, with red shining face and vertigo ; flushes of heat ; attacks begin with frequent yawning, stretching, belching and great anxiety, followed by severe pain in epigastrium and in chest, as if it would burst or as if œsophagus was being clutched and
twisted ; during one attack, vomiting of mucus and retraction of head ; attacks brought on by physical exertion, mental emotion, cold, and particularly by eating ; at one time loss of appetite, at another canine hunger ; stool dry ; cold hands and feet ;
frequent chilliness ; restless sleep. θ Gastralgia.
Body emaciated ; face bloated, pale yellow ; isolated warts and pimples ; gnawing, pressing and twisting in stomach ; belching ; nausea ; retching ; anxiety, with difficult respiration ; occasionally vomiting of sour mucus ; sensation as if
steam was rising from stomach into head, with roaring in ears, vertigo and dulness of head, and redness of face ; abdomen bloated, hard ; stool dry, difficult ; urging to urinate, with scanty, burning discharge ; leucorrhœa ; cough, with shortness of breath and
stitches in sides under short ribs and in middle of chest ; palpitation ; skin rough, covered with pimples ; in evening, chilliness, shivering, lassitude, thirst, followed by heat, with headache ; sleep disturbed by dreams ; easily tired ; prostrated ; body
covered with nettlerash and boils.
Every five or six days violent spasms ; pain like lightning strikes epigastrium, spreads like rays over abdomen, and shoots into all passages of body ; after some hours of intense agony, pain goes off suddenly ; violent pains in back, like gimlets, running into
spine ; pulse 120 ; tenderness along margin of liver and at epigastrium.
Cramps in stomach, of a contortional nature, > by bending ; brought on by eating fruit ; nausea and constant urging to swallow ; flowing saliva and poor appetite ; constipation, with drawing pain in abdomen ; headache > when lying down ; morose
disposition.
Severe spasmodic pains at epigastrium, coming on at two or three every morning, waking her and giving intense agony ; hot brandy and water > ; distension when in pain as from incarcerated flatus ; pulse very weak ; tongue furred ; tenderness along margin of
liver ; constipation ; gouty diathesis. θ Flatulent indigestion.
Pain under ribs and all around waist, with shooting pains up shoulder blades ; pain across stomach and straight down on each side of it, sometimes very severe across bowels ; nausea ; food often vomited, with a sour and then bitter taste ; waterbrash ; obstinate
constipation ; painful hemorrhoids, with great loss of blood ; coldness in extremities ; cramp in legs and thighs ; action of kidneys undue and disturbing at night ; dislike to bread ; sleepless on account of pain ; face pale, ashy yellow. θ Dyspepsia.
Dyspepsia, with accumulation of gases and great repletion after taking a slight quantity of food ; anorexia ; much thirst ; burning in stomach ; longing for cold articles of diet, like fruits and ice cream ; rumbling of bowels at night, bloating and obstinate
constipation ; left leg covered up to knee with ulcers of different sizes, discharging yellowish watery matter, with an eczematous eruption around them, and œdema of ankle ; great itchiness and throbbing, < at night, by rest and hot applications ; > walking about, cold
water applications or bathing of parts. θ Chronic ulcers on leg and dyspepsia.
For two hours after eating, spits up food, not acid ; a few mouthfuls of food seem to fill him to throat ; stomach bloats a great deal with flatus, which gives him much distress ; constipated ; dull frontal headache. θ Dyspepsia.
Chronic dyspepsia in women with sallow face and constipation.
Flatulent indigestion ; sleeplessness ; wakes after half an hour with palpitation ; no organic disease ; fear of death.
Atonic dyspepsia in weakly subjects ; digestion proceeds slowly, with flatulence and acidity.
Indigestion resulting from too free use of farinaceous, heavy and fermentable diet.
Gastralgia and chronic gastritis, occurring in peasants, who subsisted mostly upon heavy bread, sour small-beer and adulterated coffee.
Derangement of stomach from pastry.
Affection of liver and induration of pylorus, after suppression of herpetic eruption on anus or scrotum ; on taking least food or drink, dark green bilious vomiting ; obstinate constipation ; thirst ; cannot lie on right side ; pressing pain in region of
liver ; emaciation ; hypochondriacal ; dry heat of skin ; frequent fainting.
Perforating ulcer ; < sitting bent, > walking about and when warm in bed.
Cancer of stomach.

Hypochondria

Tension as from a cord making diaphragmatic attachments ; cannot stretch or stand upright.
Tension : in hypochondria, as from a hoop ; in region of liver.
Tensive aching, < bending body or pressure of hand.
Pressure in hepatic region ; pressive pain on breathing.
Cannot eat to satiety because it produces distressing feeling in hepatic region.
Pressive pain in right hypochondrium, at times took away breath, became a sticking.
Sore, pressive pain as from a blow in right hypochondriac region ; < by touch.
Region of liver sensitive to contact ; sore aching as from a shock.
Pain in left hypochondriac region in afternoon.
Acute griping pains in left hypochondrium.
Pain in back and right side, from congestion of liver.
Violent gall stone colic.
Sharp pain in dorsal hepatic region, in right shoulder and arm ; throbbing frontal headache ; feet and hands burning at times and again feeling cold or numb ; sleepy during day ; sleep disturbed at night ; craves sugar, starchy and
sweet food ; hemorrhoids ; constipation ; had taken calomel in her youth, till "she had to keep her mouth closed to prevent her teeth from falling out."
(In sick :) Cold and numb ; no power to raise arms or move hands ; respiration imperfectly accomplished with great effort ; a peculiar chill throughout whole body, soon followed by sharp gnawing pain in region of liver, as if twenty dogs with sharp teeth
were gnawing her ; after a while pains left liver to migrate from place to place, until they had traveled throughout body ; succeeded by numbness and sleep, from which she awoke, unable to move or speak.
Liver complaints after mortification.
Frequent recurring attacks of severe pressive and occasionally stitching pains in right side, extending towards epigastrium, at times swelling ; liver painful to pressure in spots ; tongue coated ; bitter taste ; stool scanty ; mind depressed ; face and neck
covered with brown spots.
Hepatitis : of children ; chronic cases ; with pneumonia ; after allopathic treatment, particularly when mercury has been used.
Fatty degeneration of liver, with concomitant nervous hyperemia.
Atrophic nutmeg liver ; chronic form of hepatitis ; abscesses.
Rumbling of wind in splenic flexure of colon.
Wind gurgles under apex of heart in left hypochondrium ; with oppressed breathing.
Icterus with flatulence ; retarded stool ; weariness and drowsiness.
Diaphragmitis.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation of something moving up and down in stomach and bowels.
Spasmodic contraction in abdomen.
When turning on right side a hard body seems to roll from navel to that side. θ Ascites.
Sensation as if something heavy was lying on left side of abdomen, not affecting breathing, but constantly felt when walking, sitting and lying.
Hot pains flash across bowels.
Abdominal plethora, with constipation, in elderly people of higher classes ; no desire for stool.
Pulsation in abdomen.
Abdomen sensitive to pressure ; cannot bear weight of clothes.
Tympanitic distension : after eating ; with cold feet.
Bloated feeling in abdomen, with actual distension in epigastrium, after a meal.
Flatulence : after eating ; sour vomiting ; diarrhœa ; before and after stool.
Tension and drawing in all parts of abdomen ; bloating of abdomen ; pressure in precordia ; constipation ; flatulence. θ Affection of solar
plexus.
While walking, rumbling and gurgling in abdomen so loud that it seemed as if those behind him would hear it.
Great fermentation in abdomen ; rumbling, croaking, rattling ; with colic and discharge of much flatus.
Accumulation of flatus, which becomes incarcerated ; pressure upward, with full feeling, also downward on rectum and bladder.
Pressure, drawing, griping in abdomen.
Squeezing pressure in abdomen, so severe one cannot walk erect, but must go bent over or lie down ; produces dyspnœa.
Tensive, tearing and cutting pains.
Cutting pains across abdomen from right to left.
Colic, especially in region of transverse colon.
Colicky pains in right side of abdomen, extending into bladder, with frequent urging to urinate.
Enteralgia and colic, accompanied by accumulation of gas in intestines ; eructation and desire, but inability to go to stool.
Flatulent colic, bloating and constipation, following disappearance of eruption on skin.
Screaming spells every afternoon. θ Colic.
Flatulency, with protrusion of navel in infants.
Balloon-like distension of abdomen, making her ashamed to appear in public.
Heat and congestion of chest and head, with vertigo and roaring in ears ; sensation as if heart hung by a thread, or as if stomach would fall down, also sensation as of drops of water falling down. θ Flatulent
colic.
Obstruction of bowels.
Enteritis developed in children by diet of milk and farinaceous substances.
A sudden mental impression, fearing she has broken her two year old boy's arm by lifting him, caused gastroenteritis during pregnancy ; intense pain, excessive flatulence, < after 4 P. M. ; urine had a red granular deposit.
Pressure on hypochondrium causes pain in epigastrium and vice versa ; chronic duodenitis.
Chill, vomiting, pains in abdomen ; stitching in left side of chest into abdomen and loins ; stitching in shoulders, in left axilla and in arms ; abdomen painful even to touch ; on lying on left side, sensation as if a weight like a stone rolled over from navel to
loin, causing this position to be unbearable ; pressure in abdomen ; painful urging to urinate ; small, weak pulse ; fever, thirst ; prostration of limbs ; sweat at night ; stitching and tearing over epigastric region and into abdomen below navel ;
tearing pain about ribs and sides of abdomen into back ; anxiety ; burning in stomach and umbilical region ; rumbling with increase of pain ; abdomen sensitive to least touch, can bear no covering ; fever, nausea ; ineffectual efforts to yawn ;
hiccough ; face sunken ; depressed, complaining ; small, weak pulse ; sleeplessness. θ Peritonitis.
Ascites, from liver affections, after abuse of alcohol.
Quiet and introspective ; sad, sensitive ; face earthy, bloated ; loss of appetite ; nothing is palatable ; food causes fulness and bloating ; thirst ; constant nausea ; profuse accumulation of saliva in mouth ;
occasionally sour vomiting ; constant pressure in stomach and heartburn ; abdomen large, feels full and heavy ; hardness in epigastric region, extending on right side toward back ; region of spleen swollen and painful ; abdomen tense, hard, but painless to touch,
indistinct fluctuation ; gurgling and rumbling in abdomen ; stool hard and tardy ; urine diminished ; shortness of breath, < from motion, must sit up ; upper extremities emaciated, lower swollen up to abdomen, and pit upon pressure ; no sweat ; sleep
restless. θ Dropsy.
Brown spots on abdomen.
Skin of abdomen painfully sensitive.
Large swelling in psoas muscle.
Pain in groin when walking.
Swelling of inguinal glands, which pains as though suppurating.
Hernia (right side) ; crural hernia, females ; lacerating stitches.
Wakes at night cross and hungry. θ Inguinal hernia.
Pains in region of abdominal ring, outward pressing ; old hernia protrudes.

Stools and rectum

Stools : pale, putrid ; thin, brown ; pale, fecal, mixed with hard lumps ; thin, yellow, or reddish yellow fluid ; shaggy, reddish mucus (urethral tenesmus, dysentery) ; green, stringy, odorless mucus (cholera infantum).
Child sad and listless, or nervous, irritable and unmanageable. θ Diarrhœa.
Diarrhœa : during pregnancy, with earthy color of face.
Daily, four to six painless, yellow, watery, undigested stools ; fetid odor, much flatus ; abdomen bloated ; scalp sweat during sleep ; cross and peevish ; can scarcely wait for meal, but a few mouthfuls satisfy her ; rumbling of flatus, colicky pains
late in afternoon and early in evening. θ Diarrhœa after suppression of skin eruptions.
Chronic diarrhœa of four years' standing, caused by drinking cold water ; daily between 3 and 4 P. M., one or two thin, slightly bilious stools, preceded by severe abdominal pains ; belching after eating ; < from cold articles of diet, beer, milk, fruit and vegetables.
Ineffectual urging to stool ; stool hard, difficult, small and incomplete.
Desire for stool followed by painful constriction of rectum and anus.
Stool very hard and dry, almost impossible to evacuate ; spasmodic constriction of anus preventing stool.
Each evacuation produces most terrible pain in rectum and sometimes leaves him in a state of syncope for a quarter of an hour ; even when paroxysms are lighter he remains several hours unable to make least movement on account of persistence of
pains ; mucous membrane of rectum very much injected, excoriated in some places, with considerable varicosity of veins ; on carefully pushing finger into rectum, acute pains and spasmodic constriction of sphincter ; loss of appetite and bad humor. θ Chronic
constipation.
Narrowing of rectum, which causes a protrusion during stool, developing hemorrhoids ; tearing pain in rectum, arresting breath ; hemorrhoids surrounded by itching eruption, painful to touch ; great fatigue after stool ; varices most painful when sitting ;
obstinate constipation.
Constipation : of infants, restores contractility of intestines ; in those who are tormented with night pollutions, or addicted to masturbation ; after repeated affections of peritoneum, with urinary complications.
Before stool : strong desire or desire wanting ; flatulent colic ; pain at anus ; straining efforts, often followed by tenesmus ; chilliness in rectum ; colic.
During stool : biting and burning at anus ; chilliness ; colic ; distressing pressure in rectum ; tenesmus ; pain in rectum, with ringing in ears ; burning and stinging in rectum ; pain in back as if broken ; bursting pain in abdomen ;
pain in stomach ; headache ; discharge of blood.
Stitching and burning at stool even when feces are not hard.
After stool : sense of insufficient evacuation (dysenteric stools), excessive and painful accumulation of flatus ; contractive pain in perineum ; uterine cramps, or lassitude ; burning in rectum ; tiredness, particularly in thighs ; heat and pressure in
thighs and head.
Rectum contracts and protrudes during hard stool, with stitches in rectum.
Tearing in rectum, so that it arrests breathing.
Cutting in rectum and stitches in bladder.
Twinging in rectum.
Continued burning pain in rectum.
Cramps in rectum and small of back, like labor pains.
Aching and pressure in rectum ; < at night, with bleeding piles.
Piles which contain an immense amount of blood, more than size of vein would warrant ; also piles which do not mature, but which, from partial absorption of contents, remain as hard, bluish lumps.
Hemorrhoids : with pain and itching at anus, and frequent, profuse discharge of blood ; swell and protrude and bleed, even when there is no constipation.
Varices protrude ; painful when sitting and to touch.
Itching and tension at anus in evening in bed.
Great tendency to excoriations about anus, which bleed easily ; itching and moist, tender eruption.

Urinary organs

Aching in kidney < before and > after urinating. θ Diabetes mellitus.
Thirst, drinking daily about twenty-two tumblerfuls of water ; flow of urine largely increased and of a pale, watery color. θ Diabetes insipidus.
After catching cold, violent colic ; sensation as if he was bound up and would burst ; ineffectual belching and retching ; pain concentrated on right side near hip, not extending beyond median line ; painful spot extremely sensitive to touch, rest of abdomen not
painful to pressure ; heavy sensation in bladder, burning on urination ; gurgling in abdomen and noise as if small bladders of air were bursting, followed by much relief and finally copious, moderately thin stool ; six days afterwards, discharge of a porous stone as large as
half bean, with much sand and sediment. θ Renal colic.
Stiffness in renal regions, especially on right side ; worried by noise or interruption in business ; brings up wind after eating, mentally depressed and physically weak till it comes up ; passes small quantities of fine red sand. θ Gravel.
Periodical discharge of gravel and small calculi ; pain in l. kidney and ureter.
Frequently compelled to rise at night to urinate ; on urinating, cutting pains in glans penis and abdomen ; urine turbid, loamy, depositing a thick, mucous sediment, occasionally bloody ; when evacuating bowels, must press very hard although stool is not hard ;
burning in palms of hands and soles of feet. θ Gravel.
Renal colic, particularly in right ureter to bladder ; red sand in urine.
Vesical calculi, small, round and rough, with hæmaturia.
After taking cold, frequent desire to urinate ; tenesmus of neck of bladder ; dull pain in hypogastrium and loins ; brick dust sediment in urine. θ Acute cystitis.
Gums ulcerate, teeth feel loose and ache ; pain in bowels after eating, moving about as from flatus ; stool difficult to pass, with much flatus ; urine very hot, formerly sediment, but since so hot, none ; pain in small of back when standing. θ Cystitis.
Turbid, milky urine, with offensive purulent sediment ; dull pressing in region of bladder and abdomen, disposition to calculi. θ Cystitis.
Bearing down over bladder, frequent desire to urinate ; pains < lying down, especially at night ; > from horseback riding.
Feeling of heaviness in bladder ; burning during micturition.
Dull, pressing pain in region of bladder and abdomen.
Stitches : in bladder ; in neck of bladder.
Frequent hæmaturia ; daily deposit of large clots of blood in urine ; obstinate constipation ; almost total paralysis of feet.
Hæmaturia : left kidney affected ; pain in back before urinating ; sediment of red sand ; from gravel or chronic catarrh ; discharge painless.
No urine secreted.
Retention of urine, violent pain in back, urine flowing in fits and starts.
Urine scanty, with red sediment.
Urging to urinate : must wait long before it will pass, or inability, with constant bearing down ; supports abdomen with hands.
In children urging to pass water, with impossibility to pass it ; cry impatiently and grasp abdomen ; red sand in diaper, or urine may be pale and clear.
Pressing in perineum near anus, during and after urinating. θ Enlarged prostate.
Frequent desire to urinate, with discharge of large quantities of pale urine.
Frequent micturition during night, scanty and infrequent discharges through day.
Involuntary micturition.
Urine of strong, pungent odor, dribbling away from bladder continually during each afternoon and evening, commencing at 4 P. M. θ Incontinence of urine.
Long lasting incontinence of urine resulting from fright during coition.
Strangury, urine scanty, dark red or albuminous.
Urine : pale, especially during night ; red, burning ; very hot ; foamy ; high colored, turbid ; dark and turbid ; with yellow or reddish deposit of sand ; contains red crystals, as if mingled with brick dust ; turbid, thick, milky, depositing
a thick, purulent sediment of a most nauseating smell ; greasy pellicle on surface.
Itching in urethra during and after micturition.
During urination : soreness or burning in urethra and glans ; jammed feeling in perineum ; cutting pain in abdomen.
After urination : crawling, burning in urethra and bladder ; jerking, cutting in urethra.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire and power diminished.
Impotence : penis small, cold and relaxed ; after onanism or sexual excesses ; from poisoning with chlorine.
Erections feeble ; falls asleep during an embrace.
Discharge of prostatic juice without an erection.
Weak and imperfect erections ; excessive and exhausting pollutions ; aversion to coition, or too easily excited ; too early escape of semen.
Loss of sexual feeling : in old men, or strong desire without being able to have an erection ; after abuse of copaiva in gonorrhœa.
Aching of inner surface of prepuce ; yellowish humor behind corona glandis.
Four white, pedunculated, dry condylomata on mucous surface of prepuce, painless and not sensitive to touch ; after use of mercury in gonorrhœa.
Chancre on inner surface of prepuce ; phimosis ; three or four condylomatous chancres around anus.
Moist condylomata on penis.
Enlargement of prostate gland ; prostatitis.
Chronic orchitis ; pain in perineum when sitting ; soreness between scrotum and thigh ; dropsical swelling of genital organs.
Sticking itching, especially on scrotum.
Soreness between scrotum and thigh ; intertrigo.

Female sexual organs

Nymphomania.
Cutting across hypogastrium, right to left.
Ovaries diseased : inflammation ; neuralgia ; tumors ; dropsy ; burning or boring stitches, first right then left.
Uterus diseased : inflammation ; physometra, wind discharged from vagina ; cancer ; dropsy.
Menses : delay of first menses ; profuse, protracted ; flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum ; with labor-like pains followed by swooning ; four days too early ; inclined to be late, with sadness ;
reappearing every six or eight days ; suppressed from fright.
Before menses : sad, chilly, abdomen bloated ; melancholia ; pain in abdomen ; delirium, with weeping ; dilated pupils ; rigors with discomfort and uneasiness ; coldness and heaviness of feet and legs ; flatulent distension of abdomen ; chill
and heat at night ; ill humor and disposition to weep ; headache ; severe backache ; swelling of feet ; nausea and faintness.
During menses : pain in abdomen and loins ; itching of vulva ; nausea ; acid in mouth ; headache ; tiredness, faintness ; swelling of feet.
After menses : leucorrhœa ; stitches in head.
Dysmenorrhœa.
Menstrual irregularities connected with ovarian enlargement.
Leucorrhœa : in starts ; milky ; bloody ; < before a full moon ; corroding ; sensation of pressure through vagina when stooping.
Dryness of vagina ; burning in vagina during coition.
Metrorrhagia.
A rumbling begins in upper abdomen and descends to lower part, when a flow of blood follows, and so on successively. θ Uterine hemorrhage.
Increased discharge of blood from genitals during every passage of hard or soft stool.
Delay of first menses.
Chronic suppression of menses, from tuberculosis or cancer.
Menses absent a year ; has aborted within this time ; small ulcers on os uteri ; leucorrhœa yellow and thin ; constant regurgitation of food, sour and bitter ; vomiting, with aching pain in epigastrium shortly after eating ; uses pills for
constipation ; large goitre, right side, painless ; pains in lumbar region and nape of neck ; all pains tend to right side (goitre improved).
Sensation of pressure through vagina when stooping.
Chronic dryness of vagina.
Burning of vagina during and after coition.
Neuralgia of vagina.
Serous cysts in vagina ; indurations ; fistulæ.
Itching, burning, gnawing in vagina.
Discharge of flatus from vagina. θ Physometra.
Occasional sharp pains running around labia.
Varices of genitals ; erectile tumors ; polypi.
Dry, pediculated, painless condylomata.
Inflammation of external genitals.
Nipples sore, fissured or covered with scurf ; bleed easily ; stitches and burning.
Hard, burning nodosities in mamma ; stitches.
Milk in breasts without being pregnant.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During first month of pregnancy, great nausea ; complete anorexia ; swelling of veins of ankles, tearing pain on motion.
Third month of pregnancy : tendency to accumulation of acrid water in stomach, with cramps ; constipation.
During fifth month of gestation : violent cramplike pains in bladder ; inclination to pass water, but unable to do so ; distension of abdomen from incarcerated flatus. θ Strangury.
Fetus seems to be turning somersaults within womb.
Varices of pregnant women.
Disposition to miscarriage ; moles.
Long continued uterine hemorrhage, before or after abortion.
During labor pains must keep in constant motion ; walks the room weeping ; labor pains run upward ; > by placing foot against a support and pressing and relaxing alternately, so as to agitate whole body.
When lying in bed feels as if she would die from weakness ; lower jaw drops ; breathing slow and through mouth ; eyes half open ; when walking is obliged to let her hands hang down ; bones of lower extremities painful ;
sudden weakness coming on, even when sitting. θ Labor.
Spasmodic contractions of cervix, pains unbearable, with jactitatory movements of body, "dancing up and down" during pains. θ Labor pains.
Three days after fifth confinement, abdomen enormously distended ; pulse small, not rapid ; awoke about midnight from suffocation, with congestive headache ; head seemed as if it would burst, nose bled a little ; feet cold, lochia stopped ; aphthæ after every
confinement ; rapid labors.
Feels as though hot balls dropped from each breast through to back, rolling down back, along each leg and dropping off heels ; this alternated with sensation as if balls of ice followed same course. θ Childbed
fever.
Swelling of foot and limb ; saphena vein swollen very large and very tender, can be distinctly traced all the way up. θ Phlegmasia dolens.
Child draws so much blood from nipples that when it vomits it seems to be vomiting blood.
Stitches and burning pains in nipples and discharge from them of blood and water.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness : feeble, husky voice ; dryness in windpipe ; remaining after croup ; loose cough by day, suffocating spells at night.
In last stage of croup, loose cough in daytime and suffocative fits at night ; in general, suffocative paroxysms alternating with free intervals. θ Croup.
Formication in windpipe at night.
Every evening constant tickling in throat. θ Chronic bronchitis.
Bronchitis : with hepatic disturbances ; accompanying influenza ; febrile chill with wheezing, particularly on expiration ; lemon colored expectoration ; pressure in stomach and liver ; continual pain under right ribs and
in epigastrium, with yellowish color of face ; greyish yellow or dirty expectoration, with stertor and stitches in chest ; respiration short before and during paroxysms of coughing ; as soon as cough ceases respiration is more normal ; in old people, with threatened
paralysis of lungs.

Respiration

Child wants to yawn, but cannot, this makes it cry.
Shortness of breath : during sleep (lung affections) ; from every exertion.
Oppression of breathing : < walking in open air, with weakness ; < from deep breathing.
Difficult respiration : as if he had inhaled sulphur fumes ; as if chest was constricted by cramps ; < lying on back.
Whizzing breathing in daytime, with sensation of too much mucus in chest ; loud rattling.
Likes to go about without any covering on head ; desire for open air ; anxiety during stormy weather ; general aggravation at time of menses, which have been absent for six years ; depression of spirits ; when alone, fearful despondent, lachrymose. θ Dyspnœa.

Cough

Irritation from deep breathing, from stretching out throat and empty swallowing.
Cough : hard and dry, day and night, with painfulness of head and region of stomach ; from irritation in trachea, as from fumes of sulphur ; day and night, in feeble, emaciated boys ; with difficult respiration ; tight,
affecting stomach and diaphragm, mostly before sunset ; at night, with some expectoration ; very overpowering in evening before going to sleep, as if larynx was tickled with a feather, with scanty expectoration ; with thick expectoration ; loose, rattling, expectoration
not easy, remains in lungs tenaciously ; sputa thick, yellowish, greenish.
Cough < : from 4 to 8 P. M. ; on alternate days ; from exertion ; from stretching arms out ; stooping or lying down ; lying on (l.) side ; from eating and drinking cold things ; in wind or in warm room.
Cough > : lying on back or sitting up.
With cough, shattering as from a shock in temples, and at same time in chest.
Cough dry and hoarse, day and night ; coughs also in his sleep, then violent dry cough in morning ; great emaciation. θ Cough from bronchial
irritation.
Cough almost continual, night and day, a deep short cough, with occasional expectoration during day of thick grey matter, in morning greenish and more profuse ; hoarseness and dyspnœa, constant desire to clear trachea ; cannot lie on sides, especially left ; dulness in
upper part of left lung and mucous rattling during respiration ; upper part of lung impervious to air, except on full inspiration, when there is a prolonged paroxysm of coughing ; irregular flushes of heat, with circumscribed redness of cheeks and a slight night sweat ;
weariness, limbs feel heavy ; easily fatigued and out of breath ; mind cheerful. θ Chronic cough.
After neglected pneumonia : cough, shortness of breath, profuse, thick greenish yellow, salty, very offensive expectoration and rattling chest.
Sputa : thick yellow, purulent ; greyish yellow or dirty ; fetid pus or mucus streaked with blood ; green in morning ; tasting salty ; bloody ; small greenish yellow masses of mucus ; pieces of granular mucus ;
tastes like old cheese ; large quantities of pus.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest : with shortness of breathing ; < in open air and after eating ; as if too full ; with a feeling of internal rawness ; tearing under clavicles, tension.
Sensation as if lungs were full of mucus ; whistling sound in trachea on inspiration.
Aching with or without soreness, producing dyspnœa and much mental depression.
Dull aching pain all over lungs, as if they had been overworked, with feeling of constriction of chest as from a tight waistcoat.
Stitches in left side of chest, also during inspiration, and extending to back.
Cutting pains from left scapula into chest, catching breath ; feels very ill and exhausted, intolerable thirst at 4 P. M.
Feeling of continuous pressure in left chest.
Tension as of a hoop on chest.
Bolstered up in bed ; face bluish white ; nose pinched ; eyes staring ; great dyspnœa ; rattling and fine crepitation in both lungs ; cough, which had been persistent, had ceased ; mouth and throat filled with ropy mucus ; loss of voice, tongue
dark red, with an ulcer size of Lima bean, in centre ; temperature 103.7 ; respiration 60 ; pulse 145 ; soreness all over ; eleven very offensive and watery stools during last twelve hours ; no appetite ; little thirst. θ Broncho-pneumonia.
Catarrh on chest of infants ; rattling on chest, which seems full of mucus.
Persistent catarrh : with much general weakness, takes cold easily ; cold air chills him through and through ; copious expectoration.
Dilatation of air tubes ; senile catarrh.
Pneumonia, right side ; extensive infiltration ; respiration wanting.
Nervous irritability ; no heat of head or redness of face ; circumscribed redness of cheeks ; great debility ; sweat without relief ; red, dry tongue ; frequent irritation to cough, with scanty, difficult grey expectoration ; rattling on chest ;
dyspnœa, with anxious expression. θ Pneumonia.
Lies on left side, legs drawn up and abdominal muscles relaxed ; countenance anxious ; respirations 50 to 60 per minute ; skin burning hot ; tongue coated brown, red at tip and margins ; nostrils in rapid fanlike motion ; answers quick, anxious and
tremulous ; mind wandering ; great sensitiveness to pressure over right side of chest, particularly over liver, extending also over abdomen ; pulse 120 to 130 ; great thirst ; cough frequent and hacking, provoked by putting tongue far out ; expectoration
streaked with blood, rusty and tenacious ; extensive bronchophony, extending to under right shoulder blade ; crepitation, absence of vesicular breathing. θ Pneumonia.
Slight fever, no pain ; not much cough ; expectoration scanty, grey ; extreme dyspnœa on taking least exercise ; left lung hepatized from apex to base. θ Latent
pneumonia.
Right side most affected, sounding as if entire parenchyma were softened ; raises a whole mouthful of mucus at a time, of light rusty color, stringy and easily separated ; fanlike motion of alæ nasi. θ Pneumonia.
Cough < from 4 to 6 P. M. ; pale face and deep wrinkles, but debility not so great as he fancies ; when he gets up and stirs about it is not so bad as he thinks. θ Pneumonia.
Neglected pneumonia ; especially with continuing hepatization and purulent sputum ; typhoid pneumonia.
Pneumonia, with raising of mouthfuls of mucus at a time, of a light rust color, stringy and easily separated.
Much pain in lungs ; severe hacking cough ; eyes bright and glassy ; sunken cheeks ; fever fits, with bright red spots on cheeks ; very restless at night ; profuse night sweats ; dull sound to percussion over apices of
lungs ; at 4 P. M. each day has a fever fit and is much worse. θ Pulmonary disease.
After pneumonia, threatened phthisis ; great debility ; voice weak, can utter only a few words at a time ; cannot take a deep breath ; severe cough day and night, with profuse expectoration ; hectic fever with clammy night sweats.
After typhoid pneumonia, threatened phthisis ; suspicious cough profuse with expectoration of pus ; burning heat in palms of hands ; circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Chronic inflammatory condition of anterior portion of left lung ; threatened tuberculosis.
Face pale, sunken ; severe hiccough about every half hour ; much sneezing ; violent cough day and night, with copious greenish white expectoration, oppressed breathing, must rest in sitting posture ; profuse night sweats over whole body, < at night, and somewhat
offensive on chest and back. θ Phthisis pituitosa.
Threatened paralysis of lungs.
Hydrothorax.
Chronic affection of diaphragm, probably due to inflammation.
Sense of constriction from right side all around short ribs ; cannot stretch himself, or lie on back, or stand upright. θ Diaphragmitis.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation, evening, in bed ; anxious at night on turning over in bed ; < after eating, during digestion.
Heart's action muffled and indistinct. θ Albuminuria.
Hydropericardium.
Cramp and constriction in chest, cannot get breath ; stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of back and shoulders ; sharp pains shooting into heart ; sensation of stoppage of circulation at night, with fright and then sweat ;
pulse quick and unsteady. θ Angina pectoris.
Dyspnœa and sudden cyanosis on sitting down ; hasty eating and drinking ; transient attacks of colic ; two pappy stools in evening before going to bed ; lies upon r. side, but always finds himself upon back when waking up. θ Heart
affection.
Rheumatic fever, with severe cardiac complications ; intense dyspnœa ; dilatation of alæ nasi ; great flatulence ; epigastric constriction ; profuse sour sweats.
Typhoid symptoms ; neck drawn towards right side ; trembling palpitation ; pulsating tearing in region of heart ; stitches in left side of chest. θ Heart disease.
Excitement of circulation, in evening, with restlessness and trembling.
Pulse unaltered ; accelerated only after eating or in evening.
Sensation as if circulation stood still, or ebullitions of blood.
Acceleration of pulse, with coldness of face and feet. θ Pernicious intermittents and other diseases.

Outer chest

Brownish yellow spots on chest ; liver spots.
Tearing and tension under clavicles, and stitch on deep inspiration.
Hard lump in left breast and beneath arm, with burning pain (after Laches.). θ Cancer.
Itching on chest.

Neck and back

One side of neck stiff and swollen.
Stiffness of left side of neck, head drawn to left side. θ Torticollis.
Tensive pain and stiffness in nape of neck and shoulders.
Pressure in a small spot in nape of neck.
Darting in right cervical muscles from below upward.
Sensation in back of neck as if cords were breaking.
Carotid aneurism.
Bronchocele on right side, tense, smooth, shining appearance, with feeling of constriction in tumor, as if held in some unyielding envelope, while not very large.
After catching cold, swelling on neck, followed by suppuration, thereupon formation of callous, fistulous openings, from which oozed a serous discharge.
Large clusters of red pimples around neck, with violent itching.
Swelling of cervical glands.
Burning as from hot coals between scapulæ, < in Summer.
Rising of warmth along spine.
Drawing and aching between scapulæ.
Sticking pain in back, extending to right scapula.
Drawing sticking pain in back.
Throbbing and pulsating in back ; chilliness.
Severe backache > by passing urine.
Pain in back and right side, from congestion of liver.
Violent pain in small of back in morning on rising from bed, so that she was unable to move, during menses.
Pain in small of back, while lying on back, with great weariness, going down to feet ; violent while sitting, not allowing to straighten one's self.
Stitches in back towards small of back, when sitting.
Pain in small of back as if it would break ; with hard stool and colic as if intestines would burst.
Pain in small of back and stitches in both hips and in left chest at night.
Pain and stiffness in small of back (at night).
Stitches in small of back, especially when rising from stooping.
Pain in small of back, extending into thighs.
Pain in sacral region, < rising from a seat.
Sensation as if flesh was loose on lower part of back.
Tearing in sacrum, kidneys and back, especially near spine.
Lumbago if Bryonia has not sufficiently relieved and pain is < from slightest motion.

Upper limbs

Axillary glands swollen ; fetid sweat in axillæ.
Boils in and about axillæ ; scurfy, itching, moist herpetic eruption ; pus continues to discharge from boils for an unusually long time, they no sooner heal than fresh ones appear.
Rheumatic tension in right shoulder joint.
Tearing pains : in shoulder and elbow joints during rest, not in motion ; from neck to elbow, also in whole arm ; in hands, only while in bed.
Pain as from bruises in scapulæ, shoulders and upper arms, < when at rest.
Twitching in arms and shoulders.
Arms and fingers go to sleep easily ; numbness of hands.
Pain in bones of arms at night.
Weakness of arms when at work, and conversely they feel powerless, yet he can work.
Great dryness of hands, especially of palms.
Drawing pain in inner surface of upper arms ; extending over elbows along forearms and wrists.
Pain as from a sprain in right wrist joint.
Inflammatory redness in all finger joints.
Finger joints much distorted and filled with chalk deposits ; profuse, icy cold sweat of affected hands and fingers to extent of several drops a minute, and this in hottest day of July. θ Chronic
rheumatic gout.
Small boils on hands.
Inflammation extending over whole hand ; bluish red swelling ; bluish blisters filled with red or yellow fluid. θ Panaritium. θ Chilblains.
Hands constantly hot, which is very troublesome to her.
Hands feel numb, dull tingling as if they had been asleep ; sensation of heaviness and feeling of enlargement of hands ; almost everything, even hot things, feel cold to touch ; when writing or driving, the pen or reins drop from hands unnoticed ; no loss of motor
power. θ Anesthesia.
Warts on fingers, hands and arms.
Great dryness of skin of hands.
Itching pimples on hands.
White scaly tetter on back of hand and fingers.
Psoriasis palmaris.
Stiffness of fingers from arthritic nodosities.
Itching pimples between fingers.
Felons with many constitutional symptoms ; panaritium, with gastric affections.
Hands swollen and hard ; fingers swollen stiff and extended ; back of hand dark red and burning hot, palm of hand greyish yellow, irregularly swollen, hard and covered with small ulcers ; large, painful, hard, hot swelling between index and middle fingers, stitches like a
thorn on touch ; face pale, greyish yellow ; expression of eyes dull ; somnolent ; about 1 or 2 P. M., coldness of feet extending over ankles, as if standing in cold water, followed by chilliness up legs, extending into back ; heaviness and confusion of head, with
vertigo and pressing stitching pain in forehead, extending over whole head, particularly in vertex and occiput, with constant roaring in ears ; in nape of neck and shoulders frequent tearing, pressing pains, with oppression and shortness of breath, particularly when lying ; dry
cough ; in morning, yellow expectoration, in which there are often small particles like rice, or lumps as large as a pea, pearly in color. θ Rheumatism.

Lower limbs

Boils on nates.
Suppurative stage, when wounds are very irritable ; burning pains. θ Hip disease.
Coxalgia, with violent jerks of limbs ; child awakens cross, or with a scream.
Pains in left hip joint on motion.
Pains as from a sprain in hip.
Rheumatic tension in left hip.
Frequent jerking of lower limbs, mostly with a groan, awake or slumbering.
Neuralgia of extremities.
Sciatica : chronic cases ; burning and stinging pains, with complete intermissions ; stiffness and weakness of affected limbs ; < by rest and slightly > by motion ; painful muscular twitchings.
Every four days : pain in leg from hip to foot, causing limping.
Limbs go to sleep easily.
Tearing in middle of right thigh.
Feeling of soreness on inner surface of left thigh, with some biting itching, extending to genitals.
Smarting pain, and a feeling as if rubbed sore, in skin of thigh, after walking.
Several brown spots on inner surface of thighs, close to scrotum, extending from inguinal canal to perineum ; next day spots inflamed, fiery red, swollen, with violent burning pain, especially when touched and walking.
Tightness during night in old ulcers of lower parts of thighs.
Knee : swollen and stiff ; swollen with sweating ; white swelling ; swelling with perspiration.
Stiffness in hollows of knees, as if from a long walk, in morning on rising.
On sitting down feels very stiff, particularly in knee joints ; great tremor on standing a while ; difficulty in passing water, has to wait a long time before urine flows ; general symptoms < about 3 P. M. θ Chronic
rheumatism.
Severe drawing pain in front of legs, from knee down to instep, attack coming on every night when she became warm in bed ; sensation of great heat in affected parts ; restlessness preventing sleep ; similar pain in forehead and occiput ; > during day ;
probably caused by living in a damp house. θ Intermittent rheumatic pains.
Tearing pains ; swelling and heat in knees and ankles, with swelling of feet and tearing pain in left heel ; stiffness in knees and weakness of affected limbs ; < at night ; chilliness alternating with heat ; tongue furrowed ; sweet taste ; no
thirst ; high colored urine ; stitching in right hip ; pains < from motion. θ Rheumatism.
Pain as from contraction in calves when walking (cramp), or at night ; cramp in toes.
Oozing of water from sore places in œdematous legs.
Old ulcers on legs, with nightly tearing, burning and itching.
Varicose veins on legs.
Herpes on tibia.
After injury to ankle, half year ago, slight wound of skin near inner malleolus, followed by ulceration, gradually extending in depth and circumference until whole ankle became affected ; hard callous edges ; offensive, impure, ichorous discharge ; severe
burning pains < at night in bed.
Feet feel as if dead or asleep.
One foot hot, the other cold, or cold sweaty feet.
Feet habitually cold ; cold sweat makes them sore.
Profuse, fetid foot sweat ; burning of soles ; feet sore.
Œdema of feet ; œdema rises until ascites forms.
Swelling of left foot, with stitches in toes on stepping.
Capillary network on dorsum of foot.
Tearing pain through right instep at 8 P. M., usually lasts till midnight.
Swelling of soles ; they pain when walking.
Fissures on heels, with oozing of water from sore places.
Cramp in toes.
Stitches : in big toe of right foot (in evening) ; in corns, with sore feeling.
Worse on beginning to walk (stiffness) ; > continuing to walk, child wants to be carried.
Since birth, soreness between thighs, so that he never yet has attempted to walk, although four years old ; scrofulous in highest degree ; never had least desire to drink ; between 3 and 4 P. M., irritability of whole nervous system, with crying spells on account of pain
in left ankle, where bones were softened and discharging a saffron yellow water, with tendency to suppuration ; face covered with freckles ; everything tasted salty to him. θ Rachitis.
Tearing in left foot, followed by swelling, pain then extending to thigh and finally into right leg ; sleep disturbed ; later swelling of left leg, then of right ; skin of legs feels hard, although swelling is elastic and does not pit upon pressure ; no redness ;
gradually swelling extended up to knees ; severe tensive pains in tendons on motion ; severe biting pains in legs unless warmly covered ; burning in glans penis on urination, lasting several days, then disappearing and reappearing regularly every month ; peculiar
sensation extending from right shoulder down to elbow joint, as if arm was dead and without sensation. θ Rheumatism.

Limbs in general

Numbness of limbs, sensation as if circulation ceased.
Drawing, tearing in limbs at night, < during rest and on alternate days ; muscles and joints rigid, painful with numbness ; finger joints inflamed ; also with arthritic nodes ; swelling of dorsa of feet ; rheumatism ; < in
wet weather ; > in warmth.
Painful stiffness of muscles and numb sensation in joints.
Stiffness in all joints.
Cracking of joints when stretched.
Joint feels as if encircled by band, or ring.
Pain in right inner ankle, which spreads over foot and up to knee and is felt in left leg as in right ; ankles and knees stiff, twitching pain on motion ; knees weak ; pain in chest ; thirst every half hour for cold water ; skin hot ; pulse 90 ; knees
and inner ankles swollen and tender to touch ; elbows and shoulders stiff ; shooting downward in calves from knees to ankles, first right then left θ Rheumatism.
Pain in paroxysms, commencing in right shoulder and arm, extending down right side of trunk to hip, shoots across to l. hip and down leg ; < on motion ; hands and feet generally cold. θ Rheumatism.
Erysipelatous inflammation of a number of ulcers on left leg ; also on right leg and forearm.
Flat, herpetic looking ulcers on foot ; on making slightest misstep, severe pain in ankle ; constant tensive pain in leg ; leg bluish red, not hot to touch.
Fissures on hands ; also on heels.
Alternation of heat and cold in rheumatism, or gouty pains in limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Fatigue and weakness is felt more during rest than during motion, yet averse to exercise.
Rest : eruptions on legs < ; tearing pains in shoulder and elbow joints ; in scapulæ, shoulder and upper arms < ; sciatica <.
Must rest in sitting posture on account of oppression of breathing.
At ease in no position.
While in bed : tearing pains in upper limbs.
Lying down : headache < ; hammering in head > ; headache > ; pain in epigastrium > ; burning sensation up spine ; as if something heavy was lying in left side of abdomen ; pain in bladder < ; cough < ; tearing in head > ; chilliness in evening < ;
in bed, feels as if she would die from weakness.
Lying on back : difficult respiration < ; cough > ; pain in small of back ; most comfortable during fever attacks.
Cannot lie on back : on account of inability to breathe ; sense of constriction.
Lies upon right side, but always finds himself upon back when waking up.
Cannot lie on right side : pressing pain in region of liver.
Lying on left side : unbearable from feeling of weight in abdomen ; cough <, with legs drawn up.
Cannot lie on sides, especially left : cough.
Head bent back.
Leaning head backward : throbbing in brain.
Throwing back of head : from shocks of head.
Sitting : as if something heavy was lying on left side of abdomen ; varices painful ; pain in perineum ; sudden weakness ; cough > ; dyspnœa and sudden cyanosis ; violent pain in small of back ; stitches in back ; feels very stiff ; for a
long time, clots of leucorrhœa fall to floor.
Sitting bent over : pain in stomach and region of duodenum < ; perforating ulcer (stomach) < ; stitches in sides >.
Must sit up : shortness of breath.
Must bend and draw right leg up with her hands : on account of severe pain in right groin.
Bending : cramps in stomach > ; tensive aching in hypochondria <.
Stooping : pressing pain in head < ; pressure through vagina ; cough <.
Raising himself in bed : congestion of blood to head.
Rising up : headache < ; vertigo ; violent pain in small of back in morning.
Rising from a seat : pain in sacral region < ; impossible, severe pain in right groin.
Rising from stooping : brain as if vacillating <.
Standing : causes tremor.
When tongue is put out it rolls from side to side.
Stretching of throat : causes irritation.
Cannot stretch or stand upright : tension in diaphragm.
Placing foot against support and pressing and relaxing alternately so as to agitate whole body : during labor pains.
Stretching arms out : cough <.
When stretched : joints crack.
On turning over in bed : palpitation.
Least exertion : sweat.
Motion : throbbing headache ; shortness of breath < ; tearing pains in ankles ; pain in left hip joint ; sciatica slightly > ; tearing pain < ; twitching pain in lower limbs ; of r. leg eases pain in right groin.
Must keep in constant motion : during labor pains.
Unable to move : from violent pain in small of back.
When he gets up and stirs about : debility not so bad as he thinks.
Stepping : stitches in toes.
At every step : shattered and concussed feeling in head.
Stepping hard : shaking in head.
Walking : brain as if vacillating < ; eruption on legs > ; perforating ulcer (stomach) > ; as if something heavy was lying on left side of abdomen ; rumbling and gurgling in abdomen ; pain in groin ; must let her hands hang down ; oppression of breathing
< ; smarting pain and soreness in skin of thigh ; spots on inner surface of thighs pain ; pain in calves ; soles pain ; at first stiffness <, after continuing > ; a few steps, pain in groin ceases.
Cannot walk erect, must go bent over or lie down : severe pressure in abdomen.
On making slightest misstep : severe pain in ankle.
Physical exertion : brings on attacks of pain in epigastrium ; shortness of breath ; cough <.
Going up stairs : brain as if vacillating <.
Rolls about on floor with pain.
When writing or driving : pen or reins drop from hands unnoticed.
Horseback riding : bearing down over bladder >.
Great aversion to exercise.
No power to raise arms and move hands.

Nerves

Causes depression of nearly all functions.
Great tendency to start ; feels frightened at everything, even ringing of door bell.
Involuntary alternate extension and contraction of muscles.
Debility, felt most while at rest ; aversion to exercise.
Numbness and twitching through body and limbs.
Fruitless efforts to yawn.
Jerking and twitching of single limbs or whole body, sleeping or waking ; subsultus tendinum.
Pains drawing, tearing < at night ; muscles and joints rigid ; sensation of torpor in affected part.
Spasms (epileptic) with screaming, foaming at mouth, unconsciousness, throwing arms about, cardiac anguish ; imagines he will die.
Lassitude ; unrefreshing sleep ; falls asleep too late and awakens too early ; sleep full of dreams which she cannot recollect ; cold hands and feet ; flushes of heat ; thirst ; profuse sour sweat in morning ; fearful, depressed, despondent,
indifferent, with satiety of life, particularly in company ; activity of mind impaired ; frequent stitching or tearing in forehead, vertex or sides of head, > lying down and by pressure ; falling out of hair ; eyes appear too large ; vision dim, sees as through a
veil ; occasional roaring in ears and fluent coryza ; sensation of dryness in nose, throat and mouth ; tongue coated ; appetite impaired ; belching ; stitches in sides, > bending double ; stool hard every two or three days ; menses regular, too
profuse. θ Hysteria.
Seven months pregnant ; carbuncle on chin very painful, causing trismus ; pulse frequent ; skin hot, moist ; teeth shut tightly ; head drawn to right side.
Tetanus.
Great weakness with chronic catarrhs.
Nervous excitement ; prostration of mind and body ; nervous debility.
Great emaciation and internal debility.
Excessive and frequent secretion of pale urine, and profuse leucorrhœa, causing debility ; discharge comes away in a gush, and when she sits for a long time, clots fall to floor ; cannot rise from seat on account of severe pain in right groin ; must bend and draw up right
leg with her hands, and after moving it to and fro she can rise, after walking a few steps the pain ceases.
Paralysis.
Formication of affected limbs.

Sleep

Much and frequent yawning ; fruitless attempts.
Irresistible sleepiness after meals.
Sleepy during day, wakeful at night, mind too active.
Lies long in evening unable to go to sleep.
Child sleeps with half open eyes and throws head from side to side, with moaning.
Sopor in typhoid and exanthematous fevers ; impending paralysis of brain.
Sleep restless ; at ease in no position ; cries out, starts ; jerking of limbs ; unrefreshing ; full of phantasies ; wakes very often ; quite wide awake at 4 A. M. ; child groans in sleep or springs up terrified and screaming, and is angry and
cross, striking, kicking and scratching everyone who approaches ; great excitement ; starts up full of anxiety, wishes to cry out but cannot, as in nightmare ; crying, with unintelligible words ; frequently laughs aloud in sleep ; moaning.
Dreams : confused ; anxious ; vivid, anxious ; frightful, frequently awakening him ; horrid ; of sickness ; moving, etc. ; of trees growing on fences without ground under them ; of people drowning, boats capsizing, etc.
On awaking : cross, kicks, scolds ; or awakes terrified, as if dreaming ; feels unrefreshed ; hungry when awaking at night.
Awakes as though frightened by a bad dream ; apparently continues to dream after waking, cannot be pacified, and cannot bear to be left alone ; frequent jerking of limbs, or even whole body, whether awake or sleeping.
Children sleep apparently soundly, but scream out suddenly in sleep, stare about and cannot easily be pacified.
Sleep at night very full of dreams, which are fatiguing, with perspiration on waking.
Baby cries all day and sleeps all night.

Time

Morning : satiety of life < ; congestion of blood to head ; eyes smart ; bad taste in mouth ; dryness of tongue ; putrid smell from mouth ; thick, yellow and greenish expectoration ; bitter taste ; nausea ; violent dry
cough ; expectoration greenish ; violent pain in small of back ; on rising, stiffness of knees ; sour sweat ; chilliness on awaking ; early sweat ; sweat over whole body.
In forenoon : vertigo.
Day : tearing pain in forehead ; throbbing in brain ; photophobia ; agglutination and lachrymation ; belching with burning ; loose cough ; whizzing breathing ; dry, hard cough ; occasional expectoration ; much sneezing and violent
cough ; pain in front of legs > ; sleepy ; cries ; skin itches and bites.
In afternoon : frequent epistaxis ; pain in left hypochondriac region ; colicky pains ; stitching headache.
At 3 P. M. : general symptoms < ; chilly in back.
At 4 P. M. : cannot see after that time ; ulcerated sore throat < ; swollen, congested sore throat < ; great prostration ; symptoms of diphtheria < ; excessive flatulence < ; dribbling of urine from bladder ; intolerable thirst ; chill, lasting ten
minutes ; chill, lasting two hours ; intense heat.
From 4 to 8 P. M. : weeping < ; stupefying headache ; pressing headache in vertex < ; cough < ; chill ; fever < ; general aggravation.
From 4.45 to 6.30 P. M. : quotidian ague.
At 5 P. M. : chilliness all over body ; chill, lasting nearly all night.
At 6 P. M. : chilliness starting from back, with stupefying sleep ; over whole body ; tearing in limbs ; no thirst ; no sweat.
At 7 P. M. : hands and feet icy cold ; one sided chill (left).
At 7.30 P. M. : cannot see after that time, from February to July each year.
At 8 P. M. : tearing pain in right instep, usually lasts till midnight.
After 8 P. M. : feels > but weak.
At 9 A. M. : chilly and weak.
Evening : fear of phantoms ; dryness of eyes ; stitches and soreness of eyes ; pressure in stomach ; chilliness, lassitude ; early, colicky pains ; itching and tension at anus ; cough very overpowering ; palpitation ; two pappy
stools ; excitement of circulation, with restlessness and trembling ; pulse accelerated ; stitches in toes ; lies long unable to go to sleep ; chilliness < ; chill.
Night : tearing pain in forehead ; violent headache ; eruption on scalp < ; blindness ; dryness of eyes ; cannot get breath ; rubs nose ; toothache ; restless ; drinks little but often ; pain in stomach > ; action of kidneys
disturbing at night ; rumbling in bowels ; itching of ulcers < ; sleep disturbed ; sweat ; wakes cross and hungry ; aching and pressure in rectum < ; frequently compelled to rise to urinate ; pain in bladder < ; urine pale ; chill and heat ;
suffocating spells ; formication in windpipe ; dry, hard cough ; cough, with some expectoration ; very restless ; profuse sweats ; much sneezing and violent cough ; anxious palpitation, as if circulation stopped ; stitches in left chest ; pain and
stiffness in small of back ; pain in bones of arms ; tightness in old ulcers on thighs ; stiffness in knees and weakness of affected limbs < ; cramp in calves ; wakeful ; awakes hungry ; sleep full of dreams ; heat, with great thirst and restless
sleep ; clammy sweat ; stitching headache.
About midnight : awoke from suffocation with congestive headache.

Temperature and weather

Desire for open air.
In open air : nausea passes off ; walking, oppression of breathing <.
In open, cold air and uncovering head : headache > ; chilled through and through.
Inclination to uncover : likes to go without any covering on head.
Warmth : eruption on scalp < ; toothache > ; rheumatism > ; makes skin itch and bite.
Warmth of bed : headache < ; toothache > ; perforating ulcer (stomach) > ; pain on front of legs, at night ; does not > for two hours.
Warm room : cough < ; cannot tolerate, during febrile attack wishes windows and doors open day and night.
Getting warm from walking : headache < ; itching of scalp <.
Warm food : aversion to.
From warm drinks : pain in throat > ; relieve.
Heat : chilliness not >.
In hot room : vertigo.
Hot applications : eruption on legs <.
Hot brandy and water : pains at epigastrium >.
Even hot things feel cold to touch.
Cold articles of diet : diarrhœa < ; cough < ; longing for.
From cold drinks : diphtheritic patches < ; pain in throat ; nausea < ; cough <.
Cold water applications : eruption on legs >.
Drinking cold water : caused diarrhœa.
Wet weather : rheumatism <.
Stormy weather : anxiety.
Windy weather : cough <.
Living in damp house : intermittent, rheumatic pains.
Aggravation from moistening diseased parts.

Fever

Want of animal heat.
Chilliness : day before menstruation ; on awaking in morning, followed by great heat ; constantly increasing, without heat or sweat ; all over, at 9 A. M., even heat from stove will not warm ; in back at 3 P. M., still < in evening after lying down, lasting a
quarter of an hour, with cold feet, without subsequent heat or sweat ; over whole body at 5 P. M. ; at 6 P. M., starting from back, with a feeling as if water was spurted upon back ; at 6 P. M., with stupefying sleep, followed by uneasy sleep, interrupted by heavy
dreams ; at 6 P. M., over whole body, with stupefaction, sleepiness, tearing in limbs, no thirst, no sweat.
Chill : from 4 to 8 P. M., with numb hands and feet, icy cold at 7 P. M. ; on awaking from a dreamy sleep, covered with sweat ; afterwards violent thirst ; one sided (left) at 7 P. M., commencing in back, with numb, icy cold hands and feet, cannot get warm in bed for
two hours, tearing in limbs, yawning, nausea and inclination to vomit ; icy coldness as if lying on ice ; creeping on back in evening ; in evening, in bed, preventing sleep ; followed by sweat without intervening heat ; followed by bloated face and hands ;
alternating with heat.
Sour vomiting between chill and heat.
Heat : of head, also after eating, and red spot on left cheek ; frequent flushes in face ; in face, eyes and palms of hands ; with inclination to uncover ; with redness of face ; rising from abdomen to head, with burning in
cheeks ; flushes over whole body, mostly towards evening ; with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time ; with constipation and increased micturition ; at night, with great thirst and restless sleep ; with red cheeks, alternating with chilliness ; hectic
fever, with suppuration of lungs.
Sour vomiting in or during entire hot stage. θ Ague.
Sweat : immediately after chill, without intervening heat ; from least exertion ; most profuse on face ; about scalp and temples ; on chest and trunk ; at night or early in morning ; sourish, acrid ; profuse, sour
smelling, on body, not on legs ; in morning over whole body, smelling of blood ; cold, sour, offensive, bloody, or smelling like onions ; clammy at night, with coldness of face ; fetid, in axillæ and of feet, with burning of soles, in women suffering from chronic
endo-metritis and disordered vaginal discharges.
Thirst after sweating stage.
Nausea and vomiting, then chill, followed by sweat, without intervening heat ; or sour vomiting between chill and heat.
Febrile attack every afternoon at 4 o'clock ; head hot ; room is too warm, opens windows and doors ; some thirst ; loss of appetite ; constipation ; violent cough ; since childbirth two weeks previously.
At 4 P. M. chill, lasting about ten minutes, followed by intense heat, with little sweat and severe headache and pulsating in temples ; heat lasts until afternoon of next day, and reappears in afternoon of third day ; during heat restless, wants all the windows and doors
open ; great thirst ; tongue white, with red edges ; at first constipated, later four to five thin stools every day ; three days after parturition.
Since second day after parturition, which occurred eleven weeks ago, daily attacks of fever at 4 P. M. ; occasional chilliness, generally dry heat, lasts several hours and is followed by sweat, which continues throughout whole night ; on making any motion in bed, sweat
disappears and is replaced by heat ; in morning, cold and chilly ; moderate thirst ; during fever, slight pain in occiput ; cold feet, shortness of breath, desire to lie uncovered upon back and with head elevated ; stool regular ; urine like turbid beer.
Chill, 5 P. M., lasting nearly all night ; headache ; dryness of mouth, without disposition to drink ; very hot during fever ; urine copious ; no sweat ; pain flying all through him ; œdematous swelling < about face and hands.
Paroxysms commence between 4 and 8 P. M. ; sometimes with chill, again without ; thirsty or not ; sleepy ; fever lasts till midnight or 2 A. M., generally followed by sweat. θ Epidemic
intermittent.
Quotidian ague, from 4.45 to 6.30 P. M. ; half an hour before chill, calves get cold ; chill lasts nineteen minutes ; headache, nausea, light sensation about heart, sore stomach, slight dyspnœa ; sweat not prominent ; thirsty ; much belching ; pain in
left hypochondrium on taking a long breath ; urine very red.
Chill on alternate days, about 4 P. M., lasting two hours, followed by more or less fever till bedtime ; chill and fever severe ; tossing, anxious, hot and restless ; heavily loaded urine, pinkish, half floating sediment, and a substance like brick dust ;
severe pain in renal region, much < if urine is held after desire to urinate appears ; > by urination ; belches much wind ; rumbling of wind causes pain ; prostration. θ Intermittent.
Circumscribed redness of cheeks ; cough, with thick, yellow, salty expectoration. θ Intermittent.
Sour eructations, sweet taste, vomiting. θ Ague.
Face and hands bloated. θ Ague.
Ague coming on every seven days.
Old broken down cases of malaria ; chill ; sweat greasy.
Sleepy by day, restless, delirious sleep at night, with terrible dreams ; crying out and laughing in sleep ; evening chill followed by heat, and often offensive, sticky night sweats ; anxious, sad, lachrymose ; afraid to be alone ;
tearing, stitching headache in afternoon and at night ; beginning paralysis of brain ; oversensitiveness of hearing ; roaring in ears ; grinding of teeth ; dryness of mouth without thirst ; foul taste in mouth ; pressure in stomach in evening ;
swelling of epigastrium ; bloating of abdomen ; pulsating and pressing out sensation in abdominal ring ; flatulency. θ Typhoid.
Stupefaction, murmuring delirium, stammering speech ; using wrong words ; yellowish face ; subsultus tendinum ; grasping at flocks ; squinting ; trembling ; meteorism ; constipation ; dirty, sticky tongue ; loose, rattling cough and
painful micturition ; rash does not appear until fourteenth day, and patient sinks into an unconscious state, with muttering delirium, picking at bedclothes ; distended abdomen with great rumbling of flatus ; constipation ; involuntary urination or retention of
urine ; if urine is passed in bed it leaves reddish, sandy deposit. θ Typhoid.
Tongue seems swollen, cannot protrude it, or when it is put out, it rolls from side to side, like a pendulum ; tongue dry and has blisters on it. θ Typhoid.
Typhoid fever ; awakes from sleep peevish ; scolding, crying and bad behavior.
Impending paralysis of brain ; lies in stupor ; eyes do not react to light and have fishy look ; lower jaw dropped ; breathing, snoring and rattling, mucous rattle as air goes in and out of lungs ; urine involuntary or suppressed ; pulse intermittent and
rapid. θ Typhoid.
Cold hands and feet, and general want of bodily heat. θ Typhoid.
Fever accompanied by great reflex nervous irritability ; alternating chill and heat ; sensorial irritability without very hot head or symptoms of congestion ; circumscribed red cheeks, red, dry tongue ; constipation.
Fever during catarrhal croupous pneumonia ; intense heat, 4 P. M. ; great restlessness and sleeplessness.
Febrile attacks during tuberculosis ; cannot tolerate a warm room, wishes windows and doors open day and night ; fever < 4 to 8 P. M., restless until midnight ; lies best when on back.

Attacks, periodicity

Faintish at certain hours in day.
In slow succession : violent stitches in hollow teeth.
For quarter of an hour : syncope ; chilliness.
Every half hour : severe hiccough ; thirsty for cold water.
After half hour : wakes with palpitation.
One hour after eating : nausea and vomiting.
For two hours after eating : spits up food.
For several hours : cannot make least movement on account of persistence of pain in rectum.
Before sunset : tight respiration.
During last twelve hours : eleven stools.
Once or twice daily : attacks of severe pain in stomach.
Daily : four to six painless, yellow, watery, undigested stools ; between 3 and 4 P. M., one or two thin stools ; drinks twenty-two tumblerfuls of water ; deposit of large clots of blood in urine ; at 4 P. M. has a fever fit and is much < ; four or five thin
stools.
Every morning at 2 or 3 : severe pains at epigastrium.
Every afternoon : screaming spells ; dribbling of urine from bladder ; at 4 o'clock, febrile attack ; 4 to 8 P. M., general aggravation.
Every evening : dribbling of urine from bladder ; constant tickling in throat.
Every night : agglutination of lids ; tickling cough ; closure of nasal openings ; severe pain down front of legs.
On alternate days : cough < ; chill about 4 P. M.
Since second day after parturition, eleven weeks ago : daily attacks of fever at 4 P. M.
At 4 P. M. : chill ; heat lasts until afternoon of next day and reappears in afternoon of third day.
Every two or three days : stools hard.
Three days after fifth confinement : abdomen enormously distended.
Every four days : pain in leg from hip to foot.
For four days : inflammation of tonsil and fauces.
Every five or six days : violent spasms in abdomen.
Every six or eight days : menses reappear.
Every seven days : ague coming on.
During menses : pain in temples ; nausea.
Before full moon : leucorrhœa <.
Each year from February to July : hypermetropic.
In Summer : burning between scapulæ <.
For one year : menses absent.
For several years : attacks of pain in stomach.
Four years : chronic diarrhœa.
For six years : menses absent.

Locality and direction

Right : pupil dilated ; hammering pain in side of head ; stitches < in temple ; head drawn to side ; eye, dim sight < ; redness and swelling of lids ; polypus growing from outer canthus of eye ; tearing in meatus ; ichorous
discharge begins in nostril ; pain in malar bones ; pain in side of face and temple ; eruption on cheek ; stitches in region of parotid ; soreness begins on side of throat ; swelling of cervical glands ; diphtheria < ; swelling of tonsil, also
neck ; greyish spots on tonsil ; deposit covers whole tonsil ; discharge from ear ; cannot lie on side ; pressive pain in hypochondrium ; pain in side ; pain in shoulder and arm ; when turning on side a hard body seems to roll from navel to that
side ; colicky pains in side of abdomen ; hardness on side ; hernia ; pain concentrated on side near hip ; stiffness in renal region < on side ; renal colic in ureter ; large goitre on side ; continued pain under ribs and in epigastrium ;
pneumonia ; great sensitiveness to pressure over side of chest ; bronchophony extending to under shoulder blade ; sense of constriction from side all around short ribs ; neck drawn to side ; darting in cervical muscles ; bronchocele on side ; pain from back
to scapula ; rheumatic tension in shoulder joint ; pain as from a sprain in wrist joint ; tearing in middle of thigh ; stitching in hip ; tearing through instep ; in inner ankle, extending over foot up knee ; pain in paroxysms, first in shoulder and arm
down side of trunk to hip, then across to left hip ; ulcers on leg and forearm ; severe pain in groin ; eczema on fingers of hand ; moist, scald head, most on and behind ear.
Left : sees only left half of object ; pustules on margin of cornea ; tearing in meatus ; heat in cheek ; constant disposition to breaking out on cheek ; swelling of throat ; swelling of cervical glands ; side of face swollen ; pains in
throat ; pemphigus on thumb and third finger ; leg covered up to knee with ulcers ; pain in hypochondriac region ; acute griping in hypochondrium ; wind gurgles in hypochondrium ; as if something heavy was lying on side of abdomen ; stitching in side of
chest, in axilla ; pain in kidney and ureter ; kidney affected ; cannot lie on side ; dulness in upper part of lung ; stitches on side of chest ; cutting pains from scapula to chest ; continuous pressure in chest ; lung hepatized ; chronic
inflammatory condition of lung ; hard lump in breast ; stiffness of side of neck ; head drawn to side ; pain in hip joint ; rheumatic tension in hip ; soreness on inner surface of thigh ; tearing in heel ; swelling of foot, with stitches in toes ;
pain from right ankle spreads to leg ; ulcers on leg ; chill on side ; red spot on cheek.
From right to left : swelling and suppuration of tonsils ; diphtheritic patches spread ; cutting pains across abdomen ; cutting across hypogastrium ; burning or boring stitches in ovaries ; shooting from knees to ankles ; pain in hips.
From left to right : pains in throat.
From within outward : stitches in temples.
From below upward : darting in cervical muscles.
Upward : labor pains run.

Sensations

Anxious, as if about to die ; as if everything was turning around ; as though everything was sinking down in bed ; temples as if screwed together ; as if bones of skull were being driven asunder, or as if brain was vacillating to and fro ; head as if
it would burst ; pain in head as if caused by wrong position ; eyes as if bruised ; as of a veil before eyes ; as if looking through fine lattice ; as if looking through a fog ; eyes as if too large ; as if dust was in eyes ; as if eyes were dry ;
singing in ears as from boiling water ; as if hot blood rushed into ears ; as if sulphur vapor was in throat ; front teeth as if too long ; vesicles on tip of tongue as if scalded and raw ; as if a ball rose up in throat ; as if entrance of pharynx was
constricted ; as if a hard body lodged in back part of throat ; limbs as if bruised ; as if head opened ; sensation in stomach as if fasting ; belching as if caused by wind in stomach ; as if everything was too tight on stomach ; as if stomach was pressed
together from both sides ; fingers as if dead ; as if everything eaten was rising up ; as if chest would burst ; as if œsophagus was being clutched and twisted ; as if steam was rising from stomach into head ; as if gimlets were running into spine ;
tension as from a cord in diaphragm ; tension as from a hoop in hypochondria ; soreness as if from shock in region of liver ; as if twenty dogs with sharp teeth were gnawing her ; as if something was moving up and down in stomach and bowels ; as if a hard body rolled
from navel to right side ; as if something heavy was lying on left side of abdomen ; as if heart hung by a thread ; as if stomach would fall down ; as of drops of water falling down ; pain as from a blow in right hypochondriac region ; sore aching in region of
liver as from a shock ; pain as if suppurating in swelling of inguinal gland ; back as if broken ; as if abdomen was bound up and would burst ; noise in abdomen as if small bladders of air were bursting ; teeth as if loose ; urine as if mingled with brick
dust ; when lying in bed feels as if she would die from weakness ; as if head would burst ; as though hot balls dropped from each breast through to back, rolling down back, along each leg and dropping off heels, this alternates with sensation as if balls of ice followed same
course ; as if he had inhaled sulphur fumes ; as if chest was constricted by cramps ; as if there was too much mucus in chest ; as if larynx was tickled with a feather ; shattering as from a shock in temples and chest ; chest as if too full ; as if lungs
had been overworked ; constriction as from a tight waistcoat ; tension as of a hoop on chest ; as if entire parenchyma was softened ; as if circulation stood still ; as if cords of back of neck were breaking ; as if tumor was held in some unyielding
envelope ; burning as from hot coals between scapulæ ; as if small of back would break ; colic as if intestines would burst ; as if flesh was loose on lower part of back ; pain as from bruises in shoulder, scapulæ and upper arms ; pain as from a sprain in
right wrist joint ; as if hands had been asleep ; hands as if enlarged ; pain as from a sprain in hip ; as if skin of thigh was rubbed sore ; feet as if dead or asleep ; joints feel as if encircled by band or ring ; awakes terrified as if dreaming ; as
if water was spurted upon back ; as if lying on ice ; flesh as if struck with a stick.
Pain : above eyes ; in temples ; in right side of face, right temple and parietal bone ; in teeth ; in throat ; all over limbs ; on left side of throat, shifting to right and up into ear ; in tonsils ; in small of back ; in stomach and
region of duodenum ; under ribs and all around waist ; across stomach and straight down both sides of it ; in left hypochondriac region as if weight like a stone rolled over ; in groin ; in region of abdominal ring ; in anus ; in rectum ; in left
kidney and ureter ; in bowels ; in perineum ; in abdomen ; in loins ; in lumbar region and nape of neck ; under right ribs and in epigastrium ; in lungs ; in small of back, extending into thighs ; in sacral region ; in bones of arms ; in
left hip joint ; in leg from hip to foot ; in soles ; in inner ankle over foot, up to knee and into leg ; in chest ; in right shoulder and arm, down right side of trunk to hip, shoots across to left hip and down left leg ; flying all through him.
Unbearable pain : in labor.
Intense pain : in abdomen.
Terrible pain : in rectum.
Violent pain : in head ; in stomach ; in back.
Severe pain : in stomach ; in epigastrium ; in chest ; across bowels ; in abdomen ; in back ; in ankle ; in right groin ; in head ; in renal region.
Acute pain : in rectum.
Severe spasmodic pains : at epigastrium.
Severe cutting pains : in eyes ; across abdomen.
Acute griping pain : in left hypochondrium.
Sharp pain : in throat ; in dorsal hepatic region ; in right shoulder and arm ; running around labia ; shooting into heart.
Sharp gnawing pain : in region of liver.
Gnawing, griping, cutting pain : in region of stomach.
Tensive, tearing, cutting pains : in abdomen.
Pulsating tearing : in region of heart.
Tearing : in forehead ; in right side of head to neck ; in face ; in eyes and teeth ; in right and left meatus ; in bones of cheeks ; in stomach ; over epigastric region ; about ribs and sides of abdomen into back ; in rectum ; in
ankles ; under clavicles ; in sacrum, kidneys and back, especially near spine ; in shoulder and elbow joints ; from neck to elbow ; in arm ; in hands ; in middle of right thigh ; in left heel ; in old ulcers on legs ; through right
instep ; in limbs.
Cutting : in rectum and bladder ; in glans penis and abdomen ; in abdomen ; in urethra ; across hypogastrium ; from scapula into chest.
Lacerating : in lower jaw.
Shooting pain : through head ; up shoulder blades ; in calves from knees to ankles.
Stitching, tearing : into stomach to back and shoulders ; in forehead, vertex or sides of head.
Lacerating stitches : in hernia.
Stitches : in temples ; in head ; in eyes ; in region of right parotid ; over epigastric region and down into abdomen ; in teeth ; in right side toward epigastrium ; in left side of chest, extending into abdomen and loins ; under short ribs
and in middle of chest ; in rectum ; in bladder ; in neck of bladder and anus ; in nipples ; in chest ; in left side of chest ; from under short ribs to small of back and shoulders ; in back toward small of back ; in shoulders ; in left
axilla ; in arms ; in both hips ; in knees and ankles ; in toes ; in big toe of right foot ; in corns.
Deep seated, stitching pain : in fauces.
Bursting pain : in abdomen.
Lightning-like pains : strike epigastrium, spread like rays over abdomen and shoot into all passages of body.
Hot pains : flash across bowels.
Darting : in right cervical muscles from below upward.
Twitching pain : in knees.
Pinching, pricking pains : on different parts of skin, sometimes apparently in veins.
Hammering pain : in centre of forehead.
Throbbing : on top of head ; in brain ; in teeth ; in eruption around knees ; in forehead ; in back.
Stupefying pain : in head.
Cutting soreness : of scalp.
Burning or boring stitches : in ovaries.
Burning pain : between shoulders ; in blisters on tongue ; on thumb and third finger of left hand ; in stomach ; in rectum ; in lump in left breast ; in lower limbs ; in wounds ; in spots on inner surface of thighs ; in ankle.
Smarting pain : in eyes ; in skin of thigh.
Stinging pain : in throat ; in rectum ; in lower limbs.
Drawing sticking pain : in back.
Gnawing biting pain : in right malar bone into sound and affected teeth.
Gnawing, twisting, griping : in epigastrium, stomach and upper abdomen.
Griping and clutching : in epigastrium ; in stomach.
Labor-like pains : in abdomen.
Gouty pains : in limbs.
Tensive pain : in nape of neck and shoulders ; in leg.
Constrictive pain : in epigastrium ; in stomach ; of rectum and anus.
Contractive pain : in perineum ; in calves.
Compressive pain : in stomach.
Drawing pain : in forehead and occiput ; in lower jaw ; in abdomen ; in all parts of abdomen ; in inner surface of upper arms, extending over elbows along forearm and wrists ; in front of legs, from knee to instep ; in scapulæ ; in limbs.
Tearing, boring and scraping : on external head.
Colic : in region of transverse colon : violent near right hip ; violent gall stone colic.
Colicky pains : in right side of abdomen.
Bearing down : over bladder.
Neuralgia : of vagina ; of extremities.
Gnawing : in vagina.
Cramplike pain : in bladder.
Cramps : in abdomen ; in stomach ; in legs and thighs ; in uterus ; in small of back ; in chest ; in toes.
Crampy sensation : upward towards chest.
Pressive pain : in eyes ; in hepatic region ; in right hypochondrium ; in right side.
Pressing pain : on vertex ; in stomach ; in region of liver.
Dull, aching pain : all over lungs.
Dull pain : in forehead ; in teeth ; in epigastrium ; in hypogastrium and loins.
Aching : in back and limbs ; of head ; in bones ; in legs ; in rectum ; in kidneys ; in teeth ; in epigastrium ; between scapulæ.
Shattered or concussed feeling : in head.
Dull pressing : in region of bladder and abdomen.
Pressure, drawing, griping : in abdomen.
Squeezing pressure : in abdomen.
Pressure : in eyes ; in stomach ; in liver ; in epigastrium ; in abdomen ; in hepatic region ; in precordia ; distressing in rectum ; in thighs and head ; through vagina ; in l. chest ; in a small spot in nape of neck.
Rheumatic tension : in right shoulder joint ; in left hip.
Twisting, crawling and emptiness : in stomach.
Burning : in forehead ; in eyes ; of eyelids ; of face ; in mouth ; in throat and pharynx ; in stomach ; in epigastrium, extending into throat ; up whole spine ; in feet and hands ; in umbilical region ; at anus ; in
rectum ; in bladder ; in palms of hands and soles of feet ; during micturition, in urethra ; in vagina ; in nipples ; between scapulæ ; in old ulcers on legs ; in cheeks.
Burning heat : in palms of hands.
Burning, scalding, itching : of scalp.
Heat : in temples ; in ears ; in face ; of hands ; in front of legs ; of head ; in palms ; of eyes.
Biting : at anus.
Smarting : of eyes ; of lids.
Pricking : in throat and pharynx.
Sticking : on scrotum ; in back, extending to scapulæ.
Twinging : in rectum.
Twitching : in arms and shoulders, in limbs and through body.
Sore aching : in region of liver.
Soreness : of eyes ; of chest ; of corners of mouth ; of throat ; of left tonsil ; of meatus ; in urethra ; between scrotum and thighs ; of nipples ; all over ; of feet.
Painful sensitiveness : of skin ; of abdomen.
Painfulness : of bones of lower extremities ; of head and stomach ; of carbuncle on chin ; of liver spots on chest and arms.
Sore sensation : in chest ; on inner surface of left thigh ; in corns.
Tenderness : along margin of liver and at epigastrium.
Sensitiveness : of submaxillary glands.
Pressing out sensation : in abdominal ring.
Pressing : in perineum, near anus.
Constriction : in region of submaxillary glands ; in stomach ; of œsophagus ; of anus ; of sphincter ; from right side all around short ribs ; in chest.
Contraction : in throat.
Spasmodic contraction : of abdomen.
Tension : of abdomen ; in liver ; beneath stomach ; marking diaphragmatic attachments ; in hypochondria ; at anus ; under clavicles.
Tightness : in old ulcers of lower part of thighs.
Fulness : of abdomen ; up to throat.
Full feeling : in rectum and bladder.
Jammed feeling : in perineum.
Bloated feeling : in abdomen.
Heavy sensation : in bladder.
Heaviness : of head ; of tongue ; of stomach ; of abdomen ; in bladder ; of limbs ; of hands.
Weight : at stomach.
Oppression : of chest.
Shaking : in head.
Fluttering : at stomach, then all over body.
Pulsation : in abdomen ; in back ; in temples ; in abdominal ring.
Jerking : in urethra ; in lower limbs ; of single limbs or whole body.
Sensation of churning : in stomach.
Light sensation : about heart.
Anxiety : in epigastrium ; in chest.
Distressing feeling : in hepatic region.
Sinking : at stomach.
Rising of warmth : along spine.
Great weariness : in back, going down to feet.
Weakness : in knees, down legs to joints of feet ; of arms ; of affected lower limb ; of knees.
Stiffness : in renal region ; of left side of neck ; in nape of neck and shoulders ; in small of back ; in affected lower limbs ; in knees ; in hollow of knees ; in knee joints ; painful in muscles ; in all joints ; of elbows and
shoulders.
Numbness : in feet and hands ; of limbs ; in joints ; through body.
Dryness : of mouth ; of lips ; of eyes ; of nose ; of posterior nares ; of tongue ; of vagina ; in windpipe ; of hands, especially of palms ; of skin of hands.
Tickling : in throat.
Dull tingling : in hands.
Formication : in windpipe ; of affected limb.
Itching : of scalp ; of crust on head ; of eyes ; of canthi ; in ear ; of eruption on cheek ; of eruption on chin ; eruption around knees ; of eruption around hemorrhoids ; of anus ; in urethra ; of inner surface of
prepuce ; on scrotum ; of vulva ; on chest ; of pimples on neck ; of pimples on hands ; of pimples between fingers ; of old ulcers on legs ; of liver spots on chest and arms.
Biting itching : from thighs to genitals ; on head, back and limbs.
Chilliness : in rectum.
Cold feeling : in eyes ; in extremities ; in feet and hands ; in face and feet.
Icy coldness : of hands and feet.

Tissues

Emaciation and debility from loss of fluids ; upper parts wasted ; lower limbs swollen. θ Ascites.
Atrophy of infants.
Soft parts feel painful to touch or pressure.
Numbness of limbs ; twitching through body.
Hemorrhages, dark blood.
Arthritic pain and stiffness of joints.
The pains are drawing in character and seem to be "between the bones and skin ;" pains < rainy or stormy weather and by cold ; > by warmth and particularly by lying in bed ; rheumatic tension and tearing in joints of upper and lower extremities, so that she
cannot do anything, as if paralyzed ; stiffness of limbs and coldness of feet. θ Chronic rheumatism.
Sensation as if void of marrow.
Osteitis, tophi, arthritic nodes with nocturnal pains.
Softening of bones ; caries.
Gouty lithemia.
General dropsy, consequent upon disease of liver, enormous swelling of scrotum, redness and painful rawness between it and thigh ; frequent painful urging to urinate.
Ascites : after scarlet fever ; after venesections ; after abuse of alcohol ; from liver affections ; upper part of body emaciated, lower enormously swollen ; after intermittent fever.
Hydrops siccus from hypertrophy of heart.
Erectile tumors which have now an increase and then a decrease of amount of blood in them.
Venous and arterial nevi materni.
Warm poultices aggravate all pains ; boils returning periodically ; carbuncles with burning stitches all around, with alternate chilliness and heat of body. θ Anthrax.
Boils and furuncles returning periodically.
Pus bloody, corroding and putrid ; whitish, milky appearance. θ Suppuration.
Glandular swellings.
Chilblains.
Scrofulosis and tuberculosis, cheesy degeneration and dropsical effusion.
Deep seated progressing chronic disease.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : teeth excessively painful ; causes bleeding of gums ; epigastric region extremely sensitive ; pain in right hypochondriac region < ; region of liver sensitive ; eruption around hemorrhoids painful ; varices painful ; spot on
abdomen sensitive ; condylomata on mucous surface prepuce not sensitive ; on spots on inner surface of thigh causes pain ; inner ankles tender ; all soft parts painful.
Pressure : stomach sensitive ; of hand, tensive aching in hypochondria < ; abdomen sensitive ; on hypochondrium causes pain in epigastrium and vice versa ; emaciated lower extremities pit ; great sensitiveness over right side of chest ; tearing in head
> ; all soft parts painful.
Tight clothing : epigastric region extremely sensitive ; abdomen very sensitive.
Weight of clothes : abdomen sensitive.
When riding in carriage : nausea.
After injury to ankle, half a year ago, slight wound of skin, followed by ulceration until whole ankle was affected.

Skin

Unhealthiness of skin ; dry, hot, burning, itching when warm ; humid, suppurating or vesicular eruptions.
Skin dry and hot, especially that of hands.
Exhalations from body smell like onions.
Flesh in ridges, as if struck with a stick.
Biting and itching : on head, back and limbs, with chilliness ; when becoming warm through day.
Pinching and pricking pains on different parts of skin ; sometimes apparently in veins.
Eruption : first vesicular, then dry ; humid, suppurating ; full of deep rhagades ; breeding lice, itching violently ; intertrigo, raw places readily bleeding.
Eczema on face, genitals, legs, neck and fingers of right hand ; bleeds easily and is covered with thick crusts, with fetid secretion beneath.
Moist, scald head, most on and behind right ear.
Intertrigo between thighs and labia forming flat, lard-like ulcers with inflamed edges.
Scaly furfuraceous herpes, yellow at base, and bleeding on face at corners of mouth.
Insensible yellow brown shrivelled herpes.
Herpes on nape of neck, in axillæ, on arms, thighs and calves of legs.
Impetigo after abuse of mercury.
Psoriasis of hands and fingers ; eruption has a furfuraceous look, sometimes fissured and bleeding.
Liver spots on chest and arms, painful or itching.
Red, itching or burning spots of eruption.
Large, red spots on legs and abdomen.
Dark, red blotches here and there.
Eruptions bleed easily.
Freckles.
Nevus maternus and vascular tumors.
Urticaria, chronic cases.
Large, jagged, often pedunculated warts exuding moisture and bleeding readily.
Blood-boils ; boils do not mature, but remain blue.
Lupus ; recent cases, shallow ulceration, in pale, sallow patients.
Ulcers : bleed and burn when dressed ; tearing, shooting, itching at night, burning when touched ; fistulous, with hard, red, shining everted edges and inflammatory swelling of affected parts ; bleeding easily ; mercurial ; in gouty persons ;
phagedenic ; much inflamed ; swollen ; superficial ; edges high or callous ; impure centre ; black gangrenous ; of offensive smell ; thin ichor ; on lower limbs ; cancerous ; flat with a bluish white base.
Child becomes drowsy and awakens from sleep frightened, clinging to crib, seems to know no one ; soon drops to sleep again, only to reawaken with same symptoms ; when rash suddenly pales and glands swell and face becomes bloated and paler than
natural. θ Scarlatina.
Secondary eruption of dark blotches on hands, thighs, back, or face. θ Scarlatina.
Colic during desquamation. θ Scarlatina.
Scarlatina and measles, with stupefaction and sopor.
During desquamative stage of scarlet fever sudden rise of temperature, with small weak pulse ; hot, dry skin ; great thirst ; willfulness and ill behavior ; paleness and œdema of face, generally only on left side and in feet ; scanty urine with strangury ;
burning in urethra ; pain in region of kidneys ; urine at first dark red or bloody, containing much albumen ; ascites.
Weak, emaciated ; staggering gait ; body bent ; face cachectic, sunken and covered with a coppery eruption ; eyes dim, vacant ; voice hoarse ; fatty ulcers in mouth and throat ; looseness of teeth and bleeding of gums ; loss of appetite ;
sleeplessness ; constant inclination to lie down, particularly about 3 or 4 P. M. ; tearing in limbs, particularly in forearms and lower leg, < at night and in damp weather ; depression of spirits, tired of life ; hemorrhoids, pain in back, stitching and itching in
anus ; hard stool. θ Syphilis.
Secondary, tettery eruptions ; ulcers in throat, of dark yellowish grey color ; cough and hoarseness from similar affection in larynx ; coppery eruption on forehead, and cachectic appearance of face ; dry, pediculated, painless condylomata on sexual organs ;
nightly pains in limbs during wet weather ; low spirited ; desponding ; nervous weakness. θ Syphilis.
Chancres with raised edges ; indolent chancres with thick, rounded, prominent margins, granulation flabby or absent ; eruptions on glans ; condylomata ; ulcers in mouth. θ Syphilis.
Herpetic eruption in mouth, first affecting tonsils and then extending to sides and under tip of tongue ; affected parts look wrinkled, like hands of a woman who had been washing ; warm foods and tobacco cause burning ; much hoarseness and irritation to cough, latter
sounding like that of laryngeal phthisis. θ Syphilis.

Stage of life, constitution

Suitable for : old women and children ; persons of keen intellect, but feeble muscular development ; upper part of body wasted, lower part semi-dropsical ; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic affections ; herpetic and scrofulous
constitutions ; hypochondriacs subject to skin diseases ; lithic acid diathesis, much red sediment in urine, urine itself transparent ; sallow people with cold extremities, haughty disposition, when sick, mistrustful, slow of comprehension, weak memory ; weak children
with well developed heads but puny, sickly bodies, irritable, nervous and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross, pushing every one away angrily.
Boy, æt. 6 days, after catching cold during an attack of jaundice ; conjunctivitis.
Girl, æt. 10 months ; eczema capitas.
Child ; chronic crying.
Boy, æt. 1 ; polypus of eye.
Girl, æt. 2 1/2, vaccinated with humanized virus when one year old, soon after, large sores all over body, which yielded to powerful ointments and astringents, suffering one year ; diarrhœa.
Girl, æt. 3, since early infancy ; constipation.
Girl, æt. 3 years and 5 mos., suffering two weeks ; capillary bronchitis.
Boy, æt. 4, chancre ; another, æt. 4 ; rachitis.
Girl, æt. 6, scrofulous ; warts on chin.
Girl, æt. 7 ; eczema capitis.
Child, æt. 7, treated in vain with Chinoidine ; intermittent fever.
Boy, æt. 7, suffering since infancy ; inguinal hernia ; another, æt. 7 ; diphtheria ; another, æt. 7, deaf-mute ; otorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 8, amiable disposition, light hair, blue eyes, slender ; ague.
Girl, æt. 8, fleshy and full faced, ruddy, dark complexioned ; diphtheria.
Girl, æt. 9, just recovered from scarlatina ; diphtheria.
Girl, ill one week ; ulcerated throat.
Girl, æt. 10 ; diphtheria.
Boy, æt. 11, weak, suffering for one year from quartan ague ; dropsy.
Girl, æt. 11, very thin, pale, strumous diathesis, nervous temperament ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 11, very nervous temperament ; diphtheria.
Boy, æt. 12 ; rheumatism.
Boy, æt. 13, after typhoid pneumonia ; threatened phthisis.
Boy, æt. 14, remarkably feeble and lean and of weak muscular development, but of sensitive mind and excellent intellect, mother died of consumption ; cough.
Girl, æt. 15, has always been delicate, pleurisy three years ago, spits blood, menses not appeared, father and sister died of phthisis ; lung affection.
Boy, æt. 15, hypermetropic, and double convergent strabismus ; hemeralopia.
Girl, æt. 17, poorly developed, pituitous constitution, menses irregular, suffering for last year from urticaria and boils ; affection of stomach and abdomen.
Boy, æt. 18, robust ; latent pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 18, fair blonde, temperament gentle, but vivacious ; insanity.
Girl, æt. 18, tall, slight figure, narrow chest and stooping, family consumptive ; chronic cough.
Girl, æt. 18, brunette, medium height ; amenorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 19, phthisical family ; threatened tuberculosis.
Man, æt. 19, worked in a brass foundry ; hemeralopia.
Girl, æt. 20, teacher ; diphtheritis.
Woman, æt. 23, several months pregnant, carbuncle on chin ; trismus.
Girl, æt. 23, weak, neglected pneumonia ; chest affection.
Man, æt. 23, had herpetic eruption over body, which disappeared of itself ; ulcers on foot.
Woman, æt. 24, suffering four years ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 24, attacks every six weeks ; gravel.
Man, æt. 24, robust, at one time had itch, two years ago had fever with a vesicular eruption, since then in poor health ; threatened tuberculosis.
Woman, æt. 25, dark hair and skin, morose, peevish disposition ; incontinence of urine.
Woman, æt. 26, delicate, suffering two weeks, after childbirth ; febrile attacks.
Woman, æt. 26, disposed to cramps and hemorrhoids ; peritonitis.
Woman, æt. 26, sanguine temperament, after getting wet ; pains in abdomen.
Girl, æt. 26, brunette, strong, suffering several years ; pains in face.
Woman, æt. 27, single, bilious temperament ; cystitis.
Man, æt. 28, three years ago had a herpetic eruption which was cured by baths, then a blow upon leg was followed by bone swelling and suppuration ; phthisis pituitosa.
Man, æt. 28, preacher, after pneumonia ; threatened phthisis.
Man, æt. 28, light complexioned, nervous, sickly since childhood, after scarlatina has been troubled with discharge from right ear and partial deafness ; diphtheria.
Man, æt. 28 ; diphtheria.
AD., æt. 29 ; suffering four days ; diphtheria.
Woman, æt. 29 ; flatulent indigestion.
Man, æt. 29, suffering four days ; diphtheritis.
Young man, one year ago, gonorrhœa, for which mercury was given until salivation was produced ; syphilis.
Young woman, thin, brunette, menses profuse, suffering about a year ; affection of liver.
Young woman, fair complexion, sanguine, lymphatic temperament ; intermittent rheumatic pains.
Man, æt. 30, dark complexion ; ague.
Woman, æt. 30, sanguine temperament, lively disposition, suffering with rheumatism, headache and congestions ; hemorrhage after abortion.
Man, æt. 30, suffering several months ; anesthesia of hands.
Woman, æt. 30, suffering several years with digestive troubles after typhoid fever ; hemorrhage after abortion.
Woman, æt. 31, lively, sanguine temperament ; anal eczema.
Woman, æt. 31, after typhoid fever ; dimness of lens.
Woman, æt. 32, mother of three children, three days after parturition ; febrile attacks.
Woman, æt. 32, slender, well built, lively temperament, married, but childless, menses regular, family affected with eczema ; digestive disturbances and tapeworm.
Man, æt. 34, choleric, melancholic, ten years ago had gonorrhœa, no history of syphilis ; discharge from urethra, and ulcers on penis.
Peasant woman, æt. 35, delivered of twins after tedious confinement, but had severe miliary eruptions and many other troubles, making a bad recovery ; dropsy.
Woman, æt. 35, with inherited tendency to stomachal and abdominal affections, suffering occasionally from menstrual disturbances ; colic.
Man, æt. 37 ; rheumatism ; another, æt. 37, frequently tapped ; ascites.
Woman, æt. 37, tall, spare, otherwise healthy ; bronchocele.
Man, æt. 38, rheumatism ten years ago ; chronic rheumatism.
Man, æt. 38, ordinary constitution, unusual good health, with exception of constipation which he could only remove with purgatives, for last three years this constipation had increased to such a degree as to almost resist action of purgatives.
Woman, æt. 38, suffering several years ; affection of stomach.
Woman, æt. 39, dyspeptic, seven months pregnant ; uterine hemorrhage and threatened abortion.
Woman, æt. 39, suffering for eighteen years ; uterine displacement.
Woman ; affection of bladder.
Woman, three days after fifth confinement ; tympanitis.
Woman, feeble constitution, phlegmatic temperament ; tonsillitis and pemphigus.
Woman, pregnant five or six months ; vomiting.
Woman, five days after confinement ; sore nipples.
Woman, æt. 40, formerly suffering from tearing pains throughout body, particularly in legs ; ulcers on legs.
Man, æt. 40, thin, suffering from hemorrhoids, several months ago had severe stitches in chest and fever for which Cinchona was given ; dropsy.
Woman, æt. 40, mother of five children, since second day after parturition, eleven weeks ago, daily attacks of fever.
Woman, æt. 40, suffering a long time ; hernia.
Man, æt. 40, watchmaker, compelled to sit much ; affection of liver.
Man, æt. 40, psoric, after rheumatic catarrhal affection ran splinter into finger ; affection of hand and arm.
Woman, æt. 40, sanguine temperament, in youth affected with glandular swelling after catching cold ; rheumatism.
Man, æt. 40, suffering from disease of liver ; dropsy.
Woman, æt. 40, formerly suffering from itch, three months pregnant, digestive disturbance.
Woman, æt. 40, twenty-one years married, mother of two children, the youngest eighteen years, suffering sixteen years ; psora, with a complication of diseased states.
Man, æt. 40, pneumonia.
Woman, æt. 40, suffering one year ; amenorrhœa.
Man, æt. 40, had been much exposed to night air, which was followed by copious blood spitting, fever, pains in chest, suffering ten weeks ; pulmonary disease.
Woman, æt. 42, suffering twelve years ; hysteria.
Man, æt. 44, strong constitution, phlegmatic temperament ; affection of liver.
Man, æt. 44, lawyer, suffering six years ; cerebral paresis.
Man, æt. 44, ailing for two years ; ulcers in legs, and dyspepsia.
Woman, æt. 46, mother of twelve children, suffering twenty years from open ulcer on foot ; abdominal affection.
Woman, æt. 48, married, delicate all her life, suffering acutely for several years ; indigestion.
Man, æt. 48, lymphatic temperament, light hair, grey eyes, complexion fair, lively disposition, good natured, yet constantly desponding if feeling unwell, suffering five years ; vesical calculus and hæmaturia.
Man, nervo-bilious temperament, suffering one year ; dyspepsia.
Man, eruptions on face of long standing, supposed to have been contracted at the barber's ; barber's itch.
Woman, suffering several months ; leucorrhœa.
Woman, lymphatic ; tuberculosis.
Man, middle aged ; lithiasis.
Woman, æt. 50, short stature, mother of many children, frequently bled, addicted to liquor ; dropsy.
Woman, æt. 50, not menstruated for two years, after catching cold three years ago ; rheumatism.
Man, æt. 50, thin, cachectic, musician ; cramps in stomach.
Widow, æt. 50, suffering for years ; flatulency.
Woman, æt. 50, sallow complexion, of active habits ; constipation.
Woman, æt. 50, weak, cachectic, formerly troubled with abdominal complaints and itch, has not menstruated for five years ; impairment of hearing.
Man, æt. 50, arthritic, suffering from stiffness of joints and eczema ; flatulency and tapeworm.
Woman, æt. 50 ; rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 50, married ; dyspepsia.
Man, æt. 50, arthritic ; cramps in stomach.
Woman, æt. 52 ; ulcer on back.
Woman, æt. 53, robust ; after itch eruption on leg.
Man, æt. 54, suffering several years ; hernia.
Woman, æt. 56, unmarried, small stature, stout ; dyspnœa.
Man, æt. 56, atra-bilious temperament ; hæmaturia.
Man, æt. 56, arthritic, suffering many years ; cramps in stomach.
Woman, æt. 58, large, corpulent, gouty diathesis ; flatulent dyspepsia.
Man, æt. 60, strong, butcher, father and grandfather suffered from calculi ; renal colic.
Woman, æt. 60, sanguine temperament, after slight injury to ankle ; ulcer.
Man, æt. 60, strong, writes much : amaurosis.
Woman, æt. 60, thin, lively, farmer's wife ; pains in stomach.
Man, æt. 60, brunette, large, strong ; rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 60 ; flatulent indigestion.
Man, æt. 60, from taking cold ; acute cystitis.
Man, æt. 60 ; flatulency.
Woman, æt. 64 ; debility.
Woman, æt. 65, since sixteenth year, when menses appeared suffered every month from colic ; since forty-ninth year, when cessation of menstruation occurred, attacks more frequent and violent ; colic.
Man, æt. 67 ; intermittent fever.
Man, æt. 68, suffering two years ; gravel.
Man, æt. 76, strong, corpulent, plethoric, highly fed, fond of wine and tobacco, is affected several times every year with severe catarrh, for eight years has had ulcer on right ala nasi ; ulcer on leg.
Man, æt. 81 ; gout.

Relations

Antidoted by : Acon., Camphor, Caustic., Chamom., Coffea, Graphit., Pulsat ., coffee.
It antidotes : Cinchon . (yellow face, liver and spleen swollen, flatulency, tension under short ribs < right side, pressure in stomach and constipation).
Compatible : Bellad., Bryon ., Carb. v . (a dose every eighth day facilitates action of Lycop.) Calc . (predisposition to constipation, hard stools evacuated with difficulty, or
urging ineffectual), Graphit., Hyosc ., Laches ., Ledum, Phosphor ., Pulsat ., Sepia, Silica, Stramon ., Sulphur ,
Verat .
Incompatible : Coffee.
Complementary to Iodium .
Compare : Arsen., Calc. sulph., Carb. an., Euphras., Hepar., Mercur., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Sabad . (regularly < 4 to 8 P. M.).
Unless undoubtedly indicated the treatment of chronic diseases should not be commenced with Lycop ., it is better to give first another antipsoric remedy.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

Lycopodium is an antipsoric, anti-syphilitic and anti-sycotic, and its sphere is broad and deep. Though classed among the inert substances, and thought to be useful only for rolling up allopathic pills, Hahnemann brought it into use and developed its power by attenuation.

It is a monument to Hahnemann. It enters deep into the life, and ultimate changes in the soft tissues, blood-vessels, bones, liver, heart, joints. The tissue changes are striking; there is tendency to, necrosis, abscesses, spreading ulcers and great emaciation.

Generalities

There is a predominance of symptoms on the right side of the body, and they are likely to travel from right to left or from above downward, e. g., from head to chest.

The patient emaciates above, especially about the neck, while the lower extremities are fairly well nourished. Externally there is sensitiveness to a warm atmosphere when there are head and spine symptoms. The head symptoms also are worse from the warmth of the bed and from heat, and worse from getting heated by exertion.

The patient is sensitive to cold and there is a marked lack of vital heat, and worse in general from cold and cold air and from cold food and drinks. The pains are ameliorated from warmth except of the head and spine.

Exertion aggravates the Lycopodium patient in general. He becomes puffed and distressed, and dyspnoea is increased by exertion. He cannot climb, he cannot walk fast. The cardiac symptoms are increased as well as the dyspnoea by becoming heated from exertion. The inflamed parts are sometimes relieved from the application of heat. The throat symptoms are generally relieved from the application of heat, from drinking hot tea or warm soup. The stomach pains are often relieved by warm drinks and taking warm things into the stomach. Nervous excitement and prostration are marked.

In the rheumatic pains and other sufferings the Lyc. patient is ameliorated by motion. He is extremely restless, must keep turning, and if there is inflammation with the aches and pains the patient is better from the warmth of the bed and relieved from motion, and he will keep tossing all night.

He turns and gets into a new place and thinks he can sleep, but the restlessness continues all night. He wants cool air, wants to be in a cool place with head symptoms. It is true that the headache is worse from motion enough to warm the patient up, but not from the motion itself. The headache is worse from lying down and from the warmth of the room, and better in cold air and from motion until he has moved and exercised sufficiently to become heated, when the headache becomes worse. That is quite an important thing to remember concerning Lycopodium, because it may constitute a distinguishing feature.

The head symptoms are worse from warm wraps and warm bed,

The complaints of Lyc. are likely to be worse at a fixed time, viz., from four till eight o'clock in the evening. An exacerbation comes on in the acute complaints and often in the chronic complaints at this time.

The Lyc. chill and fever is worse at this time, and in typhoid and scarlet fever the patient is especially worse from 4-8 P.M. In gouty attacks, in rheumatic fevers, in inflammatory conditions, in pneumonia, in acute catarrhs, which are complaints especially calling for Lycopodium, it is always well to think of this remedy when there is a decisive aggravation from 4-8 P.M.

Stomach

The Lycopodium patient is flatulent, distended like a drum, so that he can hardly breathe. The diaphragm is pushed upwards, infringing upon the lung and heart space, so that he has palpitation, faintness and dyspnoea. It is not uncommon to hear a Lycop. patient say,

"Everything I eat turns into wind."

After a mere mouthful he becomes flatulent and distended, so that he cannot eat any more. He says a mouthful fills him up to the throat. While the abdomen is distended he is so nervous that he cannot endure any noise. The noise of the crackling of paper, ringing of bells or slamming of doors goes through him and causes fainting, like Ant. crud., Borax and Natr. mur.

These general conditions go through all complaints, acute and chronic. There is an excitable stage of the whole sensorium in which everything disturbs. Little things annoy and distress.

The Lyc. patient cannot eat oysters; they make him sick. Oysters seem to poison the Lyc. patient, just as onions are a poison to the Thuya patient.

The Oxalic acid patient cannot eat strawberries. If you ever have a patient get sick from eating strawberries, tomatoes or oysters, and you have no homoeopathic remedies at hand, it is a good thing to remember that cheese will digest strawberries or tomatoes or oysters in a few minutes.

Skin

The skin ulcerates. There are painful ulcer, sloughing ulcers beneath the skin, abscesses beneath the skin, cellular troubles. The chronic ulcerations are indolent with false granulations, painful, burning, stinging and smarting, often relieved by applying cooling things and aggravated by warm poultices. It is somewhat a general in Lycopodium that warm poultices and warmth ameliorates; warm applications ameliorate the pain in the knee, the suppurating condition and the gouty troubles. in an unusually warm bed, and in a warm room hives come out.

The hives come out either in nodules or in long and irregular stripes, especially in the heat, and itch violently. Lyc. has eruptions upon the skin, with violent itching. Vesicles and scaly eruptions, moist eruptions and dry eruptions, furfuraceous eruptions, eruptions about the lips, behind the ears, under the wings of the nose and upon the genitals; fissured eruptions, bleeding fissures like salt rheum upon the hands.

The skin becomes thick and indurated. The sites of old boils and pustules become indurated and form nodules that remain a long time. The skin looks unhealthy, and it will slough easily; wounds refuse to heal. Surface wounds suppurate as if they had contained splinters, and this suppuration burrows along under the skin. Ulcers bleed and form great quantities of thick, yellow, offensive, green pus. Chancres and cancroids often find their similimum in Lyc.

The Lyc. state when deciphered shows feebleness throughout. A very low state of the arteries and veins, poor tone and poor circulation. Numbness in spots. Emaciation of single members. Deadness of the fingers and toes. Staggering and inability to make use of the limbs. Clumsiness and awkwardness of the limbs. Trembling of the limbs.

Mind

The mental symptoms of Lyc. are numerous.

He is tired. He has a tired state of the mind, a chronic fatigue, forgetfulness, aversion to undertaking anything new, aversion to appearing in any new role, aversion to his own work. Dreads lest something will happen, lest he will forget something. A continually increasing dread of appearing in public comes on, yet a horror, at times, of solitude.

Often in professional men, like lawyers and ministers, who have to appear in public, there is a feeling of incompetence, a feeling of inability to undertake his task, although he has been accustomed to it for many years.

A lawyer cannot think of appearing in court; he procrastinates, he delays until he is obliged to appear, because he has a fear that he will stumble that he will make mistakes, that he will forget, and yet when he undertakes it he goes through with ease and comfort. This is a striking feature also of Silicea. No medicines have this fear so marked as these two.

Lyc. also has a religious insanity, which has a mild and simple beginning, a matter of melancholy. This religious melancholy grows greater and greater until he sits and broods. He has very often aversion to company, and yet he dreads solitude.

"Dread of men and dread of solitude; irritability and melancholy."

This dread of men is not always a state of dread in women. It is a dread of people, and when that is fully carried out in the Lyc. patient you see that she dreads the presence of new persons, or the coming in of friends or visitors she wants to be only with those that are constantly surrounding her does not want to be entirely alone; wants to feel that there is somebody else in the house, but does not want company; does not want to be talked to, or forced to do anything; does not want to make any exertion, yet at times when forced to do so she is relieved.

"Taciturnity, desires to be alone."

Now, let us follow that out a little further. The taciturnity is because the patient does not want to talk, wants to keep silent, yet, as I have said already, very glad to feel there is somebody else in the house and that she is not alone. She is perfectly willing to remain in a little room by herself, so that she is practically alone, yet not in solitude. If there were two adjacent rooms in the house you would commonly find the Lyc. patient go into one and stay there, but very glad to have somebody in the other.

The Lycopodium patient often weeps in the act of receiving a friend or meeting an acquaintance. An unusual sadness with weeping comes over this patient on receiving a gift. At the slightest joy she weeps, hence we see that the Lyc. patient is a very nervous, sensitive, emotional patient. Here it is:

"Sensitive, even cries when thanked."

When lying in bed suffering from the lower forms of fevers, there is delirium and even un consciousness. He picks at imaginary things in the air, sees flies and all sorts of little things flying in the air.

"Excessively merry and laughs at simplest things."

A condition of insanity.

"Despondent."

The Lyc. patient wakes up in the morning with sadness. There is sadness and gloom. The world may come to an end, or the whole family may die, or the house may burn up. There seems to be nothing cheering, the future looks black. After moving about a while, this passes off. This state precedes conditions of insanity, and finally a suicidal state comes, an aversion to life.

See how this remedy takes hold of the will and actually destroys man's will to live. That which is first in man is his desire to be, to exist, and to be something, if ever so small. When that is destroyed, we see what a wonderful thing has been destroyed. The very man himself wills then not to be. It is a perversion of everything that makes the man, the destruction of his will.

"Apprehensiveness, difficult breathing and fearfulness."

"Anxious thoughts as if about to die."

"Want of self-confidence, indecision, timidity, resignation."

"Loss of confidence in himself and in everything."

"Misanthropic, flies even from his own children."

"Distrustful, suspicious and fault finding."

"Oversensitive to pain; patient is beside himself."

Head

Lyc. is subject to periodical headaches, and headaches connected with gastric troubles. If he goes beyond his dinner hour a sick headache will come on. He must eat with regularity or he will have the headache which he is subject to. This is somewhat like a Cactus headache.

Cactus has a congestive headache which becomes extremely violent with flushed face if he does not eat at the regular time. One distinguishing feature is that with the Lycopodium headache, if he eats something, the headache is better while the Cactus headache is worse from eating. Lyc. and especially Phos. and Psorinum have headaches with great hunger.

At or about the beginning of the attack there is a faint all-gone hungry feeling which eating does not satisfy. Such is the nature of Phosphorus and Psorinum when the appetite and headache are associated.

The Lycopodium headache is < from heat, from the warmth of the bed, and from lying down, > from cold, from the cold air, and from having the windows open. Lean, emaciated boys are subject to prolonged pains in the head. Every time this little fellow takes cold he has a prolonged, throbbing, congestive headache, and from day to day and from month to month he becomes more emaciated, especially about the face and neck. This same trouble is present when a narrow chested boy has a dry, teasing cough, without expectoration, and emaciates about the neck and face.

This remedy is especially suitable in these withered lads, with a dry cough or prolonged headache. In children who wither after pneumonia or bronchitis, emaciate about the face and neck, take cold on the slightest provocation, suffer with headache from being heated, have nightly headaches, and a state of congestion that affects the mind more or less, in which they rouse out of sleep in confusion.

The little one screams out in sleep, awakes frightened, looks wild, does not know the father and mother, or nurse or family until after a few moments, when he seems to be able to collect his senses and then realizes where he is and lies down to sleep again. In a little while he wakes up again in a fright, looks strange and confused. That repeats itself.

The headaches are throbbing and pressing, as if the head would burst; but this is not so important as the manner in which they come on, the circumstance of their cause, the things that the child does and the fact that they are better from cold, worse from noise and talking, worse from 4 to 8 P.M., and he emaciates from above downward.

These are more important than the quality of the pain that the patient feels, but if he describes the quality of the pain it is spoken of as a throbbing, pressing, bursting or as a fullness.

Upon the scalp we find eruptions in patches, smooth patches with the hair off. Patches on the face and eczematous eruptions behind the ears, bleeding and oozing a watery fluid, sometimes yellowish watery.

The eczema spreads from behind the ears up over the ears and to the scalp. Lyc is a very important remedy to study in eczema of the infant.

Eczema in a lean, hungry, withering child with more or, less head trouble, such as has been described, with a moist oozing behind the cars, red sand in the urine, face looking wrinkled, a dry teasing cough, in a child that kicks the covers of a child whose left foot is cold and the other warm, with capricious appetite, eating much, with unusual hunger at times and great thirst, and yet losing steadily, will often be cured by Lyc.

It will throw out a greater amount of eruption at first, but this will subside finally and the child will return to health. The head in general is closely related to one symptom, viz., red sand in the urine. A long as the red sand is plentiful, the patient is free from these congestive headaches, but when the urine becomes pale and free from the red pepper deposit; then comes the bursting, pressing headache, lasting for days.

It might be said that this is a uraemic headache; but it does not matter what you call it, if the symptoms are present the remedy will be justified. In old gouty constitutions, when the headache is most marked, the gout in the extremities will be > and vice versa.

The headaches is present only in the absence of pain in the extremities. Again, when there is a copious quantity of red sand in the urine the gouty state, either in the head or extremities, will be absent, but whenever he takes cold the secretion seems to slacken up with an < of the pain.

There is another feature of the Lyc. headache related to catarrhal states. The headache is < when the catarrh is slacked up by an acute cold. The Lyc subject often suffers from thick, yellow discharge from the nose.

The nose is filled with yellow, green crusts, blown out of the nose in the morning and hawked out of the throat. Now, when the patient takes cold the thick discharge to a great extent ceases, and he commences to sneeze and has a watery discharge. Then comes on a Lyc. headache, with great suffering, with pressing pains, with hunger, and finally the coryza passes away, and the thick yellow discharge returns and the headache subsides.

We have many eye symptoms in Lycopodium, but most prominent are the catarrhal affections of the eyes. The symptoms are so numerous, they describe almost any catarrhal condition of the eyes, so that you cannot discriminate upon the eye symptoms alone. Inflammatory conditions with copious discharge, with red eyes, ulceration of the conjunctiva and lids, and granular lids.

Ears

For the ears Lyc. becomes an important remedy, because this selfsame emaciating child, with the wrinkled countenance and dry cough, has had, since an attack of scarlet fever, a discharge from the ears, thick, yellow and offensive, with loss of hearing.

If the suitable remedy be given in a case of scarlet fever, there will be no ear trouble left, because ear troubles do not necessarily belong to scarlet fever. They are not a part of scarlet fever, but are dependent on the constitutional state of the child. Lyc. has also most painful eruptions of the ears, otitis media, abscess in the ear, associated with eczema about the cars and behind the ears.

Nose

The nose symptoms I have only partly described in association with the head.

The trouble often begins in infancy. The little infant will lie at first with a peculiar rattling breathing through the nose, and finally it will breathe only through the mouth, as the nose is obstructed. This goes on for days and months. The child breathes only through the mouth, and when it cries it has the shrill tone, such as is found when the nose is plugged up. If you look you will see the nose is filled up with a purulent matter and hanging down the throat is a muco-purulent discharge. Much stuffing up of the nose is a chronic state of Lyc.

The child will go on with this trouble until it forms into great cruse, yellow, sometimes blackish, sometimes greenish, and the nose bleeds. It is most useful in those troublesome catarrhs associated with headaches; in such patients as lose flesh about the neck. It may seem strange and unaccountable that Lyc. can cause emaciation about the neck and shriveling of the face when the lower limbs are in a very good state of preservation. In old chronic catarrhs of adults they must keep continually blowing the nose.

He cannot breathe through the nose at night, as crusts form in all portions of the mucous membranes. Crusty nostrils with eczema, with oozing eruptions about the face and nose. The mucous discharge is almost as thick and tenacious as in Kalium bichromicum.

Face

The face is sallow, sickly, pale, often withered, shriveled and emaciated.

In deep-seated chest troubles, bronchitis or pneumonia, where the chest is filled up with mucus, it will be seen that the face and forehead are wrinkled from pain, and that the wings of the nose flap with the effort to breathe.

This occurs with all forms of dyspnoea. We see something like it in Ant. tart., the sooty nostrils being wide open and flapping. In Ant. tart. the rattling of the mucus is heard across the room and the patient is seen to be in distress, but if you see the patient lying in bed with the nose flapping and the forehead wrinkled, with rattling in the chest, or a dry, hacking cough and no expectoration, you will often find the particulars of the examination confirm your mind that it is a case for Lyc.

In that exsudative stage of pneumonia, the stage of hepatization, Lyc. may save the life of that patient. It is closely related in the period of hepatization to Phos. and Sulph.

The Sulph. patient is cold; there is no tendency to reaction; he feels the load in the chest, and examination of the chest shows that hepatization is marked. He wants to lie still and is evidently about to die. Sulphur will help him.

It does not have the flapping of the nose, nor the wrinkles upon the forehead, like Lyc. In the brain complaints of Stramonium, the forehead wrinkles, and in the chest complaints of Lyc. the forehead wrinkles, and their wrinkles are somewhat alike. You go to a semi-conscious patient suffering from cerebral congestion and watch him; he is wild, the eyes are glassy, the forehead wrinkled and the tendency is to activity of the mind.

That is not Lyc. but Stram. By close observation these practical things will lead you to distinguish, almost instantaneously, between Stramonium in its head troubles, and Lyc. in the advanced stage of pneumonia.

The face is often covered with copper-colored eruptions, such as we find in syphilis, and hence it is that Lyc. is sometimes useful in old cases of syphilis, cases which have affected the nose, with necrosis or caries of the nasal bones, and the catarrhal symptoms already described. About the face also there is much twitching.

You will see by the study of the face that his face conforms to his sensations. lie is an oversensitive patient and at every jar or noise, such as the slamming of a door, or the ringing of a bell, he wrinkles his face. He is disturbed, and you see it expressed upon his countenance. He has a sickly wrinkled countenance, with contracted eyebrows in complaints of the abdomen as well as in chest complaints.

We also see that the jaw drops as in Opium and Muriaticum acid . This occurs in a state marked by great exhaustion and indicates a fatal tendency, It is especially marked in typhoid when the patient picks at the bed clothes, slides down in bed, wants almost nothing, and can hardly be aroused.

It is the expression of the last stage of the disease, a low type of fever, typhoids, septic and zymotic diseases. Under the jaw there is often glandular swelling, swelling of the parotid and submaxillary glands. The swelling is sometimes cellular and the neck muscles are involved. The tendency is to suppuration of these glands, and swellings about the neck in scarlet fever and diphtheria.

Throat

The next important feature we notice are the throat symptoms.

It was mentioned when going over the general state that the striking feature of Lyc. in regard to direction is that its symptoms seem to spread from right to left; we notice that the right foot is cold and the left is warm; the right knee is affected; if the pains are movable they go from right to left.

Most complaints seem to travel from right to left, or to affect the right side more than the left. This is also true of sore throats; a quinsy affecting the right side will run its course, and when about finished the left tonsil will become inflamed and suppurate if the appropriate remedy be not administered.

The common sore throat mill commence on the right side, the next day both sides will be affected, the inflammation having extended to the left side. This remedy has all kinds of pains in the throat and fauces. It is useful in cases of diphtheria when the membrane commences on the right side of the throat and spreads over towards the left.

Patches, will be seen one day on the right side and the next day on the left side. We have noticed also that complaints in Lyc. spread from above down, so it is with these exudations.

They often commence in the upper part of the pharynx and spread down into the throat. Lyc. has cured many such cases. It is the case sometimes that Lyc. is better lay holding cold water in the mouth, but the usual Lyc. sore throat is better from swallowing warm drinks. It is a feature whereby it is possible to distinguish Lachesis from Lycopodium. Lachesis is better from cold and has spasms of the throat from attempting to drink warm drinks, while Lyc. is better from warm drinks, though sometimes better from cold drinks. Lyc. does not sleep into the suffocation and constriction of the throat and dyspnoea as in Lach. The throat is extremely painful, it has all the violence of the worst cases of diphtheria. It has the zymosis.

Stomach and abdomen

The stomach and abdominal symptoms are intermingled.

There is a sense of satiety, an entire lack of appetite. He feels so full that he cannot eat. This sense of fullness may not come on until he has swallowed a mouthful of food; he goes to the table hungry, but the first mouthful fills him up. After eating he is distended with flatus, and gets momentary relief from belching, yet he remains distended. Nausea and vomiting; gnawing pains in stomach as in gastritis; catarrh burning in ulcers and cancer; pains immediately after eating; vomiting of bile, coffee ground vomit, black, inky vomit.

Under Lyc. apparently malignant cases have their life prolonged. The case is so modified that, instead of culminating in a few months, the patient may last for years. Right hypochondrium swollen as in liver troubles.

Pain in liver, recurrent bilious attacks with vomiting of bile. He is subject to gall stone colic. After Lyc. the attacks come less frequently, the bilious secretion become normal and the gall stones have a spongy appearance as though being dissolved.

Lyc. patients are always belching; they have eructations that are sour and acrid like strong acid burning the pharynx.

"Sour stomach," sour vomiting, flatus, distension and pain after eating, with a sense of fullness.

Awful goneness," or weakness, in stomach, not relieved by eating ( Digit.).

The stomach is worse by cold drinks, and often relieved by warm drinks. In the stomach and intestines there is a great commotion, noisy rumbling, rolling of flatus as though fermentation were going on.

Lyc., China and Carbo veg . are most flatulent remedies and should be compared.

The stomach symptoms are worse or brought on from cold drinks, beer, coffee or fruit, and a diarrhoea follows. Old chronic dyspeptics, emaciated, wrinkled, tired and angular patients, everything eaten turns to wind. Lycopodium is useful in old tired patients with feeble reaction and feebleness of all the functions, with a tendency to run down and not convalesce.

This patient has most troublesome constipation. He goes for days without any desire, and although the rectum is full there is no urging. Inactivity of intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging to stool. Stool hard, difficult, small and incomplete.

The first part of the stool is hard and difficult to start, but the last part in soft or thin and gushing following by faintness and weakness. Lyc. patients have diarrhoea and all kinds of stool. So you will see from reading the text that the characteristic of Lyc. is not in the stool. Any kind of diarrhoea, if the other Lyc. symptoms are present, will be cured by Lyc. It has troublesome hemorrhoids, but they are nondescript. Any kind of hemorrhoids may be cured by Lyc. if the flatulence, the stomach symptoms, the mental symptoms, and the general symptoms of Lyc. are present, because the hoemorrhoidal symptoms are numerous.

Kidneys

The kidneys furnish any symptoms and may be the key to Lycopodium in many instances.

There seems to be the same inactivity in the bladder as in the rectum. Though he strain ever so much, he must wait a long time for the urine to pass. It is slow to flow, and flows in a feeble stream. The urine is often muddy with brick dust, or red sand deposits, or on stirring it up it looks like the sediment of fermenting cider. We find this state in febrile conditions. In acute stages of disease; where the red sand appears copiously, Lyc. is often the remedy.

This is a very prominent symptom. In chronic symptoms when the patient feels best the red sand is found in the urine Lyc. has retention of urine and suppression of urine. It has "wetting of the bed" in little ones, involuntarily micturition in sleep, involuntary micturition in typhoids and low fevers.

A marked feature of Lyc. and one of the most prominent of all remedies, is polyuria during the night. He must arise many times at night and pass large quantities of urine, although in the daytime the urine is normal. Enormous quantities of urine, very clear and of light specific gravity.

Male sexual organs

One of the most prominent remedies in impotency.

Persons of feeble vitality, overwrought persons, overtired persons, with feeble genital organs, seldom need Phosphorus, but Lycopod. is a typical remedy where the young man has abused himself by secret vices and has become tired out in his spine, brain and genital organs.

If this patient makes up his mind that he will live a somewhat decent life and marries, he finds that he is impotent sexually, that he is not able to obtain erections, or that the erections are too feeble, or too short, and that he is not a man.

Lyc. has inflammation of the mucous membrane of the urethra, with a gonorrheal discharge. It is anti-sycotic and has troublesome fig warts upon the male and female genitals.

"Moist condylomata on the penis, enlargement of the prostate gland."

Female sexual organs

It is a great friend of the woman in inflammation and neuralgia of the ovaries, and in inflammation of the uterus.

The neuralgia especially affects the right ovary, with a tendency to the left. Inflammation of the ovaries, when the right is more affected than the left. It has cured cystic tumors of the right ovary.

Lycopodium produces and cures dryness in the vagina in which coition becomes very painful. Burning in the vagina during and after coition. It has disturbance of menstruation. Absence or suppression of menses for many months, the patient being withered, declining, pale and sallow, becoming feeble.

It seems that she has not the vitality to menstruate. It is also suitable in girls at puberty when the time for the first menstrual flow to appear has come, but it does not come. She goes on to 15, 16, 17 or 18 without development, the breasts do not enlarge, the ovaries do not perform their function.

When the symptoms agree Lyc. establishes a reaction, the breasts begin to grow, the womanly bearing begins to come, and the child becomes a woman. It has a wonderful power for developing, and in that respect it is very much like Calc. Phos.

"Discharge of flatus from the vagina."

"Varices of the genitals."

Chest

In the respiratory organs Lyc. furnishes a wonderful remedy.

Dyspnoea and asthmatic breathing in catarrh of the chest. The colds settle in the nose, but nearly always go into the chest, with much whistling and wheezing, and great dyspnoea.

The dyspnoea is worse from walking fast, after exertion and from going up a hill. Throbbing, burning and tickling in the chest. Dry, teasing cough.

Dry cough in emaciated boys. After coming out of pneumonia, the dry, teasing cough remains a long time or there is much whistling and asthmatic breathing.

The extremities are cold while whistling and face are hot, with much coughing and troubles in the chest. He wants to go about with the head uncovered, because there is so much congestion in the head.

This patient has a feeble reaction. There is no tendency to repair and the history of the case is that The troubles have existed since an attack of bronchitis or pneumonia. Besides the dry, teasing cough, Lyc. goes into another state in which there is ulceration, with copious expectoration of thick yellow or green muco-pus, tough and stringy. Finally night sweats, with fever in the afternoon from 4 to 8 o'clock, come on. Its use in the advanced stage of pneumonia, in the period of hepatization, with the wrinkled face and brow, the flapping wings of the nose and scanty expectoration, we have already spoken of.

Then it has marked catarrh of the chest with much rattling, especially in infants.

Rattling in the chest flapping of the wings of the nose and inability to expectorate.

The right lung is most affected, or more likely to be affected than the left, or it is affected first in double pneumonia and troubles that go from one side to the other. Think of Lyc. among the remedies for neglected pneumonia, in difficult breathing from an accumulation of serum in the pleura and pericardium.

I have mentioned sufficiently the gouty tendencies of the limbs and the nerve symptoms. But there is a restlessness of the lower limbs and which comes on when he thinks of going to sleep and this prevents sleep until midnight.

Much like Arsenicum. It is often a very distressing feature. Numbness of the limbs. Drawing, tearing in the limbs at night; better by warmth of bed and motion. These pains are sometimes found in chronic intermittent fever and are cured by this remedy. Sciatica that comes on periodically, better by beat and walking. Varicose veins of the legs. One foot hot the other cold. Oedema of the feet.

It has all manner of fevers, continued intermittent and remittent. It is especially suitable in old age, and in premature old age, when a person at 60 years appears to be 80 years, broken down, feeble and tired.

It is eminently suited in complaints of weakly constitutions. It is suitable in various dropsies, associated with liver and heart affections. Scabs remain upon the skin, do not separate; they crust over and the crust does not fall, or may become laminated like rupia.

Sulphur , Graph. and Calc . are not longer acting or deeper acting than Lyc. These substances that seem to be so inert in their crude form come out strongest when potentized and form medicines of wonderful use.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Best suited to persons intellectually keen, but physically weak; upper part of body wasted, lower part semi-dropsical; lean and predisposed to lung and hepatic affections (Phos., Sul.); the extremes of life, children and old people.

Children: weak, emaciated; with well-developed heads but puny, sickly bodies.

Weeps all day, cannot calm herself; very sensitive, even cries when thanked.

Irritable; peevish and cross on waking; ugly, kick and scream; easily angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks disputes; is beside himself.

Baby cries all day, sleeps all night (rev. of Jal., Psor.).

Avaricious, greedy, miserly, malicious, pusilanimous.

Ailment from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation with reserved displeasure (Staph.).

Catarrh: dry, nose stopped at night, must breathe through the mouth (Am. c., Nux, Samb.); snuffles, child starts from sleep rubbing its nose; of root of nose and frontal sinuses; crusts and elastic plugs (Kali bi., Teuc.).

Deep-seated, progressive chronic disease.

Pains, chiefly aching-pressure, drawing, right-sided, < from 4 to 8 P. M.

Dread of men; of solitude; fear of being left alone (Ars., Bis., Kali c.).

Red sand in urine; on child's diaper (Phos.); child cries before urinating (Bor.); pain in back > by urinating.

Gastric affections : excessive accumulation of flatulence ; constant sensation of satiety ; good appetite, but a few mouth-fuls fill up to the throat, and he feels bloated ; borborygmus.

Complexion : pale, dirty, unhealthy ; fan-like motion of alæ nasi (see Ant. t.) ; sallow ; looks older than he is.

Affects right side, or goes from right to left ; throat, chest, abdomen, ovaries.

One foot hot and the other cold (Cinch., Dig., Ipec.).

Constipation : since puberty ; since last confinement ; when away from home ; of infants ; with ineffectual urging, rectum contracts and protrudes during stool, developing piles.

Impotence : of young men, from onanism or sexual excess ; penis small, cold, relaxed ; *old men,

Time

Morning paroxysm, 8 or 9 A. M. Afternoon paroxysm, 3 or 4 P. M.

Evening paroxysm (the most severe), 6 or 7 P. M., and continues until morning.

Evening fever without chill, every day, or every other day, at same hour.

Prodrome

Sometimes flushes of heat, and nausea and vomiting precede the chill, without thirst.

Chill

Without thirst. First, she awoke in the morning with chilliness, followed by great heat. Violent chill at 8 A. M., lasting half an hour, and followed by little heat. Chilliness at 9 A. M., over the whole body; she cannot get warm even by a stove. Pernicious intermittents with a long-lasting chill coming on at 9 A. M. and finally passing off without subsequent heat or sweat. Febrile paroxysm every afternoon at 3 o'clock, lasting till late in the evening; a constantly increasing chilliness, without subsequent heat or sweat (Bov.). Evening paroxysm; slight chill, followed immediately by violent, long-continuing heat, weariness, prostration, and pains in the limbs (Ars.). Alternating chill and heat, with great redness and heat of the cheeks (Bell.). Chilliness at 4 P. M., goose-flesh over the whole body, with incessant yawning, nausea, inclination to vomit, chilliness starting from the back and extending over the whole body (Caps., Gels.), with numbness and coldness of the hands and feet; no sweat, no thirst; but heat, which was confined to the face; the chill lasted two hours and a half, and ended with excessive weakness and weariness of the feet, inclination to sleep, and slight drawings in the wrists and fingers of both hands; she slept well through the night and woke well the next morning.

Chilliness over the whole body in the evening at 6 P. M., starting from the back, with a feeling as if water were spurted upon the back (Ant. t., Led., Rhus); chilliness with stupefying sleep, followed by uneasy sleep, with dreams; chilliness over whole body lasting two hours, with stupefaction of the head, sleepiness, tearing in the limbs, no thirst, and no sweat. At 7 P. M., shaking chill, commencing in the back, with numb, icy cold hands and feet (Ced., Sep.); she cannot get warm in bed for two hours, the tearing in the limbs is worse, with uninterrupted yawn-ing, nausea and inclination to vomit.

Febrile paroxysm at 7 P. M.; shaking chill, with icy coldness even in bed, as if she were lying on ice, lasting two hours, with drawings in all the limbs, back and whole body; on waking from sleep full of dreams, perspiration all over, with great thirst after the sweat. During chill it seems as if the blood ceased to be warm and everything internal would come to a stand-still. Chill on left side of the body (Caust., Carbo v.—right side, Bry.). Nausea and vomiting, then chill, followed by sweat, without intervening heat (Caust.); sour vomiting between chill and heat (bitter, bilious vomiting, Eup., Ipec.); face and hands bloated (Apis, Ars.). Shivering after drinking (Ars., Caps., Eup.) and while eating.

The first chills are usually one-sided; most frequently on the left.

Heat

With thirst. Flushes of heat over the whole body in the evening, with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time (Ars., Cinch.). After eating, heat of the head and a red spot on the left cheek. Frequent rising of heat from the abdomen to the head, with burning in the cheeks. Great heat and redness of the face, with irresistible inclination to sleep (Apis, Ign.). Face, cheeks, ears, eyes, fingers and palms of hands hot and burning. Nausea after cold drinks (nausea relieved by drinking, Lob.); warm drinks are grateful (Casc., Ced.). Constipation; increased urination, which relieves the backache. Sour vomiting often occurs in or lasts during entire hot stage. Must uncover (Lach.).

Sweat

Perspiration in the night, or in the morning after a restless night. Profuse sour-smelling perspiration on the body, but not on the lower legs. Night-sweat on body, not on the limbs. Morning-sweat only of the joints. Morning-sweat cold, sour, offensive, bloody, or smelling like onions. May be general over whole body. Perspiration immediately after the chill, without intervening heat (Caust.). Thirst after sweating stage.

Tongue

Clean, but dry; red, trembling, stiff; vesicles on tip, or brown, or cracked. Taste: sour; bitter; fatty; eructations sour. Desire for sweets (Ipec.); for oysters, which disa-gree. Aversion to boiled warm food; tobacco smoke (Ign.).

Pulse

Sensation as if the circulation stood still; accelerated in evening or after eating; ebullition with trembling (Mer.).

Apyrexia

Not pronounced; but the concomitants are often guiding symptoms. Constant sense of fulness in the stomach and abdomen as if they would burst. Repletion after eating ever so little. Rumbling in the bowels; obstinate constipation. Cough, with thick, yellow, salty expectoration. Red, sandy sediment in the urine (Natr.). Patient cannot bear to be left alone (wants to be alone, Cinch., Nux).

This remedy is frequently rejected, when indicated, in intermittent fever, if the paroxysm does not occur at 4 P. M., and the red, sandy sediment is not present in the urine. The sediment rarely occurs in acute cases; and the most severe and most frequent paroxysm is the evening one at 6 or 7 P. M., which lasts all night. The flatulence, sour eructations, sour taste, sour sweat, sour vomiting, are much more reliable guides, because more often present. No single symptom, however guiding, is sufficient to warrant a prescription. If the totality corresponds, Lycopodium will cure, irrespective of time of paroxysm. The general symptoms of Lycopodium are aggravated from 4 to 8 P. M., and if present, constitute an additional indication.

Analysis

The time 4–8 P. M. or 6–7 P. M.

Sour eructations, sweet taste and vomiting.

Sour vomiting between chill and heat or, during heat.

Chill; severe, with icy coldness, as if lying on ice.

Heat; thirst for warm drinks; must uncover.

Sweat; immediately after chill; most thirst after sweat.

Gastric repletion after eating ever so little.

Red, sandy sediment in the urine.