Petroleum petr.

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

OCCIPUT. SKIN: Folds. Scalp. Face. Genitals. Mucous membranes. Stomach. Bowels.

Worse

MOTION: CARS. CARRIAGE. BOAT. Weather: Cold; winter. Changing. Thunder - storms. Eating. Vexation. Cabbage.

Better

Warm air.

General

Weak and tremulous; feels sick internally. Internal itching. Emaciation, < chest. Dreads open air.

Particulars

Excitable and quick temper. Death seems near. Irresolute. Sense of duality; loses himself. Worries but don't know why. VERTIGO; in occiput. Occiput; aching; heavy. Inflamed tarsi. Deafness. Moist spots behind ears. Dryness in ears, nose, throat, etc. Foul mucus in throat. Hunger, causing nausea; after stool. Aversion to meat. Gastric symptoms, > eating. Nausea; sea and train sickness. Abdomen inflated; coldness in. Diarrhœa by day only (Phyt.); < cabbage; then miserable emptiness. Involuntary urine on rising. Cough at night only or < then; shatters the head, > pressing temples. Cold air oppresses chest. Coldness at heart. Stiff or cracking joints. Limbs go to sleep. Ragged, chapped hands and fingers; bleeding; in house-maids. SKIN; fragile; cracks deeply, < in angles, nipples, figer-tips or palms. Psoriasis palmaris. DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED SKIN; like parchment; it gets raw, festers or won't heal, < in folds. Brown spots. Eruptions having thick, hard, moist or yellow-green crusts; on occiput or genitals, < cold. Eczema. Herpes. Vesicles. Itching; orifices; with burning. Cold spots. Chilly, with dry mouth. Hot palms and soles. Sweat in spots; foul on feet or in axillæ.

Related

Complementary: Sep. Related: Grap. Sep.

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

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

Keynote

Adapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Nux); easily offended at trifles (Ign., Med.); vexed at everything. Ailments: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Coc., Sanic.). Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat. c., Phos., Psor.). Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag. p. - reverse of Plat., Stan.). During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the bed (Val.). Vertigo on rising (Bry.); in occiput; as if intoxicated; like seasickness (Coc.). Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised, as if made of wood. Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac., Chel., Sep.). Diarrhoea: yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime. Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful; slight injury suppurates (Hep.). Skin of hands rough, cracked, tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, every winter; tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.). Herpes: of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs; itching, redness; skin cracked, rough, bleeding; dry or moist. Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Sang., Sulph.). Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes. Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < in cold weather; decubitus. Sensation of coldness about the heart (Carbo an., Kali m., Nat. m.).

Relations

One of our best antidotes for lead poisoning. The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer (Alum.); if suppressed, causes diarrhoea.

Aggravation

Carriage riding (Coc., Sanic.); during a thunderstorm; in winter (Alum.).

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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

General

Affections in general, of any kind, appearing on the right eye, internal or external occiput; behind the ears; inner surface of the thighs; ball or under part of the toes; knee-joint.

When a person complains of eruption or itching at night (affecting the scrotum particularly), the eruption being either dry or moist; chilblains, particularly where they itch a good deal and are moist. Exanthema corroding and spreading; very difficult to heal; sensibility of the skin in general; sores produced by lying in bed.

Strong aversion to fat food, to meat; to the open air; made worse eating cabbage.

Catalepsy; tonic spasms; cracking of the joints; inflexibility of the joints. Sprains; chronic sprains.

Remedies following

Calc. carb., Lycop., Bryon., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Silic., Sulphur.

Antidote

Nux vom.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Crude Rock-oil

General

Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity and cutaneous eruptions.

Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands; Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic diarrhœa. Long-lasting complaints follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach.

Mind

Marked aggravation from mental emotions. Loses his way in streets. Thinks he is double, or some one else lying alongside. Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs. Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything. Low-spirited, with dimness of sight.

Head

Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it. Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead (Opium). Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like sea-sickness. Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears. Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness. Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing. Use thirtieth.

Eyes

Loss of eyelashes. Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis. Canthi fissured. Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.

Ears

Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together. Eczema, intertrigo, etc, in and behind ears, with intense itching. Parts sore to touch. Fissures in meatus. Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises. Ringing and cracking in ears. Chronic Eustachian catarrh. Diminished hearing.

Nose

Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches. Epistaxis. Ozæna, with scabs and muco-purulent discharge.

Face

Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.

Stomach

Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation. Distention. Feeling of great emptiness. Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage. Hunger, immediately after stool. Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth. Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac; Sep). Ravenous hunger. Must rise at night and eat (Psorin). Odor of garlic.

Abdomen

Diarrhœa only in the daytime; watery, gushing and Itching of anus. After cabbage; with empty feeling of stomach.

Male

Herpetic eruption on perineum. Prostate inflamed and swollen. Itching in urethra.

Female

Before menses, throbbing in head (Kreos). Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous (Alum; Bor; Bov; Calc p). Genitals sore and moist. Sensation of moisture (Eup purp). Itching and mealy coating of nipple.

Respiratory

Hoarseness (Carbo; Caust; Phos) dry cough and oppression of chest; worse, cold air. Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest. Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.

Heart

Sensation of coldness (Carb an; Nat mur). Fainting, with ebullitions, heat and palpitation.

Back

Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful. Weakness in small of back. Coccyx painful.

Extremities

Chronic sprains. Fetid sweat in axillæ. Knees stiff. Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter. Scalding sensation in knee. Cracking in joints.

Skin

Itching at night. Chilblains, moist, itch and burn. Bed-sores. Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery. Herpes. Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate (Hepar). Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands. Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily. Eczema. Rhagades worse in winter.

Fever

Chilliness, followed by sweat. Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night. Perspiration on feet and axillæ.

Modalities

Worse, dampness, before and during a thunder-storm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in winter, eating, from mental states. Better, warm air; lying with head high; dry weather.

Relationship

Compare: Carbo; Graph; Sulph; Phos.

Complementary: Sepia.

Antidotes: Nux; Coccul.

Dose

Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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

Leaders

Eczemas, on scalp, behind ears, scrotum, anus, hands, feet, legs; hands chap and bleed; all < in winter; get better in summer.

Diarrhœa preceded by colic, only in the day-time.

Headache, or heaviness like lead in the occiput; sometimes with nausea on vomiting; < by motion, as in riding in boat or carriage.

One of our best anti-psoric remedies. The eruptions that it causes and cures are very similar in appearance to those of Graphites. They appear on different parts of the body, as scalp, behind ears, on scrotum, female genitals, hands, feet and legs, etc.

There is one very marked characteristic symptom that guides to this remedy out of a large list having similar eruptions, and that is that the eruption is worse during the winter season (Aloe, Alumina, Psorinum). There is no other remedy that has this so prominently. The hands chap, crack and bleed, and are all covered with eczema during the winter and get well in summer. I hake cured a case of eczema of the lower legs of twenty years' standing, always worse in winter, with one prescription of the 200th. I have cured chapped hands the same way. I once had a very obstinate case of chronic diarrhœa, but as soon as the fact that he had eczema of the hands in winter came to light I cured him quickly of the whole trouble with Petroleum 200th. Chilblains (Agaricus), which are moist, and itch and burn much in cold weather, are also cured by it. Petroleum; also has a symptom similar to Hepar sulphuris, viz., the slightest scratch of abrasion of the skin suppurates. You remember that Hepar sulphuris is also worse in cold weather or cold air. Petroleum has headache in the occiput, which is as heavy as lead, also vertigo in the occiput.

Again, Petroleum is one of our best remedies for seasickness. In this it resembles Cocculus. Another curious symptom is cracking of the joints. This is like Causticum. Both of these remedies are valuable in chronic rheumatism, especially where this symptom is present. Petroleum has, with Chelidonium and Anacardium, a symptom, pain in stomach, relieved by eating. Again it is valuable in diarrhœa and dysentery, which is worse during the day. Petroleum deserves to be classed with the leading anti-psorics, such as Sulphur, Graphites, Causticum and Lycopodium.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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

Mind and Disposition

Excited, irritable, with inclination to anger and to scold ; anxious and irresolute. Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep. Weakness of memory. Delirium ; imagination ; thinks another person is lying with him in bed ; or always and continuously delirious talk of the same distressing and unpleasant subject.

Head

Headache when stooping or rising from bed. Pulsation in the cerebellum. Pressing stinging in the cerebellum. Sensation as if every thing in the head were alive. Headache in the forehead ; every mental exertion causes him to become quite stupid. Headache from anger. Sensitiveness of the scalp on both sides, very sore to the touch, followed by numbness, and very sore on scratching, worse in the morning and on becoming heated.

Eyes

Inflammation, with itching of the eye. Fistula lachrymalis. Like a veil before the eye.

Ears

Dryness and disagreeable sensation of dryness in the ear. Hardness of hearing. Discharge of pus and blood from the ear. Humid soreness behind the ear.

Nose

Dryness and sensation of dryness in the nose. Fluent coryza, with hoarseness. Swelling of the nose, with discharge of pus, and pain at the root of it.

Face

Yellow complexion. Heat in the face after eating (sometimes with thirst). Scurfs around the mouth. Easily dislocated jaw, in the morning in bed, with much pain. Swelling of the submaxillary glands.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache from contact with the fresh open air, at night, and with swelling of the cheek. Numbness of the teeth, they pain when biting on them. Swelling of the gums, with stinging-burning pain when touching it. Fistula dentalis. Smell from the mouth like garlic. Great dryness of the mouth and throat in the morning, with much thirst (for beer). Stinging pain in the throat when swallowing. Ulcers on the inner cheek, painful when closing the teeth. Hawking of mucus in the morning. When swallowing, the food enters into the posterior nares. The tongue is coated white.

Stomach and Abdomen

Taste, putrid, flat, mucous. Violent thirst (for beer). Ravenous hunger. Aversion to meat and fat as well as all warm, cooked food. Sour or bitter eructations and gulping up of. Waterbrash. After eating vertigo and giddiness. Nausea, from riding in a carriage. Nausea and vomiting of pregnant women. Vomiting of bitter, green substances. Pressure on the stomach ; colic (at night). Sensation of emptiness in the stomach. Sensation of fulness or swelling of the pit of the stomach, with soreness when touched. Pain in the pit of the stomach as if something were tearing off. Cutting in the abdomen soon after eating. Weakness of digestion. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Stool insufficient, difficult, hard, in lumps. Diarrhœa preceded by colic only during the day. Stools of bloody mucus. Itching herpes on the perineum.

Urinary Organs

Constant dripping of urine. Frequent micturition, with scanty emission of brown, fetid urine. Contraction of the urethra. Burning in the urethra. Involuntary micturition, at night in bed.

Sexual Organs

Men. Red, sore, moist scrotum and adjacent parts. Itching and humid herpes on the scrotum and between the scrotum and thigh. Women. Soreness and moisture on the sexual organs. Aversion to an embrace. Menses too early, the discharge causes itching. During pregnancy diarrhœa and vomiting. Itching and mealy covering of the nipples.

Respiratory Organs

Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on the chest. Oppression of the chest, at night. At night, dry cough coming deep from the chest, caused by a scratching in the throat. Cough with stitches under the sternum. Herpes on the chest.

Back and Neck

Pain in the small of the back, preventing one from standing. Weakness and stiffness in the back and small of the back. Pain in the back, which does not allow him to move. Herpes in the neck.

Extremities

Upper. Brown or yellow spots on the arms. Burning in the palms of the hands. During the winter, chapped hands and fingers, full of deep, bloody rhagades. Arthritic stiffness of the finger-joints. Pain in the wrist joint as if sprained. Lower. Stitches in the knee. Hot swelling of the soles of the feet with burning. Painful swelling and redness of the heel (chilblains). Ulcers on the toes, originating in blisters on the toes. Herpes on the knees and ankles. Feet swollen ; cold.

Generalities

Twitching in the limbs ; epileptic attacks. The limbs go to sleep and become stiff. Cracking and arthritic stiffness in the joints. Great debility with trembling. Aversion to the open air ; and from it chilliness. Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on the heart and palpitation of the heart.

Sleep

Sleep with distressing dreams, as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed.

Fever

Pulse full and accelerated from every exertion ; as soon as reposing, the pulse becomes again slow. Chill, especially toward evening, often with heat at the same time. Chilliness through the whole body followed by itching. Chilliness in the open air. Chill with headache and excessive coldness of the face and hands. Heat in the evening after the chill, with cold feet. Heat after midnight and in the morning, in bed. Sensation of heat over the whole body, with violent burning of the skin. Flushes of heat. Night-sweats. The forearms and lower legs perspire easily. Perspiration after the chill, no heat intervening. Intermittent fever. Violent chilliness and coldness of the hands and face at 10 A.M. ; half an hour later, heat in the face, especially in the eyes, with thirst. Shaking fits, 7 P.M., followed by perspiration, first in the face, later all over, except in the legs, which are quite cold.

Skin

Swelling and indurations of the glands ; also after contusions. Itching herpes. Itching, sore, moist surfaces. Brown or yellow spots on the skin. The skin is hard to heal. Ulcers with stinging pain or with proud flesh.

Conditions

Many ailments originate or are aggravated during a thunder-storm. After a walk in the open air, or after a slight fit of anger, flushes of heat, ebullitions and perspiration. Complaints from riding in a carriage, or in a ship. Bad effects from sprains and bruises (glands). Amelioration from warmth, warm air.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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

General

Oleum petræ. Rock-oil. Coal Oil. Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil. (Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made.)

Clinical

Addison's disease. Albuminuria. Anæmia . Angina pectoris. Anus, fissure of. Bed-sores. Breath, offensive . Burns. Chilblains . Chlorosis. Constipation. Cracks in skin . Deafness. Diarrhœa . Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Ear, affections of. Eczema. Face, rough . Facial paralysis. Feet, soles painful. Fester, tendency to . Fistulæ. Frost-bite. Gastric ulcer. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hands, chapped . Headache; occipital. Herpes. Herpes preputialis. Irritation. Jaw, easily dislocated . Myopia. Nose, sore . Otorrhœa. Perspiration, offensive. Pregnancy, sickness of . Presbyopia. Prostatitis. Psoriasis . Rheumatism. Sea-sickness. Skin, affections of . Sprains. Syphilis. Tabes mesenterica. Toothache. Urethra, stricture of; chronic inflammation of. Varices. Vomiting . Warts.

Characteristics

The Petrol . proved by Hahnemann is made by agitating the liquid commercial Petroleum with Sulphuric Acid and then rectifying the portion which this acid does not act upon. It is "a light oily fluid, colourless or of a pale straw colour, and strong characteristic naphthalic smell. Dropped on white paper it evaporates completely, leaving no greasy stain." Under PARAFFIN I have described the relation between Petrol., Naph ., and Paraff . Commercial "Petroleum" and commercial "Paraffin oil" are one and the same. The Petrol . of homœopathy is this substance purified and rectified. But in the pathogenesis are included effects observed on those engaged in petroleum works, and those who use "Paraffin oil" in various trades; it would therefore be well to have also a preparation of the crude, non-rectified liquid. Petrolatum (Vaseline) consists of hydrocarbons of the Paraffin series, obtained from residues after distillation of lighter oils from crude petroleum; or deposited from crude petroleum on standing. The affections met with in petroleum extractors and refiners are ─ ( 1 ) Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue; depressed nutrition, anæmia, dyspepsia, nerve troubles, irritability, insomnia, respiratory affections. In addition to these is a species of intoxication. A man, a patient of mine who suffered from inveterate eczema, and who had formerly been employed in a factory where much petroleum was used, noticed that his eczema was much better whilst working with petroleum. He told me that the vapour had the singular effect of making some of the workmen insane, causing: Desire to kill; hallucinations, they will see things not actually visible; for instance, "they will see the rails in a station when a train is on them." Boys (who are much affected) will jump at a straight wall and try to scramble up it. A rickety boy, æt. 2 1/2, who had an unconquerable desire to drink anything liquid within his reach I took one day e good draught of paraffin oil. An Ipecacuanha emetic and a Castor Oil purge got rid of a good deal of it, and a month after he was brought to me with these symptoms: Appetite had. Pale, dark rings round eyes. Every now and then seems to collapse; goes into a corner and will not play; after tea quite bright. Cold sweat in bed; complains of burning heat; then goes cold and clammy. I prescribed Phos . 2. In three weeks he was brought back much better. He had lost the pallor and dark rings round the eyes, and had ceased to mope; but he had come out, all over small boils which discharged, the discharge having the odour of paraffin. There was A slight recurrence of the old symptoms a fortnight later, and after that I did not see the boy again till a year later, when he was brought to me for diphtheritic paralysis. Two years after this he was brought to me again. He was now well grown and had no sign of rickets, but some of the old symptoms came back: Languid; inclined to be quiet; averse to play. At times clammy all over body. This time Petrol . 30 soon put him right. In the case of a woman who drank paraffin oil when intoxicated, there was epigastric pain so severe that she thought she would go out of her mind, > lying with knees drawn up; tenderness of ileo-cæcal region and of epigastrium; swollen feeling of abdomen, without actual swelling; blood and albumen in urine; pain in back and slight return of menses, which had ceased a week before. These cases show the profound action of Petrol . on the organism. It is one of Hahnemann's leading antipsorics, and is especially closely related to Graph . It is suited to long-lasting, deep-seated, wasting diseases; lingering gastric and intestinal troubles with or without ulceration. In my experience no remedy corresponds to more cases of chlorosis in young girls, with or without ulceration of the stomach. Petrol . (says Kent) corresponds to low conditions in which there is inability to throw out eruptions on the skin; or conditions in which an eruption has disappeared without improvement in health: to reflexions of disease on mucous membranes setting up catarrh. Ozæna; intestinal catarrh. Soreness and cracks about muco-cutaneous orifices. Irritability of skin and irritability of mind are both found in Petrol ., as in many other remedies: Excitable; angry at trifles. Anxiety with fear. Mental weakness and forgetfulness are also very characteristic, and are generally met with in connection with deep-seated disease. An illusion that there is another person, or another baby in bed, is very characteristic of the remedy, and has led to cures with Petrol . of cases of typhoid and puerperal fever. "Falling out of the hair" is a characteristic symptom of Petrol ., and accounts for the popularity of Petroleum hair-restorers. [ Petrol . "probably acts on the sebaceous rather than the sudoriferous secretions of the skin, and its local action is on parts where the sebum is abundant." ─ R. T. C.]. The use of these hair-restorers has caused many violent headaches. So has the use of "Coal Oil" (a tablespoonful to a bucketful of water) by washerwomen to improve the colour of linen. M. T. Bleim (quoted H. W ., xxvi. 318) thus describes the result in one case: Severe occipital headache, loss of strength, emaciation, diarrhœa, dyspepsia with fulness on eating very little; accumulation of gas; very severe attacks of suffocation, > by eructations of gas. The headaches of Petrol . may be in any part, but they are most marked in occiput. Heaviness like lead; pressure, sticking; pulsating; < on shaking head or any jar. Pain travels from occiput to eyes, and is associated with temporary loss of sight and fainting. The vertigo and heaviness of Petrol . are often associated with nausea and bilious vomiting. This (nausea with or without vomiting) is one of the grand characteristics of the remedy. It is < by motion in a carriage or on the sea; hence Petrol . is one of the first remedies in train-sickness or sea-sickness. The other side of this nausea is another grand characteristic: Awful ravenous hunger, the "sinking" of the chief antipsorics. It is particularly noticed immediately after a stool, in diarrhœa, nervous affections, spinal disease, &c. (Kent). In pulmonary affections Petrol . has gained much repute of late in the form of an emulsion. A leading indication for it is "Oppression of the chest; < in cold air." Petrol . has a peculiar cough, not infrequently met with in young girls and boys, coming from deep down in the chest, and frequently waking the patient up at night. A student who had a deep, hollow-sounding, hacking cough, excited by laughing, waking him up in the middle of the night, I cured with Petrol . 30 after Arg. n . and Arg. met . had failed to do anything. The cough had persisted some time and caused his family no little anxiety. The discharges of Petrol . are thick, purulent, and yellowish green. For the cracked nostrils accompanying and following cold in the head I find the application of vaseline more often useful than other forms of unguent. The localities of Petrol . are very like those of Graph .: Scalp, behind ears, scrotum, genitals. The modality " < in winter" has given Nash the key to several cases of eczema, chapped hands, chilblains, and one case of chronic diarrhœa, as soon as he discovered that the patient had eczema of the hands in winter. Petrol . 200 was given. The skin is extremely sensitive; all clothing is painful; slight injuries suppurate. Allen's Appendix quotes an important case reported by O. Lassar in Virchow's Archiv . A man used for four days extensive inunctions with Petrol . to relieve himself from scabies. A week later his feet began to swell, and the dropsy, increasing rapidly, spread over abdomen and thorax. In a fortnight it disappeared, but eight days later returned and persisted till death, four months after the inunction. The urine was highly albuminous, and contained hyaline and granular cylinders; but the necropsy revealed no lesion of any organ to account for the dropsy. The, body was extremely œdematous; there was œdema of the lungs and dropsy of the cavities, and whilst in hospital the wrist pulse was small, empty, and of low tension; the blood corpuscles were few, but their relative proportions were normal. Temperature normal, and the skin showed localised areas of inflammation. Along the veins and lymphatics a small-celled growth existed, and in all the layers of the cutis there was a widely distributed nuclear proliferation. Peculiar symptoms are: Brain as if wrapped in a fog. As if everything in head were alive. As if head made of wood, or as if bruised. As if a cold breeze were blowing on head. As if head would burst. Veil before eyes. Sand in eyes. As if skin over bridge of nose drawn stiff and tight. As if something were tearing off from pit of stomach. As if a cold stone at heart. Splinter in heel. Upper and lower limbs as if stiff without joints. Jaw as if distended. There is great weakness; fainting; tremor; twitching of limbs; catalepsy; tonic spasms; left-sided paralysis. The notes of the skin affections are: Itching; burning; rawness; bleeding. Burning sensations are very marked; and as Petrol . is accountable for so many burning accidents it is fitting that it should make a very good application for burns in the form of vaseline, cosmoline, or Petrol . mixed with equal parts of olive oil. Petrol . is suited to: Persons with light hair and skin. Especially for lean, slender persons. The symptoms are < by touch; by contact of clothing; by scratching; by riding in carriage or ship. Pinching the parts > hæmorrhoids. < From mental exertion. Headache < on shaking head; > by epistaxis; < from light and noise. After stool: hunger immediately. Ravenous hunger; frequently awakened by it at night; easily satisfied, with aversion to meat, fats, cooked or hot food; desire only for dainties, which are eaten with avidity. Eating > gastralgia. Gastralgia comes on whenever the stomach is empty. Empty, weak sensation in stomach. < After eating or drinking. After eating: giddiness; heat in face; cutting in abdomen; eructations; drowsiness; uneasiness. Cabbages, saurkraut = diarrhœa. Colic > by bending double. Exertion, motion, riding, sitting < . Lying down < cough, and distension of abdomen. Vertigo when head lies low. < Cold air. < Winter. < Open air. < Before and during thunderstorm. < Bathing. > Warmth and warm air. < Warmth of bed (itching). Cough is < at night and 2, 4, and 6 a.m. Smoking befogs him; = cough. < After coitus (nervous irritability). Cough < by laughing (cured). < During day (diarrhœa and dysentery). Throat affections go right to left. Headache back to front.

Relations

Antidoted by: Coccul., Nux, Phos. (in my case), Antidote to: Lead poisoning (one of the best remedies), Nit. ac. Complementary: Before Sep. Compatible: Bry., Calc., Lyc., Nit. ac., Nux, Puls., Sep., Sil., Sul. Compare: Graph., Naph., Paraf., Eupn., Kreas., and other Carbons. In sea-sickness, Arn., Coccul., Tab. Nausea of pregnancy, Coccul., Sep. Cracking of joints, Caust. Gastralgia > by eating, Chel., Anac., Graph., Lach. Imagines he has a limb double; illusions of shape, Bap., Stram. Epistaxis > headache (Borax < ). Aversion to hot food, Pho. (opp. Lyc.). < From thunderstorms, Pho., Merc., Sil., Rho., Pso. Head as if made of wood; eruptions behind ears and on genitals, Graph. Cold feeling about heart, Nat. m. ( < when exerting mind), K. chlo., Graph., K. nit., Ruta. Diarrhœa in early morning, Sul. (Petro. also during day). Loses his way in well-known streets, Glo. (from heat or sun). Moist eruptions about genitals, Thuj. Hot, burning eructations, K. ca., Sep. Faintness during or connected with evacuations, Crot. t., Dulc., Ox. ac., Sul. (these have it with scanty, stools; the rest with copious stools:) Apis, Nux m., Pul., Spi., Ver. Sinking immediately after meals, Ars., Cina, Lyc., Sil., Stp., Urt. ur., Calc., Iod. Brownish scattered spots on dark-haired people, Nit. ac. Loquacity, Lach. (Petrol. on one subject). Hunger after stool (Alo. during stool). Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly, Bell., Mag. p., Lyc. ─ opp. Plat., Stan. Imagines two babies in bed, Val. Vertigo on rising, Bry. Skin sensitive to clothing; every injury suppurates, Hep. Tender feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat, Graph., Sanic., Sil. Heat and burning of soles and palms, Sang., Sul. Skin < in winter, > in summer, Alm.

Causation

Vexation. Riding in carriage or ship. Nitric acid (deafness from). Cabbage. Suppressed eruptions. Sprains.

Mind

Anxious and timorous disposition. ─ Sadness and mental dejection. ─ Great irresolution. ─ Uneasiness respecting the future. ─ Hypochondriacal humour. ─ Inclination to anger and to scold. ─ Violent, irascible, insolent temper. ─ Frequent tears; on slightest provocation. ─ Loss of memory. ─ Does not know where she is in the street. ─ Unfitness for reflection. ─ Weakness of Apprehension. ─ Delirium; thinks another person is lying with him in bed (or that he is double, or one limb is double); or always and continuously delirious talk of the same distressing subject. ─ Imagines he has a third leg which will not keep quiet. ─ Desire to kill. ─ Hallucinations of vision.

Head

Head bewildered. ─ Feeling as if brain wrapped in fog. ─ Frequent vertigo, esp. on raising eyes. ─ Vertigo, like that produced by a swinging motion. ─ Vertigo on stooping, or on rising from bed, or from a seat. ─ Headache after a fit of anger, or when fasting in morning, as also after a walk in evening. ─ Attacks of semi-lateral headache, which compel patient to lie down. ─ Heaviness and fulness in head in morning, and when stooping. ─ Pressive or lancinating pressive pains in head, esp. in occiput. ─ Headache < by all kinds of intellectual labour, to the extent of complete stupefaction. ─ Tension in head, as if dura mater were tightened. ─ Cramp-like, drawing, pinching pains in head. ─ Neuralgic headache, beginning in occiput and extending forward. ─ Occipital headache, extending to vertex, with vertigo. ─ Occipital headache, with nausea, esp. in sea-sickness. ─ Pulsative headache, esp. in occiput (cerebellum). ─ Pressing stinging in the cerebellum. ─ Sensation as if all were alive in head. ─ Scalp painful to touch, as if bruised or ulcerated (followed by numbness and very sore on scratching, < in morning and on becoming heated). ─ Headache in forehead; every mental exertion causes him to become quite stupid. ─ Drawing pains in head, forehead, and temples, extending into teeth. ─ Seborrhœa of scalp. ─ Eruption on head and nape of neck. ─ Œdematous swelling and scabs on scalp. ─ Hair falls off.

Eyes

Itching in eyes. ─ Itching of lids; obliged to rub them. ─ (Lids everted.). ─ Aching, smarting, shooting, and burning pain in eyes. ─ Conjunctivitis and blepharadenitis. ─ Inflammation of eyes (with itching and stitches in eyes). ─ Lachrymal fistula (with dryness of r. side of nose). ─ Lachrymation. ─ Jerking and quivering of eyes and lids. ─ Convulsion of eyes. ─ Myopia or presbyopia. ─ Diplopia. ─ Scintillation and appearance as of a veil before sight; or sparks and black spots.

Ears

Inflammation and painful swelling of meatus auditorius. ─ Otalgia, with cramp-like and jerking pain. ─ Dryness, and distressing sensation of dryness, in interior of ear. ─ Discharge of blood and pus from ears. ─ Eruption of ears. ─ Redness, excoriation, and oozing behind ears. ─ Deafness. ─ Tinkling, rolling, roaring, ringing, rumbling, cracking, and buzzing in ears. ─ Excessive secretion of cerumen.

Nose

Epistaxis. ─ Slight epistaxis > headache. ─ Purulent blisters on nose. ─ Ulcerated nostrils (and stopped catarrh). ─ Ozæna, scabs, purulent mucus, cracked nostrils. ─ Swelling of nose, with discharge of pus, and pair, above root of nose. ─ Stoppage of nose. ─ Dryness, and distressing sensation of dryness, in nose. ─ Much mucus in nose. ─ Itching on tip of nose. ─ Coryza with hoarseness.

Face

Heat in face, sometimes after a meal, and with thirst. ─ Dryness and constriction of skin of face and eyelids as though covered with a thin layer of albumen; cheeks look glazed and contracted. ─ Pale, yellowish complexion. ─ Facial paralysis (from inflammatory products in Fallopian canal). ─ Eruption of pimples on face. ─ Scurfs around mouth. ─ Scabby pimples, with shooting pain on lips, and commissures. ─ Furuncles on lower lip. ─ Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. ─ Easy dislocation of maxillary joint in bed in morning with sharp pains.

Teeth

Toothache from contact with open air, < at night, with swelling of cheek. ─ Numbness of teeth, with pain on clenching them. ─ Pustule above a hollow tooth like a fistula. ─ Fistulous vesicles in gums. ─ Swelling of gums, with shooting pain on being touched.

Mouth

Fetid breath, sometimes like garlic. ─ Ulcers on inner surface of cheeks (painful when closing teeth). ─ Much mucus in mouth and throat. ─ Tongue coated white. ─ Painful soreness on chewing. ─ Great dryness of mouth (and throat in morning) with violent thirst (for beer).

Throat

Sore throat, with shooting pain during deglutition. ─ Swelling and great dryness of throat. ─ Swelling of the submaxillary glands. ─ Rawness (stitching and burning) in pharynx, < on swallowing. ─ Tickling on swallowing, extending to ear. ─ Dryness and burning in pharynx. ─ When swallowing the aliment rises towards nasal fossæ. ─ Hawking up of mucus in morning.

Appetite

Putrid, mawkish, mucous, or else bitter or acid taste. ─ Excessive thirst for beer. ─ Bulimy. ─ Hunger with speedy satiety. ─ Voracity. ─ Daintiness. ─ Anorexia. ─ Repugnance to meat and fat, also to hot and cooked aliments; < by eating cabbage. ─ Uneasiness during digestion, after almost every kind of food, however little may have been eaten. ─ After a meal: obscuration and vertigo; nausea; heaviness and pressure at stomach; sleep; or colic, with eructations; or sour risings, congestion in head, cramp in chest, &c.

Stomach

Noisy eructations. ─ Sour (or bitter eructations or) risings and regurgitations. ─ Pyrosis. ─ Frequent nausea, esp. in morning, often with accumulation of water in mouth, obstructed respiration, sour risings, tongue dry and white, stitches in hepatic region, heat in face, vertigo, &c. ─ After eating, vertigo and giddiness. ─ Nausea from motion of a carriage. ─ Nausea and vomiting of pregnant women. ─ Water-brash. ─ Heartburn toward evening. ─ Inclination to vomit. ─ Greenish, bitter vomiting. ─ Aching of stomach. ─ Cramps in stomach. ─ Pressure on the stomach; colic (at night). ─ Sensation of emptiness and weakness in stomach. ─ Weak digestion. ─ Diarrhœa from suppressed eruptions. ─ Pain in epigastrium, as if something were being torn away. ─ Swelling of epigastrium, with pain when touched. ─ Sensation of fulness in epigastrium.

Abdomen

Pain (cutting) in abdomen, shortly after a meal. ─ Sensation of great emptiness in abdomen. ─ Distension and tension in abdomen, with cramp. ─ Pinchings and cuttings in abdomen, sometimes, with pressing want to evacuate. ─ Colic, with diarrhœa, at night, towards morning. ─ Colic > from bending double. ─ Borborygmi in abdomen, with sensation as if abdomen were entirely empty. ─ Inguinal hernia. ─ Fetid flatus. ─ Sensation of coldness in abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Difficult, hard, knotty, and insufficient evacuations. ─ Frequent diurnal stools, sometimes with evacuation of serous, yellowish matter. ─ Diarrhœa, often preceded by cuttings (colic only during the day). ─ Mucous stools, often mixed with blood. ─ Burning pain in rectum after evacuation. ─ Itching tetters in perineum. ─ Diarrhœa < from riding in carriage. ─ In anus burning itching; pressure. ─ Weakness of rectum. ─ Piles with great itching, < at night from heat of bed; < from rubbing or scratching. ─ Fissure with great rawness.

Urinary Organs

Constant dribbling of urine after micturition. ─ Discharge of mucus with the urine. ─ Frequent emission of urine, with scanty stream of a red or brown and fetid urine. ─ Urine bloody and turbid; it deposits a red, slimy sand, that adheres tightly to vessel; urine contains albumen, hyalin, and granulated casts; covered with a glistening film and with a red sediment. ─ Involuntary discharge of urine. ─ Emission of urine at night. ─ Wetting the bed. ─ Burning in urethra. ─ Stricture of urethra. ─ (Chronic urethritis.)

Male Sexual Organs

Burning pain, itching, redness, excoriation, and oozing, or itching pimples and tetters, on scrotum and between scrotum and thigh. ─ Diminished sexual desire. ─ Frequent pollutions. ─ Discharge of prostatic fluid. ─ (Prostatitis.). ─ Weakness and nervous irritability after coition. ─ Reddish eruption on glans, with itching.

Female Sexual Organs

Itching, soreness, and moisture on external parts. ─ Repugnance to coition. ─ Catamenia too early, with a menstrual flux which excites itching. ─ Leucorrhœa like white of egg. ─ Leucorrhœa with lascivious dreams. ─ During pregnancy diarrhœa and vomiting. ─ Itching and furfur on the mammæ; the nipples itch, and have a mealy coating.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, with or without coryza. ─ Cough, with dryness in throat. ─ Vexatious cough that takes away the breath; cannot cough it out. ─ Suffocating cough at night. ─ Dry cough at night, or in evening, after lying down. ─ At night dry cough, coming deep from chest, caused by a scratching in throat. ─ Cough from low down in chest. ─ Hollow, hacking cough, coming on when laughing, waking him in middle of night (cured). ─ Dry cough, with shootings under sternum.

Chest

Respiration obstructed in cold air. ─ Rattling and snoring in trachea. ─ Sensation of heaviness, anxiety, and uneasiness in chest. ─ Oppression of chest at night. ─ Shootings in sides of chest. ─ Herpes on chest.

Heart

Palpitation of heart. ─ Feeling of coldness about heart; as if there was a cold stone in heart. ─ Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on heart, palpitation.

Neck and Back

Herpes on nape of neck. ─ Heaviness and pain in nape of neck. ─ Painful drawing extending from nape to occiput. ─ Swelling of glands and eruption on nape of neck. ─ Sacral pains, which do not permit standing upright. ─ Coccyx painful on sitting. ─ Stiffness in coccyx. ─ Pain in back, which obstructs every movement. ─ Weakness and stiffness in back and loins. ─ Suppuration of the axillary glands.

Limbs

Cracking of the joints. ─ Inflexibility of the joints. ─ Sprains; chronic sprains.

Upper Limbs

Fetid sweat of axillæ. ─ Drawing pains in arms and fingers. ─ Great weakness of arms. ─ Stiffness of arms and fingers. ─ Erysipelatous inflammation in arms. ─ Brown or yellow spots on arms. ─ Furunculi on forearm. ─ Tearings in hands. ─ Burning sensation in palms of hands. ─ Sweating of hands. ─ Pain in wrist-joint as if sprained. ─ Brown spots on wrist. ─ Bleeding fissures in hands and lingers, esp. in winter. ─ Salt-rheum, red, raw, burning; moist or covered with thick crusts. ─ Chilblains and warts on lingers. ─ Pricking and pain in waits on fingers, evening in bed. ─ Arthritic stiffness in joints of fingers. ─ Finger-nails painful when touched as if bruised. ─ Finger-tips rough, cracked, fissured, with sticking, cutting pain.

Lower Limbs

Cracking in joints of legs. ─ Cramps in thighs, calves, and feet (all day; in soles at night). ─ Furunculi in thighs and calves. ─ Tension in the ham. ─ Lancinations in knee. ─ Weakness of knee. ─ Herpes on knee. ─ Tuberous, itching eruption on calves of legs. ─ Herpes on ankle bones. ─ Burning sensation in soles. ─ Profuse perspiration on feet. ─ Fœtid perspiration of feet with tenderness. ─ Coldness of feet. ─ Swelling of feet. ─ Hot swelling of soles. ─ Swelling and redness of heel with burning pain and shootings, < by walking. ─ Heels blistered. ─ Sensation of splinter in heel. ─ Chilblains on toes, esp. when they itch and are moist; itch and burn; inflamed in cold weather. ─ Ulcers on the toes, originating in blisters on the toes. ─ Corns on feet. ─ Burning and stitching in corns. ─ Obstinate superficial ulcers on toes, with elevated margins and red bases, with oozings. ─ Eruption between toes.

Generalities

Affections in general of any kind, appearing on the r. eye; internal or external occiput; behind ears; inner surface of thighs; ball or under part of toes; knee-joint. ─ Drawing pains in limbs. ─ Stiffness and tendency to numbness of limbs. ─ Cracking of joints, with arthritic rigidity and drawing, tearing pains. ─ Swelling and induration of glands, also after a contusion. ─ Jerking of limbs by day and during sleep. ─ Catalepsy; tonic spasms. ─ Epileptic fits. ─ Fainting fits, with ebullition of blood, heat, palpitation, and pressure at heart. ─ Great weakness after least exertion, sometimes with confused sight, trembling of body, buzzing in ears, and nausea. ─ Weakness, nausea, and other sufferings, from motion of a carriage. ─ Weakness in morning in bed. ─ Many of the symptoms appear, or are < , during stormy weather. ─ Transient heat, ebullition of blood, and perspiration after a walk, or after a fit of anger. ─ Emaciation; also in children. ─ Sensation of insupportable and general-uneasiness, with trembling and dejection. ─ Heaviness and lassitude in all limbs. ─ Great lassitude morning and evening. ─ Great tendency to take cold. ─ Repugnance to open air, with shivering when exposed to it. ─ Several symptoms manifest themselves in morning.

Skin

Swelling and induration of the glands; also after contusions. ─ Great sensibility of the surface of skin. ─ Miliary urticaria. ─ Itching tetters. ─ Itching, excoriated, and running spots on skin. ─ Brown and yellow spots on skin. ─ Eruption of itching and burning pustules. ─ Pruritus of the aged. ─ Dreadful irritation all over body, very intense in vagina, anus and perineum, preventing sleep (cured ─ R. T. C.). ─ Papular eruptions, esp. on face and lips. ─ Skin sore, crawling sensations. ─ Rhagades. ─ The skin is hard to heal. ─ Skin unhealthy every injury tends to ulceration. ─ Furunculi. ─ Ulcers with shooting pains often deep ulcers, with raised edges. ─ Proud flesh in ulcers. ─ When a person complains of eruption or itching at night (affecting scrotum particularly), the eruption being either dry or moist. ─ Chilblains particularly where they itch a good deal and are moist. ─ Exanthema corroding and spreading; very difficult to heal. ─ Sensibility of the skin in general. ─ Sores produced by lying in bed. ─ Warts. ─ Corns on feet. ─ Chilblains, sometimes painful.

Sleep

Disposition to sleep by day and in evening when sitting quietly (yawning). ─ Broken and agitated sleep at night, with many vivid, anxious, and frightful dreams (as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed), frequent awakening with a start, and heat with anxiety. ─ Sensation in morning as of having slept too short a time.

Fever

Shivering with headache, and coldness in hands and face. ─ Chilliness in open air. ─ Frequent shivering over whole body, and, on becoming warm, excessive itching of skin. ─ Shivering or coldness, generally in evening (with heat at the same time), and sometimes with blueness of nails. ─ Sweat immediately after shivering. ─ Intermittent fever: Violent chilliness and coldness of hands and face at 10 a.m.; half all hour later heat in the face, esp. in the eyes, with thirst. ─ Shaking fits, 7 p.m., followed by perspiration, first in face, later all over, except in legs, which are quite cold. ─ Fever in evening, with hot face and cold feet, after shivering. ─ Frequent flushes of heat. ─ Heat after midnight and in morning in bed. ─ Fever, with full pulse and burning sensation in skin. ─ Pulse accelerated from every exertion; as soon as reposing, pulse becomes again slow. ─ Nocturnal heat. ─ Nocturnal sweat.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Loss of consciousness.
Very forgetful and disinclined to think.
Did not know where she was in the street.
Delirium ; thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double.
Since confinement two weeks ago when in bed, in dark room, at night, delusion that there is another baby in bed, which requires attention, also that she has a third leg which would not remain quiet.
Excitable, irritable, with inclination to be angry and to scold ; anxious and irresolute.
Violent, irritable, offended at trifles.
Irritable, vexed, always quiet, sad thoughts, turned to himself, no ambition to work ; heaviness, heat and pain in head in morning ; backache ; spasmodic eructation ; thin, slimy stool, with cutting in abdomen ; pale and emaciated ; profuse night and
morning sweats.
Ailments from vexation, with fright.
Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep.
Melancholy mood, imagines but little time is left him to make his will. θ Cough.
Sensation as if there were a cold stone in heart.
Towards evening anxiety and apprehension about his family, which he left behind while going on a short journey ; the anxiety increases until he becomes inconsolable.
Great fearfulness.

Sensorium

Vertigo : on stooping ; on rising, in occiput ; as if intoxicated ; like seasickness ; with bilious vomiting ; frequent, when walking ; commencing at dinner ; as if she would fall forward, especially when raising
eyeballs ; with nausea in evening in bed, especially when head lies low ; obliging him to stoop, with pale face and nausea ; more violent when standing than when sitting, going off when lying, attended with eructations, yawning, want of appetite, pressure in abdomen, and slow
pulse ; when rising from recumbent position, with heat in face when lying ; in back of head and in left side of occiput like a whirling in head ; it seems to go all over him, making him feel numb and stiff.
Brain feels as if wrapped in a fog ; cannot bear noise of people ; sad and discouraged.
After eating a little, head seems befogged, dizzy and confused.

Inner head

Headache in forehead ; every mental exertion makes him quite stupid.
Frontal headache, at times quite severe, but < while nausea remains.
Sensation as if everything in head were alive.
Head feels numb, as if made of wood, or as if bruised.
Heaviness of head in morning, with headache.
Pinching headache.
Headache when stooping or rising from bed.
Headache from anger.
Pressing stinging in cerebellum.
Heaviness like lead in occiput.
Pressure and sticking pressure in occiput in morning.
Pinching or dull pulsating pain in occiput.
Circumscribed pain in occiput, < on shaking head.
Occipital headache with general spasms and screaming ; loss of appetite ; constipation ; slightest touch aggravates pain which usually lasts ten days.
Migraine since girlhood, at first every four weeks, afterwards every fortnight, and in last years almost every day ; after any great exertion or mental excitement must go to bed for several days ; retching and vomiting of bile ; aching, throbbing pain chiefly in
forehead ; attack commences in occiput then spreads to front of head and as it reaches its climax occiput is free.
Pain from occiput over head to forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness ; he gets stiff ; loses consciousness.

Outer head

Falling off of hair.
Sensation as of a cold breeze blowing on head.
Numbness of outer part of head as if made of wood.
Scalp very sore to touch, followed by numbness ; < mornings and on becoming heated.
Itching on scalp ; after scratching, a pain as if sore.
Pimples on head and nape of neck.
Soft tumors on hairy scalp ; crusts.
Moist eczema, sore after scratching ; tinea capitis.
Nearly whole head covered with thick, yellow, eczematous crusts ; hair glued together by exudation, crusts being entangled in hair and very difficult to remove ; intense itching ; scratching readily induced bleeding.
Thick, greenish-yellow crusts ; burning and itching ; redness, rawness and moisture ; soreness and swelling of scalp ; cracks bleeding easily ; thick, yellowish exudation.
Moist eczema, acute and chronic, worse on occiput.

Sight and eyes

Far-sighted, cannot read fine print without glasses.
Floating black figures and fiery dots in field of vision.
Eyes dim, as of a veil before them ; visual power weak.
Cannot open eyes mornings ; sight misty.
Pressing pain as of sand in eyes ; < evening and by candlelight ; stitches in eyes ; lachrymation ; dull pulsating pain in occiput. θ Syphilitic
iritis.
Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.
Trachoma with pannus, especially when scrofulous ; considerable white discharge from eyes and roughness of cheek.
Aching in eyes, < in evening and from light.
Burning, itching and sticking in eyes, and pressure with dimness on exerting them.
Conjunctivitis pustulosa, with acute inflammation of lids ; lids red, inflamed and covered with scabs or scurfs ; surrounding skin rough ; blennorrhœa of lachrymal sac ; pain in occiput.
Pain at root of nose, lids swollen, purulent discharge from eyes and nose.
Scrofulous ophthalmia ; great difficulty in opening eyes in morning ; skin deeply cracked and slowly healing.
Inflammation of lachrymal canal, when suppuration has commenced and a fistula has formed.
Blennorrhœa of lachrymal sac.
An inflamed swelling as large as a pigeon's egg in inner canthus ; like an incipient fistula ; dryness of right side of nose.
Ciliary blepharitis from conjunctivitis granulosa or from smallpox, with sticking and smarting in inner canthus.
Inflammation of lids from conjunctivitis granulosa ; pain in back of head ; rough skin.
Itching and dryness of lids.

Hearing and ears

Sounds : roaring as of wind ; as of rushing water ; ringing as of bells ; cracking.
Deafness : with noises in ears ; of old people ; of left ear, in a subject treated with large doses of mercury for syphilis, noise as of murmuring water, with tearing pains at night ; paralytic, in old people or in arthritic
subjects ; in those addicted to sexual excesses or drunkenness ; external ear pale, cold to touch, cartilaginous portion dry, parchment-like and covered with small scales ; no ear-wax, or a quantity of soft, thin cerumen and many hairs ; constant roaring or clear
bell-like sounds in ears ; having the stamp of nervous affection ; progressive form ; preceded by subjective noises ; rheumatic, with humming, consequent upon a chill.
Frequent pains in head and toothache accompanied by diminution of hearing ; could not hear ticking of clock unless very near, and at ten paces off not at all ; constant roaring and cracking noises in ears ; meatus filled with thick
cerumen, upon removal of which hearing was not improved ; pustular eruption upon chest.
Eustachian tubes affected, causing whizzing, roaring, cracking, with hardness of hearing.
Dryness or disagreeable sensation of dryness in ear.
Polypus ; wax increased, thick or thin.
Inflamed and painful swelling of meatus ; diffuse, with oozing of moisture.
Ear painful externally.
Discharge of blood and pus from ear.
Redness, rawness, soreness and moisture behind ears ; ear and surrounding parts sore to touch ; surface bleeds easily ; intense itching ; great pain about ear ; swelling ; fissures. θ Eczema,
intertrigo, etc.

Smell and nose

Slight epistaxis relieving headache.
Dry feeling in nose, frequent sneezing ; adherent phlegm, blown out in small lumps ; thick phlegm in posterior nares, < mornings.
Fluent coryza, with hoarseness.
Sneezing ; spasmodic cough, < at night after lying down, and at 2, 4, or 6 A. M., lasting from four to six hours, each spell with rapid sinking of strength ; violent coryza ; expectoration ; great weakness ; chills
alternating with flashes of heat in face from coughing ; violent cutting pain under sternum and in back ; patients seem to contract new colds daily, which cause excessive secretions of glairy mucus, accompanied by rawness and soreness of chest. θ Catarrhal
complaints.
Ozæna ; scabs and purulent mucus discharge from nose ; nose sore ; nostrils cracked ; post-nasal space filled with purulent mucus causing hawking.
Ulcerated nostrils ; pustules.
Swelling of nose with pain at its root ; purulent discharge.
Itching of tip of nose.

Upper face

Face pale or yellow ; hot after eating.
Facial paralysis, especially when this seems to be owing to constriction of nerve in canal of Fallopius, constriction being produced by inflammatory products.
Eczema ; heavy, greenish-yellow crusts ; skin cracked, with tendency to bleed ; papulated eruption ; severe itching ; serous exudation ; fissures with much pain and bleeding ; soreness of face ; redness, rawness, and moisture.
After Teplitz had removed erysipelatous spot on left cheek accompanied by headache : perspires on walking, especially under arms ; pain in right scapula ; eyes water in open air ; bowels irregular ; face feels hot all over, after food ; food does not
taste well ; since face got bad, at times feels as if skin over bridge of nose were drawn stiff and tight.

Lower face

Easily dislocated jaw, in morning in bed, with much pain.
External swelling on left lower jaw, painful to touch and on stooping.
Swelling of submaxillary glands.
Scurfs around mouth.
Papular eruption at corner of mouth.

Teeth and gums

Sensation of coldness in teeth.
Toothache from contact with fresh, open air, at night, with swelling of cheek.
Numbness of teeth ; they pain when biting on them.
Swelling of gums, with stinging, burning pain.
Swelling externally on left lower jaw opposite to decayed wisdom tooth ; swelling painful to touch and on stooping. θ Abscess at root of tooth.
Bleeding of gums.
Fistula dentalis.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : slimy ; sour ; putrid, flat, mucous ; pappy ; bitter.
Tongue : white ; white in centre, with dark streak along edges ; inflamed, with fetid salivation.

Inner mouth

Smell from mouth : fetid ; like garlic.
Offensive smelling saliva ; putrid, slimy mouth.
Copious collection of slime in fauces, with feeling of dryness.
Great dryness of mouth and throat in morning with thirst.
Sore mouth, offensive saliva, < in morning, with thirst.
Mucous surface of cheek covered with ulcers ; putrid flat taste ; white coated tongue : garliclike odor from mouth ; canine hunger ; violent thirst, especially for beer ; waterbrash ; empty, weak sensation in stomach ; nausea and vomiting, former
especially when riding in a carriage. θ Stomatitis.
Ulcers on inner cheek, painful when closing teeth.

Palate and throat

When swallowing, food enters into posterior nares.
Induration and hypertrophy of tonsils.
Throat feels swollen and raw.
Feeling of great dryness in throat, with accumulation of mucus.
Severe stitching, burning pains in throat below and posterior to larynx, especially on swallowing, when stitches shoot into ears and there is a burning in nape of neck ; indescribable suffering on taking least quantity of food or drink ; on examination
nothing abnormal detected except a slight redness of uvula and velum palati ; speech muffled and nasal ; great thirst ; constipation.
Inflammation of pharynx, dry or catarrhal.
Hawking of tough, disagreeably tasting phlegm, mornings.
Diphtheritic membrane commenced on left side, then spread to right, then to uvula ; tongue pointed and purple ; mucous membrane of throat dark-red and glistening ; exudation white like china ; then followed a bland discharge from right nostril, then from left ;
diphtheritic membrane in nose grey ; fetid odor from mouth ; stitch in left ear when opening mouth ; soreness of bridge of nose, cannot bear slightest touch from the very beginning ; later, slight swelling of upper eyelids ; discharge from inner canthus ; desire
for beer and brandy in water.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hunger immediately after stool.
Ravenous hunger ; frequently awakened by it at night ; easily satisfied, with repugnance to meat, fats, cooked or hot food ; desire only for dainties, which are eaten with avidity. θ Tabes
mesenterica.
Loss of appetite.
Drinks all the time and passes water often.
Violent thirst for beer.

Eating and drinking

After eating : giddiness ; heat in face ; cutting in abdomen ; gastralgia >.
After eating, nausea, colic and eructations, general languor, drowsiness and uneasiness. θ Tabes mesenterica.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Heartburn towards evening ; waterbrash.
Eructations sour or bitter ; hot, sharp ; like rotten eggs.
Nausea : and qualmishness all day ; every morning, after waking ; she could not eat breakfast ; in morning with accumulation of water in mouth ; sudden, on walking, with accumulation of water in mouth ; from riding in a
carriage ; all day, often so violent that it takes away the breath, without vomiting ; violent, with cold sweat ; incessant ; with vertigo and vomiting.
Vomiting : of bitter, green substances ; < from riding in a carriage ; during pregnancy and in morning ; violent, of bile and blood.
Seasickness.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Empty, weak sensation in stomach.
Sensation of repletion after a little food.
Sensation of fulness or swelling of pit of stomach, with soreness when touched.
Pain in pit of stomach as if something were tearing off.
Gastralgia with pressing drawing pains, > from eating.
Violent pain in stomach, extending up into chest, with sweat and nausea ; pain came at night, in morning, after getting up, before dinner, and in afternoon about 5 o'clock ; after moderate eating it did not come on ; on contrary, if
stomach was empty and he felt it coming on, the taking of some food prevented its outbreak. θ Cardialgia.
Gastralgia whenever stomach becomes empty.
Weakness of digestion.
Dyspepsia relieved by taking food.
Atonic dyspepsia with a tendency to diarrhœa or to vomiting, with pains and tenderness in epigastrium, occasional pyrosis and chilly, cold abdomen ; much colic and diarrhœa.
Obstinate indigestion ; cold feeling about heart.

Abdomen and loins

Distension of abdomen with offensive flatus ; rumbling.
Sensation of coldness, weakness and faintness in abdomen.
Disagreeable itching in abdomen.
Going to sleep and tingling in abdominal muscles.
Bloating and distension of abdomen with pains, < after eating or drinking, from accumulation of gas, lying down and in afternoon ; distension and pain in bowels awakens child at night ; cold sensation in abdomen. θ Tabes
mesenterica.
Violent colic, with efforts to vomit.
Cutting : late in evening ; in abdomen soon after eating ; in upper abdomen, with nausea and diarrhœa ; as from taking cold, followed by diarrhœa with pressure.
Awakes in morning with pinching colic, > from bending double.
Ulcerated umbilicus in an infant. (Kerosene and olive oil equal parts, locally.)
Inguinal hernia.

Stools and rectum

Awakened early morning by urgent desire for stool, which is gushing, watery ; sharp, cutting, colicky pains below navel ; rumbling.
Stools : of a fetid, camphor-like odor ; yellowish ; watery ; brownish-yellow, pasty ; brown, watery ; bloody mucus ; watery and bloody, containing scrapings of intestines ; mucous ; green, slimy ; profuse, gushing ; slimy, preceded
by colic ; < only during day ; of bloody mucus ; often profuse ; weak feeling in bowels and rectum ; slimy, with pain in bowels and palpitation of heart.
Diarrhœa : stools offensive and watery, often containing undigested food ; with cutting colic ; with disordered stomach, < from cabbage, sauerkraut, cold-slaw ; stool offensive, with great flatulence and belching of gas tasting of
cabbage ; after riding in a carriage ; early in morning, also during day ; with emaciation ; with hunger immediately after stool from weak, empty feeling in bowels, but quickly satisfied.
Weakness in rectum with pain more or less sharp and cutting in bowels, principally below umbilicus, and a desire for frequent movements between passages ; discharges light-yellow and watery ; bloody and slimy. θ Diarrhœa.
θ Dysentery.
Before stool : colic ; cutting and pinching ; sudden urging.
During stool : colic ; tenesmus.
After stool : great weakness and dizziness ; canine hunger ; urging ; much pressing as if large quantities were yet to be expelled.
Diarrhœa with violent pain in bowels, day and night, since several months.
Dysentery.
Stool insufficient, hard, in lumps.
Hemorrhoids internal, with puffy, tender swelling at posterior verge of anus ; intense itching from coccyx upward, also in nates on either side ; attacks preceded by weeks of intense itching-biting of anus and perineum with wide-spread redness around
anus, margin surrounded by herpetic eruption, scaling off ; itching changing to burning, with moisture after scratching ; at night after getting into bed itching is intolerable for hours, with great moisture of perineum and discharge of mucus from anus ; itching changes place
on rubbing or scratching ; < at night, from heat, heat of bed and rubbing or scratching ; > from cold, cold water and pinching parts.
Hemorrhoids with itching about anus which compels her to scratch and rub until parts are raw and sore ; a moisture constantly oozes from vulva, with violent itching.
Piles and fissures of anus ; great itching ; scurf on borders of anus and on perineum.
Excrescences on and in anus moist, irregular.
Membranous shreds about anus.
Obstinate itching herpes on perineum.

Urinary organs

Chronic albuminuria, with symptoms of indigestion.
Chronic hæmaturia due to renal hemorrhage ; urine contained slender, cylindrical pieces of fibrin, these little coagula being of whitish color, looking like maggots or small worms ; constant pain in back, extending down both sides of abdomen to groins ; pain sharp, heavy,
and pressing downward to bladder ; constant desire to urinate, voiding about a cupful at a time, after much exertion, causing trembling of whole body, with a creeping chill ; frequent violent headache, mostly on top of head, as if it would burst ; œdema of feet ; every
exertion, walking, lifting, riding, or mental emotions bring on hemorrhage ; excessively nervous, especially while urinating.
Burning in neck of bladder when urinating.
Very violent contraction in region of bladder.
Involuntary micturition at night in bed.
Dribbling of urine after micturition.
Frequent micturition, with scanty, brown, fetid urine.
Urine : passes slowly ; white or red sediment, at same time covered with a shining pellicle ; dark-brown flocks.
Itching in meatus urinarius (female) during micturition, preceded by an urgent desire to urinate.
Chronic blennorrhœa.
Contraction of urethra ; burning.
Chronic inflammation of pars prostatia urethræ, with frequent emissions and imperfect erections.
Chronic urethritis accompanying stricture.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire decreased in morning.
Erections and pollutions with sexual excitement ; eczema.
Burning pain in urethra.
Gonorrhœa ; chronic cases, with urethral itching ; prostatitis ; gleet.
Discharge of blood in semen.
Eruptions on glans ; reddish ; itching herpes preputialis.
Herpetic itching, redness and moisture on scrotum ; skin cracked, rough and bleeding ; extending to perineum and thighs.
Obstinate, dry eruption on genitals and perineum.
Small pimples or vesicles between scrotum and thigh.
Sweat and moisture of external genitals of both sexes.

Female sexual organs

Aversion to an embrace ; in cold, lymphatic females.
Uterine displacement induced by debility caused by chronic diarrhœa, occurring only in daytime.
Prolapsus uteri, in patients reduced by chronic diarrhœa during day.
Menses : too late and scanty ; early and profuse ; menstrual blood causes itching.
Before menses : throbbing in head.
During menses : sad, inclined to weep ; singing and roaring in ears ; lassitude ; heat in palms and soles ; tearing in thighs and spots on legs painful to touch ; painful pruritus ; herpetic eruption here and there ; dysmenorrhœa.
Burning in genital organs, with some discharge of blood.
Vulva very sore, with burning in vagina ; discharge of mucus ; leucorrhœa acrid, excoriating and exhausting.
Leucorrhœa : like albumen, profuse every day, or with nightly lascivious dreams.
Labiæ perspire and itch excessively ; vulvitis.
Chronic gonorrhœa, discharges very acrid.
Nipples itch and have a mealy coating.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
Gastric troubles of pregnant women, especially when head symptoms are prominent.
During pregnancy, diarrhœa and vomiting, < riding.
Imagines she has two babies and is very concerned as to how she is to take care of them.
After confinement imagines there is another baby in bed which requires attention.
Very offensive lochia ; from perverted lymphatic secretions.
Itching and mealy covering of nipples.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness.
Dryness and scraping sensation in larynx.
Bronchial catarrh ; subacute and chronic bronchitis.

Respiration

Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest.
Oppression of chest at night.

Cough

Cough : at night ; with oppression of chest ; dry, teasing, coming on when lying down at night, frequently in children ; dry at night, coming deep from chest, caused by a scratching in throat ; with stitches under sternum.
Melancholy mood, imagines that but little time is allowed to make his will.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest ; < from cold air.
Phthisis, first stages, especially tuberculous variety ; not much expectoration ; there may be frothy, yellow sputa, and rattling without much expectoration ; ulceration of nostrils and mouth ; great hoarseness ; pressing
digging in chest ; exhaustion ; low pulse and high temperature.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Cold feeling about heart ; as if there were a cold stone in heart.
Severe palpitation, could be detected through clothing ; painful chilblains upon hands.
Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, pressing on heart and palpitation.
Angina pectoris ; pressing pain, < between shoulder-blades.
Pulse : accelerated by every motion ; slow during rest.

Outer chest

Herpes on chest.

Neck and back

Heaviness or very painful distressing drawing in nape of neck, extending to occiput.
Stiff neck ; it cracks when moved.
Unable to bend head forward or to turn it on account of pain caused by abscesses on nape of neck, associated with moist eruption on margin of hair, like eczema.
Herpes or impetigo on neck and occiput.
Papulated eczematous eruption affecting shoulders and presenting an enormous, ulcerated surface, papulated and quite superficial ; severe itching ; exudation of serous fluid on scratching ; fissures causing great pain and bleeding ;
enuresis.
Sharp pains shooting up dorsal spine into occiput. θ Confinement.
Pain in spine and pain all over body with sciatica.
Catching pain in back and diaphragm, with gasping ; cannot breathe without pain ; after exposure to a draught or too much exertion in walking, portions of rectus abdominis, of external oblique or lumbar muscles affected with contractions,
hard to touch.
Pain in back which does not allow him to move or stand.
Rheumatic pains in back < morning before rising.
Weakness and stiffness in back and small of back.
Great uneasiness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx in evening.
Pain and sensitiveness in coccyx while sitting.

Upper limbs

Fetid sweat in axillæ.
Tumor in axilla.
Great weakness in arms.
Salt rheum on left arm for nine years, extending from elbow to hand, red, raw and moist at times, at others covered with a thick scab or crust ; unable to work.
Erysipelas on arms, or brown or yellow spots.
Wrists feel sprained.
Skin of hands cracked and rough.
Deep, bloody rhagades on hands, thick crusts ; worse during Winter.
Psoriasis palmaria, affecting whole palm of hand ; itching and burning so that it was impossible to do any work ; thick scales of epidermis through which run moist fissures ; red herpetic, also papular eruption, on dorsum of hand, with
tensive pain extending up arm ; eruption on scrotum and in hollow of knee.
Burning in palms of hands.
Salt rheum affecting both hands, which are completely raw from wrists to ends of fingers, which smart and burn ; constant watery oozing ; can do no work on account of soreness of hands.
Painful chilblains on hands.
Drawing in fingers.
Rigidity first of one finger, then of others, extending up arm, with inclination to faint.
Arthritic stiffness of finger joints.
Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured ; sticking, cutting pain.
Offensive smelling ulcers on tips of fingers.
Finger nails painful when touched, as if bruised.

Lower limbs

Thighs stiff and heavy when walking.
Tearing in thigh and spots on legs painful to touch.
Swelling of left leg from knee to ankle joint, twice natural size ; purplish color ; constant oozing of a watery substance, which when dried became large scales or scabs, easily detached, leaving raw and tender surface ; intolerable itching, leg
burns like fire.
On both legs crusts form, with copious exudation beneath, surface exposed being moist and very much reddened ; severe itching, causing him to rub skin off with a rough towel ; smarting pains ; skin cracked and bleeding ; swelling of limbs ; very restless at night
with disagreeable dreams ; nervous ; palpitation. θ Eczema.
Spots on legs are painful to touch.
Spreading, sloughing ulceration of leg.
Stiffness in legs, knees and ankles.
Stitches in knees.
A cold spot on knee from which a cold current pervades limb.
Herpes on knees and ankles.
Large red spot on left knee.
Cramp in calves, thighs and feet all day.
(In sick :) Sore, almost crampy pain in right calf, so much worse walking as to almost disable her (> by Nux).
Blotches or tuberculous eruption on calves of legs.
Heaviness of feet.
Feet swollen ; cold.
Tenderness of feet when they are bathed.
Feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture.
Cramp in soles at night.
Hot swelling of soles with burning.
Stitches as from a splinter in heel.
Blisters on heel.
Heel painfully swollen and red ; chilblains.
Obstinate ulcers on toes, originating in corroding blisters ; high callous edges ; moist, flat, red base.
Eruption between toes.
Burning or stitches in corns.
Chilblains ; especially where they itch a good deal and are moist ; itching and burning like fire ; inflammation sets in with cold weather.

Limbs in general

Upper and lower extremities seem stiff and without joints in morning after rising.
Limbs go to sleep and become stiff.
Rheumatic stiffness of joints, with cracking when moved.
Rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and ankles. θ Syphilis.
Cracking of joints ; inflexibility.
Heat in soles of feet and palms of hands.
Chilblains on hands and feet.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : pulse slow.
Lying down : vertigo goes off ; vertigo with heat in face ; cough < distension of abdomen <.
When head lies low : vertigo.
Must stoop : on account of nausea.
Bending double : > colic.
Sitting : pain in coccyx.
Standing : vertigo < ; impossible from pain in back.
Stooping : vertigo ; headache ; swelling on jaw painful.
Rising : vertigo ; from bed, headache.
Constant changing position in bed or in arms of nurse.
Every exertion : causes hemorrhage.
Motion : of neck causes cracking ; impossible from pain in back ; of joints causes cracking.
Every motion : accelerates pulse.
Shaking head : pain in occiput <.
Lifting : causes hemorrhage.
Walking : frequent vertigo ; perspires ; sudden nausea ; causes hemorrhage ; with too much exertion causes catching pain in back ; thighs stiff and heavy ; increases crampy pain in right calf.
Riding : causes hemorrhage.

Nerves

Very weary in morning in bed.
Violent trembling of limbs ; weak unto faintness.
Inward trembling with overexcitement.
General debility with a sensation of heaviness in legs ; great weakness, trembling, uneasiness ; emaciation with marked appetite ; aversion to going into air, which causes chilliness.
Much prostration of arms and legs ; excessive languor.
Fainting with ebullitions, heat, pressing on heart and palpitation.
Takes cold easily.
Twitching in limbs ; epileptic attacks.
Catalepsy ; tonic spasms.
Left-sided paralysis.

Sleep

Somnolency in daytime, especially in afternoon, with insomnia at night and constant changing of position in bed or in arms of nurse ; does not sleep longer than fifteen minutes at a time ; imagines another child is sleeping in bed with it,
and will not be convinced to the contrary, talks continually about it and becomes angry when contradicted ; frequent and sometimes involuntary urination at night.
Sleep restless and full of distressing, frightful dreams.
Restless sleep ; awakens often and imagines another person lies sick in same bed.

Time

Morning : heat and pain in head ; heaviness of head ; pressure in occiput ; scalp sensitive ; cannot open eyes ; thick phlegm in posterior nares ; easily dislocated jaw ; great dryness of mouth and throat ; sore mouth with offensive
saliva, < ; hawking of a tough, disagreeably tasting phlegm ; nausea with accumulation im mouth ; vomiting < ; pain in stomach ; awakes with pinching colic ; awakes with urgent desire for stool ; sexual desire decreased ; rheumatic pains in back < ;
upper and lower extremities seem stiff and without joints ; very weary in bed ; heat ; sweats.
In afternoon : pain in stomach ; distension of abdomen ; somnolency.
All day : nausea and qualmishness ; cramp in calves, thighs and feet.
Only during day : stools ; chronic diarrhœa.
At 6 P. M. : chilliness, with blue nails.
Evening : vertigo with nausea ; pain in eyes < ; towards, heartburn ; cutting in abdomen ; weakness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx ; heat with cold feet ; paroxysms of ague.
Day and night : diarrhœa with violent pain in bowels ; somnolency ; frequent attacks of heat.
Night : sweats ; tearing pains in ears ; spasmodic cough < ; toothache ; awakened by hunger ; pain in stomach ; diarrhœa ; pain in bowels wakes child ; itching of hemorrhoids intolerable ; involuntary micturition ; oppression of
chest ; cough dry ; very restless from eczema on legs ; cramp in soles ; insomnia ; bedclothes intolerable.
After 12 P. M. : heat.

Temperature and weather

Many ailments are worse before and during a thunderstorm.
Amelioration from warmth, warm air.
After getting into bed : itching of hemorrhoids intolerable.
Open air : toothache ; inflammation in chilblains sets in ; aversion to ; causes chilliness ; after a walk flushes of heat ; ecthyma, <.
Exposure to draft : causes catching pain in back.
Cold air : causes oppressed feeling in chest ; ulcers < ; chilblains <.
Winter : deep blood rhagades on hands < ; ulcers < ; chilblains.
Bathing : causes tenderness of feet.

Fever

Chilliness : through body followed by violent itching of skin ; with aversion to open air ; with trembling, face cold, cheeks, fingers and nails blue ; with dryness of mouth ; at 6 P. M., with blue nails.
Chill : with headache and excessively cold face and hands ; shaking every evening at 7 P. M., then sweat in face and later all over except on legs, which are cold ; especially towards evening, often with heat at same time.
Heat : of face and head ; over whole body with violent burning of skin ; at night, bedclothes intolerable ; in evening after chill, with cold feet ; after 12 P. M., and in morning in bed ; in soles of feet and palms of hands.
Flushes of heat all over in frequent attacks during day.
After a walk in open air, or after a slight fit of anger, flushes of heat, ebullitions and perspiration.
Sweat : of single parts at different times, as hands, palms, head, back, chest, axilla, arms, legs, feet, etc. ; on forearms and lower legs ; offensive, in axillæ and on soles of feet ; on genitals ; profuse every night or immediately after chill.
Paroxysm occurring every day ; pain from occiput over head to front and eyes, with transitory blindness ; gets stiff, loses consciousness and gets blind ; spleen enlarged and painful ; belching ; nausea ; constipation. θ Ague.
Pain in occiput commencing with chill and attended with pain in spleen ; pain in some cases extends to front of head. θ Ague.
Evening paroxysm predominant.
Typhoid fever, slight delirium.

Attacks, periodicity

Alternately : chills and flashes of heat in face.
Fifteen minutes at a time : sleeps.
At 2, 4 and 6 A. M. : cough <.
Every morning : nausea.
Every evening at 7 : shaking chill.
Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly.
Daily : new colds ; profuse leucorrhœa ; paroxysms of ague.
Nightly : lascivious dreams ; profuse sweat.
Almost every day : migraine.
Ten days : pain in head lasts.
Since several months : diarrhœa and pain in bowels.
For nine years : salt rheum on left arm.

Locality and direction

Right : dryness of side of nose ; pain in scapula ; sore, almost crampy pain in calf.
Left : vertigo in side of occiput ; deafness ; erysipelatous spot on cheek ; external swelling on lower jaw ; stitch in ear ; salt rheum on arm ; swelling of leg ; large red spot on knee.
From left to right : diphtheritic membrane.

Sensations

Brain as if wrapped in a fog ; as if everything in head were alive ; head as if made of wood or as if bruised ; as if a cold breeze were blowing on head ; as of a veil before eyes ; as of sand in eyes ; as if skin over bridge of nose were drawn
stiff and tight ; as if something were tearing off from pit of stomach ; as if head would burst ; as if there were a cold stone at heart ; as of a splinter in heel ; upper and lower extremities as if stiff and without joints.
Pain : in head ; in back ; in occiput ; at root of nose ; in back of head ; in ear and teeth ; in right scapula ; in jaw ; in pit of stomach ; in epigastrium ; in bowels ; from back down sides of abdomen to groins towards
bladder ; in spine and all over body ; in coccyx ; from occiput over head to front and eyes ; in spleen.
Violent pain : in stomach ; in bowels.
Very painful distressing drawing : in nape of neck up to occiput.
Sharp pains : shooting up dorsal spine into occiput.
Tearing : in thighs.
Throbbing pains : in head.
Catching pain : in back and diaphragm.
Cutting : in abdomen ; under sternum and in back ; below navel ; finger tips.
Pinching : in head ; in occiput.
Stitches : in eyes ; into ears ; in left ear ; in throat ; in knees ; in heel ; in corns.
Sticking : in eyes ; in inner canthus ; in finger tips ; in knees.
Stinging : in gums ; in ulcers.
Colicky pains : below navel.
Cramp : in calves, thighs and feet ; in soles.
Digging : in chest.
Drawing : in fingers.
Tensive pain : from hand up arm.
Aching : in eyes.
Aching throbbing : in forehead.
Dull pulsating pain : in occiput.
Rheumatic pains : in back.
Pressing pain : in eyes ; in back ; between shoulder blades.
Sticking pressure : in occiput.
Pressing stinging : in cerebellum.
Pressure : in occiput ; in abdomen ; in chest ; on heart.
Soreness : of scalp ; behind ears ; of chest ; of face ; of mouth ; of bridge of nose ; of pit of stomach ; of vulva ; of hands ; in right calf.
Smarting : in inner canthus ; of ends of fingers.
Rawness of chest ; behind ears ; of throat.
Burning : in eyes ; in gums ; in throat ; in nape of neck ; in neck of bladder ; in urethra ; in female genitals ; in vagina ; of psoriasis palmaria ; in palms ; in ends of fingers ; of soles ; in corns ; of
skin ; of hands.
Heat : in head ; in face ; in palms ; in soles ; pressing on heart.
Oppressive feeling : in chest.
Stiffness : of small of back ; in coccyx ; of finger joints ; of thighs ; in legs, knees and ankles ; of shoulders and ankles ; of neck.
Heaviness : in head ; of thighs ; of feet ; in legs.
Fulness : in pit of stomach.
Sprained feeling : in wrists.
Weak feeling : in stomach ; in abdomen ; in bowels and rectum ; in anus.
Tingling : in abdominal muscles.
Scratching : in throat.
Dryness : of right side of nose ; of lids ; of ears ; in nose ; in fauces ; in mouth and throat ; of pharynx ; in larynx.
Numbness : of outer head ; of teeth.
Itching-biting : of anus and perineum.
Itching : on scalp ; in eyes ; of lids ; behind ears ; of tip of nose ; in abdomen ; intense from coccyx upward, also in nates ; in vulva ; of herpes on perineum ; in meatus ; of urethra ; of labiæ ; of labia majora ;
of nipples ; of papulated eruption on shoulders ; of psoriasis palmaria ; of eczema on leg ; of chilblains ; violent, of skin ; of hands ; of pustules.
Coldness : in teeth ; of abdomen ; about heart ; of feet ; of face ; of hands ; of legs.

Tissues

Emaciation ; irritability ; child vehement, susceptible to electric changes ; sudden urging in morning ; followed by profuse watery stool ; eczema, excoriations, cracked, bleeding rhagades ; diarrhœa only during day,
colic, arising from sleep in morning, > bending double ; hunger after stool ; gushing stool. θ Atrophy of infants.
Cured promptly during Summer of 1872 various forms of diseases, in all of which the following symptoms were prominent : great chilliness with occasional flushes of heat ; coldness of legs ; vertigo ; violent pressing pain in
forepart of head ; whizzing and ringing in ears ; hardness of hearing ; unpleasant bitter taste ; loss of appetite ; diarrhœa only during day, not at night, or at least < during day.
Congestions ; hemorrhages, blood light red, from internal organs.
Increased secretion from mucous membranes.
Chronic catarrhs, urethral, uterine, intestinal, bronchial.
Sprains of joints, especially in old rheumatic patients.
Rheumatism ; knees stiff, with sharp sticking pains ; stiffness of neck and cracking sound when moving head.
Easy dislocations of jaw, etc.
Swelling and induration of glands ; also after contusions.
Scrofulosis and rachitis ; protracted ill-treated cases, with hectic fever and profuse fetid suppuration ; unhealthy skin, small wounds ulcerate and spread.
Extensive varix, quite painful, with numbness or sticking itching in skin.
After severe burn, here and there upon dorsum of hand arose bunches of pale and unhealthy granulations, quarter of an inch high and exquisitely sensitive (Kerosene and olive oils, equal parts, locally).
Brown spots on arms, neck, chest and lower limbs ; falling off of hair ; rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and ankles. θ Secondary syphilis.
Chilblains.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Sprains and bruises.
After burns or scalds (cosmoline dressing).
Complaints from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship.
Touch : slightest, < pain in head ; scalp very sore ; ear and surrounding parts sore ; swelling on jaw painful ; slightest touch unbearable ; pit of stomach sore ; legs painful ; finger nails painful ; spots on legs
painful ; must rub eruption on legs with rough towel till skin comes off.
Scratching : on scalp causes a pain ; causes burning with moisture in hemorrhoids ; causes itching to change place ; causes exudation of serous fluid.
When biting on teeth : pain in them.
Hard pressure is not painful, but soft touch or contact of clothes is unbearable : zona.
Pinching parts : > itching of hemorrhoids.
Riding in carriage : nausea ; vomiting < ; diarrhœa <.

Skin

Skin of whole body sore and painful, unhealthy even slight wounds suppurate and spread ; general tendency to fester, skin is slow to heal.
Rhagades, particularly when occurring in Winter ; hands chap, crack and burn, and itch intolerably.
Brown or yellow spots on skin.
Itching sore, moist surfaces or deep cracks.
Welts and blisters, with raw feeling.
Eczema ; vesicular eruption forming thick scabs and oozing pus ; skin harsh and dry ; deep cracks and fissures which bleed and suppurate.
Herpes on malleolus, on chest, nape of neck, perineum and knee.
Itching herpes, followed by ulcers.
External hard pressure is not painful, but a soft touch, the contact of the shirt, is unbearable. θ Zona.
Itching and burning pustules, with great weakness on exertion ; great lassitude ; < in fresh air. θ Ecthyma.
Many furuncles on neck and arms, with ulceration of ears.
Boils ; fissures.
Porrigo and tinea favosa.
Burns (locally).
Painful chilblains and chaps.
Ulcers with stinging pain and proud flesh ; often deep, with raised edges ; sensitive, spongy ; deep fistulous ulcers ; discharges very offensive ; redness of areola ; hard to heal ; pus scanty, acrid, corroding ;
sanious and watery ; < from cold and in Winter ; chronic.
Sores produced by lying in bed ; decubitus.

Stage of life, constitution

Light hair and skin.
Especially suitable for lean, slender persons.
XX, æt. 8 months ; eczema.
MB., æt. 6 ; eczema.
Girl, æt. 7 ; eczema.
Boy, æt. 8 ; eczema.
KJ., æt. 11 ; disease of eighteen months standing and continually growing worse, zinc ointment and other appalictions without benefit ; eczema.
Man, æt. 29, suffering for a year ; hardness of hearing.
Man, æt. 29, strong, sanguine, choleric temperament, suffering four years ; diarrhœa.
Mrs. G., æt. 37 ; pain in coccyx.
Lady, æt. 45, robust constitution, choleric, sanguine temperament, suffering since girlhood ; mother subject to similar attacks ; migraine.
Man, æt. 46, suffering five weeks ; sore throat.
Man, æt. 50, plethoric, corpulent, suffering several months ; mental disturbance.
Woman, æt. 50 ; suffering for years ; headache.
Man, æt. 61 ; cough and melancholia.
Man, æt. 68, suffering eight years ; sore and lame leg.
Woman, æt. 72 ; suffering nineteen years ; hæmaturia.
Old lady, feeble constitution ; vertigo.
Strong healthy peasant, after a chill four months previously ; rheumatic dysecoia.
Man, suffering nearly a year ; piles and fissure of anus.
Man, mulatto ; herpes of scrotum.
Mrs. G., suffering nine years ; salt rheum on left arm.
Man, suffering six years ; salt rheum affecting hands.
Man, robust ; psoriasis palmaris.
Girl, suffering three years ; eruption on hands.
Man, suffering for last ten or fifteen years ; cracking of finger tips.
Lady, contracted disease from husband ; secondary syphilis.

Relations

Antidoted by : Coccul., Nux vom .
It antidotes : lead-poisoning.
Compatible : Bryon., Calc. ost., Lycop., Nitr. ac., Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Silica, Sulphur .
Compare : the Carbons, and especially Graphit . and Sulphur ; also Colchic . and Tabac .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Generals

It is one of the abused remedies.

It is used externally in rheumatism, bruises and all sorts of troubles, and the amelioration that comes is the result of establishing a disease on the surface, by counter-irritation, and not by homoeopathic action. Crude Petroleum is extensively used in the oil regions on both man and beast as a "cure all."

Mind

It is a counter-irritant and, on the skin, produces irritation, eruptions and disturbances, like Turpentine.

Among the early things that Petroleum does to a prover is that it puts him in a state of confusion of mind and dizziness; he is dazed so that he loses his way in the street. She has strange imaginations that there are people near her who are not present; that the atmosphere is full of strange forms; that her limbs are double; that another person is in the bed with her.

Such things are found in the fevers. A woman after childbirth imagines there is another child in bed with her, and she wonders how she will take care of the two. These ideas are found in many diseases, have been often verified. In typhoids and low forms of sickness; in diarrheas; when just awakening he is in confusion; in his dreams he had the idea of being two or more and the impression remains with him while he is in a semi-conscious state. He cannot reconcile the state, but when aroused to consciousness he is able to reason it away, and when semi-conscious again it returns. This annoys him day and night.

Skin symptoms. The surface symptoms are striking. The tendency is to throw out vesicles, herpetic vesicles which are isolated, and the tendency of the vesicles is to form thick yellow crusts, with considerable moisture. The vesicles break early.

At times the vesicles do not form crusts, but break early and ulcerate underneath, and this changes into a phagedenic ulcer; this condition occurs about the fingers, scrotum, face and scalp. There is a special tendency to produce vesicular eruptions about the back of the neck.

Papular, pustular, vesicular, dry, mealy eruptions, but most commonly moist; eruptions which extend deeply. It builds up eruptions on the site of old eruptions, with an increasing hardness in the base of the old eruption.

When the crust dries down it indurates, and this induration takes place at the margin and builds up little rings about the margin. The induration cracks, bleeds, looks purple. Apply this to salt rheum, and eruptions about the hands. It is suitable when there are cracks about the ends of the fingers and on the backs of the hands.

The skin is rough, ragged, exfoliates, cracks, bleeds; the tissues are hardened; this occurs sometimes about the palms of the hands and nails. This tissue ulcerates, and the ulcers eat and spread. All eruptions itch violently. He can not rest until he scratches the skin off, when the part becomes moist, bloody, raw and inflamed.

There is also itching with no visible eruption. He scratches the skin until moisture oozes forth, and keeps on scratching until the skin bleeds and the part becomes cold.

(This word makes me remark here that coldness in spots is quite a feature of this remedy. Coldness in spots; coldness in the stomach, in the abdomen, in the uterus; coldness in a spot between the scapula; coldness in the heart - sensation as if the heart were cold.).

Various forms of eczema. Eczema of the scalp, especially of the occiput. Herpetic eruptions about the mouth ( Nat. m.), about the genitals, lips, face, and the patches become crusty and ooze much.

The mucous membrane, or internal skin, has little patches of ulcers, with induration about the patch, and hence Petr. is useful in syphilitic ulcers. Ulcerous patches in the throat; aphthous patches in the mouth. There is inflammation of the mucous membranes everywhere, producing watery and finally thick yellow discharges.

The nose is filled by tumefaction of the Schneiderian membrane. Old catarrhal complaints of the nose, crusts, thick yellow discharge, foetid odor from the nose.

The nose, posterior nares and pharynx become thickened and there is an accumulation of thick mucus, especially in the morning.

The larynx is involved and there is loss of voice, and the trouble extends to the chest, causing a catarrhal condition with cough. He coughs especially at night, and there is emaciation of the body with pain and soreness of the chest. Dry, hacking cough, alternating with copious expectoration; emaciation about the chest. A striking feature of this drug is that the cough is worse at night, and the diarrhea is worse during the day.

Catarrh of the stomach and bowels. Catarrh of the rectum, much mucus with the stools. Diarrhœa during the day time, ameliorated at night, while the patient is quiet and at rest.

He cannot eat without pain, but he has a gnawing hunger which drives him to eat. ( Lach., Graph.) There is an "all-gone," hungry feeling after stool, which drives him to eat. With the diarrhea there is constant hunger, yet he cannot eat without pain; emaciation, skin eruptions, unhealthy ragged fingers which never look clean; he cannot wash them, as this causes them to chap.

Urinary and genitals

Catarrh of the bladder and urethra; chronic catarrhal discharge chronic gonorrhea. Itching is common to the internal skin, and a striking feature in gonorrhea is the itching in the posterior half of the urethra with the discharge. It almost drives him wild, keeps him awake at night. He rubs and manipulates the perineum to relieve this itching. The gonorrheal discharge is white or yellow. It is useful in that "last drop."

Also in the early stages of gonorrhea when the itching is troublesome.

Sore bruised feeling all over the body, especially in the joint Rheumatic pain in the joints on motion; sore to touch; sensation as if bruised. It is analogous to Arnica in relation to bruises.

Petroleum is suitable in old stubborn occipital headaches. Silicea is the routine remedy for offensive foot sweat and periodic occipital headaches. Petroleum has also offensive foot sweat; offensive sweats all over, and especially so in the axilla, where it is so pungent that it can be observed on the patient entering the room.

The pain often remains in the occiput, but when very severe it extends up over the top of the head to the eyes and forehead ( Silicea has that condition). Petroleum is not so closely related to Silicea as it is to Graphites and Carbo veg., which are carbonaceous substances; and all carbonaceous products affect the back of the head.

"Pain from occiput over head to forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness; he gets stiff; loses consciousness."

"Circumscribed pain in the occiput, aggravated on shaking the head."

This remedy, unlike Carbo veg., has oversensitiveness of the senses, bearing, touch and smell.

Ears

The Petroleum constitution produces a peculiar vertigo which comes on under regular circumstances, when on ship-board, or riding in a carriage, or on the ears.

It suits occipital headache from riding on the ears, or from such motions, with nausea like seasickness. Seasickness is a trouble we cannot always meet, yet most people, when constitutionally treated, can be directed into a better state, so that they will not be troubled under ordinary conditions, such as riding on the cars or in a carriage.

To a great extent the above condition is due to a lack of accommodation, a visual trouble; coming on, for example, from focusing the eyes on the waves as they retreat from the rear end of the ship, or on passing objects, the patient being relieved while in a dark state-room. Occipital headache, with the vertigo above mentioned, and an all gone hungry feeling or pain in the stomach, driving him to eat, will be mitigated by Petroleum.

The most common form of seasickness I have found to be the following:

Awful deathly nausea pallor, cold body, profuse sweat and exhaustion, ameliorated by fanning, by the open air, by closing the eyes, by quiet and darkness, and aggravated by warmth. Tabacum is generally the remedy of such cases.

In Petroleum there is much disturbance of vision, but the catarrhal the eyes is striking. Vesicular formations, ulcerations, inflammation, redness and copious discharge; granular lids, thickening mucous membranes, cracks in the lids, fissures in the corners eyes with great itching.

This itching is present in all congestions of the mucous membrane. Eustachian tubes. The mucous membrane is thickened, and deafness results. It is a catarrhal state, attended by great itching in the tube, which be cannot reach method; itching deep in the ear. He rubs the ear and tries to it, but he cannot reach it. Itching in the pharynx; also in the I canal of the ear. Ear discharges.

Induration and inflammation of the glands of the body. In ear troubles, the parotids enlarge; in troubles about the jaw, the sub-maxillary and sub-lingual glands are involved; they become hard and tend to remain so.

Face pale or yellow; sickly.

"Nausea and qualmishness all day".

Stiffness in the back. Pain in the back on rising from a seat.

Heat and burning. Skin hot in places; with sensation of coldness. Burning and itching of palms and soles; face and scalp. The itching and burning often go together; parts that burn much. Feet burn and have a sensation as if frozen. Chilblains itch, burn and become purple. Parts frozen will, years after, itch, burn, sting and become red and hot. The patient can tell when it will thaw because of the itching in the chilblains.

Petroleum cures the itching and burning in frozen parts, but not as prominently as Agaricus leads all other remedies, especially when the condition affects parts where the tissues are thin over the bones, as over the back of the toes.

Paretic conditions, especially left-sided., Weakness of muscles, weakness of the lower extremities, especially left-sided.

The eruptions on the surface and the state of induration are like Graphites, but the oozing in Petroleum is thin and watery, and in Graphites it is gluey, honey like, sticky, viscid. You have indurations and cracks of the fingers, and rhagades in both remedies, but the horn-like warty growths, lifting up the quick of the nails, you will find only in Graphites.

It is of wonderful use and competes with Rhus in eczema of the genitals of either male or female. Eruption on the scrotum, penis, vulva.

Rhus produces violent inflammation of the skin of the genitals in male and female; erysipelatous inflammation; nodules vesicles and large blebs. Petroleum produces small vesicles which itch, sting and burn.

Herpetic eruptions which tend to become erysipelatous. Petroleum and Rhus are the most common remedies for eruptions on the scrotum and genitals.

"Herpetic itching, redness and moisture on scrotum; skin cracked, rough and bleeding; extending to perineum, and thighs."

"Obstinate dry eruptions on genitals and perineum."

"Sweat and moisture of external genitals of both sexes."

Scurfy nipples; white, bran-like scurf; itching; always peeling off. If the woman is in run-down health, then the nipples inflame and become oversensitive to the touch of clothing.

Very sensitive to change of weather, like Phos. and Rhod. ; aggravated before a thunder storm. Often sensitive to air and cold. Lean, emaciated subjects; threatening consumption. Eruptions disappear of themselves or are suppressed. Hands and feet burn; wants the palms and soles out of bed.

Do not be too sure Sulphur because the soles burn, or too sure of Silicea because the feet sweat. Sweating of single parts. Eruptions in patches. Itching in patches. Coldness in parts. Complaints come in single parts.

The most striking offensiveness is about the feet and in the axillae. There are many strange sensations which are peculiar and striking. Study closely the skin symptoms and compare with Graphites and Sulphur.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

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

Characteristic

Adapted to persons of light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome disposition (Nux v.); offended at trifles; vexed at everything.

Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag. p.).

During sleep or delirium: imagines that one leg is double; that another person lies alongside of him in the same bed; that there are two babies in the bed (Bry., Val.).

Vertigo: on rising; in occiput; as if intoxicated; like sea- sickness.

Headache: in occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain; as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised; as if made of wood.

Gastralgia: of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever the stomach is empty; $>$ by constant eating (Chel., Sep.).

Diarrhœa: yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime.

Complaints: from riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Coc., San.); $<$ before and during a thunderstorm.

Sweat and moisture of external genitals, of both sexes; fetid, of axillæ (Graph., San.).

Tips of fingers rough, cracked; fissured, every winter; skin of hands rough and cracked; of whole body, sore and painful.

Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands $<$ in cold weather; decubitus.

Sensation of coldness about the heart (Ars., Carbo an., Helod., Kali m., Nat. m.).

Relations

The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer (Alum., Psor.); if suppressed, cause diarrhœa.

Aggravation

Carriage riding; during a thunderstorm; in winter (skin symptoms).

Amelioration

Warmth; warm air.

Type

Quotidian. Cold stage predominates.

Time

10 A. M., 3, 4, 6, 7 and 10 P. M. Evening paroxysm predominant.

Fever without chill, 5 to 6 P. M.

Chill

Without thirst at 10 A. M. for half an hour, with coldness of the hands and face. Chilliness lasting two hours, every afternoon, at 3 or 4 o'clock, with cold hands and dryness of the mouth. Shaking chill at 7 P. M., with sweat over whole body, except lower extremities, which were quite cold. Violent internal shaking chill at 10 P. M. Shaking chill every evening. Chilliness with trembling, face cold, cheeks, fingers and nails blue. Chilliness at 6 P. M., with blue nails. Chilliness in the open air. Chilliness in evening, with flushes of heat in the face. Frequent chilliness through the whole body, followed by violent itching of the skin (pricking of the skin, Nit. ac.).

Heat

And chill at same time, at 10 P. M. Heat at night, bedclothes were intolerable, and was obliged to uncover (external warmth is intolerable, Puls.). Flushes of heat over whole body. Heat of head; redness of face; burning pain in the mouth, and dryness of the trachea. Heat in the evening after the chill.

Sweat

Of single parts at different times, as hands, palms, head, back, chest, axilla, arms, legs, feet (Thuja). Profuse perspiration of the forearms, lower legs, feet; on the soles. Sweat; with partial chills; or immediately after the chill. Offensive, of axilla and soles. No heat intervening.

Tongue

Coated white in the centre, with a dark streak along the sides (white, with red edges, or red and white in alternate streaks, Ant. t.); offensive saliva. Taste, slimy, pappy, putrid; aversion to fat meat, and all warm cooked food. Ravenous hunger, or loss of appetite.

Pulse

Full, rapid; accelerated by every motion; becomes slow again during rest. Cold feeling about the heart (Nat.).

Analysis

Chill; of single parts, < in open air; followed by violent itching of the skin

Heat; of head; red face; flushes over whole body.

Sweat; of single parts at different times; after chill, no intervening heat Chronic cases maltreated by drugging and quinine.