Sulphur sulph.

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

CIRCULATION: VENOUS. Portal. Abdomen. NUTRITIVE ORGANS. MEMBRANES: Mucous. Serous. Rectum. Chest. SKIN; folds. VERTEX. SOLES. Joints. Glands.

Worse

SUPPRESSIONS. BATHING. Milk. HEATED: EXERTION. IN BED, by woolens, etc. Atmospheric changes. Speaking. Periodically: 11 A.M. Climacteric. Full moon (Cina. Sil.).

Better

Open air. Motion. Warm applications. Sweating. Dry heat.

General

STOOPED, LANK, UNCURED, UNTIDY AND UNWASHED. Emaciation; with good appetite. Atrophy of children. Psora. Scrofula. Rheumatism. DEFICIENT REACTION; effusion; deposits; slow reabsorption. CHRONICITY. RED ORIFICES, or single parts; lips, tarsi, ears, etc. (Alo.). LOCAL THROBBING, BURNING OR CONGESTION; SOLES; VERTEX; bones; painful spots, etc. ITCHING; parts; discharges cause, etc. Foul, acrid or blood streaked discharges. Weak, faint spells. Empty, overful, rough or asleep feeling. ASCENDING EFFECTS; heats, orgasms, vertigo, etc.

Particulars

Slow, lazy, hungry, and always tired. Hopeful dreamers; ecstatic, religious, philosophic, etc. Peevish, mean, prying or easily excited. Melancholic. Tired of life. Vertigo; in forehead. VERTEX, throbs, hot, heavy, sore, etc. Nape to vertex; pain, chills, pressure, etc. As of a band about or pain deep in brain. Sunday headache; preceded by photopsies. Hot head, with cold feet. Sweaty scalp. Dry, cold hair. Eyes; burn; cutting, as from sand; bursting in balls; quivering. Halo about light. As of floating soot before. Photophobia. Ophthalmia. Swashing in ears. Nose obstructed on alternate sides; drips; swelled; red, < cold. Catarrhal colds. Epistaxis, < night or lying on r.side. Sensitive smell. Imaginary odors. Swelled veins of forehead. OLD LOOK. Spotted face. Dry, tremulous tongue; red edges and tip. Sensitive dental fangs. Grinds teeth. Nursing sore mouth. Throat; as of a swelling or a vapor rising in; external redness. Eructations, like bad eggs, > eating. Drinks much, eats little. Averse to meat. SUDDENLY HUNGRY AND WEAK; < 11 A.M.; at epigastrium. ABDOMEN SORE, > pressure; heavy, as of a lump; stitches; bearing down, against rectum; congested. Borborygmi. Colicky babies. RECTUM pains; itches; urging in; hæmorrhoidal habitus. Holds stool back from pain. DIARRHŒA; HURRIED, EARLY MORNING (Tub.), changing; mushy; stinking; painless; watery; gray froth; < milk; alternating with constipation. Burning, itching urethra. Hurried or nightly urination. Bed wetting. Testes hang low. Cutting in uterus; < menses. Burning, itching, sore vulva; < sitting. Puerperal sepsis. Acrid, foul menses. SUFFOCATIVE AIR HUNGER. Irregular breathing. Cough; violent, in 2 or 3 incomplete bouts. Deep, hoarse voice; early. Chest; rattling and heat at 11 A.M.; as of a band about or a load on; red; brown spots on. Pain backward from l. nipple. Pneumonia. Heart seems too big. Palpitation, < lying. Nipples crack at base. Sharp burning in mammæ. Neck weak; boils on. Heavy shoulders. Aching between scapulæ. Lumbar pains; to stomach; walks bent; supports weight on hands, when sitting. Coccyx, pains during stools. Numb l. arm, < lying. Palms crack and peel; eczema on; warts on. Numb fingers (r). Tense hamstrings (l). Cramp in calf (l). SOLES BURN; STICKS FEET OUT OF BED, AT NIGHT or are cold in bed; dry. Jerks one limb, on dropping to sleep. SKIN; dry: rough, wrinkled, scaly; ITCHING, violently at night; BREAKS OUT; festers, and won't heal; burning, when scratched; painfully sensitive to air, wind, washing, etc. Eruptions alternate with other complaints, asthma, etc. Crops of boils. Itch. Creeping erysipelas. Rhagades. Eczema. Ulcers. Skin under-nourished. Suppuration with air bubbles. Localised congestions. Hot vertex and soles. Inclined to uncover single parts. Craves fresh air. Drowsy, then migraine. Sleeps in cat naps. Sleepy by day, wakeful at night. Sleep; unrefreshing; sings during. Chills up back. Heat; feels too hot; flushes of; with general throbbing; between scapulæ. Sweat; in axillæ; on hands or feet.

Related

Antidotes: Merc. Pul. Sil. Complementary: Alo. Calc-c. Sul-io. Related: Psor. Sele. Syph.

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 of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system. Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c., Psor.). For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk stooping like old men. Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.). Aversion to being washed; always < after a bath. Too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live. Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant. c.); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails. When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor.). Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions (Caust., Psor.). Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhoea, etc.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face, without redness; of vesicles in mouth; and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire in ripples (Ars.); in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole bloody, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae (Phos.). Sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening (Sang.); with hot vertex and cold feet. Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them (Sang., Sanic.); puts them out of bed to cool off (Med.); cramps in calves and soles at night. Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells passing off with a little moisture. Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through (Tub.). Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a. m. (10 or 11 a. m. > by eating, Nat. c.); cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint spells during the day (compare, Zinc.). Diarrhoea: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe, Psor.); as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents. Constipation: stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry.); large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhoea. The discharge both of urine and faeces is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts round anus red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating whenever they touch. Menses: too early, profuse, protracted. Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. "A single dose at new moon." - Lippe. Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed (Tub.). Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to scratch;" scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed (Mer.); soreness in folds (Lyc.). Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; haemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments. To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, Kali mur. or the best selected remedy fails. Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they reform," but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.). Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night. Happy dreams, wakes up singing. Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful. Movement in abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuja).

Relations

Complemenatary: Aloe, Psor. Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. Compatible: Calc., Lyc., Puls., Sars., Sep. Sulph., Calc., Lyc.; or Sulph., Sars., Sep. frequently follow in given order. Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur. Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.

Aggravation

At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing, changeable weather (Rhus).

Amelioration

Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (rev. of Stan.).

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)

Mental

Peevishness; childish peevishness in grown people. Fantastic illusions of the intellect, especially if one turns everything into beauty, as an old rag or stick looks to be a beautiful piece of workmanship--everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to. Happy dreams where one wakes up singing. Busy, all the time. Wishing to touch something, with inability to do so.

Ears

Bad effects from suppression of otorrhœa; hard hearing, especially if the ears are very dry; noises in the ears in general, particularly a humming.

Eyes

Affections in general of the cornea; eyeball; sclerotica; pupils contracted; eyes water, itch and feel hot; halo around a lamp-light; aversion to light; cataract.

Nose

Blood comes from the nose on blowing it; imaginary foul smells all around.

Stool and Anus

Looseness of the bowels; redness about the anus; looseness in grown people, with soreness about the anus; obstructed evacuation, particularly if hard stools are retained. Diarrhœa, particularly where there is the red line about the anus, and the patient can't wait, must go immediately the desire is felt; also waking early in the morning with a diarrhœa, which drives one out of bed in a great hurry; tenesmus in the same way, drives one in a great hurry; rumbling and rolling in the bowels, Stool bloody; knotty; green mucus; stinking; insufficient; with maw worms; with tape-worm; complaints during stool. Much itching about the anus; bleeding hæmorrhoids; itching runs back along the perineum and adjacent parts.

Urine

Urine discharged by drops; incontinence of urine; lie awake for some time, then fall into a deep sleep in which they wet the bed. Itching about the genitals on going to bed at night.

Sexual

Male: Affections of the genitals in general. Female: Menses too late; too short; too scanty; suppressed, particularly in psoric individuals; delay of first menses; nipples, particularly if they are cracked around the base, and may often bleed; the nipple smarts and burns very much as soon as the infant lets go of it.

Gastric

Strong aversion to meat; sour taste; eructations, tasting of eggs; nausea and vomiting; vomiting of sour matter.

Chest

Oppressed respiration, particularly from congestion to the lungs; if with a sense of heat all through the chest. Cough in general with bloody expectoration, especially with heat in the chest; hæmorrhage with the same sensation. Affections in general of the heart and region of the heart; palpitation of the heart; also external chest; red spots all over the chest; also brownish or butternut-colored spots.

Skin

The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, ulcer, etc.; very colicky babies with pimples, itch or eruption on skin, or roughness of the skin. Troubles of very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptions--Sulphur will very often bring these out and cause their cure. Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is made worse by any heat, from getting warm at work, in bed, etc.; freckles; cancerous ulcers. Skin dry; rough; scaly; voluptuous itching--"feels so good to scratch"; ecchymosis; chapping of the skin, especially when it ulcerates; chapping of the skin after being wet; soreness of the skin in children; brown sphacelus. Tetters in general; chapped; scurfy; painful; tearing; pulsating, etc.

Sleep

One wants to sleep late in the morning; sleepy all day; sleep not refreshing; sleepiness in the afternoon. Waking frequently during the night when one becomes wide awake suddenly. Dreams many; vivid; beautiful; pleasant. Singing during sleep.

Fever

Perspiration in general of single parts; on back part of the body; great disposition to perspire; perspiration, with anxiety; compound or intermittent fevers. Thirst.

Sensations

Of heat in the chest; of heat anywhere, with any trouble; of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body; of contraction of inner parts; creeping on the skin as of a mouse running over it; cutting pain in the inner parts; of fullness, or of heaviness in the inner parts, chiefly in the abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or supported; of a hoop or band around the parts; buzzing or vibration in the body; of knocking or throbbing in the outer parts; as of a lump in the inner parts; of motion, as though something were moving in the inner parts; of roughness in inner parts; of tightness or stiffness in outer parts. Of sometimes being very small and then again very large.

Generalities

Affections in general, of any kind appearing in the left side; hair of the head; external front of the head; inner belly, especially on left side; back; small of the back; axilla; lumbar region; upper extremities in general; posterior and inner surface of the thigh; lower extremity in general; of the nails.

Inflammation of the mucous membranes in general; swelling of the glands. Affections of the brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions. Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come out; cannot bear to be washed; face pale, or reddish-yellow; diminution of saliva; back is so stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always worse before a storm; bleeding from inner parts in general; dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons, or resulting from a suppressed eruption; dryness of inner parts which are usually moist; emaciation in general.

Worse

On waking; after eating; from exertion of the body, unable to stand much exercise; from leaning against anything; after menstruation; from taking milk; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration; from wet poultices; from abuse of mercury; on rising, from any quick motion, as running; during sleep; after a long sleep; during stool; in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, Nitr. ac.); on stretching the limbs, especially the affected limb; when swallowing food; from talking; from water and washing; ascarides; worms in general; from suppressed menstruation; from vomiting; on getting warm in bed.

Better

From drawing up the affected limb--can't bear to have it extended.

Remedies following

Bellad., Bryon., Calc. carb., Lycop., Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia; sometimes, Phosphor.

Antidotes

China, Mercur, Pulsat., Sepia.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

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

Red line symptom

Black comedones on the face. Great thirst, little appetite. Empty, gone, faint feeling in stomach about 11 a.m. Diarrhoea some hours after midnight, or driven out of bed early in the morning. Both the flow of urine and discharge of feces are painful to the parts over which they pass. Burning in the vagina; is scarcely able to keep still. Attacks of suffocation, especially at night in bed wants doors and windows open. Weakness in chest in evening when lying down. Unsteady gait, tremor of hands. Standing in the most disagreeable position. Does not walk erect; stoops or bends in walking or sitting. Child dislikes to be washed or bathed. Heat in soles of feet, or cold feet and burning soles. wants to find a cool place for them, or puts them out of bed. Cramps in calves of legs, or soles of feet, principally at night Hot flashes, with spells of faintness, or passing off with a little moisture and faintness or debility. Voluptuous Itching and tingling, burning and soreness from scratching. Irresistible drowsiness in daytime, and wakefulness the whole night. As an intercurrent remedy, when carefully selected remedies fall to produce a favourable effect.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Sublimated Sulphur

General

This is great Hahnemannian anti-psoric. Its action is centrifugal-from within outward-having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms. Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep; always indicate Sulphur homeopathically. Standing is the worst position for sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed. When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism. Complaints that relapse. General offensive character of discharge and exhalations. Very red lips and face, flushing easily. Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones.

Mind

Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time. Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others. Religious melancholy. Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death. Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite.

Head

Constant heat on top of head (Cup sulph; Graph). Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing. Itching; scratching causes burning.

Eyes

Burning ulceration of margin of lids. Halo around lamp-light. Heat and burning in eyes (Ars; Bell). Black motes before eyes. First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like ground glass.

Ears

Whizzing in ears. Bad effects from the suppression of an otorrhœa. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.

Nose

Herpes across the nose. Nose stuffed indoors. Imaginary foul smells. Alæ red and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs and readily bleeding. Polypus and adenoids.

Mouth

Lips dry, bright red, burning. Bitter taste in morning. Jerks through teeth. Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue white, with red tip and borders.

Throat

Pressure as from a lump, as from splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close pharynx.

Stomach

Complete loss of, or excessive appetite. Putrid eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. Milk disagrees. Great desire for sweets (Arg nit). Great acidity, sour eructation. Burning, painful, weight-like pressure. Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat. Nausea during gestation. Water fills the patient up.

Abdomen

Very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness. Movements as of something alive (Croc; Thuj). Pain and soreness over liver. Colic after drinking.

Rectum

Itching and burning of anus; piles dependent upon abdominal plethora. Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. Redness around the anus, with itching. Morning diarrhœa, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti. Hæmorrhoids, oozing and belching.

Urine

Frequent micturition, especially at night. Enuresis, especially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after. Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes. Must hurry, sudden call to urinate. Great quantities of colorless urine.

Male

Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. Itching of genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.

Female

Pudenda itches. Vagina burns. Much offensive perspiration. Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore. Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped. Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn.

Respiratory

Oppression and burning sensation in chest. Difficult respiration; wants windows open. Aphonia. Heat, throughout chest. Red, brown spots all over chest. Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration. Much rattling of mucus. Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating pleuritic exudations. Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply. Flushes of heat in chest rising to head. Oppression, as of a load on chest. Dyspnœa in middle of night, relieved by sitting up. Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening.

Back

Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebræ glided over each other.

Extremities

Trembling of hands. Hot, sweaty hands. Rheumatic pain in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling. Rheumatic gout, with itching. Burning in soles and hands at night. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and tearing in arms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered. Ganglion.

Sleep

Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep. Vivid dreams. Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly. Catnaps; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep between 2 and 5 am.

Fever

Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body. Dry skin and great thirst. Night sweat, on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting sweats. Remittent type.

Skin

Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails. Excoriation, especially in folds (Lyc). Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, is evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp weather.

Modalities

Worse, at rest, when standing, warmth in bed, washing, bathing, in morning, 11 am, night, from alcoholic stimulants, periodically. Better, dry, warm weather, lying on right side, from drawing up affected limbs.

Relationship

Complementary: Aloe; Psorin; Acon; Pyrarara (a fish caught in the Amazon, clinically used for various skin affections). Lepra, tuberculides, syphilides, varicosities, etc.

Compare: Acon (Sulph often follows in acute diseases); Mercur and calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur, not before. Lyc; Sep; Sars; Puls; Sulphur hydrogenisatum (delirium, mania, asphyxia); Sulphur terebinthinatum (chronic rheumatic arthritis; chorea); Tannic acid (Nasal hæmorrhage; elongated uvula; gargle; constipation). Magnes artificialis (great hunger in evening, profuse sweat on face, bruised pain in joints, rectal constriction after stool).

Magnetis polus Articus (anxious, coldness of eyes as if a piece of ice lay in orbit, increased flow of saliva, constipation, sopor, trembling, abdominal flatulence).

Magnetis polus Australis (dryness of lids, easy dislocation of ankle, ingrowing toe-nails, aching in patella, shooting in soles).

Compare in adenoids: Agraphis.

Dose

Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest. Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not too frequent doses. The twelfth potency is a good one to begin treatment with, going higher or lower according to the susceptibility of the patient. In chronic diseases, 200th and upward. In torpid eruptions the lowest potencies.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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

Leaders

Hahnemann's king of anti-psorics; combating all psoric manifestations, as described in Hahnemann's chronic diseases.

Itching eruptions on the skin everywhere; scratching is followed by burning.

Burning everywhere, general and local, especially feet; has to stick them out of bed to cool them.

Redness of all orifices, as if pressed full of blood (lips, ears, nostrils, eyelids, anus, urethra, etc.).

Exudations into serous sacs following acute inflammations.

Weak, faint, after hot flashes, followed by sweat, especially at 11 A. M.

I now come to an attempt to give some idea of the curative sphere of Hahnemann's king of anti-psorics. I do not in this place feel it incumbent upon me to enter into a defense of Hahnemann's psora theory against those who discard it because they do not understand it. With those who do understand and profit by it there is no need of such defense. The truth stands confirmed (with those who have put to the test Hahnemann's rules for the use of Sulphur) that it has power to meet and overcome certain obstacles to the usual action of drugs when indicated by the symptoms, or least seemingly so. That is the reason why the indication as laid down in the books reads: "When seemingly indicated drugs do not cure, use Suphur," because psora is the obstacle to be overcome. If you now ask me, what is psora? I answer in true Yankee style, what is scrofula? Perhaps psora is scrofula, or scrofula is psora. Call it either or neither. Yet it is present, a something named or unnamed which must be recognized and complicates so-called acute diseases. Now there is nothing so very remarkable about this. Syphilis does the same. Once contacted or inherited no matter what ordinary acute disease appears, we are at times obliged to turn aside from its treatment to give a quietus to the old enemy before we can overcome the acute affection. So it is with Sulphur and psora. The orizing and philosphizing, no matter how wise they sound, must go down when facts oppose them. (See case of gastralgia under Arsenicum and neuralgia under Causticum).

Now upon this symptom -"When carefully selected remedies fail to act favorably, etc.," as we said when writing of a certain group under Nux vomica -this is putting it in too wholesale a fashion. Let no one understand that Sulphur is the only remedy capable of removing psoric complications, but simply that Sulphur will be likely to be oftener indicated here, because it oftener covers the usual manifestations of psora in its pathogenesis than any other remedy. There are anti-psorics, like Psorinum, Causticum, Graphites, etc., which may have to be used instead of Sulphur. And we know which one by the same law which guides us in the selection of the right remedy any time. Another thing must not be forgotten. All the anti-psoric remedies have their own individual sphere of action outside their anti-psoric powers; and often a close study of the case in hand, where other remedies have failed, as we had supposed, on account of psora, will reveal that the anti-psoric remedy was the true simillimum from the start, independent of any psoric element.

To undertake to go over the whole range of action of Sulphur would be simply to give its whole symptomatology. That is riot the object of these notes, but we can notice only the red line indications which lead the careful prescriber to its further study in the Materia Medica.

One of the chief characteristics of this remedy is found under the head or rubric of sensation, viz., that of Burning. Burning on vertex (outer and inner head); burning in eyes, painful smarting; burning water from nose; burning in face without redness; burning pain in tongue; burning vesicles in mouth; sore throat with great burning and dryness, first right, then left; burning in stomach; burning and pressure in rectum; burning and itching in hæmorrhoids; burning in anus; burning in urethra; burning in vagina, scarcely able to keep still; nipples burn like fire; burning in chest, rising to face; burning between scapulæ (Phos. and Lycop.); burning of hands; burning of feet; puts them out of bed to cool them; hot flushes and burning all over; burning skin of whole body; itching eruptions burn after scratching.

After reading such a list of burning in the cured and characteristic symptoms of Sulphur one does not wonder that hell is represented as being heated by this substance, for it seems by its pathogenesis as though it were eternally burning. Arsenicum album, Phosphorus and Sulphur lead the list in our Materia Medica for burners. These burning sensations are found in both acute and chronic diseases. Of course there are several other remedies that have this symptom in an intense degrees and must be chosen if the other symptoms come in to complete the picture of similarity. Among these of first importance may be named Aconite, Agaricus, Apis, Belladonna, Cantharis, Capsicum, Carbo animalis and Phosphoric acid. I think Arsenicum leads in all acute diseases, while Sulphur leads in chronic affections We, as homœopathists, do not yet fully appreciate the value of sensations.

The action of Sulphur upon the circulation is to cause and cure local congestions and a chronic tendency thereto. In other words, it seems to have the power of equalizing the circulation in persons subject to such local congestions and inflammations. These, either acute or chronic congestions, may manifest themselves in boils, swellings, felons, abdominal or portal congestions and inflammations, and here it is especially indicated if caused by suppressed hæmorrhoids; congestions to the head may result from the same cause; the chest becomes congested, when there is great difficulty of breathing; feels so oppressed that he wants doors and windows open. This rush of blood seems to fill the whole chest, the heart feels as if "too full," palpitates and labours, as if trying to rid itself of a burden.

The orifices of the body are red, as if pressed full of blood. The lips are red as vermilion, ears very red; eyelids red, anus red, urethra red. All these are manifest indications for Sulphur. Especially is the true if these symptoms follow, or are consequent upon, the suppression or retrocession of some eruption or skin trouble. If inward affections work outward towards the surface there is not usually cause for alarm, but it they go the other way look out for breakers, there is shipwreck ahead. No one need tell me that there is no relation of skin to internal troubles. I have seen too much of it, and have cured many cases of that character, where a restoration of the skin disease relieved the internal which had followed its retrocession or suppression.

There is one thing about Sulphur that it often under-estimated by the profession in general, viz., its power of absorption. It is after the stage of effusion has set in or even later when this stage is passed and the results of the inflammatory process are to be gotten rid of; like the enlargement of the joints in rheumatism, exudations into serous sacs, pleura, meningeal membranes, peritoneum, etc. Bryonia is one of the remedies first thought of in these cases, and we have another remedy that is making a record for itself here, viz., Kali muriaticum; but when the case is complicated by psora and, especially, when the characteristic burnings stand out prominently Sulphur is almost sure to be needed before the case is finished. Bryonia and Sulphur complement each other; but, of course, the symptoms must decide and may decide in favor of neither of them. Right here it may be well to speak of that power possessed by Sulphur of arousing or exciting defective reaction. Your former remedy was well chosen and seemed to help the patient in a measure, but the case relapses, lingers or progresses slowly to perfect recovery. It is on account of a depression of the vital force, as Hahnemann would call it. It may be on account of psora or not. Now give a dose of Sulphur and let it act a few hours if in an acute case, or number of days if chronic. Then you may return to your former remedy and get results which you could not before the Suphur was given. It clears up the case and prevents its becoming chronic or a lingering unsatifactory convalescence.

No remedy has more general, positive and persistent action upon the skin than Sulphur. With or without eruption, itching and burning, are the characteristic sensations attending the skin symptoms. If any one doubts the itch-producing power of Sulphur let him work a day or two in the bleaching room of a broom factory. I have tried the experiment, and we all remember the fact that our mothers and grandmothers used to cure or rather over-cure itch with it.

So strong is this affinity of Sulphur far the skin that it seems bent on pushing everything internal out on the surface. Especially is this true if it is something that naturally belongs there. Over twenty-five years ago I had a case that illustrates this. A lady (maiden) had been an invalid for fourteen years. Her trouble seemed to center in her stomach. So that for all that long period of time she could eat nothing but at little Graham bread and milk, hardly enough to sustain life and in the earlier part of her sickness for a long time was able only to take a teaspoonfull of milk at a time. She was an almost literal walking skeleton. I found, after much questioning and several failures to relieve her much, that about fifteen years before she had with an ointment suppressed an eczema of the nape and occiput. She boasted that she had never seen a vestige of it since. I gave that lady Sulphur 200th and in three weeks from that time had that eruption fully restored and her stomach trouble completely relieved. The deacon of her (Presbyterian) church exclaimed as she came walking up a long hill to service, "Here comes Susan F., who has been dying for the last fourteen years and lo and behold, she is the biggest, fattest one among us!" Now how about the relation of skin to internal trouble? I can report a number of as convincing cases in my own practice cured with Sulphur, Arsenicum, Causticum or other remedies. One thing must be recognized and never lost sight of, viz., that symptoms weigh whether we can give the pathological interpretation of them or not. Here are a few of that kind from the pathogenesis of Sulphur:

"Particularly efficacious with lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk or sit stooped; standing is the most uncomfortable position."

"Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections."

"Children cannot bear to be washed or bathed."

"Voluptuous itching; scratching relieves; after it burning."

"Complaints continually relapsing."

"Congestion to single parts."

"Pain in heart, extending to back."

"Scrofulous (psoric) chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions."

"Discharges from every outlet acrid, excoriating and reddening."

"Offensive odor of body despite frequent bathing."

"Hot flushes with spells of faintness, or debility passing off with a little moisture, faintness or debility."

"Weak, faint spells frequently during the day."

"Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool them off." (Chamomilla, Medorrhinum, Sanicula.)

"Feels suffocated; wants doors and windows open, particularly at night."

"Diarrhœa after midnight; Painlessly driving out of bed early in the morning, as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents."

"Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in stomach about 11 A. M."

"White tongue with very red tip and borders."

"Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through." (Tuberculinum).

"Heat on crown of head; cold feet; frequent flushing."

Every true homœopath knows the value of these and many more symptoms of this remedy. No one else appreciates them. Again, none but those who use the potentized Sulphur can ever know what it is capable of curing.

Modalities

Modalities: < 5 A. M. (diarrhœa), standing; 11 A. M., close room, open air, bathing, cold damp weather; > doors and windows open, sitting or lying.

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Mind and Disposition

Peevishness ; irritability ; restless, quick temperament. Melancholy, with great inclination to philosophical and religious speculations ; with anxiety about the salvation of one's soul, and great indifference to the welfare of others. Hypochondriac mood (through the day, in the evening he inclined to be merry). Dulness : difficulty of thinking ; misplaces, or cannot find the proper words when he speaks. Fantastic illusions.

Head

Vertigo when sitting ; with bleeding of the nose ; when stooping ; when rising from the bed ; in the morning ; with nausea ; with inclination to fall to the left side ; with vanishing of sight. Congestion of blood to the head with heat in it ; the blood rising up to the head from the chest ; better in the room. Heaviness and fulness in the forehead, worse when raising the head and after sleeping and talking better when sitting or when lying high with the head. Tearing or stitches in the forehead or temples, from within to without, worse from eating or stooping, better when pressing the head together, or when moving about. Sensation of emptiness in the back part of the head, worse in the open air and when talking, better in the room. Pulsation in the head with beat in the brain, pulsation of the carotid arteries and of the heart, worse on waking in the morning, when moving about, on stooping, when talking, in the open air ; better when at rest and in the warm room. Painful tingling on the vertex and in the temples. Tension in the forehead and in the eyes on exercising the brain ; worse when lifting up the eyes, after sleeping ; better when sitting and in the room. He feels every step painful in the head. Headache generally worse in the open air, better in the room. Sensitiveness of the vertex, pressing when touching it, worse from the heat of the bed, in the morning when waking, on scratching it, it bites and burns. Feeling of coldness about the head. The roots of the hair are painful, especially when touched. Dry (seldom humid) offensive, scabby, easily bleeding, burning, and sore paining eruption on the back part of the head and behind the ears, with cracks, better from scratching (Tinea capitis). Contractive pain as from a hand around the cranium, with the sensation as if the flesh were loose around it, followed by inflammation and swelling of the bones and caries ; worse in wet, cold weather and when at rest ; better from motion. Falling off of the hair, with great dryness of the hair, painfulness of the scalp to the touch and violent itching in the evening when getting warm in bed, with swelling of the glands on the neck (also in lying-in women). Fontanelles remain open too long. Exanthema and itching on the forehead.

Eyes

Dryness of the eyes in the room, lachrymation in the open air. Running of the eyes. Photophobia with stitches, worse in sultry weather. Specks or ulcers on the cornea. Obscuration of sight ; blindness ; dim-sightedness, cataract. Like gauze before the eyes. Halo around the candle. Inflammation of the eyes or of the eyelids. Stinging in the eyes, especially in the sunshine and from the light of a candle, or burning in the eyes. Painful inflammation of the eye from a foreign body coming, into the eye. Eyelids burning ; twitching (lower), itching. Ulceration of the margins of the eyelids. Itching of the eyebrows.

Ears

Stinging in the ear (left). Wabbling in the ears as if water was in them. Otorrhœa ; discharge of pus from the ear. Humming of the ears. Hardness of bearing ; over-sensitiveness of hearing. Itching in the external ear.

Nose

Blood comes from the nose whenever blowing it. Bleeding of the nose (3 P.M. or with vertigo), afterwards it feels sore when touched. Swelling and inflammation of the nose. Dry ulcers or scabs in the nose. Smell before the nose as from an old catarrh. Freckles and black pores on the nose. Herpes across the nose, like a saddle. Burning coryza in the open air, obstructions of the nose in the room. Dryness of the nose.

Face

Face pale, yellow color of the face. Circumscribed red spots on the cheeks. Red blotches on the face. Erysipelas of the face (beginning on the right ear and spreading over the face). Freckles on the face ; red roughness of the face. Exanthema on the upper lip. Tinea faciei. Crusta lactea. Sunken eyes with blue margins. Swelling of the (upper) lips. Yellow spots on the upper lip. Red lips. Lips dry, rough, and cracked. Burning of the lips. Trembling and twitching of the lips. Cancer of the lips. Cold perspiration on the face. Painful eruptions around the chin. Herpes on the corners of the mouth.

Mouth and Throat

Great sensitiveness of the points of the teeth. Aching in sound and carious teeth. The teeth feel as if they were too long. Tearing toothache on the left side. Pulsation and boring in the teeth, worse from heat. Teeth feel as if they were loose. Toothache in the open air, from the least draught of air, at night in bed, from washing with cold water ; with congestions to the head, or stitches in the ears. Swelling of the gums, with heating pain in them. Bleeding of the gums. Fistula dentalis. Stomacace. (Blisters and vesicles in the mouth.) Aphthæ. Ptyalism from the abuse of Mercury or during a fever. Saliva tastes salt, sour or bitter, or is mixed with blood. Breath offensive (after meals). Tongue white, with red tip and red borders, or dry (in the morning), or brown and dry ; burns, or red and cracked, or coated white. Long-continued sensation of a lump in the throat. Sensation as if swallowing a piece of meat during empty deglutition. Dryness of the throat. Stitches in the throat on swallowing. Sensation of contraction in the throat, when swallowing. Burning in the throat, as from sour eructations. Elongation of the palate ; swelling of the palate and tonsils. Sensation of a hair in the throat. Angina gangrenosa.

Stomach and Abdomen

Sour taste in the mouth all day. Bitter taste in the morning ; putrid taste in the morning. No appetite, but constant thirst ; or canine hunger. Disgust for drinking wine ; violent thirst for beer and longing for brandy. The food tastes too salt. Milk disagrees, causing sour taste and sour eructations. Aversion to meat. After eating but little he feels full in the stomach. Water-brash. The food rises into the throat. Loud eructations as soon as he presses on the stomach ; or empty eructations. Qualmishness ; nausea (in the morning). Vomiting : first of water, later of solid food, or sour ; of the ingesta, sour or bitter, with cold perspirations in the face, or of blood. The region of the stomach becomes very painful when pressing upon it, even the bed-cover causes pain. Burning in the stomach. Spasms in the stomach immediately after a meal. Stitches or pressing pain in the region of the liver. Stitches in the spleen, worse when taking a deep inspiration and when walking. Inflammation, swelling, and induration of the liver. Stitches in the left side of the abdomen when coughing. Painful sensitiveness of the abdomen, as if all the parts in it were raw and sore. Rolling and rumbling in the abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence in the left side of the abdomen, with constipation. Colic ; (hæmorrhoidal) after drinking or eating, obliging one to bend double. Flatus stinking, and frequent discharges of it. Incarcerated hernia. Dropsy. Movements in the abdomen as from a fist of a fœtus.

Stool and Anus

Constipation ; frequent unsuccessful desire for stool ; stool hard, knotty, insufficient. Diarrhœa ; painless ; in the morning compelling one to rise from his bed ; watery, of white mucus, smelling sour, undigested, involuntary. Diarrhœa in children, green, of bloody mucus, with crying and weeping. Dysenteric stools at night, with colic and violent tenesmus. Colic before every loose evacuation. Stools with ascarides, lumbrici, or tape-worm. During stool, discharge of blood ; pain in the small of the back ; palpitation of the heart ; congestion of the head ; prolapsus recti, especially during a hard stool ; itching, burning, and stinging at the anus and in the rectum. After stool tenesmus, constriction at the anus. Hæmorrhoids oozing or bleeding. Swelling of the anus. Soreness of the anus. Stitching at the anus.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine. Frequent micturition, especially at night. Discharge of urine only by drops. Involuntary discharge of urine (and stool) at night, (wetting bed). Burning in the orifice of the urethra during micturition. Fetid urine ; easy pellicle on the urine. Hæmorrhage torn the urethra. Stitches in the bladder. Cutting pain in the urethra when urinating. Redness and inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. Discharge of (white) mucus from the urethra. (Secondary gonorrhœa).

Sexual Organs

Men. Involuntary discharge of semen, with burning in the urethra. Too quick discharge of semen during coition. Coldness of the penis (prepuce) ; weak sexual powers ; impotence. Inflammation, swelling, and phymosis of the prepuce, with deep rhagades, burning, and redness. Deep suppurating ulcer on the glans and prepuce, with puffed edges. Discharge of prostatic fluid, also after micturition. Phymosis, with discharge of fetid pus. Stitches in the penis. The testicles hang down loosely. Hydrocele. Offensive perspiration around the genitals. Soreness and moisture of the scrotum. Soreness between the thighs when walking. Women. Menstruation too late, of too short duration, too scanty, or suppressed ; first menses delaying, or too profuse and too early. Menstrual blood acrid, corroding the thighs, smelling sour, or else too pale. Before menstruation, headache ; bleeding from the nose ; itching on the genitals. Daring menstruation, bleeding from the nose ; congestion of blood to the head ; spasms in the abdomen. Bearing-down in the pelvis ; congestion to the uterus. Sterility, with too early and profuse menstruation. Leucorrhœa, of yellow mucus, corroding, preceded by pains in the abdomen.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and roughness in the throat, with much mucus on the chest. Deep, rough voice -aphonia. Coldness in the throat during an inspiration. Dry cough day and night, with spasmodic constriction of the chest. Cough, with expectoration during the clay, without expectoration at night. Short, dry cough, with stitches in the chest, or stitches in the (left) shoulder-blade. When coughing, pain in the head and in the abdomen. Cough after a meal, or only when walking in the open air. Spasmodic hooping-cough in successive double attacks, shortly following one another, from tickling in the larynx, as from dust ; only with expectoration during the day, of either dark blood or yellow-greenish purulent matter, or of cold, milk-white mucus, generally tasting sour, or putrid, or salty, or like old catarrh. Congestion of blood to the chest, with sensation of fulness in it. Heaviness in the chest (when walking). Stitches through the chest, extending into the left shoulder-blade ; worse when lying down on the back, during the least motion, when drawing a deep breath, when lifting up the arms (over the head). Pain in the chest from overlifting or after inflammation of the lungs. Sensation as if the lungs were touching the back. Burning in the chest, up to the face. Sensation of coldness in the chest. Sensation of weakness in the chest when talking. Dyspnœa ; shortness of breath and oppression of breathing on bending the aims backwards. Asthma at night. Palpitation of the heart ; anxious, and visible (when ascending). Sensation as if the heart were enlarged. Swelling of the mammæ. Nodosites in the mammæ. Nipples cracking, stinging, and burning.

Back

Cracking in the vertebræ of the neck, especially on bending backwards. Stiffness in the neck. Drawing in the back. Pain in the small of the back on rising from a seat. Gnawing pain in the small of the back. Pain as if sprained, or as if bruised in the left shoulder. Stitches in the shoulder-blades. Pain in the small of the back, not permitting one to stand erect. Curvature of the vertebræ.

Extremities

Upper. Tearing in the joints of the arms, hands and fingers. Rheumatic pain in the shoulders, especially the left. Erysipelatous swelling on the fingers, numbness of the fingers. Offensive perspiration in the arm-pit. Perspiration of the hands ; in the palms of the hands. Trembling of the hands when writing. Cold trembling hands. Rhagades on the hands, especially between the fingers, on the joints of fingers, in the palms of the hands. Hang-nails. Panaritium. Lower. Heaviness of the legs. Swelling of the knee (white, or shining). Erysipelas of the legs. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Stiffness of the knee and ankle-joint. Cramps ; in the legs (calves) at night ; in the soles of feet at every step. Cold sweat on the feet. Burning of the soles of the feet. Red, shining swelling of the toes. Corns paining, pressing and stinging. Cold feet and hands ; cold soles of the feet. Itching in the toes that bad been formerly frozen. Ulcer on the instep.

Sleep

Great drowsiness and sleepiness in day-time, especially in the afternoon and after sunset. Goes to sleep late. Long but unrefreshment morning sleep. Sleep with his eyes half open. Talks loudly while asleep. Jerks and twitches in the body during asleep. He has to lie on his back. Anxious dreams. Nightmare. Nightly delirium.

Generalities

Tearing in the limbs, in outer arts, in the muscles and joints, from above downwards. Arthritic swelling and heat. Bruised pain in outer parts. Burning pain of external and internal parts. Cutting pain in the inner parts. Stinging pain ; in outer and inner parts ; in the muscles ; in the joints ; from within outwards. Biting (pungent) pain. Inflammatory swelling of the affected parts. Sprained pains in outer parts and in the joints. Sensation of tension in outer parts and especially the joints. Sensation of roughness in inner parts. Sensation of heaviness in inner parts. Sensation of fulness in inner parts. Sensation of a hand (hoop) on and around parts. Contraction of inner parts. Trembling and shaking of outer parts. Weakness of the joints. Knocking in outer parts. Humming and buzzing in the head ; vibration like dun tingling in the body. Congestion of blood to single parts (eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, arms, legs). Dropsy of inner parts. The limbs go to sleep. Paralysis of the limbs (right side). Great debility and trembling ; talking fatigues. Jerks in the muscles and single twitches in the limbs. Epilepsy (it comes running from the arms and out of the back like a mouse). Stooping gait (his head and shoulders are stooped when he walks). Aversion to washing.

Fever

Pulse full, hard and quick, at times intermitting. Swollen veins. Chilliness from want of natural heat. Chilliness every evening in bed, followed by heat and profuse perspiration. Chilliness in the forenoon ; heat with cold feet in the afternoon. Chilliness externally with internal heat and a red face. Chilliness, beginning in the toes. Slight chill, 10 A.M., continues till 3 P.M., followed by heat lasting two hours, mostly in the head and hands, with desire for beer. Cold nose, hands and feet. Dry heat, with thirst. Heat at night, with headache, and burning of the hands and feet. Heat at night without thirst, preceded by chilliness, with thirst. Dry heat in the afternoon and evening, with dry skin, and much thirst, alternating with chilliness. Flushes of heat. Want of perspiration, or great inclination to perspire. Perspiration from the least exertion. Perspiration in the evening, mostly in the hands. Perspiration with anxiety, very debilitating, pungent acid smell ; very seldom offensive, at times cold. Perspiration (only on one side of the body), only on the back part of the body ; worse at night and in the morning.

Skin

Swelling of the bones. On the bones sensation of constriction, or as if a hand were around them. Skin cold, pale, dry. Chapped exanthema. Itch. Voluptuous itching and tingling, with burning after scratching, or with soreness after scratching. Itching worse from the heat of the bed. Liver, or scarlet-colored or yellow spots on the body. Freckles. Rhagades, after washing. The nails crumble off. Soreness in children ; soreness in the folds of the skin. Dropsical, burning swelling of external parts. Herpes, scabby and scurfy. Ulcers : cancerous ; crusty ; pricking ; pulsating, swollen, tearing, with tension ; pus from them offensive. Warts.

Conditions

Complaints arising from the abuse of Mercury or China. Aggravation in the evening or after midnight ; during the full moon ; periodically (headache every seven days) ; during sleep ; on waking ; on getting warm in bed ; on rising ; from exertion of the body ; on walking quickly ; from talking ; while at rest ; when standing ; from milk after eating ; from suppressed perspiration ; from wet poultices ; from touching the affected parts ; when swallowing food ; from water and washing. Amelioration. From drawing up the limbs ; during motion ; while lying on the right side ; by heat ; in dry weather after rising. Sulphur follows well after Pulsatilla, which also is often the antidote to it when it has been administered in too large doses. It is most suitable for lean persons, especially if they walk stooped ; it will often serve to rouse the slumbering vitality if the proper medicines have failed to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases.

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General

Brimstone. Sublimed Sulphur. S. (A. W. 3l.98). Trituration of "Flowers of Sulphur." A saturated solution of Sulphur in absolute alcohol constitutes the Ø tincture. [A trituration of amorphous Sulphur has also been used. Effects of "Milk of Sulphur" or Precipitated Sulphur, i.e ., Sulphur prepared by precipitation from a solution of Calc. sulph. with Hydrochloric acid, are included in the pathogenesis.]

Clinical

Acne. Adenoids . Ague. Alcohol habit . Amaurosis. Amenorrhœa . Anæmia. Anus, prolapse of. Asthma . Atelectasis. Bed-sores. Biliousness. Boils. Brain, congestion of . Breasts, affections of. Bright's disease. Bronchitis . Cataract. Catarrh . Chagres fever. Chancre. Cheloid. Chest, pains in. Chilblains . Chloasma. Climaxis, sufferings of. Cold. Constipation. Consumption . Corns. Cough . Crusta serpiginosa. Dental fistula. Diabetes. Diarrhœa. Dysentery . Dysmenorrhœa. Ear, affections of. Eczema . Emaciation. Enuresis. Epilepsy. Eructations. Eruptions. Eyes, affections of. Faintness. Feet, burning; Perspiring. Fever . Freckles. Ganglion. Glands, affections of. Gleet. Globus hystericus. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache . Head, rush of blood to. Herpes. Hip-joint disease. Hydrocele. Hydrocephalus. Hydrothorax. Hypochondriasis . Impotence. Influenza. Intermittents. Irritation. Itch . Jaundice. Laryngitis. Leucorrhœa. Lichen. Liver, derangement of. Lumbago. Lungs, affections of. Lupus . Mania. Measles. Memory, weak . Meningitis. Menstruation, disorders of. Miscarriage . Molluscum. Nettlerash. Neuralgia . Nipples, sore. Nose, bleeding of; inflammation of . Œsophagus, constriction of. Ophthalmia, acute; scrofulous; rheumatic. Pelvic hæmatocele . Phimosis. Phlegmasia dolens. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of . Prostatorrhœa. Rectum, affections of. Rheumatic fever. Rheumatism, acute; chronic; gonorrhœal. Ringworm . Sciatica. Self-abuse. Sinking. Skin, affections of. Sleep, disordered. Smell, illusions of. Spinal irritation . Spine, curvature of. Spleen, pain in. Startings . Stomatitis. Taste, illusions of. Tenesmus. Thirst. Throat, mucus in. Tongue, coated . Tonsillitis. Toothache. Trachea, irritation in. Ulcers . Urticaria. Uterus, prolapse of. Vaccination . Varicocele. Varicosis. Vertigo. Warts . White swelling. Worms . Worry. Yawning .

Characteristics

Sulphur is an elementary substance, occurring in nature as a brittle crystalline solid, burning in the air with a blue flame, being oxidised to Sulphur dioxide ( Sulphurous acid ). The reputation of Sulphur as a remedy is perhaps as old as medicine. "As early as 2,000 years ago," says Hahnemann, " Sul . had been used as the most powerful specific against the itch. . . The itch, with which the workers in wool are so much affected, causes an intolerably agreeable, tingling, itching , gnawing as of vermin. Some designate it as an intolerably voluptuous titillating itching, ceasing as soon as the parts are scratched and commencing to burn, which burning continues after the scratching. Sul . frequently produces in healthy persons burning-itching pimples and vesicles resembling the itch vesicles, and especially itching in the joints, and in the night." The specific power of Sul . to cure itch was abused. It was applied externally as baths and ointments, and the skin affection was not cured but repelled, and a host of secondary affections appeared in its place. Hahnemann found in Sul . the homœopathic counterpart of the peculiar constitutional dyscrasia which tends to manifest in itch-like eruptions, and which he named Psora. Sul . is the chief of the antipsoric remedies. A proving of Sul . appears in the M. M. P ., and this is amplified in the Chronic Diseases . The domestic use of Sul . (in the familiar "Brimstone and Treacle") as a "Spring medicine" is based on its antipsoric properties. "It is one of the most popular diaphoretics of the day," says Milne, "few old women failing to use it when any eruption is supposed to be struggling through the skin." It is this property of Sul . to divert to the surface constitutional irritants which renders it the chief of Hahnemann's antipsorics. Sul . has also an antipsoric action independently of its power of "bringing out" rashes. The psoric poison may be present and active in a case of disease and "apparently well-indicated remedies may fail to act" in consequence. In such cases one or two doses of Sul . will frequently antidote, as it were, the psora, and either clear up the case, or open the way for the action of other remedies. In such cases there will almost certainly be some Sul . indications present. Sul . is a potent antiseptic, and is one of the most certain destroyers of the acarus of itch. The exact relation of acarus itch to psora and other itching eruptions need not be considered; but as Sul . has the power of repressing constitutional eruptions when locally applied, as well as the power of destroying the acarus, it is best to use other means ( e.g ., Oil of Lavender) for the latter purpose, and give Sul . or other indicated remedies internally. In my experience the psora of Hahnemann (which is a very real and definite dyscrasia) is generally inherited. The symptoms of latent psora are set forth in detail in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases , and they are for the most part almost exact reproductions of the symptoms of Sul . But whilst Sul . is the chief of antipsorics, it is only one of many; and Sul . is in no way limited in its uses to cases of latent or declared psora. Much more important is it to know the leading features of the drug's action, which are sure guides in any case. ( 1 ) A key to many of the Sul . conditions is to be found in an irregular distribution of the circulation : flushes of heat; rush of blood to head, chest, heart; plethora from suddenly suppressed eruptions, piles, discharges; heat and burning sensation of all parts or coldness, sweating of many parts. These irregularities may go on to actual inflammation with effusions; and to fever of intermittent or other types. Another manifestation of this is found in the redness of orifices and parts near orifices: red ears, red nose; red eyelids and red borders round eyelids: brilliant red lips; bright red anus in children; red meatus urinarius; red vulva. The orifices are not only red and congested, but they are sore and hypersensitive as well; the passage of all discharges or excretions is painful. ( 2 ) The other side of this feeling of fulness is a feeling of emptiness . There is no medicine which has this symptom in a more extreme degree than Sul ., and there is no single symptom that is of greater value to the homœopathic prescriber than "Faint, sinking, all-gone sensation at 11 a.m." When that symptom is marked I give Sul . (generally 30), and get all the good I can out of the remedy before prescribing anything else, and very rarely am I disappointed. There is no need to wait to be told the symptom, or to ask patients directly if they experience it. I generally ask if they get hungry out of their usual mealtimes; and if they say "Yes"; I ask "What time?" The time need not be exactly eleven; though that is the most characteristic time. People who "must have something between breakfast and dinner-time" are generally benefited by Sul . This ravenous hunger at 11 is often associated with other Sul . symptoms, as heat at vertex; dyspepsia; portal congestion; constipation with ineffectual urging; piles; constipation alternating with diarrhœa. When the dyspeptic gets food and relieves his hunger he begins to feel puffed up, feels heavy and sluggish, and is low-spirited, he scarcely cares to live. The dyspepsia of Sul . is often the result of suppressed eruptions. It is well known that drunkenness "runs in families," and the underlying disease of drunkenness is often psora. Sul . both causes and cures craving for beer and spirits. Gallavardin cured many apparently hopeless drunkards with Sul . 1m. The "sinking, empty, all-gone sensation" is a common feature in the dyspepsia of drunkards. Dyspepsia from farinaceous food. Cannot take milk; vomits it at once; sour vomit with undigested food. Voracious appetite is a frequent symptom of scrofula, and scrofula and psora are frequently convertible terms. The child clutches at all food offered to it as if starved to death. Defective assimilation; hungry yet emaciated. Stopped catarrh; nose obstructed indoors, > out of doors. The child looks dried up, a little old man; skin hanging in folds, yellowish, wrinkled, flabby. Head large in proportion to body. Lymphatic glands enlarged. Defective assimilation. When scrofula exists without particular symptoms Sul . will develop them. Allied to scrofula is tuberculosis; in connection with which many symptoms of Sul . appear: marasmus with hunger at 11 a.m.; sore, red orifices; flushes of heat. In tuberculosis of the lungs a keynote is "body feels too hot." The patient must have windows open no matter how cold the weather may be. The caution is usually given to repeat Sul . seldom in cases of tuberculosis; and to give it only in the early stages. ( 3 ) " < By heat" is another keynote of Sul ., and marks it out as the remedy in a large number of cases; the < is most noticeable by warmth of the bed . Whenever a patient says he is all right till he gets warm in bed, Sul . must be examined, it will generally cover the case. (In some cases stove heat > .) The cases of rheumatism and sciatica requiring Sul . will generally have > morning and < at night in bed. ( 4 ) " < At night" is scarcely less characteristic. Sul . is related to both the sun and the moon, which makes it one of the most important of periodics. Cooper cured many cases of neuralgia < at noon or at midnight. He regards every twelve hours as the most characteristic periodicity, but it may be multiples or divisions of twelve. Lippe cured with "a single dose of Sul . at new moon" a case of menorrhagia, patient had not been well since her last miscarriage. Skinner gave to a man who had paresis of the lower limbs a single dose of Sul . cm, with instructions to take it on a certain date (when the moon was full). The man recovered almost suddenly. Cooper has had some important experience with Sul . in intermittent fevers. He generally gave two pilules of Sul . Ø every four hours. Correspondents of his found this treatment preserve them from fever in India, and one, an officer, by means of it kept his regiment of sepoys in health when many others were in hospital. One writer treated nine cases with the pilules, and arrested the fever in twenty-four hours. One of the cases was a particularly obstinate one, and had been pronounced by the doctors to be complicated with liver affection. Quinine had been tried before the Sul . cured. In a case of "Chagres fever" (of West Indies), which had lasted three months, Cooper ordered a Sulphur bath as well as the Sul . pilules. That single bath seemed to alter the whole condition; from being an unhealthy, anæmic, bilious-looking man, the patient rapidly became the picture of health. Cooper recalls the fact that workers in Sulphur mines, though in malarial districts, enjoy a complete immunity from intermittent fevers. The power of Sul . in acute inflammatory conditions is allied to its action in intermittent fevers. Sul . is the chronic of Acon . in the effects of chills; and if Acon . does not promptly solve the difficulty, Sul . will be required. In the acute inflammations of the high South African plateau, where the variations of temperature are extreme, and chills and their consequences are Very common, Van den Heuvel tells me that for the pain, fever, and anxiety before physical signs have appeared, Acon . is his first remedy. But if the fever does not yield in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, Sul . will clear it up. "Chill" is "suppression" in another form. Sul . is a remedy of such universal power that it may be misleading to speak of it as more related to one side than to another. Taken altogether there are more symptoms on the left side than the right. It acts strongly on the left side of the chest: "Sharp stitching pains through left lung to back, < lying on back. < by least motion," is characteristic. In a case of left pleuro-pneumonia following a violent hæmoptysis, Sul . 30 rescued a patient of mine from a condition which seemed desperate. Sul. acts on the whole respiratory tract, from the nose to the lung tissues. It causes a condition often met with in scrofulous patients, nasal catarrh where the nose is stopped indoors and free out of doors. All the features of asthma are produced in the pathogenesis, and Sul . has the alternation between skin irritation and asthma often met with in asthmatics. Villers ( H. R ., xv. p. 563) relates the case of a girl, 22, afflicted since three years old with eczemas of the most varied form, mostly moist, the chief seat being the region about the pudenda, armpits, fold behind ear; but the whole body was defaced, the only parts which had remained white and normal being the breasts. She had been continuously under treatment for the nineteen years, the worst effects resulting when external applications had been used to dry up the eruption. Then most frightful asthma occurred, which lasted till the corrosive, ill-smelling eruption appeared again. She had recently come under the care of a homœopath, who gave Ars. iod . 3. From this there resulted a condition of which the patient said, "I cannot describe it, but I felt as if I was being killed." Her doctor then sent her to Villers, who sent her for three months to a water-cure before he would commence treatment. Her general health was somewhat improved thereby, but the skin remained the same. He then thought of some very high potencies he possessed, and gave a few pellets of Sul . cm. Three days later he was sent for in a great hurry late one evening, and on arrival found the patient had torn off all her clothes, was rolling about on the floor of her room, continually trying to rub her back and her legs on the legs of chairs or the edge of the door. Then she jumped up, brought a knife from the kitchen and scraped her whole body; would eat nothing and only drank enormous quantities of cold beverages. This lasted five days, after which she slept for two full days. Then this happened: The eruption dried up completely and scaled as after scarlatina. The girl had always had very weak menses; the next three were increasingly strong and intolerably fetid. There was very disagreeable discharge from the ears, corrosive secretion from the eyelids, and a dreadfully tormenting and burning discharge from the pudenda, strongly exciting to voluptuousness. Under the action of the single dose steady improvement occurred, and in four months she was a youthfully blooming maiden in the full flow of all her functions, and the skin in perfect condition. To test this Villers made the patient wear rough wool; dip her hands in first hot and then cold water; and for two weeks he made her rub her body daily with pretty coarse sea-salt. The only effect of these measures was to make the skin improve in texture. ─ Sul ., when indicated, will cause absorption of effusions, pleuritis (plastic, or hydrothorax), hydrocephalic, or synovial. I have frequently cured ganglion of the wrist with Sul . cm and lower, given on general indications. In the rheumatism of Sul . the affection begins below and spreads upwards. (This is analogous to the "from without inwards" direction of the psoric complaints which Sul . meets and reverses.) Sul . acts on the right eye and on all regions of the head ─ forehead, vertex, and occiput. It is the remedy for a large number of periodical headaches; headaches occurring every week; every month. Sick-headache. The headaches are accompanied by red face and hot head; are > in warm room; at rest; < in open air; < from stooping. There is also a headache on coughing. I have cured a severe occipital headache < on coughing with Sul . 30. Among the characteristics of Sul . are: ( 1 ) Aversion to be washed, always < after a bath. ( 2 ) Complaints that are always relapsing (menses, leucorrhœa, &c.); patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and again. ( 3 ) Congestions to single parts: eye; nose; chest; abdomen; ovaries; arms; legs; or any organ of the body, marking the onset of tumours or malignant growths, especially at climacteric. ( 4 ) Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; they reform but are continually relapsing. ( 5 ) Sensation of burning: on vertex; and smarting in eyes; of vesicles in mouth and dryness of throat, first right then left; in stomach; in rectum in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like fire on nipples in chest rising to face of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots below scapulæ burning soles, must find a cool place for them at night. ( 6 ) Hot head with cold feet. Lutze ( N. A. J. H ., xv. 286) finds that Sul . 1m will make feet that have been cold for years comfortably warm. ( 7 ) Cramp in calves and soles at night. ( 8 ) Hot flushes during day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture. ( 9 ) Diarrhœa: after midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in morning; as if bowels were too weak to contain their contents. ( 10 ) Constipation: Stools hard, dry, knotty, as if burnt; large, painful, child is afraid to have stool on account of pain; or pain compels child to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhœa. ( 11 ) Boils: coming in crops in various parts, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as the first is healed. ( 12 ) Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching > ("feels good to scratch"); scratching = burning; < from heat of bed; soreness in folds. ( 13 ) Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; hæmorrhoids that have been treated by ointments. ( 14 ) Nightly suffocative attacks, wants doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night. ( 15 ) Happy dreams, wakes up singing. ( 16 ) Everything looks pretty which patient takes a fancy to; even rags seem beautiful. ( 17 ) Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. ( 18 ) Offensive odour of body despite frequent washing. ( 19 ) Red nose < by cold: the colder the redder. ( 20 ) Cutting, stabbing pain in right eye. ( 21 ) Poor breakfast eaters. ( 22 ) Worried by trifles. ( 23 ) White, frothy expectoration. ( 24 ) Empty sensation (head; heart; stomach; abdomen). [ Sul . aggravates much more in high dilutions than in lower ones; especially where extensive collections of disease-tissue exist, a single globule of 200th will often set up violent disturbance. The domestic use of Sul . is interesting. In one form or other Sul . is used in various countries for allaying pain; a piece of stick Sul . carried in the pocket is much used in England to ward off rheumatism. Natives of South America apply Sul . in solid form to parts in pain, and allow it to act for an hour before result is effected; and for lumbago and chronic rheumatic pains a bag filled with Flowers of Sulphur and applied heated to the part, immediately relieves the pain. An experienced sea captain testified to the extreme frequency of rheumatism amongst his sailors; but, he added, when carrying cargoes of Sul ., he had never had a case of it (acute rheumatism) on board. In the treatment of croup and diphtheria the local application of Sul . to the fauces has been highly spoken of by many practitioners. Dr. Laugardière, of Toulouse, reported recently to the Academy of Medicine that he has discovered a cure for croup ─ a tablespoonful of Flowers of Sulphur dissolved in a tumbler of water. After three days of this treatment his patients were rescued from imminent death, and fully recovered. Nettlerash is often relieved by a little Flowers of Sulphur and water; and Sul . mixed with sea-sand and rubbed over itch vesicles destroys the acarus at once. In the early days of vaccination it was found that the action of Sul . on the frame was decidedly adverse to the receptivity of vaccine. According to Dr. Tierney, Dr. Jenner failed in vaccinating thirty soldiers, all under treatment by Sul . ( B. M. J ., Jan. 6, 1872. George Gascoin, letter on antiseptic treatment of small-pox). Seeing that operatives in sulphur mines enjoy an immunity against ague when prevalent in surrounding districts; and that, before going on hunting expeditions in malarious districts, men in Ethiopia submit themselves to fumigations with Sul ., and find it an efficient prevention of ague, the probability of Sul . having a power of destroying the organisms in the blood of ague patients is certainly great, and deserves investigation (Cooper)]. Sul . is a great resorbent , and is frequently needed after acute illnesses which do not entirely clear up. Peculiar Sensations are: As if a band were tied tightly round forehead; round cranium. Vertigo as if swinging. As if bed were not large enough to hold him. As if one stood on wavering ground. As if hair on vertex stood on end. As from a weight pressing on top of brain and a cord tied around head. As if head soft; brains bashed in. As if brain were beating against skull. As if eyes were pressed down. As if he had taken too much alcohol. As if hair would be torn out. As if head would burst. As if head were enlarged. As if she would sneeze. As if head had been beaten. As if top of head were being pressed against wall. Occiput as if hollow. As if flesh of scalp were loose. As if scalp had been beaten. As if cornea had lost its transparency. As if eye were gone and a cool wind blew out of socket. As if eyes had been punctured. As if a needle or splinter were sticking in eye. As if a thick veil were before eyes. As if eyeballs were dry. As if balls rubbed against lids. As if eyes were rubbed against spicules of glass ; eyeballs dry; salt in eyes; cornea covered with fine dust; lids would become inflamed. As if sounds did not come through ears but forehead. As of water in ears. As if he smelt perfume. As if nose were swelled. Nostrils as if sore. As if lower jaw would be torn out. As if air just in front of her were hot. Teeth as if too long; as of a hot iron in teeth. As of a hard ball rising in throat. As if swallowing a piece of meat. As of a lump in throat. As of a hair in throat. As if throat too narrow. Stomach as if puffed up; as if torn with pincers. Intestines as if strung in knots. As if hernia would form. As if muscles of abdomen and peritonæum had been bruised. As if obliged to urinate, in urethra. As if something in larynx. As of a lump of ice in (r.) chest. As if lungs came in contact with back. As if strained in chest. As if he had fallen upon chest. As if chest would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a deep breath. Heart as if enlarged. As if muscles of neck and back were too short. As if vertebræ gliding one over the other. Small of back as if beaten. Left shoulder and hip as if luxated. Like a weight on shoulder. As if something heavy hanging on upper arm. Arms as if beaten. As of a mouse running up arms and back. Thigh as if broken. As if too short in popliteal space. Skin as if denuded and sore. Sweat may occur on one side of the body only; or on neck only. Sul . is Suited to: ( 1 ) Lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk and sit stooped; standing is the most uncomfortable position. ( 2 ) Persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quick-tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes. ( 3 ) Dirty, filthy people, with greasy skin, and long, straight, matted hair, prone to skin affections. ( 4 ) Children who cannot bear to be washed or bathed; emaciated; big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off clothes at night; have worms. ( 5 ) Persons of scrofulous diathesis, subject to various congestions, especially of portal system. ( 6 ) Lymphatic temperaments, nervous constitutions disposed to hæmorrhoids, with constipation or morning diarrhœa; diseases caused especially by, suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over body, followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles, and vertex; faintness in epigastrium in forenoon. ( 7 ) Children, emaciated, old-looking faces, big bellies, dry, flabby skin. ( 8 ) Full-blooded persons with great irritability, restlessness, and hastiness. ( 9 ) Old people. ( 10 ) People with hot, sweaty hands. ( 11 ) "Ragged philosophers"; dirty-looking persons who are always speculating on religious or philosophical subjects. ( 12 ) Freckled people. ( 13 ) Light-complexioned people. ( 14 ) Red-haired people. ( 15 ) Dark-complexioned people; negroes. (16) People who refer all their sufferings to the epigastrium "everything affects me there." The symptoms are: < By touch. < Pressure (pressure > pain in head when coughing). Rest < . Standing < . Stooping < . Lying on (r.) painful side > . Motion > pains in head, hips, knee, hæmorrhoids; < other symptoms. Moving arms < . Every step < . Rising < . Ascending < . Talking = fatigue of whole body. Vivacious talking = hammering headaches. < 11 a.m.; 12 noon; midnight; morning; evening; night; after midnight. Wants doors and windows open. Susceptible to temperature; warm things feel hot. Indoors = nose stopped up; > emptiness in occiput. Open air < . Draught of air < . Raw air < . Warmth < . Sun < (headache). Washing < . Cold, damp weather < . Cold food and drink < thirst. Cold water > head; left eye; whitlow. < Before a storm. < After sleep. < From milk; sweets; alcohol. > By eating; < after. < Before eating. > By warm food. < Before, during, and after menses (headache; leucorrhœa). < Looking down. < Crossing running water. < Raising arms. Hearing is < eating and blowing nose.

Relations

[Sul. frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers when carefully selected remedies fail to act (especially in acute diseases; in chronic, Pso.). In this respect it is a close analogue and ally of Medor. and Syph., which should be studied with it.] Antidoted by: Aco., Camph., Cham., Chi., Merc., Puls., Rhus, Sep., Thu. Antidote to: Aco., Alo., Chi., Iod., Merc., Nit. ac., Olean., Rhus, Sep., Thu.; ailments from abuse of metals generally. Compatible: Calc., Calc. ph., Lyc., Sars., Sep., Puls. (Sul., Calc., Lyc.; and Sul., Sars., Sep. frequently follow in this order. It is generally said that Calc. should not be used before Sul.). Follows well: Merc. Complementary: Alo. (Sul. is generally the remedy when Alo. has been abused as a purgative), Aco., Nux, Puls. (Sul. is the "chronic" of the last three. If a patient is sleepless Sul. may be given at night. If the patient sleeps well it is best given in the morning, as it may disturb sleep if given at night; Nux may be given at night and Sul. in the morning when their complementary action is desired). Sul. complements Rhus in paralysis. Follows and complements Ant. t. and Ipec. in lung affections, especially left; atelectasis. An interpolated dose of Sul. helps Sil. in indurations. Pso. complements Sul.; Pso. loves heat, Sul. hates it. Teste includes in the Sul. group: Crot. t., Merc. c., Bov., Æth, c., Kre., Lob. i., Merc. sol., Aster., Cic., Rat. Compare: Meningitis, Apis. Injuries to eyes, Aco. (Sul. follows). Early-morning diarrhœa, Bry. (as soon as he moves), Nat. s. (with much flatus), Rx. c., Pod. (stools changeable; go on all day, though < at noon; Sul. raw, sore anus), Diosc. (colic flying to other parts). Defective reaction, Pso., Cup., Lauro., Val., Ambr., Carb. v. Flushes at climaxis, Lach., Sul. ac., Amyl., K. bi. Intermittent fever and neuralgia, Chi., Ars., Bapt. Ravenous hunger with heat at vertex, Calc., Pho. Tuberculosis, Bac., Calc., Pho. Itch, Merc., Sep., Caust. Dyspepsia, Nux, Sep. Excessive venery, masturbation, Nux, Calc. Yellow-brown spots, Sep., Lyc., Curar. Rheumatism, paralysis, Rhus. Sour stools, sore anus, Cham. Pneumonia, restoration imperfect, Sang. Paralysis from cold, Aco., Caust., Rhus. Accumulation of flatus, sour and bitter taste, Lyc. (with Sul. patient refers accumulation to left groin, region of sigmoid flexure). Bad effects of mental exhaustion; of seminal losses, Selen. (Sel. is a cognate element of Sul. and close analogue; Sel. < from tea; Sul. < from coffee; Sel. has "tingling in spots"). Morning aphonia, Carb. v. (Carb. v. also evening). Edges of eyelids, Graph., Bac. Congestion of lumbar spine, Pic. ac. Atrophy of infants, Ars. Sinking < 11 a.m., Na. m., Pho., Indm., Na. c., Zn. (nervous symptoms, Arg. n.). Prophylactic of cholera, Cup. Weak from talking, Stan., Cocc., Ver., Calc. Falls easily, Na. c. Hasty speech and action, Bell., Lach., Dulc., Hep. Weak ankles, Sul. ac., Caust. > Open air; desire to be uncovered, Pul., Lyc. Wetting bed in deep sleep, Bell. (in first sleep, Sep.). Effects of losses of fluids, Ars., Calc., Chi., Fer. Persistent speck before left eye (right Sel.). Vision mostly green, Sang. Rhagades of hands, Na. c. Hard, horny hands, Na. m., Graph. (opp. Calc.). Left to right, Lach. Stitches up vagina, Sep., Pho., Nit. ac. (also down and out), Alm., Berb., Pul. (Sul. stitches go to head). Left ovarian and left inframammary pain, Lil., Lach., Caulo., Vib. o., Pul., Ustil. Bearing-down pains, Bell., Sep., Gossyp., Pul., Sec. < On awaking, Lach., Na. m. Alarmed about soul's salvation, Ver. < Hearing water run, Hfb. Violent movements of fœtus, Op., Croc., Thuj. Dread of losing mind, Calc., Lyc., Nux. Hollow sensation in region of heart (Lil. as if heart empty). Earthy complexion, Na. m. Tall, slender people, Pho. (Sul. with stoop). Aversion to, be washed, Ant., c., Clem., Hep., Rhus, Sep., Spi. (Puls. baby likes being washed). Fear of ghosts, Aco., Ars., Bro., Carb. v., Cocc., Lyc., Pho., Pul., Ran. b., Sep., Zn. (I have been frequently asked by patients taking Sul. not to give them "that medicine" again as it made them "see faces," generally described as horrible). < Heat of bed at night, Bry., Merc., Pul., Cham. (toothache), Dros., Led., Sbi., Apis. Laughing alternately with weeping, Aur., Pul., Lyc., Croc., Pho., Ver. Vertigo looking down, Olean. (Calc. turning head, Pul. looking up). Throbbing headache, Glo., Calc., Pul. Drowsiness with headache, Bruc., Strych., Gins., Herac., Na. s., Gels., Nux m. Passes almost pure blood from rectum, Merc., Aco. Diabetes with impotence, Mosch. Phimosis, Can. s., Merc., Nit. ac., Sep., Thu., Rhus, Sbi. Hunger at night, Chi. s., Pso., Pho. (with febrile heat, unappeasable), Lyc., Ign. Hot breath, Calc., Rhus. Sharp splinter sensation on slightest touch, Arg. n., Hep., Nit. ac. Throat, right then left, Lyc., Bar. c., left side, Lach., Sul. Freckles, Adren. Weak chest when speaking, Calc. Acid smell from mouth, Nux. Taste of blood, Ham. Sensation of hair in throat, K. bi., Sil. Intolerance of pressure of clothes, Lach. Blackish stools, Lept. Burning between scapulæ, Pho., Lyc. Sinking sensations, worms, Scirrh. and other cancer nosodes. Vividly remembered dreams, Chi. Mistakes time of day, Merc., Lach. Boils, Anthrac. Vaccination effects, Thu., Malan. Red lips, red borders round eyelids, Bac. Offensive body smell; checked eruptions and discharges, Med. Excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes, Hep., K. ca., Pso. (Pso. is generally extremely chilly, Sul. hot). Restless, hot, kicks off clothes at night, Hep., Sanic. Wants to find cool place for feet, Sanic. Relapsing alcoholism, Pso., Bac.

Causation

Suppressions. Alcohol. Sun. Sprains. Chills. Over-exertion. Reaching high. Falls. Blows. Bed-sores.

Mind

Melancholy and sadness, with grieving ideas; uneasiness respecting the patient's own condition and prospects, and about business affairs, so as to become exceedingly unhappy, disgusted with life, and even to despair of eternal salvation. ─ Egoistic. ─ Dwells on religious or philosophical speculations; anxiety about soul's salvation; indifference about lot of others. ─ Vexatious and morbid ideas of the past arise and cannot be got rid of. ─ Hypochondriac mood (through the day, in evening he is inclined to be merry). ─ Strong tendency to weep, and frequent weeping, alternating sometimes with involuntary laughter. ─ Disconsolate humour, with scruples of conscience, even with respect to the most innocent actions. ─ Fits of anguish, esp. in evening; timidity and great tendency to be frightened. ─ Precipitation, restlessness, and impatience. ─ Peevishness; childish peevishness in grown people. ─ Ill-humour, moroseness, quarrelsome disposition, disposition to criticise, and dislike to conversation. ─ Irritability, disposition to anger and passion. ─ Great indolence and repugnance to all exertion, both mental and bodily. ─ Too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live. ─ Indecision, awkwardness (at his work), inadvertence, anthropophobia, with feeling of giddiness. ─ Stupidity and imbecility, with difficulty in understanding and in answering correctly. ─ In afternoon, stupefied state after a glass of wine. ─ Great weakness of memory, chiefly for proper names. ─ Misplaces or cannot find the proper word when he speaks. ─ Mistakes as to time, thinks it earlier than it is; at vesper bell (7 p.m.) insists it is only 5 p.m., quite angry when one attempts to convince her of her error. ─ Forgetfulness of that which is about to be uttered. ─ Great flow of ideas, for the most part sad and unpleasant, but sometimes gay, and interspersed with musical airs. ─ Strong tendency to religious and philosophical reveries, with fixed ideas. ─ Incoherent speech. ─ Mania, with a settled idea of having all things in abundance, possessing beautiful things, &c. ─ Delirium, with carphologia. ─ Errors respecting objects, a hat is mistaken for a bonnet, a rag for a handsome gown, &c. ─ Foolish happiness and pride; fantastic illusions of the intellect, esp. if one turns everything into beauty, as an old rag or stick looks to be a beautiful piece of workmanship; everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to. ─ Melancholia and epilepsy, with strong impulsive tendency to suicide by drowning or leaping from window; five fits a day with at times two hours of unconsciousness, always < during menses ( Sul . 10m cured).

Head

Confusion in head, with difficulty in meditating; or weakness, dizziness, and stupor, sometimes with necessity to lie down, and esp. in morning or in evening, or when walking in open air, or when going up an ascent. ─ Vertigo and staggering, esp. when seated, or after a meal, or when exercising in open air, when stooping, looking down, walking, going up an ascent, rising from a seat, lying on back, passing over running water, and also in morning, in evening, or at night, and often with nausea, syncope, weakness, and bleeding at nose (with inclination to fall to l. side; with vanishing of sight). ─ Headache as if caused by incarcerated flatus, by obstruction in head, or by a debauch. ─ Painful sensibility of head, chiefly of vertex, on least movement, with pain at every step, when coughing, blowing nose, or masticating. ─ Sensitiveness of the vertex, pressing pain when touching it, < from heat of bed, in morning when waking, on scratching it, it bites and burns. ─ Fulness, pressure, and heaviness in head, chiefly in forehead ( < when raising head and after sleeping and talking, > when sitting or when lying with head high) and occiput. ─ Tearing or stitches in forehead or temples, from within to without, < from stooping, > when pressing head together, or when moving about. ─ Sensation of emptiness in back part of head, < in open air and when talking, > in room. ─ Pulsation in head with heat in brain, pulsation of carotid arteries and of heart, < on waking in morning, when moving about, on stooping, when talking, in open air; > when at rest and in warm room. ─ Hammering headache on vivacious talking. ─ Throbbing all over head with furious pain taking away her sight and preventing her from stooping: it affects vertex more and is < by washing her head (produced. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Heat on crown; cold feet; frequent flushings. ─ Painful tingling on vertex and in temples. ─ Violent pain in vertex in evening, as if hair would be torn out; it bristles on the most painful spots. ─ (Pain in vertex, r. side, < 5 to 8 p.m., > by warmth. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Boring headache on top, beneath vertex; the spot is painful to touch externally. ─ Severe burning in vertex; went off after getting up; succeeded by cool feeling in same place. ─ Aching; burning; throbbing; pressing in vertex. ─ Vertex very sensitive when touched; and when not. ─ Tension in forehead and eyes on exercising brain; < when lifting up eyes, after sleeping; > when sitting in room. ─ Tension and painful contraction in brain, sometimes with a sensation as if head were compressed by a band (with the sensation as if the flesh were loose around it, followed by inflammation of the bones and caries; < in wet, cold weather and when at rest; > from motion). ─ Expansive pressure, as if head were about to burst, principally in temples. ─ Sharp and jerking pains, or drawing and shootings in head. ─ Painful sensation, as if brain were wounded or bruised. ─ Sensation as if the head were soft; as if the brains had been bashed in. ─ On moving head brain strikes against cranium. ─ Congestion of blood in head, with pulsative pains, clucking, and feeling of heat in brain. ─ Rush of blood to head; a pressure out at eyes; with roaring in ears and heat of face; during menses; during soft stool; at right in bed; arising from chest with throbbing; < when stooping, talking, in open air; > sitting in warm room. ─ Tinkling, buzzing, roaring, and vibration in head. ─ The headache is often only semilateral, or confined to vertex, or to occiput, or to forehead above eyes, with inclination to frown or to close eyes, confusion of sight, unfitness for meditation, humming in ears, and nausea, with inclination to vomit. ─ Quotidian, periodical, and intermittent headaches, appearing principally at night, or in evening in bed, or in morning, or after a meal; (every 3, 4, 6, 12, or 24 hours; 12 noon or 12 midnight; < midsummer or midwinter). ─ Movement, walking, open air, and meditation often excite or < the headaches. ─ Pimples with itching in head, principally in forehead. ─ Dry or thick. yellowish scabs in scalp, with secretion of a thick and fetid pus, but always with great itching. ─ Dry (seldom humid), offensive, scabby, easily bleeding, burning, and sore paining eruption on back part of head and behind ears, with cracks, > from scratching (tinea capitis). ─ (Scabby eruption over head and on various parts of body; with hard lumps that discharge and irritate and prevent sleep. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Coldness in head, sometimes only in circumscribed places. ─ Painful sensitiveness of the roots of hair and of scalp when touched. ─ Mobility of scalp. ─ Falling off of hair; with great dryness of the hair, painfulness of scalp to the touch and violent itching in evening when getting warm in bed, with swelling of glands on neck (also in lying-in women). ─ Fontanelles remain open too long. ─ Head bent forward when walking. ─ Itching in head, with impatience. ─ Exanthema and itching on forehead.

Eyes

Heaviness and aching in eyes and lids, with a sensation of friction as from sand. ─ Itching of eyebrows. ─ Itching, tickling, and burning sensation in eyes, canthi, and lids. ─ Pains as from a bruise or wound, and smarting in eyes and lids. ─ The pains in eyes often extend into head, and are < by movement of eyes, and also by light of the sun, which sometimes < them to an insupportable degree. ─ Pain (cutting) in r. eye, renewable by touching r. side of tip of nose. ─ Stinging in eyes, esp. in sunshine and from light of a candle. ─ Inflammation, swelling, and redness of sclerotica, conjunctiva, and eyelids. ─ Pain in lid, as if rubbed against spiculæ of glass. ─ Smarting pain as from dryness of margins of lids. ─ Redness of borders of lids. ─ Ulceration in the margins of the eyelids. ─ Pustules and ulcers round orbits as far as cheeks. ─ Inflammatory redness of iris. ─ Affections in general of the cornea; eyeball; sclerotica. ─ Opacity of cornea, as if covered with dust, or clouded, with a deposit of greyish lymph between the lamellæ. ─ Specks, vesicles (pustules), and ulcers in the cornea (with redness of eye). ─ Injection of vessels of conjunctiva. ─ Pupil unequal, or dilated and immovable; or contracted. ─ Cloudiness of crystalline lens. ─ Nodosity, like hordeolum, in lids. ─ Eyes water, itch, and feel hot. ─ Profuse lachrymation, esp. in open air; or great dryness of eyes, < in a room. ─ Pain as from dryness of eyeballs, and a sensation as if they rubbed against the lids. ─ Lachrymation in morning, with burning. ─ Retinitis, caused by over-use of eyes, congestion of optic nerve. ─ Oily tears. ─ Copious secretion of mucus in eyes, day and night. ─ Nocturnal agglutination of lids. ─ Palpitation and quivering of eyelids. ─ Contraction of eyelids in morning. ─ Trembling of eyes. ─ Confused sight, as if directed through a mist, or as if down or a veil were before eyes. ─ Dim-sightedness, cataract. ─ Great dimness of vision, as if cornea had lost transparency, confusion of head and dull aching in forehead. ─ Objects seem more distant than they are. ─ Presbyopia. ─ Myopia. ─ Clouded sight when reading. ─ The eyes are dazzled by daylight. ─ Dazzled by looking long at an object. ─ Sparks and white spots, or dancing flies, black points, and spots before eyes. ─ Night-blindness. ─ Visions of faces appear on closing the eyes. ─ Objects appear to be yellow. ─ Great sensitiveness (and aversion) of eyes to light, principally to that of the sun, and during warm and oppressive weather. ─ Halo around a lamplight; cataract. ─ Yellowish colour of sclerotica.

Ears

Itching in ears (in external ear). ─ Stitches in l. ear. ─ Sharp or drawing pains, or shootings in ears, sometimes extending into head or into throat. ─ Recurring earaches in tubercular meningitis. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Burning heat which goes out at ears. ─ Gurgling in ears as if water were in them. ─ Discharge of pus from ears. ─ Otorrhœa, < l. ear. ─ Discharge from both ears, dirty, very offensive; profuse, of a penetrating odour; at times causing an eruption about auricles; objects strongly to having ears washed. ─ Bad effects from suppression of otorrhœa; hard hearing, esp. if ears are very dry; noise in ears in general, particularly a humming. ─ Otitis in psoric subjects. ─ Furunculus on tragus. ─ Great acuteness of hearing the least noise is insupportable, and playing the piano occasions nausea. ─ Something seems to come before ears. ─ Swashing in ears. ─ Hardness of hearing preceded by hypersensitiveness of hearing. ─ Dysecoia, esp. for human voice; from disposition to catarrhs; < after eating or blowing nose. ─ Obstruction and sensation of stoppage (pressure and pain when sneezing, as if ulcerated) in one ear, often when eating or blowing nose. ─ Tinkling, humming, and roaring in ears (in evening in bed); sometimes with congestion of blood in head. ─ Cracking in ear, like the breaking of a bladder full of water. ─ Excoriation behind ears. ─ Ears very red with children.

Nose

Boring in root of nose. ─ (Itching and) burning in nostrils. ─ Inflammatory swelling (redness) of nose, chiefly at extremity, or in alæ nasi ( < in r.). ─ Tip of nose red and shiny. ─ R. ala nasi and entire septum inflamed and painful to touch. ─ Inflammation, ulceration, and scabies in nostrils. ─ Cracking in nose, like the bursting of a bladder full of air. ─ Ephelides and black pores in nose. ─ Herpes across nose, like a saddle. ─ Obstruction of nose, sometimes semilateral. ─ Great dryness of nose. ─ Dry coryza, or fluent coryza, with copious secretion of mucus. ─ Burning coryza in open air, obstructions of nose in room. ─ Discharge of burning mucus, or secretion of a thick, yellowish, and puriform mucus in nostrils. ─ Blood or sanguineous mucus is blown from nose. ─ (Discharge of watery fluid from nose tinged with blood, and synchronous with præcordial pain, severe headache and pains in soles of feet, high-coloured urine and confined bowels: symptoms followed on a severe wetting. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Bleeding of nose, esp. in morning, and sometimes with vertigo (at 3 p.m., afterwards it feels sore when touched). ─ Frequent, even spasmodic sneezing, sometimes preceded by nausea. ─ Smell increased or diminished, and also entirely lost. ─ Offensive odour of nasal mucus on blowing nose. ─ Smell of inveterate coryza, of burnt horn or of smoke. ─ Offensive odour of nasal mucus, as of an old catarrh.

Face

Face pale or yellowish, with sickly complexion; and eyes deep sunken, surrounded by a blue circle. ─ Heat and burning sensation in face, with deep redness of whole face, circumscribed redness of cheeks, or else red spots, also on neck. ─ Pale or red swelling of face. ─ Swelling of cheeks, with lancinating pain. ─ Pain: tearing in r. half of face; pressure on malar bone and beneath eye; stabbing below l. zygoma with darting up side of head. ─ Pain in all three divisions of fifth nerve (l.); from exposure to cold; draught of air; worry; beginning 5 p.m., lasts with slight intermissions three or four days; besides sharp dartings every few moments; extreme external sensitiveness. ─ Drawing, sharp pain, sensation as from a bruise, pressive and burning sensation in cheek-bones. ─ Erysipelas of face (beginning on r. ear and spreading over face). ─ Phlegmonous erysipelas in face, chiefly in eyelids, nose, and (l.) ear. ─ Roughness and redness of skin of face. ─ Eruption of pimples on face and on forehead. ─ Itching and moist tetters over whole face, chiefly above nose, round eyes, and in eyelids; small white vesicles in groups and forming scabs. ─ Ephelides and black pores in face, chiefly on nose, lips, and chin. ─ Lips dry, rough, and cracked. ─ Burning sensation and continued heat of lips. ─ Yellowish hepatic spots on upper lip. ─ Tinea faciei. ─ Trembling and jerking of lips. ─ Swelling of lips. ─ Swelling of lower lip with eruption on it. ─ Scabious ulcer on red of lip. ─ Cancer of the lips. ─ Herpetic eruption in corner of mouth. ─ Painful eruption round chin. ─ Sharp, lancinating, and drawing pains, and painful swelling in jaws. ─ Swelling of submaxillary glands, with pains and lancinations when touched.

Teeth

Great tenderness of teeth. ─ Great sensitiveness of points of teeth. ─ Jerking, shocks, sharp or drawing pains; shootings; throbbing pains; boring and burning sensation, both in carious and in sound teeth. ─ Tearing toothache on l. side. ─ Pulsation and boring in teeth, < from heat. ─ The toothache often extends as far as ears or into head, and is sometimes accompanied by congestion of blood in head, with shiverings and disposition to sleep, or with swelling of cheek. ─ Appearance or < of toothache, principally in evening; at night; or in open air; also from a current of air; from cold water; when masticating, and sometimes when taking anything hot. ─ Toothache with congestions to head, or stitches in ears. ─ Brownish mucus on teeth. ─ Painful loosening, elongation, setting on edge, and easy bleeding of teeth. ─ Bleeding, sensation of unfixing, and swelling of gums, sometimes with throbbing (heating) pains. ─ Fistula dentalis. ─ Hard, round swelling of gums, with discharge of pus and of blood.

Mouth

Dryness, heat, and burning sensation in mouth, sometimes in morning with moist tongue. ─ Great dryness of palate with much thirst; obliged to drink much. ─ Mouth dry, insipid, and sticky in morning. ─ Ptyalism from abuse of Mercury or during a fever. ─ Accumulation of saliva in mouth: sanguineous; salt; acid; bitter; or mixed with blood; even after eating. ─ Fetid, sometimes acid, smell from mouth, esp. in morning or in evening or after a meal. ─ Vesicles, blisters, and aphthæ in mouth and on tongue, sometimes with burning, or with pain of excoriation, when eating. ─ Exfoliation of membrane of mouth. ─ Burning sensation and tickling on tongue. ─ Pain, swelling, and inflammation of tongue for three days. ─ Tongue dry, rough, and cracked, of colour of cinnabar; or loaded with a white coating, or covered with brownish, thick, and viscid mucus. ─ Stuttering when speaking. ─ Accumulation of saltish mucus in mouth. ─ Taste: bitter; pasty; offensive; of blood; sweetish; metallic. ─ Bilious taste in mouth when fasting; though food tastes right. ─ Bitter taste with dulness of head and ill-humour. ─ Acid taste all day.

Throat

Scraping, roughness (rawness), and dryness in throat (hawking and clearing throat). ─ Pressure as from a plug or from a tumour in throat, sometimes with difficult deglutition. ─ Stitches in throat on swallowing. ─ Sensation as if a hard ball were ascending throat, and would close pharynx and take away the breath. ─ Contraction and painful sensation of constriction in throat when swallowing. ─ (Sensation of contraction in throat. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Dryness of throat. ─ Pain as from excoriation, burning sensation and shootings in throat, < during empty deglutition (soreness begins on r. side and goes to l.; redness of tonsils). ─ Burning in throat as from sour eructations. ─ Sensation during empty deglutition as of swallowing a piece of meat. ─ Sensation as of a plug in throat, with empyreumatic taste. ─ Sore throat, with swelling of glands of neck. ─ Elongation of palate; swelling of palate and tonsils. ─ Sensation of a hair in throat. ─ Angina gangrenosa.

Appetite

Bad taste in mouth, mostly acid, bitter, or putrid and sweetish or mawkish, < in morning on waking. ─ Taste bitter or too salt or insipidity of food. ─ Complete anorexia and dislike to food, principally to meat, rye bread, fat, and milk. ─ Dislike to sweet and acid things, or craving for such things, with anorexia. ─ Continued thirst, even at night, often with desire for beer. ─ Craving (in drunkards) for wine and brandy. ─ Immoderate appetite and attacks of bulimy, sometimes with headache, lassitude, and want to lie down. ─ Ravenous hunger which obliges him to eat frequently, gets headache and has to lie down if he does not. ─ Hungry, but appetite vanishes at sight of food, feels full in abdomen; when he begins to eat is averse to it. ─ Desire for sweets. ─ Complaints from eating sweets. ─ Complaints from farinaceous food. ─ Desire for raw food. ─ Great weakness of digestion, principally for meat, fat, milk, acids, and farinaceous food, all of which sometimes cause great suffering. ─ Food sweetened with sugar < the pains in the stomach and abdomen. ─ Milk produces sour risings, an acid taste in mouth, and even vomiting. ─ Beer is followed by a prolonged after-taste, and causes ebullition of blood. ─ Disgust for drinking wine. ─ After a meal oppression in chest, nausea, pressure, and cramps in stomach, colic, inflation of abdomen, flatulence, vomiting, great fatigue, shivering, confusion and pain in head, heat in face, burning sensation in hands, flow of water from mouth, and many other sufferings.

Stomach

Continued eructations, principally empty, or with taste of food, or acid and burning, bitter, or fetid, with taste of rotten eggs, esp. after a meal or at night. ─ Loud eructations as soon as he presses on stomach. ─ Heartburn. ─ Abortive risings. ─ The food rises into throat. ─ Regurgitation of food and drink, often with acid taste. ─ Pyrosis, often with burning and tingling in chest. ─ Hiccough. ─ Qualmishness. ─ Nausea, which sometimes even induces fainting, with trembling, weakness, and frequent eructations, esp. after a meal, in morning, at night, or when riding in a carriage. ─ Waterbrash, < in morning or after a meal, sometimes with aching or digging in abdomen. ─ Retching and vomiting of food, and of acid or bitter substances, or blackish, or sanguineous, &c.; esp. in morning, in evening, after a meal, or at night, and sometimes with nausea, pains in stomach, and cold perspiration on face. ─ After eating but little stomach feels completely full. ─ (Pains in stomach following a headache, < 10 p.m., causing him to bend forward to ease himself, with flatus and prostration at stool. ─ Tight crampy feeling in stomach on laughing and sneezing, preventing him rising from his seat. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Heaviness and fulness, or pressure and compression, or else contractive and spasmodic pains, or digging and shootings in stomach and præcordial region, < after a meal at night or in morning, often with nausea and vomiting, anxiety, and inflation of abdomen. ─ Uneasy, unpleasant feeling in stomach as if several hard things were lying in it, and all in different directions (cured. ─ J. H. C.). ─ Pressure in pit of stomach during menses. ─ Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning sensation in the stomach. ─ Great sensitiveness in the region of the stomach when touched (or pressing upon it ─ even the bed-cover causes pain). ─ Swelling of the præcordial region. ─ Pulsation in the pit of stomach. ─ Swelling at pit of stomach. ─ Weak, empty, gone, or faint feeling in stomach, about 11 a.m.; and at other times.

Abdomen

Painful sensibility of hypochondria, as if they were wounded; pressure of clothes disagreeable. ─ Drawing, pressure, tension, and shootings in regions of the liver and spleen, swelling and hardness in both regions. ─ Stitches in spleen, < when taking a deep inspiration and when walking. ─ Frequent shoots in splenic region. ─ Inflammation, swelling, and induration of liver. ─ Bile increased. ─ Fulness, heaviness, tension, and pressure, its from a stone in abdomen, chiefly in epigastrium and hypochondria. ─ Enlargement and hardness of abdomen. ─ Gripings, or sensation of tearing or contractive and spasmodic pains in abdomen. ─ Intestines feel as if strung in knots. ─ Shootings (stitches) in abdomen, < on the l. side when walking (coughing) or taking a deep inspiration (about navel). ─ After food sensation of weight r. side of navel when he breathes (cured with three doses of Sul . 1m in a case of mine. ─ The pains in the abdomen have generally a tendency to attack the l. side, or to extend into stomach as far as chest and back, with obstructed respiration, nausea, anxiety, and hypochondriacal humour. ─ Pains in abdomen, chiefly at night, or after eating or drinking, or else periodical; < by food sweetened with sugar; > by bending forwards. ─ Movement and digging in abdomen, or sensation as if something were pushed outwards. ─ Movements in abdomen as of the fist of a child. ─ Pains as from contusion and bruising in integuments of abdomen. ─ Painful sensibility of abdomen when touched, as if all interior were raw, or formed one large wound. ─ Inflation of abdomen, with pressive pains from incarcerated flatus, principally in l. side (with constipation). ─ Pressure: towards anus; downward while lying in bed at night; it woke her. ─ Borborygmi and rumbling in abdomen. ─ Frequent escape of very fetid flatus. ─ Cutting in hypogastrium, with thin stool. ─ Griping in lower abdomen; pain in small of back (and chilliness over body) during menses. ─ Between 4 and 5 p.m. boring, shooting pain now in r. groin, now in spermatic cord, extending to testicle, now within inguinal ring in abdominal cavity; followed by sharp, cutting pain in r. great toe. ─ Painful swelling, and also suppuration of inguinal glands. ─ Violent protrusion of hernia, with incarceration. ─ Dropsy. ─ Portal stasis; hæmorrhoidal congestions; indigestion; constipation, &c. ─ Symptoms threatening peritonitis, terrible pains extending over entire lower abdomen followed a teaspoonful of Sul. taken for constipation; relief follows purgation by castor oil. ─ (R. T. C.)

Stool and Anus

Constipation, and hard, knotty, and insufficient evacuations. ─ Frequent and often ineffectual want to evacuate, chiefly at night, and sometimes with pressure on rectum and bladder and pain in anus. ─ Urgent want to evacuate. ─ Looseness of bowels; redness about anus; obstructed evacuation, particularly if hard stools are retained. ─ Diarrhœa, particularly where there is the red line about the anus, and the patient can't wait, must go immediately desire is felt; also waking early in morning with diarrhœa, which drives one out of bed in a great hurry; tenesmus in the same way, drives one in a great hurry; rumbling and rolling in bowels. ─ Cholera asiatica; as prophylactic, a pinch of the powdered milk of Sulphur worn in stockings in contact with soles of feet; diarrhœa commencing between midnight and morning, vomiting at same time; numbness of limbs, cramp in calves and soles, blue under eyes, cold skin, indifference; during convalescence, red spots, furuncles, &c.; susceptibility to temperature, warm things feel hot; nerve symptoms (Hering). ─ Diarrhœa with frequent evacuations, chiefly at night, and often with colic, tenesmus, inflation of abdomen, dyspnœa, shivering, and weakness to the extent of fainting. ─ Evacuations: mucous, watery, frothy, or acid, or of a putrid smell, or of undigested substances. ─ Stools: nearly black, loose, viscid, greasy, with pungent odour of sulphuretted hydrogen. ─ Stool hard, as if burnt. ─ Stool, with sensation as if some remained, and as if the stool had been insufficient. ─ Discharge of liquid from anus, followed by fæces at night during sleep. ─ Diarrhœa: painless; in morning compelling one to rise from bed (at 5 a.m., one stool an hour till 9 a.m.); undigested, involuntary; diarrhœa in children, green, of bloody mucus, with crying and weeping. ─ Dysenteric stools at night, with colic and violent tenesmus. ─ Colic before every loose evacuation. ─ During stool, discharge of blood; pain in small of back; palpitation of heart, congestion of head; itching, burning, and stinging at anus and in rectum. ─ After stool tenesmus, constriction at anus. ─ Whitish, greenish, discoloured, or brownish-red fæces. ─ Involuntary evacuations (when sneezing or laughing, with emission of flatus). ─ Evacuations mingled with mucus, blood, and purulent matter. ─ Discharge of mucus, even with hard fæces. ─ Ejection of lumbrici, ascarides, and also of pieces of tænia from rectum. ─ Prolapsus recti, esp. when evacuating (a hard stool). ─ Sharp and pressive pains, itching, shootings, stitches, and burning in anus and rectum, even when not at stool. ─ Burning in anus, before, during, and after stool. ─ Prostration follows stool. ─ Dull ache just inside coccyx, awful dead ache as if the heart would stop. ─ All pains seem to go to rectum, life-taking pains. ─ Blind piles with burning as if something were biting at anus, going away when lying down, coming on when standing or walking about (produced. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Hæmorrhoids which protrude, ooze and bleed. ─ Anus inflamed, swollen, covered with red veins. ─ Excoriation and swelling of anus. ─ Much itching about anus; itching runs back along, perinæum and adjacent parts. ─ Involuntary discharge of moisture from anus, with itching in it. ─ Suppressed hæmorrhoids, with colic, palpitation, congestion to lungs; back feels stiff as if bruised. ─ Constant bearing down towards anus; forcing down after sitting.

Urinary Organs

Violent pain in region of kidneys after stooping a long time. ─ Aching in small of back all day, esp. < while urinating. ─ Suppressed or very scanty urine. ─ Frequent and sometimes very urgent want to urinate. ─ Frequent, profuse, and watery urine, sometimes gushing out with much force, esp. at night. ─ Retention of urine. ─ (Neuralgia of neck of bladder, aching and forcing down with smarting and burning in urethra. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Rigor when urinating. ─ Pressure soon after urinating, as from a full bladder. ─ Involuntary emission of urine (and stool), esp. when coughing, or expelling flatus. ─ Wetting the bed (lie awake for some time, then fall into a deep sleep, in which they wet the bed). ─ Red urine with sediment; or else whitish, turbid, or deep-coloured. ─ Urine like yeast; muddy, turbid, scanty. ─ Oily pellicle over urine. ─ Fetid urine. ─ Urine smelling of chamomile tea (produced. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Discharge of (white) mucus from urethra. ─ Secondary gonorrhœa. ─ Whitish or thick or reddish sediment, like flour, in the urine. ─ Urine discharged by drops. ─ Painful emission of some drops of sanguineous urine after much effort. ─ Discharge of blood and mucus with the urine. ─ Itching, sharp pains, shootings, and burning sensation in (orifice of) urethra, chiefly when urinating. ─ Both flow of urine and discharge of fæces are painful to parts over which they pass. ─ Urine excoriating parts. ─ Redness and inflammation of orifice of urethra, and pain as at commencement of gonorrhœa. ─ Discharge of mucus from urethra. ─ Hæmorrhage from urethra. ─ Shootings in bladder. ─ Dragging in bladder in morning after urinating. ─ Small and intermittent stream of urine. ─ Spasmodic pains in loins and inguina.

Male Sexual Organs

Affections of the genitals in general. ─ Itching about genitals on going to bed at night. ─ Fetid perspiration in parts. ─ Excoriation between thighs and in groins, chiefly when walking. ─ Shootings in penis and glans. ─ Prepuce stiff, hard, like leather, with copious secretion of fetid smegma. ─ Inflammation, swelling, and phimosis of prepuce (with discharge of fetid pus), with deep cracks, burning, and redness. ─ Deep (suppurating) ulcer with elevated margins in glans and prepuce (with puffed edges). ─ Aching, tension, and shootings in testes and spermatic cords. ─ Swelling and thickening of epididymis. ─ Excoriation and oozing in scrotum. ─ Increased sexual desire and voluptuous irritation of the parts, often without erection. ─ Weakness of the genital functions, often with icy coldness, bluish colour of glans, prepuce, and penis, and retraction of prepuce. ─ Testes relaxed and hanging down. ─ Hydrocele. ─ Frequent pollutions, also at noon. ─ Watery semen. ─ Involuntary discharge of semen, with burning in urethra. ─ Too quick discharge of semen during coition. ─ Escape of prostatic fluid, chiefly when urinating and while at stool. ─ Impotence. ─ (Induration of testes.)

Female Sexual Organs

A weak feeling in genitals. ─ Sore feeling in vagina during an embrace. ─ Labour-like pain over symphysis. ─ Uterine pains running from groins to back. ─ Moroseness and apprehension with uterine pain. ─ Pressure on the parts. ─ (Bearing down with nightly enuresis. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Excoriation, troublesome itching and burning sensation in genitals; with papular eruption around them. ─ Burning in the vagina; is scarcely able to keep still. ─ Ascarides of vulva. ─ Inflammation of labia. ─ Menses too late; too short. ─ Delay of first menses. ─ (Amenorrhœa, dreadful depression and apprehension, head feels full and heavy, followed by violent headache, numbness of arms and legs, cramp and sick feeling at molimen. ─ R. T. C.). ─ (Imperfect development of the genital Organs, menstruation does not appear at the usual age; breasts imperfectly developed; pains about the shoulders, in the stomach after meals, in l. side on inspiration; anorexia and vertigo. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Catamenia premature and too profuse; or too feeble or entirely suppressed (particularly in psoric individuals), with colic, abdominal spasms, headache, pains in loins, pressure at stomach, congestion in head, and nasal hæmorrhage, agitation, and even attacks of epilepsy. ─ Menstrual blood thick, acrid, corroding thighs; scanty, dark; dark, putrid, clotted. ─ Before menses: headache, itching in the parts; spasmodic colic; inquietude; cough; toothache; pyrosis; epistaxis; leucorrhœa, and asthmatic sufferings. ─ Bearing down in pelvis; congestion to uterus. ─ Sterility, with too early and profuse menstruation. ─ Prolapsus: from reaching high; with pain in hypogastrium, esp. r. side; with metritis; with dropsy of uterus. ─ Promotes expulsion of moles. ─ Morning sickness of pregnancy not amounting to vomiting, faint, sickish spells forenoon, profuse salivation, taste of which = nausea; aversion to meat; craves beer or brandy. ─ Hæmorrhoids during pregnancy and in childbed. ─ After menses: itching in nose. ─ Menstrual blood too pale or of an acid smell. ─ Leucorrhœa sometimes corrosive; gnawing and yellowish, preceded by colic. ─ Cancer of uterus offensive, corrosive, ichorous leucorrhœa; sensation of heat in crown of head coldness of feet; flushes of heat pass off in a perspiration with faintness; weak at pit of stomach 11 a.m. to 12; Violent burning in vagina, with painful soreness during coitus. ─ Hot flushes at climaxis, with hot head, hands, and feet, and great goneness in stomach. ─ Excoriation and itching in nipples. ─ Cracks in nipples, with burning sensation, easily bleeding, and ulceration (the nipple smarts and burns very much as soon as the infant lets go of it). ─ Mammary glands engorged and inflamed. ─ Erysipelatous inflammation of mammæ; they are hard, with red rays extending from nipple, and stitching pains. ─ Swelling of mammæ. ─ Nodosities in mammæ. ─ Scirrhus of breast.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh, with fluent coryza, cough, pain in chest, as if it were raw, and shivering. ─ Hoarseness, evening and morning, roughness, and scraping in throat, with accumulation of mucus in chest. ─ Pain as from excoriation, and tingling or tickling in larynx, with tendency to cough. ─ Coldness in throat during an inspiration. ─ Voice hoarse and low, or entirely extinct, generally in cold and damp weather. ─ Sensation as if larynx were swollen, or as if a foreign body were in it. ─ Short, dry cough. ─ Dry cough, sometimes fatiguing and shaking, with retching, vomiting, and spasmodic constriction of chest, esp. in evening, or at night, in a recumbent position, or in morning, or after a meal. ─ (Constant cough with irritation of throat and wheezing. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Moist cough, with profuse expectoration of thick, whitish, or yellowish mucus, like that of a coryza of long standing. ─ Cough with expectoration during day, without expectoration at night. ─ Short, dry cough, with stitches in chest, or stitches in l. shoulder-blade. ─ Spasmodic whooping-cough in successive double attacks, shortly following one another, from tickling in larynx as from dust; only with expectoration during day of either dark blood or yellow-greenish, purulent matter, or of cold, milk-white mucus, generally tasting sour, or putrid, or salty, or like old catarrh. ─ Fetid expectoration of a greenish-yellow colour, like pus, and of a salt or sweetish taste, while coughing. ─ Febrile cough, with hæmoptysis. ─ Cough in general with bloody expectoration; esp. with heat in chest; hæmorrhage with the same sensation. ─ When coughing, pain as from excoriation, or shattering pains, or shootings in chest, pain as from a bruise, or shootings in head, pain in abdomen, cloudiness before eyes, pains in hips and loins. ─ Respiration and conversation sometimes excite the cough. ─ Feels suffocated, wants doors and windows wide open. ─ Oppressed respiration, particularly from congestion to the lungs; if with a sense of heat all through the chest.

Chest

Congestion of blood to chest, with sensation of fulness in it. ─ Shortness of breath; frequent chokings, obstructed respiration, dyspnœa, and fits of suffocation, esp. when lying down at night, and also during sleep, and sometimes also when speaking or walking in open air. ─ Dyspnœa; shortness of breath and oppression of breathing on bending arms backwards. ─ Asthma at night. ─ Asthma: attacks every eight days; has rough, harsh hair; following swelling of hæmorrhoids; alternating with fits of gout or psoriasis; from suppressed eruptions or discharges. ─ Inability to take a full inspiration, with sensation as if chest were contracted. ─ Frequent, short, or wheezing respiration. ─ Snoring and rattling of mucus in chest. ─ Shooting pains in back and sacrum during an inspiration. ─ Painful sensation in chest, as of something falling forwards in it, when turning the body in bed. ─ Pain as from a bruise in thorax when the part is touched. ─ Painful obstruction in the l. side of chest, with anguish, and inability to lie on side affected. ─ Heaviness, fulness, and pressure as from a stone in chest and sternum, < in morning, also when coughing, sneezing, and yawning. ─ Pain when coughing and sneezing, as if chest were shattered or bursting. ─ Periodical spasms in chest, with sensation of constriction, spasmodic pains, shortness of breath, bluish colour of face, and inability to speak. ─ Pulsations in chest and sternum. ─ Weakness of chest, felt particularly when speaking, with great fatigue in lungs after speaking or sighing. ─ Shootings in the chest or sternum, or extending to the back, or into the l. side, < when coughing, lying on the back, during least motion, when taking a full inspiration, or when lifting the arms (over the head). ─ Pain in chest from over-lifting or after inflammation of lungs. ─ Sensation as if lungs were touching (or scraping) the back. ─ Exudation after pneumonia. ─ Sul . acts in pneumonia a part analogous to that of Bell . in brain affections (Hartlaub, confirmed by Curie). ─ The pains in the chest chiefly affect the l. side. ─ Sensation of coldness or burning in chest, sometimes extending to face. ─ Sensation as of a lump of ice in r. chest. ─ Red spots all over the chest; also brownish or butternut-coloured spots. ─ Deep yellow spot began on l. breast and spread all over body (chloasma). ─ Cheloid on sternum.

Heart and Pulse

Stitches and blows in region of heart. ─ Sharp pain at heart goes through to between shoulders; esp. with dyspeptic symptoms. ─ Cutting pains about heart, as with knives, which decrease or increase, last a few hours, with redness of face, followed by general coldness; attacks only when waking up. ─ Great orgasm of blood with violent burning in hands. ─ Violent congestion of blood towards chest and heart, sometimes with ebullition in chest, uneasiness, faintness, and trembling of arms. ─ Sensation of emptiness in the cardiac region, or pressure and sensation as if the heart had not room enough. ─ Affections in general of heart; also external chest. ─ Sensation as if heart were enlarged. ─ Frequent palpitation of the heart, sometimes even visible, and with anxiety; at night; in bed; on failing asleep; when going up an ascent. ─ Heart beats too rapidly and her throat felt as if a string were tied round it; and she did not sleep till 5 a.m. (produced. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Pulse hard, full, and accelerated.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck; in nape, with paralytic, sprained pain. ─ Child cannot hold head up neck muscles so weak. ─ Tetters on nape. ─ Swelling and inflammation of glands of nape and of neck. ─ Fetid perspiration in axillæ. ─ Swelling and suppuration of axillary glands. ─ Cracking in vertebræ of neck, esp. on bending backwards. ─ Weakness and wrenching pains, or pain as from a bruise in loins, coccyx, and in back, esp. on walking, or rising from a seat. ─ Gnawing pain in small of back. ─ Pain in small of back not permitting one to stand erect. ─ Finds himself at night lying on back. ─ Cannot lie on back on account of rush of blood to head. ─ Pain in back after manual labour. ─ Shootings in loins, back, and shoulder-blades, sometimes with obstructed respiration. ─ Sharp and rheumatic pains, drawing, tension, and stiffness in loins, back, and nape. ─ Pinching and burning sensation between the shoulder-blades. ─ Tension and bruised pain between scapulæ and in nape, which on moving head goes to shoulders. ─ Stitches beneath scapulæ which take away the breath. ─ Drawing in r. scapula, evening on going to sleep. ─ Tearing in l. scapula while sitting. ─ Needle-shoots at point of l. scapula. ─ Sprained pains in back. ─ During whole day aching in small of back, < when urinating. ─ Distortion (curvature) of spine. ─ Vertebræ softened. ─ Cracking of vertebræ on bending head backward.

Limbs

Sharp and drawing pains, or shootings in limbs, esp. in joints, and sometimes with want of strength, stiffness, and sensation of torpor in the parts affected. ─ Wrenching pains, as from contraction of the tendons, cramps, and spasms in several parts. ─ Cracking in joints, esp. of knee and elbow. ─ Inflammatory swelling of joints, with heat and redness. ─ Tingling in limbs, esp. in calves of legs and arms. ─ Tendency of limbs to go to sleep. ─ Weakness and trembling of limbs, esp. hands and feet. ─ Unsteadiness of joints. ─ Limbs "go to sleep," esp. when lying down. ─ Bruised feeling, and drawing, tearing pains in limbs (in outer parts, in muscles and joints, from above downward). ─ Cramp-like pain in muscles of limbs on motion. ─ Arthritic swelling and heat.

Upper Limbs

Pressure on shoulders as from a weight. ─ Rheumatic pain in shoulders, esp. l. ─ Stitches extending from shoulder into chest on motion. ─ Stitching beneath r. axilla. ─ Sweat on axillæ smelling like garlic. ─ Jerking of shoulders, hands, and fingers. ─ Jerking, sharp pains (tearing), and shootings in joints and muscles of arms, hands, and fingers, and also in shoulders, chiefly at night in bed. ─ Nocturnal cramps in arms. ─ Tingling in arms and fingers. ─ Swelling of arms, sometimes with heat, hardness, and lancinating or tensive pains. ─ Exostosis in arm. ─ Warts on arms, or itching miliary or red, burning spots, which appear after washing. ─ Purulent vesicles in bend of elbow. ─ Sprained pain and stiffness in wrist, < in morning. ─ Ganglion. ─ Paralytic weakness of arms and hands. ─ Swelling of hands and thumbs. ─ Rigidity and wrenching pain in joints of hands and fingers. ─ Trembling of hands, esp. when occupied with fine work. ─ Involuntary contraction of hands, as if about to grasp something. ─ Coldness in hands and fingers. ─ Great burning in palms. ─ Perspiration on hands (in the palms) and between the fingers. ─ Eruption of small, red pimples on hands and fingers, with itching. ─ Warts on fingers. ─ Desquamation, hardness, dryness, and cracking of skin of hands. ─ Itching vesicles on backs of hands. ─ Cracking and chapping on finger-joints. ─ Burning in balls and tips of fingers. ─ Cramps and jerks in fingers. ─ Contraction of tendons of hands and fingers. ─ Large and shining swelling (erysipelatous) of fingers. ─ Dead fingers. ─ Nodosities on fingers. ─ Ulcers about nails. ─ Flaws in nails. ─ Hang-nails. ─ Panaritium. ─ Chilblains (thick, red) on fingers, with itching in a warm temperature. ─ Swelling and inflammation of points of fingers, with subcutaneous ulceration and boring and pulsative pains at night.

Lower Limbs

Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in buttocks and in ischiatic tuberosities, esp. when touched, and after having been seated for a long time. ─ Purulent and painful swellings on buttocks. ─ Pain as from a wrench, and as from a bruise in hip, on least movement, with shooting pains at every step. ─ Pain in hip with contraction of leg. ─ Sharp and drawing pains in legs, esp. at night in bed. ─ Heaviness of the legs, sometimes with tension in thighs and knees, esp. at night. ─ Red, oozing, painful spots on the internal surface of thighs. ─ Middle of thigh as if broken. ─ Tension in hams, as from contraction of tendons. ─ Large (white, or) shining swelling of knee, with stiffness and painful weariness. ─ Phlegmasia alba dolens. ─ Cracking, drawing, sharp pains, and shootings in knees. ─ Tetters on hams. ─ Restlessness in legs and feet. ─ Torpor and numbness of legs. ─ Painful fatigue and paralytic weakness of legs, chiefly of knees, which yield frequently. ─ Sticking in knee and tibia. ─ Red spots and itching miliary rash on legs. ─ Transparent swelling of legs. ─ Erysipelas in leg and foot. ─ Bluish spots and swollen and varicose veins in legs. ─ Pain in calves when walking. ─ Cramps in calves and soles, esp. at night (in the soles at every step). ─ Tension in hollow of knee, as if contracted on stepping. ─ Painful sensibility of soles when walking. ─ Easy dislocation of foot when walking. ─ Stiffness of knee and ankle-joint. ─ Stiffness of maleoli. ─ Sprained pain in l. ankle when standing and walking. ─ Ankles weak. ─ Stiffness and wrenching pain in instep. ─ Tingling in legs and calves. ─ Burning and inveterate ulcers on legs or feet. ─ Tetters on ankle. ─ Shootings in feet. ─ Coldness in feet, esp. in evening, in bed, or burning sensation, chiefly in soles of feet. ─ Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them; puts them out of bed to cool them off. ─ Burning in soles; on stepping after sitting a long time; and itching, esp. on walking; wants them uncovered. ─ Cramp in soles at every step. ─ Soles cold and sweating. ─ Sweat on r. foot. ─ Sharp shooting, as from a blunt nail, in rapid succession at root of nail of great toe. ─ Swelling of feet, and esp. of the ankles. ─ Red, shining swelling of the toes. ─ Itching in the toes that had formerly been frozen. ─ Chilblains: redness and swelling with tendency to suppurate; thick and red with cracks on joints; itching < warm in bed. ─ Gnawing vesicles on soles. ─ Ulcer on instep. ─ Cramps and contraction of toes. ─ Coldness and stiffness of toes. ─ Tingling in ends of toes. ─ Large and shining swelling of toes. ─ Ulcerated and gnawing vesicles in toes. ─ Corns, with pressive or shooting pains.

Generalities

[Affections in general of any kind appearing in l. side; hair of head; external front of head; inner belly, esp. l. side; back; small of back; axilla; lumbar region; upper extremities in general; posterior and inner surface of thigh; lower extremity in general; of the nails. ─ Inflammation of mucous membranes in general; swelling of the glands. ─ Affections of the brain from suppressed cutaneous eruptions. ─ Very often when rash in scarlet fever will not come out, cannot bear to be washed. ─ Face pale, or reddish yellow. ─ Diminution of saliva. ─ Back is so stiff that one cannot rise from a stooping posture, and is always < before a storm. ─ Bleeding from inner parts in general. ─ Dropsy of inner parts, particularly in psoric persons, or resulting from a suppressed eruption. ─ Dryness of inner parts which are usually moist. ─ < : On waking, after eating; from exertion of body, unable to stand much exercise; from leaning against anything; after menstruation from taking milk; during perspiration; from suppressed perspiration from wet poultices; from abuse of Mercury ; on rising; from any quick motion, as running; during sleep; after a long sleep; during stool; in children whose bowels are regular but who suffer great pain at every passage (when bowels are moved causing much pain, stools hard and lumpy, Nitr. ac .); on stretching limbs, esp. the affected limb; when swallowing food; from talking; from water and washing; ascarides; worms in general; from suppressed menstruation; from vomiting; on getting warm in bed. ─ > : From drawing up the affected limb ─ can't bear to have it extended. ─ H. N. G.]. ─ Muscular palpitation. ─ Jerks and shocks in certain parts or throughout body, esp. when sitting or lying down. ─ Attacks of spasms. ─ Epileptic convulsions; excited by a fright or by running, and sometimes with cries, rigidity of the limbs, clenching of the teeth, and sensation as if a mouse were running over the back or arms. ─ Fainting fits; or hysterical or hypochondriacal uneasiness, sometimes with vertigo, vomiting, and perspiration. ─ Is very nervous, can't bear to be spoken to, could cry at anything (produced. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Trembling of limbs, esp. the hands. ─ Sensation of trembling in interior of body. ─ Sensations of: heat in chest; of heat anywhere; with any trouble; of sudden and frequent flushes of heat all over the body; of contraction of inner parts, chiefly in abdomen, with feeling as if it should be bandaged up or supported; of a hoop or band around the parts; buzzing or vibration in the body; of knocking or throbbing in outer parts; as of a lump in inner parts; of roughness in inner parts; of tightness or stiffness in outer parts; of sometimes being very small and then again being very large. ─ Attacks of uneasiness in whole body, which do not permit the continuance of a sitting posture, with desire to stretch and to contract the limbs alternately. ─ Great nervous agitation; towards night; could not sleep. ─ Great uneasiness and orgasm of blood. ─ Violent ebullition of blood, sometimes with burning heat in hands. ─ Great exhaustion, with great fatigue after the least conversation or the shortest walk, disposition to remain always seated, and profuse perspiration, even when sitting, reading, eating, lying down, or walking. ─ The sensation of fatigue is sometimes removed by walking. ─ Muscular weakness, esp. in knees and arms, and also in legs, with unsteadiness of gait. ─ Stooping gait. ─ Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered. ─ Standing is the most disagreeable position; every standing position is uncomfortable. ─ Extraordinary emaciation, sometimes with weakness, fatigue, and burning sensation in hands and feet. ─ Great sensitiveness to open air and to the wind; with pains in limbs on a change of weather, disposition to take cold, and many sufferings produced by exposure to open air. ─ The affections of head and stomach are those which are chiefly < in open air. ─ The majority of the sufferings are < or appear at night, or in evening, and also during repose, when standing for a long time; and on exposure to cold air; they disappear on walking, on moving the parts affected, and also in warmth of a room; but the heat of the bed renders the nocturnal pains insupportable. ─ Several symptoms appear periodically. ─ When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favourable effect, esp. in acute cases, Sul . will frequently excite reaction and clear up the case. ─ Complaints that are constantly relapsing.

Skin

[The greatest general psoric remedy for almost every kind of itch, sore, ulcer, &c.; very colicky babies with pimples, itch, or eruption on skin, or roughness of skin. ─ Troubles of very long standing resulting from suppressed eruptions ─ Sul . will very often bring these out and cause their cure. ─ Exanthema in general on any part of the body which is < by any heat, from getting warm at work, in bed, &c.; freckles; cancerous ulcers. ─ Skin dry; rough; scaly; voluptuous itching ─ "feels so good to scratch"; ecchymosis; chapping of the skin, esp. when it ulcerates; chapping of the skin after being wet; soreness of the skin in children (soreness in folds of skin); brown sphacelus. ─ Tetters in general; chapped; scurfy; painful; tearing; pulsating, &c. ─ H. N. G.]. ─ Itching in skin, even of whole body, < at night, or in morning, in bed, and often with pain as of excoriation, heat, itching (soreness), or bleeding of the part which has been scratched. ─ Eruptions, like those which often follow vaccination. ─ (Eczema rubrum. ─ Gouty-eczema with much oozing. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Seborrhœa of scalp (used locally. ─ R. T. C.). ─ Scabious eruptions and tetters of a greenish yellow colour, commencing with small itching phlyctenæ, with a red areola. ─ Herpetic, red, irregular, furfuraceous spots, or covered with small phlyctenæ, discharging a serous lymph. ─ Scabious eruptions. ─ Ecthyma with itching day and night. ─ Miliary eruptions, principally on limbs. ─ Nettle-rash. ─ Burning itching of the eruptions. ─ Hepatic spots of a yellow or brownish colour (on the body). ─ Erysipelatous inflammation, with pulsative and shooting pains. ─ Weals, even from the slightest contusion. ─ Bright scarlet redness over whole body. ─ Tingling in the skin throughout the body. ─ Red, swollen, and ulcerated chilblains, with itching in heat of a room. ─ Callous warts, esp. round the fingers. ─ Skin cold, pale, dry. ─ The skin cracks easily, esp. in open air; cracks, with pain, as from excoriation. ─ Rhagades after washing. ─ The nails crumble off. ─ Skin of hands hard and dry. ─ Desquamation and excoriation of skin in several places. ─ Pityriasis of head and chest. ─ Unhealthy skin; slightest injuries are followed by inflammation and ulceration. ─ Ulcers with elevated margins, surrounded by itchy pimples, red or bluish areola, sharp, lancinating, and tensive pains; bleeding readily, and secreting a fetid and sanious or yellow and thick pus. ─ Ulcers with itching in the sore. ─ Proud flesh in the ulcers. ─ Fistulous ulcers. ─ Furunculi. ─ Encysted swellings, or pale, tense, and hot swellings; inflammatory abscess. ─ Inflammation, swelling, and induration or suppuration of the glands. ─ Nodosities on skin of whole body, but principally in the breast, from swelling of the subcutaneous glands. ─ Dropsical, burning swelling of external parts. ─ Inflammation, swelling, and painful sensibility of the bones. ─ On the bones sensation of constriction, or as if a band were around them. ─ Repugnance to ablutions.

Sleep

Unconquerable drowsiness, esp. in afternoon and in evening by candle-light. ─ Irresistible drowsiness by day, wakefulness by night; in bed every place appeared hard for his head and he keeps moving it hither and thither. ─ Goes to sleep late. ─ Sleeps with his eyes half-open. ─ Frequent yawning. ─ Retarded sleep at night, or sleeplessness, sometimes caused by a great flow of ideas or from over-excitement. ─ Sleep too light; or agitated with frequent waking, often with starts, and in a fright. ─ Waking too early with inability to go to sleep again. ─ Morning sleep too much prolonged; sometimes deep and lethargic, with difficulty in rising in morning. ─ Unrefreshing sleep. ─ Waking frequently during night when one becomes wide awake suddenly. ─ Pains, uneasiness, and tingling in limbs, anxiety and heat, colic at night; gastralgia, vertigo, headache, visions and illusions of senses, palpitation of heart, asthmatic sufferings, hunger and thirst. ─ Inability to sleep otherwise than on back, with head high. ─ When sleeping, agitation and tossing, shocks in body and jerks in limbs, starts and fright, talking (talks loudly while asleep), cries, murmurs, wanderings, delirium, lamentation, and moaning, snoring, eyes half-open, lying on back with the arms above head, nightmare, and somnambulism. ─ On waking, illusions of senses, frightful visions, and fear of ghosts. ─ Frequent, fantastic, anxious, frightful, and horrible, anger-exciting, disgusting, and agitated dreams; dreams of fire, of dogs which bite, of being possessed of fine clothes, of falling, of danger, of death; dreams, with a presentiment concerning the events of the morrow. ─ Vivid, beautiful, pleasant dreams. ─ Singing during sleep. ─ Happy dreams when one wakes up singing; busy all the time; wishing to touch something with inability to do so. ─ Vivid dreams, remain impressed on the memory. ─ After waking mind long confused. ─ Immediately after closing eyes, horrible strange grimaces appeared to her, could not banish them. ─ Lay in a reverie and talked of whatever vision appeared to him, with open eyes, for three nights in succession. ─ Voluptuous dreams with seminal emissions. ─ Vivid dream that she is seated on the chamber, which causes her to wet the bed.

Fever

Chilliness from want of natural heat. ─ Chilliness, coldness, shivering, and shuddering, < in evening or at night in bed (followed by heat and profuse perspiration), as well as in afternoon, and when walking in open air. ─ Chilliness in forenoon; heat with cold feet in afternoon. ─ Chilliness externally with internal heat and a red face. ─ Chilliness, beginning in the toes. ─ Slight chill, 10 a.m., continues till 3 p.m., followed by heat lasting two hours, mostly in head and hands, with desire for beer. ─ Partial shiverings, principally in back, chest, and arms, coldness in hands, feet, and nose. ─ Chill constantly creeps from small of back up back. ─ Chill and fever; no reaction; constantly sinking. ─ During the shiverings paleness or heat in face, headache, and sometimes flushes of heat. ─ Frequent flushes of heat. ─ Heat, < at night or in evening or in morning, and also in afternoon, and often with (circumscribed) redness of cheeks, ardent thirst, burning sensation in hands and feet; partial shiverings, partial sweats, principally in head, face, and hands; fatigue and painful weariness in limbs, hoarseness and cough, anxiety, &c. ─ Heat at night without thirst, preceded by chilliness with thirst. ─ Febrile attacks both in forenoon and afternoon, or in evening, manifesting themselves by heat, which is preceded by shiverings, and followed or attended by perspiration, or else by heat in face, followed by shiverings. ─ During the fever palpitation of heart, delirium, weakness, obstruction, and scabs in nose, with violent thirst, which last symptom may also occur before the shiverings. ─ Swollen veins. ─ Pulse hard, quick, and full (at times intermitting). ─ Perspiration in general of single parts; on back part of the body; great disposition to perspire; perspiration, with anxiety; compound or intermittent fevers. ─ Thirst. ─ Want of perspiration. ─ Frequent and profuse perspiration, day and night, evening and morning, in bed, aptness to perspire during labour, partial perspiration, chiefly on head, nape of neck, hands, &c., acid perspiration. ─ Perspiration very debilitating, pungent smell, very seldom offensive, at times cold. ─ Sweat smelling of sulphur. ─ Perspiration only on one side of body; < at night and in morning.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Unconsciousness.
Weak memory, particularly for names ; no memory for what transpired recently ; forgetfulness.
After meals congestion to head, with throbbing and forgetfulness ; feels as if crazy ; does not know whether she has done what she intended or whether objects seen are really there, or whether she only imagines them to be, until she has
touched them ; menses scanty and late.
Repeats everything said to him on account of difficult comprehension.
Great distraction of mind ; cannot fix his mind on present objects, and does his work awkwardly.
Seems stupid, senseless, confused, avoids conversation.
Dulness ; difficult thinking ; misplaces or cannot find proper words when talking or writing.
Numerous morbid ideas, extremely disagreeable, causing rancor ; neglect of business ; < in evening in bed, when ideas prevent falling asleep.
Rack their brains about metaphysical subtleties.
Fantastical illusions ; monomania ; fancies.
Foolish happiness and pride, thinks himself in possession of beautiful things ; even rags seem beautiful.
Delirium ; imbecility ; insanity.
A little girl with religious insanity, takes passages of Scripture literally and acts upon them.
Furiously mad ; wanders about streets ; after suppression of tinea capitis.
Greatly inclined to weep without cause.
Moaning and complaining, with wringing of hands day and night, much thirst, little appetite, swallows food hastily.
About an hour after he falls asleep, he suddenly starts up and screams, leaps out of bed, and runs about like a maniac, two or three times every night ; wrings his hands, sweats profusely and trembles.
Involuntary haste when taking hold of anything and when walking.
Indisposed to everything, work, pleasure, talking or motion ; indolence of mind and body.
Great obstinacy ; dislikes to have any one near him.
Satiety of life, longing for death.
Disgust, to nausea, about any effluvia arising from his own body.
Sentimental ; changing mood.
Sensitive disposition.
Weeps easily at slightest provocation.
Sadness : without cause ; without courage ; weary of life.
During day sad, lachrymose ; weeps if one attempts to console her.
In evening sudden sadness and disinclination for everything.
While walking in open air sudden sadness ; is filled with anxious, despondent thoughts, from which she cannot free herself, they make her suspicious, peevish and lachrymose.
Greatly depressed, hypochondriacal and sighing.
Depressed about her illness, and out of humor.
Melancholy mood ; dwelling on religious or philosophic speculations ; anxiety about soul's salvation ; indifference about lot of others.
Sleepless, disgusted with life, fears the future, where she sees nothing but misery and suffering. θ Melancholia.
Woman, æt. 41 ; menses irregular ; profound melancholy ; considers herself disgraced ; speaks of dying, finds life insupportable ; noise and odors irritate her greatly, also least contradiction or advice (Nux vom. [600] restored menstruation).
Melancholia and epilepsy, with strong impulsive tendency to suicide, by drowning or by precipitating herself from window ; epileptic fits, as many as five a day, with at times two hours of unconsciousness, always < during menstruation, Sulph. 10m. cured.
Frequently during day attacks of melancholy lasting a few minutes, feels extremely unhappy without cause, she wishes to die.
Great dejection, with thoughts of suicide ; feels inferior to everybody ; can decide nothing ; listless, unable to work ; can understand nothing she reads ; great disgust, amounting to nausea, at odors of her own body ; chronic
catarrh, with a bland yellow discharge ; a lump comes in her throat, must swallow continually ; < in a warm room ; constipation with frequent ineffectual desire for stool, with passage of fetid flatus which disgusts her much ; amenorrhœa of five months' standing ;
a sense of weight in pelvic region when walking ; muddy complexion with occasional acne.
Destroys clothing, imagines she has everything in abundance.
Too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live.
Hypochondriac mood through day, merry in evening.
Hypochondriasis after suppression of eruption.
Worried by trifles. θ Uterine displacement.
Vexations and morbid ideas of past arise from most indifferent thoughts, and from every occurrence in life, which continue to be united with new vexations, so that she cannot free herself from them.
Violent starting up, even when his name is called.
Anxious, fearful.
Great anxiety, fear lest she should come to ruin ; went about wringing her hands ; tried to run away ; pale face ; dull eyes ; pressure on head ; pain in epigastrium ; stools white, hard ; frequent rigors.
Anxiety : in evening in bed ; with heat of head and cold feet ; on awaking, with heat at night ; as if some great misfortune were impending ; with palpitation, prevents falling asleep.
Very much excited and very passionate.
Excitable mood, easily irritated, but quickly penitent.
Irritable mood ; easily excited and always absorbed in himself.
Dread of being washed (in children).
Peevish ; irritable ; quick-tempered.
Ill-humored and fault-finding.
Bad-humor and great disinclination to speak.
Ill-humored ; vexed with herself ; everything makes her impatient.
He could tear himself to pieces with vexation.
Child is intolerably violent and difficult to quiet.
So obstinate and morose that he answers no one, and will tolerate no one about him ; he cannot obtain quickly enough what he wants.
Egotism.
Has no rest anywhere day or night.

Sensorium

Dulness of head : in evening ; on waking at night ; in morning, with pressure in forehead until noon ; after walking in open air ; and confusion ; as from rush of blood, especially on ascending steps.
Heaviness in head : every motion was disagreeable ; while sitting, lying, moving and stooping ; and dizziness ; and confusion.
Heaviness and fulness in forehead, < when raising head, after sleep, after talking ; > when sitting, or lying with head high.
Confusion of head : as from insufficient sleep ; on awaking, in morning ; frequently recurring ; painful ; after sleeping ; after dinner ; in forenoon ; with giddiness ; long-continued ; 11 A. M., and giddiness, with dimness of
vision ; and aching in occiput, as if a band were tied tightly around forehead ; and weight of head, after sleeping ; in evening ; and pressing in forehead.
Head seems distended.
Vertigo : while sitting or standing ; with nosebleed, in morning ; when stooping ; when rising from bed ; when walking in open air ; with nausea ; with vanishing of sight ; with inclination to fall to left side ; <
after meals, particularly after dinner ; in forenoon ; when walking over running water or looking at objects in rapid motion ; as if swinging and as if bed were not large enough to hold him ; like reeling, when walking ; while walking in open air, could not step
firmly ; did not dare to stoop or look down, was obliged to steady herself to avoid falling ; tendency to fall forward on suddenly rising from a seat ; in morning, as if one stood on wavering ground ; from venous stagnation, and feeling of fulness in abdomen,
constipation, flatulency ; suppressed hemorrhoids ; from receded or suppressed cutaneous eruption ; chronic, with irritating discharges.
Stupor, with pale face, dropping of lower jaw, eyes half open, cold sweat on face, suppression of urine, and frequent twitching of muscles.

Inner head

Rush of blood to head : a pressure out at eyes ; with roaring in ears, and heat of face ; during menses ; during a soft stool ; at night in bed ; arising from chest with throbbing ; < when stooping, talking, in open
air ; > sitting in warm room.
Headache : in forehead in morning ; as from a weight pressing upon top of brain, and a cord tied around head ; > by shutting eyes ; with nausea ; on stooping ; on ascending steps ; as if brain were beating against skull, on nodding head ; every
step is painfully felt ; violent, at night, disturbing sleep ; pressive in forehead, in morning after rising, also in afternoon, during menses ; pressive, from one temple to other ; pressive, in vertex, morning and evening, as if eyes would be pressed down ;
jerking ; tensive ; tearing, as with a saw ; stitching ; stitches out at eyes ; hammering, from vivacious talking ; like blows through head ; throbbing, in morning ; aching in forehead, and confusion as if he had taken too much alcoholic drink, in
morning, lasting until noon ; in forehead on waking, going off after getting up and washing ; pressive, in occiput ; pressive, over eyebrows, almost all day ; above right eye, lasting until noon ; over eyes, every morning ; as from stopped coryza ; as from
a board in front of head ; as if screwed together, in and over forehead ; tearing, in forehead ; pinching, from one temple to other ; shooting, in temples close to eyes, on moving them or on looking at anything ; sticking, in temples ; violent, in vertex, in
evening as if hair would be torn out, it bristles on most painful spots ; boring, on top, beneath vertex, the spot is painful to touch ; pressive, in vertex, compels wrinkling forehead and screwing up eyes ; burning, on vertex on awaking, succeeded by a cool feeling in same
place ; aching throbbing, in crown ; in left side of occiput, as from congestion, after waking ; pulsating, in left side of occiput, at last changes to a jerking every day, as if head would burst ; throbbing, at night ; pressive, in occiput, at night ; nightly,
with sleeplessness ; every seventh day ; congestive ; nervous ; catarrhal ; rheumatic ; gouty ; syphilitic ; from suppressed eruptions ; from abuse of spirits or metallic substances, hairwashes, etc. ; from debility, loss of animal fluids,
severe study, etc.
Tearing or stitches in forehead or temples, from within outward ; < from eating or stooping ; > when pressing head together, or when moving about.
Painful tingling on vertex, and in temples.
Sensation of emptiness in occiput ; < in open air, and from talking ; > indoors.
Drawing and tearing through head.
Sick headache, very weakening, once a week or every two weeks ; pain lacerating, stupefying, numbing.
Feeling of coldness about head, a cold spot on vertex continually ; piercing, with buzzing in ears.
Feeling as if head were enlarged.
Heat on crown of head ; cold feet ; frequent flushing.
Severe tearing in frontal region ; particularly around eyes and nose, affected parts extremely sensitive to touch, as if a blister had been applied ; at same time, coldness in head and of body ; on application of warmth, pulse becomes
more rapid ; stitches through eyes ; attacks daily, paroxysmal, also at night, preceded by formication in nose, as if she would sneeze, short cough, yawning, followed by sweat. θ Headache.
Throbbing, tearing pains in occiput, extending forward, with nausea, vomiting and pressure in eyes ; attacks preceded by flatulency ; after two or three days headache disappears, then vesicles form in mouth, with heat of mouth, which disappear and are followed by pains in
throat ; attacks every three or four weeks. θ Headache.
Every morning 9 o'clock, severe pressive pain in forehead with heat, humming in head, increasing until midday, and disappearing 4 P. M. : of several months' duration ; after suppressed itch. θ Headache.
Severe throbbing, pressing pains in head, < from warm food, warmth of room and in sun ; congestion to head with loss of consciousness, > sprinkling with cold water ; at times, itching of anus ; constipation ; flatulency ; after suppression of itch.
About 10 A. M. pain begins at inner point of left eyebrow and passes steadily along until it involves whole superciliary ridge, which becomes very sensitive to touch ; lachrymation of left eye and impairment of sight ; pain reaches its acme by midday, then gradually declines
and by evening has worn away ; average duration of attacks ten days ; pain < from worry, and during menses ; often hysterical and faint ; acne of face ; usually passes a week without action of bowels. θ Sick
headache.
Nocturnal headaches < from least motion in bed ; heaviness in head, particularly in occiput ; pains in head as if head would burst ; stitching, humming in head ; throbbing pain in vertex, coldness, a cold spot on head.
For three years, headache ; symptoms get worse and worse until middle of Summer, and then steadily decline ; cannot endure being excited ; cannot remain long in a heated place ; frequently faints with pain ; is extremely nervous ; paroxysms generally
every two or three days ; pain begins left side of head, sometimes extends all over it ; > from cold ; < from warmth, meditation, excitement and after food ; generally lasts twenty-four hours.
Pain confined to one spot on top of head, near middle line, inclining to left side ; came on about a year and a half ago from cold ; quinine temporarily > pain ; pain at its acme about 5 or 6 P. M., continues to be violent until 2 A. M., when it quits him
instantaneously ; < in Winter,`and whenever weather is unusually cold ; pain appears to be in brain, and when violent almost drives him mad ; dyspeptic, foul breath ; furred tongue, very weak, perspires profusely, low-spirited, nervous, cannot bear moving about.
For two years, severe headache, extending from forehead to occiput ; < when he catches cold ; begins every morning after rising ; gets a little > through day ; violent pains in shoulders flying to head ; pain prevents him raising
arms to head, particularly right ; tightness on chest.
For two months, constant pricking pain across forehead, with giddiness, < on stooping, in evening ; cannot sleep until after 1 or 2 A. M. ; after checked diarrhœa.
Pain in forehead and vertex extending to eyes ; sharp, violent, > by warmth ; scalp tender when pain is worst.
Pain coming on at 10 A. M., sometimes as early as 6 A. M., and lasting an hour, seldom longer ; confined to occiput ; sensation as if head had been beaten.
After cessation of chronic diarrhœa, which was more frequent in morning than evening, a headache ensued which awakened her at night, with sensation as if top of head were being pressed against wall, with heat in whole head ; headache lasts all day.
Severe, sharp, darting pains in and about left eye, extending to inner ear of same side ; pains suddenly leave eye and manifest themselves about left ovary ; great tenderness of scalp.
Headache apt to commence in left side and go round to r., vomiting of acid matter, usually little or no thirst.
Pain commences in left temple, extends to right, over right eyeball to occiput ; pain from superior portion of sternum through to back, and crosswise between shoulders, tenderness on pressure ; swelling and soreness of left side of cervical spine ; sudden vertigo, nausea
and vomiting ; loss of memory, forgets his own name ; deafness in left ear.
Intermittent periodic neuralgia, < every twenty-four hours, generally at 12 M. or 12 P. M., and analogously < in midsummer and midwinter.
Chronic headache of four years' standing ; scarcely a day without ; generally begins about 5 or 6 P. M., front or back, splitting, with nausea and anorexia ; ceases as he falls asleep ; forehead is hot, > by sponging with cold water ; head always more
or less painful ; emotional, easily moved to tears ; strong desire for highly spiced food, apples, pickles, cider, etc.
Periodic neuralgic headache, affecting greater part of head, and coming on about noon every day, and lasting until evening, when it gradually subsides.
Headache with throbbing, increasing with increase of fever.
Headache is attended by nausea ; hair falls out ; forehead is covered with acne.
Pressive headache in forehead, < on motion, with great restlessness.
Sick headache once a week ; pains stupefying ; numbing ; walking painful ; < at night and damp, cold weather.
Head symptoms < : when awaking ; in evening ; from motion ; stooping ; talking ; mental exertion and out doors ; every seventh day ; during rest ; sitting ; from pressure ; moving head ; in a warm room.
Meningitis : soporous sleep, from which they awake every ten to twenty minutes with loud screams ; grinding of teeth ; chewing motion of lower jaw ; vomiting of food ; photophobia ; constipation ; small, frequent pulse ;
thirst ; dry, white tongue ; sour smell from mouth ; cheeks alternately red and pale, or one cheek red, one pale ; changes color frequently ; head hot ; skin of rest of body dry and cool ; head sweats and has odor of musk ; can only lie in one certain
position, that is with occiput drawn far backward, on changing this position, screaming and vomiting ; delirious talking, during which they fall asleep ; startled awaking ; sopor, cannot be aroused by loud calls.
Brain affections in children who do not like to be washed, have pimples, boils and other eruptions on head, face and everywhere, pick at nose, have red lips, crave sour things, feel faint in forenoon, may have diarrhœa early in morning ; sleep restless,
start when falling asleep, cry out during sleep, or murmur, moan, whine or snore ; feet cold in morning and hot in evening ; they run about but do not like to stand, sit hunched and walk stooping.
Fell, striking on back of head, was taken up insensible ; following night, restless, followed by vomiting, dizziness on stooping, or standing on an elevation, with a tendency to fall backward ; darting pain through eyes ; frontal
cephalalgia, pupils dilated.
Hydrocephalus : developing slowly after psoric eruptions ; head drops backward ; likes to lie with head low ; face changing, often red or pale ; nausea while lifting head up ; breath sour ; urine as if mixed with
flour ; subacute and chronic, in scrofulous children, where effusion has not progressed too far ; spasms, in scrofulous children ; regularly protrudes and retracts tongue.

Outer head

Sensitiveness of vertex, pressing pain when touched ; < in evening, from heat of bed, in morning when awaking ; smarting and burning after scratching.
Roots of hair painful, especially to touch.
Severe itching on forehead and scalp.
Feeling of coldness about head.
Falling out of hair.
Itching or painful pimples on scalp.
Itching pimples on forehead ; inflamed, painful to touch.
On forehead patches and groups of black points, like comedones.
Humid eruption on top of head, like tinea capitis, small, grainlike pustules, filled with pus, drying up into honeylike scabs.
On two spots on vertex, tender, scabby elevations, size of a pea.
Inflamed and suppurating pimples on hairy scalp.
Small vesicles on top of head, filled with limpid fluid ; itch a great deal and form yellow or brown crusts.
Eruption on scalp ; pus oozing out on different parts of head ; scalp and hair matted with scales of dry pus ; small boils behind ears ; rash over body. θ Impetigo.
Eruption on scalp since two years ; part covered with a thick scab ; when crust is removed from poulticing an eruption appears, which is vesicular at beginning, but soon becomes pustular, these burst, fluid concretes, and a thick crust is developed. θ Eczema
impetiginodes.
Thick, yellowish crust, somewhat moist, covering whole scalp and matted in with hair. θ Eczema.
Large, thick, moist crust on back of head. θ Eczema.
Thick, moist, greenish-yellow crust covering nearly whole left side of head ; has a tendency to suppurate and has suppurated, leaving a large scar ; of four years' duration. θ Eczema.
Eczema around margin of hairy scalp, from ear to ear, posteriorly.
Humid, offensive eruption on top of head, filled with pus, drying up into honeylike scabs. θ Tinea capitis.
Dry, offensive, easily bleeding, burning eruption, begins on back of head and behind ears ; pains and cracks ; > from scratching.
Humid, offensive eruption, with thick pus, yellow crusts, bleeding and burning.
Hair dry, falling off ; scalp sore to touch, itching violently in evening, when getting warm in bed ; dandruff.
Eruption on head since seven years ; commenced with a few pustules and gradually spread over a surface about three times as large as a silver dollar ; crusts thick, yellow and very adherent ; part devoid of hair ; eyes weak, lids
much inflamed and agglutinated in morning. θ Porrigo favosa.
Contractive pain as from a band around cranium, with sensation as if flesh were loose, followed by inflammation, swelling and caries of bones ; < in wet, cold weather and when at rest ; > from motion.
Fontanelles close too late.
Dandruff.
A sanguineous tumor, size of a black walnut, on right of occipital bone ; anterior fontanelle closed, posterior open and connected with tumor ; after Calc. phos. [200], tumor lessened, but came to a standstill ; anterior fontanelle opened more, and connection
between posterior and tumor disappeared ; Sulphur. [200] one dose, completed cure.

Sight and eyes

Sensitiveness of eyes to daylight ; intolerance of sunlight ; photophobia, with stitches, < in sultry weather ; shuns light during sweat.
Dimness of vision : as of a veil or gauze before eyes ; as from a fog ; with headache ; as if cornea had lost its transparency ; sudden paroxysms of nyctalopia ; while reading ; objects seem more distant ; for near and
distant objects ; with weakness of eyes ; blindness ; cataract, glaucoma ; with innumerable, confused, dark spots floating before eyes.
Hallucinations of sight : flickering before eyes ; small dark specks ; dark points and spots ; black flies seem to float not far from eyes ; gas or lamp lights appear to be surrounded with a halo (cataract or glaucoma) ; like
black, gauze or feather dust ; scintillations and white spots ; black points or stripes before eyes.
Impairment of vision of both eyes, when attempting to read, letters become instantly so muddled and blurred, one running into other, that it is impossible for him to read at all, without powerful convex glasses ; wears convexes of eleven inches
focus, prescribed by an oculist ; there was no organic change in eye, and no objective symptoms to account for impairment ; sinking, hungry and exhausted feeling at epigastrium, at 11 A. M. daily ; heat rising to face, especially after washing ; faint feeling on going
into a bath ; feet cold ; very timid and easily startled ; teeth and gums tender, bleed at times ; < from chewing, especially cheese ; feeling of a lump in epigastrium after food ; at times canine appetite ; food returns if he runs.
Amaurosis after a sudden disappearance of an eruption on head ; can only see outlines of objects ; spots and weblike forms appear before eyes ; single objects seem double and indistinct ; pupils greatly dilated, do not contract in strong light.
After disappearance of a severe tearing pain in left side of forehead, from which she suffered four months, muscæ volitantes ; for last four days gradual impairment of sight ; can scarcely distinguish day from night ; burning, tearing pains in eyes. θ Amaurosis.
Amaurosis in a child 4 years old ; no structural change in eye, but eyeballs in continual motion from side to side ; has had an eruption suppressed ; itchiness of skin (removed by Arsen.)
Asthenopia, muscular and accommodative ; gaslight hurts more than sunlight.
Amaurosis and amblyopia, with or without diplopia, from suppression of an eruption.
After severe neuralgia in head, especially on left side, an appearance of threads before eyes which she could not wipe away ; increased until she could only distinguish day from night ; burning, tearing in eyes, and conjunctiva slightly red. θ Amaurosis.
Has abused eyes by reading, writing, sewing ; trouble began in right eye, which is < ; sensation as if eye were gone, and a cool wind blew out of empty socket ; severe pains and itching around back of eye ; when closing eyes, flashes of light ; mist like a veil or
cloud before eye ; < from strong light ; using eyes causes intense headache over them ; desire to spasmodically close eyes, which gives relief ; menses regular, accompanied by severe bearing-down pains, with pain in hips and back, and sexual excitement ; using
eyes causes nausea, heartburn, faintness at stomach, with a desire to eat between meals (Sepia relieved, Sulphur finished the cure). θ Asthenopia.
Blindness of left eye after suppressed itch ; eye has a dead look ; pupil enlarged and immovable ; in middle of lens an opacity, as if it had been punctured by a needle ; lids and conjunctiva somewhat reddened ; on holding hand quite near to eye, he can dimly
discern fingers.
Hyperemia of retina.
Retinitis, from overuse of eyes ; congestion of optic nerve ; outlines ill-defined, pain around eye, and itching in internal canthi.
Chorio-retinitis, and uncomplicated choroiditis ; darting pains ; chronic trouble, based upon abdominal venosity, stagnation in portal circulation, habitual constipation and cerebral congestion ; psoric taint.
Opacities in vitreous, resulting from choroideal exudations, old hemorrhages, etc.
Sympathetic irritation of right eye, after removal of left ; sharp pain in stump, extending in stitches to healthy eye, in which there is considerable irritation and photophobia, occasional obscuration of vision and commencing presbyopia ; constant discharge from stump,
which is excessively sensitive to touch.
For three years, dimness of vision of left eye, finally so marked as to prevent recognition of friends without aid of right eye ; sees a bright halo around flame of candle ; skin of face dry and hard ; his work frequently obliged him to stand in water for a length of time.
θ Cortical cataract.
Mrs E., æt. 48, complains of heaviness of eyelids ; mist and grey fog before eyes, and a feeling as of sand in eyes ; nursing a baby ; in right eye beginning of cataract ; burning in forehead ; flashes in right eye ; pain as if beaten in small of
back ; nebulous sight ; eruption on ears (Caustic. [60] finished cure).
Cataract after suppression of an eruption.
Redness of iris.
Iritis, scrofulous and syphilitic ; chronic cases ; drawing pain around eye, sharp sticking pains in eyes, < at night and toward morning ; eyeball painful on motion.
Adhesions (posterior synechiæ) after iritis.
Hypopion ; from iritis, or other circumstances.
Trachoma, acute and chronic ; pains sharp and sticking in morning, lids glued together ; water is not a favorite application, and usually aggravates trouble.
Pterygium, dependent upon hereditary psora.
Pannus, in patients of strumous diathesis ; true pannus crassum, whole of cornea presenting appearance of a piece of fresh raw beef ; green halo around candlelight ; herpetic pannus, resulting from phlyctenules, etc.
Wound of cornea, with hemorrhage into eye, and prolapse of iris.
Hypopion, with deep ulceration of centre of cornea involving one-third its surface.
Pustular inflammation of cornea, or conjunctiva, with marked lachrymation ; pains sharp and stitching, as if a needle or splinter were sticking in eye.
Superficial and deep ulcers on cornea, intense redness of eye, great photophobia.
Specks or ulcers on cornea ; opacities.
Keratitis parenchymatosa in a scrofulous subject, cornea like ground glass, photophobia, lids swollen and bleed easily.
Keratitis pustulosa : with sharp pain in eye at 2 P. M., also awakened early in morning by pain ; of seven years' duration, cornea hazy, and very fine vessels on edge, with pustules, conjunctiva injected, sharp pain in left eye like knives, moderate photophobia, and
lachrymation ; in a large, fat, unhealthy child, much photophobia, discharge from ears and nose, eruptions on head and face, head dry and hot, so that it dries rapidly after washing, restless at night, etc. ; photophobia < morning and evening, face rough and nose sore ;
photophobia, lachrymation and cracking of external canthi, restless first part of night ; from suppression of an eruption behind ears ; dislikes having eye washed, appetite poor, and restless at night ; with sharp sticking pains and pustular eruptions around eye ; from a
cold, with much sharp, darting pains in eye ; < in morning and darting pain through temples.
Conjunctivitis pustulosa ; child restless at night ; with sharp sticking pain, < by moving eyes ; at first > by bathing, afterward < ; stinging pain, > by washing in warm water ; with great redness and sharp sticking pains ;
with sore pain in left eye, > by cold applications, burning in palms of hands ; with dryness of lids.
Incipient sclerotitis ; feeling of fulness and largeness of ball, < by use, or bright light, especially gaslight.
Subretinal tumor, in a girl 9 years old ; a year previous, slight drooping of lid of right eye, has slightly increased ; child cannot see from this eye ; had suffered from enlarged glands and abscesses in neck, scars of which remained ; in right eye a partial ptosis
and a divergent squint of about half a line ; movement of eye seems perfect in all directions ; no external congestion or inflammation ; pupil sensitive to changes of light before left eye, but sluggish to light and shade before its own eye ; vision is for fingers only at
eight inches ; examination revealed a tumor under or in the retina, which covered macula lutea ; vessels could be traced over tumor and small hemorrhagic spots were found around it ; size of tumor equalled two diameters of optic disk, and its elevation nine millimetres.
Eyes sunken, surrounded by blue rings.
Biting of eyes and lachrymation, every evening.
A feeling as of sand in eyes.
Stitches as with a knife in right eye.
Itching and burning of eyes.
Burning heat in eyes ; painful smarting.
Sensation as of a foreign body in eyes.
Burning and easy fatigue of eyes when reading.
Burning of eyes without redness.
Burning shooting beneath lids of left eye, as if sand had go into it.
Heaviness of eyes.
Dryness of eyes.
Eyeballs are painful on moving them.
Pressure in eyeballs on walking in open air.
In evening, dull aching and feeling of weight in both eyeballs, with loss of vision as if a thick veil were before eyes.
Pain as from dryness of eyeballs, and a sensation as if they rubbed against lids.
Violent pains in left eye, as if it were rubbed against spiculæ of glass, and drawn in toward pupil.
Severe cutting in right eye.
Shooting in left eye, < from reading.
Redness of eyes during day ; itching in evening.
Purulent mucus in eyes.
Inflammation of eyes or lids ; aching ; smarting, burning, or a feeling like sand.
Painful inflammation of eye, from presence of foreign body (after Acon.).
Left eye very red, lids puffy, upper one heavy and raised with difficulty ; sensation as of a foreign body in eye ; pustule on lower part of conjunctiva ; lids covered with secretion, agglutinated in morning ; dark circles around
eyes, mist before them ; headache above eyebrows as from a blow ; forehead painful to touch ; constant desire to vomit ; disgust for food ; repugnance for meat ; wishes for nothing but vinegar and raw things, after eating, suffocating weight on stomach, causing
rush of blood to head and ringing in ears ; uterus presses upon bladder when she walks ; on rising up, limbs totter. θ Catarrhal ophthalmia.
Sclerotic of left eye, highly injected and puffy ; naturally brown iris appears reddish ; at lower portion of iris, a white spot, as large as a lentil ; photophobia ; profuse lachrymation ; agglutination of lids at night ; eyeball pains when moved ;
drawing pains round about eye ; pain in occiput as if hollow, when lying ; stool hard.
For twelve days ophthalmia and diarrhœa ; severe paroxysmal cutting pains in abdomen, with diarrhœa and tenesmus, < at night ; pulse rapid, feverish.
Conjunctiva and meibomian glands swollen and inflamed ; eyes injected ; a thin, acrid, excoriating discharge on opening eyes ; pain as if salt were in them ; cornea dim ; photophobia ; cannot clearly distinguish objects ; sobs, cries, fears she will
become blind.
Conjunctiva of right eye greatly injected and inflamed ; cornea very dim, dirty, dusty-looking, as if covered by a film ; vision greatly impaired ; objects appear as if through a fog, are indistinct ; lids red, burning pains ; tenacious, acrid, excoriating
discharge ; agglutination of lids at night ; constant lachrymation, < in damp weather ; boy, æt. 18, after an attack of smallpox, when 5 years old.
For many years, periodical attacks of conjunctivitis, frequently lasting three months ; conjunctiva of left eye highly injected ; pressing, tensive burning, itching pains through eye ; fog before eyes ; tearing pain in left side of head ; constipation ;
chilliness during day ; heat at night ; pulse hard, irritable.
Caught cold in right eye, about two months ago, which caused lachrymation and pricking pains ; application of rose-water ; three weeks ago both eyes were affected ; constant lachrymation, of a rather gelatinous character, all day, but
< morning and evening ; in morning sees a halo around artificial light, yellow inside, then green, then yellow outside ; removed by washing ; gaslight looks dim ; smarting in external canthi, which are red and prick at times.
Redness of both eyes, cannot stand light ; headache almost every day, commencing in occiput, spreading to forehead ; tongue coated red in middle, borders red ; papillæ on apex prominent ; hungry, gone feeling, between 19 and 11 A. M.
Eyes red and hot, occasional stitches or stinging, obscuration of sight, mist before eyes, lachrymation when looking sharp out of doors.
Arthritic ophthalmia, frequent attacks for years, intense photophobia, confining him to a dark room for weeks and months ; sclerotic red ; cornea surrounded by a bluish ring ; pains about eyes.
For years attacks of arthritic ophthalmia, which made him blind for weeks or months ; photophobia, could not bear least exercise of eyes ; conjunctiva but slightly reddened ; sclerotic bright, rose-colored ; bluish circle around cornea ; pain around eye.
Scrofulous inflammation of eyes since birth ; left eye < ; looks like a piece of raw meat, was larger and protruded from socket ; right eye also considerably affected ; with left eye could not see anything by day, while at night he could distinguish a light ; sight
of right eye good ; feeling as if eye were full of sand ; green halo around light.
Attack of scrofulous ophthalmia every eighth year of her life, in month of January, or February ; ulcers on cornea, with almost total blindness for six or eight weeks ; always affects left eye.
Whole left eye seems to have grown larger, and its coverings are extraordinarily swollen ; albuginea is blood-red from turgid vessels in it ; cornea appears dimmed, as if covered with fine dust ; an ulcer on cornea which had recently cicatrized was now again in full
suppuration and had become deeper and broader ; intolerance of light ; constant, violent, pressive pains all around orbit, increased to a frightful degree on moving eyes, or exposure to light of sun, even though lids are closed, pain then almost drives him to despair, includes
whole head, and deprives him of all rest and sense. θ Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Right eye greatly injected ; iris obscure ; lids swollen, red, suppurating ; photophobia ; shooting pain above eye traversing head ; great lachrymation ; little appetite ; from time to time, pain in stomach and abdomen. θ Scrofulous
ophthalmia.
From her youth has been subject to weak eyes, with occasional epiphora, injection of eyes with much pain ; now lay in bed, eyes covered with a bandage, as light was intolerable ; conjunctiva and meibomian glands swollen and inflamed ; sclerotic red ; on opening lids,
a large quantity of acrid, corrosive water gushed out, which excoriated skin ; eyes pain as if salt had gotten into them ; cornea dim ; could not distinguish objects rightly ; fears she will become blind.
Borders of lids thick and puffy, ulcerated ; cornea covered with maculæ, and, independently of these, visual power of eye so diminished that she could not see small objects at all, and larger ones appeared as if enveloped in smoke and mist ; general health much affected ;
after Sulph., there appeared an eruption of pocks, warts, hepatic spots, pustules, herpetic scabs in different parts of body, this lasted eight days after leaving off remedy, after which eyes were completely cured. θ Scrofulous
ophthalmia.
Scrofulous ophthalmia ; much photophobia and lachrymation, lids convulsively closed and could not be opened.
Traumatic ophthalmia ; violent palpebral conjunctivitis ; opacity of cornea ; abscess in layers ; hypopion.
Ophthalmia neonatorum, profuse, thick, yellow discharge, swelling of lids, etc. ; tendency to relapse ; non-syphilitic.
Paresis of right nervous abducens : woman, æt. 40, had for three months been troubled with double images to right and downward ; no perceptible diminution in movements of eye, no apparent cause for paresis ; some pain in eye on looking upward ; headache and
restlessness at night.
Lachrymation : in morning, followed by dryness ; and burning in morning ; profuse and burning from acrid, excoriating tears ; in open air, dry in room ; itching and biting in eyes.
Lids : dryness of inner surface ; pressure, in evening ; burning, inflamed, red, tense on motion ; burning, externally ; burning, in afternoon, with flow of tears ; burning in edges in morning ; cutting-burning in
borders ; smarting, in inner side, after midnight, followed by a rubbing dryness upon inner surface ; smarting as from dryness of margins ; with inclination to rub them ; sensitiveness of edges in morning ; itching as if they would become inflamed ; itching,
with intolerance of light ; itching, burning, redness and swelling ; itching in morning, on awaking ; prickling, causing him to scratch and rub ; agglutinated mornings ; twitching, jerking ; ulceration of margins ; drawn together spasmodically, in
morning ; itching pustules on margins ; granulated ; dry, crusts in lashes ; lashes fall out ; eczematous ; chronic blepharitis ; ectropium or entropium ; < from bathing eyes.
Itching, burning and smarting in canthi.
Dryness of eyes in room, lachrymation in open air.
Recurrence of successive crops of styes.
Blennorrhœa of lachrymal sac.
Lachrymal fistula.
Itching in eyebrows.

Hearing and ears

Sensation as if sounds did not come through ears, but through forehead and brain.
Deafness : preceded by oversensitiveness of hearing ; especially for human voice ; from disposition to catarrhs ; < after eating, or blowing nose.
Deafness of right ear from aural catarrh ; mild conjunctivitis ; dry throat ; empty feeling in pit of stomach ; swollen toes, with large corns, so that he had to slit his shoes ; gleet of ten years' duration.
After scarlatina eleven years ago, gradually lost hearing ; can hear loud noises, such as locomotive whistle, when near, but only with great effort voice in conversation ; at times slight purulent discharge from ears ; feeling of hunger at 10 A. M.
Impaired hearing ; heat and heavy pressure on top of head, with soreness of brain extending to inner ear.
Hardness of hearing of long standing, with hissing and humming in ears.
Deafness ; surging noise in right ear ; < on excitement or moving ; had rheumatism in Winter ; < when warm in bed ; at night, pain in face, comes on 11 to 12 P. M.
Frequent stoppage of ears, especially when eating, or blowing one's nose, also on one side only.
Undulating feeling in ears, as of water, or whizzing and roaring.
Sounds in ears : much ringing ; swashing as from water ; humming or hissing.
Something seems to have come before left ear.
Stinging, tearing and itching in left ear.
Sharp, shooting, stitching pains in ears, to throat.
Stitching, tearing, pressing pains in ears, from ulceration.
Violent pressure in ears on swallowing and sneezing.
Tingling in ears.
Otitis : in psoric patients with tendency to skin eruptions, coryzas, and cerebral congestion ; from a furuncle in meatus ; in children who suddenly cry out with pain, while they appear listless and unobservant, and where it seems doubtful whether
irritation is in brain or in intestinal canal ; in complication with meningitis or eruptive fevers ; lancinating, stinging, tearing in ear, extending to head and throat, < by disturbance, musical sounds, and all noises, and human voice is heard imperfectly ; chronic with a
purulent discharge.
Discharge from both ears, dirty, very offensive ; profuse, of a penetrating odor, at times causing an eruption about auricles ; very much objects to have ears washed out.
For ten years has had otorrhœa from both ears, resulting from scarlatina ; constant discharge of a very offensive, sour-smelling odor, so disagreeable that stench could not be removed by washing or syringing.
Diphtheria a month ago, left her with a running of ears, eczematous eruption behind ears ; discharge very fetid ; dislikes to be washed ; mucous discharge from nose.
Purulent offensive-smelling discharge from ears ; eczema behind ears, bleeding from scratching ; nose and left upper eyelid covered with crusts.
Fetid, thin, corroding discharge from ear.
Discharge from ears, every seventh day.
Purulent, offensive otorrhœa, < in left ear.
Ears very red, with children.
Itching in external ear.

Smell and nose

Smell before nose as of an old catarrh ; as of old offensive mucus.
Pressure in right nasal bone, in evening.
Burning in septum of nose.
Crawling in nose, as in coryza.
Stoppage and dryness of inner nose.
At one time acrid fluid from nose, again dry and stiff as parchment.
On inside of nose, especially in alæ nasi, great itching and feeling as if nose were swelled.
Itching and burning in nostrils, as if sore.
Frequent sneezing.
Coryza : with sneezing, chilliness, catarrh and cough ; fluent like water, trickling from nose ; with bloody mucus ; distressing, dry ; yellow, glutinous, strong-smelling ; profuse discharge of burning water ; fluent,
burning, outdoors, stopped up indoors ; with soreness and ulceration of nostrils ; chronic, with loss of taste and smell.
Mucus passes down choanæ. θ Coryza. θ Scarlatina.
Pains in nose, which is swollen, or ulcerated within, with yellowish, ropy fluid trickling from nostrils. θ Scarlatina.
Secretion increases from day to day, runs freely from nose, and is blown into little crepitant bubbles. θ Scarlatina.
Mucus removed by a handkerchief, wells forth again from nostrils, taking its way over cheeks, nose and lips, making them sore and red.
Nosebleed : for seven days ; at 3 P. M., with vertigo, afterward nose sore to touch.
Bloody discharge when blowing nose.
Chronic stoppage, also of one nostril.
On blowing nose, a stinging pain, beginning in right side of nose and going up to forehead in middle line ; swelling of a vein in forehead just above nose ; darting pain in right knee, < when right leg is lifted to step, or when it is off
floor while sitting, or if it is too far back in walking, or if she puts it too far back when sitting.
Two reddish growths in nose, as large as peas, stitching pains when touched. θ Nasal polypi.
Ulcers and scabs in nose ; bloody discharge on blowing nose ; profuse nauseous saliva.
Dry ulcers, or scabs in nose.
Swelling and inflammation in nose ; red nose.
Freckles and black pores on nose.
Shining red swelling of point of nose.
Wings of nose inflamed, swollen.
Herpes across nose, like a saddle.
Eczema narium, with piles.
Lipoma nasi, lobulated arrangement, no subjective symptoms, old cases.

Upper face

Face : pale and collapsed, with expression of great anxiety, as if worn out by long suffering ; pale, sickly-looking ; pale, eyes sunken, with blue margins ; flushed ; spotted red, circumscribed redness of cheeks ;
freckled ; sallow, yellow, rough ; covered with cold sweat.
Tearing pain : in right half of face ; in malar bone, also at other times in lower jaw, as if parts would be torn out.
Boring above root of nose.
Burning : in face and throat, without redness ; recurring several times during day ; seeming to rise from chest.
Painful pressure on malar bone, and beneath eye.
Pain in all three divisions of fifth pair of nerves, left side ; exposure to cold, draft of air, worry or anxiety always brings on an attack ; generally begins about 5 P. M., and lasts with little intermission three or four days ; besides sharp
dartings which occur every few moments, affected side of face is extremely sore and tender, while scalp is so sensitive that she can hardly bear touch of comb, and cannot find a pillow soft enough.
Sharp stabbing pains below left zygoma, at times darting up to side of head, implicating gums and dental nerves ; teeth sound ; chewing and talking very difficult, at times impossible ; sleep greatly disturbed ; pains come and go suddenly.
Pains extending up left side of face, teeth and head, stiff neck ; face greatly swollen ; pain < in cold air, > from warmth and walking about ; < in evening ; pain often comes on with a twinge when sucking teeth, and darts up side of head and then as suddenly
leaves ; at times pains shoot up to eyes, sometimes one side, sometimes other ; pain in back of head as if scalp had been beaten.
Neuralgic pains in right infraorbital region, along course of right inferior maxillary nerve, down back of head and on both sides and back of neck ; sight of right eye extremely dim, with profuse lachrymation and constant desire to rub eye to remove dimness ; sense of heat on
vertex and down back of neck ; great tenderness of scalp, is so sore can scarcely touch it with comb ; hair comes out in handfuls when combing ; nervous, restless, fingers and feet moving constantly ; restless desire to move, and while telling her story walks about room
nervously pulling and rubbing her fingers ; very miserable, and profoundly depressed, determination to commit suicide, but cannot make up her mind how ; all cervical vertebræ extremely sensitive to pressure ; slightest pressure on spinous processes < pain in infraorbital
region, side of face, and side and back of neck, makes her shrink and almost leap from chair ; feels as if air just in front of her were hot ; cannot get a full, easy and satisfactory breath.
Since three months, pain in right side of face and head ; pain commences in upper and lower jaw bones, extends to infra and supraorbital nerves and up side of head ; comes on in afternoon, lasts three or four hours, and returns again late at night, continuing until 1 A. M.,
comes on again in morning and disappears before afternoon.
Pain comes on about noon and lasts till evening, pain centres in right temple ; going up to top of head over eyebrow, below eye and down along inferior maxilla.
For two days, pain in right side of face and head, extending over jaw of that side and to top of head ; comes on in evening, lasts all night, > toward morning.
For several days, pain all over lower jaw, extending to shoulders and supra and infraorbital nerves on both sides and over whole head ; pain commences in evening and lasts all night, keeping her awake.
Severe intermittent pains in right side of head, for a month ; pain commences over malar bone and extends backward over side of head, < at night ; commences gradually at 9 P. M., becoming more severe till about 3 A. M., when at its height, is gradually subsides ; also
comes on at breakfast and lasts till 4 P. M.
After catching cold, neuralgia of jaws and temples, sometimes one side, sometimes other ; at first, attacks come on at a regular hour at night, and lasted about an hour and a half ; he then caught fresh cold, and pains were almost incessant, < during night ; dull
aching, often very severe.
Tic douloureux, right cheek ; several decayed teeth on same side.
Erysipelas of face, following an attack of congestion to head, for which leeches were applied ; eyes lustreless, sopor ; fever irregular, begins with coldness of hands, then heat and sweat on forearms, thirst, rest of body dry, parchment-like ; emaciation ; debility.
Erysipelas, beginning at right ear and spreading over face.
Swelling of cheek, with pricking.
Acne ; great itchiness and bluish color of face.
For three months, itching of face and scalp ; bruised feeling there ; twisting pains in abdomen ; fluttering in chest ; painful menses ; leucorrhœa.
Red spots in face.
Acne punctata, completely covering face.
Whole surface of forehead and cheeks red and scurfy. θ After vaccination.
Eruption on face, crusta serpiginosa, with terrible itching ; child scratched herself raw ; < on cheeks and around eyes ; hands and arms cold, swollen and bluish.
Excoriations, pimples, vesicles ; violent itching, < at night ; bleeding from scratching ; diarrhœa in morning. θ Crusta lactea.
Whole face covered with a moist, much itching tetter, eruption thickest on nose, and about eyes.

Lower face

Sore pain in oral commissures.
Glandular swellings on lower jaw.
Drawing jerking on left lower jaw.
A scabby ulcer, with burning pain on margin of lower lip.
Swelling of upper lip.
Swelling of lower lip, with eruption on it.
On internal surface of left lower lip, a group of greyish-white aphthæ, rather painful.
Painful eruptions about chin.
Herpes at corners of mouth.
Bright redness of lips, particularly with children, complexion sallow.
Lips dry, rough and cracked.
Burning, twitching or trembling of lips.
Corners of mouth ulcerated. θ Scarlatina.
Eczema impetiginoides, on nose and lips, of several years' standing ; itching and burning terribly ; nose and lips swollen, presenting a loathsome appearance.
Mentagra, commencing a year and a half ago, as a nodous, crusty eruption below nose, spreading gradually through whiskers, and finally to chin ; nodous infiltration and pustules, with and without crusts ; each pustules and node is pierced by a hair which sits quite fast ;
on pulling a few hairs out and examining the roots under microscope, found them thoroughly invested by microscopic fungus tricophyton.
Enlarged submaxillary gland ; swelling as large as hen's egg, under ramus of jaw ; gland tender to touch, painful on swallowing ; skin covering it slightly red ; constipation.

Teeth and gums

Great sensitiveness of teeth.
Teeth feel too long.
Tearing toothache on left side.
Pulsating and boring in teeth, < from heat.
Toothache coming on in open air, from least draft, at night in bed, from washing with cold water ; with congestion to head, or stitches in ears.
Painful feeling of looseness of teeth.
Pain in teeth : drawing ; tearing ; throbbing ; boring ; boring, as with a hot iron ; pressive ; sticking, extending into ear.
Jumping pain in hollow teeth, extending to upper and lower jaw, or to ear.
Violent stitches through teeth from every cold drink.
Throbbing toothache after suppressed eruptions.
Swelling of gums : with throbbing pain ; about old stumps.
Gums bleed and recede from teeth. θ Scorbutus.
Abscess of gum, right side, lower jaw ; hard round swelling from which there ooze pus and blood through a small opening at side of a carious tooth ; right submaxillary gland swollen and painful ; cheek swollen, painful, red, in streaks, especially directly over seat of
abscess ; mouth opened with difficulty ; tearing pain in teeth.
Easily bleeding, fungous growth, looking like raw meat, recurring after excision, seeming to spring from cavities remaining after extraction of teeth, and growing to about same height as teeth ; stitching pains in lower jaw ; gums greatly
swollen, dark-red ; congestion of blood to head ; fever toward evening ; chill, fever with constant coldness of hands and feet.
Fistula dentalis.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sour ; bitter ; sweetish ; bitter, or foul, when awaking in morning ; bitter soon after eating ; metallic ; coppery ; pasty ; vinegary ; sweetish ; sour ; putrid ; sweet, nauseating.
Food tastes like straw or too salt.
Tongue : white, with red tip and borders ; red and cracked ; white or yellow ; brown, parched, rough ; furred in morning, but wears off during day ; very dry, particularly in morning.
Burning pain on tongue.
On right anterior border of tongue a hard raised spot size of a lentil ; on moving tongue, shooting pain in it.
A smarting blister on right side of tongue.
Ulcerated tongue.

Inner mouth

Bad odor from mouth : after eating ; in scarlatina ; sour smell.
Great dryness of palate with much thirst ; is obliged to drink much.
Dryness of mouth : after eating ; in morning on awaking ; insipid, and sticky, in morning.
Heat in mouth and much thirst at night.
Saliva : collects even after eating ; bloody ; salty ; sour ; bitter ; profuse, with nauseous taste.
Ptyalism, from abuse of mercury, during a fever, or in scarlatina.
Vesicles on palate, and ulcer on uvula, making eating and talking painful.
White or sore patches, similar to those of diphtheria ; sore throat when swallowing, with redness and swelling of tongue and uvula. θ Scarlatina.
Vesicles in mouth, with burning pain ; vesicles on roof of mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Exfoliation of membrane of mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Blisters in mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Thrush.
Stomatitis : whole mouth, tongue, and lips covered with aphthæ ; restlessness ; greenish evacuations with severe tenesmus ; emaciation ; rash ; excoriation of inner surface of thighs ; pustular eruption on back,
pustules containing thin, yellow pus.
Stomacace ; aphthæ.
Child grasps everything within reach and thrusts it into mouth.

Palate and throat

Feeling of roughness in fauces and uvula.
Burning in fauces.
A hard ball seems to rise in throat, close pharynx and take away breath.
Sensation as if swallowing a piece of meat, during empty deglutition.
Sensation of a lump in throat.
Dryness of throat : exciting cough ; at night ; constant desire to swallow saliva in order to moisten affected parts.
Roughness in throat ; scraping ; hawking and clearing.
Rawness of throat.
Sore throat with swelling of cervical glands.
Choking and sensation of soreness in throat, as if tonsils were swollen, with stitches extending into ears, always on swallowing.
Sore throat, great burning and dryness, first right, then left side.
Violent sore throat with redness of tonsils, frequent coughing and dyspnœa ; agitation and sleeplessness.
On swallowing, pressive pain in throat, as from swelling of palate.
Stitches in throat on swallowing ; painful contraction.
Burning coming up into throat, with sour eructations.
Sensation as of a hair in throat.
Coldness in throat during an inspiration.
Spasmodic contractive sensation in middle of pharynx, food will not go down.
Burning in pharynx, with sour eructations.
Rawness in fauces, with hoarseness and aphonia.
Needlelike stitches in submaxillary glands, which are painful to touch.
Violent stitches in swollen parotid glands.
Swelling of palate and tonsils, elongation of palate.
Whole back part of pharynx in a state of ulceration or sloughing ; much nauseous saliva ; after suppuration parts heal slowly.
Posterior walls of fauces look dry, dryness causing a constant inclination to swallow.
Frequently recurring and long lasting sore throat ; throat, tonsils and uvula swollen ; difficult deglutition ; stitches in throat ; sensation of a lump in throat ; as if throat were too narrow ; dryness and rawness in
throat.
Enlargement of left tonsil.
Tonsillitis : after bursting of abscess parts remain irritated, and patient is slow in recovering.
Fauces, palate, and uvula bluish-red ; considerable discharge of transparent mucus ; continuous necessity to swallow and clear throat, which is painful, from constant irritation down to upper part of chest ; < in evening, and raw air, and from cold food and
drink ; warm things are agreeable.
Angina gangrenosa.
Diphtheria : yellow deposit about posterior wall of pharynx quick pulse ; flashes of heat ; faintness ; sinking spells ; complaining of closeness of room ; sluggish cases ; empty swallowing more painful than that of liquids ; inflamed parts
purple ; dryness of throat ; diphtheritic membrane yellowish, commencing on each side of throat, or on right side going to left ; mucous membrane livid or bright red ; tongue coated white with red border, or yellow as if sprinkled with sulphur ; thirsty, but vomits
everything ; very restless, must move about in bed, but movements start chills on back, running from below upward ; clammy, cold perspiration ; shooting pains from back of neck into left ear ; empty gone feeling in stomach ; cold drinks do not agree with
stomach ; desire for beer ; when the indicated medicine does not have the desired effect ; useful as an intercurrent.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Appetite : excessive ; canine ; ravenous, obliged to eat frequently, if he does not he has a headache and great lassitude, and has to lie down ; feeling of faintness with strong craving for food, at 11 A. M. ; voracious children put
everything they see into mouth, swallow everything, watch every one eating.
Complaints after eating, even a little.
He is hungry, but as soon as he sees food his appetite vanishes and he feels full in abdomen ; when he begins to eat he is averse to it.
Loss of appetite : complete ; nothing is relished ; with constant thirst.
Drinks much, but eats little.
Violent thirst for ale or beer ; longing for brandy.
Desire for sweets ; diseases from eating sweet things, candy, etc.
Milk disagrees, causing sour taste and sour eructations.
Desire to imbibe alcoholic drinks, from morning until night (Sulphur tincture).
Aversion : to meat ; to sour and sweet things ; to smoking tobacco ; to wine.

Eating and drinking

Feels fulness in stomach after eating but little.
Milk causes much distress ; is vomited curdled ; sour taste, sour eructations.
Complaints from farinaceous food.
Drinks much, eats but little.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Eructations : generally empty, or tasting of food ; sour ; after eating ; as soon as he presses on stomach ; tasting of bad eggs ; empty, every morning ; empty, after eating.
Heartburn all day ; waterbrash.
Severe heartburn ; is afraid to eat anything but soup ; emaciation.
Food rises into throat.
Regurgitations : sour ; of food and drink.
Nausea : in morning ; before or after each meal ; during stool, in evening ; qualmish, in morning ; retching.
Vomiting : of food, especially in morning and in evening ; first watery, then of food ; bitter ; sour ; of blood in evening, of food at noon ; in morning, with trembling of hands and feet ; sour or bitter, with cold perspiration in face ; chronic.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensitiveness to touch in region of stomach ; even bedcover causes pain.
Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in stomach about 11 A. M.
Fulness in stomach : and empty eructations ; after eating but a little ; as if puffed up ; and swelling ; with nausea and vomiting.
Pressure in stomach : after eating ; at night ; > by eructations ; with headache, after midnight ; causing anxiety at night, with palpitation ; during menses ; very violent, while lying down.
Heaviness in stomach ; feeling of weight.
Burning in stomach : like violent heartburn ; in morning.
Stitches in stomach : in pit of stomach on deep breathing.
Pain in chest for last eight years, like spasms and cramps, coming on generally before dinner, at noon, somewhat > by eating, getting < before tea, and ceasing on partaking of it ; is then free from pain until midnight, when he is awakened
by an intensely severe but short paroxysm ; must lean against something for relief, must bend double ; at height of paroxysm, arms and hands seem paralyzed ; > from warm food ; much flatulence and audible gurgling and rumbling in abdomen ; symptoms appear to come
on with slight dyspepsia, such as heartburn, etc. ; tongue white, irritable looking ; stomach acid. θ Gastralgia.
Chronic cardialgia ; constant pain in epigastrium and back ; loss of appetite ; constipation.
Pressing, constricting pains in region of stomach, < from eating ; fixed stitching pain in left side of chest.
Constant bloating of epigastrium, with oppression of breathing, even in morning before breakfast, < after eating slightest amount of food ; empty and sour belching, nausea, at times vomiting ; constant pressure in stomach, and a periodical burning ; constipation.
Gastralgia : pain in right hypochondrium extends over stomach to left ; cannot lie on either side ; when lying on back, pain spreads to chest under sternum, and hinders respiration ; must get up and walk about ; after
repercussion of eruptions.
Pressing pain and swelling of stomach ; some pain in back opposite stomach, coming on an hour or so after meals, causing difficulty of breathing and speaking, faint feeling, giddiness and weakness ; feeling of coldness in centre of chest, which makes mouth water ;
for about four weeks cough only in morning while dressing, with easy green sputa ; wakes with pain above left eye, increases gradually, is < from 2 to 5 P. M., then decreases gradually (but more quickly than it increased) after tea ; sleepy during day ; when stomach swells,
cannot bear pressure of clothing ; shooting from centre of chest to between scapulæ, soon after meals, generally preceding pain in stomach ; palpitation after meals.
Violent pains in stomach, sickness and vomiting of food soon after eating ; pain < after eating ; emaciation ; a tender spot on spine at about centre of dorsal vertebræ.
Tight, crampy pain in stomach, preventing him from rising from a seat, and felt when laughing or sneezing, < waking in morning and attempting any muscular exertion.
For several years, a hard swelling could be felt in abdomen ; abdomen greatly but regularly distended, as in ascites, region of stomach sensitive to pressure ; when lying on back, a circumscribed hard mass, as large as two fists, could be felt in epigastrium, extending toward
liver ; at times severe tearing pains in intestines ; flatulency and belching ; watery diarrhœa of four weeks' standing ; anorexia ; after eating, oppression of chest, bloating and pain in abdomen ; pale, emaciated ; febris lenta ; menses regular,
preceded by severe pains in lower abdomen ; after Sulph. aggravation, followed by discharge of masses of mucus per rectum and complete cure.
Nocturnal heat ; much thirst and desire for beer ; pressure in stomach ; urine like beer ; no alvine evacuation ; craves sour things.
Acute dyspepsia ; food taken in morning distresses him all day ; sour vomiting, especially after meals ; irritating condition of scrotum every summer, until fourteen or fifteen years ago, after this all over body ; when 18 years old, had boils in different parts of
his body.
Cramp in stomach immediately after a meal.
Dyspeptic symptoms, from eating too rapidly ; œsophagus from cardia to pharynx ached incessantly, proceeding from place where she felt pressure.

Hypochondria

Sore feeling in hypochondria, tender to touch.
In hepatic region, dull pain, accompanied by a little dry cough ; pressing pain ; stitches ; fine burning stitches while sitting bent over.
Pressure in region of liver ; wind accumulates in left side ; feeling of weight in abdomen. θ Chronic indigestion.
Swelling and induration of liver ; increased secretion of bile.
Acute hepatitis ; engorgement, enlargement and tenderness ; protracted jaundice ; stinging or aching pains in r. side, tenderness on pressure ; weight and heaviness ; depression of spirits.
Fulness in region of liver ; fulness and pressure across stomach, with distension of transverse colon ; chronic diarrhœa, has to get out of bed in a hurry ; sometimes dizzy in morning, bed whirls when turning over at night ; dizzy when going down stairs ;
constant inclination to sleep ; neuralgia of liver, > by application of mustard, and by lying on painful side ; faint and hungry by 11 A. M., disinclination to bathing ; partial paralysis of muscles of left side of face.
Chronic inflammation, enlargement and tenderness of liver of fifteen years' standing ; inclination to dwell constantly on her condition ; tendency to fainting ; menses either too early or too late, thick, blackish, acrid.
Icterus ; skin has a greenish-yellow tint ; lassitude ; itching of skin at night ; in psoric persons with or without hardness and swelling of liver ; vomiting of ingesta or blood ; pain in pit of stomach and right hypochondrium ; abdomen
bloated ; stool constipated ; sleeplessness ; hectic fever ; red lips.
Pain from stomach through to back, with a forcing asunder feeling in back ; all action of bowels stopped ; urine loaded with bile. θ Biliary obstruction.
Frequent shoots in splenic region.
Movements of flatus cause painful sticking, especially in l. hypochondrium.
Stitches in spleen < when taking a deep inspiration, and when walking.
Stitches in left side of abdomen when coughing.

Abdomen and loins

Intestines feel as if strung in knots.
Griping about navel extending upward toward stomach, disappearing on emission of flatus.
Tension and pressure in umbilical region.
Pressure across, above navel, with little appetite ; cannot sleep at night on account of it.
Pinching, constrictive pain about navel, while sitting.
Stitches in left side of abdomen on deep breathing.
Distension and hardness of abdomen.
Inflation of abdomen with wind ; rumbling and gurgling in bowels.
Emission of flatus : especially in evening and night ; having odor of bad eggs, or sulphuretted hydrogen ; inodorous.
Rumbling and gurgling in bowels ; painless diarrhœa, driving patient out of bed at 5 A. M.
Rolling and rumbling in bowels as if empty.
Incarcerated flatus in left side of abdomen, with heaviness, fulness and constipation.
Movements in abdomen as of the fist of a child.
Anxiety in abdomen, followed by a feeling of weakness of feet, extending above malleoli, like an internal trembling.
Feeling of fulness and tension in abdomen ; bearing down toward anus, and excessive tickling there ; in morning ; after eating ; immediately after a little food, with dyspnœa ; as from incarcerated flatus.
Tension in abdominal muscles, could not readily straighten up.
Griping in abdomen : before morning stool ; after stool ; with diarrhœa ; at night ; followed soon by a liquid motion, whereupon pain ceased.
Drawing colic during menses.
Pressure downward : toward anus ; while lying in bed at night ; as if a hernia would form, toward female genitals.
Colic, always after eating.
Sensitiveness of upper part of abdomen ; clothes press disagreeably.
Feeling of soreness in intestines before stool.
Sore feeling in abdominal walls, as if muscles of abdomen and peritoneum had been bruised.
Sore pain in whole abdomen as if raw, particularly on taking a full breath, coughing on taking violent exercise.
Cutting in abdomen, loins, and sacrum, > from dry heat.
Big belly and emaciated limbs ; children dislike to be washed.
Painful sensitiveness of abdomen to touch, as if internally raw and sore.
Awakens about 5 A. M. with cutting, colicky pain in abdomen, compelling instant resort to stool.
Colic after eating or drinking, obliging one to bend double, < from sweet things.
Cystic tumor just within abdominal walls, with pyogenic membrane, caused by heavy lifting ; large quantities of serum and sanious pus discharged through a drainage tube ; cachectic appearance ; no appetite ; great emaciation ;
diarrhœa ; stool brown, watery, frothy, at times undigested, painless, more frequent in morning and early forenoon ; pulse 120, weak ; wakeful at night, sleep disturbed by dreams.
Eczema umbilicale ; soreness and itching about navel, so that child is continually picking at it, and augmenting trouble.
Itching eruption over abdomen.
Portal stasis : hemorrhoidal congestions ; with indigestion, constipation, etc.
Abdominal infarctions.
Incarcerated hernia (after Acon.).
Ascites ; dropsy.
Painful swelling of inguinal glands.

Stools and rectum

Sudden call to stool on waking in morning.
Desire to stool, with colic, awakes him about 5 A. M.
Constant urging to stool and to urinate, with evacuation of a few drops of blood immediately after urinating, and violent stitching in urethra, with apprehension and discomfort.
Thin stool every morning, with cutting in lower abdomen.
Soft stool with tenesmus and burning in anus, in evening ; preceded by distension of abdomen, followed by emissions of hot, offensive flatus, with gripings in small of back.
Stools : soft and very thin ; frequent, pasty ; semi-liquid ; brown, watery, fecal ; green mucous ; bloody mucous ; undigested ; frothy ; sour ; changeable ; fetid ; bloody in evening ; green,
watery ; leaving pale green stain on diaper ; brown mucous ; white mucous ; bloody in streaks ; bilious ; purulent ; corrosive ; sometimes painless ; putrid ; expulsion sudden, often involuntary.
Diarrhœa : at night, with colic, tenesmus, watery white mucous stools, of sour smell ; driving out of bed in morning, painless ; fetid, watery, or involuntary ; of scrofulous children ; as if bowels were too weak to retain their contents ; stools
involuntary, with a sensation as if wind would pass ; alternating with constipation ; after taking cold ; in damp weather ; after taking milk or acids ; during dentition ; after ale or beer ; from artificial food ; during sleep ; during pregnancy.
Abdomen distended ; stools watery, flocculent, occasional lienteria, large and very offensive and passed by day and night, none, however, during morning hours ; little or no fever ; great thirst, particularly at night ; urine passed
frequently and in large quantities ; great desire for meat, would scarcely eat anything else ; cross and peevish ; emaciation. θ Marasmus.
Sudden attack of diarrhœa, during heat of Summer ; ten discharges in seven hours, watery, greenish ; next day had twenty discharges in twelve hours, more frequent in morning, consisting of green, slimy, watery fluid ; eyes swollen ; lies very quiet and pale ; in
evening stool every half hour.
Diarrhœa, stools only during sleep ; if kept awake whole day, no stool occurred ; stools of green and yellow mucus ; stools sudden, would come before child could tell of it, though she invariably awoke before stool ; aversion to bathing.
Diarrhœa after midnight ; painless, driving out of bed early in morning ; as if bowels were too weak to retain their contents.
Several thin, watery stools, driving patients out of bed about 5 A. M., after which they had one stool every hour until 9 A. M.
Violent diarrhœa every night ; after midnight and later, five to eight times, with much painful urging ; had to wait a long time, then it came as thin as water, slimy, bright yellow, and burning hot ; slept and was > when waking at 5
o'clock ; movements in bowels, rumbling and grumbling ; > when sitting up ; < when lying down ; weak in legs ; had not right kind of appetite, except sometimes in evening ; tongue coated thinly white ; he could not bear milk ; after drinking beer
he must vomit ; after brandy burning aching, especially burning in abdomen ; after eggs, and anything prepared with eggs, he must vomit ; after a glass of wine with nutmeg, tearing and twitching in legs, heat and burning, especially in stomach, a tearing as if stomach were
torn with pincers ; burning rising in throat ; stomach swells ; after eating, eructation, which ameliorates ; had sweat every night, especially in neck ; distended veins.
Diarrhœa acrid, excoriating anus, producing an eruption ; emaciation ; abdomen hard, distended ; diarrhœa after every cold.
Vomited night or morning ; impaired appetite, feculent diarrhœa, with undigested food, what he ate in morning ; febrile symptoms, with prostration, languor and fretfulness ; felt like a lump of ice in right chest.
After having a diarrhœa checked with opium, a pain in belly ; attempts to induce a passage from bowels produced vomiting, finally of fecal matter ; whole lower belly swollen, in left side in region of sigmoid flexure, an elastic swelling, quite fixed, as large as two fists,
and painful to pressure ; rest of abdomen not sensitive to touch ; tongue red, cracked and dry ; pulse full, soft, not accelerated ; much thirst and great weakness.
Stool of, first, small round lumps, very dark green, almost black, difficult, remaining part softer and larger ; stool sometimes slips back when about to escape ; with stool passes blood, sometimes bright, sometimes like jelly.
Diarrhœa, with great emaciation, excessive prostration ; child conscious, but lies as if unable to move ; < between 10 P. M. and 1 A. M. ; stools watery, putrid.
After childbirth, offensive-smelling diarrhœa, frequent, with faint feeling before and after stools.
After stool, continued urging, anus swollen, sore, stitching and pulsating pain all day.
Chronic diarrhœa ; stools watery, greenish, like chopped eggs, painless, of a very offensive, putrid odor ; belching, followed by vomiting ; abdomen distended and hard in places ; constant rumbling in abdomen ; sleeplessness ; thirst, constant desire
to drink ; great emaciation.
Diarrhœa of eighteen months' duration, after suppression of gonorrhœa by Bals. copaiva.
Great debility, can only sit up a few minutes at a time ; pulse 100 ; skin sallow, dry ; tongue coated yellow ; bitter taste ; no appetite ; what little she eats occasions distress in stomach and bowels, especially latter ; pain < about an hour after
eating ; bowels bloated and tender to touch ; urine high-colored and scanty ; lower limbs cold ; burning pain in vertex ; diarrhœa < in morning, obliging her to get up usually before daylight ; ten evacuations before noon, not more than two or three after
that time until early morning again ; stools undigested, frothy, yellow, watery ; pain before, during and after stool ; weakness and faintness after stool. θ Chronic diarrhœa.
Smell of stool follows him all around, as if he had soiled himself.
Before stool : sudden and violent urging, driving out of bed ; cutting colic ; rumbling.
During stool : heat ; warm sweat ; rush of blood to head ; chilliness ; fainting ; nausea ; tenesmus ; headache ; soreness in abdomen ; itching in anus and rectum ; spasmodic constricting pain extending to chest, groins and
genitals ; cutting pains, < from pressure or bending backward ; prolapsus ani ; cramps in legs ; burning in anus.
After stool : tenesmus ; burning in anus ; cold sweat on face and feet ; excoriation about anus ; soreness in whole intestines ; pressure in rectum ; prolapsus ani ; child falls asleep as soon as tenesmus ceases .
Accompaniments to diarrhœa : sleepiness in daytime, afternoon and after sunset ; sleeping with eyes half open ; wakefulness ; awaking often ; aversion to washing.
Dysenteric stools at night, with colic and violent tenesmus.
Dysentery : child was faint regularly at 11 A. M. ; early morning aggravation.
Five or ten bloody stools in twenty-four hours, generally one or two at night ; < always early morning ; had to rise in a hurry at 6 A. M. : considerable straining and tenesmus ; cold feet by day, burning of soles at night ;
faint and empty about 11 A. M. ; feeble, cannot walk ; has lasted four or five years. θ Chronic dysentery.
Dysentery : after Acon. has removed acute symptoms, when tenesmus has ceased but blood is still discharged ; when remedies have failed to act ; during stool burning, cutting, pressing and prolapsus recti, cutting in urethra, catching of
breath, palpitation, chills about lower part of body, afterward straining and throbbing in rectum, bruised pains and itching in abdomen, chills and lassitude ; < early in morning, driving out of bed ; faintish feeling in pit of stomach about 10 or 11 A. M. ; passages make
perineum red all around anus ; frequent relapses, child seems to be doing well when, without any apparent cause, it gets <.
Sulphur follows well after Nux vom., especially when < at night ; discharge of blood, slime and pus, with fever, loss of appetite, pain in bowels often so violent as to cause nausea and drenching perspiration ; fever consists of dry heat without thirst. θ Dysentery.
Cholera infantum, generally begins after midnight ; diarrhœa and vomiting ; discharges from bowels watery, green and involuntary ; sometimes smell sour, at other times very offensive ; vomiting frequent, often sour, with cold perspiration on
face ; face pale, fontanelles open ; hands and feet cold ; child lies in a stupor with eyes half open ; not much thirst and entire suppression of urine ; psoric patients prone to eruptions, and excoriations ; hydrocephaloid symptoms.
Cholera Asiatica ; as a prophylactic, a pinch of the powdered milk of sulphur worn in stockings in contact with soles of feet ; diarrhœa commences between midnight and morning, with or without pain, with or without vomiting, ineffectual desire to
evacuate ; diarrhœa and vomiting at same time ; numbness of limbs, cramps in soles of feet and calves ; blueness under eyes ; coldness of skin ; indifference of mind ; during convalescence, red spots, furuncles, etc. ; susceptibility to temperature, warm
things feel hot ; nerve symptoms.
Stool, with a sensation as if something remained, and as if stool had been insufficient.
Chronic constipation ; bowels had not moved for years without aid of purgatives ; dull feeling in brain ; heaviness on top of head ; weak, hungry feeling in stomach before dinner ; burning of soles of feet at night.
First part of stool in small round lumps, very dark green, almost black, difficult ; remaining part softer and larger ; stool sometimes slips back when about to escape ; with stool passes blood, sometimes bright, sometimes like jelly.
Constipation, especially in hemorrhoidal and hypochondriac persons ; in pregnant women and newborn ; alternating with diarrhœa ; with paralysis ; with skin trouble.
Frequent unsuccessful desire for stool ; first effort is painful ; is compelled to desist.
Constipated stools : hard, knotty and dry, as if burnt ; insufficient ; chestnut or olive-shaped ; flat ; like sheep's dung.
After constipated stool : prolapse of rectum ; lancinating pains from anus upward ; stinging, sore, burning, itching, pulsating pains in anus.
Passage of fetid flatus ; smelling like rotten eggs.
Burning and pressure in rectum.
Constant bearing down in rectum ; feeling of fulness.
Cutting in rectum during normal stool.
Violent stitches in rectum, especially in evening.
Violent sticking in rectum even when not at stool, taking away breath.
Crawling and biting in rectum as from worms, while sitting, in evening.
Itching in rectum.
Throbbing pain in rectum.
Passes blood with stool for two years, since he had scarlatina ; prolapsus of rectum for three weeks ; hemorrhage has been < for last month ; easily tired ; restless at night ; pain in back ; overexertion will bring
prolapsus and bleeding ; stools very dark, almost black.
Hemorrhage per anum, looks blanched and bloodless, with a passive flow of blood from anus ; almost pulseless, lips pale and quiver ; talks and answers questions only in a whisper. θ Cirrhosis
of liver.
Rectocele ; stools flat and thin.
Increased congestion of hemorrhoidal vessels.
Hemorrhoids : painful and bleeding ; regular, hard stools ; tongue coated ; bad taste in mouth ; appetite good, but everything turns sour ; much wind in bowels ; aching in pit of stomach, making her faint ; must
exercise hard, then feels >, when sitting or lying down, faint ; despondent.
Hemorrhoids so large and painful that he could not stand up ; constipation, with continual urging in rectum ; frequent involuntary discharge of mucus and feces covered with blood ; stitching pains from anus upward ; painful tension in anus and small of back preventing
rising or walking ; loss of appetite ; sleepless at night ; every four to eight weeks swelling of hemorrhoids and discharge of blood.
Piles, now internal, at first external ; during and after stool throbbing, burning, smarting in piles and shooting upward, catches breath ; also dull aching in coccyx and sacrum, extending around side of pelvis, lasting seven hours after stool ; stool once in two to four
days ; pain makes her feel faint, trembling, sick, inclined to move about, hot and as if she would lose her senses ; pain at anus > when standing than lying.
Shooting pains in anus, with heat and soreness ; sleeps lightly and awakens very often ; falls asleep when he attempts to read ; least exertion fatigues him ; pain in l. pelvis extending to foot of that side, < when sitting after a long walk ; at every stool,
which is not hard, passes much blood. θ Hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoids, moist, blind, or flowing dark blood, with violent bearing-down pains from small of back toward anus.
Suppressed hemorrhoids, with colic, palpitation, congestion to lungs ; back feels stiff as if bruised.
Piles with chronic hemorrhages from bowels, great itching and sore feeling of anus ; burning and intolerable itching of anus at night ; cannot sleep from itching.
Large hemorrhoids, violent burning and sticking in anus ; pressing in rectum during and after stool ; it feels full.
Sore feeling at anus and escape of moisture ; itching in skin surrounding anus.
Burning in anus : after sitting a while ; after soft stools in evening.
Pressure and burning in anus.
Constant bearing down toward anus ; forcing down after sitting.
Aching in anus.
Frequent stitches through anus.
Itching in anus.
Itching in perineum with soft stool.
Swelling of anus with burning itching.
Bleeding from anus.
Discharge of liquid from anus, followed by feces at night during sleep.
Involuntary discharge of moisture from anus followed by itching.
Feeling of soreness of anus and exudation of a viscid, slimy fluid.
Excoriation about anus.
Anal fissures.
Burning, tearing and itching in rectum and anus, with feeling of fulness ; cannot bear to have hemorrhoidal tumors washed ; constant desire to scratch parts.
Lancinating pain from anus upward, especially after stool.
Pulsating pain in anus all day.
Itching, burning and stinging in anus.
Anus swollen, with sore, stitching pains.
Broad flat condylomata in anus.
Thread-worms with stool ; ascarides ; lumbrici ; tænia.

Urinary organs

Violent pain in region of kidneys after stooping a long time.
Retention of urine.
Frequent micturition, especially at night ; large quantities of colorless urine after hysteria.
Nocturnal enuresis.
Burning in orifice of urethra, during micturition.
Redness and inflammation of orifice of urethra.
Painful desire, with discharge of bloody urine, requiring great effort.
Mucous discharge from urethra.
Stream of urine much thinner than usual ; intermits.
Urine : profuse, colorless ; scanty ; reddish ; very offensive ; turbid ; greasy pellicles upon it.
Constant desire to urinate ; a few drops pass involuntarily.
Great desire to urinate, with burning in urethra.
Hard pressure upon bladder.
A feeling in urethra as if he were constantly obliged to urinate.
Burning in urethra.
Pains in urethra as in beginning of gonorrhœa.
In morning on passing water, flying shoots in urethra.
Painful shoots in urethra, with rigor.
Stitches in forepart of urethra.
Itching in urethra.
Weak, slow stream of urine from paresis of sphincter vesicæ.
Desire to urinate comes suddenly and is imperative ; if not gratified, urine passes involuntarily.
Hemorrhage from urethra.
Irresistible desire to urinate on seeing water running from hydrant (Canthar. and Lyssin). θ Irritability of bladder.
Diabetes ; morbus Brightii.
Hæmaturia ; stitching and burning in urethra during micturition.
Frequent urging to urinate, but only a few drops are discharged, accompanied by severe cutting pains in vesical region and burning sensation in urethra ; urine escapes slowly in drops from urethra ; pains continue after urination ; urine brown, turbid, slimy,
depositing a tenacious mucous sediment ; loss of strength and weight.
Constant painful urging to urinate, with frequent discharge of a few drops of urine, with increase of pain and followed by drawing pain along ureters, compelling her to bend double ; thirty to forty efforts to urinate in twenty-four hours ; urine brown, turbid, depositing a
mucous sediment ; dyschesia ; complaining mood ; loss of appetite ; fever toward evening ; great lassitude.
Four years ago while on a journey wanted to urinate, but suppressed it for the time, and when finally he wished to urinate could not pass any ; only after several days'catheterizing was enabled to pass water, but always with excessive tenesmus, so that he had to try it twelve to
twenty-four times in a day.
Chronic irritability of bladder ; must rise several times at night to urinate, and rush from his work during day to relieve bladder, at risk of wetting his clothes if he did not yield to urgency of case ; profuse sweats at night.
Involuntary urination at night, for two years ; scarcely a night passed without his wetting bed ; disagreeable sensation of hunger, with flushes of heat, about 11 A. M.
Enuresis : pale, lean children, with large abdomen, who love sugar and highly seasoned food, and abhor to be washed ; micturition copious after midnight.
Urine excoriates parts.
Both flow of urine and discharge of feces are painful to parts over which they pass.

Male sexual organs

Coldness of penis ; weak sexual power ; impotence.
Involuntary discharge of semen, with burning in urethra.
Increased sexual desire, with stitches in testicles ; chronic prostatitis after gonorrhœa.
Too quick discharge of semen during coition, or before erection is complete, or before he succeeds in inserting penis.
Testicles relaxed, hanging down ; soreness and moisture of scrotum, or offensive sweat of genitals.
Itching of prepuce.
Waning of sexual desire from overindulgence, with weakness of back and threatening paralysis.
Offensive sweat about genitals.
Prepuce and glans penis icy cold.
Burning and redness of prepuce.
Stitches in penis.
Itching on glans penis.
Pressure and tension in testicles and spermatic cords.
Itching at mouth of urethra as at commencement of gonorrhœa ; of great value in second stage.
Chronic gonorrhœa, with shooting burning pains, or without pain, with discharge of white or yellow acrid mucus.
Inflammation of urethra, and especially prepuce, with acrid discharge.
Inflammation and swelling, with deep rhagades, burning and redness of prepuce with phimosis.
Deep suppurating ulcer on glans and prepuce, with puffed edges.
Phimosis, with discharge of fetid pus.
Discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition and stool.
Mercurial syphilis ; itching ulcers which are soon covered with a crust, discharging pus from underneath ; cocks-comblike excrescences on glans, soft, spongy, easily bleeding ; excoriations on genitals with burning ; copper-colored spots
on forehead ; hard, large inflamed buboes.
Chancre, phagedenic, destroying lower half of glans penis ; paraphimosis ; ulcer consists at first in numerous little specks of pus, sievelike, dispersed, gradually unite into one whole ; sudden eruption of varicella syphilitica over
whole body (followed by Cinnab.).
Chancres, with boardlike hardness of red and swollen prepuce.
Ulcer on dorsum of penis ; discolored, greenish crust ; not much pain.
Fistula urinaria, after gonorrhœa, edges indurated, discharge of pus and urine from fistula ; formication in rectum, tenesmus, burning during stool ; constipation.
Suppressed gonorrhœa.
Scanty, light yellow discharge from urethra ; burning on beginning to urinate and during coitus ; hemorrhoids, with pains in head and back ; itching and stitches in anus, constipation, flatulency. θ Gleet.
Varicocele, continuous relaxation of scrotum.
Hydrocele, in a boy æt. 5, for several years ; tumor large, very tense and shining, prevents running and playing ; general health suffering.
Old discharging buboes which do not heal.
Moist excoriation about genitals.
Soreness and moisture of scrotum ; soreness between thighs when walking.
Chronic enlargement of prostate gland.
Fetid perspiration on genital organs, with soreness and excoriation destroying most of hair, painful in walking, with thickening and induration of scrotum.

Female sexual organs

Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation.
A weak feeling in genital organs.
Sore feeling in vagina during an embrace.
Pain alternating between eye and ovary ; pains from ovarian region to back.
Continued bearing down : in pelvis toward genitals ; congestion to uterus.
Labor-like pain over symphysis.
Uterine pains, running from groins to back.
Moroseness and apprehension with uterine pain ; menses two days too late, with anxious and uncomfortable feeling.
Cancer of uterus ; offensive, corrosive, ichorous leucorrhœa ; sensation of heat in crown of head ; coldness of feet, or burning in soles of feet at night ; flushes of heat, pass off in a perspiration with faintness ;
remarkably weak at pit of stomach from eleven in morning until noon ; violent burning in vagina, with painful soreness during sexual intercourse.
Prolapsus from reaching high ; prolapsus, with pain in hypogastrium, in right side especially.
Prolapsus uteri ; metritis ; dropsy of uterus.
Uterine discharge, watery, whitish, copious, in gushes and scalding ; sometimes thicker, whitish-yellow, staining napkins a mustard yellow, with yellow granules like crushed mustard-seed and of fecal odor.
Leucorrhœa, greenish-yellow, excoriating parts.
Chronic leucorrhœa, thin and very profuse, or scanty, yellow, causing burning and smarting of vulva and thighs.
Hot flushes at climacteric period, with hot head, hands and feet, and a great goneness in stomach.
Menses : too early, too profuse, last too long ; every fourteen to eighteen days, lasting eight days, discharge scanty, dark ; dark, putrid, clotted ; thick, acrid, makes thighs sore ; smelling sour ; pale ; too late, of
short duration, or suppressed ; late, with constipation and distended abdomen ; scanty, recurring at long and variable intervals ; absent four months ; suppressed, causing congestion to other parts.
Menorrhagia ; profuse, with liability to miscarriage ; has not been well since her last miscarriage ; strong-smelling perspiration in axillæ ; heat in sacral region ; dull aching in ovarian region ; hunger at 11 A. M.,
cannot wait for dinner ; inflation of abdomen every afternoon ; sleep restless, feet cold.
Dysmenorrhœa ; spasmodic pain in hypogastrium, as if intestines were strung up in knots, scanty flow, with colicky pain in small of back.
A young lady, unmarried, had not menstruated for a year, although she did not in any way feel unwell.
Amenia in scrofulous constitutions, tendency to papular skin eruption, or portal and pelvic congestion.
Girl, æt. 19, menstruated but once ten months ago, no reappearance of flow ; after Sulph. regular menstruation.
Before menses : headache ; cough, in evening ; nosebleed ; leucorrhœa ; itching of vulva ; lumbar pains ; cramp in splenic region ; restless and anxious ; headache ; toothache ; heartburn ; cough, in evening in
bed ; night sweat.
During menses ; nosebleed ; rush of blood to head ; weak, faint spells ; colic ; irritability ; day-sleepiness ; pressure in forehead ; vertigo ; excitement of circulation ; palpitation ; epistaxis ; sore throat ; lassitude
and heaviness of feet ; pressure in epigastrium ; labor-like pains in abdomen and back.
Burning in vagina, scarcely able to keep still.
Violent itching of clitoris and vagina. θ Nymphomania. θ Pruritus
vulvæ.
Troublesome itching of vulva, with pimples.
Leucorrhœa : very profuse, pudenda sore and burning ; milky ; smarting like salt, must scratch till parts bleed ; < at night, must rise and bathe parts ; mucous, a fortnight before menses ; yellow, excoriating, accompanied by
palpitation during motion, followed by burning in abdomen ; preceded by cutting or pinching around navel ; < in morning after rising ; scanty, acrid ; mild.
Ascarides of vulva.
Swelling of mamma.
Nodosities in mamma.
Nipples cracked, stinging and burning, bleeding when nursing ; areolæ covered with yellowish scales oozing acrid fluid, itching and burning in night.
Scirrhus of breast.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Promotes expulsion of moles.
Pelvic sufferings, with flushes of heat and weak, fainty spells.
Morning sickness of pregnancy, not amounting to vomiting, with faint, sickish spells during forenoon ; profuse salivation, taste of which causes nausea ; aversion to meat ; craving beer or brandy.
Constant nausea, vomits everything that is taken into stomach ; obstinate constipation ; heat on top of head ; faintness at pit of stomach ; icy-cold feet.
Cramps in calves, hot flushes, weak, faint spells ; burning of soles ; must put them outside of covers or in a cool place.
Feels hungry and faint about 11 A. M. ; cannot wait for dinner.
Labor : frequent weak, fainty spells ; wishes to be fanned : wants more air ; flushes of heat and cold feet.
Puerperal mania.
After-pains begin in sacrum, pass around pubes and run down thighs.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Swelling of right breast as large as a hen's egg, after an attack of erysipelatous mastitis ; surface of swelling covered with excessive granulations ; severe itching ; discharge of thin, sanious pus.
Suppuration of mamma, with chilliness in forenoon, heat in afternoon ; inflammation runs in radii from nipple.
Soreness of nipples.
Nipples cracked, sore, bleeding, burn like fire ; deep cracks at base of nipples, as if they would drop off.
After nursing, nipples smart, burn and bleed ; chapped nipples.
Hemorrhoids during pregnancy and in childbed.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness : evening or morning ; roughness of voice, with dryness of throat and burning on swallowing ; in morning, with irritation of throat.
A rough nasal sound, like snoring, in trachea.
Voice rough, hoarse, with much mucus on chest ; aphonia.
Talking excites pain and fatigues whole body ; shooting pains through left chest to back.
Chronic aphonia on a psoric basis.
Complete aphonia ; hoarse, suffocating cough, with smarting in chest, when coughing. θ Sequel of pneumonia.
A boy, æt. 10, sudden aphonia ; emaciation ; aversion to everything sweet.
Great hoarseness, gradually ending in complete loss of voice.
Suddenly awakes from sleep with a cry, cannot breathe, face bluish, eyes projecting from head, throws arms above head, trembling and rigidity of limbs ; after a minute, rapid whistling respiration and cough, face gets pale, cries, is greatly prostrated ; attacks <
after crying or getting angry. θ Spasmus glottidis.
Drawing and dryness in larynx at times.
Perfect aphonia ; with harassing dry cough, preceded by hoarseness ; cough caused by constant pricking, and itching or tickling in left side of larynx ; coughs, particularly at night in bed, after midnight until 2 A. M. ; hacking all day, with
frequent paroxysms of cough ; loss of smell and taste ; coughs always after eating ; subject to these attacks since childhood, each lasting usually two or three weeks. θ Laryngitis.
Chronic laryngitis ; cough in evening before and when going to bed ; catarrh of mucous membranes ; disposition to skin affections ; suppressed eruptions.
Catarrh, with fluent coryza, chilliness, rawness of chest and cough.
Cough of several weeks' duration, with soreness of upper portion of chest and slight whitish expectoration ; < during day and in evening when lying down ; cough occasioned by an itching sensation in bronchi, accompanied by retching ; hot flushes ; cold
feet ; faint and hungry at 10 A. M. ; rheumatic pains in knees and hips at night, with soreness and coldness ; itching of skin on retiring. θ Acute bronchial catarrh.
Night sweats and cough with copious expectoration of blood streaked mucus ; fever and cough ; hoarseness ; a sensation as of ice in chest when chilled, or perspiration is checked. θ Bronchitis.
Chronic bronchitis, with arterial and venous vascular irritability, great impressionability of skin, which suffers from slightest atmospheric variation ; in rheumatic, gouty, herpetic and scrofulous individuals, also when seemingly well-indicated
remedies refuse to act.
Dilatation of air tubes and putrid sputa.

Respiration

Shortness of breath : and oppression on bending arms backward ; from talking much ; when walking in open air ; in evening in bed.
Feels suffocated ; wants doors and windows wide open ; particularly in night.
Labored, heavy breathing ; audible beats of heart.
Asthma at night.
Asthma : attack every eight days ; has rough, harsh hair ; stooping posture ; hunger and weakness every day at 11 A. M.
Asthmatic attacks following swelling of hemorrhoids ; chest oppressed, constricted ; nightly attack of suffocation ; great anxiety, rush of blood to chest, sudden cessation of respiration, gasps for air, jumps out of bed for relief ; several attacks every night,
followed by palpitation.
Asthma : alternating with fits of gout or attacks of lepra and psoriasis.
Asthma, arising from suppressed eruptions, especially itch ; or from suppressed chronic discharges ; periodical, spasmodic stinging in back ; congestion to chest ; comes on in sleep, when turning over in bed, or in evening.
Rattling in chest, < after expectorating.

Cough

Cough : dry, choking ; short, dry, with stitches in chest, or under left scapula ; dry, with hoarseness, dryness in throat, and watery coryza ; with much rattling of mucus in chest ; loose, with soreness and pressure in chest ; with expectoration
of thick mucus ; with rattling in trachea, hoarseness ; with expectoration of greenish lumps of sweetish taste ; caused by roughness in throat ; short, in evening, while sitting asleep ; when going to sleep, with heat in head and face, and cold hands ; only at
night ; with shooting pains in chest ; caused by rawness in larynx ; woke him from sleep at night ; dry, with hoarseness, dryness of throat, and fluent coryza of clear water ; short, dry, violent, with pain in sternum, or stitches in chest ; excited by tickling
in larynx, as if caused by down, evening and night without, morning and day with, expectoration of dark blood, or of yellow, greenish, purulent, or milk-white watery mucus, usually of sourish, sometimes putrid, flat, or saltish taste, or like offensive discharge of an old catarrh ; dry,
a long time in evening in bed, before falling asleep.
Expectoration of bloody pus.
Dry cough, for seven weeks, < at night ; tosses about at night ; kicks off covers ; much itching of nose ; itching over body, < at night ; great thirst.
For four months, cough with salty expectoration ; pain in head from nape to eyes ; feels sick at times.
Following pleurisy, a cough for nearly two years ; in pleurisy had great sinking of stomach ; cough only on lying down in daytime, not severe, always ending with a little easy expectoration.
Cough ever since a child ; hollow, hard, like a stroke of a sledge-hammer on a piece of timber ; short, dry shock, in paroxysms, racking her to pieces.
Chronic, severe dry cough in evening in bed and in morning ; hoarseness, voice deeper than usual ; < in cold, damp weather ; sensation as of something in larynx, followed by cough and expectoration of mucus.
Chronic cough, < at night ; wheezing in chest ; child coughs like an old man ; feet and hands cold ; pain in chest ; disease confined to large bronchial tubes.
When coughing : headache as if bruised or torn ; sometimes vomiting ; hoarseness ; soreness in trachea ; constriction of air passages ; sensation as if lungs came in contact with back ; pressing, tension, cramplike
pain, cutting, stinging, soreness and bursting pain in chest ; pain in sternum ; jarring of chest and abdomen ; reverberation in crown of head ; bursting pain in head, > by pressure, during cough ; cervical pain, epistaxis, palpitation ; rattling ;
retching and vomiting ; paleness with cold hands ; sleeplessness ; night sweats ; hypochondriac pains ; pains in abdomen, back, hips and legs ; discharge of feces ; convulsions.
Chronic bronchial catarrh, with excessive collection of mucus or muco-purulent matter, with loose rattling cough and easy expectoration, especially in daytime ; at night mucus is more tenacious and raised with difficulty ; becomes easy in morning ; patient very sensitive
to rainy weather, feels least change.
Spasmodic whooping cough : two paroxysms in quick succession ; successions follow each other rapidly ; suppressed and choking, without being pronounced ; with tickling in larynx as if caused by down, evening and night ; expectoration of dark blood, or of
yellowish greenish, purulent, white, watery mucus ; sour, or putrid saltish taste ; face becomes pale during paroxysms : frequent relapses without any known cause ; third stage.
Aggravation of cough : from afternoon to midnight ; from cold ; cold damp weather ; in open cold air ; driving in an open wagon ; after sleep ; lying upon side ; standing ; talking ; after eating ; from highly seasoned food ;
vinegar and other acids ; before menses.

Inner chest and lungs

Anxiety in chest.
Weakness of chest when talking or reading aloud ; during evening, while lying down.
Weak feeling in chest, could get her breath only with difficulty.
Fulness in chest before menses, is frequently obliged to take a deep breath.
Sensation as if lungs touched back.
Feeling as if a lump of ice were in right chest.
Oppression, heaviness and pressure in chest.
Oppression of chest with stitches in left side.
Pain in chest as if strained, with oppression.
Chest painful on moving arm.
Pain in upper part of chest as if he had fallen upon it.
Pains in whole thorax.
Pains in chest from overlifting, or after inflammation of lungs.
Burning in chest, rising to face.
Pain as if chest would fly to pieces, when coughing or drawing a deep breath.
Roughness and soreness in chest.
Pain in sternum ; aching.
Violent cramp in chest.
Tightness of chest as if something had grown fast ; constriction ; occasional shootings.
On taking a deep breath, chest feels constricted.
Tightness and constriction of chest on bringing arms together in front.
Painful constriction of chest.
Tormenting shootings behind lowest rib of left side, toward back, < by breathing deeply.
Shooting in left side of chest through to back.
Thrusts in left chest toward heart, which took away her breath ; great thirst at night.
Stitches in right side of chest, through stomach and pit of stomach.
A stitch extending from right side of chest into scapula.
Painful shattering stitches shoot into right chest.
Stitches in left chest when breathing.
Stitches through chest, extending into left scapula ; < lying on back and during least motion.
Flying stitches in left side of chest, < by walking quickly and going up stairs.
Stitches in sternum.
Sensation of coldness in chest.
Burning pain all around left side, below heart and across stomach, < evenings ; it sometimes extends down as far as kidney ; it causes him to shake all over ; hands, legs and whole body tremble ; retching, frequent aching in forehead,
increasing with pain in sides, latter < every third night, lasts two or three hours, and gradually leaves him ; often feels it when drawing a deep breath. θ Remittent neuralgia of chest.
Severe acute pain deep in left lung, outside of nipple ; < in evening.
Congestion of blood to chest.
Dry cough, oppression of chest, emaciation ; daily expectoration of red, frothy blood, particularly in morning ; voice hoarse ; painful pressure beneath sternum and in region of stomach ; occasional stitches in left side ;
after suppression of an eruption. θ Hæmoptysis.
Neglected influenza and pleuritis ; dull stitches in right side and severe oppression of chest, so that he cannot talk, on taking a deep inspiration, or coughing ; respiration difficult ; pulse weak, small.
Yesterday morning cough, afternoon feverish or hurried breathing, also last night ; this morning cough, which sounds loose ; pulse 184 ; skin hot ; palms and body perspire ; breathing very rapid, could not well be counted, as it was interrupted every few
seconds by cough, it was certainly 72 ; tongue dry ; sibilous all over chest, especially lower right lobe ; crepitation in both lower lobes : chilly yesterday ; no alæ nasi movement except when she voluntarily moves them ; breathing very loud when lying on
right side, less loud when lying on left ; during cough noisy escape of flatus per anum ; left chest dull on percussion. θ Pneumonia.
Three days ago several chills lasting till afternoon ; then intense heat < in evening, with headache and thirst, calling for frequent mouthfuls of cold water ; great restlessness during night ; next morning when heat had somewhat subsided pulse 112 ; during heat it
was 130 ; paroxysms of heat came every two hours without any more chills ; congestion of lower half of left lung and lower two-thirds of right lung, very distinct ; marked dyspnœa ; short, troublesome cough ; anxious and distressed for breath. θ Pneumonia.
Four days ago shivering, heat, severe stitch in side, dry exhausting cough, distressing heat at night, with thirst and anxiety ; diarrhœa ; then fever, circumscribed redness of cheeks, moist coated tongue, rapid short breathing, l. side less raised during respiration than
right ; percussion sound on left side posteriorly as far as fourth rib tympanitic, and from fifth rib downward dull ; increased vocal fremitus ; on auscultation consonating rale and indeterminate respiratory murmurs at fourth rib ; from fifth rib downward strong bronchial
respiration ; on right side superiorly and posteriorly feeble but distinct crepitation, and in upper part of chest respiration was sharp and expiratory murmur distinct ; pulse 100, hard ; cough frequent ; expectoration moderate in quantity, tough, adherent, without
bubbles and colored with blood ; urine scanty, turbid ; giddiness on rising ; general heat, especially of head ; prostration ; pain in all limbs ; anxiety ; urgent thirst ; dryness of mouth ; pappy taste ; want of appetite ;
nausea ; stabbing pain in left chest, on least movement ; coughing on breathing deeply. θ Pneumonia.
Pneumonia, with hepatization after violence of fever has abated ; before red hepatization and afterward grey hepatization ; dry hacking cough especially at night ; severe dyspnœa and suffocation, < at night, with stitches and
soreness on coughing, stitches in chest, dulness in mind, stupidity, forgets what he has to say ; cannot make an exertion to think ; almost complete hepatization of both lungs. θ Typhoid
pneumonia.
Pneumonia, badly treated cases ; hepatization or abscess, with pale, cold, damp skin, emaciation, hectic fever, swelling of extremities ; purulent sputa, quick, weak pulse.
Pneumonia : left lower lung ; can lie on back or left side, not on right fanlike motion of nostrils.
Pneumonia assumes a torpid character with slow solidification ; rattling in chest ; frequent weak, faint spells and flushes of heat ; feels suffocated, wants doors and windows open ; constant heat on top of head.
Torpid typhoid pneumonia, with short rapid breathing, a mere heaving of chest ; cough and expectoration nearly impossible ; patient responds sluggishly, comprehends slowly ; < about midnight.
Neglected or occult pneumonia in psoric patients, threatens to terminate in tuberculosis or in phthisis pituitosa.
Pneumonia passes through its first stages normally and then remains stationary ; deficiency of reaction ; absorbs infiltration and prevents suppuration.
Left thorax overfilled with pleuritic exudations, not a trace of respiratory murmur ; vertebral column strongly bent to right side ; wall of thorax perforated near left nipple ; decided fluctuation and formation of abscess, which broke and discharged a large
quantity of pus ; after a week cannot get a trace of respiratory murmur ; everywhere dull sound on percussion.
Pleurisy (after Acon.) acute, plastic form.
Parenchymatous pleuritis after removal of febrile eruptions ; at termination of process of exudation and to render innocuous those parts of exudation which are not absorbed ; pleuritis in course of acute articular rheumatism, or articular
gout ; fibrous pleuro-pneumonia.
Hydrothorax, with sudden arrest of breathing at night in bed when turning, going off when sitting.
Sensation of fulness in chest, alternating with a sense of weakness in evening on going to bed ; eruption on arms, which are numb after scratching ; quite costive ; feels hungry 10 A. M.
Since an attack of pleurisy about twenty years ago, pain in left lower thorax, back and front, as if something fell forward on turning over on right side when lying ; if she continues to lie on right side it feels as if it pressed against front lower chest ; if she still
continues in that position, there is also heat in part affected ; pressure causes dyspnœa when lying on right side.
Pressure and tension in chest and in region of stomach ; sensation as if chest were too narrow, frequently draws shoulders back to overcome this and to get air ; has had several attacks of hæmoptysis ; salty-tasting, purulent blood-streaked expectoration ;
hemorrhoids ; sleep restless, dry heat prevents him falling asleep, much thirst at night. θ Phthisis.
A boy, æt. 7, sickly since a long time, fevered at night, slept badly, restless whole night ; upper parts of superior lobe of lungs without respiratory murmur, empty, dull percussion sound ; exudative condensation of lung tissues.
Difficult expectoration of small quantities of muco-purulent matter ; night sweat ; forenoon chills followed by mild hectic ; dulness in apex of left lobe extending down to third intercostal ; bronchial rale, with distinct voice sounds ; pain in chest from front,
back into shoulder blade ; small cavity in this part of left lobe. θ Phthisis.
Cough so severe as to cause retching, extreme prostration, paleness of face and cold sweat on forehead ; stitches in various parts of chest on coughing ; cough < at night, constant as soon as he closes his eyes ; expectoration profuse, purulent, of very offensive
odor ; appetite poor ; extreme prostration ; copious night sweats ; despairing mood. θ Phthisis.
Severe harassing cough, with thick, yellow, purulent expectoration ; thirst ; night sweats ; hectic ; pulse 125 ; loss of appetite ; hurried respiration ; oppression on chest and occasional looseness of stools, running off in painless diarrhœa, cold,
clammy hands and feet and stinging in same, with flashes of heat and coldness throughout body ; ears discharge profuse offensive pus ; chronic ulceration of external meatus with perforation and complete destruction of drums.
Tuberculosis of lungs ; especially indicated as a preventive when there are congestions to head and chest ; dry, teasing night cough ; breath hot ; pain like a rivet through upper third of left lung to scapula ; sweats ;
flashes of heat ; burning of feet, with desire to uncover them.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Rush of blood to heart.
Palpitation : anxious ; in evening in bed ; and fluttering of heart ; without anxiety, at any time of day ; during stool ; violent at night, on turning in bed ; violent and rapid on falling asleep ; when going up stairs
or when climbing a hill ; visible.
Sensation as if heart were enlarged.
Stitches in region of heart, or in right side of chest, at night, while lying on back, on slightest motion.
Short stitches in precordial region.
Pericarditis ; pericardial effusion ; exudation.
Stitches in cardiac region, < taking a deep breath.
Sharp pain at heart going through chest, to between shoulders ; especially with dyspeptic symptoms.
Cutting pains about heart as with knives, which decrease or increase, last a few hours, with redness of face, followed by general coldness ; attacks only when waking up.
Has been sick over a year ; failing appetite and diminishing strength ; skin very yellow, like icterus ; six months ago began to complain of palpitation whenever he took exercise ; œdema on both sides of tibia ; for a month confined to bed, slightest exercise
caused dyspnœa and palpitation ; insufficiency of mitral valve ; (received Quinine, Strychnia, Arsenic, Digitalis, Bromide of Potassium, etc.), debility and sleeplessness increased ; stomach retained no food or drink ; nausea continued, had not slept for five nights,
great emaciation ; very weak ; dyspnœa caused by talking even in a low voice ; could only lie on back ; when he turned head, he heard a noise in right carotid artery, as from escaping steam ; skin dry ; mouth and throat very dry, not > by drinking ;
frequent, scanty micturition ; urine pale ; constipated ; aversion to food ; aversion to light ; pulse feeble, 140.
Pulse : full, hard and accelerated, at times intermittent.
Great orgasm of blood, with violent burning in hands.

Outer chest

Shootings in sternum
Does not walk erect ; stoops or bends forward in walking or sitting ; morning sweat after walking.
Seven years ago noticed a deep yellow spot, size of a silver dollar, on left breast ; now covers her person from hips to neck ; inordinate hunger from 10 to 11 A. M. θ Chloasma.
A keloid on sternum which had a diameter of one and one-half inches, and an elevation of one-tenth of an inch ; it was hard and shone like mother of pearl and pained at times ; man suffered from enteritis, which by bad treatment had become chronic.

Neck and back

Glands of neck swollen.
Stiffness of neck : in nape, with paralytic sprained pain ; with cracking of vertebræ on bending head backward.
Tearing and tension in left side of nape, before midnight, after waking feels as if too short ; in morning must cry out with pain ; > during rest.
Drawing pain in nape of neck and scapulæ.
Stitches : in nape of neck, on stooping ; in cervical muscles ; beneath scapulæ, which take away breath, and do not permit stooping ; in scapulæ.
An itching tetter on nape of neck below hair.
Pressive pain in back, beneath scapulæ, in evening.
Tensive pain between scapulæ while lying or moving.
Pain in small of back : could not walk erect, was obliged to walk bent over ; violent only on stooping, tensive as if everything were too short ; on rising from a seat ; gnawing ; after heavy lifting and taking cold at same time ;
violent, as if bruised, also in coccyx ; tiresome feeling, as if bruised ; stitches.
Sticking pain in lumbar vertebræ with every expiration.
Stitches transversely across small of back.
Pain in back as if sprained, or from a false step.
Sensation as if vertebræ were gliding one over the other when turning in bed.
Stiffness, now in back, now in hips, painful on turning over in bed ; obliged to hold breath.
Pain in back on stooping.
Pulsating stitches in region of loins and kidneys.
Pain in loins ; urine thick, dark ; pains in chest ; hot sweats ; flatulence.
Piercing pain and tension in sacrum.
Cannot lie on her back on account of rush of blood to head. θ Nightmare.
Finds himself, in night, lying on back.
Does not walk erect ; stoops or bends over forward in walking and sitting.
Large goitre, interfered with respiration, caused oppression when ascending heights or walking quickly ; snoring during sleep, ; for past year chills, night sweats, and difficult expectoration ; stammering and deafness ; after
vaccination pustular eruption on head.
Woman, æt. 60, removed a mole from left shoulder ; an ulcer two inches in diameter was result, a year later ; had been treated with ointments ; sore, intolerant of water, heat in vertex ; distressing headache a "breeze of pain" as it was called.
Constant backache for several years.
For seven weeks, constant pain in small of back, < from motion and stooping, disturbing sleep at night ; pain as if he would have to sink down, shooting, stitching, causing a sensation of lameness in thighs ; can hardly walk ; must lie on left side at night ; hands
cold. θ Lumbago.
Burning and tensive aching between scapulæ ; heat on top of head ; palpitation of heart ; sleeplessness ; remedies do not seem to take effect. θ Myelitis.
Child, 3 years old, of psoric constitution, dorsal inflammation, and an ill-conditioned ulcer, two inches in front of spine, and one inch above spine of ilium, with hard, elevated edges, no granulations, deep and long enough to receive half of a hen's
egg divided longitudinally, from edges of which were growing twenty or thirty black and coarse hairs.
Tabes dorsalis ; unsteady gait ; great debility and trembling ; limbs go to sleep.
Pott's curvature ; muscles soft and flabby ; great prostration ; well-marked curvature in lumbo-dorsal region.
Spinal curvature occurring after suppression of scabies by ointment.
Angular curvature and abscess in a child, æt. 8, result of a fall ; great and rapid emaciation ; violent hectic ; skin hot and dry, covered with fine rash ; thirst ; inflamed eyelids ; constipation ; no appetite ; urine scanty and
high-colored ; breathing difficult, especially inspiration ; neuralgic pains in thoracic and abdominal walls, extending from back ; abscess discharging large quantities of pus daily (had been punctured) ; hump prominent and increasing very fast.
Curvature of spine, vertebræ softened.

Upper limbs

Pain as if sprained, or as if bruised, in left shoulder.
Rheumatic pains in shoulders, especially in left.
Lacerating pains in shoulders and shoulder joints, especially at night.
Pain in left shoulder as if luxated, or bruised.
Pressure, like a weight, in shoulder when walking in open air.
Drawing pains in shoulder joint, arms and hands.
Stitches extending from shoulder into chest, on motion.
Stitches beneath right axilla.
Weakness of upper arm, could not raise it.
Jerking pressure in deltoid muscle.
Perspiration in armpits, smelling like garlic ; offensive to patient.
Sensation as if something heavy were hanging on upper arm.
Heaviness and tension in humeri.
Arms pain as if beaten.
Drawing and tearing pain in arms and hands.
Sensation as of a mouse running up arms and back before a fit.
Scabs on right arm. θ Eczema.
Irritating rash on arms for two months, pustular, on elbow apparently from contact with coarse shirt ; in some parts patches like lichen ; in others linear appearance of psoriasis.
Erysipelas under left elbow ; joint very painful, skin hot, very red and infiltrated ; arm sensitive, slightest motion < pain ; headache ; thirst ; restless sleep ; constricting sensation in throat ; pulse small and thin ; erysipelas extending
from elbow all around to extensor side of forearm, and continued to progress to upper arm, showing at first a pale reddish hue, which finally became darkened and reached its acme in production of vesicles of different size ; enormous tension and swelling of skin with excessive burning
pain ; extension of redness upward, copious hemorrhages from blisters, which turned black and dried up slowly ; spread steadily upward ; soon reached shoulder, and began to radiate toward neck and head ; pulse became still smaller and sensorium not quite free ;
excessive prostration.
Stiffness of wrists, especially in morning.
Pain in wrist as if sprained.
Tremulous sensation in hands when writing ; cold trembling hands.
Burning of hands.
Crawling in hands.
Psoriasis inveterata, with dry, scaly eruption on backs of hands ; intense itching when warm ; after scratching relief, followed by burning and at times bleeding ; knuckles crack ; at night in bed, feet burn, is obliged to put them in a cool place.
Rhagades on hands, especially between fingers, on finger joints and in palms.
Perspiration of hands, and in palms of hands.
Hands covered with sweat, particularly palms.
Pain in flexor surface of right middle finger as from a sticking splinter.
Pain as from sprain in first joint of thumb.
Cramp in three middle fingers.
Burning in balls and tips of fingers.
Stitches in tips of fingers.
Crawling and prickling in tips of fingers, very acute, < on hanging arms down.
Pain in end of finger like a brier sticking there ; redness and swelling so painful she had to desist from work ; burning and stinging, > in cold water (Apis had been given without relief).
Panaritium in left index finger ; pus collected beneath nail which soon came off and was succeeded by a thick, yellow distorted one, from beneath which pus continued to discharge ; point of finger swollen, shining, yellowish-white ; frequent severe stitching pains ;
pain on touching nail ; whole hand at times as if lame.
Panaritium affecting thumb : great swelling and inflammation ; formation of pus around and beneath nail ; intolerable throbbing and boring pains, < at night.
For three weeks, whitlow on left forefinger, whole finger inflamed, last phalanx contains pus along its entire extent, except at dorsum ; shooting pain in ulnar surface of last phalanx, throbbing all along finger, aching to axilla and scapula ; burning in whole finger, it is
very tender ; sleep disturbed by pain ; > by cold water, holding arm up ; < by letting it hang down and from hot water ; a lump as large as a marble in ulnar side of bend of elbow, with aching in it ; often has hangnails ; has had five whitlows in nine
years.
Deadness of fingers in morning.
Thick, red chilblains on fingers.
Cracking and chapping on finger joints.
Erysipelatous swelling of fingers with numbness.
Hangnails.
Cold hands and feet.

Lower limbs

Lower Limbs
Coxalgia after catching cold ; leg longer than sound one ; gluteal fold sunken ; foot on affected side thrown forward, and is supported by great toe.
Sudden cramp like very painful jerks about hip joint.
Tensive pain in hip joint on walking.
Drawing pain in left hip.
In morning violent shooting pains in right hip joint, compelled him to keep his bed, as he could not raise himself, nor move without greatest effort ; shooting extended through right half of pelvis and down right femur, avoided knee and reappeared as severely in foot.
Shooting pains in hip in evening, extending to upper third of thigh, < when at rest, > by motion and pressure.
Pain in left hip as if bruised, or luxated.
Dull, heavy pain in right hip extending to knee, producing lameness, soreness and tumefaction ; tendons forming lateral boundaries of popliteal space contracted, hard and sensitive to touch, making it difficult for her to touch heel to floor ; sense of
confusion and fulness in head ; heat and weight in vertex. θ Rheumatism.
Pain in posterior muscles of thigh while sitting.
Soreness between thighs, especially on walking.
Cramp in thighs.
Drawing and bruised pain in thighs.
Middle of thigh as if broken.
White painless, elastic swelling of right knee ; no heat.
Doughy swelling of right knee, especially above patella ; pain on pressure ; cannot straighten leg on account of pain.
Periodical, transient, shooting pains in left knee ; constant pain < in paroxysms, in left hip joint, < walking, from external pressure, and especially by pushing leg upward toward hip joint ; affected leg one inch longer than sound one, flexed at knee and thrown
outward ; limping gait.
Cramplike pressure in hollows of knee, extending to ankles.
Pressure in left patella and knee joint.
Violent drawing and tearing through knees and tibia, especially in evening, does not know where to lay legs.
Tearing and a feeling as if sprained in left knee.
Stitches in knee.
Stitching pain in right knee extending to toes, < after midnight, then so severe as to cause spasmodic twitchings ; burning in knee ; knee and leg swollen ; severe pain on inner surface of knee from least touch ; constant severe
chilliness, not followed by heat ; stool hard.
Stiffness in knees and cracking.
Tightness in hollows of knees, as if too short on stooping.
Pain in knees as from stiffness, on rising from a seat.
Knee red, swollen, painful, has a doughy feel, synovial fluid in surrounding cellular tissue ; feels < at night in bed, when it burns and itches ; > moving about, < keeping quiet, with stiffness when beginning to move. θ Gonitis.
Swelling of right knee ; every Summer is troubled with an eruption on one hand, terribly itching and burning after scratching, < at night, spreads up arm to shoulder ; knee pan feels elastic, as if some fluid were in joint ; burning pain during rest.
Dropsy of knee joints ; subacute and chronic synovitis.
Sciatica : subacute and chronic ; pain in small of back ; stitching drawing on rising from a seat ; tensive pain in hip, < on left side ; drawing down limb, with sensation as if bruised ; limb feels heavy, as if paralyzed, < walking ; knees
rigid ; feet swollen.
Bruised sensation in lower extremities.
Drawing pain in lower extremities in morning and evening in bed.
He puts lower extremities out of bed on account of tearing pain in them.
Heaviness and weakness of limbs when walking.
Pains in limbs are greatly < by heat and at night.
Arthritic swelling of joints, with cracking on motion.
On going to sleep, one leg is suddenly drawn up, and shot out again, partially rousing him.
Inclined to cramp in leg, on stretching out foot.
Tearing in legs from knees to feet, while walking and sitting.
After convalescence from pneumonia, pain in both shins, especially left, < when standing ; outer side of left lower leg swelled ; boring pain in left lower leg, like a gimlet going from just below knee to ankle.
Ulcer on tibia in a man broken down by rheumatism and strong drink.
Phlegmasia alba dolens.
Erysipelas of legs.
Chronic abscess at head of tibia, with serous discharge.
Cramps in calves and soles, particularly at night ; looseness of bowels. θ Asiatic cholera.
Cramps in calves : while dancing ; when walking ; in stretching out legs ; at night ; in morning in bed.
Weary pain in calves, at night in bed.
Enlarged vein in right calf for last six days, with aching, tingling and burning in it.
Stiffness of ankle joints.
Pain as from a sprain in left ankle on standing and walking.
Ankles weak.
Ulcer of more than two years' duration on left leg, above outer malleolus, as large as a quarter dollar, with areola much swelled, very hard, dull purplish red ; stinging pains ; scanty watery discharge ; before appearance of ulcer had
much rheumatism, > in Winter, < before a storm ; feet hot at night, keeps them out of bed.
A deep ulcer on inner side of right ankle, discharging thin ichor of bad odor ; some swelling about ulcer.
Swelling and redness of inner side of right foot and right inner malleolus ; part very tender ; sharp darting pain from r. inner malleolus, going up to knee, and down along instep toward toes ; < by standing on it with foot flat ; can stand a little on toes.
Aching, drawing, tearing pains in feet.
Tensive pain in right foot, after dinner and in morning.
Drawing in feet extending up to hips, with cracking of joints on every movement.
Great heaviness of feet, especially of ankles.
Stitches : in ball of right foot.
Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them ; puts them out of bed to cool them off.
On putting feet to ground prickling in balls of feet, as if it would draw toes down.
Children kick off clothes to cool their feet.
Sensation of cold feet, though they really are not cold.
Cold feet and hands ; cold soles.
Feet cold, or covered with cold sweat.
Intense icy coldness of feet ; < when head is congested.
Herpetic eruption on foot, from a blow received six months ago ; heals and then breaks out again.
Ulcer on instep.
Chronic badly smelling feet ; gnawing empty feeling at pit of stomach an hour or so before dinner ; dry, burning heat in soles at night, even when cold through day ; had itch suppressed by Sulphur.
Sticking, crawling in right heel.
Cramp in soles of feet at every step.
Burning in soles : on stepping after sitting a long time ; and itching, especially on walking ; wishes to find a cool place for them, puts them out of bed ; wants them uncovered.
Soles cold and sweating.
Pressive pain and soreness on inside of great toe.
Sudden sharp cutting pain from behind forward in left great toe ; also shoots as from a fine needle.
Sharp shoots as from a blunt nail, in rapid succession, at root of nail of great toe.
Cramps in toes on stretching out feet.
Red, shining swelling of toes.
Eczema under toes.
Itching in toes that had been frozen.
Pain in corns.
Corns and frost-bite ; had not been able to wear boots for two years ; feet very sore, tender, swollen, inflamed ; burning, boring and stitching pains.
Redness and swelling of chilblain, with tendency to suppuration ; chilblain thick, and red, with cracks on joints ; itching < in warm bed.

Limbs in general

Trembling of limbs, hands and feet, with weariness and prostration.
Unsteady gait ; tremor of hands.
Limbs go to sleep easily.
Tearing in limbs, muscles and joints, from above downward.
Weariness, cracking, swelling of joints.
Arthritic swelling and heat.
Pains in knees, ankles and elbows, every night about 11 P. M., continuing till 7 A. M.
Gouty or rheumatic complaints, with or without swelling.
Pains in limbs, < when covered with feather covering.
Severe inflammation of joints, much redness, swelling, and excruciating pain on motion ; all joints may be successively attacked ; is apt to begin in feet and pass from them successively to upper joints ; pains decidedly < at night. θ Rheumatism.
Chronic rheumatism ; stiffness of joints, and pain in lumbar region.
In second stage of articular rheumatism, where deposits are to be removed ; feet in particular are affected and very stiff.
Chronic rheumatism ; podagra ; tearing, stitching pain or when after Bryon., stitch-pain leaves and a dull, aching, pressive pain remains ; sleeplessness ; hot head and cold feet.
Bursæ, hard or soft, inflamed ; feeling of formication.
Eruption of minute, almost confluent vesicles, on arms up to elbows, and on legs below knees, on no other part of body ; excessive pruritus, < scratching ; for three weeks harsh, dry cough, < at night ; spells almost continuous, cough provoked by tickling in throat
below glottis ; constant sensation of weight in centre of sternum, with a heavy, dull, aching pain ; has pains at times in lower edges of pleura.
Chilblains, thick and red, with cracks on joints.
Corns with aching and stinging pain.
Hands and feet cold ; or palms and soles burning hot.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : head symptoms < ; caries of bones of cranium < ; > pain in nape of neck ; shooting pain in hip < ; < pain in knee.
Sitting : heaviness of head > ; vertigo ; head symptoms < ; hunched, in brain affections ; bent over, stitches in hepatic region ; pain about navel ; rumbling and grumbling > ; pains in anus < ; burning in anus ; forcing down in anus ; pain
in posterior muscles of thigh ; tearing in legs ; restlessness.
Standing : vertigo ; > hemorrhoids ; pain in shins < ; on foot flat, < swelling of foot and ankle.
Can only lie in one position, with occiput drawn far backward.
Lying : heaviness of head ; occiput as if hollow ; very violent pressure in stomach ; rumbling < ; hemorrhoids < ; weakness of chest ; on right side as if something fell forward in thorax ; pain between scapulæ ; constantly moving feet ;
chilliness >.
Lying on back : hard mass in epigastrium ; stitches through chest into left scapula ; stitches in region of heart or in chest ; rush of blood to head ; assumes position in sleep.
Lying on painful side : neuralgia of liver >.
Likes to lie with head low : hydrocephalus.
Lying with head high : heaviness and dulness >.
Stooping : heaviness of head ; rush of blood to head ; vertigo ; headache ; stitches in forehead < ; pricking across forehead < ; head symptoms < ; pain in region of kidneys ; when walking or sitting ; stitches in nape of neck ; pain in
back ; tension in bends of knees.
Must bend double : painful urging to urinate.
Motion : disagreeable from heaviness of head ; of head > stitches ; headache < ; cannot bear, with headache ; head symptoms < ; caries of bones of cranium > ; eyeball painful ; lids tense ; noises in ears < ; > hemorrhoids ; soreness
between thighs ; < stitches through chest ; stabbing pain in left chest ; pain between scapulæ ; < pain in erysipelas on arm ; < shooting pain in hip joint ; > shooting pain in hip ; > pain in knee ; cracking of joints ; in bed,
chilliness.
Walking : painful, with sick-headache ; pressure upon bladder ; pain in face > ; prevented by hemorrhoids ; < stitches in left chest ; tensive pain in hip joint ; soreness between thighs ; < pain in hip joint ; sciatica < ; heaviness
and weakness of limbs ; tearing in legs ; cramp in calves ; burning in soles ; weariness disappears ; lassitude ; sleepiness ; in open air, sweat ; in open air, sticking itching.
Moving arm : chest painful.
At every step : cramp in soles of feet ; burning in soles.
Regularly protrudes and retracts tongue.
Raising head : heaviness and fulness <.
Nodding head : as if brain were beating against skull.
Bending head backward : cracking of vertebræ.
Bending arms backward : shortness of breath and oppression.
On bringing arms together in front : tightness of chest.
When turning over in bed : asthma ; as if vertebræ were gliding over each other ; stiffness in back <.
Talking : fatigues whole body.
Dancing : cramp in calves.
Stretching out feet : cramps in toes.
When right leg is lifted to step : pain in knee <.
Stretching out foot : cramp in leg.
Rising : limbs totter ; rising from seat prevented by pain in stomach ; pain in small of back < ; stiffness and pain in knees ; sciatica <.
Ascending : confusion and dulness of head ; headache ; stitches in left chest < ; palpitation ; oppressed respiration, with goitre.
Going down stairs : dizzy.
Writing : tremulous sensation in hands.

Nerves

Feels tired and used up ; not rested in morning.
Weariness disappears on walking.
Lassitude : in morning ; in evening ; after walking, with sleepiness.
Weakness : after a short walk ; after a stool ; in afternoon.
Exhaustion of whole body ; extreme faintness ; uneasiness.
Uneasiness and excitation of nervous system ; could not sit long ; even while lying was constantly moving feet.
Uneasiness in blood ; orgasm.
Unsteady gait, tremor of hands.
Cannot walk erect, stoop-shouldered.
Great debility and trembling ; talking fatigues.
Weak, faint spells, frequently during day, after nursing or night-watching, with great sleepiness.
Excessive prostration and rapid emaciation.
Great prostration with entire loss of appetite and general coldness of surface.
Weak, fainting spells frequently during day ; feels very faint and weak, with a strong craving for food, from 11 to 12 every morning.
Child easily fatigued ; sits bent forward ; refuses to stand long, but crawls about.
Since an attack of diphtheria five years ago, exhaustion on least exertion ; nausea or vomiting in morning ; attacks of diarrhœa occasionally ; micturition frequent and painful ; urine turbid ; complexion sallow and pallid.
Excessively sensitive to open air and will not be washed ; very much inclined to take cold.
Universal tremors.
Hysteria : she comes out of her spasms feeling very happy, everything seems very beautiful to her ; discharges a large quantity of colorless urine.
Child jumps, starts and screams.
Frequent spasmodic jerking in whole body.
Lays her head upon table ; sighs and groans ; unconsciously slides to and fro upon bench ; struggles with her limbs ; throws herself upon floor and rolls about ; falls into a sleep and wakes up well.
Spasms set in with twitching of hands, then general convulsed movements of body and limbs ; sensitiveness of abdomen, felt even in stupor which followed spasm, causing wincing from firm pressure over right ovarian region ; face red, spotted ; had complained for several
days of a violent pain in vertex.
Spasms after suppressed eruptions ; often removes tendency to convulsions.
Chorea ; in chronic cases, particularly after suppressed eruptions ; frequent spasmodic jerking of whole body ; tremor of hands ; unsteady walk ; peevish, irritable, obstinate ; faint and hungry spells at 10 A. M. ;
soles of feet burn.
Epilepsy since infancy in a boy æt. 4 ; attacks occur at periods varying from three to six months ; often has severe attacks in rapid succession ; comes in after playing and running, leans head against a chair and complains of
headache ; feels tired and exhausted ; falls asleep with jerkings, and anxious starting in sleep, which is followed by a fit ; froth at mouth, eyes set, throws hands above head, and grows stiff ; trembling of limbs ; attacks last some minutes with only slight
remissions ; body jerks, legs rapidly drawn up and extended with force, thumbs clenched ; coldness of extremities ; blueness around mouth ; attacks preceded by vertigo, soporific sleep, gritting of teeth, nausea and vomiting ; unconscious of what has happened.
Epilepsy for six days ; as many as twenty-three fits in one night ; convulsions confined to upper extremities and trunk ; head moving about in all directions, but mostly to side ; trying to rise ; eyes constantly moving up and down ; foaming at mouth ;
hands clenched, thumbs not turned in ; both arms nearly in position of right arm when standing at guard in boxing, and trembling as if in a shaking chill ; lower extremities unmoved and rigid ; convulsions began in left side and went to right ; now more frequently they
are reversed.
Æt. 18, good health until eighth year, when he was suddenly seized with epileptic fits ; sometimes had three or four paroxysms a day, seldom passing twenty-four hours without one ; produced by sudden noise, touch or excitement ; contracted itch at school when about 8
years old, which had been repelled by external treatment ; eruption disappeared almost immediately after application of ointment, and within three weeks thereafter had his first fit ; after taking Sulphur, an eruption, resembling small boils, appeared, sometimes painful, and when
touched would throw him into a spasm ; febrile symptoms increased and finally assumed a typhoid form.
Had fallen from a ladder upon back of his head ten years ago ; three days after fall, an epileptic fit, repeating ever since at intervals from five days to six weeks ; before each fit aura from hands into head ; fits mostly in morning, one to two hours after rising ;
on days of attack two diarrheic stools, otherwise stool normal ; after fit sour taste in mouth and dejected spirit ; during well time every morning throbbing, pressing pain in front of head ; restless sleep ; in air, during windy, cold weather, jerkings in arm and about
mouth, without a fit, > in warm room ; when a child was subject to scrofulous eruptions ; grandmother and stepbrother were epileptic.
Epilepsy, three or four attacks a week ; general health and strength much deteriorated, cannot walk much, memory had quite failed him, has become partly an imbecile.
Epilepsy of five years' standing.
Epilepsy ; before spell crawling and running as of a mouse up back and arms, or a sudden feeling as if a mouse were running from right foot up leg to right side of abdomen ; after attack, which consists of various convulsive motions, he wipes
tears from his eyes ; soporous sleep ; great exhaustion ; jerking in arms and about mouth in cold air ; chronic cases of psoric taint ; suppressed itch.
Paralysis of left leg ; could not bear to have head raised from pillow ; constipation ; paralysis ; everything appears dark to her ; sinking sensation ; lay coiled in bed.
Involuntary stool, with retention of urine and partial paraplegia, after miscarriage.
Palsy, from repercussion of eruptions.
Rheumatic paralysis.

Sleep

Totally disinclined to rise from bed in morning ; not refreshed by sleep.
Sudden jerking of limbs when going to sleep.
Child kicks clothes off at night.
Yawning and sleepiness during day.
Dropsy in afternoon and after sunset ; wakeful at night.
Irresistible drowsiness in daytime ; wakefulness at night.
Sleepiness in evening, but night is full of unrest, tossing, nervous excitement, orgasm of blood ; pains of various kinds and but little sleep throughout night.
Difficult falling asleep : on account of great flow of thoughts ; with inclination to perspire ; with itching on skin.
Wakes as with fright from a fearful dream, and after waking was still occupied with anxious thoughts, as of ghosts, from which he could not free himself.
Anxious, frightful dreams of dead and dying ; speaks, weeps and shouts in her sleep, so as to wake herself, and after waking remains long in a confused state.
Much sighing and groaning in sleep.
Sleeping with half-open eyes.
Frequent turning over in bed without waking.
Wakes up at 3, 4 or 5 A. M., and cannot fall asleep again.
Screaming out in sleep ; lamentation and moaning ; talks loudly.
Dreams of fire and death.
Heavy, unrefreshing sleep.
Jerks and twitches during sleep.
Awakes with a start or scream.
Easily awakened, takes short naps.
Finds himself in night lying on his back.
Has happy dreams, wakes singing, is very happy.
Nightmare.
Dreams : vivid, anxious, as if pursued by wild beasts ; vivid, comic, with loud laughter, continued for some time after waking ; vivid, believing she sits on chamber causes her to wet bed ; horrible, with great palpitation ; that he has been bitten by a
dog ; that he is falling.
About an hour after he falls asleep he suddenly starts up and screams ; leaps out of bed and runs about like a maniac ; wrings hands, sweats profusely and trembles.
Crying attacks at night in a child æt. 8 months ; would have to be carried most of time ; cried < if it approached fire ; rubbing head seemed to quiet it.
Aggravation after a long-protracted sleep ; diarrhœa and fever, < after sleep.

Time

Morning : dulness of head with pressure in forehead until noon ; confusion of head ; vertigo ; after rising, headache ; throbbing headache ; diarrhœa early ; cold feet ; when waking, sensitiveness of vertex ; on waking, lids
agglutinated ; pains in eyes sharp and sticking ; photophobia < ; sees halo around artificial light ; dryness of eyes following lachrymation ; burning of eyes ; burning in edges of lids ; sensitiveness of eyelids ; itching of lids ; lids drawn
together spasmodically ; diarrhœa ; taste foul and bitter ; tongue furred ; tongue dry ; mouth sticky ; nausea ; vomiting ; pain in stomach < ; fulness and tension in abdomen ; griping before stool ; stools undigested, more
frequent ; vomiting ; dysentery < ; on passing water, flying shoots in urethra ; leucorrhœa < ; sickness of pregnancy ; hoarseness ; irritation of throat ; stiffness of wrists ; deadness of fingers ; shooting pain in hip joint ; in bed,
cramp in calves ; tensive pain in foot ; tired, not rested ; epileptic fits ; in bed, dry heat ; hot head, glowing face ; sweat, profuse on itching parts ; sweat during sleep.
Toward morning : sweat.
At 3, 4 or 5 A. M. : wakes, cannot fall asleep again.
At 5 A. M. : painless diarrhœa, driving out of bed.
At 6 or 7 A. M. : sweat, after waking.
At 8 or 9 A. M. : every second day, febrile attacks.
At 9 or 10 A. M. : febrile attacks, postponing ten to fifteen minutes each day.
At 10 A. M. : pain at left eyebrow to superciliary ridge ; feeling of hunger ; faintish feeling.
Between 10 and 11 A. M. : gone feeling.
At 11 A. M. : weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in stomach ; hungry and faint, in pregnancy.
Forenoon : confusion of head ; children feel faint ; sick spells in pregnancy ; chilliness with suppuration of mamma ; chills, followed by hectic.
Afternoon : headache ; lids burning with flow of tears ; pain in face comes on ; heat, with suppuration of mamma ; weakness ; drowsy.
At 2 P. M. : sharp pain in eye.
At 3 P. M. : nosebleed with vertigo.
All day : heartburn ; pulsating pain in anus.
During day : sad, lachrymose attacks of melancholy for a few moments ; hypochondriac mood ; pressive pain over eyebrows ; headache lasts ; redness of eyes ; chilliness ; could not see anything with left eye ; sleepy ; cold feet ;
drowsiness.
Toward evening : febrile heat.
From 6 to 8 P. M. : chilliness in back.
At 11 or 12 P. M. : pain in face comes on.
Evening : dulness of head ; confusion of head ; morbid ideas < ; sudden sadness ; merry ; anxiety in bed ; tearing in vertex ; pricking across forehead ; feet hot ; sensitiveness of scalp < ; photophobia < ; dull aching and weight in
eyeballs ; itching of eyes ; pressure in lids ; pressure in nasal bone ; pain in face < ; toward, fever ; throat and chest painful ; nausea during stool ; vomiting ; vomiting of food eaten at noon ; emission of flatus < ; burning in
anus ; bloody stools ; stool every half hour ; stitches in rectum ; crawling in rectum as from worms ; burning in anus ; hoarseness ; cough before and when going to bed ; shortness of breath in bed ; asthma ; burning in left side < ;
palpitation ; pressive pain in back ; shooting pains in hip to thigh ; drawing and tearing through knees and tibia ; lassitude ; drowsiness ; chilliness ; in bed, burning hot feet ; sweat ; sweat, most on hands ; in bed, itching and prickling
of skin.
Before midnight : tearing and tension in nape of neck.
About midnight : typhoid pneumonia <.
Night : dulness of head ; rush of blood to head ; violent headache ; awaking with heat and anxiety ; throbbing pain in head ; pressive pain in occiput ; headache awoke her ; sick-headache < ; pains in eyes < ; restless first part ;
agglutination of lids ; diarrhœa and tenesmus < ; could distinguish light with left eye ; pain in side of head < ; neuralgia of jaw and temples < ; itching < ; in bed, toothache ; heat in mouth and much thirst ; pressure in stomach, with palpitation ;
emission of flatus ; griping in abdomen ; pressure downward while lying in bed ; diarrhœa ; great thirst ; vomiting ; dysenteric stools ; itching in anus ; during sleep, discharge of liquid feces ; frequent micturition ; wetting the
bed ; must rise several times to urinate ; profuse sweat ; smarting leucorrhœa < ; pain in nipple < ; asthma ; feels suffocated ; distressing heat ; dry, hacking cough of pneumonia < ; palpitation ; pain in shoulders ; pain in panaritium <
; in bed, pain in knee < ; itching eruption on hand < ; pains in limbs < ; cramp in calves and soles ; weary pains in calves ; pains of rheumatism < ; wakefulness ; chilliness ; heat over whole body ; sweat about knees, all over body, with restless
sleep ; sweat on nape and occiput ; itching over whole body ; burning in parts on which he lies ; itching, has to walk floor nude.
After midnight : smarting on inner side of lids ; pressure in stomach ; diarrhœa ; cholera infantum begins ; cholera Asiatica ; copious micturition ; until 2 A. M. cough ; pain in knee <.

Temperature and weather

Wants doors and windows open. θ Asthma. θ Pneumonia.
Susceptibility to temperature ; warm things feel hot. θ Cholera.
Indoors : emptiness in occiput > ; nose stopped up.
Slightest atmospheric variation : < chronic bronchitis.
Open air : after walking, dulness of head ; rush of blood to head < ; vertigo ; sudden sadness ; emptiness in occiput < ; head symptoms < ; walking, pressure in eyeballs ; when looking sharp, lachrymation ; burning coryza ; toothache comes
on ; shortness of breath < when walking ; chilliness as if naked ; sweat when walking ; walking, sticking itching.
Warm room : rush of blood to head > ; dejection < ; headache < ; eyes dry.
Exposure to cold draft of air brings on attack of pain in fifth pair of nerves.
Raw air : throat and chest <.
Least draft : toothache.
Wishes to be fanned : during labor.
Warm bed : itching in chilblains <.
Is obliged to uncover feet.
Feather covering : < pains in limbs.
Warm applications ; pulse becomes rapid.
Warm food : throbbing pain in head < ; is agreeable to throat.
Warm water : washing eyes > stinging pain ; < pain in whitlow.
Warmth : headache < ; pain in forehead > ; of bed, deafness < ; pain in face > ; of bed < itching of scabies.
Cannot remain long in heated place : headache.
Heat : boring in teeth < ; dry > cutting in abdomen, loins and sacrum > ; itching < on backs of hands ; < pains in limbs ; of stove does not relieve chilliness ; of bed < itching.
Sun : headache <.
Sultry weather : stitches in eyes <.
Aversion to bathing : hemorrhoidal tumors ; children suffering from enuresis.
Going into bath : faint feeling.
After washing : aching in forehead > ; heat rises to face ; eyes first > then < ; halo around light removed ; ectropium or entropium < ; rhagades <.
Dread of being washed.
Objects to washing out ears.
Cold water : sprinkling, > pain in head ; sponging, headache > ; sore pain in left eye >, toothache < ; > pain in end of finger ; > pain in whitlow.
Cold food and drink ; throat <.
Cold, damp weather : cough and hoarseness <.
Cold : headache > ; pain in face < ; drink causes violent stitches through teeth.
During windy cold weather : jerking in arm and about mouth.
Damp cold weather : sick headache < ; swelling and caries of bones of cranium < ; diarrhœa.
Before a storm : ulcer on leg <.

Fever

Chilliness : after dinner ; at night ; creeps from small of back up back, from 6 to 8 P. M. ; with headache, in evening ; and shivering over whole body, without subsequent heat, or thirst ; and rigor, with blue nails, pale face,
heavy, giddy head, not > by heat of stove, but by lying down ; in open air, as if naked ; shivering, on slightest movement in bed ; in back, in evening for an hour without subsequent heat ; constantly creeps from sacrum up back, without subsequent heat or thirst ;
sometimes > by warmth of stove ; about lower part of body ; every evening in bed, followed by heat and profuse perspiration ; in forenoon, heat with cold feet in afternoon.
Coldness transient, of nose, hands, feet, chest, arms, back and abdomen.
Hands and feet very cold, with livid, pale face.
Chill : with delirium ; begins in feet, hands, fingers or toes ; mostly internal and without thirst, generally in evening, also at other times of day ; external, with simultaneous internal heat and red face ; with thirst, preceded by
heat ; running up back.
Chill and fever : no reaction ; stupid, sinking.
Orgasm of blood ; frequent flushes of heat.
Heat of face every evening from 5 to 9.
Heat and burning in face.
Redness and heat of face with burning, especially about mouth.
Great heat of face with chilliness over back.
Flushing heat in face, with febrile shivering over whole body.
At night feeling of heat over whole body, especially in palms of hands.
Dry heat in morning in bed.
Violent dry heat in head, with glowing face in morning on waking.
Heat in head : prevents falling asleep ; in morning ; in evening, with cold feet.
Burning heat of palms of hands.
Dry heat in thighs and small of back, with coldness of back.
Heat of feet, with a burning sensation in evening in bed, so that she was obliged to uncover them for several hours ; followed by uneasiness, itching and crawling in them ; was obliged to rub them.
Hot flushes with spells of faintness, or passing off with a little moisture, faintness or debility.
Continued dry heat or coldness and cold sweat.
Heat : afternoon or evening, skin dry, much thirst ; with thirst ; frequent flushes in face, with shivering sensation over body ; and sinking sensation in stomach ; burning of palms of hands and soles of feet ; and redness of face
with burning in single parts, as on malar bones, around eyes, nose, ears and mouth ; alternates with chilliness.
Sweat : on slightest motion ; offensive, in axillæ ; profuse, between fingers ; of hands ; about knees, at night ; profuse in morning on itching parts ; always after waking about 6 or 7 A. M. ; in morning during sleep, disappearing on
waking ; in evening in bed ; at night, with restless sleep ; at night, all over body ; while walking in open air ; smelling of sulphur ; profuse, sour-smelling all night ; in evening, mostly on hands at night, only on nape and occiput ; only on one
side of body ; only on back part of body.
Pulse 94 ; great weakness ; no appetite ; face flushed ; mind sluggish and depressed ; answers questions slowly and with effort ; nights restless ; fever paroxysms most marked in evening, with much thirst at night. θ Continuous
remittent fever.
Fever of continuous, remittent type, occurring in Autumn and Winter ; rigors of various intensity precede heat, never follow it ; chills remittent, lasting half an hour, or appear in paroxysms for a whole day, accompanied by thirst ;
heat, also in paroxysms, there may be from five to seven in a day ; pulse from 130 to 160 ; heat most intense toward evening and forepart of night, with sweat after midnight ; thirst and dryness of mouth, > by small quantities of water frequently repeated ; headache
and restlessness at night ; jaundiced appearance of skin and dryness of tongue ; craving for acids ; typhoid symptoms with great dulness of mind, slowness in responding to questions.
Continued fever, no sweat ; skin hot and dry, with scaling into bed ; pulse intermits every third or fourth beat ; could not speak a word from debility, but nodded his head in answer to questions ; ash-colored, emaciated, cadaveric face ; tried to find a
cool place in bed ; urine yellow, color of sulphur ; violent spells of loose cough, no expectoration.
Boy, æt. 10, sick nineteen days, commencing with diarrhœa ; unconscious last five days ; pulse 135 to 140, small, hard ; no eruption ; febrile aggravations very indistinct, recognizable only by periods of restlessness and screaming, is appeased by a little
water ; mouth closed and jaw rigid ; sordes on teeth and tongue ; stiffness of jaw apparently caused by inflammation and gangrenous sloughing of buccal mucous membrane ; offensive bloody ichor runs from corner of mouth.
Chronic rheumatic fever with heart disease and mitral regurgitation ; very passive, quiet disposition ; no swelling or redness ; pain on moving, but afterward > by movement.
Hectic : febrile heat especially toward evening, with sharply circumscribed redness of cheeks (especially left) ; dry skin, with thirst ; thin, pale face ; dry or diarrheic and slimy stools ; short, oppressed breathing ; palpitation ; sweat
toward morning ; debility, tired feeling in limbs, with heaviness, dry cough, etc.
Febrile attacks every second day at 8 or 9 A. M., last eight or nine hours ; cold sweat first, then heat ; thirst, with heat in mouth, both stages ; cold stage lasts only two hours, remainder of time consumed by hot ; at times very violent pains in back ;
is very weak ; can hardly eat anything ; great restlessness ; perspires much at night ; has taken much quinine. θ Ague.
For two years shivering fits like ague every three or four weeks ; attacks last three or four hours ; duration of cold stage depending upon way in which he wraps up, if warmly wrapped it lasts an hour ; if not, two or three hours ; this is succeeded by extraordinary
heat of entire body, but no sweat ; when attack seizes him, he piles blankets upon himself until he begins to get warm, he then becomes sick, and vomits contents of stomach ; there follows fearful pain in head, which generally continues two or three days after paroxysm has ceased. θ Ague.
Intermittent fever of long duration, repeated attacks, suppressed by large doses of quinine, with much detriment to an already broken-down constitution ; very weak and emaciated ; violent burning in palms of hands and soles of feet ; burning heat on vertex ; marked
venosity of hands.
Intermittent fever a month after passing through a stage of bilious fever ; had two paroxysms, tertian ; severe gastrosis, that nothing could allay ; diarrhœa driving him out of bed early in morning.
Obstinate case of intermittent fever, characterized by hot flushes and hot soles at night ; massive doses of quinine had failed even to suppress paroxysms ; loss of health and flesh.
A boy, æt. 8 ; for three days chill ; beginning in belly, then going around to back and all over body, six times a day ; for one day, cold feeling on right side of head, which quickly rises to vertex, making hair on vertex feel as if it stood on end.
Patient partially recovers, and then relapses ; chronic cases ; enlarged spleen ; constitutional symptoms ; no reaction ; stupid, constantly sinking.
Appears particularly dull and forgetful, cannot remember what he was about to say, is very slow to answer, it requires some effort to rouse him ; lies in a dull, stupid state, with muttering delirium, talking incoherently. θ Typhoid
fever.
Typhoid fever in psoric individuals ; well-selected remedy has no effect ; sleepless nights ; slow comprehension ; heat and fulness in head ; sore and inflamed eyelids ; dryness of ears ; pale, sickly aspect ;
bright, red lips ; undefined redness on tip of tongue ; bleeding from nose, teeth and gums ; offensive smell from mouth ; diarrhœa, < early in morning, unpainful or with tenesmus ; great prostration after stool ; offensive urine ; catarrh and
inflammation of lungs, especially during commencement of infiltration, recognizable by crepitation sound. θ Typhoid fever.
Yellow fever : melancholic ; fearful ; undecided ; sad ; absentminded ; dizziness ; headache ; face pale or yellowish ; eyes red, or yellowish ; itching and burning in eyes ; noises in ears ; tongue dry, red, or with white or
brown coating ; aphthæ in mouth ; nausea with trembling and weakness ; vomiting of sour, bilious, or bloody and black masses ; pressure in stomach ; pain in back and loins.
Febrile attacks every morning about 9 or 10, generally ten to fifteen minutes later each day ; tremendous shivering and chill lasting ten to fifteen minutes, shortened by rolling up in blankets ; hot stage lasts two hours, followed by
sweat ; with heat, thirst, vertigo, and peculiar cough, he coughs twice, and twice only, a heavy straining cough, which strains pit of chest, and a light hacking cough, which seems to come from pit of chest ; sweat lasts half an hour, is not free, depends upon amount of
covering ; thirst greater during heat than sweat ; paroxysm ends about 4 o'clock, followed by complete prostration ; bowels sometimes confined, sometimes diarrhœa, latter generally after breakfast ; at times stools undigested. θ Chagres
fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Complaints continually relapsing.
Alternate : pale and red cheeks ; diarrhœa and constipation ; asthma, or gout, and skin eruptions.
Periodical : neuralgia ; stinging in back with asthma.
In paroxysms : pain in knee.
Climacteric period : hot flushes ; goneness in stomach.
At 1 or 2 A. M. : cannot sleep ; headache.
Every morning : pain over eyes.
At 9 A. M. : severe pain in forehead with heat, increasing until midday, disappearing at 4 P. M. ; after rising headache begins ; empty eructations ; thin stool.
At 10 A. M., sometimes 6 A. M. : pain in head comes on, lasting an hour ; pain at eyebrow and superciliary ridge, reaches its height about midday.
At 11 A. M. : regularly, child was faint.
About noon : pain comes on and lasts till evening.
Beginning afternoon : pain in face lasts three or four hours, returns late at night continuing till At 1 A. M., comes again morning and disappears before afternoon.
From 2 to 5 P. M. : pain over left eye gradually increasing and decreasing.
About 5 P. M. : pain in fifth pair of nerves, last three or four days.
At 5 or 6 P. M. : headache at acme, continues violent until 2 A. M. ; quits instantaneously.
At 5 to 9 P. M. : heat of face.
At 9 P. M. : pain in head commences, < till about 3 A. M. ; also comes on at breakfast and lasts till 4 P. M.
From 11 P. M. until 7 A. M. : pain in knees, ankles and elbows.
Every evening : biting of eyes and lachrymation.
From 10 P. M. to 1 A. M. : diarrhœa <.
From morning until night : desire for alcoholic drinks.
During day : weak, faint spells.
Every day : pain as if head would burst ; severe tearing in frontal region ; neuralgic headache comes on at noon and lasts until evening ; at 11 A. M. exhausted feeling at epigastrium.
Every night : headache ; at regular hours neuralgia of jaw and temple, lasting one and a half hours ; violent diarrhœa ; sweat.
Every ten to twenty minutes : awoke from soporous sleep with screams.
Every half hour : stools, in evening.
Several times during day : burning in throat.
In twenty-four hours : five or ten bloody stools.
Every two hours : paroxysms of heat.
Every twenty-four hours : intermittent neuralgia, < generally at 12 M. or 12 P. M.
Twenty-three fits in one night : epilepsy.
Twelve to twenty-four times a day : efforts to urinate.
Every second day : febrile attacks.
Every two or three days : paroxysms of headache.
Every third night : pain in side < ; neuralgia of chest.
Three or four attacks a week : epilepsy.
Every seventh day : headache ; head symptoms < ; discharge from ears.
Every eight days : asthma.
Every three or four weeks : attacks of headache ; fits of ague, for two years.
Every four to six weeks : vesicular eruption.
At intervals : three to six months, epileptic fits ; from five days to six weeks, epileptic fits.
Lasting half an hour : remittent chills.
For seven hours : after stool, aching in coccyx and sacrum, with hemorrhoids.
For two days : pain in side of face, comes in evening, lasts all night, > toward morning.
For three days : chills, six times a day.
For several days : pain over lower jaw.
For seven days : nosebleed.
For twelve days : ophthalmia and diarrhœa.
Once a week : sick-headache.
Every two weeks : sick-headache.
For three weeks : prolapsus of rectum.
For six or eight weeks : total blindness.
A fortnight before menses : leucorrhœa.
For four weeks : watery diarrhœa.
For seven weeks : dry cough at night ; constant backache.
For two months : pricking pain across forehead.
For three months : pain in right side of face and head ; itching of face and scalp.
For four months : menses suppressed ; cough, with salty expectoration.
For ten months : menses suppressed.
For a year : menses suppressed.
Eighteen months : diarrhœa.
A year and a half ago : mentagra.
For two years : severe headache ; eruption on scalp ; passes blood with stool ; nocturnal enuresis ; cough, following pleurisy ; not able to wear boot on account of corns, and frostbite ; ague fits every three or four weeks.
For three years : headache, symptoms < till midsummer, then > ; dimness of vision ; eczema.
For several years : eczema impetigenoides ; a hard swelling in abdomen ; hydrocele ; constant backache.
For many years : attacks of conjunctivitis lasting three months ; attacks of arthritic ophthalmia.
Of five years' standing : epilepsy.
Since seven years : eruption on head, keratitis pustulosa.
In nine years : five whitlows.
For ten years : has had otorrhœa from both ears.
Fifteen years' standing : inflammation of liver.
For ten years : gleet.
Eleven years ago : scarlatina, gradually losing hearing.
Every eighth year of her life in months of January or February : attacks of scrofulous ophthalmia.
Every Summer : eruption on hand.
Midsummer : neuralgia <.
In Autumn : remittent fever.
Midwinter : neuralgia <.
Winter : headache < ; ulcer on leg > ; remittent fever.

Locality and direction

Left : pain in side of occiput ; pulsating in side of occiput ; pain in inner point of eyebrow ; lachrymation ; headache begins on side ; severe pains about eye, leave suddenly and appear about ovary ; headache apt to commence in side ;
swelling and soreness of side of cervical spine ; deafness ; thick crust on head ; tearing pain in side of forehead, neuralgia in head < side ; blindness ; dimness of vision ; like knives in eye ; sore pain in eye ; shooting beneath lids ;
violent pain in eye ; shooting in eye ; eye agglutinated ; sclerotic of eye ; could not see anything by day ; whole eye seems to have grown larger ; deafness ; something seems to have come before ear ; itching in ear ; upper lid covered with
crusts ; discharge < from ear ; pain in fifth pair of nerves ; stabbing beneath zygoma ; pain extending up side of face ; drawing jerking in lower jaw ; aphthæ on lower lip ; tearing toothache ; enlargement of tonsil ; pain from back of neck
into ear ; pain in pelvis to foot ; side of chest, shooting ; stitching pain in side of chest ; pain over eye ; wind accumulates in side ; partial paralysis of face ; painful sticking in hypochondrium ; stitches in side of abdomen ; incarcerated
flatulence ; belly swollen ; thrusts in chest toward heart ; stitches through chest into scapula ; burning pain in side ; severe acute pain deep in lung ; pneumonia > lying on side ; pleuritic exudation, thorax perforated near nipple ; dulness in
apex of lung ; cavity in lung ; tearing and tension in neck ; ulcer on shoulder after removing a mole ; rheumatic pain in shoulder erysipelas under elbow ; panaritium in index finger ; drawing pain in hip ; bruised or luxated feeling in hip ; knee,
shooting pains ; sprained feeling in knee ; tensive pain in hip ; boring pain in leg ; sprained pain in ankle ; ulcer on leg ; cutting pains in great toe ; paralysis of leg ; sleeps best lying on.
After removal of left eye, sympathetic irritation of right.
Right : pain above eye ; pain over eyeball to occiput ; tumor on side of occipital bone ; beginning of cataract ; drooping of lid ; partial ptosis ; knifelike stitches in eye ; severe cutting in eye ; conjunctiva injected and inflamed ;
paresis of nervous abducens ; surging noise in ear ; pressure in nasal bone ; stinging, beginning on side of nose ; darting pain in knee ; tearing pain in half of face ; pains in infraorbital region ; sight of eye dim ; pain in temple ; severe
pain side of head ; erysipelas begins at ear ; abscess of gums ; submaxillary glands swollen and painful ; on anterior border of tongue hard raised spot ; smarting blister on side of tongue ; stinging aching pains in side, felt like lump of ice in chest ;
swelling in breast as large as a hen's egg ; stitches in chest ; stitch from chest into scapula ; shattering stitches in chest ; dyspnœa, when lying on it ; stitches in side ; stitches beneath axilla ; scabs on arm ; pain in middle finger ;
shooting in hip joint ; dull pain in hip to knee ; knee, white swelling ; knee, doughy swelling ; stitches from knee to toes ; enlarged vein in calf ; ulcer on inner side of ankle ; foot and inner malleolus swollen ; tensive pain in foot ;
stitches in ball of foot ; sticking crawling in heel ; from foot up leg, running as of a mouse, epilepsy ; cold feeling on head, rises to vertex ; muscular swelling after measles.
From left to right : pain in temple.
Right to left : sore throat ; pain from hypochondrium to stomach.
From within outward : stitches in forehead and temples.
From above downward : tearing pain in limbs.
Only on one side of body : sweat.
Only on back part of body : sweat.
Migrating : erysipelas.

Sensations

As if a band were bound tightly around forehead ; vertigo as if swinging ; as if bed were not large enough to hold him ; as if one stood on wavering ground ; as if hair on vertex stood on end ; as from a weight pressing upon top of brain, and a cord
tied around head ; as if brain were beating against skull ; as if eyes were pressed down ; as if he had taken too much alcoholic drink ; forehead as if screwed together ; as if hair would be torn out ; as if head would burst ; as if head were
enlarged ; as if she would sneeze ; as if head had been beaten ; as if top of head were being pressed against wall ; as of a band around cranium ; as if flesh of scalp were loose ; as if cornea had lost its transparency ; as if eye were gone, and a cool
wind blew out of socket ; as if eyes had been punctured ; as of sand in eyes ; small of back as if beaten ; as if a needle or splinter were sticking in eye ; as of a foreign body ; as if a thick veil were before eyes ; as if eyeballs were dry ; as if
balls rubbed against lids ; as if eye were rubbed against spiculæ of glass ; occiput as if hollow ; as if salt were in eyes ; cornea as if covered with fine dust ; as if eyelids would become inflamed ; as if sounds did not come through ears but forehead ;
as of water in ears ; as if nose were swelled ; nostrils as if sore ; as if lower jaw would be torn out ; as if scalp had been beaten ; as if air just in front of her were hot ; teeth as if too long ; as of a hot iron in teeth ; as of a hard ball
rising in throat ; as if swallowing a piece of meat ; as of a lump in throat ; as if tonsils were swollen ; as of a hair in throat ; as if throat were too narrow ; stomach as if puffed up ; intestines feel as if strung in knots ; as if hernia would
form ; as if muscles of abdomen and peritoneum had been bruised ; abdomen as if raw ; as if bowels were too weak to retain their contents ; as if stool were insufficient ; as if wind would pass ; as if stomach were torn with pincers ; as of a lump of ice r.
chest ; as if obliged to urinate, in urethra ; as of ice in in chest ; as of something in larynx ; as if lungs came in contact with back ; as if strained in chest ; as if he had fallen upon chest ; as if chest would fly to pieces when coughing or drawing a
deep breath ; as if heart were enlarged ; as if muscles of neck and back were too short ; as if vertebræ were gliding one over the other ; a breeze of pain in head ; left shoulder and hip as if luxated ; like a weight in shoulder ; as if something heavy
were hanging on upper arm ; arms as if beaten ; as of a mouse running up arms and back ; thigh as if broken ; as if too short in popliteal region ; skin as if denuded and sore.
Pain : in epigastrium ; inner point of left eyebrow to superciliary ridge, appears to be in brain ; in forehead and vertex ; leaves eye and appears about left ovary ; from left temple to right, over right eyeball to occiput ; from superior portion of sternum
through to back ; in hips and back ; in stomach and abdomen ; in nose ; in scalp ; in right side of face and head ; centres in right temple ; all over lower jaw ; in chest ; in right hypochondrium ; to chest under sternum ; in back
opposite stomach ; above left eye ; in abdomen ; in pit of stomach and right hypochondrium ; in belly ; in region of kidneys ; from ovarian region to back ; in sternum ; in thorax ; in loins ; in corns.
Violent pain : in shoulders flying to head ; in left eye ; in stomach.
Severe pain : around back of eye ; in right side of head ; in lower abdomen.
Severe cutting : in right eye.
Cutting pains : in abdomen ; loins and sacrum ; in urethra ; in vesical region ; in chest ; about heart ; in great toe.
Lacerating pain : in head ; in shoulders and shoulder joints.
Splitting pain : in head ; in nipples ; in chest ; of skin.
Lancinating pain : in ears ; from anus upward.
Piercing pain : in sacrum.
Darting pains : severe, in and about left eye to ear ; through eyes ; through temples ; in right knee ; from right inner malleolus toward knee and toes.
Sharp stabbing pains : below left zygoma.
Shattering stitches : into right chest.
Violent stitches : through teeth ; in parotid glands.
Stitching pain : in head ; in ears ; in growths in nose ; in lower jaw ; in left side of chest ; in urethra ; in corns ; in chilblains.
Stitches : out at eyes ; in right eye ; in ears ; in throat ; in stomach ; in spleen ; in left side of abdomen ; in rectum ; in anus ; in urethra ; in testicles ; in penis ; in left side ; in right side of chest
through to scapula ; in sternum ; in right side ; in region of heart ; in nape of neck ; in cervical muscles ; in and beneath scapula ; in small of back ; pulsating, in loins and kidneys ; from shoulders into chest ; beneath right
axilla ; in tips of fingers ; in panaritium ; in knees ; in right knee to toes ; in sciatic region ; in ball of right foot.
Needlelike stitches : in submaxillary glands.
Fine burning stitches : in hepatic region.
Sharp sticking pains : in eyes.
Sticking : in temples ; in teeth ; in left hypochondrium ; in rectum ; in anus ; in sternum ; in bones of small of back ; as of splinter in right middle finger ; like a brier in end of finger ; in right heel ; itching when walking in
open air.
Soreness : of left side of cervical spine ; of brain ; of nostrils ; of throat ; in hypochondria ; in intestines ; in abdominal walls ; in anus ; in hemorrhoids ; of scrotum ; between thighs ; in vagina ; in great toe.
Stinging pain : in eye ; in left ear ; in ears ; from right side of nose to forehead ; in right side ; in anus ; of nipples ; in chest ; in end of finger ; in ulcer on left leg.
Boring : on top of head ; above root of nose ; in teeth ; in panaritium ; in left leg ; in corns ; in chilblains.
Shooting : in temples ; in left eye ; above eye ; in ears ; up to eyes ; in tongue ; from back of neck into left ear ; from centre of chest to between scapulæ ; in anus ; in urethra ; in gonorrhœa ; through left chest to
back ; left lower rib to back ; in chest through to back ; in right hip through pelvis, down femur, into foot ; from hip to upper third of thigh ; in left knee ; in left great toe ; at root of nail of great toe.
Frequent shoots : in splenic region.
Pricking pain : across forehead ; in eye ; in cheek.
Prickling : of eyelids ; in tips of fingers ; in balls of feet.
Tearing pain : in head ; in forehead ; in vertex ; in forehead and temples ; in eyes ; in left side of head ; in left ear ; in right half of face ; in malar bone ; in lower jaw ; in teeth ; in intestines ; in rectum and
anus ; in left side of nape ; in arms and hands ; through knees and tibia ; in lower extremities ; in feet.
Jerking pain : in head ; about hip joint.
Drawing pain : around eye ; in teeth ; during menses ; along ureters ; in nape of neck and scapulæ ; in shoulder, arms and hands ; in left hip ; in thighs ; through knees and tibia ; in lower extremities ; in feet ; from feet
to hips.
Drawing : through head ; in larynx ; in sciatic region.
Drawing jerking : in lower jaw.
Sharp pain : in stump ; in eye.
Pain like a rivet : through upper third of left lung to scapula.
Neuralgic pain : in head ; in right infraorbital region ; down back of head and on both side and back of head ; in thoracic and abdominal walls from back ; of liver.
Jumping pain : in hollow tooth to lower jaw or to ear.
Spasmodic pain : in hypogastrium.
Spasmodic constricting pain : to chest, groin and genitals.
Twisting pains : in abdomen.
Griping : about navel.
Pinching : from one temple to other.
Crampy pain : in stomach ; in chest ; in middle finger ; of hip joint.
Cramps : in legs ; in thighs ; in calves and soles ; in toes.
Contractive sensation : in middle of pharynx.
Sprained pain : in back ; in left shoulder ; in wrist ; in thumb ; in left knee ; in left ankle.
Burning shooting : beneath lids of left eye.
Cutting burning : in eyelids ; in urethra.
Burning pain : in eyes ; on margin of lower lip ; on tongue ; in vesicles in mouth ; in vertex ; in gonorrhœa ; excoriations on genitals ; of vulva ; of nipples ; around left side below heart.
Burning : on vertex ; in forehead ; in palms ; of eyes ; of lids ; in septum of nose ; in nostrils ; in face and throat ; of eczema ; in fauces ; in pharynx ; in stomach in abdomen ; in urethra ; in anus ; in
hemorrhoids ; of prepuce ; between scapulæ ; of hands ; in balls and tips of fingers ; in end of finger ; in knee ; in feet, particularly at night ; in soles ; in corns ; in chilblains ; in skin of whole body, and in parts on which he
lies ; in hands and feet.
Burning heat : in eyes.
Biting : of eyes ; in rectum.
Smarting : of eyes ; in external canthi ; of eyelids ; of hemorrhoids ; of vulva ; in chest.
Sore pain : in left eye ; in oral commissures ; in whole abdomen.
Rawness : of throat ; of fauces.
Bruised pain : in abdomen ; in back ; in small of back and coccyx ; in left shoulder ; in left hip ; in thighs ; in sciatic region ; in lower extremities.
Constricting pain : in region of stomach ; about navel.
Bursting pain : in chest, when coughing.
Gnawing pain : in small of back.
Rheumatic pains : transient, through body ; in shoulders.
Tensive pain : in head ; through eye ; in anus and small of back ; between scapulæ ; in hip joint ; in right foot.
Dull pain : in hepatic region ; in right hip to knee.
Dulness : of head.
Dull aching : in jaws.
Aching : in occiput ; in forehead ; in eyeballs ; of eyes ; in œsophagus ; in right side ; in pit of stomach ; dull, in coccyx and sacrum ; in sternum ; in feet.
Looseness : painful, of teeth.
Hammering pain : in head.
Throbbing pain : in head ; in crown ; in teeth ; in gums ; in rectum ; in anus ; in hemorrhoids ; in panaritium.
Pulsating : in left side of occiput ; in teeth.
Pressive pain : in forehead ; from one temple to another ; in vertex ; over eyebrows ; through eye ; in ears ; in teeth ; in throat ; in stomach ; beneath scapulæ ; in great toe.
Bearing-down pain : from small of back to anus ; in pelvis toward genitals.
Numbing pain : in head.
Stupefying pain : in head.
Lameness : in thighs.
Numbness : of fingers.
Roughness : in throat.
Fulness : in forehead ; in abdomen ; in stomach ; in region of liver ; across stomach ; in abdomen ; in rectum ;`in chest.
Heaviness : in head ; in forehead ; of eyes ; in stomach ; in chest ; in humeri ; of feet and ankles.
Weight : in eyeballs ; in abdomen.
Pressure : in forehead ; out at eyes ; in eyeballs ; on top of head ; in ears ; in right nasal bone ; in malar bone, and beneath eye ; in stomach ; in region of liver ; in umbilical region ; in rectum ; upon bladder ; in
testicles and spermatic cord ; in chest ; beneath sternum ; cramplike, in hollow of knee to ankles ; in left patella and knee joint.
Oppression : of chest.
Suffocating weight : on stomach.
Constriction : in chest ; of air passages.
Tightness : in chest.
Stiffness : in back and hips ; of wrists ; in knees.
Tension : in testicles and spermatic cords ; in chest ; in left side of nape ; in humeri ; in sacrum ; in hollows of knees ; in umbilical region ; in abdomen ; of abdominal muscles.
Jerking pressure : in deltoid.
Bursting full sensation : in face, with Rhus poisoning.
Undulating feeling : in ears.
Empty feeling : in pit of stomach.
Weakness : in genital organs ; at pit of stomach ; in chest.
Faintish feeling : pit of stomach.
Tremulous sensation : in hands.
Itching : of pimples on scalp ; of scalp ; around back of eye ; in internal canthi ; of eyes ; of eyelids ; in eyebrows ; in left ear ; in external ears ; in nostrils ; of face ; of scalp ; in abdomen ; in anus and
rectum ; in perineum ; in urethra ; of prepuce ; on glans penis ; of vulva ; of nipples ; in swelling of right breast ; in larynx ; in bronchi ; of toes ; of chilblains ; and burning of hives ; of eczema.
Itching pain : through eye ; about navel.
Tickling : in larynx.
Tingling : painful, on vertex and temples ; in ears ; itching in scabies.
Crawling : in nose ; in hands ; in tips of fingers ; in right heel ; in rectum.
Formication : in rectum ; over skin of whole body.
Heat : on crown of head ; of mouth ; on vertex and down back of neck ; in mouth ; in anus ; of face, hands and feet.
Coldness : of hands ; of feet ; in throat ; in centre of chest ; in chest ; of feet and soles ; on right side of head.
Cool feeling : on vertex.
Dryness : of lids ; of eyes ; of inner surface of eyelids ; of nose ; of palate ; of throat.

Tissues

Dry, flabby skin.
Scrofulous and rickety complaints ; face has an old look.
Emaciation of children, face has a very old look ; atrophy ; marasmus.
Offensive odor of body despite frequent washing ; averse to washing.
Does not walk erect ; stoops or bends over forward in walking or sitting ; standing is most disagreeable position.
Defective assimilation and derangement of sympatheticus.
Debility of children ; complexion dark, muscular system flabby, hair long and lank, skin moist.
Bad effects of vaccination.
Serous exudations ; paralysis ; difficulty in learning to walk ; venous engorgement.
Face pale and bloodless ; ears and lips white ; easily fatigued, cannot walk far ; moving arms wearies her very much ; menses delayed, scanty, of short duration ; during menses, swelling of face, abdomen and legs, also pain in
back and uterine region ; sleep disturbed, unrefreshing ; unpleasant dreams ; awakes with exclamations, falls asleep again and has more frightful dreams ; jerking in limbs at night, and frequent cramps in legs ; face bloated in morning ; cannot wait for her
food, especially in morning ; a little food causes sense of fulness in stomach ; < in morning, after eating, during motion, during menses, when left alone ; > in open air ; sleeps best lying on left side. θ Anemia.
Scrofulosis ; abdomen tense, not painful ; limbs emaciated ; skin dry, face distorted, old-looking ; whining, crying, will not be looked at, cannot be pleased ; pulse irritable ; diarrhœa, stools undigested, very offensive ; craves meat.
Glandular swellings, particularly cervical, axillary and inguinal, indurated and suppurating.
Ulcers with raised, swollen edges, bleeding easily, discharging fetid pus, surrounded with pimples.
Humid offensive eruptions, with thick pus, yellow crusts, prescribed by inunction for a cutaneous disease and itching, bleeding and burning.
Scrofulous chronic diseases that result from suppressed eruptions.
Scrofulous and rickety complaints ; curvature, softening, swelling, caries, and other bone diseases.
Discharges in every outlet of body acrid, excoriating skin wherever they come in contact.
Affects whole lymphatic system as well as all secreting surfaces and glands.
Discharge of both urine and feces is painful to parts over which they pass.
Congestion to single parts ; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, arms, legs, etc.
Transient rheumatic pains through body.
Subacute and chronic rheumatism with profuse sweating.
Suppuration : pus thin, black, putrid.
Large varix, induced from slight cause, in weakly individuals.
Bedsores with gnawing pains ; putrid, turning to gangrenous sores ; sloughing phagedæna.
Furunculi ; coming in crops in various parts of body, very painful, with inflamed base, terminating in suppuration, opening at apex, discharging unhealthy pus, sometimes bloody, healing up and then soon followed by another crop ; at other times only one boil at a time,
succeeded by another in another place, when first was healed.
Abscesses : pus yellow, offensive, full of air bubbles.
Dropsy and other affections of drunkards ; chronic alcoholism.
Complaints are continually relapsing ; seems to get almost well when disease returns.
Sulph. 30 caused elimination of Sulphur, which had been stored up in system for more than twenty-five years.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : spot beneath vertex painful ; around eyes and nose sensitive ; superciliary ridge sensitive ; pressing pain in vertex ; roots of hair painful ; pimples on forehead painful ; scalp sore ; stump of eye very sensitive ;
forehead painful ; nose sore to touch after nosebleed ; nasal polypi sore when touched ; scalp very sore ; gland tender ; region of stomach sensitive ; hypochondria tender ; bowels tender ; tendons forming boundaries of popliteal space sensitive.
Pressure : upon head > pain ; shoulders tender ; head symptoms < ; cervical vertebræ sensitive ; on spinous processes < pain in infraorbital region ; upon stomach causes eructations ; tenderness of right side to pressure ; lower belly
painful ; cutting pain < ; > pain in head when coughing ; causes dyspnœa lying on right side ; > shooting pain in hip ; < pain in swollen knee ; pain in knee < ; over right ovarian region causes wincing.
Hanging arms down : crawling and prickling in tips of fingers.
Pushing leg upward : < pain in hip joint.
Scratching : vertex smarts and burns ; eruption on back of head and behind ears, > ; pruritus < ; > itching, after it burning, aching, numbness, swelling, or ulceration.
Overexertion : prolapsus and bleeding.
From reaching high : prolapsus uteri.
From overlifting : pain in chest ; pain in small of back.
From a blow : herpetic eruption on foot.
After a fall : spinal curvature and abscess.
Fall on back of head : insensible, brain symptoms ; three days after, epileptic fit.
After vaccination : pustular eruption on head, ears, face, groins and legs ; otorrhœa.
Bedsores.

Skin

Itching : all over body ; spots painful after scratching ; itching spots bleed and bite after scratching ; in various parts, disappearing after scratching, at times followed by sticking or burning ; over whole body, recurring every
night in bed ; on and between fingers ; and biting on nates ; violent on thighs and legs, at night ; about knees ; on toes ; of toes that had been frozen ; at night, in heat of bed, now in one place now in another, especially on nape of neck ; in palms
of hands, sometimes sticking, burning ; is obliged to rub them, after which they burn ; on backs of hands ; in eyebrows ; on abdomen, at night ; in scrotum ; on inside of thighs ; in axillæ and hollows of knees ; as if she were alive beneath
skin ; as if vermin were running about ; < at night, and in morning, in bed, after waking ; above left eyebrow ; in ears externally ; of nose externally ; about chin ; on neck ; on chest ; of old tetter, is obliged to scratch until it bleeds.
Skin very painful for a long time after rubbing, as if denuded and sore.
Spots feel hot after scratching.
Burning in skin of whole body.
Night's rest often disturbed by burning pains in skin of parts upon which he lies.
Burning in hands and feet, with weakness of whole body.
Formication over skin of whole body.
Stitchlike prickling in skin, in evening after getting warm in bed.
Sticking itching, especially when walking in open air.
Voluptuous itching ; scratching relieves, after it burning ; sometimes little vesicles.
After violent scratching aching, numbness of skin, swelling of skin, even ulceration.
Cracks and cuts (rhagades) in skin of hands, especially on joints, painfully sore.
Skin of hands hard and dry.
Nettlerash : with fever ; on face, arms, neck and lower extremities ; on back of hand.
Itching hives over whole body, hands and feet.
Itching pimples on inner side of thigh.
Tetter on nape of neck.
Itching vesicular eruption on back of hand.
Boils.
Eruption of furunculous pimples, with a red areola and very itching sensation, especially on face.
Ulcers about nails ; nails crumble off.
Skin dry and flabby : cold, pale, dry.
Skin harsh and wrinkled ; child looks like an old man.
Bright redness of whole body. θ Scarlatina.
Freckles ; yellow, brown, flat spots ; liver spots.
Skin rough, scaly, scabby.
Herpes, scabby and scurfy.
Sore feeling of skin, with disposition to excoriation.
Soreness in folds of skin.
Ecchymosis from a slight bruise ; every little scratch has a tendency to fester.
Rhagades, < after washing.
Furuncles, particularly on nates.
Dropsical, burning swelling of external parts.
Ulcers : cancerous ; crusty ; pricking ; pulsating, swollen, tearing, with tension ; pus from them offensive ; spongy, proud flesh ; raised, swollen edges, bleeding easily, surrounded with pimples ; tearing, stinging pains, discharging fetid pus.
Hangnails.
Erysipelas with throbbing and stinging ; migrating from place to place.
For several years, every four to six weeks, eruption of vesicles as large as peas on upper and lower limbs, appearing over night, filled with watery serum, soon becoming purulent, lasting six to seven days, then becoming scurfy, rapidly dry, and
falling off ; severe itching.
Comedones ; black pores of skin, particularly in face.
Acne punctata.
Prurigo and intertrigo in children ; sore, raw places.
Eczema of three years' standing ; appeared on face and head in usual form, going through papulation, pustulation, incrustation, and in some parts of skin, desquamation ; covered entire surface of body ; it had become infiltrated and
thickened, divided by an innumerable number of fissures running in all directions like so many rivulets made to carry off exudation ; child had a vulgar, filthy look, was intensely irritable day and night ; bleeding from some of fissures.
Eruption on face, neck and arms ; yellow scabs thickly cover diseased surface, while fissures, especially on elbows, occasion soreness and bleeding ; there is much itching.
Shortly after local treatment of a chancre, an eruption appeared on skin, and grew < until he was completely covered ; itching so bad that he had to walk floor at night nude, could get no sleep until 3 or 4 A. M. ; scrotum and lower limbs looked raw and red.
Disgusting crop of pustules on hands and wrists ; also a few on face, like those of pocky itch ; around eruption, epidermis is undermined as with shingles ; a few pocks have dried and desquamated ; much burning and itching about hands and wrists. θ Psoric
pustulation.
Soon after vaccination pustular eruption affecting scalp, ears, face, groins and legs ; also otorrhœa.
Crops of scabs upon scalp, arms and legs ever since he was vaccinated ; head covered with hard, elevated scabs, very much like rupia ; scabs on arms and legs not so thick, because he scratched them off as fast as they formed on account of their being so very itchy.
Molluscum in a child ; body and limbs covered with soft, round, smooth, apparently painless tumors with broad base ; at first of color of skin, then assuming a bluish, and finally a purple or pinkish hue ; found on puncture to contain a semi-fluid, sebaceous (atheromatous)
matter ; these tumors originated apparently in sebaceous follicles of skin, varied in size from a bean to a filbert, and were in all stages of development, about eighty.
Scabious eruptions with burning itching, surrounded by a yellowish or brownish areola ; secretion of a sanious, fetid or thick and yellow pus ; spots covered with small vesicles discharging serous lymph.
Eruption and sores upon arms and chest, commencing as small vesicles filled with serum, mattering to pustules and afterward covered with thick, dirty-looking scabs, often close together, arms itch very much when he gets warm. θ Rupia
syphilitica.
Hereditary syphilis in a girl, æt. 13, from infancy ; eruption appearing on bend of elbow, and spreading over a large portion of arms and body.
Scabies : voluptuous tingling itching, with burning and soreness after scratching ; < in warm bed ; disposition to excoriation ; glandular swellings.
Miliaria : inveterate cases, skin rough and scaly.
Varicose ulcers, bleed easily, secrete a fetid pus, and burn and itch much.
Indolent and ill-conditioned ulcers, devoid of granulations, and a healthy pus formation.
After suppression of measles : cough with muco-purulent expectoration ; roaring in ears and deafness ; hard swelling of muscular structures, in right side, painful to touch.
Measles, during first stage when eruption makes a tardy progress, or after complaints such as chronic coughs, originating in remnants of partial pneumonia ; chronic diarrhœa ; hardness of hearing ; chronic discharge from ears.
Constant delirium ; face swollen and distorted, bright red ; tongue dry, cracked bright red, here and there covered with brown mucus ; angina, could hardly swallow water ; nose stopped up ; pulse rapid, small, hard, incompressible ; bright-red
eruption over whole body ; skin dry ; constipation. θ Scarlet fever.
Eruption bluish ; skin cold ; pulse scarcely perceptible ; faint rattling in chest and slight twitching of body alone indicated that child was not dead. θ Scarlet fever.
A girl, æt. 5, chills, vomiting, violent headache, prostration, peevishness, flushed face, injected eyes ; eruption in miliary form, patchy and evanescent ; at times bright and full, then faded and partially disappeared ; mind wandering, character of delirium being active
rather than muttering ; heat of skin great, skin dry, hard and somewhat roughened ; throat moderately swollen, internally and externally, impeding somewhat speech and deglutition. Bellad. until evening of fourth day, rather < than > ; apparently wide awake but positively
asleep as far as perception or recognition of her surrounding relations were concerned ; no longer knew her attendants or heeded what was said to her ; great agitation and anxiety, with loud outcries, calling out that she wished to go to bed, though she was upon bed ; eyes
injected and staring ; aspect dull and heavy though very anxious, and apparently apprehensive.
Scarlatina in children of psoric diathesis who are prone to skin affections ; patient lies quietly in an unconscious condition, apparently sleeping ; rash appears faintly, and skin is hot and itching ; heat seems to come in
flashes ; clothing is thrown of ; efflorescences coalesce into large spots as red as a boiled lobster, around these skin is unusually white ; cerebral affections, with sopor, sudden starting, distortion of eyes ; bloated and shining red face ; dry nose ; dry,
cracked, red tongue, covered with a brownish mucus ; thirst and difficulty of swallowing ; lethargic condition ; diarrhœa < in morning.
Variola : metastasis to brain during suppuration ; pustules fill with pale, bloody serum ; pocks do not heal ; they are inclined to itch and ulcerate ; an intercurrent remedy when others seem to fail ; stage of desquamation.
Varicella.
Repelled eruption of Rhus poisoning ; legs, ankles, feet, toes enormously swollen ; skin distended as if œdematous, and spotted as if eruption were underneath, showing through skin ; terrible itching, especially at night ; bursting
feeling in skin of legs when standing.
Bursting, full sensation in face with terrible itching ; eruption on face and hands. θ Rhus poisoning.

Stage of life, constitution

Lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooped ; standing is the most uncomfortable position.
Persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quicktempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections.
Children cannot bear to be washed or bathed ; emaciated, big-bellied ; restless, hot, kick off clothes at night ; have worms.
Adapted to persons of scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestions, especially of portal system.
Lymphatic temperaments, venous constitutions disposed to hemorrhoids, with constipation or morning diarrhœa ; scrofulous diseases seem to get almost well when they return ; diseases caused especially by suppressed eruptions, peevishness, sudden and
frequent flushes of heat all over body, followed by perspiration, hot palms, soles and vertex ; at 10 A. M., faintness in epigastrium.
Children, emaciated, with faces like old people, big belly, dry, flabby skin.
Full-blooded, with great irritability, restlessness and hastiness.
Old people.
Boy, æt. 3 days ; sanguineous occipital tumor.
Child, æt. 8 days ; stomatitis.
Child, æt. 2 months ; chronic diarrhœa.
Child, æt. 2 1/2 months, suffering six days ; epilepsy.
Boy, æt. 5 months ; ill effects of vaccination.
Infant, æt. 6 months ; constipation, sleeplessness, etc.
Child, æt. 8 months ; crying spells.
Boy, æt. 11 months, suffering eight days ; otorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 19 months, since birth ; diarrhœa.
Baby, æt. 21 months ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 1 ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 1 ; chronic diarrhœa.
Child, æt. 1 ; crusta serpiginosa.
Child, æt. 1, of scrofulous parents, suffering several months ; molluscum.
Girl, æt. 1 1/4 years, suffering fourteen days ; spasmus glottidis.
Boy, æt. 1 1/2 ; chronic diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 1 1/2 ; measles.
Girl, æt. 2, suffering nine months ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 2 ; ague.
Girl, æt. 2 ; scrofulosis.
Girl, æt. 2 1/4 years ; hypopyon.
Boy, æt. 2 1/2, delicate looking, large head, fine features ; spasms.
Boy, æt. 2 1/2 ; scarlet fever.
Boy, æt. 2 1/2 ; meningitis.
Boy, æt. 2 1/2, light hair, fair skin, blue eyes, under allopathic treatment five days ; hydrocephalus.
Girl, æt. 2 1/2 ; diarrhœa.
Child, æt. 2 1/2, pale face, dark hair, suffering seven weeks ; cough.
Boy, æt. 3 ; meningitis.
Boy, æt. 3, colored, affected one year ; eczema of scalp.
Girl, æt. 3 ; eczema umbilicale.
Boy, æt. 3, suffering two years ; eczema.
Boy, æt. 3, psoric constitution ; ulcer on back.
Boy, æt. 3, ill eleven months ; marasmus.
Child, æt. 4 ; amaurosis.
Boy, æt. 4 ; stomacace.
Boy, æt. 4, two years ago had scarlatina, since then suffering ; prolapsus and hemorrhage of rectum.
Boy, æt. 4, suffering since infancy ; epilepsy.
Girl, æt. 4, suffering three years ; eczema.
Two girls, æt. 5 ; meningitis.
F., æt. 5, affected three or four years ; eczema of scalp.
Boy, æt. 5, weak, pale ; eczema of scalp.
Girl, æt. 5, parents very poor, four months ago had measles, since then suffering ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Girl, æt. 5 ; enlarged submaxillary gland.
Boy, æt. 5, troubled several years ; enuresis nocturna.
Boy, æt. 5, treated allopathically several years ; hydrocele.
Girl, æt. 5, had attack several years ago ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 5 ; scarlet fever.
Child, æt. 6 ; ophthalmia.
Child, æt. 6 ; chronic ophthalmia.
Boy, æt. 6, delicate ; erysipelas of face.
Boy, æt. 6, suffering several months ; cough.
Boy, æt. 6 ; tertian ague.
Girl, æt. 7, has had an exanthema, suffering six weeks ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Boy, æt. 7 ; diarrhœa and vomiting.
Boy, æt. 7, sickly a long time ; affection of lungs.
Boy, æt. 7 ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 7, suffering since birth ; impetigo.
Boy, æt. 7 1/2 ; amaurosis.
Boy, æt. 8 ; curvature of spine.
Girl, æt. 8, cachectic-looking ; coxalgia of spine.
Boy, æt. 8 ; attacks of chill.
Boy, æt. 8 ; eruption over body.
Boy, æt. 8 1/2 ; measles.
Boy, æt. 9, suffering two years ; affection of brain.
Girl, æt. 9, poor Irish parents, living in an overcrowded alley ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Girl, æt. 9 ; subretinal tumor.
Girl, æt. 9, when one year old, had measles, which were repelled by cold, since then suffering ; opacity of cornea.
Boy, æt. 9, Hungarian, suffering six years ; otorrhœa.
Girl, æt. 9, ill nine weeks ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 9, scrofulous ; swelling of knee.
Girl, æt. 9 ; spasms.
Girl, æt. 9, badly neglected and exposed to all hardships ; spasms.
Boy, æt. 9, affected two years ; terror at night.
Boy, æt. 10, suffering four years ; headache.
Boy, æt. 10, ill ten days ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 10, suffering two months ; aphonia.
Boy, æt. 10, sick nineteen days ; remittent fever.
Girl, æt. 10, sanguine-choleric temperament, brunette ; rheumatism.
Boy, æt. 10 ; measles.
Girl, æt. 11, suffering two years ; headache.
M., æt. 11 ; cough.
Boy, æt. 11 ; eczema impetiginodes.
Girl, æt. 12, well developed, suffering six months ; vomiting.
Boy, æt. 12, healthy and cheerful ; vomiting of food.
Girl, æt. 12, delicate, cachectic ; vaginitis.
Girl, æt. 13, growing rapidly, quite tall, nervous for some time preceding attack ; chorea.
Girl, æt. 13 ; paralysis of leg.
Boy, æt. 13 ; psoric pustulation.
Miss T., æt. 13 ; hereditary syphilis.
Boy, æt. 14, eyes steadily getting < for last eighteen months ; impairment of vision.
Girl, æt. 14, suffering ten years ; diarrhœa.
Boy, æt. 14, suffering six weeks, after catching cold ; coxalgia.
Girl, æt. 14 ; Rhus poisoning.
Girl, æt. 15, after measles ; mental disorder.
Boy, æt. 15, suffering two years ; nocturnal enuresis.
Boy, æt. 16, blonde, slender, stoop-shouldered, suffering ten years ; otorrhœa.
T., æt. 16 ; tic douloureux.
Girl, æt. 16, after having diarrhœa checked by opium ; pain in abdomen, fecal vomiting, etc.
Girl, æt. 16, not yet menstruated, thorax rachitic ; cardiac disorder.
Girl, æt. 16, not yet menstruated, suffering eight years ; chorea.
Boy, æt. 16, peasant, suffering three months ; ague.
Girl, æt. 17, suffering from earliest childhood ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Girl, æt. 17, suffering six months ; amenorrhœa.
Young man, æt. 17 ; pleuritis.
Young man, æt. 17 ; goitre.
Young man, æt. 18, strong, after suppression of itch ; headache.
Boy, æt. 18, when five years old had smallpox, since then suffering ; conjunctivitis.
Boy, æt. 18, under treatment fifteen years ; ophthalmia.
Boy, æt. 18, suffering since birth ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Youth, æt. 18 ; nasal polypi.
Miss ---, æt. 18, scrofulous, leuco-phlegmatic ; vomiting.
Girl, æt. 18, strong, healthy, cheerful, suffering for years ; enuresis nocturna.
Boy, æt. 18, tall, healthy, strong, suffering since childhood ; enuresis nocturna.
Two sisters, æt. 18 and 20, farmer's daughters, strong and healthy, suffering since childhood ; enuresis nocturna.
Girl, æt. 18, blonde, robust, lively disposition ; amenorrhœa.
Young man, æt. 18, healthy, strong ; pneumonia.
Girl, æt. 18 ; pains about heart.
Young man, æt. 18 ; epilepsy.
Miss R., æt. 18, suffering two years ; anemia.
Youth, æt. 19, four years ago lost hearing in right ear from catarrh, had gleet for last two years ; deafness.
Girl, æt. 19, blonde, strong, well nourished ; amenorrhœa.
Seaman, æt. 19, contracted ague in West Indies a year ago ; chagres fever.
Miss G., æt. 20, tall, fair, slight, suffering two or three years ; sick-headache.
Girl, æt. 20, light hair, sallow complexion, suffering five years ; pain in occiput.
Man, æt. 20, had itch year and a half ago, later ague, cured with pepper and whisky ; blindness of left eye.
Young man, æt. 20, suffering four years ; retention of urine.
Woman, æt. 20, small, blonde, has aborted several times, now three months pregnant ; prolapsus uteri.
Miss D., æt. 20, suffering three weeks ; whitlow.
Miss ---, æt. 20, suffering fifteen weeks ; panaritium.
Nicholas H., æt. 20 ; herpetic eruption on foot.
Housemaid, æt. 20 ; scorbutus.
Girl, æt. 21, suffering three years ; headache.
Mme. B., æt. 21, music teacher, small, blonde, blue eyes, lively, gay, wilful, a mother at 18, is pregnant six and a half months for second time ; ophthalmia.
Girl, æt. 21, pale, delicate-looking ; facial neuralgia.
Miss ---, æt. 21, suffering seven weeks ; gastric disturbance.
Girl, æt. 21, strong, healthy-looking ; swelling of knee.
Woman, æt. 21 ; rheumatism of knee.
Man, æt. 21, publican and violinist ; acne punctata.
Man, æt. 22, had scarlatina eleven years ago, since then suffering ; dysecoia.
Woman, æt. 22, single, dressmaker, nervo-lymphatic temperament, weakly, slight built, when a child got a severe fall ; gastralgia.
Man, æt. 22 ; asthma.
Man, æt. 22 ; pneumonia.
Man, æt. 22, slender, pale, suffering several years ; eruption on limbs.
Man, æt. 23, dark complexion, freely perspiring skin ; facial neuralgia.
Miss R., æt. 23, in poor health ; facial neuralgia.
Man, æt. 23, suffering all his life ; irritable bladder.
Scotchman, æt. 23, shipping clerk, slender frame, four years ago after lifting a heavy load vomited blood, since then had trouble with stomach ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 23, had inflammation of chest, not well since ; neuralgia of chest.
Miss H., æt. 23, blonde, very fair complexion ; chloasma.
Young lady, æt. 24, from childhood deaf, subject to attacks of tinea capitis, when 7 years old tinea and ophthalmia cured by cold washing ; soreness of eyelids.
Woman, æt. 24, confined with first child, 5 weeks old ; constipation.
Man, æt. 24, conductor on horse car ; pneumonia.
Woman, æt. 24, mulatto, no children, house servant ; vesicular eruption and cough.
Miss M., æt. 25, since death of mother seven years previously ; melancholia and epilepsy.
Miss A. W., æt. 25, suffering several weeks ; affection of stomach.
Miss F., æt. 25, dark, choleric-looking, menses irregular since puberty ; amenorrhœa.
Young lady, æt. 25, suffering from childhood ; cough.
Man, æt. 25, during childhood had itch, which was treated by external applications ; phthisis.
Man, æt. 25, tall, lank, spare built, stoop-shouldered, brother died of phthisis ; phthisis pulmonalis.
Woman, æt. 26, suffering seven years ; melancholia.
Farmhand, æt. 26, when 17 had itch ; gastric disorder.
Man, æt. 26, seaman, yellowish complexion, sickly-looking, had typhus fever in West Indies three weeks before ; ague.
Miss ---, æt. 26 ; scarlet fever.
Man, æt. 27, sanguine-choleric temperament, strong, brunette, suffering for years ; periodical attacks of conjunctivitis.
Man, æt. 27, lymphatic temperament, red hair, suffering eighteen months, after suppression of gonorrhœa ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 27, subject to epileptic attacks, three weeks ago had quotidian fever suppressed, after fourth paroxysm, by quinine ; pneumonia.
Man, æt. 28, tailor, dark hair, swarthy, greasy complexion ; headache.
Woman, æt. 28, suffering several months ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 28 ; diarrhœa.
Mrs. M., æt. 28, dark hair, blue eyes, no children, suffering since childhood ; constipation.
Man, æt. 29 ; sexual weakness.
Man, æt. 29, sanguine temperament, light complexion, married ; prostatitis.
Woman, æt. 29, mother of several children, subject to attacks since childhood ; laryngitis.
Mrs. A., æt. 29 ; spasms.
Mulatto, æt. 30, fireman on locomotive ; blepharitis.
Mrs. M., æt. 30, seven months pregnant ; facial neuralgia.
Miss ---, æt. 30, blonde, suffering since her fourteenth year ; fungous growth on gum.
Man, æt. 30, bootcloser, pale complexion, suffering six weeks ; gastralgia.
Man, æt. 30 ; enlargement of liver.
Woman, æt. 30, suffering twelve days ; diarrhœa and conjunctivitis.
Man, æt. 30 ; chronic diarrhœa.
Mrs. ---, æt. 30, confined seven weeks ago, suffering four or five years ; hemorrhoids.
Man, æt. 30 ; hemorrhoids.
Man, æt. 30, short stature, as a student was greatly dissipated, chest affected for last eight years ; phthisis.
Miss T., æt. 30, dressmaker, had diphtheria five years ago, since then ill ; debility, etc.
Man, æt. 30, ten years ago fell from a ladder on back of head, since then suffering ; epilepsy.
Mrs. M., æt. 31, brown hair, blue eyes, pregnant for third time ; gastric disturbance.
Woman, æt. 32, black, married, no children ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 33, suffering two years ; cephalalgia.
Woman, æt. 34, several years ago rapidly cured of itch by a salve, eye affected three months ; arthritic ophthalmia.
Mrs. T., æt. 34, suffering three months ; arthritic ophthalmia.
Mrs. H., æt. 34, nine years married, no children, had three miscarriages, suffering since first one ; uterine affection.
Man, æt. 34, suffering three weeks ; continuous remittent fever.
Mrs. ---, æt. 35, several children, scrofulous temperament ; ophthalmia.
Mrs. P., æt. 35, delicate-looking, has symptoms of phthisis, has a child thirteen months old which she weaned a fortnight ago, has been suffering a week ; facial neuralgia.
Man, æt. 35, onanist since childhood, married eight years ; spermatorrhœa.
Man, æt. 36 ; headache.
Woman, æt. 36, suffering several years ; backache.
Man, æt. 38, after suppression of tinea capitis ; mania.
Man, æt. 38 ; hypochondriasis.
Woman, æt. 38, suffering one month ; facial neuralgia.
Woman, æt. 39, suffering several years ; affection of stomach.
Man, æt. 40, bilious temperament, of good habits, active, hard worker, suffering thirty years ; coryza.
Woman, æt. 40, sick two years ; gastro-enteritis.
Miss S., æt. about 40, had pleurisy at age of twenty-two, since then suffering ; pain in chest.
Miller, æt. 40, robust, athletic build, after suppressed eczema ; hæmoptysis.
Man, æt. 40, suffering seven weeks ; backache.
Man, æt. 40, phlegmatic temperament, strong ; rheumatism in shoulder.
Man, æt. 40 ; swelling of knee.
Man, æt. 40, strong, healthy, married nineteen years, suffering two years ; epilepsy.
Mrs. G., æt. 40 ; melancholia.
Man, æt. 41, suffering two months ; rash on arms.
Woman, æt. 41, blonde, scrofulous ; swelling of knee.
Mrs. H., æt. 41 ; swelling of knee.
Man, æt. 41, dark hair and eyes, strong constitution ; porrigo favosa.
Man, æt. 42, father of a family, had syphilis five or six years ago, afterward ague in army, took large doses of quinine ; rupia syphilitica.
Man, æt. 43, suffering five days ; ophthalmia.
Lady, æt. 44, suffering for years ; psoriasis.
Woman, æt. 45, catamenia had ceased ; mental disturbance.
Woman, æt. 45, hysterical disposition, suffering fifteen years ; chronic inflammation of liver.
Woman, æt. 45, brunette, choleric temperament, mother of several children ; menstrual disorder.
Man, æt. 45, suffering a long time, broken-down condition, taken large doses of quinine ; ague.
Man, æt. 46, vigorous and strong constitution, suffering several years ; enuresis.
Mary F., æt. 46, servant, robust, clear complexion, healthy looking, having had change of life two years ago ; nine years ago confined to hospital three months with same knee ; gonitis.
Woman, æt. 47, suffering since childhood ; ophthalmia.
Woman, æt. 47, delicate, mild temper, mother of ten children, suffering from her youth ; ophthalmia.
Mrs. L., æt. 47, suffering three months ; facial neuralgia.
Mrs. E. C., æt. 47, bilious temperament, suffering over a year ; diarrhœa.
Woman, æt. 48 ; amaurosis.
Mrs. E., æt. 48 ; cataract.
Man, æt. 48 ; ophthalmia.
Man, æt. 48, carpenter, suffering eight years ; gastralgia.
Man, æt. 50, apoplectic, suffering for years ; arthritic ophthalmia.
Man, æt. 50, clerk ; weakness of right eye.
Woman, æt. 50, has cirrhosis of liver ; hemorrhage from bowels.
Man, æt. 50 ; pneumonia.
Miss H., æt. 50, suffering sixteen years ; rheumatic gout.
Man, æt. 50, nine years ago had a chancre burned, since then suffering ; eruption on skin.
Man, æt. 50 ; corns and frostbite.
Mrs. H., æt. 51, widow, light complexion, light auburn hair, heavy, flabby features, large red nose ; hepatic disorder.
Man, æt. 52, suffering thirty years ; cough.
Man, æt. 53, sanguine choleric temperament, suffering several years ; intestinal catarrh.
Woman, æt. 54 ; dysecoia.
Mrs. N., æt. 54 ; neuralgic pains in limbs.
German, æt. 55 ; cortical cataract.
Mrs. ---, æt. about 55 ; affection of lids.
Man, æt. 55 ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 56 ; rheumatism.
Workingman, æt. 58, two months ago had diarrhœa which was checked, since then suffering ; cephalalgia.
Man, æt. 58 ; affection of stomach.
Man, æt. 60, healthy ; dysuria.
Woman, æt. 60, suffering several months ; dysuria.
Man, æt. 60, gouty ; rheumatism.
Woman, æt. 60, after removing a mole from shoulder ; ulcer.
Woman, æt. 62, robust ; headache.
Lady, æt. 62 ; gouty ophthalmia.
Man, æt. 62, short stature ; colic.
Dr. W., æt. 62, nervous temperament, over six feet in height, but never fleshy, very abstemious, and leading a very careful like, a ripe scholar and a hard student, subject to frequent attacks of diarrhœa for twenty years, invariably checked by bismuth and chalk, has been sick over a
year ; supposed heart disease, with mitral incompetency.
Man, æt. 64 ; dryness of throat.
Man, æt. 64, apoplectic, strong, suffering from hemorrhoids ; asthma.
Mrs. O., æt. 65 ; neuralgic headache.
Lady, æt. 68, after operation for cataract ; hypopyon.
Man, æt. 70 ; diarrhœa.
Man, æt. 73, farm laborer, once a stalwart, able-bodied man, but now bending under years ; ague.
Lady, æt. 80, suffering three weeks ; diarrhœa.
Young man, suffering thirteen years ; headache.
Young lady, suffering from phthisis ; terrifying dreams.
Kl ---, a man at the best period of life, of robust constitution, suffering several years ; scrofulous ophthalmia.
Miss S. F., maiden lady, very tall, spare, black hair and eyes ; gastric disorder.
Middle-aged German, strong built, in America one year, formerly given to drinking ; diarrhœa.
Woman, middle-aged, suffering three years ; diarrhœa.
Man, married five years, suffering seven years ; gleet.
Man, in good circumstances, florid complexion, single, after impure coition ; ulcer on penis.

Relations

Sulphur frequently serves to rouse the reactive power of the system, when carefully selected remedies have failed to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases.
Antidoted by : Acon., Camphor., Chamom., Cinchon., Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia .
It antidotes : Acon., Cinchon., Iodium, Mercur., Nitric. acid., Rhus tox., Sepia . Ailments from abuse of metals generally.
Compatible : Calc. ost., Lycop., Sarsap., Sepia, Pulsat. ; Sulphur, Calc. ost . and Lycop ., or Sulphur., Sarsap . and Sepia , frequently
follow in the order given.
Complementary : Aloe soc .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

Sulphur is such a full remedy that it is somewhat difficult to tell where to begin.

It seems to contain a likeness of all the sicknesses of man, and a beginner on reading over the proving of Sulphur might naturally think that he would need no other remedy, as the image of all sickness seems to be contained in it.

Yet you will find it will not cure all the sicknesses of man, and it is not well to use it indiscriminately any more than you would any other remedy. It seems that the less a physician knows of the Materia Medica the oftener he gives Sulphur, and yet it is very frequently given, even by good prescribers; so that the line between physicians’ ignorance and knowledge cannot be drawn from the frequency with which Sulphur is prescribed by them.

Aspect

The Sulphur patient is a lean, lank, hungry, dyspeptic fellow with stoop shoulders, yet many times it must be given to fat, rotund, well fed people.

The angular, lean, stoop-shouldered patient, however, is the typical one, and especially when he has become so from long periods of indigestion, bad assimilation and feeble nutrition. The Sulphur state is sometimes brought about by being long housed up and adapting the diet to the stomach.

Persons who lead sedentary lives, confined to their rooms in study, in meditation, in philosophical inquiry, and who take no exercise, soon find out that they must eat only the simplest foods, foods not sufficient to nourish the body, and they end up by going into a philosophical mania.

There is another class of patients in whom we see a Sulphur appearance in the face; dirty, shriveled, red-faced people. The skin seems to be easily affected by the atmosphere. He becomes red in the face from riding in the air, both in very cold and in damp weather.

He has a delicate, thin skin, blushing on the slightest occasion, always red and dirty looking, no matter how much he washes it. If it be a child, the mother may wash the face often, but it always looks as if it had been perfunctorily washed.

Hering called the Sulphur patient "the ragged philosopher."

The Sulphur scholar, the inventor, works day and night in threadbare clothes and battered hat; he has long, uncut hair and a dirty face; his study is uncleanly, it is untidy; books and leaves of books are piled up indiscriminately; there is no order. It seems that Sulfur produces this state of disorder, a state of untidiness, a state of uncleanness, a state of "care how things go," and a state of selfishness.

He becomes a false philosopher and the more he goes on in this state the more he is disappointed because the world does not consider him the greatest man on earth. Old inventors work and work, and fail.

The complaints that arise in this kind of case, even the acute complaints, will run to Sulphur. You take such a patient and you will notice that he has on a shirt that he has worn many weeks; if he has not a wife to attend to him, he would wear his shirt until it fell off from him.

Cleanliness is not a great idea with the Sulphur patient; he thinks it is not necessary. He is dirty; he does not see the necessity of putting on a clean collar and cuffs and a clean shirt; it does not worry him. Sulphur is seldom indicated in cleanly people, but it is commonly indicated in those who are not disturbed by uncleanliness.

Odor

When attending the public clinic I have many times noticed that after Sulphur an individual begins to take notice of himself and puts on a clean shirt, whereas his earlier appearances were in the one same old shirt. And it is astonishing how the Sulphur patients, especially the little ones, can get their clothing dirty so fast.

Children have the most astonishing tendency to be filthy. Mothers tell you of the filthy things that little ones will do if they be Sulphur patients. The child is subject to catarrhal discharges from the nose, the eyes and from other parts, and he often eats the discharge from the nose. Now, that is peculiar, because offensive odors are the things that the Sulphur patient loathes. He is oversensitive to filthy odors, but filthy substances themselves he will eat and swallow. He becomes nauseated even from the odor of his own body and of his own breath.

The odor of the stool is so offensive that it will follow him around all day. He thinks he can smell it. Because of his sensitiveness to odors he is more cleanly about his bowels than anything else. It is an exaggerated sense of smell. He is always imagining and hunting for offensive odors. He has commonly such a strong imagination that he smells the things which he has only in memory.

The Sulphur patient has filthiness throughout. He is the victim of filthy odors. He has a filthy breath, he has an intensely foetid stool; he has filthy smelling genitals, which can be smelled in the room in spite of his clothing, and he himself smells them. The discharges are always more or less foetid, having strong, offensive odors. In spite of constant washing the axillae give out a pungent odor, and at times the whole body gives off an odor like that coming from the axillae.

Discharges

The discharges of Sulphur from every part of the body, besides being offensive, are excoriating. The Sulfur patient is afflicted with catarrhs of all mucous membranes, and the catarrhal discharges everywhere excoriate him. Often with the coryza the discharge excoriates the lips and the nose.

At times the fluid that remains in the nose smarts like fire, and when it comes in contact with the child's lip it burns, so acrid is it; almost like the condition under Sulphuricum acid, so red will be the parts that are touched by it.

There is copious leucorrhoea that excoriates the genitals. The thin feces cause burning and rawness around the anus. In women if a drop of urine remains about the genitals it will burn; very often it is not sufficient to wipe it away, it must be washed away to relieve the smarting.

In children we find excoriation about the anus and between the buttocks; the whole length of the fissure is red, raw and inflamed from the stool. From this tendency a keynote has been constructed, and not a bad one either, all the fluids burn the parts over which they pass," which is the same as saying that the fluids are acrid and cause smarting. This is true everywhere in Sulphur.

Skin

The Sulphur patient has all sorts of eruptions.

There are vesicular, pustular, furuncular, scaly eruptions, all attended with much itching, and some of them with discharge and suppuration. The skin, even without any eruption, itches much, itches from the warmth of the bed and from wearing woolen clothing.

Many times the Sulphur patient cannot wear anything except silk or cotton. The warmth of the room will drive him to despair if he cannot get at the itching part to scratch it. After scratching there is burning with relief of the itching. After scratching or after getting into the warmth of the bed great white welts come out all over the body, with much itching, and these he keeps on scratching until the skin becomes raw, or until it burns, and then comes a relief of the itching.

This process goes on continuously; dreadful itching at right in bed, and in the morning when he wakes up he starts in again and the eruptions itch and ooze. Crops of boils and little boil-like eruptions come out and this makes it useful in impetigo.

This remedy is useful in suppurations. It establishes all sorts of suppurating cavities, small abscesses and large abscesses; abscesses beneath the skin, in the cellular tissues and in internal organs. The suppurative tendency is very marked in Sulphur. The glands become inflamed and the inflammation goes on to suppuration.

There is an unhealthy condition of the skin in Sulphur aside from the eruptions.

The skin will not heal. Small wounds continue to suppurate; abscesses formed under the skin become little discharging cavities with fistulous openings, and these leak and discharge for a long time.

Sulphur produces an infiltration in inflamed parts, so that they become indurated and these indurations last for years. When the inflammation is in a vital organ, like the lungs, this infiltration cannot always be endured; it leaves infiltrations after pneumonia called hepatization.

Sulphur produces this same tendency in inflamed parts throughout the body and hence its great use in hepatization.

Sulphur is a very useful remedy when the patient does not react after a prolonged disease, because of a condition in the economy, a psoric condition. When a patient is drawing near the end of an acute disease he becomes weak and prostrated. The inflammatory state ends in suppuration and infiltrations; the patient is in a state of weakness, much fatigued and prostrated, and has night sweats.

He does not convalesce after a typhoid or other acute disease. There is slow repair and a slow, tired economy, and order is not restored after the acute disease. Sulphur often becomes very useful in such conditions. Old drunkards become debilitated and have violent craving for alcohol; they cannot let liquor alone. They crave strong and pungent things, want nothing to eat, but want cold water and alcoholic drinks, They go on drinking till greatly exhausted and then their complaints come on. Sulphur will for a while take away this craving for drink and build him up.

The tissues seem to take on weakness, so that very little pressure causes soreness, sometimes inflammation and suppuration. Bed sores come on easily in a Sulphur patient, as there is feeble circulation. Induration from pressure is also a strong feature.

Sulphur has corns from pressure, callosities from pressure. These affections come easily. If a shoe presses anywhere on the skin a great corn or bunion develops. Where the teeth come in contact with the tongue and other parts of the buccal cavity nodules form and these little nodules in course of time commence to ulcerate.

It is a slow process with burning and stinging. They may go into cancerous affections. They may be postponed for a long time and afterwards take on a state of malignancy. Cancer is an outgrowth of a state in the body, and that state may come on from a succession of states. It is not one continuous condition, but the malignant state may follow the benign. Sulphur removes these states when the symptoms agree.

We notice a marked evidence of disturbance of the veins under Sulphur. It is a venous remedy, has much vein trouble. The veins seem to be relaxed and there is sluggish circulation. There is a flushed appearance of the face here and there from slight irritation, from the weather, from irritation of the clothing.

Tumefaction of the face. Sulphur has varicose veins; most marked of these are hoemorrhoidal veins, which are enlarged and burn and sting. Varices of the extremities. The veins even ulcerate, rupture and bleed. When going out of a cold into a warm atmosphere the patient suffers from enlarged veins, from puffiness of the hands and feet, from a sense of fullness throughout the body.

The Sulphur patient emaciates, and a peculiar feature is the emaciation of the limbs with distended abdomen. The abdomen is tumid, with rumbling, burning and soreness, and with the distended abdomen there is emaciation of all other parts. The muscles of the neck, back thorax and limbs wither, and the muscles of the abdomen are also wasted, but there is much distension of the abdomen itself. This condition of affairs is found in marasmus.

You will find a similar state under Calcarea; and, in women needing Calcarea, you will notice great enlargement, distension and hardness of the abdomen with shriveling of all other parts of the body.

Under Sulphur there are flashes of heat to the face and head, like those which women have at the climacteric period. The flash of heat in Sulphur begins somewhere in the heart region, generally said to be in the chest, and it feels as if, inside the body, a glow of heat is rising to the face. The face is red, hot and flushed, and finally the heat ends in sweat.

Flashes of heat with sweat and red face; the head is in a glow. Sometimes the patient will describe a feeling as if hot steam were inside the body and gradually rising up, and then she breaks out in a sweat. At times you will see a woman having little shiverings followed by flashes of heat and red splotches in the face, and then she fans vigorously; cannot fan fast enough, and she wants the doors and windows open.

Such is Sulphur as well as Lachesis and many others. When the flashes begin in the chest, about the heart, it is more like Sulphur, but when in the back or in the stomach it is more like Phosphorus.

Among other general aggravations we have an aggravation from standing in Sulphur. All complaints are made worse by standing for a length of time. Standing is the most difficult position for a Sulphur patient, and there is an aggravation of the confusion of mind, dizziness, the stomach and abdominal symptoms, and a sense of enlargement and fullness of the veins and dragging down in the pelvis in women, from standing. The patient must sit down or keep moving, if on her feet. She can walk fairly well, but is worse when standing quiet.

An aggravation after sleep fits into many of the complaints of Sulphur, but especially those of the mind and sensorium. Most of the, complaints of Sulphur are also worse after eating.

The Sulphur patient is aggravated from, bathing. He dreads a bath. He does not bathe himself and from his state in general he belongs to "the great unwashed." He cannot take a bath without catching "cold."

Children's complaints. Dirty-faced, dirty-skinned little urchins, who are subject to nightly attacks of delirium, who suffer much from, pains in the head, who bad brain troubles, who are threatened with hydrocephalus, who had meningitis, need Sulphur.

Sulphur will clear up the constitutional state when remedies have failed to reach the whole case because they are not deep enough. If the infant does not develop properly, if the bones do not grow, and there is slow closing of the fontanelles, Calcarea carbonica may be the remedy and Sulphur is next in importance for such slow growth.

You would not suppose that the Sulphur patient is so nervous as he is, but he is full of excitement; easily startled by noise, wakens, from sleep in a start as if he had heard a cannon report or seen a "spook."

The Sulphur patient is the victim of much trouble in his sleep. He is very sleepy in the fore part of the night, at times sleeping till 3 A.M., but from that time on he has restless sleep, or does not sleep at all. He dreads daylight, wants to go to sleep again, and when he does sleep he can hardly be aroused, and wants to sleep late in the morning. That is the time he gets his best rest and his soundest sleep. He is much disturbed by dreadful dreams and nightmare.

When the symptoms agree, Sulphur will be found a curative medicine in erysipelas. For erysipelas as a name we have no remedy, but when the patient has erysipelas and his symptoms conform to those of Sulphur, you can cure him with Sulphur.

If you bear that distinction in mind you will be able to see what Homoeopathy means; it treats the patient and not the name that the sickness goes by.

The Sulphur patient is annoyed throughout his economy with surgings of blood here and there surging, with fullness of the head, which we have heretofore described as flashes of heat. It has marked febrile conditions and can be used in acute diseases.

It is one of the natural complements of Aconite, and when Aconite is suitable to the acute exacerbations and removes them, very often Sulphur corresponds to the constitutional state of the patient.

Sulphur is suitable in the most troublesome " scrofulous" complaints in broken-down constitutions and defective assimilation. It has deep seated, ragged ulcers on the lower extremities, indolent ulcers, ulcers that will not granulate. They burn, and the little moisture that oozes out burns the parts round about. It is indicated often in varicose ulcers that bleed easily and burn much.

In old cases of gout, Sulphur is a useful remedy. It is a deep-acting remedy, and in most instances it will keep the gout upon the extremities, as its tendency is outward from centre to circumference.

Like Lycopodium and Calcarea, when suitably administered in old gouty conditions, not where there is much organic change present, it will keep the rheumatic state in the joints and extremities.

Sulphur, like Silicea, is a dangerous medicine to give where there is structural disease in organs that are vital, especially in the lungs.

Sulphur will often heal old fistulous pipes and turn old abscesses into a normal state, so that healthy pus will follow, when it is indicated by the symptoms. It will open abscesses that are very slow, doing nothing, it will reduce inflamed glands that are indurated and about to suppurate, when the symptoms agree.

But it is a dangerous medicine to administer in advanced cases of phthisis, and, if given, it should not be prescribed in. the highest potencies. If there are symptoms that are very painful, and you think that Sulphur must be administered, go to the 30 th or 200 th potency.

Do not undertake to stop the night sweats that come in the advanced stages, even if Sulphur seems to be indicated by the symptoms; the fact is, it is not indicated. A remedy that is dangerous in any case ought not to be considered as indicated, even though the symptoms are similar.

In old cases of syphilis, when, the psoric state is uppermost, Sulphur may be needed. Sulphur is rarely indicated when the syphilitic symptoms are uppermost, but when these have been suppressed by Mercury and the disease is merely held in abeyance, Sulphur will antidote the Mercury and allow the symptoms to develop and the original condition to come back in order to be seen.

The great mischief done by allopaths is due to the fact that they want to cover up everything that is in the economy; they act as if ashamed of everything in the human race; whereas Homoeopathy endeavors to reveal everything in the human rue and to antidote those drugs that cover up, and to free those diseases that are held down.

It is true that many patients will not have Homoeopathy because they do not want their syphilitic eruption brought to view they do not want the evidences of their indiscretion brought to light but Homoeopathy endeavors to do that. Conditions that are in the economy will come out under proper homoeopathic treatment. Sulphur brings complaints to the surface, so that they can be seen. It is a general broad antidote.

Itching of the skin from the warmth of the bed.

Enlargement of the joints. Rheumatic affections; great stiffness of the joints; tightness in the hollow of the knees; tightness of the tendons, of rheumatic and gouty character. Cramps in the legs and soles of the feet. Burning of the soles of the feet in bed; he puts them out of bed to cool them of the soles cramp and burn and itch.

At times you will find the soles are cold, and then again burning, and these states alternate with each other. Distress of the body with coldness of the limbs, but after going to bed they burn so much that he must put them out. The corns, which he is a victim of and suffers from almost constantly, burn and sting in the warmth of the bed.

The skin of a Sulphur patient ulcerates and suppurates easily; a splinter under the skin will cause it to ulcerate; wounds heal slowly and fester. Every little prick of a pin festers as in Hepar.

The eruptions of Sulphur are too numerous to mention. They are of all sorts, but there are a few characterizing features in all, such as the burning, stinging and itching and the aggravation from the warmth of the bed.

The skin is rough and unhealthy. Upon the face are many "black-heads," acne, pimples and pustules. Sulphur is full of boils and abscesses in all parts of the body, squamous eruptions, vesicular eruptions, etc.

They are all present in Sulphur and they burn and sting.

Burning

Wherever there is a Sulphur complaint you will find burning.

Every part burns; burning where there is congestion; burning of the skin or a sensation of heat in the skin; burning here and there in spots; burning in the glands, in the stomach, in the lungs; burning in the bowels, in the rectum; burning and smarting in the hemorrhoids; burning when passing urine, or a sensation of heat in the bladder. There is heat here and there, but when the patient describes something especially typical of Sulphur she says:

"Burning of the soles of the feet in the palms of the hands, and on the top of the head."

Burning of the soles of the feet will very often be noticed after the patient becomes warm in bed. The Sulphur patient has so much heat and burning of the soles at night in bed that he puts the feet out from, beneath the clothes, sleeps with the feet outside the covering. The soles and palms of the Sulphur patient when examined present a thick skin which burns on becoming warm in bed.

Many complaints come on from becoming warm in bed. The Sulphur patient cannot stand heat and cannot stand cold, though there is a strong craving for the open air. He wants an even temperature; he is disturbed if the temperature changes much.

So far as his breathing is concerned, when he has much distress he wants the doors and windows open. The body, however, he is frequently forced to have covered, but if he is warmly clad he is bothered with the itching and burning of the skin.

Time

As to time aggravations, nightly complaints are a feature.

Headaches begin after evening meal and increase into the night; he cannot get to sleep because of the pain. There is nightly aching and nightly thirst; nightly distress and symptoms of the skin coming on after becoming warm in bed.

"Intermittent periodic neuralgia, worse every 24 hours, generally at 12 A.M. or 12 P.M."

Midday is another time of aggravation of the Sulphur complaints. It has chills at noon, fevers increase at noon, increase of the mental symptoms at noon, headache worse at noon. Complaints that come once a week, a seven-day aggravation, is another peculiar condition of Sulphur.

Diarrhea

it is a common feature for a Sulphur patient to have a peculiar kind of diarrhoea which has been long known as "a Sulphur diarrhoea," though many other remedies have a similar condition, viz.: diarrhoea coming on early in the morning.

The Sulphur diarrhoea belongs to the time between midnight and morning, but more commonly the time that he begins to think about rising.

The diarrhea drives him out of bed.

It is generally thin, watery; there is not much gushing, and it is not very copious, sometimes quite scanty, sometimes yellow faecal. After this morning stool he has, in many cases, no further trouble till next morning.

There are many people who go on year after year with, this urging to stool driving out of bed in the morning. The patient suffers from pain, griping, uneasiness, and burning soreness through the bowels. The stool burns while it is passing, and all parts that it comes in contact with are made sore and raw, and there is much chafing.

Desires and aversions

The Sulphur patient is very thirsty.

He is always drinking water. He wants much water.

He also speaks of a hungry feeling, a desire for food, but when he comes to the table, he loathes the food, turns away from it, does not want it.

He eats almost nothing, takes only the simplest and lightest things. There is a craving for stimulants, for alcohol, and an aversion to milk and meat; these latter make him sick and he loathes them.

One of the old men invented out of these things the keynote "drinks much and eats little."

This is true under Sulphur, but many other remedies have the same thing. As to the use of keynotes I would impress on you that it is well to gather together all the symptoms with their associations. It will not do to place much dependence on one little symptom, or even on two or three little symptoms. The symptoms of the whole case must be considered and then, if the keynotes and characteristics and everything else cause the remedy to be well rounded out and full, and to look like the whole patient, only then is it suitable.

There is emptiness occurring at 11 o'clock in the forenoon . If there is any time in the whole twenty-four hours that he feels hungry it is at 11 o'clock. It seems as though he cannot wait for his dinner.

There is this also about the Sulphur patient: he is very hungry about his customary mealtimes and, if the meal is delayed, he becomes weak and nauseated. Those that are accustomed to eat at about 12 o'clock will have that all-gone hungry feeling at 11 A.M. Those accustomed to eat about 1 or 1-30 will have it about 12 o'clock. The all-gone sensation is about one hour before the accustomed time of eating with many people.

In a sort of condensed way a strong Sulphur group is this: an all gone hungry feeling in the stomach at 11 A.M., burning of the soles and heat in the top of the head.

These three things have been looked upon as a sine qua non of Sulphur, but they are scarcely the beginning of Sulphur.

Suppressions

It is a medicine often called for in the suppression of eruptions from cold and from drugs, and even from Sulphur. It is a great medicine to develop these things which have been covered tip, hence you will see Sulphur in all the lists of remedies useful for suppressed eruptions or for anything suppressed by drugs.

Even when acute eruptions have been suppressed, Sulphur becomes a valuable remedy. In suppressed gonorrhoea Sulphur is often the remedy to start up the discharge and re-establish the conditions that have been caused to disappear. Symptoms that have been suppressed must return or a cure is not possible.

Sulphur has been the remedy from the beginning of its history, from the time of Hahnemann, and on his recommendation, to be thought of when there is a paucity of symptoms to prescribe on, a latent condition of the symptoms due to psora. In this state it has been administered with so much benefit that the routine prescriber has learned the fact.

When apparently (superficially) well-indicated remedies fail to hold a patient, and symptoms cannot be found for a better remedy, it is true that Sulphur takes a deep hold of the economy and remedies act better after it.

This is well established from experience. You will find at times when you have given a remedy which seems well indicated, that it does not hold the case, and then you give the next best indicated remedy, and then the next, with the same result.

You will begin to wonder why this is, but you will see that, although the case does not call clearly for Sulphur, yet on its administration it so closely conforms to the underlying condition (and psora is so often the underlying condition) that it makes the remedies act better.

This is an observation that has been confirmed since the time of Hahnemann by all the old men.

Such things are only necessary when there is a paucity of symptoms, where after much study it is necessary to resort to what, seem the best measures, measures, justifiable to a certain extent, based upon observation and upon a knowledge of the conditions underlying the constitution of the whole race.

We know that underlying these cases with few symptoms there is a latent condition, and that it is either psora, syphilis or sycosis. If it were known to be syphilis we would select the head of the class of remedies looking like syphilis.

If known to be sycosis, we would select the head of the class of remedies looking like sycosis. Sulphur stands at the head of the list of remedies looking like the underlying psora; and so, if the underlying constitution is known to be psoric, and it is a masked case, Sulphur will open up the latent cause, and, even if it does not act on a positively curative basis, it is true that a better representation of the symptoms comes up. And as Sulphur is to psora, so is Mercurius to syphilis, and Thuja to sycosis.

In the coal regions of Pennsylvania, those who work in the mines and those living in the vicinity of the mines often need Sulphur. We know that the coal is not made up of Sulphur; there is a good deal in it besides; but those who handle the coal often need Sulphur. Persons who are always grinding kaolin and the various products that are used in the manufacture of china, and the workers among stone, especially require Calcarea and Silicea, but those who work in the coal mines often need Sulphur.

The patients look like Sulphur patients; they have the aspect, and even when their symptoms are localized and call for other remedies, you will get no good action from these remedies until you give them a dose of Sulphur, after which they go on improving.

Some believe this is due to the fact that there is so much Sulphur in the coal. We may theorize about these things as much as we have a mind to, but we do not want to fall into the habit of antidoting the lower potencies with the high.

Only use that method as a dernier ressort. When there are no symptoms to indicate the remedy, then it is time for us to experiment, and then it is justifiable only when it is carried on by a man of the right sort, because such a man keeps within the limit. He knows how to give his remedy. Such a man is guided by the symptoms in each case so far as symptoms speak out.

In inflammatory conditions a purplish appearance of the inflamed parts, a venous engorgement, is seen under Sulphur.

Measles , when they come out with that purplish color, very often require Sulphur.

Sulphur is a great remedy in measles.

The routinist can do pretty well in this disease with Pulsatilla and Sulphur, occasionally requiring Aconite and Euphrasia . Especially will Sulphur modify the case when the skin is dusky and the measles do not come out. This purplish color may be seen anywhere, in the erysipelas, in the sore throat, often on the forearms, legs and face.

The dreadful effects of vaccination are often cured by Sulphur. In this it competes with Thuja and Malandrinum.

Mind

In the mental state, which gives out the real man, shows forth the real interior nature, we see that Sulphur vitiates his affections, driving him to a most marked state of selfishness.

He has no thought of anybody's wishes or desires but his own. Everything that he contemplates is for the benefit of himself. This selfishness runs through the Sulphur patient. There is absence of gratitude.

Philosophical mania is also a prominent feature. Monomania over the study of strange and abstract things, occult things; things that are beyond knowledge; studying different things without any basis to figure upon; dwelling upon strange and peculiar things.

Sulphur has cured this consecutive tracing one thing to another as to first cause. It has cured a patient who did nothing but meditate as to what caused this and that and the other thing, finally tracing things back to Divine Providence, and then asking:

"Who made God?"

She would sit in a corner counting pins and wonder, pondering over the insolvable question of "Who made God?"

One woman could never see any handiwork of man without asking who made it. She could never be contented until she found out the man who made it, and then she wanted to know who his father was; she would sit down and wonder who he was, whether he was an Irishman, and so on.

That is a feature of Sulphur. It is that kind of reasoning without any hope of discovery, without any possible answer. It is not that kind of philosophy which has a basis and which can be followed up, reasoning in a series, reasoning on things that are true, but a fanatical kind of philosophy that has no basis, wearing oneself out.

Sulphur has an aversion to follow up things in an orderly fashion, an aversion to real work, an aversion to systematic work. The Sulphur patient is a sort of inventive genius. When he gets an idea in his mind he is unable to get rid of it.

He follows it and follows it until finally accidentally be drops into some thing, and many times that is how things are invented. Such is a Sulphur patient. He is often ignorant but imagines himself to be a great man; he despises education and despises literary men and their accomplishments, and he wonders why it is everyone cannot see that he is above education. Again, this patient takes on religious melancholy, not meditating upon the rational religion, but on foolish ideas about himself. He prays constantly and uninterruptedly, is always in his room, moaning with despair. He thinks he has sinned away his day of grace.

A patient needing Sulphur is often in a state of dullness and confusion of mind, with inability to collect the thoughts and ideas; lack of concentration. He will sit and meditate on no one thing continuously, making no effort to concentrate his mind upon anything. He wakes up in the morning with dullness of mind and fullness in the head and vertigo. Vertigo in the open air. In the open air comes on coryza with this fullness in the head and dullness, so that there is a confusion of the mind.

In the books there is an expression that has been extensively used.

"Foolish happiness and pride; thinks himself in possession of beautiful things; even rags seem beautiful."

Such a state has been present in lunatics, and in persons who were not lunatics in any other way except on that one idea.

The Sulphur patient has an aversion to business. He will sit around and do nothing, and let his wife take in washing and "work her fingernails off" taking care of him; he thinks that is all she is good for.

A state of refinement seems to have gone out of the Sulphur patient. Sulphur is the very opposite of all things fastidious. Arsenicum is the typical fastidious patient, and these two remedies are the extremes of each other. Arsenicum wants his clothing neat and clean, wants everything hung up well upon the pegs, wants all the pictures hung up properly upon the wall, wants everything neat and nice; and hence the Arsenicum patient has been called "the gold-headed-cane patient," because of his neatness, fastidiousness and cleanliness.

The very opposite of all that is the Sulphur patient.

"Indisposed to everything, work, pleasure, talking or motion; indolence of mind and body."

"Satiety of life; longing for indolence of mind and body.''

"Satiety of life; longing for death."

"Too lazy to rouse himself up, and too unhappy to live."

"Dread of being washed (in children)."

Yes, they will cry lustily if they have to be washed. The Sulphur patient dreads water and takes cold from bathing.

As to its relationship, Sulphur should not be given immediately before Lycopodium. It belongs to a rotating group, Sulphur, Calcarea, Lycopodium.

First Sulphur, then Calcarea and then Lycopodium, and then Sulphur again, as it follows Lycopodium well. Sulphur and Arsenicum are also related.

You will very often treat a case with Sulphur for a while and then need to give Arsenicum for some time, and then back to Sulphur. Sulphur follows most of the acute remedies well.

The Sulphur patient is troubled is with much dizziness. When he goes into the open air or when he stands any length of time, he becomes dizzy. On rising in the morning his head feels stupid, and on getting on his feet he is dizzy.

He feels stupid and tired, and not rested by his sleep, and "things go round." It takes some time to establish an equilibrium. He is slow in gathering himself together after sleep. Here we see the aggravation from sleep and from standing.

Head

The head furnishes many symptoms.

The Sulphur patient is subject to periodical sick headaches; congestive headaches, a sensation of great congestion with stupefaction, attended with nausea and vomiting. Sick headache once a week or every two weeks, the characteristic seven-day aggravation.

Most headaches coming on Sunday in working men are cured by Sulphur. You can figure this out. Sunday is the only day he does not work, and he sleeps late in the morning and gets up with a headache that involves the whole head, with dullness and congestion. Being busy and active prevents the headache during the week.

Others have periodical headaches every seven to ten days, with nausea and vomiting of bile. Again he may have a headache lasting two or three days; a congestive headache. Headache with nausea and no vomiting or headache with vomiting of bile. The headache is aggravated by stooping, generally ameliorated in a warm room and by the application of warmth; aggravated from light, hence the desire to close the eyes and to go into dark room; aggravated by jarring, and after eating.

The whole head is sensitive and the eyes are red, and there is often lachrymation, with nausea and vomiting. Headaches at times in those who suffer constantly from great heat in the vertex; the top of the head is hot and burns and he wants cold cloths applied to the top of the head. These headaches associated with heat are often ameliorated by cold, but otherwise the head is ameliorated in a warm room.

The head feels stupid and sometimes he cannot think. Every motion aggravates and he is worse after eating and drinking, worse from taking cold drinks into the stomach and better from hot drinks. When the headaches are present the face is engorged; bright red face. Headaches in persons who have a red face, a dirty face or sallow, a venous stasis of the face; the eyes are engorged and the skin is engorged; the face is puffed and venous in appearance.

Sulphur is useful in persons who get up in the morning with headache, dizziness and red face; in persons who say they know they are going to have the headache some time during the day because the face feels very full and is red in the morning, and the eyes are red.

Before the headache comes on there is a flickering before the eyes, a flickering of color. Scintillations, stars, saw teeth, zig-zags are forewarnings of a headache. Some Sulphur headaches that I have known present a peculiar appearance before the eyes; a rhomboidal figure, obliquely placed, with saw teeth on the upper side and the body filled with spots.

Sometimes this figure is seen toward one side of the object looked at, sometimes on the other side, but it is seen equally distinct with both eyes at the same time.

These saw teeth are flashes of light, and the base of the figure grows increasingly darker until you get all the colors of the rainbow. Whenever he disorders his stomach he has this peculiar vision. Sometimes it comes in the morning after eating and sometimes at noon after eating. It comes also when be is hungry in the evening and delays his eating. These zig-zags come very often with that hungry all-gone feeling in the stomach.

We have the same state of affairs, similar appearance of zig-zags and flickerings in both Natrum muriaticum and Psorinum before the headache. They are warning of headaches. These zig-zags, flickerings, sparks, stars and irregular shapes appear before the eye periodically, and may last an hour or so. In the head there is much throbbing. Morning headaches and headaches coming on at noon. Headaches also, as mentioned before that begin after the -evening meal and increase into the night, hindering sleep.

Scalp

Upon the external head the itching is indescribable; constant itching, itching when warm in bed.

It is worse from the warmth of the bed and yet it is also worse from cold. itching eruptions; scaly, moist and dry eruptions; vesicles, pimples, pustules and boils; eruptions in general upon the scalp. Much dandruff in the hair, and loss of hair There is slow closing of the fontanelles.

"Humid, offensive eruption on top of the head, filled with pus, drying up into honey like scabs. Tinea capitis."

"Humid offensive eruption with thick pus, yellow crusts, bleeding and burning."

Hair dry, falling off, etc.

It has many symptoms, such as in olden times would be called scrofulous, but which we recognize as psoric. There is a tendency for every "cold" to settle in the eyes. Discharge of mucus and pus from the eyes. Ulceration and thickening of the eyelids, lids rolled outwards or inwards, loss of eyelashes; red and disturbed condition.

Eyes

Now, if we would say "complaints of the eyes in a Sulphur patient," it would cover all kinds of eye troubles.

Sulphur has extensive eye symptoms. Eye symptoms with eruptions on the face and scalp, with itching of the skin, especially when warm in bed. Catarrhal eye symptoms that are made worse from washing.

When not only the eyes are aggravated by bathing, but the patient himself is aggravated from bathing and he dreads to bathe, and he has itching which is made worse from the warmth of the bed, and is subject to chronic sick headaches and has heat on top of the head, with such concomitants his eyes symptoms, no matter what will be cured by Sulphur. Sulphur has cured, cataract and iritis, inflammatory conditions and opacities, and all sorts of "hallucinations of sight" (coming with headaches)

"Flickering before the eyes" (as described)

"small dark specks; dark points and spots; black flies seem to float not far from the eyes; gas or lamp light seems to be surrounded with a halo," etc.

There are so many of these peculiar images before the eyes, but all have the Sulphur constitution.

"Burning heat in the eyes, painful smarting."

Every "cold" settles in the eyes, i. e,, the eye symptoms, when present, are increased and, when he has no eye symptoms, these are brought on from every "cold."

Ears

The ears are subject to catarrh.

You have learned in the generals, that the catarrhal state is a very strong feature of Sulphur. No mucous membrane of the body escapes, all have catarrhal discharges, copious, sometimes purulent, sometimes bloody. The eyes and ears are no exception.

The catarrhal state goes on in a patient until deafness follows. Thickening of the mucous membrane and of the drum. All sorts of strange noises in the ear until the hearing is lost. After structural changes have taken place and deafness comes on even if there is no cure for the deafness, you may cure the patient.

When a patient wants to know if he can be cured of his deafness you can never tell him. Many of the troubles are in the middle ear, and as you cannot examine it, you do not know how much structural change has taken place. You can only say that if the patient can be sufficiently cured then it can be ascertained. If the structural changes are not very great they will disappear after the patient is cured.

If the internal parts are destroyed, if there is a dry, atrophic catarrh of the middle ear, you can hardly expect to restore that middle ear. It has been destroyed; the parts that are necessary for sensation no longer register sensation, because they have become atrophied. You can only talk to the patient about the prospects of curing him.

Do not entertain in your mind the idea of curing an organ. Keep that idea out of your mind as much as possible, and, when people want you to locate the disease in organs, keep quiet, because only the patient is sick.

Think as much as possible about the sick patient and as little as possible about the name or the pathological conditions of organs. So, when patients say,

"Doctor, can you cure my hearing?" answer them:

"First, you must be cured. The first and most important thing is to cure you."

Cure the patient and then it will be seen afterwards what can be done for the ear, for the hearing. That keeps your mind in proper form, keeps you in right relation to the patient. If you were all the time talking of the ear, the patient would worry your life out about his ear.

"When are you going to do something for ear? When am I going to hear?"

Start out with the understanding that the whole patient is to be treated. Remember the patient first, and let him understand that. The idea of a patient going to a specialist for diseases of the ears should be discouraged unless a homoeopathist is at hand.

It is a disease of the whole body that is to be treated. There is no such trouble as an ear trouble considered apart from the constitutional state of the patient himself. Sulphur has "frequent stoppages of the ears, especially when eating or blowing one's nose."

"Sounds in ears."

Inflarnmation of various kinds. Discharges from the ears in a Sulphur patient.

You see I have avoided saying that Sulphur is a remedy for the ears. Many times you will cure patients of these "local diseases" if you select remedies for the patients, when the local symptoms would never have led you to the remedy.

You would never have thought of Sulphur for the ear alone, or for the prolapsus of the uterus, yet the patient needs Sulphur, and, having given it, you are astonished to see how the organs are turned into order after the constitution of the patient has been made orderly.

Now and then pains that are located here and there in the body are prescribed at by the physician, and failure follows. He hunts a remedy through and through to find some particular kind of pain that resembles the pain which the patient has. You should treat the patient and not bother about trifling pains.

Leave it out if you want to, but get a remedy for the patient. If that pain is in the remedy well and good, but if not do not bother about it. Do not bother about the little symptoms. You may even leave out a most prominent keynote in treating the patient.

Sometimes that particular pain is the only symptom the patient wants cured, but if it is an old symptom, it will be the last thing to go away. Under such circumstances the patient will bother your life out wanting to know when that pain is going to be cured, but if you have knowledge of the matter you will not expect to relieve that pain the first time; if you do relieve it you know that you have made a mistake, for the later symptoms should all go away first.

It is sometimes necessary, in order to hold a patient, to say,

"That symptom must not be cured first, but these little symptoms that you do not care much about will go away first."

You will hold that patient for life simply because you have told the truth, simply because you have exhibited to her that you know. Such business is honestly acquired business.

Nose

The catarrhal affections of the nose are extremely troublesome in Sulphur.

"Smell before the nose as of an old catarrh," and so troublesome is the Sulphur nose, so troublesome is this catarrhal state that with odors he is made sick. He thinks he smells his own catarrh, and thinks others also smell it. The smell of this old catarrh, or of filthy things, keeps him nauseated. He is subject to coryzas; constant sneezing, stoppage of the nose. Under coryza we read "fluent like water trickling from the nose."

All the nasal discharges are acrid and burning.

This is a state in Sulphur. Every time he takes "cold," it brings on a coryza. He cannot take a bath, he cannot become overheated, he cannot get into a cold place and cannot overexert himself without getting this "cold in the nose."

Changes of the weather establish a new attack, I have observed in numbers of those old people who are in the habit of taking large quantities of Sulphur in the spring for boils, and as a spring cleanser, that for the rest of the year they suffer from coryza and the various complaints of Sulphur.

If you can hunt out some of these old Sulphur takers, you will have a very good picture of Sulphur, interesting for the homeopathic physician to look upon. He is also subject to nose-bleed, dry ulcers and scabs in the nose.

Face

I have quite sufficiently described the general aspect of the face in Sulphur, but we must especially remember the venous stasis, the dirty appearance, the red spots, the sickly look, the appearance of false plethora. It is a face that changes from pale to red, a pallid face that becomes easily disturbed, flushed from excitement, flushed in a warm room, flushed from slight stimulation, especially flushed in the morning. Eruptions upon the face.

Periodical neuralgias of the most violent character, especially on the right side of the face. Long and tedious right-sided neuralgias. Persistent neuralgias in those that live in a malarial climate, when the short-acting remedies given for the neuralgia, such as Belladonna and Nux vomica, have only for a short time mitigated the suffering. If upon studying the whole case you find he turns out to be a Sulphur patient, Sulphur will permanently cure the neuralgia.

Sulphur cures erysipelatous inflammation of the face. In Sulphur the erysipelas commences on the right side of the face and about the right ear, and there is considerable swelling of the right car, and it spreads slowly, moves with sluggishness and is unusually purple. The whole patient is an offensive, filthy patient; in spite of washing, his skin looks wrinkled, shriveled and like dried beef.

Sulphur is not so suitable in the cases that come on with rapidity and great violence, with vesicles and enormous blebs, but it suits those cases in which at first there is the appearance of a mottled dusky red spot on the face, and a little distance from it another spot and the another, and these, as it were, all run together, and after a week or so it develops into a sluggish erysipelatous state, and the veins seem to be distended, and he is passing into a state toward unconsciousness.

You will be astonished to see what Sulphur will do in such a case, which comes slowly as if there were a lack of vitality to develop it, a slow, sluggish, erysipelatous inflammation. Whereas, if it be Arsenicum, Apis or Rhus tox , it spreads with rapidity. Arsenicum and Apis burn like, fire and Rhus has blisters upon the erysipelatous patches.

The whole face in Sulphur is covered at times with patches of moist, scaly, itching, eczematous eruptions. Crusta lactea that involves the scalp and the cars, with moisture, thick yellow crusts, piling up, with much itching, which is worse when warm in bed. The child sleeps without covers. If there is itching in parts that are covered, when the parts become warm the itching increases. These eruptions are associated with eye diseases, catarrhal affections of the eyes and nose.

The Sulphur patient has thick incrustations upon the lips, scabby lips, chapped lips, cracks about the lips and corners of the mouth. The saliva oozes out of the mouth making red streaks. Eruptions with itching and burning about the lower part of the face. Herpetic eruptions about the mouth. All of these burn and become excoriated from the fluids of the mouth. Round about the under jaw there is swelling of the glands. Swelling and suppuration of the sub-maxillary glands swelling of the parotids. The glands of the neck are enlarged.

Teeth and Mouth

In the Sulphur constitution the teeth become loose; the gums settle away from the teeth and bleed and burn.

The teeth decay. There is a general unhealthy condition of the mouth and tongue. Foul taste and foul tongue. Ulceration of the mouth and burning in the ulcers. In the aphthae there is burning, stinging. White patches in the mouth.

Sulphur is a very useful remedy in sore mouth of nursing infants, and such as occurs in the mother during lactation. It has also deep-seated phagedenic ulcers that eat around the inner surface of the check. Peculiar little nodules form upon the tongue. and upon the sides of the mouth where the unhealthy teeth press.

When these nodules come along the edge of the tongue they are so painful that he cannot talk and cannot swallow. He must live on substances that he can take without having to move the tongue. Sometimes they involve the whole tongue, and have been called cancerous affections even when benign.

Throat

Sulphur is a wonderful medicine for chronic sore throat when the symptoms agree.

The old Sulphur patient suffers from a general catarrhal state, as has been said, and the throat symptoms are of that sort. There is a catarrhal state which goes on even to ulceration. The tonsil is enlarged, and of a purplish aspect lasting for weeks and months, a general sore and painfully sensitive condition of the throat; but it has also an acute sore throat. It is especially useful in inflammation of the tonsil with suppuration, when the aspect is purplish, venous, and not a bright red inflammation.

The purplish, dusky color is especially a Sulphur color. There is often burning in the throat, stitching, rawness, smarting, inflammation and difficult swallowing. It has cured diphtheria.

I have sufficiently covered appetite, desires and aversions under the generals. The Sulphur patients are commonly dyspeptics, patients who can digest almost nothing. They must live on the simplest forms of food in order to have any comfort at all; cannot digest anything like ordinary diet.

The stomach

is sensitive to touch with the all-gone hungry feeling before mealtimes.

The Sulphur patient cannot go long without eating; he becomes. faint and weak. Great heaviness in the stomach after eating but little, after eating meat, or after eating foods that require a healthy stomach to digest.

Then he becomes the victim of pain. He will describe the pains in his stomach as burning pains and great soreness; he has a morbid feeling in the stomach; smarting, and rawness in the stomach. He will describe this sensation as

"Pain in the stomach after eating.

Sensation of weight in the stomach after eating," etc.

The Sulphur stomach is a weak stomach, is slow in digesting. There is acid and bilious vomiting, as a result of the disordered stomach. Sour taste in the mouth from the welling up of acids from the stomach.

The liver

is a very troublesome organ.

There is enlargement and induration, with much painfulness, pressure and distress. With congestion of the liver, the stomach also takes on its usual symptoms, or, if present already, they are aggravated. The patient becomes jaundiced, with sensation of engorgement or fullness of the liver, dull aching in the liver.

He is subject to gall stones; tearing pains in the region of the gall duct, coming periodically, attended with much increase of his sallowness.

The Sulphur liver patient is the victim. of chronic sallowness, which increases and decreases. When this patient takes "cold" it settles in the liver; every "cold," every bath he takes, every change of weather, aggravates his liver symptoms, and when these are worse he has less of other troubles. It localizes itself in attacks of bilious vomiting, in attacks of "bilious headaches," as he calls them.

At times the stool is black as tar, at others it is green and thick, and there are times when the stool is white. These stools alternate and change about with the engorgement of his liver, and then he is subject to gall stones.

Abdomen

The Sulphur patient suffers from great distension of the abdomen; rolling in the abdomen; soreness in the abdomen.

He cannot stand because the abdominal viscera hang down so; they seem to be falling. There is rawness, soreness, distension and burning, with diarrhoea with chronic diarrhoea, and then this goes on to more serious trouble, towards tubercle in the abdomen. The mesenteric glands become in filtrated with tubercle. There is nightly itching with the eruptions upon the abdomen, the itching being worse when warm in bed. Shingles come out about the sides and seem inclined to encircle the body.

He is also a flatulent patient. There is much belching, much distension, much rumbling and passing of flatus. He has spells of colic without being flatulent; the wind is confined. Dreadful spells of colic, cutting, tearing pains relieved in no position; burning and smarting in the whole abdomen and soreness of the intestines.

Catarrh of the whole intestinal tract. That which he vomits is acid and smarts the mouth, and that which he passes by the anus is acrid and makes the parts raw. The liquid stool burns while it is passing, and there is much burning when passing moist flatus. He is often called to stool, but while sitting at stool he passes only a little fluid or a little moisture with flatus, and that fluid burns like coals of fire, and the anus becomes raw.

The stool may be thin faeces, yellow, watery, mucous, green, bloody, excoriating. The stool is offensive, often sickening, of a penetrating odor which permeates the room, and "the smell of the stool follows, him around, as if he had soiled himself."

The diarrhea comes on especially in the morning and it is commonly limited to the forenoon. It drives him out of bed in the morning; as soon as he wakes up and moves in bed, he feels the urging to stool and must make great haste, or he will lose it; it is with difficulty that he can hold it until he reaches the commode.

The morning is the typical time, but a diarrhea that comes on any time after midnight, from midnight till noon, may be a Sulphur diarrhea. Very seldom would you -expect to cure with Sulphur a diarrhea that is in the habit of coming on during the afternoon. Sulphur has some evening aggravations in diarrhea, but these are exceptions; it is the morning diarrhoea that we look to Sulphur to cure.

Sulphur is a wonderful remedy in cholera and in those cases of diarrhea that occur in cholera times, when the diarrhoea begins in the morning. It is also of great value in dysentery, when the stool is bloody mucus with constant straining. As in Mercurius he must sit long at stool because of a feeling as if he could not finish. Such is the typical Mercurius state: a slimy stool with the sensation as if he could not finish.

Sulphur often cures this state after Mercurius fails. It is the natural follower of Mercurius when the latter has been misunderstood and given. In dysentery, when this tenesmus is of the most violent character, when the stool is pure blood, when it is attended also with much urging to urinate.

Mercurius corrosivus gives the quickest relief. If the tenesmus is less violent, and there is not much straining to urinate, or it is altogether absent, Mercurius solubilis is the more natural remedy. These medicines run very close to Sulphur in dysentery, but are more commonly indicated than Sulphur. In Sulphur patients of course Sulphur will be the suitable remedy in dysentery.

He is subject to hemorrhoids, external and internal; great bunches that are sore and raw, burning and tender, and that bleed and smart with the liquid stool.

The urinary symptoms

and those of the bladder and male sexual organs, combine to give a very important group in Sulphur.

There is a catarrhal state of the bladder, constant urging to urinate and burning and smarting while urinating. The urine scalds the urethra while passing and the smarting is so great that it lasts a long time after urination. It is indicated in broken-down constitutions, in old inventors, in old philosophers who have been leading sedentary lives, who suffer from enlarged prostate. burning in the urethra during and after the flow of urine, and a urethral discharge not unlike gonorrhoea, but really a chronic catarrhal state.

Mucus in the urine, sometimes a pus. In old cases of gleet, in old broken-down patients, when the ordinary gonorrhoea remedies, and the remedies especially fitted to the discharge itself, only palliate; when the patient himself is a Sulphur patient.

Such a patient has had a gonorrhoea and has been treated by remedies adapted to the new appearance, to the discharge itself, but a catarrhal state of the urethra follows, with burning in the urethra, swelling of the meatus, a red, swollen, pouty condition of the meatus, and only a drop collects, just enough to soil the linen, and this keeps up week after week, and sometimes for years; he will be cured of this discharge by allowing potentized Sulphur to act long enough.

Sulphur has cured patients with sugar in the urine, in the early stage of diabetes. Sulphur cures involuntary urination during sleep. It cures troubles brought on by taking "cold." Every "cold" in some patients settles in the bladder. This is like Dulcamara, and when Dulcamara will no longer hold, or when it has been suitable in earlier stages, Sulphur follows it well. Continuous smarting of urine and frequent urging; burning, stinging, smarting in the urethra for a long time after micturition.

Genitals

On the genitals there are many eruptions.

Itching of the genitals, worse from warmth of the bed; much sweat about the genitals; coldness of the genitals. In the male, impotency; the sexual desire is fairly strong, but he is unable to secure suitable erections; or there is discharge of semen before intromission, or too soon after intromission. There is an inflammatory condition around the glans and foreskin. Herpetic eruptions under the foreskin, itching and burning. This patient has much annoyance from itching eruptions on the genitals.

The prepuce becomes narrow and cannot be drawn back inflammatory phimosis; thickening or restriction of the prepuce. Inflammatory phimosis can be cured by remedies, if the phimosis depends upon some, trouble that is in itself curable. Congenital phimosis cannot be cured by remedies. The genitals are extremely offensive both to the patient and to the examining physician. The patient is likely to be very uncleanly; he does not bathe himself, and the genitals accumulate their natural filth. Discharge of prostatic fluid when at stool.

Under female sexual, organs we have sterility. We have irregularity in the menstrual flow, menstrual flow suppressed from the slightest disturbance. Haemorrhage in connection with the menstrual flow; uterine haemorrhage; prolonged uterine haemorrhage.

In an abortion you may have selected Belladonna, which war, suitable while the woman was aborting, and it may have overcome the present state; or you may have selected Apis or Sabina, which was suitable for the early state, and it either postpones or checks the haemorrhage for the time or hurries the expulsion of the foetus; but the haemorrhage starts in again and with its return we have prolonged tribulation. In many of these cases we can do nothing until we put the patient on Sulphur.

If the symptoms are masked, Sulphur stands very high. When Belladonna has been given you will often have to follow it with Sulphur. Sabina , which has the most violent gushing haemorrhage in abortions, very commonly needs to be followed by Sulphur. In such hemorrhagic affections, however i.e, in a prolonged recurring haemorrhage, a chronic condition, not in the first or most exciting time, not in the time of the earliest gushing, there are two very frequently indicated remedies, M.: Sulphur and Psorinum.

The flow keeps coming back in spite of ordinary remedies, and in spite of remedies selected upon the group of symptoms related to the pelvis. In many instances we go to a haemorrhage and the pelvic symptoms are prominent and all other symptoms clouded; there is a gushing flow, the blood is hot, etc., and there are only a few symptoms; but the next time you see the woman she is quiet enough to give other symptoms, and in the course of a few days more symptoms come out, as the hemorrhagic state is an outcome of the chronic condition.

This is unlike measles. You do not have to look into the chronic state until the measles or scarlet fever or small-pox is finished; these are acute miasms. But the haemorrhage is a part of her constitutional state; it is not a miasm; and hence when it is violent, calling for a remedy, probably the best adapted will he the short acting remedies, such as Belladonna or even Aconite; but then look into the constitutional state for it is likely some remedy will have to follow the Aconite or the Belladonna, and commonly it is Sulphur; the acute remedy being suitable to the violent action and then followed by its complementary medicine.

Women needing Sulphur are full of hot flashes, such as they are likely to have at the climateric period, and here it competes with Lachesis and Sepia. Sulphur and Sepia are suitable in the most violent cases of dysmenorrhoea in girls and even in those of advanced age.

Most violent cases that have existed a long time, since the beginning of menstruation, in women who always needed Sulphur. If you select a remedy merely on the kind of pain, on the sensitiveness of the uterus, on the appearance of the flow, i.e., on the pelvic symptoms, you will make a failure. You must treat the patient, even if the pelvic symptoms do not fall under the generals; when the generals agree Sulphur will cure dysmenorrhoea even though you cannot fit it to the pelvic symptoms. The generals always precede and rule in every case.

Sulphur has violent burning in the vagina. Troublesome itching of the vulva. Great offensiveness from the genitals. Perspiration copious and foetid coming from about the genitals, down the inside of the thighs and up over the abdomen.

She is so offensive that the odors nauseate her, and this general state is true, it is not the imagination. Remember the over-sensitiveness to odors. Leucorrhoea copious, offensive, burning, sticky; it may be whitish or yellow; it is offensive, acrid, and causes itching about the part and excoriation.

There is much nausea during gestation, or only during the early period of gestation. In those women needing Sulphur, it will stop the nausea, and they will go into labor easily, with few protracted pains; they will go through their labor with only the contractions, and these comparatively painless. The only pains in such cases will be those from the pressure of the child's head. Labor is painful we know, but it is comparatively easy when the woman is upon a suitable remedy. Sulphur is indicated then in women who have suffered from the most dreadful agony in confinement; prolonged labor. Troublesome after-pains. Suitable also in swelling of the mammary glands.

Then we have septicemic conditions, with purulent lochia or suppression of the lochia. You may go to a case in which, on the third day, there has been a chill, the lochia has been suppressed, the woman has a high temperature and is covered from head to foot with sweat. As you put your hand under the covers you feel steam come up from the body so that you want to take your hand away, it is so hot. She is dazed and is sensitive over the whole abdomen.

You know now the meaning of the suppression of the lochia; you have a puerperal fever on hand. Study closely for Sulphur instead of hunting around among Aconite, Bryonia, Belladonna, Opium, etc. With these you will make a total failure in most instances, but Sulphur fits into just such a state and has cured many cases of puerperal fever.

If it is but a milk fever or mammary indisposition and the chill is only acute, then your short-acting remedies will do very well and even Aconite has been useful, but when it is a case of septicemia, Sulphur goes to the very root of it. When the feet burp, when there is a hungry feeling in the stomach, the night aggravation with sinking and exhaustion, and when throughout the body there is a sensation of steam rising or hot flashes, one after another, you must give Sulphur.

Now, on the other hand, if in such a case, with the hot sweat and other general features, you have one rigor following another in rapid succession and no end to them, you cannot get out of that case without Lycopodium, which goes as deeply into the case as Sulphur. When there is a continuous intermingling of little chillinesses and little quiverings throughout the body and the pulse has lost its proper relationship to the temperature, Pyrogen must be administered. If there is a purplish appearance of the body, cold sweat all over, if there are remittent or intermit-tent chills, with thirst during -the chill, and at no other time, and the face is red during the chill, you must give Ferrum, as no other remedy looks just like that.

When one side of the body is hot and the other side is cold and you find the woman in a tearful state, trembling with fear, nervous excitement and restlessness, give Pulsatilla, which also has a septic state and is sufficient to overcome the septic condition.

Sulphur is suitable in surgical fever when it takes this form of flashes of heat and steaming sweat. In these deep-seated septic states, somewhere from beginning to end, Sulphur will most likely be wanted. You may see in the earlier stages of that septic state a number of Bryonia symptoms, but Bryonia cannot take hold of that case. Remember that in a septic state you want to get ahead of it in the first twenty-four hours; you do not want to let it run on, and if Bryonia has only mitigated it in its beginning then it is too late for Sulphur.

Go to Sulphur at once. Now, another thing, even if you have made a mistake in giving Sulphur and you find it does not take hold of the case, it always simplifies it, does good and never spoils it. It gives you a good basis to begin on. It goes to the bottom and simplifies the matter, and, if you have mental and nervous symptoms left still you have overcome that violent septic state which must be met at once, and the remaining symptoms in many instances are simple. Sulphur is a general remedy to begin with in those cases where the symptoms are not perfectly clear for another.

Respiration

This remedy is full of difficult breathing, shortness of breath from very little exertion, copious sweat, so exhausted; asthmatic breathing and much rattling in the chest.

Every time he gets "cold" it settles in the chest or in the nose. In both these instances the catarrhal state hangs on and holds a long time; it seems never to be finished, always remains as a catarrhal state.

"Every cold he takes ends in asthma," calls for Dulcamara, but very often the fag end of that attack will remain and the physician has to give a deep-acting remedy. After Dulcamara has done all it can do, Sulphur comes in as its complementary remedy. Calcarea carb. has a similar relationship to Dulcamara.

The nose, the inner chest and lungs furnish us localities for much trouble. The patient has had pneumonia and it has gone on to the period of infiltration; you have taken the case in this advanced stage after Bryonia has overcome the threatening features, and now when the patient should rally he does not rally; he perspires all over, is tired and has a strange and singular consciousness that "there is something wrong in there; a load in there;" "difficult breathing; flashes of heat and yet not much fever; sometimes coldness alternating with flashes of heat. I have often heard them say, "

There is a great load in there, doctor. I cannot get rid of it."

Upon close examination you find there is hepatization and now comes the time for such remedies as Phosphorus, Lycopodium and Sulphur, and Sulphur leads them all.

When Bryonia has been sufficient for the earlier symptoms, or when Aconite has cleared them up, there has been too much for these remedies to relieve, then hepatization comes on. If this is confined to only a small area it will keep up quite a chronic course, but Sulphur will clear it up. If, however, it is a double pneumonia, or the hepatization involves a considerable portion of the lung, and the remedy given has not been sufficient, and the case is advancing towards a fatal issue, it may be that all at once at one, two or three o'clock in the morning, he begins to sink, his nose becomes pinched, his lips are drawn, he takes on a hippocratic countenance, is covered with cold sweat, be is too feeble in every part of his body to move; he only moves his head a little in a restless manner.

Unless you are called at once and give him a dose of Arsenicum he will die. You give the Arsenicum, and you have done well, but Arsenicum has no ability to remove the results of inflammation. But though it cannot cure that hepatized lung it acts as a vital stimulant; it warms up the patient and makes him feel he is going to get better; but, mark this, in twenty four hours he will die unless you follow the Arsenicum with the proper remedy.

You must not wait on your remedy too long in these cases. Just as soon as he rallies and the reaction is at its highest pitch, give him the antidote and natural follower of Arsenicum, which is Sulphur, and in twenty-four hours the patient will say,

"I am getting better."

As sure as you exist today, it will do just that thing. There are times when you will see clearly that Phosphorus is the medicine to follow Arsenicum with. If such a patient, rallying under Arsenicum, goes into a fever, if a hot fever comes on with burning thirst and he cannot get enough ice-cold water, you must follow it with Phosphorus, and it will do in that case what Sulphur will do in the other.

You will not see these cases in your own practice because you will not let your cases get into that state; if such cases have power enough to live when prescribed for properly in that state, they have power enough to let you break up the whole nature of the case in the beginning

But go back to that patient who had only a circumscribed hepatization and felt well enough to get up and go around. He has a lingering cough, and now six months or a year after the attack he says.

"Doctor, I have never been right since I had an attack of chest trouble.

The doctor called it pneumonia."

He can tell you about the rusty sputum and the other little things that belong to pneumonia; that is all you need to know. He has had a chronic cough ever since that attack and now he has chilliness.

There is fibrinous infiltration, not a tuberculous state, but the remains of hepatization that nature could not cure. If that is allowed to go on be will go into catarrhal phthisis, asthmatic conditions of chronic bronchitis and troubles of various sorts, and finally he will die from these. Sulphur will very often conform to all of his symptoms; it especially has the ability to clear up the lungs that were not properly cleared up at the time of his illness.

Sulphur cures bronchitis. It cures asthmatic bronchitis when the symptoms agree. Sulphur has a most violent cough that racks the whole frame; it seems that the head will fly off; pain in the head when coughing; the head is jarred by the cough. Then he has expectoration of blood, bleeding from the lungs; in all of these cases threatening phthisis, when there is yet not too much deposit of tubercle, when there is only the beginning of tubercular deposit.

The low, stricken down constitution, the emaciated subjects that have inherited phthisis who have the all-gone hungry feeling in the stomach, heat on the top of the head and uneasiness from the warmth of the bed.

These cases would be better if they had plenty of eruptions come out upon the body; but as a matter of fact the skin has no eruptions; there is no relief; it is all going on in his internals and he is gradually breaking down.

Sulphur will in such instances rouse that patient out of his phthisical state and he will return to health, or, if be is too bad for that be may be kept for years from his troubles. Look out for it in the advanced state of phthisis. You have had sufficient said concerning its administration in such a condition. It increases the suppuration, and brings on little pneumonias wherever there is a tubercle; it tends to suppurate these out. Every cell that is incapable of carrying on its function will be sloughed out by Sulphur.

Back and limbs

The striking thing in Sulphur as to the back is pain in the back on rising from a seat, compelling him to walk bent, and he can only straighten up slowly after moving. The pain is principally in the lumbo-sacral region.

The extremities are covered with eruptions. Eruptions upon the back of the bands and between the fingers, and sometimes upon the palms; vesicular and scaly eruptions which itch; pustules, boils and little abscesses irregular erysipelatous patches here and there upon the extremities a dirty appearance of the skin.

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 a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestions, especially of portal system.

Persons of nervous temperament, move quickly, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c., Psor.).

For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooped; walk stooping like old men.

Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable.

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.).

Aversion to being washed; always worse after a bath.

Children: cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant. c.); emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails.

When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor.).

Scrofulous chronic diseases that arise from suppressed eruptions (Caust., Psor.).

Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhœa, etc.); patient seems to get

(Ars.) ; in chest, rising to face ; of skin of whole body, with hot flushes; in spots, between scapulæ (Phos.).

Sick headache every week or every two weeks ; prostrating, weakening (Sang.) ; with hot vertex and cold feet.

Constant heat on vertex; cold feet in daytime, with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for them (Sang., Sanic.) ; puts them out of bed to cool them off (Med.) ; cramps in calves and soles at night.

Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little moisture.

Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through.

Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 A. M. (10 or 11 A. M. > by eating, Nat. c.) ; cannot wait for lunch ; frequent weak, faint spells during the day.

Diarrhœa : after midnight ; painless ; driving out of bed early in the morning (Aloe, Psor.) ; as if the bowels were too weak to retain their contents.

Constipation : stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry.) ; large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on first effort ; alternating with diarrhœa.

The discharge, both of urine and feces, is painful to parts over which it passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine ; parts around anus red, excoriated ; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges acrid, excoriating wherever they touch.

Menses : too early, profuse, protracted.

Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. " A single dose at new moon."—LIPPE.

Boils: coming in crops in various parts of the body; or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed (Tub.).

Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels good to scratch;" scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed (Mer.); soreness in folds (Lyc., San.).

Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes; hemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments.

To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, Kali mur. or the best selected remedy fails.

Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; "they reform," but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.).

Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness the whole night.

Happy dreams, wakes up singing.

Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to.

Movements in abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuja).

Relations

Complementary: Aloe, Psor.

Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.

Sulph., Calc., Lyc.; or Sulph., Sars. and Sep. frequently follow in given order.

Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur.

Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it well in pneumonia and other acute diseases.

Aggravation—At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing; changeable weather.

Amelioration—Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (Stan.).

Type

Quotidian; double quotidian; tertian. In regular paroxysms. Yearly (Ars., Carbo v., Lach., Nat., Psor., Thuja). Typhoid, typhus, bilious, yellow; fever of every kind and every type.

Time

Not characteristic; at all periods. Morning; afternoon; evening; night. Evening predominant; 8, 9, 10 A. M., 12 M.; 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 P. M.

Prodrome

Evening fever without chill. Thirst (Caps., Eup., Puls.—but can only drink in prodrome and apyrexia, Cimex).

Chill

Without thirst. Frequent internal chilliness. Chilliness, with headache in the evening (Sep.), disappearing after lying down. Aching in forehead with restlessness, relieved when sweat comes on. Chilliness and shivering over whole body, without subsequent heat or thirst (Bov.). Chilliness and rigor, with blue nails, pale face, heavy, giddy head, not relieved by heat of stove, but by lying down. Chilly in open air, as if naked. Shivering on slightest movement in bed (Nux, Stram.). Coldness transient, of the nose, hands, feet, chest, arms, back, abdomen. Chilliness in the back, in the evening for an hour, without subsequent heat. Chilliness constantly creeps from the sacrum up the back, without subsequent heat or thirst, sometimes relieved by warmth of stove. Icy coldness of the genitals. Coldness through all the limbs. Hands and feet very cold, with livid, pale face. Shaking chill for an hour in the P. M., with blue face and cold hands and feet; subsequent heat and perspiration (Ars., Bell., Rhus). Headache, vertigo, delirium. Chill begins in hands, fingers, feet and toes (Carbo v., Nat., Sep.).

Heat

With thirst. Frequent flushes of heat in the face, with shivering sensation over the body (Sep.). Burning heat of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet; or cold feet, with hot, burning soles; was obliged to put them out of bed to find a cool place. Heat and redness of face, with burning in single parts, as on malar bones, around the eyes, ears, nose, mouth. Orgasm of the blood, and violent burning of the hands. Alternate heat (of body and face) with chilliness (Ars., Cal.). Frequent flushes of heat, ending in moisture and faintness. Intense, per-sistent, long-continued fever; skin dry, hot, burning; tem-perature 103-105, little or no remission, day or night; pa-tient literally being consumed with fever.

Sweat

Copious morning-sweat, setting in after waking (sweat while awake, dry heat when sleeping, Samb.). At night profuse sweat all over the body and restless sleep (sweat all night without relief, Kali c.). Profuse sweat on occiput. Perspiration on slightest motion or manual labor (Bry.—sweat on least exer-tion or every mental effort, Sep.). Profuse sweat when walking, reading, riding, writing, talking. Profuse sour night-sweat, of a sour, burnt odor (Lyc.); vomiting; morning diarrhœa; tenesmus.

Tongue

Coated white or yellow, which wears off during the day, and becomes red and clean in evening. Bitter taste in mouth in morning; food tastes natural. Longing for sweets, beer, brandy. Aversion to meat. Milk disagrees, causes sour taste, sour eructations.

Apyrexia

Great prostration after every paroxysm (Ars.), with thirst for beer. Burning heat on vertex. Early morning diarrhœa. Feels as if he was just convalescing from a severe illness.

Sulphur bears the same relation to chronic cases that Ipecacu-anha does to acute, viz.: if the indications for the remedy be not clear and well defined, Sulphur may clear up the case, or completely cure it alone. Intermittent fever is a terrible searcher after weak organs; and Sulphur is frequently required in all forms of the disease—acute and early, or chronic and later—to combat some latent malady aroused during the course of the fever. If we would use Sulphur more and Quinine less, our success would be much more satisfactory, both to our patients and ourselves.

"The antiperiodic virtue of Sulphur does not apply simply to pyrexial intermittents, but it also comprehends intermittent neu-ralgias, which consist of attacks of pain on the right side of the face and head, which begins at the maxillaries and finally extends along the orbital nerves, and thence involves the whole side of the head, there being no dental caries. The pains begin toward evening, last three to four hours, then cease, reappear later, and again cease up to the hour of attack in the evening. Psoric subjects; after the suppression of an exanthem: after the abuse of Quinine."—A. CHARGE, M. D.

Sulphur worn next the skin, in the form of flowers of Suphur, is an effective antidote to the malarial poison which is supposed to produce intermittent fever, typhus and diphtheria, as well as cholera.*