Ustilago Maydis ust.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

Epithelium: Skin. Hair. Nails. Female sexual organs.

Worse

Climacteric. Touch. Motion.

General

Tumid tissues, tending to bleed slowly. Dark hæmorrhage. As of a knot; in throat, bowels, uterus, etc.

Particulars

Depression. Loss of hair and nails. Sticky secretion matting the hair. Milk crust. Masturbation. Menses half liquid, half clots or stringy; vicarious. The uterus seeps dark, clotted blood. Spongy cervix. Metrorrhagia. Acute ovarian pain. Burning in r. ovary; soreness in l. and of uterus; pains shoot down thighs. Foul, yellow or brown leucorrhœa. Pain under l. breast. Dry, hot skin.

Related

Related: Asaf. Bov. Sec-c.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Corn-smut

General

Flabby condition of uterus. Hæmorrhage. Congestion to various parts, especially at climacteric. Crusta lactea (Vioia tric).

Head

Very depressed. Full feeling. Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities. Aching in eyeballs, with much lachrymation.

Male

Uncontrollable masturbation. Spermatorrhœa, with erotic fancies and amorous dreams. Emissions, with irresistible tendency to masturbation. Dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and mental irritability.

Female

Vicarious menstruation. Ovaries burn, pain, swell. Profuse menses after miscarriage; discharge of blood from slightest provocation; bright red; partly clotted. Menorrhagia at climaxis (Calc c; Lach). Oozing of dark blood, clotted, forming long black strings. Uterus hypertrophied. Cervix bleed easily. Postpartum hæmorrhage. Profuse lochia.

Fever

Abundant sweat. Pulse at first accelerated then enfeebled. Palpitations.

Extremities

Muscular debility, sensation of boiling water along the back. Clonic and tetanic movements. Muscular contractions, especially of lower limbs.

Skin

Alopecia. Tendency to small boils. Skin dry; eczema; copper-colored spots. Pruritus; sunburn. Psoriasis (Internally and externally).

Relationship

Compare: Secale; Sabin; Zea Italica (Possess curative properties in skin diseases, particularly in psoriasis and eczema rubrum. Mania for bathing. Impulse to suicide, particularly by drowning. Easily angered. Appetite increased, voracious, alternating with disgust for food. Pyrosis, nausea, vomiting, better drinking wine).

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

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General

Ustilago maidis. Corn-smut. N. O. Fungi. Trituration.

Clinical

Agalactia. Alopecia. Climaxis. Dysmenorrhœa. Fibroma. Galactorrhœa. Headache, menstrual. Masturbation. Menorrhagia, at climaxis. Menstruation, excessive ; vicarious. Nails, affections of. Orchitis. Ovary, left, affections of. Rhinitis. Scald-head. Tonsillitis.

Characteristics

Burt, who proved Ust . on himself and others, introduced the remedy to homœopathy. It had been observed that pregnant animals feeding on maize affected with smut were very liable to abort. Roullin had noted that shedding of the hair, and sometimes of the teeth, occurred in animals and men; that mules fed on it cast their hoofs, and that fowls laid eggs without shells. The provings brought out a specific affinity for the generative sphere of both sexes, and especially for the left ovary and uterus. Ust . congests the uterus and produces hæmorrhages, generally passive or in clots. It is in uterine hæmorrhages, menstrual, post-partum and climacteric that Ust . has been most successfully employed. It has also relieved vicarious menstruation, bleeding taking place from the lungs and bowels; and bleeding between the periods with left inframammary pain. Hurndall ( H. W ., xxxvi. 27) relates the case of the small bitch which brings out many features of Ustilago action. About a fortnight before he saw the patient she had aborted five fœtuses, at about the fifth week of gestation. Since then there had been passive hæmorrhage of dark clots. Moreover, she was a perfect specimen of alopecia , not having a hair of any sort on her body and only a little about the head. Os uteri soft, spongy. Great tenderness about the posterior parts when manipulating the hind-quarters. Ust . 3x was prescribed, five drops three times a day. In two days the hæmorrhage was completely arrested, tenderness reduced, spirits revived, and general health improved. At the end of three months there was a nice coat of hair growing, which in due course became perfectly normal. Loss of hair and nails is a keynote for Ust ., and combined with the other symptoms made the correspondence perfect. Among the Peculiar Sensations are: As if head were being lifted off. As if forehead would burst open. As if something were under root of tongue pressing upward. As of a lump behind larynx. Excessively tired feeling. Bearing down, as if everything would come from her. Uterus as if drawn into a knot. As if intestines were being tied in knots. (This last symptom was produced in a patient of mine.) The symptoms are: < By touch (abdomen; eyes). Pressure < (ovaries). Riding in carriage < backache. < Rising and motion (menorrhagia). Walking < frontal headache; pain in left groin; pain in loins. Warm room = oppression and faintness. Open air = lachrymation. Swelling < pains in tonsils. Colicky pains > by constipated stool.

Relations

Compare: Botan., uterine affections, nails, Sec. Subinvolution, Na. hcl. Bearing down and prolapse of uterus, Sep. Left ovarian pain, Lil., Lach., Caul., Sul., Thuj., Vib. o. Vicarious menstruation, Bry., Ham. Millef. Intermittent flow, Ham., Bovis., Elaps. Crusta lactea, Vinc. m., Melit., Med., Mez. Pain in right shoulder, Urt. ur., Sang. Flying rheumatic pains, Puls. Faint at 11 a.m., Sul. Frequent emissions and lumbar pains, Cob.

Mind

Depression of spirits in afternoon. ─ Very sad, cries frequently; exceedingly prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen; sleep restless. ─ Could not bear to see or talk with any one. ─ Irritability, < being asked a question or to repeat anything. ─ The day seemed like a dream.

Head

Vertigo in attacks, sometimes with double vision, sometimes white specks blot out everything else, later attacks of vertigo with internal heat. ─ Vertigo at climaxis with profuse menstruation. ─ Headache: all the morning; at 7 a.m.; in evening, < forehead; < walking. ─ Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in nervous women. ─ Frontal pain: in morning; in forenoon, with smarting in eyes; all day, with aching distress in eyeballs and with fulness in head in morning; with distress in epigastrium. ─ Scalp dry, cad congested, with loss of hair. ─ Scald-head, watery serum oozing from scalp. ─ Prickling in l. temple. ─ Loss of hair.

Eyes

Attacks of twitching in eyes, they appear to look (revolve) in circles and dart from one object to another. ─ Continual watery flow from eyes and nose with occasional chills. ─ Spasms, with vanishing of vision and head seems to whirl. ─ Aching in eyes and lachrymation. ─ Hot feeling on closing lids. ─ Weakness of eyes. ─ Lachrymation in open air. ─ Lids agglutinated in morning. ─ Vision of spots dancing to and fro.

Nose

Boil in r. nostril. ─ Dryness of nostrils in forenoon, with dry feeling in skin. ─ Bright epistaxis, > pressure. ─ Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odour noticeable to patient himself.

Face

Sudden pallor in face when sitting, and in evening. ─ Burning of face and scalp from congestion.

Teeth

Sometimes looseness of teeth. ─ Aching all day in decayed upper first and second molars. ─ Shedding of teeth (in animals).

Mouth

Tongue coated in morning. ─ Prickling in tongue, with feeling as if something were pressing the roots upward, with dryness of nostrils. ─ Salivation: bitter; thin, bitter. ─ Taste: coppery; in morning; slimy coppery; slimy coppery in morning; slimy; slimy, with burning distress in stomach.

Throat

L. tonsil enlarged, congested, dark reddish, r. painful on swallowing at 2 p.m.; l. painful at 9 p.m.; next morning congestion of l. extending along Eustachian tube and causing pain in ear. ─ Lancinations in r. tonsil (fauces were somewhat inflamed when the medicine was taken), next day fauces hotter and more sensitive to motion. ─ Roughness of fauces. ─ Dryness of fauces, with burning dryness in stomach. ─ Dryness of fauces, with difficulty in swallowing, feeling of a lump behind larynx, later frequent efforts to swallow, with feeling as if something had lodged in fauces, afterwards irritation of fauces, and on swallowing feeling of a lump in larynx. ─ Burning in œsophagus at cardiac orifice.

Appetite

Appetite: craving; poor. ─ Thirst at night.

Stomach

Eructations: of sour fluid; of sour food. ─ Cutting in stomach. ─ Pain in stomach: frequently in afternoon; on full inspiration. ─ Pain in epigastrium with drawing pain in joints of fingers. ─ Burning in sternum and cardia. ─ Distress in stomach in forenoon; in afternoon, > by supper. ─ Hæmatemesis, passive, venous, accompanied by nausea, which is > by vomiting.

Abdomen

Periodical cutting in umbilical and hypogastric regions at 6 p.m., < at 8 p.m. by a constipated stool, afterwards grumbling pains in whole abdomen. ─ (Pain as if intestines were tied in knots.). ─ Pain: in r. lobe of liver; in umbilicus; in umbilicus before natural stool; in l. groin when walking. ─ Drawing pain in r. hypochondrium all day. ─ Distress in umbilicus and r. hypochondrium.

Stool

Natural stool at 4 a.m. ─ Loose stool at 4 a.m., with pain and rumbling in abdomen. ─ Light-coloured diarrhœa. ─ Soft stool, next day dry, lumpy, two days later black, dry, lumpy. ─ Constipated.

Urinary Organs

Tenesmus of bladder and incontinence of urine. ─ Urging, urine light-coloured. ─ No desire, but uneasiness. ─ Urine: increased; scanty, red; acid, high-coloured.

Male Sexual Organs

Genitals relaxed. ─ Erections: when reading at 4 o'clock; frequently during day and night. ─ Scrotum relaxed and cold sweat on it. ─ Pain in testes, < r. ─ Pain in testes, sometimes neuralgic; in paroxysms, sometimes causing faintish feeling. ─ Desire depressed. ─ Chronic orchitis, irritable testicle. ─ Erotic fancies. ─ Seminal emissions and irresistible tendency to masturbation.

Female Sexual Organs

Yellow and offensive leucorrhœa. ─ Tenderness of l. ovary, with pain and swelling. ─ Burning distress in ovaries. ─ Intermittent neuralgia of l. ovary; enlarged, very tender. ─ Uterus: hypertrophied; prolapsed; cervix sensitive, spongy. ─ Menses: too scanty with ovarian irritation; too profuse and too early; blood clotted; as if everything would come through. ─ Between periods constant suffering under l. breast at margin of ribs. ─ Oozing of dark blood, highly coagulated, forming occasionally long, black, stringy clots. ─ Extreme pain during period. ─ Suppression of menses. ─ Vicarious menstruation from lungs and bowels. ─ Constant aching distress at mouth of womb. ─ Menses that had just ceased returned, bright-coloured, soreness and bearing down in l. side preceding the flow and partially ceasing with it. ─ Menses copious, bright red, not coagulating easily (in a woman who thought she had passed the climacteric, as there had been no discharge for over a year), it stopped as suddenly as it began, no pain, only faintness and confused feeling in head. ─ Menorrhagia at climaxis. ─ Bland leucorrhœa. ─ Abortion. ─ Deficient labour pains. ─ Constant flooding. ─ Puerperal peritonitis. ─ Lochia too profuse, partly fluid, partly clotted; prolonged bearing-down pains; uterus feels drawn into a knot. ─ Hypertrophy and subinvolution.

Respiratory Organs

Feeling as if there were a lump behind larynx, which produces constant inclination, to swallow.

Chest

Spasmodic tearing at top of l. side and passing to sixth or seventh rib, at 3 p.m. when standing or reading, < breathing. ─ Pain in l. infraclavicular region in morning. ─ Drawing pain in l. inframammary region, waking me at 3 a.m., > turning on back from r. side. ─ Aching, burning distress in sternum and under it in stomach, with neuralgic pains. ─ Oppression along median line. ─ Constriction, with pain. ─ Heat and pressure.

Heart

Sudden flying pain from heart to stomach, arresting breathing. ─ Burning pain in cardiac region.

Back

Pain in back extending to extreme end of spine. ─ Pain in lumbar region. ─ Pain in region of r. kidney, < sitting still; next day in region of l. kidney, > moving about, with heat, fulness, soreness on deep pressure (but it relieved the pain), with uneasiness in l. thigh, frequent desire to urinate, stream very small, the following day it requires considerable effort of will to empty the bladder, which is done slowly, pain and soreness in l. loin continue; heavy in lumbar region, in bed with uneasiness about bladder (had had no desire to urinate on going to bed), woke early in morning with distended feeling in bladder, micturition slow and difficult, urine scarcely coloured, pain in back < next night, < lying on face, > lying on r. side. ─ Bearing down in sacral region as in dysmenorrhœa, changing to l. ovarian region and gradually extending through hip.

Limbs

Cutting in bones of r. hand and foot. ─ Frequent rheumatic symptoms in arms, fingers, and legs.

Upper Limbs

Pain in shoulder-joints; rheumatic, in muscles of r. shoulder. ─ Intermittent, numb tingling sensation in r. arm and hand every day. ─ Pain in r, elbow, < motion. ─ Stitching along metacarpal bone of r. index. ─ Rheumatic drawing pain in finger-joints, < second joint of r. index, all afternoon. ─ Hypertrophy or loss of nails.

Lower Limbs

Pain in l. knee when walking, increasing to cramp, obliging me to lean upon the arm of a friend, the pain, with occasional cramps, lasted all the evening, < raising foot so as to press upon toes. ─ Cramp-like stiffness in l. leg, < raising foot so as to press upon toes. ─ Feet swollen; in morning.

Generalities

Neuralgic pains in forehead, hands and feet. ─ Rheumatic pains all up and down l. side, with cutting in l. knee and calf if I pressed any weight upon toes or flexed knee with any weight upon it. ─ Rheumatic pains in muscles of arms, hands, fingers, and small of back, those in back < walking. ─ Symptoms of a cold. ─ Malaise as if I had taken cold; felt sick with a cold, continual watery flow from nose and eyes, with occasional chills. ─ Languor: during the day, with headache, < noon, and with burning frontal headache at 9 p.m.; in morning on rising; at 2 p.m. ─ Faint feeling at 11 a.m. in a warm lecture-room. ─ Faint spells beginning in epigastrium, with small pains in hypochondrium and bowels.

Skin

The scalp became one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair came out, the rest matted together, with oozing of watery serum from scalp, eruption like rubeola on neck and chest, gradually extending to feet, thickest on chest and joints, itching < night, rubbing any part brought out the eruption, on face and neck it was in patches like ringworm, but not vesicular. ─ Boils on nape. ─ Congested feeling in skin. ─ Skin dry and hot. ─ Painful, destructive disease of nails.

Sleep

Difficult falling asleep and then unpleasant dreams. ─ Restless night; with fever; with troubled dreams. ─ Sexual dreams; without emission; and disgusting, waking him, arose and urinated with difficulty and tenesmus.

Fever

Chills running up and down back. ─ Heat at night. ─ Internal heat; with vertigo; < eyes, which are inflamed and sensitive to light, eyeball sore to touch; intermittent, < eyes. ─ Burning in face and scalp. ─ Skin dry; at night; and hot.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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Mind

Great depression of spirits ; irritable.
Very sad, cries frequently ; excessively prostrated from sexual abuse and loss of semen ; sleep restless.

Sensorium

Frequent attacks of vertigo.
Vertigo during climaxis, with too frequent and profuse menstruation.

Inner head

Feeling of fulness in head, with dull, pressive frontal headache.
Frontal headache, < by walking.
Violent frontal headache as if forehead would burst open.
Sharp flying pains in forehead, congestion of brain.
Pain on top and side of head ; climaxis.
Nervous headache from menstrual irregularities in atonic women.

Outer head

Scalp dry, hot and congested, with loss of hair.
Scald-head ; two-thirds of scalp one filthy mass of inflammation, with loss of most of hair ; a watery serum constantly oozing from scalp.

Sight and eyes

Things whirl before eyes, appear double ; white specks come into view and blot all else.
Twitching of eyes, they seem to revolve in circles and dart from object to object.
Eyes feel hot on closing lids.
Aching and smarting in eyeballs, with profuse secretion of tears ; in open air.
Dull aching pain in right eyeball.

Hearing and ears

Constant dull pain in left ear, caused by extension from inflamed tonsil.

Smell and nose

Dryness of nostrils as if he had taken cold.
Rhinitis, bitter taste, offensive odor noticeable to patient himself.

Upper face

Sudden pallor ; evening while sitting.
Burning of face and scalp from congestion.

Teeth and gums

Constant dull aching pain in first and second upper molars, which are decayed and have ached before.
Shedding of teeth (in animals).

Taste, speech, tongue

Slimy, coppery taste.
Pricking sensation in tongue, with a feeling as if something were under its root pressing it upward.

Inner mouth

Saliva profuse ; bitter.

Palate and throat

Dryness of fauces, with difficult deglutition ; with burning distress in stomach.
Tonsils congested, inflamed, left very large dark-colored, with dull pain, < from swallowing.
Feeling as of a lump behind larynx ; producing constant desire to swallow.
Sharp lancinating pain in right tonsil.
Burning in œsophagus at cardiac orifice.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite followed by canine hunger.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations of food, strongly acid.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Goneness in epigastrium. θ Climaxis.
Faint feeling in epigastrium, with pain in region of liver and bowels.
Repeated fine sharp cutting pains in epigastrium.
Constant distress in region of stomach.
Burning distress in sternum and stomach, accompanied by fine neuralgic pains in same region, lasting about three minutes at a time ; come on every ten or fifteen minutes for several hours ; sharp cutting pain in stomach.
Hematemesis of a passive nature, profuse, blood venous, accompanied by nausea, which improves after hemorrhage.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of right lobe of liver.
Dull pains in right hypochondrium, with distress in small intestines.

Abdomen and loins

Grumbling pains in abdomen all afternoon, followed by dry, hard stool, fine, cutting colicky pains every few minutes all day, > by hard constipated stool, followed by dull distress in bowels.
Pain in left inguinal region, while walking.

Stools and rectum

Black, dry, lumpy stools, costive.

Urinary organs

Urine first increased and light, with great desire ; later scanty and dark.

Male sexual organs

Erotic fancies ; emissions.
Seminal emissions and irresistible tendency to masturbation.
Great depression of sexual system, with relaxed scrotum.
One to four emissions with sexual dreams every week, followed next day by great prostration, dull pain in lumbar region, with great despondency and irritability.
Spermatorrhœa after onanism ; emissions every night, talking about women causes an emission ; very sad ; cries frequently ; says he cannot break off habit, has no control of himself when passion is aroused ; knows it is fast killing him, cannot work, is so
prostrated.
Chronic orchitis ; neuralgia and irritable testicle ; indurated testicle.

Female sexual organs

Burning distress in ovaries.
Acute pain, < in left ovary, with swelling ; pains intermittent ; shoot rapidly down legs.
Ovaritis, constant pains in ovary, sharp pains passing down legs rapidly ; ovary much swollen and tender, with scanty menstruation.
Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary, which is as large as a hen's egg and very tender to touch.
Ovaritis ; took cold after menstruation ; constant dull pain in right groin and back, three or four times an hour ; sharp neuralgic pains in ovary ; walking painful ; bowels torpid ; very languid.
Vicarious menstruation from lungs and bowels.
Ovarian irritation, constant pain in left ovary passing down hip, has to limp when walking ; pains sharp and at times pass down leg with great rapidity ; every few days has quite a swelling in left groin ; cannot bear pressure over ovary.
Every day from about 12 M. to about 4 P. M., constant pain from left ovary to uterus ; every few minutes, pain in ovary is intensely severe, cutting like a knife ; pain in right ovary and hypogastric region, but all starting from left ovary ; ovary can be distinctly felt
in groin about as large as a hen's egg and very hard ; when pressed upon gives intense pain ; every day thinks she has fever with paroxysms of pain but no chill ; slight leucorrhœa ; loss of appetite ; constipated.
Constant aching distress referred to mouth of womb.
Displaced uterus with menorrhagia ; cervix tumefied ; bleeds when touched.
Hypertrophy of uterus with a soft and spongy os and cervix ; sufficiently dilated to easily admit fingers.
Uterus hypertrophied, sensitive ; blood bright, fresh, without coagula.
Subserous or interstitial fibroid of uterus (two cases), fibroid much diminished.
Prolapsus with menorrhagia.
Cervix tumefied, bleeds when touched.
Menses : too scanty, with ovarian irritation ; too profuse and too early ; blood clotted ; as if everything would come through.
Between menstrual periods, constant suffering under left breast, at margin of ribs.
For days oozing of dark blood with small coagula ; uterus enlarged, cervix tumefied or dilated.
Metrorrhagia after confinement and after miscarriage.
Oozing of dark blood, highly coagulated, forming occasionally long, black stringy clots.
Chronic uterine hemorrhages, and passive congestions.
Blood dark, but so thin as to scarcely color fingers.
Metrorrhagia after miscarriage.
Extreme pain during menstrual period ; flow very profuse and did not cease entirely until next period ; most of time confined to bed. θ Metrorrhagia.
Menorrhagia at climacteric period ; active and constant flowing with frequent clots.
Profuse menstruation, flow lasting from ten days to two weeks, at first very abundant, gradually wearing off ; always < from motion ; discharge dark and quite painless.
Menses every three weeks, with dark coagulum ; profuse, with gushes of bright-red blood when rising from a seat, or after having been startled or frightened ; two days before menses, a heavy backache with sharp pain across abdomen from hip to hip, followed by expulsive
pains ; pains diminish after flow commences and stop with it ; between menstrual periods heavy dragging backache on exertion ; pain shooting up back from hips to shoulder ; abdomen tender to touch ; excessive bearing down ; pressure in head ; sensation of
contraction in vertex, and feeling as if head were lifting off ; vertigo ; excoriating, albuminous leucorrhœa, < before menses ; ravenous appetite ; excessive tired feeling ; pulse 80 and weak ; mental depression.
Subject to profuse menstruation ; childless ; large, fleshy, flabby, bloated-looking, with a very sallow complexion, inclined to be (and formerly had been) dropsical from excessive loss of blood ; profuse menstruation, which seems to her to be be principally water and
clots ; says there is no outward flow when she lies still, but clots and water pass out of uterus when she gets up ; feels so full in uterus that she must rise to get rid of clots ; flowed fearfully during night ; very low, scarcely able to speak aloud.
Severe menorrhagia for past twelve years at every menstrual period, lasting a week or ten days, sometimes longer ; pale, thin, weak, very nervous.
Profuse discharge of dark, clotted blood of fetid odor, with pain and tenderness in one or both ovaries. θ Menorrhagia.
Menorrhagia at change of life.
Dysmenorrhœa of a congestive character, with much ovarian irritation ; severe pain in ovaries, uterus and back every few minutes ; scanty, pale flow accompanied by false membranes ; poor appetite, thickly-coated tongue.
Subject to headaches ever since menstruation appeared at age of fifteen ; headache mostly on top of head ; appetite poor ; pain in left chest with some cough ; total suppression of menses for last eight months ; severe pain in back, is unable to ride in
carriage ; pain in uterine region, especially over ovarian region, < left side ; vomiting of mucus and blood daily ; no sleep ; some leucorrhœa ; hysterical ; no uterine displacement, but great congestion in pelvic region.
Suppression of menses without apparent cause ; troublesome cough ; considerable expectoration ; sometimes also dry cough ; stitching pains in chest, especially left side ; night sweats ; loss of appetite ; pain in ovaries, especially left ;
general debility ; headache ; leucorrhœa ; chlorotic ; anemic, as if in first stage of consumption.
Menses suppressed for last fourteen months ; very irritable and depressed ; uneasiness in region of stomach ; pain in ovarian region, especially left ; skin hot and dry ; constipation, stools dry and hard ; no appetite ; stitching pains in chest,
< left side ; constant hacking cough ; considerable expectoration ; night sweats ; general prostration ; great uneasiness in lower extremities.
Climaxis : vertigo ; frequent flushing ; metrorrhagia.
Mild leucorrhœa.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Abortion : bearingdown pains, as if everything would come from her ; in flabby constitutions ; from general atony of uterus ; with or without hemorrhage.
Has aborted a number of times at third month ; is now about three months pregnant ; for last ten days has had more or less hemorrhage every day, some days quite bad ; not so much at night ; blood passes a number of times through
day, in dark-colored clots.
Labor pains deficient ; os soft, pliable, dilatable.
Post-partum hemorrhages from a flabby, atonic condition of uterus.
Constant flooding ; every few minutes, expulsion of a large clot of bright-red blood, with bearing-down pains. θ Post-partum hemorrhage.
Persistent hemorrhage of brownish blood, with want of uterine contraction.
One and a half hours after delivery commenced to flow violently.
Passive hemorrhage after miscarriage, blood in lumps, flooding for days and weeks.
Severe flooding two weeks after labor ; large bright-red clots ; no pain ; very weak.
Lochia too profuse, partly fluid, partly clotted ; prolonged bearing-down pains ; uterus feels as if drawn into a knot.
Very profuse lochial discharge, very dark in color, almost black.
Agalactia ; chronic inflammation, and induration of mamma.
Galactorrhoea.
Puerperal peritonitis, with constant flooding ; high fever ; secretion putrid ; abdomen excessively tender and tympanitic. θ Abortion.
Puerperal peritonitis ; aborted about two days since, at about three months ; constant fever ; pulse 120 ; cannot bear least pressure on any portion of bowels ; about six times to-day has had sharp, cutting pains in left
ovary ; has flowed constantly for two days ; blood dark, not copious, nor attended with bearing-down pains ; cannot move in bed ; is compelled to lie upon her back ; constant dull, frontal headache ; loss of appetite, tongue not furred.
For last year vertigo every day, some days so bad she has to go to bed ; menses every three weeks for last year, last about ten days and profuse ; flows as much again as she did when in health ; constant aching distress under left mamma ; rheumatic pains in shoulders
and back ; very weak, not able to work. θ Climaxis.
Hypertrophy and subinvolution of uterus with great atony.
Fibroids and induration of os.
Discharge of blood from uterus, bright-red, partly fluid, partly clotted ; passive congestion of uterus, so that there is a slight oozing of blood after each examination ; tissues of uterus feel soft and spongy ; os patulous. θ Subinvolution
of uterus.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Feeling as if there were a lump behind larynx, which produces constant inclination to swallow.

Inner chest and lungs

Sharp tearing in left side from top of chest down to sixth or seventh rib, < by breathing.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Burning pain in cardiac region.

Outer chest

Sudden flying pains from heart to stomach, that arrested breathing, lasted but a moment, probably myalgic.

Neck and back

Severe rheumatic pains in lumbar region, < by walking ; aching distress in small of back.

Upper limbs

Dull aching pains in shoulder joints.
Severe rheumatic pains in muscles of right shoulder, all night.
Rheumatic pains in arms, hands and fingers.
Dull rheumatic pains in right elbow joint, < on motion.
Rheumatic drawing pains in finger joints, more especially in second joint of right forefinger.
Severe drawing pains in joints of all fingers.
Fine, sticking pains along metacarpal bone of right forefinger, every few seconds.
Sharp, cutting pains along metacarpal bones of right hand.
Hypertrophy or loss of nails.

Lower limbs

Rheumatic pains in legs.
Flying rheumatic pains in metatarsal bones of right foot.

Limbs in general

Rheumatic pain in legs, arms and fingers.

Rest. position. motion

Rising : menorrhagia <.
Motion : menorrhagia <.
Walking : frontal headache < ; pain in left inguinal region ; pain in lumbar region <.

Sleep

Sleep : troubled, tosses about, troublesome dreams ; heat over body.

Time

From 12 to 4 P. M. : pain from left ovary to uterus and right ovary.
All afternoon : grumbling in abdomen.
Evening : sudden pallor.
All night : rheumatism in right shoulder ; general heat.
Night : itching urticaria.

Temperature and weather

In a warm room : felt oppressed, faint.
Open air : aching in eyes and lachrymation.

Fever

Internal heat through body, but < in eyes, which are sensitive to light and sore to touch ; pulse normal.
General heat at night during sleep.
Relapsing agues ; very profuse sweat ; slight nausea ; oppression of chest ; cerebral disturbance, and great irritability.

Attacks, periodicity

Lasting three minutes : neuralgic pains in sternum and stomach.
Every few minutes : colicky pains.
Every ten or fifteen minutes : neuralgic pains in sternum and stomach.
Every night : emissions.
For two days : constant flooding.
Every week : one to four emissions.
Every three weeks : menses.
Third month : abortion.
For eight months : suppression of menses.
For fourteen months : suppression of menses.
For twelve years : menorrhagia, lasting ten days.
Climacteric period : vertigo ; frequent flushing ; pain on top and side of head ; menorrhagia ; metrorrhagia.

Locality and direction

Left : dull pain in ear ; tonsil inflamed ; pain in inguinal region ; pain in ovary ; neuralgia of ovary ; ovary enlarged ; ovarian irritation ; pain from ovary down hip ; suffering under breast ; pain in chest with
cough ; stitches in chest ; aching distress under mamma ; tearing from top of chest to sixth or seventh rib.
Right : aching in eyeball ; lancinating in tonsil ; pain in region of liver ; dull pains in hypochondrium ; dull pain in groin and back ; neuralgia of ovary ; rheumatism in shoulder, elbow joint and second joint of forefinger cutting pains along
metacarpal bones ; rheumatic pains in metatarsal bones.

Sensations

As if forehead would burst open ; as if something were under root of tongue, pressing upward ; as of a lump behind larynx ; as if head were being lifted off ; excessively tired feeling ; as if everything would come from her, bearing down ; uterus
as if drawn into a knot.
Pain : on top and side of head ; in region of liver and bowels ; in region of liver ; in left inguinal region ; in right ovary.
Acute pain : in left ovary.
Lancinating : in right tonsil.
Cutting : in epigastrium ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in left ovary ; along metacarpal bones of right hand.
Sharp pain : across abdomen from hip to hip ; in ovaries, uterus and back.
Stitches : in chest, < left side.
Shooting : down legs.
Sticking : along metacarpal bone of right forefinger.
Pricking : in tongue.
Tearing : in left chest.
Drawing : in finger joints.
Pressure : in frontal region ; in head.
Aching : in eyeballs ; dull, in right eyeball ; dull, in decayed molars ; in mouth of womb ; under left mamma ; in small of back ; in shoulder joints.
Burning : of scalp ; of face ; in stomach ; in œsophagus ; in sternum ; in ovaries ; in cardiac region.
Smarting : in eyeballs.
Flying pains : in forehead ; from heart to stomach.
Neuralgic pains : in sternum and stomach ; in testicles ; in left ovary.
Rheumatic pain : in shoulders and back ; in lumbar region ; in muscles of right shoulder ; in right elbow joint ; in arms, hands and fingers ; in legs ; in metacarpal bones of right foot.
Bearing down : in abdomen.
Contraction : in vertex.
Dull pain : in left ear ; in tonsils ; in right hypochondrium ; in lumbar region ; in right groin and back.
Grumbling : in abdomen.
Fulness : in head ; in uterus.
Uneasiness : in region of stomach ; in lower extremities.
Goneness : in epigastrium.
Faintness : in epigastrium.
Heat : of scalp ; in eyes ; through body.
Dryness : of nostril ; of fauces.
Itching : urticaria.

Tissues

Vascular system of ovaries is most powerfully affected, producing congestion, enlargement, and great irritation, with ovaralgia, dysmenorrhœa, and especially menorrhagia.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : abdomen tender ; eyes sore.
Pressure : ovaries <.
Riding in a carriage : unable from backache.

Skin

Whole skin is dry, hot, and congested.
Negro, urticaria of six years' standing, troubled more or less all time ; every night itching, scratching parts produces large pale welts on body, arms and legs.
Copper-colored spots on skin ; secondary syphilis ; maculæ.
Pustular ulceration of skin, scald-head, and various forms of eczema.
Painful destructive diseases of nails.
Alopecia ; complete loss of hair from long-lasting congestion of scalp ; tendency to small boils ; skin dry and hot.

Stage of life, constitution

Very lymphatic women, with clear, white skin.
Tall, slim, fair complexion, "consumptive persons."
Miss E., æt. 19, nervous temperament ; menorrhagia.
Miss M., æt. 19, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.
Miss O., æt. 20, light hair, very pale and anemic, slim, delicate from childhood, history of consumption on father's side ; amenorrhœa, cough, etc.
Mrs. B., æt. 23, nervous temperament, two weeks after third labor ; metrorrhagia.
Mrs. W., æt. 26, nervo-bilious temperament ; suppression of menses.
Mrs. B., æt. 27, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.
Lady, æt. 27, nervous temperament ; scanty menses.
Man, æt. 28, nervo-sanguine temperament, suffering several years ; spermatorrhœa.
Mrs. F., æt. 28, blonde, scrofulous hemorrhagic diathesis, married five years, never pregnant ; menorrhagia.
Mrs. H., æt. 28, large, lymphatic, weight about 200, after third labor ; uterine hemorrhage.
Mrs. S., æt. 29, nervous temperament ; dysmenorrhœa.
Mrs. W., æt. 30, nervo-bilious ; ovarian irritation.
Irishman, æt. 30, bilious temperament ; spermatorrhœa.
Mrs. H., æt. 30, nervous temperament, two months ago miscarried between third and fourth month ; metrorrhagia Lady, æt. 30, tall, slim, nervous ; menorrhagia.
Mrs. D, æt. 31, nervo-bilious ; ovaritis.
Mrs. H., æt. 32, sanguine temperament, nursing a babe 14 months old, suffering six weeks ; metrorrhagia.
Mrs. B., æt. 34, two children, youngest æt. 10, subject to headaches since puberty ; suppression of menses.
Mrs. H., æt. 34, bilious temperament ; hemorrhage after abortion.
Lady, æt. 35, suffering six years ; tumor of uterus.
Mrs. H., æt. 38, two months ago miscarried when three months gone ; metrorrhagia.
Mrs. F., æt. 39, nervous temperament, married nine years, never pregnant ; metrorrhagia.
Mrs. B., æt. 40, large, fleshy, flabby, bloated-looking, no children ; metrorrhagia.
Mrs. F., æt. 50, nervo-bilious ; menorrhagia.
Mrs. N., æt. 54, nervous temperament ; ovarian irritation.
Lady, tall, slim, bilious ; suppression of menses.

Relations

Compare : Secale and Sabina .