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   CHARACTERISTIC


         INDICATIONS

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One Hundred Remedies

         FOB THE USE OF STUDENTS OF

Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
                BY

    W. J. HAWKES, M.D.,

Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in Hahnemann
  Medical College of Chicago; and Professor of Clinical
        Medicine in Hahnemann Hospital.
           CHICAGO :
Kand, McNally & Co., Printers and Engravers.
             1882. 
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                ABIES NIGRA."

    Total loss of appetite in the morning, but great //
  craving for food at noon and at night.
    Sensation as of a lump like an egg in the stomach;
^ not asense, of weight, but of a  hard lump  which
  iiuris!
  Continual distressing constriction immediately
above the pit of the stomach, as if all knotted up,
or as if a hard lump of  undigested food had lodged
there.
  Painful sensation, as if something had lodged in
the chest and required to be couehed up, but no
amount of coughing is able to dislodge it.
  Chronic intermittent fever, accompanied by this
peculiar distressing pain above the stomach.
              ABROTANUM.


  Great weakness and prostration, and a kind of
hectic fever in children after influenza.
  Itching chilblains.
  Marasmus in children.


  Gout; painful and inflamed wrists and ankles.
  Painful inflammatory  rheumatism ^before  the
swelling  commences.
ACONITE.
  Terrible anguish, with fear of death; predicts the
day she is to die.
  He  is afraid to go out, or lo go where there are
many people, or to cross a street; his life is rendered
miserable by this all-pervading fearfulness.
(3) 
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        ACONITE—(continued).


  Croupy cough; awaking after first sleep; particu-
larly in young people after exposure to  dry west
winds.
  Blood-spitting; the blood  comes up with an easy
hawking, or with but little coughing; after mental
excitement or exposure to dry west winds.


  Cough better after 3 a. m.
  Can not keep still; skin dry, hot and burning.
  Excitement  without cause; everything startles
him.
  Numbness  in left  arm; can scarcely  move the
hand.
  Skin dry and burning hot; intense thirst  for cold
water;  redness of  face, sometimes  changing  to
paleness.
  After fright with  vexation,  particularly  during
catamenia; to prevent suppression of menses.
  On rising, the red face turns deadly pale.
  Heat with thirst; hard,  full and frequent pulse;
anxious impatience; unappeasable; beside himself;
tossing about with agony.
  After a  violent  chill,  dry heat,  with difficult
breathing and lancinating pain through chest.
  Amenorrhoea in plethoric young girls.
ACTJEA  RACEMOSA.

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  Puerperal mania; minks she is going crazy.
  Uterine affections;  shooting, darling pains from
side to side.
  Menses irregular, with chorea, hysteria, or mental
derangement.

                       (5) 
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     ACTiEA RAO—(CONTINUED).


  Hysterical or epileptiform spasms, and aggrava-
tion of mental symptoms during menses.
  When given during pregnancy is said to shorten
labor.
  False labor-pains, nausea and "shivers" during
labor.
  Uterine troubles of rheumatic persons.
iESCULUS  HIPPOCASTANUM.
  Hemorrhoids, with feeling of fullness, or dryness
and itching, or simply dryness of rectum.
  Rectum feels as if full of small sticks.
  Leucorrhcea, with lameness across sacro-ileac  ar-
ticulations, and great fatigue from walking, because
that part of back gives  out from walking even a
little way.
  Constant dull backache; walking almost impos-
sible ; scarcely able to stoop, or to rise from sitting.
  Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.
  Soreness and aching in back always made worse
from motion, especially by walking, stooping, or
rising from sitting.
  Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back.
  Hemorrhoidal  complaints, with aching and sore-
ness in  the sacro-ileac symphyses, made worse by
motion.
(7) 
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         ^THUSA CYNAPIUM.

  Herpetic eruption on end of the nose.
  Face drawn from  wings of nose  to  corners of
mouth, giving an expression of great pain.
  Intolerance of milk; suitable for  children who
can not bear milk.


  In summer in/Jigestion and diarrhoea of children,
when they forcibly vomit curdled  milk, soon after
drinking it.
  Child drowsy after this violent vomiting or after
stool.
      AGARICUS  muscarius.

  "Chilblains"; pain and inflammation of frost-
bitten toes.
  Pain in lumbar region, especially while sitting.
  Burning,  itching of both hands  as  if  frozen;
parts red, swollen and hot.


  Trembling of hands; gouty stiffness of fingers.
  Unsteady and uncertain gait  in walking, with
tearing in limbs and twitching in gluteal muscles.
  Chorea ; hysteria; softening of  spinal cord.
          AGNUS  CASTUS.

Impotence.
Sexual desire lessened;  penis small, relaxed, cold
No sexual power or desire.
Testes cold, swollen, hard and painful.
                   (9) 
 
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   AGNUS CASTUS—(continued).

  Impotence with gleet in those who have frequent-
ly had gonorrhoea.
  Male and female sexual parts greatly relaxed.
  Scanty secretion of milk, with sadness, and fear
of death.
    AILANTHUS  GLANDULOSA.

  Scarlatina; child half conscious, with want of
comprehension.
  Dizzy, can not sit up;  face hot;  drowsy, yet rest-
less and anxious.

  Startled when aroused ; pupils dilated and slug-
gish.
  Copious,  thin, ichorous,  bloody discharge from
nose.
  Throat dark red, swollen, almost purple.

  Eruption of miliary rash, in patches of  a dark
livid color.
  Eruption in scarlet fever appears slowly.
  Malignant scarlet fever, with an eruption of a blu-
ish tint.
                  ALOES.


  Diarrhoea, dysentery, colic.
  Must hasten to stool immediately after eating or
drinking.

  Severe cutting, griping pain in lower light part of
abdomen; excruciating before and during stool;  but
ceanng after st<ol; and followed by great weakness
and perspiration.
  Stool hot, watery, windy, with jelly-like lumps.
                      (H) 
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          ALOES—(continued).


  Dysenteric diarrhoea,  driving out of bed in a
hurry.
  Unreliable sphincter  ani;  uncertain   whether
wind or water is going to pass.
  Solid stools pass involuntarily.


  Hemorrhoids  like bunches  of  grapes; bleeding,
sore, tender and hot, with constant bearing  down in
rectum.
  Extreme prostration, with perspiration.
                 ALUMINA.


  Painters1 colic.
  Colic, worse from eating potatoes.
  Even soft stool requires much straining; inactivity
of rectum.
  No desire for, nor abilit}' to pass stool until there
is a large accumulation of faeces.


  Stools hard and knotty and covered with mucus,
followed by blood, with cutting in anus.
  Has to strain at stool to pass urine; diarrhea when-
ever she urinates.
  Leucorrhoea  after  menses,  with exhaustion of
body  and mind.


  Leucorrhoea profuse, corroding, running down to
heels, often only in daytime.
  Constipation of nursing children.
  Dry, hacking cough every morning, followed and
relieved by raising a little white mucus.
                      (13) 
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           AMBRA  GRISEA.

  Ranula, with fetid breath;  worse mornings.
  Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.
  Asthma, when attempting coition.
  Discharge of blood  between menstrual periods
caused by any little thing unusual, as straining at
stool, or walking farther than usual.


  Violent, spasmodic cough, with  frequent eructa-
tions, and with hoarseness; whooping cough.
  Asthma or coughs and colds  in old persons and
children; also in lean  persons.



               AMBROSIA.

  The  symptoms  of this drug  are very similar to
those of hay fever.
  "Stuffed-up" feeling in nose,  head  and  chest;
eyes water and smart.


  Wheezy cough,  with pain  in  the  chest, and un-
comfortable "stuffed" feeling.
  Nose red  and swollen, with profuse watery dis-
charge; or stuffed and dry; and again nose-bleed.



          AMMONIUM CARB.

  Nose-bleed when bathing hands and face  in the
morning.
  Ozena, with blowing of bloody mucus from nose.
  Stoppage of nose, mostly at night; must breathe
through mouth; persistent coryza and lachrymation.


  Amenorrhcea,  with colic,  and pain between the
scapulae; and violent  pain in small of  back, with
much coldness.
  Cholera-like symptoms at the beginning of men-
struation.
(15) 
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 AMMONIUM  CARB.—(continued).


  One of the best remedies in emphysema.
  Dyspnoea,  asthma,  difficult breathing, causing
short cough.
  Night cough; at 3 a. m. dry cough from tickling
in throat as from dust.
  Angina pectoris, with palpitation and  asthma
after exertion.
  Malignant scarlatina; when the rash remains out
longer than  usual, and there is a tendency to gan-
grenous ulceration of the tonsils
  In scarlatina the throat is dark red, or the erup-
tion does not fully develop;  sticky saliva.
  Body red all over, as from scarlatina.
  Dysmenorrhcea, with the menses premature and
abundant, and preceded by griping, colic, and want
of appetite; often pain between the scapulae.
AMM.  MURIATICUM.
  Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip.
  Menses premature, with pain in the abdomen and
small of the back,  the flow being more profuse at
night.
  Obstinate and extreme constipation, with much
flatus.
  Hemorrhoids, with continual soreness and smart-
ing.

  Particularly useful if the hemorrhoids occur after
suppression of leucorrhoea.
  Hard, crumbling stools, requiring much effort to
expel.                 I

      A               (17) 
 
AMM.  MUR.—(continued.)
  Leucorrhoea,  with distension of  the  abdomen;
like white of egg, with pinching pain  about the
navel;  or a brown, slimy leucorrhoea after passing
urine.
             ANACARDIUM.


  Loss of memory;  general paralysis; patient very
much troubled about this forgetfulness.
  Hypochondriasis, with hemorrhoids and constipa-
tion.
  Anxious,  and fearful of some one pursuing him;
suspects every one.


  Sensation as of a hoop or band around a part.
  Gastric and nervous headaches; digging, throb-
bing  pain  in right side of head, and  along  the
border of the orbit, entirely relieved by eating and
when lying in bed; worse during motion and work.


  Anxiety;  despair; lack of confidence  in himself
and others; sullen  mood, with weakness of all the
senses.
  Great desire for  stool,  but with the effort  the
desire  passes away without result; rectum seems
powerless, and as if plugged.


  Strange temper;  she  laughs at  serious matters
and is serious over laughable things; thinks herself
a demon; swears.
  Dyspeptics, with peculiar mental crookedness.
            ANTHRACINUM.


  Carbuncles;  anthrax, discharging terribly offen-
sive pus.
  Cynanche cellularis, with bad breath and saliva-
tion; and loss of appetite.
                      (19) 
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    ANTHRACINUM—(continued).


  Enidemie spleen disease  in  cattle and horses-
also in sheep.
  Felon; bad cases, with  sloughing,  and  terrible
burning.
  Induration of cellular tissue;  sloughing of car-
buncles or paronychia.
  Carbuncle, with horrible  burning pains, or dis-
charge of ichorous, offensive pus.
  When Arsenicum fails to relieve the burning pain.
       ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.

  Thick, milky-white coating on tongue.
  Child can not bear to be touched or looked at.
  Soles of feet very sensitive.
  Gastritis, aggravated by sour things ; nausea and
vomiting.
  Complaints after bathing in cold water.
  Sore,  cracked, crusty  nostrils  and  corners of
mouth.
  Teeth ache worse at night; can not bear to touch
them with tongue.
  Alternate or mixed diarrhaea and  constipation.
  Crushed finger nails grow in splits, and like warts,
and with horny spots.
  Nausea with milky-white tongue, and stools cov-
ered with mucus.
(21 
 
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             AN TIM.  TART.

  Cough,  with great rattling of  mucus  in  throat
and lungs.
  Vomiting mucus;  eruption  on the  skin,  like
small:pox.
  Nausea,  with vomiting of large  collections of
mucus.

  Much rattling of mucus in bronchial tubes and
chest, with inability to get it up.
  If children get angry, the coughing  spell  comes
on, also after eating.
  Vertigo, with drowsiness.

  Rattling  or hollow  cough, worse at  night, with
suffocation, throat  full of phlegm, sweat on fore-,
head ;  vomiting of food.
  Face cold, bluish, covered  with cold sweat; pulse
very frequent;  rattling in  the chest; sinking of
strength.

  Tongue very thinly coated white with reddened
papillae ; red  edges,  particularly  with whooping
cough.
  Variola; varioloid; varicella.
             APIS  MELIFICA.

  Intermittent fever;  chill from 3 to 4 p. M., worse
in a warm room or by a stove.
  Sudden shrill cries or screams from children.
  Scanty and high colored urine, burning when pass-
ing.

  Stinging pains,  like bee stings.
  Enlargement of right ovary, with pain in left
pectoral region, with cough.
  Sack-like bags under the eyes.
                       (23) 
 
    APIS  MELIFICA—(CONTINUED).


  (Edema,  or  dropsy 'without thirst, with scanty
urine.
  Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the
parts, worse at night and when coughing.
  Scarlatina or diphtheritis, where  there is stinging
pain in throat, with suppression of urine.
APOCYNUM  CANN.
  Dropsy with great  thirst, but  water disagrees,
causing pain, or is thrown off.
  General dropsy;  hydrothorax  after scarlatina;
urine high colored and scanty; gastric disturbance;
pulse weak and irregular.
  Uterine hemorrhage,  with gastric disturbance;
vital powers depressed; disposition to faint.
  Acute hydrocephalus, with sutures open ; sight of
one eye lost; constant involuntary  motion of  one
leg and arm;  urine suppressed.
  Amenorrhcea in young girls, with bloating (drop-
sy) of abdomen and extremities.
  Acute inflammatory dropsy;  dropsy of serous
membranes; excretions diminished,  especially per-
spiration and urine.
           ARGENTUM MET.


  Exhausting fluent coryza, with sneezing.
  Throat feels  raw or  sore  when swallowing or
coughing.
  Viscid, grey, jelly-like mucus in pharynx, easily
hawked up, in the morning.

                      (25) 
 
  ARGENTUM MET.—(continued).

  Aphonia, with tension in fauces on right side, felt
when gaping.
  Exostosis on skull, with great hunger.
  Prolapsus, with pain in left ovary.
  Pain m left ovary and back, extending forward and
downward.
  Schirrus uteri, with offensive discharge.
  Hoarseness and total loss of voice in professional
singers.
  Rawness and soreness  in upper part of larynx
when coughing; not when swallowing.
  Pains in left ovary and loins.
  Raw spot over the bifurcation of the trachea;
worse when using the voice.
  Cough, with  easy expectoration of thick, white,
starch-like mucus, without taste or smell.
       ARGENTUM NITRICUM.

  The stomach feels as if it would burst with wind;
desire to belch, which is accomplished with great
difficulty; the air rushes out with great force.
  Violent spasms, preceded by a sensation of great
distention of head and face.


  Urine passes unconsciously day or night.
  Great weakness of lower extremities.
  Sensation as of a splinter in the throat.
  She is  in  constant  motion from  the  time  she
comes out of one spasm until she goes into another.
(27) 
 
          ARNICA MONTANA.


  Head hot, and body cold.
  Results of shocks or injuries.
  The bed or couch on which he lies feels too hard,
he complains constantly of  it, and keeps changing
from one place to another.


  Whooping cough;  child always cries  before
coughing.
  Gout, with great fear of being struck by persons
coming across the room.
  Can not walk erect on account of  a bruised, sore
feeling in uterine region.
  Tendency to small boils; ecchvmoses on various
parts of the body.
  Bruised feeling.
ARSENICUM ALBUM.
  Rapid and great prostration, with sinking of vital
forGes.
  Great anguish;  extreme  restlessness; fear  of
death.
  All symptoms worse after midnight.
  Bran-like, scaly eruptions, with itching and burn-
ing, the latter increased by scratching, and followed
by bleeding.
  Great thirst for cold water, drinking often bui
little at a time ; cold water  lies like a stone in the
stomach, or is immediately ejected.
  Diarrhoea renewed after eating or drinking; stools
dark brown, of a cadaverous smell, scenting whole
room.
  Gangrene and all symptoms better from heat.

                      (29) 
 
  ARSENICUM ALB. -(continued).

  Stomach disordered  after eating  fruits or  ice
cream.
  Skin wrinkled, dry, cold and blue, or having cold,
sticky perspiration.


  Can not lie down for fear of suffocation ; highest
degree of dyspnoea.
  Stoppage of nose, with acrid coryza.
  Cold perspiration, with great prostration.
  Burning pain ;  parts burn like fire.


  Poisoning from decayed or morbid animal matter,
whether by inoculation, inhalation or ingesta.
  Teething children are pale and weak, and want to
be carried rapidly.
  Dysentery; cholera-morbus; cholera-infantum.



         ARUM TR1PHYLLUM.


  Discharge of burning, ichorous fluid from  nose,
excoriating nostrils and upper lip.
  The corners of mouth, buccal cavity and throat
raw and sore, emitting  blood; so sore that child is
continually digging at it, and refuses to eat or drink.


  Nose  stopped  up;  patient can only   breathe
through the mouth.
  Chronic hoarseness  from speaking  or  singing;
clergyman's sore throat.   (Compare Argent. Nit.)
  Child digs with its nails deep into sore spots on
face, in scarlatina.


              AURUM MET.


  Syphilitic bone affections, particularly after abuse
of mercury;  caries of  nasal bones ; ozoena; pains
worse at night.
f31) 
 
     AURUM  MET.—(continued).


  Melancholy;  weary  of  life;  is  harassed  with
thoughts of committing suicide.
  The pains in the eyes  extend  from without in-
ward, and are worse from touch.  (Asafoetida has
the reverse.)
BAPTISIA  TINCTORA.
  While  answering a question  she falls asleep in
the middle of the sentence.  Typhoid fever.
  She can not go to sleep because she can not get her-
self together; her head feels as if it were scattered
about; she tosses  about the bed  to get the pieces
together.
  Typhoid fever, with delirium and stupor; tongue
coated brown, and dry in centre ;  sordes on teeth.
  Putrid and very offensive breath.
            BARYTA  CARB.


  Especially suited to dwarfish old  mai4s with
scanty menses and great weight about the pubes in
any position.
  Submaxillary and parotid glands are swollen and
very sensitive.


  Tonsils enlarged, and suppurate often.
  Impotence.
  Chronic enlargement and suppuration of tonsils,
worse after every slight cold, or following suppres-
sion  of foot-sweat.

     c                (33) 
 
BELLADONNA.
  Violent throbbing of carotids.
  Takes cold from  every draft of air when uncov-
ering the head;  complaints from taking cold after
cutting the hair.

  Sleepiness, but can not sleep.
  Furious delirium; strikes, bites, howls, wants to
jump out of the window, or get away from imagin-
ary objects.
  Pains come suddenly and go just as suddenly.
  Feeling in back as if it would break, hindering
motion.                       ,


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  Photophobia ; dilated pupils; injected eyes.
  Pain in throat when swallowing, especially liq-
uids.
  Pressure as though all the contents of the abdo-
men would issue through the genital organs; par-
ticularly felt early  in the morning.
  When stooping, or rising from stooping position,
has vertigo, with tendency to fall backward or to
the left.                   "^ imXLh^jl. o->**'«Vvfcrf (n*M.
  Desire to escape, with  restlessness and nervous       /
excitement.                        ^
  Delirium; sees frightful figures and visions before
the eyes.
  Spasmodic pains; throbbing headache.
  Rush of blood to head and face.
  The acute symptoms of this drug have a striking-
resemblance to those of hydrophobia.
(35) 
 
BENZOIC  ACID.
  Enuresis; urine  dark, with strong urinous odor:-£<«
enuresis nocturnce of children.                    ./,,. ,
  Vesical catarrh after suppressed gonorrhoea.
  Gouty concretions.
  Prolapsus uteri, with fetid urine.
        BERBERIS  VULGARIS.

  Pains in loins and hips ;  very sensitive to touch
in renal region;  urine very red.
  Great pain in back, extending to iliac region.
  Urgency to urinate ;  drawing, stitching pain in
bladder.


  Fistula in ano, with itching of the  parts;  par-
ticularly if complicated with cough and  chest symp-
toms.
  An  excellent remedy  in  kidney  and  bladder
troubles.
                  BORAX.


  Aphthae;  child lets  go of  nipple from pain in
mouth.
  Can not bear downward motion, as in swinging in
a rocking chair, or in running down stairs.
  Pain from the stomach to  small of back before
menses.


  Pleuritic pain in right pectoral region.
  Leucorrhoea white and albuminous, starchy, with
sensation of warm water running down the leg.
  In cases of dentition  and catarrhal affections of
children.
(37) 
 
BORAX—(continued).
  Frequent soft, light, yellow, slimy, stools.
  Very sensitive to slightest noise; not disturbed by
louder ones.
  Child awakes from a sound sleep when being laid
in bed from the nurse's arms—can not bear the down
ward motion.
           BRYONIA  ALBA.

  Delirium; always troubled in sleep, and delirious
with the affairs of the day.
  Sharp stitching pain in chest; can not take a deep
inspiration.
  Stitching, tearing pain, aggravatedby motion.


  Constipation; stools hard, as if burnt.
  Motion of jaws more or less  constant, as if chew-
ing  something; lips  dry  and cracked.  (Typhoid
fever.)
  Intermittent fever;  chill  commences on  lips, tips
of fingers or toes; great thirst.

  Desire for things which can  not be had, or which
are refused when offered.
  Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should
appear; vicarious menstruation.
  Pain or diarrhoea, aggravated by every hot spell of
weather.

  Puerperal fever; swelling of the breasts.
  Lochia suppressed,  with  headache, especially in
forehead, as if  it would burst; worse on motion.
  In hydrocephalus, child throws left leg about.
  Patient feels as though he were sinking down in
bed.
                       (39) 
 
  BRYONIA  ALBA—(continued).

  Dry mouth  and lips; drinks large  quantities of
water.
  Sitting up in bed causes nausea and  faintness.
  Thirst for warm drinks, which relieves.
  In typhoid fever the patient resists being moved.
  Pneumonia; typhoid fever.
  Wry neck—can not move the head on account of
pain and stiffness.
CACTUS  GRANDIFLORUS.
  Feeling as though an iron hand were around the
heart, preventing its normal action.
  Hypertrophy, rheumatism,  and  palpitation  of
heart.
  Palpitation of heart  day and  night, especially
when lying on left side.
  Heart feels as if clisped and unclasped repeatedly
by a strong hand.
           CALCAREA CARB.


  Children with dry and flabby skin, large open/on-
tanelles, much perspiration on head, which wets the
pillow far around where child is sleeping.
  She is very weakly in general; walking produces
great fatigue; vertigo on ascending a height or going
up xtairs; is out of breath; has to sit down.
(41) 
 
  CALCAREA CARB.—(continued).

  Her feet feel  as  though she  had on cold, damp
stockings; continually cold in bed.
  Despairing, hopeless of ever getting well again;
tormenting those about him day and night.
  Menses too often, too profuse and lasting too long;
difficult to stop menstruating.


  The least excitement causes menses to return.
  Very sensitive to least cold air, which seems to go
through and through her.
  All objects look as if seen through a mist,
  Bad dreams and horrid visions when closing the
eyes.


  Leuco-phlegmatic  condition of scrofulous women.
  Great longing for eggs, particularly in children in
sickness or convalescence.
  Fear of going crazy, or that people will observe her
and suppose her crazy.


  Can not bear tight clothing around the hypochon-
dria; the head  and  upper part of body sweat pro-
fusely.
  Children self-willed; inclined to grow fat.
  Scrofulous ulcers,  chorea, epileptiform  convul-
sions,  etc., of scrofulous origin.


            CALCAREA  PHOS.

  Slow formation of bones,
  Delayed closure or reopening of fontanelles; child
 can not hold up its head.


   Children  lose flesh; will  not stand; do not learn
 to walk; slow dentition.
   Osteo-malachia.
                       (43) 
 
CAMPHORA.
  In first stages of cholera and cholera-morbus.
  Great coldness of  skin; yet child can not bear to
be covered; weak, shrunken look of skin.
  Nose  cold  and pointed;  sweating  and vomit-
ing; watery discharges; anxiety and restlessness.


  Sudden attacks of diarrhoea and vomiting;  cold
breath.
  Cerebrospinal meningitis;  contraction of cere-
bellum;  coldness of whole body.
  Antidotes nearly  all other homoeopathic medi-
cines, and must not be allowed in the  crude form
in the sick room.
          CANNABIS  INDICA.


  Sensation as though the top of  the head  opened
and shut, or was lifted up.
  Laughing loudly at trifles; always thinking and
studying.
  Delirium tremens ;  mental weakness ;  exaggera-
tion of time;  forgets what she is  saying.
            CANNABIS SAT.


  In scrofulous eye troubles.
  Gonorrhoea,  with pain  from orifice of urethra
backward, of a burning, biting character.
  Inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea.


  Priapism;  chordee;  discharge of thick  yellow
mucus from urethra.
  Sensation as  of fluid dropping from heart.
  Painful erections.
                      (45) 
 
CANTHARIS.
  Scalds and burns.
  Intense sexual desire ;  nymphomania.
  Much burning in throat and stomach.

  Stools like scrapings of intestines; shreddy, red
or white mixed with blood, with burning and biting
pain when urinating.
  Constant desire  to  urinate,  passing  but a few
drops at a time, which is mixed with blood.
  Tenesmus vesicae after urinating.
               CAPSICUM.

  Chill commences between shoulders, going over
whole body every day between 5 and 6 p. m. ; chill
predominates.
  Throat smarts and burns  as if from  cayenne
pepper.
              CARBO VEG.

  Collapse; cold sweat;  cold breath, cold tongue,
voice lost; extreme pallor or greenish color of face.
  Colic from flatulence; abdomen full to bursting.
  Frequent involuntary,  putrid, cadaverous-smell-
ing stools, followed by burning in anus, and tremb-
ling weakness.
           CAULOPHYLLUM.

  " Is said to shorten labor if given several weeks
previous to confinement."
  Extraordinary  rigidity of the os; severe spas-
modic pains without progress; false pains.
  Hemorrhage after hasty labor ;  uterus lacks tone,
and contracts feebly.
                      (47) 
 
  CAULOPHYLLUM—(continued\

  Long-continued, bloody lochia;  patient greatly
exhausted.
  Threatened abortion from lack  of tonicity  of
uterus.
  Profuse menorrhagia, from relaxed uterus;  moth-
patches on forehead and lace.
               CAUSTICUM.


  Aphonia; sudden  loss of  voice ;  paralysis  of
laryngeal muscles.
  Cough, with inability to get down low enough to
raise the mucus; cold water relieves.
  Cough causes an involuntary discharge of uriue ;
child wetting the bed in first sleep.


  Epilepsy, chorea and paralysis.
  Intense  sleepiness  and yawning, in intermitient
fever, with tearing pain in face; dark-faced persons.
  Warts on nose, face and eyebrows; rheumatism
of the face.
  Heaviness and paralysis of upper eyelids.
              CHAMOMILLA.


  Child is excessively fretful, must be carried up and
down the room continually; is only then quiet.
  Peevish and irritable; can't bear pain; can hardly
answer one civilly.
  Child is angry because it can't have what it wants,
and, after getting it, petulantly throws it away.


  Over-sensitive to open air; aversion to wind, par-
ticularly about the ears.
  Long lasting labor-pains; pains shooting upward.
  Dry, hacking cough; one cheek red, the other pale.
D
(49) 
I 
     CHAMOMILL A—(continued).

  Violent rheumatic  pains  drive him out of bed
and compel him to walk about.
  Green, watery, corroding stools, smelling like rotten
eggs, and containing white particles.
  Over-sensitiveness after coffee or opium.
  The best remedy for cross, teething children.
        CHELIDONIUM  MAJUS.

  Constant pain under lower and  inner angle of right
shoulder blade.
  Very apt to have hepatic diseases, with jaundice,
and pain in right shoulder.
  Stools like sheep droppings.

  Gastric or bilious diarrhoea; stools slimy, grayish,
yellow,  or watery.
  Whooping  cough;  loose,  rattling cough,  long
lasting.
  Stools soft and very yellow.
                  CHINA.

  Ailments from loss of vital fluids.
  Sensitiveness of scalp, worse on alternate days.
  Painless, undigested stools, with much distention
of abdomen.
  Weakly persons who have lost much blood; ring-
ing in the ears and fainting spells.

  Eructations do not relieve the distressing  flatu-
lence.
  Intermittent fever; chill every second day, antic-
ipating about three hours each succeeding chill.
                      (&D 
I 
CICUTA  VIROSA.
  The letters seem to move when she reads.
  Puerperal convulsions, with queer contortions of
the upper part of the body, and frequent interrup
tions of breathing for a few moments.
  Tearing and jerking in the coccyx during menses.
  During dentition  grinding of the  teeth or gums,
with compression of the jaws as in lockjaw.
  Convulsions,  with relaxed limbs;  or limbs stiff-
ened and extended.
  Eczema capitis, with whitish  scurf on chin and
upper lip, which are moist.
  Cerebrospinal meningitis, with complaining, dys-
phagia,  irregular respiration,  violent convulsions
followed by cessation of breathing for what seems a
long time.
  Convulsions,  chorea, etc.,  when  the patient is
suddenly thrown into all sorts of strange shapes.
                   CINA.

  Very cross and irritable (children); screaming out
in sleep; turbid urine.
  Variable appetite; desire for sweets.
  Constantly digging and boring at the nose; worms;
paleness about the mouth;  blue  semicircles under
the eyes.
  Santonine cures when this remedy seems indicated
and fails.
(53) 
 
         COCCULUS  INDICUS.


  Nausea  from riding  in  a carriage or boat;  sea-
sickness, often brought on  by looking at a boat in
motion.
  Vertigo, increased by  sitting  up in bed or  by
motion of a carriage.
  Cutting and rubbing in the abdomen as of sharp
stones; dysmenorrhcea.
  Weakness of lower limbs during pregnancy and
menstruation.

  Nausea and vomiting, with depression of spirits.
  Nausea of pregnancy made worse by riding.
COPFEA CRUDA.
   Wide awake condition; mental faculties and senses
unusually  active, wakefulness at night, will see  and
hear more readily.
  Nervous affections at climacteric period.


  Headache as if a nail were driven into brain, or
as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces.
  Ecstacy, full of ideas, quick to act; no sleep on
this account.
  Headache from  unusual  activity of  mental
faculties.
              COLOCYNTH.

  In sciatica, drawing, tearing, rheumatic pain in
legs; the nerves around hip joint  and acetabulum
suffer most severely.
  Violent colic, causing the patient  to  bend double,
with restlessness, moaning and lamenting.
  Dysentery ; stools watery,  bloody and slimy ;
great pain in bowels, causing patient to bend double.
(55) 
I 
      COLOCYNTH—(continued).

  Arnenorrlura;  intense pain  in ovaries, causing
patient to bend double.
  Colic so distressing that patient seeks relief by
pressing  the corner of table  or head of bed post
against the abdomen.
       CONIUM  MACULATUM.


  Vertigo, particularly when lying down or when turn-
ing over in bed.
  Weakness of memory,  especially  in  old  men ;
atrophy of glandular system from lack of use.



  Cough, with sensation  of  dry spot  in larynx ;
cough coming in violent  paroxysms, especially at
night.
  Pain in, breasts during menstrual period.
  Much difficulty in voiding vrine; it flows, then stops,
then flows again.


  Induration of breasts and testicles.
  Aversion to light, without inflammation of eyes;
on opening the lids hot tears spurt out.
  Induration of mammae and  testicles in persons of
cancerous tendency.
              CREASOTUM.


  In uterine hemorrhage the blood is profuse and
dark; then for a few days a bloody ichor with pun-
gent odor and very corrosive; then changes back to
the black blood, and so on.
                     (57) 
/ 
C RE ASOTUM—(continued).
  In lochial disorders the  discharge is very offen-
sive and excoriating; it almost ceases to flow, then
freshens up,  then  "again  almost disappears,  and
again returns.
  Intermission of the flow in all affections of the
female generative organs;  acrid, offensive, biting
nature of the discharges.
           CROCUS  SATIVA.


  Sensation as if something the size of a fist were
rolling around in the abdomen, as where the loetus
is very active.
  Dysmenorrhceic blood very black and stringy;
dysmenorrhcea.
CROTON  TIGLIUM.
  Sore nipples;  when the child draws on the nipple a
pain which is excruciating runs through to the corres-
ponding scapula.
  All troubles of the mammae, when this pain runs
through to scapula when the child nurses.
  Prurigo, with intense itching, relieved by gentle
scratching.
  Colic, with sudden and expulsive diarrhoea, im-
mediately after nursing.
  Sudden, forcible stool,  followed by great pros-
tration.
                      (59) 
 
CUPRUM  METALLICUM.
  Whooping  cough ;  long  lasting,  suffocating,
spasmodic cough; cannot speak; breathless; blue
face; rigid; stiff; spasmodic twitches; unconscious;
vomiting after regaining consciousness.
  Clonic  spasms, beginning  at  one point and
spreading; epileptic convulsions, preceded by draw-
ing in  of left arm; limbs abducted ; convulsions
coming on during sleep.
  Terrible cramps in abdomen aud legs.
  When drinking, sounds as if water were running
out of bottle; cold water relieves cough and vom-
iting.
  Long lasting and cramping after-pains, especially
in women who have had several children.
  Amenorrhcea; dysmenorrhoea; violent cramps in
chest and abdomen, causing nausea and vomiting;
piercing shrieks; great distress.
  Cholera morbus, with  cramps in abdomen and
calves of legs.
               DIGITALIS.

  All heart troubles accompanied by an irregular
or intermittent pulse; pulse small and slow.
  Function of kidneys suspended; red sand in the
urine; burning and great pain in urinating.


  Weak, irregular pulse  when  lying  down  or at
rest.
  Rheumatism; congestion of lungs; great  weak-
ness of chest; can not bear to talk.
  Hollow cough, causing violent beating of carotid
arteries.
                     (61) 
 
DROSERA.
  Whooping cough, worse after midnight; feeling
as of  constriction in larynx, chest and hypochon-
driac region; cough worse from drinking; vomiting
first of food, then of mucus.

  Clergyman's sore throat where constrictions exist;
constriction and crawling sensation in larynx; cough
aggravated by warmth and lying down.
  Cough comes in violent paroxysms at intervals  of
about four hours.

              DULCAMARA.

  Congestion of mucous membrane,  resembling a
bad cold; troubles from taking cold in low, damp
places; violent coryza, better from rest, worse from
motion, and renewed by slightest exposure.
  Diarrhoea  from taking cold in  damp places  or
damp weather.

  Nettle rash, with much itching;  after  scratching
it burns; increases in warmth, disappears in cold;
with gastric fever.
  All the  symptoms aggravated by a  cool change
of the weather.
  Can not find the right word for a thing.


         EUPATORIUM  PERF.

  In intermittent fever the chill comes about 7 to
9 a. m. one day, and at noon next day.
  With the chill  bone-pains, backache,  gaping,
stretching, throbbing  headache ; bitter vomiting
at the close of ihe chill; drinking hastens chill and
causes vomiting.

  During  heat increase ol   headache;  moaning;
" a swallow of water makes him shiver."
  Duringapyrexia jaundiced  skin, great weakness;
slight chill and profuse sweat, or shaking chill and
little or no sweat.
  Break-bone pains.
                       (63) 
 
EUPATORIUM  PURP.
  Chill at different times of day,  every other day;
before the chill, bone-pains in the arms and legs.
  No thirst, or thirst for acid drinks; chill begins in
lumbar region, and extends over the body; nausea
as the chill leaves.


  During the hot stage, which is long lasting, much
thirst, bone-pains, and hunger as the heat is passing
off.
  Chilly  when changing position  ever  so little
during  the sweat;  during  the  apyrexia  vertigo,
with a tendency to fall to the left.


                 FERRUM.

  Menses too soon and too profuse; ringing in the
ears;  fiery red face; menses intermit, and are very
pale.
  Diarrhoea worse mornings; bad sleep before mid-
night.

  Ashy pale or greenish  face; with pains or other
symptoms the face becomes bright red.
  [Have  cured intermittent fever where these face
symptoms were prominent.]
               GELSEMIUM.

  Fever without thirst; wants to lie still, with in-
flamed tonsil on right side.
  " Goose flesh" over whole body.
  Cerebrospinal meningitis;  head drawn back and
to one side.

  Muscular paralysis and spasms, with sensation as
of a wave from uterus to throat.
  Right-sided headache; pain over right orbit, with
flushed face and injected sclera.
  Diarrhoea, aggravated and caused by excitement;
every little excitement causes  diarrhoea.
      B               (65) 
/ 
GLONOINE
  Headache worse  on stooping;  complaints from
sunstroke.
  Terrible crushing,  sinking headache.
  Slow and irregular pulse, when heart palpitates
rapidly, with a purring noise in region of heart.

               GRAPHITES.

  Eruptions; oozing out of a thick, honey-like fluid,
especially behind the ears.
  Burning, circumscribed  round spot  on  top of
the head.
  Unhealthy looking skin;  every injury  suppurates
and throws out a honey-like fluid.

  Mastitis  in  all cases where  there are many old
cicatrices from former ulcerations; milk can scarce-
ly flow.
  Phlegmonous erysipelas of head and  face, with
burning, tingling pain.

  Constipation; stools large, difficult and knotty.
  Unwholesome abscesses; with  constipation,  es-
pecially in young females  made  up of too  much
unhealthy adipose tissue.
  Tinea and eczema-capitis in children, when there
exudes the peculiar honey-like fluid.

               HELLEBORE.

  Greedy  drinking of water.
  Soporous sleep; great stupidity.
  Motion of jaws as if chewing something.
  Scanty  red   urine,  with  sediment  like  coffee
grounds.

  Wrinkled forehead, with cold sweat.
  Involuntary whirling around of arm or leg.
  Head rolling from  side  to side on pillow, with
screams; typhoid meningitis.
  Tubercular meningitis.
                      (67) 
 
HEPAR  SULPHUR.
  Fetid diarrhoea, the child smelling sour ;  sour ex-
halation from body.
  Stomach inclined to be out of order ; longing for
sour or strong tasting things. ^i*Sd^\i if"*^- <2^'*-»
  Extreme sensitiveness of skin to cold^air, me least
exposure bringing on cough.

  Croupy, choking, strangling cough, brought on
by exposure to dry west winds.  (Aeon.)
  Ulcers have a bloody suppuration,  smelling like
old cheese.
  Sensation as of a fish bone in the throat.

  Can not bear to be uncovered ; coughs when any
part of the body is uncovered.
  Sweats day and night without relief.
  Unhealthy skin.
  Croup, with choking, strangling cough.


               HYPERICUM.

  Indysmenorrhoea the menses delay, with a sensa-
tion in region of uterus as of a tight bandage.
  Leucorrhoea, with delayed menses;  palpitation of
the heart; pressure in  the  small of the  back, and
heaviness in the lower part of the abdomen; leucor-
rhoea  in children, milky and corroding.

  In threatened lockjaw from wounds in soles of
feet,  palms  of hands or  fingers;  convulsions after
every slight injury or concussion.
  Bad results from injury to tissues freely supplied
with sentient nerves, as laceration of ends of fingers


             HYOSCYAMUS.

  Jerking of muscles; staring eyes; foolish laughter
  Picking at the bed clothes.
  Immodesty; will not be covered, kicks  the  clothes off.
  Absurd, boisterous laughing and talking.
  Hacking cough at night.
                      (69) 
 
IGNATIA  AMARA.
  Silent grief; suppressed griei.
  Spasmodic  laughter and grief.
  Patient is  full of grief.   Frequent involuntary
sighing, with sensation  of  goneness or emptiness
in pit of stomach.
  Every  time he stands still  during a walk,  he
coughs.

  Headache increased when smoking tobacco or
taking snuff,  or from being where another is smok-
ing.
  During the chill, thirsty; external warmth pleas-
ant;  during the fever  heat  no thirst;  external
warmth very unpleasant.

  Spasmodic affections of children consequent on
being put to bed soon after punishment.
  Headache  as if a nail were driven out through
the side; relieved by lying on it.
  Amiable disposition if feeling  well;  every little
emotion disturbs the patient.

  Full of suppressed grief; seems  to be  weighed
down by it;  broods over imaginary troubles.
  Ailments from grief, or suppressed mental suffer-
 ings.
  Bad effects from disappointed love, and from the
 use of tobacco.

                  IODIUM.

   In debility and exhaustion as after labor; so pros-
 trated that even talking causes perspiration.
   In marasmus the child  has  a brownish face, and
 copious papescent stools; and seems better  after
 eating.

   Leucorrhoea so corrosive that  the skin and linen
 are affected.
    Cancer of the uterus, with uterine hemorrhage at
 every stool, with cutting in the abdomen, and pains
 in the loins and small of the back.
(71) 
 
IODIUM—(CONTIN UED ).
  Great weakness during the menses, especially on
going upstairs;  long-lasting uterine hemorrhages;
dwindling away of the mammae, especially in scrof-
ulous persons.
  In cancerous tendency or affections  one  of the
best remedies.  Goitre.

  Pulsation in  all the arteries; the sensibility of the
nervous system is greatly increased.
  In croup there is pain in the  chest and larynx,
with wheezing and sawing respiration; child grasps
the larynx; child pale; coldness of the face in very
fleshy children; the voice is deep, hoarse and rough.


             IPECACUANHA.

  Stools grassy  green, with nausea  and griping;
pinching pain about the umbilicus.
  Great nausea with all troubles.
  Metrorrhagia;  blood bright red and continually
flowing; great nausea.

  Phlegm rattling in chest, sometimes vomited up
in young children.
  Distressing feeling in the abdomen, as though the
stomach were  hanging down relaxed.
  Stools as if  fermented, as green as  grass, with
nausea and colic.

  Stooping causes patient to vomit.
  During haemorrhage   from the  womb  patient
breathes heavily.
  Backache; short chill; long fever; mostly heat
with thirst, headache, nausea, cough and sweat last


  With every movement a cutting pain, almost con
stantly running  from left to right.
  Vomiting, thirst, sweating, and bad breath.
  NAUSEA.
(73) 
 
JALAPA.
  Painful and liquid stools of children.
  Child " good " all day; screaming, restless and very
troublesome at night.

        KALI  BICHROMICUM.

  Diphtheria; tough, stringy, ropy mucus; patches
dotted here and there on tonsils; pain shooting up
into the ear.
  Headache  in  frontal  sinuses;  biting  pain on
bridge of nose; better from pressure.

  Bladder-like appearance of the uvula, with much
swelling, but very little redness.
  Leucorrhoea, stringy, ropy.
  All secretions from mucous membranes are ropy
and tough; whooping cough, with tough expecto-
ration.

         KALI  CARBONICUM.

  Stitching pain in all diseases, especially in lower
border of right lung.
  Cough aggravated at 4 a.m.; awakes with stitch-
ing pain and cough.

  When  walking, feeling as though she must lie
down and die; in nausea of pregnancy.
   Wakes about 4 a. m. with cough and  stitches in
chest, and stitching pains in chest.

          KALMIA LATIFOLIA.

  Pulse slow and weak, scarcely perceptible; cold-
ness and weakness of lower limbs.
  The more rheumatism there is about the heart,
the more is this remedy indicated.

   Mitral  insufficiency, especially after rheumatic
 arthritis.  Rheumatism has been suppressed.
  Has a  most wonderful action in valvular deficien-
 cy, following rheumatism.
                      (75) 
 
LACHESIS.
  Haemorrhoids;  especially in drunkards,  and in
women at the climacteric, with pain darting up into
the rectum  every time they sneeze or cough.
  Always worse after sleep; great mania and loquac-
 ty; suspicious even of friends.


  Typhoid  fever; whites of eyes  orange colored;
trembling of the tongue, which catches on the teeth
when protruded.
  Extreme  intolerance of pressure  about the abdo-
men ; clothes are too tight.


  Diphtheria, beginning on the left side and extend-
ing to the  right; dark, purplish appearance, with
stringy mucous discharge; intolerance of the least
pressure  about the throat.
  For all troubles at climacteric period this remedy
has no equal.


  Suddenly something runs from  the neck to the
larnyx,   and interrupts;breathing  completely;  it
wakens patient at night.  (Spasm of the glottis.)
  Uterus does not bear contact and has to be re-
lieved of all pressure, frequent lifting of the clothes,
as they cause uneasiness  in  abdomen; no tender-
ness.


   Chills  at night and flashes of heat by day.
   Much pain of an aching kind in shin bones.
   A tormenting, constant urging  in  the  rectum,
not for a stool.
  Catamenia at the regular time, but too short and
feeble.

  Pains  in uterine region; increase at times more
and more  till relieved by a flow of blood from the
vagina;  after  a  few  hours or days  the same again,
and so on.
  Ulcers, carbuncles, boils, etc., when  they present
a dark, purplish appearance. _^
                      (77) 
 
LEPTANDRA.
  Griping, but not straining, after stool.
  Stools look like tar, mushy, with a weak feeling in
stomach and great distress in liver.
  Liver troubles, with tarry stools.

               LILIUM  TIG.

  Flabby, weak, atonic  condition of uterus and
ovaries; dragging-down feeling, better from pres-
sure below; pain going from one groin through to
the other, then down the leg.

   The heart feels as though  it were pressed between
two flat,  hard substances; the  pain  ceases, begins
again, and again ceases.
  A full, distended feeling of all parts of the body.
  Headache running up back of head; says she, will
go crazy.

              LYCOPODIUM.

  All symptoms  worse from 4  to 8 p.  m.; pain  in
back relieved by urinating; red sand  in the urine.
  Sudden repletion in dyspepsia.
  Much rumbling of wind  in left  hypochondriac
region.  Dyspepsia.
  Chill from 4 to 8 p. m.

  Pale, dirty, unhealthy complexion; child  cries
before urinating.
  Diaper stained reddish yellow,  sometimes red
sand on diaper.
   Sense of satiety after eating very little.
   Fan-like motion of alae nasi.

           MAGNESIA  CARB.

   Green, watery diarrhaea, occurring regularly every
three weeks ; the stools seem like the green scum on
a frog pond; sometimes white masses like tallow
are found  floating in the green stools; sharp pain
in abdomen before stool.
(79) 
 
  MAGNESIA CARB—(continued).


  Much sour taste and sour vomiting during preg-
nancy; all  the  symptoms aggravated  every third
week; roughness or stinging in throat, with desire
to vomit.
  Every effort to menstruate is attended with sore
throat, which subsides only on the  appearance of
the menses.

           MAGNESIA MUR.

  In gastric derangement of pregnancy there is  a
continual rising of white froth in the mouth; eruc-
tations tasting like onions.
  Constipation of large difficult stools which crum-
ble as they are voided.


  Great excitement at every menstrual period, and a
pressing down in the iliac region ; hysterical; with
constipation—large, crumbling, difficult stools.


               MERCURIUS.

  All complaints worse at night, with much sweat,
which does not relieve. Mumps, diphtheritis, tonsil-
itis, etc., with great salivation; dirty, flat, unhealthy
looking ulcers on tonsils, pharynx, etc.; tongue red,
with dark spots, or a dirty white color.

  Syphilitic rheumatism, worse nights, with much
sweat about thighs, which does not relieve; gonor-
rhoea, greenish discharge; haematuria; chordee; phy-
mosis; deep,  unhealthy, ragged-edged sores.
  Terrible racking cough, worse nights; salivation,
with bad breath.

  Dysenteric stools; " the more blood in stools the
more you should think of Merc"; tenesmus, worse
nights ; sweating does not relieve.
  Clammy cold night sweats drive him out of  bed.
  Morning sickness, with salivation so  profuse that
it wets the pillow in sleep.
  Complaints increase during sweating.
      F                (81) 
 
      MERCURIUS—(CONTINUED).

  During every  menstrual  period  anxiety, red
tongue with dark spots, and burning, salty taste in
the mouth ;  sickly color of the gums; teeth set on
edge.
  Leucorrhoea, always worse at night; itching, burn-
ing, smarting, corroding, with rawness.

       NATRUM  MCJRIATICUM.

  Irregular   intermission of  the beating of  the
heart and pulse, especially when  lying on left side.
  Every morning pressing aud pushing toward the
genitals has to sit down to prevent prolapsus.
  When the  throat  and neck of children  emaciate
rapidly, particularly during summer complaint.

  Headache  as  if  bursting;  beating,  or stitches
through to the neck and chest; with heat in head,
red  face, nausea and  vomiting before, during and
after catamenia, or  during the fever stage, decreas-
ing gradually after the sweat.
  Hangnails; the skin around  the nails dry and
cracked.

  After all  kinds of cauterizations with nitrate of
silver.
  After bodily exertion an  itching nettle-rash ap-
pears.
  Frequent dreams of  robbers in the house, and on
awaking will not believe the contrary till search is
made.

   Losing flesh while living well.
  Blisters like pearls upon the lips in intermittent
fever.
   Constipation,   with  sensation of contraction  of
the anus; difficult  expulsion of stool; fissuring,the
anus; with flow of blood  leaving a sensation of
much soreness in the anus.

   Great aversion to bread, of which she  was once
very fond.
   Intermittent  fever; chill at  about 10 a. m., on a
ternate days.
   Old, chronic, badly treated cases of ague.
   Desire for salt.
                       (83) 
 
             NITRIC ACID.

  Sensation as of a splinter in the throat after abuse
of mercury.
  Very strong smelling urine,  like horse urine.
  Hemorrhage from the bowels in typhoid and other
diseases.

  Secondary  and tertiary syphilis after abuse of
mercury.                                    .
  Hemorrhage after abortion or confinement, with
violent pressure, as if everything was coming  out at
vulva; with pain in small of  the back, through  the
hips, and down the thighs.

           NUX  MOSCHATA.

  Sudden  hoarseness from walking against the
wind.
  While eating, soon satisfied; headache from eat-
ing a little too much.
  Greatly troubled with dryness in the mouth and
throat while Sleeping; always awakes with a very
dry tongue, but without thirst.

   Cough when becoming warm in bed.
  Menorrhagia;  blood thick and dark; with such as
have had catamenia very irregularly.
  During the menses great pressure in the back
from within outward,  abdominal bearing  down,
 and drawing into the limbs.

              NUX VOMICA.

   With very particular,  zealous, careful persons in-
 clined  to get excited and angry, or of a spiteful,
 malicious disposition.
   Can not keep from falling asleep in the evening
 while sitting, hours before bedtime.

   Nose running  during the day; at night stopped

 UPAwakes at 3  a. h, lies  awake for hours with a
 rush of thoughts ; falls asleep in the later morning
 with troublesome dreams, and gets  up more tired
 than in the evening.
                       (85) 
 
NUX  VOMICA—(CONTINUED).
  Frequent  and ineffectual  desire to defecate, or
passing small  quantities of faeces at each attempt,
with a feeling as if not done.
  Hypochondriasis, with studious men, sitting too
much  at home, with abdominal complaints  and
costiveness.   Dyspepsia.

  Head feels  distended; headache  of drunkards;
food  lies like a stone on  stomach;  much  sour
belching.
  Bad effects  from  sedentary habits, coffee, rich
food, late hours, etc.


                   OPIUM.

  Colic from lead (in paints, pipes or otherwise).
  Delirious talking, eyes wide open, face red, puffed
"P-                            .         ,  .
  After a fright with fear continuing; convulsions,
or the head hot, and twitching around the mouth.

  Nervous  and irritable; passes nothing from the
bowels but hard black balls.
  Unrefreshing soporous sleep, with eyes half open;
snoring during inspiration and expiration.
  Fancies he sees bugs, spiders, bats, etc.


  Sleepiness,  with acuteness  of hearing; clocks
striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep
patient awake.
  Stertorous breathing, with purplish face and con-
tracted pupils.


              PHOSPHORUS.

  Constipation, the faeces being slender, long, nar-
row, dry, tough and hard like a  dog's, and voided
with difficulty.
  Slight wounds bleedmuch; haemorrhagic diathesis.
  As soon  as the water  becomes warm in the
stomach, it is thrown up.
                       (67) 
 
     PHOSPHORUS—(CONTINUED).


  Dry tickling cough in the evening, with tightness
across the chest; expectoration in the morning.
  Frequent diarrhoea during cholera time ; gushes
forth  as from  a hydrant ; has no  control  over
sphincter ani.

  Tall, slender (slim) women.
  Pain  in  the  chest with coughing, relieved by
external pressure.
  Cough worse coming from  a warm  room  into
the cold air.           v

  Trembling of the whole body while coughing.
  Can not talk on account of pain in larynx.
  Threatened softening of brain.
  Phthisis.  Pneumonia.  Brain fag.

                PSORINUM.

  Psoric constitution; lack of reaction after disease;
scrofulous skin eruptions, with tendency to suppu-
rate.
  Stools very offensive, like rotten eggs or carrion;
similar to Lachesis.

  Complete despair of recovery; gives up  all hope;
thinks he will die.
  Good to  begin treatment of asthma,  hay fever,
etc.

              PULSATILLA.

  Mild, gentle and yielding disposition; cries at every-
thing; is sad and desponding; weeps about every
thing; can hardly give her symptoms on account
of weeping.
  Menstrual colic, with great  restlessness; tossing
in every possible direction.

  Catamenia too late  and scanty, or suppressed,
particularly by getting feet wet.
  Thirstlessness with all complaints;  rarely violent
thirst.
                      (89) 
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     PULSATILLA—(continued).


  Stomach disordered from cakes, pastry, rich food,
particularly fat pork.
  Coryza, fluid or dry, with loss of smell and taste;
sore nostrils, later a yellowish-green discharge.
  Wandering pains shift rapidly from  one part to
another; also with swelling and redness of joints.

  Wetting the  bed; particularly in little girls.
  Relieved in  the open  air, worse on retiring to a
close and warm room; feels sick on entering a warm
room.
  Bad taste in the mouth, especially early in the
morning, or nothing tastes good, or no taste at all.

  Diarrhoea, with varying stools;  no  two stools
alike.
  Fat food disagrees, and is so obnoxious the men-
tion of it disgusts.
  All evil results  from  menses becoming irregular
from getting feet wet.

                RHUS  TOX.

  Lameness and stiffness and pain on first moving
after rest, or on getting up in the morning ; relieved
by continued motion.
  Complaints  after getting wet in a rain while over-
heated.
  Mumps on left side.

  A dry, teasing cough, coming on first before the
chill, and continuing during  the chill, in intermit-
tent fever.
  Pains as if  sprained; ailments from spraining or
straining, lifting, particularly  from stretching arms
high up to reach things.

  Putting the hand from under  the  bed covers
brings on the  cough.
  Restless at  night; has  to  change position fre-
quently.
  Pain running  down  the limbs in streaks  with
every evacuation.
                       (91) 
 
RHUS  TOX—(CONTINUED).
  Soreness as if beaten in the hypochondric region,
and still more of the abdomen; worse on the side on
which he lies; worse when turning, and when be-
ginning to move.

  Aching in left arm, with disease of the heart.
  Rheumatic paralysis.
  Muscular rheumatism  of left side; sciatica, left
side.

        RUTA  GRAVEOLENS.

  Wrists feel as if sprained, stiff; worse  in wet,
cold weather.
  Eyes ache and feel strained from fine sewing or
reading, particularly by gaslight.
  Bruises and other mechanical injuries  to bones
and periosteum.


               SAMBUCUS.

  Attacks of suffocative cough in children,  coming
on about midnight, with crying or dyspnoea; hands
and face turn blue.

  Dry beat during sleep, profuse  perspiration on
awaking.
  Nose perfectly dry and stopped up, child has diffi-
culty in breathing;  sniffles.


                   SEPIA.

  Yellow saddle across the nose; also yellow spots
on the face.
  Pain in the uterus and bearing down; crosses the
limbs to prevent protrusion.
  Unpleasant feeling of lump in rectum;  constipa-
tion of pregnancy.

  Aversion  to  occupation ;  indifference  to  her
family; irritable and easily offended; memory weak;
uterine troubles.
  Putrid urine,  which deposits a pinkish  sediment
which adheres tenaciously to vessel.
(93) 
 
SILICEA.
  Ailments following vaccination, abscesses, etc.,
even convulsions.
  Always great costiveness immediately before and
during catamenia.
  Increased menses, with repeated paroxyoms of icy
coldness over the whole body.


  Want of vital warmth even when taking exercise.
  Yielding mind, faint-hearted, anxious mood.
  The head  is wet from sweating, paiticularly at
night; likes wrapping up.
  Foot-sweat,  with rawness between the toes; also
complaints after checking it.


  Difficult expulsion of soft stools, they seem to
slip back.
  Scrofulous subjects, with great coldness of body
and sweaty feet.


            STAPHYSAGRIA.


  Styes, nodosites, chalazae  on the eyelids, one after
 the other, sometimes ulcerating.
   Sensation as of a round ball in the forehead, firmly
 fixed there, even when shaking the head.
   Sleepy all day long, awake all night;  body aches
 all over.

   Cough only in the daytime, or only after  dinner
 particularly after eating meat.
   When the mind  has been dwelling too much on
 sexual subjects.


   Teeth turn  black,  or show dark streaks running
 over them;  gums ache.
   After every morsel of food or mouthful of drink
 bellyache and tenesmus; during  dysentery in sum
 mer.
(95) 
\ 
SULPHUR.
  Heat in the soles of the feet, or cold feet, with
burning soles; wishes to find a cool place for them,
or puts them out of  bed.
  Child dislikes to be washed.
  Heat on top of  head; flushes in face; feet cold.


  Hot flushes with  spells of f aintness, or  passing
off with a little moisture and faintness or debility.
  Irresistible drowsiness in the daytime, and wake-
fulness the whole night.
  She feels suffocated; she wants doors and windows
open.


  Burning in the vagina; patient is scarcely able to
keep still.
  Very red lips, particularly with children.
  Both the  flow of urine and  the discharge of
faeces  are painful  to  the  parts  over  which  they
pass.


  Diarrhoea  some hours after midnight, or driving
 out of bed early  in the morning.
   Weakness in the chest during  the evening while
 lying down.
   Comedones; black pores of the skin, particularly
 in the face.


   Sick headache periodically; once a week, or two
 weeks;  heat on vertex.
   Voluptuous itching; scratching relieves; burning
 afterward.

   Does  not walk erect; stoops or bends forward in
 walking and sitting.
   Gone, empty feeling in stomach about 11 a.  m.
    Haemorrhoids, with itching.
   One of our best  remedies in scrofulous persons.
(97) 
 
VERATRUM  ALB.
  Neck too weak to hold up the head ; particularly
children with whooping cough.
  While in bed, face is red; after getting  up it be-
comes pale.
  Despairs of her salvation ; with suppressed cata-
menia.


  Chilliness on top of head as if ice was lying there.
  Dysmenorrhcea  with vomiting and purging, or
exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat.
  During  wet weather pains in the limbs, getting
worse in warmth of bed, better in walking up and
down.
  Cold sweat  on forehead.  [Have seen apparently
hopeless case of croup cured when the cold sweat
on the forehead was the guiding symptom.  H.]
  Cholera-morbus, vomiting and  purging at the
same time.
         VERATRUM  VIRIDE.

  Dangerously high temperature.  Reduces tempe-
rature from 104° to 102° in a few hours.
  Child trembles, jerks, and seems as if going into
convulsions.
  Convulsions after scarlatina,  with  dilatation  of
pupils, and sleeplessness.


  Continual jerking or nodding of the head.
  Cerebral congestion, with a tendency to convul-
sions in children.
  Great activity of arterial system.


  Puerperal mania following convulsions.
  To be thought of in all  conditions where there is
rapid pulse, very high temperature, or a tendency to
erratic, convulsive movements.
(99) 
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